Game of Thrones: 11 Heartbreaking Moments 

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With all the horrors gong on inside The Twins during the Red Wedding, sometimes it\'s easy to forget that Arya witnessed a lot of the atrocity from the outside. This marked the second time she was close by when her family got massacred. Had she arrived hours earlier she could have seen her mother and brother... but then she also probably would have been killed in the bloodbath. The Hound had to knock her out just to see to her safety.

While not carrying the extra weight of being an undeserved, agonizing death, Daenerys\' banishment of Jorah in Season 4 marked the sad, sorrowful end of their long journey together.  At least for a season. This was their "She\'s All That" moment, where she discovered that their relationship began in a deceitful manner, even though it had blossomed into something very touching and loyal. One does not burn the Mother of Dragons. It\'s the other way around.

After Khaleesi kicked Jorah to the curb, he made it his life\'s mission to redeem himself in her eyes. He returned to her at the end of Season 5, saved her life, and then embarked on a search for her after Drogon spirited her away during a huge assassination attempt.

They\'ve now mended past pain, but Jorah, infected with Greyscale, can no longer be near his queen. She tearfully gave him one last command - to find a cure for himself so that he could return and help her rule Westeros. It was basically a much kinder, loving banishment than she\'d given him before. And the first time he professed his undying love for her.

Castle Black\'s Maester Aemon had the distinct luxury of dying at a ripe old age. That doesn\'t mean his passing didn\'t yank wildly on our heartstrings. In his final, delirious moments he imagined he was conversing with his brother, Aegon, as children. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old," were his final, sad words.

The burning of Shireen is a particular repugnant, mournful act in Game of Thrones\' history. Stannis\' quest for the Iron Throne ran so dark and deep that he would have rather been known as "The King Who Torched His Own Daughter" than the "The King Who Fled," and seeing Stannis grimly watch it all happen, as much as he felt it was his duty, made it so much worse. Shireen had to see her own father standing there, doing nothing, while she burned. It was a phenomenally sad moment, especially when Selyse, who\'d never been a loving mother, tried to run to her daughter\'s aid.

Given this is Game of Thrones, we could have probably guessed that Hodor would die in the service of Bran\'s journey, as the guy was practically built to protect the psychic Stark. And sure, you might have also guessed his death would be a sad one. But for it to be THIS SAD? This powerful? This meaningful? It was a gut-punch of untouchable proportions. Watching Hodor hold that door while his young self, in the past, melted into a puddle of spasms and fits -- blending together the phrase "hold the door" -- was monumentally moving.

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.

Game of Thrones First Aired Apr. 2011

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