9 Game Of Thrones Characters Who Could Defeat The Night King

7. Samwell Tarly

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Ok, so Samwell Tarly is about as far removed from being a great warrior as Hot Pie is from being King, but that's exactly why he's a sneaky bet to take out the Night King.

A reason for A Song of Ice and Fire's existence is because of George R.R. Martin's desire to subvert all the fantasy tropes that followed in the decades after Lord of the Rings. Sam, who is the character most like Martin himself in the story, is basically the hero's sidekick; Jon might be somewhere between Aragorn and Frodo, but Samwell Tarly is pure Samwise Gamgee.

What better way to truly subvert that, than by having him be the one who kills the ultimate evil? Not only would it defy expectations, but there's precedent for it: Sam's already killed a White Walker, so it's not completely unearned, and he could well know more about how to defeat the White Walkers than just about anyone else in the realm anyway.

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