“Fridging” is a term that originated in comic books. It’s usually applied to an expendable female character whose gruesome death is inserted into a narrative, often for shock value, and almost always to trigger a man’s emotional spiral into violent, grief-stricken retribution. In other words, a fridged woman’s characterization, and her death, is ultimately nothing more than a plot point within a man’s story. The concept of fridging usually applies to women being killed off to serve a man’s plot, but it can also apply when a minority character is killed to further the plot of a white or a straight cis character.
This fridging also inadvertently reveals just how disposable the characters of color on Game of Thrones are: Missandei probably had a whole community of Unsullied who will mourn her loss, but so far, we haven’t gotten to know any of them except for Grey Worm — who is, on the show, just as isolated as she is. (Relatedly, at the beginning of “The Last of the Starks,” as each major [white] character death from the Battle of Winterfell was revisited, we saw nothing of the Unsullied soldiers for whom Grey Worm was in mourning.)
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https://www.vox.com/2019/5/6/18530526/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-death-who-died-missandei-daenerys
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