Funny / Chasing Dragons

• Ned's initial reaction to Robert saying he is being monogamous. A case of Ned being Not So Stoic.

• Victarion and Akhollo's victory feast in the Palace of Order is pretty much Nightmare Fuel, but a bit of black humor is slipped in.
  • A freedman is said to be wearing a judge's fancy hat askance.
  • Akhollo, often depicted as an intense serious soldier and determined abolitionist, dancing on the table singing a Dothraki riding song, drunk.
  • While Robert, the Blackfish, and Ned refuse to attend out of pressing duties in the city, Jaime and Lyn not so much.
    • Jaime apparently just wanted to relax in Rhaegar's old mansion after the battle.
    • And Lyn just bluntly answers he is too busy leading his men in plundering everything he possibly can from the city.
• The Flash Papers. Whether they are IU fiction or not is unclear, but they are very amusing in their irreverent humor based around a Flashman expy.
  • A Ser Harry Flash does exist IU and was mentioned in the aftermath of the Battle of the Greenblood. Whether the Flashman Papers are accurate at all or just based on someone Famed In-Story we do not know though.
• The Battle of Solva has a case of Didn't Think This Through with the Iron legion unable to enter the pursuit phase of the battle for several vital minutes. Why? Because the hedge fort the Pioneers had erected and served so well in battle didn't have an exit to properly accommodate a counterattack and the soldiers formation kept the pioneers from getting in place to forcibly dismantle it.
• The Fall of Tyrosh is mostly Nightmare Fuel, Moments of Awesome, and Tearjerkers, but it has its moments of dark humor:
  • Victarion's Casual Danger Dialogue as he snaps the neck of the gatekeeper is this for some.
  • One of the Tyoshi guards in the mess hall shows impressive acrobatic skills including an Unnecessary Combat Roll. Only to then get one-shoted by Victarion's practical counter.
  • One poor guy starts to choke on his food only to get killed by Victarion, who later realizes what happened.
• Cersei throws an inkpot at Praela for essentially calling the pregnant queen fat. Stannis' reaction when he deduces this from the report also qualifies.
• There's a certain dark comedy to Victarion casually killing Pobo with one shot and only later finding out who he was.
• While it happens offscreen, the sheer idea of Tywin Lannister, The Dreaded Bald Lion, being roped into playing dolls by his little granddaughter.
  • The fact Tywin is proud of her for it by seeing as potential skill at making friends and influencing people adds another layer.
• Harry Flash says that Gulltown smells better than King's Landing, but then notes that that's not a high bar.
• A bit of Black Comedy — during the siege of Pyke, Maron Greyjoy leads a small group of Ironborn in a desperate attack on Stannis' tent. The Stormguard easily overpower and kill them all, with Stannis himself finishing Maron off and then returning to his prior conversation as if nothing had happened.
  • Stannis also takes the opportunity to show some Deadpan Snarker humor:
  “I was entirely unaware that I was keeping an open house,” he remarked drily to Ser Cortnay, who was standing in front of him with his dagger clenched in a raised fist like an iron claw and the other fist held ready to cover or strike. “If I had been, I should have ordered decorations to be hung and food and drink set out.”
• Arthur Dayne's utter disbelief that his cousin Gawen came all the way to Volantis to challenge him to a duel.