Gregor Clegane is a major antagonist of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
Biography[]
Gregor Clegane is the biggest and strongest known man in all of Westeros who is approximately 8 feet/243.84 centimeters tall which gave him the nickname “The Mountain that Rides” or just “The Mountain” while in the show he is around 7 feet/213.36 centimeters tall. He is known for his barbaric acts during his knighthood with his most infamous crime being the rape of Elia Martell before murdering her as well as her children during the Sack of King’s Landing.
Following his duel with Oberyn Martell, Qyburn used him for experimentation and put Gregor in an undead state to “save” him and made him even stronger than before and almost unable to be killed. Gregor became Queen Cersei’s personal bodyguard and vowed not to speak again until all of their enemies were dead and the evil was driven from the realm.
Gregor’s story is currently pending in A Song of Ice and Fire but in Game of Thrones Gregor is confronted by his brother, Sandor, which causes Gregor to no longer be devoted to Cersei and he kills Qyburn for trying to interfere. He battles with his brother on the stairs of the Red Keep during Daenerys Targaryen’s attack on King’s Landing. Sandor, knowing he can’t survive the battle, tackles Gregor out a damaged wall in the Red Keep and they both fall to their deaths in the fire below.
Personality[]
Gregor was always known to be very cruel, even during his childhood. His gigantism was known to give him extreme headaches which fueled his already short and violent temper and he would drink the milk of the poppy to ease the pain. He was rumored to have killed his wives as well as his father and sister. His own dogs became afraid of him. When Gregor was around the age of 10, he attempted to kill his younger brother, Sandor, by holding his face down on a brazier which left half of his face permanently scarred just because he played with Gregor’s toys without his permission.
During a joust he decapitated his own horse when he lost and would’ve killed Loras Tyrell in a fit of rage if Sandor did not intervene. When Oberyn Martell almost killed him in their duel, Gregor gouged out Oberyn’s eyes and smashed his head open in fury while confessing the murders of Elia Martell and her children. He never speaks following Qyburn’s experiment, but he’s just as violent as he always was.
Trivia[]
- In the novels a knight called Robert Strong who is highly implied to be an undead Gregor becomes Cersei’s bodyguard. Gregor never uses the alias of Robert Strong in the TV series.