As everyone knows, not a single character was safe while watching Game of Thrones, and many of us lived in fear as we watched every episode of our beloved fantasy series. However, there are also plenty of deaths that we yearned for, and that is exactly what this article is about: celebrating the most satisfying ends GoT gave us. That being said, obviously, I will not include any deaths from (TW) the Red Wedding or any other overly traumatizing moments.
10.) Daenerys Targaryen
Now, I know I promised I wouldn’t dig up trauma, but I could not ignore how less than satisfactory Dany’s death scene was. It’s been said before, but her descent into madness meant to mimic her father should have been a slow burn for at least a season. Her death would have been far more interesting with the conflict of the audience and Jon knowing it had to be done but also knowing how much love we both had for her.
9.) Gregor and Sandor Clegane
While I’ve kept The Hound and The Mountain at the bottom, these two deaths were still worthy of the top ten due to how long-awaited this fight was alone. Having them fall into fire was slightly poetic in highlighting The Hound’s biggest fear, but having their deaths be offscreen was the downfall here, no pun intended.
8.) Night King
I can’t forget about the big bad of the entire show, but again, it all seemed too easy making the satisfactory level of this death pretty low. We were all waiting for a big battle or a big struggle, but even with the surprise of Arya killing the Night King, it was ultimately too rushed.
7.) Walder Frey
I think we can all agree that we were happy when this old bitter man bit the dust, especially due to the shock factor of Arya using one of her disguises. Unfortunately for Frey, his nightmare of being more irrelevant than some of our other villains kept him on the lower end of this list.
6.) Lady Olenna Tyrell
Again, I know I promised no trauma, but while Lady Olenna was beloved, I argue her death was nowhere near as sad as it could have been. She had lived a long life, and her final line of “Tell Cersei I want her to know it was me.” made this death one of the biggest plot twists of the entire show and all too fun to watch.
5.) Tywin Lannister
The fact that Tyrion got to kill the man that made his life a living hell is reason enough to put this death on the list, but having him die in the humiliating position of being on the toilet easily skyrocketed this man’s death to the top five for me.
4.) Cersei and Jamie Lannister
I decided to combine another death since it was another simultaneous one. Honestly, I can admit this should probably be a bit lower on the list due to the fact we were all disappointed in Jamie for choosing Cersei instead of killing her himself. However, we all waited for Cersei Lannister’s death for far too long for this to not make the top five.
3.) Peter Baelish (Littlefinger)
From sexualizing thirteen-year-old Sansa Stark to backstabbing just about every character he interacted with, we had been waiting for this evil man’s death for seven whole seasons. The set-up of the scene to make it look like Sansa and Arya were arguing only for him to realize they had finally outsmarted him made this death all too good.
2.) Joffrey Lannister
You all saw this one coming. Honestly, the only reason he isn’t number one is because I know we all think he deserved more torture than that poison gave him for the things he did. Props to Lady Olenna for doing anything it took to protect Marjory though.
1.) Ramsey Bolton
Quite possibly the only worse villain than Joffrey on the entire show, everyone was happy to see this sadist go. His death inched out Joffrey by just a tad just because of how poetic (and painful) it was that he got eaten alive by his own dogs.
There you have my list for the top ten most satisfying Game of Thrones deaths. To close us out, I’ll leave you all with the words of Eugene Lee Yang of the Try Guys “I’m right, you’re wrong, shut up.”
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