Game Of Thrones: 20 Most Shocking Moments Ever

5. The Purple Wedding

Joffrey Choking Game of Thrones
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For three seasons, we watched powerless as Joffrey terrorised all of those around him. As he pushed and punished poor Sansa, insulted his uncle, mistreated the Hound, refused to be told what to do by his mother and grandfather, and killed anyone he felt like killing.

It all felt so...helpless. After three seasons, where Joffrey’s thirst for torment seemed unquenchable, there was no chance of him going anywhere any time soon. Thrones wasn’t a happy story. The people who died were the Neds and Robbs of the world, not the Joffreys.

But then, there was that thirst again. And Joff took a drink of wine to sate it, and something changed. After a painful wedding where he’d acted the brat and got away with it, something was happening to him. He starts to choke. As with Ned, though, we think ‘surely not?’ We want this too much for it to happen.

But it does. He falls to the floor, he turns purple, and oh my god, he is actually f**king dead. Get in.

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