My top 10 deaths in "Game of Thrones"!
There have been SO MANY deaths in these 6 seasons that picking only 10 is nigh-impossible. But some deaths just stand out, and I think I will enjoy making this list. I don't know if I should call it my "favorite" deaths... but they just are, lol. For the sake of Political Correctness, I'll just say these are the top 10 most... memorable deaths to me in the series. You might not agree with me here, but hey, that's just my personal opinion. And besides, remember that it's different to people who read the books before watching the show like I did, since some things who were huge plot-twists didn't really come as a surprise.
Now, I don't think that anyone who sees this topic's title will click it if they didn't watch the whole series thus far, but still, just to be on the safe side:
So, let's start the joy-ride!
10:
Kraznys mo Nakloz:
There's not much that can top being burnt alive by a dragon, much less a baby dragon, much less a baby dragon that you think you own, and much, MUCH less than that if you're one nasty mofo who really deserved this sort of agony since the moment you appeared on screen.
This is but a small part of a very, VERY badass scene from season 3, and one of my all-time favorite scenes in the show.
That jackass slaver who really looks like that evil uncle from "The Dictator" pissed me off since the very first time he appeared on-screen. He kept throwing insults at our beloved Daenerys in High Valyrian, which is a language that he thought she didn't understand. And seconds before his death, she revealed to him that she speaks High Valyrian fluently, which made this scene THAT much more satisfying.
Dracarys, motherf***er.
9:
Ser Barristan Selmy:
This is the moment that a legend has fallen. Ser Barristan the Bold is one of the most legendary knights in the history of Westeros. A near-peerless fighter with more amazingly amazing feats under his belt than basically anybody else out there.
In this scene, this walking legend proves to us one last time that age is just a number. A beast over sixty years old, Barristan heroically steps in to save the day when Grey Worm is ambushed and surrounded by a crap-load of Sons of the Harpy. He fights them with jaw-dropping skill until he is overwhelmed by sheer numbers. But don't worry, in his final stand the man took more than 12 of the bastards down with him.
He wasn't killed straight away, Grey Worm killed that last one before he got to slit Selmy's throat. But sadly, he later died of his wounds. Grey Worm is alive only thanks to him, though, so that's somewhat of a solace.
This death isn't really satisfying in terms of "FINALLY THIS GUY IS DEAD!!!", but it is one of the finest final-stands in the show, and it really is an epic fight scene altogether.
8:
The Sept of Baelor and everyone in it:
Oh my GOD that was so satisfying to watch, I don't even care how many innocent lives were lost. The High Sparrow deserved it, as did the whole Faith Militant, and I wasn't much of a fan of Mace Tyrell either. Margaery was REALLY hot (hottest in the series in my humble opinion) and she's practically the only one I hated seeing die so horribly in there, but it's a fair price to pay to see all those other bastards burn.
This whole scene is so... good. The background music is so amazing and fits right in with the scenery... the whole thing gave me goosebumps the first time I saw it.
One of the best orchestrated mass-murders in the history of live-action. Very nice job there, Cersei. Loved it, keep up the good work!
7:
Princess Shireen Baratheon:
I don't know who cried harder here: Shireen, her mother, or me. Seriously, taking a little girl and burning her alive at the stake as sacrifice to the gods is just so... wrong. Obviously we didn't really get to see how the flames devoured her, but her screams... oh GOD those screams... Shireen was such a kind, innocent little girl, still holding the small wooden toy that Davos made her as she took her last steps... man, this death was so wrong in so many different, twisted ways that I don't even wanna talk about it anymore.
6:
Ramsay Bolton/Snow:
Yes, yes YES. YES!!!! This psychotic bastard (literally) had it coming. I can't even begin to count the reasons why this was so satisfying to watch: he murdered Rickon, he killed Wun-Wun, he repeatedly raped Sansa, he tortured Theon to the point of insanity, he set his dogs on numerous people including his step-mother and his baby step-brother, he murdered his father... oh wait, I actually don't care about this last one.
Anyway, this is one vicious bastard, and getting eaten alive by his own dogs that he so loved to set on innocents for his own amusement is simply the very definition of poetic justice. Shireen's screams made me cry like a little girl, but Ramsay's screams made me laugh like the goddamn Joker.
The sight of Ramsay's blood dripping down his fingers was one of the most satisfying things that I have seen in recent memory. And the speech Sansa gave him just before that was epic. Takes a really good actor to make you genuinely hate his character.
The Starks send their regards, a-hole.
5:
Lord Walder Frey:
Arya Stark is one of my top-3 favorite characters, both in the show and in the books, and watching her slit that old geezer's throat was close to being a divine experience. "The last thing you're ever going to see, is a Stark smiling down at you as you die." You go, girl!!! Sent a chill down my spine with that one.
Now, there's a theory that suggests that in the books Arya will hone her warg abilities, travel to the Riverlands, find her long-lost direwolf Nymeria and her pack of wolves, and lead them in an epic charge into the Twins to massacre everyone inside and feast upon their flesh. Which is, I must say, far more epic than what happened in the show. But I'm not complaining, this scene made me smile so wide that my face hurt.
The Starks send their regards once more, gramps.
4:
King Tommen Baratheon:
Well I know that it wasn't a super-satisfying death like Ramsay's, or super-violent like the Sept of Baelor blowing up, or a some sort of "how low can you go" moment like when Shireen died. It wasn't even an epic final-stand like Barristan's. What earned this seemingly simple death-scene the respected 4th place on my list is that it's the only death in the series that genuinely took me by surprise and genuinely made me laugh. I mean, when I first watched it I was all like "WTF?!", and I had to rewind it, because I wasn't sure I what I just saw. When I confirmed that my eyes did not betray me I literally paused the video, sat back and laughed my ass off for at least a minute. I don't know, call me sick or twisted or weird but I found this REALLY funny. As a book-reader, this is the only death that really caught me off-guard.
I didn't even hate Tommen. He was just a kid. He was trying to be OK with everyone, he was surrounded by lunatics and had some huge responsibility on his shoulders. And to top it all off - he just watched his wife blow up. Poor thing, really. At least I took solace in seeing Cersei's grief when she found out.
3:
The Red Wedding:
Judging by all the hype and worldwide reactions (and memes), this is the scene that caused the biggest shock to the people who watched the show. Even when I read the books I had to re-read it all over again at least twice and pinch myself to make sure it's not just some bad dream.
The Red Wedding was a long, bloody business that took the better part of 10 minutes, but that GIF above shows the moment that was, in my humble opinion, the best. Or should I say the worst? I don't know, this thing is NOT easy to describe with words. You may or may not know, but in the book, Robb's wife (in the show she's called Lady Talisa Maegyr, in the books it's Lady Jeyne Westerling) isn't even present in the Red Wedding, which is one of the reasons that for me, this particular moment stands out in this whole scene. Well this and the fact that she was just repeatedly stabbed in the belly while pregnant. Either way, between the deaths of her, Robb, Catelyn and Grey-Wind, the Red Wedding is one of the biggest climaxes of the show and a huge plot-twist. I mean, if Ned Stark losing his head didn't convince you that nobody, and I mean NOBODY is safe here - this ought to do the job.
2:
Prince Oberyn Martell:
Without a doubt this is the most graphic death in the show. Ever. When I read the book, I was really sad that the coolest character that was introduced thus far just died at the hands of an evil behemoth, and I guess I was too annoyed to notice the details... it's hard when you don't really see it. After watching the scene I decided to re-read it, and only then I noticed the details: how it's described that the Mountain pressed his fingers into the Red Viper's eyes, crushed his teeth and then shattered his skull.
I guess that after my first read I just remembered it wrong, I finished the chapter with the image of Gregor breaking Oberyn's neck or something else that's not too out of the ordinary. So when I watched the scene, I actually was pretty shocked. I remember that a day or two later, I looked the scene up again on YouTube. I wanted to watch the fight, which is undoubtedly one of the very best fight scenes in the show, but when it was about to end I found myself just pausing the video. It's really the first and only time ever that I couldn't bring myself to re-watch a scene because it was too graphic. It was just this once though, don't worry, I've re-watched it lots of time since then, lol. But after just a day or two the memory was still too fresh I guess.
It's probably the goriest, most violent death that I have witnessed on-screen to date. And I doubt I'll ever see anything worse. Just... wow.
Honorable mentions:
1. Lord Eddard Stark:
Give me a break, don't act surprised. He's Sean Bean. He had to go.
2. Hodor:
Hodor.
3. Lord Tywin Lannister:
Getting killed, by your own son, while you take a crap in the bathroom. Doesn't get much lower than that.
1:
King Joffrey Baratheon:
Seriously, who did you expect? It only makes sense that the gruesome, disgusting death of the show's number one sadistic pr!ck gets the first place of this list.
We all hated that annoying brat since the moment we saw him. And he did SO much to deserve this hatred, I'm not even going to start counting. It was oh so satisfying to watch this douchebag choke to death on a pigeon pie, twisting and gasping for a breath of air, his face turning so blue that with his blond hair he really looked like an ugly version of Smurfette.
The timing was just so perfect too. We were still mourning the deaths of our beloved Starks at the Red Wedding, orchestrated by this little bastard's family, and this marvelously agonizing death scene was like a ray of sunshine on a rainy day.
All this in mind, when counting the show's best death scenes, this one definitely takes the cake (pun definitely intended).
Hope you enjoyed reminiscing some of the best death scenes by one of the best death death-mongers of modern fiction - our Lord and Savior George R. R. Martin, and his trusty sidekicks - David Beinoff and D. B. Weiss.
Seriously though, all the deaths above really pale in comparison to this:
No.
No!
NO!!!
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...I hate this show sometimes.
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