History Characters / GameOfThronesHouseTully

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After Lord Karstark kills the Lannister boys and goads Robb by invoking Ned's name, Brynden smashes him so hard in the face he knocks the man to his knees, spitting blood. Were it almost anyone else, it would be much more difficult to side with someone so viciously beating an unarmed prisoner, but given the circumstances...

* TheArcher: Just part of his all-around badassery.

* BrutalHonesty: To Edmure.

* CoolUncle: To Catelyn especially.
-->'''Catelyn''': I have missed you, uncle.

* BigLittleBrother: Despite being the youngest of the siblings, he is the tallest at 6'1 (Catelyn and Lysa are 5'5 and 5'6 1/2, respectively).

* GutturalGrowler: A true bizarre example, as he's not a conventional badass, but he has a pretty gravelly voice, fitting for a politician.

* GutturalGrowler: His voice is rather raspy.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Even after everything that happened to them, their people still love them. When Arya and Sandor meet a farmer in the Riverlands, the farmer offers them a hot meal and a place to sleep purely because Arya passes the Hound off as an ex-Tully soldier.

* TheChick: To Robb's TheHero and Brynden's TheLancer.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Compared to the other great houses, they are considered undistinguished and quite forgettable. The peak of their house history was when a 19-year old (Kermit Tully) led them in war.

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* BadassBeard: He has one.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: His refusal to consider negotiating with the Freys to save Edmure seems heartless but as he points out The Freys would most likely murder him and his men if he took their deal and it wouldn't benfit anyone.

!!!'''Played By:''' Alexandra Dowling

** During the Rebellion, he rode through the villages of loyalist Houses, putting smallfok to the sword and burning as he went. In the show, he's a protector of the smallfolk.

* TheChick: To Robb's TheHero and Brynden's TheLancer.

* OldSoldier: He's the eldest living Tully.

* HelloNurse: A gorgeous, gorgeous woman. Edmure done fell off his ass.

* EverybodysDeadDave: With the sole exception of Edmure and his infant son, who remain captives of the Freys, even after Walder Frey's death, House Tully is virtually extinct. While some form of Tully blood lives on in Sansa, Bran, Arya, and Robin, they are considered Starks and Arryns more than Tullys, officially.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Almost entirely adapted out, compared to his book counterpart, though the fact remains that he curiously never married. One of the "Histories & Lore" animated featurettes he narrates also explains his backstory, that his brother Hoster wanted to put him in an arranged marriage - to the beautiful and wealthy sister of Olenna Redwyne. Ordinarily this would be seen as a great match, but Brynden was insulted about "being told when and whom to marry" (as he puts it), and refused. Even in book fandom there is massive speculation about why he never married, ranging from that he is secretly gay, to that he was actually in love with Minisa Whent but after she married his older brother he refused to ever love again. There's also the possibility that he's just and simply [[{{Asexuality}} not interested in romantic relationships at all]].

* AdaptationDistillation: His military blunder is a relatively minor battle with The Mountain. [[labelnote:From the Books...]]In the books, it involves Tywin Lannister and his whole main army. Thanks to Edmure, Tywin slips away and is able to participate in Blackwater.[[/labelnote]]

* PutOnABus: We don't see her again after the Red Wedding, although she's confirmed as still alive in the finale.

* BadassGrandpa: With his older brother Lord Hoster dead, Brynden is oldest living Tully.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: House Tully has quite a bit of similarities with the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Habsburg dynasty]], given their penchant for forging alliances and marrying off members of their family to secure even greater power. Basically, the Riverlands in general which they rule over are the Belgium of Westeros. Like the Low Countries in Medieval Europe, they're the borderlands between all of the major powers (England, France, Germany), so they're on the front line of almost ''every'' major war. Only the fact that they're one of the more fertile breadbasket regions of Westeros (along with the Reach) allows them to recover in the generations between major wars.

** [[spoiler:As of the series finale it's revealed that he's alive and well, and has been restored as lord of Riverrun]].

* KarmaHoudini: Despite betraying his uncle to his death, [[spoiler:Edmure is reinstated as Lord of Riverrun in the finale and seems to be as much of a bufoon as he was before.]]