Ranking The 20 Deaths of Game of Thrones Season 5

5. Stannis

This was always going to be his fate. Stannis Baratheon may not be dead in the books yet, but having him die in a battle that was pointless in the grand scheme of things, a battle he arguably never needed to fight, a battle he probably never could have won unless there was some divine miracle from the Red God, felt inevitable.

And one could argue that he deserved it. Stannis has committed atrocity after atrocity in the name of Power and the Red God. There are few truly heinous sins in the eyes of the gods, old and new, but kinslaying is definitely one of them. And Stannis didn’t just commit it once, but twice. First he killed Renly, his own brother, not in battle but by dark magic and treachery. And then he killed his daughter in exchange for a few hours of warmth and sunlight in which to die. Of course this was how it was going to end for him. It was only right.