This post assumes you are either up to date with every death on Game Of Thrones so far, or quit watching after the Red Wedding and now just read stuff like this to reassure yourself you made the right decision.
Look, Tommen stepping out of that window was pretty awful. Ros and Rickon’s respective deaths by arrow, also monstrous and heartbreaking in their different ways. The Red Wedding? Still scarred.
But this? This is just nasty, even for Game Of Thrones.
It turns out that Ser Pounce – Tommen Baratheon’s sweet, fluffy Head of the Kittiesguard, is dead.
Showrunner David Benioff told Entertainment Weekly that Cersei murdered the cat at some point after his first and only appearance on the show – because of his name.
“Cersei hated the name ‘Ser Pounce’ so much she could not allow him to survive,” Benioff told EW. “So she came up with her most diabolical [execution]. Ser Pounce’s death was so horrible we couldn’t even put it on the air.”
“If you buy the super-extended, super-charged Game of Thrones box set that comes out, the death of Ser Pounce will be in there,” Benioff’s co-showrunner Dan Weiss added. “Just one whole episode devoted to the death of Ser Pounce.”
Yes, this show is here to break your spirit, and they laugh in the face of your anguish.
RIP Ser Pounce
— HBO (@HBO) February 11, 2019
Everyone: We don't really need any updates on Ser Pounce, I'm sure a nonthreatening cat in King's Landing is doing just fine
Benioff and Weiss: Well actually, Cersei ordered Zombie Mountain to crush Ser Pource's skull and toss his entrails in Flea Bottom
— Miles Surrey (@HKSurrey) February 11, 2019
So don’t expect the noble ball of fluff to pop up in the final season come April – not even as a White Pouncer.
The good news? He’s still alive in the books – so there’s no better time to start reading.
