Do You Agree With These 18 "Game Of Thrones" Alternate Endings?

    Y'all really got creative.

    Daniella Emanuel
    by Daniella Emanuel

    BuzzFeed Staff

    A lot of people had mixed feelings about the Game of Thrones finale, so we summoned the BuzzFeed Community to brainstorm some alternate endings. Here's what they came up with:

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    1. Dany and Jon destroy the Throne together, ending the Game of Thrones.

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    "In short, the story should have been the last two Targaryens in the world finding their way back to each other and destroying the Throne (which was ultimately the downfall of their house) and thus ending the 'game.'

    Rheagal should have lived and Dany and Jon should have used their dragons to burn the throne. The wheel would be broken — the throne having been created by dragon fire (and the Targaryens), and then destroyed by dragon fire (and the Targaryens) – bringing the story full circle.

    It would have been clever if throughout the whole story we were made to believe that Dany wanted to sit on the Iron Throne when really all she wanted to do was destroy it."

    —lilj90

    2. Jon kills himself after killing Dany.

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    "Jon Snow should have died a la Melisandre after Dany (in a sort of Romeo & Juliet type manner) as he had fulfilled the Lord of Light's purpose. Drogon should have taken both of them away."

    —thebay

    3. Brienne decides to be with Tormund.

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    "Gendry on that effing boat [with Arya]. Sandor still alive with both his eyes and on the boat with him. I shipped Brienne with Jaime, but since he chose his sister...Brienne getting knighted and then choosing Tormund. Jon, King of the Seven Kingdoms.

    Dany would still be dead. Since Mereen, I felt that she was a different person and lost her morals."

    —milkandhoneyx

    4. Bran is actually...the Night King?

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    "Everything stays the same. The credits roll then go to a cut scene of Bran warging out. The camera zooms in closer and closer until the shot is just Bran’s eyes. He blinks. His eyes flash to Night King blue. The end.

    George R. R. Martin trolls all of us. The show's ending is actually the ending to The Winds of Winter. A Song of Spring will be where we are given the true ending."

    —istarlet

    5. We see where Drogon takes Dany.

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    "Keeping it as is cuz whatevs, but we actually see where Drogon takes Dany. He lands on a field full of dragon eggs because come on, we really think there were only three dragon eggs left in the world? He puts Dany on the eggs and sets the whole thing on fire. Dany is reborn again, but spends the rest of her days on the other side of the world just chilling."

    —jeskasworld12

    6. Arya wears Grey Worm's face to kill Dany.

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    "We watched Arya for TWO GOD DAMN SEASONS learning to become a faceless man and she used it once to kill Walder Frey?!?

    Arya should have killed Grey Worm and worn his face to kill Dany. Also, Arya needed a bad ass kill in the finale. That would have put Jon on the throne and Jon could have then exiled Arya so she could sail the world like she wanted."

    —aimlight

    7. Arya wears Jon's face to kill Dany.

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    "I wish Jon had realized he wouldn’t be able to kill Dany, so he sacrifices himself so Arya can take his face, get close enough to Dany and kill her. Jon is dead, but he did it to save everyone and still show some love for Dany. Arya would be exiled to go west anyway in my brain. Same general story but with a bit of umph to it, I guess. But I must say I thought it was very good in its simplicity."

    —grannyshirt

    8. Dany and Jon rule together.

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    "I’m such a sucker for happy endings that I really hoped Dany and Jon would just rule together, and because of that Sansa would still have the independent North. I understand the Mad Queen thing probably made for a more interesting plot, but I still hated watching Dany’s downfall considering everything she’d ever been through and coming out even stronger for it. I still hoped for them to rule together or at worst Jon giving up his right to the throne so she could rule on her own. But again, I’m just a sucker for happy endings, so to each their own."

    —sapphire96

    9. Dany kills herself.

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    "All could be the same until after Danys Speech...Tyrion is sentenced to death by fire. Jon stands in front of Drogon and stops the execution. Tyrion explains to the Army why Jon was able to stop Drogon – because he's the rightful ruler. The army, and Grey Worm bend the knee to Jon. Dany is upset at losing power to Jon, losing the army, and losing power over Drogon, so she kills herself."

    —devindigo

    10. Bronn isn't on the small council because "that makes literally no sense."

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    "I don't know how it *should* have ended but I would personally like to have seen:

    1. Brienne starting the next page of the knight book with her name and the first sentence would be that she's the first female head of the Kingsguard, and she helped form a constitutional monarchy.

    2. Bronn NOT on the small council because that makes literally no sense.

    3. Ending shot of the show should be a shadow of Drogon flying and a faint dragon's cry over some land that we've never seen before.

    4. Sam should have said A Song of Ice and Fire is not yet finished.

    5. Dany's eyes should have turned purple to honour the original writing, and she should have sat on the throne."

    —janec42b85f582

    11. Bran was actually able to walk all along.

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    "Honestly I wish it would’ve just ended with Bran standing up and being like 'HAHA GOTCHA I could walk this whole time.'"

    —grandtheftautumn

    12. Brienne is pregnant with Jaime's baby.

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    "A glimpse of Brienne’s writing should have revealed: 'Fathered a child with Brienne of Tarth.'"

    —imjustsayyin

    13. Dany melts the throne, then flies away with Drogon. Westeros becomes seven independent nations.

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    "Dany melts the throne, then her and Drogon fuck off. Jon and Tyrion are held responsible. It's decided that Westeros will be seven independent nations, with Bran serving as the protector. Jon is still banished to the Night's Watch (but we all know he's now King Beyond the Wall).

    Final scene is an elderly woman tending to a lemon tree in the yard of a house with a red door. She looks up and smiles as Drogon flies over."

    —lucindamcfly

    14. Jaime kills Cersei.

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    "Basically the gists of what I was hoping would go down is:

    1. Jaime kills Cersei (thus fulfilling Maggy's prophecy).

    2. Arya kills Dany (thus fulfilling Melisandre’s prophecy and completing her ‘no one’ arc).

    3. Jon is nominated as King of Westeros (whether he rejects it or not is up to him, but damn his name should really be among the nominees, not because he’s a Targaryen, but because of his credibility).

    4. Sansa remains Queen of the independent North.

    5. If Arya exploring west has to remain the same, then I hope this happens: Gendry eventually realized that he’s not really feeling the ‘Lord’ title anyway and suddenly shows up at the harbor and tells Arya he wants to join her.

    6. The people in the court council remain the same.

    7. Flash forward to coronation day like in the finale, with Jon Snow visiting Castle Black (now no longer a place for the banished, but a middle meeting point for Westerosi and Freefolk to discuss matters when needed) to say hi to old friend Tormund and to pet Ghost."

    —minao3

    15. The white walkers are the final enemy, and Jon has defeat them by killing Daenerys.

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    "I wanted the white walkers to be the final enemy and hoped for a more literal re-telling of the Last Hero/Prince story that was promised. Basically the winter is getting worse and people are losing the fight. The hero (Jon) tragically puts his sword through his lover (Daenerys) to create the weapon that drives the Others back where they came from and ends the winter...At least for the next couple thousand years. Jon, wounded and having nothing left to lose, is last seen chasing the remaining enemy way beyond the wall, knowing he won't make it back."

    —a4c1ecdbc6

    16. Sansa is queen of the seven kingdoms.

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    "I wish Arya was the one that killed Dany, but Jon still refuses the throne, and Sansa ends up on the throne of the seven kingdoms. She’s so level-headed and would’ve been so much better than Bran. And I wish Arya ended up with Gendry so that at least one couple could have a happy ending. But seriously, anyone but Bran."

    —eisuneek

    17. Gendry becomes king.

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    "Should have been Gendry. Do you know how much fanfiction I'm going to have to read to make up for this?"

    —kendalla4b9021ecf

    18. Dany gets killed, then is brought back to life, then kills everyone...again?

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    "Tyrion is killed by Dany for betraying her. Arya kills Dany. Drogon takes Dany to a wizard that brings her back to life, and comes back and torches everyone again to take back the Iron Throne."

    —samir

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