Was There a Andrew Tate Cameo in Game of Thrones Everyone Forgot About?
Reddit users have been piling in on Andrew Tate as the disgraced misogynist continues to be a figure of fun for all but the most gullible in society.
One user posted an image from Game of Thrones season 3 that showed a bald man about to get "roasted by a teenage girl after talking shit" – a reference to Tate being played like a cheap harmonica by Greta Thunberg on Twitter.
The eco-activist, who was on the end of a few Tate jibes that were appreciated by a handful of teenage boys and a few right-wing 'commentators', hit back at Tate over social media and sent a gleeful tweet when the former kickboxer was arrested by police in Romania.
The image was in fact taken from episode 4 of season GoT season 3 and features Kraznys mo Nakloz (a slave trader played by Dan Hildebrand). Sadly for Hildebrand, there is a slight resemblance between him and Andrew Tate – and more than one user commented that they had been taken in by it for a moment.
But the truth was that this was simply a character who thought far too much of himself and got outsmarted.
Nonetheless, users were loving the opportunity to have a pop at Tate:
One wrote "What colour was his lambo" before adding "I mean chariot?" While another asked whether this was the time he "ended up utterly roasted" after trying to "pick on a young girl" before laughingly suggesting that they sometimes get confused about what happened in fiction and in the real world!
Someone else commented that Tate "wishes he had as many slaves" as Kraznys.
There was even a suggestion that the character of Kraznys mo Nakloz could easily be based on Tate. In the end, though, what the writers were really after when they created the character was someone who believed his own hype, though he had power over people and whose greed and arrogance would ultimately be his downfall. A character who thought he held all the cards but would ultimately end up with nothing but the cards he'd be dealt by the exact type of person who was typically the butt of his nastiness.
So, yes. Maybe he could have been based on Andrew Tate. Or perhaps Tate just displays all the characteristics that fiction writers look for in someone with grand ideas of their own importance and too little appreciation of their own impotence.