Vhagar is Westeros’ largest and most formidable dragon , instrumental in Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of the continent in 2 BC, the last living creature from that era. She’s named after a Valyrian God. She's fought more than a 100 battles.
Her fire breath can melt armor. Her roar can shake the foundations of Storm’s End. None of this matters on this internet, where you can find House of the Dragon viewers calling her everything from “Walmart-brand Godzilla” to “a hag” to “grandma”.
And they don’t mean that last one affectionately. There’s no shortage of irksome men in House of the Dragon to root agains—the slimy, ingratiating Larys Strong (Matthew Needham), the hypocritical, upwards-failing Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel), actual rapist Aegon Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney)—which makes all this vitriol for an ancient flying lizard even more amusing. Scroll through Twitter after an episode airs, however, and you’ll find variations of: It’s easy enough to trace the source of Vhagar hate.
House of the Dragon, in shying away from depicting its characters as too villainous, has deviated from its source material by painting them as victims of circumstances beyond their control. The Aemond Targaryen of Fire & Blood pursues his young nephew Lucerys Velaryon on dragonback, seeking vengeance for a childhood slight, an encounter that ends with the young boy and his dragon, Arrax, dead. George R.
R. Martin ’s book describes the day as being “as black as [Aemon.