The connecting record
shownGame of Thrones
The Wight Host killed Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones.
Cut down by degrees in the open ground outside Winterfell, standing over Daenerys Targaryen after Drogon had been driven off.
What each of them is ranked on
The killer · The Wight Host · rank 7
the army of the dead
Counts its dead as reinforcements, which is an arithmetic nothing else on this ladder has. Injury does not reduce it either. Alliser Thorne carries a severed hand south in a jar and swears the fingers were still working when he left the Wall; a direwolf under the hill gnaws at a loose arm and it goes on clutching until the bone cracks; a captured one comes out of its crate at the queen across the floor of the Dragonpit and is stopped by the chain on its neck, and when Sandor Clegane cuts it in half the top of it comes back at him over the flagstones on its hands. The novels supply specimens one at a time — Waymar Royce getting up in the snow in the prologue of the first book, Othor walking into the Lord Commander's chamber with black hands, Small Paul shattering a dragonglass dagger on his own mail. The force is the television series': the Hardhome shore emptied and re-crewed in a single gesture, and a burning trench at Winterfell put out by feeding bodies into it until the rest could walk over. Slow, stupid, and it takes fire like an oiled rag, which is why a tier of swordsmen sits above it.
shownA Game of Thrones · Prologue
Waymar Royce, killed by the Others in the haunted forest, gets to his feet with blue eyes and kills Will.
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 52 (Jon VII)
Othor's corpse rises inside Castle Black and goes for Jeor Mormont in his own chamber; Jon Snow sets it alight and the fire ends it.
statedA Game of Thrones · ch. 60 (Jon VIII)
The second corpse brought in from beyond the Wall killed five men, among them Ser Jaremy Rykker, whose own dagger did it.
All 14 citations
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 25 (Tyrion VI)
Alliser Thorne tells the court the severed hand he carried from Castle Black was still moving when he set out.
shownA Clash of Kings · ch. 25 (Tyrion VI)
Tyrion keeps him waiting long enough that what he finally produces is a jar of bones.
statedA Storm of Swords · ch. 18 (Samwell I)
Samwell Tarly, recalling the horde that broke the great ranging on the Fist, saw a dead bear among them.
shownA Storm of Swords · ch. 46 (Samwell III)
Samwell's dragonglass dagger shatters on Small Paul's mail, and he destroys the thing with a burning brand instead.
statedA Storm of Swords · ch. 78 (Samwell V)
Melisandre tells Samwell that necromancy animates them but they remain dead flesh, and that steel and fire will serve.
shownA Dance with Dragons · ch. 34 (Bran III)
Summer eats the flesh from a severed arm that is still grasping, and it stops moving once the direwolf cracks the bone open.
statedA Dance with Dragons · ch. 53 (Jon XI)
Tormund's son Torwynd dies of the cold days after the battle beneath the Wall, rises, and his father has to put him down.
shownGame of Thrones · S05E08 “Hardhome”
Everyone killed in the massacre stands up together as the ships pull away; some five thousand wildlings get out on the ships, and at least as many are left on the shore to rise.
shownGame of Thrones · S07E07 “The Dragon and the Wolf”
The captured one charges Cersei Lannister and is hauled up short by its chain; Sandor Clegane cuts it in two when it turns on him, the upper half crawls at him, and he severs a hand, which Jon Snow burns with a torch before finishing the wight with dragonglass.
shownGame of Thrones · S08E03 “The Long Night”
They throw themselves into the burning trench around Winterfell until their bodies smother it and the rest of the column crosses.
shownGame of Thrones · S08E03 “The Long Night”
The dead sealed in Winterfell's crypts break out through the walls and attack the people sheltering there.
The victim · Jorah Mormont · rank 20
Jorah the Andal
The champion's laurel from Lannisport is the only thing holding this rank up, and the man who reports it is Jorah Mormont, once, at night, in a dead city, to a girl he is in love with. He went through the breach at Pyke behind Thoros of Myr and was knighted for it; at the tourney that celebrated the victory he wore a Hightower girl's favour, beat every challenger set in front of him and held Jaime Lannister to a draw in the final tilt. Then he entered tourney after tourney to pay for the wife he had won with that one and never came near it again, each defeat costing a suit of armour and a charger, until the debts turned him into a slaver and Eddard Stark's sentence turned him into an exile. The one fight a reader actually watches him win happens after the fall, and it is Qotho, killed at the price of an arakh in the hip. The rest of the late record is the screen's: Stone Men beaten off a boat in Old Valyria with greyscale as the fare, which the novels give to Jon Connington rescuing Tyrion in the Sorrows, and a melee in a fighting pit he wins standing only because a stranger put a blade through the water dancer who had him on the sand, where the novels leave him caged as Yezzan's property until he signs with the Second Sons.
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 12 (Daenerys I)
Tells Daenerys he earned his knighthood in Greyjoy's Rebellion by following Thoros of Myr through the breach at Pyke.
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 12 (Daenerys I)
At Robert Baratheon's tourney outside Lannisport he held Jaime Lannister to a draw in the final joust, took the champion's laurel and named Lynesse Hightower queen of love and beauty.
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 12 (Daenerys I)
Entered tourney after tourney afterwards to pay for his wife's tastes and never distinguished himself again, each loss costing him a suit of armour and a charger.
All 10 citations
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 54 (Daenerys VI)
Interrupts a wineseller pressing a cask of Arbor red on Daenerys by demanding a cup of it himself; threatened, the merchant pours two cups, then refuses to drink and throws the cask at her instead.
shownA Game of Thrones · ch. 64 (Daenerys VIII)
Fights Qotho bare-headed and is hard pressed until the bloodrider's arakh cuts into his hip and catches on the bone, which gives him the opening to kill the man.
statedA Clash of Kings · ch. 12 (Daenerys I)
Months later the hip wound from Qotho has still not fully healed, and it only begins to heal once Daenerys tends it herself at Vaes Tolorro.
shownGame of Thrones · S05E05 “Kill the Boy”
Fights the Stone Men off the boat in the ruins of Old Valyria and pulls Tyrion out of the water, then finds his own wrist cracking with greyscale.
shownGame of Thrones · S05E09 “The Dance of Dragons”
Outmatched by a Braavosi water dancer in the grand melee at Daznak's Pit and about to be finished, he survives only because a pit fighter kills the Braavosi from behind.
shownGame of Thrones · S05E09 “The Dance of Dragons”
Kills that pit fighter to end the melee as the last man upright, then hurls a spear the length of the arena into a Son of the Harpy creeping up on the royal box.
shownGame of Thrones · S08E03 “The Long Night”
Fights the wights off Daenerys on the open field at Winterfell after she is thrown from Drogon, and dies of the wounds in her arms.
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.