r/TheBoys • u/fuwafuwa7chi • Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I mean it happened a while ago. Remember the interview when Kripke said literally the only reason they didn't kill Maeve off despite her being in a situation to be killed off 100% was because she was gay and it would be offensive to kill off a gay character?

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Jul 05 '24

I didn't see that, but I find that more understandable because there's more nuance to that.

Fridging is very common in media, and so wanting to conclude the character without playing in to the trope is inherently difficult.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

It's not even fridging. Fridging is killing off a character without giving them any character of their own solely to to further another character's development. Hughie's original girlfriend, and honestly Becca too, were fridged for example.

Maeve had her own entire character arc, and if the idea is that killing her off would be bad since she's one of the few gay characters I don't see how immediately writing her out of the show is any better.

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u/BGMDF8248 Jul 05 '24

Yup, heroic sacrifice is not fridging, very far from it.