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* ArcherArchetype:
** Theon demonstrates his archery skills several times, including putting an arrow through the chest of an outlaw and later shooting down the messenger ravens at the Twins. This ultimately comes to a head in "The Long Night", where Theon manages to keep [[spoiler: Bran]] safe with his bow, mowing down ''scores'' of attacking wights, all largely without breaking a sweat. It's safe to say its the only thing he ''doesn't'' screw up in the show.
** Joffrey is obsessed with his crossbow and actually shows impressive aim in "Dark Wings, Dark Words".
** Anguy can angle a shot to come straight down on a target only a few feet in front of him.
** Meera Reed wields a bow and knives instead of her trident from the books.
** [[spoiler:Ramsay]] is shown to be this in "Walk of Punishment", when he shoots all six of the guards about to rape Theon. His hunting partner Myranda is also shown to be very competent with a bow in "The Lion and the Rose." In "Battle of the Bastards," the only weapon Ramsay uses is his bow.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Dothraki are played by actors of all kinds of ethnicity, from Polynesian to Indian to Croatian. The same thing happens with the Dornish characters, who are played by actors with Arab, Lationio, Indian and Maori heritage.

*** Its sheer expense to own is so that only nobles are actually capable of owning said weapons, the material itself is very recognizable (and more importantly valuable) and wondering around with it (without a LOT of guards) is a good way to make every bandit in Westeros try to kill you for it.

* AnythingThatMoves: Oberyn and Ellaria. They even like to share.

** Daenerys seems to be sitting at about [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic Anti-Hero]] at this point. As a whole, she has good morals but also a growing track record of treating her enemies with a [[PayEvilUntoEvil brutality]] that would be hard to forgive if they weren't such [[KickTheSonOfABitch colossal assholes]]. Depending on the viewer, this brutality can even push her into NominalHero territory.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: There are many examples of men in power due to their birth who are (or were) still fearsome fighters. Tyrion even [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this by noting that the social elite get much better equipment and lifelong training.
** Ned chooses to be modest about it, but he can match the prodigious Jaime Lannister and even LivingLegend Barristan Selmy speaks highly of him.
** Jon discovers that as the son of a lord, he can easily outmatch his lowborn fellow recruits because they barely know which end of a sword to hold, whereas Jon has been receiving training from a knight alongside his brother Robb since they were old enough to hold a sword.
** Stannis personally leads his army's assault in "Blackwater" and fights like a OneManArmy.
** [[BoisterousBruiser Greatjon Umber]] initially doubts Robb has this trait, but becomes one of his staunchest supports and the first to [[spoiler:acclaim him king]] after he proves his mettle.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* ArmorPiercingSlap:
** When Viserys gets violent with Daenerys in "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things", she slaps him across the face with a medallion belt, which leaves him speechless.
** Balon's response to his son's IronicEcho is a backhand that sends him halfway across the room.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Being a psuedo-medieval setting predating psychiatry, characters' mental health issues are left entirely undiagnosed in-universe.
** Viserys exhibits the extreme mood swings between rage and depression commonly attributed to bipolar people.
** Cersei's black and white concept of friends and enemies, penchant for risky indulgences like adultery and alcoholism, poor control of her emotions, and difficulty empathizing with others have led to a popular theory that she has Borderline Personality Disorder. WordOfGod is that she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
** Several characters (Joffrey, Ramsay and Euron especially) appear to be sociopaths.
** Tywin all but states that Jaime suffered from dyslexia as a child.
** Stannis Baratheon's personality is blunt and stoic, and he is well-regarded in-universe as a tactician. All this suggests he could be on the Autism spectrum.

* AnAxeToGrind:
** Shagga son of Dolf is mentioned to have insisted on ''two'' battle-axes prior to the Battle of the Green Fork.
** Loras wields an axe during his melee with Brienne.
** Tyrion uses a double-bladed axe to compensate for his stature during the Battle of Blackwater.
** Yara wields a [[DualWielding pair]] of tomahawks in "The Laws of Gods and Men".
** Thenns like Styr and Loboda seem to prefer massive, two-handed axes.
** Sandor uses a wood axe to take vengeance on a group of renegade members of the brotherhood.

* [[AdaptationalAttractiveness/GameOfThrones Adaptational Attractiveness]]

* AgeLift: Has [[AgeLift/GameOfThrones its own page]].

* [[AgeLift/GameOfThrones Age Lift]]

* [[AdaptedOut/GameOfThrones Adapted Out]]

* AdaptationDistillation: Has [[AdaptationDistillation/GameOfThrones its own page]].

* [[AdaptationDistillation/GameOfThrones Adaptation Distillation]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Roughly half-and-half. For every Ned, Robert, Jon, Sam, or Jaime there's a Daenerys, Tyrion, Theon, Salladhor, or Daario.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Several of Margaery's gowns, such as the ones she wears at Renly's tourney and her betrothal to Joffrey. Cersei lampshades it by snarking that a single fabric sample should be enough material for Margaery's wedding dress.

** Tywin is a MagnificentBastard {{Pragmatic Villain|y}} {{Jerkass}} who [[AbusiveParents mistreats his own children]] in both versions, but his scenes with Arya in Harrenhal in the show bring out a paternal side that's not present in the books.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Played seriously and UpToEleven in the backstory. Harren the Black spent thirty years constructing the most impregnable castle imaginable, but failed to account for his Targaryen neighbours invading with ''dragons''. Harrenhal has a fascinating melted aspect to it now and is considered haunted and cursed.

** Karl Tanner was never named on-screen in Season 3, leading several initial reviews to use names from other characters used to [[CompositeCharacter composite]] him, particularly the KnifeNut named Dirk.

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

* AlliterativeName: Surprisingly few given the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Sansa Stark, Podrick Payne, Lancel Lannister, Salladhor Saan, Mandon Moore, and Boros Blount. Lancel's name is even lampshaded when Robert asks if he was named by a half-wit with a stutter.

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** The White Walkers [[TheStormbringer bring winter storms wherever they go]], the show's last few seasons imply the Walkers' mere presence is responsible for transforming the once-green Lands Beyond the Wall into the subarctic wastes they are today and keeping them that way, and the Night King is an OmnicidalManiac who seeks to more or less KillAllHumans while erasing everything in the world that makes us distinct from animals. With all this in mind, it's likely their ZombieApocalypse[='s=] success in the Seven Kingdoms would spell [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 Multiple Species Extinction]], possibly even [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 All Multicellular Species Extinction]], on a Continental scale; with the Army actively eradicating humans and their EndlessWinter causing an ecological catastrophe for other animals and plant life. And once the undead are finished erasing Westeros, who's to say they won't turn their eyes to the remaining continents, [[spoiler:especially after they acquire an undead dragon that can fly them across the Narrow Sea]]...