Worst Game Of Thrones Characters, Ranked. Whether fans love them or love to hate them, Game of Thrones has introduced a sprawling cast of magnificent characters. The scope of HBO’s fantasy epic is enormous, and the production value of the series is the best that TV has probably ever seen. The show would be nothing, however, without charming and likable figures like Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark and, of course, Tyrion Lannister.

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Yet there are more than a few characters who get nowhere near that upper echelon of awesome. Keep in mind, this is not a list of the most unlikable characters on Game of Thrones. The likes of Cersei and Joffrey will not be found here, because while they are awful people, they are genuinely terrific characters due to the acting and writing that breathes them to life. This is also not a collection of characters who were severely changed from the source material of George R.

R. Martin’s A Song of Ice of Fire. The folks gather here have had little to no impact on the story of Game of Thrones or, through a combination of bad writing, poor casting, or underwhelming performances, just made for bad TV. Take a look at the 1. Worst Game Of Thrones Characters, Ranked. Stannis Baratheon. For a would- be King of the Seven Kingdoms, Stannis didn’t exactly inspire loyalty from the fans or characters from Game of Thrones.

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While his lack of personality was essentially the entire point of his character, the series went several extra miles with Stannis – in the wrong direction. Stannis wasn’t just stoic, he was ungodly boring. In the books, Stannis manages to be a quiet but oddly charismatic figure. He isn’t a charmer by any means, but he leads through power and might.

In the show, Stannis was just a pawn in Melisandre’s bigger schemes. He acted almost completely at the whim of the Red Woman, and the show never bothered to explain why beyond religious fervor and lust.

The one time that Stannis did show some genuine emotion (and likability) was with his daughter Shireen. But Game of Thrones also managed to ruin that solid part of his character by the end. His decision to sacrifice his daughter came far too quickly, and the fallout was over just as briefly.

No one mourned when Stannis lost his head to Brienne of Tarth, even if Game of Thrones denied fans the satisfaction of witnessing the beheading. Selyse Baratheon. As drab as Stannis was to watch, he was at least a step above his nutty wife. Game of Thrones fans knew they were in for a wild ride with the Queen of Dragonstone when she was introduced in a room full of jarred dead fetuses.

While Stannis approached his devotion to the Lord of the Light with the same level of excitement he dealt with everything (a shrug and a grunt), Selyse was 1. Melisandre. It was exhausting.

Selyse was basically a cartoon character, and Thrones never bothered to give her a deeper motivation than she was a few ravens short of a flock. Selyse’s extreme devotion to the Lord of the Light stretched belief in a series that typically does such a good job of explaining character’s belief systems and motivations, even if they are not meant to be likable. The most insulting thing about Selyse is at the end of her life, the series tried to make her into a sympathetic and tragic figure. While Stannis stuck to his guns after killing his daughter, Selyse was racked up guilt and even tried to stop the sacrifice from happening, eventually killing herself in shame. Renly Baratheon. Rounding out our trio of disappointing Baratheons – this is the last one, we promise – is Renly. Watch Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud Online there. While Stannis was meant to be unemotional and Selyse was supposed to be unlikable, Renly was expected to be a charming counterpoint to his boring brother and crazed wife. The problem is that Renly was just as poorly presented and developed as either of them.

Renly smiled more than Stannis and was less of drunken mess than his other brother, King Robert, but he definitely wasn’t the second coming of Baratheon glory like the show tried to claim. Renly was meant to be funny, charming, and eloquent. In reality, he was just propped by the Tyrells, and his only purpose was to introduce the far more compelling Margaery Tyrell. Renly’s lack of charisma even affected other characters. Before Brienne grew out of her slavish devotion to him, it just seemed bizarre how much she loved a king who acted like an enormous idiot.

The same goes for Loras Tyrell. Though he quickly seemed to forget that Renly existed, Loras’ initial deep mourning for Renly was hilariously void of meaning for the audience. Kevan Lannister. It can’t be easy growing up with one of the biggest badasses in Westeros, Tywin Lannister, as an older brother. This is the twist of fate that befell Kevan Lannister. While the books presented Kevan as the slightly disappointing sequel to Tywin – still impressive, but not as awesome as his brother – TV’s Kevan is the lamest of lions. Well, second lamest…stay tuned for more on that.)In the books, Kevan is Tywin’s right- hand- man and intellectual equal.

In the show, Kevan manages to get bullied out of King’s Landing by Cersei of all people. No major player in Game of Thrones should be losing a battle of wits against Cersei, except maybe poor innocent Ned Stark, and not just because she is usually three sheets to the wind in any given scene.

If Tywin hated Tyrion so much for being just a tad short, there is no reason that Tywin should have kept Kevan around at all. Given how pathetic Kevan proved to be after Tywin died, its one of the show’s greatest mysteries why his older brother didn’t disown him during his life.

The Mountain. It says something that when The Mountain was turned into a mute zombie whose face is entirely obscured, he remained just as interesting, if not more so, as a character. It says something even more that Gregor Clegane has portrayed by three actors and no one even really noticed. The Mountain is nothing but an enormous meathead, before and after he was resurrected to be Cersei’s main protector. It’s true that Game of Thrones has never tried to make The Mountain more than just a beefy threat with a sword. That’s not acceptable.

When Thrones can make a character as awful as Joffrey into a human being, albeit a terrifying one, The Mountain shouldn’t have such a bare bones character running around. The series has spent a great deal of time developing The Hound, but done almost nothing with his brother, The Mountain.

Given that fact, it’s pretty hard to not root hard against Gregor when it comes to the long- held fan theory that the two will eventually face off in “The Cleganebowl”. Doran Martell. Game of Thrones casting an actor as magnificent as Alexander Siddig and having him do nothing but sit in a chair and give disapproving glances will forever be one of the show’s most confusing choices. Doran Martell could have been great, and there were a few glimmers of potential in his short tenure on the show. The book version of him is pretty incredible.) The former head of Dorne was just less than the sum of his parts in the end.

Doran was so ineffectual and meaningless that he almost made the Sand Snakes a viable option as a suitable ruler of Dorne. Just let that sink in for a moment. Doran should have been the wise and measured leader of his southern nation. He was at least presented at times as the yin to Oberyn’s hotheaded yang. Yet Thrones never did anything to capitalize on what could have been with Doran.

When Ellaria killed him in the season 6 premiere, it didn’t come as a huge shock. It didn’t even come as a crowd- pleasing victory. Watch Backwoods Online Facebook on this page. It was just a relief that Siddig was free to move on to projects that actually wanted to use his talents as an actor. Robin Arryn. Whiny and weak Robin Arryn is meant to be precisely as irritating as he has been presented. There is a reason that the greatest scene in Game of Thrones involving Robin came when Sansa smacked him across the face.

She’d survived being tormented by Joffrey and taunted by Cersei, yet she never rose a hand to either of them.