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The show has a lot of [[AdaptationalAttractiveness this]], partly because the novels actively avert HollywoodHomely and BeautyIsNeverTarnished and partly because simulating gruesome injuries is just plain [[PragmaticAdaptation impractical]] for television:
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* Ned is described as plain and long-faced but is played by MrFanservice stalwart Creator/SeanBean and described as "even more impressive" than his late brother Brandon, while in the books Catelyn recalls her "childish disappointment" that Ned was shorter, plainer, and more solemn than Brandon.
* Like his father, Jon is long-faced and never pointed out as notably attractive in the books but is played by MrFanservice Creator/KitHarington and is constantly described as "pretty" in the show. This is likely meant as an allusion to his true parentage, as [[spoiler:Rhaegar Targaryen]] was known to have been exceptionally beautiful.
* Arya is often called "horse-faced" in the books by Sansa and Jeyne Poole, and is mistaken for a boy before she starts posing as one but Creator/MaisieWilliams is round-faced and cute. However, even in the books, several characters note that she is getting prettier as she grows up and she is noted to favorably resemble her aunt Lyanna, who was quite attractive, if not a great beauty.
* Tyrion is frequently described as TheGrotesque in the books, with a deformed face and mismatched eyes to go along with his dwarfism. He also receives a gruesome facial wound midway through the series that removes half his nose. The character is played by the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Tyrion_5_6967.jpg handsome]] Creator/PeterDinklage without any attempts to ugly him up. The character is even described as rather good looking in spite of his height. There's also a MythologyGag when Cersei notes his scar isn't as bad as she'd heard. Mitigating matters a small bit is the fact that Dinklage is slightly older than the actors playing his older siblings.
* For all their gruesomeness, Sandor Clegane's [[http://www.theironthrone.it/it/images/stories/attori/sandor_clegane.jpg facial burns]] are far less extensive than [[https://static.zerochan.net/Sandor.Clegane.full.2484274.jpg in the books]]. This was at least partially [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic]] since a more extensive prosthetic affected the actor's vision, making it impractical for a character with so many fight scenes.
* Jorah Mormont is [[https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/181d74bf-7e2c-43d2-860e-f32a5e972f79/d159cvv-2e792e26-1a7c-47db-82f2-8b3bd325f931.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzE4MWQ3NGJmLTdlMmMtNDNkMi04NjBlLWYzMmE1ZTk3MmY3OVwvZDE1OWN2di0yZTc5MmUyNi0xYTdjLTQ3ZGItODJmMi04YjNiZDMyNWY5MzEuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.8yMBHFHY_oHqovgsBAMUJ6waDmrM-0tu1yIAfhcIQ58 hefty, hairy, balding, and "not a handsome man" in the books]], in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jorah_8603.jpg stark contrast]] to the quite appealing Creator/IainGlen (which is echoed by a number of the female cast), and he's spared the dreadful facial brand used by the slavers to mark him as dangerous and disobedient in the books.
* Brienne is described as hideous in the books by everyone who meets her, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/iceandfire/images/2/2b/Brienne_by_amoka.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20150515223934 with an overly broad face, coarse freckly features, an overly wide mouth, puffy lips that look swollen, large crooked teeth, a nose that's been broken several times and so upturned she looks somewhat pig-like, brittle hair, and a figure that actually looks ''worse'' in a gown]]. Creator/GwendolineChristie is made up to look plain and mannish with some minor facial scars but not really ugly and SheCleansUpNicely in her time at Harrenhal - out of armour and after a good bath she starts to look a little more like the normal Gwendoline Christie. The show also avoids the part from the books where Biter takes two large bites out of her face.
* Ygritte is described in the books as having [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/iceandfire/images/5/52/Ygritte_by_amoka.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20150516155457 crooked teeth and a pug nose]], but she is considered beautiful by Jon. In the series, she's played by the conventionally attractive Creator/RoseLeslie.
* Pod is a debilitatingly shy, stuttering twelve-year-old in the books, who has been aged up to a handsome, if somewhat awkward, young man in the show.
* In the books, Osha hardly looks like a woman, with a lean, scarred body and a hard face. Music/NataliaTena is an attractive actress with a feminine physique and far more youthful than the Osha of the books. Her costuming, including a shapeless robe and scraggly hair, goes a long way in toning it down, but even so she's able to seduce male characters twice.
* Selyse Baratheon is plump, with large Florent ears and a moustache in the books. Creator/TaraFitzgerald is quite gorgeous in real life. The worst that can be said is that she's made to look gaunt, though frequent contrasts with [[MsFanservice Melisandre]] help downplay it.
* Even without the greyscale scars, Shireen is described in the books as an extremely plain girl and the unfortunate recipient of her [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/0/03/Shireen_Baratheon.jpg father's square jaw and her mother's large ears]]. [[http://winteriscoming.net/features/cast/season-three/kerry-ingram/ Kerry Ingram is adorable]].
* Robin Arryn is a small and sickly child with epilepsy in the books but looks fairly normal, if a bit gawky, in the show. Then in the last season he makes an appearance and the actor Lino Facioli has grown-up into a [[HesAllGrownUp fairly attractive young man]]. Fans lampshades this by marking him as the [[https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/game-of-thrones-all-grown-up-robin-arryn-actor-reacts-to-thirsty-fans/ar-AABKs1r Neville Longbottom of Game of Thrones]].
* [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/1/17/Rafal_Hrynkiewicz_dagmarcleftjaw.jpg/350px-Rafal_Hrynkiewicz_dagmarcleftjaw.jpg In the books]], Dagmer Cleftjaw takes his name from a [[FacialHorror horrific scar]] from an axe that [[ShapedLikeItself cleft his jaw]]. In the show, he's just plain Dagmer and only has some minor facial nicks.
* Ramsay Snow is explicitly described in the books as being "[[https://cantuse.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/ramsaysnow-e1402684419444.jpg?w=300 ...an ugly man.]] Even splendorous garb cannot disguise this fact. He is big boned and slope shouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggests that later in life he will turn to fat. His skin is pink and blotchy, his nose broad, his mouth small, his hair long and dark and dry. His lips are wide and meaty, wormy looking, but the thing that men notice most about him are his eyes. He has his lord father's eyes: small, close-set, and queerly pale." Creator/IwanRheon has none of these traits except the eyes.
* Yoren is much more put together and reputable-looking than the filthy, hunchbacked old man from the books.
* In the books, Rorge's nose has been cut off. In the series, keeps it for [[PragmaticAdaptation practical reasons]] and instead merely has a couple of scars on his forehead and face, and while his companion Biter retains his filed-down teeth, he's still better looking than the animalistic, pallid and obese man with weeping sores that is described in the book.
* Walder Frey certainly doesn't turn any heads in the show, but he's still far younger and sprier looking than the bald, toothless, half-blind, [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/e/e6/Old_Walder_Frey.jpg crippled old vulture of a man]] described in the books, despite being described as being nearly ninety at the end of "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things".
* Giants are hairy, ape-like beings more similar to Bigfoot than men in the books, but are merely over-sized men with brutish facial features in the show.
* Beric Dondarrion is much gaunter and disfigured by a blow to the head in the book, which is dropped for pragmatic reasons.
* Reek (Theon Greyjoy) is described in the books as looking [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9urpgep5n1rb2vh2o1_500.jpg ghastly pale and malnourished, with broken teeth and premature white hair]], as well as the missing fingers and limp featured in the show.
* Inverted with Theon before his breakdown. Book Theon is described as [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/a/a1/Brittmartin_Theon.jpg/300px-Brittmartin_Theon.jpg tall, handsome, and a ladies man]]. Theon in the show is notably plainer with little success with women.
* Also inverted tragically with Rhaegar Targaryen himself, as in the books he was described as being so [[PrettyBoy goddamn beautiful]] even Cersei’s heart melts just remembering his [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSER0rTkCFpZtVEOC-LltLH69IEOXNm7sgbDQ&usqp=CAU appearance]]. The one time we see Rhaegar in a flash back... he’s just kinda plain looking and unfortunately has the [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSaobWq0xXzDF8l-Jq5kZlT2mYSZ3sEDtSiSw&usqp=CAU same hair]] as his despicable brother Viserys. Fans made their disappointment quite clear.
* The books' Three-eyed Crow is a one-eyed albino with a wine-stain birthmark on his cheek who's pierced through with weirwood roots and looks [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3299c77835ae06b681f461ba6be1c914 more like a corpse than a living man]]. The show's Three-eyed Raven is a two-eyed WizardClassic who seems to be merely tangled in the roots, and with the magic of TheOtherDarrin turned into a graceful and dashing old sage.
* The sleek and smooth-voiced HotWitch Cersei met as a child in the show is a far cry from the [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/2/2f/Matt_Olson_Maggy_Maegi.jpg/300px-Matt_Olson_Maggy_Maegi.jpg squat, croaking crone]] described in the novels.
* Lancel is very infirm, dishevelled, and prematurely aged after his brush with death in the books, but is even healthier and more muscular than before in "The Wars to Come". Conversely, he gets a seven-pointed star CarvedMark [[GoodScarsEvilScars on his forehead]], which doesn't happen in the books.
* Lollys Stokeworth is obese and mentally handicapped in the books, but is fairly average-looking in the show, with her dim-witted descriptor being played more as [[TheDitz ditzy]] [[ManChild childishness]] than as a severe handicap.
* The slaver Yezzan zo Qaggaz is basically a humanoid [[Franchise/StarWars Jabba the Hutt]] [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/1/17/Yezzan_zo_Qaggaz1.jpg in the novels]], being too fat to stand and suffering from a debilitating disease that leaves him jaundiced and unable to control his bladder. Actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162281/ Enzo Cilenti]] is not the slightest bit ugly or overweight.
* Euron Greyjoy has only a scar on his cheek left by Balon's knife instead of his sinister EyepatchOfPower, the "[[RedRightHand crow's eye]]" beneath it (which Theon describes as "black and shining with malice") and the creepy blue lips from drinking Shade of the Evening like Pyat Pree from Season 2.
* Obara Sand in the books is described as very plain, big-boned, and mannish. The show ''tries'' to make her out to be gruff and aggressive (Olenna tells her she looks like an angry boy), but she's still every bit as lovely as her sisters, as she's played by the beautiful Creator/KeishaCastleHughes.
* Magister Illyrio is morbidly obese in the books (to the point that people who have never met him comment on it upon seeing one of his specially made chairs), but he's a pretty normal-looking overweight man in the show.
* Daario Naharis, although attractive, [[https://external-preview.redd.it/_4JMu-qbs7YuUvJvdQ2ldSfwOW0cVgw9ooMCPRCTnoE.png?auto=webp&s=2c9f4114576172398abc954099e9c95ff4d29482 dyes his hair sky-blue in Tyroshi tradition and has a triple-forked, blue beard, a blue mustache with the tips dyed gold, and a golden tooth]]. In the series, [[Creator/EdSkrein the first actor]] who played him was clean-shaven (although [[Creator/MichielHuisman the second]] had a normal beard), his hair is not dyed blue, and has no golden tooth.
* Lysa Tully/Arryn is overweight in the books, but is played on TV by Creator/KateDickie, who is anything but. In the books, Lysa is described as being lovely and slender in her youth, but let herself go later in life. The series played up her paranoia and bizarre behavior to make up for this.
* The Davos of the books is described as being short, slight and with a "common" face, whereas Creator/LiamCunningham is fairly tall and well-built, and also attractive in a rugged sort of way.
* In "Blood of my Blood", the late King Aerys is briefly shown in Bran's vision [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/0b/a8/a90ba8cf9107d2f65f6575efe8f8f3d1.jpg and has none of the]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/ca/f6/7bcaf6958155e282414a354909ccfaa8.png disheveled appearance that he has in the books]]: no cut wounds from the throne, no overgrown and unwashed hair and beard, no fingernails that are nine-inches long, not extremely gaunt. It was kind of considered a major blunder that the ''brief'' seconds-long flashbacks of Aerys in Season 6 depicted a cleanshaven actor, when he not only had an infamously crazy appearance in the books, but prior ''Histories & Lore'' animated featurettes had depicted him with his infamously uncut and unkempt beard and hair. To top it off, even the Season 6 set of ''Histories & Lore'' videos *very prominently* depicts him this way, and even has Meera Reed point out in explicit detail that his inches-long fingernails and matted, filthy beard made him look obviously insane.
* In the books, Lord Wyman Manderly is so massively fat that he has been nicknamed ''Lord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-Horse'' by his peers. While still obese in the show, he is considerably leaner and more martial looking.
* In the books, Syrio Forel is described as bald and leathery, in contrast to his charming appearance in the series.
* In the books, Roose Bolton is described as "neither handsome nor plain", with [[https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/4/40/Roose_bolton_by_berghots.jpg/300px-Roose_bolton_by_berghots.jpg pale eyes "like morning mist"]]. His voice is also described as soft and whispery in the books, but [=McElhatton=]'s deep, smooth voice has earned him quite a few fangirls.
* Walda Bolton may avert HollywoodPudgy, but she still has a pretty face and healthy hair. Her book counterpart is not only obese but also red-faced, has limp yellow hair, and an annoying squeaky voice to boot.
* In the books, when Cersei's hair is cut off by the Faith they shave her completely bald. In the show, they leave her with BoyishShortHair that isn't completely unattractive. She also has a perfect physique due to the scene being done with Rebecca Van Cleave (a rather pretty woman in her late 20s) acting as a body double, while in the corresponding part of the book her body is described as having lost part of its beauty due to Cersei's age and pregnancies, not to mention bloating somewhat from drinking lots of wine. That said, the series makes little effort to polish Lena Headey's natural minor blemishes as Cersei (her crow's feet are clearly visible, for example), so the general idea of "beauty weathered by age" still gets across, particularly when she's paired in scenes with the blossoming Sansa Stark and the young, in-her-prime Margeary Tyrell.
* In the books, Ser Amory Lorch is described as fat and pig-like, while in the TV series he looks a lot more badass.
* Harry Strickland in the books is described as being [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/ac/60/a9ac6065a6de3b1a53415b2794aae90f.jpg portly, balding and not very attractive]], while in the show he appears younger and is much more handsome, likely due to the fact that he seems to have take up Griff's role as a more martial commander of the Golden Company (though he's still much younger in the show than Griff).
* A bit with Polliver. His book counterpart is described as being more outwardly unappealing, while the show's Polliver looks completely normal.
* Walder Frey's daughters are described as quite ugly in the books--even the prettiest, Roslin, is not as beautiful as Creator/AlexandraDowling's depiction of her. In the show, they all look like perfectly normal, if not somewhat plain girls. It's somewhat made up for in their shabby clothes, poor postures, and greasy hair.
* In the books, Tommen is a short, fat kid. In the show, he's played by the handsome Dean-Charles Chapman.
* Mirri Maz Duur , the witch and healer who Daenerys saves in the middle of a rape and then she [[spoiler:poisons Khal Drogo]] is played by Mia Soteriou, who, despite being an already mature woman, is certainly not like her book counterpart described as horrible, obese and flat nosed.
* At the end of Season 1, Daenerys still has a full head of hair when she's found after Khal Drogo's funeral pyre. In the books, all her hair is burned off. Poor Dany also goes through two periods of near-starvation, one in ''Clash'' and the other in ''Dance''.
* Dolorous Edd is described as thin and grey-haired, with a dour face. His show counterpart is much younger and more conventionally attractive, and his gloomy demeanor isn't as omnipresent.
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* Robin Arryn is a small and sickly child with epilepsy in the books but looks fairly normal, if a bit gawky, in the show. It gets UpToEleven in the last season where he the makes an appearance and the actor Lino Facioli has grown-up into a [[HesAllGrownUp fairly attractive young man]]. Fans lampshades this by marking him as the [[https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/game-of-thrones-all-grown-up-robin-arryn-actor-reacts-to-thirsty-fans/ar-AABKs1r Neville Longbottom of Game of Thrones]].

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* Walder Frey's daughters are described as quite ugly in the books--even the prettiest, Roslin, is not as beautiful as Alexandra Dowling's depiction of her. In the show, they all look like perfectly normal, if not somewhat plain girls. It's somewhat made up for in their shabby clothes, poor postures, and greasy hair.

* Pod is a debilitatingly shy, stuttering twelve-year-old in the books, who has been aged up to a handsome, if somewhat {{adorkable}} young man in the show.

* Also inverted tragically with Rhaegar Targaryen himself, as in the books he was described as being so [[PrettyBoy goddamn beautiful]] even Cersei’s heart melts just remembering his appearance. The one time we see Rhaegar in a flash back... he’s just kinda plain looking and unfortunately has the same hair as his despicable brother Viserys. Fans made their disappointment quite clear.

* Reek (Theon Greyjoy) is described in the books as looking ghastly pale and malnourished, with broken teeth and premature white hair, as well as the missing fingers and limp featured in the show.
* Inverted with Theon before his breakdown. Book Theon is described as tall, handsome, and a ladies man. Theon in the show is notably plainer with little success with women.

* For all their gruesomeness, Sandor Clegane's [[http://www.theironthrone.it/it/images/stories/attori/sandor_clegane.jpg facial burns]] are far less extensive than in the books. This was at least partially [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic]] since a more extensive prosthetic affected the actor's vision, making it impractical for a character with so many fight scenes.

* Ygritte is described in the books as having crooked teeth and a pug nose, but she is considered beautiful by Jon. In the series, she's played by the conventionally attractive Creator/RoseLeslie.

* Even without the greyscale scars, Shireen is described in the books as an extremely plain girl and the unfortunate recipient of her father's square jaw and her mother's large ears. [[http://winteriscoming.net/features/cast/season-three/kerry-ingram/ Kerry Ingram is adorable]].

* Walder Frey certainly doesn't turn any heads in the show, but he's still far younger and sprier looking than the bald, toothless, half-blind, crippled old vulture of a man described in the books, despite being described as being nearly ninety at the end of "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things".

* The sleek and smooth-voiced HotWitch Cersei met as a child in the show is a far cry from the squat, croaking crone described in the novels.

* The slaver Yezzan zo Qaggaz is basically a humanoid [[Franchise/StarWars Jabba the Hutt]] in the novels, being too fat to stand and suffering from a debilitating disease that leaves him jaundiced and unable to control his bladder. Actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162281/ Enzo Cilenti]] is not the slightest bit ugly or overweight.

* Daario Naharis, although attractive, dyes his hair sky-blue in Tyroshi tradition and has a triple-forked, blue beard, a blue mustache with the tips dyed gold, and a golden tooth. In the series, [[Creator/EdSkrein the first actor]] who played him was clean-shaven (although [[Creator/MichielHuisman the second]] had a normal beard), his hair is not dyed blue, and has no golden tooth.

* In the books, Roose Bolton is described as "neither handsome nor plain". His voice is also described as soft and whispery in the books, but [=McElhatton=]'s deep, smooth voice has earned him quite a few fangirls.

* Harry Strickland in the books is described as being portly, balding and not very attractive, while in the show he appears younger and is much more handsome, likely due to the fact that he seems to have take up Griff's role as a more martial commander of the Golden Company (though he's still much younger in the show than Griff).

* Jorah Mormont is hefty, hairy, balding, and "not a handsome man" in the books, in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jorah_8603.jpg stark contrast]] to the quite appealing Creator/IainGlen (which is echoed by a number of the female cast), and he's spared the dreadful facial brand used by the slavers to mark him as dangerous and disobedient in the books.
* Brienne is described as hideous in the books by everyone who meets her, with an overly broad face, coarse freckly features, an overly wide mouth, puffy lips that look swollen, large crooked teeth, a nose that's been broken several times and so upturned she looks somewhat pig-like, brittle hair, and a figure that actually looks ''worse'' in a gown. Creator/GwendolineChristie is made up to look plain and mannish with some minor facial scars but not really ugly and SheCleansUpNicely in her time at Harrenhal - out of armour and after a good bath she starts to look a little more like the normal Gwendoline Christie. The show also avoids the part from the books where Biter takes two large bites out of her face.

* In the books, Dagmer Cleftjaw takes his name from a [[FacialHorror horrific scar]] from an axe that [[ShapedLikeItself cleft his jaw]]. In the show, he's just plain Dagmer and only has some minor facial nicks.
* Ramsay Snow is explicitly described in the books as being "...an ugly man. Even splendorous garb cannot disguise this fact. He is big boned and slope shouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggests that later in life he will turn to fat. His skin is pink and blotchy, his nose broad, his mouth small, his hair long and dark and dry. His lips are wide and meaty, wormy looking, but the thing that men notice most about him are his eyes. He has his lord father's eyes: small, close-set, and queerly pale." Creator/IwanRheon has none of these traits except the eyes.

* The books' Three-eyed Crow is a one-eyed albino with a wine-stain birthmark on his cheek who's pierced through with weirwood roots and looks more like a corpse than a living man. The show's Three-eyed Raven is a two-eyed WizardClassic who seems to be merely tangled in the roots, and with the magic of TheOtherDarrin turned into a graceful and dashing old sage.

* In "Blood of my Blood", the late King Aerys is briefly shown in Bran's vision and has none of the disheveled appearance that he has in the books: no cut wounds from the throne, no overgrown and unwashed hair and beard, no fingernails that are nine-inches long, not extremely gaunt. It was kind of considered a major blunder that the ''brief'' seconds-long flashbacks of Aerys in Season 6 depicted a cleanshaven actor, when he not only had an infamously crazy appearance in the books, but prior ''Histories & Lore'' animated featurettes had depicted him with his infamously uncut and unkempt beard and hair. To top it off, even the Season 6 set of ''Histories & Lore'' videos *very prominently* depicts him this way, and even has Meera Reed point out in explicit detail that his inches-long fingernails and matted, filthy beard made him look obviously insane.

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* Euron Greyjoy has only a scar on his cheek left by Balon's knife instead of his sinister EyepatchOfPower, the "[[RedRightHand crow's eye]]" beneath it (which Theon describes as "black and shining with malice"), and the creepy blue lips from drinking Shade of the Evening like Pyat Pree from Season 2. However, this is also inverted in that show Euron looks rather plain, while book Euron, in spite or perhaps even because of his aberrant features, is considered very attractive in an EvilIsSexy sort of fashion.

* In the books, Ser Amory Lorch is described as fat and pig-like, and had a history of being unnecessarily cruel and very stupid. In the TV series he looks a lot more badass, but his stupidity becomes pretty apparent in later episodes of Season 2.
* Harry Strickland in the books is described as bein portly, balding and not very attractive, while in the show he appears younger and is much more handsome, likely due to the fact that he seems to have take up Griff's role as a more martial commander of the Golden Company (though he's still much younger in the show than Griff).

* Robb Stark, similarly to Jon Snow, never described as handsome in the books, but he's played by the handsome, MrFanservice Creator/RichardMadden.

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* In the books, Lord Wyman Manderly is so massively fat that he has been nicknamed ''Lord Too-Fat-to-Sit-a-Horse'' by his peers, while in the show, he is considerably leaner and more martial looking.

* In the books, when Cersei's hair is cut off by the Faith they shave her completely bald. In the show, they leave her with BoyishShortHair that isn't completely unattractive. She also has a perfect physique, while in the corresponding part of the book her body is described as having lost part of its beauty due to Cersei's age and pregnancies, not to mention bloating from drinking lots of wine. That said, the series makes little effort to polish Lena Headey's natural minor blemishes as Cersei (her crow's feet are clearly visible, for example), so the general idea of "beauty somewhat weathered by age" still gets across, particularly when she's paired in scenes with the blossoming Sansa Stark and the young, in-her-prime Margeary Tyrell.

* Robin Arryn is a small and sickly child with epilepsy in the books but looks fairly normal, if a bit gawky, in the show.

* Robb Stark, similarly to Jon Snow, never described as handsome in the books, but he's played by the extremely attractive by MrFanservice Creator/RichardMadden.