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Actual examples of women in refrigerators (alive, dead, or in pieces). | Actual examples of women in refrigerators (alive, dead, or in pieces). | ||
=== Television === | === Television === | ||
* ''[[Alienated (TV series)|Alienated]]'' episode 2x07, "The Arrival" | * ''[[Alienated (TV series)|Alienated]]'' episode 2x07, "The Arrival": Sarah Blundell hides in a freezer because she believes that aliens are after her and her baby. Her life is not genuinely threatened, however, and she comes out unscathed. | ||
* ''[[The Collector (TV series)|The Collector]]'' episode 2x05, "The Tattoo Artist" | |||
* ''[[Veronica Mars (TV series)|Veronica Mars]]'' episode 1x22, "Leave It to Beaver" | * ''[[The Collector (TV series)|The Collector]]'' episode 2x05, "The Tattoo Artist": the corpse of the girlfriend of the episode's amnesiac character who sold his soul is found in a freezer. | ||
* ''[[Veronica Mars (TV series)|Veronica Mars]]'' episode 1x22, "Leave It to Beaver": Veronica, the series lead, is trapped inside a disconnected refrigerator while the main villain of the season is trying to kill her, until her father comes to her rescue. (Not a SF series.) | |||
=== Movies === | === Movies === | ||
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== Women in Refrigerators Syndrome == | == Women in Refrigerators Syndrome == | ||
Stories in which women aren't necessarily put in actual refrigerators, but where their deaths, suffering, or otherwise unpleasant fates are used as plot devices in a male character's storyline. | Stories in which women aren't necessarily put in actual refrigerators, but where their deaths, suffering, or otherwise unpleasant fates are used as plot devices in a male character's storyline -- see also '''[[manpain]]''' and '''[[damsels in distress]]'''. | ||
=== Books === | === Books === | ||
=== Television === | === Television === | ||
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': the mother of the two leads and the girlfriend of one of them are murdered by a demon in the very first episode, which motivates them to become demon hunters. | |||
* ''[[Lost (TV series)]]'': in the episode "The Shape of Things to Come": Alex is kidnapped and held hostage by men who are after her father, Ben; when he refuses to cooperate, they shoot her in the head in front of him. (They had already shot Alex's mother, randomly, in the jungle.) He then promises to retaliate by killing the daughter of these men's leader. | |||
=== Movies === | === Movies === | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Final girl]] | * [[Final girl]] | ||
* [[Manpain]] | |||
* [[Damsels in distress]] | |||
[[Category:Plot devices]] | [[Category:Plot devices]] | ||
[[Category:Sexist tropes]] | [[Category:Sexist tropes]] | ||
[[Category:Female character deaths]] | |||
[[category:Themes and tropes by name]] | |||
Latest revision as of 21:04, 6 January 2011
"Women in refrigerators" is the name for a sexist trope prevalent within comics, but also present in other media, which was identified by Gail Simone, who coined the expression and compiled a list of "superheroines who have been either depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator".
The Women in Refrigerators Syndrome describes the recurrent use of the murder (or other mistreatment) of female characters as a plot device to advance a male character's story.
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Women in Refrigerators
Actual examples of women in refrigerators (alive, dead, or in pieces).
Television
- Alienated episode 2x07, "The Arrival": Sarah Blundell hides in a freezer because she believes that aliens are after her and her baby. Her life is not genuinely threatened, however, and she comes out unscathed.
- The Collector episode 2x05, "The Tattoo Artist": the corpse of the girlfriend of the episode's amnesiac character who sold his soul is found in a freezer.
- Veronica Mars episode 1x22, "Leave It to Beaver": Veronica, the series lead, is trapped inside a disconnected refrigerator while the main villain of the season is trying to kill her, until her father comes to her rescue. (Not a SF series.)
Movies
- David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) (poster image)
Comic Books
- Green Lantern #54 (1994) issue in which Alex DeWitt, the girlfriend of Green Lantern is dismembered and stuffed into a refrigerator. This incident inspired the list.
Women in Refrigerators Syndrome
Stories in which women aren't necessarily put in actual refrigerators, but where their deaths, suffering, or otherwise unpleasant fates are used as plot devices in a male character's storyline -- see also manpain and damsels in distress.
Books
Television
- Supernatural: the mother of the two leads and the girlfriend of one of them are murdered by a demon in the very first episode, which motivates them to become demon hunters.
- Lost (TV series): in the episode "The Shape of Things to Come": Alex is kidnapped and held hostage by men who are after her father, Ben; when he refuses to cooperate, they shoot her in the head in front of him. (They had already shot Alex's mother, randomly, in the jungle.) He then promises to retaliate by killing the daughter of these men's leader.