History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireHouseTyrell

* GeniusBruiser: Is a very formidable swordsman, able of easily taking on three opponents at once, but he's also a cultivated and scholarly individual, as shown by his indignant reaction to Joffrey's savage hacking of the book "Lives of the Four Kings", with him pointing out that there are only four copies of this book in all of the Seven Kingdoms.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He doesn't say anything but like his bannermen he's clearly uneasy when Tywin Lannister say Doran Martell comes to seek the justice Robert Baratheon denied him for the murders of Elia Martell and her children, knowing how Tywin is the one responsible for their barbaric deaths, which says a lot knowing his grudge toward house Martell.

* FormerlyFit: Was once handsome and muscular.

* BrainyBrunette: By reputation. Margaery asserts him to be intelligent, bookish, and scholarly. He's also a more capable lord than his father. To drive the point home, his grandmother, who is infamous for her very acerbic and critical disposition, has a high opinion of him.

* BrainyBrunette: She is considered to be very intelligent.

* CoolBigSis: Margaery acts like this to Tommen [[spoiler:after their marriage]]. Sansa also saw her as this, but Margaery and her cousins are quick to ditch her after [[spoiler:the betrothal to Willas falls through.]]

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: To [[spoiler:Tommen]], with whom she gets along with famously; although he sees her more as a CoolBigSis than as a LoveInterest.

* SilkHidingSteel: Right now Margaery is getting by through silk alone, but her interactions with Cersei prove she's got more steel than the latter thought.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Margaery is definitely better-looking than her father, Mace was quite the looker in his younger years.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Averted. He's more skilled of a swordsman (but less skilled of a jouster) than Loras but not even close to Loras' level of arrogance.

* HappilyMarried: Garlan and Lady Leonette, at least by appearances.
* KnightInShiningArmor: A straighter example than Loras. Case in point: he's on the ''very'' short list of people who have ever been voluntarily kind to Tyrion Lannister. He and his wife are also the only Tyrells to be nice to Sansa after the rest of his family starts to avoid her due to her being forced into marriage.

* BumblingDad: He was so dumb he rode off of a cliff.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The Tyrells got away with putting the Baratheons under siege '''twice''' with no retribution whatsoever. Even when Stannis takes a great chunk of their bannermen, they still have complete and undisputed control of the Reach other than some dissident houses who aren't even opposing them in battle (like the Florents).
** They have this reputation among many of the smallfolk as well. It is noted that the crowds in King's Landing are cheering for the Tyrells, not the hated Lannisters.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: The smallfolk of King's Landing absolutely love her, in no small part thanks to the Tyrell food donations being given in her name before her arrival. The people ignore, or choose to ignore, that the Tyrells were the cause of the famine in King's Landing to begin with.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Margaery often plays dumb or naive in her dealings with others, to hide how keen her political acumen really is. Hanging out with the smallfolk and being NiceToTheWaiter isn't just a hobby for her, but a way to get a public HundredPercentAdorationRating, especially after the PR disaster that was Joffrey's reign.

* WhatsUpKingDude: After marrying Tommen and becoming queen, she puts her PR skills to good use traveling through the streets of King's Landing and befriending various smallfolk, visiting seamstresses' shops, fish markets, goldsmiths, beggars, bakers, and tradesmen. She gains a HundredPercentAdorationRating very quickly.

* {{Acrofatic}}: He's described as immensely fat but quite agile.

* WidowWoman: [[spoiler:Twice]].

!!Lord Mace Tyrell, Defender of the Marches, High Marshal of the Reach, Warden of the South, [[spoiler:Hand of the King]]

* CareerEndingInjury: The tourney accident that crushed his leg put a permanent halt to any martial aspirations he might have had.

* IHaveYourWife: House Tyrell apparently weaponised this at the end of the Dance Of Dragons; when Lord Lyonel Hightower was planning to disregard the peace offer made to him by Aegon III's regents and continue fighting for the [[YouKilledMyFather sake of vengeance]], the Tyrells threatened his younger brother Garmund, a squire at Highgarden at the time, would be executed if he tried to make war without their leave.

* ThemeNaming: Two constants of the family is having names with the letter "L" (specially Luthors and Leos), or begining with "Gar-". The latter of the two stemming from House Gardener having the same custom.

* PrecisionFStrike: Calls Cersei a "bitch" during a cutting TheReasonYouSuckSpech she gives to Cersei [[spoiler:while being imprisoned]] in which Margaery drops all pretense of being polite.
* ProperLady: Margaery always remains poised, smiling and beautiful, and knows how to keep her composure from slipping an inch. At [[spoiler:Tywin]]'s funeral, during which the rotting corpse is starting to smell really bad, she places her bouquet of roses by the bier, but keeps one to hold it under her nose as she sits down, something Jaime thinks is clever.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Although Mace was quite the looker in his younger years.

* VirginTension: Margaery and her family insist she's still a virgin despite having been married twice. Her first husband Renly was gay and her second, Joffrey, was [[spoiler:fatally poisoned at his wedding feast only hours after marrying her, but Cersei believes Renly may have consummated his marriage to Margaery before his death, if only to sire a child and secure his alliance with her family. In her words, "a man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough."]]

* FeudingFamilies[=/=]SitcomArchnemesis: Notoriously do not get along well with members of House Martell, an enmity dating back centuries due to plenty of wars between the Reach and Dorne, to the point that Tyrion gets a headache trying to sort their visiting members out. Willas Tyrell and Oberyn Martell are a notable exceptions.

** To House Frey. Where the Freys have tried their social climbing the direct and dirty way when not marrying into every power in sight, the Tyrells have gone about it rather differently (if, also including marriage). Both have large families (granted, the Tyrells don't outnumber the Freys: but, they're still not a tiny family), both have ThickerThanWater tendencies. But, only one is succeeding at this whole PR thing and has plans in place for when various linchpins may no longer be in the world.

** The Tyrell brothers, Willas, Garlan, and Loras, are practically mirror versions of the Baratheon brothers, Robert, Stannis, and Renly.

* {{Foil}}: To Robert Baratheon. Willas is the eldest and brightest of three sons in one of the great houses, just like Robert. Both men also had an interest in hunting with hawks in their youth. However, Willas is not as famous as his younger brothers, as opposed to the shadow Robert casts over Stannis and Renly. Robert is a legendary WarriorPrince and BloodKnight, while Willas is handicapped, scholarly, and disinterested in combat. Willas is considered a greater lord than his own father, the current Lord Tyrell, whereas Robert, despite his battle prowess, proves to be a completely ineffective ruler.

* {{Foil}}: To Stannis Baratheon. They are each the middle child between two respected brothers, renowned warriors and leaders, and tend to recognize the good in those in their society who others would look down on or disregard without hesitation. A big difference is that Garlan didn't succumb to MiddleChildSyndrome like Stannis. While Stannis might have been enraged if a "ghost" got credit for something he did, Garlan doesn't seem to mind. Garlan is also [[TheCharmer charming,]] [[PolitenessJudo polite]] and [[NiceGuy kind]] to just about everyone he meets, whereas Stannis is [[TheStoic stoic,]] [[TheResenter resentful,]] and [[PerpetualFrowner grim]] with literally everyone around him. Stannis's marriage is notoriously unhappy on both sides, while Garlan and his wife Leonette seem to get on pretty well together in public. And like Stannis in his youth, Garlan is sent on behalf of his (now royal) family to contend with one of Balon Greyjoy's fearsome younger brothers.

* BrainyBrunette: By reputation. Margaery asserts him to be intelligent, bookish, and scholarly. He's also a more capable lord than his father. To drive the point home, his ''[[ScrewPolitenessImASenior grandmother]]'' has a high opinion of him.
* CareerEndingInjury: His crushed leg, not that he seems to care much by all reports.
* EasilyForgiven: Unlike the rest of his family, who think Oberyn Martell intentionally crippled him, Willas holds no grudge against Oberyn, recognising that what happened was simply an unfortunate accident.

* GentlemanAndAScholar: Has a reputation as a very kind and scholarly lord.
* TheGhost: Hasn't yet appeared in the series, but is often referred to by other characters.
* NiceGuy: By reputation.
* OddFriendship: Apparently with Oberyn Martell, despite the enmity between their houses. According to Oberyn, they bonded over their shared interest in breeding horses.

* WorthyOpponent: Though Oberyn is clearly a better fighter and jouster, he and Willas are likely men of equal intelligence and culture.

* PapaWolf: For all his faults as a military commander or politician he does clearly love his children and will do anything to defend them from others. He hates Oberyn Martell for crippling his son Willas (even though Willas is pen pals with Oberyn), and he wants [[spoiler:the falsely accused Tyrion]] dead because Mace believes his daughter could have been collateral damage in [[spoiler:Joffrey's assassination]]. In ''A Dance with Dragons'', [[spoiler:after learning about Margaery's imprisonment, he lifts the siege of Storm's End and brings his and Lord Tarly's armies to King's Landing, successfully intimidating the High Septon into allowing Margaery to go free until her trial. Cersei's plans hinged on him not doing this]].

* OutnumberedSibling: Both of his siblings were girls.

* OutnumberedSibling: She has three brothers, Willas, Garlan and Loras.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife; [[spoiler: Margaery's incarceration on false or trumped up charges of adultery is much the same as how many historians now believe Anne's downfall went.]] Interestingly, she is played by Natalie Domer, who played Anne Boleyn in The Tudors.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife; [[spoiler: Margaery's incarceration on false or trumped up charges of adultery is much the same as how many historians now believe Anne's downfall went.]]

* FeudingFamilies[=/=]SitcomArchnemesis: Notoriously do not get along well with members of House Martell, an enmity dating back centuries due to plenty of wars between the Reach and Dorne, to the point that Tyrion gets a headache trying to sort their visiting members out. Willas Tyrell and Oberyn Martell are a notable exception.