Is Bran the Night King?

The Night King is a show-only character, he doesn't exist in the books (at least not yet). Bran being the Night King would be a gigantic step away from the source material. Like, so big it changes the entire story.
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Why was night king after Bran?

Exactly why The Night King insists on killing Bran is later summed up by the Three-Eyed Raven himself in season 8 episode 2's "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms" by stating “He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory.” Since the Three-Eyed Raven is basically a living record of mankind within the world of Game Of ...
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Is Bran related to the Night King?

According the Night King theorists, Bran actually skinchanged into this man in an attempt to prevent the Children of the Forest from turning him, but his plan failed and Bran gets stuck. And thus, Bran became the Night King.
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Is the Lord of Light Bran?

The Three-Eyed Raven is the Night King's opposite. The Night King's opposite is the Lord of Light. Therefore, Bran = the Lord of Light (or at least what people think is the Lord of Light due to the signs he brings).”
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Did the Night King touch Bran?

Vulnerable in this vision, Bran was touched by the Night King. This frosty handprint on Bran's forearm broke the protection of the Three-Eyed-Raven's cave, allowing the wights to attack. Hodor lost his life protecting Bran from the situation Bran got them all in thanks to his midnight vision romp.
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Why did the White Walkers want babies?

As for why Game of Thrones' babies, and not adults, are candidates for being turned into White Walkers, this is likely because infants are easier to mold into whatever the Night King wishes. In Game of Thrones, what happens to Craster's sons could be a metaphor for indoctrination at a young age.
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How did Hodor become Hodor?

Born Wylis, the servant to House Stark only became 'Hodor' after suffering a life-changing seizure in his youth. That event damaged his brain and took away his power of speech, leaving him only able to say the one word that would become his name.
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Is Bran evil all along?

What is true is that Bran is the true villain and indeed the worst person in the Game of Thrones universe. This may seem like an odd take for a man who has never harmed anything and hasn't felt anything since becoming the Three-Eyed Raven, but he is in fact the worst of all, and the reasons are everywhere.
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Why does Bran become the 3 eyed raven?

Then he was violently defenestrated for the crime of witnessing some brotherly-sisterly love. The path that Bran took since that moment took him North of the Wall and gave him the job of the Three-Eyed Raven.
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Why the Night King is a stark?

Old Nan confirms Night's King was a Stark

Some would have you think he was a Woodfoot, from them who ruled Bear Island before the ironmen came. He never was. He was a Stark, the brother of the man who brought him down."
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Is the Night King Targaryen?

This has a huge subsection of the Game of Thrones fandom thinking the Night King is a Targaryen. They're essentially using the transitive property of equality as a simple way of explaining what might be happening: if dragon-riders are Targaryens and the Night King is a dragon-rider, then the Night King is a Targaryen.
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Is rhaegar Targaryen the Night King?

[and the Night King] is a crazed combination of two minds — the ancient Stark, and Rhaegar Targaryen — both alive in the same body.”
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Is Brandon a White Walker?

Leaf and the Children do not recognize Bran, of course — they haven't met him. So, they capture him and use his body to create the first White Walker. As this scene is filmed in Game of Thrones, there are many parallels between the first White Walker and Bran's seating patterns.
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Can Bran see the future?

In the Season 7 finale, when Bran explains to Samwell Tarly that he became the Three-Eyed Raven, he says, "I can see things that happened in the past. I can see things happening now, all over the world." But he doesn't expound on seeing the future; he simply moves on and asks Sam why he came to Winterfell.
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How could the Night King touch Bran?

So in that moment in Season 6 Episode 5 that you mention, I would argue that it was a culmination of Bran's ability, with the Night King's power which allowed him to touch and mark him.
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Why did the White Walkers turn evil?

Eventually, the White Walkers rebelled, Cylon-style, from their lives of forced war-making and decided to make war on their own terms, attacking the living indiscriminately and becoming the most feared creatures in all of Westeros.
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What was Bran's purpose?

Bran, now transformed into the Three-Eyed Raven, was the clear target of the Night King. Part of the plan was to keep Bran at the godswood as a way to lure the Night King. He was parked under the weirwood tree to serve as bait while Theon Greyjoy and fellow brave warriors stood by in defense.
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Why is Bran king and not Jon?

Tyrion explained that in order to fully break the wheel, rulers must not originate from blood but from merit. So Jon's blood doesn't matter in this new method of selection. Since Bran likely won't take a wife or have kids, this makes this new process of democratic selection easier.
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Why can Bran be king but not Lord of Winterfell?

Bran says at one point that he can "never be lord of anything" because he's the Three-Eyed Raven. This is in reference to how he's no longer technically a Stark, so he can't be lord of Winterfell.
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Who is the most evil character in Game of Thrones?

Joffrey Baratheon is not only the best villain on Game of Thrones; he might be the best villain in television history.
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Who is the main villain in Game of Thrones?

Ramsay Bolton

He was arguably the most inhuman among all the villains on Game of Thrones. Upon capturing Winterfell from Theon, he brutally tortured, flayed, and castrated Theon Greyjoy.
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Is the 3 eyed Raven evil?

So she could use it to kill the NK in order to save himself." What would this mean for the rest of GoT? If Bran/the Three-Eyed Raven really is evil, that means the Night King's death didn't actually solve anything. The Three Eyed Raven is still wreaking havoc.
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Is Hodor bigger than the mountain?

One of the few characters who could match them inch for inch was Hodor (Kristian Nairn), the lovable man servant of House Stark. (At 7'0”, actor Kristian Nairn is actually taller than both McCann and Björnsson (the Mountain).)
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Did Bran make the mad king mad?

While the theory that Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) caused the Aerys Targaryen — aka the Mad King — to go insane because of his greenseening ability has been floating around amongst Game of Thrones fans for some time, the Season 8 premiere featured a small moment that some theorists took as confirmation of the fact ...
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Does Hodor know his fate?

It's possible that Hodor did not know he was going to die that day. As we know, Bran's creative time-loop warging caused serious psychological damage to Hodor. So much so that his only word became "hodor," a shortened version of "hold the door," which was to become his purpose in life.
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