A recent study suggests that approximately 150,966 characters have died on Game of Thrones in 7 seasons. When Cersi warned, “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.” She, sure as hell, wasn’t kidding. George R.R. Martin has a thing for killing the characters we loved (read: Ned Stark, Robb Stark), characters we adored (Shireen Baratheon), or even the characters we hated (read: Lord Belish, Lord Frey). He really doesn’t distinguish amongst any and kills them all without any discrimination.
I don’t know about you, but I have played each episode fearing the death of whoever remains, cursing Martin for playing the role of ‘God of Death’ while not being actually on the show.
Fortunately, there is someone who can control/persuade Martin from killing at least some of the characters and NO, they are not the show executives.
According to an entertainment news site, it’s Martin’s wife. Talk about girl power, you go Ma’am.
The big secret was revealed by Maisie Williams (Arya Stark). According to her, “His wife did actually say that if he ever kills off Arya or Sansa, she’s going to leave him.”
She smirked and added:
“I’ll just keep smiling, and say ‘if you want to stay with your wife, you’ve got to keep me alive!'”
Martin himself even joked about this at a panel in Mexico. “She does have a favorite character, and she has threatened to leave me if kill that character,” He said with a laugh, “so I do have to be very careful about that.”
Looks like we owe thanks to the wife for saving the true hero.
