There are plenty of gruesome deaths during Game Of Thrones. But what if they're the lucky ones? For more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/ Follow us on Facebook at: / whatculture Catch us on Twitter: / whatculture
The Martell's fate was probably the most horrifying in the dungeon but in terms of pure suffering i think Theon takes the cake. Castrated, bodyparts removed whenever Ramsay felt like it and brutal mind torture until there was absolutely nothing left of Theon's personality but a shaking lost broken soul
Not saying anyone would ever deserve this level of torture and humiliation, but people forget that he not only betrayed the family who regarded him as a brother (even more so than they did their actual relation, Jon Snow), but brutally murdered two innocent boys to pass off as Bran and Rickon.
@@danawinslett7505 and Theon killed his OWN mentor in swordfighting, Ser Rodrik, himself in front of young bran and rickon. plus he mistreated every woman from his preferred prostitutes to his sister, who he groped
Poor Theon, he is my most beloved character in GoT. To be honest I couldn't even watch all of these monstrosities, so I can't really tell... still this list seems odd to me. Jamie losing a hand (even though it's horrible) or walk of shame can't top Theon's suffering for sure... Sansa went through horrible things, but what Ramsey did to Theon is much worse (imho).
I feel like the list is backwards. Having to walk naked through the town is not worse than watching your child die before you and then starving to death.
@@marissasue319, not in the slightest. Walking half naked through a town is humiliating but it's over very quickly when compared to Ellaria's fate. The worst thing that can happen to parents is to lose their children. Not only is she forced to watch her daughter die from poison right in front of her, she is just outside of her reach, so she can't hold her hand or gently touching her or give her a last kiss. Which means both couldn't even comfort one another before their deaths, had no chance to say good bye. And the suffering does not end there: the mother now watches the body of her daughter decay right in front of her, is force fed in order to prolong her suffering and the light allways stays on so she can see her daughter's rotting corpse. I don't know how long Ellaria was kept alive, but it's not far fetched so say that this torment was going on for at least a few weaks or months. This poor soul's fate is by far the worst and not compareable to anything on this list.
@@tracim3080 Maybe, maybe not, but I continue to say/feel it's a PITY that we don't have the abilities to experience other people's experiences for our own selves, 100% as they did, in the same manners, unfoldings, consistency etc!! It's only then we can truly know anything for sure, enough to judge/condemn/opine accurately, AND THAT'S BEARING IN MIND THAT WE'RE STILL NOT EVER GOING TO GET THE FULL EXPERIENCE CUZ, unlike them, we get to go back to our UNAFFECTED lives, psyches, repercussions after 😐 Think about it 😑
@@UltimaFantasy , i believe martin told david and dan about Hodor’s origins so it should appear in the books except it should have an actual impact on the story
Ellaria doesn't even die from starvation. After poisoning her daughter, Cersei says that she'll be given food and if Ellaria refuses to eat, they'll force-feed her. So we can assume that she didn't actually die until the entire building collapsed on season 8 and kept seeing her daughter's body every day until that because Cersei also made sure the torchlights are kept burning. So... There's that. 😶
Woke husks of people came up with this list. Oh noes, she had to walk in the nude. Meanwhile Theon was castrated and tortured to the point of dissociative identity. Heck, Hodor suffered worse than Cersei.
@@tedwojtasik8781 It's left up to the imagination, but honestly I imagine something more intricate, elongated and excruciating than that. She would be my number 1 if I made this list. Her fate haunts me.
Kinda some ppl like myself just watched then to see him get tortured because I hated him that much. I stopped watching pretty much after he was "redeemed" and from everything I've watched, heard, or read about the show after that point gives me the impression I wasn't exactly missing much. I can't imagine how upset I'd be as a die hard fan at the last season. Dear Gods I have immense sympathy for all of those ppl. You guys deserved better.
@@emilyziskind3276 They would most certainly die of thirst long before starving. You can survive (on average) three weeks without food but only three days without water.
Okay , bran and rickon were not innocent? Every side suffered losses does not make myrcella's death anyless tragic but that just how it is everytime there is war there will be casualties and sacrifice some of which have got nothing to do with it .
I don't see how Shireen Baratheon being burned at the stake scene isn't in the top 10. Hearing her scream with her parents watching and her Father doing nothing was haunting.
@@WardNightstone meh his sons get to die at least fast.. the wifes/daughters have to suffer through being raped by their father in a cold landscape with no real chance to escape all while knowing that whenever they have a son they will get killed.
@@GoldenRose116 It's hard to say with his sons though. Because we don't really know if the boys are completely dead when they become White Walkers. For all we know they could still be alive deep inside that frozen monstrosity a slave to the Night King's will.
Cirsie’s walk of shame didn’t bother me. Jaimie: gets his hand cut off and goes through a beautiful several season character arc as a result, culminating in him finally consummating his relationship with Brien. Also Jaimie: gives it all up to go back to his toxic manipulative sister ruining his whole arc in 2 episodes. Still mad about that.
Jaimes story was always about Cercei. As he said in the end he‘s not any better than her. Their ending was fitting and beautiful. I’m glad he didn’t leave Cercei, but died alongside with her.
@@vincenthammons6705 Jaimie made love to Brienne? I haven't seen the final season as I'm busy managing my vast fortune and preparing my next campaign for the white house. I stand corrected, my friend. Vote for me in 2024! covefefe
The Walk of Shame and Jamie's hand do not belong here... There's the nun being raped by the Mountain, all of that warden's daughter/wives, his babies, sent to be turned into white walkers. Even Khal Drogo's state before Danny mercifully kills him... those are a few I can remember...
Khal Drogo went from being a powerful and ferocious warrior to being a living vegetable, now that is an awful fate. The lives of all those deceased Khal widows wasn’t much fun either, especially the youngest ones.
Instead of Cersei how about Loras, who was held in a dark dungeon way longer then Cersei, got beaten up way more badly, had his head carved open and when he finally saw some light and a small change of freedom, he gets blown up. All while his only crime is being game and him being generally one of the kinder persons in Game of Thrones. And prior that not being able to publicly mourn the love of his life, while they give his sisters their sympathies for Renly's death.
Khal Drogo could've made this list too. A proud warrior and leader who was forced to sit and helplessly watch his life and khalasar fall apart. His mercy killing at the hands of his own wife was pretty sad
Yep, to be honest the way of he was changing made me to love him but after the infection it was pretty sad to because at the moment it's only hope was death instead of a slow one
You should have mentioned Cersi’s payback for the Septa. Being repeatedly violently raped and tortured by the Mountain zombie for an undetermined amount of time is far worse than death.
It's the worst fate in the show my opinion. (After what Ramsay did to Jeyne in the books and maybe what he did to Sansa in the series would come close after.) Rape is already horrific, traumatizing, gross, scary and one of the worst things you can do to another person, but then the fact that it was the mountain, oh god. The mountain is a GIANT man, he's strong, tall, big and gross to look at (sorry not sorry), he could break her with that. AND she's a NUN. Nuns don't have sex because of their religion, that means she was a VIRGIN too, that is horrific. I can't imange the pain that woman went through (coming from a victim myself) and you probably can't as well, because goddamn she must have suffered unbelievable pain.
@@SalemsForgottenWitch true, and since it’s left up to interpretation and what a vindictive woman Cersei is, I really believe she got it the absolute worst
@@sergelevesque2718 Imo, number one should be the fate worse than death that the series itself suffered. It could've joined the likes of Firefly after season 4 or 5, but it kept going and made its viewers long for death.
You are wrong. I for one did and in fact she became my protagonist after the walk of shame for a long time. Even though she deserved the walk of shame and worse, i couldn't hate her.
Cersei’s walk of shame only managed to fuel her thirst for power. She wasn’t the least bit repentant for the atrocities against the Starks. In fact, Cersei thoroughly enjoyed the makeover as a mad monarch with a pixie cut
I can’t even imagine the absolute horror going through Martel’s brain being forced to watch her daughter decompose and she can’t even hold her while she dies. I get that it’s revenge on a revenge but mentally that’s just…indescribable.
It's literally a fraction of what Tyrion's first wife had to go through...walk of shame ranks higher than castrations and watching your children die and rot? Yeah that's rubbish.
Interesting list. You missed one though. That being, the revenge death of the nun after 'The walk of shame' of Cersei. Being tied to a table, with the monster as your new master, with Queen Cersei saying shame, as they leave the room. That's not nice, in any ones book. Great list.
Honorable Mention: Being a baby sacrificed to the whitewalkers, robbed of your human life, and forced to live as one of them forever against your will.
Or being one of Craster’s wives. Having to having sexual relations with your father and give birth to children multiple times, raising the daughters to become just like you and sacrificing the sons to the white walkers
@@b_e_thecreative If you don’t have a real consciousnesses you don’t experience a terrible fate. White Walkers are just dead, no brain activity. They are zombies not people being brought back from the dead.
He got one of those wrong. Allaria (sp?) wasn't left to starve to death. Cersi specifically ordered her fed and kept healthy so she could watch her daughter's body rot away.
Wow, some of these on the list do not deserve to be on here, and you may have left a few out. Locking Doreah and Xaro Xhoan Daxos in the vault is a terrible fate. Just kill me right there. Cersi using wine to waterboard the Septa and then have her get raped by The Mountain sucks. Grey Worm having to watch his lover and the women he loved get beheaded and there was nothing he could do. Finally, the characters like Tyrion and Dany having to watch their characters get completely destroyed by the mess we call Seasons 7 & 8.
You forgot Unella, the nun that tortured Cersei, then made her do the walk of shame. She gets locked in the dungeon for the moutian to drag out her death and cause as much pain as possible for as long as he could
11: Surviving long enough to get your character ruined by D&D in Season 8 because they kinda forgot how to write a good story. Madness....madness and stupidity, that's not an opinion, it's a fact!
11. The nun lady being Zombie Mountains plaything. 12. Being associated to Danaerys in any way and having to constantly live in fear that shed have a crazy moment a d just set you on fire because shes as mad as her father was.
That was horrible BUT it transformed him into the character we all know and love or hate. To Gunslinger if you go back Varys talks about "living" in the crate. I'm going to check on what the book says so I can properly say if the show and book offer them same content.
I'd definitely do the walk of shame before I die. Tbh Theons torture was much worse than most of the ones listed. It was akin to a full frontal lobotomy without actually removing parts of the brain and having it happen while conscious during a prolonged and indefinite time.
Ellaria Sand didn't starve to death. Cersei said that if she refused to eat, they'd force food down her throat. She most likely died when Daenerys Targaryen snapped and burned King's Landing in the final season.
I would have to say, the Number 1 fate worse than Death, is having a witch predict the deaths of your children only to see that come to reality. The death of Cersie's all 3 children has to be the Number One in my book.
I have to admit I was fascinated by Cercei's intelligence for revenge she didn't have any dragons but still manage to be the only queen in the iron trone.
The book torture of Theon is so much worse than the show, by the end of it, he looked like a weakened old man instead of a strong man of his early to mid 20s
Thought Cersai putting the "SHAME" woman (was she tied?) into a room with the Mountain, whom she then told to "have fun" with said woman might've made at least to the honourable mentions, 😨?!
Experiencing the death of your daughter, then seeing and smelling her rotting corpse everyday is beyond f'd up. Game of Thrones always seemed so unrelenting and cruel. I remember a writer from another show talking about why they killed off a beloved character midseason, and he said because that happens in real life. You wake up, you say goodbye to someone and they die in a car crash, and that's it. Life is not always sanitized and perfect. Cruel things don't just happen to the worst of people, they happen to innocent people as well.
I would have at least the fates of Theon and Edmure swapped, although Edmure was imprisoned and threatened to be killed he did not had the cruel turture to endure that Ramsey had for Theon.
What a terrible list. You think losing a hand is a worse fate than watching your child die before starving to death yourself, or walking through the street with people throwing shit at you is worse than what happened to Theon? Insane.
The loss of her children was Cercei’s fate worse than death. She would have suffered a daily walk of shame in exchange for the life of any one of her children.
Clearly whoever came up with this list doesn’t have children, bc Ellaria’s fate is def the worst. The worst thing in the world to a parent is seeing your child suffer.
I think the torture of Theon is so horrific because of the realism and the length it went on. At some point I just said "enough" and and to skip ahead a bit. In spite of the $hitty person he was, watching the torture was pretty disturbing.
The walk of shame? THAT'S your top pick? After ALL you put in this bloody list? One of the most Psycholocally disturbing moments in the show? Did we watch the same show??
I would have included the fate of Sister Unella who Cersei tied up and smiled when the Sister said she was ready to die. Cersei telling her, die? You misunderstand let me introduce you to Sir Gregor Clegane. As Cersei walks away yelling Shame, Shame Shame, all you hear is Sister Unella screaming. That was a top 10 fate worse than death.
Ok, I think the gravity of the Nun being raped by the mountain is really being misunderstood here. Mountain wasn't just Mountain, he was Zombie Mountain. Also being raped doesn't mean you die when he or they are finished, really the only thing that kills the woman is being killed after its over. Truthfully that nun could have lived for a week or more if they fed her if and as long as he doesn't damage her to the point of her bleeding out. Or and heres what could really be messed up, Zombie Mountain can think, he does remember, what if she were to turn into a zombie cause well I feel like getting stroked by and or stroking a Zombie isn't much different then getting bit or scratched... meaning she would retain her memory for the most part, and know whats happening to her, and never being able to die...... Cersei even said it to her! Some Fates are worse than Death!
Surprised that Daxus and Dorea’s fate wasn’t on here or Cercei’s fate in having all her children die brutally, also Whatever Varys did to the guy who cut him, and everything Joffrey did to those prostitutes could be honourable mentions. And honestly number 2 and 1 should be at the end of the list imo, unless it was a list in no particular order of how awful the fates were.
Hey! Where's the bit with ol' "Shame" Nun getting stuck in that room with Quasi-Zombie thingamabob Monster Mountain guy? That's gotta be a horrifying way to go. Lord knows what sort of... stuff... he did to her and the fact that Cersei said she would still be kept alive for a long while... Cersei's "Walk of Shame" is a trip to Disney World compared to that!
Speaking of deaths, has anyone else noticed that dany is the only one who has never killed anyone by her own hand? All of her killings were carried oit by her dragons or by the ppl serving her
In the book, during the Walk of Shame, it describes Cersei as breaking when, "...someone threw a dead, rotten cat at her, which exploded at her feet, showering her with gore and maggots." So yeah...
The walk of shame was the least she deserved. I don't feel bad for Jamie either. I find it POETIC that he lost the function of one of his limbs after what he did to Bran.
Theon betrayed the Starks who treated and raised him like their own blood. And for what? For a father who give a shit about him, mocked him for "wearing a dress" and abandoned him after Ramsey castrated him during the turture. This idiot deserved everything he went trough after he betrayed the Starks. The only good thing he did was defending Bran and sacrificing himself by attacking the Night King. Ellaria watching her daughter die from poison and her corpse decomposing right in front of her while Cersei made shure the light stays on and even forces her to eat and drink in order to prolong her suffering. That's my number 1 spot. The Mountain and Jamie Lannister don't belong on this list. The Mountain died from Oberyn's poison and when he was turned into this undead abomination he can't feel anything anymore. Jamie Lannister's Hand beeing chopped of... Cry me a river. What he did to Bran, and to the people he killed was way worse than this. Loosing all of his children that's a completely different story. But loosing a hand is childs play when compared to that.
