Heroic Turncloak

34 AGOT Eddard VIII: Ned must oppose Robert's demand the Targaryen's be wiped out. Barristan Selmy does too.

52 AGOT Sansa IV: Sansa believes she can persude Joffrey to pardon Ned entirely, once queen, if she can only persuade him to grant mercy now.

58 AGOT Sansa V: When dismissed from the kingsguard, Ser Barristan Selmy tells Joffrey Stannis will take his throne and storms off to serve a better king.

59 AGOT Eddard XV: Ned herocailly decides to plead guilty to vile treason, hold his nose and declare Joffey king to save Sansa.

66 AGOT Arya V: Though vowed to neutrality, Yoren saves Arya, committing treason against his king.

71 AGOT Jon IX: Though it breaks his vows, Jon deserts the Night's Watch to join Robb in his mission to avenge Ned.

72 AGOT Catelyn XI: The Greatjon's movement to crown Robb is primarily in defiance of the Lannister crown.

A Clash of Kings

76 ACOK 3 Sansa I: Joffrey's dog reveals himself to have always been the master.

81 ACOK 8 Catelyn I: Catelyn won't be set aside so she pretends to act on Robb's behalf while actually defying him.

92 ACOK 19 Sansa II: Dontos would have Sansa believe him a heroic turncloak. If his part in the conspiracy to free her were known, he'd be executed.

108 ACOK 35 Jon IV: Jon finds a hidden cache of dragponglass in a black cloak. Could a night's Watch man be under cover among the wildlings? Or...did one desert?

111ACOK 38 Theon III: Theon would tke Casterly Rock, but Balon has his eye on a different apple.

116 ACOK 43 Davos II: Ser Corntay Penrose turned against the crown with Renly and stayed true, even against claims his lord has died.

120 ACOK 47 Bran VI: Theon took Winterfell after presumably swearing his sword to king Robb.

124 ACOK 51 Theon IV: Osha pledged fealty to Theon but used her freedom to help Bran & Rickon escape.

129 ACOK 56 Catelyn VII: Jaime tells Catelyn a man of conscience must judge his king.

136 ACOK 63 Sansa VII: The Hound feels he's lost face with the Lannisters and must go over to Stark, so he proposes to Sansa to ferry her to her people as her sworn shield.

140 ACOK 67 Theon VI: "Turncloak. The name was bitter as bile. He had gone to Pyke to lead his father's longships against Lannisport, he remembered." 919

142 ACOK 69 Jon VIII: Qhorin orders Jon to play oathbreaker among the wildlings as a spy, remaining a brother of ther Night's Watch in his heart. It's how he uses his death: to get Jon in. For the maintenance of the Wall against the Others.

A Storm of Swords

144 ASOS 1 Prologue: The mutineers expect to be commanded to kamikaze run on Mance Rayder's caravan, but are tempted to defy even such basic orderws as to bring down the bear whose footprints were found, given it's so cold the hounds are whimpering and won't take the scent. Defying Orders/ Weak Effort/Late

149 ASOS 6 Davos I: In turning on Melisandre, Davos appears to turn on Stannis, though he means to rescue Stannis.

151 ASOS 8 Jon I: Jon must feign being a turncloak without actually becoming one.

153 ASOS 10 Bran I: Meera makes it Bran's decision what they do.

155 ASOS 12 Jaime II: "Jaime had slipped in through the king's door, clad in his golden armor, sword in hand. The golden armor, not the white, but no one ever remembers that. Would that I had taken off that damned cloak as well. " 158

158 ASOS 15 Catelyn II: "The Crag was weakly garrisoned, so we took it by storm one night...I took an arrow in the arm jut before Ser Rolph yielded us the castle...Jeyne had me taken to her own bed..." 195 The Westerlings prtended to turn their cloaks to Stark but remained secretly loyal to Lannister. They defeated Robb by leading him to believe he'd defeated them.

172 ASOS 29 Sansa III: Tyrion defies Tywin's order to consummate.

177 ASOS 34 Samwell II: Sam brought Gilly and her baby back to Castle Black, behaving more like a knight than a man of the Night's Watch.

185 ASOS 42 Jon V: Jon escapes the wildlings to return to Castle Black with news of coming attacks.

186 ASOS 43 Daenerys IV: Daario Naharis turns his cloak, betraying his fellow captains and their contract with Yunkai, pledging personal fealty to Daenerys.

189 ASOS 46 Catelyn V: After being held hostage by the ironborn, the captain of the Myraham happened to inform on their loss of Balon at his earliest opportunity.

207 ASOS 64 Davos VI: Davos commits treason by sending Edric Storm away so it won't matter if Melisandre, Selyse and Axell Florent finally convince Stannis to burn the boy alive.

215 ASOS 72 Daenerys VI: Barristan Selmy chose Robert over Viserys because he believed Viserys had inherited his father's madness.

216 ASOS 73 Jaime IX: Jaime turns against his family, preferring to operte as his own man: Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.

A Feast for Crows

239 AFFC 14 The Soiled Knight: Arys Oakheart chooses Arianne over his honor. He knows it's treason.

247 AFFC 22 The Queenmaker: Arianne's heroic treason is flavored with righteous rebellion, but proves her unworthy of the rule she would assume via Myrcella.

249 AFFC 24 Alayne I: Lyn Corbray's betrayal of the Lords Declarant uses a heroic tone to hide itself. Ser Lyn challenges Littlefinger to a duel, heroically, as a retext to cause offense and change the power dynamic.

250 AFFC 25 Cersei V: Cersei feels so entitled to rule, given how long she's waited, that she takes the attitude of the triumphant hero when telling the king he doesn't get to so much as listen in on the petitioners at court. Anybody may attend but the supposed ruler.

252 AFFC 27 Samwell III: Dareon deserts the night's Watch, preferring a mor gallant look. He sings songs of heroism and romance, being in no way heroic.

271 AFFC 46 Samwell V: Archmaester Marwyn is betraying the Citadel from within by countering the man they sent to Daenerys.

A Dance With Dragons

276 ADWD 5 Bran I: Bran can't understand why Coldhands killed the Night's Watch men who were following them. They had been his brothers, since Vold Hands used to be Night's Watch.

281 ADWD 10 Davos I: Lord Godric Borrell deciedes to betray the chain of command and help Davos reach White Harbor when he's technically supposed to send word to Sunderland that he had Stannis's Hand captive. That he does so out of a memory of his father deciding to make the same decision to help Eddard Stark is interesting, since Manderly would aid Stark as well. Borrell does so to be kind of man he can esteem and likes the idea of emulating his father and being a bit of a secret rebel.

289 ADWD 18 Jon IV: Though the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is charged to neutrality, Jon can't help but do what he thinks best serves the north. It means aiding Stannis. For the north.

290 ADWD 19 Tyrion V: Though Griff threatens him, Tyrion tells Young Griff he's Aegon Targaryen and that Griff is Jon Connington. Tyrion seems to think Aegon's leadership is too immanent for him to be treated like a boy and kept in the dark.

293 ADWD 22 Jon V: Having let a group of a thousand wildlings through the Wall on Stannis's authority, Jon presumes to feed them and to protect the norh from them. He doesn't have the resources to see it through, as it was Stannis who initiated the project. Still Jon does what he knows is right despite its apparent antithesis to everything the Night's Watch is supposed to work towards. However, Jon is not turning his cloak. He is installing reforms in the correct sprirt.

301 ADWD 30 Davos IV: Wyman Manderly is a heroic turncloak, pretending loyalty to the iron throne to rescue his son, all the while plotting revenge. He stays true to his values and original lord, resoundingly, but in the context of being required to pretend to submit.

Wyman Manderly defied Tywin’s ultimatum wherein he threatened to kill Wylis and now defies Bolton further by not attending him at Barrowton, where Ramsay’s wedding to “Arya” is announced to be, but at Winterfell. He brings Freys. It’s as if he’s invited himself to the seat of power, instead of supplicating at the appointed place and time. Wyman Manderly had to submit to the crown but will now rebel, since his son is home. Here we see the value of a hostage and how quickly a man returns to his true loyalties and values when a hostage is released. Some see Theon's release to Balon as causing the ironborn attacks on the north. I happen to read it that Balon Was Going to Attack Anyway, but it nevertheless seems like a topic that may come up again related to Jon and Dany having each taken some number of child hostages.

315 ADWD 44 Daenerys VII: Quentyn Martell and friends heroically join the Windblown thn defect to the Storm Crows for audience with Daenerys where they reveal their true identities to her. Daario is not pleased at having been deceived.

341 ADWD 70 Jon XIII: Motivated by The Pink Letter, Jon breaks his Night's watch vows by rallying an army of wildlings to take Winterfell from its crown-appointed new warden of the north.