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* VillainousRescue: Twyin ends up doing this for ''all'' the prisoners in Harrenal, and particularly for Gendry.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Talisa the battlefield nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that his lack of personal hatred for most of the people who fight against him in his campaign doesn't actually help them when they're maimed and killed.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Talisa the battlefield nurse asks Robb [[AndThenWhat what he's planning to do ''after'' do]] ''[[AndThenWhat after]]'' [[AndThenWhat deposing Joffrey.Joffrey]]. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that his lack of personal hatred for most of the people who fight against him in his campaign doesn't actually help them when they're maimed and killed.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Subverted. At first, Grey Wind lunging at a Lannister soldier is cut inmediatly to Robb before fading to black - before cutting to broad daylight and show the same Lannister soldier torn open.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: Subverted. At first, a nightshot of Grey Wind lunging at a Lannister soldier is cut inmediatly to Robb before fading to black - before cutting to broad daylight and show the same Lannister soldier torn open.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Subverted. At first, Grey Wind lunging at a Lannister soldier is cut inmediatly to Robb before fading to black - before cutting to broad daylight and show the same Lannister soldier torn open.

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** Also: "Where is the [[LaResistance Brotherhood]]?"on]], [[GenuineHumanHide Lord of the Dreadfort]] to the TV series, who suggests to Robb after a battle with Lannister forces that they extract information pertaining to Tywin's plans from captured officers via this method.

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** Also: "Where is the [[LaResistance Brotherhood]]?"on]], Brotherhood]]?"
* FlayingAlive: This episode features the introduction of [[TokenEvilTeammate Roose Bolton]],
[[GenuineHumanHide Lord of the Dreadfort]] to the TV series, who suggests to Robb after a battle with Lannister forces that they extract information pertaining to Tywin's plans from captured officers via this method.

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** Also: "Where is the [[LaResistance Brotherhood]]?"
* FetishFuel: [[spoiler: Melisandre makes for one of the hottest pregnant women ever.]]
* FlayingAlive: This episode features the introduction of [[TokenEvilTeammate Roose Bolton]], [[GenuineHumanHide Lord of the Dreadfort]] to the TV series, who suggests to Robb after a battle with Lannister forces that they extract information pertaining to Tywin's plans from captured officers via this method.

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** Also: "Where is the [[LaResistance Brotherhood]]?"
* FetishFuel: [[spoiler: Melisandre makes for one of the hottest pregnant women ever.]]
* FlayingAlive: This episode features the introduction of [[TokenEvilTeammate Roose Bolton]],
Brotherhood]]?"on]], [[GenuineHumanHide Lord of the Dreadfort]] to the TV series, who suggests to Robb after a battle with Lannister forces that they extract information pertaining to Tywin's plans from captured officers via this method.
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* FetishFuel: [[spoiler: Melisandre makes for one of the hottest pregnant women ever.]]
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** Also: "Where is the [[LaResistance Brotherhood]]?"
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* BadassBoast: Daenerys learns they don't work very well if you've already admitted how desperate your situation is.
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* SceneryPorn: The short moment when we see the gates of Quarth open.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: This episode has the first appearance of Roose Bolton, a Stark bannerman who fairly openly does not put a high value on mercy and honour. [[spoiler: Unless there are some MAJOR deviations from the book, he's gonna get much worse.]]

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* TokenEvilTeammate: This episode has the first appearance of Roose Bolton, a Stark bannerman who fairly openly does not put a high value on mercy and honour. [[spoiler: Unless there are some MAJOR deviations from the book, he's gonna get much worse.]]
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* FandomNod: The "who would beat who" conversation at the beginning of the episode as well as the discussion of how to pronounce Qarth.



* MookHorrorShow: DoubleSubverted with the [[ThoseTwoGuys two Lannister guards]] at the beginning of the episode. One is set up, but then it turns out to be a prank by one of them. However, right after that, it's played straight, as Grey Wind lunges at them.



** Talisa's ArmorPiercingQuestion to Robb might count as this.

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** Talisa's ArmorPiercingQuestion to Robb might count as this.this.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Tyrion and Bronn think that Joffrey might act less evil if he got laid, but [[GoneHorriblyWrong things do not go according to plan]].

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Talisa the battlefield nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that the fact that he has "no hatred" for most of the people who get killed in his campaign doesn't actually help them.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Talisa the battlefield nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that the fact that he has "no hatred" his lack of personal hatred for most of the people who get killed fight against him in his campaign doesn't actually help them.them when they're maimed and killed.



* BringMyBrownPants: Hot Pie wets himself when he realises that nothing the prisoners do makes any difference, and it is in fact totally random who gets picked.



* ColdBloodedTorture: A particularly horrible kind involving a rat and a hot bucket.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: A particularly horrible kind involving a rat and a hot bucket. For anyone wondering, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel such a torture]] [[TruthInTelevision has been used in]] RealLife.



* CreepyMonotone: The old woman has seen so many of her relatives get tortured to death that she doesn't even flinch when it's her son's turn, and makes the observation that the screaming man is her son comes completely emotionlessly.

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* CreepyMonotone: The old woman has seen so many of her relatives get tortured to death that she doesn't even flinch when it's her son's turn, and makes the observation that the screaming man is her son comes completely emotionlessly.emotionlessly.
* CurbStompBattle: Robb's victory over Stafford Lannister was one of these due to good planning and surprise.



* KickTheDog: Joffrey has two scenes in this episode, and both of them show that he's carefully nourishing his sadistic streak as much as he can.

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* KickTheDog: Joffrey has two scenes in this episode, and both of them show that he's carefully nourishing his sadistic streak as much as he can.



* SherlockScan: Tywin takes one look at "Arry" and immediately realises she's a girl. Fortunately, he's never seen Arya before so accepts that she's just a peasant.

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* SherlockScan: Tywin takes one look at "Arry" and immediately realises she's a girl. Fortunately, he's never seen Arya before so accepts that she's just a peasant.can't identify who exactly she is.
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Sycophants Have Standards]]: The courtiers who stand around making horrified noises as Lancel relates Robb Stark's victory (see BlatantLies above) still seem shocked when Meryn starts beating her up.

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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Sycophants Have Standards]]: The courtiers who stand around making horrified noises as Lancel relates Robb Stark's victory (see BlatantLies above) still seem shocked when Meryn starts beating her up.Sansa.

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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Sycophants Have Standards]]: The courtiers who stand around making horrified noises as Lancel relates Robb Stark's victory (see BlatantLies above) still seem shocked when Meryn starts beating her up.



* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Joffrey thinks so, but unfortunately he thinks that girl-brutally-beating-girl is even hotter.



* IsThatAThreat: I'm sure Meryn is very grateful to Tyrion for clearing up the difference between "educating" and "threatening".
* KickTheDog: Joffrey has two scenes in this episode, and both of them show that he's carefully nourishing his sadistic streak as much as he can.
* LivingShadow: [[spoiler: Melisandre's shadow child appears to be able to take a smoky three dimensional form rather than being projected onto the wall, but it otherwise fits.]]



* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Daenarys' confrontation with the Thirteen of Qarth has a lot of this. They're rather better at it than she is.



* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler: Melisandre]] gives one which [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sound like screams of pleasure,]] possibly justified by [[spoiler: the baby being some magical HumanoidAbomination LivingShadow thing rather than an actual baby.]]



* StarCrossedLovers: Littlefinger tries to invoke this with Catelyn, starting to say that with her being unmarried again it's like fate is giving them a second chance. However, in light of the fact that he's the reason she's currently unmarried, Cat shoots him down pretty quickly.



* WhatTheHellHero: Catelyn gives a bollocking to both Renly and Stannis for fighting each other.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: This episode has the first appearance of Roose Bolton, a Stark bannerman who fairly openly does not put a high value on mercy and honour. [[spoiler: Unless there are some MAJOR deviations from the book, he's gonna get much worse.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Joffrey explicitly states that he wants Tyrion to see the result of his "pleasure" with the prostitutes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Catelyn gives a bollocking to both Renly and Stannis for fighting each other. Stannis does the same to her for apparently siding with Renly when her husband got his head chopped off for being true to Stannis, who is the rightful heir.
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* PunchClockVillain: The opening scene is of two sentries for Stafford Lannister's army, clearly old friends who first play "Who would kick whose ass" with some of the war's biggest icons, then one pranks the other. [[MoodWhiplash And then they're both ravaged by Grey Wind.]]
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Robb's defeat of Stafford Lannister. Grey Wind attacks a pair of sentries, there's a few shouts of "The King in the North!" over black, and then it's suddenly the morning as Robb tours the battlefield and Roose Bolton informs him of their overwhelming victory.
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--> "In my family we say: a naked man has few secrets, a flayed man? None."

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--> "In my family we say: a A naked man has few secrets, a secrets. A flayed man? None."


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* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: Melisandre's shadow child.]]
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* SamusIsAGirl: At least to Hot Pie and the other surviving members of Yorens group beside Gendry
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* GilliganCut / IronicEchoCut: One not played for laughs. Right after Robb declines torturing enemy soldiers, partly on the grounds of not giving the Lannisters any more reason to take out their anger at him on his sisters... Joffrey is naturally shown taking out his anger at Robb on Sansa.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Particularly high in this one.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The (so far) nameless nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that the fact that he has "no hatred" for most of the people who get killed in his campaign doesn't actually help them.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The (so far) nameless Talisa the battlefield nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that the fact that he has "no hatred" for most of the people who get killed in his campaign doesn't actually help them.



* SurroundedByIdiots: After the above-mentioned SherlockScan, Tywin calls Arya "smart" for disguising her gender while travelling, and mentions that it's more than can be said for his own men (see PragmaticVillainy above).

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* SurroundedByIdiots: After the above-mentioned SherlockScan, Tywin calls Arya "smart" for disguising her gender while travelling, traveling, and mentions that it's more than can be said for his own men (see PragmaticVillainy above).



** The battlefield nurse's ArmorPiercingQuestion to Robb might count as this.

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** The battlefield nurse's Talisa's ArmorPiercingQuestion to Robb might count as this.
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* FlayingAlive: This episode features the introduction of [[TokenEvilTeammate Roose Bolton]], [[GenuineHumanHide Lord of the Dreadfort]] to the TV series, who suggests to Robb after a battle with Lannister forces that they extract information pertaining to Tywin's plans from captured officers via this method.
--> "In my family we say: a naked man has few secrets, a flayed man? None."
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* DeusExMachina: Tywin Lannister arrives just in time to save Gendry from the torture.
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The episode begins with introducing us to two Lannister guards, who live just long enough to make fart jokes and to let us know that just about all of Westeros know Renly and Loras's dirty little secret - and then, DIREWOLF. Robb listens to the screams, his men scream for him, and they charge...

...and cut to the next day, and the aftermath.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The (so far) nameless nurse asks Robb what he's planning to do ''after'' deposing Joffrey. The fact that he hasn't looked that far ahead clearly rattles him, as does her pointing out that the fact that he has "no hatred" for most of the people who get killed in his campaign doesn't actually help them.
* BlatantLies: Lancel's account of Robb's victory (that he used sorcery, turned his army into wolves and ate the corpses) is clearly rubbish, but it's unclear whether the horrified-looking courtiers actually believe it or are merely playing along.
* ButtMonkey: Poor Lancel really thought that his life was going to stop being a string of humiliations and unwanted orders when Robert died.
* ColdBloodedTorture: A particularly horrible kind involving a rat and a hot bucket.
** [[TheCaligula Joffrey's]] sadistic pleasure with the prostitutes quickly turns from erotic spanking into this.
* CreepyMonotone: The old woman has seen so many of her relatives get tortured to death that she doesn't even flinch when it's her son's turn, and makes the observation that the screaming man is her son comes completely emotionlessly.
* FanDisservice: Melisandre is a beautiful woman, and it would be great to see her naked again, right? [[spoiler: Not when she's used her magic to become heavily pregnant and ready to give birth to some shadow abomination.]]
** The way the erotic spanking of Joffrey's prostitutes quickly turns into a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with a heavy, spiky stick also counts.
* PragmaticVillainy: Tywin Lannister is clearly not happy that Gregor is torturing and killing captives with useful skills rather than putting them to work.
* ShamefulStrip: In addition to being beaten, Sansa is stripped as part of her punishment for her brother's actions.
* SherlockScan: Tywin takes one look at "Arry" and immediately realises she's a girl. Fortunately, he's never seen Arya before so accepts that she's just a peasant.
* SurroundedByIdiots: After the above-mentioned SherlockScan, Tywin calls Arya "smart" for disguising her gender while travelling, and mentions that it's more than can be said for his own men (see PragmaticVillainy above).
* WhatTheHellHero: Catelyn gives a bollocking to both Renly and Stannis for fighting each other.
** The battlefield nurse's ArmorPiercingQuestion to Robb might count as this.
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Joffrey punishes Sansa for Robb’s victories, while Tyrion and Bronn scramble to temper the king’s cruelty. Catelyn entreats Stannis and Renly to forego their ambitions and unite against the Lannisters. Dany and her exhausted khalasar arrive at the gates of Qarth, a prosperous city with strong walls and rulers who greet her outside them. Tyrion coerces a queen’s man into being his eyes and ears. Arya and Gendry are taken to Harrenhal, where their lives rest in the hands of “The Mountain,” Gregor Clegane. Davos must revert to his old ways and smuggle Melisandre into a secret cove.

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