Do you think that Joffrey Baratheon would make a good king? What would you do if you were the spirit of Robert Baratheon?

[Meryl]

Joffrey certainly does not deserve to succeed Robert. Were I the spirit of Robert, I would wipe out the treacherous Lannister race.

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Joffrey is one of those fiction characters we love to hate.

He's manipulative, abusive, merciless, stupid, delusional, arrogant, and basically someone that makes the reader want to reach in and make him die a painful death over the course of many weeks.

Joffrey deserves to die a hundred times over, then be drawn and quartered.

BUT the point of A Game of Thrones is moral ambiguity, isn't it? The Lannister family are considered villains, yet Martin still decides to offer a glimpse into the mind of one of the most likable characters in the story, Tyrion. And more than that, he is not portrayed as a villain, but as a sympathetic character. That way Martin can really show that in a civil war, everyone is of equal importance, and that no one sees themselves as the villain.

[Michael]

if im robert, i will turn my back on him and hunt and drink for eternity. he gave up on joffery for a long time anyway

[Matthew]

I was a bit perplexed by the question, but I'm glad to see people are of one mind. If I were Robert, I'd strangle Joffrey in his sleep and make his evil mother watch. Then I think I'd take care of her as well...

By why stop there? Tywin deserves a good spirit-strangle, and then I think Tyrion and Jaime would be much happier. Perhaps they could have avoided all that civil war nonsense while they were at it.