19 Facts About King Joffrey

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King Joffrey is characterized as a spoiled, sadistic bully and frequently torments his family as well as Sansa Stark, to whom he is betrothed in the first novel.

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King Joffrey later marries Margaery Tyrell, but is killed by poison during his wedding reception.

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3.

King Joffrey is portrayed by Irish actor Jack Gleeson in the television adaptation Game of Thrones, a role for which he received international recognition and critical praise.

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4.

King Joffrey Baratheon is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as his uncle Tyrion Lannister and his one-time fiancee Sansa Stark.

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5.

King Joffrey has a younger sister, Myrcella, and a younger brother, Tommen, both of whom are products of Jaime and Cersei's incestuous relationship.

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6.

King Joffrey is an amoral sadist who disguises his cruelty with a thin veneer of charm.

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7.

King Joffrey enjoys forcing people to fight to the death, and enforces cruel punishments for lesser crimes.

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8.

King Joffrey has no sense of personal responsibility, blaming failures on others.

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King Joffrey lacks self-control and often insults his allies and family members.

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10.

King Joffrey is 12 years old at the beginning of A Game of Thrones .

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11.

Prince King Joffrey is taken by his parents to Winterfell and is betrothed to Sansa Stark in order to create an alliance between House Baratheon and House Stark.

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12.

King Joffrey accuses Mycah of assaulting a noble girl and makes a cut on his face with a sword.

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13.

When King Joffrey then turns on Arya, her direwolf Nymeria attacks King Joffrey, injuring him.

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14.

King Joffrey later has his bodyguard Sandor "The Hound" Clegane hunt down and kill Mycah.

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15.

King Joffrey promised Sansa that he would be merciful but then beheads Eddard anyway and later forces Sansa to look upon her father's head.

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16.

King Joffrey is betrothed to Sansa Stark to cement an alliance between the Houses of Stark and Lannister.

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17.

When Stannis attacks King's Landing, Joffrey serves only as a figurehead and avoids the heavy fighting.

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18.

King Joffrey seems to take little interest in his betrothed, but is amazed and altered by her ways of winning the people's favor, in which he takes part.

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19.

King Joffrey's last act is an attempt to point at Tyrion, and as a result Tyrion is falsely accused and ordered arrested by Cersei, but it is later revealed that Lady Olenna Tyrell and Lord Petyr Baelish were the true perpetrators.

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