‘Game Of Thrones’ Fans Can’t Get Enough Of Sansa’s Sharp Retort To This Forgotten Character

Warning: Game of Thrones spoilers will be found below.

So, the Game of Thrones finale finally happened, and fans are having, uh … mixed reactions, to put it gently. Yes, it took only two episodes for one of the strongest female characters, Daenerys Targaryen, to transform into the series villain, and — although that had been the showrunners’ endgame all along — people weren’t happy with that development. Nor were they happy with her fate in the final episode.

On the other side of the coin, most people were mostly pleased with the outcome of another strong female character, Sansa Stark. For eight seasons, viewers have seen poor Sansa abused and manipulated, only to come out of top as Queen of the North. It was really not so much of a surprise however, as Sansa has really come into her own as a cunning and scrupulous leader over the course of the past couple of seasons.

Nowhere else was this more apparent than when the faction of house leaders assembled to decide who the next king (or queen) would be, and Sansa took charge, declaring sovereignty for the north. She also had exactly three words when her uncle Edmure Tully, Catelyn Stark’s younger brother, made a case for why he should sit at the throne: “Uncle, please sit.”

(For what it’s worth, Edmure did sit but not before clumsily banging his sword against his chair, for the perfect kissing chef’s fingertips moment.)

Really, one might argue that this was the moment Sansa truly became queen, and fans sounded off their excitement on Twitter to that point:

This alone should have been enough to earn Sansa the throne.#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/zLQqb5EAHz

— Hurmat Majid (@MajidHurmatKhi) May 20, 2019

when sansa told her uncle to sit the fuck down tho

was anything else good

— Tommy Pico (@heyteebs) May 20, 2019

yeah sex is great and all but have you seen sansa stark tell a bland white man to sit down and stop talking pic.twitter.com/5u9TRgPFsN

— alex(is) | got spoilers (@ltfrankcastIe) May 20, 2019

Edmure Tully: I have fought in wars, I have led, I believe myself to be fit for kingship—-

Sansa: LMAAAAOOOOOO man if you don’t sitcho ass down I thought you was bout to nominate somebody real boy have a seat, adults are talking

— A West (@ayyy_west) May 20, 2019

The Sansa “Uncle, sit down” gif is going to be my go-to for the coming election cycle. #queeninthenorth

— Tessa Dare (@TessaDare) May 20, 2019

And then there were the memes:

Edmure Tully: aight so boom —

Sansa: pic.twitter.com/ERzwWm4U9b

— Eric Haywood (@EricHaywood) May 20, 2019

#GameofThrones

Sansa: “Uncle, please sit.”

Edmure Tully: pic.twitter.com/QNqd57mKb8

— Tashdeed Kader Faruk (@_VeniVidiVeci_) May 20, 2019

"Uncle… Please sit." I had to pause the show. #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/E4IWV61h0V

— Sansa's Snark (@NotSymone) May 20, 2019

#GameofThrones

Edmure Tully: I could be King#Sansa: pic.twitter.com/pSPZjrjZKK

— (@Spilling_The_T) May 20, 2019

Sansa when her uncle tried to be king of the Seven Kingdoms: pic.twitter.com/Vp6eoalMW4

— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) May 20, 2019

Sansa when she saw her uncle making a pitch to be king. #GameOfThrones #GoT #DemThrones pic.twitter.com/jhJdV5t9kd

— GameOfKweens (@GameofKweens) May 20, 2019

edmure tully: i just thi-

sansa: pic.twitter.com/zDDus7Ikf3

— benioff & weiss slander acct | #ArmasOut (@thisisntxav) May 20, 2019

Nobody:

Sansa to Sansa's Uncle: pic.twitter.com/REVhV5jHS8

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) May 20, 2019

Long live the Queen of the North.