The connecting record
shownGame of Thrones
Cersei Lannister killed Loras Tyrell in Game of Thrones.
Wildfire beneath the Great Sept of Baelor, and a seat at a high window several streets off while it goes up. Series only, and he is inside the building because he had already confessed, been carved and been unarmed for a season.
What each of them is ranked on
The killer · Cersei Lannister · off the scale
Never lifts a weapon and never has to. What she does instead is place other men's hands where she needs them — Ser Osney to smother a High Septon, Ser Ilyn Payne seated in the Queen's Ballroom through the Blackwater with orders to cut her own throat and Sansa Stark's if the walls give way. On screen she buries the whole Faith under wildfire from a window across the city. Then the Faith takes her guards away, and what is left is a woman shaved bald and walked barefoot the length of her own capital. That is not a fight she lost. It is the weight of her sort of power once somebody handles it directly.
shownA Clash of Kings · ch. 60 (Sansa VI)
Seats Ser Ilyn Payne, the King's Justice, in the Queen's Ballroom for the duration of the Battle of the Blackwater.
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 60 (Sansa VI)
Tells Sansa that Payne is there for the two of them, because she will not let Stannis take them alive.
shownA Feast for Crows · ch. 43 (Cersei X)
Has Ser Osney Kettleblack murder the High Septon, and beds him as the reward.
All 5 citations
shownA Dance with Dragons · ch. 65 (Cersei II)
Shaved of every hair and stripped, she walks barefoot from the Great Sept to the Red Keep through a jeering crowd, and breaks down before she reaches the gate.
shownGame of Thrones · S06E10 “The Winds of Winter”
Destroys the Great Sept of Baelor and everyone inside it with wildfire laid beneath the building, watching from a window across the city.
The victim · Loras Tyrell · rank 18
the Knight of Flowers
Unhorsed Jaime Lannister at fifteen, and that one afternoon carries most of this rank. It reaches a reader twice from two men with nothing in common — Petyr Baelish, still sour about the Valyrian dagger he lost betting the other way, and Robert Baratheon, who liked the story enough to tell it again over breakfast. Later the same year, at the Hand's tourney, he puts Gregor Clegane on the ground without breaking his own lance, having ridden a mare in heat at the man's stallion, and the crowd is still cheering when Gregor kills the horse with a single blow that half severs its neck and comes for him with a sword. He goes to the last two at Bitterbridge. He kills two of Renly Baratheon's Rainbow Guard in a rage over a murder they had no part in, and owns up to it a year later, to Jaime Lannister, in the White Sword Tower. Then he is seventeen and in white, and it stops. Cersei Lannister eventually gives him Dragonstone to storm and he comes back as somebody else's summary of quarrels, maces and boiling oil.
statedA Game of Thrones · ch. 18 (Catelyn IV)
Petyr Baelish says he lost a Valyrian steel dagger to Tyrion Lannister by betting on Jaime at the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day, because Loras Tyrell unhorsed him.
statedA Game of Thrones · ch. 30 (Eddard VII)
Robert Baratheon retells the story of the Knight of Flowers unhorsing Jaime Lannister at that earlier tourney, and calls him a son any man would be proud of.
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 29 (Sansa II)
One of the four still standing at the end of the first day of the Hand's tourney, alongside both Cleganes and Jaime Lannister.
All 11 citations
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 30 (Eddard VII)
Rides a mare in heat against Gregor Clegane's struggling stallion, puts man and mount down with a lance that does not even break, and raises his visor to the crowd.
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 30 (Eddard VII)
Gregor Clegane kills his own horse with a single blow that half severs its neck and comes at Loras with a sword, and Sandor Clegane stands over him until the king stops it.
shownA Clash of Kings · ch. 22 (Catelyn II)
Fights with a longaxe at Renly Baratheon's melee at Bitterbridge and is one of the last two left in it.
statedA Storm of Swords · ch. 67 (Jaime VIII)
Nearly breaks down in the White Sword Tower over Robar Royce and Emmon Cuy, and Jaime Lannister absolves him of having killed the two Rainbow Guard in a rage.
shownA Feast for Crows · ch. 32 (Cersei VII)
Asks Cersei for the command at Dragonstone and promises her the castle inside a fortnight, and she grants it hoping the walls will kill him.
statedA Feast for Crows · ch. 36 (Cersei VIII)
Aurane Waters reports that Loras took Dragonstone, that boiling oil was poured on him from the walls, that he lay dying, and that he had turned the storming of the keep into a massacre.
shownGame of Thrones · S01E05 “The Wolf and the Lion”
Throws Gregor Clegane by riding a mare in heat, and afterwards declares Sandor Clegane the winner of the match rather than himself.
shownGame of Thrones · S06E10 “The Winds of Winter”
Renounces his name and his claim before the High Sparrow, and the Faith Militant carve a seven-pointed star into his forehead in front of his father and sister.
What this does not settle
One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.
The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.
Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.