History Characters / GameOfThronesWildlings

* TheSouthpaw: Orell is left-handed.

* VillainousIncest: Marries and rapes his daughters on a routinely basis.

* AngstWhatAngst: She came into the world as the result of one or two generations of incest in. Her world was effectively “rape, snow, and incest” until Sam shows up. When she starts following Sam along on his travels, she’s shockingly well-adjusted, intelligent (despite not being educated), and thanks to the actress, pretty and charming. Other characters have endured less and came out far worse.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After being captured, he immediately assumes the Night's Watch [[ColdBloodedTorture is going to torture him to death]], as that's what Wildlings often do to their prisoners. He seems surprised when Jon Snow tells him he won't be tortured. In fairness, given the KnightsTemplar-style brutality and FantasticRacism of the Night's Watch's more extreme members, its very likely that this would have been the case if they didn't have Jon leading them.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: After being captured, he immediately assumes the Night's Watch [[ColdBloodedTorture is going to torture him to death]], as that's what Wildlings often do to their prisoners. He seems surprised when Jon Snow tells him he won't be tortured. In fairness, he likely also spent his entire life hearing false stories about the Night's Watch that exaggerated their brutality.

-->''"My ancestors would spit on me if I broke bread with a crow."''
--> Karsi: ''"So would mine, but fuck 'em, they're dead."''

* SacrificialLamb: Her death is used to make a point of how screwed everyone is.

!!!'''Played By:''' Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

* BadassGrandpa: In Season 2, Mormont says Jon's not fit to accompany Qhorin's scouts by pointing out that he got disarmed and beaten bloody by "an old man". In-universe MemeticBadass Qhorin Halfhand immediately calls Craster "a tough old goat", suggesting that there's no shame in being beaten by him.

* BadassGrandpa: One neither lives to old age or becomes chief without being formidable.

* BadassBoast: See his page quote above.

* FingerlessGloves: Craster is usually seen wearing these.

* InformedAttribute: The Night's Watch supposedly turns a blind eye to Craster's incest and filicides because he's "useful" to the Rangers, with his farmstead serving as a place to shelter and re-supply whilst scouting beyond the Wall. Given the lackluster quality of "help" demonstrated during the first three seasons, and the fact that his precious Keep could have been run without him by his daughters or even a dedicated contingent of Night's Watch, it comes off as more than a little hard to swallow for many viewer.

* SheCleansUpNicely: She gets to wear more clean and organize clothing the moment she leaves South of the Wall with Sam.

* OneManArmy: Tormund proves himself to be one by singlehandedly racking up more kills during the Battle of Castle Black than most of his comrades combined. As of the end of Season 6, he is responsible for 29 onscreen deaths, 10 at the Battle of Castle Black.

* UncertainDoom: The final scene of Season 7 has him and Beric unaccounted for when the Night King breaks through the Wall.

* SparedByAdaptation: In the books, Orell was one of the Wildlings in Ygritte's scouting party and was actually killed by Jon when their group was found and killed (except for Ygritte, who was spared by Jon) by Qhorin Halfhand's ranging party. He dies in a similar manner to his book counterpart in "The Rains of Castamere".

* CrowbarCombatant: Wields a crowbar at the Battle of Castle Black, and tries to force the gate to Castle Black from the side while his mammoth pulls the gate out.

* ActionGirl: She's a skilled and dangerous fighter. She actually does very well against the Wights, and only dies because she froze up at the sight of undead children.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: By the end of season 7 he's somehow still a baby, although three or four years have passed.

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that book!Tormund was a push-over, but show!Tormund one-ups him by being an absolute ''monster'' on the field, single-handedly racking up more onscreen kills during the Battle of Castle Black than most of the other Wildlings combined.

** His role as a BoisterousBruiser BigGuy fighting to free the North from the Boltons during Season 6 brings to mind Mors Umber -- another massively bearded, fur-clad berserker of the frozen North. Interestingly, show!Tormund kills Mor's grandnephew at the Battle of the Bastards.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While not unattractive, Book!Ygritte is described as having crooked teeth and a pug nose.

* AdaptationalVillainy: There is no mention of Book!Ygritte aiding another wildling band to kill innocent villagers before the battle.

* BornLucky: Tormund has been involved in more battles than the majority of the characters (Castle Black, Hardhome, Winterfell, the journey beyond the Wall), and survived all of them. While this is mostly due to his ''tremendous'' fighting ability, a lot of the time it can be chalked up to him being extremely lucky.

** The Battle of Winterfell ends with him and Gendry standing AtopAMountainOfCorpses; how he managed to survive ''that'' particular battle likely just gives even more credence to his earlier claim of being "good at killing people".

* PluckyComicRelief: Tormund’s eccentricities are the show’s primary source of humor in the later seasons.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Agrees to work with the Night's Watch to fight the white walkers, and agrees to join Jon's army to protect his people.

** He starts to slowly seethe with anger when he listens to Jon reading Ramsay's threatening letter about how the psychopath will slaughter every last Free Folk and allow his men to gang rape Sansa. Despite it not being his battle, he immediately asks Sansa how many men Ramsay has, eager to go to war and help Jon put the bastard in his place.

* WomenAreWiser: She is apparently the only female clanleader and she is easily the smartest and most reasonable one among them.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:After the Long Night's ended, he takes his people (and Ghost) back beyond the Wall]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After fighting tooth and nail against the Wights and the very environment itself to survive, the Wildlings make peace with the people south of the Wall, defeat a once-presumed unstoppable foe in the Night King, and are given freedom to roam as far south as they like. They prefer their True North, anyway.]]

** They also have some parralels with the Inuits, both being highly adapted to living in extreme cold.

** Crastur's tribe consists entirely of him and his wives, he marries his female offspring and gives his sons to the Night King. His daughters seem to believe the Walkers are Gods.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After taking part in ''four'' different major battles in the series, and holding the fort against the initial waves of the Long Night, dodging dozens upon ''dozens'' of near-death experiences, Tormund ''finally'' sees the peace and freedom his people have always wanted. He is more or less the unspoken leader of the Freefolk, seen as a stalwart ally of the North. At the end of the series he is gifted [[CanineCompanion Ghost]], and the two are reunited with Jon Snow.]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: Tends to get people's names or nicknames wrong a lot becuase he either doesn't know or doesn't care to learn them. For example, he called Sandor "the Dog", and Brienne "the big woman".

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:He's reduced to drunken sobbing when Brienne choses Jaime over him after The Battle For The Dawn. Luckily a nearby servant girl with the hots for Wildlings is able to distract him from his sorrows.]]

* TheGlomp: He comes flying at Jon out of nowhere and hugs him so hard he literally [[MusicalisInterruptus tackles the background music off]] upon his return to Winterfell after the Wall is breached. Not that Jon seems to mind, since he returns the hug.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: After the Battle of Winterfell, Tormund is boasting proudly to a group of free folk during their celebratory feast about [[FireForgedFriends Jon]] and goes over their history, finishing with his admiration that Jon had the balls to climb on a dragon, something a madman or a King would do. During his declarations, he doesn't notice that Daenerys, Mother of Dragons, is sitting a few feet away, listening to the conversation, but her expertise in dragon riding is not addressed.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Stannis attacks the Wildlings in a pincer move, Mance quickly realizes there's no hope of co-ordinating his army in time to mount even a half-capable defence. Their lines were already broken by an enemy they didn't expect, and to prevent unnecessary bloodshed, Mance quickly surrenders.

** The Battle of Winterfell ends with him and Gendry standing AtopAMountainOfCorpses:; how he managed to survive ''that'' particular battle likely just gives even more credence to his earlier claim of being "good at killing people".

* CompositeCharacter: The man Jon believes to be Mance in the books is Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, whose first appearance has been pushed back to Season 4. Styr also leads the climbing of the Wall. In the books, Tormund escapes after the assault on Castle Black, having been on the side of the Haunted Forest, but in the series, since he's part of the raid storming, he's captured for questioning instead of Rattleshirt. He also takes the role of Brienne's AbhorrentAdmirer from Ser Hyle Hunt, though they share little else in common (Hunt being a southron knight who feels he's "settling" for Brienne, while Tormund is a Wildling who proudly admits to being a AmazonChaser).

* InnocentlyInsensitive: After the Battle of Winterfell, Tormund is boasting proudly to a group of Free Folk during their celebratory feast about how awesome Jon is, especially for having the balls to ride a dragon, something a madman or a King would do. During his speech, he doesn't notice that Daenarys is sitting a few feet away, seething silently with indignation and hurt, since ''she'' has been riding dragons for a while now, and yet this does not get acknowledged at all. [[spoiler:This starts Daenarys down the path to becoming the Mad Queen...]]

-->'''Tormund''': Snow, did you love her? She loved you.
-->'''Jon Snow''': She told you?
-->'''Tormund''': ''[shakes his head and chuckles]'' All she ever talked about was killing you, that's how I knew.

--> ''Tormund''': You got the "North" in you. The ''real'' "North".

** Turns into full-blown UndyingLoyalty come Season 6. When the Wildling leaders are hesitant to follow Jon, Tormund is noticeably annoyed and gives them a DareToBeBadass to get them to go along with the plan to take back Winterfell.

* TheGlomp: He comes flying at Jon out of nowhere and hugs him so hard he literally [[MusicalisInterruptus tackles the background music off]] upon his return to Winterfell after the Wall is breached.

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