Characters / A Game of Vengeance and Justice

House Baratheon of King's Landing

Robert Baratheon

• Big Fun
• Killed Off for Real: Dies in a hunting accident orchestrated by Cersei, just like in the books.
• Really Gets Around
• Why Are You Not My Heir?: Admits to Ned that Jasper would make a better king than Joffrey.

Cersei Lannister

• Asshole Victim
• Brother–Sister Incest
• Evil Is Petty
• Eye Scream
• Kick the Dog: Tries to have her bastard grandchildren killed.
• My Beloved Smother
• Smug Snake
• Stupid Evil

Joffrey Baratheon

• Asshole Victim
• Bastard Bastard
• Bullying a Dragon: He provokes Jasper numerous times, despite the fact that he cannot survive without his brother's help.
• Cain and Abel: He's Cain, Jasper is Abel.
• The Caligula
• Dirty Coward
• Killed Off for Real
• Licked by the Dog: Despite his animosity towards Jasper, the latter still tries to save him when he is fatally poisoned by Olenna Tyrell.
• Smug Snake
• Stupid Evil

Jasper Baratheon

• A Father to His Men
• Anti-Hero
• Big Brother Instinct: Especially towards Myrcella.
• Disney Death: Fakes his death during the siege of Harrenhal so his men can covertly kill off the defenders as they search the surrounding area for his remains.
• Doting Parent: Toward his daughters.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Until the Purple Wedding.
• Frontline General
• Happily Married: To Arya.
• Kick the Dog: Orders the deaths of every practitioner of the Red Faith in Westeros.
  • The Ruination of the Hellholt, in which he gives House Uller the Castamere treatment.
• Generation Xerox: His wiping out of House Uller and its supporters is very similar to the destruction of Houses Reyne and Tarbeck conducted by his grandfather.
  • He's quite libidinous, like dear old dad. He stops after he gets married, however.
• Pet the Dog: He's a loving husband, brother, and father.
• Self-Made Orphan: Has his mother and maternal uncles killed when he learns of the twincest.
• Unstoppable Rage: When provoked, Jasper's temper can explode with the force of a nuke. Only years of learning to control his temper keeps him in check.

Myrcella Baratheon

• Beware the Nice Ones: Tyene Sand learns this the hard way.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
• Heroic Bastard
• May–December Romance: With Beric Storm.
• Not So Above It All: Admits that, had she known Jasper had faked his death, she wouldn't have killed Tyene, so that Jasper could have tortured her to death instead.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Oh yes. Crushes two Targaryen restoration attempts, the Ironborn, the Reach, Dorne, his own son...
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: How she became a healer. No one wants to piss off the Iron King's favorite sibling.
• Silk Hiding Steel

Tommen Baratheon

• Hero of Another Story: Fought off an Ironborn invasion during Durran's Rebellion. This act isn't described in much detail.
• Put on a Bus: Is shipped off to Casterly Rock after being legitimized as a Lannister.
• Satellite Character: The poor kid doesn't get to do much.
• Nice Guy

House Stark

Eddard Stark

• Honor Before Reason
• Spanner in the Works: His killing Littlefinger massively affects the overall plot, and both his daughter and widow find the evidence he discovered and use it to avenge his death.
• Taking You with Me: Kills Littlefinger before being overtaken by the Goldcloaks.

Catelyn Stark

• Crusading Widow: Is determined to avenge her husband's death. She succeeds.

Robb Stark

• Happily Arranged Marriage: With Wynafryd Manderly.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Bends the knee to Jasper when he realizes it's the smartest decision he can make.
• Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Pleads with Jasper to spare the red priests who surrendered and offered to abandon their faith. Jasper ignores him and orders his archers to slaughter them.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Jasper out on butchering the red priests at Winterfell. Jasper is unmoved.

Sansa Stark

• Break the Cutie
• Put on a Bus: Is sent back to Winterfell after Robb bends the knee to Jasper. She's never seen again, though Robb mentions his intent to let her pick her husband rather than choose one for her.

Arya Stark

• Action Girl
• Break the Cutie: Loses her dad, miscarries her second child, her direwolf dies protecting her...
• Character Development: As time goes on, she is forced to learn how to play the game of thrones.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Tosses the melted down remains of the Iron Throne at Daenerys's feet and tells her to get out of Westeros.
• Happily Married: To Jasper.
• The High Queen

House Targaryen

Daenerys Targaryen

• Action Girl: Subverted. She rides her dragons into battle, but she can't fight on her own.
• Always Someone Better: Arya rubs it in Dany's face that Aegon is better than her.

• Killed Off for Real
• Humiliation Conga: Loses two of her dragons to the Ironborn, causing her anti-slavery campaign to crash and burn; said dragons are later killed by her enemies; a good chunk of her army is wiped out in one battle; and she and her entourage, along with her last dragon, are unceremoniously slaughtered at a dinner table.
• Out-Gambitted: She can't play the game of thrones to save her life.

• Sacred Hospitality: Her refusal to accept this gets her killed.
• Smug Snake
• Unwitting Pawn

Aegon Targaryen

• Enemy Mine: Teams up with Jasper to destroy the White Walkers.
• Evil Counterpart: To Jasper, though "evil" is far too strong a word.
• Frontline General
• Rightful King Returns: Tries to invoke this. He's no more successful than his aunt.
• The Rival: To Jasper.
• Worthy Opponent

House Lannister

Tywin Lannister

• Boring, but Practical: He considers overseeing the evacuation of Winterfell to be beneath him, until Jasper points out that (a)his absence will keep the Targaryen loyalists from using him as a political hostage and (b)he will destroy the corpses of anyone who dies during the march so that the White Walkers can't get them, whereas anyone else would insist on burying them. He accepts the reasoning.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Dies of old age sometime between Durran and Laena's Wedding and the beginning of Durran's rebellion.
• Honest Advisor: His advice is blunt, but practical.
• Old Soldier: Laena Targaryen notes that, even in his seventies, Tywin is still one of the most feared men in Westeros.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He disowns his children when their borderline treasonous activities are brought to light and he realizes there's nothing he can do to save them. They're all beheaded not long after.
• Put on a Bus: Disappears after evacuating Winterfell. He makes a cameo appearance at Durran and Laena's wedding in the sequel.
• Pragmatic Villainy: His personal philosophy.
• Slasher Smile: He rarely smiles, but he gives a frightening one in Chapter 65 when Jasper instructs him to oversee the destruction of the Dragonpit.