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The 20 Most Shocking Game Of Thrones Moments

Perhaps more than any other show this decade, Game of Thrones has reveled in its ability to wrongfoot an audience. Shocks come with each new season. It's a series that's constantly trying to catch its viewers off guard, butchering and beating up its key characters mercilessly in a constant, concentrated effort to surprise.

6) The Purple Wedding

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George R.R. Martin knows how to spoil a wedding. Luckily for fans, the events of season four’s “The Lion and the Rose” offer more a cause for celebration than further reason to mourn. It is, of course, the long-awaited death of King Joffrey – killed by an unseen assassin as he toasts his own nuptials.

The Purple Wedding, so nicknamed because of the color of Joffrey’s dying face after consuming the poison slipped into his food by Olenna Tyrell, was a joyous moment for Thrones fans. After episode upon episode good guys buying the farm early, it was beginning to seem like the real villains of Westeros – like Joffrey – were never going to get their comeuppance. A shock moment, but a relief as well.

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