Game Of Thrones Season 7: Every Death Ranked From Worst To Best

13. Benjen Stark

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Cause Of Death: The process isn't entirely clear (especially as he was kinda dead anyway), but his final death happened when he was swarmed by wights while allowing Jon to escape.

While Benjen Stark's disappearance initially felt like a big mystery, the years went on and the show grew less concerned with the character. That was, until his name resurfaced in the Season 5 finale, as part of a ruse to kill Jon, before the character finally returned in Season 6 as an amalgam of Benjen and book character Coldhands.

He was a deux ex machina then, and he fulfilled the exact same role in Season 7, this time saving Jon rather than Bran from the wights. After all the time that's passed, hardly a word is said between them before Benjen, after insisting there was no time, went off to his ultimate demise. He died to save his family, which was nice, but it also felt like both Benjen and Coldhands were wasted by the show.

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