12 Most Shocking Betrayals In TV History

5. The Red Wedding - Game Of Thrones

Quite honestly, you could fill several lists with characters betraying each other in Game Of Thrones. Such was the nature of the show that for a long time, the Great Game favoured those who sought victory at any cost. You either won or you died, and usually at the hands of someone seeking to win - even if you were related to them or politically allied to them at the time.

The finest example of the Game in action and also the cost of any character foolishly seeking true love over alliances made solely for power (which was how you play the Game, after all) came in The Rains Of Castamere.

Not merely one of the biggest shocks of the bloody show, the Red Wedding was one of its most painful to view as the Boltons and Freys set about staging the betrayal of the Starks with such theatricality that the ultimate moment - the sound of the Lannisters' theme music and Roose Bolton's message of regards felt like the audience were being as betrayed as much as Robb.