Needs Help: Stuffed Into The Fridge

Forgot to post it here — I've been very slow crosswicking it, but Targeted to Hurt the Hero is up and running.

(ETA New page) Sandbox.Cleaning Out The Fridge - track cleanup

Edited by Synchronicity on Oct 20th 2021 at 3:00:54 AM

I noticed that while the Stuffed in the Fridge redirect has a list of namespaces to clean (and which ones have been cleaned), the main Stuffed into the Fridge page doesn't. Should a list of work page namespaces be added to that list, or is cleanup already done for it?

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 20th 2021 at 3:11:09 AM

Ah, those are namespaces that I've already cleaned.

So only the redirect is left?

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 20th 2021 at 3:24:41 AM

The main Stuffed into the Fridge wicks haven't been looked at. I should be able to finish up the redirect wicks.

So what's the difference between this trope and Revenge by Proxy? Just the revenge portion?

Revenge is not a necessary motivation by the villain or a reaction by the hero.

• The villain might kill Bob's girlfriend Alice as revenge for Bob destroying his base. He might also kill her For the Evulz, or to trigger Bob's Face–Heel Turn, or some other reason.
• The hero might decide to avenge his girlfriend's death after the villain kills her. He might also give up on heroism altogether, or spend a season crying about it until he gets a new girlfriend and then returns to fight the villain for a different reason, or some other reaction.

It turns out I misread the sandbox when I looked at it earlier, which is why I asked what I did in my previous posts. I misread "have been looked through" as "have to be looked through".

Is there a trope for when the murder or attempt at it is done to be as grisly as possible for extra emotional harm, as opposed to just a bullet in the head?

Cruel and Unusual Death

That's for the death itself, but what about the intent to be cruel, whether one is successful or not?

Retty sure that's still Cruel and Unusual Death. From the description:

Deaths like this tend to fall into two categories: The first one is where the victim is a rather sadistic villain who deserves it, who you really aren't going to feel sorry for (well, maybe a little...). The second one is where the killer fits that description, and the intent is to show the viewers how sadistic they are (more often than not, it's convincing).

A death that's needlessly awful for the sake of sadism or cruelty is a Cruel and Unusual Death. The cruelty towards the victim's loved ones is included; as far as I know there isn't a seperate trope for that needless cruelty being directed at the loved ones specifically.

Edited by Orbiting on Oct 21st 2021 at 4:53:33 AM

Haven't forgotten about this — bumping to note that I've finally finished cleaning the redirect T_T

So that leaves the main work namespace wicks to look through, which I'll be working on.

I can help on this now that my three stalled threads have been closed.

Bump.

I'll jump back into this when 2022 rolls around... at least we're not deleting everything.

Started on Characters/, knocked out about 90-something wicks.

~Real Escape 99 has (re?*)made a PlayingWith.Stuffed Into The Fridge page. Fanspeak and disambigs don't get those, right?

(*I vaguely remember making one, but it was cut at some point after we enacted the disambiguation.)

is fridging just a fanspeak thing? i thought it was an actual trope

It became fanspeak as the result of this thread because it was being used very inconsistently and the actual definition was covered by multiple other tropes.

Yeah, the main Stuffed into the Fridge page has already been disambiguated/fan speak'd for a while.

Which makes me wonder if we should remove that image, since it makes it look more like a legit 'trope'.

Maybe? I don't mind it. Anyone who actually visits the page would see that it's no longer a trope, anyway. The issue is people not visiting the page.

I don't have a problem with taking this to Image Pickin.

As for the Playing With page, I don't think it should have one since Fan Speak falls under the Not a Trope category. Maybe the Laconic and Quotes subpages should go as well.

Anyway, made it up to the N's under Characters/. I'll continue going after dinner.

I should say that I haven't been cutting every wick. I'm sparing potholes that reference Fridging as a concept. Just before anyone is worried about the handful of other Characters/ wicks that weren't thrown into the fire.

Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 6th 2022 at 6:42:13 AM

Second verse, different from the first!

Characters/ has been completed. Feels good to say that after slogs like Not So Different...

Was able to check about 80 of the Main/ wicks before my computer threw a fit because it has the storage space of a walnut. I might've been a little too strict about what I kept and cut, and I'm not entirely sure what our stance on indices and description mentions are, so if I made any unnecessary cuts I apologize, though most of them were just "woman dies horribly" or even worse, Character Death in the general.

Then there's Double Standard which is locked and has like 5 wicks so idk.