A Song of Ice and Fire/Characters/Organizations: Difference between revisions

* [[Praetorian Guard]]

* [[Replacement Mooks]]: Thanks to the War of the Five Kings, the Kingsguard has been bled of its most competent knights. When Jaime finally returns to Kings Landing near the end of ''A Storm of Swords'' to assume his new role as Lord Commander of the order, he's shocked beyond words to discover it's now comprised of second- and third-string knights, Lannister cronies and up-jumped commoners of dubious backgrounds. The only members that Jaime approves of are Loras Tyrell and Balon Swann.

 

== '''The Night's Watch''' ==

* [[Army of Thieves and Whores]]: Literally.Several of its members ended up on the Wall because they were thieves, and Satin is a former (male) prostitute

* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: The reason why this group was founded.

* [[Badass Creed]]:

{{quote| "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."}}

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: By the time of ''A Game Of Thrones'', they're composed mostly of criminals, bastards, disgraced nobles, enemies of politically powerful people, and the like. It doesn't stop them from being an effective fighting force.

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: One of the reasons people are sent to the Wall; Janos Slynt, for example, and the Lannisters' [[Spanner in The Works|original]] plan for Eddard Stark.

* [[The Wall Around the World]]: At the northern end of it, at least.

 

* [[Geek Physiques]]: Sam is described as being quite fat and un-athletic.

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]], [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: played straight. (Until later...)

 

== '''The Brave Companions''' ==

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Do not refer to their company as anything but the '''Brave Companions''' or they'll make you suffer.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Shagwell and Vargo.

{{quote| '''Qyburn:''' For hundreds of years the men of the Citadel have opened the bodies of the dead, to study the nature of life. I wished to understand the nature of death, so I opened the bodies of the living. }}

* [[Monster Clown]]: Shagwell, the jester. The first thing we learn about him is that he killed a man for not laughing at his jokes.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Every member of the group.

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: An evil version of this trope.

* [[Serial Killer]]: Rorge and Urswyck seem to have been this before they joined the group.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Again, all of them, though it's a subversion since it's implied they were all sociopaths before they became soldiers.

** Even before this, {{spoiler|cutting off Jaime's hand and trying to rape Brienne when both of them could be very valuable hostages}} falls into this category. {{spoiler|[[Pragmatic Villainy|Roose Bolton]]}} actually declares himself "displeased" when he finds out, which is the closest he ever gets to showing anger.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Say what you will about Qyburn, but he's the one person who hasn't abandoned Cersei, despite having nothing to lose if he does (and, frankly, plenty to lose if he stays).

* [[War Is Hell]]: It is in general in these books, but when they're around even moreso.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Their eventual fate, at Roose Bolton's and Gregor Clegane's hands. Unsurprisingly, [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|nobody feels particularly sorry for them when this happens.]]

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The High Septon plays Cersei like a fiddle until she grants the Faith the right to have an army and to judge people. {{spoiler|She plays right into their hands and ends up arrested for treason and fornication.}}

* [[Church Militant]]: They are actually a positive force in Westeros.

* [[The Fundamentalist]]

* [[Genre Savvy]]: The latest High Septon appears to be this: when Osney Kettleblack confesses to him {{spoiler|about his supposed affair with Margaery,}} he points out to Cersei that he's never heard a confession from a man so pleased to be guilty. Then he reveals that he took certain steps to make sure that Osney was telling the truth...