Top 10 "Game of Thrones" characters you should not invite to your party

Ah, Game of Thrones. Since 2011, HBO's most-watched show has introduced us to some of television's most compelling and memorable characters - the good (Jon Snow, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly), the bad (Cersai, Littlefinger, Walder Frey), and the downright ugly (Joffrey, the Night King, The Mountain). They've also introduced us to some of the straight-up craziest motherfuckers this side of the Narrow Sea. 

Given the number of characters the show has introduced over the course of 68 episodes, it's easy to forget how certifiably bonkers some of them were. In re-watching early seasons with my roommates, one of whom has never watched GoT before, I realized how often I was contextualizing characters by saying, "Oh, this one's BATSHIT insane." Which led me to this - the top 10 most cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs characters Westeros and Essos have to offer. Warning: these people WILL ruin your party. And also, spoilers.
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10. Pyat Pree

You definitely do not want to get cornered by this bug-eyed, blue-lipped motherfucker while waiting for the bathroom at a party. Not only does Pyat Pree give off heavy Pyscho Killer vibes, the warlock's cloning abilities make him damn near impossible to escape. His brief appearance in Season 2 during Daenerys' Bogus Journey in Qarth was cut short when he became the baby dragons' first victim, but we remember him (not so) fondly for teaching us cool party tricks, making us feel less self-conscious about our wine-stained lips, and showing us that when you mess with dragons, you get burned.

​9. Maester Pycelle

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By the time the Grand Maester of the Small Council shuffled off the mortal coil in Season 6, my nickname for him was basically, "Ugh, this fucking guy." Pycelle's a pretty canny guy, which allows him to last so long in a world in which multiple people die in any given episode, but it doesn't stop him from being annoying AF. Hypocritical, sycophantic and flatulent at inappropriate times, Pycelle is that dude who follows the coolest person at the party around even though they want nothing to do with him. And really, can you blame them?




8. Lancel Lannister

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This is the guy who comes up to you at a party while you're drinking and having a good time, and asks if you can spare a moment for the Light of the Seven. With all due respect to organized religion, no one really wants to discuss theology while they're on their fifth goblet of Dornish red.. From his days as an arrogant, sniveling knight serving as King Robert Baratheon's squire and banging his cousin Cersai, to his transformation into a face-tattooed religious zealot, despite his powerful name, Lancel was always a bit too squirrelly to be a contender.

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7. Selyse Baratheon

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You know how there's always somebody at a party who wants to build a bonfire? Selyse Baratheon is that person. (Too soon?) Quite possibly the most brutal mother in the Seven Kingdoms (and that's saying A LOT), Stannis Baratheon's wife also rode the slippery slope of religion into insanity, although if using the preserved fetuses of your dead sons as boudoir decorations is any indication, she was well on her way there before Melisandre showed up. Selyse's suicide following her daughter's immolation was brutal if not entirely surprising; it's hard to imagine how one could live with herself after sanctioning such a horrific act.

6. The Waif

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Essentially the personification of Radiohead's "Creep," The Waif spends two seasons alternately ignoring Arya and beating her, and just generally being an awful, soul-sucking...well, creep. No one likes a bully, especially one with crazy eyes and murderous intentions. If there's anything good to be said for The Waif, it's that her training did help Arya become the most bad-ass assassin in the Seven Kingdoms, but did she have to be goddamn humorless and passive-aggressive about it?

​5. Euron Greyjoy

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There'll be no tolerating Euron now that he's boned Cersai (although losing his prisoner Yara in the process might, ahem, take the wind out of his sails a bit). My theory as to why this guy sucks so much is that after all of the other loonies and villains GoT introduced over its many seasons, there weren't many other places to go in terms of characters we love to hate. So they had to settle for creating an insane (and insanely arrogant) prick. I mean, this is the one guy in Westeros who is actively trying to bang Cersai. What more proof of lunacy do you need?


​4. Viserys Targaryen

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​Admit it, getting his face burned off by molten gold was the best thing this crazy motherfucker ever did. Abusive, entitled and mad molest-y, Viserys was around long enough to give us context for baby sister Daenerys' incredible personal growth, provide some sexposition about dragons, and make us all hate his stupid, whiny face. While it's true that Viserys suffered intense childhood trauma, including the deaths of his father, mother and brother, and his forced exile from his homeland, that's no excuse for his abominable behavior. Perhaps things would have worked out better if he sought out a good therapist instead of an army.

3. Robin Arryn

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Yo, this fucking kid. He's the one who gets too turnt on jungle juice and starts acting like a goddamn terrorist while everyone's just trying to have a good time. I've never wanted to roundhouse kick a child in the face so much as when the little Lord Protector of the Vale starts squawking about making "the bad man fly." Like Viserys, Robin is dealing with some serious childhood trauma; any kid who's still breast-feeding at 10 is going to have some issues. How normal can you be when your mom is Lysa Arryn? (More on her in a second). But all things considered, Robin Arryn is still kind of the worst. Here's hoping that if he reappears in Season 8, he's had some time to chill and learn how to be a little less awful.

2. Lysa Arryn

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Look, I am all about celebrating breast-feeding as something natural, healthy and not at all shameful. But this shit...if this isn't bonkers-sauce, I don't know what is. They say that character is revealed through action, and this action pretty much reveals everything you need to know about Lysa Arryn - she is, as Gwen Stefani would say, B.A.N.A.N.A.S. Paranoid and extremely volatile, Lysa's not above trying to murder her own family for perceived infractions. Here's hoping that at least all her hair stayed in place when she plummeted from the Moon Door.

1. Ramsay Bolton

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Could there be any other number one on this list than the sadistic sociopath you love to hate? Game of Thrones out-did themselves in both the crazy and evil departments with this literal bastard. Ramsay's ability to play the part of a dutiful, even caring, son, friend and husband so well (as this delightfully demented video highlights) was what made him so dangerous. But even a passing glance at his eyes revealed the madness within. One wonders if anyone ever even bothered to gather up his bones after his hounds picked them clean, or if he's still rotting away in the kennels of Winterfell. (Hey, maybe we can feed them to Dany's dragons!)

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