Fridging is when the character gets unalived so no chance of rescuing.
Fridging refers to when the writer kills usually a partner of the main character to justify the vengeance motivation of the MC, but done in a lazy-writing way basically the partner gets no background nor focus, they are just an object that gets destroyed, like a reverse "McGuffin" if you will. Plus points if the death is done in a crass way, hence the "fridging" (google the origin of the term).
In Fallout 4, the spouse of the MC gets killed gratuitously for no real fucking reason in a crass way "here, you want revenge now", so it checks all the boxes for being a "fridging"
Now, idk if the writers wanted to be "lol so meta" but the spouse gets fridged while sitting in a cryogenic pod.
Thanks for the detail. I quite enjoy learning about narrative techniques like this. Have you seen the lemmygrad creative writing and related communities? You might fit in well.
Plus, I'm actually very art/media illiterate, and the little I know I think I learned mostly from fucking breadtube.
For example: I played a lot of FNV and then I was watching an explanation about a failed total conversion mod of FNV which "made Courier=Jesus references ad nauseam as if the original game wasn't obvious enough" and only then I went "Ooooooh resurrection"
In my defense, I'm christianity iliterate, I never learned the name of twelve apostles despite going to sunday school for a year.
Fridging is when the character gets unalived so no chance of rescuing.
Fridging refers to when the writer kills usually a partner of the main character to justify the vengeance motivation of the MC, but done in a lazy-writing way basically the partner gets no background nor focus, they are just an object that gets destroyed, like a reverse "McGuffin" if you will. Plus points if the death is done in a crass way, hence the "fridging" (google the origin of the term).
In Fallout 4, the spouse of the MC gets killed gratuitously for no real fucking reason in a crass way "here, you want revenge now", so it checks all the boxes for being a "fridging"
Now, idk if the writers wanted to be "lol so meta" but the spouse gets fridged while sitting in a cryogenic pod.
Thanks for the detail. I quite enjoy learning about narrative techniques like this. Have you seen the lemmygrad creative writing and related communities? You might fit in well.
Hadn't checked them, but I'm not a writer
Plus, I'm actually very art/media illiterate, and the little I know I think I learned mostly from fucking breadtube.
For example: I played a lot of FNV and then I was watching an explanation about a failed total conversion mod of FNV which "made Courier=Jesus references ad nauseam as if the original game wasn't obvious enough" and only then I went "Ooooooh resurrection"
In my defense, I'm christianity iliterate, I never learned the name of twelve apostles despite going to sunday school for a year.