Games Of Thrones Season 7 Finale: What 'The Dragon And The Wolf' Really Means

4. Jon Is Aegon Targaryen

Rhaegar Lyanna Game Of Thrones
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After Bran helps incriminate Littelfinger, he decides that it's the right time to talk about Jon's true parentage. You know, just as he gets down to having sex with his own auntie, which it's pretty clear he can see happening.

Reunited with Samwell Tarly (who rides to Winterfell so quickly that the prediction it will take the Dothraki two weeks to get to King's Landing look supremely silly), Bran reveals that Jon is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, while Sam adds the note about the annulled marriage that makes Jon the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.

The flashback that was expected to come shows the marriage of Rhaegar and Lyanna, and the revelation that Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie, as well as the reveal that Jon Snow's real name is Aegon Targaryen.

You know, the exact same name as Rhaegar's other son from his marriage to Elia Martell, which is way too weird to ignore.

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