I wasn't even aware "fridged" was gender specific.
I hate this world.
It was a concept originally pointed out by female comic artist Gail Simone, and was a criticism of her industry (that is, comic books, not web comics). I believe an archive of her original list is here.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I wasn't even aware "fridged" was gender specific.
I hate this world.
It was a concept originally pointed out by female comic artist Gail Simone, and was a criticism of her industry (that is, comic books, not web comics). I believe an archive of her original list is here.
Hmm
Not every woman in comics has been killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall her, but given the following list (originally compiled by Gail, with later additions and changes), it's hard to think up exceptions:
All of Savage Dragon's girlfriends (dead)
Alysande Stuart (dead)
Amethyst (blinded, merged with Gemworld, destroyed in LSH; became a power-hungry witch in Book of Fate)
Apparition (one of her three bodies dead, soul bound to boyfriend)
Aquagirl (dead)
Arisia (dead)
Aurora (Multiple Personality Disorder, depowered)
Batgirl I (paralyzed)
Batwoman (dead)
Betty Banner (abused, changed into a harpy, multiple miscarriages, dead)
Mrs. Brian Banner, Bruce's mother (murdered by her abusive husband)
Black Canary I (dead)
Black Canary II (tortured, made infertile, depowered)
Blink (dead)
Bluebird (dead)
Buf from X-Man (crippled)
Candy Southern (dead)
Captain Marvel II/Photon (depowered, ceded code name to a male hero)
Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire (turned into a villain by the Zamarons, possessed by the Predator)
Celsius (insane, dead, called delusional liar)
Christine Helvin of Troublemakers (victim of date rape, discovered she could never have children because she was no longer human)
Courtney Ross (dead)
Crimson Fox (both sisters dead)
Dart (crippled)
Dawn Allen (dead)
Dawnstar (wings cut off, possessed by another persona)
Diamond Lil (kidnapped, experimented on by own government, developed benign breast tumor)
Domino (kidnapped, tortured)
Dove II (dead)
Dr. Midnight of Infinity, Inc. (dead)
Elasti-Girl (only original Doom Patroller to stay dead)
Electrocute (dead)
Elektra (the real one... dead)
Element Girl (dead)
Enchantress of Suicide Squad - originally a heroine (turned evil, insane, depowered?)
Firebelle (dead)
Firestar (powers were sterilizing her)
Frances Kane/Magenta (stalker complex)
Fury II (child kidnapped, husband killed twice, insane)
Gwen Stacy (dead)
Hawkwoman (depowered)
Hellcat (dead)
Huntress I (dead)
Huntress II (sexually abused)
Ice (dead)
Illyana Rasputin (kidnapped and raised by demons, aged, de-aged, dead)
Invisible Woman (miscarriage of second child)
Jade (lost natural powers)
Jarella (dead)
Jean DeWolff (dead)
Jean Loring Palmer ("nervous breakdown")
Jet of New Guardians (died in battle after contracting HIV)
Jocasta (deactivated - more than once)
Karen Page (addicted to drugs, made porn films, infected with HIV, dead)
Katma Tui (dead)
Kinetix (depowered twice, catatonic)
Kole (dead)
Lady Flash (evil, dead)
Lady Quark (dead)
Laurel Gand (dead)
Laurel Kent (revealed to be an evil robot, dead)
Linda Park (kidnapped, removed from history)
Looker (now a vampire)
Madelyn Pryor (clone, brood mare, demon queen, dead, brought back)
Mantis (child taken away, dead)
Marlo Chandler -- Rick Jones' wife (former prostitute, killed and brought back mindless; got better)
Marrina (insane, dead)
Mentalla of LSH (dead)
Mera (insane, child murdered)
Mirage of Team Titans (impregnated by rape)
Mockingbird (abducted and mind-manipulated into a relationship, dead)
Moira MacTaggert (diseased)
Ms. Marvel I/Warbird (mind-controlled, impregnated by rape, powers and memories stolen, cosmic-powered then depowered, alcoholic - SHEESH!)
Ms. Marvel II (became a monster in Fantastic Four, de-monstered but enslaved by Dr. Doom, depowered)
Mystek of JLTF (dead)
Namorita (revealed to be a clone, reverted to a more primal Atlantean form)
Negative Woman (depowered)
Nightshade (depowered)
Nightwind (dead)
Nova II/Frankie Raye (dead)
Phoenix I (evil-dead-who knows)
Power Girl (depowered, magically impregnated, made vulnerable to unprocessed natural materials... like sharp sticks)
Psylocke (eyes removed, eviscerated, depowered, mind-swapped)
Rachel Summers/Phoenix II (lobotomized)
Raven (sometimes evil, sometimes dead)
Red Guardian II (kidnapped and brainwashed into the love-slave of a super-villain)
Redwing of Team Titans (dead)
Revanche (dead)
Rogue (just plain messed up)
Roulette (dead)
Scarlet Witch (children 'die'/vanish/are lost because they are figments of her imagination)
Serpentine
Shrinking Violet (lost a leg in Giffen's Legion)
Shvaughn Erin (turned into a man)
Silver Sorceress (dead)
Snowbird (child and husband murdered, insane, dead)
Spider-Woman I (dead for a while, depowered)
Starfire (raped, tortured, enslaved; forced into marriage... twice)
Storm (depowered, repowered, periodically crazy to one degree or another)
Supergirl, pre-Crisis (dead)
Supergirl, PAD version (lost her invisibility and most of her shapeshifting)
SW6 Projectra (dead)
Tarot (dead, brought back w/life bound to an evil man)
Threnody (dead)
Tigra (devolved into cat-thing)
Triplicate Girl (one body killed, one presumed dead but revealed to be Glorith's pawn)
Wildcat II (dead)
Wolfsbane (locked in werewolf form for awhile, needs major therapy)
Wonder Girl I/Troia/Darkstar (identity and powers stripped from her multiple times)
Wonder Woman (killed, revived, but lost goddess powers)
Zatanna (powers severely limited)
I would guess that the depictions of gendered violence against women is more often sexual in nature than against men.
I wonder if women also get killed and resurrected in comics at a higher rate than men as well? I don't read enough super hero comics to really know what the trend is like.
all of whom have been resurrected or repowered and then killed off again since
particularly macabre ways of offing the buddy cop/sidekick/love interest/John Wick's dog in order to motivate the protagonist is something that happens more to female characters, and to female characters in comics specifically, where writership changes hands frequently but without a commitment to maintain anything more than the trademark
If you want cool superhero stuff, I would very strongly recommend reading Worm. It's an amazing web novel about a girl whose power is to control bugs! She's terrifying!
If you want cool superhero stuff, I would very strongly recommend reading Worm. It's an amazing web novel about a girl whose power is to control bugs! She's terrifying!
That seems like a really OP power to be honest, as long as you're discreet.
If you want cool superhero stuff, I would very strongly recommend reading Worm. It's an amazing web novel about a girl whose power is to control bugs! She's terrifying!
That seems like a really OP power to be honest, as long as you're discreet.
It's an extremely OP power! It's really fun seeing how clever the writer is with it.
If you want cool superhero stuff, I would very strongly recommend reading Worm. It's an amazing web novel about a girl whose power is to control bugs! She's terrifying!
Worm started in June 2011, updating twice a week, and finished in late November, 2013. It totals roughly 1,680,000 words; roughly 26 typical novels in length (or 10-11 very thick novels).
On the other forum I'm on I've heard some people say Worm is really good and others say it's really bad. The only thing I know for sure about it is that the fanfiction subforum means that it's never, ever leaving the trending tags.
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What was the (web?) comic someone mentioned awhile ago with a female lead and there was some arguing about whether she was sexually empowered or just fan service?
What was the (web?) comic someone mentioned awhile ago with a female lead and there was some arguing about whether she was sexually empowered or just fan service?
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Lots of webcomics inspire that argument, but you're probably talking about Dresden Codak. We used to argue about that one a lot around here and then people stopped posting it.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Lots of webcomics inspire that argument, but you're probably talking about Dresden Codak. We used to argue about that one a lot around here and then people stopped posting it.
It was Empowered, I think. I wouldn't forget DC or Spinnerette.
what is even happening in that comic now. how long has this dark science storyline been going on. when do we finally get the long-anticipated crossover with girl genius
There was very little argument over Empowered iirc. It disappeared quite quickly from the thread (I stopped posting it because it got a little too nsfw). I still read it, but it's not a terribly interesting comic. More interesting is Adam's commentary in the blog posts, as he criticises his decade-old art.
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I just looked up Empowered and I think I'm on the side of "this is just fan service masquerading as female empowerment"
Don't recall seeing it in the webcomic thread though.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The current pages are literally commissioned porn. I don't think Empowered is the comic Magus was after as I'm sure that no one would say that Emp's costume is sexually empowering.
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what is even happening in that comic now. how long has this dark science storyline been going on. when do we finally get the long-anticipated crossover with girl genius
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I wasn't even aware "fridged" was gender specific.
I hate this world.
It was a concept originally pointed out by female comic artist Gail Simone, and was a criticism of her industry (that is, comic books, not web comics). I believe an archive of her original list is here.
Peritale
Hmm
I would guess that the depictions of gendered violence against women is more often sexual in nature than against men.
I wonder if women also get killed and resurrected in comics at a higher rate than men as well? I don't read enough super hero comics to really know what the trend is like.
particularly macabre ways of offing the buddy cop/sidekick/love interest/John Wick's dog in order to motivate the protagonist is something that happens more to female characters, and to female characters in comics specifically, where writership changes hands frequently but without a commitment to maintain anything more than the trademark
Blindsprings
That seems like a really OP power to be honest, as long as you're discreet.
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Japanese games run this trope a lot. If your ass isn't a player character, you're the next Jimmy Olsen.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Worms are gross.
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Worms are bugs.
It's an extremely OP power! It's really fun seeing how clever the writer is with it.
Worms are bugs by the informal definition, if not the formal one.
Take knightfall and the killing joke, how long did it take each of those characters to defrost?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That is a lot of words.
WELL I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SUPERPOWERS WERE INFORMALLY DEFINED, MISTER LOOSEY GOOSEY CANON
Once you write down all the limits on the back of a trading card people get all shitty about it and it's boring
Technically they're ocular portals to the Punch dimension.
I may have dreamed this.
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Spinnerette? Empowered?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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It was Empowered, I think. I wouldn't forget DC or Spinnerette.
Steam Profile | Signature art by Alexandra 'Lexxy' Douglass
what is even happening in that comic now. how long has this dark science storyline been going on. when do we finally get the long-anticipated crossover with girl genius
Don't recall seeing it in the webcomic thread though.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Get out of my brain!
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534