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Women in Refrigerators (or WiR) is a website that was created in 1999 by a group of comic book fans and more broadly is a common comic book trope from which the website took its name. The website features a list of female comic book characters that have been injured killed or depowered as a plot device within various superhero comic books seeks to analyze why these plot devices are used disproportionately on female characters.