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[kaydeefalls]

Crowdsourcing time! I'm starting to poke at a multifandom vid, and I need some suggestions beyond my own usual scope of source material. Specifically, I'm looking at the women in refrigerators trope. More specifically, I'm looking for sci-fi/fantasy/comic book movies and TV shows that feature main characters' girlfriends/wives who are 1) killed off and then 2) appear to them later in dreams/visions/hallucinations.

Example: Jean Grey's death in X3 and then reappearance in Logan's dreams in The Wolverine.

I will also accept girlfriends who are believed to be dead and are later revealed to still be alive. (i.e. Bucky Barnes, except, y'know, the female equivalent.)

Any suggestions? :D?

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[jadelennox]

Buffy: probably lots of varied First Evil appearances, but I know it appeared as Drusilla to Spike. (It appeared as Jenny Calendar, but only to Angelus, not Giles. And it appeared as Nikki Wood to Robin, but that's mothers.)

Hercules: the legendary journeys: Hercules sees a vision of Deianeira in the Elysian Fields.

Arrow: Shado appears as a hallucination a LOT in season 2, and she's a total damn non-canonical fridging.

Vampire Diaries: Anna appears to Jeremy after she's dead. And never comes back. Because Julie Plec hates joy and happiness.

Angel: Darla appears in "Inside Out," but to Connor, not Angel.

Doctor Who is weird, because timey-wimey. Arguably River is fridged the first time we ever meet her and then everything we see after that is post-fridging, but it's an unfair characterization. (And a fair one at the same time!)

What about mothers? That's pretty common. Fraser's mum in Due South appears in visions in the finale, for example -- and in a much less characterized way than his ghost dad.

...going through my DW and fic tags it is obvious to me how successfully I tend to avoid fandoms with these tropes. Go, me!

[kaydeefalls]

Damn, I was planning on using Jenny Calendar -- might do anyway, even though she doesn't appear to Giles. Hmph. And Dru never gets killed.

Shado is already at the top of my list -- she's the reason I started brainstorming this vid.

Doctor Who is pretty good at avoiding outright fridging. There's Lisa on Torchwood, though.

I know mothers are the most commonly fridged, but the song I'm using works a lot better for love interests. I guess I can expand it if I don't find enough, but I think it should be fine.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I haven't seen Hercules or Vampire Diaries, I'll look into those.

[jadelennox]

The Hercules episode is The Other Side, season 2; she's killed in the series premiere as Hercules's entire raison d'etre, The Wrong Path.

Anna is amazing, and for extra credit, she's the biracial girlfriend of a white character. Also the showrunner has explicitly stated she was killed to create angst for her boyfriend, Jeremy. He has a lot of visions of her, because for a while, he can see the dead, so there should be a ton of clips, including a sad goodbye and her watching him hook up with another girlfriend.

http://vampirediaries.wikia.com/wiki/Jeremy_and_Anna

Any episode she's in for seasons two or three.

I'm looking forward to seeing the vid. :D

[alwaystheocean]

I'll reply squealing about this idea in a sec but Jenny Calendar DOES appear to Giles, sort of. It's in 2x22 Becoming, Part 2.

*SPOILERS FOR THE EP IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT*

When Angelus has kidnapped Giles and they get Dru to pretend to be Jenny so Giles will tell them how to wake up Acathla. Is it OK if it's Dru? It's definitely a dream sequence, it seems to be a one-off thing Dru can do that's never referred to before or after.

*SPOILERS FOR THE EP IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT*

[kaydeefalls]

Nothing Buffy is a spoiler for me. :) But yes, that scene! I knew Giles must've seen Jenny again somehow at some point.

[alwaystheocean]

I didn't think so but was suddenly paranoid!! (Like, I find it so hard to believe there are people in fandom who don't know about S2 of Buffy, but I try to be open about such things.) But yes, that scene!