It could be he meant Disney deciding to insure him on Shaggy Dog was what convinced other studios (namely Marvel & Paramount) he was no longer a gamble. I recall he had just had a minor comeback with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but getting family-friendly Disney to insure him might have made more studio heads turn.

Well, yeah, it’s all open to interpretation. I’ve always understood “fridging” to refer to female characters deaths as a plot device that affects or motivates a male character.

I was going to say the same. Disney didn’t own Marvel until 2009, a year after Iron Man hit theatres. I believe the first Marvel movie that Disney had a hand in was the first Avengers film, which was only distribution. Disney purchased the rest of the distribution rights to previous films a year or two later.

Not sure what you think I’m “deflecting”, just pointing out that there isn’t really a massive history of fridging (which isn’t just “female character deaths”) across MCU media. Meanwhile in The Flash movie, Barry’s mom’s death set the entire plot in motion. I love DC characters, but how many DC characters are defined…

Well, most concepts are subjective, that’s why they’re not called factcepts I guess.

Seeing her infertility as explicitly the sole reason her character’s death was written is an interesting choice.

Knowing how deliberate Nolan is, I’m not so sure he didn’t have a plan for Rachel from the start. Batman can’t have a girlfriend and once the trailer for Dark Knight revealed she was dating Harvey Dent you knew her character was doomed. But even if they didn’t plan to kill her off from the beginning, she still…

But wasn’t she created just to be killed of? It doesn’t matter how the death affects male characters, just that it serves as a motivation (good or bad).

Well, she coined and defined the term so it’s really the only one that matters. If other people use a different definition of the term that’s not subjectivity, it’s misapplication.

It’s application is open to interpretation, yes, but the person who coined the term defined it.

This article actually started as a Top 10 Fridgings in Marvel Films & Shows listicle.

Black Widow’s infertility isn’t the reason her character is killed off. Just because you can juxtapose Clint’s family and Natasha’s infertility, doesn’t mean the writers are trying to point directly to her infertility as they fight for the Soul Stone. If anything, her sacrificial death is meant to thematically redeem…

The author cites like 5 female character deaths across 30 films and 10 shows, only a few of which are examples of fridging and several were just actors at the end of their contracts. Considering the trope actually comes from DC Comics, whose films are littered with characters who are motivated/defined by women in…

Especially since I’m pretty sure there is a universally agreed upon definition, and the author is ignoring the part where the female character’s death becomes a motivator for the male character (see Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight).

The whole article is an empty hand wave.

The 2nd half is set in LA, the 1st half takes place in Detroit.

There were a lot of other factors that caused The Flash to bomb (Black Adam and Shazam 2 also did poorly). I doubt many people stayed away just because WB/DC is hitting the reset button, most people don’t pay as close attention to what universe the movie is in. It didn’t help that Ezra Miller isn’t exactly a box…

The city of Fargo is, but most of the movie takes place in Brainderd, Minneapolis, and Moose Lake MN. I believe the hitmen are from Fargo.

8 Mile? Really? 8 Mile!?? When True Romance or RoboCop are right there?

The slideshow is so superficial, probably put together in a few hours. I mean, Cool Hand Luke was set in Florida and Scarface is hot garbage. It’s a famous movie, but no one outside of a college dorm claims it’s a “great” movie.