Episode four of Game of Thrones where Missandei is beheaded — a much beloved character, it's a very graphic death — will have triggered the sympathetic nervous system.
One, he was just killed during the battle or two George and some of his buddies found him crying out his woes on the battlefield and promptly beheaded him over a makeshift chopping block.
Enemies were crucified, burned alive, drowned in cages, beheaded with slow saws, while everything was filmed and posted online for the world to observe and dread.