In the show, the Faceless Men are depicted as almost god-like and invincible. Arya only needed a few years of training with them to easily toy with Brienne : a knight with superior physical strength and a lifetime of combat experience. So, if Jaqen were in this situation, facing hundreds of archers firing at once, could he easily escape?
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Then a man would die
In the shade.
Jaqen has really ripped abs?
You had to say it.
🤣🤣
That is a fantastic reference that very few people are seemingly getting.
Ibwent to watch the clip and my first thought was "i didnt know michael fassbender was in this movie"
A man would die. However you would never be sure if you actually killed your intended target. There would indeed be a corpse. But who did you actually kill? The world may never know.
A… man… would…. die….
Then end up in Stranger Things in Russia
You beat me
Five dollars
More than one would die
Every last archer would
Die in the cool shade
He would be a human pincushion.
No, the arrows would bounce off his plot armour. No-one would die.
Bruh… what kind of ghost question is this? 😂
questions like this pop up when the mystique takes over common sense, hes skilled and dangerous, not immune to physics and arrows
Exactly. It also stands to reason that the faceless men aren’t the most highly skilled warriors when it comes to open battlefield combat. They are deadliest when approaching enemies that are unsuspecting….they are assassins. A faceless man can hold their own in a fight better than most, but they aren’t top quality warriors.
Then how did Arya manage to piece up Brienne who is supposedly the best knight in all of westeros????
I’d say 2 main reasons and one that kinda gives extra context;
Brienne absolutely underestimated her for 95% of that sparring match
It was just that; a sparring match, where neither of them were actually going for the kill or intending to remotely harm the other. (Side note to where Brienne goes on the defensive, loses control for a sec and kinda sucker punches Arya but immediately regrets it) An actual fight to the death scenario would be approached differently by both of them.
The side not for context; if we are going off the show vs the books’ iterations of the faceless men, it’s clear that the show fluffs them up a tiny bit more
One of the greatest fighters in the world might underestimate you but that hardly means you'll beat them does it?
Being one of the best fighters in the world would mean you're one of the best sparrers in the world too because that's how you train. You'll spend more time sparring than you will fighting in real combat
I think it's pretty safe to say that at least in the logic of the show that the faceless men must be among the greatest fighters in the world because Arya, a child who only trained with them for a short amount of time was able to beat Brienne, one of the greatest fighters in the world in her prime
I think the real reason is the writing completely fell apart in season 8.
I agree it shit writing, I'm just going by the logic the show set out though
Fair enough.
Brienne is absolutely not the best knight in Westeros. The only times we see her fight anyone notable the battle is fought with heavy disadvantages on the other party. Both Jaime and Sandor were heavily malnourished and exhausted, plus Sandor had a festering wound on his neck. If she had fought either of those men at their best she would’ve been crushed.
The closest we see her get to a fair fight with a skilled opponent is with Loras, who really isn’t that much special, and Arya, who embarrasses her despite a massive size and reach advantage.
The show has a bad habit of making you think average fighters are the greatest warriors in the world. Eddard Stark, Ramsay Bolton, Bronn, Brienne, Jon Snow. All of these are like… They’re not bad, but in terms of fighting abilities they’re supposed to be nothing special. Maybe a bit above average, but they would get utterly crushed by any of the top tier fighters (Jaime, Barristan, Oberyn Martell, Robert Baratheon, either of the Cleganes).
Loras isn't in the show for very long as a fighter but he's definitely supposed to be special. He unseats the mountain. We hear other soldiers talking theoretically about 1v1 matchups between the best fighters in their world and Loras, and they repeatedly predict that Loras would win. He's got a reputation as potentially the best swordsman in the world.
Fair. I forgot he unseats the mountain in s1. It’s possible he takes on some of his brothers’ prowess (in the books it’s Garlan Tyrell who’s a great fighter, not Loras). In either case 1: we don’t see Loras actually ever demonstrate exceptional abilities as a swordsman so it’s hard to place him, probably doesn’t rise to the level of a top tier fighter without clear feats, and 2: beating him is the only impressive feat that Brienne has in the show. Every other 1v1 she wins is against an opponent who either isn’t anything special or who is severely weakened when the fight happens.
The more probable answer is that he would see the army of archer coming for him and he would just switch faces and leave.
No one would be killed.
A man has good jokes.
And a body riddled with arrows.
No, they'd bounce off his plot armour.
A man asks, what would happen if it were you? A man bleeds like any other man.
A man would have many arrows in his body.
And just like that, a man becomes holy.
Boromir
Did you see The Matrix?
They would kill no one
u/Dry_Specialist9015 There will be a dead body but it wont be his when they examine it
He's not invincible
They would all bounce off of his plot armour
Nothing, a man isnt Jaqen H’ghar
When are they depicted as godlike or invincible? They can just use magic to change their face and are very good assassins.
We’ve never seen this dude die. Actually we have seen him die, only to not be dead. So invincibility seems a not unreasonable implication.
Dude drinks poison and dies only to not be himself and also be a bunch of randos and also be Arya herself.
You telling me being everyone and no one at the same time and being alive even when you’re dead ain’t godlike invincibility shit?
Jaq'en Hagar is a face the faceless men use. The person who freed Arya and gave her that coin was Faceless man A and the person who drank the poison was Faceless man B.
Then how did Arya manage to piece up Brienne who is supposedly the best knight in all of westeros????
When are we told Brienne is the best knight in all of Westeros?
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I agree that's an overstatement but she is still extremely capable and strong, it's just silly for Arya to be able to duel her.
He dead.
Yeah pack it up clanker
He's an assassin, he dies. The biggest issue with Arya's performance in The Long Night is that she's not a soldier, that's a different skill set. None of the Faceless Men have the skills for open conflict as a unit.
Then how did Arya manage to piece up Brienne who is supposedly the best knight in all of westeros????
“…as a unit.”
they were only practicing. And Brieanne went easy on her.
Watch it again. Clearly not.
He is no one , remember
Jaqen H'ghar becomes an archer and another man would die.
They would hit no one.
A man would be shot
A man would dodge
A man would fight in the shade.
A man would be one of the archers.
is op bloodraven
the man becomes an arrow hurling in opposite direction to find the bow and kill the man and assumes his identity, afterwhich assasinates those hundred archers.
the end.
I don’t think that the faceless men are invincible. They are just very good at what they do but they can be killed. The only magic is the faces. That scene with Arya and Brienne was just a stupid invention by the show runners. The point of the faceless men is you’re never sure who is who. Maybe Jaqen has been different faceless men in every scene he’s in.
Then a Man would die.
I can't think of any character from any fantasy show that doesn't have straight up superpowers that would survive against a hundred archers
Sure a man might kill a couple, but if they just spread out that means while he's killing the first. 99 others are peppering him with arrows
A man is still flesh, not fog.
He would....fight in the shade?
🤦
George, please finish the goddamn books. We’re getting desperate.
A man would resemble swiss cheese
A man would be a pincushion
bet he'd still pull a houdini move
A man would die
He’d probably get hit with an arrow
He would die, just like he would have if Arya didn’t open the cage.
A man would serve as a pincushion.
Probably a hot take, but my humble opinion is he would have multiple puncture wounds and bleed to death.
Sometimes I think this subreddit is made up of 12 year olds.
Then the man will die and a man will become someone else
A man is already dead.
The man would catch each arrow and throw it back at them until they are dead
They're not depicted as godlike or invincible what are you talking about lol.
If they were, they wouldn't need to go to such great lengths for their disguises.
The same thing that would happen to you or anyone else trapped in a cage with hundreds of arrows dying at you !
He’d look like a porkupine
A man would encounter the Many-Faced God
A Man would not be there to be struck
If a man found himself in such a position then he lost his plot armor a while ago.
We need a Jaqen H'ghar series starring Tom Wlaschiha!!!
A single archer can kill him...what do you think he is?
The faceless men are very deadly assassins. You don't hire an assassin to fight an army
Turns out he's one of the archers. He's fine.
Then they would attack No One
But really tho, considering how scared he is about a teeny weeny little fire, he probably be ded
This is the point though. The FM aren’t dangerous because they can fight off all of Westeros, they’re dangerous because they won’t ever be put in that position. Theirs is essentially the art of ambush, and because of that, they can’t ever be ambushed. They’d see it a mile away.
They'd kill him just for the archer with the killing blow to be revealed to be him later
When a man becomes a faceless man, the man is blessed with plot armor. Noone dies. As demonstrated by Arya Of House Stark in Season 8.
He is an assassin not superman
A man would become a pincushion
No one would be hit
He’d die. What kind of question is that? He’s an assassin not a god of war
I’m really curious as to why Jaqen Hghar became a prisoner (esp if he’s “invincible”)?
A man would fucking die
He falls over dead, solemn music plays as the camera lingers on his body. As the assembled archers clear away, the camera focuses on one in particular, his back turned. Just before the scene transition, he turns to reveal: Jaqen H'ghar.