10 Game Of Thrones Characters You Really Wanted To Survive
3. Dany
Tyrion and Jon aside, Dany was presented as the primary protagonist throughout the show. Her desire to reclaim her birthright became wrapped up in her sense of justice, as she liberated the downtrodden of both Westeros and Essos. From being sold as a sex slave by her brother to a brutal war lord, to freeing thousands of slaves and becoming a mighty queen in her own right, she had one hell of story arc.
Dany was the fish out of water in the show. Raised in a world that was utterly foreign to her, with no clear understanding of who she was and what her family had been, this was the classic hero's journey - right up until she started burning suckers alive anyway.
After the writers backed themselves into a corner in the later seasons, there was really no other conceivable fate for Dany, other than death at the hands of Jon Snow. Everyone might have seen it coming, but it was a most unsatisfying and undesired ending for a women who was going to "break the wheel".