- Severe
- There are numerous gory images that will be unsettling.
- Sexual violence is shown, particularly during the early seasons.
- During battle scenes, you can see stabbings, mutilations, beheadings, people being crushed by horses, and blood flying all over the screen.
- Violence and bloody execution of people are shown in all seasons.
- There is also torture and genital mutilation of one of the main male characters. Very disturbing.
- Frequent and extremely graphic, gory violence. Including murders, executions, and their aftermaths. Large-scale battles with long, gruesome fight scenes, swords, crossbows, clubs, and many other weapons are visible. Also, sexual violence is graphically depicted.
- Beheadings are shown (heads falling and rolling away), even in combat.
- Jousting is present in the show, with bloody results.
- The battle sequences are very prolonged, extremely bloody, and extremely gruesome. During these battle scenes, a numerous amount of soldiers will get stabbed by swords, get chopped in half, get their heads split in half, etc. with tons of blood and gore. Some of the battle scenes are more of an adrenaline rush while others are more vicious and terrifying.
- There is some violence against frail, young women and children.
- A man battles another much larger man and at the end of the battle impales him with a poisoned spear. He then circles the man, demanding him to confess to the rape and murder of his sister and her children. Eventually, he lets his guard down and the man tumbles him to the ground, punches him in the mouth, causing his teeth to fall off, with some blood splattering on the ground and subsequently, the man confesses the murder as he gouges his eyes out with his thumbs and we see plenty of blood coming out from his eye-sockets as he screams in extreme agony and eventually, due to the extreme force applied to his skull, his head is crushed into a bloody, gory mess with an explosion of blood, brain matter, bone and skin bursting out and splattering everywhere, as his lover reacts by screaming in horror and later, we see the extremely gory aftermath, displaying his now fully smashed head, with gore surrounding the area and a large pool of blood forming on the surface. This entire sequence is EXTREMELY graphic.
- A main character goes insane and burns down an entire city along with thousands of innocent people. Civilians are shown getting engulfed in flames and brutally mowed down by soldiers. There is also an incredibly gruesome fight scene between two brothers.
- In what starts as a happy wedding with all parties seemingly fully at peace three major almost universally well liked characters (by other characters and audience alike) are unexpectedly, and brutally murdered during the wedding banquet with much bloodshed. During this scene a pregnant woman gets repeatedly stabbed in the womb, mortally wounding the woman and her unborn baby followed by graphic depictions of men getting slaughtered by the other army. An older woman gets shot in the back by an arrow, but lives. Her son gets repeatedly shot by arrows, but lives. You also see men with crossbows shooting a direwolf in a cage (firewood dies) and other men being slaughtered. Later in the scene, the woman who was shot in the back grabs the other army leader's wife and demands mercy for her son or she will slit his wife's throat. After the man refuses, her son's bannerman betrays him and stabs her son in the heart, which kills him. After witnessing his death, his mother wails and screams in agony while slitting the man's wife's throat. After slitting her throat, a soldier grabs the mother and slits her throat, killing her as the episode ends in complete silence. The following episode, you see those who murdered the man display him on a horse as a form of mockery. The man is now decapitated and wearing the head of the killed dire wolf. There is also discussion that the mother's body was thrown into the river.