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* Varys in the initial episodes used to be TheChessmaster, convincing Eddard to confess to treason despite Ned's infamous HonorBeforeReason tendencies (it was reduced to null after Joffrey intervened, but [[SpannerInTheWorks Varys had no way to predict it]] given that Joffrey was slated to send him to Night's Watch), as well as meticulously planning King's Landing's defense in Season 2. It was also the reason Varys survived ''four'' volatile rulers (with Joffrey and Aerys having high-turnover rates, to put it mildly). Varys also was reputed to work behind the shadows, to the point Littlefinger, one of his intellectual equals barely kept up with him, due to Varys being enigmatic. He also supported Dany after hearing about how she freed the slaves in Slaver's Bay and suppressed the Masters, feeling she would be a just, fierce and kind ruler. All these went away in the final two seasons, where Varys is reduced to pleading Daenerys to allow him to work with her as Daenerys wanted to punish Varys for his supposed ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. But Varys's derailment hit its peak during the final episodes of Season 8, where [[spoiler: after learning that Jon has the higher dynastic claim due to being the son of Rhaegar, Varys immediately abandons Daenerys due to his supposed HeirClubForMen attitude, even planning to poison Daenerys, despite her risking her life to save the realm from the White Walkers, and thus being one of the most ideal rulers by Varys's definition, who (while with all his faults) is truly loyal to the realm and the smallfolk. He then decides to talk to Jon in an attempt to turn him, thus advertising that he plans to commit treason against Dany, while knowing Jon is completely loyal to her. Even if Tyrion didn't blab about him, Jon would have, thus making it a very crucial mistake Varys would have never made earlier, which ultimately seals his fate. He never even tries to defend himself or flee her side after doing so]].
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* Varys in the initial episodes used to be TheChessmaster, convincing Eddard to falsely confess to treason despite Ned's infamous HonorBeforeReason tendencies (it was reduced to null after Joffrey intervened, but [[SpannerInTheWorks Varys had no way to predict it]] given that Joffrey was slated to send him to the Night's Watch), as well as meticulously planning King's Landing's defense in Season 2. It was also the reason Varys survived ''four'' volatile rulers (with Joffrey and Aerys having high-turnover rates, to put it mildly). Varys also was reputed to work behind the shadows, to the point Littlefinger, one of his intellectual equals barely kept up with him, due to Varys being enigmatic. He also supported Dany after hearing about how she freed the slaves in Slaver's Bay and suppressed the Masters, feeling she would be a just, fierce and kind ruler. All these went away in the final two seasons, where Varys is reduced to pleading Daenerys to allow him to work with her as Daenerys wanted to punish Varys for his supposed ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. But Varys's derailment hit its peak during the final episodes of Season 8, where [[spoiler: after [[spoiler:after learning that Jon has the higher dynastic claim due to being the son of Rhaegar, Varys immediately abandons Daenerys due to his supposed HeirClubForMen attitude, even planning to poison Daenerys, despite her risking her life to save the realm from the White Walkers, and thus being one of the most ideal rulers by Varys's definition, who (while with all his faults) is truly loyal to the realm and the smallfolk. He then decides to talk to Jon in an attempt to turn him, thus advertising that he plans to commit treason against Dany, while knowing Jon is completely loyal to her. Even if Tyrion didn't blab about him, Jon would have, thus making it a very crucial mistake Varys would have never made earlier, which ultimately seals his fate. He never even tries to defend himself or flee her side after doing so]].
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** Littlefinger's derailment reaches its peak in the Season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf". Despite his reputation for [[TheChessmaster out-thinking his enemies]] he is [[spoiler: completely outsmarted and killed by Sansa and Arya because he doesn't think of any of the many options that could have saved him. He doesn't ask for a trial by combat, he doesn't ask to be sent to the Night's Watch, he doesn't try to poke any holes in Sansa and Bran's stories, and he doesn't even really try to deny any of the charges. And this is on top of him staying in Winterfell in the first place after he found out in a previous episode that Bran can see the past and thus knows about his many crimes]].
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** Littlefinger's derailment reaches its peak in the Season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf". Despite his reputation for [[TheChessmaster out-thinking his enemies]] he is [[spoiler: completely outsmarted and killed by Sansa and Arya because he doesn't think of any of the many options that could have saved him. He doesn't ask for a trial by combat, he doesn't ask to be sent to the Night's Watch, he doesn't try to poke any holes in Sansa and Bran's stories, he expects the Vale lords to support him despite not having taken steps to ensure their loyalty in this version, and he doesn't even really try to deny any of the charges. And this is on top of him staying in Winterfell in the first place after he found out in a previous episode that Bran can see the past and thus knows about his many crimes]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender roles, even namedropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even, so the show writers ought to keep it in mind), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, not to mention a descendant of the aforementioned Visenya and Nymeria, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender roles, even namedropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even, so the show writers ought to keep it in mind), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is was dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, not to mention a descendant of the aforementioned Visenya and Nymeria, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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** [[spoiler:He also doesn't consider how Jon will keep control of Daenerys's armies, most of whom are loyal to her ''personally'' because they see her as TheMessiah and ''not'' because of her Targaryen dynastic claim that Jon is supposedly ahead of her in line for. If she died at such a crucial juncture before Cersei was even defeated, the various factions like Dothraki, Northmen and Ironborn could easily turn on each other and destroy the war effort, to say nothing of her ''dragon'' (frankly, the fact that Drogon and Dany's most loyal followers ''don't'' raze the Seven Kingdoms after her actual onscreen death is unrealistic and only happens that way because the plot says so). And somehow Varys thinks that him sending the lords letters claiming that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son will be enough to convince them of such an extraordinary claim]]. In short, Varys of all people, whose schemes have been designed to take ''decades'' to come into effect, is suddenly acting with no plan.
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** [[spoiler:He also doesn't consider how Jon will keep control of Daenerys's armies, most of whom are loyal to her ''personally'' because they see her as TheMessiah a MessianicArchetype and ''not'' because of her Targaryen dynastic claim that Jon is supposedly ahead of her in line for. If she died at such a crucial juncture before Cersei was even defeated, the various factions like Dothraki, Northmen and Ironborn could easily turn on each other and destroy the war effort, to say nothing of her ''dragon'' (frankly, the fact that Drogon and Dany's most loyal followers ''don't'' raze the Seven Kingdoms after her actual onscreen death is unrealistic and only happens that way because the plot says so). And somehow Varys thinks that him sending the lords letters claiming that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son will be enough to convince them of such an extraordinary claim]]. In short, Varys of all people, whose schemes have been designed to take ''decades'' to come into effect, is suddenly acting with no plan.
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]], somehow failing to notice the Lannister army crossing from one side to the continent to the other over what must have been many days to [[spoiler:take Highgarden]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough (all his life) not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]], somehow failing to notice the Lannister army crossing from one side to of the continent to the other over what must have been many days to [[spoiler:take Highgarden]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough (all his life) not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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* Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. While there's precedent for her being ruthless, there's none for her being irrational. [[spoiler:When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. While there's precedent for her being ruthless, there's none for her being irrational. [[spoiler:When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, surrendered and she'd already gotten what she wanted, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. [[spoiler:When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. While there's precedent for her being ruthless, there's none for her being irrational. [[spoiler:When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender roles, even namedropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, not to mention a descendant of the aforementioned Visenya and Nymeria, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender roles, even namedropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even), even, so the show writers ought to keep it in mind), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, not to mention a descendant of the aforementioned Visenya and Nymeria, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, gender roles, even name dropping namedropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon (which was an addition for the show, even), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, not to mention a descendant of the aforementioned Visenya and Nymeria, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, dragon (which was an addition for the show, even), and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, she rejects her due to not being from the North and is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she will never return to her family again]].again. And says they don't need allies from outside their family even though she herself hasn't followed this either before or after the odd scene where she said it]].
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough (all his life) not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]].rescue]], somehow failing to notice the Lannister army crossing from one side to the continent to the other over what must have been many days to [[spoiler:take Highgarden]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough (all his life) not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler: In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, she rejects her along with the North due to not being from there, and being cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying they should stick together against future enemies, saying she would never return to her family again.]]
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with two dragons, she rejects her along with the North due to not being from there, the North and being is cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying that they should stick together against future enemies, saying she would will never return to her family again.]] again]].
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* Ellaria Sand in Season 4 tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. In season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge]].
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* Ellaria Sand in Season 4 tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. Bronn. In the season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge]].
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* A lot of viewers disliked Ellaria Sand's [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayal]] in Season 5 [[spoiler:after Oberyn was killed]]. In the books, she's a NiceGirl and the OnlySaneWoman who called out the Martells and Sand Snakes that avenging the deaths of their relatives will not bring them back, especially considering that the people responsible for it were already dead ([[spoiler:the Mountain got a MutualKill from Oberyn and Tywin was killed by Tyrion]]). In fact, in Season 4, she even tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. This action became Ellaria's MoralEventHorizon which not only destroyed any chance for the Lannister-Martell feud to end [[spoiler:but also endangered Doran's son, Trystane. Indeed in season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge, which results in her daughters all getting killed at the hands of Cersei and Euron, and Ellaria herself spending the rest of her days in a FateWorseThanDeath situation]].
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* A lot of viewers disliked Ellaria Sand's [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayal]] Sand in Season 5 [[spoiler:after Oberyn was killed]]. In the books, she's a NiceGirl and the OnlySaneWoman who called out the Martells and Sand Snakes that avenging the deaths of their relatives will not bring them back, especially considering that the people responsible for it were already dead ([[spoiler:the Mountain got a MutualKill from Oberyn and Tywin was killed by Tyrion]]). In fact, in Season 4, she even 4 tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. This action became Ellaria's MoralEventHorizon which not only destroyed any chance for the Lannister-Martell feud to end [[spoiler:but also endangered Doran's son, Trystane. Indeed in In season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge, which results in her daughters all getting killed at the hands of Cersei and Euron, and Ellaria herself spending the rest of her days in a FateWorseThanDeath situation]].revenge]].
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** Littlefinger's derailment reaches its peak in the Season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf". Despite his [[EvilGenius reputation for]] [[TheChessmaster out thinking his enemies]] he is [[spoiler: completely outsmarted and killed by Sansa and Arya because he doesn't think of any of the many options that could have saved him. He doesn't ask for a trial by combat, he doesn't ask to be sent to the Night's Watch, he doesn't try to poke any holes in Sansa and Bran's stories, and he doesn't even really try to deny any of the charges. And this is on top of him staying in Winterfell in the first place after he found out in a previous episode that Bran can see the past and thus knows about his many crimes]].
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** Littlefinger's derailment reaches its peak in the Season 7 finale "The Dragon and the Wolf". Despite his [[EvilGenius reputation for]] for [[TheChessmaster out thinking out-thinking his enemies]] he is [[spoiler: completely outsmarted and killed by Sansa and Arya because he doesn't think of any of the many options that could have saved him. He doesn't ask for a trial by combat, he doesn't ask to be sent to the Night's Watch, he doesn't try to poke any holes in Sansa and Bran's stories, and he doesn't even really try to deny any of the charges. And this is on top of him staying in Winterfell in the first place after he found out in a previous episode that Bran can see the past and thus knows about his many crimes]].
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* A lot of viewers disliked Ellaria Sand's [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayal]] in Season 5 [[spoiler:after Oberyn was killed]]. In the books, she's a NiceGirl and the OnlySaneWoman who called out the Martells and Sand Snakes that avenging the deaths of their relatives will not bring them back, especially considering that the people responsible for it were already dead ([[spoiler:the Mountain got a MutualKill from Oberyn and Tywin was killed by Tyrion]]). In fact, in Season 4, she even tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing, "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. This action became Ellaria's MoralEventHorizon which not only destroyed any chance for the Lannister-Martell feud to end [[spoiler:but also endangered Doran's son, Trystane. Indeed in season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge, which results in her daughters all getting killed at the hands of Cersei and Euron, and Ellaria herself spending the rest of her days in a FateWorseThanDeath situation]].
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* A lot of viewers disliked Ellaria Sand's [[AdaptationalVillainy portrayal]] in Season 5 [[spoiler:after Oberyn was killed]]. In the books, she's a NiceGirl and the OnlySaneWoman who called out the Martells and Sand Snakes that avenging the deaths of their relatives will not bring them back, especially considering that the people responsible for it were already dead ([[spoiler:the Mountain got a MutualKill from Oberyn and Tywin was killed by Tyrion]]). In fact, in Season 4, she even tried to calm Oberyn down when he heard two Lannister soldiers singing, singing "The Rains of Castamere". However in Season 5, she becomes very irrational and wanted to [[WouldHurtAChild harm Myrcella]], because she's a Lannister despite that she has nothing to do with her lover's death and regardless that Doran gave her a second chance with a warning, [[spoiler:she still pursues her revenge by poisoning Myrcella while she's on her way back to King's Landing with Jaime and Bronn]]. This action became Ellaria's MoralEventHorizon which not only destroyed any chance for the Lannister-Martell feud to end [[spoiler:but also endangered Doran's son, Trystane. Indeed in season 6 premiere, she personally murders Doran and sends her daughters to kill Trystane because they don't support her revenge, which results in her daughters all getting killed at the hands of Cersei and Euron, and Ellaria herself spending the rest of her days in a FateWorseThanDeath situation]].
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* Shae takes a sudden veer into ClingyJealousGirl on Tyrion without much preamble, feeling threatened for no real logical reason by Tyrion's marriage to Sansa. This was all ironically necessary because of her AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:while in the books she just a shallow opportunist who was playing Tyrion the whole time, in the show she honestly loves Tyrion, so the show has to make a sharp swerve to get her to betray him]].
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* Shae takes a sudden veer into ClingyJealousGirl on Tyrion without much preamble, feeling threatened for no real logical reason by Tyrion's marriage to Sansa. This was all ironically necessary because of her AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:while in the books she is just a shallow opportunist who was playing Tyrion the whole time, in the show she honestly loves Tyrion, so the show has to make a sharp swerve to get her to betray him]].
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler: In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with 2 dragons, she rejects her along with the North due to not being from there, and being cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying they should stick together against future enemies, saying she would never return to her family again.]]
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler: In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with 2 two dragons, she rejects her along with the North due to not being from there, and being cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying they should stick together against future enemies, saying she would never return to her family again.]]
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* [[spoiler:Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* [[spoiler:Although Although Daenerys has always been ruthless and there were hints of a darker side to her since the first season, her vengeful acts and "fire and blood" speeches were always balanced with acts of kindness or self-awareness, such as listening to her advisers to temper her worst impulses, and didn't want to harm those who didn't deserve it, or weren't part of an enemy army. When [[spoiler:When two of her dragons die, she loses half her forces, and Jon is revealed to have a better claim to the throne than she, her sanity deteriorates over the span of two episodes at the end of the last season to the point where she burns innocent civilians alive in King's Landing, after the city had surrendered, so that she becomes the final boss of the series. Even with all she went through, there is no explanation as to where her compassion and self-awareness went or why she would suddenly attack a surrendered city and call it "necessary" after tacitly agreeing with Tyrion not to attack once the bells were rung. It has always been stressed that she does ''not'' have the hereditary Targaryen madness (and characters like Tywin and Tyrion Lannister, Robb, Sansa and Arya Stark, and Jon Snow, have undertaken similar actions without being deemed mad, simply evil, which Dany has no good reason to be). Furthermore, other characters in Season 8 like Varys and Sansa act as if she deserves to be seen this way very prematurely without her having done or said anything wrong yet, and after sacking the city she talks like a parody of herself, making it clear this derailment was a forced development in the narrative. Hell, four seasons earlier, she was left horrified to discover that her dragons had accidentally killed one three-year-old child, and so distraught she literally kept them chained underground.]]
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* Arya also undergoes this in the final seasons. In Season 2, she proudly admitted to Tywin that she liked warrior women due to their will to defy gender-roles, even name dropping Visenya Targaryen as one of her favorite rulers due to being battle-hardy with her dragon, and naming Nymeria after one of them. She also wanted to reunite with her family, only going to Braavos because she thought her family is dead or worse. [[spoiler: In Season 8, despite Daenerys being a warrior queen in her own right and a powerful ally with 2 dragons, she rejects her along with the North due to not being from there, and being cold to her for no reason. She also leaves her family immediately after saying they should stick together against future enemies, saying she would never return to her family again.]]
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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* In the earlier seasons, Tyrion was mostly defined by his [[TheSmartGuy intelligence, his cleverness]] and his [[TheStrategist skill in strategy]]. However by the time Seasons 7 and 8 rolled around, he became [[TookALevelInDumbass incapable of making any smart or correct decisions]], to the point where every plan of his in Seasons 7 and 8 backfires spectacularly. His plan to take Casterly Rock instead of the Red Keep effectively strands the Unsullied in a useless position and gets [[spoiler:Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand and Olenna Tyrell all killed and Ellaria Sand imprisoned with no chance of rescue]]. Then his plan to capture a wight to prove their existence to Cersei gets [[spoiler:Thoros of Myr, Benjen Stark and Daenerys's dragon Viserion all killed, ''and'' the Wall destroyed by Viserion and the Night King, while not resulting in any reinforcements from Cersei, whom he has known long enough (all his life) not to trust]]. Then, in Season 8, he has the civilians hide from the White Walkers that can [[{{Necromancer}} bring the dead back to life]] ''in the crypt''. Then he immediately and without prompting or permission tells Varys about Jon's true parentage after Sansa tells him, despite knowing that Varys marches to the beat of his own drum and the threat that information could pose to Jon and Daenerys both. Tyrion's newfound inability to think things through is mocked by Sansa, Dany, and even Creator/PeterDinklage.
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** [[spoiler:He also doesn't consider how Jon will keep control of Daenerys's armies, most of whom are loyal to her ''personally'' because they see her as TheMessiah and ''not'' because of her Targaryen dynastic claim that Jon is supposedly ahead of her in line for. If she died at such a crucial juncture before Cersei was even defeated, the various factions like Dothraki, Northmen and Ironborn could easily turn on each other and destroy the war effort, to say nothing of her ''dragon'' (frankly, the fact that Drogon and Dany's most loyal followers ''don't'' raze the Seven Kingdoms after her actual onscreen death is unrealistic and only happens that way because the plot says so). Somehow Varys thinks that him sending the lords letters claiming that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son will be enough to convince them of such an extraordinary claim]]. In short, Varys of all people, whose schemes have been designed to take ''decades'' to come into effect, is suddenly acting with no plan.
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** [[spoiler:He also doesn't consider how Jon will keep control of Daenerys's armies, most of whom are loyal to her ''personally'' because they see her as TheMessiah and ''not'' because of her Targaryen dynastic claim that Jon is supposedly ahead of her in line for. If she died at such a crucial juncture before Cersei was even defeated, the various factions like Dothraki, Northmen and Ironborn could easily turn on each other and destroy the war effort, to say nothing of her ''dragon'' (frankly, the fact that Drogon and Dany's most loyal followers ''don't'' raze the Seven Kingdoms after her actual onscreen death is unrealistic and only happens that way because the plot says so). Somehow And somehow Varys thinks that him sending the lords letters claiming that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's son will be enough to convince them of such an extraordinary claim]]. In short, Varys of all people, whose schemes have been designed to take ''decades'' to come into effect, is suddenly acting with no plan.
