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* YouRemindMeOfX: When [[spoiler:Tony Stark]] sees Steve, he briefly mistakes him for Jaime Lannister due to their strong physical resemblance.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Had one between offscreen [[spoiler:after Tywin's death in ''A Shield of Man'']]. Sandor recalls she was furious and panicking, realizing she had to leave the Tower of the Hand immediately since she no longer had protection. By the time Sandor sees her again, she's recovered and established a new power base.
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** She takes it even further in ''A Web of Lies'' [[spoiler:by taking over the entire prostitution industry in King's Landing.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Had one between offscreen [[spoiler:after Tywin's death in ''A Shield of Man'']]. Sandor recalls she was furious and panicking, realizing she had to leave the Tower of the Hand immediately since she no longer had protection. By the time Sandor sees her again, she's recovered and established a new power base.
* VillainousBreakdown: Had one between offscreen [[spoiler:after Tywin's death in ''A Shield of Man'']]. Sandor recalls she was furious and panicking, realizing she had to leave the Tower of the Hand immediately since she no longer had protection. By the time Sandor sees her again, she's recovered and established a new power base.
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* StatuesqueStunner: By the time Sandor meets her again in ''A Web of Lies'', she's made Sansa's body nearly six feet tall. She then makes her body grow even taller ''right before his eyes'', making her over six feet tall. The Night's Queen also does a little BreastExpansion and hair lengthening in the process.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Aging Sansa's body to adulthood was only the start. Sansa's hair turns from red to blonde, she becomes more and more pale, and she keeps growing taller.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: Aging Sansa's body to adulthood was only the start. Sansa's hair turns from red to blonde, she becomes more and more pale, and she keeps growing taller.
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[[folder: The Winter Soldier]]
One of the Commander's thralls, formerly Steve's best friend Bucky.
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*ArtificialLimbs: His left arm is made out of either Valyrian Steel or the improved alloy Steve's shield is made from.
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* FlatWhat: His response to Jeor attempting to distract him from fighting Ygritte using childish taunts.
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* UnholyMatrimony: With another Other, the female Sarkissian. He outright abducts [[spoiler:Ygritte]] to give his lover a vessel beautiful enough to be worthy of her, and is infuriated when it's implied the sacrifice turned the tables on Sarkissian.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans. In fact they are the same species as the Children Of The Forest, their differences being more ideological.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans. In fact they are the same species as the Children Of The Forest, their differences being more merely ideological.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans. In fact they are the same species as the Children Of The Forest, their differences being more ideological.
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* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and a jackass.
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* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and a jackass. [[spoiler: They also become different flavors of undead, Steve being an icy Other and Jaime the fiery Ghost Rider.]]
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* MadScientist: Alongside his work as a commander, he also can experiment on humans to try and create more powerful servants with the souls of titans.
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* InadequateInheritor: While not feeling this about himself since his service was honorable back in the day, he does feel that his brother's family has fallen far and become exactly what the Lannisters originally rebelled against. Though he does have mixed feelings about Jamie and Tyrion.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or and/or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Rickon seems oddly relieved that the Traitor was the second of the Court to awake after the Night's King, implying they'll have some unexpected part to play. With the revelation that he's Steve Rogers, the heroes just got some unexpected and much needed back-up.
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* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance.
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* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance. Finally subverted when his true identity is revealed.
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* IdealHero: A bonafide hero that Thor fondly remembers for his bravery and honor. His several millennia after the War for the Dawn hasn't worn him down at all, and he continues to fight in the name of all that is good.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks that no man would view a woman as a threat, and that everyone would think that she is too simple-minded to be a threat. She doesn't quite get that [[MasterOfDisguise Varys]] and Littlefinger have built ''entire spy rings'' based on getting information from women, children, and others that people usually ignore, or that Tyrion, whose best friend is a master of ObfuscatingStupidity and who's used to being looked down on, is smart enough not to take everything at face value. Also, Bronn, a ''sellsword'', was one of the first to figure out she is both dangerous and not human.
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!The Court of the Others
The leadership of the Others, the ancient race that once tried to destroy mankind during the Long Night. Now, after thousands of years of dormancy, they've awakened to threaten the world again.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans.
* CompositeCharacter: They have elements of certain Marvel villains mixed in. Notably, each seems to be a BigBad of their respective franchise.
* DemonicPossession: Once upon a time, their race practiced FusionDance in order to explore Westeros. Then the Mad Titan decided he didn't really like to bother with ''sharing'' his body...
* TheDreaded: Thor admits that they make him tremble. Remember, Thor is a WarriorPrince, and a PhysicalGod who loves fighting, so when you can make someone like ''that'' tremble, you know you're a force to be feared.
* TheFairFolk: Oh boy, yes. They come from the lands beyond the Wall, bear mythical abilities that allow them to possess people and perform various forms of magic, and their endgame is the conquest of all of Westeros.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They aren't very prevalent in the main story of the first book, but their presence is felt by many characters in the second book and they're set to become the main BigBad later down the road.
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[[folder:The Night's King]]
!!The Night's King, the Mad Titan, Thanos
The leader of the Others, who is starting his long-prophesied campaign to conquer Westeros.
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* BigBad: Just as in the regular canon, he's shaping up as the ultimate foe the side of good will need to defeat.
* CompositeCharacter: After a series of hints to this throughout ''A Crack of Thunder'', Chapter 53 finally confirms that he's Thanos.
* DecompositeCharacter: Here, the book's canonical Night's King was only a human thrall whom the Night's Queen carefully buttered up so as to make him feel important. The ''true'' Night's King is much more feared and dangerous.
* DemonicPossession: During the war between the Children and the First Men, he possessed the body of a man whom the Children believe could have been king of all his people... and then decided that he didn't feel the need to ''share'' control of that body.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Thanos" is clarified to mean "Mad Titan" in the language of the Children. When Rickon first speaks his name to Robb, the latter notes that despite having never heard the name before, it sends a chill down his spine.
* TrickedOutGloves: Uses "a great gauntlet of infinite power", likely the Infinity Gauntlet.
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[[folder:The Night's Queen '''(Spoilers)''']]
!'''Warning! This character is considered a major WalkingSpoiler for the ending of Book 1 and throughout Book 2. As a result, all spoilers for this character are unmarked.'''
!!The Night's Queen
The only Other able to cross into Westeros ahead of their invasion, courtesy of DemonicPossession.
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* ArcVillain: More subtle than most examples, but becomes this for Tyrion in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AnimalEyeSpy: Unlike with Varys, her "little birds" are quite literal, as she kills and reanimates them to spy for her. Given that the body she's using has latent warging powers, it's possible that she's combining this with her own ability to create wights.
* BadassBoast: "Do you fear me? Think me a beast? I am no queen or monster. I am the Goddess of Death."
* CompositeCharacter:
** Tyrion has a nightmare where she has the appearance of Satana Hellstrom.
** She calls herself "the Goddess of Death," showing that Hela's in there too.
* TheCorrupter: It's heavily implied she uses her secret meetings with maids and all sort of people to brainwash or convert them, and there are increasing hints Sandor is slowly becoming an Other.
** Since they are described as pale, gaunt and blue-eyed, it's possible she's turning them into ''wights''.
* DemonicPossession: Currently possessing Sansa's corpse, though it's implied that the real Sansa may still be in there as well.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her answer to the "who does the sellsword kill?" riddle is that all four men die, because none of them thought that the woman in the room with them may have been the real threat (an addition no one else references). The first person to peg her as both dangerous and not human was Bronn, ''a sellsword'', who came to this conclusion after meeting her ''once''. Taking it beyond the literal terms of the riddle, Sam also figures out that she is dangerous, and he's also completely beneath the Night's Queen's notice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She's disgusted by Joffrey's pettiness and lechery and finds Cersei extremely tiresome to deal with.
** She's also disgusted by Littlefinger's obsession with Catelyn and how he lusts after Sansa.
* FanDisservice: When her newly-grown possessed corpse awakens and flashes her tits to Sandor, the Hound's very reasonable reaction is a FreakOut.
* HealingHands: She manages to entirely wipe away Sandor's burns, leaving him with a normal face.
* HumanoidAbomination: A White Walker puppeting the corpse of a young girl after modifying it to suit her more? Bronn was not wrong to call her a ''what'' rather than a ''who''.
* LadyAndKnight: The Dark Mistress to Sandor's faithful Hound.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Discussed. She considers setting up Littlefinger and Joffrey for one of those.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After her reanimation of Sansa's corpse, she gained snow-white skin, faded red hair (which further bleaches as time goes by) and CreepyBlueEyes.
* LogicalWeakness: Anyone sane enough fears wildfire, but she's even more justified in her fear of it since she belongs to a race of ice-people.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Is able to deceive ''Tywin'', making him believe she's the spirit of his dead wife.]]
* MistakenForAnImposter: Tyrion refusing to believe she's really Sansa Stark when he gets to see her after her death is quite justified: not only she's way older than she's supposed to be, her whole appearance changed, leaving Tyrion fuming about the fact the only thing the "fake" got right was her red hair, which is still the wrong shade of red. Granted, he's right that she isn't actually Sansa. It's just that he thinks she's a entirely different person rather than [[HumanoidAbomination one of the leaders of the White Walkers]] who has [[CameBackWrong taken control of her dead body]].
* MuggingTheMonster: Five Flea Bottom men try to rape her during the riot in King's Landing. The one who gets his neck snapped is by far the luckiest.
* NeckLift: Does this to a would-be rapist during the riot in King's Landing, followed by a NeckSnap.
* NotSoStoic: She twitches when the Wall is mentioned.
** Seeing Lady's stuffed corpse leaves her [[FreakOut freaking out]], not least because she doesn't remember giving (apparently very detailed) orders to recover it. The fact that she whispers "help me" as Sandor leaves implies that her control of Sansa's body may not be as complete as she thinks...
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays the ditzy, naive noblegirl to the hilt and ''relishes'' in the fact that everyone[[note]]Well, almost everyone. Bronn sees right through her, Sam and Tyrion have also realized she's a threat and Varys witnesses her brutally killing four would-be rapists[[/note]] believes it to be the real her.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: She made Sansa's body five years older when she resurrected it. It's one of the reasons why Tyrion refuses to believe her the genuine article, as she's supposed to be barely into puberty.
* TheVamp: She gives Sandor a peek of her newly-mature body to seduce him to her cause. Sandor is just as freaked as aroused because she's supposed to be ''dead'' and in ''her early teens''.
** Since she didn't update her wardrobe, her dresses clung very much to her form, which makes her quite indecent. Tyrion muses she looks like a Dornish madam. Later Joffrey gives her new dresses but they aren't much better.
** She idly considers using her charms and a WoundedGazelleGambit to trick Joffrey and Littlefinger into killing each other.
** She makes use of various perfumes and varnishes her nails to make herself more alluring and exotic.
* WalkingSpoiler: Pretty much everything about her spoils much of the ongoing plot and the threat of the Others.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks that no man would view a woman as a threat, and that everyone would think that she is too simple-minded to be a threat. She doesn't quite get that [[MasterOfDisguise Varys]] and Littlefinger have built ''entire spy rings'' based on getting information from women, children, and others that people usually ignore, or that Tyrion, whose best friend is a master of ObfuscatingStupidity and who's used to being looked down on, is smart enough not to take everything at face value. Also, Bronn, a ''sellsword'', was one of the first to figure out she is both dangerous and not human.
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[[folder:The Commander]]
!!The Commander a.k.a the Red Skull
The leader of the Others' armies.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. He's still a villain, but where Johann Schmidt in the comics was evil even before he became the Red Skull, Johann in this story was a friend of Steve's whose body was taken over by an Other after he died.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ygritte mockingly calls him "Red Skull", which he seems to like the sound of.
* ArchEnemy: To Steve, dating back to the War for the Dawn.
* AxeCrazy: Jojen claims he's going to "coat his head with the blood of the Night's Watch". If literal, this dude seriously needs therapy.
* TheBrute: Considered the most vicious member of the Court.
* CompositeCharacter: Between an Other and the Red Skull. He also has shades of Bucky[=/=]The Winter Soldier, being a friend of Steve's who died and came back as a villain (though this friend actually died, unlike Bucky who was thought to have died).
* TheDreaded: His skull-like face is said to be the last thing any of his targets will see.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the Other that Craster directly worships.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims Steve is no different from him and seems to see no difference between him using thralls to do his dirty work and Steve fighting alongside humans. Whether he actually believes this or is just trying to mess with Steve’s head is anyone’s guess.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His host body was once Steve's friend Johann. He uses this fact to mock Steve repeatedly.
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[[folder:The Traitor '''(Spoiler)''']]
!Warning! This character is a major spoiler for the ending of Book 2. All spoilers are left unmarked.
!!The Traitor a.k.a. Azor Ahai, a.k.a. Steve Rogers, Captain Westeros
The Court's most mysterious member, of whom absolutely no information has survived. In Chapter 54 of Book 2, he is revealed to be '''Steve Rogers''', Azor Ahai.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance.
* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' suggest to him that all men are rapists.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Jeor Mormont, Mance Rayder and Ygritte when a group of Others attempt to kill them.
* CompositeCharacter: Seemingly one with Coldhands, the undead Watchman fighting against the Others in canon.
* FamousAncestor: As a son of Lann the Clever and the legendary Azor Ahai, you can bet he's this to the Lannisters.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Having slumbered for thousands of years, he's out of date on how culture has evolved. In particular, he's shocked to find that most noblewomen no longer fight, hunt, and work alongside their subjects, not understanding why people would obey them if they don't earn the right to it.
* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and rather a jackass.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Being an Other, the Traitor has their typical OccultBlueEyes, yet his stubborn defense of mankind slots him in this trope.
* IHaveManyNames: His birth name is Steve Rogers, but he was known to the North as [[MythologyGag the Nomad]], to the Free Folk as Azor Ahai, and as the Lord Captain of the Knights of the Dawn, all in addition to being the Traitor of the Others.
* LivingRelic: From the War for the Dawn.
* PalsWithJesus: Several millennia after the War for the Dawn, Thor still remembers him as a great shield-brother and speaks fondly of him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's the second son of Lann the Clever, and thus distantly related to the Lannisters.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He hates slavers. Considering that the Casterlys enslaved his mother, it’s hard to blame him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Rickon seems oddly relieved that the Traitor was the second of the Court to awake after the Night's King, implying they'll have some unexpected part to play. With the revelation that he's Steve Rogers, the heroes just got some unexpected and much needed back-up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: On two levels; before he betrayed the Others' plot to ruin Westeros in order to side with humanity, he was the second son of Lann the Clever so is this to the Lannisters.
* UnPerson: Absolutely no knowledge about him seems to exist in Westeros beyond the name. Though given TheReveal of his identity, it would appear this is because of millennia of LegendFadesToMyth turning him into an in-universe DecompositeCharacter.
* WalkingSpoiler: With the revelations made at the end of Book 2, it's pretty hard to talk about him without bringing up that he's the Westeros counterpart to Captain America and is the Azor Ahai from the original Long Night.
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The leadership of the Others, the ancient race that once tried to destroy mankind during the Long Night. Now, after thousands of years of dormancy, they've awakened to threaten the world again.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The composited Marvel villains that they are based on are re-imagined as Others, who are interpreted here as spiritual entities called titans.
* CompositeCharacter: They have elements of certain Marvel villains mixed in. Notably, each seems to be a BigBad of their respective franchise.
* DemonicPossession: Once upon a time, their race practiced FusionDance in order to explore Westeros. Then the Mad Titan decided he didn't really like to bother with ''sharing'' his body...
* TheDreaded: Thor admits that they make him tremble. Remember, Thor is a WarriorPrince, and a PhysicalGod who loves fighting, so when you can make someone like ''that'' tremble, you know you're a force to be feared.
* TheFairFolk: Oh boy, yes. They come from the lands beyond the Wall, bear mythical abilities that allow them to possess people and perform various forms of magic, and their endgame is the conquest of all of Westeros.
* GreaterScopeVillain: They aren't very prevalent in the main story of the first book, but their presence is felt by many characters in the second book and they're set to become the main BigBad later down the road.
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[[folder:The Night's King]]
!!The Night's King, the Mad Titan, Thanos
The leader of the Others, who is starting his long-prophesied campaign to conquer Westeros.
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* BigBad: Just as in the regular canon, he's shaping up as the ultimate foe the side of good will need to defeat.
* CompositeCharacter: After a series of hints to this throughout ''A Crack of Thunder'', Chapter 53 finally confirms that he's Thanos.
* DecompositeCharacter: Here, the book's canonical Night's King was only a human thrall whom the Night's Queen carefully buttered up so as to make him feel important. The ''true'' Night's King is much more feared and dangerous.
* DemonicPossession: During the war between the Children and the First Men, he possessed the body of a man whom the Children believe could have been king of all his people... and then decided that he didn't feel the need to ''share'' control of that body.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Thanos" is clarified to mean "Mad Titan" in the language of the Children. When Rickon first speaks his name to Robb, the latter notes that despite having never heard the name before, it sends a chill down his spine.
* TrickedOutGloves: Uses "a great gauntlet of infinite power", likely the Infinity Gauntlet.
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[[folder:The Night's Queen '''(Spoilers)''']]
!'''Warning! This character is considered a major WalkingSpoiler for the ending of Book 1 and throughout Book 2. As a result, all spoilers for this character are unmarked.'''
!!The Night's Queen
The only Other able to cross into Westeros ahead of their invasion, courtesy of DemonicPossession.
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* ArcVillain: More subtle than most examples, but becomes this for Tyrion in ''A Crack of Thunder''.
* AnimalEyeSpy: Unlike with Varys, her "little birds" are quite literal, as she kills and reanimates them to spy for her. Given that the body she's using has latent warging powers, it's possible that she's combining this with her own ability to create wights.
* BadassBoast: "Do you fear me? Think me a beast? I am no queen or monster. I am the Goddess of Death."
* CompositeCharacter:
** Tyrion has a nightmare where she has the appearance of Satana Hellstrom.
** She calls herself "the Goddess of Death," showing that Hela's in there too.
* TheCorrupter: It's heavily implied she uses her secret meetings with maids and all sort of people to brainwash or convert them, and there are increasing hints Sandor is slowly becoming an Other.
** Since they are described as pale, gaunt and blue-eyed, it's possible she's turning them into ''wights''.
* DemonicPossession: Currently possessing Sansa's corpse, though it's implied that the real Sansa may still be in there as well.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Her answer to the "who does the sellsword kill?" riddle is that all four men die, because none of them thought that the woman in the room with them may have been the real threat (an addition no one else references). The first person to peg her as both dangerous and not human was Bronn, ''a sellsword'', who came to this conclusion after meeting her ''once''. Taking it beyond the literal terms of the riddle, Sam also figures out that she is dangerous, and he's also completely beneath the Night's Queen's notice.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She's disgusted by Joffrey's pettiness and lechery and finds Cersei extremely tiresome to deal with.
** She's also disgusted by Littlefinger's obsession with Catelyn and how he lusts after Sansa.
* FanDisservice: When her newly-grown possessed corpse awakens and flashes her tits to Sandor, the Hound's very reasonable reaction is a FreakOut.
* HealingHands: She manages to entirely wipe away Sandor's burns, leaving him with a normal face.
* HumanoidAbomination: A White Walker puppeting the corpse of a young girl after modifying it to suit her more? Bronn was not wrong to call her a ''what'' rather than a ''who''.
* LadyAndKnight: The Dark Mistress to Sandor's faithful Hound.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Discussed. She considers setting up Littlefinger and Joffrey for one of those.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After her reanimation of Sansa's corpse, she gained snow-white skin, faded red hair (which further bleaches as time goes by) and CreepyBlueEyes.
* LogicalWeakness: Anyone sane enough fears wildfire, but she's even more justified in her fear of it since she belongs to a race of ice-people.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Is able to deceive ''Tywin'', making him believe she's the spirit of his dead wife.]]
* MistakenForAnImposter: Tyrion refusing to believe she's really Sansa Stark when he gets to see her after her death is quite justified: not only she's way older than she's supposed to be, her whole appearance changed, leaving Tyrion fuming about the fact the only thing the "fake" got right was her red hair, which is still the wrong shade of red. Granted, he's right that she isn't actually Sansa. It's just that he thinks she's a entirely different person rather than [[HumanoidAbomination one of the leaders of the White Walkers]] who has [[CameBackWrong taken control of her dead body]].
* MuggingTheMonster: Five Flea Bottom men try to rape her during the riot in King's Landing. The one who gets his neck snapped is by far the luckiest.
* NeckLift: Does this to a would-be rapist during the riot in King's Landing, followed by a NeckSnap.
* NotSoStoic: She twitches when the Wall is mentioned.
** Seeing Lady's stuffed corpse leaves her [[FreakOut freaking out]], not least because she doesn't remember giving (apparently very detailed) orders to recover it. The fact that she whispers "help me" as Sandor leaves implies that her control of Sansa's body may not be as complete as she thinks...
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Plays the ditzy, naive noblegirl to the hilt and ''relishes'' in the fact that everyone[[note]]Well, almost everyone. Bronn sees right through her, Sam and Tyrion have also realized she's a threat and Varys witnesses her brutally killing four would-be rapists[[/note]] believes it to be the real her.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: She made Sansa's body five years older when she resurrected it. It's one of the reasons why Tyrion refuses to believe her the genuine article, as she's supposed to be barely into puberty.
* TheVamp: She gives Sandor a peek of her newly-mature body to seduce him to her cause. Sandor is just as freaked as aroused because she's supposed to be ''dead'' and in ''her early teens''.
** Since she didn't update her wardrobe, her dresses clung very much to her form, which makes her quite indecent. Tyrion muses she looks like a Dornish madam. Later Joffrey gives her new dresses but they aren't much better.
** She idly considers using her charms and a WoundedGazelleGambit to trick Joffrey and Littlefinger into killing each other.
** She makes use of various perfumes and varnishes her nails to make herself more alluring and exotic.
* WalkingSpoiler: Pretty much everything about her spoils much of the ongoing plot and the threat of the Others.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks that no man would view a woman as a threat, and that everyone would think that she is too simple-minded to be a threat. She doesn't quite get that [[MasterOfDisguise Varys]] and Littlefinger have built ''entire spy rings'' based on getting information from women, children, and others that people usually ignore, or that Tyrion, whose best friend is a master of ObfuscatingStupidity and who's used to being looked down on, is smart enough not to take everything at face value. Also, Bronn, a ''sellsword'', was one of the first to figure out she is both dangerous and not human.
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[[folder:The Commander]]
!!The Commander a.k.a the Red Skull
The leader of the Others' armies.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed. He's still a villain, but where Johann Schmidt in the comics was evil even before he became the Red Skull, Johann in this story was a friend of Steve's whose body was taken over by an Other after he died.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Ygritte mockingly calls him "Red Skull", which he seems to like the sound of.
* ArchEnemy: To Steve, dating back to the War for the Dawn.
* AxeCrazy: Jojen claims he's going to "coat his head with the blood of the Night's Watch". If literal, this dude seriously needs therapy.
* TheBrute: Considered the most vicious member of the Court.
* CompositeCharacter: Between an Other and the Red Skull. He also has shades of Bucky[=/=]The Winter Soldier, being a friend of Steve's who died and came back as a villain (though this friend actually died, unlike Bucky who was thought to have died).
* TheDreaded: His skull-like face is said to be the last thing any of his targets will see.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the Other that Craster directly worships.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims Steve is no different from him and seems to see no difference between him using thralls to do his dirty work and Steve fighting alongside humans. Whether he actually believes this or is just trying to mess with Steve’s head is anyone’s guess.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: His host body was once Steve's friend Johann. He uses this fact to mock Steve repeatedly.
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[[folder:The Traitor '''(Spoiler)''']]
!Warning! This character is a major spoiler for the ending of Book 2. All spoilers are left unmarked.
!!The Traitor a.k.a. Azor Ahai, a.k.a. Steve Rogers, Captain Westeros
The Court's most mysterious member, of whom absolutely no information has survived. In Chapter 54 of Book 2, he is revealed to be '''Steve Rogers''', Azor Ahai.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: They're part of the Court, but Rickon views them awakening before most of the other members as a good thing. Combined with their title, it raises the question of ''who'' they have and[=/=]or will be betraying. With the reveal that he was once Steve Rogers, Azor Ahai, it becomes clear that he is firmly on the side of good.
* AntiHero: While he falls under AmbiguouslyEvil above, Chapter 30 of ''A Crack of Thunder'' implies that their plan involves allying with Benjen Stark, though it's not clear why. He is shown to be firmly on the side of good with his BigDamnHeroes entrance.
* BerserkButton: ''Don't'' suggest to him that all men are rapists.
* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Jeor Mormont, Mance Rayder and Ygritte when a group of Others attempt to kill them.
* CompositeCharacter: Seemingly one with Coldhands, the undead Watchman fighting against the Others in canon.
* FamousAncestor: As a son of Lann the Clever and the legendary Azor Ahai, you can bet he's this to the Lannisters.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Having slumbered for thousands of years, he's out of date on how culture has evolved. In particular, he's shocked to find that most noblewomen no longer fight, hunt, and work alongside their subjects, not understanding why people would obey them if they don't earn the right to it.
* {{Foil}}: To his own descendant Jaime Lannister. Both are peerless warriors originating from the Westerlands who committed treachery in order to protect countless innocent people. But Steve is very much a NiceGuy and TheCape, while Jaime is TheOathbreaker and rather a jackass.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Being an Other, the Traitor has their typical OccultBlueEyes, yet his stubborn defense of mankind slots him in this trope.
* IHaveManyNames: His birth name is Steve Rogers, but he was known to the North as [[MythologyGag the Nomad]], to the Free Folk as Azor Ahai, and as the Lord Captain of the Knights of the Dawn, all in addition to being the Traitor of the Others.
* LivingRelic: From the War for the Dawn.
* PalsWithJesus: Several millennia after the War for the Dawn, Thor still remembers him as a great shield-brother and speaks fondly of him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's the second son of Lann the Clever, and thus distantly related to the Lannisters.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He hates slavers. Considering that the Casterlys enslaved his mother, it’s hard to blame him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Rickon seems oddly relieved that the Traitor was the second of the Court to awake after the Night's King, implying they'll have some unexpected part to play. With the revelation that he's Steve Rogers, the heroes just got some unexpected and much needed back-up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: On two levels; before he betrayed the Others' plot to ruin Westeros in order to side with humanity, he was the second son of Lann the Clever so is this to the Lannisters.
* UnPerson: Absolutely no knowledge about him seems to exist in Westeros beyond the name. Though given TheReveal of his identity, it would appear this is because of millennia of LegendFadesToMyth turning him into an in-universe DecompositeCharacter.
* WalkingSpoiler: With the revelations made at the end of Book 2, it's pretty hard to talk about him without bringing up that he's the Westeros counterpart to Captain America and is the Azor Ahai from the original Long Night.
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