16. Demanding Anything From Khal Drogo
Viserys was always a little bit crazy and a little bit stupid. The gods flipped a coin for him, and he didn't exactly end up on one of the sane branches of the Targaryen family tree. The son of a man known as the Mad King and the product of generations of incest, it's hard to fault him for not being entirely right in the head. Still, anyone with a set eyes of could compare him - pale, skinny, and twitchy - with the magnificent physical specimen that was Khal Drogo - a man so simultaneously savage and handsome that he's made more than a few women question their taste in men - and know that any fight between the two is not going to be a battle between equals. When Viserys decides to demand Drogo's armies by disrespecting ancient Dothraki customs and threatening the lives of Drogo's wife and unborn child, we don't exactly need the subtitles to figure out what's going to happen to him. The tragedy is that most of Viserys' complaints are actually valid. Going by the laws of Westeros, he was the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Khal Drogo did promise him an army in exchange for Daenerys. Drogo hadn't fulfilled his half of the marriage bargain and gave no sign that he intended to do so anytime in the near future. Viserys was being taken advantage of, and he wasn't wrong about wanting what he was promised. He was just incredibly stupid about how he tried to get it. One of the most pitiful sights in the entire run of the show so far has been the expression on Viserys' face when he thinks that he's won and that Khal Drogo is going to sweep the Seven Kingdoms for him. Demonstrating a phenomenal inability to read a room, Viserys has just enough time to think that his ambitions might finally be realized before his sister's husband elects to give him his promised crown by dumping a vat of melted gold over his head.