History Characters / GameOfThronesDaenerysTargaryen

* DeterminedWidow: Drogo's death galvanizes her into action, first by hatching the eggs, and culminating (for now) in the conquest of Slaver's Bay.

* CoolPet: At first, her infant three dragons are cute and entirely dependent upon her.

** [[spoiler:While she eventually tried to consolidate her power on the road to King's Landing, her foreign-ness from the Westerosi and key episodes of betrayal eventually drove her to alienate not only the nobility, but also the common folk--much as [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the other would-be Queen Regnant, Rhaenyra]], ended up doing]].

* AdaptationalSeriousness: TV Daenerys is almost always grave, with the showrunners reportedly having even directed Emilia Clarke not to smile in some scenes. Book Daenerys is allowed to be light-hearted more often, with George Martin even citing her sense of humor as a reason he would choose Daenerys if he had to go on vacation with an ASoIaF character.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: It's only when Dany teaches Drogo to have sex with her as an equal does she get pregnant. She later also has a healthy sex life with Daario Naharis who while not good is moderated into a more righteous path during their relationship.

** Fourth by the widows of the Dosh Khaleen, who get their rocks off by giving Dany's pride yet another kicking, forcibly relieving Dany of her tattered queenly raiment and adornment. She still takes it better than Cersei does in the books though, settling for a DeathGlare to all present and not fighting them tooth and nail to preserve her modesty.

* BeautifulElite: Considered to be one of the most beautiful woman in the world and is born into Westeros' ruling dynasty. She also conquers an empire that straddles two continents.

* AmbiguousDisorder: In the latter half of Season 8 and especially "The Bells", she displays symptoms reminiscent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, including social isolation, mistrust towards others, irritability, depression, insomnia and loss of appetite. [[spoiler:During the fifth episode, she appears to have a complete mental breakdown and succumbs to the so-called 'Targaryen madness', going on a rampage through King's Landing.]]

* MysticalWhiteHair: A definitive feature of her family's ancestry and one of her most notable physical features.

* IdiotBall: "''Dany sort of forgot about the Iron Fleet...''" As a consequence of her conveniently forgetting them in Season 8, even though Varys had reminded her and several other people they were a threat in the same episode, [[spoiler: Euron is able to sneak attack her as she returns to Dragonstone, killing Rhaegal, capturing Missandei (who is then executed) and destroying a portion of Dany's fleet. This ends up being one of the catalysts for her downward spiral into madness and mass murder in the following episode]].

* ShamefulStrip: The widows of the Dosh Khaleen get their rocks off by giving Dany's pride yet another kicking, forcibly relieving Dany of her tattered queenly raiment and adornment. She still takes it better than Cersei does in the books though, settling for a DeathGlare to all present and not fighting them tooth and nail to preserve her modesty.

* TookALevelInBadass: 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 White Walkers themselves.

* AttemptedRape: In Season 6, Khal Moro makes it clear he intends to bed her whether she wants it or not. She's able to deter him by revealing she is the widow of Khal Drogo, as it's forbidden to lay with a former khaleesi. After deciding Daenerys won't become ''dosh khaleen'', however, Moro tells her he and the other khals will take turms raping her, [[UpToEleven then give her to their bloodriders and then their horses "if there's anything left."]] Daenerys remains [[DissonantSerenity remarkably calm and even smiles]] in the face of such threats, as unbeknownst to them she's already enacted her escape plan. It doesn't end well for Moro and his buddies.

** Cranked UpToEleven whenever she [[SnarkToSnarkCombat debates Tyrion]].

* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: At the end of ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' all of her hair is burned off when she survives stepping into Drogo's funeral pyre; it starts slowly growing back by ''Literature/AClashOfKings''. In the show, her hair is left untouched and she has RapunzelHair all throughout the show.

* RapunzelHair: In later seasons, her long silver hair has grown to just above her waist, which provides [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/03/33/62/0333624d61e150c72b9b39ca108094dd.jpg an interesting parallel]] to the Dothraki tradition of undefeated warriors having uncut hair.

* AdultFear: In "Baelor", a seemingly minor wound Drogo sustained festers and sickens him to the point that he falls from his horse. Jorah tells Daenerys that if Drogo dies or doesn't recover, the khalasar will splinter and fight amongst themselves for power, as "a khal that cannot ride is no khal". Not only will Daenerys lose her husband, but also any influence she has, with Jorah bluntly telling her that the new khal/khals will murder her baby son the moment he's born to remove a potential rival. It's not too surprising she [[GodzillaThreshold gets desperate enough]] to use forbidden blood magic to try and save Drogo's life.

** [[spoiler:Image-wise, her rallying the other noble houses against a "mad" regent identified with wildfire usage (i.e. Cersei) is an inversion of Robert's Rebellion, the very event that drove her away from Westeros. However, much like that Rebellion's Sack of King's Landing, [[SheWhoFightsMonsters she also became complicit]] [[FullCircleRevolution with the murder]] [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene of thousands of civilians when she rained dragonfire on them]]]].

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* KnightTemplar: Throughout the series, Daenerys repeatedly demonstrates a preference for justice over mercy when dealing with enemies and traitors, though her advisors are sometimes able to talk her down. [[spoiler:In the end of Season 8, blinded by rage and grief, she burns down a city full of innocents to "free them from the grip of the tyrant". She is now convinced that she is the bearer of justice entitled to carry out NecessaryEvil, and others don't get to choose, just like her late father. Lampshaded in regards to both of them:]]

* MoralDissonance:
** She has shades of this. Like her brother, she seems to be under the impression that she has the moral high ground among all the Iron Throne's claimants simply because she's a Targaryen -- completely overlooking (until Jorah corrects her) the fact that her ancestors took the Seven Kingdoms not because they had any right to them but because they ''could''. And because they had dragons. Even after, she still has a bit of a self-centered streak about her -- which seems to be a common flaw amongst her family. Despite this, Dany possesses the very valuable trait of listening to and taking advice from others (even if she can be stubborn about her own plans at times), which helps her maintain good relationships with most of her allies and subjects.
** Shows some signs of occasionally overlapping with MoralMyopia; in general, her BlackAndWhiteInsanity tends to rear its head in the form of her denouncing those who are against her as "evil" and presuming herself to always be "good". Perhaps the best example of this is in Season 1; she is outraged that Mirri lied to her and arranged for Khal Drogo to be reduced to a living corpse by a supposed "healing" rite that also killed her and Drogo's unborn son, seeing it as a betrayal. Despite the fact that, as Mirri reminds her, Drogo was a bloodthirsty barbarian warlord whose people kill for fun, rape for pleasure, and ravage the land, and in fact, Mirri only wound up in Daenerys's service because Drogo chose to massacre Mirri's village and enslave her for idle amusement. Furthermore, a Khal's son prophesied to lead the Dothraki to extend their bloodthirsty reach to Westeros really would ''not'' be seen as anything less than [[DarkMessiah the spawn of evil]] by anyone other than a Dothraki. Rather than concede that Mirri has a point, she quite understandably has the woman burnt alive as a human sacrifice for reducing her progress to dust.
** [[spoiler: This is explicitly pointed out by Tyrion in the final episode. Throughout the series, Daenerys had many evil men killed, and the people cheered for her because her victims were evil men and she was right. What happens to her when everyone around her treated her as an infallible hero who's always right? She began to believe it. By the time she burns King's Landing and makes plans to continue her crusade across all of Westeros, she makes it clear that because everything she believes is right and justified, she can do whatever she believes has to be done.]]

* FingerlessGloves: She begins wearing these as she integrates herself in Dothraki culture, to protect her hands riding horses all day.

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** [[spoiler: Losing many of her loved ones to either death or betrayal in Season 8 [[{{Understatement}} doesn't exactly do wonders for]] [[AxCrazy her sanity]], either]].

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:To Cersei Lannister. Come Season 8, they've both proved they're willing to burn down cities and kill innocent civilians in their quest for power, and are both consumed with vengeance even it hurts people that haven't wronged them or even backfires on them personally in the long-run. By the season finale, Daenerys might have proved herself ''worse'' than Cersei, since she wants to expand her control beyond Westeros -- for all of Cersei's flaws, she only ever sought to only stay and keep her power rather than TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* SheWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Daenerys descends into this in Season 8. She wants to bring down tyrants like Cersei Lannister and restore order to the realm, but in "The Bells", she takes the Iron Throne by completely torching King's Landing and killing thousands of innocent people, making her NotSoDifferent. In the series finale, Daenerys reveals she believes this is how they 'break the wheel' and how they build a better world.]]