History Awesome / GameOfThrones

** Things get more amazing when you consider the whole scene in its entirety. Arya managed to sneak past a group of White Walkers, tackle and kill the Night King, and get the jump on him by forcing him to use both hands to hold her back. Arya accomplished what neither the Children of the Forest nor the First Men could: she permanently ended the threat of the Long Night.King.

* As the battle goes on, you start to notice that the density of wights has begun to decrease. When Jon finally confronts the Night King on the ground, the battlefield is still. A far cry from some hours earlier when the dead washed over the defenders like an evil tsunami. Even inside Winterfell, the battle has mostly just become a skirmish among the living and small bands of wights. The Army of the Dead was destroyed, Jon Snow's inital strategy of just gathering people togetehr and arming them with dragonglass and fire '''worked'''. The Night King [[KeystoneArmy didn't raise a new army]] just to intimiidate Jon, he realized that his own forces were ''gone'' and he needed to replenish them. This means that the [[BadassArmy alliance]] was so damn effective that only the [[HumanoidAbomination White Walkers]] themselves entering the fray is how the dead could secure a victory.

** The fact that as soon as the High Sparrow starts talking about "the gods" her response is a curt, "Forget about the bloody gods and listen to what I'm telling you!" Her PrecisionFStrike is not only awesome in itself after all her TastesLikeDiabetes religious platitudes, but it lets the High Sparrow finally realise that her conversion was staged all along; he never dominated her as he thought he had, and she had played him for a fool as easily as he had played Cersei and Tommen, despite the huge difference in their ages and levels of experience. Seeing the old queen Margaery, praised by her grandmother as being "even better" than she had ever been, return in all her glory is awesome, even if it doesn't last long.

* While his refusal to abide by Cersei's terms [[WhatAnIdiot are criticized by both his allies and likely many fans]], Jon makes [[PatrickStewartSpeech a profound rebuttal]], which doubles as a poignant affirmation of the HonorBeforeReason trope. It's enough for Daenerys to forgive him, and even Tyrion concedes he has a point.

* Varys' snark session with Oberyn Martell. He's utterly unfazed by the Dornish prince's teasing, and explains that he's always been [[{{Asexuality}} quite glad to be free of fleshly desires]], as they inevitably distract a person from other things -- he says with a glance at the Iron Throne. When the show decides to remind you every so often that Varys is a badass, it leaves no doubt in one's mind that the man is dangerous.

** Secondly Oberyn. Put simply, Oberyn not just won, but DOMINATED the fight against the most feared knight in Westeros, while giving him a speech that could make [[Film/ThePrincessBride Inigo Montoya]] blush. After starting the fight with an almost polite introduction to his opponent, he calmly reminds Gregor of [[YouKilledMyFather how he raped his sister, murdered her, then killed her children]], and as the fight goes on, and as he effortlessly avoids Gregor's blows, using his spear to tear away at Gregor's armour, he keeps repeating "You raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children", at first arrogant but growing increasingly enraged as the fight goes on and he wears Gregor down. Then, after unbalancing Gregor, he rounds on him one last time and furiously roars "YOU RAPED HER! YOU MURDERED HER!" as Gregor lunges at him, only for Oberyn to dodge, rip his spear down the back of Gregor's calf sending him to his knees, and then charge the prone giant with his spear as he screams "YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN!", impaling him through the stomach to the arena floor. Even his head being popped like a pimple by an angry Gregor after his arrogance got the better of him didn't take away from Oberyn's victory just beforehand.

** Keep in mind that TV!Ned was capable of holding his own against [[MasterSwordsman Jaime Lannister]] for an extended period of time. The fact that Dayne was able to dominate him ''and'' three of his companions speaks volumes for his level of skill -- and not just as a swordsman. He begins the battle more or less surrounded, and works his angles so that all four of his remaining opponents are to his front ''and'' fighting uphill. No one in Ned's party can bring powerful strikes to bear for fear of hitting their own allies, and he picks off the remaining fighters one by one, until only Ned is left, a skilled but comparatively inexperienced fighter, wearing lighter armor and wielding a single blade, against the steel-armored Kingsguard badass DualWielding both an ordinary and a Valyrian Steel sword. The ''only'' reason he loses is because he knocked Howland Reed down early in the battle and [[FailedASpotCheck didn't have time to check that he was dead.]]

--->"I'd hate to die like your son--clawing at my neck, foam and bile spilling from my mouth, eyes blood red, skin purple. It must have been horrible for you, as a Kingsguard, as a father. It was horrible enough for me. A shocking scene. Not at all what I intended. You see, I'd never seen the poison work before. (Beat) Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was ''me."''

** None of the lords attempt to sass the child, even though the age difference is large -- she's Lady of her house and they treat her as such.

* The Greyjoy's armada of CoolShip counts when you remember that last season Yara stole most of the best ships last season. This means they are ''brand new'', built-under-a-year ships, which helps showing that while the Ironborn may have been the ButtMonkey in everything else, they are pretty good when it comes to naval matters, especially since Stannis, who destroyed them in the Greyjoy Rebellion, is dead.

* The Faith taking down Cersei's ace in the hole (trial by combat) with a very simple solution: calling it out for the bullshit it is and abolishing it.

** This is doubly impressive if one considers the Stark’s infamous history of poor romantic judgment; Robb’s affair caused the Red Wedding, Lyanna Stark possibly eloping with Rhaegar Targaryen triggered a massive war, and an ancient Stark was seduced by the White Walker Queen which nearly ended the world (to say nothing of Jon's most recent relationship, which got him stuck full of arrows). Rejecting Melisandre was more than just a a moment of restraint; Jon conquered an all-too-familiar flaw that had been plaguing his family for generations.

** Better yet is Creator/PeterDinklage ''living'' Tyrion Lannister -- his posture, the expressions on his face... fear, remorse, doubt... all overcome by determination ''not'' to fail the task his asshole father gave him: rule King's Landing. Preserve it and prepare it for ''his'' rule. He knows that the men about to sack the city are no different from the men defending it, and if [[NotSoDifferent positions had been reversed]], every man inside the walls would be every bit as eager as those outside them to RapePillageAndBurn that literal shithole city. He's just lucky enough to be on the defending side. So he defends a city that calls him a "demon monkey" because [[TheAntiNihilist he refuses to let it all burn]].

* After Walder Frey insults the Blackfish for getting killed by Lannister mooks Jaime starts to question him on his own fighting talents. Walder immediately picks up on what he's getting at and gives a NotSoDifferent rant about himself and Jaime, specifically about how their enemies mocked them yet they won in the end and killed them all. Jaime then [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech viciously rips into him, not bothering to hold back his contempt and disgust]], explaining that no one respects or fears the Freys and if Walder needs the Lannisters to come running and do his dirty work every time he has a problem, then he's not a winner and they don't need him. Walder is left sputtering as Jaime exits.

* The unnamed Spice King repeatedly shooting down Daenerys' attempts at {{Badass Boast}}ing are a nice reminder of the fact that, even though she has dragons, she is not a queen yet, and is still entirely dependent on the goodwill of others, and consequently her [[NotSoDifferent Viserys-esque]] YoungConqueror pretensions aren't all that impressive under the circumstances.

** ... Holy shit.

* Euron Greyjoy showing why his CrazyAwesome reputation is no fluke, ambushing Daenerys's fleet at Dragonstone and also managing to one-up the Night King by shooting Rhaegal out of the sky with one of Qyburn's new ballistas. He then stares down Daenerys and Drogon and gets the Mother of Dragons to ''back off''. You don't need [[Recap/GameOfThronesS7E6BeyondTheWall a supernatural monster with a magical ice weapon]] to kill a dragon, just get a glorified crossbow and the guy crazy enough to aim it and pull the trigger...

*** The very fact that Lyanna's support paid off at a crucial moment. If she hadn't pledged her troops, that shield would never have been there, and Ramsay would have peppered Jon at his leisure. In a series were [[RealityEnsues reality so often ensues]], an idealistic ten-year-old was still able to make a profound difference by showing faith in a lost cause.

** Not to mention his FamousLastWords to Arya before she escapes.

*** And she was silent throughout - she screams only when jumping at the Night King because she wanted him to turn and face her rather than her little brother. And she succeeds, looking at the Night King - the very face of death - in the eye before ending him forever.jumping

* Sansa's conversation with the Hound, in which he affectionately calls her "Little Bird" and expresses that she should have come with him when he wanted to protect her. She replies that, if she had, she'd still be a "little bird", instead of growing into something more. That's a fairly horrifying idea (the idea that repeated sexual assault made her stronger is ''revolting'' for obvious reasons), but her point is probably that she no longer relies on anyone to protect her. She killed Ramsey, sentenced Littlefinger to death, and can look Sandor in the eye without a trace of fear.

-->'''Daenerys''': He should never have trusted Cersei.\\
'''Sansa''': Neither should you.

** Let it sink in: Arya Stark is now the '''living incarnate of Death in Westeros'''. Her personal body count was already pretty much the highest among all characters in the show, and with ''one'' stab added the freaking '''Night King''' and ''every'' White Walker and wight to that list.

** In hindsight it's a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Ned Stark. In Season 1, he was the ButtMonkey of a DeadlyDecadentCourt, which eventually led to his death. But it was he, of all people, the one who managed to keep maybe the most dangerous secret of Westeros, fooling for almost twenty years [[TheChessmaster consummate chessmasters]] of the size of Tywin Lannister, Littlefinger and ''Varys''.

** Secondly, Dany ''finally'' gets bloody retribution for the murdered 163 slave children. How you may ask? By herding exactly 163 masters out to the city steps and crucifying each and every one of them to similar mile-posts that they crucified the little ones to. When Barristan suggests she treat injustice with mercy, she icily replies she will treat injustice with '''justice'''. And gives him the [[LamePun mhysa]] of all [[DeathGlare death glares]] for daring to suggest otherwise.

*** And to add to that, the shield Jon uses to block Ramsay's arrows [[IncrediblyLamePun bears]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClXg92YWQAAnqvv.jpg the sigil of House Mormont.]] One or more of Lyanna's 62 men survived the rain of arrows, cavalry charge and the human crush to reach Winterfell. [[BadassBoast As strong as 10 mainlanders indeed.]]

* Drogo killing a horde member who insulted Dany by slicing his throat open with his own arakh ''and ripping his tongue and most of his esophagus out of the gaping wound'', refusing to let getting cut across the chest interrupt his BadassBoast in the process. The guy pulls out a {{BFS}} and Drogo pulls out twin knives, then he drops them because he wants to kill the guy with his bare hands.

*** Ned killing Ser Gerold becomes more impressive when one considers the fact that Whent was a member of Aerys' Kingsguard, who man-to-man were of a higher caliber of warrior than Robert's Kingsguard, most of whom were political appointees and lacklustre warriors (with the exception of Ser Barristan Selmy and Jaime Lannister, the only survivors of Aerys' Kingsguard). This, together with him holding his own against Jaime Lannister, demonstrates what a formidable warrior Ned was.