Game Of Thrones 10 Things That Make No Sense About The Night King
Game Of Thrones: 10 Things That Make No Sense About The Night King
The Night King is one of the most divisive characters on Game of Thrones. He seemed important, but there are things about him that make no sense.
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The Night King is one of the most divisive characters on Game of Thrones. While he hasn’t yet appeared in A Song of Ice and Fire, the Night King was introduced in the show in season four, when Bran communes with a Weirwood Heart tree. Since then, the Night King became one of the show’s biggest and most important antagonists.
However, not much is known about the Night King, how he operates, his motives, or his abilities. We’re supposed to just accept things at face value and move on. Well we’re not about that! These are ten things that make no sense about the Night King.
10 His Creation
We really don’t know much about the creation of the Night King, and that is highly disappointing. All we know is that the Night King was once a random First Man who was kidnapped by the Children of the Forest and stabbed through the heart by a piece of dragonglass.
Through some sort of magic, this turned humans into White Walkers, and the Walkers were then used as weapons against the First Men. How does the magic work? Why does it turn humans into White Walkers? How does their biology change? Magic, that’s how.
9 His Life As A White Walker
The Night King’s creation draws even more unanswered questions. Why this man in particular? Was it just some random First Man that the Children of the Forest had managed to capture? Or was he important in some way?
How did the Children “control” the White Walkers? And in the end, why did the White Walkers betray them? Put simply, we’re supposed to fill these gaps in ourselves.
8 His Retreat
Following the Long Night and the War for the Dawn, the Night King and his army of White Walkers retreated back to the Land of Always Winter, where they remained for the next 8,000 years.
It was so long that the White Walkers eventually faded into legend. So what was he doing for the last 8,000 years? Hibernating? And why did he choose now to attempt his second invasion? Again, this is never really explained.
7 His Relationship With Jon
Another unanswered aspect regarding the Night King’s behavior is his relationship with series protagonist Jon Snow.
The Night King meets Snow on numerous occasions, and every time he sees him he stares at him with a menacing glance. Yet this is never addressed. It doesn’t really make sense that he would let Jon live, let alone deliberately single him out. It was building to some climactic showdown, but that never came to pass.
6 His Motivations
The key ingredient behind any great villain is an understandable motivation. Unfortunately, the Night King just didn’t have one. For all eight seasons, we were left contemplating the Night King’s motivation. And what we got was that he wants to “erase the memory of the world.”
Yes, that is technically a motivation, but that is so thin, contrived, nebulous that we may as well have gotten nothing at all. And besides, if he was planning on killing everyone anyway, why go after Bran specifically?
5 The Spirals
Throughout the show, the White Walkers arrange body parts and limbs in a distinct spiral pattern. We see this again during the ceremony in which the Night King was created.
So is the spiral made of gore just a way for the Night King to mock his own creation? A way to symbolize his birth and the death he brings in a gruesome fashion? Unfortunately, we don’t know that either. For all we know, it’s just a gnarly thing that the Night King wanted to do to show his power.
4 Invulnerable To Dragon Fire
In the climactic Battle of Winterfell, Daenerys tries roasting the Night King alive with dragon fire. And it seems to work.
The Night King takes the full brunt of Drogon’s might, which was powerful enough to melt the Iron Throne (how Drogon understood the symbolism of the Iron Throne, we also don’t know). But rather than dying, the Night King just smirks in cocky satisfaction. Why didn’t the dragon fire kill him? It’s made of the same source magic as dragonglass…
3 Viserion’s Blue Fire
Another thing that doesn’t really make any sense is how the Night King was able to turn Viserion’s breath blue. OK, the Night King reanimates Viserion from the dead and uses him to burn down the Wall.
But what about Viserion being reanimated biology turned his fire breath blue? Was it just a way for the show to make a visually interesting distinction between alive and dead? To color coordinate the Night King and Viserion?
2 Serious Design Flaw
There is one serious design flaw in the creation of the White Walkers, and that’s the fact that if one dies, they all die. This is an age old trope in science fiction and fantasy. It’s called the Keystone Army trope.
Unfortunately, it’s often criticized for being a little lazy – just as it was here. This reeked of nothing more than a convenient way for the writers to quickly hand-wave away the White Walker threat. What biological sense does it make? None, really. And speaking of their anticlimactic defeat…
1 Convenient Gap In Armor
And speaking of convenient, what is with the Night King’s random gap in his armor? Maybe it’s for mobility reasons or something, but the gap is conveniently located right over his only weak spot. Surely he would take real good care to cover that up and not leave it in the hands of chance?
This is like Achilles wearing impenetrable head-to-toe armor but leaving his ankle exposed for no real reason. Why that hole is there, we have no idea. But what we do know that it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/game-of-thrones-things-make-no-sense-about-night-king/
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