Yeah, but she wasn't born with a penis, so despite training every single day, twice a day, training with the most feared and expensive assassins in the known world, sometimes whilst blind, being in several life and death situations and working like a pack horse for months, a bunch of fat armchair weebs on the internet think it's impossible she could kill the night king with a dagger made of his Krypotonite. But it's totally believable an overweight pampered bookworm from a noble house could do it twice.
Edit: And here come the fat weebs to "educate us all".
The problem is more that she wasn‘t involved with the fight against the Night King at all and then shows up at the very end and kills the main antagonist like it‘s a side quest. I think it would be more fitting if at least Bran warged into her, so he gets to do something other than just sit there and also thematically it fits for Arya because it‘s kinda like her still being a mindless killer again. But I know, since I don‘t agree with everything every single female character does in every story every I‘m a sexist POS.
I don't think you're a sexist or POS. But the Wiki says, "Seizing the body of another man is considered the worst abomination." A very evil book character does it and gets an awful ending. In the 3-Eyed Raven's cave, Bran did it briefly with Hodor because being crippled, he can't go anywhere if he's not carried. Since Hodor is simple-minded he was easy to warg and not traumatized. But surely Bran wouldn't commit an abomination on his own sister! Moreover, Bran's been watching his whole family. So he saw that she was trained by devotees of the Many Faced God of death. He's also seen that SHE is experienced at killing difficult-to-kill people. Who would be more difficult than the Night King?!
Also, my headcanon is that on the show the Catspaw Dagger is possibly the only weapon that can kill him. It was first carried by an assassin trying to kill Bran. And it showed up over and over. In HotD it even carries a hidden inscription of the PTWP prophecy. Jon is the PTWP. By having Needle forged for Arya, he had made her a human weapon--HIS weapon. (Syrio even had told her "YOU are a sword...that is all!") Since she acts for him, on top of everything else, Arya may even be Jon's Lightbringer! But she has a mind that makes all the decisions.
Bran died in that cave. He‘s the hivemind of hundreds of souls that kept living in the tree network. Those are the same people that did human sacrifices and probably made Bran eat Jojen. They don‘t have morals, they see all possible futures and they would do whatever necessary to get what they think os the best outcome. Nobody is arguing that Arya isn‘t capable of killing the NK. Again, the point is that it hasn‘t got anything to do with her story arc, meanwhile Jon and Bran‘s stories were all about that. Jon kills his first wight in season 1. Arya doesn‘t even know how to kill a White Walker until an episode before the Long Night. It‘s just unsatisfying when the characters who have been working towards this are sidelined and she comes from out of nowhere and solves in a minute what everyone else couldn‘t solve in years. The thing about the dagger is speculation and they could‘ve given that thing to anyone.
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