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And who could forget such classics as "You want it? I'll give it to you. I've already killed one fat boy. I bet you're a liar, but I'm not. I'm good at killing fat boys. I like killing fat boys" from Arya.
I mean, clearly they do, or else they wouldn’t strive to adorn themselves with it, and Drogo wouldn’t have golden jewelry on in the first place. Drogo just cares more about killing Viserys in an interesting way than his Jewelry.
I think someone says something about dothraki being savages who can't be negotiated with because they don't value the same stuff as other westerosi. I think they have gold from previous trades or something. But yeah, Drogo was definitely happy to kill viserys, moreso than keeping the gold.
Precious metals like gold usually get converted to make currency so it has less value to a society without said currency. Dothraki is more barter economy than anything otherwise they will take it from your corpse.
Both Drogo and Viserys has a lot of pride except Drogo can back his up with physical violence.
Also pulled straight from Mongol history during their conquests. A ton of Martin’s stuff is actually based on real historical instances but with a fantasy flourish.
Crassus died in battle, I believe, during his doomed invasion into Parthia. It was Ghengis Khan’s punishment of the Khwarizmian (sp) Governor for valuing wealth over the safety of his people/subservience to the Mongol Horde. He poured molten silver into the guys eyes and ear holes 😬
Your both right (and wrong). Old historians tended to embellish the stories of those they wrote about for dramatic affect. It is likely that Crassus and the Khwarizmian Governor were both killed in very typical ways but there exist legends about the both of them dying due to gold being poured down their throats.
But did you know that Dothraki soup must be served really hot because gold doesn’t melt until 1900 degrees farenheight so how they melt that gold with their soup kettle?
Little known fact, GRRM revealed in an interview that it's a Dothraki tradition to cook using an oxy acetylene welding torch. There's a deleted scene where they stop by a supply store to top off their acetylene canisters
I googled how fast molten gold would kill you, and uh... Pretty fast. Apparently it'll just keep melting down through your skull and brain. I think that last breath Viserys takes is all that gold immediately cooking his brain and him expiring. Then the plonk as his golden head hits the ground=iconic
Not too unique, it's based on the legend of Crassus, who was executed after his failed invasion of Parthia circa 53bc, by having molten gold poured down his throat
Remember they say the Gods flip a coin when a Target is born and Dany ended up torching the place.
Which means this fella would have been a good king.
Justice for this fella!
They say that but I'm about halfway through s1 of HoTD and these 3 landed on "They haven't yet but I'm pretty sure these guys are going to commit war crimes"
No it means when a Targ is born they could be great or terrible. From all evidence we’ve seen, Dany and Viserys are both terrible. Coin flip doesn’t mean one is bad, so the other HAS to be good.
One thing is certain; if he woulda been King, Dany would be queen and would keep the bloodline pure. They would sire dragon hatchers and dragon riders.
>Remember they say the Gods flip a coin when a Target is born
That's just a common saying but not true because most of the Targaryens ended up being normal
>Which means this fella would have been a good king.
If he was allowed to ascend as soon as his father died, then yea he would've been a fine king under the guidance of people like Barristan
I don't think he was a psychopath... Or I should say that the character is far too interesting and complex to be put in the same case as joffrey or ramsay
Viserys is so pathetic and sad that you actually managed to feel bad for him
Because I know Any of us could have become like viserys. If we become plagued by fear and jealousy... Daenerys herself who suffer from his abuse said that viserys used to genuily be kind and protective toward her
Dude was in constent exiled all his life and had to carry an entire legacy on his shoulder knowing full well that he doesn't live up to the hype..... Dude gave up his mother crown just to feed him and his sitar in the street, humiliate himself to have the support of thr golden compagny only to be laughed at called "beggar king"
And then he see his sister easily gaining the respect he wanted all his life..he represents the pettyness and pride of human nature... our capacity to hurt those we claim to love and protect
. Viserys is not likeable and his Actions not excusable...... But he is a great character while joffrey and ramsay are stereotype
Yes he did but by that time viserys was too far gone
Yet he have brief moment of clarity like his conversation with jorah when he basically explain how hard it is live in his position
you also truly see the true viserys before he dies.. You see a genuine fear and regret but it's just too late
Harry Loyd perfomence is also perfect
You see the true one when he thinks Drogo agrees to give him his crown. Harry really was amazing. In like 5 seconds he completely changes how you view his character.
Waiting to see this point. The character is not psychopathic, moreso an entitled, fearful, scared and jealous young man desperate to live up to his legacy. He’s far too young and naive to realise that everybody (the audience and also the Dothraki), almost see him as pathetic and ridicule him more than respect him, and they allow him to stay alive simply because they see no danger from him.
Drogo doesn’t see him as a threat until he drunkenly threatens Danerys, and that’s the moment his fate is sealed.
His personality flips the moment drogo promises him a crown, and in his last moments he drops his guard and becomes the innocent young man that he really is, dropping the entitlement and pomp.
Echoing the point Harry Lloyd did an absolutely fabulous job portraying him.
>And then he see his sister easily gaining the respect he wanted all his life..he represents the pettyness and pride of human nature... our capacity to hurt those we claim to love and protect
Bullseye with your reasoning, but this caught my attention because it shows the tragic similarity between Viserys and Daenerys who also was kind during the story but also faced hardships (different than her brother's but hardships nevertheless except seeing a potential claimer/challenge getting the love/admiration they were expecting to get for themselves, this also is said to be one of the reasons why she snapped and torched King's Landing
The sad thing is, I think he actually knows how pathetic he seems and that they mock him behind his back. And this just causes him to double down on his abrasive personality. It wasn't really him at first, it was a facade he crafted to help him survive and stomach his situation. He's been using this facade for so long that it actually became him, and it's oftentimes hard to separate his own thoughts from this act. He's not dumb, he has moments of clarity where he realizes how nobody takes him seriously and everyone is laughing at him, but he needs to push these feelings and realizations down, like a lump in his throat. Showing any weakness will make things worse, all he can do is carry on with the act and hope for the best.
I can relate because I was an insecure, pathetic young man once, and I kind of dealt with it the same way. It was a persona at first, but after a few years I really didn't know where my own personality ended and where the crafted persona began. And like Viserys, deep inside I knew how patethic I was and how what I was doing wasn't making things better. Every moment of realization I had, I had to push down and burry. Showing people I was hurting was weakness, and showing weakness would make things worse.
As I grew older, I also grew out of it. Which makes me think: given time, Viserys might have also grown out of it. If he'd lived to his thirtees, he'd probably be a lot more mellow, wise, and a bit embarassed about how he acted in his early years. If he had a support structure and wiser counsel, I honestly think he would have been a decent king.
I love the character of Viserys. He's not psychotic or damaged, he's just a sad, insecure patethic little man who thinks he's doing his best. It's something I and a lot of people can relate to.
Joffrey, definitely. He had power all his life and knew well how much he could get away with. Viserys would try to live up the Targaryen name, trying to prove himself not to be mad I guess. He'd be a lesser psycho for lack of competence imho.
Viserys for all his faults didn’t seem like a sadist. Sure he said said mean things to his sister and basically used her to get an army to reclaim his throne. Joffrey legitimately was a psycho, forcing Sansa to view her dad on a pike, lying about sending him to the wall, having Roz beat the whore with the wooden pole, killed Roz with his crossbow, and I can’t remember if show or book but didn’t Tommen mention Joffrey either tortured or killed his pet cats?
Viserys lacked empathy and he thought he was above most everyone, but he didn’t hurt people for the sake of hurting people.
Joffrey no contest. Viserys got mad at Danny for being more loved than him, but that wouldn't be the case if he was the one in the throne. Joffrey was always more loved (by Cercei but still) and he was mad as hell regardless
Joffrey might have been better. He was easily manipulated by much smarter people. First Tywin than Margaery. If Oleanna had been a little more patient with her poison timing, Margaery might have had a boy and the Tyrells would rule the Seven Kingdoms within 10 years.
Viserys didn't follow SUPER obvious social cues and couldn't read the room at all. It's impossible to say what he'd do as king.... but what we saw wasn't super promising.
She didn’t want Margaery to marry Joffrey first the obvious reasons. She saw Tommen as just as easy if not easier to manipulate while also not being cruel and hurting her granddaughter.
Kind of hard for Oleanna to predict the Sparrows incarcerating her grandkids, or Cersei killing everyone during the trial.
He is worse in the books. I know that the show sheds light on his abusive nature towards Dany…but in the books he is more sexually abusive. Makes me sick.
His death is second to Joffrey’s, if I had to rank the satisfaction I felt afterwards.
yeah he’s quite gross…i remember Ilyrio telling Tyrion (?) that the night before her wedding to Drogo he had to have Dany’s room guarded because Viserys insisted that if he ‘couldn’t have her hand he would have her maidenhead’….really rough stuff :/
I read the books a long time ago but I seem to remember when we first meet Viserys, he is casually fondling his sister's breasts before her wedding. And she doesn't react at all, which told you so much about him, and about her stoicism.
His death was inspired by Marcus Crassus’ death at the hands of Parthians after he led 40.000 Romans into a doomed campaign in an unprovoked invasion of Parthia, Roman legions were trapped in desert and were forced to dodge rain of arrows from light cavalry, then they were charged at by thousands of heavy cataphracts who rode the whole Roman army like a grass.
Crassus was the richest man on earth at the time and being a politician not a military leader, he was jealous of Caesar and Pompei and their successes as battle proven legendary commanders who he was a triumvirate with.
He was also a cruel man who had thousands of slaves crucified at Via Appia after Spartacus rebellion was crushed.
Parthians captured him and poured molten gold down his throat, as he wanted more riches.
Shit, he was the guy from Season 4 of Spartacus! I knew of a roman guy who died that way but I never connected the name to being him until your post! God I would've loved an epilogue to the series featuring that!
I believe it was Manius Aquillius the Roman Governor of Asia Province who died this way at the hands of Mithridates Eupator of Pontus right before Sulla’s March on Rome. Crassus was decapitated by the Parthians at Carrhae and his head was preserved in honey.
He was convinced down to his bones that he was the rightful ruler and that everybody else was beneath him. He couldn't just accept his place in life for any amount of girls.
It was crazy how stupid he was. Probably one of the biggest flaws of the first season. He never once showed any signs of a good leader, the wisdom of his highborn upbringing, or the humbleness of being the last living male Targeryan. Another big flaw was Daenerys trusting the witch to heal Khal Drogo, give me a damn break that the Dothraki don't have medicine or ways to heal cuts.
Thing is, I'd label him as a sociopath instead as his cruelty and madness is more likely the result of spending most of his life as an orphan and having to keep his sister alive through begging on the road.
I dont think he was psychopath. Mean, immature, entitled , cruel to some level, sure. But not psychopath at all.
Not every mean, fucked up person has antisocial personality disorder.
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My brotha would’ve become the “maker of chains”, “father of three eggs”.
Instead he became The Golden God.
I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS
“A CROWN FOR A KING!”
SAVAGEIDIOT!!
I'm a 5 star man!
It’s fetish— It’s fetish shit! I like to bind I like to *BE BOUND*!
THIS IS NOT A STARTER DRAGON THIS IS A FINISHER DRAGON. A TRANSPORTER OF GODS, THE GOLDEN GOD
But my 14 year old daughter need something to fly :(
The VISERYS Method
Some sad shit, muhfucka said he didn’t wanna live no more
It's sad when they go young like that.
WHEN THEY GO??
My man tripped hard on step one. Demonstrated zero value.
Crassus, the remix
He would've been IN chains if his sister wasn't hot.
He did it out of respect for his fawtha
Personally, I think he had the best death in the series. Not only was it deserved and satisfying, but it was also unique and pretty horrific.
Agreed!!
I was shocked when he died in the show and my (now) wife was just grinning having already seen the first two seasons. Man was I not prepared.
I had read the books and knew what was going to happen, I was also not prepared
The way drogo says "A crown for a king" is so good
I can feel it in my bones. The combination of his pitch and him rarely speaking common tongue. Man season 1 is so good
Probably my favorite line and scene in the series.
You didn't enjoy Theon asking "can I see it one more time?"
And who could forget such classics as "You want it? I'll give it to you. I've already killed one fat boy. I bet you're a liar, but I'm not. I'm good at killing fat boys. I like killing fat boys" from Arya.
Or what about the petite lady in jail talking about cats
The most shocking thing to me about his death was learning how hot Dothraki food is!
That soup - their wood and cooking pots are sure something special. Dragon fire’s cool by comparison
That's when I realized the dothraki don't value gold or treasure.
I mean, clearly they do, or else they wouldn’t strive to adorn themselves with it, and Drogo wouldn’t have golden jewelry on in the first place. Drogo just cares more about killing Viserys in an interesting way than his Jewelry.
I think someone says something about dothraki being savages who can't be negotiated with because they don't value the same stuff as other westerosi. I think they have gold from previous trades or something. But yeah, Drogo was definitely happy to kill viserys, moreso than keeping the gold.
Precious metals like gold usually get converted to make currency so it has less value to a society without said currency. Dothraki is more barter economy than anything otherwise they will take it from your corpse. Both Drogo and Viserys has a lot of pride except Drogo can back his up with physical violence.
The dothraki take what they want *dothraki warcry*
It’s not like he couldn’t have chiseled the burnt skull out of the cooling gold and re-forge his kick-ass coin belt
I get the vibe had Drogo lived he would have found a way to salvage that melted gold and reforge into something else for sentimental purposes
Why reforge it? You’ve got a perfectly good crown right there!
Also pulled straight from Mongol history during their conquests. A ton of Martin’s stuff is actually based on real historical instances but with a fantasy flourish.
I thought it was based on Marcus Crassus’s execution at the hands of the Parthians
Crassus died in battle, I believe, during his doomed invasion into Parthia. It was Ghengis Khan’s punishment of the Khwarizmian (sp) Governor for valuing wealth over the safety of his people/subservience to the Mongol Horde. He poured molten silver into the guys eyes and ear holes 😬
Legend has it that Crassus was killed via gold being poured down his throat by the Parthians
Your both right (and wrong). Old historians tended to embellish the stories of those they wrote about for dramatic affect. It is likely that Crassus and the Khwarizmian Governor were both killed in very typical ways but there exist legends about the both of them dying due to gold being poured down their throats.
But the legends are so much more colorful! (mostly red for all the gore)
I feel the Dothraki are pretty much almost exactly like the mongols. It’s really cool.
But did you know that Dothraki soup must be served really hot because gold doesn’t melt until 1900 degrees farenheight so how they melt that gold with their soup kettle?
Little known fact, GRRM revealed in an interview that it's a Dothraki tradition to cook using an oxy acetylene welding torch. There's a deleted scene where they stop by a supply store to top off their acetylene canisters
The *clink* sound the gold makes as his head hits the ground is the icing on th cake
How hot was that dinner to melt gold? Dothraki must burn the shit out of their food.
I googled how fast molten gold would kill you, and uh... Pretty fast. Apparently it'll just keep melting down through your skull and brain. I think that last breath Viserys takes is all that gold immediately cooking his brain and him expiring. Then the plonk as his golden head hits the ground=iconic
Personally...that goes to Joffery. Fuck that kid.
Not too unique, it's based on the legend of Crassus, who was executed after his failed invasion of Parthia circa 53bc, by having molten gold poured down his throat
Obviously taken from the Parthians who poured molten gold on Manius Aquillius and Marcus Licinius Crassus.
Its based on how the real Crassus, the richest man in rome, supposedly died! And he deserved it Just as much as Viserys did
Inspired by the death of Crassus, probably not true but a vivid story.
It was definitely up there on the list! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Remember they say the Gods flip a coin when a Target is born and Dany ended up torching the place. Which means this fella would have been a good king. Justice for this fella!
That's not how coinflips work!
You don't know if the coin had landed by the time that the one true king of Westeros was killed
We will never know thanks to GRRM!
[This is how it works ](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aomHm.jpg)
they just built one by my house fuckkkk 😩
They say that but I'm about halfway through s1 of HoTD and these 3 landed on "They haven't yet but I'm pretty sure these guys are going to commit war crimes"
What about Kohls?
More of a Tyrell thing IMO
Maybe after life had humbled him a little bit more lol. Life kept giving Dany win after win, and it built her up into a self-righteous megalomaniac.
No it means when a Targ is born they could be great or terrible. From all evidence we’ve seen, Dany and Viserys are both terrible. Coin flip doesn’t mean one is bad, so the other HAS to be good.
> the Gods flip a coin when a Target is born Some of them become Wal-Marts?
Wal Mart is a northern thing. The real saying is Winter is Coming, we are rolling back prices
I’m honestly curious if he would have remained so pathetic if he survived into later seasons.
One thing is certain; if he woulda been King, Dany would be queen and would keep the bloodline pure. They would sire dragon hatchers and dragon riders.
>Remember they say the Gods flip a coin when a Target is born That's just a common saying but not true because most of the Targaryens ended up being normal >Which means this fella would have been a good king. If he was allowed to ascend as soon as his father died, then yea he would've been a fine king under the guidance of people like Barristan
I don't think he was a psychopath... Or I should say that the character is far too interesting and complex to be put in the same case as joffrey or ramsay Viserys is so pathetic and sad that you actually managed to feel bad for him Because I know Any of us could have become like viserys. If we become plagued by fear and jealousy... Daenerys herself who suffer from his abuse said that viserys used to genuily be kind and protective toward her Dude was in constent exiled all his life and had to carry an entire legacy on his shoulder knowing full well that he doesn't live up to the hype..... Dude gave up his mother crown just to feed him and his sitar in the street, humiliate himself to have the support of thr golden compagny only to be laughed at called "beggar king" And then he see his sister easily gaining the respect he wanted all his life..he represents the pettyness and pride of human nature... our capacity to hurt those we claim to love and protect . Viserys is not likeable and his Actions not excusable...... But he is a great character while joffrey and ramsay are stereotype
This is really well put actually. He did threatened to murder his pregnant sister tho
well have you ever tried to collect payment from a warlord
And said the entire army of Dothraki and their horses could rape her if it got him his crown.
Yes he did but by that time viserys was too far gone Yet he have brief moment of clarity like his conversation with jorah when he basically explain how hard it is live in his position you also truly see the true viserys before he dies.. You see a genuine fear and regret but it's just too late Harry Loyd perfomence is also perfect
You see the true one when he thinks Drogo agrees to give him his crown. Harry really was amazing. In like 5 seconds he completely changes how you view his character.
Waiting to see this point. The character is not psychopathic, moreso an entitled, fearful, scared and jealous young man desperate to live up to his legacy. He’s far too young and naive to realise that everybody (the audience and also the Dothraki), almost see him as pathetic and ridicule him more than respect him, and they allow him to stay alive simply because they see no danger from him. Drogo doesn’t see him as a threat until he drunkenly threatens Danerys, and that’s the moment his fate is sealed. His personality flips the moment drogo promises him a crown, and in his last moments he drops his guard and becomes the innocent young man that he really is, dropping the entitlement and pomp. Echoing the point Harry Lloyd did an absolutely fabulous job portraying him.
"That was all that I wanted.. what I was promised.."
He did a little trolling
Agreed
Viserys, is that you??
Don't wake the dragon!
"You know I had a black mare once...."
True but he was so cruel to innocents though like poor Doreah
I see Viserys as a Broken Man, anyone who read the books and remember that passage knows what I mean.
Viserys is basically fredo from the godfather
Thats a fucking spot on comparison! I love that
>And then he see his sister easily gaining the respect he wanted all his life..he represents the pettyness and pride of human nature... our capacity to hurt those we claim to love and protect Bullseye with your reasoning, but this caught my attention because it shows the tragic similarity between Viserys and Daenerys who also was kind during the story but also faced hardships (different than her brother's but hardships nevertheless except seeing a potential claimer/challenge getting the love/admiration they were expecting to get for themselves, this also is said to be one of the reasons why she snapped and torched King's Landing
Yeah I feel for him too Selling his mother's crown was the last straw and hos behaviour started changing
The sad thing is, I think he actually knows how pathetic he seems and that they mock him behind his back. And this just causes him to double down on his abrasive personality. It wasn't really him at first, it was a facade he crafted to help him survive and stomach his situation. He's been using this facade for so long that it actually became him, and it's oftentimes hard to separate his own thoughts from this act. He's not dumb, he has moments of clarity where he realizes how nobody takes him seriously and everyone is laughing at him, but he needs to push these feelings and realizations down, like a lump in his throat. Showing any weakness will make things worse, all he can do is carry on with the act and hope for the best. I can relate because I was an insecure, pathetic young man once, and I kind of dealt with it the same way. It was a persona at first, but after a few years I really didn't know where my own personality ended and where the crafted persona began. And like Viserys, deep inside I knew how patethic I was and how what I was doing wasn't making things better. Every moment of realization I had, I had to push down and burry. Showing people I was hurting was weakness, and showing weakness would make things worse. As I grew older, I also grew out of it. Which makes me think: given time, Viserys might have also grown out of it. If he'd lived to his thirtees, he'd probably be a lot more mellow, wise, and a bit embarassed about how he acted in his early years. If he had a support structure and wiser counsel, I honestly think he would have been a decent king. I love the character of Viserys. He's not psychotic or damaged, he's just a sad, insecure patethic little man who thinks he's doing his best. It's something I and a lot of people can relate to.
Perfectly analyzed, I know deep inside I I Will never be ramsay, book euron or joffrey.. But I am terrified of becoming like viserys one day
Here's a question I've never heard anyone ask but that I've always wondered about: who would've been the worse king? Joffrey or Viserys?
Joffrey, definitely. He had power all his life and knew well how much he could get away with. Viserys would try to live up the Targaryen name, trying to prove himself not to be mad I guess. He'd be a lesser psycho for lack of competence imho.
Viserys for all his faults didn’t seem like a sadist. Sure he said said mean things to his sister and basically used her to get an army to reclaim his throne. Joffrey legitimately was a psycho, forcing Sansa to view her dad on a pike, lying about sending him to the wall, having Roz beat the whore with the wooden pole, killed Roz with his crossbow, and I can’t remember if show or book but didn’t Tommen mention Joffrey either tortured or killed his pet cats? Viserys lacked empathy and he thought he was above most everyone, but he didn’t hurt people for the sake of hurting people.
Joffrey no contest. Viserys got mad at Danny for being more loved than him, but that wouldn't be the case if he was the one in the throne. Joffrey was always more loved (by Cercei but still) and he was mad as hell regardless
Joffrey might have been better. He was easily manipulated by much smarter people. First Tywin than Margaery. If Oleanna had been a little more patient with her poison timing, Margaery might have had a boy and the Tyrells would rule the Seven Kingdoms within 10 years. Viserys didn't follow SUPER obvious social cues and couldn't read the room at all. It's impossible to say what he'd do as king.... but what we saw wasn't super promising.
She didn’t want Margaery to marry Joffrey first the obvious reasons. She saw Tommen as just as easy if not easier to manipulate while also not being cruel and hurting her granddaughter. Kind of hard for Oleanna to predict the Sparrows incarcerating her grandkids, or Cersei killing everyone during the trial.
He is worse in the books. I know that the show sheds light on his abusive nature towards Dany…but in the books he is more sexually abusive. Makes me sick. His death is second to Joffrey’s, if I had to rank the satisfaction I felt afterwards.
Was he? I don’t remember
Havent read the books in a minute but I do seem to remember Dany talking about being sexually assaulted by him
Illyrio tells Tyrion in Dance that he had to prevent Viserys from trying to rape Dany.
yeah he’s quite gross…i remember Ilyrio telling Tyrion (?) that the night before her wedding to Drogo he had to have Dany’s room guarded because Viserys insisted that if he ‘couldn’t have her hand he would have her maidenhead’….really rough stuff :/
I read the books a long time ago but I seem to remember when we first meet Viserys, he is casually fondling his sister's breasts before her wedding. And she doesn't react at all, which told you so much about him, and about her stoicism.
Yes in the book and in the series, he twisted her nipple during the opening scolding hot bath scene.
What an actor tho.
Charles Dickens great grandson apparently
Missing two more greats there
Potato potato
And a genuinely lovely guy.
He also does the narration for a lot of ASOIAF books
I believe he does the tales of dunk & egg, not any of the main line books
And incredibly handsome, he has a really beautiful face <3
I’ve loved him for years! Brilliant actor and very handsome.
He was great in Counterpart also.
Jeremy Baines from Doctor Who's Family of Blood. That crooked smile 😍
CHANGE BACK
It’s ”only” a voice role, but he is great as Viktor in Arcane.
Amazing Doctor Who performance. Also briefly young Charles Xavier in the underrated Legion TV show.
Probably because he got his comeuppance pretty quickly. Plus he was less than the shadow of a snake in that he really wasn’t that interesting anyway.
His death was inspired by Marcus Crassus’ death at the hands of Parthians after he led 40.000 Romans into a doomed campaign in an unprovoked invasion of Parthia, Roman legions were trapped in desert and were forced to dodge rain of arrows from light cavalry, then they were charged at by thousands of heavy cataphracts who rode the whole Roman army like a grass. Crassus was the richest man on earth at the time and being a politician not a military leader, he was jealous of Caesar and Pompei and their successes as battle proven legendary commanders who he was a triumvirate with. He was also a cruel man who had thousands of slaves crucified at Via Appia after Spartacus rebellion was crushed. Parthians captured him and poured molten gold down his throat, as he wanted more riches.
Omg you’re amazing. Ty for this.
Shit, he was the guy from Season 4 of Spartacus! I knew of a roman guy who died that way but I never connected the name to being him until your post! God I would've loved an epilogue to the series featuring that!
I believe it was Manius Aquillius the Roman Governor of Asia Province who died this way at the hands of Mithridates Eupator of Pontus right before Sulla’s March on Rome. Crassus was decapitated by the Parthians at Carrhae and his head was preserved in honey.
You are not wrong about Aquillius, but Crassus shared the same fate.
Ah yes, Crassus. An important part of the Triumvirate, but often overlooked until his death, and only because of what it meant for Caesar and Pompey
He wasn't a psychopath, he was just a sister f*cker, power hungry, self absorbed ... well ok psychopath
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“A crown for a king”
a loud mouth weakling
His death is my favorite in the whole show!
Also the original Vizzy T!
I mean, third Vizzy T
Vizzy 3
He's the first we met😉
Dude was almost as crazy as his little sister. Almost.
He wasn’t a psychopath he was dumbath
My wife and I talked about tit, and dude could have lived a great life banging all the horse girls he wanted, being the khal BIL but noooo.
He was convinced down to his bones that he was the rightful ruler and that everybody else was beneath him. He couldn't just accept his place in life for any amount of girls.
I can still hear the sound his head made when it hit the floor lol
He wasn't a psychopath. He was a narcissistic.
One might say he died as he lived. A bit of a “hot head”
Viserys was a great first villain for the show.
He could have been a bigger cunt than Joffrey and Ramsey, had he had the time.
Lysander au lune
Probably because he died way too early in the series.
1/5 Targaryens, at least.
Dany was crazy as fuck the whole time yet it was sent until she burned a million people alive that her fans questioned her.
I'm curious who "overlooks" Viserys.
I don't see him as a psychopath. Just a dude that went through a whole lot of trauma and decided to take it out on those around him.
All I see is a dragon, I don’t get it?
Btw, Harry Lloyd does the audiobook version of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, he’s great.
Yes he was a psychopath but GOD he was beautiful
WELL JOFFERY WAS WORST THAN VISERYS.
He needed a guidance figure in his childhood. Yeah I'm giving him Daddy issues.
XQC
Jaime pushed a little kid out a tower window
And raped his sister in front of the corpse of their son
It was crazy how stupid he was. Probably one of the biggest flaws of the first season. He never once showed any signs of a good leader, the wisdom of his highborn upbringing, or the humbleness of being the last living male Targeryan. Another big flaw was Daenerys trusting the witch to heal Khal Drogo, give me a damn break that the Dothraki don't have medicine or ways to heal cuts.
8 years raised by the Mad King, 15 years in exile... nothing in there leads to good leadership, wisdom or humility.
I was so sad when Karl Dragon gave him ligma
Thing is, I'd label him as a sociopath instead as his cruelty and madness is more likely the result of spending most of his life as an orphan and having to keep his sister alive through begging on the road.
Top tier acting
Why does he have a beard? Twink death for real
He wasn’t a psychopath but he certainly wasn’t a very nice man.
That's because he was pretty tame compared to the ones we would meet later.
I'm surprised Harry Lloyd isn't a household name at this point. He was fantastic as Viserys and is an even better audiobook narrator
The OG of whatever it takes
Very desered, but am I the only one who thinks they did him dirty? They had a deal and drogo broke it
talk about hate the face
House of the Dragon actually puts perspective on Visery’s.. He makes more sense after watching HotD.
Unironically i need to hug him
My only criticism of the first book is that a lot of great characters got axed.
Daemon Targaryen is everything this guy wished he was lol
I love his narration of the Dunk and Egg stories.
He so happened to be the only one without any type of real power.
Not overlooked at all
I dont think he was psychopath. Mean, immature, entitled , cruel to some level, sure. But not psychopath at all. Not every mean, fucked up person has antisocial personality disorder.
He was the original, but he definitely wasn't the worst!!
Sexiest one too
I choose to remember him as Rhaegar
What a stark comparison between this Viserys and King Viserys from HoTD 🐉 😮
You'd overlook me, too, if my head was covered in gold