Everything you need to know about Jon Snow’s Game of Thrones Suicide Squad
THE latest episode of Game of
Thrones Season, “Eastwatch”, ends with seven intrepid warriors marching
north of the Wall to face certain doom and danger.
Jon Snow is on a mission to capture a wight (or White Walker) to bring back to King’s Landing as proof that the danger is real.Helping him on this quest is a ragtag group of unlikely allies who have spent the last seven seasons fighting on opposite sides.
And so, the image of these seven warriors — a noteworthy number both in Westeros and our own world’s mythology — banding together to fight for a common purpose has staggering poetic weight. It’s also just freaking cool.
It’s also tying together years of complicated storytelling. For instance, we finally get Ser Jorah Mormont, the son of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, fighting alongside a Warden of the North. At long last, Ser Beric Dondarrion, a man on his seventh life (thanks to the Lord of Light), has met Jon Snow, who is also only here because of the red god’s mystic ways. Gendry gets to face the people who sold him to Melisandre, the Hound gets an opportunity to fulfil some sort of strange destiny, and Tormund may get to hear more about how his lady love Brienne is great at pulverising huge dudes (from, yes, the Hound himself).
Indeed these seven men have been oddly intertwined this whole time.
If you don’t believe us, check out all the ways they’ve crossed paths with or struck swords against each other.
Next week’s all-new episode promises to give us a heart-stopping battle between these seven souls and the Army of the Dead. With that in mind, here’s a run down of each of these unlikely heroes … and a wager of whether or not they’ll survive the upcoming storm.
(Note: we, too, see the band of men following these seven as they leave Eastwatch-by-the-sea, but the show is obviously putting its narrative weight on the fates of these specific characters next week.)
1. JON SNOW
Title : The King in the North, formerly Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, and before that, Ned Stark’s bastard
House : Stark, but he’s doesn’t know he’s House Targaryen
Weapon of Choice: Longclaw, the Valyrian steel sword of House Mormont, gifted to him by Jeor Mormont and refitted with a white wolf hilt
Relationship To Fire: Melisandre used the powers of R’hllor to bring him back to life after the Night Watch murdered him. He likes fire insomuch as it is a tool against the Army of the Dead. We have not seen him exhibit the same flame-retardant skills as aunt Daenerys Targaryen.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Yes, see above. Though, since returning from the bleak, dark afterlife, he has miraculously managed to thwart death.
Relationships With Others On The Team: He’s long-time pals with Tormund, new allies with Ser Jorah and Gendry, has an old grudge against the Hound because of the time the Hound served the Lannisters, and has just met Ser Beric and Thoros of Myr.
Odds Of Surviving Next Week: Pretty high. Even if he doesn’t make it out, he’s got a Red Priest in his group who can bring him back.
Kit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied
Title : Exiled knight
House : Targaryen
Weapon of Choice: Sword
Relationship To Fire: Ser Jorah hasn’t had much to do with fire except for the fact that he’s madly in love with the Dragon Queen, Daenerys Targaryen, and she’s quite a fan of fire.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Ser Jorah was infected with greyscale and told that he would not survive. He was cured by Samwell Tarly’s ingenuity.
Relationships With Others On The Team: He met Thoros of Myr ages ago, but only just met Jon Snow and Gendry (and Ser Beric and The Hound, it seems). However, as a Mormont, he has a long-standing animosity against Wildings like Tormund.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: We’re not confident that Ser Jorah will survive next week if only because he’s already gotten a happy reunion with his Khaleesi — and that’s all he was kind of living for. Then again, he’s a tough old bear who’s managed to survive this long despite the odds.
Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones: Picture: AFP/HBO.Source:AFP
Title : On the show, he’s nominally leader of the Free Folk and is helping hold Eastwatch-by-the-sea. (In the books, he is styled “Tormund Giantsbane, Tall-talker, Horn-blower, and Breaker of Ice, Tormund Thunderfist, Husband to Bears, the Mead-king of Ruddy Hall, Speaker to Gods and Father of Hosts”
House : He has no house, but is a staunch ally of Jon Snow
Weapon of Choice: We’ve seen him swing a sword pretty well, but as the Battle of the Bastards proved, he also is good with his teeth.
Relationship To Fire: None, except redheads like him are called “kissed by fire” in Wilding lore.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Not really. Unless you count surviving against the odds.
Relationships With Others On The Team: Tormund and Jon Snow are pals, but he has a long-standing issue with House Mormont for the way Jeor Mormont treated the Wildings. He doesn’t seem to have an opinion of anyone else.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: Woof. As much as we want to see Tormund flirting with Brienne again, we wouldn’t be surprised if he falls in battle — or at least gets mightily injured.
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane. Picture: HBO.Source:Supplied
Ti t le: Knight
House : His family house Dondarrion were Baratheon bannerman, but Ser Beric has been the leader of the Brotherhood without Banners for years now.
Weapon of Choice: Flaming sword
Relationship To Fire: Oh, he loves it. The Lord of Light has brought him back from the dead six times now and, again, see the flaming sword.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Did you not catch that he’s died six times? One time he was killed by the Hound.
Relationships With Others On The Team: He and Thoros of Myr are good friends and allies, and together they sold Gendry to Melisandre for money. Back in the day, Ser Beric and the Hound fought to the death in a trial by combat for the Hound’s crimes. However, they’ve since brought the reformed Hound into their fold. He’s only just met Jon Snow, Tormund, and it would seem, Ser Jorah.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: It feels like this big battle between the living and the dead is what Ser Beric’s life has been leading up to, so we’re going to bet that he dies for good this time. (We’re just guessing.)
Ser Beric Dondarrion in Game of Thrones. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied
Title: He’s the bastard of King Robert Baratheon.
House: Baratheon
Weapon of Choice: War hammer
Relationship To Fire: He’s not fond of the Lord of Light after being sold to Lady Melisandre for use in her various spells and such. Ser Davos helped him escape being sacrificed.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Well, as we said, Melisandre wanted to sacrifice him and use his king’s blood in a spell.
Relationships With Others On The Team: He’s new BFFs with Jon Snow and new allies with Ser Jorah. He had a run-in with the Hound, Ser Beric, and Thoros a few years back, and while knows the Hound was a bad dude, he’s more angry at Ser Beric and Thoros for betraying him to Melisandre. He’s just made Tormund’s acquaintance.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: Considering that he just got reintroduced to the show in a splashy way and he’s the last Baratheon and he’s one of the only people who can snap Arya out of her murder rage, we think he’s going to survive. (That said, we noticed that if you slow down the footage in next week’s trailer, the Hound swings Gendry’s war hammer at one point.)
Game of Thrones character Gendry. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied
Title: Red Priest of R’hllor
House: Thoros is a foreign-born priest aligned with the Brotherhood without Banners
Weapon of Choice: Booze. Magic. A bit of both?
Relationship To Fire: As a priest serving the Red god, he is a fan of it. Big fan.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? He has not, but again, he has managed to bring Ser Beric back six times.
Relationships With Others On The Team: He’s pretty much best friends with Ser Beric, new buddies with the Hound, and knew Ser Jorah way back when. Gendry is still pissed at him for the whole Melisandre fiasco. Oh, and Jon Snow and Tormund are new faces.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: Not high. He’s not a major player in the show and we already have another character on the game board — Melisandre — who can bring important characters back from the brink.
Game of Thrones character Thoros of Myr. Picture: Supplied.Source:Supplied
Title: The Hound
House: Clegane (which means he used to be a bannerman to House Lannister, but he abandoned the family after the Battle of Blackwater)
Weapon of Choice: Sword
Relationship To Fire: HE DOES NOT LIKE IT! His elder brother burned his face in the coals of a fire when they were children and now he is deathly afraid of it. However, we have learned that the Hound can see visions in the fire this season.
Has He Had A Near Death (or Death) Experience? Arya left him for dead before she skipped off to Braavos, but he managed to pull through.
Relationships With Others On The Team: Pretty much everyone who knows the Hound has reason to dislike the Hound, but he’s recently become unlikely friends with Ser Beric and Thoros of Myr.
Odds of Surviving Next Week: We think he’ll survive, but that could be because we’re still pulling for a face-off between the reformed Hound and his zombie-esque brother, the Mountain.
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