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TIL about "fridging," a term coined by Gail Simone in 1999 after Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54, where Kyle Rayner finds his girlfriend murdered and stuffed in a fridge. The term highlights how female characters in comics are disproportionately harmed or killed for advancing the male protagonist's story.

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