--- title: Game of Thrones: Mountain and the Hound Fulfill Fan Theory description: Here's how "Cleganebowl," the long-awaited fight to the death between the Hound and the Mountain, went down in Game of Thrones season 8. canonical: https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-13T03:36:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:02.300Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Game of Thrones Delivered One of the Most Highly Anticipated Showdowns With a Fitting Twist og:description: Spoilers ahead! og:url: https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f268aeb5d81076f/698949ce16d88405a0c35154/gameofthronescleganebowlseason8episode5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GameofThronesCleganebowlSeason8Episode5 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Delivered One of the Most Highly Anticipated Showdowns With a Fitting Twist twitter:description: Spoilers ahead! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f268aeb5d81076f/698949ce16d88405a0c35154/gameofthronescleganebowlseason8episode5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Delivered One of the Most Highly Anticipated Showdowns With a Fitting Twist > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 13, 2019 3:36 AM UTC  The Hound has been waiting to fight The Mountain forever and so have fans. The Hound has been waiting to fight The Mountain forever and so have fans.Helen Sloan/HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 13, 2019 3:36 AM UTC **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for [_Game of Thrones_ season 8](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/). It’s been nearly eight seasons since we first saw [Sandor “The Hound” Clegane](http://time.com/5583568/game-of-thrones-arya-the-hound-kill-list/) and Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane [draw swords on one another](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaIwtO6VWCU) at the [Tourney of the Hand](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Tournament) in season 1 of _Game of Thrones_. That fight was stopped by King Robert Baratheon, but the bad blood between the brothers has only thickened since then. And in the fifth episode of _Thrones_‘ eighth season, the Hound finally got vengeance on the Mountain in a fight to the death that fans had been [theorizing about for years](http://time.com/4354413/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-explained/), preemptively dubbing it “Cleganebowl.” After convincing Arya to abandon her quest for revenge, the Hound found the Mountain escorting Cersei down to [Maegor’s Holdfast](https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Maegor%27s%5FHoldfast). Cersei and Qyburn both ordered the Mountain to stay by her side, but the Mountain had other ideas, including killing Qyburn. The two brothers then viciously attacked each other.  Helen Sloan/HBO The Mountain was clearly still stronger than the Hound, and because of his zombified state, managed to survive both a sword through the stomach and a dagger through the eye. However, after taking a beating that included a more mild version of the eye gouging that Oberyn Martell received from the Mountain in season 4, the Hound managed to tackle the Mountain through the crumbling Red Keep wall and the two both fell to their deaths. As a reminder, the hatred between the brothers stemmed from a childhood incident in which the Mountain held the Hound’s face over flames, gruesomely burning him and giving him a debilitating fear of fire. “He pressed me to the fire like I was a nice juicy mutton chop,” [the Hound told Arya in season 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0D%5FqFIiqLQ). “Thought I stole one of his toys. I didn’t steal it, I was just playing with it. The pain was bad, the smell was worse. But the worst thing was that it was my brother who did it. And my father who protected him, told everyone my bedding caught fire.”  Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and Pedro Pascal fight as The Mountain and Oberyn in Season 4 Episode 8 of Game of Thrones. HBO The Mountain had been guilty of numerous atrocities since that fateful day, and many fans had long been waiting for him to get his comeuppance. Before the events of the show began, he brutalized and murdered Elia Martell and her children, Rhaenys and Aegon Targaryen, during the Sack of King’s Landing. He later tortured and killed prisoners at Harrenhal, earning him one of the top spots on [Arya’s kill list](http://time.com/4385792/game-of-thrones-arya-stark-kill-list/); horrifically crushed Oberyn’s skull with his bare hands; and, after being turned into a zombified version of himself by Qyburn, [beheaded Missandei](http://time.com/5583497/game-of-thrones-missandei-rhaegal/).  Macall B. Polay—HBO When the Hound and the Mountain came face to face during the Dragonpit summit in the [season 7 finale](http://time.com/4911639/game-of-thrones-season-7-finale-cleganebowl/), the Hound warned his brother that he would be back to deal with the unfinished business between them. “You know who’s coming for you,” he told him. “You’ve always known.” And although he had to sacrifice himself in the process, the Hound made sure to keep his promise. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Delivered One of the Most Highly Anticipated Showdowns With a Fitting Twist","datePublished":"2019-05-13T03:36:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:02.300Z","description":"Spoilers ahead!","url":"https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/","keywords":["Television","game of thrones","TV","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f268aeb5d81076f/698949ce16d88405a0c35154/gameofthronescleganebowlseason8episode5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f268aeb5d81076f/698949ce16d88405a0c35154/gameofthronescleganebowlseason8episode5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GameofThronesCleganebowlSeason8Episode5","caption":"Fans have been awaiting Cleganebowl forever","creditText":"Helen Sloan/HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5585926/game-of-thrones-cleganebowl-hound-moutain/","name":"Game of Thrones Delivered One of the Most Highly Anticipated Showdowns With a Fitting Twist"}}]}] ```