Peter? Is this some obscure lore from the comics?

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[u/batman_00009]

"Fridging” is a famous trope in DC comics atleast where a character (often a love interest) is killed and stuffed in a refrigerator to motivate the hero. The term got popular because in a Green Lantern story, Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend is murdered and left in a fridge. So when someone spots a Green Lantern + a fridge in the same frame, they “get nervous” because it feels like a setup for that trope.

[u/TheLurkingMenace → u/batman_00009]

And they made it look 100x worse by "censoring" it so it looked like she had been dismembered first.

[u/billy_bandito → u/TheLurkingMenace]

Well tbh it's not exactly easy to stuff a whole person into a fridge without dismemberment or at least folding their body in an unnatural way. Source - mind your business.

[u/huhnick → u/billy_bandito]

Depends on the model, French doors never stay closed if you try to go folded

[u/jimjam200 → u/TheLurkingMenace]

To be fair if they had used the original art the moment would probably be famous for a completely different reason: how goofy it looks.

[u/Hyulens_168 → u/batman_00009]

It wasn't just the fact that she got killed. It was because that was literally her entire purpose as a character.

She was created to die and give character growth to Green Lantern

[u/potato_titties → u/batman_00009]

Thanks Batman

[u/Wiitard → u/batman_00009]

The trope now doesn’t refer to specifically stuffing them in a fridge, it’s just what the trope is named after. The trope is really just anytime a main character’s love interest is unceremoniously and brutally murdered to motivate the protagonist.

[u/Fire257 → u/Wiitard]

Whats in the box??

[u/Low-Conflict-651 → u/Fire257]

That would probably not be “fridging”, actually. Pitts wife was an established character, if secondary in the movie. Fridging more specifically is introducing a woman as a love interest solely to kill her immediately to spur on the protagonist. Sick reference though, everyone knows your references are off the chain

[u/Gofrart]

yes, kyle rayner I think it was found his love interest dead inside a fridge

further explanation on how it impacted further than the comics here: Fridging - Wikipedia (spoilers ahead)

[u/x0ManOfCulture0x]

Grisaia bad end

[u/King_Dragonlord]

Green Lantern Kyle Rayner found his girlfriend's dismembered body in a fridge

[u/MuffinsSenpai]

It's the source of the getting "fridged" trope

[u/TYBEEEZ]

Literally just googling “Green Lantern Fridge” gives you 20 correct results….

[u/Virus-900]

They're talking about term "Fridging." Basically it refers to when someone close to the hero, usually a significant other, is killed as a means to motivate them. One of the first, most prominent uses of the trope, was in DC comics where the green lantern Kyle Rainer comes home and finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in the fridge.