Where does Rumiko Fujikawa's fridging rate on the list of "Top ten worst fridgings"? Number one? Top five? Barely makes the list? Doesn't even belong on the list?
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Poll on Rumiko Fujikawa : option 1, they bring her back from the dead. Option 2, grief for her becomes a living part of the book comparable to DD's grief for Karen Page. Option 3, Marvel continues to pretend she never existed in the first place, effectively erasing her.
33%Resurrect Rumiko Fujikawa
67%Rumiko is grieved heavily
0%Rumiko is erased
3 votes • Final resultsRumiko Fujikawa was not fridged. The fridged are at least mourned. Their absence has weight. Their awful silence screams. Rumiko was erased. They actually found something worse than fridging. They metaphorically smashed her grave and paved over it with plain concrete.
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The Mandarin's origin as being raised by an extreme misanthrope aunt to be her soldier/curse upon the world does not need serious updating. It was Roman Sionis and X-23 combined long before either existed. At most, it needs modern clothing retconned in.
THIS is what needs to be expanded on Books of Doom style with The Mandarin: an extreme misanthrope aunt squanders every bit of his inheritance training him to be her soldier/curse upon the world.
The Mandarin is a half-British individual raised by an individual extreme misanthrope aunt to be her soldier and her curse upon the world. He is NOT China-incarnate, and any suggestions to upgrade him that take him being China-incarnate as axiomatic are nonsensical.
