The writers of Deadpool 2 just admitted they don’t know what “fridging” is. In the grand scheme of things, that’s nowhere near as embarrassing as, say, not being able to name your local elected ...

Fridging is a term first coined by Gail Simone to describe female comic book characters killed, tortured, or otherwise mistreated for the sole purpose of motivating a male character, named after Green ...

In the 1990s, comic book fan Gail Simone created a list of female comics characters who “had met untimely and often icky ends” after it occurred to her that “being a girl superhero meant inevitably ...