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* The final scene of season one, where {{spoiler|Daenerys gives a [[Badass Boast]] to a bunch of recently freed slaves that their enemies will "die screaming" if they team up with her, then burns Mirri Maz Duur on Drogo's funeral pyre before walking in herself.}}

** The next morning, as [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the music swells]], Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen[[spoiler:, Mother of Dragons, rises naked from the ashes of her husband's funeral pyre, the first three dragons to be seen in generations curled around her in a manner reminiscent of [[http://www.paintinghere.com/uploadpic/Sandro%20Botticelli/big/The<!-- 20Birth20of%20Venus.jpg Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".]] Ser Jorah and what remains of her ''khalasar'' fall to their knees in awe and reverence. Cut to black.]] -->

* Many of the final character scenes in the season were these, from Robb's {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}} to Jon Snow {{spoiler|Going with the Watch north of the Wall}} and, of course, Dany as listed above, which can be seen as another {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}}.

* Catelyn promising Robb {{spoiler|that after saving Arya and Sansa they will wipe out the Lannisters}}

* Tyrion crashing Joffrey's name day party, verbally slapping him when he insults Ned in front of Sansa, before strolling into the Small Council where he announces himself as acting Hand and lays into Cersei for letting Joffrey screw things up so badly. And the smugness as he points out that for once ''he's'' the one in their father's good graces is just icing on the cake.

* Even though he's a cruel, evil bastard, Balon Greyjoy still becomes badass as all hell when he announces: "No man gives me a crown. I pay the iron price. I will take my crown. That is who I am. That is who we have always been."

** Summed up best with one line:

{{quote| '''Tyrion''': I'm not questioning your honor, Lord Janos. [[Take That|I'm denying its existence.]]}}

* Jaqen H'ghar giving Arya her first death. Specifically, the knowing look he gives her afterward.

* Loras has this moment even when he's grieving over the death of Renly, who was killed by Melisandre's shadow demon but only Catelyn and Brienne witnessed it. Margaery is quick to accuse Brienne because she fled but Loras defends her even though he felt humiliated being defeated by her in the tournament that made her a king's guard. He knows Brienne would have never hurt Renly and rightfully puts the blame on Stannis.

** Theon's {{spoiler|execution of him}} is a meta-example - Alfie Allen's acting is just brilliant in that scene.

* Tyrion, seeing that a riot is imminent at a glance, instantly spins around and orders the gold cloaks to get Tommen out of there, immediately.

* Bronn's method of lowering the crime rate in King's Landing. He found all the known thieves, and had the gold cloaks kill them. His is a simplicity that even impresses Varys.

* Yara absolutely ripping into Theon for {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|killing the miller's boys, who he is still passing off as Bran and Rickon]]}}, denouncing the move, with ''scathing'' contempt, as both stupid and [[Even Evil Has Standards|immoral]]. The cherry on top? She ''actually manages to make Theon feel remorseful for it!''

* From the preview of the penultimate episode "Blackwater", it appears that [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|King]] [[The Strategist|Stannis]] [[Warrior Prince|Baratheon]] will [[The Leader|personally lead his army in the Battle of Blackwater]] [[Colonel Badass|on foot]], with [[Authority Equals Asskicking|himself in the vanguard]], conspicuously without a [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|helmet]] or [[Shields Are Useless|shield]], [[Rain of Arrows|straight through a hail of]] [[Holy Shit Quotient|flaming arrows]] and [[Up to Eleven|wildfire]], and [[Four Star Badass|manages to reach the wall on the far side of the landing zone well enough to take part in the siege at close proximity]].

* Sansa's conversation with Tyrion before the Battle of Blackwater, in which she lets the only Lannister smart enough to pick up on it know exactly what she thinks of him:

*** The said [[Mooks|Mook]], as well. On fire, dying, and still attacking the Hound head on. Even Sandor himself is too shocked to act (though it's implied that's because he himself almost burned to death as a child).

** Sansa trying to goad Joffrey into fighting on the frontlines by comparing it to her brother.

** Tyrion taking over the troops after Joffrey runs away in disgrace, entering the battle by slicing off the leg of the man in charge of the battering ram.

*** His [[Rousing Speech]] to the men, when they appear on the verge of breaking and running, starting with "[[Dare to Be Badass|They say I'm half a man -- what does that make you?]]", and ending with "[[Badass Boast|Those are brave men out there knocking on our door. Let's go and kill them!]]".

* HBO Go was killed within minutes after putting up episode 7 a week early. That's one rabid fanbase.

* Peter Dinklage winning the Best Supporting Actor Emmy, something extremely rare for a genre show.

* For anyone who's listened to the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' audiobooks, it's pretty darn cool to actually see Roy Dotrice as one of the hundreds of characters he created voices for.

* The episode 'Blackwater'. Although the episode received much of the new season's increased budget, the show was still limited in its resources compared to films. Yet they managed to create a visually stunning episode that many critics have called the best so far.

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