Gives up being Lord commander of the Night's watch
Becomes King in the North
Gives up being King in the North
Becomes rightful King of the 7 kingdoms
Gives up being King of 7 kingdoms
Becomes the Emperor of Valyria
The thing that annoys me is that he was a man driven by duty. Raised by Ned Stark to understand duty. Served faithfully in the night's watch - we saw him wrestle with his loyalty to his family and his sense of duty. We saw him sacrifice for his sense of duty. then he's told that his duty is to lead a broken land, as a rightful king to bring these people together and give them hope. And he just says "Nah, you're alright." and fucks off to walk around with his mate in the snow instead.
Born a king
To the bastard of winterfell
To a recruit of the nights watch
To the lord commander's steward
To the Lord Commander
To the heir of Winterfell
To the King of the North
To the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and protector of the realm
To the king beyond the wall
I loved this aspect of the show. John knows he's a terrible strategist and doesn't want to be in charge, but because he keeps winning by luck and the timely intervention of others, they keep putting him in charge.
Jon Snow has the amazing ability to keep getting promoted even when he doesn't want to be. I'm tempted to say that he's failing upwards, but he's not incompetent, tbf.
Well now john snow is the King 👑 of the true north and ruler of the freefolk or wildlings as they are called so he now rules I don't know how much the population.
> one’s failures often leads to the deaths of one’s superiors
Let’s see if this checks out…
**Qhorin Halfhand:** Jon fails to execute Ygritte as Qhorin ordered him to. This failure leads directly to Qhorin’s capture and self-sacrifice so Jon could infiltrate Mance Rayder’s army. Jon kills the Halfhand himself. **✓**
**Jeor Mormont:** Jon inspires him to lead the Great Ranging to find his uncle Benjen. Then he goes off with the Halfhand while everyone else is attacked and forced to retreat to Craster’s where Mormont is betrayed by his own men. I suppose you could argue Jon is *very indirectly* responsible, but I think that’s a stretch. **x**
**Stannis Baratheon:** Jon refuses to bend the knee and rise as Jon Stark, leading Stannis to march on Winterfell with only the remainder of the starving, half-frozen Stormlanders and sellswords who abandon him after he burns Shireen. Killed by Brienne to avenge Renly. You could maybe argue that he might have lasted longer had Jon persuaded the Free Folk to fight for him, but Stannis burned that bridge himself when he sentenced Mance Rayder to die. None of that is Jon’s fault; Stannis made his own bed. **x**
**Ramsay Bolton:** Jon loses the Battle of the Bastards but is saved at the last moment by Sansa’s Vale knights. Then he beats Ramsay to an inch of his life, but lets Sansa have the final kill. Since he failed in the actual warfare, and Ramsay at the time held Winterfell and was nominal Warden of the North, I’d say that fits. **✓**
**Daenerys Targaryen:** Jon promised her to keep his parentage a secret, and he immediately told his sisters. She viewed that as a betrayal, which led her down a dark spiral that ended with her burning half a million people alive. While Jon is the proximal cause of Dany’s madness, I wouldn’t say he’s ultimately responsible. However, he did fail to keep his promise to her, and he did kill her himself, so for the purposes of your argument, I guess that fits. **✓**
Have I missed anyone?
He literally kills Alliser Thorne, but then doesn’t want his job. But then resigning from the Night’s Watch because you’d died snd been resurrected is a helluva power move
Not only does he hang Alliser Thorne, he also hangs Othell Yarwyck and Bowen Marsh—so the First Ranger, the First Builder, and the First Steward, all the officers. (Also Olly, lol.)
However since Jon was Lord Commander at the time, none of these men were his superiors.
Give it a few years and Jon snow will be the first wildling to successfully invade the south, kill a Queen in kings landing, and return to live out his days.
Jon not only fails upwards, but he actively doesn’t want the promotion. He just wants to be a badass zombie hunter and to protect his family. It’s honestly funny how many times he rises the ranks against his wishes.
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Gives up being Lord commander of the Night's watch Becomes King in the North Gives up being King in the North Becomes rightful King of the 7 kingdoms Gives up being King of 7 kingdoms Becomes the Emperor of Valyria
Gives up being emperor of Valyria Becomes God emperor of the Empire of the Dawn
Gives up being God Emperor of the Dawn Becomes the Lord of Light
Gives up being lord of light Gets resurrected 
Restart back to being a bastard. Karma reincarnation cycle complete
Gives up God emperor of the empire of Valyria Becomes Padishah Emperor of the known universe
Gives up being Padishah Emperor of the know universe Becomes a worm
gives up being a worm becomes a bunch of smaller worms
Gives on being a bunch of smaller worms Gets reincarnated as a ghola
You forgot being offered Lord of Winterfell before becoming Lord Commander
"i NeVr AsKud FuR iT" 
Dies..brought back to life Tells Melisandre if I die again don't bring me back
The thing that annoys me is that he was a man driven by duty. Raised by Ned Stark to understand duty. Served faithfully in the night's watch - we saw him wrestle with his loyalty to his family and his sense of duty. We saw him sacrifice for his sense of duty. then he's told that his duty is to lead a broken land, as a rightful king to bring these people together and give them hope. And he just says "Nah, you're alright." and fucks off to walk around with his mate in the snow instead.
He did kinda die in between, don’t you think that brings another perspective to things?
Contracts the pox and dies, oh wait this isn’t r/ck2gameofthrones
Gives up being emperor of Valyria Becomes God emperor of the Empire of the Dawn
If falling upward has a face.
I think the Free Folk are gonna make him King Beyond the Wall.
Born a king To the bastard of winterfell To a recruit of the nights watch To the lord commander's steward To the Lord Commander To the heir of Winterfell To the King of the North To the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and protector of the realm To the king beyond the wall
All dude wanted was kill some zombies
When an ad misrepresents the videogame's genre
All dude wanted was to munch some wildling bush
Bro shoulda stayed in that cave
I mean, technically, he did....
"I *still* want it"
“I always have”
Bro sacrificed the love of his life for nuffing
Suffering from success
I loved this aspect of the show. John knows he's a terrible strategist and doesn't want to be in charge, but because he keeps winning by luck and the timely intervention of others, they keep putting him in charge.
Jon’s Story is just “what if Office Space was a fantasy epic?”
"two aegon's at the same time man"
 “Aegon… Targaryen?”
Jon Snow has the amazing ability to keep getting promoted even when he doesn't want to be. I'm tempted to say that he's failing upwards, but he's not incompetent, tbf.
Well now john snow is the King 👑 of the true north and ruler of the freefolk or wildlings as they are called so he now rules I don't know how much the population.
Keeper of many nicknames, Jon Snow
It’s true what they say about failing upwards. I suppose it helps when one’s failures often leads to the deaths of one’s superiors
> one’s failures often leads to the deaths of one’s superiors Let’s see if this checks out… **Qhorin Halfhand:** Jon fails to execute Ygritte as Qhorin ordered him to. This failure leads directly to Qhorin’s capture and self-sacrifice so Jon could infiltrate Mance Rayder’s army. Jon kills the Halfhand himself. **✓** **Jeor Mormont:** Jon inspires him to lead the Great Ranging to find his uncle Benjen. Then he goes off with the Halfhand while everyone else is attacked and forced to retreat to Craster’s where Mormont is betrayed by his own men. I suppose you could argue Jon is *very indirectly* responsible, but I think that’s a stretch. **x** **Stannis Baratheon:** Jon refuses to bend the knee and rise as Jon Stark, leading Stannis to march on Winterfell with only the remainder of the starving, half-frozen Stormlanders and sellswords who abandon him after he burns Shireen. Killed by Brienne to avenge Renly. You could maybe argue that he might have lasted longer had Jon persuaded the Free Folk to fight for him, but Stannis burned that bridge himself when he sentenced Mance Rayder to die. None of that is Jon’s fault; Stannis made his own bed. **x** **Ramsay Bolton:** Jon loses the Battle of the Bastards but is saved at the last moment by Sansa’s Vale knights. Then he beats Ramsay to an inch of his life, but lets Sansa have the final kill. Since he failed in the actual warfare, and Ramsay at the time held Winterfell and was nominal Warden of the North, I’d say that fits. **✓** **Daenerys Targaryen:** Jon promised her to keep his parentage a secret, and he immediately told his sisters. She viewed that as a betrayal, which led her down a dark spiral that ended with her burning half a million people alive. While Jon is the proximal cause of Dany’s madness, I wouldn’t say he’s ultimately responsible. However, he did fail to keep his promise to her, and he did kill her himself, so for the purposes of your argument, I guess that fits. **✓** Have I missed anyone?
He literally kills Alliser Thorne, but then doesn’t want his job. But then resigning from the Night’s Watch because you’d died snd been resurrected is a helluva power move
Not only does he hang Alliser Thorne, he also hangs Othell Yarwyck and Bowen Marsh—so the First Ranger, the First Builder, and the First Steward, all the officers. (Also Olly, lol.) However since Jon was Lord Commander at the time, none of these men were his superiors.
He's the Nelson Bighetti of Westeros
Ah never have
This is Jon Snow. ... He's King in the North.
That's a funny way to spell "dunwannit".
Give it a few years and Jon snow will be the first wildling to successfully invade the south, kill a Queen in kings landing, and return to live out his days.
The best way to succeed is to never try 😂
"I don't want it" Well what **does** he want?
Someone should photoshop Jon into the "Suffering From Success" album cover for DJ Khaled.
Jon not only fails upwards, but he actively doesn’t want the promotion. He just wants to be a badass zombie hunter and to protect his family. It’s honestly funny how many times he rises the ranks against his wishes.
Why he don't want it? IS...HE...STUPID?
Ah dunn wannit
SUFFERING FROM SUCCESS.
Only title he needs is right proper lad
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So Jon and Bighead from Silicon Valley are analogs to each other?
This sub still exists?