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** The entirety of players in the game of thrones. Littlefinger, Lannisters, Boltons, you name it. They think that their political game is all that matters and [[FailedASpotCheck fail to notice]] that the world is changing, magic and dragons are returning and the incoming Winter is not a natural phenomenon but an invasion of ice demons [[spoiler: led by an Evil Overlord Classic]].
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** Viserys thought himself to be "The Dragon" and the one destined to raise an army and seize back the Iron Throne for the Targaryen Dynasty... [[spoiler: only to be killed by Khal Drogo and his sister prove to be far more successful in her attempt to retake the throne than he ever was. Furthermore, Dany's immunity to the effects of fire make it clear who the ''real'' Dragon most likely is]].
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** Viserys thought himself to be "The Dragon" and the one destined to raise an army and seize back the Iron Throne for the Targaryen Dynasty... [[spoiler: only to be killed by Khal Drogo and his sister prove proves to be far more successful in her attempt to retake the throne than he ever was. Furthermore, Dany's immunity to the effects of fire make it clear who the ''real'' Dragon most likely is]].
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler: Astapor slavers created the best soldiers in the world, the Unsullied. However, they didn't count on Daenerys Targaryen's first act after buying the Unsullied, was to free them from their bonds and give them the option to slaughter their former masters. The Unsullied took it.]].
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* ViralMarketing: ''[[http://www.themaesterspath.com/ The Maester's Path]]''.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Dean-Charles Chapman played Martyn Lannister, one of the prisoners murdered by the Karstarks, in Season 3. In Season 4 he plays King Tommen Baratheon.
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** "The Lion and the Rose" chronicles the royal wedding. Not unlike the previous one, it's a roaring success [[spoiler: for the enemies of the groom, as Joffrey is killed during the celebration]].
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* TranquilFury: When Daenerys discovers that the masters of Meereen are taunting her by crucifying a slave child on every milepost to the city, she remains perfectly calm. Her voice and face, however, make it perfectly clear that the responsible ones are going to ''suffer'' for this.
--> '''Barristan''': I'll tell our men to ride ahead and bury them. You don't need to see this.
--> '''Daenerys''': You will do no such thing. I ''will'' see each and every one of their faces.
--> '''Barristan''': I'll tell our men to ride ahead and bury them. You don't need to see this.
--> '''Daenerys''': You will do no such thing. I ''will'' see each and every one of their faces.
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* WarIsHell: Just like in the books it's adapted from.
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* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: King Renly and Lady Catelyn are among the very few individuals in this CrapsackWorld who can look past Brienne's unappealing physique and see her inner beauty.
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** Lord Tywin considers Lady Olenna to be his intellectual equal and recognizes that she's the true head of House Tyrell, as he deals with her directly when arranging a marriage between their two families, and not with her son Mace, who is technically the Lord of Highgarden. Olenna then praises Tywin for living up to his reputation.
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* WomenAreWiser: [[WordOfGod Dan Weiss]] describes the Tyrells in [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=GJtIuE2LHNU this featurette]] as: "...basically a secret matriarchy [...] where the men tend to be handsome dopes and the women are really the brains behind the operation."
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* UndyingLoyalty: While House Tyrell joined the Lannisters out of a desire to gain more political power, Loras himself only wanted [[spoiler:to avenge Renly's murder. Commanding a cavalry charge while wearing his deceased lover's armour is quite a GrandRomanticGesture, as it was Loras' way of honouring the vow he had made to Renly in Season 1.]]
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do *something* to make your sobbing sister feel better, but he's so out of practice that he crosses the room to her and then has no idea what to do. He winds up just sort of patting her hand a little, and then they both sit there silently looking awkward.
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do *something* to make your sobbing sister feel better, but he's so out of practice that he crosses the room to her and then has no idea what to do. He winds up just sort of patting her hand a little, and then they both sit there silently looking awkward.
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** While House Tyrell joined the Lannisters out of a desire to gain more political power, Loras himself only wanted [[spoiler:to avenge Renly's murder. Commanding a cavalry charge while wearing his deceased lover's armour is quite a GrandRomanticGesture, as it was Loras' way of honouring the vow he had made to Renly in Season 1.]]
** Brienne remains dedicated to King Renly [[spoiler:even after he dies]]. When Jaime insults Renly's homosexuality one too many times, she becomes furious and forcefully grabs Jaime's head, looking like she wants to ''kill'' him. Brienne's vow to bring the prisoner to King's Landing alive is the ''only'' thing that prevented her from carrying out her wish.
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do*something* ''something'' to make your sobbing sister feel better, but he's so out of practice that he crosses the room to her and then has no idea what to do. He winds up just sort of patting her hand a little, and then they both sit there silently looking awkward.
** While House Tyrell joined the Lannisters out of a desire to gain more political power, Loras himself only wanted [[spoiler:to avenge Renly's murder. Commanding a cavalry charge while wearing his deceased lover's armour is quite a GrandRomanticGesture, as it was Loras' way of honouring the vow he had made to Renly in Season 1.]]
** Brienne remains dedicated to King Renly [[spoiler:even after he dies]]. When Jaime insults Renly's homosexuality one too many times, she becomes furious and forcefully grabs Jaime's head, looking like she wants to ''kill'' him. Brienne's vow to bring the prisoner to King's Landing alive is the ''only'' thing that prevented her from carrying out her wish.
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do
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** "The King In The North" is reprised, not for Robb [[spoiler: who died in the previous episode]], but for Bran as he goes to the Wall in "Mhysa.".
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* WhiteStallion: As part of his regal image, King Renly rides one in "Garden of Bones." His lover Ser Loras will later [[spoiler:charge into battle in "Blackwater" on Renly's white horse to better enhance the illusion that he is King Renly's ghost.]]
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* WhiteStallion: Used on several occasions to make people look more awesome, presumably in a deliberate evocation of this trope. As part of his regal image, King Renly Baratheon rides one in "Garden of Bones." His lover Ser Loras Tyrell will later [[spoiler:charge into battle in "Blackwater" on Renly's white horse to better enhance the illusion that he is King Renly's ghost.]]]] Other characters such as Lord Tywin and Yara Greyjoy ride white horses when making a BigEntrance. Likewise Daenerys Targaryen, after losing the white horse she was given as a wedding gift while [[CrossingTheDesert crossing the Red Waste]], acquires another after sacking her first city, marking her new role as TheConqueror.
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* VillainOverForDinner: Tyrion returns to his quarters to find [[TheSpymaster Varys]] chatting with his mistress Shae, who is supposed to be there secretly and her presence unknown to anyone else. Varys makes friendly conversation but obliquely references to Tyrion [[ShameIfSomethingHappened what a shame it would be]] if Tywin learned about her presence.
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--> '''"The Pointy End"''' "They want me to go to King's Landing, I'll go to Kings Landing. But not alone; call the banners."
--> '''"The Pointy End"''' "They want me to go to King's Landing, I'll go to Kings Landing. But not alone; call the banners."
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** "The Kingsroad:" [[spoiler:Bran opens his eyes.]]
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** "Fire and Blood:" [[spoiler:The first dragons comes into view.]]
** "Blackwater:" [[spoiler:Ser Mandon Moore slashes Tyrion's face.]]
** "Walk of Punishment:" [[spoiler:Locke chops, and Jaime screams.]]
** "The Rains of Castamere:" [[spoiler:The doors are shut and "The Rains of Castamere" starts playing.]]]] And again when [[spoiler:Black Walder appears to finish the job]].
** "Blackwater:" [[spoiler:Ser Mandon Moore slashes Tyrion's face.]]
** "Walk of Punishment:" [[spoiler:Locke chops, and Jaime screams.]]
** "The Rains of Castamere:" [[spoiler:The doors are shut and "The Rains of Castamere" starts playing.
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* TroubledFetalPosition: The final scene of season one is Danerys curled up in a ball [[spoiler: after attempting to commit suicide by entering her husband's funeral pyre. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic She stands up unscathed, with three newborn dragons clinging to her like she's their mother.]] At the sight of this, her entire clan bows down in worship.
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* TactfulTranslation: The translator in Astapor delivers tactful translations for her master, a boorish slaver. It eventually transpires that [[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator Daenerys understood everything he was saying the whole time.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: All of the trueborn Baratheon males share this trait.
* TangledFamilyTree: When Loras Tyrell is to wed Cersei Lannister and her (inbred) son Joffrey is to marry Loras's sister Margaery, the family tree gets hilariously complicated all of a sudden. Lady Olenna tries to wrap her head around their familial relations. Specifically:
** Loras will be Joffrey's stepfather and brother-in-law.
** Cersei will be Joffrey's mother (as well as aunt) and sister-in-law. [[note]]Depending on definition. A lot of people nowadays don't count the spouses of your siblings-in-law as additional siblings-in-law, but in this society they seemingly do.[[/note]]
** Margery's and Joffrey's son will be Loras's nephew and step-grandson.
** Loras will be Margaery's brother and father-in-law.
* TapOnTheHead:
** Theon receives one at the end of a RousingSpeech. He goes right out.
** An unlucky hog farmer gets ''two'' in "The Rains of Castamere", courtesy of the Hound and Arya respectively. [[spoiler:This foreshadows Sandor knocking Arya out when she tries to intervene in the battle at the Twins.]]
* TemptingFate: Benjen, Ned, and Robert all say something akin to "we'll talk when I get back". They thought they would, huh?
* ThickerThanWater: The Tyrells always stick together. Olenna, Margaery and Loras never express anything but care for each other despite the family's ambition. Olenna and Margaery are also the most accepting characters of Loras' sexuality besides Renly.
-->'''Margaery''': Luckily for us Tyrells our blood runs quite warm, doesn't it, Loras?
* ThirdPersonPerson:
** Jaqen H'ghar refers to himself as "a man" rather than "I" and other people in a similar way, such as referring to Arya as "a girl" rather than "you."
** Slaves from Slaver's Bay, including the Unsullied, are required to refer to themselves as "this one" to help destroy their sense of identity.
* TitleCard: It's housed in the floating astrolabe that functions as the sun for the giant ClockPunk map of Westeros and Essos in the opening credits. It's revealed to the audience at the end of the credits when it eclipses the sun plate at the centre of the sphere, however, if you're paying attention you can briefly see it at the start of the credits as the camera zooms past the sphere and down to King's Landing.
* TitleDrop: Every episode is Title Dropped since the episodes are typically named after a significant line from them, and the titles aren't displayed. However, the one that tops them all is a series title drop and episode title drop in one line:
-->'''Cersei Lannister:''' When you play the '''game of thrones, you win... or you die.''' There is no middle ground.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Ser Boros Blount and Ser Meryn Trant of the Kingsguard, who are used as thugs by Joffrey and Cersei. Another mook takes the place of Blount occasionally.
-->'''Bronn:''' Ah! Look at these two shining warriors! Ser ''[[MaliciousMisnaming Taryn Mant]]'' and... Ser Whosit of Whocares.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pyp and Grenn. Dolorous Edd is added to the mix in Season Two.
* ThousandYearReign: The Lannisters have this goal in mind. In season 1 Lord Tywin discusses the war plans with his son Jaime, explaining that the events of the coming months will either cement a Lannister/Baratheon dynasty on the Iron Throne that could last a thousand years, or they could collapse into nothing like the Targaryens (who made it to 300 years themselves).
* TookALevelInBadass: Daenerys Targaryen starts as a young maid effectively whored into an arranged marriage for an army, to a conqueror.
* TortureCellar: [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]] is confined to one in Season 3.
* TheTourney: The most notable one was the Tourney of the Hand in Season 1, but we also see tourneys hosted by King Joffrey and King Renly in Season 2.
* TragicKeepsake:
** During their stay at King's Landing, Ned gives a doll to Sansa. At first, she views this gift with disdain, claiming that she hadn't played with dolls since she was eight. After her father dies, it's revealed in a short scene during the second season that she kept the doll.
** [[spoiler:Renly's armour fits this trope for Loras. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m1-xPObOLk This heartbreaking deleted scene]] from Season 2 makes it more obvious. It's the only physical object that Loras has kept as a reminder of his lover after he buries Renly's body.]]
* TrainingMontage: A minor one for Arya in her first "dancing" lesson with Syrio Forel. Gets echoed in "The Ghost Of Harrenhal," where Arya passes on Syrio's wisdom during Gendry's ShirtlessScene.
* TransparentCloset: The rumours surrounding Renly and Loras' relationship are far more rampant on the show than in the books, to the point where some book readers actually expressed surprise to discover that Renly and Loras were lovers after watching the show.
* TraumaCongaLine:
** In "Fire and Blood," Joffrey shows Sansa the castle wall [[spoiler:adorned with heads on pikes, of all the members of her household. This most importantly of all includes her septa and her father]], and he ''forces her to look.''
** Everything that happens to Theon Greyjoy in Season 3.
* TrialByCombat: Bronn championing Tyrion against Ser Vardis.
* TriumphantReprise:
** The main theme gets this treatment on a couple occasions, the first being [[spoiler:when Robb rides back from battle safe and sound, with Jaime Lannister as his prisoner]], and the second over the final scene and closing credits of the season. The latter is so effective it's difficult not to leap from your couch, fist pumping and cheering when it cuts to black. [[spoiler:''Dragons'']] have that effect.
** As noted above, while the "The Throne Is Mine" during Joffrey's purge of Robert's bastards is the DarkReprise of the Baratheon theme, it segues into a triumphant rendition of "Black of Hair" when Gendry escapes to safety.
** Robert Baratheon's theme also gets a triumphant reprise when Gendry learns his true parentage in "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".
** "The King In The North" is reprised, not for Robb [[spoiler: who died in the previous episode]], but for Bran as he goes to the Wall in "Mhysa.".
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard:
** The official title of the King on the Iron Throne is "X of House Y, Number of his name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm". It's easy to understand why fans will usually call the position "King of Westeros".
** Dany's evergrowing [[TheMagnificent magnificence]] tangles it some more, since she lays claim to the above title and adds "...of the Blood of Old Valyria; Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea; Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons". You can see why most people just call her Khaleesi.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler: Astapor slavers created the best soldiers in the world, the Unsullied. However, they didn't count on Daenerys Targaryen's first act after buying the Unsullied, was to free them from their bonds and give them the option to slaughter their former masters. The Unsullied took it.]].
* TwentyFourHourArmor: King Renly doesn't seem to have any formal clothing other than his armour in Season 2.
* TheTwink:
** Ser Loras Tyrell.
** Olyvar may be considered one as well. Although it's not certain what his true sexual orientation is, he does tell [[spoiler: Loras]] that he has slept with many unhappy husbands.
* UltimateJobSecurity:
** Varys, Pycelle and Barristan are all survivors from the Targaryen regime. Each of them is too good at what they do to have been removed from their posts. Defied with Ser Barristan, who expects to serve for life but is dismissed in the transition from Robert to Joffrey after Robert dies under his watch.
** Littlefinger tries to bump it up to VetinariJobSecurity, right to Cersei's face, but she reveals that she's impulsive and capricious enough to just up and kill him, no matter the consequences.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Syrio Forel. The last we see of him is when he is about to fight Ser Meryn Trant with a broken practice sword. We hear his battle cry and the sounds of a fight before the scene cuts away. Trant appears later, unscathed, but Syrio's fate is never addressed.]]
* UndeadChild: In the very start of episode one, we see a young wildling girl, murdered by the White Walkers and nailed to a tree. A few minutes later, she's no longer stuck to the tree, and is giving us a good look at her unnatural blue eyes. ''Creepy...''
* UndyingLoyalty: While House Tyrell joined the Lannisters out of a desire to gain more political power, Loras himself only wanted [[spoiler:to avenge Renly's murder. Commanding a cavalry charge while wearing his deceased lover's armour is quite a grand romantic gesture, as it was Loras' way of honouring the vow he had made to Renly in Season 1.]]
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do *something* to make your sobbing sister feel better, but he's so out of practice that he crosses the room to her and then has no idea what to do. He winds up just sort of patting her hand a little, and then they both sit there silently looking awkward.
* UnreliableNarrator: The Blu-ray extras of the history of Westeros narrated by the characters in the show. Each character has a biased or one-sided view over certain events. For example: from House Lannister's POV, they viewed their sacking of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion as a just action to bring order back to the kingdoms, but in the House Baratheon and House Stark POV, they viewed the RapePillageAndBurn as an atrocity, which Robert felt was a NecessaryEvil while Ned viewed it as a terrible crime. Meanwhile from Viserys Targaryen's POV, he calls the sacking an unjust betrayal, despite the fact the other three Houses pointed out that the Mad King firing Tywin was the cause of him siding with the rebels.
* TheUnreveal: Shae is vague and mysterious about her past. When Cersei corners her and demands details about her life, Shae starts, "When I was thirteen..." but gets cut off.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Dany's advisors are appalled by her trading of a dragon for an army. Neither they nor the viewers are aware that her plan involves [[spoiler:turning her dragon against the would-be buyer and using the army to conquer Astapor.]]
* TheUsurper: Robert Baratheon is a much more sympathetic example than most, given the behaviour of his predecessor.
* VaginaDentata: Referenced when Ygritte is trying to seduce Jon. "It doesn't have teeth..."
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Even though Robert Baratheon killed the man who captured his beloved in single combat, he seems to be unable to be satisfied with it. He mentions in his dreams that "he kills him every night" which betrays the emptiness he feels even with having revenge.
* VikingFuneral: Catelyn's father Hoster Tully receives one in "Walk of Punishment".
* VillainousBreakdown: Viserys begins showing greater and greater signs of this as he spends more time among the Dothraki. His breakdown reaches its climax when [[spoiler:Khal Drogo presents him his "golden crown."]]
* VillainousIncest:
** Cersei Lannister with her twin Jaime.
** The Targaryens practiced marrying brother to sister to preserve purity of the blood. Viserys certainly comes off as villainous while undressing and fondling his sister.
** Craster, who practices forced ParentalIncest.
* VillainousRescue: Tywin has a sort of BigDamnHeroes moment in "Garden of Bones", wherein he stops Gendry's torture (and by the extension the continued torture of other captives) on the grounds that [[PragmaticVillainy it is a waste of good workers]].
* VillainsOutShopping: A DeletedScene shows Lord Tywin fishing by the Red Keep.
* VillainSong: "The Rains of Castamere", also known as the Lannister song, is a composition which chronicles Tywin's annihilation of house Reyne of Castamere, a rebellious vassal. Famous in-story, it's effectively used as BadassBoast, ImpliedDeathThreat and leitmotif.
* ViralMarketing: ''[[http://www.themaesterspath.com/ The Maester's Path]]''.
* VisualInnuendo: Ramsay Snow has a penchant for gelding captives and eating sausages.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:Daenerys' method of euthanizing a catatonic Drogo.]]
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: Characters refer to the Wall as "the edge of the world." The Wall itself has startling parallels with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_wall Hadrian's Wall]], a huge, 80 mile long barrier stretching across the top of England which was began in AD 122 and built to protect Roman Britain from Scottish invasion. Unsurprisingly George R.R. Martin has [[WordOfGod stated]] a visit to Hadrian's Wall was his inspiration.
* TheWarRoom: High lords typically have a war room in their castles or in the field where they plan their next move around an elaborate [[TheBigBoard Big Board]].
* TheWatson: Ros's function, particularly during the first season (besides being MsFanservice), is to receive exposition. She was apparently created for the show to avoid "AsYouKnow..." conversations.
* WeAllDieSomeday:
** Played with here:
--->'''[[DashingHispanic Syrio Forel]]''': [[CatchPhrase What do we say]] [[YouShallNotPass to the God of Death?]]
--->'''Arya Stark''': [[BadassBoast Not today.]]
** Referenced in-universe: ''Valar morghulis.''
* WeddingDay:
** A singularly depressing one for [[spoiler: Tyrion and Sansa in "Second Sons".]]
** Followed not long after by "The Rains of Castamere", in which Edmure Tully gets married to one of the Frey daughters, [[spoiler:and then Robb, Talisa, Catelyn, and everybody else in the Stark party is murdered.]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 9 of every season.
* WhamLine: Quite a few of them.
--> '''"Baelor:"''' "But they have the soft hearts of women.''"
--> '''"The Prince of Winterfell:"''' "I have your little whore."[[note]]Later subverted, however, as it turns out that [[spoiler:Cersei got the wrong one.]][[/note]]
--> '''"Valar Morghulis:"''' "[[spoiler:Dracarys.]]" Also, [[spoiler:the third blast.]]
* WhamShot: Several.
** "Winter Is Coming:" [[spoiler:Jaime pushes Bran out of the window.]]
** "A Golden Crown:" [[spoiler:The Dothraki seize Viserys and break his arm.]]
** "You Win or You Die:" [[spoiler:The goldcloaks turn on Ned's men.]]
** "The Rains of Castamere:" [[spoiler:The doors are shut and "The Rains of Castamere" starts playing.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Arya calls out the Brotherhood Without Banners for callously selling out [[spoiler:Gendry]] for gold, despite their claims of being a BandOfBrothers and fighting for the people.
* WhereIsYourXNow: After losing the battle of Blackwater, a pissed off Stannis chokes Melisandre, who promised his victory through the God of Light. "Where's your god now?" he says. She responds, "Inside you," and he releases her.
* WhileYouWereInDiapers: In "The Ghost of Harrenhal" one of Theon's crewmen, less than impressed by Captain Theon, goes even further back, saying that "I have been reaving and raping since before you left Balon's balls."
* WhiteStallion: As part of his regal image, King Renly rides one in "Garden of Bones." His lover Ser Loras will later [[spoiler:charge into battle in "Blackwater" on Renly's white horse to better enhance the illusion that he is King Renly's ghost.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sandor was horribly burned as a child by his brother, and has an intense phobia of fire. In "Blackwater," he deserts the defense of King's Landing when the battlefield gets covered in fire. In "Kissed By Fire," he's forced to fight a duel with an opponent wielding a flaming sword.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Sandor Clegane.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Jaime Lannister is supposed to be one of the best swordfighters in the realm, but when he's pitted against Brienne, she beats him fairly easily. However, he had spent several months in a jail cell, and [[WithMyHandsTied had his hands tied]] at the time.
* WorldOfBadass: Pretty much every character is capable of either out-fighting, out-thinking, out-plotting, or out-lying every other character, often only failing due to {{Tragic Flaw}}s that are usually a deficiency in one of those aforementioned areas.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech:
** Tyrion telling Shae that [[spoiler: despite the betrayal and outmaneuvering by his family, he wants to stay in King's Landing because he both ''belongs'' there and he ''likes'' playing the game against his family and the other manipulators of the city.]]
** Littlefinger's awesome "chaos is a ladder" speech to Varys. Destroying "the Realm" isn't the end, it's an ''opportunity''.
* WorldOfHam: The examples under LargeHam above are really just the most prominent and consistent examples; almost everyone gets their moment to [[ChewingTheScenery snack on masonite]].
* WorthyOpponent:
** Littlefinger and Varys seem to enjoy verbally sparring with each other and clearly see each other as the only other person on their mental level.
** Jaime sees Eddard as one in regards to swordfighting. He admits that he's heard of Eddard's reputation and wants to test his mettle. When he finally gets the chance to square off with Eddard, a guard screws it up by interfering.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Bronn admits that the first person he killed was a woman who attacked him with a weapon. Shae still doesn't approve.
** In "Blackwater", Sandor Clegane notes that he has [[DeadlyEuphemism put several women in the ground]], and that Bronn has too.
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** Harren the Black, the builder of the great fortress of Harrenhal. He boasted that a million men could assault the walls and a million men would be repelled, that no army could take the fortress ''by land''. So the Targaryens took the fortress instead with dragons from the sky.
** Viserys thought himself to be "The Dragon" and the one destined to raise an army and seize back the Iron Throne for the Targaryen Dynasty... [[spoiler: only to be killed by Khal Drogo and his sister prove to be far more successful in her attempt to retake the throne than he ever was. Furthermore, Dany's immunity to the effects of fire make it clear who the ''real'' Dragon most likely is]].
** Littlefinger challenged Brandon Stark to a duel because he thought he was the plucky hero of the songs and poems he'd heard growing up. Brandon, being a much better fighter, promptly kicked his ass.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone:
** Renly invokes this trope when trying to convince Ned Stark to support his coup for the throne, pointing out that while Stannis has the legitimate claim, he's the most qualified heir for the job.
** In the backstory, Aerys Targaryen was unquestionably the rightful king, and Viserys his heir. Robert Baratheon was a traitor and a usurper. That being said, Aerys had a nasty habit of burning people alive to amuse himself, and Viserys wasn't much better, so most people were quite happy to accept Robert as king.
* YankTheDogsChain:
** In "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", [[spoiler:Theon is teased with the offer of a threesome with two prostitutes, only for his tormentor to [[GroinAttack cut off the most prized part of his body]]]].
** "The Rains of Castamere", for Arya.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Drogo delivers a variant of this to Mago, just before before cutting his throat open [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own weapon]], reaching into the wound, and [[NoKillLikeOverkill ripping his tongue out]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain:
** Almost everyone who's left Winterfell has never returned home to it (Ser Rodrik Cassel being the only notable exception). And they may never now that [[spoiler: it has been burned down. Then again, Winterfell is thousands of years old and made of stone; it's fixable]].
** Jorah and Dany are also struggling with this trope, though if Dany has anything to say about it, it will [[BadassBoast die screaming]].
* YouMonster:
** Jon Snow calls Craster a monster to Commander Mormont, for marrying his daughters and daughters/granddaughters, and because [[spoiler:he sacrifices all his baby sons to the White Walkers.]] Mormont agrees with him, but states that they have other fights to worry about.
** Cersei opens a conversation with Tyrion with "You monster!" because [[spoiler:he is sending her daughter Myrcella away to Dorne.]]
** Joffrey is casually called a monster by Loras in Season 1. In Season 3, Sansa admits that Joffrey is a monster to Olenna and Margaery Tyrell after significant prodding.
** Joffrey refers to Tyrion as "You little monster" during one of his rants. Tyrion [[ShameIfSomethingHappened snarks back]] nonchalantly.
* YoungConqueror:
** Robb Stark, the "Young Wolf". Varys notes to Eddard that boys like him have become conquerors before.
** Theon Greyjoy wishes he were this, but he [[GloryHound falls flat]].
** Daenerys intends to conquer Westeros, which she regards as her birthright.
* YouShallNotPass:
** [[spoiler:Syrio Forel]] holds up four Lannister soldiers and a member of the Kingsguard while [[spoiler:Arya]] escapes. He does this armed only with a wooden sword.
** And later [[spoiler:Yoren]] tries to do the same for [[spoiler:Arya and Gendry]]. It doesn't work.
** Jorah Mormont does it twice, first against [[spoiler:Viserys when he tries to steal dragon eggs]] and later against a battle-hardend [[spoiler:Dothraki fighter]]. Fittingly, his family motto is "Here We Stand."
* ZombieApocalypse: The White Walkers have the ability to reanimate corpses into undead "wights". [[spoiler:The season two finale has an entire ''army'' of wights going to attack the Night's Watch, led by the White Walkers.]]
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* TactfulTranslation: The translator in Astapor delivers tactful translations for her master, a boorish slaver. It eventually transpires that [[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator Daenerys understood everything he was saying the whole time.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: All of the trueborn Baratheon males share this trait.
* TangledFamilyTree: When Loras Tyrell is to wed Cersei Lannister and her (inbred) son Joffrey is to marry Loras's sister Margaery, the family tree gets hilariously complicated all of a sudden. Lady Olenna tries to wrap her head around their familial relations. Specifically:
** Loras will be Joffrey's stepfather and brother-in-law.
** Cersei will be Joffrey's mother (as well as aunt) and sister-in-law. [[note]]Depending on definition. A lot of people nowadays don't count the spouses of your siblings-in-law as additional siblings-in-law, but in this society they seemingly do.[[/note]]
** Margery's and Joffrey's son will be Loras's nephew and step-grandson.
** Loras will be Margaery's brother and father-in-law.
* TapOnTheHead:
** Theon receives one at the end of a RousingSpeech. He goes right out.
** An unlucky hog farmer gets ''two'' in "The Rains of Castamere", courtesy of the Hound and Arya respectively. [[spoiler:This foreshadows Sandor knocking Arya out when she tries to intervene in the battle at the Twins.]]
* TemptingFate: Benjen, Ned, and Robert all say something akin to "we'll talk when I get back". They thought they would, huh?
* ThickerThanWater: The Tyrells always stick together. Olenna, Margaery and Loras never express anything but care for each other despite the family's ambition. Olenna and Margaery are also the most accepting characters of Loras' sexuality besides Renly.
-->'''Margaery''': Luckily for us Tyrells our blood runs quite warm, doesn't it, Loras?
* ThirdPersonPerson:
** Jaqen H'ghar refers to himself as "a man" rather than "I" and other people in a similar way, such as referring to Arya as "a girl" rather than "you."
** Slaves from Slaver's Bay, including the Unsullied, are required to refer to themselves as "this one" to help destroy their sense of identity.
* TitleCard: It's housed in the floating astrolabe that functions as the sun for the giant ClockPunk map of Westeros and Essos in the opening credits. It's revealed to the audience at the end of the credits when it eclipses the sun plate at the centre of the sphere, however, if you're paying attention you can briefly see it at the start of the credits as the camera zooms past the sphere and down to King's Landing.
* TitleDrop: Every episode is Title Dropped since the episodes are typically named after a significant line from them, and the titles aren't displayed. However, the one that tops them all is a series title drop and episode title drop in one line:
-->'''Cersei Lannister:''' When you play the '''game of thrones, you win... or you die.''' There is no middle ground.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Ser Boros Blount and Ser Meryn Trant of the Kingsguard, who are used as thugs by Joffrey and Cersei. Another mook takes the place of Blount occasionally.
-->'''Bronn:''' Ah! Look at these two shining warriors! Ser ''[[MaliciousMisnaming Taryn Mant]]'' and... Ser Whosit of Whocares.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Pyp and Grenn. Dolorous Edd is added to the mix in Season Two.
* ThousandYearReign: The Lannisters have this goal in mind. In season 1 Lord Tywin discusses the war plans with his son Jaime, explaining that the events of the coming months will either cement a Lannister/Baratheon dynasty on the Iron Throne that could last a thousand years, or they could collapse into nothing like the Targaryens (who made it to 300 years themselves).
* TookALevelInBadass: Daenerys Targaryen starts as a young maid effectively whored into an arranged marriage for an army, to a conqueror.
* TortureCellar: [[spoiler:Theon Greyjoy]] is confined to one in Season 3.
* TheTourney: The most notable one was the Tourney of the Hand in Season 1, but we also see tourneys hosted by King Joffrey and King Renly in Season 2.
* TragicKeepsake:
** During their stay at King's Landing, Ned gives a doll to Sansa. At first, she views this gift with disdain, claiming that she hadn't played with dolls since she was eight. After her father dies, it's revealed in a short scene during the second season that she kept the doll.
** [[spoiler:Renly's armour fits this trope for Loras. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m1-xPObOLk This heartbreaking deleted scene]] from Season 2 makes it more obvious. It's the only physical object that Loras has kept as a reminder of his lover after he buries Renly's body.]]
* TrainingMontage: A minor one for Arya in her first "dancing" lesson with Syrio Forel. Gets echoed in "The Ghost Of Harrenhal," where Arya passes on Syrio's wisdom during Gendry's ShirtlessScene.
* TransparentCloset: The rumours surrounding Renly and Loras' relationship are far more rampant on the show than in the books, to the point where some book readers actually expressed surprise to discover that Renly and Loras were lovers after watching the show.
* TraumaCongaLine:
** In "Fire and Blood," Joffrey shows Sansa the castle wall [[spoiler:adorned with heads on pikes, of all the members of her household. This most importantly of all includes her septa and her father]], and he ''forces her to look.''
** Everything that happens to Theon Greyjoy in Season 3.
* TrialByCombat: Bronn championing Tyrion against Ser Vardis.
* TriumphantReprise:
** The main theme gets this treatment on a couple occasions, the first being [[spoiler:when Robb rides back from battle safe and sound, with Jaime Lannister as his prisoner]], and the second over the final scene and closing credits of the season. The latter is so effective it's difficult not to leap from your couch, fist pumping and cheering when it cuts to black. [[spoiler:''Dragons'']] have that effect.
** As noted above, while the "The Throne Is Mine" during Joffrey's purge of Robert's bastards is the DarkReprise of the Baratheon theme, it segues into a triumphant rendition of "Black of Hair" when Gendry escapes to safety.
** Robert Baratheon's theme also gets a triumphant reprise when Gendry learns his true parentage in "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".
** "The King In The North" is reprised, not for Robb [[spoiler: who died in the previous episode]], but for Bran as he goes to the Wall in "Mhysa.".
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard:
** The official title of the King on the Iron Throne is "X of House Y, Number of his name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm". It's easy to understand why fans will usually call the position "King of Westeros".
** Dany's evergrowing [[TheMagnificent magnificence]] tangles it some more, since she lays claim to the above title and adds "...of the Blood of Old Valyria; Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea; Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons". You can see why most people just call her Khaleesi.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler: Astapor slavers created the best soldiers in the world, the Unsullied. However, they didn't count on Daenerys Targaryen's first act after buying the Unsullied, was to free them from their bonds and give them the option to slaughter their former masters. The Unsullied took it.]].
* TwentyFourHourArmor: King Renly doesn't seem to have any formal clothing other than his armour in Season 2.
* TheTwink:
** Ser Loras Tyrell.
** Olyvar may be considered one as well. Although it's not certain what his true sexual orientation is, he does tell [[spoiler: Loras]] that he has slept with many unhappy husbands.
* UltimateJobSecurity:
** Varys, Pycelle and Barristan are all survivors from the Targaryen regime. Each of them is too good at what they do to have been removed from their posts. Defied with Ser Barristan, who expects to serve for life but is dismissed in the transition from Robert to Joffrey after Robert dies under his watch.
** Littlefinger tries to bump it up to VetinariJobSecurity, right to Cersei's face, but she reveals that she's impulsive and capricious enough to just up and kill him, no matter the consequences.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Syrio Forel. The last we see of him is when he is about to fight Ser Meryn Trant with a broken practice sword. We hear his battle cry and the sounds of a fight before the scene cuts away. Trant appears later, unscathed, but Syrio's fate is never addressed.]]
* UndeadChild: In the very start of episode one, we see a young wildling girl, murdered by the White Walkers and nailed to a tree. A few minutes later, she's no longer stuck to the tree, and is giving us a good look at her unnatural blue eyes. ''Creepy...''
* UndyingLoyalty: While House Tyrell joined the Lannisters out of a desire to gain more political power, Loras himself only wanted [[spoiler:to avenge Renly's murder. Commanding a cavalry charge while wearing his deceased lover's armour is quite a grand romantic gesture, as it was Loras' way of honouring the vow he had made to Renly in Season 1.]]
* TheUnhug: Between Cersei and Tyrion in Season 2, except that they don't even get as far as hugging. After spending a season and a half thoroughly loathing one another, Cersei finally breaks down in front of Tyrion, starts crying, and admits that there is something terribly wrong with her son. Tyrion realizes that this is the moment when you're kind of supposed to do *something* to make your sobbing sister feel better, but he's so out of practice that he crosses the room to her and then has no idea what to do. He winds up just sort of patting her hand a little, and then they both sit there silently looking awkward.
* UnreliableNarrator: The Blu-ray extras of the history of Westeros narrated by the characters in the show. Each character has a biased or one-sided view over certain events. For example: from House Lannister's POV, they viewed their sacking of King's Landing during Robert's Rebellion as a just action to bring order back to the kingdoms, but in the House Baratheon and House Stark POV, they viewed the RapePillageAndBurn as an atrocity, which Robert felt was a NecessaryEvil while Ned viewed it as a terrible crime. Meanwhile from Viserys Targaryen's POV, he calls the sacking an unjust betrayal, despite the fact the other three Houses pointed out that the Mad King firing Tywin was the cause of him siding with the rebels.
* TheUnreveal: Shae is vague and mysterious about her past. When Cersei corners her and demands details about her life, Shae starts, "When I was thirteen..." but gets cut off.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Dany's advisors are appalled by her trading of a dragon for an army. Neither they nor the viewers are aware that her plan involves [[spoiler:turning her dragon against the would-be buyer and using the army to conquer Astapor.]]
* TheUsurper: Robert Baratheon is a much more sympathetic example than most, given the behaviour of his predecessor.
* VaginaDentata: Referenced when Ygritte is trying to seduce Jon. "It doesn't have teeth..."
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Even though Robert Baratheon killed the man who captured his beloved in single combat, he seems to be unable to be satisfied with it. He mentions in his dreams that "he kills him every night" which betrays the emptiness he feels even with having revenge.
* VikingFuneral: Catelyn's father Hoster Tully receives one in "Walk of Punishment".
* VillainousBreakdown: Viserys begins showing greater and greater signs of this as he spends more time among the Dothraki. His breakdown reaches its climax when [[spoiler:Khal Drogo presents him his "golden crown."]]
* VillainousIncest:
** Cersei Lannister with her twin Jaime.
** The Targaryens practiced marrying brother to sister to preserve purity of the blood. Viserys certainly comes off as villainous while undressing and fondling his sister.
** Craster, who practices forced ParentalIncest.
* VillainousRescue: Tywin has a sort of BigDamnHeroes moment in "Garden of Bones", wherein he stops Gendry's torture (and by the extension the continued torture of other captives) on the grounds that [[PragmaticVillainy it is a waste of good workers]].
* VillainsOutShopping: A DeletedScene shows Lord Tywin fishing by the Red Keep.
* VillainSong: "The Rains of Castamere", also known as the Lannister song, is a composition which chronicles Tywin's annihilation of house Reyne of Castamere, a rebellious vassal. Famous in-story, it's effectively used as BadassBoast, ImpliedDeathThreat and leitmotif.
* ViralMarketing: ''[[http://www.themaesterspath.com/ The Maester's Path]]''.
* VisualInnuendo: Ramsay Snow has a penchant for gelding captives and eating sausages.
* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:Daenerys' method of euthanizing a catatonic Drogo.]]
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: Characters refer to the Wall as "the edge of the world." The Wall itself has startling parallels with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_wall Hadrian's Wall]], a huge, 80 mile long barrier stretching across the top of England which was began in AD 122 and built to protect Roman Britain from Scottish invasion. Unsurprisingly George R.R. Martin has [[WordOfGod stated]] a visit to Hadrian's Wall was his inspiration.
* TheWarRoom: High lords typically have a war room in their castles or in the field where they plan their next move around an elaborate [[TheBigBoard Big Board]].
* TheWatson: Ros's function, particularly during the first season (besides being MsFanservice), is to receive exposition. She was apparently created for the show to avoid "AsYouKnow..." conversations.
* WeAllDieSomeday:
** Played with here:
--->'''[[DashingHispanic Syrio Forel]]''': [[CatchPhrase What do we say]] [[YouShallNotPass to the God of Death?]]
--->'''Arya Stark''': [[BadassBoast Not today.]]
** Referenced in-universe: ''Valar morghulis.''
* WeddingDay:
** A singularly depressing one for [[spoiler: Tyrion and Sansa in "Second Sons".]]
** Followed not long after by "The Rains of Castamere", in which Edmure Tully gets married to one of the Frey daughters, [[spoiler:and then Robb, Talisa, Catelyn, and everybody else in the Stark party is murdered.]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 9 of every season.
* WhamLine: Quite a few of them.
--> '''"Baelor:"''' "But they have the soft hearts of women.''"
--> '''"The Prince of Winterfell:"''' "I have your little whore."[[note]]Later subverted, however, as it turns out that [[spoiler:Cersei got the wrong one.]][[/note]]
--> '''"Valar Morghulis:"''' "[[spoiler:Dracarys.]]" Also, [[spoiler:the third blast.]]
* WhamShot: Several.
** "Winter Is Coming:" [[spoiler:Jaime pushes Bran out of the window.]]
** "A Golden Crown:" [[spoiler:The Dothraki seize Viserys and break his arm.]]
** "You Win or You Die:" [[spoiler:The goldcloaks turn on Ned's men.]]
** "The Rains of Castamere:" [[spoiler:The doors are shut and "The Rains of Castamere" starts playing.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Arya calls out the Brotherhood Without Banners for callously selling out [[spoiler:Gendry]] for gold, despite their claims of being a BandOfBrothers and fighting for the people.
* WhereIsYourXNow: After losing the battle of Blackwater, a pissed off Stannis chokes Melisandre, who promised his victory through the God of Light. "Where's your god now?" he says. She responds, "Inside you," and he releases her.
* WhileYouWereInDiapers: In "The Ghost of Harrenhal" one of Theon's crewmen, less than impressed by Captain Theon, goes even further back, saying that "I have been reaving and raping since before you left Balon's balls."
* WhiteStallion: As part of his regal image, King Renly rides one in "Garden of Bones." His lover Ser Loras will later [[spoiler:charge into battle in "Blackwater" on Renly's white horse to better enhance the illusion that he is King Renly's ghost.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sandor was horribly burned as a child by his brother, and has an intense phobia of fire. In "Blackwater," he deserts the defense of King's Landing when the battlefield gets covered in fire. In "Kissed By Fire," he's forced to fight a duel with an opponent wielding a flaming sword.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Sandor Clegane.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Jaime Lannister is supposed to be one of the best swordfighters in the realm, but when he's pitted against Brienne, she beats him fairly easily. However, he had spent several months in a jail cell, and [[WithMyHandsTied had his hands tied]] at the time.
* WorldOfBadass: Pretty much every character is capable of either out-fighting, out-thinking, out-plotting, or out-lying every other character, often only failing due to {{Tragic Flaw}}s that are usually a deficiency in one of those aforementioned areas.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech:
** Tyrion telling Shae that [[spoiler: despite the betrayal and outmaneuvering by his family, he wants to stay in King's Landing because he both ''belongs'' there and he ''likes'' playing the game against his family and the other manipulators of the city.]]
** Littlefinger's awesome "chaos is a ladder" speech to Varys. Destroying "the Realm" isn't the end, it's an ''opportunity''.
* WorldOfHam: The examples under LargeHam above are really just the most prominent and consistent examples; almost everyone gets their moment to [[ChewingTheScenery snack on masonite]].
* WorthyOpponent:
** Littlefinger and Varys seem to enjoy verbally sparring with each other and clearly see each other as the only other person on their mental level.
** Jaime sees Eddard as one in regards to swordfighting. He admits that he's heard of Eddard's reputation and wants to test his mettle. When he finally gets the chance to square off with Eddard, a guard screws it up by interfering.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Bronn admits that the first person he killed was a woman who attacked him with a weapon. Shae still doesn't approve.
** In "Blackwater", Sandor Clegane notes that he has [[DeadlyEuphemism put several women in the ground]], and that Bronn has too.
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** Harren the Black, the builder of the great fortress of Harrenhal. He boasted that a million men could assault the walls and a million men would be repelled, that no army could take the fortress ''by land''. So the Targaryens took the fortress instead with dragons from the sky.
** Viserys thought himself to be "The Dragon" and the one destined to raise an army and seize back the Iron Throne for the Targaryen Dynasty... [[spoiler: only to be killed by Khal Drogo and his sister prove to be far more successful in her attempt to retake the throne than he ever was. Furthermore, Dany's immunity to the effects of fire make it clear who the ''real'' Dragon most likely is]].
** Littlefinger challenged Brandon Stark to a duel because he thought he was the plucky hero of the songs and poems he'd heard growing up. Brandon, being a much better fighter, promptly kicked his ass.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone:
** Renly invokes this trope when trying to convince Ned Stark to support his coup for the throne, pointing out that while Stannis has the legitimate claim, he's the most qualified heir for the job.
** In the backstory, Aerys Targaryen was unquestionably the rightful king, and Viserys his heir. Robert Baratheon was a traitor and a usurper. That being said, Aerys had a nasty habit of burning people alive to amuse himself, and Viserys wasn't much better, so most people were quite happy to accept Robert as king.
* YankTheDogsChain:
** In "The Bear and the Maiden Fair", [[spoiler:Theon is teased with the offer of a threesome with two prostitutes, only for his tormentor to [[GroinAttack cut off the most prized part of his body]]]].
** "The Rains of Castamere", for Arya.
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Drogo delivers a variant of this to Mago, just before before cutting his throat open [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with his own weapon]], reaching into the wound, and [[NoKillLikeOverkill ripping his tongue out]].
* YouCantGoHomeAgain:
** Almost everyone who's left Winterfell has never returned home to it (Ser Rodrik Cassel being the only notable exception). And they may never now that [[spoiler: it has been burned down. Then again, Winterfell is thousands of years old and made of stone; it's fixable]].
** Jorah and Dany are also struggling with this trope, though if Dany has anything to say about it, it will [[BadassBoast die screaming]].
* YouMonster:
** Jon Snow calls Craster a monster to Commander Mormont, for marrying his daughters and daughters/granddaughters, and because [[spoiler:he sacrifices all his baby sons to the White Walkers.]] Mormont agrees with him, but states that they have other fights to worry about.
** Cersei opens a conversation with Tyrion with "You monster!" because [[spoiler:he is sending her daughter Myrcella away to Dorne.]]
** Joffrey is casually called a monster by Loras in Season 1. In Season 3, Sansa admits that Joffrey is a monster to Olenna and Margaery Tyrell after significant prodding.
** Joffrey refers to Tyrion as "You little monster" during one of his rants. Tyrion [[ShameIfSomethingHappened snarks back]] nonchalantly.
* YoungConqueror:
** Robb Stark, the "Young Wolf". Varys notes to Eddard that boys like him have become conquerors before.
** Theon Greyjoy wishes he were this, but he [[GloryHound falls flat]].
** Daenerys intends to conquer Westeros, which she regards as her birthright.
* YouShallNotPass:
** [[spoiler:Syrio Forel]] holds up four Lannister soldiers and a member of the Kingsguard while [[spoiler:Arya]] escapes. He does this armed only with a wooden sword.
** And later [[spoiler:Yoren]] tries to do the same for [[spoiler:Arya and Gendry]]. It doesn't work.
** Jorah Mormont does it twice, first against [[spoiler:Viserys when he tries to steal dragon eggs]] and later against a battle-hardend [[spoiler:Dothraki fighter]]. Fittingly, his family motto is "Here We Stand."
* ZombieApocalypse: The White Walkers have the ability to reanimate corpses into undead "wights". [[spoiler:The season two finale has an entire ''army'' of wights going to attack the Night's Watch, led by the White Walkers.]]
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