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'Game of Thrones': 15 of the Show's Most Gruesome Deaths
Our long wait is (almost) over. A year after the Season 5 finale that launched a thousand fan theories, Game of Thrones is preparing to enter new territory in its sixth season, which debuts Sunday, April 24 on HBO. For the first time in its history, the series will venture completely off book, as the writers have lapped the release of author George R.R. Martin’s final two novels. So now, both readers and newbies will be on the same proverbial page when we return to Westeros, Dorne, and points beyond.
As viewers count down the days to Game of Thrones’ return, we here at Yahoo TV are launching our official countdown: #GoTIsComing. Check back here every day over the next month as we explore all of our favorite (and a few of our least favorite) people, places, and things about television’s most addictive show. From Direwolves and Dragons to the shows most hideous deaths and imperiled characters, we’re going to indulge or GoT obsession with the same fervor that Cersei imbibes alcohol. So raise a glass and toast the impending arrival of a long, cruel, and bloody Westerosi winter.
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Game of Thrones is not for the faint-of-heart. But even hardened and callous fans can occasionally be taken aback by the amount of grotesque violence on display. Here are the fifteen grossest, bloodiest, most perverse, and saddest deaths in the show’s first five seasons. How many more will the shows final years add to the tally?
Game of Thrones Season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
Read more of our #GoTIsComing coverage:
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‘Game of Thrones’: 11 Classic Tyrion Lannister Insults For Every Occasion
‘Game of Thrones’: Everything You Need to Know About the Direwolves of House Stark
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Were Recast
‘Game of Thrones’: Cersei and Wine, a Love Story
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Best Dragon Moments
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters We Want to Come Back to Life
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Really Need to Die
‘Game of Thrones’: Bran Stark Is Back (and He’s All Grown Up)
Quiz: ‘Game of Thrones or Donald Trump?
‘Game of Thrones’: Who Is on Arya’s Kill List?
‘Game of Thrones’: A Traveler’s Guide to Dothraki — How to Speak So You Don’t Get Your Head Cut Off
‘Game of Thrones’: The 10 Best Action Sequences
‘Game of Thrones’: Dive Into 7 Crazy Fan Theories
A Brief Guide to the Religions of ‘Game of Thrones’
‘Game of Thrones’: Theon Greyjoy’s Past, Present, and Future
‘Game of Thrones’ Quiz: Why Is Sansa Frowning?
‘Game of Thrones’: Liam Cunningham Debates the Perils of Being a Likable Character
Forming the ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy Band: 12 Cast Members With Musical Chops
‘Game of Thrones’: Margaery Tyrell’s Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing People
‘Game of Thrones’ Map: A Catch-Up Guide to Where Everyone Is
Viserys Targaryen
Cause of Death: Molten gold When: Season 1, Episode 6
Hey, remember Season 1? When we thought that boiling a man’s brain in his skull was as bad as a show like this could get? Were we ever so innocent? While other deaths have exceeded this one in terms of gruesomeness, none have exceeded it for irony. The power-hungry Viserys trades away his sister hoping for a gold crown, and receives it — in a way.
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Ser Vardis Egen
Cause of Death: Sword through the collarbone When: Season 1, Episode 6
Like the show itself, the sellsword Bronn doesn’t sugarcoat anything. Honor goes out the window when you’re fighting for your life — Bronn runs, throws bystanders in the way, then cuts the knight’s hamstring in a way that would be cowardly in some other fantasy epic. When he stabs him through the chink in his armor, the gouts of blood remind us just which fantasy epic we’re watching.
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Mago
Cause of Death: Tongue ripped out When: Season 1, Episode 8
If you need a tracheotomy, Khal Drogo is your guy. The only problem is, he’s the one who decides whether or not you need it. In this case, he decides that a rebellious Dothraki needs one after bad-mouthing his khaleesi, Daenerys. He throws in a tongue-ectomy for free.
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Ser Rodrik Cassel
Cause of Death: Botched beheading When: Season 2, Episode 6
It’s times like these that you really see what you’re missing by not having Ned Stark around. When he beheads someone in the very first episode, it’s clean and quick. When Theon Greyjoy does it, it takes him four swings before he has to kick the head to make it come off. If you ever feel sympathy for Theon, remember this scene.
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Xaro Xhoan Daxos
Cause of Death: Locked in his vault When: Season 2, Episode 10
Compared to many of these other deaths, the merchant’s death seems tame. But is it? He’s locked in a dark, empty room like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe story. If you’re claustrophobic, you’ve already lost your mind. If not, you will soon, because at some point, you’re going to get hungry enough to try to kill and eat the servant you’ve been locked up with. No lights, only the sound of your mad cackling to keep you company. Gruesome.
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Kraznys mo Nakloz
Cause of Death: Burned by dragons When: Season 3, Episode 4
This is the first time we really get to see Daenerys’s dragons show off what they can do, and it cost the life of poor (Poor? He was a slaver!) Kraznys. In basketball, it’s known as “posterizing.” When the offensive player dunks so spectacularly, the defender is forever memorialized in the poster as the guy who got dunked on. Kraznys got dunked on by Drogon.
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Ros
Cause of Death: Shot by crossbow When: Season 3, Episode 6
Ros is a controversial character in the show’s canon. In the books, she’s referred to simply as the “red-headed whore.” Some contend that her character shows the misogyny of the show’s creators; others say she’s just one more unfortunate victim in the show’s cruel universe. What is uncontroversial is that the person who committed the murder — King Joffrey — deserves the death that’s coming to him.
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Catelyn Stark
Cause of Death: Throat slit When: Season 3, Episode 9
Even people who don’t have a TV know what the Red Wedding is. Even though the book it came from had been available in print for more than 10 years, it managed to shock audiences and become a cultural touchstone. It is an insane reversal of fortune, where a couple’s happiest day suddenly turns into a bloodbath. The final shot is Catelyn standing alone in the frame, eyes frozen in horror at the scene in front of her. A man comes up and slits her throat. She stays there frozen for moments as the blood begins to gush. Horrifying.
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Talisa Stark
Cause of Death: Stabbed in the belly When: Season 3, Episode 9
The only thing more horrifying in the Red Wedding? Robb Stark’s pregnant bride stabbed five times in the belly. Other shows would be content with one or two stabs, or maybe a merciful stab in the heart. But not Game of Thrones. If this show had a family motto, it would be, “Why stop at one? Why not all five?”
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Joffrey Baratheon
Cause of Death: Poison When: Season 4, Episode 2
Calling this a simple poisoning really does this Grand Guignol performance a disservice. From the first sip to the last dying twitch is one minute and forty seconds of alternating elation — Joffrey is the most despicable character in a show known for despicable characters — and genuine sorrow — Lena Headey drives home the grief of a mother watching her son die in her arms.
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Karl Tanner
Cause of Death: Sword through the mouth When: Season 4, Episode 5
No tears shed for Karl, who represents the very worst of what the Night’s Watch can be. After mutinying against Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, Karl and his friends take over Craster’s Keep, raping and looting as they see fit. When Jon Snow and company invade, it takes the help of one of the women to finally put Karl down.
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Lysa Arryn
Cause of Death: Pushed out the Moon Door When: Season 4, Episode 7
This one is strictly for the acrophobics, or anyone who pees a little bit when their plane hits some heavy turbulence. The Moon Door is especially terrifying in this world that doesn’t have planes and skyscrapers and where the very idea of falling from an exceptional height is foreign. Forty seconds of freefall is plenty of time to lose your fear of heights, regain it, lose it, then regain it again just before you splatter all over the valley floor.
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Oberyn Martell
Cause of Death: Head crushed by The Mountain When: Season 4, Episode 8
This is as gruesome as it gets. Oberyn is getting revenge for his sister, whom Gregor Clegane raped and killed years ago. But he gets over-confident, and Clegane seizes an opportunity, driving his thumbs into Oberyn’s eyes and squeezing until his head pops like a pimple. For the record, it takes about 520 pounds of pressure to do this, so if you have fantasies of doing this to your lousy boss or roommate, better get back to the gym.
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Karsi
Cause of Death: Mauled by wight children at Hardhome When: Season 5, Episode 8
The hardened wildling is just the sort of plucky lady fans of the show like to root for. Principled, loving, but still a badass. She sends her children away just in time to get eaten by zombie children. Pointed commentary about the sacrifices of motherhood or — nope. No, just more terrible things happening to good people.
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Shireen Baratheon
Cause of Death: Burned at the stake When: Season 5, Episode 9
The horror of this death really can’t be summed up in images or even words. You have to hear the screams of a poor little girl as she’s burned alive while her parents stand by doing nothing. Just one episode later, everybody else who attended the Red BBQ (we’ve already had a Red Wedding, right?) was also dead — except for the person who claimed the sacrifice would lead to victory. But this is Game of Thrones, so we all kind of knew that was coming.
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Use this Game of Thrones map as a catch-up guide to where we left off and where everyone is as Season 6 begins.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zDGWX-7vMU)
A Brief Guide to the Religions of 'Game of Thrones'
Our long wait is (almost) over. A year after the Season 5 finale that launched a thousand fan theories, Game of Thrones is preparing to enter new territory in its sixth season, which debuts Sunday, April 24 on HBO. For the first time in its history, the series will venture completely off book, as the writers have lapped the release of author George R.R. Martin’s final two novels. So now, both readers and newbies will be on the same proverbial page when we return to Westeros, Dorne, and points beyond.
As viewers count down the days to Game of Thrones’ return, we here at Yahoo TV are launching our official countdown: #GoTIsComing. Check back here every day over the next month as we explore all of our favorite (and a few of our least favorite) people, places, and things about television’s most addictive show. From Direwolves and Dragons to the shows most hideous deaths and imperiled characters, we’re going to indulge or GoT obsession with the same fervor that Cersei imbibes alcohol. So raise a glass and toast the impending arrival of a long, cruel, and bloody Westerosi winter.
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As loyal as the characters of Game of Thrones are to their houses, so too are many to their religions. A prime example is Melisandre, a priestess of the Lord of Light, who burns people alive on the stake as offerings to her god. There’s the High Sparrow, who leads an ultra-pious, fanatic faction of the Faith of Seven, the dominant religion in Westeros.
Religions and beliefs look to play major roles in the upcoming sixth season of Game of Thrones. Will Melisandre use her magic to resurrect Jon Snow? Will the High Sparrow continue to hold dominion over King’s Landing against the Lannisters? Season 6 sees the return of Bran Stark, whose abilities may come from the Old Gods of the Forest.
Here’s a rundown of the various religions in the world of Game of Thrones, and which characters practice them:
WESTEROS
The Old Gods of the Forest
The ancient Children of the Forest, and then later the First Men, believed that spirits inhabited nature — the trees, the rivers, the stones. The followers of the Old Gods were mostly wiped out with the introduction of the Faith of the Seven (see below), but it was still practiced in the North, as well as by the Wildlings. Ned Stark kept his faith, and his son, Bran, displays the magical abilities associated with it — warging and greensight (prophetic dreaming).
The Faith of the Seven
Westeros was conquered by people from the East, called Andals, who brought their belief in a god of seven faces, each representing a different aspect of life. For example, the Father represented justice and judgement, while the Mother stood for fertility and peace. Major Houses in the south of Westeros retained a septa, while the High Septon led the entire faith. In Season 5, the High Sparrow achieved that position when his cult-like faction gained multitudes of followers. The Sparrows believe that nobles and peasants are equal in the eyes of the gods, and wish to purge society of sinful excesses.
The Drowned God
The religion practiced on the Iron Islands justifies their culture of raiding, pillaging, and killing. A boy is not considered a man until he has killed his first enemy. Their beliefs emphasize men, so it is surprising that Yara Greyjoy has risen to command her own ship and soldiers.
ESSOS
The Lord of Light
This religion is widespread among the cities in Essos. As the priestess Melisandre explains, there are two gods: R’hilor, the god of fire and light and love and joy, and a god of darkness, evil, and fear. The rituals in this faith involves fire — thus, Melisandre burns false idols and even people as offerings. She burns Stannis Baratheon’s daughter, Shireen, in a sacrifice of king’s blood, but his army is defeated by the Boltons, anyway. Priests can also revive dead people, as we saw Thoros of Myr do to Beric Dondarrion in Season 3. There is a mythical figure in the lore of the Lord of the Light — the Prince That Was Promised, who would be reborn to fight the coming darkness. Perhaps Jon Snow is a possible candidate?
The Many-Faced God
The believers of this faith worship only Death, believing it to be the one link among all the religions across the lands. It is practiced by the Faceless Men, a cult of assassins that Arya Stark is trying to join. Their temple is the House of Black and White. The Faceless Men believe death is a gift, and they are simply helping people achieve it. To that end, they consider themselves “no one,” completely devoid of personal desires.
The Great Stallion
The Dothraki believe in this deity above all others. The stars make up the Great Stallion’s khalasar, so when the Dothraki die, their bodies are burned so that their spirits may rise up to the heavens. There is a prophesy that a child, “The Stallion Who Mounts the World,” will be born to unite all of the Dothraki. Daenerys Targaryen believed it to be her unborn son, but he died in the womb.
Other Religions
Numerous other faiths are mentioned in the books as being practiced in the cities of Essos, like the Moonsingers of Braavos. It’s possible some of them may come up in later seasons.
Read more of our #GoTIsComing coverage:
‘Game of Thrones’ Peril-o-Meter: Who Dies Next?
‘Game of Thrones’: 11 Classic Tyrion Lannister Insults For Every Occasion
‘Game of Thrones’: Everything You Need to Know About the Direwolves of House Stark
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Were Recast
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Best Dragon Moments
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters We Want to Come Back to Life
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Really Need to Die
‘Game of Thrones’: Bran Stark Is Back (and He’s All Grown Up)
Quiz: ‘Game of Thrones or Donald Trump?
‘Game of Thrones’: Who Is on Arya’s Kill List?
‘Game of Thrones’: A Traveler’s Guide to Dothraki — How to Speak So You Don’t Get Your Head Cut Off
‘Game of Thrones’: The 10 Best Action Sequences
‘Game of Thrones’: Dive Into 7 Crazy Fan Theories
'Game of Thrones': A Traveler's Guide to Dothraki — How to Speak So You Don't Get Your Head Cut Off
Our long wait is (almost) over. A year after the Season 5 finale that launched a thousand fan theories, Game of Thrones is preparing to enter new territory in its sixth season, which debuts Sunday, April 24 on HBO. For the first time in its history, the series will venture completely off book, as the writers have lapped the release of author George R.R. Martin’s final two novels. So now, both readers and newbies will be on the same proverbial page when we return to Westeros, Dorne, and points beyond.
As viewers count down the days to Game of Thrones’ return, we here at Yahoo TV are launching our official countdown: #GoTIsComing. Check back here every day over the next month as we explore all of our favorite (and a few of our least favorite) people, places, and things about television’s most addictive show. From Direwolves and Dragons to the shows most hideous deaths and imperiled characters, we’re going to indulge or GoT obsession with the same fervor that Cersei imbibes alcohol. So raise a glass and toast the impending arrival of a long, cruel, and bloody Westerosi winter.
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In the closing moments of Season 5, we see Danaerys surrounded by a tribe of Dothraki. Their intent is unknown, but it’s clear they will have more of a presence this year than we’ve seen since the first season. What can we expect from the fearsome horse lords?
Well, for one, we’ll return to Vaes Dothrak — last seen only briefly in the series’ fourth episode. In the Season 6 preview clip below, Danaerys looks humbled, but unharmed as she’s brought beneath the ancient Horse Gate. Vaes Dothrak is ruled by women — former wives of khals who have died — who possess great wisdom and prophetic powers. It’s the Dothraki’s only city since they are otherwise a nomadic people, riding across the the plains of Essos on horseback.
Riding is so much a part of their culture that their very name is derived from their verb to ride: dothralat. They organize into tribes, or khalasars, ruled by a khal. Though their primary means of trade revolves around tributes given to them by weaker nations, they aren’t thieves — merely proud warriors who believe that you don’t deserve what you can’t keep by force.
Have the Dothraki come to exact revenge on Danaerys for wounding their pride? Have the wise women of Vaes Dothrak convinced the khals to rally behind her? We’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, here are some helpful words, phrases, and notes about the language to use the next time you’re surrounded by a horde of bloodthirsty riders (and if you want the real deal, Living Language offers an actual course in Dothraki fluency).
achra: (adj.) Smelly adakhat: (v.) To eat annithat: (v.) To cause pain, to hurt annithilat: (v.) To encourage, to invigorate, to entice arakh: (n.) Curved sword arranat: (v.) To shame, to cause to be merciful arthasat: (v.) To fall assikhqoyi: (n.) Sign, omen athhilezar: (n.) Sex athijezar: (n.) Woman-on-top sex
Helpful phrases
Hello: M’athchomaroon (or simply M’ath or M’ach) Goodbye (be strong): Hajas! How are you? (Do you ride well?): Hash yer dothrae chek? It is known: Me nem nesa. Happy birthday (great day of blood): Asshekhqoyi vezhvena!
athzhilar: (n.) Love (romantic or sexual love; a private word) ave: (n.) Father azhasavva: (n.) Blessing charolat: (v.) To listen chiori: (n.) Woman, short form of chiorikem, for wife dalfe: (n.) Cow, beef diaf: (n.) Skull dirgat: (v.) To think dis: (adj.) Simple, plain driv: (adj.) Dead
Like the Inuit, Dothraki have 50 different words for snow and plenty of words for sword strikes. Among them:
Ildo: a strike Chiftikh: a weak hit, glancing blow Gezrikh: a feint or decoy strike Hlizifikh: a wild but powerful strike Hrakkarikh: a quick, powerful, accurate strike Kolverikh: a straight thrust Verikh: a defensive strike
elainat: (v.) To plant eme: (n.) Smile enta: (n.) Baby, infant erinat: (v.) To be kind, to be good esinalat: (v.) To be different eyak: (pl. n.) Everyone evolat: (v.) To start ezolat: (v.) To learn ezzolat: (v.) To teach fasqoyi: (n.) Destiny foz: (adj.) Old fozak: (n.) Elder
The Dothraki make wooden swords — presumably for practice — so the idea of wood is often used to describe something that is fake. That’s why dreaming, or thirat atthiraride, literally translates to “to live a wooden (fake) life.”
gango: (n.) Belly gezri: (n.) Snake gizikh: (n.) Honey gizikhven: (adj.) Sweet haf: (adj.) Soft, quiet haj: (adj.) Strong haqeqqe: (adj.) Exhausted havazh: (n.) Sea havzi: (n.) Cat havziven: (adj.) Lazy
Swear words! Use them on your lousy boss (and hope they doesn’t know Dothraki too).
Cricket (to call a weak person): Chiftik Garbage (a general swear word): Graddakh! Go to the sea! (take a hike): Es havazhaan! You make me itch: Yer affesi anni
heske: (n.) South hoyalat: (v.) To sing iddelat: (v.) To welcome, to make someone drink iffi: (n.) Victory imesh: (adj.) Young ishish: (adv.) Maybe izven: (adj.) Forbidden jasat: (v.) To laugh
The Dothraki aren’t particularly romantic, but if you want to whisper sweet nothings to your man, you could say shekh ma shieraki anni, or “my sun and stars.” To a woman, you would say, jalan atthirari anni — “the moon of my life.” You may want to abandon Dothraki traditions come wedding time, though: It is said that anything less than three deaths on the day of the nuptials is considered a bore.
jilat: (v.) To be right, to be correct jelli: (n.) Cheese jimma: (n.) West jiz: (n.) Chicken kazga: (adj.) Black khezhat: (v.) To be sad kisha: (pl. n.) We kristasof: (n.) Grandmother lajak: (n.) Fighter, warrior laqat: (v.) To cry, to weep laqikh: (n.) Tear, tears layafat: (v.) To be happy
Words that don’t exist in Dothraki: Please and follow. Technically, they don’t have a word for thank you, either. But they do use a phrase, san athchomari yeraan — literally, “a lot of honor to you” — that is a close approximation.
mahrazh: (n.) Man, short form of mahrazhkem for ‘husband’ mai: (n.) Mother me orzo!: (phrase) It’s a trap! mhari: (n.) Headache navat: (v.) To urinate nayat: (n.) Girl nevak: (n.) Guest nevalat: (v.) To sit niyanqoy: (adv.) Together nizhat: (v.) To be tough ohara: (n.) Daughter ohazh: (adj.) Heavy okeo: (n.) Friend, trustee ozzirven: (adj.) Firey, flashing
Dothraki’s creator, David Peterson, chose the word for friend based on a beloved family cat. The handwriting on the shelter paperwork for Oreo looked like Okeo and the name stuck.
qemmosor: (n.) Clothes qosar: (n.) Spider qosarvenikh: (n.) Lie, trap, deception rahsan: (adj.) Bright rizh: (n.) Son shekh: (n.) Sun shillat: (v.) To trust simonof: (n.) Grandfather sorf: (adj.) Dirty thom: (n.) Juice
Count to 10 in Dothraki! At, akat, sen, tor, mek, zhinda, fek, ori, qazat, thi.
The fifth (mekak) season finale of Game of Thrones had more than 8 million (ori yor) viewers.
However, since the Dothraki don’t really deal in numbers that big, they’d probably just say yorosor, the Dothraki equivalent of “bazillions.”
titha: (n.) East valshe: (n.) North velzerat: (v.) To stall, to procrastinate vilajero: (n.) Battle vilajerosh: (n.) Game vitihirat: (v.) To watch, to observe
The word dothralat has three different meanings: To ride (a horse), to ride alongside, to have an erection.
vorsa: (n.) Fire yeni: (n.) Failure yer: (pl. n.) You zasqa: (adj.) White zheana: (adj.) Beautiful zifichelat: (v.) To steal zir: (n.) Bird zoqwa: (n.) Kiss
Game of Thrones Season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
Read more of our #GoTIsComing coverage:
‘Game of Thrones’ Peril-o-Meter: Who Dies Next?
‘Game of Thrones’: 11 Classic Tyrion Lannister Insults For Every Occasion
‘Game of Thrones’: Everything You Need to Know About the Direwolves of House Stark
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Were Recast
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Best Dragon Moments
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters We Want to Come Back to Life
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Really Need to Die
‘Game of Thrones’: Bran Stark Is Back (and He’s All Grown Up)
Quiz: ‘Game of Thrones or Donald Trump?
‘Game of Thrones’: Who Is on Arya’s Kill List?
Quiz: 'Game of Thrones' or Donald Trump?
Our long wait is (almost) over. A year after the Season 5 finale that launched a thousand fan theories, Game of Thrones is preparing to enter new territory in its sixth season, which debuts Sunday, April 24 on HBO. For the first time in its history, the series will venture completely off book, as the writers have lapped the release of author George R.R. Martin’s final two novels. So now, both readers and newbies will be on the same proverbial page when we return to Westeros, Dorne, and points beyond.
As viewers count down the days to Game of Thrones’ return, we here at Yahoo TV are launching our official countdown: #GoTIsComing. Check back here every day over the next month as we explore all of our favorite (and a few of our least favorite) people, places, and things about television’s most addictive show. From Direwolves and Dragons to the shows most hideous deaths and imperiled characters, we’re going to indulge or GoT obsession with the same fervor that Cersei imbibes alcohol. So raise a glass and toast the impending arrival of a long, cruel, and bloody Westerosi winter.
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Game of Thrones and Donald Trump — one’s a show about wannabe dictators and the other is a wannabe dictator putting on a daily show.
Life on the U.S. campaign trail and the quest for the iron throne in Westeros seem to grow increasingly similar by the day. (We aren’t alone in noticing the resemblance. Check out this funny — and by funny, we actually mean frightening — parody, Winter Is Trumping.) Both Trump’s presidential run and the epic HBO series, which returns April 24, are filled with fear of invaders, hatred and racism, giant walls, sexism, machismo, family values, and issues with refugees. Both have incited violence and led to protests and bloodshed. And in both cases, the fate of a world hangs in the balance.
They are also both rife with insults, accusations, innuendo, menacing ultimatums, and thinly veiled threats. (Occasionally they don’t even bother to shroud those warnings in any air of mystery at all.) Sometimes you hear a quote and, at least momentarily, you think, “Wait — did I hear that on CNN or in Ramsay Bolton’s torture chamber?”
With that in mind, we gathered 16 quotes to see if you can figure out whether they came out of the mouths of fictional babes and brutes or the all-too-real bullish businessman. Click through this slideshow to find out whether you know nothing, like Jon Snow, or everything, as the Donald claims he does semi-regularly.
Game of Thrones Season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
Read more of our #GoTIsComing coverage:
‘Game of Thrones’ Peril-o-Meter: Who Dies Next?
‘Game of Thrones’: 11 Classic Tyrion Lannister Insults For Every Occasion
‘Game of Thrones’: Everything You Need to Know About the Direwolves of House Stark
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Were Recast
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Best Dragon Moments
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters We Want to Come Back to Life
‘Game of Thrones’: 10 Characters Who Really Need to Die
‘Game of Thrones’: Bran Stark Is Back (and He’s All Grown Up)
Quote:
“When somebody challenges you … fight back. Be brutal, be tough.”
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Answer:
Trump dropped this nugget in his Twitter feed last June. He has also advocated killing terrorists’ families and hitting them hard.
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Quote:
“They were swinging, they were hitting people, and they were really doing damage. The crowd turned on them.”
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Answer:
This quote was part of the Republican frontrunner’s response after he was forced to cancel a Chicago rally because of safety concerns after hundreds of protestors showed up and violence broke out. But it could just as easily describe the poor rising up against the royals, egged on by the High Sparrow’s religious rhetoric.
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Quote:
“I’m not particularly good at violence, but I’m good at convincing others to do violence for me.”
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Answer:
Tyrion Lannister listed this as one of his many crimes when confessing to Lysa Arryn in “A Golden Crown” (Season 1, Episode 6).
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Quote:
“The lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.”
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There are two things we know for certain about Lannisters: They always pay their debts, and they are incredibly quotable. This gem came courtesy of Daddy Lannister, Tywin, in “The Laws of Gods and Men” (Season 4, Episode 8).
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“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
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This one is a bit of a trick question; World War II-era fascist Benito Mussolini originally coined the phrase. But Trump retweeted the quote after it appeared on the parody site @ilduce2016, which features a user profile photo of Italy’s former dictator with Trump’s signature orange locks. When Meet the Press asked Trump whether he was OK with being associated with a former enemy of America, he replied, “I want to be associated with interesting quotes. I sent [it] out and hey, it got your attention, didn’t it?”
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“All my life, men like you have sneered at me. All my life, I’ve been knocking men like you into the dust.”
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Although Trump isn’t one to take other people’s disgust sitting down — or quietly, for that matter — this statement was made by Brienne of Tarth in the eighth episode of Season 2, “The Prince of Winterfell,” when Jaime Lannister wouldn’t stop trying to provoke her as they traveled back to King’s Landing.
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“That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
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Trump made this inappropriate aside to Celebrity Apprentice contestant/Playboy Playmate Brande Roderick in the boardroom after Bret Michaels explained that she got on her knees and begged to be the project manager that week.
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“If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.”
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Although we could easily see Trump using this as a warning cry against voting for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, this is a dark Ramsay Bolton sentiment. He said it to Theon during one of his many torture sessions in “Mhysa” (Season 3, Episode 10). And we’ll say this: Given that we know what the final torture straw was, he definitely wasn’t lying.
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“It doesn’t matter what we want. Once we get it, then we want something else.”
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This one was not said by Gotham’s greediest, but instead was a bit of knowledge dropped on Sansa Stark by Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish in “The Laws of Gods and Men” (Season 4, Episode 6).
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“You can never be too greedy. The beauty of me is that I’m very rich. [He] is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.”
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Total Trump. These are all things he has said about his money, power, and tendency to be greedy — on various occasions. Often, he says these kinds of things in the third person, which is not gross at all.
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“We will take back what was stolen and destroy those who have wronged me! We will lay waste to armies … Those who would harm you will die screaming.”
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In “Garden of Bones” (Season 2, Episode 4), Daenerys warns the citizens of Qarth what will happen if they don’t take in her tired, poor, huddled masses of Dothraki after they have been wandering the desert without food or water.
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“I would hit them… so hard like they’ve never been hit before. You have to take out their families. They are using them as shields.”
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Trump endorsed hunting down and killing the families of terrorists while on the phone with Fox & Friends News last December.
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“They were born on the wrong side of the wall.”
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Jon Snow defended his stance on the wildlings to Stannis and Melisandre when they visited Castle Black in “The Wars To Come” (Season 5, Episode 1). Just because they were unluckily born on in the wrong place “doesn’t make them monsters,” he says.
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“We have to have a wall. We have to have a border. And in that wall we’re going to have a beautiful, big, fat door where people can come into…”
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Trump loves talking about “the great wall” he plans to build between the U.S. and Mexico because “nobody builds walls better than” him, and because our southern neighbors are “sending people that have lots of problems,” like “drugs, crime,” and rapists. This particular line came up in an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in September 2015.
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“Has anyone ever told you you’re as boring as you are ugly?”
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It sure sounds like something Trump might have said to Marco Rubio in a debate after all the small-hands insinuations, but this one is pure Lannister gold. The Kingslayer was trying to irritate his captor, Brienne of Tarth, in Season 2, Episode 8.
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“You waste time trying to get people to love you, you’ll end up the most popular dead man in town.”
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While Trump has bandied about a different less-than-tasteful slang term for lady parts in public, this piece of wisdom was all Bronn, Tyrion’s original champion and drinking buddy, in “The Climb” (Season 3, Episode 6).
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