History Characters / GameOfThronesDaenerysTargaryen

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In her eyes, usurpers are occupying the throne of her father and her brothers, Rhaegar and Viserys. She is right though still oblivious about the kind of man her father really was. She later pulls this on Meereen, taking the Great Pyramid as her Keep and throne room and draping her family's flag across the Harpy at its peak. She does retake Dragonstone, the island of her birth, after it was vacated by Stannis Baratheon, the man who chased her out on King Robert's orders.

* DudeMagnet: So far over the series, she's attracted several men, including [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Drogo]], [[BodyguardCrush Jorah]], Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Daario Naharis, and Hizdar Zo Loraq. Euron Greyjoy's initial plans were to seduce her with the Iron Fleet. She even inspires a prostitute in Volantis to copy her look for more customers! Yara Greyjoy also exhibits the hots for her, and while it's clearly platonic, Tyrion is also clearly smitten by her. Davos also notices that Jon Snow was, ahem, [[DistractedByTheSexy staring at her]] heart.

* SlaveLiberation: During the Sacking of Astapor, on a truly massive scale. And again not much later with the Sacking of Yunkai and Meereen.

** In Season 8 [[spoiler: she learns the Night King has turned Viserion into a wight and then learns from Jon that he is in fact the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen, putting him ahead of her in the succession. She is understandably shocked and upset, as this means that a cornerstone of her identity and one of the main things that kept her going - that she is the last Targaryen and rightful heir - is actually untrue and could render everything she has worked for pointless]].

* KneelBeforeZod: People tend to bend the knee when she walks out of a raging inferno untouched by the flames. Once arriving in Westeros, she also develops a habit of demanding that people bend the knee to her and is seen as a terrifyingly powerful villain by the Lannister-Tarly forces. She even has Randyll and Dickon Tarly executed by dragonfire for refusing to kneel, which concerns Tyrion and Varys that she could TurnOutLikeHerFather.

* TomboyishPonytail: Most of Dany's hairstyles in Season 7 -- the season where she's become more proactive as a DragonRider - have all of her hair tied back in some way.

* CommonalityConnection: With Tyrion, as they discuss their abusive fathers.

* KneelBeforeZod: People tend to bend the knee when she walks out of a raging inferno untouched by the flames.

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Zigzagged with her betrothal to Khal Drogo. Initially subverted, in that she's not happy to go with him at first and their wedding night is consummated against her will. Then played straight, in that they grow to be very happy together and are expecting their first child before happy times go [[FromBadToWorse down the drain.]] Then double subverted in ''The Queen's Justice'', where a livid Daenerys recounts "being raped" as one of the indignities she suffered to regain her throne, which reveals she never did forget or necessarily forgive Drogo for their wedding night.

* AwfulTruth: Learning from Ser Barristan and later Tyrion that her father was really the bad guy during the "War of the Usurper". She takes a while to come to terms with it:

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: While living in Pentos and at her wedding, she wears demure pale lavender gowns, reflecting her ShrinkingViolet personality as an abuse victim and refugee. As she becomes more confident and assertive, [[SignficantWardrobeShift she ditches her lavender silks for more practical Dothraki garb.]]

* LastOfHisKind: With the death of Maester Aemon, Daenerys is the last de jure Targaryen. It's later revealed that Jon Snow is actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.

* BenevolentBoss: She is usually this to her subjects. She treats them more like friends or even family than servants at times, and will go out of her way to protect them and right wrongs done against them. The servants she obtains through slavery she [[SlaveLiberation frees]] and requests that they follow her of their own free will, rather than demanding their loyalty. This tends to [[DevotedToYou greatly]] [[MagneticHero endear her]] to people. That being said, one thing she has ''very'' low tolerance for is betrayal, as Mirri, Doreah, Mossador and Jorah find out [[BewareTheNiceOnces the hard way.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Has a minor, but critical, one after taking Meereen, when she's informed that the slavers have retaken Yunkai and Astapor has been taken by someone even worse than the Masters. It's implied that if her successes in Slaver's Bay hadn't evaporated, she might have sailed straight for King's Landing right then. Instead, she decides to stay in Meereen and learn how to be a Queen.

* ObliviousToLove: Takes until mid-Season 2 (and [[EveryoneCanSeeIt half-a-dozen people]] pointing it out first), to start wondering if Jorah Mormont ''is'' in love with her. [[labelnote:From the books...]]She figures it out herself early in ''Literature/AClashOfKings''.[[/labelnote]] And even then, she doesn't appear to ''really'' realize it until Jorah outright tells her he's in love with her midway through Season 6.

* TookALevelInBadass: It's rather doubtful that any other of the show's noble-born girls could adapt to Dothraki culture as well as our [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal dear Dany does]]. Time only empowers a dragon and her [[BullyingADragon antagonists begin to learn it the hard way]]. She gradually gets free of her brother's dominance and outgrows her more prudent advisers. Her badassery rises multiple levels when she awesomely masterminds and leads the Sacking of Astapor and the Conquest of Meereen.
** Embraces her family's words in Season 6, burning down a temple full of khals to assume leadership of the Dothraki, then riding Drogon into battle to torch the slavers' navy, likewise leading the Dothraki against the Lannister-Tarly army aboard dragon-back then later facing-off against the Others themselves.

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%% * GuileHero: Has finally graduated to this as of "And Now His Watch Is Ended".

* TheStoic: For the most part, Dany tries to be as cool as ice when under duress. Though in Season 2 her band is at so much risk of both death and deception that she is reduced to [[NotHelpingYourCase aggressive]] [[AintTooProudToBeg pleading]]. Once she's the Queen of Meereen, Dany must emulate this more than ever before her subjects.
* StylishProtectionGear: She trades the light material dresses she wore in Essos for a [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/1a/dc/8a/1adc8ade77654715e972678cf0efe37b.jpg much warmer but still stylish one]] in Season 7 to adapt to the Westerosi climate and since, well, "Winter is coming".

* SquishyWizard: Dany is a good DragonRider but she's not really trained for actual combat, thus making her vulnerable when not riding any of her dragons.

* PowerOfTrust: Despite claiming to despise her reliance on this. Dany doesn't have much choice but to believe in the loyalty she inspires and capitalize on it in her quest. But a betrayal for blood by Mirri Maz Dur and a betrayal for gold by both Doreah and Xaro have left their marks...

* PrettyInMink: In Season 7 she rides North beyond the wall on dragon back and dresses to the nines to do so in a smoky silver fur overcoat that could perhaps be made from the Hrakkar white lion pelt that Drogo gave her in the books; especially when we see the tail cloak looks to be a type of tiger pelt.

* ShipTease: With Daario Naharis from the end of Season 3 to Season 6 to the point that they become lovers. Unfortunately for him though she is only interested in him for his body and [[ShipSinking the two eventually part ways]] by the end of Season 6.

* ShoulderSizedDragon: One problem of this trope is averted in that she wears an armoured spaulder on her shoulder.

* SlaveLiberation: During the Sacking of Astapor, on a truly massive scale. And again not much later with the Sacking of Yunkai and Meereen.

* TrueBlueFemininity: Despite her house colors being black and red, she occassionally wears blue and white outfits, even if her behavior doesn't always conform to what those tropes symbolize. This is undoubtedly because of the hot climate of Eastern Essos by the Gulf of Grief which is where she wears her blue riding outfit and gown that is associated with her conquest of Meereen.

** Her attempted conquest of Westeros comes back to haunt her in Season Eight. Even though the pressing threat is the Night King and his army there are still smoldering resentments amongst the nobility both over her entitlement and all the people she killed both in battle and for refusing to bend the knee to her -- those people had friends and families.

** Her attempted conquest of Westeros comes back to hunt her in Season Eight. Even though the pressing threat is the Night King and his army there are still smoldering resentments amongst the nobility both over her entitlement and all the people she killed both in battle and for refusing to bend the knee to her -- those people had friends and families.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Despite liberating the slaves in Astapor and Yunkai, those two cities end up back in the hands of despots as soon as she moves along. In Meereen, her negligent care of her dragons has caused collateral damage. Furthermore, her BlackAndWhiteMorality approach to punishing the Masters has resulted in the deaths of some of the more sympathetic political figures as well. Leaving her dragons unattended leads to the death of a three year old girl.

** {{Averted}} however with her nickname "Dany" since the last person who called her by that name was her abusive older brother Viserys. When [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] calls her by that name she lightly tells him in no uncertain terms that she is uncomfortable having someone she cares about call her by that name.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Dany's great love was her husband Khal Drogo, a tough warrior, barbarian, rapist, and pillager. Later, she gets hot for amoral mercenary Daario Naharis, who first gets her attention by bringing severed heads of her enemies to her. On the other hand, her loyal friend and advisor Ser Jorah Mormont's feelings for her are so unrequited that he is dubbed [[DoggedNiceGuy "Lord Friendzone"]] by the fandom, and her almost second husband, Hizdahr zo Loraq, a non-fighter and probably the most decent guy of them, is a straight-up TheChewToy, subjected by Daenerys to AndNowYouMustMarryMe for political reasons, but she blatantly states that she won't be faithful to him and seems to take pleasure from watching Daario bully Hizdahr right next to her. [[spoiler: This is finally averted in Season 7 when she meets Jon Snow and the two [[SecondLove slowly fall in love with each other]] due in part because of Jon's strong character, his earnest desire to save the entire world, and his displeasure in killing despite his talent for it.]]

* ArbitrarySkepticism: She falls victims to this in Season 7 when she dismisses Jon Snow's warnings about the Night's King and the White Walkers coming from the North in the same conversation where she boasts about achieving several things that were thought to have been not possible, like proving dragons still exist. Although in all fairness, according to Tyrion, its very likely she doesn't ''want'' to admit its true because of how much it inconveniences her goals since she has invested too much suffering and time to come to Westeros only to be told that there's another bigger war North of them, and that her current conflict, which she has dedicated her entire life to, i.e. taking Westeros back and winning the Iron Throne, is meaningless. As the series progresses, [[spoiler:she is a SkepticNoLonger after being summoned to save the Wight Hunt expedition from the undead]].

* ArchEnemy: To the Slave Masters during her campaign to liberate Slaver's Bay, to Cersei Lannister for her bid to retake the Iron throne, and to [[spoiler:The Night King after he killed Viserion.]]

* BerserkButton: Harming or stealing her dragons. She considers them to be her children, and fucking with them will land you at the top of her shit list. For example, she locked Doreah and Xaro in a vault to rot after they took her dragons, and the Night King became her primary enemy after [[spoiler:he kills Viserion]].

* BigGood: To her followers, since she is able to unite them and work together because they genuinely believe that she can make the world a better place and Tyrion fears that if she dies, everything will crumble to dust. By the end of Season 7, [[spoiler:she evolved into this role for all of Westeros, since she leads the alliance of the living against the White Walkers with Jon deferring his authority to her and Cersei sitting back and waiting for her enemies to kill each other off just so she can remain on the throne]].

** Her father becomes this to her '''big time'''. She grew up believing that all the rumors about the "Mad King" were {{malicious slander}} spread by Aerys II's enemies and that he was a beloved ruler, mostly because this is what Viserys told her and she doesn’t know any better. Ser Barristan and Tyrion eventually tell her upfront that her father [[TheCaligula more than earned his name]] and was one of [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating the worst kings]] Westeros ever had, horrifying her. By Season 7, she is absolutely determined not to become like her father, calling him an "evil man" and apologizing to [[spoiler: Jon Snow]] for her father's crimes.
** Jorah Mormont, her oldest and closest friend/advisor, becomes this to her in Season 4, when she learns he spied on her for Westeros and never intended to come clean to her about it. She banishes him on pain of death, although her feelings for him are still quite complicated. It becomes a RebuiltPedestal by the end of Season 5 after he goes to greats efforts to re-earn her trust and saves her life, and she willingly takes him back into her service [[spoiler: in Season 7]].

* DudeMagnet: So far over the series, she's attracted several men, including [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Drogo]], [[BodyguardCrush Jorah]], Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Daario Naharis, and Hizdar Zo Loraq. Euron Greyjoy's initial plans were to seduce her with the Iron Fleet. She even inspires a prostitute in Volantis to copy her look for more customers! Yara Greyjoy also exhibits the hots for her, and while it's clearly platonic, Tyrion is also clearly smitten by her. Davos also notices that [[spoiler:Jon Snow was, ahem, [[DistractedByTheSexy staring at her]] heart]].

* TheFettered: An interesting example. Daenerys' personality is actually more suited to be TheUnfettered, particularly when things aren't going her way. But she is aware of this, and aware it's a problem. So she actively cultivates a fettered personality and surrounds herself with advisors who are also TheFettered to keep her darker tendencies in check. One reason she started to like [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] is because he advised her not what to do, but what would be crossing the line.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Drogo and Daario who are both at least six feet tall. [[spoiler:Averted with [[SecondLove Jon Snow]] however, who is not as tall as Drogo and Darrio, standing several inches taller than Daenerys.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Upon meeting [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] she tries to get him to bend the knee by citing the oath his ancestors made. The moment he replies with the atrocities her father committed, she asks him not to judge her by her father's sins. It's such a blatant show of hypocrisy that even [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] himself [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it immediately afterwards.

* IAmNotMyFather: Says this word-for-word in 'The House of Black and White'. Dany seems genuinely disturbed as Ser Barristan describes the atrocities of the Mad King. This trope is a key element in Tyrion throwing his support behind her. She also stuns [[spoiler:Jon Snow when she openly declares that her father was an evil man]].

* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Strongly implied to be the case with [[spoiler: Jon Snow]]. In her marriage to Drogo, she had him wrapped around her little finger, while her lover Daario was her subordinate who pledged his service and heart to her. In contrast, [[spoiler: Jon]] refuses to bend the knee to her, talks back to her and straight-up defies her on a number of occasions. Though [[BelligerentSexualTension annoyed by it, she's also quietly impressed]] by his steadfastness and becomes more attracted to him by the minute.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: In Season 1, when Drogo declares he will conquer Westeros after a botched assassination on Daenerys, she looks positively ''aroused''. Happens again when Daario kills a Meereenese champion on her behalf. This is averted with [[spoiler: Jon Snow; when he remarks that he doesn't like killing even though he's good at it, she seems quite [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan intrigued]]]].
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:She vows to destroy the Night's King and stop him by any means necessary after he murdered her dragon Viserion]].

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:The Season 6 finale reveals her eldest brother Rhaegar was the biological father of Jon Snow, making Daenerys Jon's aunt. Her poor mother Queen Rhaella had ''seventeen years'' of miscarriages and still-births between Rhaegar and Viserys and then another eight year gap before conceiving Dany. Rhaella finally gives birth to her only living daughter Daenerys [[http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1040/ approximately 8 to 9 months after]] Lyanna Stark gave birth to her son Jon, resulting in Jon being slightly older than Daenerys.]]

** Interestingly, Dany comes off as a colonizing force ''to Westeros'' (which is coded white in the show). She is painted by Cersei and others as a conquering foreign barbarian. Even the North, and Ser Davos, are wary about her armies, dragons and her family line due to the actions of Aerys Targaryen. [[spoiler:While Dany and Jon Snow agree children are not to blame for the sins of their father and he recognizes her morals are good, he is initially reluctant to bend the knee to her since the North won't want to submit to a foreign ruler]]. Dany even uses the classic imperialist justification, namely by reminding everyone WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She had a stillborn son with Khal Drogo. [[spoiler:Later on she is ForcedToWatch as Viserion, one of her beloved Dragons whom she considers a son, is killed by the Night King.]]

** The Lannisters rob and loot the Reach of its wealth and food, and brazenly take out her allies. So she responds by more or less [[spoiler:massacring their army with the Dothraki and Drogon, charbroiling most of the soldiers]].

* SecondLove: Daenerys and [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] become this for each other in Season 7 after the deaths of their {{First Love}}s earlier on in the series.

** Come Season 7, she gets it again with [[spoiler:Jon Snow before they eventually [[SecondLove fall in love]]]].

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: While Daenerys seems to gravitate towards lovers with a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys darker edge to them]] for the majority of the series, she eventually [[SecondLove falls in love]] with the noble, earnest, and honourable [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] over the course of Season 7.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:With Jon Snow in the Season 7 finale]].

* WinterRoyalLady: The outfit she wears [[spoiler:when goes to save Jon's expedition beyond the Wall]] is evocative of this.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: In Season 1, when Drogo declares he will conquer Westeros after a botched assassination on Daenerys, she looks positively ''aroused''. Happens again when Daario kills a Meereenese champion on her behalf.

* StockholmSyndrome: After the death of Khal Drogo, she continues to speak his name with respect, and shows a great fondness and affection for his memory, seeming to forget that he was a savage marauder that fully supported rape, slavery, and senseless slaughter. He was basically the antithesis of everything Dany stands for but without his influence she wouldn't be the woman who had made it back to her home shores.

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