Many characters had a well-deserved and poetic death. These are a few examples.
- Tywin Lannister constantly derided and expressed his hatred for his younger son, Tyrion, because he thought he was a continuous black mark in the family's dignity (among other things). Tywin was also a key conspirator in the Red Wedding. Tyrion kills him in a very undignified manner - and better yet, he died the same way most of the people at the Red Wedding were killed: feathered with crossbow bolts by someone they least suspected would have the nerve to kill them.
- Lysa Arryn, who poisoned her husband at the behest of Littlefinger, the man she loved, and many times threatened to kill someone by throwing them out of the Moon Door, died when Littlefinger threw her out of the Moon Door.
- Maester Aemon Targaryen is a rare non-villainous example. He's the kindest, gentlest soul in all of Westeros, and he dies an old man peacefully in his bed.
- Roose Bolton, who once killed a man and raped that man's wife for the high crime of not informing him they had married, and who later betrayed his liege lord by stabbing him in the heart, is stabbed in the heart by Ramsay, the bastard offspring of the aforementioned rape.
- The aforementioned Ramsay Bolton, the Ax-Crazy psychopath with extreme Chronic Backstabbing Disorder enjoys hunting down innocent women and letting his vicious hounds rip them apart when they can't run anymore - including his stepmother and newborn half-brother. He starves said hounds for a week before the battle with Jon Snow in anticipation of feeding Jon and his officers to them. After Ramsay loses the battle, Jon's sister Sansa - the woman Ramsay raped and abused for months, places Ramsay in their kennel, where the hounds proceed to eat him alive after he is informed House Bolton dies with him. Exaggerated in that he named his dogs after the girls he killed.
- Walder Frey broke guest right and had a woman brutally killed by slitting her throat. His comeuppance takes the form of unwittingly eating a pie made of his sons' corpses (a reference to a legend about a cook that got turned into a rat, forever eating its own children, for serving a king his own children in a pie in a breaching of guest right) made by that woman's daughter, before getting killed in the exact same way.
- King Robert decides his hunting accident was divine retribution for plotting to assassinate a pregnant girl.
- Viserys brings a sword into Vaes Dothrak to threaten his sister - a woman he's abused his entire life, and demand Khal Drogo's army. Viserys believes he's at an advantage because the Dothraki cannot use weapons in their holy city. The Dothraki overpower Viserys and burn him to death by pouring a pot of molten gold (which Viserys intended to be forged into a crown for himself) over his head, while he fruitlessly begs his sister for mercy.
- Arya gives Polliver an identical death to the child that he killed during his Moral Event Horizon, with the exact same sword, complete with Ironic Echo in the form of Arya repeating the exact same words to him.
- Despite thinking "everyone is mine to torment", King Joffrey's treatment of his favorite Chew Toy Sansa directly leads to the motive of his assassination when he falls victim to someone who decided his constant sadism was a ticking time bomb not worth dealing with. It would be little exaggeration to label his death — suffocating painfully on his own blood and vomit — as quite possibly, and quite fittingly, the most brutal death in the entire show up until Oberyn's death at the hands of Gregor Clegane, which says a lot. Further, in a fantastic twist of cosmic irony, he dies in the exact same manner as Robb Stark: brutally betrayed and butchered at a wedding while his mother is forced to watch. His death drips with irony. After Joffrey's openly misogynistic behavior and distaste for "the wailing of women", he dies listening to his mother's cries as he slowly suffocates thanks to Olenna Tyrell, a woman.
- Daenerys crucifies 163 masters in the exact same pose as the 163 slave children they crucified.
- Locke spends all of Season 3 abusing and molesting two unarmed and powerless captives. In Season 4, he is killed by two unarmed and disabled captives (Bran physically, Hodor mentally). Zig-Zagged in that Locke is the man who crippled the man who crippled Bran.
- Karl Tanner mocks Jon for fighting "with honor," then is fittingly stabbed In the Back twice: first by a woman he previously abused, then mortally by Jon.
- Rast is eventually killed by the very direwolf he once taunted.
- Ygritte is shot in the back by the son of a man she shot in the back.
- Janos Slynt is executed by the son of the man whom he had betrayed, and with a blade of Valyrian steel as a bonus.
- Smalljon, who hates Wildlings and joins the Boltons so they can help them kill the Wildlings, ends up being killed by Tormund, a wildling. Even more karmic is that Tormund's nickname is Giantsbane, making it fitting that he would off a brute like Smalljon (whose house sigil is a Giant). There is also irony in that Smalljon's House was loyal to the Starks before he betrayed them, which resulted in Rickon's death, while Tormund became Jon's friend after behaving as an enemy.
- Ellaria Sand, widow of Oberyn Martell, is directly responsible for murdering Cersei's daughter with poison. When she and her daughter Tyene are captured, Cersei poisons Tyene and leaves Ellaria chained up to watch her die and rot.
- The thing that truly cemented Littlefinger as a back-stabbing Manipulative Bastard was when he held a knife to Eddard Stark's throat. He is ultimately killed by having his throat slit by Arya Stark, the daughter of Eddard who was forced to witness her father be executed, thanks in part to Littlefinger's influence. Additionally, Littlefinger is killed by the same dagger that would have been used to murder Bran at the beginning of the series, an event which escalated the War of the Five Kings. And, this all only happens because Littlefinger made Sansa his Bastard Understudy, giving her the skills to Out Gambit him.
- Even more karmic since he dies after threatening a relative of a woman who grew up in a Decadent Court of backstabbers and liars. He also had a habit of telling her most of his plans. Yes, the same way of death as Ned Stark, whom Littlefinger betrayed, had.
- Rorge is stabbed through the heart by the young girl he repeatedly threatened to brutally rape, and she does so using the 'stick' he'd threatened to 'fuck her bloody' with.
- Doreah betrayed her people for Xaro. And once Xaro's house is overtaken by Daenerys' forces, Doreah is found in bed with the merchant prince, and soon both are locked in Xaro's vault, condemned to slowly starve to death.
- Balon spent almost every second onscreen insulting and belittling his family members. He ends up getting killed by a family member.
- Qyburn is killed by the same man he experimented on and turned into an undead monster.
- Gregor Clegane gets sent falling to his death in a fire by his younger brother, whose face he once burned as a child.
- Cersei goes out of her way to antagonize Daenerys and force her to attack King's Landing in full force, in the misguided belief that her armies can win and she can keep her hold on the Iron Throne. Instead, Daenerys utterly wipes the floor with them, and causes such devastation that the Red Keep ends up collapsing on Cersei's head.
