Direwolf Names Foreshadowed Starks' Fate on Game of Thrones
No Way — The Names of the Stark Direwolves Totally Foreshadowed Where They'd All End Up
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Last but not least, Rickon's direwolf Shaggydog has a peculiar name that doesn't really lend itself to any sort of foreshadowing at first glace. When I see "Shaggydog," I think of a big, fluffy mutt that deserves lots of ear scratches. But huge shout out to Reddit user jjwok who pointed out that a shaggy dog story is actually the phrase used to describe a story that rambles on, only to end pointlessly. While some viewers would say as much about all of season eight, Rickon's story, in particular, was a shaggy dog story in that it was drawn out for six seasons with little to no character development (and very few actual lines!), only for Ramsay Bolton to shoot him down with an arrow as revenge towards Jon Snow.