Memes / Game of Thrones

aka: A Song Of Ice And Fire

The phenomenal success of HBO's Game of Thrones in this day and age made it extremely meme-tastic.

For House of the Dragon, see here.

Beware, this page is dark and full of unmarked spoilers.

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Season 1

1 — Winter Is Coming

• "Brace yourselves. Winter is coming." A still image of Ned with his hands on the pommel of "Ice", pointing downward with "Brace yourself, the (noun) is (verb)ing"

2 — The Kingsroad

• "The war for Cersei's cunt" has become one on /tv/ and for whatever reason, is usually accompanied by a picture of Saoirse Ronan.
• "It is known." ^note Character Catchphrase of the Dothraki handmaids. A fact, which may or may not be true, is followed with this catchphrase. It is known.
• Puns involving "imp/pimp" are popular with Tyrion. Tyrion slapping Joffrey is referred to as an "imp slap," and there are various pictures of Tyrion with the caption, "Impin' ain't easy."
• Next time I see you, you will be in black. ^note Originally an ironic meme about how it's the last conversation between Robb and Jon (Robb being killed later in the Red Wedding without once meeting Jon), this meme has seen a resurgence after Richard Madden and Kit Harrington both signed up in the MCU's Eternals, fans are hoping for an eventual reunion between Robb and Jon after all.
• "You Starks are hard to kill." ^note A popular phrase considering the irony that so many Starks are killed off in the series.
• Bessie, a well-endowed common wench who was Robert Baratheon's lover in his youth and whose large breasts became memetic in the fandom based on Robert's enthusiastic remark, "Thanks the gods for Bessie. And her tits."

3 — Lord Snow

• "Just so." ^note Syrio Forel's catchphrase, and also Jaqen H'ghar's. It's a large part of the reason for the Epileptic Trees suggesting that the former is actually the latter in disguise. It's commonly used as a response to mundane questions.
• "My sweet summer child. [What do you know of fear?]" — Old Nan's affectionate but patronizing appellation to the bedridden Brann when he demands to be told scary stories has been since picked as a way to address naive and/or optimistic people in conversations (such as when they express hope for things getting better in the setting).
• "Gods, I was strong then!" ^note Said by Robert while swapping war stories with Barristan Selmy. The line often finds its way into conversations surrounding his memetic badassery or the show's Seasonal Rot (ie. "Gods, the writing was strong then!")

4 — Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things

• Marco images with a variant on one of Robert Baratheon's more entertaining one-liners, "Start the damn season before I piss meself!" — usually in the several-month wait between the end of one season and the beginning of the next.
• Jon Snow not knowing where to put it. ^note Sam and Jon discuss their sexual experiences (mainly lack thereof), and Jon insisting he couldn't go through with it when he had a chance because he didn't want to father a bastard. Cue Sam's anal/oral sex joke. It appears often with another of Jon's memes: him knowing nothing.

5 — The Wolf and the Lion

• Bronn's line "Give me ten good men and some climbing spikes," when viewed in the light of Season 5's Ramsay Bolton and his "twenty good men," has given rise to the "Ser Twenty and Ser Ten of House Goodmen" meme frequently found in YouTube comment sections.
• King Robert's Snipe Hunt has reached memetic levels. He sends his squire Lancel Lannister for a "breastplate stretcher". In one animated abridged series, he brings it!◊

6 — A Golden Crown

• Viserys Targaryen keeps getting nominated to do the ALS Gold Bucket Challenge.^note Viserys dies by getting a pot of molten gold poured on his head. The parallels between this method of death and the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge were too obvious to avoid notice.
  • DOTHRAKI SOUP IS TOO HOT. ^note Khal Drogo manages to melt a handful of gold trinkets over a fire that had previously been used to cook soup. Jokes about how absurdly hot Dothraki food must be followed.
  • The fire didn't melt the gold, Drogo's rage did.^note Khal Drogo melts that handful of gold trinkets to kill Viserys because he threatened Daenerys and their unborn child. Very dumb move to piss off someone like Drogo.

7 — You Win or You Die

• "Robert Baratheon: Murdered by a Pig." ^note The fate of Robert Baratheon, the first from his house to sit on the Iron Throne: He gets drunk on a hunt, falls off his horse and is injured by a boar. Robert's own self-deprecating words. Memes pictured with Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994) who wants to be called MR. PIG!
• "Get me something for the pain, and let me die." ^note Robert Baratheon's final words. It's often used when the viewer is fed up with something bad and wants to be done with it.
• The show's tendency to set exposition heavy dialogue during sex scenes has become infamous, and "sexposition"; a neologism, was created to describe it.
• "You just got littlefingered"◊

8 — The Pointy End

• This exchange between Arya and Syrio Forel: "What do we say to the god of death?" "Not today." A newly rising variant of the phrase is "What do we say to the god of death?" "Take Sean Bean!" or "Sean Bean is over there!"
• What happened? Khal got your tongue?◊
• Your meat... is bloody tough!◊

10 — Fire and Blood

• "THE KING IN THE NORTH!" ^note Robb Stark's Awesome Moment of Crowning. It's been mutated in a bunch of different ways, from photoshopping the head of Robb's direwolf onto his body and superimposing the phrase onto it, to captioning it on photos of other people, to various puns, and so on.
• Command army of fierce warriors. Die of infected booboo.◊
• Khal Drogo! Khal Drostop.◊

Season 2

1 — The North Remembers

• Jokes about Tyrion now being the "(P)Imp-Hand of the King".
• A lie. Take it out. ^note Stannis says this when a letter dictated by him refers his estranged brother Robert as his "beloved" brother. Fans have quoted this in response to decisions made by the series' writers that were either unpopular/controversial or have drastically diverged from the source material.

2 — The Night Lands

• Referring to oneself as "a man" like how Jaqen H'ghar speaks.
• Fish pie has become an Unusual Euphemism for female genitalia after a certain conversation between Shae and Varys.

3 — What Is Dead May Never Die

• "I always hated crossbows. Take too long to load!"

4 — Garden of Bones

• Variations of Melisandre's ominous sentence related to her religion of the Red God, the Lord of the Light: "The night is dark and full of terrors."
  • YouTube has given us a new variation: "The comments are dark and full of spoilers."
  • "Her vagina is dark and full of terrors..." Melisandre's Fetus Terrible shadow demon of a baby.
  • Even Sesame Street got in on this one in its Game of Chairs skit with "the monster is blue and full of errors."
• There's no cure for being a cunt.
• Stannis' name being followed by the phrase ("His semen made a demon"), due to Screen Junkies' popular recaps of the series, related to Stannis impregnating Melisandre and she giving birth to a shadow demon.
• "Joffrey likes to watch". The meme made from the disturbing scene in which Joffrey watches two hot prostitutes, provided as a name-day present from his uncle, but eventually forces one of them to beat the other to death.

6 — The Old Gods and the New

• "Where are my dragons?!?" And all other variations of said line.
  • Where's my wig?!
  • Where's my orange mocha frappucino?!
  • Where are my kale chips?!
  • Where's my accent?

9 — Blackwater

• "Fuck The Kingsguard, Fuck The City, Fuck The King" in the eyes of the fans is the new house words for House Clegane thanks largely to Sandor for putting Joffrey squarely in his place with said words. The look on Joffrey's face afterward is utterly priceless.
• The Hound requests someone bring him a drink. A lad hands him a skin, the Hound takes a swig, spits and is all: "Fuck the water. Bring me wine."
• Stannis the Mannis, the Chuck Norris of Westeros, with the common phrase of admiration being some variant of "First off the boats/on the beach, first on the ladders/walls, slaughtering Lannister bitches like a boss and last to leave."

10 — Valar Morghulis

• Robb Stark is a boss, though after his decisions in this episode, it's "Robb Stark is an idiot."
• Theon's narmy face.◊ And a book about his poor life choices◊, with the same face on the cover.

Season 3

2 — Dark Wings, Dark Words

• Catelyn's monologue has given rise to "If Catelyn had loved Jon Snow, [insert bad thing here] would not have happened".

3 — Walk of Punishment

• Jokes about Jaime's severed hand.
• Due to a faulty recording of a popular download of episode 3 with dissonant audio kicking in at a tense, dramatic moment, people sometimes interru— A BEAR THERE WAS, A BEAR, A BEAR!
• "Lord Twatbeard" being a far better nickname than Littlefinger.
• Having become a Sex God, Podrick Payne has quickly earned the Fan Nickname, "Tri-Pod".
• Re-watch bonus. Mance Rayder sends Tormund to climb the Wall with Jon Snow, Orell and twenty good men. Cue jokes about the fact that even beyond the Wall, they know the importance of handling dangerous tasks to twenty good men or Ser Twenty Goodmen spying in the wildling army for Ramsay Bolton.

4 — And Now His Watch Is Ended

• Joffrey is a series-transcending villain for spoiling House of the Dragon. ^ExplanationIn the episode Joffrey discusses the fate of Rhaenyra Targaryen during his and Margaery's tour through the Sept of Baelor. This became Hilarious in Hindsight when the series prequel House of the Dragon was eventually released, thus spoiling Rhaenyra's fate for fans who didn't read Fire & Blood. This has led fans to joke that Joffery is such a bastard that he delivered a major spoiler for the show years before it was even greenlit.

5 — Kissed by Fire

• A favorite comment about Ygritte is "Kissed by fire, fucked by Snow". [[note]]"Kissed by fire" is what redheaded wildlings (such as Ygritte) are said to be. In this episode, she has sex with Jon Snow.
• "You know nothing, Jon Snow" became "You know one thing, Jon Snow", referring to Ygritte's Immodest Orgasm.
• Ygritte's weather forecast.◊

6 — The Climb

• The line "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention" is slowly gaining momentum as fans are applying it to the entire show.
• "I can be your family." Line said by Arya to Gendry, a daughter of House Stark and Robert Baratheon's bastard. The battle cry of Arya/Gendry shippers everywhere. However, he refuses her with "You'd be my m'lady." Similar other characters being friendzoned (*Cough* Ser Jorah *Cough*), Arya got m'lady-zoned.
• Arya confronting Melisandre in has spawned a few small memes, the most popular being Arya asking Melisandre if she is a witch.
  "Bitch I might be."
• As with Tyrion slapping Joffrey, there are extended cuts of Ramsay blowing his trumpet.

7 — The Bear and the Maiden Fair

• Posters in the spoilers-free Game of Thrones thread on Something Awful refer to Theon's still-unnamed torturer as Barry.
• As soon as Jaime jumps into the bear pit his face goes well, shit. Fans have taken this screengrab and ran with it.

9 — The Rains of Castamere

• "Killed by a fucking Hogwarts janitor." ^explanationAfter the complicity of Lord Walder Frey (played by David Bradley, who played Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films) in the Red Wedding.
• It's a nice day for a Red Wedding.
• Eddard Stark Junior:
  • Technically speaking, Eddard Stark died twice. ^note This is a meme revolving around Talisa's unborn child, who — if the kid was a boy — Talisa wanted to call Eddard Stark. At the Red Wedding, Lothar Frey stabs her in the abdomen, effectively killing her and her child, and the fans have cried foul, saying, "Eddard Stark died twice on the show."
  • "Named after Sean Bean. Dies immediately." (Robb's wife Talisa wanted to name their unborn child Eddard.)
  • All men must die... who are in any way close to Sean Bean! ^note Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die. Whether you're Sean Bean, Sean Bean's wife, Sean Bean's best friend, Sean Bean's son, Sean Bean's daughter-in-law, Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.
• The Roose is Loose! ^note Roose Bolton showing his true colors after almost two seasons of being The Stoic and subsequent betrayal during the Red Wedding.
• "Crows before hoes!" ^note Fan reaction to Jon abandoning Ygritte.
• Hush, Hodor! No more Hodoring!^note Bran's attempt to keep Hodor quiet and prevent him from giving away their position to the Wildlings.
• Red Wedding reactions, particularly reaction videos and the Red Wedding Tears twitter.
• "Perhaps I've made a terrible mistake", is Robb's entire storyline in a nutshell. And this is just one of many examples of this particular meme.
• Blackfish excusing himself to go behind a tree and take the world's luckiest piss.^note Made more amusing since in the books, Blackfish wasn't even present at the wedding.
• There's◊ a picture circulating around of Edmure Tully with the caption, "I heard the party really died after I left."
• Although the incident being referred is technically shown in the next episode, there is a Crosses the Line Twice meme which pictures Robb or Robb's desecrated corpse with a caption quoting or paraphrasing from the Macklemore song "Thrift Shop", "What you know 'bout rockin' a wolf on your noggin". See this video for reference.
• It's popular for commenters on unrelated things to write something to the effect of "'the Rains of Castamere' starts playing" when referring to something ominous/bad that one knows is coming.
• People have made up ads for "Frey Wedding Planners". Some of them are blood-splattered.
• The line from Season 1 "A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair" is now used to refer to the Red Wedding in various manners, including Walder Frey laughing at the remark and Khal Drogo declaring the Freys throw great weddings.
• "[X] send their regards."
  • "The Lannisters send their regards." Roose Bolton's Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Robb before driving a dagger into his heart.
  • "The Book Readers send their regards." The reactions of many of the book readers is to laugh at the surprise of the T.V. crowd.
• Jokes about playing "The Rains of Castamere" at weddings to see if people would freak out.◊
• At least he's still "The King of the Northern Line!"◊.
• Walder Frey and Roose Bolton◊: The ultimate Wedding Crashers. Directed by T. Lannister.

10 — Mhysa

• Sansa's shit/shift confusion (Sansa thought "shift" is the bad word for excrement.)
  • Substituting "shift" for "shit" in various expressions, after Sansa mistook the latter word for the former.
  • Sansa literally doesn't know shit — hinting that Sansa is a silly girl who is lost among her enemies and caught in court lies and politics.
• When most people heard Roose Bolton call Robb Stark "Forever Young", this no doubt was what lot of people thought of.
• The creepy smile◊ Stannis has when he decides to go fight the White Walkers.
• This image of Ramsay Snow has become pretty popular.
• Fifty Shades of Greyjoy. ^note  Due to how Theon's Cold-Blooded Torture Mind Rape under Ramsay that results in A Match Made in Stockholm and absolute submission tends to be interpreted by fangirls as Yaoi.
• Theon is Kunta Kinte from Roots. Kunta Kinte was Made a Slave and was flogged until he accepted the name Toby; Ramsay beats Theon until he accepts the name Reek.
• Jokes about Theon having a "Dick in a Box".
• Winter may be coming, but... Theon Greyjoy won't be◊.
• Ramsay Snow trolls the◊ Evil Queen.
• "Any man who must say he is [X] is no true [X]," inspired by Tywin Lannister's burn to Joffrey's "I am the King" raging fit — "Any man who must say he is the King is no true King." As shown here.◊ It's even been used to disparage Donald Trump.◊
• The scene where the freed slaves surround and reach out towards Daenerys Targaryen while calling her "Mhysa" has been used in mocking the Mighty Whitey trope.

Season 4

1 — Two Swords

• Sandor and chickens:
  • After airing of the episode with the scene where Sandor Clegane demanded to eat Polliver's chicken, the community exploded with jokes about Sandor's love for it. It's gone so far some fans have even shipped the two!
  • Fans have jokingly called him "Colonel Sandors" in reference to "Colonel Sanders", the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
    "F**K the [Burger] King"
  • Reached critical mass after KFC's "Hold the Door" commercial. People have been clamoring for a Hound KFC commercial.
    Hound: I understand that if any more words come pouring out your mouth, I'm gonna have to eat every chicken in this room."
    Cashier: You lived your life for the king. You gonna dine on some chickens?
    Hound: Someone is.
• Lots of people [do X]. Lots of cunts^note Used as a response to widespread activities that are nonetheless dickish or just disapproved of no matter how widespread they are. In the original case, naming one's swords.

2 — The Lion and the Rose

• Joffrey gets all choked up at weddings. And choking puns in general.
• Although the Rains of Castamere popularized "The Rains of Castamere" being the song that plays when bad stuff is about to go down, this episode solidified the song as the song signalling that someone's about to die with Sigur Ros's appearance in the episode and singing the song.
• Several memes based on Bronn's earlier comment, "There's no cure for being a cunt.", about Joffrey:
  • Olenna Redwyne becoming known as the "Cuntslayer"; as it was she who poisoned Joffrey.
  • There is a cure for being a cunt.
• Jokes about Stannis Baratheon's usurpers to his throne dropping off one by one followed hilariously enough by Balon Greyjoy being the last one left.
• Melisandre's non-reaction while chewing food during Stannis and Selyse's fight at the dinner table.
• A still of the Jaime running into the scene when Joffrey is choking has birthed several memes. One of the more popular examples being with Margaery announcing the pigeon pie is being brought in and Jaime rushing for some ("Fuck yeah, pie!"◊). Alternatively, when Bronn informs him the area they're practicing sword fighting in is so secret that he has sex with a screamer here and no one hears it, it has Jaime rushing to Cersei to inform her of a new spot for them to have sex.
• Memes regarding how Tommen Baratheon has just been "promoted" to king along with stills of him smiling smugly.
• Ponderings on just how George R.R. Martin's own wedding experiences have been...
• There are reaction videos for this episode's Purple Wedding. Naturally, the latter videos are pretty much the exact opposite of the Red Wedding ones.

3 — Breaker of Chains

• "There are two things that Jaime Lannister has thrown out a window. 1: Young children. 2: His character development." ^note After the infamous scene in "Breaker of Chains" where he rapes Cersei, next to their own son's dead body
• The first three episodes are summed up by the following quote.
  Episode 1, fuck the king. Episode 2, the king's fucked. Episode 3, fuck next to the king.
• Joffrey is a Dick in a Box.^note An image of him in a palanquin refers to Joffrey as a "Dick in a Box."
• Davos Seaworth's comment "Well if you're a famous smuggler, you're not doing it right" has become this, often clashed with an image of Han Solo (a very famous smuggler) taking offense or wishing to challenge that remark. What's hilarious is that Davos is right — Han's only known smuggling run ended up with him attracting an Imperial patrol, jettisoning some very valuable cargo, and then getting a bounty placed on his head by his irate employer.

4 — Oathkeeper

• After his appearance, Ser Pounce has risen to such Memetic Badass levels that many believe he is simply biding his time to rule on the Iron Throne. Fear the great Ser Pounce!
• "I was good. I was very, very good." captioning a picture of young Diana Rigg in a fanservice-y outfit. ^note A quote from Olenna Tyrell while describing to Margaery how she seduced her husband, Margaery's grandfather.

5 — First of His Name

• After his complete and utter failure at cooking a rabbit, plenty of internet users have started captioning kitchen disasters with "Podrick!". Brienne's irritated look captioned with the quote "Bro, you even squire?!" has also become popular.

6 — The Laws of Gods and Men

• "I demand a trial by combat." (and the overall "The Reason You Suck" Speech Tyrion gives) has become a very popular image macro (and video parody). Recurring jokes about it include references to Mortal Kombat and demanding a trial by combat to settle any matter.
• "You can do that?" ^note A popular macro response to Tyrion's demand to trial by combat, with the words said by Ned Stark as he awaits execution on the steps of Baelor.
• After Ser Davos' successful negotiations in securing a loan from the Iron Bank, a lot of commenters have called him "The Onion of Wall Street".
• Applying Chris Brown's "These Hoes Ain't Loyal" lyrics to Shae, a prostitute, after she falsely testified against Tyrion and Sansa during the trial over Joffrey's death, despite being their lover and friend, respectively.
• Ramsay Snow emulates◊ Brad Pitt.

7 — Mockingbird

• "I will be your champion" is picking up steam as a declaration of aid to someone else, usually in a forum debate.
• "THIS! IS! WESTEROS!" when Petyr hurls Lysa out of the Moon Door which can be compared to the famous scene in 300.
• "She didn't fly so good! Who wants to try next?" ^note A nod to Aidan Gillen's role in The Dark Knight Rises, where he played a CIA agent who used a rather peculiar (and ultimately ineffective) interrogation technique on Bane's men.

8 — The Mountain and the Viper

• Oberyn's death as The Mountain crushed his skull with bare hands:
  • A lot of reactions to episode 8 of season 4 can be summed up in two words: Audible crunch.
  • Oberyn's death was mind-blowing, crushing and other similar puns.
  • "Today is not the day I die."- Oberyn Martell, the day he died.
• Sport metaphors:
  • During the 2014 football World Cup, the Netherlands bounced back from an impending 0-1 loss against Mexico, going on to score two goals and win the game within the final fifteen minutes. Comparisons with Gregor Clegane brutally killing Oberyn Martell after being apparently defeated appeared within minutes of the match's end.
  • Comparisons were made after Superbowl XLIX when a last-second interception in the end zone secured the victory for the Patriots. GRRM, a football fan, hates the Pats and their coach Bill Belichick.
• George R.R. Martin as a stand-in for cousin Orson Lannister, smashing beloved characters while making "Khun Khun Khun" noises. A nod to a scene when Jaime and Tyrion talked about their cousin kept smashing beetles.
• Ramsay and Roose Bolton's scene discussing their territory in the North, which is often compared to the scene in The Lion King (1994) where Mufasa tells Simba that "everything that the sun touches is our kingdom".
• After Sansa's Evil Costume Switch, comparisons between her and Black Swan's Nina Sayers, Grease's Sandy Olsen, Angelina Jolie in Maleficent or Star Wars' Anakin Skywalker ("Darth Sansa"). Come to the Dark Side. We have lemon cakes.◊
• Ellaria's horrified face of watching Oberyn brutally killed becomes the reaction picture of all the Nightmare Fuel seen in the show.

9 — The Watchers on the Wall

• Olly's subtle bro-nod after shooting Ygritte with an arrow has been remixed countless times.
• Grenn. He held the door before holding the door was cool.

10 — The Children

• Quoth the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran shall walk nevermore. From Poe's The Raven.
• "Happy Father's Day" jokes following Tyrion murdering his father in an episode that aired on Father's Day.
• Varys' version◊ of Screw This, I'm Out of Here!.
• The process may change him... again.◊ ^note  A nod to the fact that The Mountain has been played by three different actors.

Season 5

4 — The Sons of the Harpy

• NOBODY expects the Sparrow Inquisition!^note Response to the Sparrows' surprise assaults.
• The Faith Militant has the nickname of the Faith Taliban and the Westeros Baptist Church mostly for bringing current political issues to the series instead of the more accurate-to-medieval-history post-war religious revival from which it derives.

6 — Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken

• The Sand Snakes have become the epicenter of a lot of memes, centered around their Stupid Evil characterization, the cheesiness of their dialogue, and the poorly choreographed fight scene in "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken." Obara shouting "I am OBARA SAND!" apropos to nothing.
• Due to her obsession with other women being pretty, comparisons between Myranda and Regina George.
  Myranda: You're like, really pretty.
  Sansa: Thank you.
  Myranda: So you agree, you think you're really pretty?
• And yet another phallic worship example in the series, with the Cock Merchant ^note  How Tyrion is saved from the pirates.

7 — The Gift

• The slave auction for Jorah and Tyrion quickly inspired fans to humorous comparisons with C3PO and R2D2 and their acquisition scene.
• David Benioff's defense of Tyrion meeting Dany: "Creatively it made sense to us because we wanted it to happen" has reached this among fans as the showrunners credo for their increasing and often unpopular deviations from the books.
• With Ramsay, things can always get worse.◊

8 — Hardhome

• Arya's "Oysters, clams and Cockleeeees!":
  • Arya's "Oysters, clams and Cockleeeees!" market cry has inspired various techno remixes.
  • And Theon asks for a cock.◊
• ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?^note While Season 5 was quite controversial and received extremely mixed reactions, the one thing that just about everyone agreed on was the utter awesomeness of Hardhome, which was quickly hailed as one of the best, if not the best, episodes of the series. Its final breathtaking climax was particularly praised. The phrase has been mixed often with the Night's King raising his arms, representing HBO or the showrunners.
• Come At Me, Crow◊^note A variation on the phrase "come at me, bro", coupled with the Night's King's taunting pose. This◊ is the other variation.
• The Night's King of Pop. It has to be seen to be believed.
• White Walkers went shopping◊.

9 — The Dance of Dragons

• Ramsay's twenty good men have, due to their somewhat ludicrous (and entirely off-screen) achievement of somehow managing to destroying all the supplies of Stannis' camp, as well as sabotaging his siege weapons and running off his horses, all without facing any resistance or even being detected, become the new Chuck Norris, with people noting that they can singlehandedly defeat Dany, the Nights Watch, the White Walkers, conquer Westeros and so on – it has a Facebook page. Some fans even claim that Ramsay's only accomplice was, in fact, Ser Twenty, of House Goodmen.
• Stannis is no longer the Mannis^note A phrase used by the many former Stannis supporters who turned against him after he had Shireen burned. Instead, he is 'Stannis the Anus', 'Stannis the Menace', or 'Satannis', the last one usually in reference to Stannis in the show as compared to the books. Fans who still like him call him 'Stanamegmon', lampshading his connection to the myth of Iphigenia.
• Stannis: Father of the Year ^note This was actually something of an Ironic Echo by the fandom. Early in the season, Stannis was praised by fans for his heartwarming scene with Shireen. Burning her at the stake completely changed the context of the meme.
• Ever since the reveal of his, erm, "predilections," Meryn Trant's been showing up everywhere stating that a female is "too old" for his tastes. Up to and including◊ fetuses...

10 — Mother's Mercy

• Shame! Shame! Shame! *dingdingding* Shame! Shame! Shame! *dingdingding* Shame! Shame! Shame! *dingdingding* ^note Septa Unella's narmy chanting during Cersei's walk of shame.
• Caesared ^note Referring to the stabbing of Jon Snow by his men in this episode.
• "Et tu, Olly?" ^note Referring to the stabbing of Jon Snow in this episode, Jon Snow's incredulity that his personal steward Olly betrayed him, mirroring Ceasar's surprise that Brutus was among the conspirators.
• Balon Greyjoy won the War of Five Kings ^note  By the end of Season 5, the other four (Renly, Robb, Joffrey, Stannis) have all died, whereas he's still alive. This is despite Balon being the weakest of all the kings militarily, which is why the others could largely afford to ignore him.
• "These Crows Aren't Loyal" once the Night's Watch stabbed their leader, Jon Snow.
• Get Reekt! A variation of get rekt inspired by the scene where Theon/Reek kills Myranda and escapes with Sansa.
• "Bad pussy"/"Bad poosey" ^note  This line ("You want the good girl, but you need the bad pussy") was uttered by Tyene Sand to Bronn. Most people associate it to whatever went wrong in the entire Dorne arc due to the characters involved going under Out-of-Character Moment and holding the Idiot Ball.
• Dorne reimagined as a sitcom.

Season 6

1 — The Red Woman

• Dornish sitcom delivers another scene.

2 — Home

• "That's what I do: I drink and I know things." Tyrion's one-liner was repeated often with image macros, it appeared on many captions, T-shirts, cups tec.
• The revelation that Hodor's real name is Wyllis, and that there was a time when he could talk normally, has inevitably lead to memes of "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" from Diff'rent Strokes.
• The fact that Jon Snow's resurrection involves Melisandre giving him a crew cut and then burning the hair has led to many jokes comparing his resurrection to a spa session or a visit to the barber. Likewise, the fact that Kit Harington's contractually obligated to maintain his hair has led more than a few to note that Jon Snow's first thought on coming back to life is "Who cut my hair!?"
• Taking Ramsay's claim that Roose Bolton was "poisoned by his enemies" at face value, and even expressing sympathy for Ramsay for the tragic loss of his father.

3 — Oathbreaker

• The exchange between Ned and Arthur Dayne ("Now it begins." "No, now it ends.") seems to have gained popularity as a one-liner.
• "Ned Patrick Harris" or some variation thereof as a nickname for young Ned, as his actor (Robert Aramayo) has quite a bit of uncanny resemblance to Neil Patrick Harris.
• Smalljon Umber's gleeful, "YOUR FATHER WAS A CUNT!" has been wholeheartedly embraced as the words of House Umber.
• Hanging puns, often with a close-up of Olly's face◊ after getting hung.

5 — The Door

• The phrase, "Hold the door!" has already become memetic in inducing sadness and hopelessness to fans of the show even in the most mundane contexts after Hodor's Heroic Sacrifice and the reveal of how it relates to the origins of his name.
• "Hodor had one job, and he did it."^note Similar as the above meme, this is a reference to another meme where people are mocked for failing a "simple" task they are given that leads to widespread disaster. Since Wylis turned into Hodor, his entire existence led up to his sacrifice which he performed like he needed to.
• Comparisons between Euron Greyjoy and Donald Trump are increasingly popular following Euron's upset victory at the Kingsmoot. Keep in mind this meme started with Trump's upset victory to win the nomination, months before the actual election.

6 — Blood of my Blood

• MACE THE ACE has become popular after the fan theory that Mace Tyrell is a genius in disguise, pretending to be stupid so that his enemies underestimate him and leave him alone. Principally this basically involves doing what his mother Olenna tells him to instead of whatever he wants because he knows she's smart. Evidence in his favor: every great lord of Westeros except for him is dead.
  
  To elaborate: At the beginning of the series, the eight Great Houses are Stark, Tully, Arryn, Greyjoy, Lannister, Baratheon, Tyrell, and Martell. With the deaths of Jon Arryn, Robert Baratheon (and later Stannis), Eddard Stark (and later Robb), Hoster Tully, Tywin Lannister, Doran Martell (and later Trystane), and Balon Greyjoy, the only head of a Great House who is still growing strong is Mace Tyrell^note Of course, the Season 6 finale made it moot with him going up in wildfire together with his entire family.
• Who the hell is Magnus?! ^note  Due to the odd way Mace's actor says "Madness", more than a few people mistakenly heard "Magnus"
• Mace of House Eorl. Mace Tyrell's Rousing Speech mixed with soundtrack from LOTR ("Ride of the Rohirrim"; Eorl the Young was the Lord of the Éothéod and the first King of Rohan. He founded of the House of Eorl.)
• Wololo!◊^note A reference to the sound priests in Age of Empires make when they convert enemy units, applied to the High Sparrow getting Tommen on his side.

7 — The Broken Man

• Lyanna Mormont. She may hold the record among the show's characters for number of memes generated per minute of screen time. ^note  She was supposed to be one-shot character but proved so popular that her role was vastly expanded and she appeared in other episodes up to the final season.
  • She became quite popular for taking no shit from anybody, in spite of being a ten-year-old girl.
  • Within a day of the episode airing, people were already joking about how if she had 3 dragons, the show would have been over 3 seasons ago.
  • Her agreeing to give 62 soldiers to the Starks' cause. spawned comparisons◊ to 300. Or for that matter, the 62 are actual bears.
• Davos has been renamed 'Dadvos', thanks to his habit of becoming Team Dad to any kid he comes across along the way, and some of the "adults" to boot. See here.

8 — No One

• Arya is chased by a Terminator.
• Dany's return to Meereen, as imagined by the fans◊.
  Dany: You three. Explain. Now.
  Grey Worm: Tyrion did it.
  Missandei: Tyrion did it.
  Tyrion: Tyrion did it. Dammit!
• Tommen is disparagingly dubbed "the Hypeslayer" after he outlaws Trial by Combat, which seemingly rules out any possibility of the much-anticipated CLEGANEBOWL^note  a theory which posits that Sandor Clegane will face his brother in single combat, usually assumed to be Cersei's trial becoming a reality. ^note Sandor and Gregor belong to the House Clegane. The -bowl is taken from the Super Bowl, the football game that is held each year in the United States between the two best professional football teams. Sandor and Gregor are both freakishly strong and considered about the best fighters and killers in the series.

9 — Battle of the Bastards

• This episode is nicknamed as Bastardbowl. Or Snowbowl. ^note  As Cool Versus Awesome Battle between Jon Snow and Ramsey Snow Bolton, two most famous bastards from the North, heirs to the two most prominent northern houses (as bastards from the North all have the surname Snow). Jon Snow as the archetype of the good while Ramsey Bolton as the ultimate evil. The -bowl suffix is taken from the Super Bowl.
• Who let the dogs out? Sansa did. ^note Sansa takes revenge on her torturer Ramsey, feeding him alive to his own dogs.
• Lyanna Mormont's◊ Death Glare. Often done as reaction shots or template for captions.
• Continuing Lyanna Memetic Badass run, there are jokes about her soldiers: No one even remotely accepts the possibility that even one of her 62 soldiers died in battle.
• Within a few hours of the episode airing people have already begun making jokes about Littlefinger and the Knights of the Vale as the Riders of Rohan arriving to save Jon's army.
• Just like the scene where Tyrion slaps Joffrey, it didn't take long for fans to start making "extended cuts" of Jon Snow's extremely cathartic No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Ramsay Bolton.
• Rickon didn't watch Apocalypto. ZIGZAG, RICKON, ZIGZAG! Some even composite this◊ with Lyanna Mormont's Death Glare. Another variation is, "He's dead to me, he should have zigzagged."
• Contrasting Hodor heroically holding the door with Wun Wun heroically opening it. ^note Wun Wun, the last surviving giant, opens the gate of Winterfell during the Battle of the Bastards, being another faithful helper to the House Stark.
• The X-Men pledge their support to House Stark.◊ ^Explanation Sophie Turner acted in both Game of Thrones and X-Men: Apocalypse
• Ramsay's OhCrap face.
• Game of Thrones meets◊ Total Recall (1990).

10 — The Winds of Winter

• Tommen's suicide by jumping from a window:
  • People comparing the way he chose death with another memetic, similarly shot scene from British sitcom The IT Crowd. GIFs appeared within five minutes of the event and it's likely to be used in the same way.
  • He sure made a King's Landing.
  • Tommen kills himself. Immediately gains nickname Kingslayer.
• Comparing Sam's reaction to the Citadel library with Belle's reaction to the Beast's library.
• R+L=J CONFIRMED!!!^ExplanationFor longtime fans of the series, there has been one fan theory that has been going on for years now that Jon Snow is not the illegitimate son of Ned Stark but is really the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. With The Reveal on the Season 6 finale, fans were overjoyed to see this theory as confirmed.
• Long May She Reign! Cersei, the Mad Queen supreme, declaring herself the rightful Queen.
• DAKINGINDANORF!! DA KING IN DA NORF. Referencing Jon's awesome moment of being declared the King in the North.
• Lyanna Mormont is the real MVP. ^noteOpinions differ on whether Jon or Sansa is more deserving of being King/Queen of the North. Given the mistakes both have made, many feel that the person with the most merit is actually the Lady of Bear Island.
• Lyanna Mormont being a genius campaign manager, including to current US presidential hopefuls.
• Wildfire can't melt stone pillars!^ExplanationA corruption of the 9/11 conspiracy "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" meme referring to Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor.
  • The Sept was an inside job!
• In an epic Call-Back, before the wildfire ignited, Lance Lannister finally realized there was no such thing as a "breastplate stretcher" (which he was asked to get by king Robert because he was too fat for his armour).
• The Dragon Age II fandom had a brilliant time discussing how Cersei had taken a page out of Anders' book. ^Explanation While their motives are very different, the special effects used for the explosions and the combination of iconoclasm and murder makes Cersei's bombing of the Sept of Baelor strikingly similar to the ending of Dragon Age II, in which the party healer Anders destroyed the Kirkwall Chantry (killing Grand Cleric Elthina in the process). Even their outfits are similar!
• After the reveal that Arya had mastered the Faceless Men's ability to change her appearance, many fans immediately started looking forward to spending the remainder of the show saying that any random background character must be her.
• Cersei channels◊ Roddy Piper. "I'm here to love my children and blow shit up. And I'm all out of children." In this episode, Cersei committed mass murder by blowing up a sept and destroying a part of the city and her last living child killed himself.
• Too bad the show ended here. ^ExplanationAfter the poorly received ending of Season 8, general consensus was that in hindsight, leaving the series open-ended on a bittersweet note with Jon as King of the North, Cersei as Queen of Westeros and Daenerys with her fleet sailing to Westeros would have made a better conclusion to the show. The comment sections in videos showing the final scenes of this episode are riddled with "laments" about how the show ended here, treating Seasons 7 and 8 as non-existent.

Season 7

1 — Dragonstone

• Ed Sheeran's cameo as a Nice Guy Lannister soldier:
  • Arya can find a singing Ed Sheeran in the forest but not Gendry.
  • "When your legs don't work like they used to before...", coupled with pictures of Bran Stark who can't walk since season 1. The line is from Ed Sheeran's song "Thinking Out Loud".
• Sam's not so glorious life at the Citadel. If the finale of Season 6 had him compared to Belle, then the beginning of the seventh season has him compared to Cinderella.
• "Euron Greyjoy looks like..." due to Euron's new look of leather jacket, v-neck, and biker mustache, usually implying some kind of sleazy loser. Ex: "Euron Greyjoy looks like a guy whose cell phone is still on the plan of a girl he broke up with six months ago."

2 — Stormborn

• Euron's dynamic entry on the top of his Boarding Party complete with maniacal grin has been compared to a WWE Dynamic Entry.
• Sam's treatment of Jorah, which consists of more or less flaying the infected parts of his skin has led more than one to remark "Where's a Bolton when you need one", and that the Boltons had potential to be good Maesters.

3 — Queen's Justice

• Bran's omniscience:
  • Bran's completely nonchalant way of describing Sansa's traumatizing wedding night has led to memes and jokes of Bran talking about other characters' traumatic moments and then focusing solely on the weather and their pretty appearances.
    Bran: I saw you [fill in the blank]. You were so beautiful.
  • Now that Bran is the Three-Eyed Raven who knows everything, people joke that he knows (and should reveal to us) those little mysteries, like what exactly happened to Tyrion with the Noodle Implements of a jackass and honeycomb in the brothel, or what exactly Pod did to those whores who liked his performance so much that they did not accept the money.
  • Jokes that Bran Stark knows everything while his half-brother/cousin Jon Snow knows nothing.
  • Due to Bran's indifferent attitude and him knowing everything everyone has ever said, it led to jokes that Bran has been binge-watching previous seasons and has already watched this one.
• Jon meets Daenerys, Cool versus Awesome intensified, and then falls somewhat flat:
  • The situation when Missandei once again recites Daenerys' extremely long list of titles to Jon Snow and Davos Seaworth. Davos introduces Jon with a succinct, "This is Jon Snow," (beat) "He's King in the North." This inspired attempts to present Jon in the same style as Daenerys: This is Jon Snow, the Bastard of Winterfell, the White Wolf, the Comrade of the Direwolf, the Slayer of the White Walker and the Slayer of the Dead, 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, the Climber of the Wall, the Ice Survivor, the Champion of the Free Folk, the Resurrected, He Who Knows Nothing, King in the North. (There are countless variations and new titles.)
  • Davos, Jon's unofficial Hand of the King, it the best dude to introduce people: "This is Jon Snow." — (missing a beat and thinking quickly "Shit, this is not enough.") — "He's King in the North." — ("Yeah, that's it.") — Moments later: "He's a damn bastard!"
  • Webcomic recap here◊.
  • First impressions. The awkward meeting of Jon and Daenerys multiplied to awesome levels.
• Jon Snow is a right proper lad◊. ^note Right Proper Lad refers to a phrase from a comical recap of the episode with captioned still images. Davos introduces Jon to Daenerys as "right proper lad" and Jon echoes "right proper". "Right proper lad" became a catchphrase. Generally, people refer to characters that they like as a "right proper lad", with variations "right proper [X]".
• Playing on the fan theory that Jon and Daenerys will end up together, people joked about Daenerys misunderstanding Jon's request for obsidian. She misheard dragonglass as dragon-ass.
• Olenna the Savage.^ExplanationOlenna's last words are a confession of her part in Joffrey's death, and the audacity she delivers them with straight to his father's face mark her among the fans as one of the most "savage" characters in the show.
• "Tell [person]. I want [him/her/them] to know it was me."^ExplanationFrom the same last words scene as "Olenna the Savage," the specific quotation (generally accompanied by an image of Olenna saying the famous words with someone else's face crudely superimposed over hers) has been used whenever Person A, having previously been wronged or insulted by Person B, delivers a devastating blow to Person B. Possibly the most famous example is this image macro, in which Olenna's face is replaced with that of Gritty (the weird mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, who somehow became both a symbol of Philadelphia and of the American Left) saying "Tell Donald, I want him to know it was me" (Trump having insulted Philadelphia fairly frequently, and Philadelphia's returns having tipped Pennsylvania—and thus the whole 2020 election—to Joe Biden.)
• "A finger in the bum!" Euron's suggested sex move for when he marries Cersei was such a Refuge in Audacity and so hammily delivered that many fans consider it Euron's Catchphrase. It's hard to find a Euron clip on YouTube without at least one user posting it, and it's lead to jokes that Euron can defeat anybody (including Drogon and the Night King) simply by sticking his finger in their bums.

4 — The Spoils of War

• The prehistoric cave drawings made by the Children of the Forest in Dragonstone — it's joked that they were actually drawn by Jon and/or Davos to convince Dany of the White Walkers. The White Walker drawings, in particular, are not in the same style as the rest and look as if they'd be too recent and figurative looking to fit the particular aesthetic effect.
• The Curb-Stomp Battle delivered by Dany's Dothraki horde has led to many a fan quoting Robert Baratheon: "Only a fool would meet the Dothraki in an open field."
• Ko Qhono, the Dothraki bloodrider next to Tyrion who mocks the Lannister army, "Your people can't fight" is quite popular, both for the hilariously smug response and for the fact that it's snidely mocking soldiers for not fighting a dragon. Many note that it could have been prefigured by a Nelson Muntz style "Haw-haw".
• "Smile, you son of a bitch!"^ExplanationThe shots of Bronn aiming at Drogon and the dragon charging at him remind some viewers of the final confrontation between Sheriff Brody and Bruce.
• Dany's insistence that Jon bend the knee inspired a knock-knock joke or a phone prank: A phone rings in Winterfell. "Hello, who's this?" — "Ben." — "Ben who?" — "Ben D. Knee!" (hangs up). See it here with pictures.
• Many fans have taken to using Tyrion's (unheard) plea to Jaime — "Flee, you idiot!" — and applying it to many other situations both in this episode and earlier ones whenever it seems as though a character is about to do something stupid and/or dangerous. Often accompanied with the following line, "You fucking idiot," when the character proceeds to do said stupid/dangerous thing anyway.
• Jaime has gotten the Leeroy Jenkins treatment for his charge on Dany and Drogon, with some fans dubbing him "Ser Leeroy of House Jenkins." A parody video went up quickly after the episode aired.
• The two idiotic Stark guards in Winterfell that allow Arya to slip by them are often associated with HBO online security in light of the hacking incident that took place around the time the season was airing which saw Episodes 4 and 6 being leaked before their official release.

5 — Eastwatch

• Jon's Dream Team who go beyond the Wall being compared to other famous Badass Crews/Rag Tag Bunches of Misfits:
  • Westeros' Suicide Squad. Referring to Jon assembling a team to travel beyond the Wall for what is considered a suicide mission. It didn't take long for fans to have their fun with it.
  • They are also being referred to as The Fellowship of the Wight◊.
  • It's compared to the Justice League, since there are seven of them, and Jon Snow leads them in a V-Formation Team Shot. Davos also recruiting Gendry preparing a hard sell when the latter Jumped at the Call is quite identical to the famous scene in Justice League when Bruce Wayne recruits the Flash. Especially when he speeds runs to the Wall in the following episode.
  • The seven of them are also compared to The Magnificent Seven.
  • Ditto The A-Team.
  • "Alright Ducks, flying V!"
• Ascended Meme and Fandom Nod as to what the hell Gendry was doing since he was last seen in season 3. Consensus was that he was still rowing in the boat. When Davos finds him in Fleabottom, he says: "Thought you might still be rowing."
• Rhaegar's incredibly dickish annulment of his wife Elia and marrying Lyanna in Dorne has led to jokes about how a modern version would go, with most noting that Rhaegar 2017 would send a text message to Elia about their divorce and never see her again, or likewise pretend she doesn't exist, "New raven, who's this?"
• Davos' awesome advertisement of fermented crab led to a joke that fermented crab will put Viagra and Cialis out of business.
  Davos: It'll put a hole right through your chainmail!

6 — Beyond the Wall

• The episode earned a lot of comparisons to the Olympics since we see Gendry sprint-running in the withering cold to the Wall, Sandor throwing a shot put, and the Night King performing Javelin throwing skills to take down Viserion — earning a gold, nay platinum medal. We also see Jon Snow "diving" into freezing waters under the ice and surviving, while the scene where the crew march across the ice is about as close as you can get to figure skating. And even before Theon and diving, Jaime and swimming (more like sinking).
• Jokes about how Gendry is motivating himself to run by reminding himself that snow is water and he's rowing with his legs, in a call back to his seasons spent in a boat.
• The Rule of Drama gods have decreed that Benjen's horse will be like Titanic's floating door: one-passenger only.
• "Now I have a dragon, ho-ho-ho◊" ^note The Night King sending Jon Snow a message about having a dragon, too, referencing the famous message from John McClane to Hans Gruber "Now I have a machine gun, ho-ho-ho" from Die Hard
• Several Yu-Gi-Oh! jokes emerged regarding the Night King getting a Blue-Eyes White Dragon or alternatively Blue-Eyes Wight Dragon.
• A girl has a shitty memory.◊ Faceless men referred to Arya as a girl. In this episode, Arya is a dick to Sansa and twists the description of how her sister Sansa behaved during their father's execution.
• Who is the Chanel of Dragonstone? In response to Daenerys' rather fabulous winter dress. Comparisons with Queen Elsa of Arendelle were also not far behind.
• How did Jon know he could call Daenerys Dany? Because all he heard from her was bend da knee, bend da knee — ben da knee — ben da nee — ben danee — b danee — danee — dany — Dany!
• The wight that Sandor hits with a rock, nicknamed "Dumb Cunt", has become a sort of Memetic Badass for Team White Walker after being the first wight to figure out that the lake had refrozen, getting back up after getting his ribcage and his skull smashed in by Sandor's hammer, and then getting back up again after being knocked into the lake and nearly killing Tormund. We never see him die on-screen, so fans are holding out hope that he survived Daenerys's dragon attack.

7 — The Dragon and the Wolf

• #Boatsex! ^Explanation The Fan Nickname for the Jon/Daenerys pairing after the two banged each other on a ship. The term was coined and adopted by the fandom after a leak which occurred well ahead of the airing of the actual episode.
  • Tyrion withdraws coolly a la JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.^Explanation During the scene above, Tyrion heard everything that was going on and quietly left, drawing comparisons between him and Speedwagon who didn't want to disturb Jonathan and Erina.
  • Jokes claiming that Jon and Daenerys got it on because they ate Davos' fermented crab aphrodisiac.
  • Emilia Clarke's reaction.
  • Jon Snow being an honorary member of The Lonely Island.^ExplanationKnown for their raunchy humor, they released a single in 2013 called "I Fucked My Aunt", which is about exactly that. Incidentally, some of The Lonely Island's earlier well-known repertoire also includes "I Just Had Sex" and "I'm On A Boat." So... there's that.
  • Bent the knee.^ExplanationDuring the sex scene, Jon literally had his knee bent. Technically this was the first time the audience saw him "bend the knee".
  • Jokes about Jon forgeting/mixing up his objectives, so instead of "Bent the knee" and "get that dragon glass" it became "bend Dany" and "get that dragon ass".
• Cleganebowl is coming and/or returning! ^ExplanationSandor confronts his brother Gregor face to face in this episode and promises to kill him, with fans being hyped that the much-anticipated fight between the two will still happen after its seeming cancellation in the previous season.
• Littlefinger's trial and death:
  • Clips of Littlefinger's death scene keep circulating, some set to "Turn Down for What".
  • "You cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby."◊
  • That was part of the plan.^ExplanationFan reaction to Littlefinger's death by claiming that being executed is all part of his plan to ascend the Iron Throne.
  • Jokes about Arya wearing Littlefinger's face to prank Sansa. As shown here.◊
• Qyburn's fascination with the Wight's hand. It's either used to joke about how Jaime could use that hand or Gregor Clegane no longer being Qyburn's main point of interest.
• The Hound kicking over the crate containing the Wight...only for Season 5 Tyrion to fall out, much to everyone's, including Tyrion, shock.
• Rhaegar may be Jon's father, but he ain't his daddy (Ned).

Season 8

1 — Winterfell

• Half the scenes in the first episode end with someone noticing that Bran is watching them, solidifying his title of "Bran the Voyeur".
• Bran's Meaningful Looks are called Soul-crushing Stares.
  • Made even more hillarious when we learned the reason why Bran's gaze is so intense - basically the same reason that of Christopher Lambert is.
• Bran's being petty enough to wait outside in the cold just so he could make Jaime uncomfortable when he arrived.
• Cersei & Elephants:
  • Cersei loving elephants, due to her obvious disappointment when Lord Strickland didn't bring any of the Golden Company's elephants to Westeros.
  • "Where's my elephant?! Where's my elephant?!"^note Cersei is like Bart Simpson from The Simpsons.
  • The explanation being that the CGI team ran out of money after doing the Great Battle of Winterfell.
• Jokes comparing Winterfell's hostility to the Dothraki and Unsullied to real-life racism. Many compared their arrival to the "nigger on a horse" scene from Django Unchained.
• As the example of Robb's baby above, it is joked that Ned Umber died solely because of he had Sean Bean's name. Eddard Morghulis◊ All Neds must die!
• Jon being a Reluctant Ruler gets some memetic escalation; every time he quits from his title he gets another, even more prestigious one.

2 — A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

• Arya's scene with Gendry, "EpicForgeSex".
  • Following Arya and Gendry's hook up, Arya's face stealing has lead to fans forming a lot of Power Perversion Potential scenarios.
  • Quoting Robert Baratheon's Season 1 line to Ned Stark when he proposed to marry Joffrey to Sansa, “I have a son, you have a daughter. We’ll join our houses.” This was used to apply to Gendry and Arya's aforementioned sex scene.
  • Having someone (Gendry himself in a few variations) say that with Gendry being Robert’s son, and Arya resembling her aunt Lyanna, Gendry was able to do what his dad wished he could have done: have sex with a Stark.
  • Arya adding Gendry's three previous lovers to her list.
  • People realizing what was about to happen because/when Arya started taking her gloves off.
  • Random soldier: "Hey, Gendry, who did you bang?" — Gendry: "No one." (Meme referring to Arya aka 'Girl' aka 'No One'.)
• Podrick's epic performance of "Jenny of Oldstones" has led to many people noting (some only half-comedically) that the show has now finally explained whatever it was Pod did for those prostitutes.
• Pointing out what a bad idea it is to hide all the civilians in the crypts when the enemy can raise the dead.
• Daenerys' expression while talking to Sansa, known as Daenerys Targaryen Squint or Smiling Daenerys. Dany squint smiles at Sansa Stark during a tense conversation, and people find it weirdly relatable and useful for describing their face in so many contexts.
• "The big woman still here?" Tormund immediately being smitten with Brienne back in season 6 was already the source of many jokes and memes, but this line is perhaps the most well-known. Any time a piece of media features a Statuesque Stunner, expect this line to pop up online.

3 — The Long Night

• Because she's absent in this episode and previous one, fans joke about Cersei (and by extension, Euron) relaxing in King's Landing while all everybody who is in the North are fighting for their lives.
• Sports memes have emerged after the episode:
  • "The Night King blew a 28-3 lead!" (Alluding to the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons).
  • Pics with captions of "I gotta admit, they had us in the first half".
  • End game/season statistics (e.g. MVP [most valuable player] = Arya, Defensive Player of the Game = Theon, Grey Worm, Beric, or Jorah, Rookie of the Year = Lyanna Mormont, Most Improved = Theon, Melisandre, Daenerys, or Podrick, Sixth Man = Melisandre, etc.).
  • Air Jordan logos being replaced with Arya's sneak attack stance.
  • Michael Jordan's infamous crying meme being edited into the Night King's face.
  • A video where Arya killing the Night King is superimposed over game footage on a TV in a bar, with mass celebration ensuing.
  • Arya's face being edited into NBA players making winning buzzer beaters.
• Many complaints and jokes about the greatest, most important battle for the living taking place at night and that nobody can see shit◊. It's not like viewers were not warned: Season 2 — the night is dark and full of terrors. Season 8 — the night really IS dark. Nobody should have been that surprised. Credit where credit is due: Lord of Light◊ provides lighting. His high priestess has a piece of advice◊.
• Ungrateful fans: End of the second episode — we are worried so many characters will die. End of the third episode — we are disappointed so few characters died. Difference between season 1 and season 8◊. ^note Not ENTIRELY unfounded as some characters did seem like they were getting death scenes, Brienne had at least 9 undead on her to the point only her head was visible overhead, only for Jaime to arrive, swing his sword once and suddenly she's clean again. and Sam had multiple scenes of being covered in undead and he isn't in metal armor. Many fans believe these two got off lightly.
• Another meme about the duo of the Stark Brothers: Jon knows nothing and does nothing. Bran knows everything & does nothing. ^note Jon fought bravely, but he was not the Chosen One to off the Night King as many believed he would. He did not even kill a single White Walker in the battle. And Bran's omniscience, telepathy and warging skills were sadly underused.
• Fans have taken to superimposing the dragons play-fighting as babies over the Dance of the Dragons, where Drogon and Rhaegal face off against their undead brother Viserion in a very serious battle to the death.
• Why does Bran warg as humanity faces the annihilation? He goes to watch Avengers: Endgame. ^note  The movie premiere was on April 26th in US. The much-anticipated episode was released on April 28th. Avengers: Endgame had a record-shattering box-office performance and "Long Night" was the second most watched episode of the series, and once streaming numbers were accounted for, it's the most watched episode of the series. See here or here◊.
• Another name origin explained: Hodor held the door. Beric did the Beric-ade. Meme honouring Beric's Heroic Sacrifice to save Arya and Sandor Clagane the Hound from the wights. He blocked the door to give them enough time to retreat. ^note  In episode The Door, Hodor heroically saves Meera and Bran by holding a door while sacrificing himself.
• Jorah Mormont died the way he lived: being a good friend to his Queen. ^explanationJokes about Jorah being perpetually friend zoned by Daenerys, though she was legitimately heartbroken — about losing a good friend.
• Arya's Kill:
  • Arya is GOAT◊. Greatest.Of.All.Time. Coupled with pictures and macros of Arya with actual goats and gifs of goats making a giant leap.
  • Arya joins the Kingslayers' Club◊. Most famous Kingslayer is Jaime Lannister◊, but there is also the boar who did Robert in, the Shadow monster who killed Renley, Roose Bolton who murdered Robb Stark, Olenna who poisoned Joffrey, Tommen who killed himself, etc. So many kings, so many Kingslayers... Arya's got the greatest kill: She offed the Night King, an Ice Zombie overlord whose ultimate goal was to destroy humanity and life.
  • Only Gendry saw Arya coming... ^note It goes back to Episode 2 when Arya didn't want to die a virgin and had sex with Gendry. Her stealth attack was not seen/anticipated by the White Walkers who did nothing to stop her. And even though Arya was set up as a skilled shapeshifting assassin and she did have a Valyrian steel dagger and dragonglass weapon and trained to fight in the dark and kill people on stealth missions, many did not predict it would be her who destroys the ultimate threat to the living by herself.
  • Gendry's dick being the source of power due to Arya's impressive showing this episode.
  • Arya killing the Night King plays out so much like Éowyn killing the Witch-king of Angmar that this exchange would not have been out of place.
    Night King: (holds Arya by the throat) Fool! No one can kill me! Die now!
    Arya: (drops knife to her other hand) A girl IS no one! *STAB*
  • Figures it was Arya who slayed the Night King: she did train to fight in the dark. ^note nods to Arya's training from hell with the Faceless men when she was blinded for a time; another dab at the poor lighting and the setting of the episode in dark
  • That still only counts as one! ^Explanation When Arya kills the Night King, it also results in the death of all the other White Walkers and the thousands of wights, technically giving her the biggest killcount in the battle and drawing comparisons to Gimli's reaction to Legolas taking out an oliphant in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Subverting expectations. ^note Benioff and Weiss admitted in the Inside the Episode featurette that they let Arya kill the Night King just because everyone had expected Jon to be the actual slayer and the chosen hero to save humanity. Weiss explicitly said it would be 'cooler' if Arya was the one who slayed the Night King. Fans ran wild with it as they also extended it to the remaining part of the series, as character arcs were subverted, plot points were sacrificed for cheap shock as well as admitting the showrunners also subverted our expectations about the show having a great ending.
• The revelation that the Night King is not the ultimate boss does not sit well with most viewers, but Tywin Explains It All.
• The Night King no selling Dany's dragonfire and then smirking has become a popular template for image labeling memes.
• "X did Y, causing Arya to become a super assassin. X is Azor Ahai."^note In response to the argument that Jon's importance was in bringing the living together, people began joking about the characters whose actions ultimately led Arya back to Winterfell are the saviors of Westeros. This includes Joffrey. And Night King himself.
  • Azor Apie^ExplanationThis got to the point that people started jokingly saying even the smallest minor characters like Hot Pie is Azor Ahai.
• Night King did nothing wrong. ^Explanation Night King's and the White Walkers' actions were said to be meant to save us and Westeros from the constant grabbing of the Idiot Ball and the rapid decay of the show after this episode. Even Arya, who killed Night King, gets the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment.
• Melisandre saw the ending ^Explanation Following the victory over the White walkers, Melisandre removes her magical necklace and allows herself to revert to her true age, finally dying due to having fulfilled her purpose. However, some viewers joke that she foresaw what would happen in the second half of Season 8 (widely viewed as being the nadir of the show's Seasonal Rot) and so let herself die to avoid sticking around for it.
• Winter is coming... aaaaand it's gone ^Explanation After seven seasons of people repeatedly talking about how "Winter is coming" and stressing how hardcore it's going to be, the White Walker invasion ends up lasting only a single episode before they're defeated and no one outside the North is affected. In fact, in subsequent episodes King's Landing and Dragonstone both have mild weather, which made it seem that winter pretty much ended the moment the White Walkers went down.

4 — The Last of the Starks

• Starbucks in Westeros.
  • A Starbucks Cup of Westeros ^note Some eagle-eyed viewers spotted what was believed to be a Starbucks cup on the table during the Winterfell feast in the episode The Last of the Starks. This cup even trended on Twitter as a significant take away from the episode, perhaps more than the episode's events themselves. This gaffe became so well-known that Starbucks gained $2.3 billion in free advertising!
  • The North remembers ^Explanation After the coffee cup was noticed, the creators edited it out in subsequent releases of "The Last of the Starks", but the original image and footage had already been widely circulated, leading people to comment this oft-cited phrase from the Northern campaign in response
• PET THE DAMN DOG! ^note Many unhappily protested that Ghost wasn't pet by Jon before leaving with Tormund for the North after fulfilling the Noble Wolf role. This quickly spun off into treating it like a tongue-in-cheek Moral Event Horizon and general expressions of sympathy for Ghost. This was officially addressed by writer David Nutter, who — with visual effects supervisor Jack Bauer — talked about the difficulties of working with CGI direwolves. Nutter explained, "Since the direwolves are kind of CG creations, we felt it best to keep it as simple as possible." None of the characters in Season 8 directly interact with or touch Ghost when he's on screen and Ghost appears to have been filmed separately in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• Fans have joked about Ghost manning the scorpions, killing Rhaegal out of jealousy that he's now "Jon's new favorite".
• "Who got shot down the hardest?"^note This episode features a mix of physical and emotional hits. Gendry gets knocked back by Arya on his passionate marriage proposal because "It's not her", Tormund loses any chance at Brienne after Jaime takes her for EpicOathSex, Ghost gets the previously mentioned snubbing by Jon and Rhaegal gets a ballistae shot right in the cranium.
• "Dany kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet" and "[X] kinda forgot about [Y]" ^note The sheer absurdity of this explanation from the behind the scenes video regarding what happened to her and her dragon is frequently cited by people mocking Season 8's drop in writing quality and the increase in Idiot Ball moments, as well as mocking every inconsistency that subsequently appears.
• Sansa is not her father's girl ^note Ned Stark kept the secret of Jon's true parentage for years and took it to his grave. Sansa kept it for all of 5 minutes on screen
• Hypocritical Grey Worm ^note Jokes relating to how Missandei loved him despite him being a eunuch, yet now she is lacking her head he cannot return the favor.
• One Knight Stand. ^note The summation of Jaime and Brienne's plot throughout the series. He's a knight, she's a knight and they have a one-night stand as he ditches her for his twin-sister-slash-lover Cersei.
• This image◊ of Varys looking like he's about to puke has seen wide use as a reaction image.
• The idea that Qyburn can build any manner of outlandish technology if given the time. Examples can be seen here◊ and here.^note Jokes relating to how Qyburn can make enhancements to Cersei's ballistae that somehow let them shoot at 2km/s.
• "First Time?"◊ ^note The image is an existing meme capturing a memorable line from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, where a cowboy about to hang (played by James Franco) nonchalantly says the line to a newcomer, implying that he's done this before. Fans of Lost, Dexter, The Walking Dead and other shows that started off strongly only to suffer in quality and have terrible endings used the line to observe that the same thing was happening to Game of Thrones.
• Euron: The Bowmaster of King's Landing & Things Euron "Just Sort of Forgot About" ^note Funny Fan Vid montages of Euron the Memetic Badass who hits many bull's-eyes. The joke stems from his taking down Daenerys' dragon Raegal with ease with three precise hits from Quburn's ballista.
• Guys, relax, Jaime's obviously going back to kill Cersei ^Explanation This became a very common answer to viewers who were annoyed or dismayed that Jaime ditches a heartbroken Brienne to return to King's Landing before the battle, due to a very popular fan theory that Jaime would be the one to kill Cersei, fulfilling the valonqar prophecy (Cersei believing she would find death from her younger brother; assuming it's Tyrion, but her twin brother and lover Jamie is also her younger brother). Became Harsher in Hindsight (and/or Hilarious in Hindsight depending on your sense of humour) when it's revealed in the following episode that no, Jaime really did just go back to try and save Cersei.
• "Look how they massacred my boy." Referencing The Godfather, and Don Corleone's reaction to Sonny's corpse. Rose to prominence from fans of Jaime Lannister after Jaime completely abandoned all remaining hints of character development to turn his back on Brienne and run back to Cersei's side at the end of the episode. Was pretty much picked up by all the fans, even the holdouts who believed Jaime was going back to kill Cersei after his lackluster demise in episode 5.
  • Also spawned an in-series meme. A shot of Jaime pushing child Bran out the window from episode 1 of the first season. Written over Bran's face is "Jaime's character development." The caption reads, "The things I do for shock."
  • Also applied to Euron Greyjoy who might as well have been a completely different character, going from a terrifying, intellectual, charismatic, pure evil Sorcerous Overlord with unbridled ambitions of godhood and the ushering in of the apocalypse, to a sex-crazed wise-cracking pirate content with bedding Queen Cersei who feels more ripped out of Pirates of the Caribbean than a Lovecraftian horror story. Fans were quick to mock how short the series version came up to his monstrous book counterpart.

5 — The Bells

• Daenerys' actions in the episode almost immediately earned her the title BBQueen. She torched to the city of King's Landing to the ground with dragon fire, even though Cersei's soldiers yielded.
• "Sansa Was Right" or "Sansa Told Them So". ^note Daenerys' actions being precisely in line with Sansa's suspicions of her and her warnings to others to not trust Dany so easily because Dany was an unstable tyrant in the making led to many social media posts stating Sansa had been vindicated and if the news reached her in Winterfell, she'd be feeling smug while drinking wine and laughing her ass off, being happy to tell Jon she told him so when they next see each other. Other variations have Jon outright acknowledging that he should have listened to Sansa.
• "No one ever listens to Varys".^note Related to the above meme, Varys continues the trend of his warnings falling on deaf ears as he is executed by Dany for betraying her. A betrayal he started because he saw clear signs of her encroaching breakdown and insanity. That very episode, after he was sold out by Tyrion, Dany doesn't even let Varys make a defense or even have any last words and then she later that day incinerates thousands of people. Frustration at Tyrion and Jon letting this happen and Varys being ignored yet again is pretty high.
• "The leprechaun tells me to burn everything"^note Lots of memes being created comparing Dany's Face–Heel Turn to Ralph Wiggum's pyromaniac leprechaun friend in The Simpsons
• Daenerys nearly did the one thing the Night King failed to do: Kill Arya Stark.
• Some have compared Daenerys' destruction of King's Landing to "Let It Go" from Frozen (2013), "but with fire and more murder".
• Episode 4: Improbable Aiming Skills. Episode 5: Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. ^Explanation Comparing the performance of the Iron Fleet in Episode 4, where they killed Rhaegal pretty quickly as well as destroying most of the Targaryen fleet, to Episode 5, where Dany and Drogon mowed down the Iron Fleet single-handedly, with Drogon dodging every shot.
• An edit of Daenerys immolating King's Landing and the peasants is intercut with scenes of Bastian riding Falkor in The Neverending Story.
• CLEGANEBOWL finally happening in this episode, with fans commenting that this was the epic showdown they were waiting for (compared to the Night King's takedown) or referring to previous "Cleganebowl hype" videos. There are also jokes about Qyburn actual cause of death was "trying to stop the hype". Jokes that Clegane does not give up his revenge... for the hype◊.
• Jaime Lannister Is Alive Clown Club ^note For fans in self-aware denial over Jaime’s death
• "Jaime's story is well-rounded" ^note He ends his first episode throwing Bran out the window and ends his last episode throwing his own Character Development out the window
• "To be honest, I never really cared about X" ^note  Jaime's statement in Episode 5 that he never really cared about the innocent citizens of King's Landing, which flies in the face of the entire reason he killed Aerys and became the Kingslayer. Cue jokes about other characters completely dropping their previous characterization for no reason. Even extending to Benioff and Weiss themselves: "To be honest, we never really cared about Game of Thrones."
• Who killed Jaime Lannister? In a rather literal Brick Joke, it's a brick. Or bricks. Done with macros of Euron who boasted it was him, contrasted with a picture of a brick, or with pictures of Olenna Tyrell with a brick for her face with the caption, "Tell Cersei/Euron it was me. I want him/her to know" (in a call back to her confession to Jaime that it was her who killed Joffrey).
• "Mommy, why did you name me after a homicidal dragon queen?" ^note  The question that will inevitably be asked by the children of the parents who named them after Daenarys after said children witnessed the massacre of King's Landing. Amusingly, the possible answer ranges from "It was a very popular show, sweetheart" to "I didn't! You were named after your uncle Dany who you never had until now!"
• You had one job, Golden Company! ^Explanation Fans ridiculing the Golden Company for literally being an army of red shirts, dying within moments of Daenerys going mad and wrecking havoc.
• 20,000 men and 2000 horses ^Explanation Harry Strickland's answer to Cersei's inquiry regarding the strength of the Golden Company has not gone unnoticed by fans, for when they were shown onscreen later on with only a few hundred men and a single horse. This is used to poke fun at the show's CGI budgeting. Some even joked that "2000" was the name of his horse.
• Foreshadowing is not Character Development ^note  The response to fans, inspired by a YouTube video put out by "Trope Anatomy" who point out that while some fans have said Dany's Face–Heel Turn was foreshadowed since season two, detractors state that just because it was foreshadowed doesn't mean there was any meaningful development. And there were middle ground people who felt that if the writers wanted Dany to turn evil they should have developed it over the course of a season or two, not set her up as good then make her turn bad in the span of one episode.
• Brick Joke meme of Cersei's obsession with elephants: She had it all figured out. Cue pictures of giant elephants using their trunks to extinguish burning houses. Or Cersei 'surviving' the collapse of the roof, becoming Mother of Elephants in the process, even saying the same speech Daenerys did in "Fire and Blood".
• There have been several videos put together of Daenerys and her army destroying King's Landing to Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
• In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen! ^Explanation The Night King ends up being defeated under halfway through the season and Daenerys Targaryen goes Ax-Crazy and becomes the show's Final Boss, drawing comparisons to what Lady Galadriel would've become had she been corrupted by the One Ring
• You were the Chosen One! ^Explanation Obi-Wan Kenobi's reaction to Anakin Skywalker falling to the Dark Side in Revenge of the Sith mirrors the reaction of Jon, Tyrion and the audience to Daenerys becoming a Fallen Hero and torching King's Landing
• "Look how they massacred my boy." Referening The Godfather, and Don Corleone's reaction to Sonny's corpse. After being used in episode 4 in response to Jaime's actions in abandoning Brienne, it also was reused in reference to Jaime for the fifth episode, (complete with an image of Don Corleone himself with the line caption) while referencing Jaime's line in season 3 ("Tell me, if your precious Renly commanded you to kill your own father and stand by while thousands of men, women, and children were burned alive, would you have done it?") with his line to Tyrion in this episode ("To be honest, I never much cared for them, innocent or otherwise.")

6— The Iron Throne

• Jokes about the Unsullied and the Dothraki at the back not hearing about Daenerys's New Era Speech became widespread after moments of the episode's airing.
• Her Satanic Majesty ^note This bizarre Rolling Stones reference in the official script which many took as another ham-fisted attempt to demonize Daenerys. Many of Dany's fans embraced it as a new title for her.
• Brienne writing ^note Jokes about what Brienne is writing in Jaime's section of the book chronicling the accomplishments of the Kingsguard. Usually, it's something unflattering about how he left her right after they slept together. References to the Burn Book are plentiful.
• Let the ink dry! ^note Brienne closes the Kingsguard book too quickly after writing Jaime's section, prompting people to joke that she's going to smear the ink on the page.
• "Arya the Explorer" ^note In the end, Arya decided to become an explorer like Dora the Explorer, sailing west of Westeros. This has led to jokes about her going Columbus and discovering "Americos" or "Americsos", or becoming a pirate ("Arrrya").
• What does Gendry do when he finds out Arya is sailing west? He gets back in his boat and starts rowing. ^note Fans of the Gendrya ship who refuse to let it sink note that Gendry has already spent over 3 seasons rowing. Arya leaving Westeros by sea gives him a method to follow her that he's already very experienced with.
• Bran's victory. ^note The Dark Horse Victory of Bran Stark has led to delight among his fans and disbelief among others
  • Bran wins by doing absolutely nothing. ^note Bran becomes King without having to say much beyond affirming to Tyrion that he would lead if asked, drawing comparisons to an earlier meme where Luigi wins Mario Party mini-games without doing anything.
  • Chaos is a wheelchair ramp. ^note Bran's omniscience may mean that he predicted Dany's descent to madness, yet did nothing to stop her or warn others. This has led to fans painting him as a chessmaster, who let everyone around him suffer and die so he'll become king in the end. It's a variation on Littlefinger's "chaos is a ladder" motto. This crack video goes as far as theorizing that Bran began scheming to gain the throne way back in Season 1, using his powers to orchestrate many major events in the series (including Ned's execution, the Red Wedding and Tyrion killing Tywin) to ultimately become king while appearing utterly innocent/oblivious, thus making it a case of The Dog Was the Mastermind.
• Sam and democracy ^note Sam proposing a democracy and getting laughed at prompted many comparisons to real-world politics. Tyrion's suggestion that only nobles get to pick the king has subsequently been compared to the United States Electoral College.
• SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS! ^note Bran being elected King of most of a continent comprised of multiple Kingdoms elicits comparisons to the Holy Roman Empire and to the Empire in Warhammer Fantasy Battles; the Lords Paramount would, therefore, be analogous to the Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire and with the Elector-Counts in Warhammer. It also connects to jokes about Bran being able to make pop culture references.
• "Dragon fuel can't melt Valyrian steel beams!" ^ExplanationDrogon destroying the Iron Throne with his fire breath and completely melting it into a puddle of molten metal drew comparisons to the infamous 9/11 conspiracy meme "jet fuel can't melt steel beams".
• "Uncle, please sit." ^note When no one steps forward to nominate a new king, Edmure Tully nominates himself and rambles about his qualifications before his niece, Sansa, tells him to rein it in. This quote has since been used to tell older people to settle down when they go on tangents, not unlike "OK, boomer".
• Drogon destroying the throne:
  • He knew Bran has his own seat (i.e. a wheel chair).
  • Drogon literally thinking that the Iron Throne killed his mother◊.
  • "Drogon is either the smartest dragon ever, realizing the symbolic power of the Iron Throne and its corrupting influence that led to Dany's downfall... or he's the dumbest dragon ever, who deduced that the chair with pointy things stabbed his mom with a pointy thing."
  • Some have humorously painted an Alternative Character Interpretation of Drogon as an apathetic, ungrateful son who's just glad he can finally get a vacation and is just bringing Dany's corpse as a snack.
• Dany is doing her best◊ Maleficent pose.
• After Bran becomes King, some people joked that Jaime's attempt to murder Bran in the first episode was a pre-emptive act of king slaying.
• Bran is the younger and more beautiful queen that the prophecy to Cersei was talking about.
• Bran the Broken Cock ^note Sansa's claim that Bran cannot have children has led to a lot of mockery on his behalf.
• Bran the Wheely Wheely Legs No Feely ^note Bran's given epithet of Bran the Broken, bestowed by Tyrion, comes off as more than a little insensitive, possibly outright insulting or mocking to the paraplegic king. Increasingly spicy titles that similarly take the piss out of him have followed.
• Jon Snow deserved more than this! ^note  Fan outrage towards Jon Snow's final fate, which amounted to being in prison for an unspecified time for saving the world by killing Daenerys, and later being sent to the Wall to appease the Unsullied who were leaving Westeros anyways. As the Night King was dead already, fans found it a poor excuse to just stuff Jon out of Westeros, and infuriated that the 2 season long Aegon Targaryen shtick only amounted to Jon and Dany having Surprise Incest, Jon not wanting the throne even when he's the rightful heir, and Jon denying Dany sex leading to her rampage in the previous episode.
• Jon and Sansa failed geography. ^Explanation Many latched onto this line in particular for how it's shot at the two characters intelligence. Many jokes about the pair having horrible navigation skills spawned, such as having to pretend to read maps or heading in the opposite direction of where they were headed.
• Jon petted Ghost, everything's fine. The Pat That Was Promised. And variations. ^note  After the uproar at Jon seemingly leaving Ghost behind two episodes earlier, Jon gets to pet him in this episode, and the end implies that he and Ghost are heading north together. The fans were greatly relieved and many declared it to be the best scene in the finale and possibly the whole season. Another way of celebrating Ghost finally getting a pat on the head is to combine it with a play on the prophecy of The Prince That Was Promised.
• Catelyn Stark wrote the ending. ^note The ending was way too nice to the surviving Stark kids: Sansa is the Queen. Bran is the King. Arya gets to follow her dreams and goes exploring. Jon, Ned's bastard Catelyn never liked, is exiled.
• "We did it Grey Worm/Tyrion/Jon! We saved the city!" ^Explanation Daenerys gives a speech to her followers about how they liberated King’s Landing — which is currently a smoking ruin — calling to mind this scene from Spongebob Squarepants.
• Bran: My job here is done. Everyone else: But you didn't do anything. ^note This Sailor Moon meme has been used to mock the lack of Bran's involvement (except for giving Arya the knife which killed the Night King, and leaking to Sam Jon's true heritage which brought trouble in case of Jon and Daenerys). Even after everything is said and done, Tyrion makes Bran the King even when Bran did nothing even in the great fight for the living. Fans have used it to mock Jon (the rightful king) being exiled, and Bran, whom nobody wanted at this point, to become king.
• Tyrion: "Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?" Everyone: "X does/Literally anyone else" ^Explanation Part of Tyrion's pitch for Bran being king is that he has the 'best'/most interesting story out of everyone, although a lot of viewers disagree, pointing out various other characters who they believe had far more compelling arcs and/or criticizing the fact that Bran doesn't really do a whole lot in the final few seasons, though especially in Season 8.
• Jon went North, Arya went West, Drogon went East and the show went South. ^Explanation A common summarization of the Grand Finale.
• "This shot is brilliant and should be shown/taught in any film study class." ^note  A meme based off a tweet by a guy praising the visually striking shot in which Drogon flies up and spreads its wings behind Daenerys Targaryen, making it briefly appear as if the wings were hers and she actually became a literal demonic dragon queen. The shot was good, for what it was, but many found the supposedly "genuis" symbolism very simplistic, crude, and unsubtle, and people ran with the hyperbolic nature of the original comment. Twitter users took the text of the tweet and added various humorous or very weird images from other visual media.
• "SYMBOLISM!"^Explanation(Film Brain's catchphrase, which he uses to mock blatantly obvious and/or overly heavy-handed attempts at, well, symbolism. Several Twitter users posted photos of Film Brain calling out his catchphrase along with the aforementioned shot of Daenerys and Drogon, and it's probably fair to say this was much more the general reaction to the shot among fans)
• Dothrakis and Unsullied are cats. ^Explanation Most of the Dothraki army and Unsullied were stated to be wiped out during the Great War of Winterfell, even the showrunners declared that the episode would be the end of the Dothraki army. Cue the beginning of the episode, where Daenerys still has a really massive army of the Dothraki and the Unsullied, which she intended to unleash upon the world, saying that the Dothraki and the Unsullied are cats (as well as gamers) with numerous respawn abilities. Mockingly stated by the fans as another case of 'D & D kinda forgot'.
• Too bad, Daenerys can count only up to 20. ^note  Daenerys recapping her From Nobody to Nightmare arc, stating her humble beginnings as a barely literate girl who can only count to 20. Fans have taken it to 'explaining' why she massacred the city she intended to rule, she only wanted to burn 20 Lannisters, but she lost count and burned them all.
• If only they'd stood three feet to the right ^Explanation In The Bells, Jaime and Cersei are crushed to death by rubble falling on top of them beneath the Red Keep; however, in this episode there's enough rubble-free space left in the area for Tyrion to walk through and dig up their bodies, giving the impression if they only moved more to the right, they would've been safe.

General

• Don't get too attached. ^note The fandoms' collective warning whenever recommending the series to a fresh viewer due to the show's infamous Anyone Can Die status.
  J. K. Rowling: "It's hard killing off so many characters."
  George R. R. Martin: "You're adorable." / "Oh my sweet summer child..."
• George R.R. Martin as the most infamous serial killer in all of fiction. Later it led to jokes about Martin committing suicide, by killing off the most unexpected character of all: himself. Another variation of this meme is this joke: "Why doesn't George R.R. Martin use Twitter? Because he killed off all 280 characters."
• "#TeamWhiteWalker" ^note After season 5 caught up with/surpassed the books with a Gut Punch after another, Too Bleak, Stopped Caring kicked in and people started preferring the Zombie Apocalypse to whatever cruel fate awaited the characters they still cared about. Took on a new meaning around Season 8, when the quality of the show itself got so bad that fans figured the only satisfying ending left was the zombies winning.
• Parodying the show's famous opening title sequence is infinitely popular for other famous franchises. The Simpsons even made their own for a Couch Gag.
• The apparent lack of Rickon Stark. It's become a running joke amongst the fanbase to wager guesses where the heck the kid runs off to or what the hell he's doing when he's not around. The meme died off when Rickon had a larger role in Season 3.
• Hodor! Odor by Hodor. The new fragrance for men◊.
• "These are my dragons, Drogon, Not-Drogon #1 and Not-Drogon #2"^ExplanationFans have joked about Rhaegal and Viserion being The Unfavorite, as Dany interacts most with Drogon and rides him as a mount, while the other two dragons are pretty much relegated to Those Two Guys and get far less screentime. Later Drogon, Zombie Not-Drogon, and Not-Zombie Not-Drogon^ExplanationAfter Viserion is slain by the Night King and resurrected as an undead wight, fans have come to joke about how Rhaegal is now the least plot-significant dragon of them which ends up becoming Harsher in Hindsight when in the final season they Dropped a Bridge on Him.
• Hodor's Pokémon Speak. Hodor hodor? (It's basically gotten to the point that on any GOT related thread, somebody will post something along these lines, occasionally taking it to the logical extreme by having a post entirely consisting of "Hodor".)
• Ned's obsession with honor has been pretty big around Tumblr.
• Sansa, the young teenage and somewhat naive girl, has it tough. In some Spanish and Portuguese speaking online communities, Sansa Stark is called "Sonsa" Stark. 'Sonsa' means dumb or naive in Spanish and Portuguese. On at least one Chinese forum, Sansa is sometimes referred to as "San Sha" (San being "three/thrice", Sha being "silly").
• Whenever someone lists the entire Stark family line, they make sure to add Tony, (and even a Stark Jegan) at the end.◊ In addition, Jon Snow sometimes gets the My Friends... and Zoidberg treatment in these lists. Naturally leads to a story where Tony is a cousin of the main Stark line.
• "You Know Nothing, Jon Snow". ^note Surprising absolutely no one who had read the books, Ygritte's Catchphrase quickly became a meme.
• Variation of "You know nothing, Jon Snow": After giving the Lord's Kiss to Ygritte, "You Know ONE Thing, Jon Snow."
• Almost mix-and-match variations with Jon Snow and Bran Stark who became the omniscient Three-Eyed Raven demi-god — Jon Snow: knows Nothing. Does Everything. Bran: Knows Everything. Does Nothing. Alternatively, in memes for the episode The Long Night, Jon knows nothing and does nothing.^note Resulting from Jon fighting in this episode but failing in every attempt to kill the Night King, who fans believed Jon would be the one to off; Jon being unable to conquer the obstacles in his way, facing his doom in yelling at an undead dragon he couldn't overcome, and not getting to go up against a single White Walker.
• Barristan is strong because he's General Dodonna. Both roles are courtesy of Ian McElhinney.
• Images of the Iron Throne with another character photoshopped to be sitting on it or drawings of such. Heroes, villains, celebrities, politicians, you name it; it's been done. It's just that iconic an image for Ambition Is Evil.
• "You're/you must be Ned Stark's bastard." ^note Everyone who meets Jon Snow says some variant of this, so it's become popular to photoshop it into photos of Kit Harrington from outside the show, or photoshop characters who were never in the show saying it to him. The irony, of course, was that he never was a bastard in the first place, let alone Ned's.
• Daenerys' obsession with her long list of titles and epithets lead to several memes: people attempt to make her list even longer (like 'breaker of chains' and 'maker of chains' after she restrains her dragons in the pyramid). Or people comprise lists for other characters, e.g. "Lord Tyrion of House Lannister, The Imp, Spymaster of King's Landing, Rightful Heir of Casterly Rock (later Lord of Casterly Rock), son of Lord Tywin of House Lannister, Half Man to the Hill Tribes, victor of the Eyrie trial by combat, Hand of the King to Lord Joffery of House Baratheon, Master of Coin, Kingslayer of Joffrey of House Baratheon, Kinslayer to Tywin and Joanna Lannister, Hand of the Queen Daenerys of House Targaryen, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons, and the God Emperor of the Seven Kingdoms and Warden of all the Realms of, 'I Don't Give A Shit'."
• Jon Snow is a hipster.
• Slow Loras Tyrell. ^note A pun of Loras' name being a homophone for a relative of the lemur, often including Finn Jones' head photoshopped onto the animal's body
• Jorah Mormont, a Dogged Nice Guy to Khaleesi/Queen Daenerys:
  • He's called "King of the Friendzone" or Lord Friendzone.
  • Season 3 had a number of compilations in response to Daenerys hopefully asking about Daario Naharis' fate during the midnight raid of the city, with the most notable coupling it with Bart telling Lisa that "you can actually pinpoint the second his heart rips in half".
  • After his exile in Season 4 by Dany who furiously rebukes him and cuts all ties with him, many smartasses are now piping up with "At least he's not in the Friendzone anymore" type comments.
  • Jorah the Explorer (like Dora the Explorer): Explored the Friendzone to the fullest.^note It also sums up nicely his exiled knight thing: he's a well-travelled guy who knows much about many parts of the Planetos.
• Hi this is [insert character name] and this is Jackass^note  this is a growing meme on YouTube regarding any character from the show that's about to do something dangerous and stupid that it mirrors something one would see on Jackass.
• On forums people who make speculations based purely on the show without knowledge of the book events are often affectionately called "Unsullied". If they make a particularly optimistic prediction, the response is usually along the lines of "Oh sweet Summer child..."
• Fans who still love the series after the divisive final seasons sometimes refer to themselves as "The Unbroken", in reference to House Martell's motto.
• "Doesn't Matter Had Sex" ^note A meme based around a lyric from the Lonely Island song "I Just Had Sex" regarding a character that has been placed in/created a situation where something terrible has or will happen, but the character doesn't care because they "just had sex", thus rendering the consequences of the situation null and void. The meme has been applied to Stannis in light of his indifferent reaction to Melisandre revealing she has drained his life energy during sex (and therefore doesn't want to have sex with him anymore- which displeases Stannis), as well as Edmure Tully (although the show later indicates he didn't even get to have sex, but Jaime Lannister says he's managed to conceive a child during their wedding night.)
• "Classic Roose". Whenever Roose Bolton trolls someone. Alternatively, "The Roose is loose".
• "House Trollton strikes again!" whenever Roose or Ramsay Boltons troll someone.
• "One does not simply make a meme about Game of Thrones without watching the show." Snowclone of "One does not simply X", which is made from a memorable quote from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring "One does not simply walk into Mordor". It helps that Boromir who says the line in the film is played by this show's very own Sean Bean who portrays Ned Stark.
• "Actually, in the books..." A frequent refrain among book-readers and even GRRM himself.
• Comments to the effect that Westeros has "only two songs" (in reference to the show's emphasis on/multiple versions played of "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" and "The Rains of Castamere", including the fact that both songs supply episode titles). As of "The Mountain and the Viper", where those are the only two songs mentioned in the brothel's belching contest, it's bordering on Ascended Meme. In Season 7, Arya comes across a group of Lannister soldiers singing a song.^note  It's the unnamed song that, in the books, Symon Silver Tongue wrote about Tyrion and Shae She quips she's never heard it before, and they reply it's a new one. Definitely an Ascended Meme.
• Arya is Badass. ^note  Pictures of a smirking Arya, accompanied by Memetic Badass-type boasts.
• After The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, people started making edits about Daenerys nagging Smaug◊.^note  Daenerys is the Mother of Dragons, and Smaug is a dragon, so she acts like a nagging mother towards him.
• Joffrey is the Fantasy Counterpart to Justin Bieber: blond, young, famous and utterly hated. Even Sophie Turner (Sansa) has made the comparison.
• "These Hoes Ain't Loyal" applies to Ellaria and the Sand Snakes in Season 5, where they constantly disobey Prince Doran and eventually kill him and his son in Season 6.
• Brienne of Darth (Gwendoline Christie has been cast in Star Wars Episode VII.)
• Once you go black, you never go back.◊
• "Shut up Bran, this isn't in the books!" (and similar phrases): A joke claiming that Jojen only knows the future because he reads the books. Unfortunately for him, season four is a bit Off the Rails in that regard.
• "You've just been Littlefingered!" is another one for the all the times when Lord Baelish stabs someone in the back. Littlefinger has been Littlefingered!
• After Queen Elizabeth II visited the set in Belfast, pictures of her eyeing the Iron Throne have become very popular.
  "7 Kingdoms. How Quaint. I have 53". ^note Technically she only rules 16 of them.
• Anything having to do with Stannis and kneeling.
  • "Bend the knee!" Stannis's catchphrase has become memetic among his fans, especially after he completely wrecks the Wildlings and demands that Mance kneel before him.
  • "My knees are bending on their own!" Stannis fans will post this comment when he does something awesome. Or even when he just shows up.
  • "We do not kneel." Mance Rayder's stubborn response.
• NOBODY expects the Stannis Inquisition! ^note Meme made from the legendary sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, with line "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition". Complete with macros of Stannis, Melissadre and Davos in red habits, very much like the Monty Python guys were in the original sketch.
• Many compare Jaime's appearance to Prince Charming from Shrek, which ended up memetic when Jaime is killed by being crushed by a castle, just like Prince Charming in Shrek 3.
• This infographic on the Circle of Trust perfectly encapsulates Littlefinger's reliability.
• Teleport device/Jetpacks ^Explanation Later seasons have people crossing large distances in disproportionately short time spans, leading some viewers to joke that they all got their hands on some teleportation device or jetpacks or that Qyburn, the resident Mad Scientist, invented jetpacks
  • Littlefinger who travels around Westeros via teleporter/faster-than-light/portal network/jetpack in reference to the show's insistence on overusing him in the series simply to give the actor something to do. It strains credibility that he could travel so quickly.
  • In Season 6, some viewers have posited that Varys borrowed Littlefinger's teleportation device to cross the narrow sea near-instantaneously.
  • Gendry borrowed the jetpack, too, having run from the suicide mission to get a wight to the wall super quickly.
• The continuous growing of Bran (and him becoming noticeably older), continuous growing of his hair, and his eyebrows becoming progressively bushier mean that the next time he appears, he'll be played by John Oliver. Evolution of Bran Stark◊.
• Bran Stark in season 4 and season 10. Freddie Mercury look.◊
• The fact that Balon and Yara Greyjoy are rarely mentioned and have appeared in only two scenes since Season 2 has given rise to "We Do Not Show", a play on their House words.
• Grey Worm's more-than-passing resemblance to Barack Obama is taking hold.
• As a result of the high degree of Composite Character in season 5, you have such nicknames as Ser Jonah Mormontington (a cross of Jorah Mormont and Jon Connington whose story he takes in Season 5), Ellariane (Ellaria taking Arianne Martell's storyline) and S.I.N.O (Sansa In Name Only, for the merging of Sansa and Jeyne Poole's story in Season 5). Fans note that Sansa has taken the role of Jeyne who was disguised as a Fake Arya Stark, and so call it Fake-Sansa or Jeynsa.
• Stannis the Grammar Nazi. Gets played for very dark humor◊ sometimes. ^note In the second season, Stannis tells Ser Davos that it's "fewer fingernails" as opposed to "less". This gets a Call-Back in season five, when he mutters "fewer" to himself in response to a character talking about "less enemies". Gets another Call-Back when Ser DAVOS corrects King Jon Snow's grammar from less to fewer. Stannis taught him well.
• George R.R. Martin's stock non-answer whenever anyone asks what he thinks about a change made to his story, "The show is the show, the books are the books."
• Ian McShane's response to the fans upset at him spoiling which character he would be playing: "Get a fucking life, it's just tits and dragons!" It helps that it sounds exactly like something a typical McShane character would say. Chances are, you are reading it in his voice, and adding "cocksuckers!" at the end.
• Make Westeros Great Again. ^note Parody of Donald Trump's political campaign, usually promoting a certain candidate for presidency in 2016. Ramsay, Tyrion, Jon, Euron Greyjoy and Daenerys are particularly popular for this, implying varying degrees of affection for the characters (and Trump), but it can be used to promote anyone in the show. Even Hodor? Especially Hodor.
• Comparing the High Sparrow to US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Both are popular leaders and even resemble each other.
• It's not uncommon to see the High Sparrow compared to another crowd-pleasing figure who happens to bear a resemblance, Pope Francis.
• Whatever happened to Gendry after he was dispatched by Davos from Dragonstone?
  • Common consensus as to the whereabouts of Gendry is that he is still rowing.
  • His rowboat has been unofficially named the SS Abandoned Plotlines, and its occupants include anyone who has been missing from the show for a year or more, i.e. Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, The Blackfish, Yara Greyjoy.
  • And by the end of Season Six, everybody has gotten off the boat... except for Gendry.
  • One version of the meme has Gendry finally reaching land... at Hardhome. He decides to turn around and keep rowing for a few more seasons. For example◊...
  • Ascended Meme. Davos mentions that he, too, thought Gendry would still be rowing when they meet in Fleabottom in the show.
• "On second thought, let’s not go to Dorne. It’s a silly place!" — The Dorne plot was met with heavy backlash despite the fact that people were hyped for it and excited. The line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when King Arthur decides not to go to Camelot sums it up neatly.
• "Honey-potting". ^note A fan-speak (and Hatedom) term for Fanwank and Epileptic Trees seen as either overly complex or cleverer than what the showrunners actually wrote. Named for the "Lannister Honeypot Theory", a moderately popular fan theory born of Talisa's characterization, which struck many fans as anachronistic to a crapsack medieval world and convinced them there must be more to the character. This led theorists to ultimately settle on Talisa being a Honeypot in the employ of the Lannisters, meant to seduce Robb to set up the Red Wedding, and claiming the letters she said she was writing to her family were suspicious. The theory was ultimately bloodily Jossed with when the Red Wedding actually played out, rendering the intricate fan explanations for her behaviour completely moot. Other examples include the "Not Really Arya" theory for Arya's Idiot Ball behaviour in "The Broken Man" and the "Two Failed Students" explanation for the Waif's constant un-Faceless-Man-like behavior. Usually accompanied by a picture of Winnie the Pooh eating honey from a pot.
• Arya kidding me?◊ (this version is just one of many). Based on Arya/"Are ya"'s Punny Name and Maise Willaims's expressive faces.
• On a scale of one to Sansa Stark, how much do you regret your childhood crush?◊ ^note Considering that Sansa's childhood crush and her choosing to side with him rather than with her family ultimately lead to her beloved father's execution, disappearance and suffering of her sister, her own imprisonment, beatings and subsequently the death of her mother and her eldest brother, destruction of her home, younger brothers' exile... not to mention the Civil War in Westeros. Suffice to say, Sansa Stark's first crush regrets broke the rating scale.
• Frodo Baggins is the Stallion Who Mounts the World◊.^note Frodo is introduced in The Fellowship of the Ring as "Frodo, son of Drogo".
• The in-universe nickname Mad King has many varions for subsequent kings or those who considered themselves kings. Mad King. Fat King. Bad King.◊ Splat King. Wheel King.
• Lich King. Witch King. Bitch King.◊
• Bran and Jaime throw insults at each other.◊
• Raisin Bran.◊
• Black of hair. Description of the classic Baratheon look from Westerosi book version of Ancestry.com Robert Baratheon: black of hair. Stannis Baratheon: lack of hair. Joffrey Baratheon: lack of air.^note  He was poisoned and couldn't breathe when dying. Gendry Baratheon: where oh where. ^note Got lost at sea The rhyming proved quite popular: Theon Greyjoy: lacks a pair.^note Was castrated and lost both pillar and the stones... Brienne of Tarth: fights a bear. ^note The Bolton soldiers wanted to have some fun, watching her fight a bear and be killed by the animal Viserys Targaryen: golden-head. ^note Got cool and unusual death by melted gold It's even been applied to England's succession crisis with, "King Edward, black of hair, Prince Charles, lack of hair, Prince Harry... Red of hair???"
• Some things◊ just don't make Sansa◊.
• Tyrion advertises for Mastercard.◊
• Apparently, Ramsay Bolton is a hero... when out of context.◊
• And now a story about a family who lost everything, and the one son who has to keep them together. ^note Similarities between the Lannisters and the Starks with the Bluths did not go unnoticed.
• Gilly wins the awkward family relationship debate◊. She has a really fucked-up family tree.◊
• Makes sense why Jon Snow is still alive. ^note A comparison of two photos: one of young George. R.R. Martin with big curly hair, a beard, and glasses and one of Kit Harrington sporting a very similar beard, glasses, and hairdo.
• Why is it taking so long to the White Walkers to reach the Wall? They're lost!◊
• Rice dramatically! ^noteBased off a mistranslation of a libelous faked interview of George RR Martin. Typically used in the context of the long-running Incest Yay shipping war. Photos and stills◊ with rice edited into them are a bonus.
• After the release of Avengers: Infinity War, it's starting to become a thing for fans to compare the Red Wedding to the climax of that film.
• During the World Cup 2018, most of the favorites to win the Cup were all eliminated one by one, enacting this meme of favourite characters dropping like flies again.
• Just about every scene featuring Gregor post-zombification where he just stands still in a face-concealing helmet will get a comment on his incredible acting skills.
• Level of being dramatically tired: Jon Snow.◊
  Imagine trying to keep an entire country safe from a pending zombie attack while they're all busy fighting over a chair.
• Stark reunion be awkward: See◊ it◊ here◊.
• Jon Snow the hero has to be backed up by women constantly: Behind every successful man...◊
• "BEST SEASON EVAH!" ^note Back in 2018, Jacob Anderson, Emilia Clarke and Nathalie Emmanuel were interviewed about filming their last scenes and if they were happy with how the show was going to end (filming was complete but the final season hadn't aired yet). Emilia laughed awkwardly, said "Best season ever!" and gave an ambiguous look to the camera, while Jacob and Nathalie smiled nervously. Given the final season and the audience reception after Episode 3, in hindsight many fans realized that Emilia was trying to tell them the direction the show was going.
• Game of Thrones: Brotherhood^note Quite a few of Season 8's criticisms are heavily blamed on the show overtaking the books, similar to what happened with Full Metal Alchemist 2003. People are jokingly waiting for a hypothetical Brotherhood reboot to actually follow the books
• "I can't wait to never watch it!"^note For a lot of people who never watched Game of Thrones or gave up a long time ago, the outrage and the amount of coverage and complaining about season 8 and, especially, Dany's Face–Heel Turn has caused a lot of backlash from people who just do not care. The general reaction from non-fans is "hey, that's cool, I don't give a shit and never will" and are just sick of hearing about it on social media.
• My friendship with Game of Thrones is over. Star Wars is my new friend. ^Explanation Rumors surrounding the fact that HBO offered them 2 full seasons but Benioff and Weiss rejected the offer, leading to the rapid deterioration of writing in Season 8 in attempt to cram everything down, so they free up their schedule to join Star Wars.
  • My friendship with Star Wars is over. Netflix is my new best friend. ^Explanation Once the news surfaced that Benioff and Weiss quit Star Wars due to a better offer given by Netflix, fans reacted to this with mixed emotions of elation and hurt, and suggested that Disney actually fired them due to not trusting the writers for failing in Will Smith's Gemini Man (whose writing was directed by Benioff and considered to be a poor aspect of the movie) as well as the extreme backlash the final 2 seasons faced, and hurt that Benioff and Weiss cut Game of Thrones short abruptly to jump to Star Wars, then quitting that as well.
• "Themes are for eighth-grade book reports."^ExplanationIn an infamous interview, David Benioff supposedly told the interviewer this quote when asked about the overall intent of the ten episodes in the then-upcoming third season. It gained a lot of traction in the wake of season eight.
• The "aaaaaAAAAAA" part in Dany's theme^ExplanationDaenerys' Leitmotif has a distinctive chant in its climax, seemingly producing a sense of awe and wonder at her dragons. Though after the burning of King's Landing, fans have come to joke that the "burning people were also screaming aaaaAAAAA".
• "The xenomorphs send their regards."^ExplanationA much younger Charles Dance (who plays Tywin Lannister) played a character in Alien³ where he is a doctor who is killed by the alien. Naturally, this didn't escape the fandom's eye. This meme is a snowclone of Roose Bolton's pre-mortem one-liner "Lannisters send their regards."
• Godzilla memes:
  • Tywin vs. Godzilla^ExplanationCharles Dance (who portrayed Tywin Lannister) has a role as the main human antagonist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019). Quite fittingly, the main plot of the film involves the monsters fighting over dominance and take the throne as the titular "King of the Monsters", which of course only fueled the GoT comparisons.
  • The official Legendary Twitter even acknowledged the meme, saying "The watch has ended. Now it is time for the true king to rise." Which of course led to images like this.◊
  • "Nuclear Winter is Coming"/"Gravity Beams and Blood"^ExplanationVariations of the House mottoes "Winter is coming" by Starks and "Fire and Blood" from Targaryens. Some fans have joked that the sigil of House Stark, being heavily stylized, looks more like Godzilla than a direwolf. Given the sigil of House Targaryen, being a three-headed dragon resembling Godzilla's archenemy King Ghidorah, the comparisons became very fitting.
  • Due to Godzilla in GMK having blank white eyes^noteIn this continuity, Godzilla is an undead monster possessed by the vengeful souls of WWII victims it's caused fans to joke that Bran is actually warging Godzilla.
• Epic showdowns between badasses are referred to with awesome names ending with the suffix -bowl. ^note Cleganebowl is the most famous one, coined for the most anticipated combat between Gregor Clagane the Mountain and Sandor Clagane the Hound. Bastardbowl or Snowbowl is a fan nickname for Battle of the Bastards between northern leaders Jon Snow and Ramsey Bolton (originally known as Ramsey Snow). The last confrontation between Arya and the Waif of the Faceless men is sometimes called Noonebowl (as Faceless Men should lose their identity and become no one).
• It Varys. ^note Varys' character was a bit shady and it was hard to see where his loyalties truly are and whom he serves. A play on "it varies". Examples include: "Who do I serve? It Varys." — "How do I serve the realm? It Varys." — "How do you win the game of thrones? It Varys."— "Known as The Eunuch or The Spider. It Varys." — Or dab at the time-distance travelling inconsistencies: "How long does it take to get from Dorne to Mereen? It Varys." — Or "Why do you betray people so much?" — "It's simple, m'lord. My loyalty varies"
• Arya pranking people with her faceless skills. ^note She can literally take face and body and impersonate dead people, notably those she has killed, as shown with her revenge on the Freys when she took Walder Frey's looks. There are memes of her pranking Sansa with Littlefinger's face or pranking Jon with the Night's King's face.
• Varys is a merman^ExplanationA meme that arose regarding how Varys managed to cross the ocean is such a short time. It eventually drew comparisons to Aquaman and Zoolander.
• Battle of the Sarah Connors^ExplanationLena Headey (Cersei) and Emilia Clarke (Daenerys) both played the role of Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise in The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator Genisys respectively. As the two play rivals to the throne, it's become common for fans to joke about their shared role.
• Mother of Falcons^ExplanationA joke that arose from Emilia Clarke having a role on Solo: A Star Wars story, where she plays a co pilot of the Millenium Falcon.
• Saying that the Wall was built to protect the White Walkers, namely from Memetic Badasses like Tywin or Stannis.
• They forgot about Jon's lines! ^Explanation Jon Snow had very limited lines in the eighth season, ranging from 'The Night King is coming' to 'You're my queen', to 'I don't want it' [i.e. the Iron Throne], to 'We need powerful allies!', to 'We need to put aside our differences' to screaming incoherently at undead dragon Viserion. Naturally, the lines started mutating more and more as they were quoted often to mock Jon's lack of dialogue.
• Jon Snow's dialogue options. ^ExplanationComputer game version of Jon Snow's poor dialogue. A: WE NEED ALLIES! B: I dun wan et! C: U R MUH KWEEN D: The night king is coming E: I dun wan muh kween's allies! F. [far away look] G. [looks confused] H: SHES EVERYONES KWEEN!
• Mah Queen / Mah Kween ^Explanation Jokes that a lot of Jon's dialogue in Season 8 (though it started back in Season 7) consists of him stating that Daenerys is his queen in some form ('mah' being the Funetik Aksent version of 'my'). There are even compilation videos.
• I don't want it / Ah don wannit / Ah dun wan et. ^note Another of Jon's mutated dialogues, originally meant as Jon rejecting the Iron Throne in favor of his love, Daenerys, which had pretty fatal consequences for all the parties involved. Fans have led it to saying that Kit Harrington said this when he was nominated for Emmys, as well as Benioff and Weiss saying this when HBO essentially offered them a blank cheque for the series. Another joke is that when Kit Harington got offered the role of Jon Snow, he kept repeating he didn't want it, which only convinced the show runners further he was the one for the role. It has many different Funetik Aksent versions.
• The Starks are the X-Men ^Explanation There have been some noted comparisons between characters from the X-Men films and the surviving Stark kids; Jon is Wolverine (fights with a rare metal, has an Animal Motif, comes back from the dead, has a tragic romance with a redhead and is forced to kill his love interest to stop her from destroying the world), Arya is Mystique (an assassin who can change her face), Bran is Professor X (a paralysed guy in a wheelchair with mind powers) and Sansa is literally Jean Grey (Sophie Turner plays young Jean in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix)
• Euron and his magic teleporting fleet ^Explanation Euron's fleet seems to be able to travel vast distances very quickly and unexpectedly pop up whenever and wherever the plot needs him to; some people even half-joke that it's a genuine power he has, given that the book version of Euron explicitly dabbles in sorcery
• "Breaking Bad is still the greatest show ever" ^Explanation There are lots of comments on the internet comparing the two shows, with this sentence in particular (or variations thereof) cropping up in the wake of Season 8. Both are highly acclaimed and some purported that Game of Thrones could even surpass Breaking Bad; however this is apparently not the case considering the generally negative critical reception towards Game of Thrones's final season.
• How do you spell that? ^Explanation Jokes about how baristas would have trouble writing Daenerys' name on her coffee cup because of her numerous titles and epithets. Arya, on the other hand would have the opposite problem because 'A girl is no one'. It became Hilarious in Hindsight and saw a resurgence in popularity after a Starbucks cup was accidentally left in front of Daenerys in Season 8.
• Incompetence shouldn't be rewarded with blind loyalty. ^note  Originally spoken by Varys when he was on trial for his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder tendencies in Season 7 as he justified why he kept searching for better rulers, this quote is becoming more and more popular due to the Broken Base generated by Season 8, with those who didn't like the direction saying these to those who still defend the poor writing choices and Seasonal Rot that began in Season 7 itself.
• Cersei, you will marry the Night King! ^ExplanationPeople joking that if Tywin hadn't died, his solution to the White Walker problem would be to force Cersei to marry the Night King. It was Tywin's go-to solution as his daughter Cersei was promised to Targaryens, after the rebellion she married King Robert and then despite her protests, Tywin made a match for her with Ser Loras Tyrell.
• Subverting expectations. ^note Benioff and Weiss admitted it in the Inside the Episode featurette when they revealed that they let Arya kill the Night King just because everyone expected Jon to be the actual killer. Weiss explicitly admitted it will be 'cooler' if Arya was the one who slayed the Night King. Fans ran wild with it as they also extended it to the remaining part of the series, as character arcs were subverted, plot points were sacrificed for cheap shock as well as admitting the showrunners also subverted our expectations about the show having a great ending. The phrase refers to a mocking criticism of various pop culture franchises, such as Star Wars and Game of Thrones, in their attempts at surprising the audience. The criticism is largely used for cultural artifacts that some believe make story choices that are unjustified, confusing or illogical for the sake of shock. This phrase has been previously used as a positive criticism of the show (and other fictional works as well) but it's often used currently as a sarcastic response to the praise.
• "Give me something for the pain and let me die." ^note A quote from Robert Baratheon as he was dying due to being disemboweled by the boar and suffering from immense pain is used by fans to describe their distaste at the show's direction for its final season.
• Dexter 2.0. ^ExplanationFollowing the end of the series, some fans noted that the show's quality curve ended up uncannily following that of Dexter, namely by having the first four seasons getting a near-unanimously positive reaction, then starting to succumb to Seasonal Rot with the fifth season, albeit while having an up-tick for one season — Season 6 in this show's case, Season 7 in the case of Dexter — before bottoming out with a final season that was considered disappointing all-around and eventually culminated in one of the most universally criticised finales of any TV series in history. Also, the point where both Dexter and Game of Thrones are generally accused of having completely crashed and burned was when they had to move into territory that the respective source novels each franchise was based on hadn't yet covered, albeit Dexter was never as direct a translation of its literary counterpart as the first half of this series was.
• Who's here to watch an actual night battle/cavalry charge/coronation? ^note Once considered the series that could have toppled the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy for the seat of best live-action fantasy show during its heyday, Seasonal Rot from the latter half onwards has essentially inverted its reputation while becoming the target of many jokes by the time Season 8 finished airing. Particularly after The Long Night and The Iron Throne, it's common to see comments in videos of the sieges of Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith as well as the Coronation of Aragorn pop up saying that they are here to see, respectively, an actual high-quality fantasy battle and the crowning of a true king, after the disappointment with the TV series.
• The North Does Not Remember/Forgets/Kinda Forgot. ^Explanation The show's depiction of the Northern vassals as Fair Weather Friends who refuse to help the Starks against the Boltons (a sharp contrast to the books where the tyrannical Boltons had few supporters) and the White Walkers has been met with derision amongst fans. They have used this phrase to mock the often-used phrase "The North Remembers", showing that the Northerners are ultimately all bark and no bite.
• Bobby B bot. ^Explanation On Reddit's r/freefolk subreddit, an automatic mod response would post a random Robert Baratheon quote whenever the phrase "Bobby B" was typed in, leading to hilarious responses from the bot.
• VaRys nO cOcK ^ExplanationA dig you'll find in any video of Tyrion and Varys from earlier seasons, mocking how their interactions went from witty back and forth banter, to Tyrion just endlessly making eunuch jokes.
• What [x] years of no content does to a fanbase/"Please, George" ^note On fansites, threads and discussions scrupulously analyzing minute details or barely-relevant background lore often prompt this response, with the implication being that a decade-plus content drought has led fans who would otherwise be discussing more important aspects into desperation.

Game of Thrones like buttons

• Among all the Game of Thrones memes, perhaps the most widespread and diverse are the customized "like buttons" for various characters. The fans are extremely creative when it comes to "like". Compilation.◊ Example includes:
  • The Mountain likes this post◊
  • Jaime Lannister likes this post◊
  • Jaime Lannister likes this post again◊
  • Ramsay Bolton likes this post◊
  • Shireen Baratheon likes this post◊
  • Shireen Baratheon likes this post again◊
  • Jorah Mormont likes this post◊

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