If you're a comic reader, by now you're familiar with the concept of Women in Refrigerators.
For the uninitiated, this is a 'technique' used by some writers wherein they kill off a loved one (usually a woman) of the protagonist purely to get an emotional response out of them, usually to inspire them to go out and get revenge on the perpetrator and in the process move the plot along.
Gail Simone coined the term as the name of a website in response to a Green Lantern comic in which Major Force kills GL's girlfriend and leaves her body in the fridge for our hero to find―apparently because he wanted to catch a beating from someone whose power is to hit you with anything he can imagine.
The whole thing's been debated, pointed out, and overused for the past decade, so I won't dwell on it.
Besides, there is a new kind of lazy, disrespectful writing to bitch about. I call this phenomena 'LOL Deaths'. Find out what they are and why they need to be stopped under the cut.
SPOILER WARNING for Second Coming, Necrosha, and several older comics.
