Feats N' Faults: Night Watch Villains and Traitors
Winter Is Here
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No matter where you look, the world will be filled with monsters. Sometimes these monsters are the friends that swore an oath to have your back, and sometimes they are literal blue zombie men with horns. Nevertheless, Game of Thrones established an iconic villain in the Night Kings. There were also a couple of lil' dirty oath breakers that need to be catalogued as well. Today, we are analyzing Olly, Rast, Karl Tanner, Alliser Thorne, and the Night King. We all know that the Night King will win today's feed, so I will leave you all with a more interesting question. Do you think that these traitorous Crows' combined score can beat the Night Kings? Let me know in the comments, and no peeking!
Let’s Get Started!
5th Place, Rast: 1 FN’F Score (2011-2014) 12 ep.
I hated Rast in the beginning. However, after my second watchthrough, I feel sorry for him. I pity him, really. He has always been in it to look out for himself, and yet he does not have the will to stand up on his own. He is constantly following the person that he thinks is the strongest and will benefit his selfish desires. Even following this plan, he was still at the bottom of the totem pole. Karl treated him more like a servant than the man who killed the commander of the watch and allowed him to take over the camp. Killing his commander is an impressive feat, but then he had to go and pick on a Dire Wolf. Not a smart move, buddy, not a smart move.
4th Place, Olly: 2 FN’F Score (2014-2016) 17 ep.
Ollllyyyyy! My poor, naive child. He fell victim to the redirect and was executed with the other traitors. While I hate Olly and his story, just look at those Feats! he killed Ygritte and Jon Snow. This boy killed two very prominent characters. Jon is the poster boy of the show, and he could not even survive this little terror. Can you imagine if he lived to be an adult? All the realms would have bowed down to his onslaught. It's a good thing that they took him out this quick.
3rd Place, Karl Tanner: 4 FN’F Score (2014) 4 ep.
Someone call Torchwood because Karl is out and doing bad things again. This guy is just a perverted prick. What else is there to say? Karl is the one man who felt like a true criminal on the Wall. The rest of the Crows were sent there for some reason, but Karl was straight-up evil. He killed Craster and took over his hive of daughters. How long did he think he would be able to stay there? No planning ahead with this guy. I was shreeking when he finally got got. A dead Karl is the only good Karl in Game of Thrones.
2nd Place, Alliser Thorne: 5 FN’F Score (2011-2016) 19 ep.
Alliser was the ultimate antagonist during Jon's time working his way up through the ranks. Allister should have been the one to lead the Crows, but a long came a little bastard and took away all his glory. He was looking out on his own behalf just like every other character in the series, but he turned on Jon Snow, so in all of our minds, he is the villain. He almost had a redemption, though. I thought that once Jon put aside their differences, buried the hatchet, and promoted Alliser, Alliser would also bury the hatchet. Instead, he played a long con, gained Jon's trust, and turned on him when Jon least expected it. The real cruelty was turning Olly against him. Especially since Olly delivered the final blow that killed the commander. Alliser did not consider that the Red Witch would show up and bring him back from the dead! Who could have predicted that? In the end, all of his troubles just got him and his cohorts decapitated. That was another surprise, too. i thought Jon might be the better man again, but I guess if a man kills yah, you'll never be able to regain that trust.
1st Place, Night King: 42 FN’F Score (2014-2019) 10 ep.
Speaking of ultimate antagonists, The Night King is the enemy of the entire show. Every house was at the mercy of this man. I loved that this show had all of the personal conflicts, while this other worldly threat was slowly building in the background. It was this tension that made me fall in love with The Night King. I think this slow build-up over multiple seasons is why his untimely death felt so anticlimactic. He really was only a threat for like three episodes. Sure, he had a dragon fight, but he was killed so suddenly. Kudos to Arya, but Night King was just poked in the back and died. What kind of final confrontation is that? I want to see a team of three or four men fight him and a couple of White Knights. Make it epic, make each blow seem significant, and even kill a major character or two. It should have been an epic showdown instead of a reach-around.
Oh well, he was still menacing. Killing and raising entire villages from the dead is epic. The moment he killed the dragon and dredged him up from the depths had me pissing my little trousers. A fantastic villain with an unfortunate end. However, he was able to score 42 FN'F Score. This allowed him to score higher than fellow villain Hela from the MCU and Mayhem from the Allstate commercials. What an interesting group of villains. I’d love to see a team up with these guys, haha.
Thanks for tuning into another episode of Feats N' Faults! If you guessed that Night King would score higher than all of our other combatants today, go ahead and give yourself a sweet little treat because you nailed it! Next week, we are diving into the DC Universe for the first time to celebrate the upcoming Superman release, so make sure you subscribe and tell a friend to stay up to date on official scores on all of your favorite characters. Let me know in the comments if you would like to see covered, and I will see you all next Thursday. I hope you have an incredibly cozy week.
Until Next Time!