Game Of Thrones: 10 Characters Killed At The PERFECT Time
1. Daenerys Targaryen
Okay, it's a controversial top entry, but Daenerys had to die and it was the perfect way for her to exit the show.
A knife to the heart - ending her totalitarian reign - might not have been how some fans wanted her story to conclude, but the clues are all there for her tragic downfall. Despite her goodwill towards people of many places in George R. R. Martin's world, the mother of dragons also shows her ruthless streak from the start of her journey - if anyone disagrees, remember she watched her war lord husband pour lava gold over her brother.
Daenerys is a full-on tragic figure - she was someone born with the potential to do good, but her experiences and surroundings corrupted her into going down a different direction because she felt alone and afraid in Westeros - a continent she believed her whole life to be home. When she arrived, she was resented by many and lost her two must trusted aids.
In the end it was almost poetic for Jon, her lover, to end it for her - a song of ice and fire in the jaws of death. Her demise marked a final reminder that there are no happy endings in Game Of Thrones, a consequence of the brutal world in which the characters inhabited.