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* BiTheWay: Dellyne doesn't show any interest in women in-story, and gets along quite well with Loras when he passes through the Vale. That said, he explicitly says he likes men and women in chapter 23 and is infamous for sleeping with two of his father's mistresses.
* BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:The Dornish and the Dothraki bond over their common love for horses, sex and hot-blooded fighting.]]

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Dellyne doesn't show any interest in women as far as we can see, and gets along quite well with Loras when he passes through the Vale.


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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Jaime and Oberyn start to laugh helplessly after Jaime finds out [[spoiler:Tyrion had his shield made of a particularly sticky toffee.]]

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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The Wall's magic prevents the White Walkers from crossing it, meaning the fight to keep them out was pointless.]]

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* AmazonChaser: The Hill Tribes' men. After Brienne knocks out a Painted Dogs' man with a headbutt when he tries to get too familiar with her, the marriage offers multiply. Funnily enough, this was written ''before'' Tormund's crush on her in Season 6 of the show.

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The Hill Tribes' men. After Brienne knocks out a Painted Dogs' man with a headbutt when he tries to get too familiar with her, the marriage offers multiply. Funnily enough, this was written ''before'' Tormund's crush on her in Season 6 of the show.



* BerserkButton: Khal Jhaqo being jokingly called the "Clumsy Khal" sends him into a rage, reminding him about his defeat by Oberyn Martell over Daenerys.
** ItsPersonal: As a result, he intends to make Daenerys his personal slave, intending on abusing her often and using her as a sexual plaything for his men. With the same fate for Oberyn's wife and daughters. And also slaughter and enslave the people of Meereen, burn the city to the ground, then "piss on the ashes" for good measure.

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Khal Jhaqo being jokingly called the "Clumsy Khal" sends him into a rage, reminding him about his defeat by Oberyn Martell over Daenerys.
** ItsPersonal: As a result, he intends to make Daenerys his personal slave, intending on abusing her often and using her as a sexual plaything for his men. With the same fate for Oberyn's wife and daughters. And also slaughter and enslave the people of Meereen, burn the city to the ground, then "piss on the ashes" for good measure.
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* ChekhovsGun: A pair go off during [[spoiler:the White Walkers' assault on Winterfell. A leftover dragonglass caltrop from Stannis' battle against the Boltons kills one White Walker, and then Brienne uses Oathkeeper on the other.]] Bonus points for the latter still not having gone off on the show at this point.

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A pair go off during [[spoiler:the White Walkers' assault on Winterfell. A leftover dragonglass caltrop from Stannis' battle against the Boltons kills one White Walker, and then Brienne uses Oathkeeper on the other.]] Bonus points for the latter still not having gone off on the show at this point.



* DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler:Learning the truth about Tysha causes Tyrion to relapse on his heavy drinking - at least, until Sansa comes.]]

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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: While the circumstances are rather horrifying, [[spoiler:the Ironborn old man smirking and [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flipping the wights off]] before setting off his explosive belt, taking more than fifty wights at a time]] is made of this.

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While the circumstances are rather horrifying, [[spoiler:the Ironborn old man smirking and [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flipping the wights off]] before setting off his explosive belt, taking more than fifty wights at a time]] is made of this.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tywin admits if Arya died, even at his hands, he would mourn her. (And she admits to herself that a small part of her would mourn ''him'' when the time came for Tywin to die at her hands.)

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Tywin admits if Arya died, even at his hands, he would mourn her. (And she admits to herself that a small part of her would mourn ''him'' when the time came for Tywin to die at her hands.)



* HeroicSacrifice: Maester Aemon, who lets Melisandre burn him alive to preserve Shireen's life and to give Melisandre what she needs for her spell to change the weather.

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* HumiliationConga: Ramsay's InvincibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]

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Ramsay's InvincibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]



* ItsPersonal: Khal Jhago intends to make Daenerys his personal slave, intending on abusing her often and using her as a sexual plaything for his men. With the same fate for Oberyn's wife and daughters. And also slaughter and enslave the people of Meereen, burn the city to the ground, then "piss on the ashes" for good measure.



* KillItWithFire: Buried mines filled with Wildfire and other flammable liquids go off to envelop many of the White Walker and Wight forces at the Battle of Winterfell [[spoiler: Ramsay Bolton ends up blasted to pieces when one mine goes off under him]].
--> '''SOLDIER #1:''' Damn, the Little Lion uses Wildfire on everything.
--> '''SOLDIER #2:''' Why not? So far ''it's worked'' on everything.

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Buried mines filled with Wildfire and other flammable liquids go off to envelop many of the White Walker and Wight forces at the Battle of Winterfell [[spoiler: Ramsay Bolton ends up blasted to pieces when one mine goes off under him]].
--> ---> '''SOLDIER #1:''' Damn, the Little Lion uses Wildfire on everything.
--> ---> '''SOLDIER #2:''' Why not? So far ''it's worked'' on everything.



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Pycelle is killed near the end of chapter 23, having touched a goblet with poison on its stem. Qyburn points out spiny pufferfish toxin was used in Pycelle's death.]]
** [[spoiler:Earlier, Tywin arranges for the assassination of the High Sparrow after he's secured the aid of the Faith Militant against the Others. Then, he takes a page from Cersei's book and forges a contract that levies Loras and Cersei far lighter punishments than the Sparrow initially wanted.]]

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[[spoiler: Pycelle is killed near the end of chapter 23, having touched a goblet with poison on its stem. Qyburn points out spiny pufferfish toxin was used in Pycelle's death.]]
** [[spoiler:Earlier, Tywin arranges for the assassination of the High Sparrow after he's secured the aid of the Faith Militant against the Others. Then, he takes a page from Cersei's book and forges a contract that levies Loras and Cersei far lighter punishments than the Sparrow initially wanted.]]]]
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** BiTheWay: He once slept with two women at the same time (his father's mistresses), and has sex with Loras before the army goes to the Wall to fight off the White Walkers.
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** A medieval society cannot predict the weather; Tywin and Euron are forced to abandon all semblance of strategy in their skirmishes against each other because the raiding parties that were attacking each other were forced to change course and they met in the middle of the ocean.

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** A medieval society cannot predict the weather; Tywin and Euron are forced to abandon all semblance of strategy in their skirmishes against each other because the raiding parties that were attacking each other were forced to change course because of an unexpected storm and they met in the middle of the ocean.
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** Jaime begins the story as Kingslayer, then [[becomes Crowslayer after killing Euron Greyjoy. After killing the Night King, he’s once again called Kingslayer, only now it’s no longer an insult.]]

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** Jaime begins the story as Kingslayer, then [[becomes [[spoiler:becomes Crowslayer after killing Euron Greyjoy. After killing the Night King, he’s once again called Kingslayer, only now it’s no longer an insult.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: The Tyrells prefer the slower approach to obtaining power because it's the most comfortable and because treating people like pawns turns them into [[PowerOfHate enemies]], including [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal family]].

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* ChainmailBikini: Parodied when Tyrion starts making his own storybooks and bases one of the main characters on Brienne. The earlier drafts of the illustrations have that character only wearing three triangles of chainmail over the key bits. It's implied Tyrion did this just to {{troll}} her.

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* ChainmailBikini: Parodied when Tyrion starts making his own storybooks and bases one of the main characters on Brienne. The earlier drafts of the illustrations have that character only wearing three triangles of chainmail over the key bits. It's implied Tyrion did this just to {{troll}} her. Bronn then gets in on it by seriously listing benefits to the idea, even saying that he would do it too if he could.



** In a more low key one, [[spoiler:Mace Tyrell's response to an imminent death by dragonfire is to throw his sword into Drogon's face, causing him to be remembered with honor despite the side he fought on.]]

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** In a more low key one, [[spoiler:Mace Tyrell's response to an imminent death by dragonfire is to throw his sword into Drogon's face, causing him to be remembered with honor by the Dornish and Dothraki despite the side he fought on.]]



* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: As Robert details in the afterlife, he may have been a BloodKnight but he wasn’t an idiot. He knew how terrible wars were, and states that even though he wanted one to fight when he was King, he refused to cause one for no reason.]]



* MasterPoisoner: As per canon, Olenna Tyrell. [[spoiler:She kills Littlefinger by exposing him to the second half of a binary poison via poisoned candles. The first half of the poison, by the way, entered his organism via the expensive Highgarden ''soaps'' he washed himself with.]]

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* MasterPoisoner: As per canon, Olenna Tyrell. [[spoiler:She kills Littlefinger by exposing him to the second half of a binary poison via poisoned candles. The first half of the poison, by the way, entered his organism via the expensive Highgarden ''soaps'' he washed himself with.]] This gets lampshaded: Tywin calls poison a woman’s weapon and, as an aside comment, the narration remarks that Olenna smirks when she hears that]]


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** [[spoiler: The death of the Night King doesn’t kill all of the White Walkers like the show, but the army is still weakened to the point of no return; with no one leading or controlling them, the army is reduced to animals who, among other things, attack each other and flee the battle.]]


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** Jaime begins the story as Kingslayer, then [[becomes Crowslayer after killing Euron Greyjoy. After killing the Night King, he’s once again called Kingslayer, only now it’s no longer an insult.]]


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* ThanatosGambit:
** [[spoiler: Oberyn devises one for the fate of Dorne: take control from his brother then ship him off to Braavos until the battle with Cersei is over. Regardless of who wins or if Oberyn lives or dies, the Iron Throne won’t hurt them and Dorne keeps its leader.]]
** [[spoiler: Tywin knows he won’t survive his duel with Oberyn. In fact, he throws the duel; Oberyn gets his revenge, Tyrion won’t become a Kinslayer, and Tywin can die knowing that the Westerlands are in capable hands. Olenna even remarks that even when Tywin lost, he still won everything.]]
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* GoodCopBadCop: Tywin and Olenna share this dynamic within their alliance: Tywin has no ability for “soft diplomacy” and knows it, so Olenna handles that aspect while Tywin uses brute force.


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** In that same battle, Frey loses track of Jaime and forces his soldiers to look for him. [[spoiler: He’s never found... because no one thought to check ''his bedroom''.]]
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* AfterlifeWelcome: [[spoiler:Littlefinger]] is greeted after death by [[spoiler:his]] victims and told that they will torture [[spoiler:him]] until it triggers a HeelRealization.
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** [[spoiler:Tywin lets himself get killed in a duel so that Tyrion doesn't have to be a Kinslayer.]]
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* DeadManWriting: Before going off to face his death, [[spoiler: Tywin]] prepares letters for [[spoiler: Tyrion and Arya]] which are delivered afterwards.
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* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:Tywin]]’s farewell letter to [[spoiler:Tyrion]] starts with a long and detailed one.


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* WeWillMeetAgain: In his farewell letter to [[spoiler:Arya]], [[spoiler:Tywin]] promises they’ll have their planned fight in the afterlife.

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Aemon allows Stannis to burn him in Shireen's place for his king's blood, having taken a ton of milk of the poppy beforehand so he goes without a sound.

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** [[spoiler:Tywin]] makes sure to die "a magnificent death", [[spoiler:staying calm in front of Daenerys and her dragons, fighting a much younger Oberyn, and [[GoOutWithASmile smiling triumphantly before dying]]]]. Several characters comment how he manages to win despite getting killed.
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* HumiliationConga: Ramsay's InvisibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]

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* HumiliationConga: Ramsay's InvisibleVillain InvincibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]
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* HumiliationConga: Ramsay's VillainSue nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]

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* HumiliationConga: Ramsay's VillainSue InvisibleVillain nature from the show seems to be played straight at first, but takes some big hits. [[spoiler:The Boltons lose Winterfell when Roose is killed by an insane Selyse, who then sends Ramsay running even as she's dying herself. He's imprisoned by the Umbers but escapes and makes it onto a ship for Essos. Then the ship goes down in a storm and he gets out in a rowboat, which proves to be leaky itself. He barely makes it to land, but then it turns out he's beyond the Wall and his fire attracts the attention of a White Walker. And finally, after being turned to a Wight he gets to march on Winterfell with the rest of them, only to be blown up at the very start of the battle.]]
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Cersei, languishing in her personal Hell, is informed by Robert that one of the very few luxuries they're allowed is to go and try to help the souls of loved ones move on themselves, and tells her he's been trying to help Joffrey. After a moment's hesitation, she pulls herself together and goes off to join him.]]

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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Mace Tyrell faces Drogon by throwing his sword at him. It does precisely zilch, but this leads to him being spoken of with honor.]]



* EdibleBludgeon: Tyrion's shield in Chapter 1.

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* EdibleBludgeon: Tyrion's shield in Chapter 1. He doesn't use it as one, though.



* FaceDeathWithDignity: Aemon is willingly burned in Shireen's place for his king's blood, having taken a ton of milk of the poppy beforehand so he goes without a sound.

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** [[spoiler:Mace Tyrell's DyingMomentOfAwesome.]]

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** [[spoiler:The army Cersei spent so much of her money trying to recruit so as to return to the Seven Kingdoms and take over gets crushed in its first battle, and she herself ends drowning in a small river.]]



* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Bronn arranges for the killing of the High Sparrow after he's given Tywin the support of the Faith Militant.]]

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** Cersei's powerlust and incompetence keep causing her trouble. First she loses a lot of influence over Tommen [[spoiler:when he weds Margaery. Then she gets humiliated by the High Sparrow after her plan to manipulate him fails miserably, forcing her into seclusion. Then the fleet she was building to be exclusively loyal to her gets stolen after her attempt to seize Littlefinger's fortune is foiled by Bronn, who sends the money to her father. When she escapes to Essos, she's completely dependent on Tyrion's reputation and fortune to make her way through, which irritates her to no end. Then the Faceless Men decline her contract with some choice words for her. And she still keeps at her stupid plans, refusing to return to the Seven Kingdoms. Finally, her hard-won army suffers a CurbStompBattle from Dany's Dothraki, to which she runs and pathetically meets her end with her armor pulling her down in a shallow river.]] Tywin's just exasperated at Cersei's pettiness and drunkenness.

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** Cersei's powerlust and incompetence keep causing her trouble. First she loses a lot of influence over Tommen [[spoiler:when he weds Margaery. Then she gets humiliated by the High Sparrow after her plan to manipulate him fails miserably, forcing her into seclusion. Then the fleet she was building to be exclusively loyal to her gets stolen after her attempt to seize Littlefinger's fortune is foiled by Bronn, who sends the money to her father. When she escapes to Essos, she's completely dependent on Tyrion's reputation and fortune to make her way through, which irritates her to no end. Then the Faceless Men decline her contract with some choice words for her. And she still keeps at her stupid plans, refusing to return to the Seven Kingdoms. Finally, her hard-won army suffers a CurbStompBattle from Dany's Dothraki, to which and she runs and away she pathetically meets her end with her armor pulling her down in a shallow river.]] Tywin's just exasperated at Cersei's pettiness and drunkenness.
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** [[spoiler:It happens again when we see Cersei and Robert in their {{Ironic Hell}}s, Cersei as a male warrior fighting a hopeless battle and Robert as a pregnant woman.]]
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** After different religions and orders buy pieces of the broken Wall, some legends begin to arise regarding the ice chunks. One of them tells the story of a [[WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman snow man who comes to life to play with the children]].

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** Cersei's powerlust and incompetence keep causing her trouble. First she loses a lot of influence over Tommen [[spoiler:when he weds Margaery. Then she gets humiliated by the High Sparrow after her plan to manipulate him fails miserably, forcing her into seclusion. Then the fleet she was building to be exclusively loyal to her gets stolen after her attempt to seize Littlefinger's fortune is foiled by Bronn, who sends the money to her father. When she escapes to Essos, she's completely dependent on Tyrion's reputation and fortune to make her way through, which irritates her to no end. Then the Faceless Men decline her contract with some choice words for her. And she still keeps at her stupid plans, refusing to return to the Seven Kingdoms.]] Tywin's just exasperated at Cersei's pettiness and drunkenness.

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** Cersei's powerlust and incompetence keep causing her trouble. First she loses a lot of influence over Tommen [[spoiler:when he weds Margaery. Then she gets humiliated by the High Sparrow after her plan to manipulate him fails miserably, forcing her into seclusion. Then the fleet she was building to be exclusively loyal to her gets stolen after her attempt to seize Littlefinger's fortune is foiled by Bronn, who sends the money to her father. When she escapes to Essos, she's completely dependent on Tyrion's reputation and fortune to make her way through, which irritates her to no end. Then the Faceless Men decline her contract with some choice words for her. And she still keeps at her stupid plans, refusing to return to the Seven Kingdoms. Finally, her hard-won army suffers a CurbStompBattle from Dany's Dothraki, to which she runs and pathetically meets her end with her armor pulling her down in a shallow river.]] Tywin's just exasperated at Cersei's pettiness and drunkenness.

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* BirdsOfAFeather: [[spoiler:The Dornish and the Dothraki bond over their common love for horses, sex and hot-blooded fighting.]]



** [[spoiler: Mace Tyrell is killed by one of Daenerys' dragons, and Cersei drowns while escaping the same battle.]]
* DeathFromAbove: Daenerys uses her dragons quite well, [[spoiler:particularly in her first battle in Westeros, where she loads her dragons with sharp lances weighted so they will land point first and has them drop them from a mile or so, causing great devastation among Cersei's and the Tyrell's troops.]]



* DrowningMySorrows. [[spoiler:Learning the truth about Tysha causes Tyrion to relapse on his heavy drinking - at least, until Sansa comes.]]

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* DrowningMySorrows. DrowningMySorrows: [[spoiler:Learning the truth about Tysha causes Tyrion to relapse on his heavy drinking - at least, until Sansa comes.]]
** [[spoiler:Jon gets roaringly drunk after Jaime [[KillSteal kills the Night's King before Jon can do it]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Cersei drowns when the horse she's riding and mistreating throws her off in the middle of a river, where she drowns because of the heavy dress she had been wearing for the battle against Daenerys.]]


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* IronicHell: [[spoiler:Cersei had always wanted to be a man. After dying, she finds herself in the role of a man - in the middle of a battle. When she dies, she's thrown into another battle. And another. And, for extra {{Irony}} she is confronted with Robert (who now is a pregnant woman) and she tries to force him, but Robert easily fights her off.]]
** Accordingly, [[spoiler:Robert is always living the life of a pregnant woman, starting at the fourth month and giving birth, because of how he would sleep with women, get them pregnant and then leave them.]]

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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Cersei's horse throws her off in a river after she whips it a few too many times.]]



* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler:Cersei drowns in a river called "Little Brother".]]



** The Faceless Man who meets with Cersei calmly tells her she's not worthy to hire them as even with her wealth, because "Your beauty, your name, your power, you would not give up the barest scrap for the slightest second." Especially since she would not humble herself when he asks, "Would you become a kitchen helper, spending a season scrubbing pots and gutting fish while wearing another girl's face and name?"

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** The Faceless Man who meets with Cersei calmly tells her she's not worthy to hire them as even with her wealth, because "Your beauty, your name, your power, you would not give up the barest scrap for the slightest second." Especially since she would not humble herself when he asks, "Would you become a kitchen helper, spending a season scrubbing pots and gutting fish while wearing another girl's face and name?"
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** Cersei's Golden Company vs. Dany's dragons and Dothraki. [[spoiler:The dragons evade the Scorpions by dumping a massive load of weighted spearheads onto the army, and the Dothraki charge into the ensuing disarray and easily destroy all the Scorpions, allowing the dragons to come down and make quick work of the rest.]]


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## ...it wouldn't ''be'' more difficult than that; [[spoiler:Bronn, being the paranoid sort, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle pops one open with a crowbar to find it empty]]. He doesn't abandon the chests, but instead realizes that going to all that trouble to ''hide empty chests'' was where Littlefinger got too clever - he tears open the chests themselves to find the gems hidden in hollows in the ''corners'' of the chests]]. Tywin is pleased enough to [[spoiler:''grant Bronn the best fishing rights in the Crownlands'' as a reward for his investigations]].

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## ...it wouldn't ''be'' more difficult than that; [[spoiler:Bronn, being the paranoid sort, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle pops one open with a crowbar to find it empty]]. He doesn't abandon the chests, but instead realizes that going to all that trouble to ''hide ''[[RevealingCoverup hide empty chests'' chests]]'' was where Littlefinger got too clever - he tears open the chests themselves to find the gems hidden in hollows in the ''corners'' of the chests]]. Tywin is pleased enough to [[spoiler:''grant Bronn the best fishing rights in the Crownlands'' as a reward for his investigations]].

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* CorneredRattlesnake: Cersei is alone in Braavos, her last plans failing and with no allies. [[spoiler:It's implied this is enough to get her to trumpet [[BrotherSisterIncest the truth of her children]], in a final spiteful gambit to bring down as many as she can with her.]]
** [[spoiler:Nope. She instead reveals the truth about Tysha to Tyrion, which makes him strike his brother and have him taken away.]]

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* CorneredRattlesnake: Cersei is alone in Braavos, her last plans failing and with no allies. [[spoiler:It's implied this is enough to get [[spoiler:To finally destroy any link tying her to trumpet [[BrotherSisterIncest any Lannister, she sends a final missive to Tyrion, detailing the truth of his first marriage, and in her children]], in a final spiteful gambit to bring down position as many as she can with her.]]
** [[spoiler:Nope. She instead reveals
Lady Paramount of the truth about Tysha Stormlands, sells her jewelry to Tyrion, which makes him strike his brother the Iron Bank and have him taken away.begins gathering an army.]]
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* DecapitatedArmy: Downplayed. [[spoiler: When Jaime kills the Night King, the undead army doesn't [[NoOntologicalInertia outright collapse instantly]], but their coordination begins failing, even starting rounds of infighting among the wights. In the end, the undead are reduced to mindless, shambling beasts rather than the fearsome army they once were.]]

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