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VampireBatman

[Spoilers] About a certain human shield

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I've seen comments about Dany using Jorah as a human shield to take hits for her. While I initially thought that's what happened too, it's not actually the case. When wights comes to attack them, Jorah uses his left arm to push Dany behind him so he can take the hit and protect her. It just happens so fast that it looks like Dany pushes him in front of her!

Here's where he pushes her away from the attack:

https://i.imgur.com/MNTXGdi.png

https://i.imgur.com/7p4gpbg.png

https://i.imgur.com/5dCCZ4j.png

Posted Apr 29, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

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phadrus56•

Plus jorah is wearing armor while dany has a coat.

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Troggy•

They were cutting right through armor with blades weapons. It certainly didnt help him but the thought process works

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Ktbear0215:lannister: Tywin Lannister•

Question : why is that ? How come the wights could cut through his armor ? I have a feeling this may be a dumb question , I just truly don’t understand . Is that normal ?

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jackp0t789:Jon_Snow: Jon Snow•

They've been shown to have superhuman strength in numerous other scenes throughout the series, so I take it that they just brute-forced the fuck out of his armor... plus those are just the ones that got through, he was probably taking pot-shots from wights all night. You can even see (if you turn your TV's brightness up to 11) how dented his armor is when he gets back from the failed Dothraki Zerg Rush...

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FullNoodleFrontity•

If memory serves, during the Hardhome episode Jon was fighting wights and a white walker. At one point he loses Longclaw, picks up a random sword, swings it at the white walker and it shatters. He later picks Longclaw up off the ground and uses it to block a blow from the white walker. Instead of shattering like the regular blade did, it held... apparently surprising both Jon and the white walker and establishing that only Valyrian steel weapons and dragon glass can stop white walkers. With the wights, fire can also be used to stop them.

I'm guessing the same applies to armor but Valyrian steel armor is nonexistent and fire/dragon glass armor is impractical/impossible, so armor of any kind is pretty much useless.

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phadrus56•

Ok. We are talking frozen zombies, lets try not to over think this.

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kenny4351•

You mean she's wearing plot armor :P

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phadrus56•

Sigh. If that makes you feel better than yes.

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barefootmegara:Jon_Snow: Jon Snow•

He’s always there to save her. Bitter sweet.

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Expecto_nihilus:Faceless_Men: No One•

I think i saw one of the wights wielding a dragonglass sword stab Jorah and break the sword off in his chest. Did anyone else see that?

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alecktroshock•

haha i totally thought she shoved him in front of her

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Ktbear0215:lannister: Tywin Lannister•

Ahhhhhh. This is true

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Ktbear0215:lannister: Tywin Lannister•

Got it. I see . Thank you for explaining that . Makes perfect sense . I did not take into account their strength , and to be honest I was a bit of a wuss last night and had to look away a few times so I didn’t notice certain things like the marks on his armor . I will re watch with new eyes tonight :)

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Fishbone187•

I agree that Jorah pushed her back. If you guys watch the scene again at 1:15:10, or so, you can clearly see that Dany didn't even know that the wight was attacking. She doesn't even glance that way , but Jorah saw him....

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