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| “ | Where are my niece and nephew? Let's go murder them. | „ |
| ~ Euron Greyjoy. |
King Euron III Greyjoy, also known as Crow's Eye, is a major antagonist in its TV series adaptation Game of Thrones. He is the younger brother of King Balon, the older brother of Victarion, Urrigon, and Aeron, and the captain of the pirate ship The Silence.
He was portrayed by Pilou Asbæk, who also played Wafner in Overlord and Kordax in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He is a proud practitioner of the Old Way of reaving and pillaging, slaughtering men, taking women to rape, and enslaving innocents such as children.
- As such, he encouraged his father to raid the Reach during Robert's Rebellion and helped Balon Greyjoy instigate the Greyjoy Rebellion by burning the Lannister fleet. His excuse for starting the Greyjoy Rebellion is that he wanted to slaughter the best knights in Westeros for fun.
- In exile, he cut out the tongues of all his crewmembers as a sadistic punishment for binding him to a mast when he lost his senses in a storm.
- He became a ferocious pirate across the known world, pillaging all across the seas and coasts of Essos, massacring countless men and raping women by the dozen over the course of years.
- Additionally, while making several trips to the pirate dens hidden in the Basilisk Isles, Euron engaged in the underground slave trade.
- He wants to conquer the Iron Throne for himself and bring his practices of the Old Way to Westeros. To this end, Euron throws his older brother and liege lord Balon over a roped bridge to usurp him.
- Treating the taboo of kinslaying as trivial, he promises to kill his niece Yara and nephew Theon for rebelling against him when he wins the Kingsmoot.
- However, killing Balon is hardly heinous considering how despicable the man was, including abandoning Theon to the Boltons even after receiving evidence of horrific torture, which even Yara was disgusted by.
- Allying with Queen Cersei Lannister in the war with Queen Daenerys Targaryen to get close to the Iron Throne, he massacres the fleet of Yara Greyjoy and Ellaria Sand.
- During the battle, he gleefully cuts down his enemies with a battleaxe, murders Obara Sand and Nymeria Sand, lets his men torture and mutilate many of Yara's surviving men, and gifts Ellaria and Tyene Sand to a vengeful Cersei to face whatever brutal punishment Cersei has in store for them.
- He further contributes to the war by slaughtering another one of Daenerys' fleets during the battle for Casterly Rock and violating a promise to fight against the Army of the Dead by holding his forces back from fending off the White Walkers and instead helping Cersei replenish her army with the Golden Company.
- During transit, Euron kills a few mercenaries because "someone cheated" in a dice game.
- When the Iron Fleet loses the fight with Daenerys in the Battle of King's Landing, Euron is callously dismissive of Cersei losing the war and Daenerys engulfing King's Landing in flames, despite proposing a marriage to Cersei and being tasked with defending the city.
- At the start of Season 8, Euron even admits to Yara that he will abandon Cersei and take his efforts at conquest somewhere else should it become likely that Cersei will lose. Euron spends his last moments trying to kill Jaime Lannister, gloating that he will gift Jaime's head to Cersei so he can kiss her one last time.
- While he does have some comedic moments for the fans they don’t detract from his heinousness with most of them showing how brutal and sadistic he is.
- While his death is brutal getting stabbed by Jaime in their final fight and being left behind by him bleeding out from the stab wound it is not played for sympathy and he indeed deserved it for his sadistic and vile actions.
External Links[]
- Euron Greyjoy on the Villains Wiki
- Euron Greyjoy on the Game of Thrones Wiki
- Euron Greyjoy on the Hate Sink Wiki.
- Euron Greyjoy on the Scrappy Wiki
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