Ramsay Bolton

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## Irresistibly Villainous

### Alias

Ramsay Snow
The Bastard of Bolton
Reek
Red Helm
Monster
Mad Dog

### Affiliations

The Dreadfort
Winterfell

### Family

Roose Bolton (father)
Jeyne Poole (wife)

### Powers / Skills

Torture methods
Hunting
Archery
Combat

### Hobby

Killing people
Watching others suffer
Seizing control over the world
Raping women

### Moral Event Horizon

Murdering his entire family out of tyranny and sadism
Torturing others to death for the fun of it

### Kill Count

Hundreds (novels)
Thousands (TV show)

### Crimes

Mass murder
Vandalism
Treason
Serial rape
Mass destruction
Treason
Abuse of Power
Torture
Kidnapping
Cheating
Terrorism
Fraud
Theft
Stalking
Attempted global domination

### Type of Villain

Charismatic Torturer

**Ramsay Bolton**, formerly known as **Ramsay Snow** and sometimes called **The Bastard of Bolton**, is one of the main antagonists in *A Song of Ice and Fire*, as well as *Game of Thrones*, the HBO series based on the books. He is the fucking stupid son of Roose Bolton, who would later be legitimized by his father by royal decree.

He was portrayed by Iwan Rheon in the TV adaption.

## His Evil Ranking

### What Makes Him Villainous?

* He openly admits enjoying torturing people for his own amusement.
	+ He is highly creative with his methods, flaying enemies alive and feeding women who bore him to his hounds.
	+ He also shows no remorse for his actions.
* He razed Winterfell to the ground on his father's orders despite supposedly being there to save it.
* He tortures and castrates Theon, who begins to go by the name of "Reek" from that point on due to being psychologically broken by Ramsay’s torture until he finally escapes Winterfell. The castration is implied in the novels, and confirmed in the TV show.
* He forcibly married Donella Hornwood to claim her family's holdings, and then raped and locked her in a tower to starve to death. Her corpse was found with a bloody mouth and fingers chewed off.
* His hunts are more horrific. When he catches the women, he rapes them and flays them alive. But if they give him good sport, he'll kill them before flaying them, and his favorites have a dog named after them. The skin is taken back to the Dreadfort as a trophy with the meat fed to his dogs.
* Slaughters Ser Rodrick’s Northerner soldiers.
* He abuses and rapes Jeyne Poole after marrying her, believing it to be Arya. It’s implied he forces her to have sex with his hounds.
* Flayed the surrendering soldiers of Moat Cailin even after he promised them mercy.
* Murdered his older brother Domeric.
* Sliced off Rodrick Cassel’s arm and killed him after he offered to be Ramsay’s friend.
* Set up Reek to be killed by Cassel.
* Killed the two miller boys instead of Reek.
* Killed a peasant for calling him “Lord Snow”.
* Forces Reek to rape his own bride, threatening to cut off his tounge if he doesn’t do it.
* He rapes Sansa on their wedding night (even forcing Reek to watch) and continues to sexually and physically abuse her throughout the rest of the marriage until she escapes Winterfell.
* He kills his own minions twice: first when "saving" Theon from being raped in the woods, and second when they're engaged with the Wildlings during the Battle of the Bastards.
* While he has a girlfriend (Myranda), he sees her as nothing but a minion and a sex object. Though he claims he'll avenge her death, he ultimately decides to feed her corpse to his dogs instead of giving her a proper funeral, and Rheon himself confirmed that he doesn't really love her.
* Killed Violet after she became pregnant because he found it “boring”.
* He stabs Roose in the heart and then feeds his stepmother and newborn brother to his hounds, both in order to become the new warden of the north and because he felt like his parents loved his brother better.
* Threatened to torture and murder hen people Jon Snow was protecting, including giving threats to rape the women, flay people and feed them to his hounds.
* He shoots at Rickon Stark, a pre-teen, with a bow as he runs to Jon (his half-brother), finally killing him when they're mere feet away from each other. He later shoots Wun-Wun in the eye even though the giant was dying already.
* He starves his dogs to keep them bloodthirsty (especially so he can feed Jon to them) and names them after the girls he’s killed.
* He is very dark and evil in Telltale's video game where he kills Ethan Forrester and Arthur Glenmore, flays a prisoner onscreen, and orchestrates the war between Houses Forrester and Whitehill, although he doesn't have as much screentime there.
* He's a textbook sadist whose favorite hobbies are skinning people alive and using his hounds to hunt women who bore him in the woods. He says it himself that he has no reason for his atrocities apart from his own enjoyment.
* Tortures and castrates Theon to the point of invoking Stockholm syndrome.
* Repeatedly rapes Sansa for days shortly after marrying her.
* Despite initially wanting to avenge her death, he ultimately decides to feed Myranda's corpse to his dogs instead of giving her a proper funeral, showing just how much he cares for even his "favorite" lover. And at the end of the day, he only sees her as his toy.
* Kills his own father (although he deserved it), and then feeds his stepmother and newborn brother to his dogs.
* Snipes the preteen Rickon Stark when he's mere feet away from Jon.
* Shoots Wun-Wun in the eye although the poor giant was already at death's doorstep.
* Shoots his own men dead twice: when they’re about to gangrape Theon in the woods, and while they’re engaged with Jon and his army during the Battle of the Bastards.
* Hypocritically scolds Jon Snow for being a bastard despite being one himself.
* Dies like a coward in the Battle of the Bastards, refusing to fight Jon man-to-man until the last minute and then outright panicking when faced with his own hungry dogs. And honestly just in general, he spends all his time terrorizing weaker people whom he knows he can take on with minimal effort.
* While not quite as moronic as Joffrey, he still has the fatal flaw in the form of an utter inability to think things through, unlike Roose:
	+ Torturing Theon physically and mentally made him totally useless as both a negotiator and a bargaining chip against Balon.
	+ While all the other Northern houses are preparing for the upcoming winter and making sure they have enough food to last the entire season, Ramsay has a big private feast after killing all of the livestock.
	+ Abusing Sansa cost him the support of the North as she escaped Winterfell, and sending that threatening letter to Jon later on declared war on House Stark.
	+ Slaughtering his whole family not only *heavily* worsened House Bolton's reputation, but also drove it to extinction in the long run since the death of his younger brother ensured that there were no more heirs. Also, Ramsay lacks any of Roose's pragmatism or political savvy, so it goes without saying that he would be a terrible leader even if he didn't die later on.
	+ Killing Rickon instead of using him as a hostage against Jon results in him getting beaten almost to death by the latter in a fit of justified rage.
	+ Having his archers fire upon his own army in the Battle of the Bastards (while also disregarding the possibility of reinforcements on Jon's side) made him lose the battle. Also, he really should've expected a giant to break down the gate once he retreated to Winterfell, and when cornered he has a perfect opportunity to shoot Jon while he's looking away but instead pointlessly shoots Wun-Wun just for the hell of it.

### What Makes Him Irresistible?

* Despite being a delusional, horrible, sadistic, dangerous, and threatening man, he is arguably one of the most famous villains from the series. In fact, he is so horrifying and vile that even Iwan Rheon dislikes Ramsay Bolton.