QotD

[very_improbable]

Women in Refrigerators - the tendency to have female characters raped, murdered, or brutalized in order to give their male counterparts some extra motivation - is certainly a blight on the superhero genre. But it's a fixture of TV and movies, too; Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan played the "dead wife" card in two of his previous movies, and the grotesque scene from which the "Women in Refrigerators" cliche gets its name bears an uncanny resemblance to the ending of David Fincher's roughly contemporaneous Seven. Credit where credit is due: In an entertainment landscape that routinely uses female characters as disposable mechanisms to drive the actions of the their male compatriots, comic books are the one medium in which people noticed.

- toysdream

Comments

[kumquatweekend.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how. Action and suspense being the biggest offenders, IMHO.

Which sucks, because I adore those genres. In my head, sometimes, I do a little gender-switching (e.g. the heroine hunts down the woman who chopped up her boyfriend). Then I feel less gross.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

Heavens to betsy, I appear to have deleted a comment here. I think this is a first.