History CruelAndUnusualDeath / GameOfThrones

* [[spoiler: Meryn Trant]] has his {{eye|Scream}}s stabbed out by [[spoiler: Arya]], before [[spoiler: she finishes him by [[SlashedThroat slashing his throat]]]].

* [[spoiler: Ellaria Sand]] is chained up in the Red Keep, ForcedToWatch as her daughter is poisoned with the same one she used to kill [[spoiler: Myrcella]], with Cersei specifically ordering the guards to change the torches every few hours so she doesn't miss a second of watching her favourite child succumb to poison and then slowly rot away as she decomposes.

* Gregor Clegane smashed Prince Aegon's skull. It should be noted that Aegon was only a ''baby''. His mother Elia shared the same fate...after being raped by Gregor, [[UpToEleven whilst he was still covered in her in both her children's blood]].

* Gregor Clegane smashed Prince Aegon's skull.

* Khal Drogo is an expert at inflicting these, from dumping molten gold on your head ("A crown for a king" indeed) to ripping out your tongue for speaking ill of his wife.

* [[spoiler: Stannis has his daughter Shireen burned alive as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light.]]

* [[spoiler: Dany personally burns the khals alive, [[AssholeVictim after they announce their intentions to rape her]].]]

* In "Beyond the Wall", [[spoiler: Viserion is brutally impaled by one of the Night King's icicle spears, and falls into the lake with blood gushing everywhere, likely drowning in the process. His corpse is then dragged out by the undead army and raised as a wight.]]

* Khal Drogo is an expert at inflicting these, from dumping molten gold on your head to ripping out your tongue for speaking ill of his wife.

* [[spoiler: Joffrey]] is killed by a brutal poison that causes bleeding from the eyes, nose, and mouth.

* [[spoiler: Karl Tanner]] is impaled through the head by a Valyrian steel longsword.

* Sandor viciously pushes a hapless mook's face onto a spike several times after he tries to attack Sandor and also implies he would like to rape Arya, and said mook screams ''a lot'' each time.

* Septa Unella was probably [[spoiler:tortured and raped by a zombie Gregor Clegane until she died.]]

* [[spoiler: Obara and Nymeria Sand]] are killed by their own weapons and then [[DeadGuyONpinned to the prow of the ship by her spear and dangling from her whip, respectively.]]

* Sandor viciously pushes a hapless mook's face onto a spike several times, and said mook screams ''a lot'' each time.

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* [[spoiler: Meryn Trant]] has his {{eye|Scream}}s stabbed out by [[spoiler: Arya]], before [[spoiler: she finishes him by [[SlashedThroat slashing his throat]].

* Tansy is torn apart by Ramsay's dogs, seemingly at Myranda's insistence. Thankfully offscreen.

* [[spoiler: Karsi]] gets torn apart by a horde of child wights when she [[WouldntHurtAChild hesitates to attack them]], and [[spoiler:gets raised as a wight]].

* {{Defied|Trope}} by Beric, who refuses to allow [[spoiler:Sandor]] to execute the Brotherhood members on his own terms, which forces [[spoiler:Sandor]] to settle for a hanging that he gets to cause.
* [[spoiler:Smalljon Umber]] first gets his throat ripped out, and is later stabbed multiple times in the face with a dirk while he's still alive.

* [[spoiler:Smalljon Umber]] first gets his throat ripped out, and is later stabbed multiple times while he's still alive.

* [[spoiler: Ramsay Bolton is eaten alive by his own dogs. Granted, it's an incredibly KarmicDeath since he had a habit of feeding other people to the same dogs, they only turned on him because he starved them, he is the show's biggest AssholeVictim by far, and his death occurs due to the actions of Sansa, one of the two living characters in the show who had suffered most as a result of his actions, but it's still an example.]]

* [[spoiler: Ser Rodrik]] ends up being beheaded by [[spoiler:Theon]], but [[spoiler:Theon]] botches it, so it takes three swings and a kick to get his head off.

The show is ''infamous'' for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath these]]. As WebVideo/HonestTrailers put it in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LHmkVqYgKo Game of Thrones Vol. 2]]", "Jeez, where do they go from here?":

The show is ''infamous'' for [[CruelAndUnusualDeath these]]:

* The books' death for [[spoiler:Oberyn]] is bad enough -- having thought that he'd [[spoiler:won the fight against Gregor Clegane, he gets caught off guard and has his face punched in and his brains, teeth, and eyes bashed out. The show actually manages to make this ''infinitely'' worse by actually showing Oberyn ''having his eyes slowly gouged out while his head is being crushed by Clegane's bare hands''. He literally dies screaming in slow, horrific agony before it's interrupted by a sudden jerk from Clegane, a simultaneous eruption of blood from between his hands, and Ellaria shrieking at the sight.]]
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in one instance: [[spoiler:Mance Rayder]] looks like he'll be burned to death, before [[spoiler:Jon]] [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]] with an arrow to the heart.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in one instance: [[spoiler:Mance Rayder]] looks like he'll be burned to death before [[spoiler:Jon]] puts him out of his misery with an arrow to the heart.

* Subverted in one instance: [[spoiler:Mance Rayder]] looks like he'll be burned to death before [[spoiler:Jon]] puts him out of his misery with an arrow to the heart.

* [[spoiler: Karsi]] gets torn apart by a horde of child wights when she [[WouldntHurtAChild hesitates]], and [[spoiler:gets raised as a wight]].

* Defied by Beric, who refuses to allow Sandor to execute the Brotherhood members on his own terms, which forces Sandor to settle for a hanging that he gets to cause.
* [[spoiler:Smalljon Umber]] first gets his throat ripped out, and later is stabbed multiple times while still alive during those stabs.
* Poor [[spoiler:Rickon Stark]] too. While the arrow killed him instantly, think of the psychological torture he had to go through while running to [[spoiler:his brother]].