History HilariousInHindsight / GameOfThrones

** The end of the show brings a bigger one on regards of [[spoiler:Creator/JunFukuyama's]] role as the dub voice of [[spoiler:Bran]], taking into consideration his StarMakingRole as [[spoiler:[[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge aka Lelouch vi Britannia]]]] at the very end of the second season: In the aforementioned show, [[spoiler:Lelouch became the emperor of Britannia and plans to conquer the world, just like Daenerys planned to do, with the help of a WeaponOfMassDestruction (In ''Code Geass'' with the Sword of Damocles and the F.L.E.I.J.A. warhead and in ''Game of Thrones'' with a dragon) and both Lelouch and Daenerys ended being killed by their closest allies (Suzaku Kururugi and Jon Snow respectively) in similar ways (being stabbed)]]. The main difference here is [[spoiler:While there's two cities destroyed by the F.L.E.I.J.A. in the series, mainly Tokyo and Pendragon, the capital city of Britannia, Lelouch wasn't involved in their destruction, as the former was destroyed accidentally by Suzaku and the latter was nuked by his brother Schneizel el Britannia in a attempt to assure his authority, compared with King's Landing, when Daenerys orders its destruction without guilt. Also, unlike Lelouch, Bran survives the whole thing and became the ruler of Westeros]].

** The end of the show brings a bigger one on regards of [[spoiler:Creator/JunFukuyama's]] role as the dub voice of [[spoiler:Bran]], taking into consideration his StarMakingRole as [[spoiler:[[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch Lamperouge aka Lelouch vi Britannia]]]] at the very end of the second season: In the aforementioned show, [[spoiler:Lelouch became the emperor of Britannia and plans to conquer the world, just like Daenerys planned to do, with the help of a WeaponOfMassDestruction (In ''Code Geass'' with the Sword of Damocles and the F.L.E.I.J.A. warhead and in ''Game of Thrones'' with a dragon) and both Lelouch and Daenerys ended being killed by their closest allies (Suzaku Kururugi and Jon Snow respectively) in similar ways (being stabbed)]]. The main difference here is [[spoiler:While there's two cities destroyed by the F.L.E.I.J.A. in the series, mainly Tokyo and Pendragon, the capital city of Britannia, Lelouch wasn't involved in their destruction, as the former was destroyed accidentally by Suzaku and the latter was nuked by his brother Schneizel el Britannia in a attempt to assure his authority, compared with King's Landing, when Daenerys orders its destruction without guilt. Also, unlike Lelouch, Bran survives the whole thing and became one of the rulers of Westeros]].

* In season 3, Tywin, after announcing his plan to marry Cersei to Ser Loras, has a discussion with Lady Olenna about Cersei's fertility. Then in February 2015 Creator/LenaHeadey announced that she was pregnant with her second child.

** Eddard Stark is voiced by Hideaki Tezuka who also voice [[Manga/{{Naruto}} A, The Fourth Raikage]]: [[spoiler: A loses an arm due to Sasuke's Amaterasu technique. On the other other hand, Eddard Stark ends his days by losing ''[[OffWithHisHead his head.]]'']]

* In the Season 6 finale, one of the titles Jon is given is "The White Wolf." The irony is not lost upon [[Franchise/TheWitcher Witcher]] and [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric]] fans, since all three franchises use the same epithet to refer to sword wielding badasses who [[spoiler:come back from death]] and end up fighting an invasion of supernatural creatures from a frozen realm, and in the case of Elric, is reluctant about his destiny on account of his loved ones dying around him.

* After the Purple Wedding Tywin orders the city gates closed declaring "No One Leaves the Capital!!" we then cut to Sansa...leaving the capital. Then in Season 5 we saw Arya's training with the Faceless Men but some declared that Sansa became No One before Arya.

* Avengers Endgame ended with [[spoiler: Tony Stark wiping out Thanos and all of his forces with one snap.]] Two days after that premiered, we have [[spoiler: Arya Stark disintegrating the Night King and all his White Walkers and wights with one stab. It seems like the last weekend of April, 2019 was a good one for people named Stark to rack up ''colossal'' kill counts!]]

* “The night is dark and full of terrors. So dark, in fact, that the final battle against it was notoriously incomprehensible.

* LOTS of fans were upset that [[spoiler: Arya sniped the Night King with the cat's-paw dagger,]] complaining that it was anticlimactic [[spoiler: and robbed either Jon or Dany of fulfilling the prophecy.]] First of all, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane prophecies in this universe have ALWAYS been hit-or-miss,]] with a healthy dose of ProphecyTwist for good measure. Second, [[WrongGenreSavvy epic one-on-one showdowns are for NORMAL fantasy,]] not a {{Deconstruction}} of one.

* LOTS of fans were upset that [[spoiler: Arya sniped the Night King with the cat's-paw dagger,]] complaining that it was anticlimactic [[spoiler: and robbed either Jon or Dany of fulfilling the prophecy.]] First of all, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane prophecies in this universe have ALWAYS been hit-or-miss,]] with a healthy dose of ProphecyTwist. Second, [[WrongGenreSavvy epic one-on-one showdowns are for NORMAL fantasy,]] not a {{Deconstruction}} of one.

* There was a long standing rumor that Anna Popplewell of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' turned down a role in the series. Georgie Henley - who played her sister in ''Narnia'' (Anna as Susan, Georgie as Lucy) - was one of the first cast members announced for the prequel series.
* Jamie Campbell Bower likewise headlined ''{{Series/Camelot}}'' - which was a short-lived series applying ''Game of Thrones'''s tone to the King Arthur mythos. He too was one of the first cast members announced for the prequel.

* After the Purple Wedding Tywin orders the city gates closed declaring "No One Leaves the Capital!!" we then cut to Sansa...leaving the capital. Then in Season 5 we saw Arya's training with the faceless men but some declared that Sansa became No One before Arya.

* In 2006, Creator/AlfieAllen's older sister [[Creator/LilyAllen Lily]] released a song mocking him for being such a loser. Now Alfie's playing a character who lives in the shadow of his more competent older sister. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366_NM97ovo The parodies write themselves]].

* In ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'', Aiden Gillen plays a genuinely nice guy who gets screwed over by a sleazy manipulator, in what may be a deliberate CastingGag.

* In ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', the actors for Loras and Nymeria team up with a character named Davos.

* In season 1, Ned jokingly tells Arya [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry not to stab her sister]] with her sword Needle. By season 7, after several years of trauma and training to be a killer, she's literally issuing Sansa death threats by insinuating that she'll skin her face. Oh, and both blades were given to her by one of her brothers.

* In season 1, Ned jokingly tells Arya [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry not to stab her sister]] with her sword Needle. By season 7, after several years of trauma and training to be a killer, she's literally giving Sansa death threats of skinning her face.

* During the riot of King's Landing, [[spoiler:Sansa nearly gets raped by peasants, one who asks "You've ever been fucked, little girl?". Then she gets raped by Ramsey Bolton in season 6.]]

* One has to wonder what the Lannisters would make of KatyPerry's song "Roar", which repeats their motto "Hear Me Roar" several times.

* Michelle Fairley went on to play another mother of a red-haired girl in ''24: Live Another Day''... and this time she also happens to be the BigBad, whose motivation is her husband's death, among other similarities. She followed this with a role on ''Series/{{Resurrection}}'' as a woman who comes back from the dead and despises her daughter-in-law for ruining her family.
* One of the reasons Talisa was such an unpopular character (besides the changes made from her book counterpart) was the sense that she didn't quite fit into the tone of the show, with more than one reviewer describing her as a field nurse that had stepped out of WWII. Actress Oona Chaplin now stars in ''The Crimson Field'' -- in which she plays a WWII field nurse.

* In season 3, Tywin, after announcing his plan to marry Cersei to Ser Loras, has a discussion with Lady Olenna about Cersei's fertility. Then in February 2015 Lena Headey announced that she was pregnant with her second child.

* In the Season 5 premiere, blonde-haired former queen Cersei suddenly has more power than ever before and is the de facto ruler of Westeros. The very day it premiered, Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for President.

* In "The Laws Of Gods And Men", Tywin is eager to have Tyrion sentenced to death. One year later, Charles Dance portrayed HangingJudge Wargrave in the BBC adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''.

* In this show, Charles Dance plays badass general Tywin and Lena Headey is the increasingly ineffectual Cersei. Contrast to ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'', where Dance is the milquetoast Mr. Bennet and Headey is the badass LadyOfWar Catherine De Bourghe.

* Just a few months after Rickon was [[spoiler:killed by an arrow]], Art Parkinson played the title role in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'', where [[spoiler:his life is ''saved'' by an arrow.]]

* In ''Series/IronFist'', the actors for Loras and Nymeria team up with a character named Davos.