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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8979732" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>There's been a trend recently where clickbait articles and people online utterly desperate for clout like to try and call out anything negative that happens involving a female characters as "problematic" and "fridging" and so on. Another recent example was a female character in a TV show dying a wildly heroic death of a type normally associated with male characters in macho war movies, and a bunch of desperate idiots tried to claim it was "fridging" (including at least one journalist), when if that's fridging, just about every war movie in history has "fridged" a male character. Given it's CBR, you can safely ignore it. The wife isn't very fleshed out but also isn't just a plot point - her death does change Edgin, but like... death of loved ones does that.</p><p></p><p>Also, the Lost Lenore trope is <em>not</em> a particularly problematic trope - despite having a female trope-namer it's absolutely used in stories about both genders (and I daresay will be or has been with non-binary characters too - probably has been) - Kyle Reese in T2 is one of the most obvious male examples. Plus they had to reach extremely hard to find that trope - I guarantee it - they probably were trying to claim fridging, realized they couldn't make it fit and searched around desperately for a trope that might, before hitting on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8979732, member: 18"] There's been a trend recently where clickbait articles and people online utterly desperate for clout like to try and call out anything negative that happens involving a female characters as "problematic" and "fridging" and so on. Another recent example was a female character in a TV show dying a wildly heroic death of a type normally associated with male characters in macho war movies, and a bunch of desperate idiots tried to claim it was "fridging" (including at least one journalist), when if that's fridging, just about every war movie in history has "fridged" a male character. Given it's CBR, you can safely ignore it. The wife isn't very fleshed out but also isn't just a plot point - her death does change Edgin, but like... death of loved ones does that. Also, the Lost Lenore trope is [I]not[/I] a particularly problematic trope - despite having a female trope-namer it's absolutely used in stories about both genders (and I daresay will be or has been with non-binary characters too - probably has been) - Kyle Reese in T2 is one of the most obvious male examples. Plus they had to reach extremely hard to find that trope - I guarantee it - they probably were trying to claim fridging, realized they couldn't make it fit and searched around desperately for a trope that might, before hitting on that. [/QUOTE]
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