i think it can go both ways. while it's undoubtedly more common for a woman to die to motivate a male character (especially with a kid!), there's examples that invert it. Kill Bill comes to mind. 21 Grams. Nora Durst on The Leftovers. The Brave One. etc etc etc etc

sarah polley was a great badass hero in DOTD04

It kind of feels to me like if it were the other way around, people would be saying 'look at all these female characters who are ONLY DEFINED by the deaths of the men around them'

Halloween creep!

A new Foo Fighters album? Is it called 'Diminishing Returns'?

his parents sound like fucking assholes.

MAYOR MCFUCKS just made me spit out the candy corn i was gnawing. good god. bravo, sir.

SO CLEARLY UNDERWATER SPIDERS TOOK THE DEPARTED.

Christine muttered something that sounded like "spiders underwater" when we first see her in the squat in Gary, and there's a story about underwater spiders on the cover of the May 1972 National Geographic.