Fridge Horror/Fan Works: Difference between revisions

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* [[Forward/Fridge|Forward]]

* [[Hunting the Unicorn/Fridge|Hunting the Unicorn]]

* [[Luminosity/Fridge|Luminosity]]

* [[Story of the Blanks/Fridge|Story of the Blanks]]

== General ==

* Many fanfics out there have female characters being brutally raped, abused and tortured and that this is treated as being perfectly normal, loving behavior in a relationship. [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]. Think about it.

** According to various fandom-related comms, and confirmed by ''academic analysis'' (Camille Bacon-Smith's ''Enterprising Women'' being one of the first to spot the trend), a surprising percentage of fanfic authors who write rape do it because they've ''been'' raped themselves, and either it helps them get through the trauma, or they have a tendency to put personal experiences into their writing, or some other linking factor. So all decent rape fics, and at least some of the badly-done rape fics as well, carry a significant chance it ''happened'' to the author. Happy browsing...

** And try making a negative review of one of those fics with this information in mind.

* In the [[Deviant ART]] fanfic "Good Landing", {{spoiler|the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia die on re-rentry but continue as ghosts and don't realize they're dead until they land at Cape Canaveral.}} It's creepy enough to think about how they would have reacted to that, but at least {{spoiler|they were only dead without knowing it for 16 minutes.}} One of the other astronauts (the sorta-protagonist) who's watching mentions how freaked out he was the first time he landed the shuttle. It turns out that he's {{spoiler|the ghost of the Challenger commander. Since he died just after launch, he must have been a ghost when he landed the shuttle. So he and his crewmembers went into orbit and completed a perfect weeklong mission before they came home and found out THEY were dead.}}

** [[Did Not Do the Research]]. {{spoiler|Scobee}} had flown the {{spoiler|Challenger}} once already, before his last mission.

* In [[Eye of the Fox]]: Kira outright confirms that if it wasn't for Rad/Naruto, he would have gone ''completely'' insane. And given that he ''{{spoiler|leveled a whole forest}}'' once has to wonder just ''what'' Kira is really capable of doing if he lost the one anchor he still has in his life...

* ''[[Pattycakes]]'': [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Fluttershy]], who has been [[Character Derailment|derailed]] into [[Ron the Death Eater|an obsessed lunatic]] with a taste for [[Mind Rape|mind raping]] other ponies into [[Man Child|a temporary or permanent infantile state]], is working on the drug she uses to do this, and comments that she needed to thank Zecora and Twilight for helping her create it - oh wait, she already has. Rainbow Dash, her first victim, wanders in and asks if this means she'll be seeing "[[Baby Talk|a new brudder or sister]]". It takes a few seconds and then it clicks. Fluttershy in this story sees destroying other ponies' minds as an act of kindness, since they're so ''happy'' when they think they're foals. Dash has clearly seen this happen multiple times before, despite her mind being chemically wedged at a stage where object permanence is still kind of tenuous. ''How did Fluttershy "thank" Twilight and Zecora?!''

* ''[[Ultimate Sleepwalker|Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]'' had a case of the '''author''' suffering a case of [[Fridge Horror]] when he reread the dialogue of the villainous Psyko. Given that Psyko is a [[Complete Monster]] whose powers centre around [[Mind Rape]], the author was more than a little unnerved to see how much [[Foe Yay]] made it into Psyko's conversations with his [[Arch Enemy]] Sleepwalker.