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* AdaptationalHeroism: Extremely downplayed, but it's implied that Roose in the book was already making moves to undermine Robb as early as The Battle of the Green Fork, throwing Stark loyalists into the proverbial meat grinder while preserving his own forces. Here, Roose only started turning against Robb as soon as the Northern cause was lost.



** Also when Robb help Talisa take care a Lannister footsoldier.

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** Also when Robb help helps Talisa take care a Lannister footsoldier.



** When Ramsay's sadism threatens to embarrass the Boltons in front of Sansa, Roose takes the opportunity to announce that Walda is carrying his child, letting Ramsay know just how precarious his status as heir really is.

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** When Ramsay's sadism threatens to embarrass the Boltons in front of Sansa, Roose takes the opportunity to announce that Walda is carrying his child, letting Ramsay know just how precarious his status as heir really is. This ends up backfiring when Ramsay decides to kill Roose, Walda and their child so as to preserve his position.
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** When he and Rickard Karstark survey the carnage Gregor Clegane left at Harrelhal, slaughtering all the northern prisoners and leaving them for Robb's armies to find, he consoles Rickard "the debt will be repaid, my friend. For them, and for your sons."
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* FatalFlaw: His underestimation of just how psychotic and remorseless Ramsay truly is. He is well aware that Ramsay is a psychotic idiot whose antics weaken House Bolton's position, but he continues to keep Ramsay close and enable him as he believes Ramsay would never betray him. Unfortunately, he never considered that Ramsay's loyalty only went as far as his certainty that he was Roose's heir.

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* FatalFlaw: His underestimation of just how psychotic and remorseless Ramsay truly is.is and arrogantly thinking he could control him. He is well aware that Ramsay is a psychotic idiot whose antics weaken House Bolton's position, but he continues to keep Ramsay close and enable him as he believes Ramsay would never betray him. Unfortunately, he never considered that Ramsay's loyalty only went as far as his certainty that he was Roose's heir.



* AssholeVictim: Her death was very much deserved and no one wastes any time pretending to be very sad about it.

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* AssholeVictim: Her death was very much deserved and no one wastes any time pretending to be very sad about it. Except for Ramsay...kind of.

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* FatalFlaw: His blind spot toward Ramsay. He is well aware that Ramsay is a psychotic idiot whose antics weaken House Bolton's position, but he continues to keep Ramsay close and enable him as he believes Ramsay would never betray him. Unfortunately, he never considered that Ramsay's loyalty only went as far as his certainty that he was Roose's heir.

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* FatalFlaw: His blind spot toward Ramsay.underestimation of just how psychotic and remorseless Ramsay truly is. He is well aware that Ramsay is a psychotic idiot whose antics weaken House Bolton's position, but he continues to keep Ramsay close and enable him as he believes Ramsay would never betray him. Unfortunately, he never considered that Ramsay's loyalty only went as far as his certainty that he was Roose's heir.


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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He betrayed Robb Stark, and personally stabbed him in the chest to finish him off. His son Ramsay eventually does the same when he stupidly rubs in Ramsay's bastardy one too many times. [[AssholeVictim A fitting end for such a loathsome character.]]
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* TheArcher: She's extremely competent with a bow, which appears to be her weapon of choice.
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** Roose also believes that the outlandish stories of his family's cruelties were made up by his ancestors themselves to make themselves even more fearsome.
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* DirtyCoward: Downplayed, he sells out Robb Stark during the Red Wedding to save his skin and his house but otherwise he participates in the battles unlike [[spoiler:Walder Frey.]]

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* DirtyCoward: Downplayed, he sells out Robb Stark during the Red Wedding to save his skin and his house (and even runs for it before the massacre begins) but otherwise he participates in the battles unlike [[spoiler:Walder Frey.]]

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* FedToTheBeast: When Lady Walda asked where Roose was, she was taken by Ramsay to the kennels. Poor Roose was fed to the dogs just like all of Ramsay's vicitms


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* FedToTheBeast: When Lady Walda asked where Roose was, she was taken by Ramsay to the kennels. Poor Roose was fed to the dogs just like all of Ramsay's vicitms
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* FedToTheBeast: When Lady Walda asked where Roose was, she was taken by Ramsay to the kennels. Poor Roose was fed to the dogs just like all of Ramsay's vicitms

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