Right Proper Lad

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About

Right Proper Lad refers to a catchphrase from a comical image-based recap of the fantasy television series Game of Thrones episode "The Queen's Justice." The line has since become a catchphrase among Game of Thrones fan communities.

Origin

On July 30th, 2017, the third episode of season seven of Game of Thrones aired on HBO.^[1] In the episode, two characters, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, share a contentious meeting about who will rule the kingdom and how to deal with the ongoing issue of the walking, frozen dead (video below).

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The following day, on July blogger and TV reviewer Chrys of ChrysReivews.com uploaded a series of image macros, humorously recapping the meeting between Jon and Daenerys, to her website.^[2] In the review, there is a screencap of the scene that features the character Davos referring to Jon as a "Right proper lad," and Jon echoes, "Right proper" (shown below).

chrysreviews.com he's a right proper lad right proper

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That day, Chrys posted the series to the /r/GameOfThrones subreddit, ^[3] where it received more than 17,100 points (94% upvoted) and 980 comments within 22 days. When posted to Imgur on August 8th, the post received more than 400,000 views and 7,100 points in less than a month.

On August 2nd, the following day, Redditor^[4] AbelHagen posted a Game of Thrones webcomic by Abel of Wooden Plank Comics based on the scene. In the second panel of the comic (shown below), the character Davos refers to Jon as a "right proper lad." When posted to /r/GameOfThrones, the post received more than 7,800 points (96% upvoted) and 225 comics.

Since the initial post, "right proper lad" has become a catchphrase and copypasta on Reddit. Generally, people will refer to characters that they like as a "right proper lad" or "right proper [noun]" (examples below).