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* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Edmure Tully, who may have to fight a war out of his castle, nonetheless allows starving refugees to take shelter there. "Because they are my people, and they are afraid". Gemma Frey describes him as "soft of heart and soft of head."
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Edmure Tully, who may have to fight a war out of his castle, nonetheless allows starving refugees to take shelter there. "Because they are my people, and they are afraid". Gemma Frey describes him as "soft of heart and soft of head."
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: Edmure wins a battle that severely hampers his side's war effort.
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: Edmure wins a battle that severely hampers his side's war effort.
* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Edmure has some shades of this. He's not a bad person, but his priorities are typically misplaced, leading him to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. (The filling-his-castle-with-refugees thing is dumb because winning a siege typically depends on whether you have more food and less mouths than the enemy. Note that the only two [[Storming the Castle]] moments we have ''ever'' seen have resulted in the leaders of those two attempts--{{spoiler|Robb Stark and Loras Tyrell}}--taking significant injury.)
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Edmure has some shades of this. He's not a bad person, but his priorities are typically misplaced, leading him to do the wrong thing at the wrong time. (The filling-his-castle-with-refugees thing is dumb because winning a siege typically depends on whether you have more food and less mouths than the enemy. Note that the only two [[Storming the Castle]] moments we have ''ever'' seen have resulted in the leaders of those two attempts--{{spoiler|Robb Stark and Loras Tyrell}}--taking significant injury.)


== '''House Frey''' ==
== '''House Frey''' ==
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{{quote|''"Still, it may have been a blessing. He would have grown up to be a Frey."''}}
{{quote|''"Still, it may have been a blessing. He would have grown up to be a Frey."''}}
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Donella Manderly, Lady Hornwood.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Donella Manderly, Lady Hornwood.
* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Wyman Manderly takes one between ''A Clash of Kings'' and ''A Dance With Dragons'', that can be attributed to all of the tragedies his family experienced.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Wyman Manderly takes one between ''A Clash of Kings'' and ''A Dance With Dragons'', that can be attributed to all of the tragedies his family experienced.
* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]: Seems to be implied, as while the Manderly men are noted as being obese, this description isn't given for the female members, some of whom are stated to be pretty.
* [[Ugly Guys Hot Daughter]]: Seems to be implied, as while the Manderly men are noted as being obese, this description isn't given for the female members, some of whom are stated to be pretty.


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