MANC: When is a fridging not a fridging?

[espanolbot]

In my new Musings About Nerd Culture, I discuss what personally considering Refridgerating to me, whether narrative theory makes it less so, and if the death of a certain sidekick counts or not.http://espanolbot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/manc-

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[innerbrat]

Not really a complaint, as it doesn't much affect me, and definitely not confined to this post, but online comics fandom at least appears to have given up with the idea of spoilers altogether, hasn't it?

[calling_alice]

My comment has nothing to do with DC but myself and others noticed how characters are "othered" so the real hero can go on, extending outside of women. This is something Ive been thinking about for years. We used Nightctrawler and Wolverine as an example. Kurt's death has been used to motivate Logan as a character, as Kurt has been reduced to a prop for Logans misery/humanity much like Jean Grey. Rumors of Kurt (a child one no less) dying in X-Treme as well as the rumor AoA Jean sort of confirms this. Kurt has been made Logans Robin. Jean comes back for Logan to kill and cry over. Now he's may cry over her again. Its an annoying trend in today's comics. Its always been there but I think its worse now. Notice that Kurts death had been mostly about Scott and Logans sacrifice much like Jeans only place in death was the bitter cockfight between Scott and Logan.

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Content/Trigger Warning: Brief discussion, although not in detail, of terrible things happening to primarily female characters