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"Okay... so it's a trope. And a well used one. But I have never understood why 'fridging' has such a bad name as a motivation in fiction. Perhaps it's overused.\n\nI can cite two instances when a 'character' in my personal life has died and caused me to change my behaviours and actions, totally effecting my future outcomes and direction of my life. As a call to action or a call to 'avenge' a perceived wrong, it's a powerful and very real emotional pull.\n\nThe same thing has happened to my wife with a male friend and colleague was killed at a young age while out partying with mates. It caused my wife to quit drinking herself, and start a program to rescue young men from self destructive behaviours, and to stop the shaming of young men and boys that has caused them to check out of the world and follow a destructive path. I'm incredibly proud of her achievements (as you can tell). None of this would have happened without the dramatic death of a close friend.\n\nJust because something is a well known trope doesn't automatically make it a bad thing. If we want fiction to reflect real people and their motivations, then it's legitimate as a storytelling device."
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