35. "RE: Gallian Gothic Book 2: NSM Act I"
In response to message #34
>>>* for bonus DC Comics content, contrast this with Ma >>>and Pa Kent, who are hugely important to Superman's story even >>>in the versions where one or both have died before the narrative >>>begins >> >>DC did give us the story that named the general trope, the practice of >>'fridging' a character. The Kents are just outliers, probably because >>in many stories they aren't actually dead, so even in ones where they >>are we all sort of know their deal anyway. > >I think the Kents also have the 'advantage' in that when they are dead >it tends to simply be because they are old. Something that's sad, but >not a motivating tragedy.
Though technically speaking, Kal El's parents are dead. They just weren't the ones he grew up knowing. :P