Cersei Lannister

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Alias

Queen Cersei
Lady Cersei
The Queen Regent
The Queen Mother
The Queen
Queen Dowager
Light of the West
Her Grace
The Lannister woman (for Stannis)Cersei Lannister the First of Her Name
Queen Cersei I
Cersei the Lioness
The most murderous woman in the World (by Tyrion Lannister)

### Powers / Skills

Political power
Intellect
Leadership
Manipulation
Cunning
Scheming
Wealth
Strategy
Charisma

### Most Entertaining Features

Being one of the smartest and most successful villains on the show
Her ability to turn her fall into total victory over her enemies

### Most Detestable Traits

Her transformation into an irreverent mad queen
Her great hostility to family members
Her guilt in starting the War of the Five Kings is unrepentant

### Type of ED

Tyranical Monarch

**Queen Cersei Lannister** is one of the main antagonists of the television series *Game of Thrones*. At the beginning of the series she is the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei is both loved and hated by the fans of the series for her complex but also ruthless and merciless nature.

She was portrayed by Lena Headey.

## Her Qualities

### What Makes Her Entertaining?

* She is one of the bigger villains in the series and the hostility towards her develops consistently even though she remains sympathetic.
* She manages to retain power after Ned Stark reveals her secret, showing respect for him in the possibility of bringing him back alive (though Joffrey destroys her plan).
* She is fiercely protective of her children, even more than some of the heroes and this is one of her most redeeming qualities.
* She has several very sympathetic moments, for example when she returns from a sacrifice parade naked or when her daughter is murdered and she is forbidden to see her in the temple.
* She tries to narrow the small council, after realizing that a large part of them sabotage her actions.
* She makes sure that most of her enemies in King's Landing are burned in Sefton, where they are going to hold her trial and makes sure that her son stays in his room.
* She manages the economy in King's Landing quite successfully, which impresses the bank manager of Braavos.
* She cleverly manipulates Daenerys into thinking she'll help her fight together, when in fact she's bringing an army to herself.
* She remains tragic even in her last scene, in which she and her brother Jamie are buried alive under the Red Fort and sad music plays.

### What Makes Her Detestable?

* She causes the most penetrating actions, which she does not regret at all: kills her husband to prevent the secret of her children, reigns the cruel Joffrey and cultivates his qualities, threatens Margaery Tyrell even though her father arranged her marriage to Joffrey (and later to Tommen) and tries Kill Sansa and Tyrion stubbornly.
* She has great responsibility for starting the deadly Five Kings War. She doesn't even regret it, just preaches to keep fighting until the last of their enemies. Tyrion wisely dismisses her analysis and states that they will only continue to make more and more enemies (which is what actually happens).
* She behaves cruelly towards her opponents who hurt her disrespectfully: tries to force Jaime to kill the captive Tyrion and later helps conduct a false trial against him, tortures Spata Onella in revenge for the return march and kills Tyne Sand in front of her mother to punish her.
* She also becomes a great threat to characters who originally supported her, including her brother Jamie and she is debating whether to kill him and later sends Brom after him.
* She does what she can to undermine Daenerys and turn her into a villain in her final moments and kills the innocent Missandei.

## External Links

* Cersei Lannister on the Villains Wiki
* Cersei Lannister on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki