History Characters / GameOfThronesHouseMartell

* AbledInTheAdaptation: The show downplayed Doran's gout where, as seen in the Season 6 premiere, he was able to stand and walk with the help of Ellaria. In the books, the gout is so severe that it made his legs deformed, his knees are red and very swollen, while all his toes are purple and more than twice the size they should be which rendered him cripple and needed medical attention to ease the pain.

* TraumaCongaLine: His sister was brutally raped and murdered, as were her children. His brother dies trying to avenge her. He's subsequently betrayed and killed by his own people and left to die, bleeding on the floor, all for his attempts to avoid bloodshed. His last words are about his son, who he knows will soon share his fate.

* AdaptationalHeroism: His apparent desire to let bygones be bygones and not go to war over the deaths of Elia and Oberyn turns out to be a ruse in the novels; he has in fact secretly been planning revenge against the Lannisters for nearly twenty years via supporting a Targeryen restoration where one of his children will be married to either Viserys or Daenerys, and actually gets the Sand Snakes on his side after revealing this (and the book Snakes are nowhere near as [[AdaptationalVillainy horrible as their show counterparts)]]. In the series, he's completely sincere in his desire for peace and forgiveness even though most of Dorne hates the idea.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, everyone ''thinks'' he's a DirtyCoward lickspittle who doesn't care at all about his siblings' deaths, when in fact he's TheChessmaster who's been covering the fact that he's been patiently arranging the Lannisters' downfall ever since Robert's Rebellion and Tywin Lannister himself respects him for being a player of the game. In the show, he really does just want to put the past behind him, appease the Lannisters and stay allies with them, and he is also a blind ruler with no talent for palatial intrigue who fails to see that his subjects do despise him after all and would rather support the suicidally risky Ellaria, who manages to take control of Dorne without repercussions after murdering the members of the ruling house.

* SiblingYinYang: With Oberyn. Oberyn was fiery, theatrical, charismatic, an exceptional warrior who nearly defeated The Mountain and a hedonist who loved his sex and booze and obsessed with revenge towards the Lannisters. Doran is reserved, quiet, incapable of fighting or even basic physical activity due to his illness and is far more serious minded with little interest in such pleasures and is quite willing to let all that's gone down between the Martells and Lannisters go if it means avoiding war.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the books, Dorne doesn't have a naval fleet ever since Queen Nymeria landed on the region, married Prince Mors Martell and burned all her ships as a reminder that she and her people no longer have to travel by sea to find a home for they already have. In the show, Dorne still have a lot of ships, which they provided to Daenarys so she can come home to Westeros.

* EnemyMine: Under Ellaria’s leadership, House Martell made an alliance with House Tyrell who were rivals for a long time and joined forces together with Daenarys Targaryen to overthrow the Lannisters.

* AndIMustScream: Cersei punishes Ellaria for murdering Myrcella by having her chained in a cell and forcing her to stare at her daughter Tyene's decomposing corpse until she dies of natural causes. [[spoiler:May have escaped this fate when Daenarys burns all of the Red Keep to the ground and she was crushed by debris.]]

** Tries again Season 7 when she gives a haughty WarIsHell speech to Tyrion as to justify burning King's Landing with the dragons and mocking him as a coward. This despite the fact Tyrion has fought in war before, particularly defending King's Landing from Stannis, and Ellaria has never seen combat nor commanded an army.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: So much so that when surrounded by Euron's Ironborn, she begs to be killed in the spot because she knows this is what will happen to her if taken to Cersei, which is exactly what happens when she poisons Tyene and forces Ellaria to watch in chains her daughter die and watch her body decompose, while being forbidden from dying herself. [[spoiler:Subverted since she may have been killed through Daenarys rampage in King's Landing during Season 8]].

* KilledOffscreen: Though we never see her again past Season 7, it's known that she was being kept prisoner in the Red Keep to watch her remaining daughter slowly die and kept alive against her will. [[spoiler:Daenarys bringing the Red Keep down with Drogon provided Ellaria with the sweet release of death.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Her conspiring against the Lannisters and murder of Myrcella eventually results in two of her step-daughters being brutally killed, and her and her remaining daughter imprisoned and utterly at the mercy of Euron and Cersei. Who are not feeling very merciful. Ultimately taken to its culmination with her having to watch Tyene die in the exact same way that she inflicted on Jaime; helpless to stop Myrcella from dying and unable to comfort her. Cersei takes special pleasure in telling them that Qyburn even manufactured the very same poison.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Has this done unintentionally by Daenarys to her when the Targaryen conqueror has Drogon destroy the Red Keep. Considering she was forced to be kept alive by Cersei to watch her daughter die slowly in front of her and then live the rest of her days with regrets, this is an escape for Ellaria.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: To 'Team Daenerys' in Season 7. She's totally up for burning King's Landing to the ground to defeat Cersei, even if it gets innocent civilians killed, which Daenerys refuses to do. [[spoiler:Ellaria gets her wish in the penultimate episode, though at that point, she herself has lost all her daughters to Cersei's forces and was imprisoned in the dungeons of the Red Keep, unable to enjoy Cersei's loss to Daenarys and even getting killed when the Keep collapses in on itself.]]

* ExtremeOmnisexual: According to Tyrion, Oberyn is famous for "fucking half of Westeros." Across Season 4, Oberyn hits on men and women without a care.

* AnythingThatMoves: According to Tyrion, Oberyn is famous for "fucking half of Westeros." Across Season 4, Oberyn hits on men and women without a care.

* AllForNothing: Zigzagged. Although her actions contributed to the [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts fulfillment of Maggy The Frog's prophecy]], which matched Ellaria's desires (even though she was unaware of that prophecy), what she got out of it was to lose everything she had. She wanted revenge for Oberyn's death and so she killed the his brother, his nephew and Myrcella, just because they stood between her and revenge. And what this led to, apart from destroying her family and betraying everything Oberyn himself stood for, was her being locked in a cell that none of her allies knew about, where she was forced to witness the death of her own daughter and then watch her corpse reduced to dust and bones.

* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice is a highly ornate spear.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a [[BlingBlingBang bejeweled]] but very sharp-looking glaive (which is [[NonindicativeName called an axe]] more than once).

* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: By all accounts a great ruler, but because he is not a warrior, Ellaria holds him in disdain. This factors in his downfall.

* BadassBaritone: Areo has a very deep, commanding voice.

* TranquilFury: He never raises his voice but when he gets truly angry such warninh Ellaria that he will not be giving her a third chance, he can be absolutely terrifying all the same.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He really meant well by giving Ellaria a second chance and she uses it to betray him and murder Myrcella and then him and Trystane, wiping out House Dorne.

* BareYourMidriff: A few of her dresses are [[NavelDeepNeckline open all the way to her stomach]], with a bikini top underneath.