History Characters / ThereAndBackAgain

* TheManBehindTheMan: Generally for most of the supernatural plots, but specifically for Daenerys' ability to conquer her way across half the known world (he had the eggs stolen and brought to Illyrio Mopatis) and Bran's arc learning how to warg. In the latter case he used Bran's inexperience to get the Night King to attack his cave and took advantage of the chaos of the battle to assimilate Bran.

* SquishyWizard: While he has vast magical and psychic abilities, he's not at all a threat physically, being rendered immobile as he's entangled in the weirwood tree roots, which also applied to his time [[spoiler:masquerading as the paralyzed Bran in the last few seasons of the show.]] Thus, [[spoiler:he's taken out very easily by Tormund and his group of Free Folk warriors, who raid his cave of Dark Sister and a few other things before setting it all on fire, with Bloodraven unable to do more beyond protest feebly]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: PlayedForDrama. Littlefinger's appearance at Mopatis' manse in Pentos is the first sign Daenerys gets that she's not the only one who remembers the past and things are changing in Westeros as well, throwing another complication into her plans to retake the throne and get revenge on everyone who wronged her.

!!Lord Jon Arryn, Warden of the East

* WouldHurtAChild: He and his men attack Robb, Jon, and Sansa in the new timeline, with Ramsay personally shooting and wounding Jon.

! The Westerlands

!!House Lannister

[[folder: Tywin Lannister]]

!!Lord Tywin Lannister
* TheDreaded: He would not be the Old Lion of House Lannister if he wasn't one of the most dangerous and ruthless political and military players in Westeros. When reports of the results of Robert's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Jaime are released, everyone has a MassOhCrap as they all know Tywin would not take this insult lying down.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tywin dislikes pacing, so it's clearly a big deal when he starts pacing while contemplating war with King Robert.
* PapaWolf: Not out of love for them per se so much as it's rooted in his drive to secure his house's position, but he's willing to go to war against the crown after his son and daughter are imprisoned for treason and his grandson declared a bastard (which ''are'' all true, not that it necessarily matters to Tywin).
* SelectiveObliviousness: He refuses to believe the reports of Jaime and Cersei's relationship, dismissing the reveal of it as slander so that Robert can make up an excuse to find a new wife.
* WouldHurtAChild: The fact that he had no compunctions about killing off the children of Houses Reyne and Tarbeck for the main lords ripping off his father Lord Tytos and wasn't particularly bothered by the grisly murders of Aegon and Rhaenys Targaryen during the Sack of King's Landing (which was committed by two of his attack dogs acting on ''his'' orders to "take care of the problem" no less) is one of the things that makes him TheDreaded.

[[folder:Tyrion Lannister]]

!!Tyrion Lannister, "The Imp"

* TheAlcoholic: He wouldn't be Tyrion if the first thing he asks for after [[spoiler:getting out of the crate Varys smuggled him out of King's Landing with]] is a big jug of wine or dragonwater.
* DeadpanSnarker: But of course. He trades barbs with everyone and can get King Robert to laugh.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Books it out of King's Landing with [[spoiler:Varys, Tommen, Myrcella, and Ser Barristan]] in Chapter 22 after Cersei and Jaime's affair is exposed.
* SmarterThanYouLook: He's usually written off as a hedonistic party animal, but he's actually pretty astute and politically observant. In Chapter 18, he dryly points out to Cersei and Jaime that Robert not giving aid to the Northerners to fix up the Night's Watch is a really big mistake, not just because of the danger the Wildlings pose but because it essentially gives the Northern lords more reason to distrust the south and possibly consider declaring itself an independent nation once again. Kevan even notes that Tyrion inherited most of Tywin's smarts.

[[folder:Jaime Lannister]]

!!Ser Jaime Lannister, "The Kingslayer"

* ForWantOfANail: Thanks to [[spoiler:Littlefinger]], he's caught in flagrante delicto with Cersei and tossed into the dungeons as a result.
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:After he's captured trying to escape, Jaime winds up being the lone hostage keeping Tywin from doing anything too aggressive.]]
* InSpiteOfANail: Jaime loses the use of his sword hand; it isn't [[AnArmAndALeg cut off]], but instead badly broken to the point that [[{{Fingore}} one of his fingers needs to be amputated]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: An offscreen example - after getting caught in the middle of coitus with Cersei by the Baratheons, he suffered a brutal beatdown at Robert's hands, getting his face, leg, and sword hand tenderized to a bloody pulp. The results induce a MassOhCrap from everyone who sees or hears of it, as it's a well-known fact Tywin will not react well at all to his favorite son being beaten within an inch of his life.

[[folder:Kevan Lannister]]

!!Kevan Lannister

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's grossed out upon hearing Robert, a man in his late thirties, wants to betroth himself to Sansa, who's just turned thirteen.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He admits to taking pleasure in intimidating Emmon Frey and has his own family ambitions like marrying one of his sons to Jon Arryn's daughter or to members of House Redwyne.
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Inverted - Kevan looks up to Tywin and respects him overall, but the one thing he doesn't like about his big brother is his treatment of Tyrion.

[[folder:Genna Frey]]

!!Genna Frey, née Lannister

* CanonImmigrant: Genna was a fairly prominent supporting character in the books while she was AdaptedOut of the show.
* DramaticIrony: She notes that while Viserys Targaryen doesn't have an army, money, or any real connections in the Seven Kingdoms, those are "all things that he can achieve with enough luck and determination", which was exactly what Daenerys accomplished in the original timeline (albeit with a little help from Bloodraven).
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Inverted - she knows Jaime and Cersei have engaged in incest together, but keeps tight-lipped on it with her brothers, instead telling Tywin that he'll need to accept that some of their enemies will believe it and won't be convinced otherwise.
* ParentalSubstitute: She acted as this [[{{Nephewism}} to Tywin's children]] after Joanna died, and has a soft spot for Tyrion in particular.

* ForWantOfANail: His appearance at Mopatis' manse in Pentos is the first sign Daenerys gets that she's not the only one who remembers the past and things are changing in Westeros as well, throwing another complication into her plans to retake the throne and get revenge on everyone who wronged her.

* UnreliableNarrator: Turns out that Bloodraven lied about Jon's true name, making his flashbacks in the show rather suspect in hindsight.

* ForWantOfANail: Invokes this with his knowledge of the future in order to prevent the disasters that plagued Westeros in the original timeline and help Jon reclaim the throne.
** First, he gets Littlefinger out of the way by tipping off Jon Arryn to [[spoiler:Lysa and Littlefinger's affair and the true paternity of Sweet Robin]], which gets Baelish thrown into the dungeons. While Baelish still escapes to go off to Essos, getting him taken out of the game early on means he won't be able to engineer Jon Arryn's death, which was one of the main contributing factors to the War of the Five Kings.
** Since he is no longer working with Illyrio Mopatis, this means Daenerys and Viserys don't have his support anymore.

!!King Jon Targaryen (formerly Snow)