Thread:ScaryMovie53/@comment-34055410-20181021172249/@comment-34055410-20190628160637

BOT1: Oh, I’m aware you’re not a Cersei hater. I meant that the person who added her to the “Psychopath” category could be one. I’d say Cersei comes close to being a psychopath. She may have committed some terrible crimes (destroying the Sept of Baelor and killing hundreds of people as a result, torturing Septa Unella, orchestrating the death of Robert (her own husband), poisoning Ellaria’s daughter in front of her and forcing Ellaria to watch her daughter die and decompose for the rest of her life, and numerous other cruel acts), and she meets almost every other parts of the criteria, but she ultimately misses the mark. Whether she wants her children to grow up as murderers or not, she still proved quite a number of times that she’s not 100% heartless. For one, all you have to do is look at her reaction to Myrcella’s death, and you’ll probably forget for a second that she’s even a villain. She was openly torn up, lamented the fact that Myrcella was an innocent, selfless person who didn’t deserve to die, and so on. And even if Joffrey was... Joffrey... Cersei’s reaction to his death still counts as sympathetic regardless. And even though she spends seasons 7 and 8 as a near-emotionless hate sink, she ends up being very emotional in her death scene. So yes, Cersei comes very close to being a psychopath, but no, in the end, she fails the criteria. Although, if you still think she’s psychopathic, I’m fine with that. Considering all the horrible, unspeakable things she’s done with a heavy heart and tons of remorse, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re adamant about her counting as a psychopath.

BOT2: What I meant with the whole “Tywin’s wife died, and he blamed Tyrion for it” claim wasn’t that he has a tragic background (in fact, many psychopaths are tragic, as seen in the majority of slasher films), but that he’s shown just how much he loved his wife. Like Cersei, Tywin comes close to being a psychopath but flunks the criteria in the end.

BOT3: I agree with what you’re saying about Tanner. 80% of the people in Westeros grew up in unpleasant environments, so whatever “excuse” Tanner had doesn’t even close to justifying all the rape and murder he committed. Overall, characters like Ramsay and Tanner are hateable because of how evil and nasty they are, and characters like Joffrey are hateable mostly because of how cowardly, spineless, and spoiled they are. I’d say the Mountain is on the same level as Joffrey. Both of them are Pure Evil, both of them are rapists and murders (while Joffrey never actually raped anyone from what I recall, he did threaten to rape people simply for the sake of being a twit), and both of them are extremely sadistic. However, since Ramsay is probably the most sadistic character in fiction, and pretty much every scenes he appears in can be regarded as the most disturbing scenes in the show, while Joffrey is more of a spoiled brat and a bully who happens to sit on a throne and wear a crown, I would have to hop on to the “Ramsay is worse” bandwagon. As for Jack Gleeson, you can decide how he would be like. I’m personally stumped about this.