The funniest ‘Game of Thrones’ fan theories

Game of Thrones fans on Reddit and long-running forums once compiled lists of the strangest theories they found funniest, and the captured sources capture those older threads without later updates. The supplied sources provide no verification of the headline premise that the theories are currently the funniest.

Ten theories that still circulate in screenshots

• Ned Stark warged into a pigeon moments before the axe fell and later ended up baked in Joffrey’s pie, only to be executed a second time.
• Dragon glass is simply dragon waste, which is why the substance is so rare and so powerful.
• Roose Bolton is an immortal vampire who flays each son and wears the skin to maintain the family line across centuries.
• Jon Snow is his own father: Daenerys used a time portal at the Tower of Joy to send her grown son back to become his own sire.
• Meera Reed and Jon Snow are twins separated at birth; Ned kept one and Howland Reed took the other.
• Mance Rayder is Rhaegar Targaryen, who faked his death at the Trident and disguised himself with glamour.
• Varys is secretly a woman and the mother of Aegon Targaryen, with Illyrio Mopatis as the father.
• The Waif is Arya’s Tyler Durden–style split personality created by the Faceless Men.
• Jaime and Cersei die in a murder-suicide triggered by wildfire caches beneath King’s Landing.
• Bran the Builder and Bran Stark are the same person, warged back through time to construct Winterfell and the Wall.

Each idea is presented by the captured sources as a single Redditor’s post or a deleted thread, never as a later-confirmed plot point. The 2023 CBR article and the 2016 Empire feature both note that the theories gained traction precisely because they sound impossible, and no follow-up reporting in the supplied text contradicts or updates them. No verification exists across the 2016 to 2023 date gap of whether the theories are still considered the funniest.

Because the sources stop at those publication dates, readers cannot know whether any of the original posters revised their views after later seasons or after the finale aired. The sources present the humor as resting on the gap between what the show eventually revealed and the elaborate alternatives fans once entertained, though the evidence reaches only to the 2023 and 2016 dates with no confirmation that the gap still drives humor.