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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: What makes the Hound one of the most dangerous fighters in Westeros, when he's not drunk off his arse.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: Maester Cressen saw Stannis Baratheon in this light, having been maester for the Baratheons for decades and watching Stannis grow up. {{spoiler|This makes his shaming before the court, and his death, that much more tragic.}}
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* [[Line in the Sand]]: Theon in ''A Clash of Kings''.
* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]:
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* [[Not So Different]]:
** Tyrion comes to this conclusion regarding himself and his father.
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** At one point, characters come across a burnt out ruin of a village, and it's explained that the lord of the area was on the wrong side, and as punishment, Hoster Tully sent soldiers to [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] and basically kill everyone. It shows the moral greyness of the series that the head of the Tullys (seemingly one of the "good guys") dealt with enemies just as ruthlessly as Tywin Lannister.
** The Starks are shown to have been ruthless in maintaining their power in the past. Long before the series begins, a branch of the Stark family called the Greystarks joined with the Boltons in a rebellion against the Starks. The Stark lord at the time crushed the rebellion and wiped out the Greystark branch of the family.
** Sandor Clegane calls out the Brotherhood Without Banners in what's both an example of this as well as [[At Least I Admit It]]:
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* [[The Oathbreaker]]:
** Jaime Lannister. He killed the king he was sworn to protect, and everyone - even the people who acknowledge that Aerys needed killing - treats him like the lowest of the low, even in a [[Crapsack World]] full of child rapists, [[Torture Technician|Torture Technicians]], and [[The Caligula|mad kings]] (like the one he killed to save King's Landing).
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]:
** Ser Cortnay Penrose, castellan of [[Meaningful Name|Storm's End]].
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** Archmaester Marwyn, called "The Mage" by the other archmaesters for his interest in the occult. He is very well-traveled and he is mentioned a few times throughout the story but so far he has only actually appeared once, at the end of the fourth book. Possibly his popularity with the fandom is a result of his [[Jumped At the Call|extremely proactive behaviour]] in what had been a very slow-paced book.
** Lord Manderly's granddaughter [[Plucky Girl|Wylla Manderly]], {{spoiler|who stands up for the Starks and gives Davos her support, despite her family's protests and attempts to silence her. Wyman Manderly praises her bravado once he reveals his plan to Davos.}}
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* [[Preemptive Apology]]: The modus operandi of the Sorrowful Men, a guild of assassins.
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]:
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''''Ryman''': "Ser, you do not unders-" (cut off by Jaime backhanding him in the face) }}
* [[Pretty Boy]]:
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* [[Running Gag]]:
** Shagga's "I'll chop off your manhood and feed it to the goats!" There's a reference to this running gag in the ''Dunk and Egg'' stories, but with dogs instead of goats. Tyrion also gets in on the act:
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'''Bronn:''' You don't have any goats.
'''Tyrion:''' I'll get some, just for you. }}
** "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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