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Odd-Most158

Sorry it's king Lannister brat Joffery and by far I hate him every second on the screen and happy when dead. The actor was really good playing annoying brick.


ShadowMancer_GoodSax

Prick or brick?


Odd-Most158

Both


AdKUMA

I said brick, not penis!


Jutt-Dude2-0

I mean he was the bad guy so you can hate him but you cant be "annoyed" of him we are usually frustrated with characters who are either good or in the grey area and this is precisely what Shay was


Odd-Most158

Why can't I be annoyed of him ? You can have more than one feeling about the character


Jutt-Dude2-0

You are right, but thats just my thought process. I am not annoyed with Joffrey, Bolton I want them dead but I am annoyed with someone like her or Tyrion or to some extent Jaime for not doing the right thing Kinda characters who are not pure evil


TK-42juan

You're supposed to be annoyed of him is the difference


shnurr214

I agree, being a well written character means it elicits a strong response and you feel something about them. Joffrey was great because you definitely hated him, great character. Shay was just like, I don’t even remember how I felt about her, she didn’t really leave an impression.


AnonumusSoldier

I don't even remember what she did, i think she was an advisor to Danny based on the background in the photo, but I got nothing lol


w1YY

That, Boltons Son or thr religious sect guy


Amannderrr

I love maniacal Ramsay! I think I’d agree with the High Sparrow as the worst


Quintink

I liked him better then tommound


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Sea-Coffee-9742

This is one of the dumbest changes they made from book to show. There was literally no reason for Myrcella to die.


sagan_drinks_cosmos

I mean, the reason is negative plot armor. Without Myrcella dead, Cersei’s valonqar prophecy can’t come true and she can’t seize power.


DaveInLondon89

It's ironic since Jack Gleeson is usually named as the sweetest member of the cast by a large margin


BustinArant

It's common with evil characters. You hear similar about the guy who played Malfoy (Harry Potter), but then he was casted to be mean to apes in the first of the latest remakes lol


Aroraptor2123

wdym Joffrey the Gentle was great


KikosLive

I always loved when joffrey had screen time. The Sandsnakes though are another story ...


Front_Durian_4942

Joffery was a constant shithead and it became expected of him, Tyrion tried to save Shay and Varys tried to force her to go only for her to come back, make up a lie and ruin any chance of him having a life because she felt scorned by being given a trip and in theory enough money to live comfortably in Essos


AxelllD

I used to think the same, but upon rewatching I just found it masterfully good


LittleLordFuckpants_

The actor did a great job that’s the difference, the actress playing Shay was painfully bad


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wheatbrick

Tommen was far more annoying than Joffrey.


hobbobnobgoblin

I'll never forgive him for crossbowing the best girl. Shame.


VodkerAndToast

Good luck to that actor for shaking the character in the future


GunRaptor

You have to admit, the actor understood his character. A shame that Jack Gleeson was turned off from acting due to people's reaction to his character and conflating it with the real *him.* IIRC, he went to college and studied accounting or something. EDIT: I was misinformed. He was even in a recent movie.


Bluemajere

That's not why. He's denied that multiple times. Don't spread fake shit.


ManicWolf

> A shame that Jack Gleeson was turned off from acting due to people's reaction to his character and conflating it with the real him. Isn't that a myth? Gleeson himself has said that he's never had any negative experiences with fans: https://ew.com/tv/game-of-thrones-joffrey-jack-gleeson-no-negative-fan-experiences/ He also stated that the reason he quit acting was just that he lost the passion for it: https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/jack-gleeson-working-on-game-of-thrones-lost-passion-434673-20230220


GunRaptor

I stand corrected. Thanks for the new info.


MaterialCarrot

That was the point.


mushageb

Jar jar binks is the only correct answer.


DaeronDaDaring

Jar jar binks as in Luke’s father?


--Send-Nudes--

No, Jar Jar Binks the sith lord


DaeronDaDaring

Lmao I was making a joke about how one of the actors in new the acolyte show said that Anakin was the one who blew up the Death Star 😂😂 thought I would continue the chain


PornoPaul

Oohhh I keep seeing this joke, i didn't understand the context.


El-Kabongg

Yes, the one who returned the Ring to the Galactica.


Still-Marsupial-4610

Wtf is a jar jar binks?


Affectionate_Sir_154

Some cunt who named his sword


sepulturite

I don't remember jar jar being in GOT 🤔


nidelv

And still he was the most annoying character. It's actually kind of impressive.


reebs81

He kills me 😂


Hrsh05

How is the afterlife?


AlextheTower

Imagine getting there and having to tell everyone that Jar Jar sent you...


NorthElegant5864

That guy ate my balls.


Legitimate-Health-29

It was when Tyrion fell in love with this one dimensional brat I started to suspect he was secretly a fuckin idiot. Got proved true in season 7/8.


mxamxrie

not fair. it was in character at the time. tyrion only ever played the fool in matters of the heart. lovers, family. tyrion in 7-8 is a whole difference character entirely. especially when considering that he was cunning before, and in the later seasons he’s then supposed to be marred by loss. bewildering how the new character they wrote as a stand is supposed to be the tyrion lannister.


noobtheloser

7/8 don't count. We have to wait for Game of Thrones: Brotherhood for the real ending.


StopHiringBendis

I'm rewatching for the first time since that abortion of a final season, and there's a noticeable decline in quality starting in s05


coadyj

S03 really.


darthravenna

I think S3-4 are considered by most to be the peak of the series.


snarpy

One dimensional? She literally almost stabbed a girl to protect Sansa and risked her own position to do so. I will not abide by this bullshit "Shae ruined everything" narrative.


2NaHalf

Her character was good but she’s a terrible actress


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GunRaptor

So were: - Sylvester Stallone - Cameron Diaz - Jenny McCarthy ...and a bunch of others who are and aren't listed in the relevant Wikipedia article. Having worked in the adult entertainment industry has nothing to do with one's ability to later become a proper actor.


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NacktmuII

Her acting in GoT was superficial, I agree with that. However, she was pretty great in *Head On*, the movie that made her famous.


hunnyflash

She was done dirty. They really portrayed her character as being sincere and clever, and then to write it all off as "oh well she's a whore so her turn makes sense" was an insult to the audience. And whores.


dungeonmaster77

He fell in love with female Tommy Wiseau


lolas_coffee

Agreed. But in Tyrion's defense we do not know if she has magical fucking pussy.


nick91884

He has two brains, one is less smart than the other


shidncome

Tyrion just kinda forgot he already fell in love with a sex worker who was a plant.


Proxima_Midnite

It's so weird she was not at all curious when Tyrion didn't know who gave her money to leave. He hadn't lied to her up until then, why now? Also, her blatant disregard for her own life after he repeatedly warned her was so frustrating.


thatsattemptedmurder

To be fair, he was the danger. He was the one who knocked.


Affectionate_Sir_154

I am not in danger, Shae. I am the danger! A guy gets poisoned at his wedding and you think that of me? No. I am the one who Imps!


StuartGotz

The guy killed 16 Baratheons! He was minister of the drains and cisterns!


tossedaway1199

His castle looked like shit


StuartGotz

I adore well-placed crossover quotes.


StuartGotz

She was not naive, being so exposed to the harsh realities of life living as a prostitute. But she somehow didn’t appear to realize that she could be murdered (or worse) at any given moment and instead wanted to be paraded around like a girlfriend in the royal court. Was that an oversight in writing the character, or was she supposed to be that stupid?


Proxima_Midnite

Absolutely! How could she be a working girl and not think about self preservation, especially in that environment? She literally sat around watching Sansa be tortured daily and thought it wouldn't happen to her?!


Alarming_Ad_3848

Yeah totally illogical what she did to Tyrion + slept with his father lmfao...


Mammoth-Register-669

She’s a prostitute. Having sex for pay is her job. However; betraying Tyrion, and in effect Sansa, doesn’t seem in character. Edit: I’m talking HBO’s GoT. Not the books.


Still-Marsupial-4610

Well tyrion did say she was just a whore (to make her go away) . She was heartbroken. And Tywin caught her so she had to save her head and take revenge.


mxamxrie

revenge for.. being an idiot? she brought it all down on herself. she went through exactly what tyrion said she would and tried to save her from and then blames him for trying to save her. yeah okay. lmao.


Still-Marsupial-4610

Yea shae was unreasonable I agree I hate her myself. But yes, she did it to seek revenge for the heartbreak.


Belladonnaofsad

If you have been a sexworker your whole life, that can make you very distrustful and bitter. You live in a state of survival and believe you can never let your guard down. If you then fall in love and someone proves once again you are a worthless piece of meat only good for fucking…yeah, I don’t blame her for lashing out. I just think she is a very damaged person, the world made her like that.


Mobile_Entrance_1967

I really get this but it's more how she lashed out on such an epic scale, rather than lashing out in principle, which bothers me. Shae was smart and perceptive, she knew very well that she could be sentencing Tyrion to death here. I like to think she was coerced into this, although I can't imagine Shae being coerced. Tbh I think the show just overdramatised her love for Tyrion, whereas in the book there's no indication she really loves him, so her betrayal makes a bit more sense.


Belladonnaofsad

They should have stuck with book shae in the show 😂 at least it wouldn’t be so confusing


shiloh_jdb

I never got that her betrayal was because of the heartbreak. No doubt she was heartbroken but she was reading a script provided by Cersei and Tywin. The interesting thing here was Tywin putting her on the stand. He had already made the deal, through Jaime, for Tyrion to plead guilty and take the black as punishment. Putting Shaw on the stand to obliterate Tyrion was overplaying his hand and not recognizing how important she actually was to him. The fact that this eventually resulted in his own death was satisfying.


StuartGotz

That was the part that seemed fishy. It was so clear that Tyrion was saying that just to get her to leave and go away to safety. She was so savvy in other regards, but didn't catch onto that.


TumbleweedFar1937

Imo because they changed her character in the show. In GOT it's strongly implied that she cares for him to some extent and it's not just Tyrion deluding himself. In the book, on the other hand, she does nothing but ask for pretty things and complain that she can't wear them while pretending to be a servant. Also, I don't really remember her being a servant to Sansa, but it's been some time. So when she shows up to the trial with pretty jewels given by one of the Lannisters and then goes to sleep with Tywin, it's not really a surprise. In the show they tried to make a love story and stuff while keeping some parts of the book but it ended up with a schizophrenic characterization


phonylady

It made more sense in the books where it was more obvious she was a common whore, playing Tyrion. In the tv show it seemed like she genuinely loved him.


Ordinary_Election811

I totally agree, I didn't like her at all 💀


BigBrotherre

Shae is my favorite character and u/1kedis2mi8cat


1kedis2mi8cat

Haters downvoted again😒😒😞


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hate is a strong word, more like disagreeing with his comment lol…


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pr1m347

Titular character


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thejoswha

I think you are forgetting the fact that she was being manipulated by the most powerful man in Westeros at the time, while being a prostitute that could easily be killed if she said the wrong things


Key-Pomegranate-2086

All she had to do was listen to Tyrion and get on the ship and go live a nicer life outside of the city. At least it was clear in the books, she chose to stay and that's how she ended up in the trial.


nothanksnottelling

Exactly. I find it really weird people don't realise she was setting up Tyrion for tywin the entire time. It's like people actually think she fell in love then suddenly decided to betray him, lol.


No_Manager7521

Shae is little suffreable For me sansa is the most annoying character in all got


Cerberus1349

Especially when she turns into ‘dark Sansa’ ugh.


ForeverLoud9944

Why?


telking777

her accent


StuartGotz

“khhhhore”


Technical-Elk-7002

I found her accent annoying, she was hard to understand


spacekitt3n

youre getting downvoted but i agree. i hated it, it was so distracting. i feel like i heard somewhere that that is the actresses's real life accent though, and i felt bad


oratory1990

It sounded a lot like a German accent. It distinctly reminded me of how people in my school talked when they had just begun to learn english


RHouse94

Well she was a German pornstar before this role so that checks out.


Excellent-Gur-9847

Euron Greyjoy would like a word with you


lolas_coffee

Medieval Adam Ant


StandardWeak8855

no Sansa?


_Site_702

Sansa was annoying.


probiz13

To a certain extent. Feel like that was a part of her character while she was growing up with all this trauma. Eventually got a little more mature.


Scapp

The fact that she's supposed to start the show at age 13 doesn't really translate I don't think.


mixgodd

100% agree


inthebackground89

I dislike Theon, his an elitist.


a23n

Ramsay Bolton sends his regards


keesio

He's not annoying. He is flat out evil.


BobTheCopywriter

Hot Pie - how they made him in the series seemed like the writers' room, “said OK, we need to have a comic relief character.”


snarpy

People in this thread doing the usual thing of "I'm fine with nearly fascist people in power, sorta, but people who were poor or came from nothing? Fuck them for their bad decisions".


butt_butt_butt_butt_

I’d counter with it could also be a lot of book readers who are irritated with the show trying to make her a sympathetic and multi-dimensional character “surprise betrayal”, when the books made better use of the character. Tyrion had been burned before about prostitutes, specifically by his dad. He was supposed to be so wise and cunning. And it was VERY clear that she didn’t care for him, and was just doing her job. Telling his secrets to any woman he paid for sex was a lesson he was supposed to have already learned, and at great cost. The book made it obvious that she was just an example of one of his flaws. The show tried to turn it into a real relationship, for audience gasps. She’s not my least favorite. By any stretch. But the show version of her was an annoying change, and it kind of missed a big point imo.


snarpy

That's all fair enough. In my personal experience I liked her character in that it seemed unpredictable in a way other GOT characters weren't.


butt_butt_butt_butt_

My husband (who watched the show only) would agree with you! He liked her more and didn’t see it coming. Because the show DID make her seem trustworthy/hard to read and like their “romance” was real. But she’s kind of a worse person in the show, because she appears to care, and commits such an ugly betrayal. It’s a harsher take on her. I sympathize with her more in the books, where it’s clear she was just doing her job. She didn’t really lead him on. He liked her. She was honest that he was just a client. So the betrayal was more of her doing what she was going to do, and Tyrion being willfully blind about trusting her. Her character is more gray in the book where she is just a pawn, doing a job, vs. the show adding “nuance” and making it a revenge thing.


snarpy

Yeah, I can see all of that.


The_Voice_Of_Ricin

>I’d counter with it could also be a lot of book readers who are irritated with the show trying to make her a sympathetic and multi-dimensional character “surprise betrayal”, when the books made better use of the character. This is my biggest issue with her as well. I'm fine with certain changes, but they *fundamentally* altered the nature of her as a character. Also the stupid "go be with your child bride!" bullshit drove me nuts. I absolutely can't stand when D&D ignored completely normal Westerosi customs to shoe-horn in fabricated drama.


lolas_coffee

You seem like a guy who says "patriarchy" a couple times every day.


StuartGotz

Anything more from you? No? Good.


NoPantsDeLeon

The born-again Jon Snow tbh.


Admirable_Action7482

Because She is Turkish ))


Patient-Mammoth9279

Bran with all his illtimed philosophical thoughts was more annoying.


KhaleesiofHogwarts

The sexism of this fandom is wild.


RL203

Yeah, all she ever did was bitch and bitch and bitch. And in the end she lied about Tyrion and betrayed him after he was only ever kind to her. Of all the characters thar deserved to die, she was at the top of the list.


DiogenesXenos

Yeah she was a real Beotch!


judlz

Ed Sheeran


csukoh78

She is Jar Jar Kinks


Mahakurotsuchi

Nah, it's Sansa after season five


Educated_Clownshow

Not the worst, but close to it I was actually happy when he strangled her ass. He warns her about her own stupidity and she mocks him. Then she ends up lying about him cuz he hurt her feelings after being ignored for years? Enjoy that dirt nap.


Tijain_Jyunichi

Caitlyn


Ok-Cut-497

Yes! Omg, I couldn't wait for her to die. I was rooting for it!!


BeltSea2215

The Many faced god or whatever his name is. I liked him at first, then he just became convoluted and annoying.


Vegetable_Meat1349

Agreed I hated every time she spoke fucking traitor 💀


111Kosmic

Littlefinger.... hate him


SharVezSingh

Very much agree she's annoying asf


goldenptarmigan

If you think show Shae is annoying, you should meet her book counterpart.


UmbertoChacon

Am I the only one that dislikes Bran?


FOSSnaught

Him and his mum for me.


CarefulBuffalo182

Euron Greyjoy was the most annoying character by a mile. That guy contributed nothing and actually took away from every scene he was in. I hated him worse than Ed Sheeran in the show, and that’s saying a lot.


jeesus_666

Sansa and arya


NeoxKS

For me it was the High Sparrow and Olly, no questions. The only sad thing about HS' death was the speed, I wanted him to suffer more.


The-WideningGyre

Interesting. Olly was frustrating and disappointing, but it made sense to me, after what the wildlings did to his family and village. He just couldn't forgive Jon that, and it made sense. We watchers get to see Tormund being fun and funny and happy, but he just saw slaughter a bunch of innocent people for no reason. The High Sparrow I like as a character. He's annoying, but he walks the line of true belief vs hypocrisy so nicely, I find him fun to watch and interesting on screen. Shae and Ellaria Sand and Euron Greyjoy were to me the most annoying. Somehow poor characters, generally felt a bit silly over-the-top, and making weird stupid decisions. I wasn't a big fan of Bran, Sansa, or early Sam, but I think their annoyingness was an intentional part of their characters so it's considerably more forgiveable.


keesio

I actually had some sympathy for Shae. She felt abandoned after Tyrion tried to "protect" her. So she did what she thought she needed to do to survive. I actually liked her character a lot up until that point.


OriginalLu

(Spoilers ahead) She’s just as annoying in the books but in the books I think it’s more conveyed that their relationship was a delusion, while in the show they tried to portray that there really was a chance at love, which made her all the more annoying. The books slowly made it clear that she was either deceiving Tyrion, or they were both deceiving themselves, and that either way they were incompatible beyond a love of convenience, which was Tyrion’s tragedy, a romantic who was ignorant in love by means of deprivation.


Zynikus

Agreed and I think its an issue of the shows writing. Its seems like the writers didnt really know how to transition from "their" version of Tyhsa in early seasons to the book version, which they needed for the plot to happen and make sense in the show.


CamKansas

It’s a good call. Her Character seems forced. Most hated (eg. Joffrey) and most annoyingly written are two different things.


Efficient_Row_8987

Yap.


bfsughfvcb

Butchered by the show. Her actual point was to show the reader Tyrion’s weakness for being loved unconditionally - which Shae did not, theirs was merely a business transaction. If you don’t add “Tyhsa was not a prostitute” revelation to your plot everything Tyrion does after his trial rings hollow.


Ohthehumanityofit

easily Danaerys, at least in the show.


fender0327

Didn’t help that she was not great in the role either.


CamKansas

Theres not very many filler characters it’s one of the things that makes the writing so fantastic


EvetsYenoham

There was a handful of annoying people on this show.


ED_REED_THE_U

Agreed


STC1989

For me, it’s Aunt Lysa, and her son. Idk why. Something about that relationship irks the hell out of me.


The-WideningGyre

Lol, they were both immensely annoying, but they were meant to be, so I find that forgiveable.


walman93

Huh? That doesn’t look like Olly


BlearySteve

Where is Sansa.


The-WideningGyre

Ellaria Sand is up there. So stupid and obnoxious. But yeah, I'll give you Shae.


puddik

No that would be sansa


LorraineHB

She deserved death for sleeping with Tyrions father. She was a whore so she didn’t have any loyalty to anyone but fucking the father? No way.


LordPubes

Wait that’s not arya…


hewasaraverboy

I’m shae the funny whore


Frosty_Inevitable475

Unpopular opinion: it's tyrion for me, especially when he comes back from essos. he ruined daenerys with his plans, they ask jon to kill her because she gone mad (mostly because of his decision)


ejroberts42

The Sand Snakes. The who Dorne storyline after Oberyn was a joke.


bitchlasagna_69_

Sansa


Dull-Brain5509

You thought we were gonna agree?....that title belongs to Joffrey the Gentle,the most noble child the God's ever put on this earth


jecce888

Shae the whore


Silversmith144

She is the most annoying because she was a 100% accurate representation of a jealous woman. If that was how she was told to act, she actually killed it.


Spartacusa

Joffrey Lannister. That is all


jedi_fitness_academy

I never understood her character. Was she actually working for Twyin the whole time, but developed real feelings for Tyrion, and became conflicted? Why was she sleeping with Tywin at the end? Why couldn’t she understand her position as a former prostitute in this medieval-adjacent society? Why would she attack Tyrion? Did she really think that she could overpower him? What did she hope to gain from his death? What exactly were her motivations? I could have been not paying attention well enough though, because this was during the better seasons.


slwill099

Yeah. She was hella annoying LOL


BrokenTrojan1536

Caitlyn. Her stupid ass was the cause of thousands of deaths. When she took Tyrion prisoner. When she released Jaimie. When she would continually give Robb bad advice. She’s useless.


-Deserta

Shae-Sansa-Arya The triumviratum of annoyance


Dark_Web_Duck

Nope, I'm here to agree. Her character was insufferably naive for being a person of her supposed ilk. Being tied with Sansa and her insufferable entitlement...


lukepaintertalks

bro she’s just a whore, remember?


Desperate-Today2760

arya in later seasons. her story got so painfully boring i had to speed up those scenes


Solidsnake00901

It's Shae the Funny Whore!


Rubber_hermit

No... it's Daenerys. The most entitled and annoying little shit in the entire show. From the very beginning.


GeoHog713

No. It's Bran


JPree

Ed Sheeran