Why Oberyn is a Perfect Character

Had a coworker who loved Oberyn. Whenever I needed him to pick up a shift he’d reply “I will be your champion” lol

(Spoiler alert) because he's played by Pedro Pascal

Oberyn is 100% Pedros best acting performance, he left such an impact in just 1 season, he made season 4 the best season tbh.

Oberyn's death was so shocking that Pedro now always wears a helmet and refuses to remove it.

When Bronn tells Tyrion he won’t fight for him, he foreshadows Oberyn’s death. He says maybe he’d get lucky and dance around the Mountain until he gets tired and drops his sword. “Get him off his feet somehow, but one misstep and I’m dead.” Described Oberyn’s fight exactly 😢

The scene when he accepts to fight for Tyrion literally gave me goosebumps 🔥💯🔥

I absolutely loved Oberyn but in hindsight I'm kind of happy that his journey ended in season 4 so D&D couldn't mess up this brilliant character. Same goes for Tywin.

Even Oberyn's "weakness" is likeable -- he loved his sister and her children so much that even after years he is still seeking vengeance for their gruesome deaths. He would go up in public, accuse one of the, if not THE, most powerful men in the realm and call them out on this injustice and frankly war crime that has been committed against his family. His quest is just and we feel for him as the audience. We root for him. We want so much for him to succeed. And his failure and death is devastating in itself, but amplified because it was tied to Tyrion's fate as well, another very well liked character. George really shined in creating Oberyn.

Any character who can make Tywin the not most interesting character in the room is a force to be reckoned with!

In the fight scene I was so hype up for him winning, to the point I felt that something could go wrong here, and it did. I remembered staring blank into the ceiling in despair, felt like everything is so numb for minutes after the episode ended. GOT was truly at its peak back then.

Oberyn was the highpoint of season 4 for me, and his death was such a surprise

this vid made me realise he is an example of the exact same trope grrm used with Rob Stark, a competent likable character who in any other story would be the chosen one but loses because of one simple mistake. I think its George Martin satirizing the fantasy cliches we like. in any other show they would be Aragorn.

Pascal made Oberyn seem so free and relaxed. Even has he was in the den of vipers that was King's Landing.

You just reminded me of the good days of GoT and explained perfectly why I like Oberyn so much.
In those days of GoT, it had huge consequences if a character made a mistake and I felt excited and scared for Oberyn to take on the Mountain.
I still remember yelling at the screen "finish him" as Oberyn started circling the Mountain. I knew he wasn't safe until the Mountain was dead and then IT happened and Oberyn lost.
After that I just sat in silence trying to understand how everything had changed for Tyrion. The next day at school me and my friends talked about it all day.
Pedro Pascal put in a great performance and GoT really was at it's peak.

GRRM plays with Stereotypes and pre-conceived expectations so well, for example Oberyn is like an adventurous bisexual playboy that likes partying, but he has this ultimate and pure goal of avenging his sister, he's an insanely skilled warrior but he prefers to plan things out and murder people with poison rather than just overpower them, it's like he melds all kinds of different characters into one.

I was a teenager during the show… Oberyns death literally gave me nightmares. Yeah it was gruesome, but that wasn’t why it haunted me. I had become so enveloped in his character and his motives. How he delivered his lines and the morals of his character. His willingness to stand up to the “Golden Lion” made his death for me so absolutely heart crushing. I’d have the same nightmare of his head being crushed, followed by the screams of his woman and then me waking up. Truly a great and relatable character. I felt like I’d lost a friend. I literally mourned him, I was that hurt hurt over his death.

He is really my favorite character in all of Game of Thrones, you can’t forget him. He’s great.

I think there's no doubt that George RR Martin can write some of the most well written characters of all time

It was really cool having a character show up so far into the show, that seemed so morally good. Most of the characters in the show were enemies to our main protagonist, so it was nice having this force of nature enter out of nowhere and attempt to fight against the lannisters.

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken. Pedro Pascal's Oberyn is the highlight of the show, big agree! Excellent analysis.