Game of Thrones Daenerys Ignores The Bells Memes

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Dany ignoring the bells becomes instantly iconic ‘Game of Thrones’ meme

'I told you so.'

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Trixie Reyna

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Posted on May 13, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 12:47 pm CDT

This post contains spoilers.

We’ve reached the penultimate episode of the entire series, but it feels like all the years (and thoughts and feelings) we’ve invested in this show went up in flames along with King’s Landing Sunday night.

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Everyone is upset, to say the least. And this is after Daenerys Targaryen went ahead and did exactly what everyone wanted her to do after last week’s episode: go full Mad Queen and burn King’s Landing to the ground.

The battle between Dany and Cersei Lannister’s forces started out exhilarating enough: Dany only needed one dragon, Drogon, to lay waste to Euron Greyjoy’s Iron Fleet and all the other scorpions lining the walls of King’s Landing, not to mention the Golden Company, which Dany and Drogon decimated. This gave Jon Snow, Grey Worm, Davos Seaworth, and the remaining Dothraki and Unsullied the opening to attack the rest of Cersei’s forces, who eventually surrendered. Just take out Cersei, and then Dany is assured her victory.

But what happened next made absolutely no sense to people. As @targarcyn observed on Twitter, Dany “hears bells of surrender and for some fucking [absurd] reason starts killing innocents.”

If you feel like you’ve been played, just imagine that’s exactly what Tyrion Lannister and Jon must be feeling after the events of that episode—especially after Dany just proved the warnings of Varys (bless his soul) and Sansa right.

After such a sad and awful episode, fans turned Dany ignoring the bells—and Jon and Tyrion realizing their mistake—into a mother load of memes.

Dany ignoring the bells memes

Dany ignoring the bells and torching King’s Landing was one of the most memed moments of Sunday night’s episode. After realizing that Dany fully intends to attack King’s Landing with Drogon, Tyrion pleaded for her to make her troops fall back once the bells toll to signal the surrender of Cersei’s forces. Dany reluctantly allowed this with a nod at Grey Worm. The bells eventually tolled, but Dany chose to ignore them, prompting fans to flood Twitter with memes of Dany “pretending” to not hear the bells.

https://twitter.com/PoonSinghatiraj/status/1127763151183724545

https://twitter.com/tonya_burge/status/1127755664531623937

It was a big enough moment to warrant ubiquitous SpongeBob memes to make the same point.

https://twitter.com/HamzaYunusIslam/status/1127765156480598016

To many fans, Dany may as well have been wearing noise-canceling headphones for all the attention she paid those bells.

https://twitter.com/stormbornjedi/status/1127762968270311424

Or were they AirPods?

https://twitter.com/TanviSh59050766/status/1127818931270369281

https://twitter.com/TbhImJustCris/status/1127765554465525760

https://twitter.com/Fardeen_02/status/1127802727361171457

The Michael Jordan “Fuck them kids” meme that has been making the rounds all season reared its head in the midst of all the reactions to Dany ignoring the bells.

https://twitter.com/MrBlogger_1/status/1127770759928193024

https://twitter.com/Ejoke21/status/1127761381866913792

And so did Dany’s passive-aggressive smile from this season’s second episode.

https://twitter.com/tianamarcus_/status/1127755598953689094

https://twitter.com/HeapBrittany/status/1127768752794345473

@yourealobster thinks Dany might as well be saying “The bell doesn’t dismiss you. I do,” in true Mad Queen fashion.

https://twitter.com/yourealobster/status/1127773774575808512

Some fans, like @Ibrahimozcelikk, “fully support the madness.”

There are people who are proud of what she did.

https://twitter.com/GianNarisma/status/1127764676907900934

Jon and Tyrion’s regret memes

Frustrated Tyrion probably feels like he’s “a joke” to Dany after she ignored the bells and attacked, according to fans.

Many think Tyrion and Jon should have seen it coming; and for their appalled reactions to what Dany ended up doing, they were mercilessly meme’d on Twitter, too.

https://twitter.com/TimurTargaryen/status/1127805164365189120

Fans think Jon may have realized too late the huge mistake he made in bending the knee to Dany.

https://twitter.com/6itchass/status/1127777330687041541

https://twitter.com/makeupxpaol/status/1127767551856062464

People are posting about just how wild the next episode will be when Jon and Dany meet after this madness.

https://twitter.com/MuswenteBanda/status/1127782331329204224

But fans believe if there’s anyone who can say “I told you so,” it’s Sansa, Arya, and Varys, who have warned Jon and Tyrion about the Mad Queen this whole time.

https://twitter.com/Dpreetybarbie/status/1127755493366218752

https://twitter.com/connor_254/status/1127773243669139456

https://twitter.com/MalissaTormey/status/1127776972296396800

https://twitter.com/IronThroneMemes/status/1127765753006919681

With only one episode left in a series that has always been foreshadowed to be as mad as Dany, are we even surprised that this is how audiences and superfans have been played? We’ve been warned this whole time.

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*First Published: May 13, 2019, 6:25 am CDT

Trixie Reyna

Trixie Reyna-Benedicto is a lifestyle editor and writer based in the Philippines. Previously, she helmed Cosmopolitan Philippines’ website, Cosmo.ph, as its founding editor. She later served as editor-in-chief of lifestyle and entertainment portals for Manila-based media company TV5. Her work has appeared in several print and online publications in her country, and she contributes to Speed Magazine, DG Traveler, and Connected Women, among others. Visit her website, trixiereyna.com.

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