What constitutes a “fridging”?
* a character is brutally killed OR maimed for another character’s development
* A character is brutally killed for another character’s development
* a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed OR maimed for a MAJOR character’s development
* A MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed for a MAJOR character’s development
* A character is killed in general for another character’s development
* A MINOR/SUPPORTING character is killed off in general for a MAJOR character’s development
* Some other definition/it depends on a case by case basis
* see results
Context: OP has seen people argue that Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke “doesn’t count” as a fridging because Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is a more important character to the Batman mythosis than her father and she doesn’t die in the story
What constitutes a “fridging”?
a character is brutally killed OR maimed for another character’s development
a character is brutally killed for another character’s development
a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed OR maimed for a MAJOR ones*
a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is brutally killed for a MAJOR ones development
a character is killed in general for another character’s development
a MINOR/SUPPORTING character is killed off in general for a MAJOR character’s*
some other definition/it depends on a case by case basis
see results
*development
Context: OP has seen people argue that Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke “doesn’t count” as a fridging because Barbara Gordon/Batgirl is a more important character to the Batman mythosis than her father and she doesn’t die in the story
