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** Jorah Mormont wore the favour of Lynesse Hightower and won a tourney, defeating all opponents and even gaining her hand in marriage.

* [[Lady of War]]: Daenerys

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: A rare example of this in a very cynical series - Stannis, looking for a lord who can bring the North under his control, offers to {{spoiler|legitimise Jon Snow and free him from his vow to the Night's Watch.}} He refuses, partly out of an [[Generation Xerox|eerily familiar ironclad sense of honour]], and before the night is out he's been, largely coincidentally, {{spoiler|elected as Lord Commander of the Watch}} (for which Stannis' offer would have made him ineligible).

* [[Last-Minute Baby-Naming]]: [[Justified]]. With the [[Grim Up North]] conditions behind the wall, the mortality of children is so high that naming one that hasn't yet grown enough to walk is considered [[Tempting Fate]].

** The Starks and the Northern rebellion are brought down when {{spoiler|Robb Stark has a tryst with Jeyne Westerling and breaks his marriage pact with the Freys to marry her}}.

* [[Lying to the Perp]]: Tyrion uses this to ferret out the three traitors in his midst: Littlefinger, Varys, and Grand Maester Pycelle. He gets ample dirt on each of them but only manages to trap Pycelle, the least dangerous of the trio; and even then he's quickly reinstated by Tywin.

 

== M-O ==

* [[Never Say That Again]]: Tyrion does ''warn'' {{spoiler|Tywin}} to stop throwing the word "whore" in his face. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.

* [[Never Split the Party]]: played with. Jaime is criticised for splitting his siege of Riverrun into three camps, allowing them to be overrun separately. Tywin immediately shoots down the criticism, pointing out that the [[Genre Savvy]] Tullys have sited their castle precisely to ''enforce'' this trope, making defense that much easier.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Herod]]: Subverted. The maegi Mirri Maz Duur {{spoiler|magically kills Daenerys Stormborn's unborn son in utero, both for revenge against the father and because the unborn child is prophesied to be the Stallion That Mounts the World, an unstoppable city-smashing warlord. While it doesn't exactly turn out well for Mirri in the end, she DOES successfully prevent the boy from being born and fulfilling whatever his Super Special Destiny was supposed to be.}}

** {{spoiler|Of course, Mirri's actions do wind up resulting in the rebirth of dragons into the world, and it's entirely possibly that they'll mount the world or whatever. So possibly played straight, with a helping of prophecy?}}

* [[Noble Fugitive]]: Viserys is a bit of a deconstruction. Straighter examples in Daenerys, {{spoiler|Ser Barristan, Jon Connington, and Tyrion.}}

* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted. Defecation is mentioned quite frequently. In ''Storm of Swords'', Strong Belwas shames the Yunkai champion Oznak zo Pahl by shitting in the direction of his city and wiping himself with the dead Oznak's cloak. And {{spoiler|Tywin Lannister}} is assassinated when he's on the privy, {{spoiler|proving that he ''doesn't'' shit gold}}. Astapor's refugees bring the bloody flux to Mereen, leading to a mass outbreak of dysentary. Also, {{spoiler|Dany}} gets the runs after eating wild berries while stranded near the end of Dance with Dragons.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: The Stark's direwolves and {{spoiler|Dany's dragons}}.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: A number of incidents are referred to early on, with clues popping up over the course of the series. Examples include the tragedy at Summerhall, the Doom of Valyria, and the events at the "tower of joy."

* [[Rule of Three]]:

** In ''A Storm of Swords'', there's a detailed description of how Robb bids farewell to Jeyne Westerling thrice before departing to his uncle Edmure's wedding, {{spoiler|which turns into the Red Wedding, making it the last time the couple bid farewell to each other.}}

** The [[Rule of Three]] runs through Dany's whole story - contrast the Rule Of Seven in the Westeros chapters. She's one of three children (as are a lot of past Targaryen generations), she has three bloodriders, three handmaids, three dragons, three ships. She sends her bloodriders out from Vaes Tolorro to find civilisation, and only the third succeeds, returning with three envoys from Qarth, only the third of which is any help. The Undying's prophecy is stacked to the gills with threes - the famous line that "the dragon has three heads", along with "three fires must you light, one for life and one for death and one to love... three mounts must you ride: one to bed and one to dread and one to love... three treasons will you know: once for blood and once for gold and once for love". She conquers three Ghiscari cities, settling in the third.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** "As useless as nipples on a breastplate" is quipped by multiple people throughout the series. The gag continues when {{spoiler|Ser Jorah Mormont}} is shown in ''A Dance With Dragons'' wearing a breastplate with pierced nipples.

 

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