History Characters / GameOfThronesHouseTyrell

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Their questionable loyalty, obvious scheming, and now ruthlessly deadly plans for gaining power are often excused by the fandom, specifically because the targets of their various schemes are all Lannisters.

* KickTheDog: Killing Joffrey? [[KickTheSonOfABitch fair enough.]] Making Tyrion and Sansa TheScapegoat? Probably necessary, but still not cool, Olenna.

* TheEnemyOfMyEnemy: He initially viewed the Lannisters as his enemy, but he chose to side with them after Stannis murdered Renly. Loras still hates Joffrey passionately, though, as seen by his SuppressedRage in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis Valar Morghulis]]".

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Mace Tyrell is a bit of an oaf in the books as well, but in the form of a haughty and tactless lord. In the show, he has an extreme case of AdaptationalDumbass is frequently mined for comedy, as he's treated like a complete buffoon and ChewToy by virtually every lord in King's Landing.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Mace Tyrell is a bit of an oaf in the books as well, but in the form of a haughty and tactless lord. In the show, he has an extreme case of Adaptational Dumbass is frequently mined for comedy, as he's treated like a complete buffoon and ChewToy by virtually every lord in King's Landing.

* LastOfTheirKind: After the destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor, Olenna became the last surviving member of House Tyrell, and even then only in name as she is a Redwyne by birth. After her death by poison in Season 7, House Tyrell is officially dead, with Wardenship of the South and Lord Paramountship of the Reach set to fall to Randyll Tarly.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Surrounds herself with simpering girls (or "hens" as she calls them) to seem harmless, when she's really a dangerous [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] on the level of Tyrion, Tywin, Varys, or Petyr Baelish, a fact which all of them are fully aware of and respect accordingly. Indeed, she and Littlefinger, team up to take out Joffrey with Tyrion taking the blame; not only does nobody suspect them, no one even knows of their secret alliance.

* RightHandVersusLeftHand: She is the de facto ruler of the Tyrell family, but strategic alliances are the one thing out of her control. She is most critical of Mace marriage policy for Margaery, so she moves to King's Landing to do damage control, keeping the not very bright Mace in the dark.

** In what would be her last words of advice to Danerys, Olenna told the Queen that the way she had gotten to be around as long as she had was by ignoring all the 'clever men' that advised her what to do. Given the context, it was primarily a warning against putting too much stock in Tyrion's advice, but the broader message was that Dany should trust herself more than any man.

->''"What is it? 12 000 infantrymen the Tyrell family has supplied? 1 800 mounted lancers, 2 000 in support? Provisions, so this city might survive the winter? A million bushels of wheat; half a million bushels each of barley, oats, and rye; 20 000 head of cattle; 50 000 sheep. [[WomenAreWiser You don't have to lecture me about wartime expenses. I'm quite familiar with them]]."''

** Loras in Season 3 is noticeably kinder towards Sansa than he is in ''A Storm of Swords''. [[note]]His book counterpart seems to be aware that she was merely a means to an end for his family, and only offered the girl empty chivalry during their conversation, which then dried up the moment she mentioned Ser Robar Royce (whom the Knight of Flowers had killed in a fit of madness). Moreover, his brother Garlan tells Sansa that Tyrion would make a better husband than Loras.[[/note]] On the show, Loras is never rude or cold when he's with her, and he has every intention of being a good husband once they are married (at least as much as he can considering his sexual orientation). In certain respects, HBO's Knight of Flowers may be a slightly better choice for a spouse than Tyrion -- or at the very least, he's no worse. The young man also recognizes that Sansa has suffered greatly as a prisoner of the Lannisters, and is sympathetic towards her situation when he mentions that King's Landing is a terrible place. In other words, TV Loras is less self-absorbed with his own misery and is more considerate of Sansa's feelings. He even says to Cersei after being betrothed to her instead of Sansa that if they're going to be married they should at least be friends, which with it being [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] doesn't really work.

*** In the books, it's his older brother Ser Garlan who wears Renly's armour at the Battle of Blackwater. Loras wanted the honour, but he was too short and too slender. This change is also a PragmaticAdaptation on the show because Show!Renly has less of a HeroicBuild than Book!Renly and the actors who play Loras and Renly are practically the same size. Loras has also taken Garlan's position as commander of the Tyrells' army.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Olenna is the very picture of a CoolOldLady in the show, opposing the increasingly tyrannical Lannisters, instead of the spiteful harridan of the books who calls Ellaria Sand "the serpent's whore". She also displays sympathy for Sansa in the show rather than just seeing her as a pawn. Even her assassination of Joffrey is framed more as a SympatheticMurderer, who didn't want her granddaughter married to a monster. While Olenna does care about her family in the books, her primary motive for killing Joffrey at his wedding was to make Margaery a queen and cement the Tyrells' political strength (while removing the, shall we say, ''inconvenience'' of being married to a vicious idiot king).

* AdaptationalHeroism: Olenna is the very picture of a CoolOldLady in the show, opposing the increasingly tyrannical Lannisters, instead of the spiteful harridan of the books who calls Ellaria Sand "the serpent's whore". She also displays sympathy for Sansa in the show rather than just seeing her as a pawn. Even her assassination of Joffrey is framed more as a SympatheticMurderer, who didn't want her granddaughter married to a monster.

-->'''Loras''': And neither will [[BrotherSisterIncestyou]].

%%* {{Flanderization}}: So far in Season 5.