Hypothetical GoT/RL parallels

[dreamville_bg]

Which GoT house/family/dynasty would you compare to the following countries?

1. USA
2. Russia
3. Japan
4. France
5. Your own (other than the US)
6. Some obscure country of your choosing

:-)

Comments

[mahnmut]

The US must be the whitewalkers. Wherever they set foot, they leave corpses and scorched land behind. ('Cept, the Night King would later reanimate the corpses).

[dreamville_bg]

[mahnmut]

[luzribeiro]

USA = Baratheon. Fat, loud, and convinced they rule the world.
Russia = Lannister. Cunning, drunk, got the occasional talented (and drunken) genius.
Japan = Stark. Principled till (pointless) death.
France = Tyrell. Nice wine, hot women, cowardly men.
South Africa = Dothraki. A bit rough, nice costumes, weird wedding customs.
Obscure (HAH!) Iceland = Wildlings. Bad frozen food, hard to kill.

[airiefairie]

Actually GRRM was fairly transparent in making his parallels between the various groups and geographical regions in his fictional world and the history of the real one. Stark is Scotland, Lannister is England, Greyjoy is the Vikings, the wildlings are the Picts, Dorne is Spain, the Dothraki are the Huns, Qarth is Persia or possibly India, Braavos is Italy, The Reach is France, Baratheon is Germany (or was it Wales?), Targaryen is the Romans... etc. Some I don't remember, like the Tullys and Arryns but I am sure there are also historical parallels.

[dreamville_bg]

I know. Most major events in his books are also based on specific events in history. I'm not talking about that. I'm looking at these parallels from a more entertainment/stereotypes point of view.

[abomvubuso]

On a slight sidenote, a comment I saw elsewhere:

PLOT TWIST: Bran wargs into Jaime, and what we see at the end of S1E1 in the show is actually warged Bran screwing Cersei when he suddenly realized they're in the tower he fell from, and he sees his young self by the window. Realizing his cruel fate, Bran knew he had no choice but to push himself off the tower, or else history will change and Macumber might rub them all off his eye.

MIND: BLOWN!

[mikeyxw]

So really Bran is a little pervert who frames an innocent Jamie for something he did? Next we're going to see Bran as the unwilling source of evil in Westeros, going back and making people commit heinous acts to ensure historical consistency.

[abomvubuso]

Dunno, maybe. If he doesn't have a choice in order to save the Multiverse from imploding.