Remember after "The Long Night" when some Game of Thrones fans were raging about the fact that not enough of our "heroes" had died in the Battle of Winterfell? That was cute. Now that the body bags have started to stack up even more, only a Mad Queen could complain about a lack of carnage this season, and it looks like the series finale will bring an end to at least one more fan favorite.
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Before Game of Thrones takes its final (potentially bloody) bow, let's take a moment to reflect on all the major players we've lost in Season 8 so far. Some of the series' mainstays went down in an absolute blaze of glory, while others fell with much less fanfare as a result of the final stretch's dizzying pacing problems. In some cases those deaths gave the story some symmetry, while in others they were just totally off the rails and pointless.
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Click through the gallery below to relive all of the major deaths in Game of Thrones' final season -- not counting the death of a satisfying arc for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) -- and see how they rank, from least to most satisfying.
Game of Thrones' series finale airs Sunday, May 19 at 9/8c on HBO.
PHOTOS: Game of Thrones' Season 8 Deaths, Ranked
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