ABSTRACT
When we first meet Alex DeWitt, 1 the girlfriend of the superhero Green Lantern, she is a nameless woman in a bikini. She looks directly at the reader, leaning forward to put her ample bosom on display. Soon, she will be assaulted, dismembered, and left in a refrigerator by the villain Major Force. Her story would provide the name for a pattern observed by writer Gail Simone: “women in refrigerators,” a term for female comic book characters whose violent death or injury served primarily as plot motivation for male characters. 2
