re: Game of Thrones: Who should get to kill ________? (spoilers)

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Having your entire guard rape your son's wife and then having your son finish her off is about as evil as you can get

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No doubt it f'ed up, it cruel and in-humane, but I believe his motives for doing that wasn't pure evil, he was teaching Tyrion a lesson, that Lion doesn't lay with a peasant girl.

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I'm willing to bet Tywin told the Mountain to kill Elia Martell as well for what he perceived as spurning his daughter

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No doubt, I know he told Gregor to kill her and the children ( I don't know if the rape was part of that order.) But that was out of political motives. He and Robert couldn't have any targs with a claim to throne alive, or risk having the targ loyalist continue to fight and the war never end.

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Tywin is a complex form of evil, but I still think was evil none-the-less simply for his treatment of Tyrion.

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Yes and No. there were times that he treated Tyrion well. Hell he made him hand of the king. Also I tend believe Tywin when he said " do you really think I'd let them execute My blood", then Tyrion made it hard for him when he demanded a trial by combat.

But did Tywin dislike Tyrion... yes... "all dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes".

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Also there is that theory that Tyrion really isn't Tywin son and actually the Mad Kings ( after he raped Joanna) and if Tywin feels he could not be his son but just can't prove that goes to his resentment of Tyrion.



Im only playing devils advocate here, Like you said Tywin is a complex man, but I don't him as evil.

then again there varying degrees of evil