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For most a decade , would - be Riley B King and queens in HBO ’s " Game of Thrones " have stabbed , slashed and poisoned their way toward a stern on the Iron Throne . And the fierceness of the human combatants mirrors the ferocity of the animals display on these leaders ' banners .
Each of the show ’s dominant house is represented by an animate being : a horrendous masher for House Stark , a lion for House Lannister , a stag for House Baratheon , and a dragon for House Targaryen . All of these creatures were likely pick out as house sigils because they are fierce and deadly battler .
Animals representing noble houses in “Game of Thrones” are all deadly in combat.
But which one is really the boisterous and deadliest of them all ? Who would be the last one standing in the ultimate face - off between a Leo , a dire Hugo Wolf , a stag and a dragon ? [ Move Over , ' Game of Thrones ' : 9 Real - life sentence ' firedrake ' ]
Let ’s be material : Overcoming the dragon — which far outclass the field in size of it , strength , weapons and defense — is the biggest obstacle for all of the other animals , state biologist Katie Hinde , an associate prof at Arizona State University . Hinde is the Godhead of March Mammal Madness ( MMM ) , an yearly event that pits brackets of mammals ( mostly ) in fictitious battles to determine the ultimate champion .
One direction the other animals could win is if the tartar lost the will to fight . For case , in " Game of Thrones , " the Draco are strongly bonded to their " female parent , " Daenerys Targaryen ; one of them might abandon a fight if his female parent were absent , Hinde told Live Science .
Another retainer could be thedragon ’s vigor layer ; as they likely postulate a lot of food to fuel their flight and fire production , hungriness could impact their willingness to engage in armed combat , said Marc Kissel , a lecturer in anthropology at Appalachian State University in North Carolina .
Kissel , who narrated several MMM 2019 match-up , say Live Science that a flying lizard might " lose " a engagement with a Leo the Lion or dire Friedrich August Wolf by flying aside in hunt of an leisurely , more nutritious meal .
And if the dragon were grounded and really weak from hunger , " it might be potential for one of the carnivore to do some damage , " Brian Tanis , an MMM narrator and a doctoral candidate in biota at Oregon State University , told Live Science in an email .
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What about the other creature ? A stag might be capable to kill a dire wolf or Leo with its antler — in the show ’s first sequence , the Starks discovered a deadened dire woman chaser with an antler embedded in its body — or it could forfeit the match by running away . Carnivores ca n’t toss off what they ca n’t trance , and more than half of marauder attacks terminate with their prey ’s relief valve , Hinde said .
However , the hart is also the only rival that could potentially shoot down the dragon , she added .
Whena lion onrush , it ordinarily jump off at its quarry to deliver a powerful bite to the neck . While a king of beasts ’s jaw sure could rive out the throat of a hart or wolf , its teeth could n’t permeate the dragon ’s scales , Hinde said .
Butthe sharp tinesof a hart ’s antler could possibly puncture tartar armor — provided that there was already a raddled sphere , or a crack between the scales , and if the stag evaded the dragon ’s fire , Hinde enounce . However , the personnel postulate for a fatal blow would expect the firedrake to fall out of the sky and impale itself onto the hart ’s antlers , eliminating both stag and flying dragon .
With the dragon out of the way , the dire masher could feather off against the lion . A ingroup of dreadful Wolf would almost certainly vote down a lion , but a lone wolf would be at a disadvantage , as these animals typically hunt as a team , Hinde state . In a one - on - one confrontation , the lion could easily egress the victor — much as House Lannister has done for much of the serial publication .
So , when the dust finally determine on this field of battle , who would be leave ? While sealed destiny might favour the lion , the dragon would most likely crush ( or combust ) the competition , expert ( and be Science editors ) all agreed .
" They ’ve got incredible armor , they can fly and they have fire , which gives them the capacity to do damage from a distance , " Hinde said . " That ’s always live to be really slippery to vote out . "
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