Line #6 TheScrappy/GameOfThrones


1	With a cast this large and a CrapsackWorld setting, not every ''Series/GameOfThrones'' character was going to be embraced warmly. In a show where just about AnyoneCanDie, fans frequently wish ''[[TheScrappy these]]'' [[TheScrappy characters]] would [[TakeThatScrappy succumb to this]] as soon as possible.
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3	* Ros had her fair share of detractors in Season 1, due to being perceived as a pointless character only there to provide {{fanservice}}, who wasn't even in the books let alone being a supporting character. However, fans began to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap warm up to her more]] in Season 2, mostly out of sympathy on account of her TraumaCongaLine, and most of them were horrified by [[spoiler:her [[AlasPoorScrappy brutal death]] at Joffrey's hands in Season 3]].
4	* [[ReplacementScrappy Talisa Maegyr]] wasn't too well-received in Season 2, partly because of [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the changes]] made to her character and role in Robb's storyline from the books. Talisa's book counterpart Jeyne Westerling is at most a side character; she's a minor noblewoman from the Westerlands who Robb is attracted to after she treats his wounds. [[SexForSolace He sleeps with her in a moment of grief]] after learning that his younger brothers were allegedly killed by Theon, then marries her to [[HonorableMarriageProposal preserve her honor]], thus leading to the Red Wedding. In the show however, Talisa is a Volantene noblewoman who came to Westeros to be a nurse, meets Robb by pure chance and has a prominently-featured romance with him, which some viewers found to be a pretty pointless and implausible change from the books. Some found Talisa annoying and self-righteous because she criticizes Robb for 'his war' getting people maimed and killed, even though Robb is only fighting so as to free the North, the Riverlands and his sisters from the oppression of the Lannisters and get justice for his wrongly executed father. Talisa also explains that she left her life of luxury in Volantis because she opposes slavery, but some viewers have argued she could've actually used her high-ranking position to help improve things for the slaves; her seemingly looking down on other noblewomen for wanting to attend dances can also come off as RealWomenDontWearDresses (and isn't the only example of this in the show, none of which is present in the books). Finally, the show presents Robb breaking his marriage vows to House Frey - and thus dooming himself, his mother and most of his men - not out of a [[HonorBeforeReason misguided sense of honor]], but because he [[MarryForLove falls in love with Talisa]], thus making his motives for oathbreaking quite [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] and even more [[LoveMakesYouDumb idiotic]] than they were in the books, and also making Talisa come off as a self-centered fool for agreeing to the marriage. That said, even people who disliked her character thought she in no way deserved to be [[spoiler:[[AlasPoorScrappy stabbed to death at the Red Wedding]], while ''pregnant'' no less]]; there are also some viewers who genuinely liked her and Robb's romance.
5	* Though well-received in her introductory season, Ellaria Sand was harshly criticized from Season 5 onwards due to her plan to [[spoiler:execute Princess Myrcella to [[RevengeBeforeReason avenge Oberyn and plunge Dorne into a war,]]]] a highly irrational plan that Oberyn himself would not approve of. This earned her the FanNickname "Malaria Sand". The fact she was the driving force of the utterly loathed Dornish subplot in Season 5, as well as her close connection to the equally-despised Sand Snakes, did nothing to remedy the situation. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse with the Season 6 premiere]], with Ellaria and the Sand Snakes [[spoiler:murdering Oberyn's ''entire family'' to "avenge him"]]. Not helping in the slightest is the fact that in the books, Ellaria is portrayed as a [[NiceGirl kind and gentle woman]] and a [[OnlySaneWoman voice of reason]] in the Dornish arc, who tries to dissuade Arianne and the Sand Snakes from their revenge plot because, as she rightly points out, it will only lead to more violence and won't bring [[spoiler:Oberyn]] back, which is [[AdaptationPersonalityChange the exact opposite of how she's portrayed in the show.]]
6	* As a corollary to Ellaria, the other members of the Sand Snakes, Obara, Nymeria and Tyene, were not received well either due to the clunkiness of their first two scenes, the plain idiocy of their story arc in general and their poor dialogue (particularly the [[Memes/GameOfThrones infamous]] "bad pussy" line). Their attempted characterization as badass, ruthless {{Dark Action Girl}}s just doesn't jive with the fact that their plotline was been merged with Arianne Martell's disastrous attempt to kidnap and crown Myrcella (which in the books was portrayed as being a stupid idea) and that their sole action scene in Season 5 had [[FightSceneFailure incredibly bad choreography]]. As a result, viewers generally just see them as stupid and petty for trying to hurt an innocent girl who had ''nothing'' to do with [[spoiler:their father's death]]. Their reputation was further undermined by their failure in even this pathetic crime, strongly bringing to mind the books' AdaptedOut TheScrappy Darkstar, who does pretty much the same thing and is loathed for almost the exact same reasons. It got even worse in Season 6 where they helped Ellaria [[spoiler:kill their own uncle and cousin, with no remorse]]. To top it off, the narrative never really comments on how self-destructive to Dornish society at large their crimes were. While fans of the books are incensed that these [[EnsembleDarkhorse fairly popular characters from the books]] wind up as a [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wasted opportunity]], the fact that they're loathed by casual fans as well shows just how poorly-handled they are. By Season 7, pretty much the entire fandom is RootingForTheEmpire when [[spoiler:Euron kills Obara and Nymeria in a brutal CurbStompBattle and Cersei disposes of Ellaria and Tyene with some ''serious'' LaserGuidedKarma]].
7	* Olly was intended to provide a gray perspective to the Night's Watch and Wildlings face-off and started off as a TagalongKid to the Night's Watch, but his role in the denouement of "Watchers on the Wall" was staged in a very {{narm}}-y way. Viewers also hate him for killing [[spoiler:Ygritte, permanently sinking her and Jon as a couple and breaking Jon's heart]], although that overlaps with RonTheDeathEater seeing as it was done to protect Jon and [[spoiler:Ygritte]] had helped slaughter his village. However, subsequent events involving Olly is what really cemented him as a Scrappy. In Season 5, he becomes the embodiment of the Watch losing faith in Jon and the foreshadowing of [[spoiler:his betrayal of Jon]] was heavy-handed to the point of being jarring. The aim was that [[spoiler:his betrayal]] would be an EtTuBrute moment, but his shameless gloating in a short scene after the incident ruined that. Subsequently he [[spoiler:is thrown in the Castle Black dungeon following the Wildling attack and executed with the rest of the mutineers by Jon Snow himself]]. Jon treats [[spoiler:executing Olly]] as a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, stating that he's younger than Bran (which again is no longer true, visually at least, as a result of the actors aging), but most viewers didn't feel much sympathy.
8	* The Waif, who [[HateAtFirstSight inexplicably hates]] Arya from the moment she arrives at the House of Black and White, and just escalates from there in her nastiness. Fans are also confused about how her aggressive personality is completely at odds with how Faceless Men are supposed to operate, which goes completely unacknowledged by anyone in the show (even though Arya is [[DoubleStandard criticized and even punished for the same thing]]). None of this is present in the books, where she is more of a side character than anything and acts as a proper mentor to Arya instead of TheRival.
9	* Lord Robett Glover. His first scene has him insulting the memory of King Robb and calling Talisa a foreign whore, and harshly refusing to help Jon and Sansa in their darkest hour. He later expresses regret and looks set to become TheAtoner. He becomes a SourSupporter instead in Season 7, criticizing every single one of Jon’s decisions, and ends up abandoning the Starks ''again'' in Season 8 after they formed an alliance with Daenerys out of necessity, due to the impending war with the Night King. And from what was said in "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", his stupidity might have [[TooDumbToLive gotten himself and 500 men killed.]] Like the Waif, none of this is in the books, where he's also a minor character and a stolid officer in the Northern army, who is in fact working to restore the Starks with other Northern nobles. Unlike the Waif, Glover [[KarmaHoudini does not face any comeuppance]] for abandoning everyone to their fate, and gets rewarded with [[spoiler:an independent North for the sacrifices that the other Northern houses like Karstark, Mormont and Umber made.]]
10	* A lot of viewers weren't keen on Music/EdSheeran's cameo as a Lannister soldier. It wasn't so much anything the character ''did'', but the fact that it was painfully obvious he was Ed Sheeran and the character's only purpose just seemed to be to sing "Hands of Gold", which came off as an unnecessary celebrity cameo that took a lot of viewers out of the show. In Season 8, it's actually mentioned that [[TakeThatScrappy the poor sod was at the Battle of the Goldroad, got torched by dragonfire and]] ''[[TakeThatScrappy lived]]''. "Hands of Gold" is a pretty good song, though, as is Sheeran's performance of it, so at least he's got that going for him.
11	* Euron Greyjoy. While he is very popular in the books and he had some fans in Season 7 for Creator/PilouAsbaek's charismatic portrayal, for showing some actual combat prowess and putting the aforementioned Ellaria Sand and Sand Snakes in their place, but this fell apart by Season 8, where Euron was reduced into Cersei's overpowered crony. By the series' end, fans complained about him ''by name'' in a petition to re-write the final season -- for "''merely existing.''" [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2019/05/07/game-of-thrones-is-euron-greyjoy-a-mary-sue/#57297a6d5665 Other writers]] go so far as to call Euron a Marty Stu, as he single-handedly [[spoiler:shoots a dragon out of the sky three times]], a feat no other character has ever accomplished and the fact he regularly exploits TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot and OffscreenTeleportation. As he appears in the show, he lacks the interest in the occult and dark magic he has in the books, which explain his motivation for helping Cersei and his uncanny luck as a pirate. Fans of the books dislike him for being a watered-down version of the SorcerousOverlord that he is in Martin's pages, whereas non-readers dislike him for being a one-dimensional plot device. The most common criticism for Show!Euron is that his over-the-top, wacky personality doesn't really fit in a dark fantasy setting and often leads him to be compared to a [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]] impersonator.[[note]]For instance, ''Webvideo/HonestTrailers'' credits him as "Hack Sparrow".[[/note]] Even Pilou Asbæk himself, who is a fan of the books, has noted his disappointment in what the show did to the character, as he was hoping to play the much more threatening character from the books. One Youtube comment sums it up perfectly with "Hated [Joffrey Baratheon] because of how good he was written. Hated Euron Greyjoy because of how bad he was written."
12	* Fans started to turn on Bran Stark around Season 6 and the dislike for him was cemented following the end of Season 8. Many viewers find him to be one of the most dull and underdeveloped characters who contributes little to the wider story (he's apparently so irrelevant he was PutOnABus for all of Season 5). Viewers were very irritated in Season 6 when his reckless actions cause the Night King to find the Three-Eyed Raven's cave, resulting in [[spoiler:the deaths of Summer, Hodor, the 3ER and the last of the Children of the Forest, who all sacrifice themselves for Bran]]. Bran then proceeds to do very little of significance with his powers besides [[spoiler:confirming that Littlefinger is a traitor and Jon is actually the heir to the throne]]. His DeathOfPersonality results in him becoming a monotone creep who spends most of his time sitting around spouting exposition when needed or making people uncomfortable. He expresses little [[NoSympathy remorse]] or [[UngratefulBastard gratitude]] for the sacrifices Meera and many others made for him and then proceeds to not really help anyone anyway, does nothing in the Long Night except sitting in his chair, and tells Theon he would die despite knowing [[spoiler: Arya is coming and all will be fine in moments]]. The moment that really made fans turn on Bran was in the finale, [[spoiler:as Bran is unanimously elected King of Westeros ''sans'' the North despite not having done enough in some people's eyes to earn it and lacking any experience and qualities for leadership]]. The show then proclaims that Bran has "the most interesting story" out of all the characters, which most fans vehemently disagreed with. There are many articles and posts out there describing Bran as one of the worst characters on the show and some viewers have even taken to calling him "Bran the Boring".

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