--- title: Game of Thrones: Man Carves Watermelon Into Night's King description: The Game of Thrones phenomenon has struck again and this time, in the form of a watermelon. canonical: https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-17T19:22:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:30.147Z og:title: Man Carves Watermelon Into Replica of the Night's King From Game of Thrones og:description: Prepare to be amazed og:url: https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Carves Watermelon Into Replica of the Night's King From Game of Thrones twitter:description: Prepare to be amazed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Guy Carve a Watermelon Into a Replica of the Night's King From _Game of Thrones_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 17, 2016 7:22 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 17, 2016 7:22 PM UTC [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4371969/game-of-thrones-ninth-episodes-battle-of-the-bastards/)mania has struck again and this time, it’s in the form of a [watermelon](http://time.com/4371552/krispy-kreme-japan-watermelon-donuts/). [Valeriano Fatica](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-ZKRxK4ungLh0tuTmkJRg), a YouTube user known for his intricate carvings of fruits, vegetables and the occasional cheese, recently shared a video in which he demonstrated his love for the HBO drama in a unique way — by transforming a watermelon into a replica of the Night’s King. The carving — which took Fatica 18 hours to complete, according to the video’s caption — is an extremely detailed representation of the leader of the White Walkers, who was last seen murdering the Three-Eyed Raven as [Bran Stark](http://time.com/4345206/game-of-thrones-three-eyed-raven-flashback-detail/) and Meera Reed escaped from the cave under the giant weirwood tree earlier this season. Watch the full clip below. “[Battle of the Bastards](http://time.com/4370131/game-of-thrones-battle-of-the-bastards-deaths/),” the ninth episode of _Thrones_‘ sixth season, airs Sunday at 9 p.m. E.T. on HBO. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/"},"headline":"Watch This Guy Carve a Watermelon Into a Replica of the Night's King From Game of Thrones","datePublished":"2016-06-17T19:22:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:30.147Z","description":"Prepare to be amazed","url":"https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4373519/game-of-thrones-nights-king-watermelon-carving/","name":"Watch This Guy Carve a Watermelon Into a Replica of the Night's King From Game of Thrones"}}]}] ```