"fridge horror" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "TV Tropes"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by TV Tropes",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fridge logic"
      },
      "expansion": "fridge logic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by TV Tropes in 2009, by analogy with fridge logic.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "fridge horror (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English neologisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Narratology",
          "orig": "en:Narratology",
          "parents": [
            "Drama",
            "Literature",
            "Theater",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Art",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 21, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor), “Arithmetic”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "> How would you like to live forever, cut into little pieces? Seem like if we were immortal that or something equivalent would be the common fate. There is the Greek myth of someone who was granted the boon of immortality and just kept getting older and older.\n>\nDifferent types of immortality have different potential drawbacks, true. You described the Oz immortality which was always a source of Fridge Horror.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 5, David DeLaney, “HPL upside down in antarctica in At the Mts of Madness?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "It's possible that his expedition, unknowingly, was traversing the southernmost portion of the globe Oz and its surrounding lands and seas occupy... now THERE'S a crossover fanfic of body horror AND fridge horror (pun intended, don't look at me like that, you'd do it too) waiting to be written.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 13, Chrysi Cat, “Safe Havens 2-6”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones."
      ],
      "id": "en-fridge_horror-en-noun-K7SONzVK",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "innocuous",
          "innocuous"
        ],
        [
          "detail",
          "detail"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ],
        [
          "disturbing",
          "disturbing"
        ],
        [
          "undertone",
          "undertone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang, neologism) A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fridge brilliance"
        },
        {
          "word": "fridge logic"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neologism",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fridge horror"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "TV Tropes"
      },
      "expansion": "Coined by TV Tropes",
      "name": "coin"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fridge logic"
      },
      "expansion": "fridge logic",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by TV Tropes in 2009, by analogy with fridge logic.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "fridge horror (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fridge brilliance"
    },
    {
      "word": "fridge logic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English TV Tropes slang",
        "English coinages",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English neologisms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms coined by TV Tropes",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Narratology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 21, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor), “Arithmetic”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "> How would you like to live forever, cut into little pieces? Seem like if we were immortal that or something equivalent would be the common fate. There is the Greek myth of someone who was granted the boon of immortality and just kept getting older and older.\n>\nDifferent types of immortality have different potential drawbacks, true. You described the Oz immortality which was always a source of Fridge Horror.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 5, David DeLaney, “HPL upside down in antarctica in At the Mts of Madness?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "It's possible that his expedition, unknowingly, was traversing the southernmost portion of the globe Oz and its surrounding lands and seas occupy... now THERE'S a crossover fanfic of body horror AND fridge horror (pun intended, don't look at me like that, you'd do it too) waiting to be written.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 13, Chrysi Cat, “Safe Havens 2-6”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "innocuous",
          "innocuous"
        ],
        [
          "detail",
          "detail"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ],
        [
          "disturbing",
          "disturbing"
        ],
        [
          "undertone",
          "undertone"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang, neologism) A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neologism",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fridge horror"
}