@siilent.e: Gwen Stacy, Alexandra DeWitt, Karen Page, Sue Dibny, and Jean DeWolff These are some women who have been written out of stories through violence, often to further a hero’s arc. The phrase “Women in Refrigerators” was coined by writer Gail Simone in 1999 after Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, was killed and stuffed into a refrigerator in Green Lantern No 54. It calls attention to how female characters are frequently used as narrative sacrifices in the development of male heroes. I used this to reflect on what it means to love a hero and what it has historically meant for women in those stories. #comic #comics #dc #dccomics #spiderman
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Saturday 11 October 2025 14:03:31 GMT
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Omika ➃ :
What happened to Sue Dibny is genuinely so disgusting I stopped reading DC comics for years when I first read it in 7th grade
2025-10-12 17:01:58
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The doctor :
this is what I loved about invincible. After a near death experience, Amber (invincibles love interest) just dumps him because she's scared for her own life
2025-10-12 22:18:04
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aboynamedcamilo :
One of the many genius ideas explored expertly in Immortal Hulk is Betty Ross’s decades of suffering at the hands of Bruce Banner and the Hulk.
2025-10-14 23:19:40
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Digas L :
tbh all of that you mentioned are goated comics, at least use some bad ones as examples😭😭😭
2025-10-14 22:01:59
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D∑y :
Daily reminder the first female green lantern was fridged before fridging even had a name
2025-10-12 00:14:01
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︎︎︎ :
What’s the Kyle Rayner comics
2025-10-13 13:04:11
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Lin-Manuel Manda✨ :
Oh... The fridge scene...
2025-10-13 10:35:12
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Poncho1208 :
what green lantern book is she holding ?
2025-10-14 04:23:19
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damnex :
It's a bigoted industry where only a few are able to write female, POC and queer characters and do not fetishize misery nor use cheap shock value. We can see it in the current status quo where many believe that marriage and having kids is the end and drama ends making the characters boring.
2025-10-13 15:24:57
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antito :
i was fighting a man in the comments the other day bc he said that it was a good idea to kill selina in the absolute universe so bruce has a good story arc lol
2025-10-13 17:19:44
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Miu :
When I first found out about Barbara Gordon’s implied assault AFTER she was left paralyzed I genuinely had to stop reading for a moment. Granted it’s not explicitly said in comics (as far as I know, there were a ton of critics because in movie they did make it more obvious) and I understand that the point was drive her dad crazy to show Joker’s point, but I was so sad to see it, it didn’t even serve Batman’s development further than it did with Robin or Alfred, and now she’s back to being Batgirl like it never happened in most storylines. They could’ve kept it a little longer as Oracle or maybe even give her some non-realistic arc like she gets super advanced prosthetics or something, but her trauma is not even acknowledged in the end, not even in the comic where it happens. :(
2025-10-13 18:57:14
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paneledpessimist :
The fridging was my first superhero comic 💔
2025-10-12 04:57:43
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Nolan :
Alex’s death is genuinely hard to read
2025-10-12 02:18:26
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anabanana 🤍 :
Also arguably the most well known superhero love interest, Lois Lane, she has died so many times, injustice being one of them!
2025-10-13 12:26:40
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bald_kitty11 :
Jjk does the hero trope pretty well idc
2025-10-14 03:12:06
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JusticeLikeLightning :
The Jean DeWolfe one 😡. She wasnt even Spider-Man's love interest. That thing in "Symbiote Spider-Man" is a questionable retcon.
2025-10-11 19:56:35
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salmón 🐟 :
idk i just think there cool
2025-10-13 19:55:13
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Aliye 💋 :
I genuinely actually cared for Alex even in her short amount of issues 💔
2025-10-12 15:47:45
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dami :
Writers "try to give a superhero a good character development that doesn't involve killing a female character" challenge go
2025-10-13 20:32:30
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weapons ?
2025-10-13 17:21:13
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Eph 🇬🇭 :
Hol on..
2025-10-14 22:31:51
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sjay :
kyle rayner my goat
2025-10-11 14:49:53
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Sam Vana :
i’m reading the brubaker run on daredevil atm and what he did to milla is DASTARDLY i will never forgive him
2025-10-12 03:58:50
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🦇𝑇𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑘𝑖🏹 :
Alexandra and Sue will hurt me forever. DC crossed the line too far.
2025-10-14 01:14:16
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