Youre not a fighter Tyrion, everybody knows that, but the viewers are pretty much the only ones who dont think of you as a coward. Everyone's fun-loving dwarf fully turned a corner and fans started to really love him when he was sitting on the small council at King's Landing. He's a true troublemaker, who likes all the bad things in life and we respect that. When he decimated Stannis Baratheon's fleet at Blackwater and got a sweet scar for leading the army out of the walls to defend the city, fans thought he was simply brilliant. It was about time he did something like that and finally got some sort of faint recognition. It's just a shame his father turned up and took all the credit like an absolute .