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* Downplayed with the Blackfish. In the books, Blackfish continues to hold Riverrun because that's what his king last ordered him to do, and to protect Queen Jeyne, and continues to display the direwolf above Riverrun out of loyalty to the Stark cause. In the show, he acknowledges that Sansa genuinely needs his help but still refuses to help her, even after there's no chance of him defending Riverrun.

* So far in the book series, the Faceless Men are AmbiguouslyEvil at worst. Yes, they are a guild of assassins who kill to honor the Many-Faced-God, but have very strict rules about who they kill and why. When Arya joins them as an apprentice, they are tough-but-fair and do show moments of kindness. When she wants to rise in rank, they make it crystal clear that it will not be easy, and many painful things will be expected of her, but also offer to give her a new identity where she could be reasonably comfortable for the rest of her life if she chooses to leave their ranks. The Waif is a teacher who takes her job seriously, but is not cruel. In the show, they are much harder on Arya from the start, the Waif is a straight-up SadistTeacher, who kills several people in the way when Arya defects, and all of their strict dogma about who lives/dies is forgotten.

* In the books, Khal Drogo recognizes Daenerys' apprehension on their wedding night and gently coaxes her with foreplay until she consents. In the show, it's a straight-up exertion of his MaritalRapeLicense.

* While Renly is subject to a fair amount of AdaptationalHeroism in the show, his conversation with Ned Stark in the first book and season zig-zags this trope. In the books, Ned never made any mention of Stannis' rightful claim to the throne, and Ned's decision to ignore Renly's offer to kidnap Joffrey without revealing his own plans made it clear to Renly as a sign of his loyalty towards Cersei, leaving Renly's decision to declare himself a king partly as an objective to survive, which was later confirmed in Renly's conversation with Catelyn. In the show, Ned makes a direct mention of Stannis' claim and his own support for Stannis, which Renly rebutts by claiming that Stannis' lack of charisma would not "make him a king", hence in a way making Renly come across as a bigger hypocrite than in the books. Moreover, in the show it's directly stated that Renly knew about Joffrey's illegitimacy, a factor left ambiguous in the books.

* While Renly is subject to a fair amount of AdaptationalHeroism in the show, his conversation with Ned Stark in the first book and season zig-zags this trope. In the books, neither Ned nor Renly made any mention of Stannis' claim to the throne, and Ned's decision to ignore Renly's offer to kidnap Joffrey without revealing his own plans made it clear to Renly as a sign of his loyalty towards Cersei, which was later confirmed in Renly's conversation with Catelyn. In the show, Ned makes a direct mention of Stannis' claim to the throne and his support for Stannis, which Renly rebutts by claiming Stannis' lack of charisma would not "make him a king", hence in a way making Renly come across as a bigger hypocrite than in the books. Moreover, in the show it's directly stated that Renly knows about Joffrey's illegitimacy, which was left ambiguous in the books.

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* In the books the Freys intended to merely take Catelyn hostage during the Red Wedding and only kill her partially as a MercyKill after she goes insane at Robb's death and starts clawing her own face to shreds. In the show, they just straight-up kill her.

* The Night's Watch assassins in "Mother's Mercy" have less motivation than in the books. In both books and series, Jon works to save the wildlings, which is very unpopular with some of his officers. However, in the books he also starts involving himself in the affairs of the realm, compromising the Watch's millennia-long stance on neutrality. The assassins are greatly conflicted by the deed, weeping as they do so, while in the show they are angry and vindictive. * Alliser Thorne is not present for the assassination in the books, as he is far away on an assignment. In the show, he's the ringleader.

* While Meryn Trant is an unpleasant person in the books, he's a brave warrior and more cold and uncaring than actively sadistic. His characterization as a useless DirtyCoward who takes pleasure in beating on people who can't defend themselves is more in line with Boros Blount of the books. Also, him being a pedophilic rapist is original to the show.

** While much is still left to be written and revealed, it seems very likely that the Dany of the books will not end up nearly as much of a sudden villain as the Dany of the show. One point brought up that makes no sense in the show is Dany going insane at the sound of the bells, but popular theory is that this was a plot arc lifted from AdaptedOut character [[https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/bpxv2a/spoilers_main_dd_have_conflated_jon_conningtons/ Jon Connington]] who has an actually ''established'' moment of trauma around the sound of bells coupled with regret that he didn't commit more war crimes to help fight against Robert's Rebellion. In addition, AdaptedOut character Aegon VI (nicknamed by many readers as "f'Aegon" poses a much more legitimate and active threat to Dany's claim of being the rightful ruler of Westeros than Jon Snow which the show used instead.

** This may prove the ultimate example with how the show turned her into a villain at the very end. While it remains to be seen how she'll turn out in the books, in the story thus far she is far more sympathetic than in the show, is actively concerned about all of the collateral damage she is unleashing, and is far more motivated out of a sense of duty than entitlement like revealed in the show, a revision fairly similar to what the show did to Stannis.

** He's fully aware and dismissive of his part in [[spoiler: Renly's death]] since he dispatches Melisandre personally, whereas in the books his involvement is more ambiguous and he finds the thought [[OutDamnedSpot greatly disturbing]], is tormented by BadDreams afterward, and expounds on his grief and regret far beyond the single dismissive line used in the show. This also isn't helped by the victim's AdaptationalHeroism.

* Dagmer in the show is a PoisonousFriend and TheCorrupter who urges Theon toward darker and darker deeds before betraying him when those actions come home to roost. In the books, those actions belong to [[CompleteMonster Ramsay Bolton]] and Dagmer appears only once as an HonoraryUncle and one of the few people in the world to treat Theon kindly.

* Sansa Stark. In the show, Sansa becomes increasingly mean-spirited, taking joy from Joffrey's death and wishing she had done it herself, sentencing Ramsay to die in a very brutal manner, and publicly fights with both Jon Snow and Daenerys for unknown reasons, and even works against Jon Snow by deliberately omitting the fact that there's an army coming to support their cause so she can get credit. In the books, she's learning politics but has decided to do it in a manner that retains her kindness and wants her subjects to love her.

** Robb in the show is shown as a much more selfish character than his book counterpart. In the books he marries Jeyne Westerling out of pity and a sense of honor in addition to whatever affection he feels for her. In the show, his marriage to Talisa is purely selfish, which even his own bannerman acknowledge. In addition, Book Robb he has sex with Jeyne due to being wounded and under her care at the time he receives the news of the "deaths" of Bran and Rickard, and turns to her for consolation.[[note]] In addition, there are fan theories that Jeyne's mother Sybell Spicer had some influence by brewing an aphrodesiac of some kind, as she is the granddaughter of the woods witch Maggie "The Frog" [[/note]] In contrast, Show Robb and Talisa just think that each other are really hot, and thus Robb breaks his oath because he was really horny.

* In the books, Arya's descent into murder is more gradual, with her first kill, Polliver, done in the heat of the moment to defend Sandor Clegane; Arya's murder of Polliver in the show has her taking a dark pleasure in the Ironic Echo she gives him before slowly stabbing him in the throat, and afterwards she's quite satisfied with herself.

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** He callously executes [[spoiler: Mance Rayder]] for defiance in "The Wars to Come" rather than doing it against his better judgment because his status as a DangerousDeserter who attacked the whole realm demands it. [[spoiler:Or at least, he ''thinks'' he [[DeathByAdaptation executed Mance in the books]].]]

** Robb in the show is shown as a much more selfish character than his book counterpart. In the books he marries Jeyne Westerling out of pity and a sense of honor in addition to whatever affection he feels for her. In the show, his marriage to Talisa is purely selfish, which even his own bannerman acknowledge.

** He burns [[spoiler: his only child, Shireen,]] alive in "The Dance of Dragons" to end the blizzard afflicting his army. While the burning may indeed happen in future novels, at the equivalent point in the books, as mentioned above, he refuses to burn anyone (not even captives or unbelievers) except as punishment for cannibalism and dispatches Ser Justin Massey with specific instructions to [[spoiler: press Shireen's claim to the throne]] should he die in the coming battle - not to mention if said burning does happen it is quite possible if not likely that it would not be committed by Stannis himself. In the books, Stannis is hundreds of miles away still besieging Winterfell and possibly dead while Shireen is at the Wall while it's in a chaotic state of emergency. WordOfSaintPaul (the showrunners) insist that she will be sacrificed indeed, but the precise circumstances will obviously be entirely different.