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Leaper Since: May, 2009
#1: Jul 23rd 2014 at 2:45:55 PM

As discussed here, it seems that this trope is not about writer intent, it's about character intent. That is, it's irrelevant to the trope why the writer had a character commit the murder — it's only relevant that the character did it for the specific reason mentioned therein.

(To clarify: the first example under the Flash is that Golden Glider was killed for Captain Cold to angst over. Assume for the moment that that the person who killed Golden Glider didn't do it because he wanted Captain Cold to suffer, but that the writer wrote that event for that purpose. That would mean that that example is NOT an example, because that was not the character's intent when he committed the murder.)

The trouble is, the trope is named after a very popular online discussion of writer intent. Further, paragraphs three and four of the description discuss writer intent. You can see this in the examples (especially those under Web Original): there are ones (like that Flash example, and the last under Green Lantern and Hulk) whose inclusion only makes sense if the understanding was that the trope was about writer intent (since there was none on the part of the characters to affect the hero in this way).

I propose that this trope be renamed to sever the connection with Women In Refrigerators (because I can almost guarantee you that this is the only place on the Internet that uses this term in a way that excludes writer intent), and the description rewritten to eliminate discussion of writer intent. I know there are a lot of inbounds, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

edited 23rd Jul '14 6:00:11 PM by Leaper

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2: Jul 23rd 2014 at 6:29:14 PM

It doesn't exclude writer intent. Like we said in the other thread.

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