Stuffed Into the Fridge: Difference between revisions

** Kyle even has this happen with friends. Terry Berg, his assistant (who happened to be gay), was horribly gay-bashed and beaten into a coma. Like in your standard [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] story line, the story focused more on Kyle's angst that someone could do this to a friend of his, rather than Terry dealing with the trauma himself. He terrorizes the thugs responsible, then takes a leave of absence from Earth because he's despairing for the state of humanity. [[What the Hell, Hero?|While his friend is still bedridden.]]

** ''[[Green Lantern]]'' seems to be made of this. John Stewart's first wife Katma Tui is killed in gruesome fashion by Star Sapphire to prove a point to Hal Jordan while she is depowered and ''in her kitchen''!

'''Star Sapphire''': You're not Hal Jordan, but you ''were'' a Green Lantern. You'll do. }}

* Parodied in the new ''[[Ambush Bug]]'' series. Ambush Bug is shopping:

'''Saleslady:''' It's a standard feature. Have you checked out our compact fridge with built-in pygmy? }}

* [[Superboy]]'s first love, Tana Moon, got this treatment.

* Happens to a number of [[James Bond (film)|Bond]] [[Girl of the Week|Girls]] who are victims of the [[Cartwright Curse]] - most prominently [[Goldfinger|Jill Masterson]] (who died via skin suffocation by being completely covered in gold paint) and [[Quantum of Solace|Agent Strawberry Fields]] (who was drowned in crude oil).

** Not just the Bond girls, this happened to Felix Leiter and his wife in ''[[Licence to Kill]]''. {{spoiler|Leiter was [[Not Quite Dead]].}}

** Also happens in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''. Added bonus: the theme song for the movie is written from the perspective of the Bond Girl that gets fridged.

* ''[[Heroic Trio]]'' and its sequel suffers from the [[Spear Counterpart]] of this trope as the characters' boyfriends/husbands either get beaten up or killed.

* In ''[[Outland (film)|Outland]]'', {{spoiler|Sgt. Montone}} is stuffed into a locker after informing on the [[Big Bad]]'s smuggling operation. O'Neil finds him {{spoiler|hanging at the end of a garrotte, with a racquetball stuffed into his mouth, after telling O'Neil about the drugs during a racquetball game.}}

* Done by Moffat in the pilot of ''[[Airwolf]]''. Whether pissing off Stringfellow Hawke was the intent or not, it certainly had that effect, leaving Moffat with a life expectancy only slightly longer than the series [[Theme Tune]].

* ''[[The Wire]]'' season one brings us {{spoiler|[[Gayngster|Omar's]] boyfriend Brandon Wright}} [[Dead Guy on Display|displayed on the hood of a car in the projects]].

'''Vernon Holley''': Cut him in a dozen places. Burned him with cigarettes. God-damned torture-fest is what it was. }}

** And this isn't even the full reckoning of his injuries: he's also left with only one eye, two cracked forearms and several broken fingers, according to later exposition.

* In ''[[The Mentalist]]'', Jane's wife and child are this. They don't even have names.

** In episode 3.02 (Cackle-Bladder Blood) we find out that their names are {{spoiler|Angela Ruskin Jane and Charlotte Anne Jane.}}

* Literally, on an episode of the obscure 1990's series ''One West Waikiki'', starring Cheryl Ladd. In this instance, a mobster's girlfriend was accidentally shot by his ex-mistress (who then got killed herself in a hit-and-run accident with an unmarked police car). Later on in the episode, the mobster's henchman, trying to frighten another character into compliance, shows him the dead body of the first woman, stuffed inside a refrigerator in the mobster's mansion.

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had an especially dark example, where a man {{spoiler|gets [[Forced to Watch]] as thugs murder his pregnant fiancé, before beating him and leaving him for dead}}. Instead of making him just more motivated or somewhat darker, it causes an outright psychotic break, resulting in him running around killing the perps in [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|horrendously violent ways]].

* Almost [[Anyone Can Die|everyone]] in the [[Ciem Webcomic Series|Ciem trilogy]]. But {{spoiler|Erin Flippo}} is especially [[Egregious]]. Doesn't help it's made with [[The Sims]], and keeping characters alive too long encourages file corruption when they're moved from set to set.

* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/02/03/episode-1090-not-sunny-d/ One humorous scene] from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]:''

'''Ranger:''' How strange that she would not use her name or handwriting. Oh well! ''<looks in the fridge>'' [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|O.J., '''purple stuff''', my brutally murdered wife...]]<br />

''<arrows>''|'''Sarda:''' [[Bond One-Liner|He went home. Forever.]]}}