Honorable Mention: Robert Getting Drunk While Hunting
All Robert Baratheon wanted to do was "crack skulls and fuck girls." Oh, and get shit-faced drunk 24-7. It was his drunkenness and debauchery that made him one of the most fun characters to watch in season 1 of Game of Thrones. We chuckled as Robert taunted Lancel Lannister to find his breastplate stretcher. We snickered as he made Jaime Lannister stand outside his door as he slept with countless whores. We all but cheered as he "honored" his queen Cersei with a slap to her smug face. Unfortunately, Robert's penchant for inebriation was also his downfall. Robert gets so drunk during his hunting trip that he is mortally wounded by a boar. Varys later insinuates that Lancel was a little too free with that wine but in reality it's Robert's own fault for being so used to being sauced. But had Robert successfully killed that boar and avoided a tusk to the belly and survived any other potential "accidents" on his way back to King's Landing, he would have woken up with far worse than his usual hangover. He would've awoken to Ned informing him about Cersei's tryst with her brother, the fact that his heirs were not really his heirs, and would've ordered their immediate deaths. I hope that wine was worth leaving your kingdom in chaos, Robert.
Honorable Mention: Robb Trusting Theon
The Ironborn have a reputation for being a fierce, seafaring people. Even worse, the Ironborn have a reputation for being a
rebellious, fierce, seafaring people. So it should have been of little surprise to anyone that with the outbreak of war between the new King in the North and the Iron Throne, along with claims to the throne by both Stannis and Renly Baratheon, that the Ironborn would take advantage of the situation. Nine years prior to the start of the series, Balon Greyjoy led a rebellion to secure the Iron Islands' independence from the Iron Throne. The Greyjoy Rebellion was crushed rather quickly and Ned Stark kept Balon's only living son Theon as a hostage to keep him in line from rebelling again. With Ned executed, Robb's army marching south, and the North left virtually defenseless, House Greyjoy saw a new opportunity for rebellion. Theon spent more of his life as a ward of House Stark than as a Greyjoy and was raised as a brother to Robb and the other Stark children. When Theon offers to serve as an emissary to the Iron Islands to seek his father's ships to aid Robb in an attack on King's Landing, it sounds like a good strategic move on paper. But whatever thoughts or hopes he may have had about Theon's loyalty, he should have known not to trust Balon Greyjoy. Even Catelyn Stark warns rob not to trust the Greyjoys. Although the Ironborn were already planning to attack the North, Theon took it upon himself to take Winterfell. This move ultimately cost House Stark its seat of power at Winterfell, forced Bran and Rickon to flee into the wilderness, and earn Robb the dubious nickname the King Who Lost the North. Click "next" below to get started...