This article contains spoilers for Game of ThronesGame of Thrones became known for many things: dragons, rich in world history and surprisingly heartbreaking deaths that made us understand that in this world no one was safe as the night was dark and full of horrors. Clear, spoilers followas we recall the most heartbreaking deaths in the franchise, ranked.
9/9 Tom Baratheon
Tommen Baratheon (Dean-Charles Chapman) was collateral damage from the fight between his mother, Cersei (Lena Headey) and his wife, Margaery (Natalie Dormer). He was a sweet, young boy, who loved cats and had just fallen in love, and was in power only because his two other siblings had already been killed. When his mother kills his wife (and many more) and blows up the Sept of Baelor, he understands what just happened and decides to casually jump out of a window. It’s a sad death for a sweet child who proved that in the Seven Kingdoms no one can be happy for long.
8/9 Khal Drogo
Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa) started the show as a barbarian fighter, with old-fashioned ideas about women and marriage. His relationship with Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) changed that, and he became a loving husband and father-to-be. That’s why it’s so sad when he died after a simple wound got infected and a witch poisoned the wound while “cleaning”. Daenerys did the merciful and smothered him with a pillow as he had become a vegetative state persona.
7/9 Jon Snow
Getting betrayed by your men and stabbed multiple times is a horrible way to go. That’s what happened to Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) in one of the most surprising deaths on the show. After becoming Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, Jon decided to change some ways of the organization, and those new ideas didn’t sit well with his subordinates, so they betray him. Luckily for Jon, he still had a big part to play in the next few seasons, so he was resurrected, making him the only death that didn’t stick around on the show.
6/9 Oberyn Martel
There is nothing sadder than a last minute death, when everything was going well for the hero. That’s what happened to Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal) in his fight with the mountain (Hafbór Júlíus Björnsson). Martell was as stubborn as he was good with his spear, so he began to celebrate even before his trial by combat with the Mountain was over, asking for an admission of guilt in connection with the assault and murder of his sister by the Mountain, before he killed him. It was his last act and his greatest mistake, as not only did Clegane kill him, but he did it with his bare hands, crushing his skull in the process. Martell was one of the best LGBTQ characters on the show, and Pascal’s performance was so magnetic and charismatic, that his career took off after the show, he appeared in many movies and became the lead in The Mandalorian.
5/9 Daenerys Targaryen
What seemed like the hero’s journey for Daenery to gain the Iron Throne ended in tragedy, as she lost herself in the destruction and death of King’s Landing. Her arc is the most tragic in the entire show, and while it was necessary for Jon to kill her, her death is still heartbreaking as she was the greatest part of our heroes. Game of Thrones. We don’t believe the 8th season was that bad, but her Mad Queen arc felt a bit rushed.
4/9 Shireen Baratheon
Shireen Baratheon (Kerry Ingram) was a sweet boy, who taught people to read, was full of empathy and had no evil in her heart. That’s why it was so sad that her father, Stannis (Stephan Dillane), had Melisandre (Carice van Houten) burn her at the stake, as Shireen’s sacrifice was supposed to confirm Stannis’ ascension to the Iron Throne. This tragic death was the most avoidable of all, as it did not help Stannis achieve his goal. It was just a stupid faith-based murder. One of the saddest of the whole show.
3/9 The Deaths of the Red Marriage
The Red Wedding was one of the most startling, dramatic and chill-inducing moments of the entire series, as the Freys murdered Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his pregnant fiancé, Talisa (Oona Chaplin), his mother, Catelyn (Michelle Fairley). . ), and all of his allies, greatly decimating the Stark forces. While Robb may have brought this betrayal upon himself for breaking a marriage pact for love, these murders changed the lives of all the characters on the show, and it reverberated until the end, more than five seasons later, when the Starks still alive were key players with how the show ended. Richard Madden and the rest of the Stark family have been working steadily ever since.
2/9 Ned Stark
Ned Stark’s (Sean Bean) death was the first one we couldn’t believe. It was our main character and they decided to kill him. His decapitation was as surprising as it was sad. At the time, the show still hadn’t killed any major players, so this death told viewers that no one was safe. In a world where power triumphed over all, his honor was what killed him, leaving his entire family behind, especially his two young daughters, to watch his father be killed.
About his acting during his death scene, Sean Bean told Entertainment Weekly“It was horror and disbelief – that Joffrey changed his mind [about exiling Ned] – and then resignation and [realizing that he was] seeing his daughter for the last time, Arya.
1/9 Hodor
The death of Hodor (Kristian Nairn) was the most heartbreaking in Game of Thrones, something that would have sounded crazy after the first handful of episodes. The death of the non-Jewish giant was sad, but also revealing, as we understood that Hodor was short for “Hold the door”, and that his entire existence had already been decided at some point in the future, where he was a hero who would become his best friend, Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright). It’s as sad as it is poetic, turning what seemed like a one-note character into one of the main heroes on the show, because he probably knew this was his destiny all along, and decided to go along to help his adopted one anyway. help family.
Kristian Nairn told DigitalSpy on the role that would change his life: “I was an actor for the first time. I was glad I didn’t know anything about the show at the time because if I had I would have realized the huge audition I was going for. had no idea what Game of Thrones used to be.