A lot of people died on HBO's Game of Thrones, but which deaths were the favorite of creators and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via EW), Weiss said it was the death of villainous characters that he was particularly fond of.

He said the show killed so many good guys early on, with Sean Bean's Ned Stark famously getting his head lopped off before the end of the first season. Later on, though, came Weiss' favorite deaths: Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) and Ramsay (Iwan Rheon).

"We finally got to really kill both Joffrey in season 4 and Ramsay Bolton in season 6. It was fun to go back to the old-fashioned joys of just killing off a really bad guy," he said. His death felt like it was "balancing the scales a little," Weiss said as it relates to good guys vs. bad guys getting whacked.