31 Shocking Game of Thrones Deaths

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No series on television stuns and shocks like Game of Thrones.

Truly unafraid to kill off any character, the HBO epic leaves fans' jaws on the ground for weeks at a time, as heroes get stabbed by their colleagues, daughters get poisoned by their rivals and mean kings drink from their fatal wine glasses.

With Game of Thrones Season 7 about to come to a close, we've rounded up some of the most shocking deaths on the series to date...

1. Viserion

Game of Thrones raised the stakes in the penultimate episode of Season 7 when Viserion was taken out of the sky by an ice-infused spear from the Night King. Yes, he totally has blue eyes now.

2. Shireen

Shireen was burned at the stake by Melisandre, per the order of her own father. Holy craziness!

3. Myrcella

NOOOO! Just when Myrcella was finally bonding with her father, she died in his arms.

4. King Joffrey

Long live the King? Joffrey was felled at his own wedding by a glass of poisoned wine.

5. Tywin Lannister

He didn't think his son was capable of doing it. But Tyrion proves his dad very wrong.

6. Prince Oberyn Martell

Rest in peace, Prince Oberyn Martell. You provided plenty of laughter and a lot of handsomeness.

7. Lysa Tully

Killed by her husband, through the hole in the floor of her own home. Tough way to go.

8. Lady Olenna

The Lannisters needed the gold from the Tyrells, and Olenna was the last person standing. Jaime let her die by sipping on some poison. Naturally, she got the last laugh when she revealed that she killed Joffrey.

9. King Robert Baratheon

And thus the Game of Thrones begins when Robert's loving wife Cersei secures his death by ensuring he over-drinks on a hunt and gets gored by a boar. It's also the beginning of Ned's downfall.

10. Renly Baratheon

Renly received a full blown supernatural death at the hands of Melisandre's baby smoke monster raising the "anything goes" factor on GoT. He was too soft-hearted to be playing at king, poor dear.

11. Ramsay

Just when it seemed like Ramsay had won the battle of the bastards, Sansa showed up with some backup, before feeding Ramsey to his dogs. Karma.

12. Lady the Direwolf

Lady paid the ultimate price for what her sister Nymeria did -- bit Joffrey on the arm to protect Arya (and because Joffrey is an ass). Ned had to put down Sansa's beloved direwolf proving proving our distaste for Joffrey was spot on. Nymeria now runs free.

13. Syrio Forel

Arya learned how to use her beloved "Needle" that she received from Robb with help from dance master Syrio. The pesky Lannisters try to kill Arya and Syrio fends them off with a wooden training sword long enough for her to escape before dying off screen.

14. Yoren

Yoren died defending Arya and Gendry from Lannister men as he was loaded full of arrows, took a lance to the chest and a sword to the back of his neck finally downed the fan favorite.

15. The Sand Snakes

Two died when Euron showed up and interrupted Ellaria's tryst with Yara, while the other was fed poison and left to decompose in King's Landing.

16. Maester Luwin

Maester Luwin gets the shaft when Ramsay Snow (ne Bolton) attacks Winterfell and an Ironborn captain just knocks him to the ground and shafts him for no apparent reason. He was trying to counsel Theon. Maybe that was his punishment. He died later in the godwood, when Osha gave him the gift of mercy.

17. Lord Commander Mormont

Lord Mormont, who we once thought would guide Jon Snow as he took command of the Night's Watch, was stabbed in the back by his own men after surviving a fight with White Walkers. If you're old, don't take a bunch of men where they don't want to go and to a guy who's gonna withhold food. Hungry men will kill you.

18. Viserys Targaryen

Be careful what you wish for! Khal Drogo had about enough of Viserys treating Daenerys like crap and demanding his Dothraki army complete with gold crown so he gave him one -- of the molten kind.

19. Khal Drago

Drago seemed like a poor match for Dany at first, but they were perfectly suited and between them grew a great love. He seemed unstoppable, but was cut down by a flesh wound. Returned by Blood Magic as a changed being, Daenerys took her husband's life again so he wouldn't suffer.

20. Direwolf Grey Wind

Rubbing salt in the wound, Arya's tremendous journey to find them dies with her family at The Red Wedding where she witnesses the Frey crossbowmen shooting Robb's direwolf Grey Wind and he passes as she watches on.

21. Talisa and Unborn Stark

Robb's wife Talisa was gutted, making her death even more horrific as her first thought was about her unborn child. She died as Robb and Catelyn looked on at what was supposed to be a grand affair and turned into The Red Wedding.

22. Robb Stark

After Robb attended to his dying wife and with his mother looking on in horror, he's pierced with arrows before Bolton lances him sending regards from the Lannisters -- the harbingers of evil. The race for the Iron Throne gets smaller.

23. Catelyn Stark

Catelyn's anguist at witnessing the death of what she thought her last living son, his wife and her grandchild to be caused her to take an innocent life before having her own throat slit, knowing all the while if she hadn't let the kingslayer go, the ending might be different.

24. Ned Stark

With Ned's death we learned that nobody is safe on Game of Thrones. Ned was the hero, the honorable man who was trying to do right by his family and his people in the wake of the death of his friend and king. Joffrey lopped his head off, later putting it on a spike and parading his fiancee Sansa by to gaze at it. All is not right in this world. Will it ever be, George R.R. Martin?

25. Hodor

Hodor died a hero, helping to save the life of Bran. But that didn't make his passing any less sad. Hodor forever, man. Hodor.

26. Osha

Osha knew there was something scary going on with Ramsey, but she was caught trying to kill him and lost her life.

27. Rickon

After many seasons away, Rickon returned and failed to zig zag his way to freedom. Instead, he was killed by Ramsey Bolton.

28. Margaery

Margaery died, along with her father, brother and another multitude of people when Cersei perfectly executed a plan to blow up the septum. It was a shock, for sure.

29. Thoros of Myr

Thoros appeared sporadically through the show's run, but things took a crazy turn when he ventured beyond the wall. He was attacked by a polar bear and was saved, but he seemingly froze to death later on.

30. Randyll and Dickon Tarley

After Daenerys successfully won a battle at High Garden, she ordered Randyll and Dickon to bend the knee, but they had other plans. So, Daenerys had her dragon barbecue them.

31. Ser Myran Trant

Arya Stark got her revenge on Ser Myran Trant in a tense scene that aired during Season 5.

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