![]() As with Daenerys' death, this ending brought the story full circle. Game of Thrones ended with Sansa being hailed as the Queen in the North, an event that was foreshadowed when Daenerys' attack on King's Landing split the map in the Red Keep down the middle, dividing the North from the Southern kingdoms. There are now only six (rather than seven) Kingdoms under Bran's rule, as Sansa's condition for giving Bran her vote was that the North would remain independent - as its people had already chosen independence when they selected Robb Stark to be the King in the North and Jon Snow to succeed him. Though Bran didn't particularly want to be king, he had already seen that it was his destiny, and the assembled Westeros council election saw Bran Stark become the new ruler of the Six Kingdoms. The reign of the Targaryen family was truly over. ![]() Jon's punishment for her murder is to join the Night's Watch again - taking no wife and fathering no children. It was appropriate that Daenerys' death in the Game of Thrones ending also heralded the destruction of the Iron Throne, since she and Jon were the last of the Targaryen line. The throne had been built 300 years earlier by Daenerys' ancestor, Aegon I, who conquered Westeros, with the help of his sister-wives, and established himself as the first Targaryen king. Shortly after Daenerys' death came a symbolic breaking of the wheel, when Drogon unleashed his grief by melting the Iron Throne into a puddle of molten steel. It was a decision that didn't necessarily sit right with every fan, especially considering Daenerys' half-baked journey toward becoming the Mad Queen. Also, like her father, Daenerys' madness was her downfall: her burning of King's Landing (which even triggered the wildfire caches Aerys had hidden all those years ago) is what ultimately led to people turning away from her.ĭaenerys was killed by one of her most trusted allies, Jon Snow, who used that trust to get close enough to stab her (like Aerys before her). Tywin Lannister led his army into King's Landing, while Tyrion Lannister smuggled his brother into King's Landing. Like her father, she was betrayed by her Hand - a Lannister, in both cases. Daenerys Targaryen's death brought this story full circle. Will they bully each other for bullying supremacy in a whole Bully Royale ? Will they team up and, erm - wait, what kind of things does bullying do when it becomes an institutional logic? Oh, right. Really, we’d like to put them all in a room and see what happens. So we’re focusing on movie bullies, and we’ve gathered the cream of the crop. In real-life, punching up is not bullying but self-defense, and so, erm, something something guillotine, whatever. In this Pictofact, we honor the only interesting bullies, that is, fictional bullies. Such disingenuous lameness is just asking to be silenced inside a locker - so this is not what we’re talking about here. This is the cry-bully: the professionally mean person whose entire shtick is based on them always having to be the victim. Moreover, we’ve also done our fair share of bullying, particularly aimed at the current manifestation of the archetype. We’ve discussed bullying here at Cracked, particularly the experience of being bullied and how the trope can and has found a new life. Bullies: Their brains are literally small and you can beat them by living your best life.
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