History GameOfThrones / TropesGToK

** Averted when Daenerys refuses to look at [[spoiler:Jorah Mormont]] as he [[AintTooProudToBeg pleads before her]], whether [[ThisIsUnforgivable from disdain]] or [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask to avoid feeling sympathy]].

--> '''Tyrion:''' "When I was twelve, I [[ADateWithRosiePalms milked my eel]] into a pot of turtle stew. I flogged the one-eyed snake, I skinned my sausage, I made the bald man cry, into the turtle stew!"

** An Ironborn tries it three times on Theon during an AsskickingEqualsAuthority brawl. Theon is able to NoSell it because of his earlier experience with this trope.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow:
** In "What Is Dead May Never Die," Renly tells Brienne that he will "pray alone" in his tent. In his next scene, Renly is making out with Loras, his "object of worship," so to speak.
** In "Kissed by Fire," Olyvar tells Loras, "I should like to see you spar with a proper partner, ser." They end up "sparring" in Loras' bed shortly afterwards.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Good or sympathetic characters tend to have tender or cheerful sex, grey characters have more straightforward or lustful sex, and bad characters have ''really'' painful or depraved sex.

* GreekFire: Wildfire is this taken UpToEleven and [[SicklyGreenGlow creepy green]].

*** And in Season 6, he lets Jon think he will be reunited with Rickon, to the point of deliberately missing with the first two arrows he fires at the latter. It gets taken UpToEleven when his [[RuleOfThree third arrow]], meant to hit, still misses. [[spoiler:But the fourth one finds its mark]].[[note]]To add injury to insult, this has tactical value for Ramsay since the whole ruse drew not only Jon but his forces forward, making it easier for the Bolton cavalry to rout them, which they almost do until TheCavalry shows up.[[/note]]

** Joffrey kicks the dog in virtually every scene in which he appears and takes it UpToEleven during his wedding in "The Lion and the Rose."

* KnifeNut:
** Karl Tanner, the self-proclaimed "Legend of Gin Alley," learned to fight as a cutthroat in the slums of Flea Bottom, so he fights with knives rather than a sword.
** House Bolton's motto "Our Blades Are Sharp" applies as much to their flaying knives as their swords.

** [[spoiler:Robb Stark, son of [[SacrificialLion Lord Eddard Stark]]]], meets his end in the third season. Unlike the source novels, where [[spoiler:Robb]] is only a [[SupportingLeader significant secondary character]], the show gives him considerably more exposure and screentime, putting him in the top five central characters of a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters wide ensemble series]], and making his death that much more unexpected and tragic.

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* IllBoy: Jojen gets noticeably paler and weaker and his seizures become more frequent as they journey north.

* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Littlefinger believes in a villainous version of this: [[ChaoticEvil chaos]] is a ladder, and [[SocialClimber the climb]] is all there is.

** Stannis Baratheon corrects Davos Seaworth on the usage of "less" versus "fewer" when Davos is talking about his own [[{{fingore}} severed fingertips]]. It overlaps with YouMakeMeSic since it was Stannis who cut them off. There's a CallBack in the season 5 episode "Kill the Boy" where a Night's Watchman makes the same error and Stannis mutters the same correction to himself. There's another CallBack in the season 7 episode "The Spoils of War" when ''Davos'' corrects Jon Snow.

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

** Ramsay looking at Jon Snow ''literally dripping'' with blood and saying one-on-one combat sounds like a swell idea.

** The subjects of [[TheOathbreaker Oathbreaking]] and SacredHospitality tend to give otherwise pragmatic characters a fit of this. Jaime Lannister is widely reviled as "the Kingslayer" for killing his king even by rebels who sought to execute that king and Tyrion takes exception to slaughtering thousands [[spoiler:at a wedding]] rather than in battle (or a [[NotSoDifferent surprise wildfire explosion]]).

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* JustAFleshWound: Arya gets shanked several times in the abdomen, yet only needs some bandaging by an amateur healer and apparently a few days of bed rest to be fit enough to perform feats of acrobatics. Though [[RealityEnsues her wounds reopen in the process]], she doesn't seem to be hindered or even a little shaky until she starts bleeding again.

** Rickon, the youngest Stark, [[spoiler:sees nearly everyone and everything he's ever known killed, destroyed, or taken from him before he is sent away as a NobleFugitive under the protection of barbarian ActionGirl Osha]].

* TheJester: Ser Dontos ends up as Joffrey's fool. Joffrey would have just drowned him in wine if Sansa didn't suggest this.

** Oberyn Martell, the Three-Eyed Raven, Mace Tyrell, Tycho Nestoris, Leaf, Olly, Ellaria Sand and the [[UltimateEvil Night's]] [[BigBad King]] were all introduced during Season 4.

** The DeadlyDecadentCourt of King's Landing and the [[SuccessionCrisis War of the Five Kings]] mirror LowFantasy and HistoricalFiction settings recreating life in a medieval era in a more gritty and realistic way.

** Lady Olenna regales Margaery with how she seduced her future husband away from his betrothed, claiming she was "very, ''very'', good." This doubles as an ActorAllusion for anyone who's seen Dianna Rigg in ''Series/TheAvengers'' or ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''.