History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E1WinterIsComing

** [[{{JerkAss}} Theon]] is eager to kill the direwolf pups and immediately goes to slit one's throat -- in [[JustForPun stark]] contrast to Robb, Jon and Bran's impulse to save them.

* PerverseSexualLust: A nobleman feels up a thirteen-year-old girl.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Ros the whore giving Tyrion the Imp an off-screen blow job. However, it then changes to the first of ''Game of Throne'''s famous {{Sexposition}} scenes, as [[AsYouKnow Ros gives the audience a rundown]] on the Lannister brothers.

** Roz mentions how Tryion's brother is reputed to be the most handsome man in the Seven Kingdoms. When Jaime interrupts proceedings, she checks out the KnightInShiningArmor with visible appreciation.

** A few shots feature a blonde Theon Greyjoy. This is one of the few elements from the unaired original pilot to make it into the episode.

** [[HeroicBastard Jon's]] first major scene has him persuading his father Ned to let the direwolf pups live by using his own illegitimate status to against himself by pointing out there are five pups and five trueborn Stark children. Then he finds the sixth pup from the litter -- an albino -- who he adopts as his own.

** Tyrion isn't happy when Jaime bursts in on him in bed with Roz: "Shall I explain the meaning of a closed door in a whorehouse, brother?" (In a BrickJoke, Jaime doesn't close the door when leaving Tyrion to his orgy).

* SexyDiscretionShot: Roz the Whore giving Tryion the Imp an off-screen blow job. However, it then changes to the first of Game of Throne's famous {{Sexposition}} scenes, as [[AsYouKnow Roz gives the audience a rundown]] on the Lannister brothers.

There's a short scene at '''King's Landing,''' the capital of Westeros, where a blonde man and a blonde woman -- Ser Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard and his twin sister, Queen Cersei Lannister -- have a cryptic conversation about keeping secrets whilst a funeral goes on. Up at Winterfell, Catelyn brings a letter to Ned explaining what the funeral was about: it was for Lord Jon Arryn of the Eyrie, Hand of the King these past seventeen years until his untimely death by disease. The letter also claims that Robert Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, is coming north to Winterfell to visit his best friend Ned, who he has not seen in years. Three guesses why.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Will flees to the North to warn the people about the terrifying evil that's coming for them. In any other fantasy series, this would make him the hero, or at least one of the main characters. But in this one, not only do the people not for a second believe one random guy's proofless word about an ancient evil he swears is coming, but he's also deserting from his duty -- and in Westeros, like most medieval societies, that's a crime punishable by death. Poor Will gets executed.

[[caption-width-right:350: What a happy family, right? It would be tragic if something awful happened with them...]]

* ShamefulStrip: Daenerys gets two of these; first at the hands of her brother feeling her up under the pretext of making sure she's fit for marriage, then by her new husband on [[MaritalRapeLicense their wedding night]]. The first [[BrokenBird she endures with a weary resignation]], while she's sobbing and desperately trying to cover herself during the second.

* ShamefulStrip: Daenerys gets two of these; first at the hands of her brother feeling her up under the pretext of making sure she's fit for marriage, then by her new husband on [[MartialRapeLicense their wedding night]]. The first she endures with a weary resignation, while she's sobbing and desperately trying to cover herself during the second.

** A White Walker decapitates a Nights Watchman, [[DecapitationPresentation tossing the head at his compatriot's feet]].

** Viserys, a Targaryen heir to the throne living in exile, makes this clear with every word that comes out of his mouth. His younger sister suffers the most because he only holds power over her.

* VillainousIncest: Viserys establishes his {{Jerkass}} credentials quickly when he strips and fondles his own sister, inspecting her body for her upcoming marriage. PlayedForDrama with Jaime and Cersei.

--->'''Robb:''' I hear he's a right royal prick.
--->'''Theon:''' Just think of [[PowerIsSexy all those Southern girls]] he gets to stab with his right royal prick.

-->'''Jaime:''' Our sister craves your attendance.
-->'''Tyrion:''' [[SarcasmMode She has odd cravings, our sister.]]
-->'''Jaime:''' A [[IncestSubtext family trait]].