12 Shocking TV Deaths You Never Saw Coming
3. Shireen Baratheon (Game Of Thrones)
The Red Wedding left everyone gobsmacked and Hodor's demise was traumatic, but Game of Thrones proved anything goes in the world of Westeros when an innocent child was burned at the stake.
After suffering from greyscale in her early years, Shireen Baratheon deserved an easy ride from here on in, but she'd tragically never see adulthood thanks to one of the show's most harrowing sequences.
Stannis Baratheon' daughter was burned alive by Melissandre as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light, on the reluctant orders of her father, to make matters worse.
This is a heart-rending scene to watch, so appalling it could only have been scripted by Ramsay Bolton, and since Stannis doesn't actually defeat Ramsay's army at this point, it was all for nothing.