Over eight seasons of the hit fantasy series Game Of Thrones, the top moments have been the ones when viewers realised that this show was going to break rules and upend expectations.
Fans knew it was fond of killing off favourites - see Oberyn Martell's (Pedro Pascal) death under the thumbs of The Mountain (Hafthor Julius Bjornsson) - and it liked to slow things down so viewers could see the deaths in gory detail.
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