Game Of Thrones: Ranking EVERY Major Death Worst To Best
All men must die... some better than others.
One of the reasons why Game of Thrones because so popular was its tendency to kill off characters in unexpected and shocking ways.
From season one, it became clear no-one was safe and this made the show extremely suspenseful. As such, Game of Thrones is absolutely full of death and only four episodes in the entire thing feature no human deaths at all (Season one episode three, season three episode seven, season six episode six and season eight episode two).
Nevertheless, in spite of its penchant for shocking and brilliant death scenes, Game of Thrones also had a large number of less successful death scenes during its run; as you'd expect, many of these happened during the final season.
Because of this inconsistency, Game of Thrones is a bizarre mix of misjudged deaths, rock-solid exits and some of the greatest demises in television history which are unlikely ever to be topped, even by the upcoming Game of Thrones spin-off show.
So, out of the deaths of major (or significant supporting) human characters, which are the best of the best? Which are the worst of the worst?
Time to find out.
52. Jaime Lannister/Cersei Lannister
Death: Crushed by rubble. Yes, really.
When it comes to the worst TV deaths ever, the painfully bad ending for Jaime (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) and Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) is definitely up there. This is the worst Game of Thrones death by quite some distance.
Jaime didn't get the redemption arc that he so badly deserved and he ended up back with the sister/lover he'd finally turned his back on in season seven. Meanwhile, Cersei spent all of season eight doing virtually nothing before dying without facing any sort of justice or closure and without even putting up a fight.
The pair of them deserved to go down in style and they sure as hell shouldn't have been killed by a bloody ceiling collapse of all things. Also, that scene in the next episode where Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) found their bodies was a major plot hole - they were somehow still intact and somehow Tyrion knew exactly where they'd died.
The ideal ending would've been Jaime killing Cersei to stop her massacring the citizens of King's Landing. That seemed to be where their stories were always headed after all. Still, ANYTHING would have been better than this.