Hi, I'm a first-time poster. I properly discovered this site when someone on Bad Astronomy and Universe Today (BAUT) posted a link. I was up till 3am this morning promising myself I'd go to bed after reading just one more trope.

Anyway, I can cite a couple of literal examples of Stuffed Into The Fridge. One is from the Jeffrey Deaver novel The Coffin Dancer, in which an unfortunate woman makes the mistake of thinking a contract killer actually likes her. The killer also plants a bomb to kill the investigating detective - but the detective actually survives because the dead woman's body protects her from the blast. Does this count as subversion? Dunno...

I also recall things stuffed in a fridge in Silent Hill 4: The Room - not the best work in terms of gameplay, but outstanding in terms of story.

I think Women in Refridgerators was directly referencing the GL comic, yes.

There's some overlap, but they're definitely separate tropes. Stuffed Into The Fridge is when someone (important to the hero) is killed off and left for the hero of the story to find her (well, usually her). It's a cheap narrative ploy to make things personal for the hero, in other words. Dropped A Bridge On Him is just the killing of a character in an almost off-hand fashion. Imagine Commissioner Gordon being taken out by a stray bullet in a gang shootout and you get the idea. Anyone Can Die is just that — main characters are not immune to being killed off, as one would expect. There's no reason to merge the tropes, and it's entirely possible for a character to fulfill all three at once without invalidating their entry on each page.