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ExploreThere’s lots of TV shows out there where Easter Eggs and various references are easy to spot and it’s safe to say that in Game of Thrones that’s not the case. But that doesn’t mean that they didn’t put some in there. You just need to look harder. But they’re still very hard to spot mostly, so here’s 9 Game of Thrones Easter Eggs to help you.
Game of Thrones Easter Eggs You Probably Missed
9. Opening credits
When the show was still being developed they planned to use the steampunk intro sequence as a way to show the focus moving from one place to another. In the end they decided that it didn’t fit in since it would break the show’s flow, but they still kept it for the intro. In case you usually skip the intro, this one helps you see where the following episode will take place. It changes from episode to episode and it can be easier to follow if you pay attention.
8. Does Littlefinger predict the future?
In the episode titled The Mountain and the Viper, Littlefinger tries to comfort the little breastsucking lordling Robyn Arryn that the world isn’t going to end just becaue he leaves the Vale. He tells him:
“People die at their dinner tables. They die in their beds. They die squatting over their chamber pots. Everybody dies sooner or later. And don’t worry about your death. Worry about your life. Take charge of your life for as long as it lasts.”
Well the first thing could be a reference to the Red Wedding, the second one could be anything (or it could be Tyrion killing Shae in his father’s bed), but the third one could be nothing except for Tyrion killing his father while taking a shit in the toilet. But how could Littlefinger know that before it happened? I know he and Varys are very good at playing their game of thrones, but still this is way to accurate to just predict.
7. The Viper and Inigo Montoya
We were all shocked at the death of Oberyn Martell after he pretty much won the combat against the Mountain. Even those of us who read the books were pretty shocked at how graphic they made it. But if you pay attention, the whole fight is a reference to the Princes Bride and the duel between the Spanish swordsman Inigo Montoya and the six-fingered Count Rugen.
Inigo Montoya is a man looking for revenge for the death of his father. When he finally gets the chance to kill the man he tells him: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Even the accent is similar.
6. Dragonslayer
You may have missed this because of the sex position that was happening in episode Cripples, Bastards And Broken Things, but while Viserys tells Doreah about the skulls of the dead dragons that were ridden by brave men, he start to tell her dragon’s names. One of the names is Vermithrax, also known as Vermithrax Pejorative. The name wasn’t George R.R. Martin’s invention, Vermithrax was the bad guy from 1981’s fantasy epic movie Dragonslayer.
5. Joffrey’s new sword
After everyone’s favorite incest baby get’s a sword from his grandfather he calls out for some ideas for a name. From the shoutouts we can hear the names Stormbringer and Terminus. Stormbringer was a black living sword wielded by Elric. The sword was actually a demon who would drink the souls of it’s victims. It’s from the saga by Michael Moorcock.
Terminus Est however is a mercury-filled blade owned by Severian, of Gene Wolfe’s 1980s The Book Of The New Sun. Both weapons are executioner’s blades, making it kind of appropriate.
4. There are famous swords inside the Iron Throne.
The Iron Throne was made by Aegon The Conqueror from the swords of his enemies. But the weird thing is that his enemies seem to include Orlando Bloom’s character from Kingdom of Heaven, Robin of Locksley or Robin Hood, and even Gandalf the White from Lord of the Rings. All of their swords have been spotted in the Iron Throne. Kudos to Aegon.
3. The Drowned God and Cthulu
The Ironborn worship a deity that they call the Drowned God, since it’s a resurrection kind of god, like Jesus or Osiris. They also practice a kind of extreme baptism. They drown the person and then bring them back to life with mouth to mouth, chanting “what is dead may never die but rises again harder and stronger.” The god however is borrowed from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, where the priests would often chant “that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”
Lovecraft’s monsters live underneath the ocean in the drowned city of R’yleh. Cthulu especially is a squidlike, dragonlike ocean monster. House Greyjoy’s sigil is the kraken – a squidlike, dragonlike ocean monster.
One of the gods in Lovecraft’s stories is called Dagon, which is also the name of one of Theon Greyjoy’s ancestors.
2. Bush on a spike
When Joffrey was showing Sansa her father’s head on a spike in season 1 finale, Sansa had the chance to see the former American president on one of the spikes next to her father. The producers said it was an unfortunate coincident, since people normally have heads of former presidents just lying around, and they apologized for the incident. Sansa also had the chance to push Joffrey off a bridge and she didn’t do it, but nobody apologized for that.
1. Your father smelled like elderberries
In Episode 3, Season 4, Breaker of Chains there is a scene where Danerys Targaryen meets a champion of Mereen. The champion first taunts her by taking a piss in front of them, and then shouts out insults in Low Valyrian. These insults are then translated to Dany by her interpreter Missandei, but the fans of the show caught the joke. Missandei lied to Dany, because the actual taunts were “your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries,” which is an homage to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I hope you enjoyed the Easter Eggs, and that this article helps you in your wait until April.
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