All Men Must Die: Your ‘Game of Thrones’ Male Fatality Playoffs

Game of Thrones has been beating one phrase into our heads since the beginning of the show, almost to a point where you might not even realize it anymore: “All Men Must Die.” This is basically the Thrones version of…

Game of Thrones has been beating one phrase into our heads since the beginning of the show, almost to a point where you might not even realize it anymore: “All Men Must Die.” This is basically the Thrones version of the ever popular “men are trash” (by the way, fellas, this doesn’t specifically mean you so much as it means patriarchy… which is, in fact, trash) but considering how the power dynamic has been gradually shifting towards a “ladies first” narrative, one can’t help but feel like the championship round of the Great Game is going to end up being all women. With that in mind, considering we only have about a dozen episodes to go in the series altogether, blood will definitely be spilled — it’s just a matter of whose blood it’s most likely to be. So, in keeping with the theme, let’s take a look at which of the male necks is best fitted for the gallows. Jon Snow

Merits The Bastard Gawd AKA King of the North AKA Second Silkiest Head of Hair in the Seven Kingdoms (because nobody’s hair beats Missandei’s) has definitely had one of the most pivotal evolutions in the show’s storyline. I mean, honestly, if you’ve lived this long in the Great Game, your storyline is almost obligated to get grandfathered up to that premium package with no ads and less travel time between destinations. Even though one of the great rules of this show is to not get married to any one character because nobody is truly safe, it’s been hammered home on basically every discernible level that Jon Sn…

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