Game Of Thrones: Ranking EVERY Major Death Worst To Best
2. The Great Sept Of Baelor Explosion
Death: Cersei blew up the Great Sept of Baelor, where her trial was meant to be taking place. In the process she killed Lancel Lannister (Eugene Simon), the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce), Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones), Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), Mace Tyrell (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), Kevan Lannister (Ian Gelder) and many hundreds of others.
Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover) was stabbed to death by several children working for Qyburn. Following the loss of his wife and so many others, Tommen Baratheon (Dean Charles Chapman) jumped to his death.
Margaery died too early; other than that, this set-piece is genuinely perfect.
On a cinematic level, it's a masterclass. This entire sequence is directed and edited to perfection and the best piece of music ever to feature in Game of Thrones - Light of the Seven - plays in the background.
It's also another masterpiece of televisual storytelling and however George R.R. Martin resolves the High Sparrow story-line in the books, it's hard to imagine him topping this.
Not only is this set-piece nerve-shreddingly suspenseful and shocking, but it's also brilliantly ambiguous and complex. On the one hand it's a triumphant display of vengeance but on the other hand it's - like the overwhelming majority of these deaths - a serious tragedy. Many good people died in the blast and Cersei ended up accidentally killing her own son through her thirst for power.
Glorious, stunning, heart-breaking, terrifying, impeccably made, perfectly scored, this is one of the greatest scenes in Game of Thrones history.