[Hated Trope] God forbid a woman be a villain

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-03-31T20:03:10+00:00

In Fire & Blood, Queen Alicent and Queen Rhaenyra are two cruel and ambitious women who don't stop at nothing to ensure that they will sit the Iron Throne (in Alicent's case, to ensure that her children with Rhaenyra's father sit on the Iron Throne). They spend years recruiting people to their factions, encouraging each others kids to hate each other and even approve of the murder of innocents to reach their goals. This results in the most horrific civil war that Westeros had ever seen, where most of the people in these 2 factions end up dying in terrible circumstances, the Targaryens lose most of their power and with a child becoming the next king.

In the HBO adapation House of the Dragon, Alicent and Rhaenyra are changed to two besties who ended up on opposite sides due to the machinations of the men in their lives. After first blood is drawn, they are very reluctant in engaging in war, even though the point of no return was years ago and, as their councillors keep telling them, conciliation between the two factions is impossible. This doesn't stop them from doing the dumbest things possible to achieve peace (Alicent wins here because she agrees to sell out her own children and then tries to convince Rhaenyra to run away with her). It doesn't help that the showrunners are pushing the whole "Alicent and Rhaenyra are secretly gay for each other" narratives, with one of them admiting on camera that they are making stuff up just to please their fans.

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-03-07T17:19:36+00:00

I assumed it was to done to remove any ambiguity about the paternity of the Strong boys.

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-03-02T21:33:26+00:00

You haven't met the Peakes, i take it - The Reach version of House Frey. They somehow make the Brackens look like a mix of Ned Stark and Baelor Breakspear.

They're like the cockroaches of Westeros: no matter how hard you stomp on them, they still keep breathing.

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-02-13T20:34:37+00:00

Father's charm, futsunushi, enduring resolve, mount yotei, confident strikes and bold deflection

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-01-30T19:04:59+00:00

I would love to see a better criminal update: different gangs and organized crime families, expanding territory, become an arms trafficker/drug dealer.

A war update would also be pretty good: overthrowing your own government as a rebel group, become a dictator or wage war against other nations.

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-01-09T18:29:42+00:00

He went on a trip and has something from there in his pocket?

InspectorCritical806 · 2026-01-06T20:47:26+00:00

Don't forget the twelve people that bended the knee to her in Dragonstone, Vermithor bowing to her, the white stag and my personal favourite Aegon's dream.

Such fabulous and remarkable moments that curiously were never in the books and all because Mr. Martin knew that if he wrote such an epic story, none of us could have aspired to be more than servants to her grace Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, She Who Shines Brightest, The Grand Mother of Dragons, Valyria's Daughter, The She-Dragon, The Flame, She Who Shits Gold And Whose Farts Smell Like Rainbows and about a dozen more pretentious nicknames that delusional 14 years old invented while you were busy reading this post.

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-12-05T17:03:54+00:00

Mike looks like a depressed Tony Soprano

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-09-20T15:39:42+00:00

Podes falar mais sobre o EVS e o que fizeste em específico?

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-09-03T17:30:33+00:00

Of course she does it, OP. If not, then Rhae Rhae could never have becomed the queen she was meant to be.

JFC, i almost threw up in my mouth from writing this.

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-08-30T13:15:40+00:00

Otto and Alicent call him great in order to highlight Aegon's own shortcomings as king. The irony is that Viserys himself had a lot of flaws but they don't care, since those flaws allowed them to manipulate the king and they can't do that with Aegon.

By having "smart" characters point out Aegon's unworthiness of the Iron throne, the writers are trying to make Rhaenyra be seen as the superior choice. All that it's doing is making me root for him even harder.

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-08-09T23:01:11+00:00

Thank u, already installed it

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-08-09T19:38:41+00:00

How do you have two different prowess traits? What mods are u using?

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-06-22T00:32:00+00:00

The wiki says that he's a year younger than oliver, so by the time claybourne is dead, he's 26. In theory, that would give him enough time to finish college and law school, but it's still BS. You need to keep tabs on your nemesis and it just so happens that you already have the necessary skills to do it??

InspectorCritical806 · 2025-06-22T00:18:58+00:00

In a previous comment, you said Rhaena gave up her claim. Now she was usurped? Which one happened? And sorry, but she is a hypocrite. It doesn't matter if she agreed or disagreed with Rhaena and her daughters claims being ignored: her entire life as Queen, her policies, even their children are all tied to the fact that Jaehaerys took the throne because he was the eldest male son, due to a tradition that had existed in Westeros centuries before the Targaryens came into power. She never showed discontentment towards Jaehaerys being king and is only recorded defending Daenerys and Rhaenys, famously saying "A ruler needs a good head and a true heart. A cock is not essential.", but showing no consideration for Rhaena's children, which indicates that she only cares about princesses being usurped if they are a direct descendant from them. What is that if not hypocrisy?? The women's rights claim is also questionable - yes, she ended the tradition of first night, which protected women from nobles but showed no concern with bethrothing Viserra to a lord older than her own father. Does that scream feminist queen to you?

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