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Game Of Thrones: 10 Ways Sansa Got Worse & Worse
Long after Game of Thrones fades into obscurity, the story of Sansa Stark will remain behind — as both moral and message. She goes through some of the most horrific endeavors of anyone on the show, considering that at different points her life lays in the hands of violent, tyrannical men.
Sansa, however, is smart and skilled enough to mold her experiences into strategy and tact, although her decisions might not necessarily be made in favor of the North. Though she begins as a naive child with a loving family, her personality undergoes several unwanted changes in the course of the series. These are the ways in which Sansa progressively got worse.
10 Caring About Joffrey
Young Sansa wants nothing more than to make a good impression in the eyes of her prospective in-laws, even rejecting the truth in order to save her relationship. After Arya's Direwolf, Nymeria, attacks Joffrey (and for good reason), she claims that she cannot recall the event so as to avoid angering her fiancé.
Circumstances lead to Sansa's own direwolf Lady being executed, but she still chooses to go to King's Landing with the Baratheons. This nasty state of affairs continues for a while before she obtains some respite.
9 Insulting Tyrion
In order to seize control of the North, Tywin forces Sansa to wed Tyrion, whose dwarfism he considers a blot on the Lannister name. The marriage is never consummated, because the young bride is rather expressive about her lack of attraction to Tyrion.
After most of the story is complete, Sansa and Tyrion meet again in Winterfell, where she basically calls him a traitor for being Hand to the wrong Queen.
8 Rejecting Brienne Of Tarth
After a long search, Brienne finds Sansa, revealing that she had pledged her services to the Stark children (via Catelyn), and offers to become her guardian. However, Littlefinger's vile machinations were already worming their way through Sansa's brain, and she tells Brienne that she isn't interested in her allegiance.
It is not impossible to imagine that her being brainwashed has a lot to do with her decision, but to actually pick one of the most selfish people on the continent rather than one of the most loyal is like a punch in the gut. Luckily, when sides begin to flip in the later seasons, Brienne and Sansa become great friends.
7 Almost Destroying The North
Jon Snow frets about his meager forces, who are to take on the massive Bolton army the next day. He goes ahead with the battle anyway, because there isn't much else he can do to resolve the situation of Winterfell. However, unbeknownst to Jon, Sansa has already requested Littlefinger to deliver the armies of the Vale as a back-up, should her brother fail.
This is exactly what happens, and Jon is pulled from the jaws of death at the last minute. The problem is that Sansa never tells him her plan, which may have possibly negated the unnecessary loss of life endured by their side (including the youngest Stark, Rickon).
