55 Best Twitter Reactions to the 'Game of Thrones' Purple Wedding

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By Neha Prakash2014-04-14 03:59:30 UTC

This post contains several spoilers about Game of Thrones season 4, episode 2. Do not continue if you have not watched.

Break out the party hats, the king is dead!

Joffrey Baratheon, perhaps the most hated man-child in Westoros, croaked on Sunday's Game of Thrones , at his own wedding, no less.

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The King, poisoned by an unknown hero of sorts, came as quite the shocker (what in this show isn't a shocker?), as he twitched into oblivion in Cersei Lannister's arms in just the second episode of the fourth season.

Fans dubbed the messy affair the Purple Wedding — for the color of Joffrey's face — as a callback to season 3's penultimate episode, the Red Wedding, where three Starks were killed at the behest of the Lannisters.

Karma, and marriage, in Westeros is no laughing matter.

We've gathered the best reactions to the demise of Joffrey, and his repulsive smirk, and theories on who may have been responsible for the choke heard 'round the world.

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