20 Flawless TV Character Arcs

Featuring one of the biggest ensemble casts on TV, it was always going to be hard for one character to break through the rabble as Game of Thrones' best developed star, but Arya Stark's development was so compelling, intimate and crowd-pleasing it has to wear the crown.

The youngest daughter of the doomed Lord Eddard Stark, an outcast who never fit in and lost everything in a barrage of violence and backstabbing, Arya was fierce and strong from a young age, but following the death of her father was forced to become someone new. Someone, it turned out, desperate for revenge.

Driven by vengeance, Arya became the show's most surprising hero, a tried and tested warrior who faced every horror imaginable and still emerged a heroine with few equals. She started the show feuding with the detestable Joffrey, and ended it killing the White Walkers and her many family foes. What a journey.