Editing Gregor Clegane (section)

===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Gregor Clegane Jousting.png|350px|thumb|Conan Stevens as Gregor during the [[Hand's tourney]] in ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.]]
[[File:Komarck Gregor Clegane FFG.jpg|thumb|350px|Gregor, by Michael Komarck ©]]
Ser Gregor and his brother [[Sandor Clegane|Sandor]] defeat several opponents in the [[Hand's tourney]]. Gregor slays Ser [[Hugh|Hugh of the Vale]] in his second joust when his lance rides up and pierces the new-made knight's throat. According to Sandor, Gregor noticed the knight's gorget was not fastened properly and Gregor purposely drove his lance there.{{Ref|AGOT|29}} Gregor defeats Ser [[Balon Swann]], but is finally unhorsed by Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], who rides a mare in heat to the joust, which unnerves Gregor's stallion. Gregor falls into a rage and kills his stallion with one blow of his sword. He then knocks the unprepared Loras from his courser and prepares to kill the young knight, but Sandor intervenes and the brothers duel. Gregor finally comes to his senses when King [[Robert I Baratheon]] orders him to stop.{{Ref|AGOT|30}}

After the tourney, Gregor rides back to his keep. Upon his journey home from the tourney with seven of his men, Gregor broods on his loss. An overflowing river detours the group to a nearby alehouse, where he and [[Mountain's men|his men]] gang rape the brewer's thirteen-year-old daughter, [[Layna]].{{Ref|ACOK|30}}

After [[Tyrion Lannister]] is kidnapped by [[Catelyn Stark]], Gregor is commanded by Tyrion's father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], to raid the [[riverlands]] without banners, presenting himself as a common brigand.{{ref|AGOT|43}} This is to draw Catelyn's husband, Lord [[Eddard Stark]], the [[Hand of the King]], out into the field, but Eddard has been injured in the streets of [[King's Landing]].{{ref|AGOT|39}} Since Eddard cannot go and execute Gregor himself, Loras Tyrell volunteers to go in his place. Lord Stark instead chooses Lord [[Beric Dondarrion]] to command the party bringing Gregor to the king's justice.{{Ref|AGOT|43}}

King Robert is mortally wounded while hunting in the [[kingswood]], and he is succeeded by his eldest son, King [[Joffrey Baratheon|Joffrey I Baratheon]].{{ref|AGOT|49}} Eddard is imprisoned in the [[black cells]].{{ref|AGOT|58}} Meanwhile, Beric's party is ambushed by Lannisters while crossing the [[Red Fork]], and Gregor attacks them as they retreat in the [[battle at the Mummer's Ford]].{{Ref|AGOT|55}} The Mountain also burns [[burning of Pinkmaiden Castle|Pinkmaiden]] and [[burning of Stone Hedge|Stone Hedge]].{{ref|AGOT|56}} He takes Stone Hedge's food, burns its harvest, and rapes a daughter of Lord [[Jonos Bracken]].{{ref|AGOT|71}}{{Ref|ADWD|48}}

[[Robb Stark]] leads a host of [[north]]men to rescue his father, Lord Eddard, and he divides his forces at the [[Twins]].{{ref|AGOT|59}} Gregor joins with Tywin's host and commands the vanguard and the left flank during the [[battle on the Green Fork]] against the northern host, leading by intimidation. Tywin places Tyrion under Gregor's command during the battle. In the first charge, Gregor's stallion is killed by [[House Karstark|Karstark]] spearmen, but the Mountain is unhurt and goes on fighting. After the Lannister victory, Tywin reveals that he had planned for the undisciplined left flank to collapse and for Robb to pursue them, only to then be crushed by the men of Tywin and his brother, Ser [[Kevan Lannister]]. The Lannisters learn that the northern host was led not by Robb but by Lord [[Roose Bolton]], however.{{Ref|AGOT|62}}

Gregor sits with Tywin's war council at the [[crossroads inn]] when they receive word that Tywin's elder son, Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], of the [[Kingsguard]], was captured by Robb in the [[Battle in the Whispering Wood|Whispering Wood]], and Jaime's unsuspecting army at [[Riverrun]] was then defeated in the [[Battle of the Camps]]. After learning that Jaime's outriders had failed to scout the movements of the [[House Stark|Stark]] forces, Gregor suggests that the outriders be blinded. Tywin withdraws to [[Harrenhal]] but leaves Gregor, Ser [[Amory Lorch]], and [[Vargo Hoat]] to harry the riverlands, each of them commanding three hundred cavalry.{{Ref|AGOT|69}}