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Scorpion451
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2024-07-18 17:17:49
Pointing it out rules out the fridge tropes.
I would put this more into the territory of Black Comedy- No Sympathy, Comedic Sociopathy, Kafka Komedy, etc.

In this show, it’s established that the reason things go missing is because there’s a secret agency whose job it is to steal things (think pens, socks) in order to keep the economy going. It’s established canonically that one of the things they steal is pacemaker batteries, leaving the dark implication that they are indirectly responsible for deaths. The show touches on this briefly when one of the workers expresses a qualm, only for his boss to tell him, “There’s no room for pity in this business!” Would this fall under Fridge Horror? Inferred Holocaust?