GAME of Thrones superfans notoriously hated spoilers – but they probably didn’t predict it would be one of the characters who had been giving away upcoming secrets.
Devotees desperate for their fix of the hugely popular HBO show, which ended for good after eight seasons last May, have been going back over old episodes.
And eagle-eyed viewers watching series four again now reckon Littlefnger made some oddly psychic predictions.
They believe Littlefinger, who was played by Irish one-time BAFTA-nominee actor Aidan Gillen before being killed off at the end of series 7, may have foreseen some huge deaths for the series.
In episode 8, The Mountain and the Viper, which was first broadcast in June 2014, Littlefinger – AKA Viper Lord Petyr Baelish – tells Robin Arryn about the importance of valuing life.
Clutching Robin by the shoulder he says: “People die at their dinner tables, they die in their beds.
“They die squatting over their chamber pots. Everybody dies sooner or later.
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“Don’t worry about your death, worry about your life. Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts.”
Littlefinger’s comments were, it now seems, spookily prescient.
For in that same season, Joffrey was poisoned at his wedding feast by Lady Olenna Tyrell, convulsing on the floor in front of terrified guests.
Subsequently, Tyrion strangled his former lover, Shae, in bed, after she betrayed him with scathing testimony in court, accusing him of treason.
Tyrion then killed his father, Tywin, with a crossbow while he was on a toilet – perhaps the saga’s least dignififed death of all.
However, the extent of Littlefinger’s clairvoyant powers has been called into question.
Because, while he was known to pull the strings of Westeros and had a hand in Joffrey’s assassination, it seems unlikely he could have foreseen Tyrion murdering Shae and his own dad after catching them in bed together.
Their deaths were two of the most unpredictable in Game of Thrones history and left fans stunned.
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