6 Best Game Of Thrones Character Pairings (We Never Got To See)
With over 100 characters, it’s a shame that these memorable ones never shared a scene.
Nearly a year on from the series finale of Game of Thrones, it can be easy to forget just what a sprawling tale it was. While the final two seasons fell flat for many fans in no small part due to the shrinking of that epic scope, there's still an absolutely absurd number of memorable characters that we got to spend time with over the eight season run of the show.
Moreover, in its prime Game of Thrones not only leveraged these characters individually, but through their complex and multi-layered relationships with each other. Arya Stark certainly stands on her own two feet as a character, but her relationships with Syrio, The Hound, Gendry, and Tywin gave her that much more depth and complexity.
However, due to the geography of Westeros and the bloody nature of the story being told, many of our favorites never shared so much as a single scene together in the show. And yet some of them could have made some of the most insanely intriguing pairs in the show, had they been able to interact.
6. Ned Stark And Brienne Of Tarth
There was a long list of potential pairings for Ned, who despite his prominence in the first season doesn't really get a whole lot of interactions outside his family and the upper-echelon of the court at King's Landing.
While Ned is generally seen as an honorable fool, Brienne showcases an equally impressive amount of honor while not allowing that sense of duty to blind her as it does Ned.
Ned is also likely among the characters who would have been most accepting of Brienne's desire to be a great warrior - his sister Lyanna was a notorious tomboy (possibly going as far as competing in tourneys under the pseudonym of "The Laughing Knight"), he encouraged Arya's desire to learn how to effectively wield Needle, and as Warden of the North, he had Bear Island under his domain, which was led by many women throughout its recent history.
On rewatch, some of Ned's most compelling scenes are with Arya, but it would have been fascinating to see how he treated a woman that his daughter would eventually grow up to admire and spar with.