All the Best Bran Stark Memes After ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Premiere

Even though Bran didn’t actually have all that much going on this week, he still managed to have the biggest impact on the audience

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(There are spoilers ahead for the season 8 premiere of “Game of Thrones”)

Sunday night, we got the beginning of the end for “Game of Thrones” — it brought us the first episode of season 8, the very last season, and it also gave us the part of the story where everybody shuffles into place before all the fireworks really start. And watching all of it, creepily staring into everyone’s soul, was young Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright).

Bran spent the bulk of the episode just hanging out saying “hi” to people, and not really getting involved in in most of the actually dramatic scenes. His function in this episode was basically to remind folks that the end of the world is coming and they should probably move a bit quicker.

And yet by the end of the evening, when every Twitter trending topic in the U.S. was either the main “Game of Thrones” hashtag or a “Game of Thrones” character, Bran was the name that floated to the top of the list. Because that dude’s thousand-yard stare inspired a million memes.

His impact was made in large part because of how the episode ended, with Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) finally making it to Winterfell only to find Bran staring at him as soon as he walked through the gate. But also because Bran seemed to do that to pretty much everybody at some point during the episode. Anybody goes anywhere and does anything in Winterfell, and there is Bran, chilling in his wheelchair, watching like he’s got something to say.

And thus came the memes. We’ve assembled the greatest of them for your enjoyment.

https://twitter.com/ImTooMuch/status/1117608731154501633

https://twitter.com/undecidedtd/status/1117610871872786438

https://twitter.com/CarlosGee19/status/1117620417861021696

https://twitter.com/DozieCN/status/1117675537340817408

https://twitter.com/OnlyUneecorn/status/1117659380575625217

https://twitter.com/the_unRialist/status/1117737016253280257

https://twitter.com/tealxMoon/status/1117674877434179584

https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1117642860835172352

https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1117670380175388672

And sound on for this one:

And I’m gonna throw in a bonus meme I found that has absolutely nothing to do with Bran. Just because I spent a half hour laughing at it to myself after I saw it. RIP Ned Umber, we hardly knew ye. (Source)

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Phil Owen

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