13 Craziest Game Of Thrones Moments
9. Skull Explosion
When dispatching fan-favourites, some shows would give their stars heroic deaths, others would hand them emotional endings, but Game Of Thrones isn't just any old TV series. It's a cold-blooded, serial-killing, uber-merciless, heart-stomping series.
Prince Oberyn was the rockstar of Dorne. He arrived with a fiery temperament, charming attitude, and generally oozed cool all across King's Landing. That made his sudden death all the more traumatic. The trial by combat with the Mountain was going so well until his lust for revenge blinded him for one quick moment, but surely Game Of Thrones wouldn't ki... Oh, yeah, they did. The Mountain thrusts his thumbs through Oberyn's eyes and rips his skull in half. Lovely.