Editing A Song of Ice and Fire (section)

===House Tyrell===

''"Growing Strong"''
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">Lords of Highgarden and the Reach, backstabbers par-excellence, and owners of a lot of fertile land. Of the Seven Kingdoms, the Reach is the "biggest", having the most people, the largest army, and a stable agrarian economy; yes, the Westerlands are richer, yes, the Stormlands have/had the strongest military, and yes, the Vale is the most honor-and-chivalry obsessed, but the Reach and the Tyrells are the only ones who can compete with all three at once. Unlike the current lot of Lannisters they understand the value of good PR, balancing ruthlessness with being somewhat amicable to the commoners, politically savvy and not being stuck-up on honour (which they still have more of than the Lannisters do). They're a bit analogous to France and obviously based on House Tudor. In the books, it's the Tyrells and their support that keeps the throne afloat post-Robert, first aiding Joffrey and then Tommen. They were "shrewd" enough to stay out of Robert's Rebellion and outside of his court while Tywin was in charge, so their lands are basically untouched by war: the Reach's cities are also the most beautiful, with Highgarden and Oldtown being notable for not smelling like shit and full of garbage. [[Fail|Unfortunately, they've all been wiped out in the show]].

*Mace "The Ace" Tyrell: Lord of Highgarden. Massively fat and overweight, while being stupid, overreaching and constantly mocked by everyone else, he's otherwise known as a friendly man, a good Lord when it comes to management and a good father; in the books, the Iron Throne uses him to print gold and alleviate hunger during the War of the Five Kings, so they give him and his family a bunch of positions to keep them invested. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to save a man in the Game of Thrones. In the books, he's just been named Hand of the King as part of Kevan Lannister's plan to keep his house on-side. In the show he gets killed with the rest of the noble houses when Cersei blows up the Great Sept of Baelor.
*Olenna Tyrell: The brains behind House Tyrell's schemes. Known as the ''Queen of Thorns'' for being an outspoken, prickly and venomous old lady. Schemed with Littlefinger to have Joffrey killed, but she carried it out with compressed powder "gems" hidden in Sansa's hairnet that poisoned his wine. She is to the Tyrells as Tywin is to the Lannisters, except her daughter isn't a narcissistic sociopath.
**Alive and well in the books (so far), where she's pretty much the same as the show. She has chosen Margaery as her successor, which is why she made sure she'd be engaged to Tommen and had Joffrey offed.
**The show version became a fan-favorite character for constantly dropping awesome one-liners and calling out smug and/or unpopular characters like Littlefinger and the Sand Snakes. [[Fail|Killed off in the show]] awhen the Lannisters capture Highgarden; Jaime gives her the option of drinking painless poison or whatever Cersei wanted to do to her. Olenna took the poison, and before she died [[Awesome|revealed to Jaime that she was the one who killed Joffrey and told him to make sure Cersei knows it]].
*Willas Tyrell: Mace Tyrell's eldest son and heir, crippled at a very young age when jousting against Oberyn Martell. Surprisingly, he and Oberyn are still bros, even though the rest of their Houses aren't very fond of each other because of this incident. Probably one of the most pleasant and sensible characters in the books, which might explain why they never included him in the TV show. Very fond of breeding animals, especially horses.
*Garlan Tyrell ''The Gallant'': Second-born son. Badass extraordinaire, considered one of the best swordsmen in Westeros, and one of the few people who's kind to Tyrion. Trains for real combat (often against multiple opponents by himself) unlike Loras, who's a tourney fighter. Single-handedly wrecks many notable knights fighting for Stannis during the War of The Five Kings. And he is the only person other than Tywin to put Joffrey in his place, at his own wedding. Sadly no POV chapter yet and omitted from the TV series (Loras takes credit for his deeds). 
*Loras Tyrell ''The Knight of Flowers'': The Tyrell who appears most in the TV series, since his older brothers got adapted out. Considered to be an example of the perfect knight, despite his youth. Is secretly Renly's gay lover and conspired to take the throne with him and his sister. He was elevated to the Kingsguard as part of the Lannisters' appeasement of the Tyrells, but also to ensure that Margaery would be safe if it turned out they couldn't kill Joff/Tommen turned out to be a sociopath too. In the books, he's apparently been severely injured attempting to take Stannis' castle in order to to prove his honor after the Faith Militant locked up his sister, but because none of Cersei's sources could visually confirm it, it's likely that the Tyrells ([[Iron Warriors|it was ''their'' forces that did the sieging]], after all) fabricated a story to get their boy out of there. In the show he ends up tortured by the members of the Faith for being gay [[C.S Goto|because the showrunners retconned them to hate gay people]], [[Protectorate of Menoth|later joins their ranks of questionable willingness]], then dies when Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor. 
*Margaery Tyrell: The would-be Queen of Westeros, she has married, in order, Renly Baratheon (gay), Joffrey Baratheon (evil), and Tommen Baratheon (8 years old) and has been crowned as queen three times. While she is nice, like Disney-princess-in-a-grimdark-setting-nice, she is still her grandmother's protege, and so is the source of Cersei's paranoia (which is kinda valid as the Tyrells did off Joffrey so that Margaery could marry the more-controllable and non-sociopathic Tommen). Cersei was so paranoid about Marge's ascension that she decided to legitimize the Sparrows and allow them to reform the [[Age of Apostasy|Faith Militant]], all because she was afraid Tommen would listen to Margaery more than her.
**In the show, she uses sex to control Tommen because the show needed to hit its titty quota and because Tommen is a teenager in the show. Was arrested by the resident Chamber Militant, the Sparrows, and asked for a trial by faith in the books. In the show, this also happens but she tries to be pious in an attempt to save herself but ends up getting killed when Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor.
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