History Characters / GameOfThronesJaimeLannister

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After snatching a sword from Brienne and freeing himself, Jaime challenges her to a sword fight. Being malnourished and weakened from his time as a prisoner of war, the battle goes decidedly in Brienne's favour.

* BrilliantButLazy:Jaime understands the cunning and machinations of other people who play the game of thrones, and is actually quite intelligent in his own right.

* BrilliantButLazy:

** Myrcella is his in Season 5, going all the way to Dorne with only Bronn for backup specifically to rescue her, [[OverprotectiveDad showing subtle disapproval at seeing her kissing Trystane]] and generally worrying a lot about her wellbeing. Sadly, she dies just after he admits he's her real father.

* RedemptionQuest: After returning to King's Landing, he's making more of an effort to live up to his vows and duties as a Knight, telling people who consider him a failure and has-been that he still has time left.
** More specifically, while Catelyn didn't intend for it to be his redemption quest, seeing him as beyond redemption, after losing his hand and growing close with Brienne, Jaime shows a sincere desire to want to return Catelyn's daughters back to her. After Catelyn's death, he sends Brienne to keep them protected from Cersei and anyone who might hurt them.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Breaks Tyrion out of the dungeons and helps him escape being executed for a crime he did not commit. In Season 7, he walks out on the Queen that he loves and pledged to serve after she decides to leave Westeros to die in order to go aid the North.

** In Season 6, his first action upon arriving at the Riverlands (after taking Black Walder down a peg) is to order Edmure Tully bathed and fed. In the next episode, when Brienne offers him back the sword that he gave her, Oathkeeper; he gently declines, affirming that it's ''hers'' and always will be.

** Jaime insistence on leading an army to kill the High Sparrow for retribution of Cersei's torture at his hands. Because Tommen ended up pledging his allegance to him, Jaime ends up getting his title stripped and exiled from King's Landing.

-->'''Brienne''': [[ZombieApocalypse This goes beyond honour and Houses and oaths!]] Talk to the Queen.
-->'''Jaime''': And tell her ''what''?

* {{Forgiveness}}: Despite the terrible things he's done for his family, and the whole pushing Bran out of the window, [[spoiler:in season 8 Brienne forgives him for giving Riverrun to the Freys and enabling Cersei, because he came to the North alone to fight and abandon his toxic family. Jon doesn't care about personal grudges because the Night King is coming, and while Bran knows who pushed him, Bran doesn't tell anyone because he's no longer angry and Jaime is needed for the battle. Averted with Sansa and Dany; Dany makes it clear that she would like to act out the revenge plots that she and Viserys concocted for the man that killed her father, and Sansa glares at him when she recounts how he killed Jory and attacked Ned. The only reason they agree to pardon him for now is because he came to fight, and because Brienne assures them Jaime is too honorable to be a FakeDefector]].

* UnresolvedSexualTension: By mid-Season 3, his relationship with Brienne approaches that of an old married couple, and when they eventually have a quite affectionate reunion on Season 6, [[ShipperOnDeck Bronn wonders if they are fucking]]. [[spoiler:In Season 8, [[TheyDo the tension is conclusively resolved]].]]

* BadassInCharge: As Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and one of the best fighters in the show, prior to losing his sword fight he only struggled against Ned Stark due to the latter being an AdaptationalBadass whilst he's pretty average in the books.

** He relentlessly mocks the laws of gods and men. Is known for being a pretty bad guy but has a far more cruel older sibling (Cersei is the older twin). Is a very skilled swordsman and while he claims to not care about others he risks his life for a female companion. Jaime Lannister or Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane? Oddly they've never interacted on screen apart from being in the same room when Robert comes to Winterfell.

** His love for his sister ultimately proves to be a literal FatalFlaw

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** Doesn't have a high opinion of the ironborn and has reservations about Cersei's alliance with Euron Greyjoy.

** [[spoiler:After a RedemptionRejection, breaking his own and Breiene’s hearts, getting mortally wounded by Euron Greyjoy, and searching as hard as he can for Cersei to try to save her, all he accomplishes is dying with her when the Red Keep collapses.]]

** When Robert demands to know what the Mad King's last words where when Jaime betrayed him, Jaime responds, "He said the [[MadnessMantra same thing he'd been saying for hours]]. [[KillEmAll Burn them all.]]," which tells the viewers that the death of this King was by no means a tragedy.

** The death of the Mad King Aerys Targaryen II at his hands: Turns out that instead of switching sides at the last minute like his father did, the ''real'' reason he killed Aerys was to prevent Aerys from using wildfire to [[KillEmAll annihilate]] [[TakingYouWithMe everyone]] in King's Landing as a final act of spite against his enemies. One of his most truly noble and selfless acts resulted in everyone derisively referring to him as "Kingslayer". That's part of the reason he's become so bitter and lacking in empathy towards others.

* SmugSnake: Until losing his sword hand, he is smug and arrogant about his sword abilities. To be fair, he has more to be smug about than [[TheMillstone Cersei and Joffrey]].

-->'''Jaime:''' King in the North! or another for safekeeping but you just drag me along camp to camp. Have you grown fond of me Stark, is that it? I've never seen you with a girl.

** When Robb confronts Jaime about Stannis' accusations that "Robert's" children with Cersei are bastards born of her incest with Jaime, Jaime notes that if such an accusation were true, that would make Stannis the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, "how convenient for him." He also notes Robb has no proof of this, nor does Stannis, so it might as well just be gossip.

* {{Forgiveness}}: Despite the terrible things he's done for his family, and the whole pushing Bran out of the window, [[spoiler:in season 8 Brienne forgives him for giving Riverrun to the Freys and enabling Cersei, because he came to the North alone to fight and abandon his toxic family. Jon doesn't care about personal grudges because the Night King is coming, and while Bran knows who pushed him, Bran doesn't tell anyone because he's no longer angry and Jaime is needed for the battle. Averted with Sansa and Dany; Dany makes it clear that she would like to act out the revenge plots that she and Viserys contacted for the man that killed her father, and Sansa glares at him when she recounts how he killed Jory and attacked Ned. The only reason they agree to pardon him for now is because he came to fight, and because Brienne assures them Jaime is too honorable to go FakeDefector]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: In Season 2, Tywin says that Jaime has an affliction where he "switched the letters in his brain" when he tries to read, implying that he's dyslexic. This is taken from the books as well.

* LIsForDyslexia: When he was a boy. Lord Tywin was undeterred, however, by the Maester's diagnosis and sat him down for four hours every day until he learned. For this, Jaime resented his father for a long time.
** If you listen closely enough in "You Win or You Die", Jaime has a slight bit of trouble reading Ned Stark's letter to Tywin summoning him to court; he pauses at certain words and sounds out every syllable as a child would, an interesting and realistic contrast to his spoken eloquence. As he points out to Locke, he learned a lot of fancy words during those sessions with his father, but it doesn't mean reading's necessarily easy.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Jaime's character arc and motivations are wholly original to Martin, but his position within House Lannister (in tandem with his key character trait of incest with Cersei) harkens back to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boleyn,_Viscount_Rochford George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford]]. The man was the brother of UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn who was accused with incest with her and executed for it. George was a fixture of the Tudor court from the age of 10 under UsefulNotes/HenryVIII, and would enjoy its comforts throughout his rise and fall--much like Jaime would have the honor of Kingsguardship under Aerys II, Robert, Joffrey and Tommen. George himself is an ArrogantKungFuGuy when it comes to both politics and the knightly pursuits--one that credibly describes Jaime in Season 1 until his CharacterDevelopment kicked in.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Mostly because he'd been chained up with inadequate food and exercise prior to his journey with Brienne, making him completely out of practice, and he still has chains on his wrists and ankles when he instigates the fight. [[labelnote:In the books...]]The fight in the books is much closer; Jaime holds his own and even gains the upper hand (despite the presence of his manacles) until he realizes that in his weakened state, Brienne is stronger than him (this is notable, because his great physical strength has been mentioned before). The fight goes on until he slips on wet stones, allowing Brienne to get a victory... just before the Bloody Mummers show up. [[/labelnote]]

* {{Foil}}: To Ned and, later, Brienne; his code of flexible morality contrasts their [[HonorBeforeReason strict adherence]] to their own code of honor. The insults and disrespect he gets when returning to his family, are very similar to what Theon experienced when returning to Pyke.