(fandom slang) To gratuitouslykill, disempower, or otherwise remove a femalecharacter from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s). The fandom verb sense was coined by Gail Simone, who criticized a plot point in Green Lantern #54, in which Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern, comes home to discover that a villain has murdered his girlfriend and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.
“In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.”
“He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.”
“I had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged, but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.”
