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Women in refrigerators in dictionaries.

Gail Simone — known for her stints writing Deadpool, Birds of Prey, and many other comics series — has now made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary thanks to her famous pre-comics-career essay about a noteworthy trend in comic book tropes, too:

fridge

verb | to kill/harm a character (in a movie, show, etc.) to motivate another

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