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* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Inadequate Inheritor]]: The current Kingsguard, according to Barristan Selmy. He makes his contempt known when Joffrey dismisses him:
{{quote| '''Barristan:''' Have no fear, sers, your king is safe...no thanks to you. Even now, I could cut through the five of you as easy as a dagger cuts cheese. If you would serve under the Kingslayer, not a one of you is fit to wear the white.}}
** Hell, even the Kingslayer himself acknowledges this as true (and after Selmy is dismissed the appointees only get worse and worse with one exception), telling Loras Tyrell:
{{quote| '''Jaime Lannister''': I served with Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of Morning, who could have slain the six of you with his left hand while taking a piss with his right.}}
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Played with. Many members are deconstructions, but some (Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, Barristan Selmy, and Lord Commander Duncan the Tall) run it straight.
* [[Master Swordsman]]: Has featured several, such as Arthur Dayne, Barristan Selmy, and Jaimie Lannister.
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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Averted with Samwell Tarly, a bookworm and self-professed coward. Played a bit straighter after he becomes the first character in eight thousand years to kill an Other and becomes known as [[The Magnificent|Sam the Slayer]] (See [[The So-Called Coward]] below.)
* [[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."}}
* [[Chaste Hero]]: Supposedly, although most of them still get around whenever they have the opportunity. This is tolerated by the superiors because trying to enforce the oath of chastity would do more harm than good, (and it has been pointed out that the oath prohibits [[Exact Words|fathering children, not sex per se]]).
** Mole's Town, the nearest settlement, apparently has several brothels that do quite good business with brothers that have snuck away for an evening.
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* [[Laughably Evil]]: Shagwell and Vargo.
* [[Mad Doctor]] / [[For Science!]]: Qyburn, a disgraced maester.
{{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.
{{quote| '''Brienne:''' You are no better than the rest of them. You have robbed and raped and murdered.<br />
'''Shagwell:''' Oh, I have, I have, I shan't deny it... but I'm ''amusing'', with all my japes and capers. I make men laugh.<br />
'''Brienne:''' And women weep.<br />
'''Shagwell:''' Is that my fault? [[Dead Baby Comedy|Women have no sense of humor.]] }}
** Their entire nickname references this trope. A "mummer" is a costumed entertainer (particularly a mime). That's why they're the Bloody Mummers: they're a whole brigade of wildly-dressed psychopaths.
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