Pre-production Unit: Investigating "Women in Refrigerators"

I have recently found out about a comic book trope website known as "Women in Refigerators". This site investigates the usage of women in comic books as nothing more than "eye candy" and tools used to further the story and emotions of the main male protagonist and other male character's.
The trope stems from the websites author noticing that in one particular comic, the main character's girlfriend is killed and left for the main character to find in a refrigerator.

The significance of this is that although the girlfriend character is obviously of great importance to the main character, her death scene isn't even shown, and is instead alluded to with the character finding her body later.
This makes her death seem almost irrelevant, and her usage as a character seems to be to purely give the main character the motivation needed to fight her murderer.
This can also be seen at work with female super-heros, as they are often depowered in some way, or captured in order for male characters to save them. It is rare that a female character will have the upperhand and save the male protagonist.

This investigation has given me the opportunity to thoroughly think about the way I may want to represent the female characters in my own future films, as I would like them to have clearly defined story arcs and personalities and not just be added to further the goals of the male characters.
I will continue my investigation into these comic tropes.
I am still undecided whether or not I want to follow what has already been set by previous comic-book-film-adaptators, or try something new.