Disney+'s Secret Invasion is the latest project to continue the MCU’s unfortunate trend
, Sarah Shaffi had this to say after the first episode ended with Agent Hill dying at the hands of a Skrull disguised as Nick Fury : “Fridging, and the fridging of women characters especially, is a trope that should long ago have been left in the past. The idea that the MCU pulled it out again is anger-inducing. Dying in the way Hill did is a sad and unfitting end for a character who gave and gave and gave to Fury.
, where she and others compiled an ongoing list of all the female superheroes who had been “killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies.” At the time, Simone offered no specific explanation for why it happened so often , it was just a disturbing trend she’d noted as a fan. It wasn’t until later that the concept was expanded to account for the abuse as a motivating incident, especially for male lead characters.
. Now it’s seeping into the MCU with increasing and alarming frequency. To what extent depends on your definition of fridging. Characters, both men and women, are killed off in superhero films all the time, for all kinds of reasons. Death is a handy plot device that can raise the stakes of the story or propel it in a certain direction.
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