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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and [[FacialMarkings seven-pointed stars carved into their foreheads]].

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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they [[EvilWearsBlack switch out their grey robes for black black]] ones [[ChainedByFashion adorned with chains chains]] and [[FacialMarkings seven-pointed stars carved into their foreheads]].
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* AdaptationDistillation: The politics surrounding the arming of the Faith are a bit simplified and several characters from Cersei's arc have been AdaptedOut.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The politics surrounding the arming of the Faith are a bit simplified and several characters from Cersei's arc have been AdaptedOut. For instance, Cersei agreed to reinstate and arm the Faith Militant in exchange for the faith calling off the crowns debt to them.
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** However, for a force whose tactics are based on the phalanx formation, they do nothing to close ranks, instead losing the advantage of discipline and being overwhelmed.
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* WhyAreYouNotMySon: Selyse assumes that Stannis feels this way about Jon Snow and feels guilty about Shirreen. Stannis however asserts to Shireen that this is ''definitely'' not what he feels about her, much as he respects Jon.
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Changed to reflect ambiguity of the situation: Littlefinger isn\'t spinning a known truth to his ends, and Sansa \"calling him out\" implies that her position is stronger


* BelatedBackstory: We learn a lot more than ever about Prince Rhaegar, Dany's eldest brother. He would sing for the common folk because he preferred music to violence. Littlefinger reminces on the Tourney at Harrenhal, where Rhaegar snubbed his wife Elia Martell by bestowing a crown of flowers to Lyanna Stark, Ned's sister, after he won. Sansa asserts that he kidnapped and raped Lyanna and recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, but would come down to the crypts to light a candle for her.

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* BelatedBackstory: We learn a lot more than ever about Prince Rhaegar, Dany's eldest brother. He would sing for the common folk because he preferred music to violence. Littlefinger reminces reminisces on the Tourney at Harrenhal, where Rhaegar snubbed his wife Elia Martell by bestowing a crown of flowers to Lyanna Stark, Ned's sister, after he won. Sansa asserts that he kidnapped and raped Lyanna and recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, but would come down to the crypts to light a candle for her.



* RashomonStyle: Rhaegar Targaryen is discussed twice in the episode from two different perspectives. Ser Barristan says he was ModestRoyalty who was more into music than fighting and Daenerys is happy at knowing that at least someone in her family wasn't an asshole. In the crypts of Winterfell, Littlefinger and Sansa discuss Rhaegar's actions at the Tourney of Harrenhal, where Littlefinger sees Rhaegar's "choice" as disastrously romantic while Sansa calls Rhaegar out for being a rapist who brought harm to her family.

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* RashomonStyle: Rhaegar Targaryen is discussed twice in the episode from two different perspectives. Ser Barristan says he was ModestRoyalty who was more into music than fighting and Daenerys is happy at knowing that at least someone in her family wasn't an asshole. In the crypts of Winterfell, Littlefinger and Sansa discuss Rhaegar's actions at the Tourney of Harrenhal, where Littlefinger sees Rhaegar's "choice" as disastrously romantic while Sansa calls repeats her father's story that Rhaegar out for being was a rapist who brought harm to her family.
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* WhamEpisode: The Sparrows and the Sons of the Harpy make their respective moves in force.
** Ser Barristan, the greatest knight of Westeros dies and Dany's situation is worse than ever.

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* WhamEpisode: The Sparrows and the Sons of the Harpy make their respective moves in force.
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force. Ser Barristan, the greatest knight of Westeros in Westeros, dies in battle and leaves Dany's situation is worse murkier than ever.

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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Ser Barristan gets a lot more focus in this episode than he did before. Sure enough, he ends up dying right when he and Dany were bonding while he talked about her brother Rhaegar.

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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Ser Barristan gets a lot more focus in this episode than he did before. Sure enough, he ends up dying right when after he and Dany were bonding while he talked bond over a fond story about her brother Rhaegar.


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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The next episode preview pretty clearly shows Dany and Daario hovering over Barristan's dead body.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Grey Worm is left severely injured after fighting the Sons and falls, but doesn't explicitly die. Poor Ser Barristan, on the other hand, has the ambiguity of his death removed by the next episode preview, which shows Dany and Daario standing somberly over his body in the palace.

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* BelatedBackstory: We learn a lot more than ever about Prince Rhaegar, Dany's eldest brother. He would sing for the common folk because he preferred music to violence. Littlefinger reminces on the Tourney at Harrenhal, where Rhaegar snubbed his wife Elia Martell by bestowing a crown of flowers to Lyanna Stark, Ned's sister, after he won. Sansa asserts that he kidnapped and raped Lyanna and recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, but would come down to the crypts to light a candle for her.



* ADayInTheLimelight: Ser Barristan gets a lot more focus in this episode than he did before. Sure enough, he ends up dying right when he and Dany were bonding while he talked about her brothe Rhaegar.
* DeadLittleSister: Sansa recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, Lyanna Stark, but would come down to light a candle for her.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: ADeathInTheLimelight: Ser Barristan gets a lot more focus in this episode than he did before. Sure enough, he ends up dying right when he and Dany were bonding while he talked about her brothe Rhaegar.
* DeadLittleSister: Sansa recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, Lyanna Stark, but would come down to light a candle for her.
brother Rhaegar.



* HeteronormativeCrusader: The Sparrows murder two men for having sex with each other. When Olyvar catches a glimpse of this, he immediately flees for his life.



* PoliceAreUseless: As the Faith Militant attacks people in the street, one man cries out to the goldcloaks to restore order, but the goldcloaks just turn their back.

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* PoliceAreUseless: As the Faith Militant attacks people in the street, one man cries out to the goldcloaks to restore order, but the goldcloaks just turn their back.backs.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Ser Barristan gets a lot more focus in this episode than he did before. Sure enough, he ends up dying right when he and Dany were bonding while he talked about her brothe Rhaegar.



* TheLostLenore: Jon is able to resist Melisandre's seduction because he's still in love with Ygritte.

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* TheLostLenore: Jon is able to resist Melisandre's seduction because he's still in love with Ygritte.



* PlayingBothSides: Littlefinger sets up a XanatosGambit in which Sansa will rule the North whether Stannis defeats the Boltons or not.

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* PlayingBothSides: Littlefinger sets up a XanatosGambit in which Sansa will rule the North whether Stannis defeats the Boltons or not.



* PuppetKing: Tommen tries to be more than one but finds out exactly how powerful he really is. He has no popular support, the Faith is entirely opposed to him and Cersei is pulling the strings as he and Margaery painfully discover.



* SherlockScan: With just a few visual clues, Tyrion is able to deduce he's been kidnapped by Jorah Mormont.

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* SherlockScan: With just a few visual clues, Tyrion is able to deduce he's been kidnapped by Jorah Mormont.Mormont[[labelnote:from the books]]It's a subtle reference to the opening sections of ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'' where Tyrion manages to unearth an entire conspiracy and backstory with even fewer cuecards[[/labelnote]]


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** Ser Barristan, the greatest knight of Westeros dies and Dany's situation is worse than ever.
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--> '''Melisandre''': You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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** There is at least ''some'' advantage in the the SotH's favor, in that the Unsullied's usual theater of combat is not the tight, narrow quarters of places like the streets of Meereen, and their squad-based, shield and spear tactics are also not well-adjusted to such confines.

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** There is at least ''some'' advantage in the the SotH's [=SotH=]'s favor, in that the Unsullied's usual theater of combat is not the tight, narrow quarters of places like the streets of Meereen, and their squad-based, shield and spear tactics are also not well-adjusted to such confines.

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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and seven-pointed stars carved into their foreheads.

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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and [[FacialMarkings seven-pointed stars carved into their foreheads.foreheads]].



* HollywoodTactics: The Sons of the Harpy are essentially back-alley thugs with knifes and they are fighting the Unsullied, the most disciplined warriors of Essos, skilled in the use of spears. In the books and in the earlier scenes, the Harpy managed to attack the Unsullied guerilla style after lowering their guard, here they attack them full-on in an ambush in a small area without any armour or significant protection.

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* HollywoodTactics: The Sons of the Harpy are essentially back-alley thugs with knifes and they are fighting the Unsullied, the most disciplined warriors of Essos, skilled in the use of spears. In the books and in the earlier scenes, the Harpy managed to attack the Unsullied guerilla style after lowering their guard, here they attack them full-on in an ambush in a small area without any armour or significant protection. protection.
** There is at least ''some'' advantage in the the SotH's favor, in that the Unsullied's usual theater of combat is not the tight, narrow quarters of places like the streets of Meereen, and their squad-based, shield and spear tactics are also not well-adjusted to such confines.



** Jon Snow is visibly creeped out when Melisandre repeats Ygritte's famous catchphrase: "You know nothing Jon Snow."

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** Jon Snow is visibly creeped out when Melisandre repeats Ygritte's famous catchphrase: "You know nothing nothing, Jon Snow."



* OpenSecret: Roose Bolton apparently didn't do a good job in ensuring that his involvement in the Red Wedding, and even the fact that he killed Robb Stark, was a secret since Littlefinger, Sansa and even Jon Snow knows that he killed his brother.

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* OpenSecret: Roose Bolton apparently didn't do a good job in of ensuring that his involvement in the Red Wedding, and even Wedding (or the fact that he killed Robb Stark, Stark) was a secret secret, since Littlefinger, Sansa and even Jon Snow knows know that he killed his brother.the King in the North.



* PoliceAreUseless: As the Faith militant attacks people in the street, one man cries out to the goldcloaks to restore order, but the goldcloaks just turn their back.

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* PoliceAreUseless: As the Faith militant Militant attacks people in the street, one man cries out to the goldcloaks to restore order, but the goldcloaks just turn their back.



* ShootTheScorpion: Bronn threw a dagger in Jaime's directions just as he's waking up...and it hits a snake that was slithering toward him. Then they cook the snake for breakfast.

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* ShootTheScorpion: RevealShot: We see a man getting cut into with blood dripping down the sides, thinking it's just the Faith Militant torturing some poor bastard. It turns out to be Lancel Lannister receiving his disturbing scarification star on his head to join the ranks.
* SherlockScan: With just a few visual clues, Tyrion is able to deduce he's been kidnapped by Jorah Mormont.
* StabTheScorpion:
Bronn threw a dagger in Jaime's directions just as he's waking up...and it hits a snake that was slithering toward him. Then they cook the snake for breakfast.

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* CallBack: Sansa finds the feather that [[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E1WinterIsComing King Robert left with Lyanna's statue]] on the floor and puts it back in its place.



* DeadLittleSister: Sansa recalls how her father never liked to talk about his late sister, Lyanna Stark, but would come down to light a candle for her.
* DueToTheDead: Sansa goes down to the crypts of Winterfell to pay respect to her ancestors.



* GoodParents: When Shireen asks Stannis if he's ashamed of her, he tells her the story of how she became infected with grayscale: he refused to send her away and called every healer he could find to save her life. Then he affirmed his love and pride in her.



* OhCrap: Olyvar has this reaction when the Faith Militant prepare to kill two men for their homosexuality.

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* OhCrap: TheLostLenore: Jon is able to resist Melisandre's seduction because he's still in love with Ygritte.
* OhCrap:
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Olyvar has this reaction when the Faith Militant prepare to kill two men for their homosexuality.homosexuality.
** Jon Snow is visibly creeped out when Melisandre repeats Ygritte's famous catchphrase: "You know nothing Jon Snow."



* PlayingBothSides: Littlefinger sets up a XanatosGambit in which Sansa will rule the North whether Stannis defeats the Boltons or not.



* ShootTheScorpion: Bronn threw a dagger in Jaime's directions just as he's waking up...and it hits a snake that was slithering toward him. Then they cook the snake for breakfast.
* StunnedSilence: Littlefinger recalls how when Prince Rhaegar snubbed his wife Princess Elia in favor of Lady Lyanna, "all the smiles died" and everyone went silent.



* TheWoftEffect: A political version. The fact that Tommen, the king himself, can't free his own brother-in-law speaks to how powerful the Sparrows and the Faith Militant have become.

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* TheWoftEffect: TheWorfEffect: A political version. The fact that Tommen, the king himself, can't free his own brother-in-law speaks to how powerful the Sparrows and the Faith Militant have become.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The politics surrounding the arming of the Faith are a bit simplified and several characters from Cersei's arc have been AdaptedOut.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor Tommen. He's lost control of the city, gets called a bastard and abomination, and his wife gets angry at him for not being able to free her brother.
* ChurchMilitant: Cersei allows the Faith to arm itself
* CompositeCharacter: Mace Tyrell is sent to Braavos instead of the minor character Halys Swyft, Kevan's Lannister's father-in-law. Swyft's guards are replaced by Meryn Trant.
* EnemyMine: Jon refuses to ally with the man who murdered his brother, until Sam reminds him that the Watch needs men and supplies from the Warden of the North.



* OhCrap: Olyvar has this reaction when the Faith Militant prepare to kill two men for their homosexuality.



* PoliceAreUseless: As the Faith militant attacks people in the street, one man cries out to the goldcloaks to restore order, but the goldcloaks just turn their back.



* WhamEpisode: The Sparrows and the Sons of the Harpy make their respective moves in force.

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* TheTeetotaler: The High Sparrow states that while religious purity ''would'' seem like a good reason for turning down Cersei's offer of wine, in truth he just doesn't like the taste.
* TheVamp: Melisandre tries, but fails, to seduce Jon into marching to Winterfell with Stannis.
* WhamEpisode: The Sparrows and the Sons of the Harpy make their respective moves in force.force.
* TheWoftEffect: A political version. The fact that Tommen, the king himself, can't free his own brother-in-law speaks to how powerful the Sparrows and the Faith Militant have become.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Harpy in the books were back-alley thugs and terrorists, fantasy Ku-Kluxers who attacked their targets in guerilla style sneak attacks. Here they go ZergRush wielding knives at a cohort of Unsullied and managed to take out most of them before dying or fleeing.


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* HollywoodTactics: The Sons of the Harpy are essentially back-alley thugs with knifes and they are fighting the Unsullied, the most disciplined warriors of Essos, skilled in the use of spears. In the books and in the earlier scenes, the Harpy managed to attack the Unsullied guerilla style after lowering their guard, here they attack them full-on in an ambush in a small area without any armour or significant protection.
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* RashomonStyle: Rhaegar Targaryen is discussed twice in the episode from two different perspectives. Ser Barristan says he was ModestRoyalty who was more into music than fighting and Daenerys is happy at knowing that at least someone in her family wasn't an asshole. In the crypts of Winterfell, Littlefinger and Sansa discuss Rhaegar's actions at the Tourney of Harrenhal, where Littlefinger sees Rhaegar's "choice" as disastrously romantic while Sansa calls Rhaegar out for being a rapist who brought harm to her family.
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* OpenSecret: Roose Bolton apparently didn't do a good job in ensuring that his involvement in the Red Wedding, and even the fact that he killed Robb Stark, was a secret since Littlefinger, Sansa and even Jon Snow knows that he killed his brother.
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* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested as the Faith Militant sweeps through King's Landing, putting an end to prostitution, drinking, and foreign religious influences.

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* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested as the The newly-revived Faith Militant sweeps through King's Landing, putting an end Landing to prostitution, drinking, clean it of sin, storming brothels and foreign religious influences.taverns and killing and arresting sinners, including Ser Loras Tyrell.
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** In the same scene, Grey Worm manages to continue fighting while his fellow Unsullied fall, taking down as many if not more of the Sons of the Harpy than Ser Barristan. He even kills one with a knife that he pulled out of his own flank.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and Faith symbols carved into their foreheads.

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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and Faith symbols seven-pointed stars carved into their foreheads.



* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested.

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* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested.arrested as the Faith Militant sweeps through King's Landing, putting an end to prostitution, drinking, and foreign religious influences.

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* LastStand: Ser Barristan Selmy and Grey Worm, despite being greatly outnumbered by the Sons of the Harpy, managed to kill each son before succumbing to their wounds.

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* LastStand: Ser Barristan Selmy and Grey Worm, despite being greatly outnumbered by the Sons of the Harpy, managed to kill each son every last Son before succumbing to their wounds.own wounds.
* OneManArmy: Ser Barristan Selmy takes on at least 8 Sons of the Harpy by himself and manages to kill all except one of them before going down.
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* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested.

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* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested.arrested.
* WhamEpisode: The Sparrows and the Sons of the Harpy make their respective moves in force.
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1. The Faith Militant are from a book published in 2005. 2. There are a billion groups of religious fanatics who did such things.


* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill or severely beat anyone they find to be "sinning," particularly prostitutes and homosexuals, much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: When the Sparrows become the Faith Militant, they switch out their grey robes for black ones adorned with chains and Faith symbols carved into their foreheads.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill or severely beat anyone they find to be "sinning," much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill or severely beat anyone they find to be "sinning," particularly prostitutes and homosexuals, much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill anyone they find to be "sinning," much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill or severely beat anyone they find to be "sinning," much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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* LastStand: Ser Barristan Selmy and Grey Worm, despite being greatly outnumbered by the Sons of the Harpy, managed to kill each son before succumbing to their wounds.

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* ExactWords: ''Cersei'' doesn't have Loras in a cell. The Sparrows have him.
* LastStand: Ser Barristan Selmy and Grey Worm, despite being greatly outnumbered by the Sons of the Harpy, managed to kill each son before succumbing to their wounds.wounds.
* ThePurge: Ser Loras Tyrell, one of Cersei's main rivals, is arrested.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sparrows adorn black robes and proceed to kill anyone they find to be "sinning," much like the Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
* LastStand: Ser Barristan Selmy and Grey Worm, despite being greatly outnumbered by the Sons of the Harpy, managed to kill each son before succumbing to their wounds.

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