SPOILER ALERT: Warning, this article contains spoilers from the Season 7, Episode 7 of Game of Thrones, entitled “The Dragon and the Wolf.” Proceed at your own risk.
Season 7 of Game of Thrones is officially over, leaving every superfan as hungry as a direwolf for more answers. Who will sit on the Iron Throne for good? Will Tormund and Brienne get together and make, as he said, “monster babies?” Will Season 8 show Jon Snow do the impossible: crack a smile?
Fear not — even though Season 8 could premiere as late as the Spring of 2019, FANDOM has over 3,000 Game of Thrones articles to explore. Seriously, there’s an entire section dedicated to Westerosi wine alone, perfect for those who, like Tyrion, like to both “drink and know things.”
So what have the super fans been looking up during Season 7? Strangely enough, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was the most searched character this season (with 2.2 million views). Not too shabby for a guy who was dead long before Season 1 took place and only showed up in the eleventh hour of the seventh season.
Following Rhaegar is Jon Snow, who beat his aunt (and lover) Daenerys by nearly 200,000 views this season. Perhaps it’s time she bent the knee?
Not just yet! It turns out Daenerys is a Breaker of Chains AND a Breaker of Records; she’s collected over 15 million lifetime views, a whopping 2 million more than that brooding ol’ Johnny Snow. So he won the battle, but she’s ultimately winning the war. If that doesn’t make her the rightful Queen of the Andals and the First Men, I don’t know what will.
We’ve seen interesting pages trend after each episode of Season 7. The castle Dragonstone spiked once Daenerys returned to Westeros. The Unsullied page went straight to the top once Greyworm’s pants dropped past his bottom. And Olenna Tyrell, Dickon Tarly, and Benjen Stark all were the top articles the nights those characters died. (It seems having a trending Wiki article is more dangerous than being on Arya’s Kill List.)
But just who are these super fans who have such a Sam Tarly-like thirst for knowledge? FANDOM took a deeper look.
Game of Thrones fans are ten times more likely to have a career in criminal justice. And yet, you don’t hear much about trials by combat coming back into fashion. Oh well.
Unsurprisingly, 54% of Game of Thrones fans claim that integrity is the most important guiding principle in their lives, leading us to believe that characters like Littlefinger and Ramsey Bolton wouldn’t be fans of their very own show.
Fans of the show are also 1.6 times more likely to be NHL hockey enthusiasts. Something about watching men battle over the ice — some people just can’t get enough of it.
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