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"To fridge someone isn't just a female redshirt, no. It's taking a major (or at least a notable supporting) character who's close to one of the male leads and brutally kill or torture her so that the next major plot can be an anti-heroic revenge rampage. Preferably with lots of brooding and angst.\n\nIf Toby Whithouse had been commissioned to write this script (and thankfully, Steven is smarter than that), that's what Clara's death would have been, because angsty anti-heroes seem to be what he writes naturally.\n\nBasically, to fridge a character is to commit an act of violence in the narrative that reduces a complex female character to revenge fodder for someone else's story. Wikipedia that shit.\n\nPiggybacking my own blog again, which goes into the narrative dynamics of Clara's death in way more detail.\n\nhttp://adamwriteseverything.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-only-way-doctor-who-face-raven.html"
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