15:59 "Fridging" is a writing term referring to when a female character is killed to give development to a male character. It is named after the time Kyle Rayner, Green Lantern, found his dead girlfriend's body in a fridge... Twice.
15:45 In the comics after Kyle became a lantern, a villain broke into his house, killed his girlfriend, and stuffed her body in a refrigerator. This scene was so infamous that it coined the term “fridgjng”, which is to kill, injure, or traumatize a loved one to motivate the protagonist. (Usually a male and female dynamic.)
12:08 My favourite part of the Marvel/DC Crossovers, aside from Nightwing and X-23 hanging out, was that when Paul went on a date with Power Girl he gets cucked by the Punisher.
Wally was gone when they rebooted with the New 52 continuity, but it was retconned that he was in the speed force when that happened so he still existed. New 52 Wally's half black and is separate with the old Wally that got brought back
36:04 Fun Fact: in the entire Marvel Multiverse Ben Reilly is the person who has died the most times. Not just according to comic readers but according to Lady Death within the comic universe on account of the fact that the Jackal (guy who created spider-man's clones and stuff which is another can of worms entirely) repeatedly clones and killed Ben Reilly because he hates Peter for cucking him out of dating Gwen Stacy.
29:38 “There’s two Gwenpools!?“ Yes and no. So for context, in 2016, the real Gwen Stacy was brought back to life over the storyline ‘Dead No More’ (her soul placed in a clone body) before sacrificing herself at the end. Then in the 2025 ‘All-New, All-Deadly’ storyline, the severed head of Gwen’s clone body was grown a new immortal body below the neck by Weapon X, and dressed in a purple version of Gwen Poole’s suit, much to the absolute confusion of both Gwen Poole and Peter Parker, who end up teaming up (along with Poole’s family unit, Kate Bishop and their shark-son Jeff) to figure out what is going on. Now the revived Gwen Stacy accidentally kills Gwen Poole, but never claims the Gwenpool name for herself (though the marketing acted like she would), then Poole returns to life by possessing her own corpse (not Stacy’s body, though the possibly of that happening was a common fan-worry before the run was done). And that is Poole’s current status quo: she is technically still the ghost of an isekaied ‘Spider-Man’ fan possessing her own body. While Stacy’s status quo is also currently being alive, in that immortal Weapon X-ified copy of her original body (designated X-31), though she would not know she should still have her soul, since no-one bothered to tell her that. It’s a little convoluted, but makes sense once you put everything together. ‘The Unbelievable Gwenpool’ is great however: the story of Gwen Poole is an existential masterpiece (with less fourth wall ‘breaking’ than you would think, it typically not being what she does when written properly).
Doctor Light actually is an R word, but his victim was an adult woman, the wife of a superhero. Still a horrible human being, but the reason why he is such a joke of a villain for many years despite having one of the scariest superpowers in comics is because the Justice League basically magically lobotomized him. Batman was not alright with it, and Clark was conveniently not on the team at the time. This gives DC's two most prominent heroes cover over such a controversial decision as lobotomizing anyone.
Interestingly enough, several other minor villains in DC were eventually turned into R words, some even becoming P words such as Mad Hatter. The person you probably thought of with regards to the Teen Titans that is a P word is Slade, otherwise known as Deathstroke who was a one ever since the famous Judas Contract storyline.
Hal's genocide is Emerald Twilight where he goes by the name Parallax,
refrigerator for Kyle is tied to that time some guy killed Kyle's girlfriend and stuffed her body inside a fridge hence the word fridging,
Carol's baby is Avengers #200 that was made in 1980,
Hal Jordan was played by Ryan Reynolds aka Deadpool's actor in an awful 2011 green lantern movie,
MJ's Jackpot powers was made by Genocide Paul aka the same Paul from Spider-Man that killed everyone in his universe and that MJ dated,
Ben Reilly is Peter's clone from the 90s, he's actually a good guy, but was character assassinated into evil because the writers hate him more than peter, Ben has other clone siblings like Kaine Parker who is an anti-hero who uses lethal force, and Spidercide who is just evil, Ben has uncle Ben's first name and May's maiden name Reilly
35:35 “Mephisto maybe?” Again, yes and no. Norman sold his son Harry’s soul to Mephisto, so as revenge, A.I. Harry (the A.I. copy of Harry, around since the 1990s) made his own deal with Mephisto by growing new clone children of Norman and selling their souls in exchange for the power to seek revenge on Norman, firstly by tricking him into thinking he was sleeping with Gwen Stacy (with the help of Mysterio, who pulled this off in a weirder way than you’d think), then by having the Sin-Eater brought back to life with a sin-eating gun to shoot Norman with, so that Norman would actually FEEL something in response to the revenge A.I. Harry would then enact, instead of Norman just being proud. With Norman then becoming the superhero ‘Gold Goblin’, and Peter rolling with it since the part of Norman that killed Gwen was now a separate entity, normally stuck in a spear held by the current Kraven (one of Kraven’s clone-sons, though that’s a different story).
24:50 Oh, Carol Danvers was Ms. Marvel at the time, so they were talking about the earlier scene, yes. Though Kamala Khan has had an odd repeated storyline that would make sense for a future video: she dies twice in the arms of two different Spider-Men. The first time crushed by rubble and dying in the arms of Miles Morales before he made a deal with Mephisto to bring her back, and the second time crushed by rubble and dying in the arms of Peter Parker before he had the X-Men bring her back, a good four years later. How similar her second death was to her first was not addressed.
Alright, I'll admit. I don't know much about doctor light, but I thought was referring to something similar where the victim wasn't young, just the wife of another character, I think the Adam and It kind of led to this weird part of the Justice League, where sometimes they lobotomize some of their villains, doctor light was just the first one, so when he was fighting the team Titans, and it was him when he was lobotomized. Even some members noticed it how he sort of challenged , but I'll have to look up more of it just in case I could be wrong
2:25 Why did Wally go insane and kill a bunch of heroes because of "mental illness"? Because of a very crappy event called Heroes in Crisis! Basically, the jist of the story was that DC wanted to adress the subject of mental illness and trauma that would be associated with superheroes, kind of like what Watchmen did.
However, where Watchman managed to do that well through bitting social commentary and legitimately good character writting, Heroes in Crisis came in like a drunk shitting themselves and falling face first in their own vomit. Not only did it do a piss poor job of adressing mental illness in a way that felt appropriate and natural, but it also managed to completely assassinate Wally's character by turning him into an insane murderer because of his depression... So yeah, Heroes in Crisis sucked so much that even the writters at DC spent literal years retconing its events.
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