I have a semi-headcanon that any death would have been ok for the soul stone, and Red Skull made up the loved one rule because he's just that much of a dick.

@lolface_9363

2 жыл бұрын

God tier head cannon

@jesusdavila7052

2 жыл бұрын

Headcannon absolutely accepted.

@fullmoontales1749

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea

@dylandarnell3657

2 жыл бұрын

If it was just any death, Skull could have gotten it himself. Because it requires a loved one, it's inherently out of his reach, because he doesn't actually love anyone. Hence "I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess." He's a dick, but he wouldn't give up having an Infinity Stone just to be a dick to a handful of other people who might come along decades later.

@xenon8927

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps there’s a rule that red skull can’t kill anyone to get the stone

funnily enough, the DOOM franchise makes fun of this trope with the main character's pet bunny as his only motivation for literally going to hell itself and going full genocide on demonkind

@llanfairpwlgwyngyll7331

2 жыл бұрын

and it works

@Coziest777

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Daisy

@whoknows7968

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, so John Wick ripped off the DOOM franchise? Did not see that coming.

@hofile6765

2 жыл бұрын

DAISY

@Florkl

2 жыл бұрын

Bonus that his family also died, but he doesn’t really care about that. It was Daisy that pushed him over the edge.

The entire planet of Alderaan got fridged and Leia didn't even cared about it on her next scene.

@kaizokuAUTO

Жыл бұрын

And it makes Bail Organa's characterisation in the prequels and Kenobi lack impact, because we already know the outcome AND how little it mattered.

@mercury2157

Жыл бұрын

@@kaizokuAUTO did it matter little though? the Rebellion wouldn't have been anywhere near what it was without the Organas, and I'm sure we'll learn more in season 2 of Andor

@maxgustafsson7802

Жыл бұрын

@@mercury2157 that's only true in the Lore, not in the actual story of the Star Wars OT.

@scarletleader5420

Жыл бұрын

There is a book called "Leia: Princess of Alderaan", which is set around the time Leia is 16, which really tries to flesh out her relationship to her parents and her planet more. Basically a lot of the conflict of the book is around the fact that Alderaan is a really beautiful and peaceful planet, and one of the few that managed to stay relatively unaffected by the Empire's rule. This means that she's confronted with two choices: either join the rebellion along with her parents, and risk bursting this peaceful bubble and putting the planet fully under Imperial control or worse; or (as one the side characters would have it) stop the rebel activity, and ignore the Empire in order to preserve the status quo in Alderaan. (spoilers, but not really) She chooses to join the rebellion and fight the empire, even if it means putting herself, her family and her entire planet at risk, because this is bigger than they are.

@mercury2157

Жыл бұрын

@@maxgustafsson7802 touche

The best example of fridging is the tragic off-screen loss of Squidward's hopes and dreams.

@PanzerLord

Жыл бұрын

Mr Krabs: What a baby

@Tomyironmane

Жыл бұрын

@@PanzerLord Me: (Drops a dime down the street drain to watch Krabs' angst.)

@randomboi-mq1cn

11 ай бұрын

No,if you look carefully,it happens before SpongeBob starts

@airacummins5076

10 ай бұрын

Actually we watch it fall out a window and die in the background as SpongeBob bought the pineapple

@IWADsarecool

9 ай бұрын

EMOTIONAL (and spiritual) DAMAGE

I’ll have you know that Krillin wasn’t fridged, he was freezered.

@jeffreybogard2713

2 жыл бұрын

I mean he did come back to life and was a character on his own, serving as one of the protagonists of that arc before Goku's arrival. I mean Dragon Ball gets a pass because most of it's dead characters come back later anyway. Cheap death for motivation plus cheap resurrection.

@emblemblade9245

2 жыл бұрын

Plus Freeza just would not freaking go down, it makes sense that he’d finally kill a protagonist. And Goku didn’t know he could be brought back I think? Since he had already been revived once and he didn’t know the Namek balls worked differently he thought he was dead for good

@mshaggy95

2 жыл бұрын

By this train of thought, krillin's first death was him being piccled

@jasonblalock4429

2 жыл бұрын

Pfft, speaking of franchises where death is meaningless. Krillin gets killed, iirc, *five times* throughout the series. Plus a couple more implied offscreen deaths in alternate/future timelines. He doesn't get fridged, he IS the fridge. (Not to mention all the times characters fruitlessly sacrifice themselves, like Chiaotzu using Self-Destruct on Nappa.)

@JaelinBezel

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 Nappa: “that tickled”

I love the idea of having a hero where everyone thinks his wife is fridged but she’s actually super alive and he just misses her

@vikiai4241

2 жыл бұрын

Or faux-fridged for their own protection (ie, the villain won't go after the hero's SO if they are thought already 'dead', ... Dragon goes to smoke a town and arrives to see [an illusion of] a smoking ruin - bonus points if said dragon then wastes a bunch of time trying to track down the other dragon invading its territory, giving the heroes time they otherwise wouldn't have to prepare to fight it! 😃). ... Note: I am sure I'm not anywhere near the first person to have either of those ideas!

@Envy_May

2 жыл бұрын

she actually gets put in a fridge but it ends up protecting her a la indiana jones 4

@sayerglasgow115

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey dude, are you okay?" "Just thinking about my wife, she'd have loved this. " "Oh, what happened?" "Her job doesn't give her enough free time to go on adventures. "

@swigglesnoot503

2 жыл бұрын

I have a dnd character like this! The entire time he’s been pining for his wife and two daughters, talking about he misses them, the whole party thinks they’re all dead. No, all three of them are ALSO adventurers on their own adventures, he just misses them and the party has no idea and will not be ready lol

@TheSlasherJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You just described the big twist in Memento.

“Yeah ok, cripple the b*tch” not gonna lie that sentence hit me like a freight train

@kintamas4425

Жыл бұрын

It made me wonder if I ever listened the video even though I regularly listen to the video list while I’m writing… that editor needed Jesus.

@rzionrnrzfm5925

Жыл бұрын

Like seriously what in gods green earth possessed len wein to say such a thing???

@nkbujvytcygvujno6006

Жыл бұрын

@@rzionrnrzfm5925 Misogyny.

@rzionrnrzfm5925

Жыл бұрын

@@nkbujvytcygvujno6006 ain't that a tragedy.

@Excelsior1937

11 ай бұрын

@@rzionrnrzfm5925 Ikr? Like what the fuck did she do to him?

I like that at the end of Full Metal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa still mentioned Nina, like she was never forgotten even what was sixty 25 minute anime episodes later.

@skaryzgik

2 жыл бұрын

Did those "sixty 25 minute anime episodes" total closer to the "three seconds" range of in-story time, or the "multiple years" range?

@yate0128

2 жыл бұрын

The latter definitely

@Brivalia

Жыл бұрын

@@skaryzgik it’s like at least a year later. Iirc Ed is 14 at the beginning, 16 at the end and the scene yall are talking about is definitely leaning towards the later

@FedoraKirb

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@skaryzgikThe Nina thing happens pretty early in the story, and I believe (not including the brothers’ attempt at bringing back their mother) FMA takes place across roughly a year or two. And her death still affects them by the end of the series. Additionally, her death isn’t used for character _motivation_ so much as character _development,_ (they’re absolutely devastated by this, and its their first exposure to the horrors of the world and Alchemy, and results in their change in how they want to use Alchemy) while also tying into one of the central themes of the story in a ton of ways (that being how people aren’t gods no matter what abilities you have, and the dangers of having the hubris to believe otherwise-Ed needs to learn that he’s “always been a normal human who can’t even save a little girl” (a line he states in the final episode), and her death is literally the result of someone believing that they can tamper with life despite its fragility. It also ties nicely into the value of human connection that the story presents). Also, in the 2003 adaptation, the episode she dies, the ending sequence is changed to a montage of original scenes with her and the Elric brothers.

@beliarioc9472

Жыл бұрын

I don't think her death falls into the fridging trope because the other characters actually cared, but to me as a viewer her demise had almost no emotional impact. I was simply not all that invested in her. I'm willing to bet that If you switched her for an adult woman with the same character traits a lot of people would have cared more about what happened to the dog than her. It is similar to how Junji Ito characters going through horrible things usually does not impact me emotionally, the characters often do not feel enough like actual people for me to care and the whole read is more of a grotesque spectacle than something I'd actually be sad about.

Kyle Rayner's girlfriend may not be alive but more people know her trope than they know anything about Kyle.

@conormurphy4328

2 жыл бұрын

Ironic

@silverbullet1620

2 жыл бұрын

Do you remember the time his girlfriend became Green Lantern after she was dead?

@gabrielrussell5531

2 жыл бұрын

The worst part is that people know aboot Hal "The man without a personality" Jordan.

@cassianoneto1553

2 жыл бұрын

We gotta name a new trope “green lantern syndrome”, because there’s so many of them at this point it’s impossible for a writer to give them all justice so someone’s favorite is getting shafted.

@dr.vikyll7466

2 жыл бұрын

@KY5 [10th Main Account] turn yourself in to the police...

Maes Hughes can indeed not be replaced by a pack of pokemon cards.

@SaintNamedSlickback

2 жыл бұрын

Nah

@josephperez2004

2 жыл бұрын

Not even a holofoil collection

@KokaKolaMusic

2 жыл бұрын

He's worth at least 5

@Healermain15

2 жыл бұрын

But I'd love to see someone try!

@mbanks7969

2 жыл бұрын

Too soon, man! 😂

Fridging gets even WORSE when, as Red said, the characters aren’t sad for long enough, but the villains are made out to be more evil because of it for the *REST OF THE STORY.*

@RuneKatashima

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is about Joseph Joestar's dog.

@caseyjones-esque

2 жыл бұрын

@@RuneKatashima You know what? You’re absolutely right. I should watch JoJo.

@chrisc9526

2 жыл бұрын

@@RuneKatashima ok, but Danny isn't mentioned at all for the rest of the story and his death is followed by an eight year time skip. Also, Joseph Joestar didn't have a dog. Its Jonothan. It's a total fridge, but it's not what this guy is talking about.

@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944

2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard about this thing called women in refrigerators?

@caseyjones-esque

2 жыл бұрын

@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 Ooo, I just looked it up! It’s an old website that lists what comics have fridging, right?

Lisa’s death is almost a criticism of fridging. Dracula is motivated to do what he does in that series, with little thought to Lisa, and her wishes. Alucard actually grieves for her, and fights for her and what she would’ve wanted. Once Dracula actually gives some thought to Lisa, he realizes how misguided he’s been.

@drakontisaraptikos9927

11 ай бұрын

Also Dracula is absolutely destroyed by her death. He doesn't just get over it. He spends over a year destroyed by her murder and plans out the world's longest suicide note. Also, I would absolutely watch a Vlad and Lisa slice of life show. But that's beside the point.

@GenericName0042

4 ай бұрын

Exactly; it's Dracula's driving motivation for the entire part of the series he's in, AND we get to see him go from passionate rage and vengeance to dispassionate indifference, only focused on getting rid of the problem. It fundamentally BREAKS him as a person. Which is why it's so damn effective

"It's a terrible day for rain." "What do you mean? It's not raining." "Yes, it is." "Oh... so it is."

@jojotheswede8444

2 жыл бұрын

*cries*

@marymohr2799

2 жыл бұрын

What's this from?

@jojotheswede8444

2 жыл бұрын

@@marymohr2799 fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood

@missmorbid1439

2 жыл бұрын

@@marymohr2799 Full Metal Alchemist, during the funeral of Maes Hughes

@MASSOFTHEFERMENTlNGDREGS

2 жыл бұрын

@@marymohr2799 full metal alchemist

While I know that the handling of Gamora's death was probably bad writing, its incredibly cathartic for me to watch as someone who was abused as a child. It paints the picture of Thanos's love as inherently abusive. That he may love her, but to him love is about "improving" those you care about through incredible pain. He shows the same love for life at large, believing that culling half of it and thereby insuring resource security is a manifestation of that love. But that love is toxic, it torments Gamora her whole life, it eventually kills her. And that's what being an abused child feels like, being loved in a way that will kill you

@GloriainMorte

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think thanos is one of the more interesting villains because of this. I dislike how she paints it as an attempt to add characterization to a “pure evil” villain when thanos wasn’t shown to be that. He was a twisted monster, but he never saw it. He was the hero of his own story. He wanted to do what he saw as saving the universe. His genuine love for Gamora only pushes forward how twisted he’s become.

@bluelfsuma

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, I was having a good day. You didn't need to remind me that my life is inherently cursed.

@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7

2 жыл бұрын

I definitely feel like this angle on abuse and love was something interesting to explore, I definitely wouldn’t call it bad writing just because it didn’t follow the clear narrative tropes.

@Kat-xy7fm

2 жыл бұрын

I think the issue is that that was ultimately a narrative potential, and not the actual story that was told. The story that was told was that he actually loved her in a way that wasn't painted as bad and that existed to make him a more human and sympathetic villain. He was not written as the abuser, but rather as the parent who is just trying to do their best--it was just written so badly that you ended up with the subtexts of abusive love that never get expanded upon or fulfilled. Had that been the intent and focus it would have been a much better story; however, viewing something as better because of unfulfilled narrative potential is a disservice to the story and yourself.

@e4Bc4Qf3Qf7

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kat-xy7fm how did you ever get that impression? His abusive relationship with his “children” is emphasized over and over again. He has sympathetic qualities as a person but when you boil it down marvel tells the story of a deeply traumatized man driven insane by tragedy who turns to single mindedly pursing power and genocide at any cost for the “greater good”. The subtext of absuive love, and that just having love and good intentions isnt enough to be a good person is written in bold in every scene related to the characters.

Character: What is my purpose? Author: You die to make another character feel bad. C: Oh... my god.

@PanzerLord

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, welcome to the club

@Kensuke22

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Another one!

@MarcColten-us2pl

Жыл бұрын

You deliver butter.

Regarding the fridging of Black Widow, I think one of the single best things about the Hawkeye show is the way it actually bothers to show how much Nat's death affects Clint, seeing as they were best friends. It's a bit late, and it'll never change the fact that Iron Man is still the only one that got a damn funeral (they couldn't at least make it a Tony+Nat event?), but I think it affords more weight to her death than just giving her a token solo movie after the fact.

@cosmicspacething3474

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, poor quicksilver didn’t get shit next to nothing…

@DemigodShmurda

2 жыл бұрын

@@cosmicspacething3474 I mean, Clint's son's middle name is Pietro, and Clint knew the guy for all of 5 minutes. That's not nothing.

@JaelinBezel

2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t started watching Hawkeye yet. I have been reading the comics run that show seems to be baed on though.

@notoriusbookworm48

2 жыл бұрын

Gamora and Black Widow fell into the exact same position even though they fell differently AND I WON’T STOP BRINGING THIS UP BC IT'S SO ANNOYING AND DUMB

@Sentina7

2 жыл бұрын

Just because we didn't see the fueral's on screne doesn't mean they didn't happen. It's kind of silly to assume that since we never saw a Blackwidow funeral scene it never happened.

Supernatural was so good at fridging that when the main character finally died for real and went to heaven the big emotional reunion was seeing his beloved car again and not like, the numerous friends and family who died for him.

@otimo144

2 жыл бұрын

Some times I think that show just might be an over complex parody >.>

@Andrewtr6

2 жыл бұрын

The show was too afraid to introduce any new main character other than Sam, Dean, and Cas. Sure there were a few recurring characters but they never lasted long.

@rickyuzumaki695

2 жыл бұрын

@@Andrewtr6 Indeed

@dreadcthulhu5

2 жыл бұрын

Not even his dad was important enough for a reunion?! Geez and they made so much of that in the first few seasons too. There's a reason I only like the first 5 and only because sometimes the Monster of the Week was neat. After that it turned to nothing but shit and the Leviathan season made me stop entirely. Even with a limited budget they could have made it work if they were creative, but let's face it they are not. And there are 15 seasons....... each worse than the one before it.

@rickyuzumaki695

2 жыл бұрын

@@dreadcthulhu5 Be honest. Is Supernatural worth watching at all?

“Did I mention that I absolutely love my kids, that I’m only 3 weeks from being able to retire? Maybe that my son was born with an unnatural hair color, and that I like to wear my hair in a braid over my right shoulder? Ooooh, and I really don’t think we should ever leave this wonderful, completely idyllic town that we live in with all the people just always getting along and being the literal best?”

@dreadcthulhu5

2 жыл бұрын

*timer appears counting down*

@sayerglasgow115

2 жыл бұрын

Goku can move over, Deku's mom is 100% the most powerful anime character, she survived the mom death curse.

@alexmansfield3268

2 жыл бұрын

@@sayerglasgow115 yeah but what about his dad

@sayerglasgow115

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexmansfield3268 Also powerful, but the dad death curse definitely isn't as strong as the mom one. All Might surviving the mentor death curse is also impressive, but not that unusual. Though, Gran Tourino surviving a double mentor death curse is seriously impressive. Still, the sheer power of the mom death curse is perhaps the greatest in all anime, so to survive it Inko Midoria must be monstrously powerful.

@strawberrys0da714

2 жыл бұрын

@@sayerglasgow115 True, but Gran Tourino wasn't the real mentor. All Might's real mentor definitely got death cursed.

At first, I was confused when you said Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle* were fridged: they have to be real characters to be fridged, right?... and then I realized how that's pretty much *exactly* the point.

@Jurgan6

Жыл бұрын

You mean his aunt and uncle? Cause his parents, well, that’s another story.

@HitoriAisu

Жыл бұрын

@@Jurgan6 . . . *smacks forehead* yyyyeah I messed that up - thanks, going to fix that that real quick... pretty sure I was watching this to fall asleep and was thus only half awake when I commented, and was thinking of Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen as his *guardians*, not his parents

Here's a funny idea: Character finds their love interest in a fridge. Hard cut to them arguing over the air conditioning being broken and resulting in the love interest sitting in the refrigerator to not incinerate.

@wjzav1971

11 ай бұрын

Lets rewrite Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to Indi's fridge landing directly next to Marion and when it opens and he falls out, she goes "Oh my, haven't seen you in a long time Indi"

@jagnestormskull3178

2 ай бұрын

That basically happens in _Gurren Lagann._ The main character opens up a containment unit that looks somewhat like a fridge although I imagine is supposed to be a futuristic variant on a treasure chest, and finds the girl who eventually becomes his primary love interest.

We know Luke and Leia are twins because she didn't bring up Alderaan ever again. She's cracking wise in her very next scene ("Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"/"Can someone get this walking carpet out of my way?")

@devforfun5618

2 жыл бұрын

the force comes with a bit of sociapathy it seems

@doesntmatter5857

2 жыл бұрын

I like it even more that she tells them it was easy because Vader wanted them to escape. In the next scene she has flown directly to the rebel base in the company of people she never met, anyone of them could be a spy, without changing the ship that was potentially bugged by the empire. I have no problem with a bump in the plot now and then, but telling people later it was intentional to show she was not experienced and hotheaded early in the story is just as bad as additional effects.

@Devdev009

2 жыл бұрын

Written and Directed by George Lucas (Along with rewrites by others)

@alexmouse5758

2 жыл бұрын

The whole planet was put in the fridge 😂😂😂

@Devdev009

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexmouse5758 it takes the willpower of a green lantern to shove a whole planet in Kyle Rayner’s fridge

I feel like "Watsonian v. Doylist" deserves a Trope Talk in and of itself. A lot of younger people have never even heard those terms before.

@jakobrosander2196

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I consider myself well-versed in writing and trope related things (for someone of my age/experience) and Ive barely heard of it

@Loremastrful

2 жыл бұрын

For the folks playing at home Watsonian is in-universe (a character in the world) / Doylist is out-of-universer (the author)

@troyjardine5850

2 жыл бұрын

This concept has a lot of crossover with "The Thermian Argument", Folding Ideas had a great video on it.

@79bigcat

2 жыл бұрын

Not a lot to say. It's the explanations from the point of view of a character in the story(Watson) or the author arranging the plot(Doyle).

@marcopohl4875

2 жыл бұрын

myself included

The worst part is when the characters only get angry and sad about it when it’s convenient. Like, they’ll be totally fine for 4 episodes and then suddenly extremely angsty

@eldritchcupcakes3195

4 ай бұрын

Like when in the final battle they suddenly bring up that character or get a flashback with them and it’s like wait are we still supposed to care

“Well written character deaths…” *shows Lisa Tepes* her death was tragic not only for the family she left behind, but for the people she wanted to help. The fact that the charlatan healer was the one who accused her of witchcraft and that despite being on deaths doorstep she pleaded her husband to spare the people (which takes a huge degree of love and strength) proves that there is more to her character than “Dracula’s dead wife”.

@dianarojo-jewell4070

Жыл бұрын

And even when they take down Dracula, the big bad is torn at one point trying to fight them because killing his son would mean killing the last remnant of his wife :D

@temporalbutterfly9186

Жыл бұрын

@@dianarojo-jewell4070 God that scene killed me, the way he refers to Adrian/Alucard as Lisa’s greatest gift to him and completely breaks down.

@GuroMakeMeHard

Жыл бұрын

@@temporalbutterfly9186 Lisa Tepes has personality and interests, I hate how most of the dead wife or love interest trope they just give them no character beside loving the male characters .

@fangsabre

Жыл бұрын

There is more to her than Dracula's dead wife, but I would say this is instead one of the few well executed examples of Fridging, but her overall impact is entirely for the benefit of Dracula and Alucard's character motivations. She's a saint and we get a couple scenes with her being perfect, but we care because of what we see it doing to Dracula. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it is still a fridge

@zombieslayer2016

Жыл бұрын

@@dianarojo-jewell4070 much as I absolutely despise how they handled the last season that scene still gets me

I laughed so hard during this when I imaged the Thanos scene but he was throwing a binder of pokemon cards off a cliff

@animeotaku307

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of HISHE’s take where he throws his throne off the cliff.

@suzumes6738

Жыл бұрын

What did it cost? Everything.

@schmjozekhlrhumop3909

Жыл бұрын

@@animeotaku307 I like to imagine Thanos attempted to cope by buying another chair from like bed bath and beyond or something but he still couldn't move on 😂

@svenkleinplarre9461

Жыл бұрын

He might aswell jump off that cliff at that point.

@Zeknif1

Жыл бұрын

Thanos: At last… soulstone. Living Gamorra: What did it cost you? Thanos: Looking that up now… Red Skull: Wait… that fucking worked?

Maes hughs didn't just figure out the plot too early, he figured out the plot before anyone even knew they should be looking

@justanotheryoutubecommente2

2 жыл бұрын

Stuff like this is why I think Edward Elric doesn't feel like a Mary Sue. Yes, he's ridiculously smart, badass, and overcompetent, but he's among a whole host of characters who are also all of those things. He's not always the one solving the mystery, killing the bad guy, or saving the day. Maes Hughes being so fucking far ahead of everyone else, including our protagonists, is a great example of what I'm talking about

@Ladyoftheroundtable

2 жыл бұрын

@@justanotheryoutubecommente2 and let's not forget mustang bringing himself back to life with nothing but spite, and killing lust with nothing but unadulterated hatred. In the same god damn scene

@227someguy

2 жыл бұрын

Hughes*

@jodinsan

2 жыл бұрын

It will never not be too soon. RIP Hughes

@MrTreymeister

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ladyoftheroundtable it was envy

The whole of Alderaan was fridged so that Leia could ignore her own grief over watching the destruction of everything she had ever loved to help Luke mourn the mentor figure he knew for a handful of days. Don't @ me.

@eldritchcupcakes3195

4 ай бұрын

I’ve seen fanfiction that does Alderaan’s death better.

2:07, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ginny calls out Harry for having reacted that way to what happened to her in the second book. She reminds Harry that (unlike him) she has actually been possessed by Voldemort before and Harry mentions that he (like the audience) had basically forgotten about that. So Ginny tells him “well, I didn’t”.

@steampocalypse2429

4 ай бұрын

That was a good moment

@matityaloran9157

4 ай бұрын

@@steampocalypse2429 Agreed

@Pandie2828

2 ай бұрын

Agreed but she actually says ''Lucky you"

@matityaloran9157

2 ай бұрын

@@Pandie2828 Oh. Good point. I misremembered

@EdLincoln7

Ай бұрын

In some ways it is more impactful if a character DOESN'T die but has permanent consequences...that way there is a constant reminder.

I know this trope is usually denounced as a sexist one because it usually happens to female characters, but I think it's also closely related to a cliche often found in films about cops or soldiers - the protagonist has this friend who is clearly set up to be happier than the protagonist (he's a week away from retiring, he just got engaged, he's going to be a dad soon, there's a lot of variants) and three minutes later he get his brains blown out and the protagonist is left to bemoan why it was the guy with so much to live for who got killed.

@numberlan2336

2 жыл бұрын

No, no, stop making sense or else we can't whine about women being most affected.

@GamerBurgerz

2 жыл бұрын

@@numberlan2336 or, hear me out, you can dislike both things...*at the same time!*

@GamerBurgerz

2 жыл бұрын

@UCrAqthNBzB9ce0wPffYRNhg if you don't care why are you getting angry in the comments section of a youtube video all about the trope?

@numberlan2336

2 жыл бұрын

@@GamerBurgerz I just elaborated why I dislike one of the things and not both, idk how you got anger from that, I also never said I didn't care but that I'm fine with what the trope is, so again that's a pretty weird response all things considered, though I did delete the comment you responded to so it's not that I don't agree that it was unnecessary.

@angelikaskoroszyn8495

2 жыл бұрын

This cliche sucks tho the wife / gf / whatever usually dies at the begining of a movie while the buddie usually dies a little bit later. You have to establish how pure and innocent he is before you kill him for a shock value. Meanwhile according to Hollywood women are pure and innocent by default so they don't need the basic character building In practice woman usually dies to kick start plot while man dies to show how edgy the world is. In both cases it turns characters into props That's why I propose "husband in fridge". Maybe gender bending will make the trope better. Ah, wait. Tragic gay death is also a cheap, overused trope

I'm honestly surprised that no one's mentioned Heimdall. Like, he was important enough for Thor to refer to him as his best friend in Ragnarok, dies pretty unceremoniously, and then...never gets brought up again. What an absolute waste of a great character, and Idris Elba in particular. The guy is too good and too sexy to be treated in this manner.

@njalsand133

2 жыл бұрын

They're just not as progressive and diverse as they claim and incompetent writing.

@newsystembad

2 жыл бұрын

@@njalsand133 Oh yeah, for sure. The new rash of live-action schlock had kinda conclusively proven that they're already creatively bankrupt.

@clayxros576

2 жыл бұрын

@@newsystembad Which is inexcusable since they have so much to work with. I could write 5 movies with the premises they've squandered, and theyd objectively suck but still treat the characters better. They seem to have actual no idea, which goes to show whoever the writers are just....shouldn't.

@ChibiGeeBee

2 жыл бұрын

As I understood, didn't Idris Ebla ask to written out that way? He hated playing Heimdall. Maybe he forced the issue. And you make a point, there is very little time for the characters to deal with what is happening- until the movie is over, and we head to Endgame.

@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom

2 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the movie? Thanos killed Heimdall and Thor said, "You'll die for that!" Later on when Thor lodged his axe on Thanos's chest, he said, "I told you, you die for that". Rocket also asks Thor of his best friend and he said, "Stabbed through the heart". That's not "never". If anything, the Warriors 3 were ignored.

11:42 That funeral scene was the one time in my adult life that a cartoon made me cry. I was a single father at the time and the way that they put so much screen time into showing how much he loved his daughter, before she was even born, had me identifying with him. At her reaction to him being buried, I couldn't contain myself. Cruel but beautiful writing.

Okay, now I want to see a story where a character actually gets motivated by the death of their sexy lamp

@Attaxalotl

8 ай бұрын

A Christmas Story

Ah yes, Fridging, the worst use of a Fridge after Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

@Vee_Sheep

2 жыл бұрын

i mean, that fridge did save him, and it upset the villains of the movie (idk, didn't watch it) ...was Indiana Jones "reverse-fridged"?

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

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@Healermain15

2 жыл бұрын

I'd it wasn't the worst one. That fridge was just one dumb moment. It didn't actively remove narrative potential from the series.

@ronaldlennier86

2 жыл бұрын

Whaddya mean? Of course fridges are effective against atomic blasts! It works as well as duck and cover (sarcasm)

@gabrielrussell5531

2 жыл бұрын

@@Healermain15 The fridge has apparently held up to scientific scrutiny. Can we stop treating Crystal Skull like it's as bad as Temple of Doom?

I just realized that the whole plot of Frankenstein is basically the monster trying to fridge characters, while Frankenstein is too self centered for it to work

@brandonlyon730

2 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the monster or the scientist himself?

@caroline8590

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonlyon730 I mean the scientist. The monster kept killing the people in the scientist's life and the whole time the scientist was focused on himself.

@kidlewinter5027

2 жыл бұрын

Victor Frankenstein's self-centeredness and unreliable narrator tendencies make it so frustrating to read certain parts of it. Many of the other characters(even interesting ones) after they die are only talked about in how their deaths affected Victor.(Stop reading here if you don't want spoilers) When Victor dies the creature complains about how the awful things he did and deaths he caused hurt HIM and one of the things he says is interestingly almost exactly the same thing Victor said after Justine was executed for a crime she didn't commit, even though he could quite probably have proved her innocent if he told the truth, instead of prioritizing his not looking crazy over her LIFE. This is one of the things Victor and his creation have in common. They are both VERY self-centered in how they view the consequences of their actions.

@kidlewinter5027

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonlyon730 Frankenstein is not the name of the creature.

@kidlewinter5027

2 жыл бұрын

The Fridging stems from A. That as you said the creature IS killing them just to make Victor sad and upset B. This is transcribed by Walton who hasn't met the rest of these characters and only knows them from Victor's stories of them. C. That Victor would have mostly only thought of their deaths in how they affected him anyway because that's in character for him. Frankstein is simply unreliable narrator telling about unreliable narrator telling about unreliable narrator.

You know what would be cool, an anthology style show where every episode subverted a poor writing trope. The fridging episode could set up another character to be the main character, and then after his love interest dies off screen the perspective changes to her, and as a vengeful ghost she try’s to get back everything that fridging took away from her

@LeoDBW

Жыл бұрын

There's sort of already existing tropes around that, the Revenge Fantasy Trope and the R@pe and Revenge Trope. When both of those tropes are used with female characters, it get annoying because it basically always shows a women getting stronger AFTER being almost killed/murdered/r@ped. As if a woman need to be physically assaulted and/or mentally abused before she can be considered a strong or badass character >:(

@chicade4810

Жыл бұрын

@@LeoDBW Why do y'all always twist things into the most negative outlook? The point is "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" not "you're only strong once you've been violated". Jesus Christ.

@LeoDBW

Жыл бұрын

@@chicade4810 I'm sorry but I simply don't believe in that bullshit. You know most real victims do not automaticaly turns into strong persons once they've been assaulted or abused? Some were maybe already strong BEFORE, and some other actually have a hard time healing, and they feel guilty BECAUSE OF THOSE STUPID TROPES, because they think that they're not strong enough compared to the characters! Its also insulting to the victims who didn't make it out alive.

@trungkiennguyen9193

Жыл бұрын

This is practically a plot point in American Gods

@flyerton9958

Жыл бұрын

@@chicade4810 "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is also a very dumb perspective. If I break your arms and legs and you somehow survive, you aren't going to be anywhere near as a strong as you once were. (If you deflect away from this by claiming mental strength or some other bizarro coping mechanism to illustrate that YEAH ACTUALLY THEY DID GET STRONGER JUST IN A DIFFERENT WAY, I will laugh at you.)

with fma, all the character deaths mattered, even after the characters were dead. hughes showed up in flashbacks constantly, nina was probably one of the most traumatic things ed and al ever went through (like number two at the very least), and the rockbells are dead before the story even begins and we STILL see not just how deeply winry was affected by the loss of her parents and scar by what he'd done, we also get to see some of who they were as people. even the villains' deaths matter - hell, kimblee has one of my favorite deaths pretty much ever.

Shout out to all of those Fix-It Fanfics that created entire, completely Alternate Universes centered around those fridged characters finally getting justice.

@hilarymajor3983

2 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear!

@Sorain1

2 жыл бұрын

If they care enough, they will often say "Fine, I'll do it myself!"

@lillycat1758

2 жыл бұрын

Raise a glass to the Fix-It Fics that not only do fridged characters justice but also to filling plotholes in ways that make sense, to exploring forgotten or more minor plot points, to rewriting arcs that actually follow thru and stay in character, and to fleshing out and breathing life into any and every background character both named and unnamed! Let us raise our glasses to the hard working authors of such fics for feeding us some damn good food!

@hahahahahahahahaa6580

2 жыл бұрын

Read my mind lmao

@unknownbystander8145

2 жыл бұрын

Having a large ensemble cast( meaning more than 10 main characters and/or more than 10 secondary characters) means that the tertiary characters (aka the background characters, aka the ones who only exist to show that the town isn't populated by just 10 people) who are usually the target of this trope will not get much screen time to begin with

The way I test if a character is being fridged is: "Does this death haunt the surviving characters beyond motivating them in the moment?" If a character still thinks of them and could be described as being haunted by that death, then it's not fridging. Ben Parker's death isn't fridging (usually) because his death is still a big part of Peter's heart.

@Firegen1

2 жыл бұрын

This is a good rule addition. I'm adding it to my trope manual.

@powderkegs983

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!!👍

@professorbutters

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was just wondering if his Uncle Ben counted as a fridge and hoping it didn’t, because what he says when he’s dying becomes Peter’s driving philosophy, which isn’t the same as getting revenge. Next time, you’re there for a purpose to help people.

@andersonandrighi4539

2 жыл бұрын

It is also his call to adventure. People think it is Peter being bitten by the spider, but for a while he refuses to use his new given abilities other than himself.

@cadethumann8605

2 жыл бұрын

I have been wondering about this in regards to a backstory to one of my characters (not the main protagonist but a side main character). Some time before the main story, the character, a former swordsman, once had a girlfriend and the two were held at daggerpoint by a thief. The swordsman thinks he could take on the thief and not have his girlfriend give the money, even though she insists against risking himself. Unfortunately, the swordsman nearly gets himself killed and his girlfriend pushes him out of the way and gets stabbed instead. The swordsman is devastated by her loss and his reckless action. he doesn't get revenge on the thief as the latter disappeared. He forsakes his sword and becomes quiet. He found friendship with the main protagonists who try to help him get through in life. At first, he does not reveal his troubled past. Only later in the story he does and he has to come to terms with it. I have been pondering whether or not if this backstory counts as fridging or is an acceptable character death. I am not exactly sure.

Can you explain Inigo Montoya? Is it our personal attachment to that character that makes us almost feel his father's death, even though we don't see it (or only see his father for a few moments before he dies), or is it that he just repeats his line so much, we just want him to succeed? Everything you explain in this video makes it seem like we shouldn't care so much, but when he finally meets that murderer, that line just gives you chills.

@josephrasche7194

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I'd say that it's because the narrative very clearly makes it clear that Inigo cares about his father, *after* having set Inigo up as a basically honorable man and therefore likable. First we're shown that Inigo is likable, honorable, and kind when he can manage it, and we start rooting for him to get away from Vizzini and find a better situation. And *then* we're shown the grief and the rage that's carried him this far and that has shaped his *entire life* up to this point, and continue to see it woven into every choice he makes in the movie from then on. From there, because we'd been primed to root for Inigo, we've become invested in his revenge quest, because we were properly sold on why we should be rooting for him to get it. The constant reminders of Inigo's loss and how it affected him reinforces our investment in his quest, and the occasional reminders that he is a fundamentally loyal and kind man reinforce that we care about him enough that we want him to succeed. In short, we didn't need to know Inigo's father very well, we just needed to know that he *mattered*, and from the moment Inigo started telling his story, it became very clear that he *did* matter very intensely. His death was given the weight it needed for the audience to care about it, and so his death was not a fridging. -Eleanora

@emilyreames7748

3 ай бұрын

This is very much colored by my knowledge of the book, but I think what works is that Rugen basically killed him to get out of paying for a sword. The in-universe characters have the same "wtf" moment the audience does with the sudden death, and then the grief goes on to be the spark that drives a character who is a bucket of revenge plot with a shiny sword (affectionate). The far-reaching ramifications of Domingo's death take away a lot of the fridging element, and the remaining elements being recognized in-story absolves the rest, in my opinion.

One of the biggest examples of fridging is Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke. This is her most pivotal story ever and it's a Batman/Joker story. She only gets harmed because the Joker tries to prove that it takes one bad day to become like him. And he uses Jim as proof. He doesn't harm Barbara because he knows she's Batgirl, or because she did anything to personally spite him. He did it to hurt Gordon and Bruce. The movie made it even worse when they attempted to "flesh out" her character.... by making her have sex with Bruce (one of her fathers best friends). Why do women in media primarily exist to have sex with men, or be harmed to further a man's character development (usually they're harmed BY MEN)?

@jadenjerries2094

Жыл бұрын

because unfortunately a recurring fault of male-protagonist stories is how female characters are reserved to emotional support roles, same reason why outside of father figures, male characters often don't fill that role. Women are seen as "pure" and "innocent", so as to make a male villain even more evil by daring to harm one.

@RacingSnails64

Жыл бұрын

As a lover of Barbara, I think you're overlooking some things, as there's a bit more to her being paralyzed than just the effect it has on Gordon and Bruce. That is the primary reason behind Joker doing it yes, but Barb has probably fought Joker in that universe before, so it's also him getting revenge on her and her worst nightmare come true (as she states she was scared of him as a kid to Gordon just before she opens the door). As well, this is where her origin story as Oracle comes from. Unable to walk or fight, Barb decides to continue to help Bruce by being his tech girl who relays him info and such while he's out on the job. (Works great in the Arkham games!) The event does a lot for her personally. But you are right about the sex part. I hate the animated movie lol. That bit never happened in the original comic. Bruce and Babs--while a few comics have tried to suggest they've had romantic history--usually come across as more father/daughter or student/mentor, and I'm glad 90% of Batman fans prefer them that way too. I'm totally fine with the idea of her idolizing and one-sidedly crushing on him, like a daydreaming kid might with an adult, but Bruce is much too responsible (and joyless) to ever allow himself to do such a thing with her. Barb may be a little brash and sassy, but I think she has more self-awareness and self-control than the movie made her out to be. That over-reaching "edgy maturity" was a trip wasn't it. At least the voice acting was good lol.

@grinko1222

Жыл бұрын

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@Melon-ALL-Free

Жыл бұрын

Probably because you don't know how to find a good story?

@grinko1222

Жыл бұрын

@@jadenjerries2094 Would fridging be any better killing off male characters for female development?

An interesting case that hits a LOT of the beats, but still feels compelling is Inigo Montoya. His father never even APPEARS, but we hear Inigo's story and he is clearly so emotionally devastated, even years later, that we do feel the weight of this death. And because it's something that drives multiple character relationships, it is sewed into the whole narrative. And shit, NOTHING hits emotionally quite like "I want my father back you son of a bitch". But in a wikipedia synopsis version of the story, it might look like a fridging.

@postalnerd787

2 жыл бұрын

I think this has more to do with the fact that it is just a part of Inigo's backstory. If we were to have seen his father and then he was killed off a scene later, that would be a lot more of a fridge since that character was actually introduced. Not even introducing the character kind of minimizes the potential for fridging since they are more backstory than character.

@renatocorvaro6924

2 жыл бұрын

That's a damn good point. It's definitely not fridging, but someone knowing only the plot beats of the story could definitely see it that way.

@claremiller9979

2 жыл бұрын

I think the biggest difference, based on Red's analysis, is that Inigo never forgets his father. It's fundamental to his life, he is still grieving and we feel that grief even as he might be playful in his fight with the Dread Pirate Roberts - the loss of his father permeates everything in his life. If his dad were fridged, we'd get none of that sense of grief, certainly not for the entire movie. It's be more like "my dad died so now I fight bad guys, whatevs"

@totemictoad4691

2 жыл бұрын

@@claremiller9979 yeah agreed, a Fridged inigo's father would have inspired him to become a duelist but now he fights because ooh shiny, Inigo fights to find the killer of his father one day and do some pain

@alonsogonzalez7539

2 жыл бұрын

I think the difference is that such grief is part of his character from the get go, and it is a crucial part of his arc. The dead father wasn't something that was just thrown in to give him a sad, nor it falls into the idea of his father being an unrealized character, because he's never a character of the story itself. I think the big telltale of fridging that I wish was zeroed in a bit more, is that a fridged character is eminently, a disposable character, like the history can move along without them without aftershocks besides the initial shock of their death. It's a character that had a role in the story, but now they feel superfluous, or never really got enough development to secure their narrative spot. Sure, there are characters created to be fridged and those are their own type of bad writing, but they are hardly more than plot devices. But when a character's own potential is deemed worthless and they may serve more to give other characters a sad with their passing, that's the most egregious fridging for me.

"Your eyes so much like your mother's... I think. She didn't get much screening." I just died, love these trope discussions and breakdowns! Plz keep it up!

@BonaparteBardithion

2 жыл бұрын

When the hero's parents where dating his father was like: "I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue...Your eyes are the sweetest I've ever seen."

The whole ‘sacrificing someone you love’ thing kinda reminds me of Once Upon a Time. The main spell used in the series involved giving up the heart of the one person you love the most. The main villain brought her dead father back to life just so she could use his heart for the spell! (Or something like that it’s been awhile since I’ve watched the series)

@RonnieFlare17

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you’re half right, she DID kill her father but at that point in the story bringing someone back from the dead was something magic explicitly couldn’t do. (Something later seasons kinda retconned but the point remains). She did, however, went out of her way to rescue him from her mother in Wonderland, screwing over the Mad Hatter in the process

My biggest issue with the gamora situation is that instead of taking the time to see how her death impacts the full team, how they continue on without her.... There's now just a time displaced version of her, except she's missing 5 years of experiences with the guardians, and now the focus is about finding new Gamora. I'm really feel hesitant that in Guardians 3, Peter will be chasing after her like "I love you" even though this isnt the Gamora he knew, and he'd essentially end up replacing the Gamora who loved him with someone he has no history with but who looks exactly like Gamora.

@merrittanimation7721

Жыл бұрын

Spoilers from the future: He does pine after her but thankfully they don't get back together.

@MrcreeperDXD777

11 ай бұрын

Spoiler: Peter's main character arc in gotg vol 3 is for him to move on from Gamora and let her alternate self be happy with her new family

@YayaFeiLong

9 ай бұрын

To be fair, GotG3 actually handles it really well. The movie really hammers home that New Gamora is not and never will be a replacement for Prime Gamora, but interacting with her helps Peter process through his grief and find the closure he needs to finally move on.

The Killing Joke example also shows how it can be fixed. Because Kim Yale and John Ostrander then took that bad writing and turned it into one of the most empowering stories in superhero comics with the birth of Oracle

@Bolbi145

2 жыл бұрын

@@Niop_Tres It’s way too common in DC and Marvel comics, like often times the definitive writer of a series is ironically not the creator

@patrickfrost9405

2 жыл бұрын

@@Niop_Tres The issue nowadays is that the reverse is now true: new writer swoops in and screws up a good story that somebody else was working on.

@driveasandwich6734

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickfrost9405 Funny how Alan Moore's work is always a good example, eh?

@samuelhain2160

2 жыл бұрын

@@driveasandwich6734 Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow wrapped up the entire bronze age of Superman stories and is the definite case example of how to end a series. Saga of the Swamp Thing kicked off the second era of horror comics when Moore was tasked with saving the wretched series. I get that the Killing Joke was really bad, but there's a reason his name can be found in the same sentences as Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.

@driveasandwich6734

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelhain2160 Oh, I definitely did not attempt to imply anything negative about Moore when I suggested his works embodies comics as a whole. I actually really like Killing Joke.

At this point, the 'soul stone' should be called the 'fridge stone'.

@willparry530

2 жыл бұрын

yaaaasssss

@nozzrik4472

2 жыл бұрын

Man, thats COLD hehehehe 😎

@willparry530

2 жыл бұрын

@@nozzrik4472 pfft

@willparry530

2 жыл бұрын

@Mullerornis lol

@whiteraven181

2 жыл бұрын

The SAME g*ddamn MacGuffin took away BOTH of the action-oriented semi-main female characters in the MCU. The psychic and magical female characters? They're fine, they can live. The butt-kicking gals who have belonged to a name-of-the-movie group? Marvel yeets them off a cliff for a magic rock and a cheap attempt at creating sympathy for male characters who apparently weren't sufficiently compelling and needed a "boost". Heck, in Endgame they actually managed to RETROACTIVELY META-FRIDGE Peggy Carter. All that cool stuff she did while she was working through her grief over Steve, trying to distract herself with work and struggle against sexism? And how that lead to her later creating SHIELD together with Howard Stark? I can't imagine that went nearly the same with Captain America standing alongside her the whole time (never mind the large scale ripple-effects from him having been present through everything overall and what that suggests he stood by through in order to have not drastically change history, effectively being character assassination on Steve himself). WHY DOES MARVEL HATE WOMEN WITH GUNS SO MUCH!?!?

Sometimes I actually really like the off screen dismissive death scenes that many people consider bad writing. Sure, sometimes it's just cheap and quick and not caring about that character at all. But sometimes that particular dry and cold death can really fit the mood and emphasize a senseless tragedy, especially if it happens pretty suddenly. But in most cases that's not the case.

Yeah, Maes Hughes death was a hard hit to everyone who knew him and his family. You see the genuine grief Ed & Al suffer because Hughes become an unintentional father figure for them, and the pinnacle of this grief for Roy was when he unleashed hellish fury on Envy to the point where he nearly killed the immortal shapeshifter and had him begging for mercy. Hughes was essentially the group Dad and heart of the team. Unfortunately the kill a loved one of the main characters doesn’t always work well as the sole fuel to drive the story.

I used to call this"the Krillin effect" when I was watching Dragon Ball: the fastest way for a villain to show they are really serious is to kill Krillin violently in front of Goku. Instant motivation

@devforfun5618

2 жыл бұрын

the first one didnt kill him in front of Goku, of course it didn't change the fact that Goku killed him with an unusual coldness, Freeza was lucky that Goku spared him, those were the two instances were Goku was really mad

@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes

2 жыл бұрын

@@devforfun5618 But Krillin got killed a lot and always to make Goku or the current "real fighter" motivated to defeat the villain. I remember that Goku turns into SSJ for the first time when Freeza kills Krillin

@jeffreybogard2713

2 жыл бұрын

Well the fact that Dragon Ball has ready access to resurrection does smooth things over. Not only that, but Krillin has more personality and more overall plot importance than most fridged characters. He has an arc. Plus what you're describing only really happens twice. Krillin dies a third time but that's when pretty much everyone dies because EVERYTHING is going to crap right then.

@jeffreybogard2713

2 жыл бұрын

@@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes Krillin dies three times. Once to Tambourine, once to Frieza, and once to Buu. The first two do serve as motivation for Goku, but in the third instance everyone else is dead, too, so Goku has a whole pile of dead friends and relatives to avenge.

@thirdplanet4471

2 жыл бұрын

In the manga Krillin only dies twice

I always hated how much longer and deeply Luke mourns the death of a guy he barely knew than the people who literally raised him !

@l.tc.5032

2 жыл бұрын

It's done a lot better in the Radio Drama. Luke brings them up more than once to both Ben and Leia before finally snapping about how much he's lost because of the empire yelling "Vader Murdered my Aunt and Uncle!" Ben's death was less about implying that he was more important to Luke than his family and more about how his death was the straw that broke the camel's back for Luke after he went though a rapid succession of tragic and scary events.

@mrelia

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Obi Wan was manipulating his emotions to keep Luke from being even more useless than he already was.

@AtomicBananaPress

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but they didn't let him go to Tachi Station to pick up those power converters!

@emblemblade9245

2 жыл бұрын

AtomicBananaPress unforgivable im glad they’re dead

@thatstarwarsnerd6641

2 жыл бұрын

At least they got more than his childhood best friend who got maybe a second of Luke looking sad

Funny that the trope is called fridging and yet not named after the greatest fridged character, Nora Fries, who is actually refrigerated

@katherineperry6380

3 ай бұрын

That’s because Nora Fries wasn’t fridged. Dr. Fries’s sole motivation is curing her terminal illness. She is vitally important to their story and is treated as such.

@iggytheincubus

2 ай бұрын

​@@katherineperry6380I mean, one could argue that Nora is less of a character and more of a plot point for Dr freeze, but that's an entirely different discussion

I think The Boys did a good job of avoiding this by having Hughie mention Robin every now and then and getting an apology out of A-Train 3 seasons later.

Imagine a fridging where the character is motivated because the villain broke their fridge

@Coid

2 жыл бұрын

I can totally see internet meme Skeletor doing that to He-Man.

@kaboomgaming4255

2 жыл бұрын

You've just summoned the dream smp fanfic writers

@javi7636

2 жыл бұрын

I mean this is Kirby in a nutshell. Went on a whole damn adventure because of some cake he didn't get to eat.

@calmwaveofchaos1878

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaboomgaming4255 I know I’ve seen at least one crack fic like this.

@zsheets7483

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a follow-up plot to The Big Lebowski.

"Characters aren't real people" That's probably the most unintentional hot take of the whole video even though it shouldn't be

@thefvguy5648

2 жыл бұрын

Is it really a hot take? As a writer, I always thought that’s what everyone was thinking.

@II-ys7rd

2 жыл бұрын

However, the reactions to those characters are, and the writer’s motives are as well.

@devildavin

2 жыл бұрын

i've seen alot of people get unhealthily attached to characters and holy shit you would think this shit was happening to a real person with how some of these people....coped

@LordVader1094

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefvguy5648 Yes. Some people start to feel way too strongly about a character

@brainfat1

2 жыл бұрын

I have never understood why people get worked up about "fridging". Most characters in stories are only there to move the protagonist along in the story the author is trying to tell. That the death of the character/s is unceremonious or offscreen is more about hiding the action from the protagonist (whose eyes we usually see through) so that the reveal has narrative weight and potentially shock value. No one complains about the (perhaps) millions of people loyal to the the Empire who were vaporized in several different suspicious Death Star explosions. The deaths of each individual in those space stations was not carefully viewed through their eyes, we only see dust pushed rapidly in all directions by a massive pressure wave. Why? Because they were a fucking plot point and aren't real, just like our protagonist! Some people really like George R. R. Martin and all the intricate stories he tells about so many varied different characters. I did too until I realized most of the people I was reading about were going to die and not really affect the arc of the story too much. Maybe someone exists who wants to read about the lives of everyone on Scarif before it got nuked and there might even be some beautiful stories in there, but almost everyone there was a plot point, even the protagonists. Yes, we had invested time in getting to know them so it felt right that we see their noble ends play out, but to Kyle's girlfriend in the fridge, we hardly knew ye and that doesn't make us or the writers bad people for using imaginary people as plot points in other imaginary people' stories.

I'm wondering your thoughts about Arcane and that one scene. [SPOILERS] [SPOILERS] Regarding Arcane, with Viktor. Episode 5 is when we have a character, Sky, a character who has a love interest in Viktor but that Viktor doesn't reciprocate. Prior to that she has a brief appearance in Episode 4, but doesn't say anything; just gives Viktor an admiring look. However, come Episode 8, she dies due to Viktor's meddling with magic, trying to save Viktor from what appeared to be a self-inflicted situation where he's trying to evolve his own body without Shimmer via the Hexcore in desperation. Many people hopped in and called this fridging. While I can 100% see that being the case, I was curious about it after watching your video, and wanted to hear your thoughts on it. You define fridging as a character whom is killed by a villain unceremoniously, and sometimes off-screen, for the protagonist to feel bad. But... A) Viktor is the one that kills Sky, not a villain. B) Viktor is visibly traumatized by this death, holding that guilt over him over several scenes, and even prepared to commit suicide over this action, only stopped by his friend. Sky gets somewhat of a funeral scene even, as Viktor tries to keep her death a secret but gives her some amount of respect by spreading her ashes at his favorite hideout spot. C) Its seemingly done on purpose; Viktor as a character thought that he was only worth what he contributed, and that nobody would care about himself. Sky is the direct antithesis to that, which he tragically did not foresee until he dug too far into science, which results in Sky dying by his own foolishness. Viktor is the character we follow, and we as the audience are just as dethatched from Sky as Viktor is, until her sudden death by Viktor's own hand. While yes, Sky does die for the plot and to motivate Viktor, it's not done unceremoniously. In fact, there's entire scenes leading up to the finale where Viktor is broken over the death and is even prepared to annihilate his own arc via suicide to 'give Sky her due' so to speak. Would you consider this fridging?

@marandabreinholt458

10 ай бұрын

I would say it is not fridging, because it completely changes the trajectory Victor's character arc is going on. It's not a he's sad for this week's episode and maybe a mention here or there, he breaks out of his tunnel vision focus on curing himself with magitek to try to destroy what he has created, and when he can't (because of magic?) He asks his best friend, the only other character he trusts, to do it for him. It impacts him for the rest of the season.

You can die for a plot point and not be fridged, but if you live to die for a plot point, you were probably fridged.

Trope talk suggestion for you; "The noodle incident" or just "The Incident" is a literary tool that gives more literary weight to an event or mcguffin than a description would, mostly by context and the reader's imagination. Named because of a short series of Calvin and Hobbes comics wherein everyone at school gives the eternally frustrated 6-year-old grief about something he did in the past that is now known only as "The noodle incident." It is hinted at vaguely many times, but the writer ultimately leaves it up to your imagination; which is a strength because whatever the audience dreams up will be way more literarily impactful (in this case funny) than anything he could write down. And that's not even the only time that comic uses a noodle incident, see, there's this kids book calvin always wants read called "Hampster Hewwy and the Gooey Kablooey" and Now I'm ranting. Another instance this trope is used is in an S.C.P. story wherein a certain slime MUST NEVER come into contact with a human corpse. Why? That's classified. A foundation researcher files the suggestion to test the slime on a human corpse because it's never listed what happens, only that it is a V E R Y bad idea, and the researcher is curious. He gets demoted and heavily scolded by an O-5, who states "Just don't." A "Noodle Incident" is a rare trope that involves telling the audience that something exists or happened, but not telling them what it was, in order to give the plot point more narrative weight than a description would give it, partly because of the imaginations of the audience. It is a great trope that I think you should cover.

@iron_Will

2 жыл бұрын

DBZA's Jockstrap Incident

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

The author of that SCP even called it a noodle incident (what happens when it comes into contact with dead bodies).

@kidlewinter5027

2 жыл бұрын

YES! COVER IT!

@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606

2 жыл бұрын

@@iron_Will yeah.

@Garvant_

2 жыл бұрын

The Rocky Port Incident

You gave a good litmus test at the end. “If a main (or fan-favourite) character were killed off in the same manner, would people riot?”

@zyanbob

2 жыл бұрын

Could you give me some examples of characters not rioting for?

@gamongames

2 жыл бұрын

@@zyanbob did anyone riot, or even really cared, when after more than a decade of canon one of the founding avengers was killed in exchange for a mcguffing and was never mentioned again 5 minutes after? imagine that death happening the same way to any other avenger apart from the two boring ones. imagine it with steve or peter. people would go apeshit.

@nickbell8353

2 жыл бұрын

Hasbro sure learned that shit the hard way after Transformers: the Movie.

@AnInsideJoke

2 жыл бұрын

That's just it though, both Gamora and Widow WERE main characters. Gamora was 100% a main in the GotG movies. Widow was supposed to be a main, but ended up getting a combination of fumbled and shoved to the side for other heros. The Black Widow solo movie has been requested by fans for YEARS, since pre-Winter Soilder days, but the MCU kept ignoring it. I blame what happened to Widow, Gamora, Loki, and Vision in the Infinity War saga on the Russos having their heads so far up Steve Rogers' ass that they can confirm his dental records. They backburnered any character that wasn't him or related in anyway to his whole "tragic romance" to Peggy. Which they fulfilled by proceeding to bend space-time over a pipe despite the MASSIVE consequences, instead of letting Rogers do the actual HEALTHY thing and MOVE ON with his damn life, the way Peggy herself actually did.

@melaniey.5596

2 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of the case of The Last of Us 2, where Joel was killed for the sake of advancing the plot and the character development of Abby and Ellie, and people absolutely rioted because of it (and by that I mean got really mad and made sure everyone on the internet knew about how mad it made them).

Occasionally, some writers 'intentionally' kill rather important characters without a fanfare, often even offscreen, to empathize the feeling of emptiness and futility, or to make the audience experience through the 'denial phase'. On other cases, director Tomino Yoshiyuki, most known for Gundam series, is very infamous for brutalizing and slaughtering major characters without fanfare. He mostly does it to empathize the harsh reality of war, where people don't really die dramatically like movies or anime, but are rather cut down like grass.

This was recommended to me in May 2023. For the future viewers, Nick Lowe and Zeb Wells just fridged Kamala Khan in Amazing Spider-Man #26. KZread recommendations have some sick algorithm

@nathancarter8239

4 сағат бұрын

*shaking my fist* Zeb Wells! How dare you create Paul and break up MJ and Peter and do all that other terrible writing!

The interesting thing about Barbara Gordon's case is that while the original reason for her being paralyzed was definitely to motivate a male character, her agency and place in the narrative didn't stop when she was "fridged". Barbara dealing with her new disability and finding a new way to help people as Oracle became a large part of her character and, as some would argue, resulted in some of the best development and characterization she has ever gotten, to the point that some fans prefer her as Oracle to her as Batgirl.

@Andrewtr6

2 жыл бұрын

This is one reason why I think the idea of Fridging is weird. Just because a character doesn't get focused on in one story after something happens to them, doesn't mean they can't be the focus of their own story later on.

@LemonMoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@Andrewtr6 A lot of fridging kills the characters, so they can’t really be a focus later since most stories don’t have a resurrection mechanic.

@hunterlawrence3573

2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonMoon Like with Gamora. Now she has to live in an unfamiliar world with everyone else remembering a different version of her. It hasn't been focused on yet, but it will be.

@alvarogarcia4735

2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonMoon This discussion interest me a lot because I watched this video became I was scared I accidentally made a fridging plot in my own story, so you tell me. In my story, near the end of what I call the first generation, a character is lost in an apocalypse by falling into the earth. You spend a lot of time with this character throughout the series as they are essentially a main character. In fact, they one of the first characters you meet, and has a lot of time devoted to her characterization and motivation. The other character, who is their love interest grieves for an undisclosed amount of time, and defeats the villain by the end of the arc as per the other character's wish. As everything seems to back to normal, the second protagonist realizes that the other didn't come back, and is completely overtaken by grief. To the point that they do everything they can to find the other, which they don't, and later die themselves, asking for his son to find her if she is not "up there" with him. It's revealed later during what I call the second generation, that she is alive, and had been it what was essentially stasis for her, and now you see her grief and sorrow when she realizes that her husband died, trying his damn hardest to find her. I was scared that having her "die" in that moment could be considered that. Opinions?

@hunterlawrence3573

2 жыл бұрын

@@alvarogarcia4735 No. Fridging is killing a character just to motivate another character, but not really lingering on how their death effects everyone for more than a scene or two. You’re plot sounds like the opposite of that

People in these comments seem to be forgetting that a character we barely know can die suddenly as a narrative reason to motivate a character and still not be considered fridging IF the motivated character doesn't act like they forgot that person died 5 mins later. Seeing death, even of strangers, is incredibly emotionally impactful or traumatic for the average individual. The character writing needs to reflect that if they've suffered any kind of loss.

@Jack-kx5rf

2 жыл бұрын

Fridging is killing off a character for the sole purpose of motivating another character. The time and effort the author puts into the emotional aftermath of the said character have no bearing on whether that character was fridged or not. Ironically having the character feel nothing at all for the dead character makes the dead character not fridged as the other character isn't motivated by the act of that person dying.

@spaghetto9836

2 жыл бұрын

Nice Kyoka Jiro cosplay, btw ^-^.

@uwogd

2 жыл бұрын

invincible is good at not doing this i think

@ckl9390

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the audience gets to retroactively know the character as the story progresses. The more we see the memories of them from the main character's perspective the more the audience feels they were genuinely important. More so if the story touches on other people the deceased character had interacted with during their life while the main character journeys onward. We keep getting reminded that it was a good and heroic person that was killed. We meet people who were educated in a school they founded or taught at. Or a spend a night with a mountain shepherd who would have lost their best stock if the deceased character hadn't helped hoist them out of a crevasse decades ago, and now an extended family is supported with the dividends of that perilous effort. Stories that even the main character wouldn't have heard about, and each time it is another twist of the knife. Through this method the audience would get to know and feel for a character that technically only had about 5 minutes of screen/page time.

@EdsonR13

2 жыл бұрын

So uncle Ben? He's killed off to motivate Spiderman but his impact is felt constantly throughout all of Spidermans stories

This might be just me fangirling but I think it’s so awesome when writers like alan moore can look back at previous mistakes and admit them as such

@wjzav1971

11 ай бұрын

I also heard that Sylvester Stallone said that in retrospect, it might have not been a good idea to kill off Apollo Creed in Rocky 4.

The thing with Killing Joke, though, is that Barbara's story went *on* from there, and what happened to her was given weight in later stories -- she became "Oracle", a badass in a wheelchair and things snowballed from there. She was only a plot-device in KJ, but that scene was shocking and horrifying to readers *because* Barbara had weight, personality, and meaning in the previous and later stories. I'm an on-again, off-again reader of the Batman stories, and (that editor's asshatted comment aside) Barbara's crippling wasn't a true "fridging". Abhorrent, violent, misogynistic, yes. Fridged, no.

I find the soul stone take quite interesting. I've always read the soul stone test as more of a test of will than a test of morality. The test was to ensure the wielder of the stone had the will necessary to use the stone to its potential, rather than a test to ensure the wielder was morally good. I mean, it chose the RED SKULL as its guardian. I quite enjoyed it as a sort of demonstration of the near total amorality of the stones, and the importance allocated to the soul stone was because it acted as the test for the stones as a whole- each stone can be used by anyone with the strength, while the stones together can only be wielded by someone with the will to go the whole way.

@emblemblade9245

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t actually disagree with that…I just really hate the way the deaths were handled, and the way none of the other stones required such harsh actions to get them

@FelisImpurrator

2 жыл бұрын

The test itself is still contrived regardless. It could be anything; the only reason it has to be this is to give everyone else even more survivor's guilt for the next hour, and to reset Gamora for no fucking reason, apparently. The morality angle is irrelevant; an indifferent universe is a far more believable universe. But the test itself undermines any intent to portray the stones as amoral and indifferent when it's so specifically designed to give viewers emotional gut punches.

@idontknowwhatimdoing6296

2 жыл бұрын

@@emblemblade9245 agreed, i feel like it would have fit much better if each stone had it's own test/trial to be able to wield them. they don't have to be as extreme as the soul stone's, but i think it would have made the "soul for a soul" work better and not feel as out of place.

@Brisarious

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like it really plays into Red's 'tipping the author's hand' point. Because regardless of the stones' standards, it's pretty obvious that the authors wrote that scene for shock value. For a lot of people (myself included) the writer's influence was so obvious that trying to parse the in-universe reasoning for it feels like dodging the question

@totemictoad4691

2 жыл бұрын

the issue to me is, who set up the test? because be it the stone or some entity, they were clearly evil, a hero would set up a saftey feature of 'You must kill that which you love' Test 1)have something not you that is loved by you, 2)when they say No not even for power would i break my heart - they turn to leave,,,,,, Congratulations, test passed, have power of the soul stone because you stayed true to your heart not power,,,,, but love something but kill it thats a lock set by a sadistic entity that dosnt want complete narcissists getting the stone 'no loved thing, no stone' but at the same time wants you to cut your heart out to get the stone

I think I read once that the fridging litmus test is "if they were the protagonist, would this death feel earned?" And I'm so glad you acknowledged that.

@willhuey4462

2 жыл бұрын

final destination 2 was an example of fridging the male equivalent what happened to alex in between the movies.

@mementoargentum7733

2 жыл бұрын

@@willhuey4462 To be fair to that particular fridging (I agree it was, but there's actually a reason behind the scenes) they couldn't get the actor back due to Legal issues. I believe he was either suing them or trying to for something to do with the first movie. Because of that, they had to write him out of the story and they were clearly feeling kind of petty. I'm not saying that makes it all better, I hate that death too, it's just that there Was a reason outside of, "What can we do to impact the story?"

@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, are the millions of deaths that happened when the Death Star destroyed Alderaan fridging because they were off-screen? A movie doesn't have time to focus on every single character, there is a difference between killing one in a way without focus and in a mean-spirited way.

@Omphalite

2 жыл бұрын

That's just a stupid way to go about it. A protagonist's death is always without question the most heavy a death could be, because the protagonist is the character the audience is following. A protagonist dying means that either the story is over, or there's going to be a new protagonist. And changing protagonists is always a huge goddamn deal. No matter how main a main character is they can't compare to the weight of the death of the protagonist. There's a large and insurmountable difference between the two.

@GMP1isReal

Жыл бұрын

That honestly sounds ridiculous. It would be impractical as hell to characterize and develop literally every single side character to the level of the protagonist. It's like watching the news of how someone was killed from an accident and thinking about how you don't feel as sad as when your parents died, and blame the universe for bad writing in your life.

It's interesting that you mention Coulson because what you say about speedrunning his emotional arc is kinda true, it was enough for him to become a fan favorite and people to actually demand for him to get a bigger story.

I always love when opening a trope talk, Red describes something and then goes “This isn’t that”

magneto is a great example of this. in the movies alone, FOUR female characters are fridged for his character development (his mom, wife and kid, mystique), and that's not even counting the comics

@Jim4815162342

2 жыл бұрын

I felt like Mystique was different. They had turned her into prequel-Wolverine, and when they chose to do Dark Phoenix, they had written themselves into a corner, so they had to get her out of the way. Her death did definitely get handled better than any of the named character deaths in the original trilogy.

@cora2192

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jim4815162342 i get what you’re saying. for me, mystique was erik’s motivation to go out and try to kill jean, forwarding the plot, so that’s basically why i included her haha edited for grammar

@willieoelkers5568

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jim4815162342 Also, the actress wanted to be done with X-Men movies I believe.

@OneWingedRose

2 жыл бұрын

Gods, Apocalypse was such a bad film lol.

@Jim4815162342

2 жыл бұрын

@@OneWingedRose Admittedly, yes. But there were major flaws in all of the X-Men movies. And unlike the MCU, we didn't get time to invest in them enough to overlook the problems.

There's no better example of fridging then yeeting someone you love off a cliff to get an object that progresses the plot.

@anthonydavis5288

2 жыл бұрын

.... Marvel? I haven't seen it yet just heard about it Edit: Like I haven't seen where Thanos throws Gamora off a cliff but I've heard about it

@AnInsideJoke

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget trying to smooth over the damage by just yoinking an alternate-reality version and acting like treating a woman like a replacement goldfish fixes everything.

@nobodyofimprotance7615

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnInsideJoke That's what happens when a franchise has its trajectory determined by marketers.

@devforfun5618

2 жыл бұрын

at least in the case of black widow any of the two could do it, but since she couldn't have a family she didn't let hawk eye do that because he had a family, it was an heroic sacrifice, the case with thanos was really bad, if they didnt want to change that because of black widow, they could have Thanos order another person to sacrifice someone

@bthsr7113

2 жыл бұрын

The Gamora who went over the cliff is not the one who was brought forward in time. She is missing years of development, so she is not the same. We shall see what happens, but they didn't necessarily cheapen her death. If the coming stories make her development retread too fast or easy, then we can critique just bringing an alternate past version forward. As for Widow, it is a natural culmination of her trying to clear her ledger, was an active choice by the character who died, and it was going to be her or her best friend. Neither wanted the other to go, and they fought damn hard to be the one who made the sacrifice play. There could have been more attention made to her death though.

Wait- Just realized that Demon Slyare could technically be considered a fridging because none of the mc’s family (exept his sister, sort of) have any personality or care put into them

@ferociousmaliciousghost

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not? They appear sometimes and are pretty important to the goal of the MC. To put it in a more humorous way, I don't expect my pokemon cards to empower me with love to kill a demon. (From that one episode with family and stuff)

@arcanedoughnut2016

Жыл бұрын

Nope, Tanjiro thinks of his family quite a lot and suffering from survivor's guilt is a pretty big part of his character. There's like the entire dream sequence in Mugen Train. Demon Slayer is actually really good at handling character deaths, especially when they could just be used as generic backstory. Like Shinobu's sister dying causes her to fundamentally change her own personality in an attempt to emulate her sister, but fundamentally fails at it *because* her sister is dead. She wants to take up her sisters noble cause of wanting to befriend and redeem demons, but can't actually do it in practice *because* her sister was killed by a demon and that disconnect causes her immense turmoil. Rengoku's death affects literally every character in the story, just an arc later Uzui laments he can't be like Rengoku and save everyone and as mentioned by Obanai later in that arc, it's a huge blow to the Corp as they're down one of their strongest. It motivates the main trio to get stronger and gives Tanjito this really bleak reality check by showing even someone who's really strong can still die.

@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463

Жыл бұрын

@@arcanedoughnut2016 But are the parents their own characters?

@YayaFeiLong

9 ай бұрын

@@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 Yes, if you're paying attention They're not like really deep characters but they are definitely characters.

I'm actually planning on a story idea where the protag has his best friend die in front of him, brutally and almost unceremoniously killed by a minor villain on the verge of death. So before he kicks it, he decides to deal a personal blow to one of the people that ended him. But this will then serve as a launch pad for the plot, where he essentially get's rent in half by the grief. One of his halves, representing his anger and hatred of the forces that killed his friend, will serve as the hero of the plot. The other, representing his feelings of hopelessness and depression over losing the first person willing to befriend him, the villain. The story ends with the two fighting and, eventually, reconciling and rejoining. Very notably, this is going to take place in a sequel arc, so the friend and protag will already have some development behind them to give the death weight, and I'm definitely planning to make the most of Hitchcockian suspense to make it as yucky-feeling as possible.

Hey Red, has anyone recently expressed how grateful we are that you are both passionate about this work, and that you decided to pursue that passion? Because we really are. Thank you.

@genericweeb3816

2 жыл бұрын

I do

@erinyes3943

2 жыл бұрын

This is very well said and very true. Thank you!!!

@Klishar122

2 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@hyperanemoia8842

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, multiple people in every comment section have.

@jl_legend

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyperanemoia8842 better to duplicate love, appreciation and positivity than anything else Thanks Red, always grateful for your videos

“100% guaranteed to not do horrible things to your supporting character” No no no, that’s the writer’s job

Every trope talk I see brings me close and closer to writing a half-thesis half-novel about every trope in existence.

Gomorra’s (I’ve never seen it written, I hope I’m spelling it right) death was the moment I lost interest in the MCU. She had a very compelling character arc that spoke to me on a personal level as a survivor of abuse, and by killing her halfway through it, Marvel said they didn’t actually care about her arc, and all but explicitly said they thought the experience that has largely defined my life wasn’t real. If a story doesn’t care about its characters or its audience and the stakes are a lie, why would I get invested in it?

I will say this for Endgame: Hawkeye and Black Widow having a race to shove themselves in the fridge had me laughing in the cinema with how ridiculous the whole thing was.

@raymondwiggins354

2 жыл бұрын

"I will kill myself so you can get the infinity stone" "No I will" "No I will!" "You are more relevant to the rest of the plot, so I will!"

@ZanathKariashi

2 жыл бұрын

@@raymondwiggins354 Hawkeye: But I'm already supposed to be dead this arc. Black Widow: yeah, but someone has gotta lead the Thunderbolts in 10 years.

@joshlegacy1101

2 жыл бұрын

The most intense suicide prevention scene I've ever seen.

@anmolt3840051

2 жыл бұрын

It shouldn't have even worked really

@aionicthunder

2 жыл бұрын

@@anmolt3840051 No. Just no. You are wrong. Do you really think that those two didn’t love each other? I’m not talking about romantic love; I’m talking about familial love. Those two knew each other longer than any of the OG Avengers. Remember how they met? Clint was sent to kill Natasha, but chose “no”. He recruited Natasha. As SHIELD agents, as Avengers, they worked together for years. And you’re going to tell me they didn’t love each other?

Red Skull said Thanos had to sacrifice “that which [he loves].” Thanos is enough of a narcissist that I’m sure it did hurt to sacrifice Gamora, because it was really sacrificing his delusion that he was this great, wise father to Gamora and the rest of the universe. What he really loved was how he felt he was this generous and loving father, and that’s what he actually sacrificed by yeeting Gamora.

@Iggybart05

2 жыл бұрын

i actually applied it to the standard prophecy/wish loophole. that loophole being phrasing. even a narcissist can believe they love someone, even if they love themselves more. it was also very specific about a soul for a soul, so it had to be a person. the problem i had was in endgame hawkeye didn't sacrifice her, she sacrificed herself, but again, it said lose that which love and he did lose her. i do totally agree with her assessment that they tried to rush nat to make her sacrifice more meaningful though.

@reganator5000

2 жыл бұрын

Also, there's a reasonable argument that Thanos' narcissism might not be a character flaw for someone who is at least half autonomous pest control robot. Eternals are supposed to take pride in raising the species they guard, and that makes logical sense as a programmed trait, whilst programming them with a human-like regard for society would be... dumb, it would be real dumb, and just mean arishem needs to patch out that bugged code. While 'not all species are humans' isn't something an action movie will address, I don't think Thanos is automatically at fault for being self centred, as he is not a human. Though, on the other hand, movie characters mate in the manner of swans, not people, so maybe the writers don't get out much (it's so very, very rare to see a film character who, even over the course of several films, has a full on breakup with someone who was previously their love interest. Which happens all the time in humans, as the first person you love, probably isn't the one you actually marry, statistically speaking, even if you never divorce and never have a relationship involving abuse or infidelity. Swans on the other hand, do spend the rest of their lives with the first person they bone, so basically have the exact relationship goals of a movie character).

@misery4407

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of he sacrificed his own narcisism in the story, it is now my personal canon

@daviddaugherty2816

2 жыл бұрын

He does have an entire monolgue about what he "loves" about Gamora, and those are literally only things he sees in himself. He doesn't really love Gamora, just himself.

@DemigodShmurda

2 жыл бұрын

This is now my headcannon. Gamora's Infinity War death has *never* sat well with me. I've never bought that Thanos really loved Gamora.

This video helped me realize just exactly why Maria Robotnik’s death never felt like fridging, even though she is literally introduced into the series through her own death in Shadow’s backstory.

@cawareyoudoin7379

Жыл бұрын

I mean... She is a little fridged. Not like entirely, but she does mostly serve as a motivation for Shadow. There is a whole problem with the Sonic franchise and the girl characters being either less relevant, sacrificed, used as motivation for the male characters, and so on. Of course there are differences between all the various media, the games, the comics, the cartoons and movies, but that is a real issue.

@Excelsior1937

11 ай бұрын

What made you feel that way?

I'm watching this while trying to think of how Mia Fey from Ace Attorney fits into this. I guess ordinary rules about character death don't really apply to her since she's literally still around afterwards anyway

@trucluu7894

Жыл бұрын

And her death still affects the characters afterwards. She is the motivation of both sequels, which is why i think it doesn’t fall under fridging

@Miju001

Жыл бұрын

@@trucluu7894 Eh, admittedly, you could argue that that's still a way of making her death about the feelings of other characters rather than about Mia herself, which would count as fridging. In fact, I feel like Godot's deal is either an instance of retroactive fridging, or a critique of fridging itself - he's entirely motivated by Mia's death and wants to direct all narrative attention to how it affected him and how important she was to him, but it isn't until the end of the game that he realizes he can't keep up that vision of events. I think that part of why Mia's deal still doesn't come across as fridging is that she's still a very distinct character; and while I don't actually think that her still being around is the only reason for that, it's definitely part of it.

@trucluu7894

Жыл бұрын

@@Miju001 red does mention that fridging must be “trivial” in a way, as to the narrative, it’s an “used and toss” kind of deal, but in mia case, her death lingered. I think that godot is actuallya counter example, because he would not be godot if it is any other character death, and his reaction to mia death is contrasted with Phoenix reaction to the death. Both men grow in opposite way to one another

@Miju001

Жыл бұрын

@@trucluu7894 I would like to disagree on Godot, specifically. On the one hand, you're right that Godot is one of the main forces behind bringing Mia's death to the forefront; and I don't think that should be dismissed. But on the other hand, he does so by centering the narrative around it entirely on himself and his feelings towards it. For all intents and purposes, when it comes to Godot, everything that concerns Mia's death and its consequences has nothing to do with Mia herself. Again, I believe this is actually part of Godot's well-constructed character flaws rather than a fault of the narrative (at least not fully), but what I just said is a huge part of Red's "prized Pokémon card collection" test (albeit, not all of it, as you pointed out).

Now I wanna see a story where the fridged character actually is a binder of Pokémon cards, and the character you’d expect to get fridged actually sticks around as a supporting character.

@daanstrik4293

2 жыл бұрын

And the supporting character mourns the loss of the pokemon cards!

@tyrant-den884

2 жыл бұрын

You want Odd Taxi. It's just one of an ensemble, and it's his gotcha app game that's destroyed; but is similar.

@ton1

2 жыл бұрын

Damn I can feel the loss. I saw the movie before my inner eye. A heartwarming tale of revenge porn, the prequel to John Wick. For all who haven't notice: The firdged John Wick's dog

"People-shaped plot devices." Funniest way to express the problem.

I love how the Supernatural pilot fridges Sam’s girlfriend on both a Doylist and a Watsonian level.

A good way that fridging was averted, in my opinion, is Tanjiro's family in Demon Slayer. In the first episode of the series, a demon slaughters the boy's family. The only survivor is his sister Nezuko, but she quickly turns into a demon. This entire incident is what incites the plot, with Tanjiro becoming a demon slayer to not only avenge his family, but also find a way to turn his sister back into a human. In a lesser piece of media, that would be the last we'd hear of Tanjiro's family. For example, look at Goblin Slayer. Now I'm not saying that's a bad series, because I've never seen it. But in the beginning of Goblin Slayer, the Priestess' entire adventure squad gets killed by goblins. The only survivor is the Fighter, who... well, I think it's easy to assume why the bad guys in a dark fantasy would kidnap a girl. And that's the last we hear of the Priestess' fallen comrades. The Fighter later gets freed from her imprisonment, but is irreversibly traumatized by her abuse and is in no condition to continue adventuring. And that's the last we hear of her. She's written out of the story completely after that. The Priestess' friends were all fridged. In Demon Slayer, however, Tanjiro's mother and kid siblings are frequently seen in flashbacks and dreams. Since their deaths and Nezuko almost dying are the main driving force behind Tanjiro's quest, of course the story would show him constantly remembering his family. They were killed off, but the memory of them functionally makes these characters just as important and prevalent as the protagonist. A great example of this is in the Entertainment District Arc, where Nezuko goes berserk and Tanjiro calms her down by reciting a lullaby that their mother used to sing to them. Nezuko remembers her mother, and breaks down crying. The infamous dead mom anime trope is used in this instance to remind both the characters and the audience of Nezuko's humanity. Once Priestess' friends are removed from life, Goblin Slayer becomes all about her and an edgy medieval Doomguy. That's not an attack, by the way. I _love_ edgy characters. But Tanjiro's family are never treated as a simple plot device. Does Spider-Man still think about Gwen Stacy? Why would he, now that he's with Mary Jane? Does Miles Morales still think about his universe's Peter Parker? Why would he, now that the Ultimate Universe no longer exists? Does Superman still think about Krypton? Probably, but one day Earth will also die and he'll just have to find a new planet. Does Mark Grayson think about all those people that his father killed? He can't, he doesn't have time to mourn. This brings me to another great way to salvage the trope of using death as a plot device: Speedball, aka Robbie Baldwin. The inciting incident of Marvel's Civil War event is the Stamford Incident. A team of young superheroes, led by Speedball, film themselves trying to take down the villain Nitro. Their inexperience and lack of preparation result in Nitro using his powers to detonate and kill everyone in the town, including Speedball's teammates. Speedball survives due to his powers, and is then blamed for the entire incident and thrown in prison. This is what leads to the Superhero Registration Act, requiring every superhero to disclose their true identity to the public. Speedball eventually recovers and decides to abide by this law, in an attempt to right his wrongs. The Marvel writers didn't _have_ to explore the consequences of the Stamford Incident. After all, it was just a plot device designed to give a reason for Iron Man and Captain America to fight. And Speedball's just some C-List superhero from the Silver Age, he's not that important to the grand scheme of Earth-616. But those deaths _were_ important. 612 people died in that explosion, 60 of whom were children. Robbie builds himself a new suit, fitted with spikes that impale his body. This was to activate his powers, as well as punish himself. There were 612 spikes, with 60 of them being longer than the rest. Robbie gave himself a new name, Penance. Robbie's dead friends also aren't forgotten after their narrative purpose, dying in an incident that incites Civil War, was fulfilled. The people of Atlantis mourned the loss of Nimona, one of the heroes who died, and even prosecuted Nitro. Speaking of Nitro, Robbie eventually tracks him down, and beats the ever-living shit out of him while shouting the names of the people he killed. Hell fucking yeah! _This_ is in my opinion the most important means of avoiding fridging: Remind the readers that the killed off character was a person, with a name, an age, and a family. That's why we write down the names of the dead when we build memorials. Why we have funerals and graveyards and works dedicated to our departed. Someone doesn't cease to be a person after they die. In real life, you aren’t "written out of the story" after you die. The ripples outlast the splash that created them. That's how all the best character deaths avoided fridging. Peter Parker never forgot Uncle Ben. Bruce Wayne never forgot his parents. Naruto and Goku never knew their real parents, but you can still see how their actions outlasted their lives. And in the case of Goku, the memory of his adoptive grandfather Gohan lives on, when Goku named his son in his honor. The problem with fridging is that the story often has no more use for that character once they're killed off and the death is used as a plot device. But it doesn't _have_ to be like that.

One of the Deadpool books actually had a spin on fridging. Nobody was actually dead, but it *did* characterize one of the antagonists as obsessive.

@Booksds

2 жыл бұрын

Somewhat related, a recent Ryan Reynolds promo for Free Guy has Deadpool explain how awful fridging is, then proceed to say “in other words, Deadpool 2.”

@puddel9079

2 жыл бұрын

@@Booksds That... actually makes sense.

@sonorasgirl

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Deadpool 2 was literally the first movie I thought of when her criteria came up

@tomascrenzel7446

2 жыл бұрын

Wich one?

@VicEntity

2 жыл бұрын

@@Booksds they also call out Vanessa's fridging in the Deadpool Christmas special. It was the only version of Deadpool 2 that I saw so I didn't think much of it. If I had seen the official version I might've been pissed.

The best part about Maes Hughs is that not only did he figure out the main conspiracy before everyone else, but he wasn't even an alchemist that looks at the world in a "give & take" lense. Maes should have been the last character out of a full cast of fucking alchemists to figure out why everything was happening as it was.

@lewisaino

2 жыл бұрын

At least Hughes' death saved everybody by proxy.

Damn even seeing Hughes as an example made me tear up all over again

It’s probably important to remember that a character death shouldn’t feel like something that needs to be fixed.

I don't know why but I immediately found the word "Fridging" very funny. And then you started saying "Fridgee" and this was already beyond perfect

@fist-of-doom487

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought was Fridge Horror. Too bad it’s not that

@JDM-is-my-name

2 жыл бұрын

I love the term "Fridge-e" because it sound like that person is becoming a fridge though someone else's act. Like, yes they get stuffed in fridges, but my brain just goes "They are now Fridge-man/Fridge-woman/The Human Fridge!"

@Satepin

2 жыл бұрын

@KY5 [10th Main Account] sir, no

An interesting use/subversion of this trope is in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope." The 'fridged' victim is killed at the very beginning of the movie, and while the rest of the movie is about the killers and their former teacher who is slowly figuring out what they did, the absence of the victim is played up more and more as the movie goes on, too, and even in the ending credits the characters are listed by their relationship to the victim.

@mickey4125

2 жыл бұрын

Hitchcock really was a master of the craft

@johnnywoodson4231

2 жыл бұрын

A post-mortem character arc does sound pretty interesting tbh.

@michaelramon2411

2 жыл бұрын

I think the real issue with fridging is when the characters/author forget about the fridged character after a certain point. It's one thing to sacrifice a minor character for emotional impact. It's another thing to do it and then FAIL TO REMAIN INTERESTED IN THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT.

@Keenath

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, I wouldn't consider the subject of any murder mystery as 'fridged'. It isn't offing a character for cheap motivation points; it's the point around which the whole story revolves.

SAO Abridged actually handles this kind of beautifully. In the original series there's a character in what's basically a filler episode who gets super fridged. I don't think she's ever mentioned again, but i stopped after season one so i wouldn't know. In the abridged series her death has a very serious effect on the MC and visibly haunts him going forward, ultimately driving him to actually become a better person. Maybe not the best possible example, but compared to the source material it's leagues ahead.

@beywheelzhater8930

11 ай бұрын

SAO abridged usually used it for gags but yeah it did actually have a lasting narrative impact compared to SAO original’s whole party introduction and subsequent fridging right after meeting them Give me a personality trait of any of the dudes from that party? Hell give me a personality trait of the women outside of soft and quiet? Okay maybe the women one was unfair since giving a personality to any of the women in the show outside the vague tropes they embody is impossible, SAO is really just a cardboard cutout surrounded by doting cardboard cutouts with heart eyes one of which carrying an insect plotline

13:43 "Yeah, ok, cripple the bitch"? Yikes...

Unrelated but this reminded me of "The big buff black guy that dies first", a character in a ratman's parody of action movies. That's actually his in story name, people call him like that and that's how he presents himself. Somehow he survives till the end and his character arc ends with him being scared during the final climatic battle, because he know he's gonna get fridged, he's the big buff black guy that dies first after all. But then Chuck Norris calls him John, BBBGTDF is confused, Chuck explains that hencefort, his name is John and since now he's a named main character he's functionally immortal, so John joins his friends in the last battle, kills a bunch of people and survives. Stupid as all hell, but i now feel the need to find my old ratman comics and read them again.

@clayxros576

2 жыл бұрын

It is satire like that which makes me miss the spoofs of old.

@SorowFame

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Order of the Stick, where the audience knowing a characters name can actually make that character more powerful. A generic soldier both survives and becomes a secondary character just by saying her name.

I always interpreted the Thanos Gamora thing like this: Thanos genuinley believed he loved her. From his point of view, what he did to her and Nebula was out of love. This doesn't change the fact that he was very much an abusive narcisist.

@denmark1226

2 жыл бұрын

That was my takeaway. In his cracked mind, he thought he loved the two girls. The stone didn't require actual love, the rock just needed someone to off something they loved. His quest was more important to him, but he thought he loved her, and you can tell that he didn't want to off her

@meunomeelucas8489

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm going with this now, if I remember correctly the reason why he loves Death in the comics isn't because he is really in love with her, he is in love with the CONCEPT of death, the guy is TOTALLY obsessed with death itself and with killing stuff, she basically just made him admit it. I like to see the MCU version as what would've happened if he never met Death...and he still went on murdering people, seriously after being proven wrong in Endgame he just decided to wipe out the entire universe, there is no fucking way he is in love with something other than killing stuff.

@thephant0m

2 жыл бұрын

@@KezanzatheGreat An incapacity to love is absolutely not a part of Narcissistic personality disorder. There is already enough misinformation about mental illness in the world, I'm happy the MCU didn't perpetuate more of it.

@xx99Username99xx

2 жыл бұрын

This was pretty much my interpretation. I remember hearing a description of a video--I didn't actually see the video, and I'm glad because it sounded horrible--but it was put online by some terrorist organization or other. Al-Qaeda or Taliban or one of those, idk. But they were hanging gay men. And before they hanged them, the people perpetrating these acts, which I guess included some of their loved ones, were hugging and trying to comfort them, and sobbing about it and clearly pretty emotional. And it was like, clearly these people have love for those whose murders they're actively participating in here. But that love is purely emotional; it has no practical or moral value because it's being overridden by a twisted value system that prioritizes homicidally malicious bigotry over and above that love. So the idea that someone can truly love someone else, and yet throw that love away in service to some higher priority--be it a legitimate priority or one that they merely think of as legitimate because their worldview is twisted and confused--I think that's a real and important idea and one that Thanos represents well. The MCU could have handled the Soul Stone sacrifices a bit better, and it could definitely have handled Thanos's motivation much better--seriously, Thanos, the doubling time for human-like populations is only about 50 years, so how is eliminating half the population supposed to solve resource scarcity in the long run?--but I do think it made sense that sacrificing Gamora worked for Thanos and made it clear how strong his resolve was and what a distorted set of values that resolve was coming from.

@jeniferjoseph9200

2 жыл бұрын

So you’re going to have the story validate the love of an abusive monster?

When I learned about this trope, I wondered how cool it would be if a side character is fridged and the hero sets out to bring them back. When they do, the side character reflects on how the death affected them and how they hated how only the hero noticed or cared they were gone

2:39 That feels different after Reading the JJK manga

I'm convinced at this point the Soul Stone doesn't actually require love, it just requires the sacrifice of something important to you. So it would work for both instances just for different reasons. Also sacrificing Gamora and then constantly agonizing over it, to me, felt like they were just emphasizing how much of a fucked up narcissist Thanos is. Like, he kinda cared about her, in the same way people care about their boat or car, he cares about what it makes him, in this case a "father". So when he kills her he gets to be the emotionally burdened and sad father who is trying to "save the universe" No, you aren't Thanos, you're a self-obsessed narcissist who can't pull his own head out of his ass. Edt: As for Supernatural, well, the writing does become better later on in Season 1, and to their credit, Sam does grieve over his girlfriend. He grieves by being pissed mostly, but it does feel at least kinda believable.

@daneroberts1996

2 жыл бұрын

that's how i saw it too, i never felt like the movie was trying to convince he actually was a loving father

@phastinemoon

2 жыл бұрын

Right!?!?

@devforfun5618

2 жыл бұрын

@@daneroberts1996 i do think he loved her, the same way i believe he wanted to save the universe but choose genocide as the most apropriate tool, that is why he is called the mad Titan, in a way it makes him true to the comics that he likes Death so much that he doesn't see killing as something evil

@CryoJnik

2 жыл бұрын

Remember another KZreadr, Mighty Keef, doing a comedy video about Endgame. Literally said that he could throw that bow he's been using for years. After this video...Yeah he could have sacrificed that bow.

@evilpez

2 жыл бұрын

I read an interesting take that Thanos saw his children as an extension of himself. He was such a narcissist that he honestly viewed Gamorra as part of himself, which is what he truly loved. Therefore, what he's actually tortured about is losing part of himself, not his daughter. Now given that context, this also means a drunk could have tossed in a good bottle of whiskey and gotten the stone so frankly the death is still wasted. Interesting theory though.

The only fridging I've seen that actually had an impact was when the mc didn't actually care all that much after his lover's death. It was meant to be a hint (in a long line of hints) that the mc is an actively malicious character despite the fairly standard hero's journey he has been set up with. His (lack) of reaction gave me chills.

@sigh824

2 жыл бұрын

What story? It sounds interesting

@fist-of-doom487

2 жыл бұрын

Their was an Anime called Afro Samurai that uses fridging to further a story of revenge in a very interesting way. Because it starts with a dad being fridge by the big bad wanting the Number 1 headband said to make its wearer a God like warrior and only someone with the Number 2 Headband and challenge Number 1, and his dying breath asking his son to not seek revenge. His son known as Afro ignores this and joins a sword masters dojo to gain the power to get revenge only for raiders to fridge all the other students he met in that same episode and Afro killing his own master to he The 2. Following this sets a trend of every potential ally being fridges within at least 2 episodes of meeting them. The final two fights go to s spell out that the path Afro had followed has done nothing but turn him into an uncaring monster. Ignoring the wishes of your father, throwing away the lives of everyone who tries to help you, never stopping, never mourning. The Big Bad even takes time to tell the protagonist that he’s a monster “You really think that if I didn’t kill your father you’d be any different? You’d still be the same cold blooded killer you are now. Your just a killer with an excuse”

@christinafrazier1364

2 жыл бұрын

Very interested in what this is 👀

@aoiderust231

2 жыл бұрын

@@sigh824 it's the Prince of Nothing series by R Scott Bakker. Epic fantasy with multiple povs and it gets a bit graphic at times. One of my favorites ❤

@higueraft571

2 жыл бұрын

Borderlands 3's sure had an impact... Fan favorite character as a side character, killed off uncerimoniously and stupidly to make the shitlord child angry. And hurt people. Before being forgotten aside from when the shit gets angry. An impact in the community namely in the form of r a g e

I’m writing a story rn, and I was VERY paranoid about fridging a character. The character in question is the healer of the group, and during their death, I wrote it from their POV as they give too much energy in healing spells, only using a small amount of energy on themselves to force their adrenaline into overdrive, keeping them awake even as they run out of energy. When they do die, the other characters SUFFER HARD. The earth mage spirals into depression while trying to look like the immovable ally they’ve always been. Her romantic interest tries (and fails horribly) to bring her back, and his failure causes him to start a villain arc. Another friend, one so close that they felt like siblings, is now hunting the romantic interest out of a sense of revenge. In short, I tried to make sure their death MEANT something to the story.

Now I want to see a movie where a character is motivated because their fridge died (off screen) and their lunch was ruined.