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=== Tropes: ===

* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Eddard Stark is described in the books as being long-faced and plain, in contrast to his late brother Brandon, who was more dashing. On the show, he's played by [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__7s9GUTM-oY/TKEh-vvFMEI/AAAAAAAAS3k/Z_wE-4mmbZQ/s1600/game_of_thrones_hbo_sean-Bean.jpg Sean] [[Sean Bean|Bean]], and described as "[[Lampshade Hanging|an even more impressive specimen]]" than his late brother.

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: To an extent. In the books, he is a great general and capable warrior, but his skill with a sword is never mentioned as being exceptional. [[Word of God]] also states that Ned is not a particularly good swordsman. In the series, Barristan notes his fearsome reputation as a fighter. When Ned engages [[Memetic Badass]] Jaime Lannister, he gets the better of the exchange until a Lannister guard puts a spear through Ned's leg from behind. <ref>Ned barely puts up a fight when he's outnumbered by Jaime and the Lannister men. He also recollects a fight against far superior fighters during the rebellion and admits that he survived only by luck and the intervention of a friend.</ref>

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: You know this applies to you when Ser Barristan says you're a fearsome fighter. Ned being the awesome guy he is, chooses to be modest about it.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: If there is a character that can illustrate this trope, it's Ned.

* [[BFS]]: Ice.

* [[Badass]]: Fought against Jamie Lannister and dozen of Lannister's men, and held his own. Furthermore, between Jory and himself, they managed to kill 6 Lannister guards. No mean feat.

** [[Badass Beard]]

** [[Badass Family]]: Fathered one.

* [[Cool Sword]]: Ice was made of Valyrian Steel, which made it impossibly sharp.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: His unbending pride and honour lead to all kinds of problems, and eventually his death. That said, he is aware of this. [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|And refuses to change anyway]]

* [[Fish Out of Water]]

* [[Grim Up North]]: Despite being from there he's still the only unambiguously good guy in the setting. Played straight however in that he's still hard, cold and stoic.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: To a fault.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: "Of course I'll trust the man who hates me for marrying his childhood crush and has told me repeatedly that I shouldn't trust him. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]" Though, to be fair, he didn't trust Littlefinger at first, but Catelyn told him that he could trust Littlefinger so part of the blame also goes to his wife as well.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: The darkest version of the trope, since it is completely undeserved. Ned is arrested, stripped of his lands and titles, forced to falsely confess treason and conspiring to take the Iron Throne for himself, sentenced to death after promising him he was going to live if he confessed and finally beheaded ([[Up to Eleven|with his own sword]], the same he used himself to kill criminals, no less!) in front of the mob and his head put and left to rot in a pike.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Stark is, and also among various other languages, Swedish for 'strong'.

* [[Naive Newcomer]]: To the Court. Poor Ned never got where he was getting into.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: His actual role. Played with by making him a [[Decoy Protagonist]].

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Not only a pun; a clear example is his anger when his daughter isn't brought before him first after Joffrey ends up mauled. It even makes him forget he's speaking to his King. Not that the King minds.

* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: His marriage to Catelyn was political, but they're mostly very compatible.

* [[Real Men Love Jesus|Real Men Love the Old Gods]]: Ned is a devout follower of the Gods of the First Men and Children of the Forest.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[Reason You Suck Speech]]: Gives one to Robert.

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]

* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: As Hand of the King, due to a disagreement with Robert.

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: To the [[Deadly Decadent Court]] of King's Landing.

* [[Too Cool to Live]]

* [[Tragic Hero]]: See [[Fatal Flaw]].

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Indulges in this when Jaime kills Jory. And it nearly carried him to victory.

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Born Catelyn Tully. Wife of Eddard, and mother of all his children, Jon being the exception.

 

=== Tropes: ===

* [[Crusading Widower|Crusading Widow]]: "We will kill them all."

* [[Happily Married]]: To Ned.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Played straight with Ned. Inverted with the [[Affably Evil]] Littlefinger.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Averted in her assessment of {{spoiler|the Greyjoys}}; played straight in her trust in [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] Littlefinger.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Her capture of Tyrion ''really'' pissed off Tywin Lannister, and helped spark off a civil war between their families.

** Come on, I dare you to try to murder her son in front of her!

** And the moment she tells Robb that after saving Arya and Sansa they will kill all their enemies.

* [[Only Sane Woman]]: Definitely the smarter and saner one of the Tully sisters. After the Season 2 finale, she might also count as the one sane person in Robb's camp, depending on how justified you think she was in releasing Jaime.

** Once again in the middle of the conflict between Renly and Stannis.

* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: Though she was originally betrothed to Ned's late older brother Brandon, and despite the rough patch when Ned brought home another woman's child, their marriage has been pretty smooth sailing.

* [[Red Headed Heroine]]

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Eldest son of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. Now King in the North.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: '''"THE KING IN THE NORTH!"'''

* [[Badass]]: His fight with the Wildlings in "A Golden Crown" reveals that he certainly doesn't wear the sword for show. Even Tywin Lannister is impressed.

** [[Badass Beard]]

** [[Badass Boast]]:

'''Robb:''' If she accepts these terms I will give her peace. If not I will litter the south with Lannister corpses." }}

** He ups it in episode five where he absolutely crushes a Lannister host at Oxcross, and the viewers are shown the aftermath of the battle.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: He pulls off one of these when he tells the Lannister scout that his army is 1) larger than it is and 2) is marching towards Lord Tywin instead of against Jaime Lannister.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With a female medic he meets in the aftermath of Oxcross.

* [[Cool Big Bro]]

* [[Cool Pet]]: His direwolf, Grey Wind.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Why he insists on taking Jaime with them on every march. He's fully aware that if he leaves him with a bannerman Tywin will either bribe them to get his boy back or will just launch a lightning raid to do so.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Not often, but he has his moments.

'''Robb''': Oh, is he? }}

 

* [[Defrosting Ice King]]: ''Very'' stoic initially; Talisa defrosts him.

* [[The Good King]]: He aspires to this, and embodies some aspects of the trope.

'''Robb''': I dunno([[Beat]])[[Buffy-Speak|the good kind.]] }}

* [[Growing the Beard]]: Literally and figuratively. His gradual transition from the son of a lord to the King in the North coincides with him going from being cleanly-shaven in "Winter is Coming" to sporting a [[Badass Beard]] in "The North Remembers."

* [[The Leader]]: Type 1 with some type 4.

* [[Mangst]]: Upon hearing of his father's execution, he substitutes a nearby tree for one of the Lannisters.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: In-universe. He's known as "The Young Wolf," and Northmen trade tales about how he rides into battle on the back of a giant direwolf, that he can turn into a wolf, and that he can't be killed.

* [[Modest Royalty]]: In ''Garden of Bones'', he has no problem helping a healer amputate the foot of an injured ''Lannister'' soldier.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: He states to Talisa he must be this for every man, woman, and child of the North, as their king.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Unlike the book version.

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: [[Memetic Mutation|Robb Stark is a boss]], if anything even more than his dad.

'''Robb''': I don't need a servant to do my beheading for me. }}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[Red Baron]]: The Young Wolf.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: As of Episode 10.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: "Valar Morghulis". Well, that's how he sees it.

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[The Strategist]]: He appears to be turning into this as within a day he manages to sneak up on Jaime Lannister, distract Tywin, defeat Jaime's army in the field, and capture Jaime, giving him an extremely valuable hostage. Subverted in that he is not only thinking up the plans, but is also leading his men and becoming very physically involved with the war.

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: He doesn't take long to realize Talisa is actually a noblewoman, and not a simple nurse.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: This exchange with Jaime:

'''Robb''': It's better than three defeats. }}

* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: His romance with Lady Talisa runs on this. He finally lets his feelings for her be known when she tells him a story of how a slave saving her brother's life compelled her to never live in a slaver city again. Talisa is attracted to Robb because he is a good-hearted, ethical man who treats both his allies and his enemies with respect.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Gave a minor one to his mother after she spent a month at Bran's bedside, neglecting the castle and her younger son Rickon, who's six and disoriented by all the changes at Winterfell.

** He's on the receiving end of one in ''Garden of Bones,'' after a battle leaves thousands dead or injured. A healer lets him have it:

'''Talisa''': He was unlucky you were. }}

** He joins most of his men in giving one to Catelyn when she releases Jaime.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: To Tywin Lannister, enough that he acknowledges how badly he underestimated Robb and how talented the Young Wolf is at war. Not bad for a boy of eighteen.

* [[You Are in Command Now|You Are Lord Stark Now]]: With his father in King's Landing and his mother busy kidnapping Tyrion, he has to take charge of Winterfell. With the death of his father, he is now Lord of Winterfell and as of "Fire and Blood," King in the North.

** Due to being the highest-ranking person in Winterfell, he has authority over a whole mess of experienced knights and retainers.

** This dynamic is brought to the fore in "The Pointy End" when he calls his bannermen and begins to march south. In particular, it causes some tensions with Greatjon Umber, but the Greatjon changes his mind when Grey Wind bites some of his fingers off. Later, the Greatjon is the first in the Northern/Riverlands army to declare Robb as King in the North.

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A noblewoman from Volantis who tends to the wounded after a battle between the Stark and Lannister armies. {{spoiler|Later Robb Stark's wife.}}

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: She replaces the book-only character Jeyne Westerling. <ref>Jeyne belonged to a minor house sworn to the Lannisters that switched to Robb's cause when he took The Crag. She became Robb's [[Love Interest]] and had a decisive effect on the events of the second and third book.</ref>

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: A medieval version (she uses a rusty saw onscreen, and mentions turpentine, fennel root and willow bark). Robb is clearly impressed by her and seems instantly attracted.

* [[Ice Queen]]

** [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Letting Her Hair Down]]

* [[Love Interest]]: Robb's.

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Elder daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. Second child.

* [[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: In an unexpected moment of boldness, Sansa attempts to push Joffrey off a bridge. She's stopped by the Hound.

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]:

'''Sansa:''' --Oh, wait. I just realized... ''I don't care''. }}

* [[Break the Cutie]]/[[Break the Haughty]]: When Lady is killed and later when her father is deemed a traitor and is beheaded. And ''then'' [[Complete Monster|Joffrey]] shows her the heads of her father and his retainers. After stating that he will rape her when she can bear children. And then he has one of his bodyguards hit her. Repeatedly. [[It Gets Worse|And then it got worse.]]

* [[Domestic Abuse]]: When Joffrey is pissed off, he has his knights beat her.

* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Fills the role of "the pretty one."

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|When she starts menstruating, as this means that she can now have Joffrey's children.}}

* [[Heroic Breakdown]]: Has one when Joffrey orders Ned killed.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants|Joffrey In Leather Pants]]: In-universe. She's entirely willing to overlook Joffrey's [[Jerkass|many, many flaws]] in the name of her fairy-tale romance. She finally snaps out of it at the end of ''Baelor''.

* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]]: In Season One, she's besotted with a [[Prince Charmless]] of teenage royalty and takes a shine to the aformentioned Ser Loras Tyrell.

* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: How she views her arranged marriage to Joffrey. At first.

* [[Please Spare Him, My Liege]]:

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: At the beginning of the series, she thinks she is going to be a fairy tale princess and that Joffrey is her [[Prince Charming]]. She loses more and more of her illusions after her father is executed and she's kept as a hostage in King's Landing.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: At first.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: She's supposed to be [http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ysmeaCeH1qzoaqio1_500.jpg thirteen, or barely fourteen], but Sophie Turner [[Dawson Casting|is sixteen]] and looks slighty older.

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: As Littlefinger tells her in "Valar Morghulis", {{spoiler|Joffrey's new compromise with Margaery does not mean she's to be set free nor does make her safe from Joffrey if he still wants to take her while married to another woman.}}

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The second daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark and the third child.

* [[Best Served Cold]]: After Yoren shares how in bed he would say the name of the man he planned to kill as "a prayer almost," Arya starts doing the same, with the list growing longer by the day.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Jaqen offers to assassinate ''three'' people she deems worthy of death. Arya takes him up on his offer.

** Is often mistaken for a boy when dressed for her "dancing lessons."

** Even more so after Yoren cuts off her hair so that she [[Sweet Polly Oliver|can pass for a boy.]]

* [[Daddy's Girl]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Seemingly the only trait she shares with Sansa, as evidenced by the exchange with her listed below, as well as the following from ''A Man Without Honor'':

'''Arya:''' Most girls are idiots. }}

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Sneaking away from doing needlework to score a perfect bullseye with an arrow that her brother repeatedly failed to hit and from ''further away''.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Being a child surrounded by heavily-armed and potentially-hostile adults has fostered quick thinking on her part just to stay alive and avoid being captured by the Lannisters. Arya's been forced to use her wits to manipulate people around her, often to an impressive degree.

* [[Heroic Breakdown]]: Borders on one when Joffrey orders Ned killed. Luckily for her Yoren is there to keep her from watching her father's death.

* [[Not So Different]]: Tywin compares her to ''Cersei'' because both are driven, intelligent and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|clearly underestimated]].

* [[Oh Crap]]: A big one when Littlefinger arrives at Harrenhal.

* [[The Runaway]]

* [[Shoo the Dog]]: To Nymeria.

** [[Madness Mantra]]: ''"Joffrey. Cersei. Ilyn Payne. The Hound. Joffrey. Cersei. Ilyn Payne. The Hound. Polliver. The Mountain. Joffrey."''

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Disguised as a boy so that she can be taken north to safety. It generally works; the only ones who see through it are Gendry (who spent some time in her company on the road), Tywin Lannister (who figures it out [[Hyper Awareness|from a single glance]]) and Jaqen H'ghar (who has made an entire career out of disguises).

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]/[[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Tomboy to her sister Sansa's girlishness.

'''Sansa:''' Who ''cares'' about your stupid ''dancing'' master? Father, I ''can't'' go! I'm supposed to marry Prince Joffrey, I love him, and I'm meant to be his Queen, and have his babies--<br />

'''Arya:''' --[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Seven hells]]. }}

** This is actually toned down from the book, and she is even younger there.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Has a bit of one in "Lord Snow" when she asks Ned why he would allow Sansa to marry Joffrey when the the king and queen put Sansa in the position where she would have to lie out of duty towards Joffrey or call the prince a liar in front of them.

 

== Prince Brandon "Bran" Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) ==

 

 

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* [[Amnesia Danger]]: Lot of things would be easier if he remembered how and why he fell.

* [[Cool Pet]]: His direwolf, Summer, who dispatches an assassin sent to kill him.

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: His name is Brandon, the same of his father's older brother. <ref>Brandon is a very popular name in the North: both heroes and the Stark kings of old have been so named.</ref>

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: He wishes that he had died rather than being crippled for life. <ref>Even from a young age, Bran wanted nothing more than to be a [[Knight in Shining Armor]].</ref>

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The reason for his accident.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Clearly feels this way about Catelyn's journey to the capital.

* [[Psychic Children]]

* [[Recurring Dreams]]: Keeps dreaming about a crow with three eyes.

** [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: When he finally follows the crow into the family crypt, he sees his father. That same episode, Winterfell receives word that Ned has been executed by Joffrey. Happens again with {{spoiler|Theons's betrayal and Rodrik's death}}.

* [[You Are in Command Now|You Are Lord Stark Now]]: In "The Pointy End," Robb heads south for war, making Bran the effective Lord of Winterfell.

 

== Prince Rickon Stark (Art Parkinson) ==

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Eddard Stark's younger brother and First Ranger of the Night's Watch.

=== Tropes: ===

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: To Eddard.

* [[The Lost Lenore]]

* [[The One That Got Away]]: Robert sees her as this.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]: Type 2. <ref>In ''A Clash of Kings'' he rallies an army to retake Winterfell from Theon, and he meets up with a force of Bolton men lead by the Bastard of Bolton, Ramsay Snow, who has ostensibly come to join him in laying siege to the castle. When he reaches to shake Ramsay's hand, he gets a sword in reply.</ref>}}

* {{spoiler|[[Defiant to the End]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Face Death with Dignity]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[The Lancer]]: To Catelyn.

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A Wildling woman taken prisoner by Robb Stark and permitted to serve in Winterfell.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Especially where Theon Greyjoy is concerned.

'''Maester Luwin:''' And failed rebellions. }}

* {{spoiler|[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]}}

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A retired servant living in Winterfell who is known for her tale-telling abilities.

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A large, mentally challenged servant at Winterfell.

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A powerful lord in the North; one of the Stark's bannermen and head of House Umber.

** [[Badass Boast]]: Propense to them.

* [[The Big Guy]]: To Robb's [[The Hero]].

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: With Robb.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "The Greatjon"

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Recently instructing Arya in water dancing, the Braavosi way of the sword.

* [[Badass]]

* [[Badass Boast]]: When confronted by several armed guards and holding only a wooden sword.

* [[Badass Spaniard|Badass Braavosi]]

* [[Call Back]]/[[Ironic Echo]]: "What do we say to the god of death?"

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Lord of the Dreadfort and a powerful bannerman of the Starks. Head of House Bolton.

=== Tropes: ===

 

* [[Creepy Blue Eyes]]

* [[Flaying Alive]]: His preferred method of interrogation. Hell, the sigil of House Bolton ''is'' a flayed man.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Aside from his generally creepy mannerisms and eagerness to torture for information, it should be reiterated: Bolton is the Lord of ''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Dreadfort.]]'' Nevertheless he's less [[Obviously Evil]] than in the books.

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: The Bolton sigil was seen in season 1

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: His [[Establishing Character Moment]] is him encouraging Robb to start torturing prisoners for information as well as executing them, with some hints that he'd have them flayed.

'''Roose''': "[[Loophole Abuse|We're not in the North.]]" }}

 

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Lord of Karhold and another powerful bannerman of House Stark.

** [[Badass Beard]]: He probably has the most epic beard in the series thus far.

** [[Badass Boast]]: By the Old Gods, he's got some awesome ones at that.

'''Lord Rickard''': Fathers who love their sons ''do''. In the morning, I will have this murderer's head. }}

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In Season 1.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: This exchange after a much deserved chewing out of Catelyn.

'''Lord Rickard Karstark''': I don't want your grief! I want my vengeance! }}

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Played by Steven Blount in one episode of Season 1.

* [[Old Soldier]]: He's a capable general of Robb's. <ref>he also killed the Lannister Commander, Stafford Lannister, at the Battle of Oxcross. (the battle in episode 4)</ref>

 

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