10 Best TV Characters Who Only Appear In One Scene

10. The Mad King - Game Of Thrones

The history of "The Mad King" Aerys II Targaryen was one that reverberated around Westeros long after he was dramatically cut down by Jaime Lannister. Though the act itself took place many years before we met the numerous families calling the Seven Kingdoms home, Aerys and his insanity during his later years was routinely referenced by Game of Throne's various faces as time went by.

Yet, for all of the stories and tales, including the aforementioned Jaime's moving bathtub tale of the moment he stabbed the wildfire-obsessed king in the back, we'd never actually witnessed the infamous Targaryen on our screens in all his incestuous madness.

That all changed in Season 6, however. When Bran Stark took a detailed look into the past as he fled some White Walkers, we were suddenly treated to the scene that Jaime had described all those years before. Here, Aerys (David Rintour) is seen screaming "Burn them all!" as he sits on the Iron Throne and during his eventual killing at the hands of the knight. It may have been brief, but these brief flickers of history finally gave us a face and visual to put to those many nutty tales of a fallen king.