History AdaptationalHeroism / GameOfThrones

* Rorge. It's not "heroism" so much since he is still a creepy and brutal thug, but this depiction of Rorge is still '''infinitely''' less monstrous and despicable than his book counterpart, whose crimes are comparable only to Ramsay Snow and Gregor Clegane.

** Notably, his story of Tyrion as a baby is drawn almost directly from the books but placed in an empathetic context in the midst of a PetTheDog moment instead of a derogatory one, and his daughter Obara's OriginStory in "Sons of the Harpy" deftly sidesteps the part where her mother was crying because Oberyn had [[WouldHitAGirl backhanded her]].

* Varys gets stacked with this. In the books, he's a [[SleazyPolitician sleazy]], [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] GigglingVillain who preaches [[TrueNeutral neutrality]] and [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the common good]] but is not that different from Littlefinger in PlayingBothSides and [[TheChessmaster manipulating everyone]] to serve [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans his own agenda]]. By contrast, the show paints him as a far less sinister sassy and affable OnlySaneMan and BenevolentBoss with very few KickTheDog moments and a genuine soft spot for Tyrion and the common people.

* Sansa's AlphaBitch treatment of Arya is toned down to normal levels of bickering and her unwitting role in [[spoiler: their escape plan being foiled]] is adapted out for reasons of AgeLift, a change [[WordofGod the series' author George R. R. Martin himself]] has supported. She's also [[AdaptationalNiceGuy kinder]] to Tyrion (perhaps because of his own AdaptationalHeroism) whereas in the books she was quite cold to him after their wedding. In the books, Sansa likewise heard Lysa Arryn specifically shouting out that she killed Jon Arryn for him (which Sansa doesn't allow herself to believe) and in the show she is never called upon to act as Littlefinger's accomplice in framing a FallGuy for murder as said FallGuy lost his tongue back in Season 1 and hasn't been seen since.

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* Septa Mordane was a SternTeacher in the books, who was frequently very cruel to Arya and by all accounts was a terrible teacher to both the Stark girls. At one point she gets drunk when she's supposed to be chaperoning Sansa at a feast, and passes out to leave the young girl alone with Sandor Clegane. The show's version is much nicer, and a straight up CoolOldLady - who seems to be trying to keep the Stark girls grounded in King's Landing. She's also given a DyingMomentOfAwesome where she heads off several armed Lannister soldiers in the hopes it'll buy Sansa time to get to safety.
* While she's a CanonForeigner, Talisa Maegyr compared to Jeyne Westerling. Jeyne is strongly implied to have been a pawn of her mother, who wanted her to spy on Robb, and partly engineered the circumstances that led to Robb marrying Jeyne and sealing his fate at the Red Wedding. Talisa meanwhile is a selfless nurse who genuinely falls in love with Robb and continues to tend to the wounded [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething even after she's Queen in the North]].

* Sansa's AlphaBitch treatment of Arya is toned down to normal levels of bickering and her unwitting role in [[spoiler: her father's downfall]] is adapted out for reasons of AgeLift, a change [[WordofGod the series' author George R. R. Martin himself]] has supported. She's also [[AdaptationalNiceGuy kinder]] to Tyrion (perhaps because of his own AdaptationalHeroism) whereas in the books she was quite cold to him after their wedding. In the books, Sansa likewise heard Lysa Arryn specifically shouting out that she killed Jon Arryn for him (which Sansa doesn't allow herself to believe) and in the show she is never called upon to act as Littlefinger's accomplice in framing a FallGuy for murder as said FallGuy lost his tongue back in Season 1 and hasn't been seen since.

** In the books he cheated on Lyanna while they were engaged, and the tryst produced an illegitimate daughter; something which she complained to Ned about — Ned tried to appease her by saying Robert would end such behavior once they actually married; Lyanna was rightfully skeptical. Here he appears to have been faithful to her and only became an unrepentant womanizer after she died, and he fell into despair. If he did cheat on her it would make her dumping him for Rhaegar more sympathetic...until you remember Rhaegar was already married.

* A lot of impulsive cruel moments are excised from Dany's character in the show. For instance, it is Rakharo not she who confiscates Viserys's horse when he tries to assault her in the long grass; shaming him for the whole khalasar to see. She also never demands her ''kos'' slaughter Qotho for shoving her aside and trying to stop Mirri's healing spell. Nor does she slap Jorah for convincing her to travel to Astapor; or order him on a suicide mission when she discovers his spying. One of the biggest collar-pulling moments though has to be the fact that Show!Dany would never even dream of "putting anyone to the question", let alone the ''daughters'' of a man suspected of collaborating with the Harpies Sons to assassinate her soldiers.

* Varys gets stacked with this. In the books, he's a [[SleazyPolitician sleazy]], [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] GigglingVillain who preaches [[TrueNeutral neutrality]] and [[TheNeedsOfTheMany the common good]] but is NotSoDifferent from Littlefinger in PlayingBothSides and [[TheChessmaster manipulating everyone]] to serve [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans his own agenda]]. By contrast, the show paints him as a far less sinister sassy and affable OnlySaneMan and BenevolentBoss with very few KickTheDog moments and a genuine soft spot for Tyrion and the common people.

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*** In addition, Tywin gets a MortalityPet in his actual grandson Tommen, moving to shield the boy from watching Joffery die at the Purple Wedding and later making an earnest attempt to take Tommen under his wing after he becomes king. The scene in the Sept is quite significant for both of them as its one of the only times Tywin expresses pride or anything resembling supportive in one of his descendants.

** In addition, Tywin gets a MortalityPet in his actual grandson Tommen, moving to shield the boy from watching Joffery die at the Purple Wedding and later making an earnest attempt to take Tommen under his wing after he becomes king. The scene in the Sept is quite significant for both of them as its one of the only times Tywin expresses pride or anything resembling supportive in one of his descendants.

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*** In the books, he arranges at least two murders, including having a bard flat-out murdered by Bronn and given to a stew cook in Flea Bottom for threatening to expose Shae, and strangles [[spoiler: Shae]] in a crime of passion as a spiteful act of vengeance for her turning on him during his trial rather than being essentially forced to do it to prevent her from exposing Tywin's death and in the show, Shae did the grab the knife first as well, so Tyrion was mainly acting in [[AdaptationalSelfDefense self-defence]].

*** Following his exile from Westeros, Tyrion becomes even darker and crueler than he was previously in the books because of his family's treachery, and tries to join Daenerys on the condition that he can inflict revenge on his family, especially by personally killing Jaime and raping and murdering Cersei. In the show, he never expresses these desires and actually [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] after joining Daenerys as his adviser. When they actually return to Westeros, Tyrion tries his best to have Daenerys' conquest to be clean as possible and still feels sympathy for his relatives, even though they are now his enemies.

*** Her opinion of Margaery as an [[SocialClimber ambitious]] [[TheVamp vamp]] intent on turning her children against her is [[JerkassHasAPoint completely validated]] by Margaery's actions in the show, [[AdaptationalSelfDefense justifying]] her retaliation. In the books, this is almost entirely her own paranoia since Margaery's motives are a much more open question and her "schemes" include giving Tommen kittens and positive reinforcement and urging him to take an interest in government and public opinion.

* House Lannister. While Cersei or Tywin never exactly make it to 'heroic', Tyrion arguably was there even in the books and Jaime is... Jaime, all of them get somehow polished, or at least made to appear more humane in the show. After all, we get to see them so often that is better if we care about the characters to some degree. To balance it out, Joffrey is made even nastier in the show than he was in the books.

* While he remains a pragmatic realist, the show's Jorah Mormont is a higher tier of man than his literary counterpart, with his DirtyOldMan lust for Daenerys downplayed into AllLoveIsUnrequited, compared to the book with his ForcefulKiss and asking Dany to run away with him only for her to refuse him is adapted out. Dany's AgeLift in the show also makes Jorah's attraction to her seem less creepy. He also seems more ashamed of his dabbling in slavery and finally comes to terms with Ned Stark's banishment and admits that the Lord Paramount was entirely right to punish him for his crimes, which his book counterpart has yet to do so. In a related vein, when the show's Daenarys banishes him from her court because she found out he was originally spying on her for Robert, he begs forgiveness but she refuses to listen compared to the book version of her being willing to forgive him if he apologizes but him refusing to do so because he doesn't believe he did anything wrong. This adds up to a book character who always haughtily insists that it's all NeverMyFault compared to the show version who admits his mistakes.

*** In the books, he arranges at least two murders, including having a bard flat-out murdered by Bronn and given to a stew cook in Flea Bottom for threatening to expose Shae, and strangles [[spoiler: Shae]] in a crime of passion as a spiteful act of vengeance for her turning on him during his trial rather than being essentially forced to do it to prevent her from exposing Tywin's death and in the show, Shae did the grab the knife first as well, so Tyrion was mainly acting in [[TheDogShotFirst self-defence]].

* A lot of impulsive cruel moments are excised from Dany's character in the show. For instance, it is Rakharo not she who confiscates Viserys's horse when he tries to assault her in the long grass; shaming him for the whole khalasar to see. She also never demands her ''kos'' slaughter Qotho for shoving her aside and trying to stop Mirri's healing spell. Nor does she slap Jorah for convincing her to travel to Astapor; or order him on a suicide mission when she discovers his spying. One of the biggest collar-pulling moments though has to be the fact that Show!Dany would never even dream of "putting anyone to the question", let alone the ''daughters'' of a man suspected of collaborating with the Harpies Sons to assassinate her soldiers.

*** Her opinion of Margaery as an [[SocialClimber ambitious]] [[TheVamp vamp]] intent on turning her children against her is [[JerkassHasAPoint completely validated]] by Margaery's actions in the show, [[TheDogShotFirst justifying]] her retaliation. In the books, this is almost entirely her own paranoia since Margaery's motives are a much more open question and her "schemes" include giving Tommen kittens and positive reinforcement and urging him to take an interest in government and public opinion.