You could almost hear Thrones female fanbase cry out when Roose Bolton ran his sword through Robb Stark, who did a remarkable job staying upright after being turned into a game of Kerplunk by arrows. Though we had an inkling something bad was going to happen to the King of the North throughout season three a man doesnt make that many bad decisions and get away with it in Westeros it was still incredibly shocking when he actually bit the dust at the Red Wedding. It was something of a master-class by director Craig Nutter as he exquisitely turned the screw, leaving us to judge everything from Catelyn Starks perspective. Something wasnt quite right about the wedding, from the joviality on display to the fact Bolton wasnt drinking, and we were left to figure it out for ourselves with a constant creeping sense of uneasy. When we finally saw the Lord of the Dreadfort was still wearing his chainmail and the Rains of Castamere played, the heaviest of all pennies dropped and we were treated to one of the most dramatic payoffs in recent memory as all the murder happened. What made it crueller was that for the longest time, you thought that he might potentially survive his ordeal. Though undoubtedly traumatised seeing your wife and unborn child coldly murdered will do that to a man there was a glimmer of hope for the Young Wolf when his mother had her knife to the throat of Walder Freys wife. Of course, because this is Game of Thrones, we all knew that he was still likely to snuff it, but nothings crueller than giving us hope and taking it away. This one gets bonus post-death shock points for the Frankenwolf created by the Frey bannermen, which was frankly just plain grim.