Will Daenerys become the villain of Game of Thrones? She's ruthless, say showrunners 

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fans. But will she die a hero... or live long enough to see herself become the villain?

Her father was the Mad King and her brother was a sadist creep - so does insanity and a hunger for power run in the family?

"She\'s not her father and she\'s not insane and she\'s not a sadist,"

. "But there\'s a Targaryen ruthlessness that comes with even the good Targaryens."

For his part, fellow series boss David Benioff called Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) an "unprecedented threat" in the Seven Kingdoms.

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"If you\'re one of the lords of Westeros - or one of her potential opponents in the wars to come - and you get word of what happened here in Meereen, you have to be pretty nervous," he noted.

"You\'ve got a woman who has somehow formed an alliance where she has a Dothraki horde, a legion of Unsullied, she\'s got the mercenary army of the Second Sons, and she has three dragons who are now pretty close to full grown.

"So if she can make it all the way across the Narrow Sea and get to Westeros, who\'s going to stand in her way?"

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Sounds like good news for Digital Spy readers, who previously nominated Daenerys as their pick to sit on the Iron Throne.

Let\'s just hope she doesn\'t follow in her father Aerys\'s footsteps and become the Mad Queen...

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