History GameOfThrones / TropesGToK

** Anguy [[ArcherArchetype the Archer]] can angle a shot perfectly to drop straight down at a target a few feet away.

** The Brotherhood Without Banners is a band of outlaws who fight the nobility on behalf of the smallfolk and features pretty clear expies of the Merry Men such as a revered leader ShroudedInMyth, an alcoholic BadassPreacher, and an ArcherArchetype. [[DeconstructedTrope They're far from clear-cut heroes though]].

* HeroesPreferSwords: Most combatant characters wield swords whether they are heroic or not, but heroes Ned, Jon, Arya, and Brienne all play it straight with their swords Ice, Longclaw, Needle, and Oathkeeper. Meanwhile, Joffrey invokes this trope as propaganda by wearing elaborate swords even though he constantly runs from combat. Averted by HeroicBastard Gendry, who prefers to DropTheHammer.

** After losing Longclaw in "The Watchers on the Wall," Jon Snow uses a [[ChainPain chain]] and then a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] from the castle smithy in his fight with Styr.

* GutturalGrowler: Gregor Clegane.

* HeroesWantRedheads:
** Ned Stark is [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage happily married]] to auburn-haired Catelyn Tully and their daughter Sansa (who takes after her mother) is regarded as very attractive.
** Jon Snow falls in love with red-haired Ygritte.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Arya clearly becomes a darker character every time she kills, but it's compensated for by the fact that most of them [[AssholeVictim deserve it]].
** After kicking the dog throughout the previous season, [[spoiler:Theon]]'s torture begins this way, but as it grows more excruciating and pointlessly cruel it becomes harder to feel this way. In fact, by the end of the season, this trope does apply to the men who sold him out to be tortured.
** Much like the above example, [[spoiler: Jaime’s torture at Locke’s hand, specifically losing his right hand, is fitting punishment for the smug and arrogant swordsman]]. Making him wear it around his neck, tricking him into drinking horse urine, and beating him into the mud when he fights back is either this or KickTheDog depending on your view of the character, but there’s no denying he needed to be knocked down a peg.
** Its a hard sell to make the murder of a daughter-raping, child-sacrificing jerkass come across as an [[SacredHospitality unforgivable sin]] to a contemporary audience.
** When [[spoiler:Joffrey Baratheon]] and [[spoiler:Tywin Lannister]] are murdered in cold blood, their killers clearly cross a moral line, but their victims are such jerkasses that it's hard not to cheer them on.
** Tyrion tells the three Slaver Lords that one of them must die for their treachery and attacking Dragonstone. Razdal and Belicho instantly volunteer Yezzan, who is the lowest caste. Instead, Grey Worm executes both Razdal and Belicho on the spot, sparing Yezzan.
** Cersei has [[spoiler:Septa Unella]] subjected to ColdBloodedTorture at the hands of The Mountain in revenge for her imprisonment and humiliation by [[the High Sparrow]], but the victim was so sadistic and unpleasant when Cersei was in their power that it's hard to feel any sympathy.

* HellIsThatNoise:
** The screech of the White Walkers.
** Likewise, the sound of attacking wights. Probably the best way to describe them would be to compare them to snarls of an animal recreated by crunching bones against each other.
** Theon is tormented by [[LoudOfWar incessant horn blowing]] on multiple occasions.

* GenderIsNoObject: Wildling spearwives like Osha and Ygritte are just as welcome to take part in warbands as men.

** Oberyn might need his checked since he seems flabbergasted that Varys the eunuch is [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} asexual]], though it works perfectly when he pursues Loras and Olyvar.

* TheHighQueen:
** Daenerys likes to see herself as this and tries her best to make it true.
** Margaery projects this image as part of her family's HundredPercentAdorationRating.