History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireBeingsBeyondTheWall

* HumanoidAbomination: It's made abundantly clear that, however much he appears so, Coldhands is not human and he hasn't been one for a long time. He needs neither sleep nor food, fears fire, and the intense cold Beyond The Wall doesn't effect him in the slightest. And as Bran and Meera observe, he doesn't even breath.

* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Wights are excpetionally resistant to damage, and will continue to try to move and attack even when missing their legs, their arms, or large chunks of meat and bone.

* ImplacableMan: Stab an Other with conventional weaponary all you want, they’ll just keep getting up again and again (your metal will give out far sooner than they will). Wights will also keep coming unless set alight, though they at least retain damage done to them, even if the body parts cut off of them still move.
* KillItWithFire: The only way to kill a wight outside of waiting for it to decompose. Hypothetically, chopping them into chipper-sized pieces could work, too -- but good luck finding a way to test that without dying first.

* {{Necromancer}}: The Others raise the dead to act as their army.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: The wights, undead created when living beings are slain by the Others' blades, which seem to serve as the main army the Others are using in their push southwards.

* RaisingTheSteaks: The Others resurrect horses to serve as their mounts. They also resurrect other animals such as bears.

* EnemyToAllLivingThings: They scare away animals, dogs refusing to follow their scent. The fact they kill animals, such as the bear, makes them a literal case of this.

* CarryABigStick: Their only weapons are large, crude clubs.

* PrimitiveClubs: They wield huge, crude clubs as their only weapons.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Grumpkins or grumkins? The book has both variants of spelling.

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%%* BadassCape

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Inflicted this on the Night's Watch traitors of Craster's Keep.

* HellIsThatSound: When they "speak", it sounds like ice breaking.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Well, maybe. Mance Rayder explains that giants don't have kings or chiefs any more than mammoths do, but the truth is even Wildlings know practically nothing about giant social structure (assuming such a thing even exists) and it isn't really clear if Mag is some kind of hereditary chieftain, or a chosen chieftain, or if he has any formal leadership position at all, or if the other giants simply tend to follow his lead. The Wildlings informally refer to him as "king of the giants" as a simplification.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Well, maybe. Mance Rayder explains that giants don't have kings or chiefs more than mammoths do, but the truth is even Wildlings know practically nothing about giant social structure (assuming such a thing even exists) and it isn't really clear if Mag is some kind of hereditary chieftain, or a chosen chieftain, or if he has any formal leadership position at all, or if the other giants simply tend to follow his lead. The Wildlings informally refer to him as "king of the giants" as a simplification.

* UltimateEvil: The Great Other, as described by Melisandre, the god of darkness, cold, and death.

%% * Gentle Giant: After his HeelFaceTurn. Just don't piss him off.
* GiantMook: For the Watch.

%% * Papa Wolf: To Val, the Wildling princess.

%% * BeautyIs Bad: According to WordOfGod at least, as part of their [[TheFairFolk Sidhe]] motif.

* BerserkButton: The TooDumbToLive [[spoiler:Ser Patrek of King's Mountain]] presses it by trying to "rescue" Val from him, even though Val is not Wun Wun's captive. Wun Wun goes all PapaWolf on the idiot's ass.

* GentleGiant: After his HeelFaceTurn. Just don't piss him off.

* PapaWolf: To Val, the Wildling princess.

* BeautyIsBad: According to WordOfGod at least, as part of their [[TheFairFolk Sidhe]] motif.

-->''"Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man's blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals. His hands and feet swell up and turn as black as pudding. The rest of him becomes as white as milk.''"

Coldhands is a mysterious figure from beyond the Wall, in league with the Three-Eyed Crow and Children Of The Forest. He appears to be a ranger from the Wall reanimated as a wight, but is intelligent and seemingly benign.

* BadassCape

* ScarfOfAsskicking

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Described as resembling towering, shaggy and upright apes, the giants of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' are in many ways more similar to oversized versions of Bigfoot and the Yeti than to classic fantasy giants. Nevertheless, they are sapient enough to be capable of speech, animal husbandry and crude tool-making.

* TheAlcoholic: He develops a taste for wine while staying with the Night's Watch, and Jon fears that he will become this and therefore tries keeping him away from alcohol.

* BadassAdorable: He has the attitude of a child and can easily rip you to pieces if you should insult him or threaten him.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The end of ADWD has him bleeding, and dangling a dead Ser Patrek of King's Mountain from one arm, just as a fight breaks out and the Night's Watch try to murder Jon.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Subverted by human standards, but by giant standards he seems to be something of a lightweight. This is why Jon tries keeping him away from wine.

* ExpertConsultant: No one would call him an expert, but Jon frequently speaks with Wun Wun, eiyh Leathers to translate, to learn more about giants, their culture and beliefs.

* PapaWolf: To Val, the wildling princess.

** Alternatively, if viewing the First Men as the Celtic Britons and the Andals as the Anglo-Saxons, the Children can be seen as similar to the Tuatha Dé Danann as described in the Irish Book of Invasions. Initially the Tuatha Dé Danann warred with the Milesians (the ancestors of the Celtic Irish) before eventually making peace with them and dividing the land between them, with the supernaturally gifted Tuatha Dé Danann taking command of the Otherworld, and the Milesians taking command of the temporal world. This mirrors the initial violence and then coexistence between the Children and the First Men.

* BigBad: Probably for the series as a whole, that is if they actually get to the other side of the wall.

* AnIcePerson: Their weapons, armour, powers and legendary steeds all have a basic theme: deadly ice and snow shaped and used in various ways. Even their necromancy benefits from their chill-factor, as wights last longer when refrigerated.

* UltimateEvil: The Great Other, as described by Melisandre, the god of darkness, cold and death.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler:He was once Brynden "Bloodraven" Rivers, a [[HeroicBastard bastard son]] of King Aegon IV. He served under his half-brother Daeron II and nephews Aerys I and Maekar I before being exiled to the Night's Watch by his great-nephew Aegon V for murdering a Blackfyre who arrived in King's Landing under diplomatic safe conduct. There, he rose to the rank of Lord Commander before disappearing beyond the Wall to become the Three-Eyed Crow about 50 years before the series began]].

Coldhands is a mysterious figure from beyond the Wall, in league with the Three Eyed Crow and Children Of The Forest. He appears to be a ranger from the Wall reanimated as a wight, but is intelligent and seemingly benign.

* DarkIsNotEvil: He's quite clearly some kind of grim mannered, intimidating undead creature, yet he's also a (seemingly) heroic figure helping the heroes of the story.

* OneManArmy: He can effortlessly fight off large numbers of human or undead attackers at once, including slaughtering the remaining Night's Watch traitors who betrayed Lord Commander Mormont. And he has apparently been operating almost entirely alone in the hostile territory north of the wall for a very long time.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: If Westeros is England, then the Children can be seen as a counterpart to the Celtic Britons who originally inhabited
the land before being conquered in a Roman invasion.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: If Westeros is England, then the Children can be seen as a counterpart to the Celtic Britons who originally inhabited the land before being conquered in a Roman invasion.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Described as resembling towering, shaggy and upright apes, they giants of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' are in many ways more similar to oversized versions of Bigfoot and the Yeti than to classic fantasy giants. Nevertheless, they are sapient enough to be capable of speech, animal husbandry and crude tool-making.

* TheNoseKnows: Their eyesight is poor, so they snuffle constantly, smelling as much as they see.

-->''"The giants are almost gone as well, they who were our bane and our brothers."''
--->--'''Leaf'''