Topic on Talk:Stuffed Into the Fridge

I don't think the broader definition is right. I thought fridging was about a death that from a narrative stand point is only to cause a more prominent character pain and the death of the side character is reduced to (perhaps requirement: temporarily) causing a narratively more important character pain. I'm not sure impetus should be required. If a hero is going to stop a bad guy and then his girlfriend gets fridged, and then he still plans on stopping the bad guy, then there was no real impetus.

Perhaps we should replace impetus with causing pain or make either impetus or pain suffice on their own.