--- title: 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Poster Shows Tyrion and Dragon description: HBO's hit show is returning for season 5 canonical: https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-28T14:59:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:19.737Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: This Eerie New 'Game of Thrones' Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a New Threat og:description: Father of dragons? og:url: https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b92ac65581286d/6987818bcd68489b50099ef9/got-s5-poster-720x1066.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Game of Thrones og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Eerie New 'Game of Thrones' Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a New Threat twitter:description: Father of dragons? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b92ac65581286d/6987818bcd68489b50099ef9/got-s5-poster-720x1066.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Eerie New _Game of Thrones_ Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a Dragon  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Feb 28, 2015 2:59 PM CUT  HBO  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Feb 28, 2015 2:59 PM CUT The new season of _Game of Thrones_ promises to bring about a meeting of two worlds. That’s the message carried across by the poster for season 5, in which a ship carrying Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) comes up against one of Daenerys’s three dragons. It’s a sinister image, and one that is true to the action of the series so far: Tyrion, in exile, is fleeing to a domain that the Mother of Dragons controls. _Game of Thrones_ returns April 12 at 9 p.m. EST. \[[_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/27/game-thrones-season-5-poster-shows-tyrion-dragon "undefined")\] ### See The Real-Life People Who Inspired Game of Thrones Characters  From left: Cersei and Margaret of Anjou HBO; Getty Images  From Left: Khaleesi and Queen Elizabeth I. HBO; Getty Images  From Left: Melisandre and Bloody Mary Helen Sloan—HBO; Getty Images  From left: Talisa Stark and Anne Boleyn. Helen Sloan—HBO; Getty Images  From left: Brienne of Tarth and Joan of Arc. HBO; DeAgostini—Getty Images  From left: Henry VIII and Robert Baratheon. HBO; Getty Images  From left: Joffrey and Caligula. HBO; De Agostini—Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/"},"headline":"This Eerie New Game of Thrones Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a Dragon","datePublished":"2015-02-28T14:59:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:19.737Z","description":"HBO's hit show is returning for season 5","url":"https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/","keywords":["Television","game of thrones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b92ac65581286d/6987818bcd68489b50099ef9/got-s5-poster-720x1066.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70b92ac65581286d/6987818bcd68489b50099ef9/got-s5-poster-720x1066.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game of Thrones","caption":"Game of Thrones","creditText":"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":"https://time.com/3727266/game-of-thrones-season-5-poster-dragon/","name":"This Eerie New Game of Thrones Poster Shows Tyrion Facing a Dragon"}}]}] ```