Succession and Game of Thrones: The Roy family as GoT characters

Roman Roy

Game of Thrones Counterparts: Joffrey Baratheon and Bronn

Why: Roman (Kieran Culkin) is chaotic evil. He moves through life as if it were his own personal candy store and all the people in it are just here to entertain him. In the very first episode of the series, he promises a young child one million dollars if he can achieve a goal in a supposedly casual family game of baseball. When the child fails, Roman cackles with glee. Sounds like something Joffrey Baratheon would totes do.

Casual cruelty marks most of Roman’s interactions with the outside world. Most interested in emotional torture, he tears into anyone and everyone he can as often as he can. Sure, he’s not overtly violent like Joffrey, but we’d venture to guess that if Succession took place in the medieval ages, Roman would be out there with a crossbow in no time.

Roman is also truly lazy and – with the exception of stunts that will get him attention – he has no interest in producing productive ideas for his father’s empire or putting in the hard work that leadership entails. In that way, Roman is like Joffrey, but he’s also like Bronn. He only expends effort when there’s a perceived reward. Also, like Bronn, Roman’s allegiances shift whenever it pleases him. He’s also quite funny when he wants to be.

Can He Win the Game?: No. Barring some crazy twist of events, Roman will certainly not be named as successor to the Waystar RoyCo empire.