fridge horror

noun

Etymology

Coined by TV Tropes in 2009, by analogy with fridge logic.

Definitions

  1. A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries…

    A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones.

    • One, we canonically know that that portal doesn't go to Fastrack/SH's Earth, but to the Earth of GPF (which also raises an issue of fridge horror, in that THAT Earth has been in stasis for months).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fridge horror. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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