He later explains to Brienne that he killed Aerys because the king had planned to incinerate all of King's Landing and its inhabitants rather than let it fall into Robert's hands. In A Storm of Swords (2000), Jaime initially loathes the female warrior Brienne of Tarth, but both his honor and his reluctant respect for Brienne compel him to lie to their captors to prevent her from being raped. Jaime admits these crimes to Catelyn Stark in A Clash of Kings (1998), and tells her a horrific story of Aerys Targaryen's cruelty. ĭarren Franich of Entertainment Weekly noted that in the novels, " a vaguely villainous minor character in Game of Thrones, then is basically absent from Clash of Kings, and suddenly he becomes a tragic hero in Storm of Swords." In A Game of Thrones, Jaime is not only carrying on an incestuous affair with his twin sister, but he pushes a young Bran Stark out a high window to his likely death after the boy witnesses them in the act.
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Sure, he's done some of the most despicable things on a show full of despicable things-including but not limited to fathering children by incest, attempting to murder a boy who discovered said incest, and the cold-blooded murder of one of his own cousins-but despite all that, the Kingslayer remains one of Game of Thrones ' most popular characters. Lev Grossman wrote for TIME that while Jaime and Cersei's younger brother Tyrion is a grotesque dwarf, "the rest of the Lannisters are stunted too, but on the inside." The Los Angeles Times called Jaime "handsome and unscrupulous", though Dodds noted in 2014: who form a family constellation so twisted, charismatic, and cruel that it rivals Flowers in the Attic for blond dysfunction".
The New Yorker called the Lannisters "a crowd of high-cheekboned beauties. Įric Dodds of TIME described Jaime as "handsome, an incomparably skilled fighter and disarmingly witty". Perhaps the greatest swordsman in the kingdom, Jaime is derisively referred to as "the Kingslayer" because he killed the "Mad King" Aerys Targaryen in the coup that put Robert on the Iron Throne. Jaime's twin is Cersei, the Queen of Westeros by virtue of her marriage to King Robert Baratheon. In A Game of Thrones (1996), Jaime is introduced as one of the Kingsguard, the royal security detail, the son of the wealthy and powerful Tywin Lannister, the former Hand of the King, and one of the greatest swordsmen in the Seven Kingdoms with few able to match him, such as Ned Stark, Jon Snow and Brienne of Tarth. He and the rest of the cast were nominated for five Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
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Coster-Waldau received critical praise for his portrayal and several award nominations including a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television, a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, People's Choice Awards Favorite TV Anti-Hero, and two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nominations. Jaime is one of the most popular characters in both versions of the series. His lengthy character development has been praised by critics of the novels and the television show. Although Jaime first appears to be unscrupulous and immoral, he later proves to be more complex, honorable, and sympathetic.
He is the elder son of Tywin Lannister, twin brother of Cersei, with whom he has a longstanding incestuous relationship, and brother of Tyrion. He is a member of House Lannister, the wealthiest and one of the most powerful families in the kingdom of Westeros. Introduced in A Game of Thrones (1996), Jaime is a knight of the Kingsguard and one of the best swordsmen in the seven kingdoms. Jaime becomes a prominent point of view character in the novels beginning with A Storm of Swords (2000). Martin and its television adaptation Game of Thrones, where he is portrayed by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Ser Jaime Lannister is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R.
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