Warning: Contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6. 
 
 "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." Except for one very lucky actor who's done both, just in separate roles. 
 
 Dean-Charles Chapman is currently known on Game of Thrones for playing King Tommen Baratheon, first of his name and however it goes, who took the throne in Season 4 after his brother Joffrey's death. But Chapman has only played Tommen since 2014, because the character was recast from the much younger actor, Callum Wharry. 
 
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 But oddly, Chapman was in the show before then, by the name of a tiny lordling named Martyn Lannister. Hello Giggles first caught the similarities, noticing that the the king who's "only half-Lannister" looks exactly like his pure-blooded Lannister cousin (and also, IMDb says so). 
 
 For reference, that's Tommen on the left and Martyn on the right: 
 
 Image: HBO 
 
 It's an easy thing to miss because poor Martyn Lannister only appeared for two episodes in the third season before getting the axe. For those who remember way back when Robb Stark had an army and was alive, Martyn and Willem Lannister were taken as hostages by Robb's army. 
 
 But in a fit of vengeance, they were murdered by a northern lord named Rickard Karstark. Robb, channeling his inner Ned, was furious over the murdered children and beheaded Karstark himself. Karstark's son is still bitter toward Starks in Season 6, and now works for Ramsay Bolton. 
 
 While this likely has no effect on the greater story, it does feed directly into the never-discussed "Tommen is a faceless man" theory. That is probably nonsense, but that's never stopped Game of Thrones theories before. 
 
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 Then, how did we miss the fact that Dean-Charles Chapman (aka King Tommen Baratheon) played ANOTHER character in the Thrones-verse?! 
 
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 Chapman actually played another member of Tommen’s extended family, Martyn Lannister, waaaay back in Season 3. He appeared in Episode 3, “Walk of Punishment” and Episode 5, “Kissed by Fire.” 
 
 Here’s Tommen, I mean, Martyn in happier times chatting with Robb’s wife, Talisa. 
 
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 That’s right, King Tommen is also Martyn Lannister. 
 
 For a refresher, Martyn (along with his brother Willem) was a squire in the Lannister army who was taken prisoner by Edmure Tully at the Battle of Stone Mill (events that took place off-camera). Also, sadly, Martyn and his brother were killed off by Lord Rickard Karstark in revenge for Jaime Lannister killing his own son. 
 
 Annyyyyywayyy, the important thing to take away from all of this, is that Martyn was a son of Kevan Lannister, aka Tywin’s younger brother. 
 
 Here’s a SUPER basic family tree to give you an idea of what that means. 
 
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 So, basically, Tommen is also his own cousin. Well, okay, not really, not in the world of Game of Thrones. But, this does mean Chapman not only played multiple characters in Game of Thrones, but actual family members! 
 
 And if you need further “proof,” here’s Chapman’s IMDb listing for Thrones. 
 
 IMDb 
 
 It kinda makes sense, though. Given the Lannister family’s penchant for incest, having several people in that lineage look the same (like exactly the same) would not be a surprise. 
 
 And clearly it wasn’t a big enough surprise to audiences since NO ONE NOTICED. (Almost.) ||||| Who needs spectacle when silence will serve just as well? 
 
 Granted, that's an unusual question to ask in the context of Game of Thrones, the most spectacular show on television by a comfortable margin. Certainly the series' sixth season finale — "The Winds of Winter" — contained more than its fair share of stunning visuals and shocking revelations: the wildfire explosion that destroyed both most of King's Landing and a third of the core cast; the crowning of Jon Snow as King in the North and Cersei Lannister as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms; the massive alliance that saw Daenerys set sail for her ancestral home at last. Need more? OK, fine, how about the long-awaited revelation that Lord Snow is not Ned Stark's son at all — he's the offspring of Eddard's sister Lyanna and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen himself (so he really is the King in the North, just by a different bloodline)? And the vengeance of Arya Stark for the Red Wedding as she served Walder Frey a taste of his own, uh, medicine. 
 
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 But it's the silence of the opening minutes that stays with you. Composer Ramin Djawaid's score pulls a delicate, melancholy piano suite from out of nowhere as the major players in Cersei's trial — the Queen Mother, Tommen, Margaery, the High Sparrow, Loras Tyrell — wordlessly prepare for what's to come. Then, when it's over — Loras mutilated and humiliated, the King blocked by his mom's mountainous bodyguard, Lancel Lannister failing to stop the enormous stockpile of wildfire beneath the Sept from detonating — there's the silence of the young ruler's room. He watches the city burn, realizes who and what he's lost, steps away to take off his crown while the camera still lingers on the empty sky through his window. Then he returns and quietly leaps from the ledge. It's the most devastating sequence in the episode, as sad as Samwell Tarly's trip to the massive library in the maesters' Citadel is uplifting. Both moments would have been just effective if you'd had your TV on mute. 
 
 Tommen's suicide doubles as an object lesson on the wages of vengeance. If you suspected that Sansa's smile as her tormenter Ramsay was eaten alive by his own dogs was, well, nothing to smile about, the events of this episode confirm your suspicions. After all, what are the most direct parallels we have to Lady Stark's grin? Cersei Lannister, smirking as she blows hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people to smithereens in order to finally eradicate her enemies. Arya Stark, beaming and bright-eyed as she cradles Walder Frey's head in her arms while he gasps for breath, his belly still full with the flesh of his own murdered and cooked children. And the Queen again, all but giggling as she turns a former captor over to the reanimated man-thing Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane for god only knows what hideous treatment. 
 
 That some of these characters, victims and perpetrators alike, are "good" and some are "bad" hardly alleviates any suffering or justifies the infliction thereof. It's hardly the show's fault if some in the audience bay for blood, any more than David Chase or Vince Gilligan are to blame for bad fans cheering for Tony Soprano and Walter White to whack 'em all. To paraphrase the Bastard of Bolton, if you think this is a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention. 
 
 In fact, the terrible retribution doled out in these past few episodes carries with it the seeds of trouble in the future. It's reasonable to argue that Sansa's bloody experiences with the Lannisters and Boltons are what makes her susceptible to Littlefinger's manipulation regarding her claim to the Northern throne versus that of her bastard brother. (Lord only knows why else she'd give his advice a second's thought at this point.) "We have to trust each other," the so-called White Wolf tells her earlier in the episode, with her own apology for withholding knowledge of the knights of the Vale spurring the sentiment. The desire to get what one is owed, whether power or payback, is a direct impediment to that kind of trust, and that's what Petyr Baelish is counting on. (Interestingly, when presented with the opportunity to execute Melisandre when Ser Davos gets her to confess her murder of poor Shireen Baratheon last season, Jon himself stays his hand.) 
 
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 Similarly, Ellaria Sand and Olenna Tyrell, the last women standing in Dorne and the Reach respectively, have formed an Axis of Female with Daenerys Targaryen and Yara Greyjoy. With their combined forces — which include the Ironborn fleet, the Dothraki hordes, the Unsullied infantry, and three flying nuclear dinosaurs — their Varys-brokered alliance stands a decent chance of raining the Khaleesi's house words, "Fire and Blood," upon their shared enemies. But where does it end? Dany's dilemma has long been finding a happy(ish) medium between justice and vengeance, might and mercy. How would that square with, say, the Sand Snakes or the Queen of Thorns pushing to raze Casterly Rock to the ground, or burn up whatever parts of King's Landing Cersei's left standing? 
 
 Still, we're closer to the Game's endgame than ever now. Yes, there are wild cards still in play, like the Hound and his Brotherhood, or crazy Euron Greyjoy and his Ironborn revanchists. But the three major factions are now firmly established: The Lannisters under their wicked queen, Cersei, ruling in King's Landing; the North and the Vale, united (for now) under Jon Snow, the new King in the North; and basically everyone else lined up behind Dany, on her way to Westeros after all this time. But winter isn't just coming — it's here. And when the dead arrive and the Wall inevitably falls (raise your hand if you thought it would happen before the credits rolled), what will they find? Seven kingdoms united against them, or at each other's throats? Who'll be smiling then? 
 
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– The internet loves obsessing over Game of Thrones, so Hello Giggles wants to know why more people aren't talking about the fact that "Tommen is also his own cousin." Dean-Charles Chapman currently plays King Tommen Baratheon on the show, a role he took over from a younger actor in 2014. But he also played Tommen's cousin, Martyn Lannister, in a few episodes of the show back in the third season, Mashable explains. Hello Giggles thinks the recasting makes complete sense. “Given the Lannister family’s penchant for incest, having several people in that lineage look the same (like exactly the same) would not be a surprise.” Poor Martyn was killed off after being taken hostage by Robb Stark, and Bustle thinks Chapman better hope for a third role as Tommen is "probably doomed just like his look-alike cousin."