--- title: Game of Thrones: Why Sansa Sentenced Littlefinger to Death description: Throughout season seven, the Game of Thrones showrunners have dropped clues that Sansa, Arya and Bran Stark would conspire together to kill Littlefinger. canonical: https://time.com/4918086/game-of-thrones-littlefinger-death/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-28T03:35:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:11:21.722Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: How a Certain Character’s Death Was Foreshadowed All Season on Game of Thrones og:description: Spoilers ahead! og:url: https://time.com/4918086/game-of-thrones-littlefinger-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.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-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How a Certain Character’s Death Was Foreshadowed All Season on Game of Thrones twitter:description: Spoilers ahead! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf035cf967760b18b/6988dad84ee2624fce30eaf2/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-sansa-stark-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How a Certain Character’s Death Was Foreshadowed All Season on _Game of Thrones_ > 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 [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 28, 2017 3:35 AM UTC  HBO  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 28, 2017 3:35 AM UTC **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for season seven of [_Game of Thrones_](http://new.time.com/game-of-thrones-2017/). Littlefinger finally met his end on the [season seven finale of _Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4917987/game-of-thrones-finale-review/) Sunday night. Sansa Stark brought Arya to the throne room for what appeared to be a confrontation over Arya’s apparent scheming against her sister. But then Sansa quickly revealed that it was in fact Littlefinger who was on trial. She accused Littlefinger of several crimes: killing their aunt Lysa Arryn, conspiring to kill their uncle Jon Arryn, committing treason by holding a knife to Ned Stark’s throat and attempting to assassinate of Bran. The new Three-Eyed Raven — who was conspicuously missing from the last episode when the Stark sisters fought — provided just the evidence needed to convict Lord Baelish when he shared his visions. Sansa declared Littlefinger to be guilty, and Arya cut his throat. Littlefinger’s death [was hinted at](http://time.com/4910999/game-of-thrones-littlefinger-arya-sansa/) throughout this season. Though Sansa appeared to go to Littlefinger for counsel after she and Arya bickered over Sansa’s secret desire to rule the North and Arya’s newfound talents as an assassin, Sansa repeatedly told Arya, Jon, Bran and Brienne that she did not trust Littlefinger. The most important piece of foreshadowing about Littlefinger’s death came during the Stark reunion earlier in the season. Sansa, Arya and Bran conferred about the [Valyrian steel dagger](http://time.com/4898846/game-of-thrones-littlefinger-note-arya-sansa/), a weapon that was sure to be used to kill _someone_ by the end of the season. Though they exchanged frustratingly little information, the three siblings agreed that Lord Baelish must be trying to manipulate them. The dagger became a symbol of that bond among the surviving Starks. Its reappearance was a reminder that Littlefinger had long conspired against the family since he gave the weapon to Bran’s would-be assassin in season one. And the dagger was passed among the Stark children — Bran to Arya to Sansa — as a show of their trust in one another. They would not use the dagger against each other, but rather against their true enemy. Even [one of the season 7 trailers](http://time.com/4828529/game-of-thrones-trailer-2-sansa-stark-voiceover-meaning/) offered a hint about Littlefinger’s fate. In one of the previews, Sansa intones, “The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.” In the final episode, we find out that was a phrase that Ned shared with his children: The Starks have to look out for one another. Sansa did indeed finally repeat that phrase to Arya in this final episode after Littlefinger’s death. Though Lord Baelish’s death was a longtime coming — and one of the few moments of schadenfreude the show offered this season — he was among the last characters who played the game of thrones with tricks and lies rather than brute force. 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