Jon Snow is presented in Game of Thrones as the lone beacon of Ned Stark-style honor and decency. Yet in reality, he’s hardly “honorable” and more self-righteous and arrogant.
Jon consistently makes impulsive decisions based on his own pride and then expects everyone else to clean up the mess. Before the Battle of the Bastards, Sansa warns him explicitly not to fall for Ramsay Bolton’s psychological traps. Jon ignores her completely, charges solo across the battlefield like an idiot, and dooms his entire army to slaughter. Then Sansa has to save him by risking the Knights of the Vale, all so he can then take the crown as the King of the North.
He doesn’t really evolve as a character in this regard either. By Season 8, his passive martyrdom turns lethal. When Daenerys is grieving, isolated and begging for emotional partnership, Jon uses his pseudo-honor as an excuse to abandon her. He reduces his entire vocabulary to “she’s my queen” while refusing to actually communicate or share the burden of leadership. Of course, this contributes to her breakdown, after which he stabs her in the heart mid-embrace—a super honorable way to kill someone, right?—and walks away looking sad about it.
Jon consistently makes impulsive decisions based on his own pride and then expects everyone else to clean up the mess. Before the Battle of the Bastards, Sansa warns him explicitly not to fall for Ramsay Bolton’s psychological traps. Jon ignores her completely, charges solo across the battlefield like an idiot, and dooms his entire army to slaughter. Then Sansa has to save him by risking the Knights of the Vale, all so he can then take the crown as the King of the North.
He doesn’t really evolve as a character in this regard either. By Season 8, his passive martyrdom turns lethal. When Daenerys is grieving, isolated and begging for emotional partnership, Jon uses his pseudo-honor as an excuse to abandon her. He reduces his entire vocabulary to “she’s my queen” while refusing to actually communicate or share the burden of leadership. Of course, this contributes to her breakdown, after which he stabs her in the heart mid-embrace—a super honorable way to kill someone, right?—and walks away looking sad about it.
