It’s a universally accepted rule in pop culture that any time you create a character who’s a vicious, unrepentant asshole—especially one who’s also kind of funny—there’ll always be fans crawling out of the woodwork to tell you how he or she (but usually he) is “not so bad.” And while that’s fine—everybody loves a good villain—you shouldn’t be surprised when some of the character’s victims (or at least the actors playing them) pop up to remind you that a fun bastard is still a bastard, in the end.
That was the gist of an exchange that played out on Twitter this week, when Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner unexpectedly waded into the middle of an online argument to remind a few fans that, as much fun as Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish could be to watch, he was still a monster: