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Daenerys Targaryen
Also known as: Khaleesi
More like: Sexy Motherbeast
She’s sexy. She’s ambitious. She’s gentle. She’s got dragons.
Khaleesi is what every woman secretly wants to be. Her bully brother marries her off to the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo, whose trust and love she slowly wins. She embraces the ways of the Dothraki culture, learning from her handmaiden how to make love to Drogo by “being on top”; she tears her teeth into the raw heart of a horse (ewwww!) as part of a pregnancy ritual. By the end of Season 2, she is no more the timid girl who left Pentos. She is the powerful Mother of Dragons, who brings dragons back into the world after they’ve been long forgotten! One of the most iconic scenes in GoT is Khaleesi arising from Drogo’s pyre of ashes with the hatched baby dragons on her shoulder. She is no longer a woman sold to slavery but a powerful woman in a man’s world ready to conquer the Seven Kingdoms. In a way, the dragons and she mirror each other in growth.
Hear her say:
All men must die but we are not men
Sansa Stark
Also known as: Little Bird
More like: WAW (whiny and wannabe)
Held captive by House Lannister, Sansa survives the world of “monster” King Joffrey because of her facade of loyalty. She may be a beauty but the Internet hates her, we all hate her for being so whiny and absolutely helpless. Oh, the poor “little bird” who can’t fly away.
How can she pretend to love a man who ordered her father’s execution and who took her to see his head on a spike! But the fact is that Sansa survives King’s Landing and doesn’t lose her sanity because she is essentially full of goodness. She is groomed to be polite and ladylike, to say nice things even if she feels otherwise. It’s her way of navigating a man’s world. It’s just that her bravery is overlooked because we’re so used to the typical “strong female characters” in GoT.
Hear her say:I lie awake all night thinking about how they died cersei lannister
Also known as: Queen Regent
More like: Brotherf***er
Cersei lannister
“Tears aren’t a woman’s only weapon. The best one’s between your legs.” The incestuous Cersei, in a relationship with her twin brother Jaime and 17 years in a loveless marriage with Robert Baratheon, is strong, beautiful, powerful, cunning and ruthless. The daughter of the richest man in the Seven Kingdoms will do anything to get her way and hogs more screen time than Melisandre or Khaleesi. In fact, the show’s title comes from Cersei’s quote below — that’s how pivotal her role is!
Hear her say: when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. there is no middle ground
Arya Stark
Also known as: Arry
More like: Tomboy
She’s little but she’s as sharp as the pointy end of Needle (the sword gifted to her by half-brother Jon Snow and named after what Arya hates doing most — needlework)! In fact, all her actions are most unladylike. She learns swordsmanship, she is for the most part of the series dressed and disguised as a boy named Arry, and she is certainly not afraid of anyone. In short, she is fierce and simply adorable!
Arya witnessed her father Ned Stark’s public beheading, worked like a boy, begged for food, saw Polliver kill her BFF Lommy and arrived just in time for the Red Wedding massacre where her mother and brother are killed. Every night she says, ‘Valar morghulis!’ (meaning ‘All men must die’), with a kill list of people she wants dead. Boy, she’s tough!
Hear her say:Stick ’em with the pointy end
Brienne of Tarth
Also known as: Brienne the Beast
More like: More man than woman
Sorry, we know she’s one of the most popular characters but don’t tell us YOU didn’t think Brienne wasn’t a woman until the bath scene between her and Jaime Lannister where he looks at her naked body. Distinctly unfeminine, well over 6ft, pursed lips, straw hair and clipped British accent, Brienne the Knight is short of being butch. But she’s honest, confident and loyal “past the point of sense” and those who don’t mock her gain this and more. Brienne’s beauty is her inner beauty. Plus, androgyny is in.
Hear her say:I am no lady
SOME FUN GoT FACTS
The horse heart (right) that a pregnant Daenerys Targaryen eats to prove her worth as the Khaleesi to the Dothraki people was actually several pounds of gummy bear-like substance.
In 2012, 146 baby girls in America were called Khaleesi after Daenerys’s character became one of the most popular on the show.
The original pilot was so bad that the show almost did not happen. It had Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark. The producers reshot the entire pilot where five main roles were recast.
Writer George R.R. Martin has told show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss his ending for A Song of Fire and Ice series on which the show is based, just in case he dies without finishing it.
Oona Chaplin, who plays Talisa, Robb Stark’s wife, is Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter.
Mark Addy, who played Robert Baratheon, also played the fat guy in The Full Monty.
Harry Lloyd, who played Viserys Targaryen, is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens.
Michelle Fairly, who played Catelyn Stark, also played Hermione Granger’s mother in Harry Potter.
Sansa Stark adopted the dog that played her direwolf, Lady, after the character was murdered on the show. She has renamed the Innuit dog Zunni.
Jack Gleeson, the actor behind the most loathed character in the GoT universe, Joffrey Baratheon, appeared as a little scared boy in Batman Begins.
The severed head of George W. Bush can be seen stuck on a spike in a couple of scenes in the first season of the show.
