One such major moment in the show was when Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen was killed brutally by Jon Snow, who stabbed the Mad Queen in her belly. However, while the death may have come as a ...

Game of Thrones, both the show and book series by George R. R. Martin, changed the way that death has been depicted in fantasy novels. Death, early on, was real.

When we left off, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke ... her noble-to-a-fault lover Jon Snow (Kit Harington), secretly the true Targaryen heir, would deal with her shocking transformation loomed.