...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

A Game of Thrones

887 statements
174 feature instances
67 referencing feature instances

A Game of Thrones	type	TVTItem
A Game of Thrones	label	A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones	page	AGameOfThrones
A Game of Thrones	comment	The first book in George R. R. Martin's Doorstopper A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, released in 1996.After the death of Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, King Robert Baratheon travels to the North to offer the position of Hand to Eddard Stark, Warden of the North and his most trusted friend. When Eddard receives a letter from his wife Catelyn's sister which claims that Jon Arryn was murdered by House Lannister (the Queen's family), Eddard decides to become Hand of the King to protect Robert's life and the realm, even after an accident leaves his son Bran paralyzed from the waist down. Thus, Eddard travels to the South with his daughters, Arya and Sansa Stark. Three of his sons, Robb, Bran and Rickon, are left at Winterfell and he allows his illegitimate son Jon Snow to go with Benjen Stark, his brother, to the Night's Watch.Due to Switching P.O.V., the novel follows three main plotlines: Honourbound Eddard Stark in the King's treacherous court trying to unravel the machinations behind Jon Arryn's death and House Lannister's motives. Meanwhile, his wife Catelyn foils a murder attempt on the already-crippled Bran, and ends up going after Tyrion Lannister, the queen's dwarf brother who is known as "the Imp," because she believes he is responsible... Jon Snow, bastard son of Ned Stark, decides to join the Night's Watch after his father leaves Winterfell, and defend the realms of men against whatever foes lie Beyond the Wall. For some eight thousand years, the answer to that question has been, "Not much," but today things are different: rangers are lost, dead men begin walking the land and creatures known as "The Others" have been sighted. And the Night's Watch, once a noble order but now mostly an Army of Thieves and Whores, is only marginally ready to stop them... Across the sea, Viserys Targaryen — the last heir of the Targaryen dynasty who fled after the successful rebellion fifteen years ago — is plotting vengeance against the usurper Robert Baratheon, who stole the throne and killed Viserys' family. To achieve his goals, he marries his younger sister Daenerys to a clan of Mongols known as the Dothraki, expecting an army in return. Viserys is a Royal Brat, but things are a bit different with Daenerys...There are eight POV characters, six of them being from the Stark family: Eddard, Arya, Sansa, Bran and Catelyn Stark present the majority of the events in the Seven Kingdoms and Jon Snow narrates the events beyond the Wall after the Stark family is separated early in the narrative. Meanwhile, Tyrion Lannister provides an insight into the villainous House Lannister while Daenerys Targaryen narrates the events across the sea. Minor character, Will, provides this book's prologue.The events of the novel were adapted in the first season of Game of Thrones, which takes its title from the book.
A Game of Thrones	fetched	2023-11-10T10:44:41Z
A Game of Thrones	parsed	2023-11-10T10:44:41Z
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to AStormOfSwords: Not a Feature - ITEM
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to Blackadder: Not a Feature - ITEM
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to Gormenghast: Not a Feature - ITEM
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to RobinOfSherwood: Not a Feature - ITEM
A Game of Thrones	processingComment	Dropped link to TheKingInYellow: Not a Feature - ITEM
A Game of Thrones	processingUnknown	BreakHerHeartToSaveHer
A Game of Thrones	processingUnknown	HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath
A Game of Thrones	isPartOf	DBTropes
A Game of Thrones / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
A Game of Thrones / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: "The seed is strong." The dying words of Jon Arryn which he repeated after discovering that every child the Baratheons have ever had with Lannisters in recorded history have black hair... save for the three children of Robert and Cersei.
A Game of Thrones / int_103e0141	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_103e0141	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_103e0141
A Game of Thrones / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
A Game of Thrones / int_1237828f	comment	The man who survives the Other attack in the previous chapter is killed.
A Game of Thrones / int_1237828f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1237828f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1237828f
A Game of Thrones / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
A Game of Thrones / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Ned knew that Robert would try to appoint him Hand. He didn't expect his king to actually travel North.
A Game of Thrones / int_12628662	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_12628662	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_12628662
A Game of Thrones / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
A Game of Thrones / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Robert, as Ned and Cersei remember. As a young man, he was Tall, Dark, and Handsome with a Heroic Build tall, handsome and "muscled like a maiden's fantasy." By the beginning of the first book, he... isn't.
A Game of Thrones / int_126ce03c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_126ce03c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_126ce03c
A Game of Thrones / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
A Game of Thrones / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Jon Arryn's death may have set the process in motion, but it's Ned's execution that ultimately plunges Westeros into all-out, bloody war.
A Game of Thrones / int_13e1c444	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_13e1c444	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_13e1c444
A Game of Thrones / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
A Game of Thrones / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The expression "game of thrones" is first dropped by Jorah: "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are." Cersei also says it later when she warns Eddard Stark from going against her. It's mentioned several times throughout the other books.
A Game of Thrones / int_18d15922	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_18d15922	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_18d15922
A Game of Thrones / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
A Game of Thrones / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Greatjon Umber is extremely hostile to his new boy-lord, Robb Stark, even baring steel against him in his own tent. Robb (and Grey Wind)'s reaction to this insubordination wins him Jon's staunch friendship and support.
A Game of Thrones / int_19769f50	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_19769f50	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_19769f50
A Game of Thrones / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
A Game of Thrones / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Subverted with Lysa Arryn's letter pointing to the Lannisters as the ones who killed her husband was a warning, telling them to stay away. Instead, it convinced Ned to accept Robert's offer of being Hand. However, after reading A Storm of Swords, you realize that Lysa (acting on Littlefinger's orders) really was trying to start a war between the Starks and Lannisters based upon false pretenses. So, less Poor Communication Kills and more Lying Communication Kills. Related is when Catelyn takes Tyrion as a prisoner to the Eyrie and brings him to her sister. Prior to this point, Catelyn has spent a lot of her thoughts wishing she could talk to Lysa to ask for more information on why Lysa believes the Lannisters are responsible for Jon Arryn's death. Yet after she spends several weeks with her sister (with little else to do), she never brings the subject up. The only reference to it is when she thinks about how Lysa initially fingered Cersei for the murder, but has changed the murderer to Tyrion. Considering that Catelyn is supposed to be assisting her husband with bringing evidence against the Lannisters for Jon Arryn's death, it's absurd how she never has the conversation with Lysa. The reason for this trope is simply that even asking Lysa about evidence or why she sent a letter to Catelyn would break the plot, as Lysa has no answers (Lysa was the murderer, was told by her lover to blame the Lannisters, and isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer).
A Game of Thrones / int_1c445e86	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Game of Thrones / int_1c445e86	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1c445e86
A Game of Thrones / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
A Game of Thrones / int_1c5002bc	comment	When Ned hears that King Robert is approaching Winterfell, he is described as giving a loud exuberant "wooping" noise, evoking the image of a fratboy. While it's in-character for Ned to be excited to see his long time friend, this open display of emotion contrasts strongly with his The Stoic and Grim Up North characterization and comes off as weird.
A Game of Thrones / int_1c5002bc	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1c5002bc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1c5002bc
A Game of Thrones / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
A Game of Thrones / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Sansa's BF Fs Jeyne Poole and Beth Cassel.
A Game of Thrones / int_1c79ae8c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1c79ae8c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1c79ae8c
A Game of Thrones / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
A Game of Thrones / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst:
A Game of Thrones / int_1c96f945	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1c96f945	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1c96f945
A Game of Thrones / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
A Game of Thrones / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Viserys is so deluded by belief in his superiority that he totally underestimates the brutal barbarian horde that he believes should serve him and foolishly thinks that their rules of Sacred Hospitality will save him when he violates their taboos and threatens the lives of their rulers. Instead, they get creative.
A Game of Thrones / int_1cc2ea8d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1cc2ea8d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1cc2ea8d
A Game of Thrones / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
A Game of Thrones / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jon and Sam, Robb and Theon, Ned and Robert, Tyrion and Bronn...
A Game of Thrones / int_1dfbbf31	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1dfbbf31	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1dfbbf31
A Game of Thrones / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
A Game of Thrones / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Just when it seems like Daenerys will finally get a one way ticket back to Westeros and the Iron Throne, poor care for a minor wound results in Drogo's death and the dissolution of his khalasar. Ned Stark is betrayed and arrested to prevent his naming Stannis as the rightful heir and plunging the realm into another war. He then is forced to make a false confession in exchange for his and his daughter's lives. He is unexpectedly executed. In the sequel, Varys hints to Tyrion (who misses the hint), that someone else might have been responsible for the execution, likely whispering words into Joffrey's ear....
A Game of Thrones / int_1e1aa82a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1e1aa82a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1e1aa82a
A Game of Thrones / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
A Game of Thrones / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The Greatjon got several of his fingers eaten by Robb's direwolf when he summoned the banners. He laughed about it and became Robb's strongest supporter after that.
A Game of Thrones / int_1e8f4221	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_1e8f4221	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_1e8f4221
A Game of Thrones / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
A Game of Thrones / int_21d70919	comment	One strange example comes from an unambiguously heroic character, and is just one more example of what a Crapsack World Westeros is. After Gregor Clegane is accused of heinous crimes, Ned Stark hears the testimony of the victims (who could only describe Clegane in general terms and by reputation, rather than positively identify him), immediately sentences him to death in absentia, and sends men to execute him, without putting him on trial, giving him a chance to defend himself, or hearing any sort of counter-witnesses. The fact that all the accusations, along with worse things, are true softens any blows to Ned's character.
A Game of Thrones / int_21d70919	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_21d70919	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_21d70919
A Game of Thrones / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
A Game of Thrones / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Ned Stark's advice is often dismissed as just being Honor Before Reason, but there are often very good reasons for his choices. He strongly protests Dany's assassination attempt and is called an honorable fool for it, but if they had followed his advice Drogo wouldn't have had any reason to care about invading Westeros, never would have run afoul of Mirri Maz Duur, and Dany never would have hatched the dragon eggs in his pyre. Dany and Drogo would probably have just led a simple life of horsemeat and the occasional raiding, raising their kids. Also, Ned points out the Crippling Overspecialization of the Dothraki as an all-cavalry force with no ships, meaning they'd only be a threat "the day they teach their horses to run on water." He doesn't back Renly's bid for the throne, but Renly's a diplomat with no combat experience in a situation that will require winning a war. Sure enough, Renly does nothing but divide the forces against the Lannisters. There's also the issue that legally, supporting Renly is treason, as even if Robert and Cersei's children are bastards, this still leaves Stannis as the rightful heir to the throne. He attempts to Take a Third Option regarding the impending succession crisis by warning Cersei that he will reveal the truth about her incest and the illegitimacy of her children in order to persuade her to flee with the capitol] to avoid bloodshed. This action ends up costing him dearly. However, the seemingly obvious option of simply allowing Robert to find out, which would likely have lead to him killing Cersei in a fit of rage, and the children killed as abominations, who are the family members of the most powerful lord in Westeros (Tywin) and an infamous dishonorable knight who has already slain his previous monarch (Jaime) would have horrific consequences as well.
A Game of Thrones / int_21ef4ccd	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_21ef4ccd	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_21ef4ccd
A Game of Thrones / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
A Game of Thrones / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In her first chapter, Daenaerys is given three fossilised dragon eggs, said to be enormously precious but as dead as the stone they turned into. After being largely ignored for most of the book, all three eggs hatch in Daenaerys' last chapter, giving bith to first live dragons seen in 150 years.
A Game of Thrones / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_22cf536c
A Game of Thrones / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
A Game of Thrones / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Ned sees Robert slap Cersei hard in the face and Cersei replies that she will wear the bruise as a badge of honor. Later in the novel, Cersei slaps him, and he sarcastically repeats her badge of honor comment. Tyrion tells Jon to embrace his illegitimacy and wear it like armor so it can never be used against him. Littlefinger later uses the same armor metaphor for Eddard Stark's honor. He thinks it can protect him but it just weighs him down. Mirri Maz Duur tells Daenerys "Only death can pay for life" before performing the blood magic spell that kills Dany's unborn child and leaves Drogo a vegetable. Dany later repeats the words back to her as she prepares to sacrifice Mirri to hatch her dragon eggs.
A Game of Thrones / int_237404cc	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_237404cc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_237404cc
A Game of Thrones / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
A Game of Thrones / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Tyrion and Bronn. Ned and Robert are a pre-established example, having fought side by side during Robert's Rebellion.
A Game of Thrones / int_2493b31d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_2493b31d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_2493b31d
A Game of Thrones / int_25beb7fa	type	Pattern-Coded Eggs
A Game of Thrones / int_25beb7fa	comment	Pattern-Coded Eggs: Daenerys receives three dragon eggs as a wedding gift from Illyrio, one cream and streaked with gold, the second deep green with bronze flecks, the third pure black with scarlet ripples and swirls. They hatch into the cream-and-gold dragon Viserion, the green-and-bronze dragon Rhaegal, and the black-and-red dragon Drogon.
A Game of Thrones / int_25beb7fa	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_25beb7fa	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_25beb7fa
A Game of Thrones / int_26ea11ed	type	Mysterious Parent
A Game of Thrones / int_26ea11ed	comment	Mysterious Parent: Jon's mother is officially unknown. Catelyn, and even Cersei, believe Jon's mother was the late Lady Ashara Dayne. When Robert presses Ned for her identity, Ned tightly tells him that her name was Wylla and refuses to say anything more. In addition, after Ned brings baby Jon home with him to raise alongside his trueborn children at Winterfell and acknowledges Jon as his son, Catelyn observes Ned's protectiveness of Jon, hears rumors of who Jon's mother may be (Lady Ashara Dayne), and asks Ned for the truth of Jon's mother. This leads to the only time Ned ever scared the shit out of her when he replies Jon is "my blood" and that is "all you need to know". This and Ned's Beneath the Mask POV may suggest there's something big about Jon's biological mother.
A Game of Thrones / int_26ea11ed	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_26ea11ed	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_26ea11ed
A Game of Thrones / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
A Game of Thrones / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: Arya & Sansa in their first appearance. Jon Snow also jokingly tells Tyrion to tell Robb that he can rest easy and take up needlework with the rest of the girls now that he's on the Wall defending the realm.
A Game of Thrones / int_27705cf8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_27705cf8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_27705cf8
A Game of Thrones / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
A Game of Thrones / int_27ebe639	comment	Sansa instantly falls head over heels for Joffrey because he looks exactly like the Prince Charming she has always dreamed to marry, despite pretty much everyone in her family (Arya, Jon, Robb and even Ned) sees that he's actually a Prince Charmless instead. She gets disillusioned in the cruelest fashion possible, when Joffrey orders the execution of her father at the end of the book and starts openly abusing her.
A Game of Thrones / int_27ebe639	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_27ebe639	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_27ebe639
A Game of Thrones / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
A Game of Thrones / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Should he proclaim Stannis Baratheon as the rightful king even if it invites civil war? He chose yes, but eventually recanted after a Break the Haughty process that involved Sansa's life being threatened.
A Game of Thrones / int_2af6bbeb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_2af6bbeb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_2af6bbeb
A Game of Thrones / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
A Game of Thrones / int_2fa6b075	comment	Sansa's admiration of Cersei crumbles when she sees what a cruel, manipulative woman she is. Joffrey is another example, though it takes longer; Sansa is so enamored with him that even as he's framing Arya for attacking him without provocation and had the Hound murder her friend, she can't think of him as evil;
A Game of Thrones / int_2fa6b075	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_2fa6b075	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_2fa6b075
A Game of Thrones / int_31add7fe	type	Out of the Inferno
A Game of Thrones / int_31add7fe	comment	Out of the Inferno: The final chapter features Dany walking into her husband's funeral pyre and emerging naked and bald but otherwise unharmed with her three dragons born in the flames.
A Game of Thrones / int_31add7fe	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_31add7fe	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_31add7fe
A Game of Thrones / int_31b5d604	type	Forging the Will
A Game of Thrones / int_31b5d604	comment	Forging the Will: As King Robert is dying, he dictates his will for Eddard Stark to write. Robert says "to my son, Joffrey", but Ned replaces this with "to my rightful heir", as he had learned that Joffrey is not actually Robert's son.
A Game of Thrones / int_31b5d604	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_31b5d604	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_31b5d604
A Game of Thrones / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
A Game of Thrones / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Ned's POV constantly mention the events that transpired at the Tower of Joy and the promise he made to Lyanna at her deathbed, and how it has taken a huge toll on him. The exact cause of her death has yet to be discovered and as well said promise.
A Game of Thrones / int_334b7f3a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_334b7f3a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_334b7f3a
A Game of Thrones / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
A Game of Thrones / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: The prologue makes perfectly clear that there's something very off in the far north.
A Game of Thrones / int_347e35d6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_347e35d6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_347e35d6
A Game of Thrones / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
A Game of Thrones / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: Catelyn tells Jon this after Bran's fall puts him in a coma. It doesn't make sense, as Jon had nothing to do with Bran's accident, but she was just bitter with grief and wanted to lash out. Sansa says it to Arya, telling her that she, and at one point Nymeria, should have died instead of Lady.
A Game of Thrones / int_34b33a09	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_34b33a09	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_34b33a09
A Game of Thrones / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
A Game of Thrones / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When her son Joffrey, gets mauled by Arya’s pet direwolf, Nymeria, who was in defense of her master, Cersei believes his lies over his role in the fight and demands Nymeria’s pelt. Arya forced her to run away, but Cersei spitefully forces Sansa’s pet direwolf, Lady, to be the one killed in her place. Eddard forces himself to be the one to do this, knowing Cersei will relish in his family’s sorrow by making Lady’s pelt as some sort of trophy.
A Game of Thrones / int_34dcfc96	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_34dcfc96	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_34dcfc96
A Game of Thrones / int_375bb8f2	type	Good Is Dumb
A Game of Thrones / int_375bb8f2	comment	Good Is Dumb: Ned Stark spends a good chunk of the book proving this, making increasingly unwise decisions that lead directly to his own hardship and downfall. Perhaps the worst Honor Before Reason moment is telling Cersei and no one else what he learned about Joffrey's parentage, under the belief that she'd just flee. This leads directly to his men being slaughtered, him being captured and then executed.
A Game of Thrones / int_375bb8f2	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_375bb8f2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_375bb8f2
A Game of Thrones / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
A Game of Thrones / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Dareon was sent to the Night's Watch after being caught in bed with the daughter of Lord Mathis Rowan. To preserve her reputation, the woman claimed that Daeron raped her.
A Game of Thrones / int_3763bcf8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3763bcf8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3763bcf8
A Game of Thrones / int_37daf5c5	type	Not a Game
A Game of Thrones / int_37daf5c5	comment	Not a Game: Jon brings up how Daeron Targaryen conquered Dorne at the age of 14 to show what people that age can accomplish. Benjen isn't impressed.
A Game of Thrones / int_37daf5c5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_37daf5c5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_37daf5c5
A Game of Thrones / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
A Game of Thrones / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Ned Stark.
A Game of Thrones / int_382a6399	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_382a6399	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_382a6399
A Game of Thrones / int_3994d78b	type	Irrevocable Order
A Game of Thrones / int_3994d78b	comment	Irrevocable Order: The dying King Robert tried to call off the assassination he ordered on Daenerys Targaryen, but some made sure his message didn't go through. While the assassination does fail, the attempt does a lot to motivate Dany to invade Westeros and retake the throne.
A Game of Thrones / int_3994d78b	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3994d78b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3994d78b
A Game of Thrones / int_3b8e5b93	type	Karmic Nod
A Game of Thrones / int_3b8e5b93	comment	Karmic Nod: After being mortally wounded by the boar, Robert regrets ordering the assassination of Daenerys and tells Ned: "that's why, the girl... the gods sent the boar... sent to punish me...".
A Game of Thrones / int_3b8e5b93	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3b8e5b93	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3b8e5b93
A Game of Thrones / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
A Game of Thrones / int_3e157a10	comment	Jaime and Cersei. All of Cersei's children are conceived with Jaime.
A Game of Thrones / int_3e157a10	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3e157a10	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3e157a10
A Game of Thrones / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
A Game of Thrones / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: In the prologue, Ser Waymar mocks Gared's incredibly detailed description of what modern readers would call hypothermia. Any time a feast or meal happens. Never read this book on an empty stomach.
A Game of Thrones / int_3eb8ba12	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3eb8ba12	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3eb8ba12
A Game of Thrones / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
A Game of Thrones / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Sansa, at Renly's invitation, identifies him as a Baratheon based on the stag on his armor, and concludes based on his age that he's the youngest of Robert's brothers.
A Game of Thrones / int_3ec18c6f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_3ec18c6f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3ec18c6f
A Game of Thrones / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
A Game of Thrones / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Subverted with the Stallion That Mounts the World prophecy. The Dothraki crones predict Dany's son will be the chosen one and Khal Drogo even plans to do what no Khal has ever done before (i.e. sail across the sea, which the Dothraki fear). The child, however, is slain in the womb by the vengeful Mirri Maz Duur.
A Game of Thrones / int_3f70415	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Game of Thrones / int_3f70415	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_3f70415
A Game of Thrones / int_408ba21c	type	Womb Horror
A Game of Thrones / int_408ba21c	comment	Womb Horror: Daenerys has a run-in with some Blood Magic, which causes her to give birth to a stillborn deformed winged reptilian fetus. It's also implied that the damage was extensive enough that Danerys is unable to bear another child.
A Game of Thrones / int_408ba21c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_408ba21c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_408ba21c
A Game of Thrones / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
A Game of Thrones / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The execution scene sets the tone for the book series: The man who survives the Other attack in the previous chapter is killed. Ned's speech to Bran about "if you can't kill him, then perhaps he does not deserve to die" shows that not every good guy in the series makes the right decision. Those who don't get a handle on A Song of Ice and Fire from the above scene will probably have an intimate understanding of how this series works upon the execution of the likable, well-meaning main character.
A Game of Thrones / int_41c08e5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_41c08e5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_41c08e5
A Game of Thrones / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
A Game of Thrones / int_443b78cd	comment	Mirri Maz Duur gets revenge for her mistreatment at the hands of the Dothraki by killing Daenerys' child in the womb. Since Daenerys had rescued Mirri and shown her kindness, and the child was completely innocent, Daenerys is enraged. She responds by burning Mirri alive as a sacrifice to hatch her dragon eggs, using the very principles of blood magic Mirri had taught her, complete with Ironic Echo: "Only death can pay for life."
A Game of Thrones / int_443b78cd	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_443b78cd	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_443b78cd
A Game of Thrones / int_4478c66d	type	Flashback Nightmare
A Game of Thrones / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Ned Stark suffers from nightmares about the events in Tower of Joy, and his dying sister asking him to keep a promise.
A Game of Thrones / int_4478c66d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4478c66d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4478c66d
A Game of Thrones / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
A Game of Thrones / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Eddard Stark might as well be the poster child for this trope. His modest and stubborn humility and insistence on feudal obligation might fly in the north, but everyone plays dirty in King's Landing. The only thing that can possibly convince Ned to put his honor aside is threatening the safety of his daughter.
A Game of Thrones / int_44fc28e8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_44fc28e8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_44fc28e8
A Game of Thrones / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
A Game of Thrones / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: A minor example in the discovery of the direwolf pups in the first chapter. Jon persuades his father Ned that they're an omen as there's one for each of his children, which only works because he's discounted himself from the count (despite his illegitimacy being his fundamental source of angst) so his siblings can have a direwolf each. Bran notices this and finds it very moving while Ned, also moved, asks Jon if he doesn't want a pup too but Jon omits himself from the count again for the sake of his siblings. However, as they set off, Jon discovers a pup for himself, a sixth pup in the snow — a mute albino pup found a little way off from his siblings.
A Game of Thrones / int_45d22aad	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_45d22aad	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_45d22aad
A Game of Thrones / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
A Game of Thrones / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut Yoren cuts Arya's hair so she can leave the city disguised as a boy. Dany's hair burns off after hatching her dragons.
A Game of Thrones / int_4655ec83	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4655ec83	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4655ec83
A Game of Thrones / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
A Game of Thrones / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish leans heavily on the Jerk with a Heart of Gold trope, leading Ned to think he's really being helpful despite being rude and sarcastic all the while. It turns out that this is quite deliberate and Littlefinger is being antagonistic because he correctly determines that Ned would trust him more than if he was trying to be friendly, and he uses this assumption to betray Ned For the Evulz.
A Game of Thrones / int_4782e60f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4782e60f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4782e60f
A Game of Thrones / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
A Game of Thrones / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: At the end of Robert's Rebellion, Tywin Lannister ordered his men Gregor Clegane and Amory Lorch to kill three-year-old Rhaenys Targaryen and her infant brother Aegon (and their mother Elia). Robert orders the death of thirteen-year-old Daenerys and her unborn child.
A Game of Thrones / int_479d4e5a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_479d4e5a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_479d4e5a
A Game of Thrones / int_494d83c8	type	Helping Hands
A Game of Thrones / int_494d83c8	comment	Helping Hands: After Jon hacks the arm off a wight, he notices it clawing its way up his leg.
A Game of Thrones / int_494d83c8	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_494d83c8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_494d83c8
A Game of Thrones / int_4aed206f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
A Game of Thrones / int_4aed206f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Arya overhears a conversation between conspirators, but the conversation involves the political situation on a different continent, they don't drop many particular details, and speak metaphorically for a large chunk of the conversation. Since Arya's only ten, not only does she misunderstand, she forgets large parts of the conversation (and also misidentifies the dragon skulls being stored in the room she's hiding in as "monsters" when asked.) As a result, when she tries to relate the conversation to someone else, it's garbled to the point of incoherency. Subverted before that, when Bran overhears a pair of political conspirators, who turn out to be Jaime and Cersei. He also uncovers their incestuous relationship. They catch him, and Jaime immediately retaliates by throwing him off a tower.
A Game of Thrones / int_4aed206f	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Game of Thrones / int_4aed206f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4aed206f
A Game of Thrones / int_4ce37dd1	type	Snipe Hunt
A Game of Thrones / int_4ce37dd1	comment	Snipe Hunt: Robert has a bit of fun with his squires, sending them in search of a "breastplate stretcher." He gleefully speculates about the possibility of keeping them at it all day.
A Game of Thrones / int_4ce37dd1	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4ce37dd1	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4ce37dd1
A Game of Thrones / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
A Game of Thrones / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: For one character's arc, setting up the conflict for the rest of the series. Eddard Stark's honorable efforts to give the Iron Throne to the true heir result in his execution and the realm being plunged into a brutal war of succession.
A Game of Thrones / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4e3d253b
A Game of Thrones / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
A Game of Thrones / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: At the end of the book, Robb and Joffrey are proclaimed kings at age fifteen and twelve, respectively.
A Game of Thrones / int_4e6e9b64	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4e6e9b64	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4e6e9b64
A Game of Thrones / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
A Game of Thrones / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Ser Ilyn, bring me his head!" Said by Joffrey, sealing Ned's death even though the action is basically a declaration for war.. It's also quite shocking given that, up to this point, Ned has been one of the closest things to a main protagonist the book has, but not even he is safe.
A Game of Thrones / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4e7c4536
A Game of Thrones / int_4f23179	type	Hit-and-Run Tactics
A Game of Thrones / int_4f23179	comment	Hit-and-Run Tactics: Used by Bronn when fighting Ser Vardis Egan. The knight is slow because of his equipped armour, losing to Bronn's speed.
A Game of Thrones / int_4f23179	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4f23179	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4f23179
A Game of Thrones / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
A Game of Thrones / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Sansa's betrothal to Joffrey is a major plot point, but it seems like it's the first time such a topic has been discussed about any of their children. Later books show that there's a lot of discussion about political alliances being created with betrothals and weddings between houses, and the discussions can start early. Alys Karstark later tells Jon Snow that she was brought to Winterfell by her father years before in hopes of arranging a match between her and Robb, but somehow the topic never seems to have come up for Robb (who's about 16) until he needs an alliance with the Freys. Ned mentions that Jaime is the heir to Casterly Rock, but the Kingsguard are later said to forswear all titles as the Night's Watch do — indeed, this becomes a major plot point for Jaime himself. Almost certainly intentional, but with the later focus on multiple concurrent plots scattered among several characters, it can be jarring to come back to the first book and discover that Ned was the main character for nearly two-thirds of its plot. When King Robert arrives at Winterfell, he and Ned have a long discussion about Jaime Lannister becoming Warden of the East. After that, it's never mentioned again for the entire series. Ned acts like being a Warden is a big deal, but while the titles of the various Wardens are sometimes mentioned, the idea that there is any sort of political power associated with the title(s) is never suggested. When Ned hears that King Robert is approaching Winterfell, he is described as giving a loud exuberant "wooping" noise, evoking the image of a fratboy. While it's in-character for Ned to be excited to see his long time friend, this open display of emotion contrasts strongly with his The Stoic and Grim Up North characterization and comes off as weird. The length and time of the recent seasons are given in detail, mentioning the unusually long summer, how many winters Tyrion has lived through, and the Year of the False Spring, among others. In subsequent books, the only winter anyone seems to mention or care about is the upcoming one, and the histories only refer to the seasons in passing, if at all. Given the amount of historical detail given in the books about virtually everything else, this is especially noticeable. Tyrion's bizarre acrobatics when he meets Jon are never brought up again until we're given a vague justification for them in the fifth book. This is more of a correction, as Martin was told by actual dwarves that Tyrion's acrobatics were impossible for an person with dwarfism to do. Martin proceeded to remedy this by showing how Tyrion's dwarfism actually limits his mobility in the later books. One of Catelyn's earlier scenes involves her walking across a room naked in full view of her husband and Maester Luwin; for the rest of the series, she's never sexualized again. That said, this scene takes place in her bedchamber with her husband and the physician who delivered all five of her children, and takes place after she and Ned finished having sex. The contrast between the warmth and vulnerability of this scene and the coldness and fear she feels throughout the rest of her narrative is made more striking.
A Game of Thrones / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_4f4372e9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_4f4372e9
A Game of Thrones / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
A Game of Thrones / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Ned Stark recalls when he fought and killed Ser Arthur Dayne at the Tower of Joy. Though it is downplayed in that Ned doesn't mean it as boasting or a taunt; he is rather ruminating on the sad fact that it means more men are going to die in battle today:
A Game of Thrones / int_508d91a2	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_508d91a2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_508d91a2
A Game of Thrones / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
A Game of Thrones / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Sansa instantly falls head over heels for Joffrey because he looks exactly like the Prince Charming she has always dreamed to marry, despite pretty much everyone in her family (Arya, Jon, Robb and even Ned) sees that he's actually a Prince Charmless instead. She gets disillusioned in the cruelest fashion possible, when Joffrey orders the execution of her father at the end of the book and starts openly abusing her. Even years after her death, Robert is still in love with Lyanna Stark (or at least the impression he had of her before his rebellion). It's heavily implied that the reason he never got over her it's because he never got to live the reality of marriage with her, not to mention that had he ever got her back like he wished, their marriage would be ruined anyway since there would be Rhaegar's ghost always between them, much like Lyanna's own ghost has been always between Robert and Cersei. And as things turned sour with Cersei, he keeps pining for a woman he actually never knew intimately. This is lampshaded by Ned when Robert has a quarrel with Cersei:
A Game of Thrones / int_516f986d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_516f986d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_516f986d
A Game of Thrones / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
A Game of Thrones / int_52aa0c4a	comment	Sansa and Joffrey's engagement until he shows his true colors.
A Game of Thrones / int_52aa0c4a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_52aa0c4a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_52aa0c4a
A Game of Thrones / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
A Game of Thrones / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: After the sack of King's Landing and the death of the Mad King, Eddard found Jaime sitting on the Iron Throne. This convinces him that the Lannisters were doing a power play. Robert disagrees and thinks Jaime was just tired. In A Storm of Swords, we find out Robert was right. Jaime's actions were more honorable than what people may think.
A Game of Thrones / int_52d1f46e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_52d1f46e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_52d1f46e
A Game of Thrones / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
A Game of Thrones / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: When Eddard Stark first appears, he is watched by his sons as he executes a deserter, while Bran makes himself look although he wants to turn away. When he appears last, he is beheaded with the same sword, his own, watched by his daughters, with Sansa unable to stop looking although she wants to turn away.
A Game of Thrones / int_53224e46	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_53224e46	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_53224e46
A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: Eddard's household guard.
A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_558245a7
A Game of Thrones / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
A Game of Thrones / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Used fairly freely (especially by men about their wives). However, it's exclusively used for its technical meaning.
A Game of Thrones / int_56240281	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_56240281	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_56240281
A Game of Thrones / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
A Game of Thrones / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Ned relinquishes his post as Hand of the King after Robert orders the assassination of Daenerys Targaryen, who is at the time a thirteen-year-old girl in the far east. After Jaime injures Eddard in retaliation to Catelyn arresting Tyrion, Robert gives Ned back his position.
A Game of Thrones / int_566f1565	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_566f1565	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_566f1565
A Game of Thrones / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
A Game of Thrones / int_590eb583	comment	Ned sees Robert slap Cersei hard in the face and Cersei replies that she will wear the bruise as a badge of honor. Later in the novel, Cersei slaps him, and he sarcastically repeats her badge of honor comment.
A Game of Thrones / int_590eb583	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_590eb583	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_590eb583
A Game of Thrones / int_59103508	type	Deadly Environment Prison
A Game of Thrones / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: The Arryns' cells have only three walls...with a 600-foot drop off the side of a mountain on the fourth side. The Lord of the Eyrie also tries to force the imprisoned Tyrion to leave their castle via the Moon Door (again, with a 600-foot drop on the other side.) When Tyrion manages to get pardoned, Lady Lysa Arryn manages to do Death By Freedom again (he can now leave the castle via the road full of shadowcats and hostile tribes.)
A Game of Thrones / int_59103508	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_59103508	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_59103508
A Game of Thrones / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
A Game of Thrones / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Ned has recurring dreams about the death of his sister Lyanna and of the mysterious promise that he made to her. Later on, after being thrown in the dungeon, he has a particularly creepy nightmare of the late King Robert mocking him for putting Honor Before Reason and endangering his family, only Robert's face begins to crack and then shatters, revealing a horrifyingly surreal image of Littlefinger.
A Game of Thrones / int_5c0fc07b	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_5c0fc07b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_5c0fc07b
A Game of Thrones / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
A Game of Thrones / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Tyrion Lannister is the victim of the court of the Eyrie. After being kidnapped and taken to an impregnable fortress, he has to offer to confess in order to be let out of a cell specifically designed to make its occupant commit suicide, and then has to demand a trial by publicly shaming his accusers to avoid going back there. The trial in question would be judged by the six-year old son of the man he's accused of murdering (who already shows a fondness for having people executed), and presided over by the child's mother (who, in addition to being the one to accuse him of murdering her husband, is sister to his other accuser, and is quite clearly mad). To avoid this, his only option is trial by combat (he's a dwarf and his opponents are seasoned knights,) and when he demands a champion he is denied his first choice and has to ask for a volunteer from the rabble of soldiers and mercenaries employed by his accusers. One strange example comes from an unambiguously heroic character, and is just one more example of what a Crapsack World Westeros is. After Gregor Clegane is accused of heinous crimes, Ned Stark hears the testimony of the victims (who could only describe Clegane in general terms and by reputation, rather than positively identify him), immediately sentences him to death in absentia, and sends men to execute him, without putting him on trial, giving him a chance to defend himself, or hearing any sort of counter-witnesses. The fact that all the accusations, along with worse things, are true softens any blows to Ned's character.
A Game of Thrones / int_5d3e7c6	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_5d3e7c6	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_5d3e7c6
A Game of Thrones / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
A Game of Thrones / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: King Robert Baratheon dies after getting gored in the stomach by a boar during a drunken hunting trip; he's left in so much pain that he can barely issue his final orders. Needless to say, he's mercifully anesthetized once he's finished, and remains unconscious until he finally expires the next day.
A Game of Thrones / int_5d6f4033	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_5d6f4033	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_5d6f4033
A Game of Thrones / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
A Game of Thrones / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Ned Stark's death sets the major events of the following books.
A Game of Thrones / int_619985d7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_619985d7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_619985d7
A Game of Thrones / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
A Game of Thrones / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Catelyn takes Tyrion as an hostage when she thinks he's responsible for Bran's attempted murder; Sansa as leverage against Ned in an effort to get him to submit to the Lannisters' bidding; Jaime Lannister is held captive by Robb and Catelyn at the end of the book.
A Game of Thrones / int_6201e8b0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6201e8b0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6201e8b0
A Game of Thrones / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
A Game of Thrones / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Ned and Catelyn, although they weren't at first supposed to get married because Cat was betrothed to his older brother Brandon, who died before the story started. Another unexpected case are Daenerys and Drogo. Sansa and Joffrey's engagement until he shows his true colors.
A Game of Thrones / int_629fa757	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_629fa757	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_629fa757
A Game of Thrones / int_62ef4163	type	Boot Camp Episode
A Game of Thrones / int_62ef4163	comment	Boot Camp Episode: The Jon chapters after he leaves for the Wall have him training, learning the ropes, doing chores around the Wall and establishing relationships with other sworn brothers.
A Game of Thrones / int_62ef4163	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_62ef4163	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_62ef4163
A Game of Thrones / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
A Game of Thrones / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Barristan Selmy, Jeor Mormont, Tywin Lannister, Brynden Tully.
A Game of Thrones / int_6366f900	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6366f900	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6366f900
A Game of Thrones / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
A Game of Thrones / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: In the prologue, Waymar Royce is depicted as a smug Upper-Class Twit, disliked by the men serving under him. However, when the Others show up, he takes charge and bravely (and futilely) fights them.
A Game of Thrones / int_6682d6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6682d6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6682d6e4
A Game of Thrones / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
A Game of Thrones / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Jon grew up not knowing who is mother is, Ned has never told anyone her name or origin and this has always been source of angst for Jon. Also, Daenerys and Viserys' mother died by giving birth to Daenerys and left her child living as a refugee after their family was deposed.
A Game of Thrones / int_66dfe36a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_66dfe36a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_66dfe36a
A Game of Thrones / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
A Game of Thrones / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Robert, much to Ned's surprise.
A Game of Thrones / int_6b1caa93	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6b1caa93	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6b1caa93
A Game of Thrones / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
A Game of Thrones / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Ned is set up as the Decoy Protagonist. After his death, you see in the following books that he was really the doomed mentor to all of his children (including Jon and Theon) who are a good portion of the main characters going forward.
A Game of Thrones / int_6b6556ee	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6b6556ee	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6b6556ee
A Game of Thrones / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
A Game of Thrones / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "I did warn you not to trust me." Said by Petyr Baelish when the city watch he had promised to secure for Eddard turns on him.
A Game of Thrones / int_6bd689ca	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6bd689ca	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6bd689ca
A Game of Thrones / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
A Game of Thrones / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Sansa imagines doing this will somehow shame the Lannisters for what they've done
A Game of Thrones / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6d332aea
A Game of Thrones / int_6dad0297	type	TakeTheThirdOption
A Game of Thrones / int_6dad0297	comment	Sansa being asked what happened between Joffrey and Arya at the Trident, when you think about it. She's essentially being asked to either side with her fiance (though lying goes against the Stark code of honor) or her sister (at the high risk of alienating him and her future mother-in-law). She claims to not remember what happened, maybe to Take the Third Option.note But then again it could actually be the truth. She had been drinking heavily just prior to the incident, so memory loss is plausible. We can't know exactly what she was thinking at the time since the chapter is in Ned's POV.
A Game of Thrones / int_6dad0297	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6dad0297	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6dad0297
A Game of Thrones / int_6dbd3711	type	Affectionate Gesture to the Head
A Game of Thrones / int_6dbd3711	comment	Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Jon shows his affection to Arya by mussing up her hair.
A Game of Thrones / int_6dbd3711	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6dbd3711	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6dbd3711
A Game of Thrones / int_6f5c80fc	type	Worst Wedding Ever
A Game of Thrones / int_6f5c80fc	comment	Worst Wedding Ever: Played with regarding Khal Drogo and Daenerys Targaryen's wedding. It's seen as massively successful by Dothraki standards and Drogo enjoys it, but Daenerys is miserable and terrified; she's alarmed by Dothraki warriors fighting and killing each other ("A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is seen as a dull affair") and by revellers openly having sex. She's also only thirteen and had no choice in marrying Drogo. The only time she's happy during the wedding is when she rides the horse Drogo gifted her, though Viserys immediately ruins it by threatening to hurt her if she doesn't please Drogo on their wedding night. Viserys himself is seething for most of it, both because he resents giving his sister to another man and because he has to sit lower than Dany and eat her leftovers (even at her wedding he still expects to be the center of attention).
A Game of Thrones / int_6f5c80fc	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_6f5c80fc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_6f5c80fc
A Game of Thrones / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
A Game of Thrones / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: How Daenerys puts an end to Drogo's misery.
A Game of Thrones / int_716cdf08	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_716cdf08	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_716cdf08
A Game of Thrones / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
A Game of Thrones / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Waking the dragon" starts as Viserys' Unusual Euphemism for his Unstoppable Rage but becomes synonymous with Took a Level in Badass by the end of the book. And the House Stark words: "winter is coming". They basically mean "don't get comfortable because things will go wrong." At the beginning of the book, the decade-long summer is wrapping up, the kingdom is prosperous and at peace and the autumn harvests are just starting. At the end the kingdom is ear deep in debt, a massive civil war is starting, the king is a Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk, the fields are burning and winter is coming.
A Game of Thrones / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_7464705c
A Game of Thrones / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
A Game of Thrones / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror to save the North. His descendant Eddard refuses to do the same for King Joffrey and it ends badly.
A Game of Thrones / int_74ef476c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_74ef476c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_74ef476c
A Game of Thrones / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
A Game of Thrones / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Jaime and Cersei. All of Cersei's children are conceived with Jaime. This is practically a rule for the Targaryens. In fact, Daenerys's marriage to Khal Drogo is thought of as strange by her, since she was expecting to marry Viserys.
A Game of Thrones / int_771f6307	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_771f6307	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_771f6307
A Game of Thrones / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
A Game of Thrones / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Catelyn Stark's beloved child apparently falls from a tower. Then someone is sent to kill him because he could have seen something he shouldn't, and then her husband is allegedly framed for treason, executed and one of her daughters is held captive in a Decadent Court; the other is missing. And it gets worse.
A Game of Thrones / int_7870735b	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_7870735b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_7870735b
A Game of Thrones / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
A Game of Thrones / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Viserys Targaryen is one of the last Targaryens, but he's basically penniless and living with Magister Illyrio at the start of the series.
A Game of Thrones / int_7a0374eb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_7a0374eb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_7a0374eb
A Game of Thrones / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
A Game of Thrones / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: The Rebellion's effects are visible in Ned's POV, particularly when the deaths of Rhaegar's family and Lyanna are concerned. Ned's recurring nightmares and obsessive flashbacks — mostly concerning Lyanna, the Tower of Joy and the Sack of King's Landing, his avoidance tendency towards anything that would recall those events — which strongly suggest he suffers from PTSD. Along with his Honor Before Reason, it has a strong influence on his his decision-making, as he tries hard to avoid every possible bloodshed and subconsciously avoid having to re-experience the traumatic days that shaped him.
A Game of Thrones / int_7a143509	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_7a143509	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_7a143509
A Game of Thrones / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
A Game of Thrones / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Happens quite a few times (the first proper chapter features Eddard Stark beheading a deserter from the Night's Watch), most notably to Eddard Stark himself for supposed treason and trying to usurp Joffrey's throne.
A Game of Thrones / int_7e6c0522	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_7e6c0522	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_7e6c0522
A Game of Thrones / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
A Game of Thrones / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Janos Slynt, commander of the City Watch, complains to the small council of the crime hitting the city, describing one night where "we had a drowning, a tavern riot, three knife fights, a rape, two fires, robberies beyond count, and a drunken horse race down the Street of the Sisters." According to the Dothraki, if pregnant Daenerys fails to eat the entire raw horse heart her baby may come out stillborn, sickly, weak, deformed, or female.
A Game of Thrones / int_808cbaeb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_808cbaeb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_808cbaeb
A Game of Thrones / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
A Game of Thrones / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: A major shock that kicks off the novel's plot at the end of Bran's second POV chapter: Bran Stark becomes paraplegic after being pushed out of the window of a tower when he discovers Queen Cersei in the act with her brother Jaime Lannister. Many of the events of the book act as this for the series overall, namely the deaths of King Robert and Eddard Stark, Joffrey's rise to power, Littlefinger's betrayal and the birth of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons, all of which are quite well-known in pop culture, as they set up the plot for later books.
A Game of Thrones / int_83fb6177	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_83fb6177	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_83fb6177
A Game of Thrones / int_85e0cabc	type	Precursor Heroes
A Game of Thrones / int_85e0cabc	comment	Precursor Heroes: Eddard Stark, Robert Baratheon and Jon Arryn.
A Game of Thrones / int_85e0cabc	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_85e0cabc	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_85e0cabc
A Game of Thrones / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
A Game of Thrones / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Sansa's admiration of Cersei crumbles when she sees what a cruel, manipulative woman she is. Joffrey is another example, though it takes longer; Sansa is so enamored with him that even as he's framing Arya for attacking him without provocation and had the Hound murder her friend, she can't think of him as evil; The Order of the Night's Watch comes as a considerable disappointment to Jon. It takes him quite a while to adapt; Ned experiences this to King Robert Baratheon several times in the course of the story. In the backstory, it's when Robert condones Tywin's slaughter of Rhaegar's children, and later his indolence as a King and his disappointment at his continued whoring despite his responsibilities.
A Game of Thrones / int_868409c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_868409c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_868409c
A Game of Thrones / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
A Game of Thrones / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Dany gets one after Mago and Jhaqo gang-rape and murder Dany's slave Eroeh during the dissolution of Drogo's khalasar near the end of the book.
A Game of Thrones / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_86b21114
A Game of Thrones / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
A Game of Thrones / int_89434320	comment	Ned's speech to Bran about "if you can't kill him, then perhaps he does not deserve to die" shows that not every good guy in the series makes the right decision.
A Game of Thrones / int_89434320	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_89434320	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_89434320
A Game of Thrones / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
A Game of Thrones / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Ned and Brandon, Robb and Jon, Jaime and Tyrion, Robert and Stannis, Catelyn and Lysa, Sansa and Arya, Viserys and Daenerys.
A Game of Thrones / int_8af7b342	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_8af7b342	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_8af7b342
A Game of Thrones / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
A Game of Thrones / int_8b568cb7	comment	Ned and Catelyn, although they weren't at first supposed to get married because Cat was betrothed to his older brother Brandon, who died before the story started.
A Game of Thrones / int_8b568cb7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_8b568cb7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_8b568cb7
A Game of Thrones / int_8b682bd5	type	The Magic Comes Back
A Game of Thrones / int_8b682bd5	comment	The Magic Comes Back: Daenerys manages to resurrect the dragon race. The lasting impact of this big event will be explored in the next books.
A Game of Thrones / int_8b682bd5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_8b682bd5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_8b682bd5
A Game of Thrones / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
A Game of Thrones / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Viserys gets his own golden crown. Liquefied gold. Mirri Maz Duur gets revenge for her mistreatment at the hands of the Dothraki by killing Daenerys' child in the womb. Since Daenerys had rescued Mirri and shown her kindness, and the child was completely innocent, Daenerys is enraged. She responds by burning Mirri alive as a sacrifice to hatch her dragon eggs, using the very principles of blood magic Mirri had taught her, complete with Ironic Echo: "Only death can pay for life."
A Game of Thrones / int_90d44f44	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_90d44f44
A Game of Thrones / int_9280aea4	type	Your Worst Memory
A Game of Thrones / int_9280aea4	comment	Your Worst Memory: Ned Stark is haunted throughout the story by his sister's death, continuously remembering a "bed of blood" and her last words to him: "Promise me, Ned." After getting his leg crushed under his horse in a street brawl with Jaime Lannister, Ned is given milk of the poppy for the pain, and experiences a dream in which he relives both Lyanna's death and the events leading up to it.
A Game of Thrones / int_9280aea4	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9280aea4	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9280aea4
A Game of Thrones / int_93be9d56	type	Monster Munch
A Game of Thrones / int_93be9d56	comment	Monster Munch: The prologue features three characters, two of whom immediately die at the hands of the Others, proving that they do exist after all.
A Game of Thrones / int_93be9d56	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_93be9d56	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_93be9d56
A Game of Thrones / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
A Game of Thrones / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Considering Dany has been married off against her will to the huge, powerful warlord Drogo, their marriage night is surprisingly tender, with Drogo softly caressing her and at least trying to gain her consent despite the language barrier. However, keep in mind all the circumstances, and also that he begins roughly raping her in a more stereotypical manner the nights afterward. Eventually Dany decides to learn some techniques from her handmaidens so she can exert some control in the bedroom, and her marriage with Drogo progresses into increasing fondness.
A Game of Thrones / int_9400b3b5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9400b3b5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9400b3b5
A Game of Thrones / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
A Game of Thrones / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: After the Battle of the Camps, the Northern Lords are confronted with declaring between an evil boy-king (Joffrey) or for a king who has support of arms but has no legitimate claim to the throne (Renly). Robb Stark notes that if they go against Joffrey they are essentially traitors even if their cause is just, while declaring for Renly goes against the line of succession, which is the basis for every Lord's inheritance in the Seven Kingdoms. What do they finally decide? Declare for Robb Stark as King in the North and secede from the Seven Kingdoms.
A Game of Thrones / int_950bbfa7	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_950bbfa7	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_950bbfa7
A Game of Thrones / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
A Game of Thrones / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Sansa blames Arya for Lady's death, despite the fact that if she had told the truth about Joffrey trying to hurt Arya and her friend without provocation, Lady wouldn't have died.
A Game of Thrones / int_973d220f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_973d220f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_973d220f
A Game of Thrones / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
A Game of Thrones / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: A lot of the world building is done with characters regularly going into excessive detail when talking about people or past events, often while speaking to people who should already know the information or to themselves while internally monologuing.
A Game of Thrones / int_9843be73	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9843be73	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9843be73
A Game of Thrones / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
A Game of Thrones / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Ned Stark is twice confronted with this. Should he have Viserys, Daenerys and her unborn child killed to prevent them from invading Westeros? He chose no. Should he proclaim Stannis Baratheon as the rightful king even if it invites civil war? He chose yes, but eventually recanted after a Break the Haughty process that involved Sansa's life being threatened.
A Game of Thrones / int_9a3b7208	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9a3b7208	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9a3b7208
A Game of Thrones / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
A Game of Thrones / int_9aaf8eca	comment	He strongly protests Dany's assassination attempt and is called an honorable fool for it, but if they had followed his advice Drogo wouldn't have had any reason to care about invading Westeros, never would have run afoul of Mirri Maz Duur, and Dany never would have hatched the dragon eggs in his pyre. Dany and Drogo would probably have just led a simple life of horsemeat and the occasional raiding, raising their kids. Also, Ned points out the Crippling Overspecialization of the Dothraki as an all-cavalry force with no ships, meaning they'd only be a threat "the day they teach their horses to run on water."
A Game of Thrones / int_9aaf8eca	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9aaf8eca	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9aaf8eca
A Game of Thrones / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
A Game of Thrones / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Viserys demands the golden crown that is rightfully his and that the Dothraki have promised him. Khal Drogo proceeds to melt gold into a pot and empty it on Viserys's head. Eddard Stark's first appearance has him beheading a man for deserting the Night's Watch. Ned himself is later beheaded as a traitor to the realm, right after having made a false confession in front of the whole city (with his own sword, no less). Taken even further with the fact that Ned Stark refused to harm Joffrey, even though he is trying to depose him, while Joffrey had no qualms about killing him.
A Game of Thrones / int_9bca83eb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9bca83eb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9bca83eb
A Game of Thrones / int_9c5ce9ed	type	Blunt Metaphors Trauma
A Game of Thrones / int_9c5ce9ed	comment	Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Used when Arya tries to explain the conversation she overheard. Varys and Illyrio use idioms she isn't familiar with and she isn't aware of anything they're discussing, so what she actually tells her father (who knew enough to work it out if he'd heard it verbatim) is a jumbled mess about wizards and juggling that makes him think she encountered some mummers.
A Game of Thrones / int_9c5ce9ed	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9c5ce9ed	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9c5ce9ed
A Game of Thrones / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
A Game of Thrones / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: An in-universe example: Viserys believes he sold Dany to Drogo and thus is outraged when Drogo won't pay him via retaking Westeros. From a Dothraki perspective, Viserys did Drogo a favor that should be repaid, but doesn't need to be repaid immediately, or when the recipient demands it.
A Game of Thrones / int_9c6ba43a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9c6ba43a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9c6ba43a
A Game of Thrones / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
A Game of Thrones / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Bran's first chapter, Ned Stark finds a stag that has been opened up in the belly, and not far away, they find a direwolf that has been pierced through the head with one of the stag's antlers, leaving its six direwolf pups alone. King Robert Baratheon, house sigil being a stag, is killed by a boar ripping open his belly, and his successor Joffrey has Ned beheaded, leaving all six Stark Children fatherless. There is some contention between certain characters over whether Jon Arryn meant to send his son Robert to foster with Stannis at Dragonstone, or with Tywin at Casterly Rock. As she reminisces about growing up in Riverrun, Catelyn also recalls play-kissing Littlefinger with Lysa; Cat didn't care for his attempts to use tongue, but Lysa did. This all foreshadows the eventual revelation in A Storm of Swords that Lysa conspired with Littlefinger to murder Jon due to her insane love for Littlefinger and to keep Robert from being sent away to Stannis. "The Greatjon says that won't matter if we catch him with his breeches down, but it seems to me a man who has fought as many battles as Tywin Lannister won't be as easily surprised". In A Storm of Swords, Tyrion kills Tywin while the latter is on the privy—i.e. Tywin is literally caught with his breeches down. Similarly, when Tyrion tells Bronn the tragic story of his first wife Tysha and what Tywin did to them, Bronn comments that he would have killed the man who did such a thing to him. Tyrion remarks that he yet might, as a Lannister always pays his debts. In A Storm of Swords when Jaime confesses to Tyrion that what Tywin had done was even worse than he'd known, Tyrion does take his revenge on Tywin. In her first chapter Catelyn feels as though the eyes of the weirwood tree are watching her. In A Dance With Dragons Bran learns that greenseers can in fact watch people through a weirwood's eyes.
A Game of Thrones / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9d12bbc1
A Game of Thrones / int_9d27a8be	type	Army of Thieves and Whores
A Game of Thrones / int_9d27a8be	comment	The Order of the Night's Watch comes as a considerable disappointment to Jon. It takes him quite a while to adapt;
A Game of Thrones / int_9d27a8be	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9d27a8be	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9d27a8be
A Game of Thrones / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
A Game of Thrones / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Arya overhears a conversation between two of the major schemers when it comes to the fate of Westeros. It involves a plot to kill Ned, but her disconnected and fanciful-sounding description of events leads him to disbelieve her.
A Game of Thrones / int_9fb5d589	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_9fb5d589	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_9fb5d589
A Game of Thrones / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
A Game of Thrones / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: In Catelyn's final chapter, the various Stark bannermen reject the idea of suing for peace with the Lannisters or helping Renly (which would simply end up with the North being under the Iron Throne again) and instead declare Robb "THE KING IN THE NORTH!" Note that Robb is not actually crowned in this scene (not least because there was no physical crown as yet). His formal coronation took place some time later, as reminisced by Catelyn at the beginnning of The Clash of Kings. From a certain perspective, Drogo's "crowning" of Viserys.
A Game of Thrones / int_a00c13e0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a00c13e0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a00c13e0
A Game of Thrones / int_a14c8cfe	type	Secret Legacy
A Game of Thrones / int_a14c8cfe	comment	Secret Legacy: Gendry the apprentice smith is King Robert's bastard; Crown Prince Joffrey and all his siblings are actually the product of Cersei's incestuous affair with her twin brother.
A Game of Thrones / int_a14c8cfe	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a14c8cfe	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a14c8cfe
A Game of Thrones / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
A Game of Thrones / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: The witch Mirri Maz Duur tricks Daenerys Targaryen to sacrifice her son and bring her dying husband into a state between life and death. After putting Drogo out of his misery, Daenerys executes Mirri Maz Duur by strapping her to Drogo's funeral pyre.
A Game of Thrones / int_a195379b	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a195379b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a195379b
A Game of Thrones / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
A Game of Thrones / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: Daenerys "Dany" Targaryen's first chapter features her about to be married to Khal Drogo in exchange for military support to her brother's attempt to reclaim the throne of Westeros. Given that she hasn't even turned fourteen yet, Dany is understandably anxious, at one point panicking and blurting out that she wants to go home. Viserys' response doesn't help much, especially given that he just thinks she's talking about Westeros, not knowing that the nearest thing to home that Dany's ever had was the house with the red door.
A Game of Thrones / int_a61fc28e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a61fc28e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a61fc28e
A Game of Thrones / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
A Game of Thrones / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Ned Stark promised something very important to dying Lyanna. What is this promise is still unknown.
A Game of Thrones / int_a63fd70f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a63fd70f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a63fd70f
A Game of Thrones / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
A Game of Thrones / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: "...for the Dothraki believed that all things of importance in a man's life must be done beneath the open sky." Repeated three times in the narrative; at Khal Drogo's wedding, the conception of his child, and his death.
A Game of Thrones / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_a6cda066	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_a6cda066
A Game of Thrones / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
A Game of Thrones / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The aftermath of Robert's Rebellion. The Mad King is dead, Ned and Benjen are the only Starks left, and The Lannisters become powerful allies of The Crown as Lord Tywin wanted at the cost of his family's reputation.
A Game of Thrones / int_ad9fbc1e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ad9fbc1e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ad9fbc1e
A Game of Thrones / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
A Game of Thrones / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Tyrion, Tyrion, Tyrion. Honestly, you could not pick his best line. His wit is one of his keenest weapons.
A Game of Thrones / int_ae3d6438	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ae3d6438
A Game of Thrones / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
A Game of Thrones / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Sansa refuses to see Joffrey as anything but noble and gallant, and Cersei as The High Queen, even after witnessing the former maliciously bully and threaten to kill an innocent peasant boy for sport and the latter give the order for Sansa's wolf butchered for something Arya's wolf (rightly) did. It takes Joffrey ordering her father's execution for her to finally see their true colors.
A Game of Thrones / int_b0bce7aa	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_b0bce7aa	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_b0bce7aa
A Game of Thrones / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
A Game of Thrones / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: Bran finds out about Jaime and Cersei's adultery, and promptly (with a little help from Jaime) goes into a prolonged coma, waking with Laser-Guided Amnesia about the whole thing. All this prevents him from telling Ned, who spends the rest of the book trying to dig up the very same secret.
A Game of Thrones / int_b3aa5504	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_b3aa5504	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_b3aa5504
A Game of Thrones / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
A Game of Thrones / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Mirri Maz Duur bides her time to get her revenge for her rape and the slaughter of her people at the hands of the Dothraki, and eventually does so by killing Daenerys's unborn child in the womb. This is especially unjust, because Dany had rescued her from her rapists and the child was innocent. Mirri defends herself by pointing out she'd had her entire community wiped out and been raped several times before Dany "saved" her, and the child was prophesied to destroy the world. Dany doesn't take it well, and gets her own revenge by burning Mirri Maz Duur alive as a sacrifice to hatch her dragons.
A Game of Thrones / int_b7042372	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_b7042372	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_b7042372
A Game of Thrones / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
A Game of Thrones / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Sansa throws a tantrum when Ned informs her that he is sending her back to Winterfell and will end her betrothal without explaining why.
A Game of Thrones / int_ba0b808e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ba0b808e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ba0b808e
A Game of Thrones / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
A Game of Thrones / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Lysa and Cersei. Cersei is quickly shown to be a bitter, petty, paranoid tyrant who assumes anyone who isn't a fawning Yes-Man is out to get her, smothers and spoils her eldest son rotten, and inflicts swift Disproportionate Retribution on anyone she perceives as wronged her family in any way. Once Catelyn gets to the Eyrie, she quickly learns that her sister Lysa has become petty and paranoid, constantly believes that anyone who gives advice she doesn't want to hear is against her, has spoiled and smothered her son so much he still breast-feeds at age six, and leads such a blatant Kangaroo Court against a man merely accused of killing her husband that even his accuser, Cat, thinks it unjust. Oh, and Lysa and her son enjoy carrying out executions as much as Cersei and Joffrey do. It's later revealed that both Lysa and Cersei arranged to get their lord husbands killed with wine.
A Game of Thrones / int_ba5bbda5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ba5bbda5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ba5bbda5
A Game of Thrones / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
A Game of Thrones / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Either Robb Stark kills his own direwolf or Bran will die. Sansa being asked what happened between Joffrey and Arya at the Trident, when you think about it. She's essentially being asked to either side with her fiance (though lying goes against the Stark code of honor) or her sister (at the high risk of alienating him and her future mother-in-law). She claims to not remember what happened, maybe to Take the Third Option.note But then again it could actually be the truth. She had been drinking heavily just prior to the incident, so memory loss is plausible. We can't know exactly what she was thinking at the time since the chapter is in Ned's POV. The singer who writes a song about Robert's death by boar is given a choice by Joffrey- he can keep either his fingers, or his tongue.
A Game of Thrones / int_babc974	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_babc974	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_babc974
A Game of Thrones / int_bbc17998	type	Enforced Method Acting
A Game of Thrones / int_bbc17998	comment	Enforced Method Acting: An in-universe example. During a major battle at the end of the book, Lord Tywin Lannister tries to lure Robb Stark's army into a trap by having one flank of his own army crumble under assault, with the pikemen to sweep in after the Northmen over-commit themselves. To accomplish this, he composes that flank solely of irregular troops and green recruits, gives command to his Psycho for Hire, and sticks in his hated son Tyrion for good measure.
A Game of Thrones / int_bbc17998	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_bbc17998	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_bbc17998
A Game of Thrones / int_becfca0e	type	Princess in Rags
A Game of Thrones / int_becfca0e	comment	Princess in Rags: Daenerys at the beginning.
A Game of Thrones / int_becfca0e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_becfca0e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_becfca0e
A Game of Thrones / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
A Game of Thrones / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted with Lysa Arryn's letter pointing to the Lannisters as the ones who killed her husband was a warning, telling them to stay away. Instead, it convinced Ned to accept Robert's offer of being Hand. However, after reading A Storm of Swords, you realize that Lysa (acting on Littlefinger's orders) really was trying to start a war between the Starks and Lannisters based upon false pretenses. So, less Poor Communication Kills and more Lying Communication Kills.
A Game of Thrones / int_c145f69b	featureApplicability	-0.3
A Game of Thrones / int_c145f69b	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c145f69b
A Game of Thrones / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
A Game of Thrones / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: When Cersei arranges Robert's death, she decides that Ned Stark must be silenced. Eventually she decides to let him live and have him sent to the Night Watch instead, in exchange for a public false confession. Ned Stark agrees, but then her son decides to go off-script at a pivotal moment...
A Game of Thrones / int_c3c18143	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c3c18143	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c3c18143
A Game of Thrones / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
A Game of Thrones / int_c3db1619	comment	Zig-Zagged. The maegi Mirri Maz Duur magically kills Daenerys Stormborn's unborn son in utero, both for revenge against the father and because the unborn child is prophesied to be the Stallion That Mounts the World, an unstoppable city-smashing warlord. While it doesn't exactly turn out well for Mirri in the end, she DOES successfully prevent the boy from being born and fulfilling whatever his Super Special Destiny was supposed to be. However, Mirri's actions wind up resulting in the rebirth of dragons into the world, and Daenerys's march toward Westeros.
A Game of Thrones / int_c3db1619	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c3db1619	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c3db1619
A Game of Thrones / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
A Game of Thrones / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: It looks like Ned will be able to take the black and see Jon again if he only confesses to his crimes...which is blown to pieces when Joffrey decides to execute him against everyone's better judgement.
A Game of Thrones / int_c4db6423	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c4db6423	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c4db6423
A Game of Thrones / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
A Game of Thrones / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Robert's bastard offspring all show a strong resemblance to him both physically and in being headstrong. This proves to the missing piece of the puzzle for Ned's research, as his supposedly legitimate offspring all take heavily after their mother, despite the fact that in all other documented cases Baratheon genes are clearly dominant over Lannister ones. This leads directly to question the real parentage of Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen.
A Game of Thrones / int_c5fe6c81	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c5fe6c81	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c5fe6c81
A Game of Thrones / int_c728ea66	type	Fear Is Normal
A Game of Thrones / int_c728ea66	comment	Fear Is Normal: Early in the opening chapter, young Bran has the following conversation with his father Ned:
A Game of Thrones / int_c728ea66	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c728ea66	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c728ea66
A Game of Thrones / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
A Game of Thrones / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A very minor character has a black adder on his coat of arms, two others have a green arrow and a blue beetle - and it can't be a mere coincidence that the Iron Men are so close neighbors to the Starks... Titus Peake is lord of Starpoint. The Hooded Man is a legendary figure from the age of Heroes. A city on the far side of Essos (never visited in the series, but seen on various maps) is named Carcosa.
A Game of Thrones / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c75df49a
A Game of Thrones / int_c88cfc34	type	Thread of Prophecy, Severed
A Game of Thrones / int_c88cfc34	comment	Thread of Prophecy, Severed: When Daenerys is pregnant with her and Khal Drogo's son Rhaego, a Dothraki shamaness prophesies him to be "the stallion that mounts the world", a mighty conqueror. That goes wrong when Mirri Maz Duur kills him in the womb with Blood Magic to avenge the Dothrakis' attacks on her people. Given the series' penchant for Prophecy Twists, though, it remains to be seen whether this one has truly been averted.
A Game of Thrones / int_c88cfc34	featureApplicability	-1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_c88cfc34	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_c88cfc34
A Game of Thrones / int_cab89481	type	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!
A Game of Thrones / int_cab89481	comment	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: Ned Stark attempts to use King Robert's last will and testament to take regency of Westeros so that he can prevent Prince Joffrey from being coronated, having realized that he and his siblings were conceived by Brother–Sister Incest. To Ned's shock, Queen Mother Cersei simply rips the will up right in front of him. Ned probably should have realized that the fact Cersei didn't care overmuch that she'd been caught when he confronted her about the incest earlier (before Robert was reported wounded) meant that she had no intention of playing by the usual rules.
A Game of Thrones / int_cab89481	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_cab89481	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_cab89481
A Game of Thrones / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
A Game of Thrones / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Attempted by Sansa when Joffrey shows her the heads of her father and household on spikes and she almost moves to push him off the bridge they're on. She's stopped by Sandor Clegane.
A Game of Thrones / int_caf89e54	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_caf89e54	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_caf89e54
A Game of Thrones / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
A Game of Thrones / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Robert asks Ned if he is a good king. Honest Advisor that he is, Ned hesitates, but grants him that he was better than his predecessor Aerys.
A Game of Thrones / int_cbe3d017	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_cbe3d017	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_cbe3d017
A Game of Thrones / int_ce6a1069	type	Wax On, Wax Off
A Game of Thrones / int_ce6a1069	comment	Wax On, Wax Off: Syrio's strange methods for teaching Arya to swordfight include chasing cats, hopping around on one foot and walking on her hands.
A Game of Thrones / int_ce6a1069	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ce6a1069	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ce6a1069
A Game of Thrones / int_d19f540a	type	Take Care of the Kids
A Game of Thrones / int_d19f540a	comment	Take Care of the Kids: Robert's last request to Ned. Too bad that said kid doesn't want to be being taken care by Ned.
A Game of Thrones / int_d19f540a	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_d19f540a	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_d19f540a
A Game of Thrones / int_d1fc4a16	type	Please Spare Him, My Liege!
A Game of Thrones / int_d1fc4a16	comment	Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Sansa tries one of these to save her father's life and Cersei obliges, because he's an important hostage. Then Joffrey has him executed anyway.
A Game of Thrones / int_d1fc4a16	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_d1fc4a16	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_d1fc4a16
A Game of Thrones / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
A Game of Thrones / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Ned towards Cersei, he feels bad for Robert's Domestic Abuse and especially for his Wrong-Name Outburst of "Lyanna" on their wedding night. Too bad Cersei is having none of it.
A Game of Thrones / int_d3a4af1e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_d3a4af1e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_d3a4af1e
A Game of Thrones / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
A Game of Thrones / int_d848560f	comment	"Waking the dragon" starts as Viserys' Unusual Euphemism for his Unstoppable Rage but becomes synonymous with Took a Level in Badass by the end of the book.
A Game of Thrones / int_d848560f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_d848560f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_d848560f
A Game of Thrones / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
A Game of Thrones / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The direwolf. While everybody is temporarily concerned about it as an omen, they seems completely unphased by how staggeringly unlikely it is. The first direwolf seen south of the wall in a century happens to die right by the Stark's return journey, is killed by a stag (snapping an antler off in the process) to cause maximum symbolism, and the pups left behind have the exact number and gender ratio to match up with the Stark children including an oddball for Jon. Only Theon even questions how it got past the wall, and everyone unquestionably accepts receiving the pups as providence.
A Game of Thrones / int_d99a228f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_d99a228f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_d99a228f
A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Cersei demands to have Sansa's wolf put down in place of Arya's wolf, and Sansa chooses to blame Arya instead of the queen who ordered the unjust slaughter. (Or Joffrey for picking the fight against Arya and Nymeria, or herself for lying about Arya's and Nymeria's guilt, which gave Cersei cause to call for a wolf execution in the first place.)
A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5
A Game of Thrones / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
A Game of Thrones / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The Red Priests and the Unsullied are first mentioned in Daenerys' first chapter before becoming more important in later installments.
A Game of Thrones / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_dcbe8a6e
A Game of Thrones / int_dd75c238	type	Deadly Deferred Conversation
A Game of Thrones / int_dd75c238	comment	Deadly Deferred Conversation: Ned Stark promises his bastard son Jon Snow that they'll talk about Jon's mother after he returns to the capital, Jon's Uncle Benjen promises to talk about Jon becoming a ranger after he returns from a scouting mission, and King Robert tells Ned they'll discuss the exiled princess Daenerys after Robert returns from a hunt. Ned is unfairly accused of treason and executed, Benjen has been missing for two years and is possibly undead, and King Robert is manipulated by his wife into being killed by a boar.
A Game of Thrones / int_dd75c238	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_dd75c238	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_dd75c238
A Game of Thrones / int_de02e808	type	Mistaken for Disease
A Game of Thrones / int_de02e808	comment	Mistaken for Disease: Jon Arryn is believed to have died from a chill of the stomach, having lapsed into a deadly fever and succumbed quickly due to old age. However, it soon becomes clear from the testimonies of both Jon's widow and the Master of Whispers that Jon was poisoned with the Tears of Lys - a rare poison that attacks the bowels in a way that will not seem unusual in old or sickly victims.
A Game of Thrones / int_de02e808	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_de02e808	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_de02e808
A Game of Thrones / int_dee56696	type	Innocuously Important Episode
A Game of Thrones / int_dee56696	comment	Innocuously Important Episode: The prologue is seemingly disconnected with the intricate machinations of the court and the upcoming civil war, but it sets up the true threat: the oncoming winter and the Others.
A Game of Thrones / int_dee56696	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_dee56696	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_dee56696
A Game of Thrones / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
A Game of Thrones / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister, whose union was the result of an Arranged Marriage. Robert's real love, Lyanna Stark, was killed during the civil war of Westeros and he never got over her. Cersei hates Robert since he called her "Lyanna" on their wedding night and spends his days fooling around with other women. She's paying him back by sleeping with her brother, passing off her children with said brother as Robert's and eventually plotting his death.
A Game of Thrones / int_deecc9eb	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_deecc9eb	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_deecc9eb
A Game of Thrones / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
A Game of Thrones / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Will, the POV character of the Prologue, who dies at the end of the chapter. Eddard Stark is also this on a much grander scale.
A Game of Thrones / int_df410b77	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_df410b77	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_df410b77
A Game of Thrones / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
A Game of Thrones / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Like it happened in Robert's Rebellion, a civil war starts when the head of House Stark is executed by a cruel king.
A Game of Thrones / int_e003c829	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e003c829	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e003c829
A Game of Thrones / int_e03c52ba	type	Failed Execution, No Sentence
A Game of Thrones / int_e03c52ba	comment	Failed Execution, No Sentence: Implied by Ned's speech to Bran; if the judge/executioner's will fails, it should be considered a divine pardon, or at least commutation.
A Game of Thrones / int_e03c52ba	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e03c52ba	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e03c52ba
A Game of Thrones / int_e55d8627	type	Present Absence
A Game of Thrones / int_e55d8627	comment	Present Absence: Discussed in Catelyn's POV. She thinks that there are two ghosts in her otherwise happy marriage with Ned: Ned's older brother Brandon, whom she was set to marry, and Jon Snow's mother. Both Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen have been dead for fourteen years but Lyanna's death is still very much present in Ned's thoughts and actions, and along with Rhaegar they've cast a shadow on the current events.
A Game of Thrones / int_e55d8627	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e55d8627	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e55d8627
A Game of Thrones / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
A Game of Thrones / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Sansa says that Joffrey is a lion, not a stag, and couldn't be more different from his drunken, obese father. This is the final hint that Ned needed to uncover the royal children's true parentage.
A Game of Thrones / int_e784bb8c	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e784bb8c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e784bb8c
A Game of Thrones / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
A Game of Thrones / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: When Ned is speaking with Arya about how the wolf blood took his siblings Brandon and Lyanna to an early grave. Brandon found his death by threatening Prince Rhaegar and getting killed by the Mad King, but Lyanna's case sounds weird since the accepted story of her death puts her as a Damsel in Distress rather than dying due to her wild nature. This may indicate something more about her death, but Arya doesn't notice something is off.
A Game of Thrones / int_e8ca5cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e8ca5cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e8ca5cb3
A Game of Thrones / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
A Game of Thrones / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Almost certainly intentional, but with the later focus on multiple concurrent plots scattered among several characters, it can be jarring to come back to the first book and discover that Ned was the main character for nearly two-thirds of its plot.
A Game of Thrones / int_e8dcd1c0	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e8dcd1c0	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e8dcd1c0
A Game of Thrones / int_e96b33b9	type	Loose Lips
A Game of Thrones / int_e96b33b9	comment	Loose Lips: Sansa Stark. Unintentionally helped the queen's plot against Eddard, which cost him his life.
A Game of Thrones / int_e96b33b9	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e96b33b9	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e96b33b9
A Game of Thrones / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
A Game of Thrones / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: A double-whammy from Khal Drogo. "No blood can be shed" in Vaes Dothrak, the Dothraki people's holy city, and Viserys repeatedly demands that Drogo make good on his promise to give him a "golden crown". When Drogo has had enough of him, he dumps a pot of molten gold over his head, killing him without spilling a drop of blood. Tyrion gets Lysa to let him out of his cell and brought before her so he can "confess [his] crimes". She expects to hear him confess that he ordered Bran and Jon Arynn's deaths, but instead he confesses a ton of minor crimes like gambling and whores. Joffrey tells Sansa that he that he will be merciful. He never said that he would spare Eddard. He gave him a clean death.
A Game of Thrones / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_e9e35e8f
A Game of Thrones / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
A Game of Thrones / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": How Robert meets his end.
A Game of Thrones / int_ed43de19	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ed43de19	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ed43de19
A Game of Thrones / int_ee0e6e70	type	The Marvelous Deer
A Game of Thrones / int_ee0e6e70	comment	The Marvelous Deer: King Robert went hunting after hearing of a white hart in the Kingswood. Instead, he ran into a boar...
A Game of Thrones / int_ee0e6e70	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_ee0e6e70	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_ee0e6e70
A Game of Thrones / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
A Game of Thrones / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Sansa and Arya at the end of the book. Daenerys has been this her whole life, having been born after her family's dynasty had been ousted.
A Game of Thrones / int_efac5012	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_efac5012	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_efac5012
A Game of Thrones / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
A Game of Thrones / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	Even years after her death, Robert is still in love with Lyanna Stark (or at least the impression he had of her before his rebellion). It's heavily implied that the reason he never got over her it's because he never got to live the reality of marriage with her, not to mention that had he ever got her back like he wished, their marriage would be ruined anyway since there would be Rhaegar's ghost always between them, much like Lyanna's own ghost has been always between Robert and Cersei. And as things turned sour with Cersei, he keeps pining for a woman he actually never knew intimately. This is lampshaded by Ned when Robert has a quarrel with Cersei:
A Game of Thrones / int_f0c4ce7d	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_f0c4ce7d	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_f0c4ce7d
A Game of Thrones / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
A Game of Thrones / int_f23ad6de	comment	Any time a feast or meal happens. Never read this book on an empty stomach.
A Game of Thrones / int_f23ad6de	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_f23ad6de	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_f23ad6de
A Game of Thrones / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
A Game of Thrones / int_f50b1e05	comment	Shoo the Dog: Arya must throw rocks to force Nymeria to flee because Arya knows Joffrey wouldn't let her "insult" to him go so easily.
A Game of Thrones / int_f50b1e05	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_f50b1e05	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_f50b1e05
A Game of Thrones / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
A Game of Thrones / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: Zig-Zagged. The maegi Mirri Maz Duur magically kills Daenerys Stormborn's unborn son in utero, both for revenge against the father and because the unborn child is prophesied to be the Stallion That Mounts the World, an unstoppable city-smashing warlord. While it doesn't exactly turn out well for Mirri in the end, she DOES successfully prevent the boy from being born and fulfilling whatever his Super Special Destiny was supposed to be. However, Mirri's actions wind up resulting in the rebirth of dragons into the world, and Daenerys's march toward Westeros. Played straight a little earlier. An assassin sent by Varys tries to kill Daenerys. The attempt fails, but the assassination attempt provokes Khal Drogo into declaring war on Westeros, which, by the way, leads into the above zig-zagged example.
A Game of Thrones / int_f77aa221	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_f77aa221	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_f77aa221
A Game of Thrones / int_name	type	ItemName
A Game of Thrones / int_name	comment
A Game of Thrones / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
A Game of Thrones / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	A Game of Thrones / int_name
A Game of Thrones / int_name	itemName	A Game of Thrones

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Achilles in His Tent / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Adaptational Hairstyle Change / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	All Animals Are Domesticated / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Befriending the Bullied / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Big Shadow, Little Creature / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Breakthrough Hit / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Cavalry Betrayal / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Chance Meeting Between Antagonists / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Chekhov's Gift / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Clueless Mystery / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Confess to a Lesser Crime / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Creepy Red Herring / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Culture Clash / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Deadly Deferred Conversation / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Deadly Environment Prison / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Death by Childbirth / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Decapitation Presentation / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Divided for Adaptation / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Double Meaning / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Dragon Works / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Dramatic Spine Injury / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Dreaming of Things to Come / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Equivalent Exchange / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Event Title / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Exact Eavesdropping / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Failed Execution, No Sentence / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Fear Is Normal / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Fearless Fool / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Flashback Nightmare / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Glorified Sperm Donor / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Hollywood Genetics / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Hufflepuff House / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	I Lied / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	I Won't Say I'm Guilty / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Inevitable Tournament / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Infallible Babble / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Innocuously Important Episode / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Junior Counterpart / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Kick Them While They Are Down / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Mentor Archetype / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Noir Episode / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Death / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Post-Game Retaliation / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Princess Stories / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	"Ray of Hope" Ending / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real! / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Signature Scene / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Snooping Little Kid / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Soulless Shell / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Tears of Blood / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	The Stations of the Canon / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Tragic Stillbirth / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Trial by Combat / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Wax On, Wax Off / int_be677f0e
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Your Worst Memory / int_be677f0e
A Game Of Thrones	seeAlso	A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Balancing Death's Books / int_be677f0e

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.