Game Of Thrones Season 6: Ranking Every Death From Worst To Best
All men must die. And women. And children. And dogs.
Game of Thrones Season 6 may be over, but the stench of death lingers.
Death is an accepted part of watching Game of Thrones, as intrinsic a part of the saga as ice and fire, and the sixth season was no exception. Indeed, the only marked difference was just who was dying, with the number swayed towards the bad guys over the good. Heroes won, villains lost, although both sides suffered casualties.
Some of the deaths were shocking, others devastating. Some made us cry, others cheer in violent, twisted delight. They came in all forms too. There were backstabbings, front-stabbings, throats slit open, throats torn out, infanticide, patricide, suicide, characters killed by ice, and characters killed by fire.
It all added up to yet another bloody and brutal year on Game of Thrones, with a ridiculously high death count once you start to factor in all the casualties at the Battle of the Bastards, and the number of unknowns caught in the blast at the Sept of Baelor. But those nameless, faceless folk aren't the ones you remember.
It's the characters you know. The ones you love and the ones you hate. These gives us the worst deaths of Season 6, and the best; the agony and the ecstasy.
20. Honourable Mentions: Lady Crane, Lothar And Black Walder, Lem Lemoncloak, Khals, Smalljon Umber, That Guy Presumably Killed By A Horse
Causes Of Death: Throat slit by the Waif; baked into a pie; hanged; burnt to death; throat bitten out by Tormund; charged into by another horse.
I've grouped all of these together because they weren't really major characters, appearing for a mere handful of episodes at the most, but they're certainly worthy of shouting out for a couple of different reasons.
In the case of Lady Crane, she made a listing impression upon Arya, and was wonderfully played by Essie Davis. The deaths of Lothar and Black Walder finally gave us a show version of the book's Frey Pies. In a similar vein, Lem Lemoncloak is a somewhat important book character who'd never appeared until now, and it was also great to witness the Hound steal his boots as he was dying.
The Khals, meanwhile, got what they deserved, and gave us some great fiery visuals and an excellent Daenerys moment. Smalljon Umber was a traitor, so it was hard not to cheer his death, and the awesomeness of Tormund biting his throat hardly needs explaining. The guy charged into by another horse, meanwhile, was heading straight for Jon, so it may have saved his life, and also it just looked superb.