History Recap / GameOfThronesS4E1TwoSwords

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Arya chillingly kills another man in cold blood, but it's not like [[AssholeVictim Polliver]], like the Frey man-at-arms last season, didn't [[AssholeVictim thoroughly deserve it]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Arya smirks with triumph after toying with and then killing Polliver.

** Evil version -- As if beheading Robb's corpse to attach Grey Wind's head to it and parade it around the Twins wasn't enough, we learn that Catelyn's body was dumped into the waters of the Trident.

%% * WomanScorned: Ygritte.

-->'''Arya:''' When am I going to get my own horse?
-->'''Sandor:''' [[AllGirlsLikePonies The little lady wants a pony]].
-->'''Arya:''' The little lady wants away from your ''stench.''\\

'''Arya:''' Lots of people name their swords.
-->'''Sandor:''' Lots of cunts.
-->...
-->'''Arya:''' He killed my friend!
-->'''Sandor:''' I don't care if he ''ate'' your friend!
* StockholmSyndrome: Arya Stark's partnership and quasi-friendship with Sandor "The Hound" Clegane who used to be part of her hitlist in her MadnessMantra. At the end of the episode, she willingly rides a horse alongside him (something Sandor was refusing to allow for fears that she'd run away) and wears a PsychoticSmirk in the afterglow of her recent revenge murder. Of course as she points out earlier, she doesn't have much of a choice in staying with him: Her mother and brother are dead and she wouldn't survive on her own so Sandor is her only option.

* AsYouKnow: Oberyn telling the story of his sister to Tyrion, who knows it very well. {{Justified}}: Tyrion is attempting to avoid the subject; Oberyn prevents him from doing so by speaking plainly.

** Dontos gives Sansa a necklace instead of a hairnet, which are hardly seen on any actresses' heads.

* RuleOfCool: Tywin having Ice melted down, and ''casting'' two swords from its steel. Cast iron is very rigid, and a really bad choice to make swords from. It is topped off by the fact that the melted steel is poured into an ''opened'' stone mold, which in reality would result in the steel cooling too fast and unevenly, forming all kinds of bumps, and in the top side of the swords becoming shapeless lumps. The orange glow and the shadows make the casting look very cool though. Of course, this can all be attributed to the vague (and in the books, almost contradictory) properties of Valyrian steel. It's also reminiscent of the opening of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'', one of the coolest swordmaking scenes ever on film.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Styr of the [[ImAHumanitarian Thenns]] has quite a growl. It might have been a simple BadassBaritone, except for his ObviouslyEvil status.

* WhiteStallion: Ayra is riding one by the end of the episode.

* MrExposition: Apparently Pod knows quite a bit about Dorne's houses and their sigils.

* RuleOfCool: Tywin having Ice melted down, and ''casting'' two swords from its steel. Cast iron is very rigid, and a really bad choice to make swords from. It is topped off by the fact that the melted steel is poured into an ''opened'' stone mold, which in reality would result in the steel cooling too fast and unevenly, forming all kinds of bumps, and in the top side of the swords becoming shapeless lumps. The orange glow and the shadows make the casting look very cool though. Of course, this can all be attributed to the vague (and in the books, almost contradictory) properties of Valyrian steel.

-->'''Olenna''': My word!
-->'''Brienne''': ''[to Olenna and Margaery]'' My lady, my lady. Please pardon me for interrupting. My name is Brienne of Tarth-
-->'''Olenna''': We know who you are, we've heard all about you, but hearing is one thing...Aren't you just ''marvellous''?! Absolutely singular! I hear you knocked my grandson into the dirt like the silly little boy he is?

-->'''Tyrion Lannister''': ''[speaking to Sansa]'' What happened to your family was a terrible crime.

-->'''Jorah Mormont''': They're ''dragons'', Khaleesi. They can never be tamed. Not even by their mother.

-->'''Styr''': I know we've had our differences, Tormund. But just one time, before you die, you really ought to try... crow. ''[camera pans down to a severed arm on a spit]''

* AssholeVictim: Polliver and his men.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Brienne still wants Jaime to carry out his vow to Catelyn, which he's reluctant to do. But really - where ''is'' he supposed to take Sansa, now her mother, brothers and sister are dead (or believed to be), her uncles are held captive, Winterfell's gone and she's married to a Lannister?

** The Hound is disgusted by the RapePillageAndBurn his brother's team gets up to, and also says he's not a thief. Arya points out the MoralDissonance of the latter.

* MoralDissonance: The Hound declares that he's no thief, and when Arya points out that he's fine with killing children, he can only reply that "A man's got to have a code."

* RealityEnsues: As Daenerys discovers, even hand-rearing a dangerous animal from birth will never completely suppress its more feral instincts and is no guarantee that said animal won't turn violent or aggressive towards its owner/handler as it grows older, larger and stronger.

** While waiting for the Dornish party to arrive, Bronn cracks an off-colour joke about Dorne. This is likely a reference to a thought Tyrion has while waiting for the group to arrive; Tyrion privately notes that it should be Joffrey meeting the Dornish, but given the King has taken to repeating [[FantasticRacism crude and offensive jokes about the Dornish]] he'd picked up from Tyrell soldiers, admits Joffrey would only muck things up.

* LivingLieDetector: Aemon claims to be one as a result of growing up in [[DeadlyDecadentCourt King's Landing.]]

-->'''Arya:''' The little lady wants away from your ''stench.''

-->'''Arya:''' He's still got it. My sword. Needle.
-->'''Sandor:''' ''(mockingly) Needle.'' Of course you named your sword.
-->'''Arya:''' [[ICallItVera Lots of people name their swords]].
-->'''Sandor:''' Lots of cunts.
-->...

* WreckedWeapon: Lord Tywin watches (with just a touch of villainous smugness) as [[NamedWeapon Ice]], the AncestralWeapon of House Stark, is melted down into two smaller swords for the use of his own family. At this stage in the war, House Lannister has apparently triumphed over all their enemies. Just to emphasize this point, Tywin throws the wolfskin scabbard (the wolf being the sigil of House Stark) into the fire.

* YourCheatingHeart:
** Cersei openly talks about having slept with others to Jaime, who only has eyes for her. He's not mad, however, until he realizes that [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder she's mostly lost interest in him in the time that he was gone]].
** Oberyn is quite scornful of the "[[EvenTheGuysWantHim beautiful]], noble" Rhaegar Targaryen for humiliating Elia Martell by running off with Lyanna Stark, which started a war that eventually led to his innocent sister, nephew and niece being butchered.

* BiTheWay: Oberyn and Ellaria seem quite open about their unconventional sexual proclivities.