Kit apparently said that Dany was bad from the very beginning and "we're culpable. We cheered her on." I cannot stand by the cast painting Dany as evil for her ruthlessness against terrible people while saying nothing about Sansa, Arya, Jon, Jaime, Tyrion, or anyone else doing the same thing in the series. It's blatant hypocrisy.

Virtually every main character in Game of Thrones has killed ‘evil men’ and we’ve cheered them on. By this logic, every viewer is ‘culpable’.

I want to clarify that this is not about whether or not these characters were justified in their actions, it’s just a list to show that the characters and fans gaslighting Daenerys are not and never were morally superior.

The point of this list is to prove that Daenerys is not that different from anyone else where morality is concerned, except that no one ever gave her the benefit of the doubt or considered whether or not her actions were justified.

What was Dany accused of prior to 8x05? (By characters and fans):

Having a temper

Killing her enemies in battle

Executing enemies

Executing traitors

Taking revenge

Executing ‘evil’ men guilty of what she deems a crime (slave owners)

Using a method of execution that 'makes people uncomfortable’ (fire)

Not preventing her brother’s murder and not being sad enough as it happened

These are the things that the fans and the men conspiring against her insist were warning signs that she was 'going mad’.

This is going to be a long, ugly post that will probably cost me some followers, but simply typing them out is not good enough because most fans have shorter memories than goldfish. Y’all need visuals.

No, I’m not bothering to put it under a cut either, because I’m trying to prove a point and the fact that it’s long only helps my case. 👍

Let’s take a look at the deeds of the oh-so-morally-superior characters, shall we?

Jaime Lannister oathbreaking by slaying his king

Jaime Lannister attempted to murder a child

Jaime Lannister murdered Jory Cassel



Jaime Lannister killed his enemies in battle, tried to murder Daenerys in battle

Jaime Lannister kinslayed, strangling his cousin

Jaime Lannister sacked Highgarden and left no survivors

Jaime Lannister murdered his enemy, Olenna Tyrell

Tyrion Lannister killed his enemies in battle

Tyrion Lannister professed his regret in ever defending King’s Landing

Tyrion Lannister vowed revenge on his sister

Tyrion Lannister kinslayed by having murdered his father

Tyrion Lannister murdered his lover after her betrayal (Shae)

Tyrion murdered his enemies with Wildfire

Tyrion and Varys committed treason against their queen, Daenerys

Varys encouraged Tyrion to seek revenge upon his sister

Varys tried to murder Daenerys via poisoning her food

Varys kept a man in a torture box

Jon Snow broke his Night’s Watch oaths/vow

Jon Snow murdered Qhorin Halfhand

Jon Snow killed his enemies in battle

Jon Snow executed a man who disobeyed his order who cried and begged for his life (Janos Slynt)

Jon Snow executed men who committed treason and conspired to kill him, including a child

Jon Snow nearly killed a man with his bare hands

Jon Snow committed treason against his queen

Jon Snow kinslayed his aunt/murdered his queen in cold blood

Sansa Stark executed Ramsay Bolton with dogs

Sansa Stark committed treason against her family

Sansa Stark lied to prohibit justice for her aunt’s murder

Sansa Stark broke an oath she swore in front of the heart tree

Sansa Stark ordered an execution without a trial

Arya Stark recited a murder list of future victims

Arya Stark killed an entire family regardless of individual guilt

Arya Stark baked the remains into a pie and fed it to the father

Arya Stark delighted in the murder of Walder Frey

Arya Stark stabbed out the eyes of Meryn Trant before murdering him

Arya Stark relished in the death of Polliver

Arya Stark very brutally tore off the face of the Waif and put it on display

Bran Stark warged into Hodor against his will

Bran Stark, who confirms he is aware of the future, moved the chess pieces around to maximize lives lost so that he could seize power

Let’s take a look at other characters who are held in higher moral esteem than Daenerys Targaryen (prior to 8x05):

Robb Stark executed Rickard Karstark for disobeying him

Robb Stark knowingly sent thousands of his men to their deaths for a victory

Robb Stark killed his enemies in battle

Ned Stark executed a man for what he deemed a crime (Will)

Ned Stark killed his enemies in battle

Sandor Clegane murdered a child on an order

Tormund Giantsbane killed innocents in raids

Ygritte killed innocents (including women) in raids

Ygritte killed her enemies in battle

Tormund killed his enemies in battle (and ate their faces)

Randyll Tarly threatened to hunt and murder his heir

Randyll Tarly betrayed his liege lord Olenna Tyrell

Randyll Tarly sacked Highgarden and left no survivors

Melisandre poisoned a Maester for trying to kill her

Melisandre burned non-believers alive

Melisandre burned an innocent child alive

Stannis and Selyse Baratheon consented to murdering their child



Melisandre and Stannis burned a man alive for refusing to bend the knee

Melisandre and Stannis Baratheon (kinslaying) his brother via shadow demon

This list ain’t even exhaustive. This is just the shit I came up with off the top of my head!

Want to claim Daenerys Targaryen was always foreshadowed to be mad? Cool!

Now just admit everyone else in the series was foreshadowed as mad, too.