He's a dwarf and pretty good actor, often in stuff with big nerd fandoms like Game of Thrones or the X-Men thing you mentioned. A lot of women apparently find him to be very handsome, so that's part of what's going on.<br /><br />The Game of Thrones creators require him to do an accent for no good reason, and it's terrible. He'd seem a much better actor if they hadn't made him do that.
Yeah, I think exploited is the correct term for those games. Though you forgot Shadow the Hedgehog, which I am ashamed to admit I bought over Prince of Persia: the Two Thrones...
Mullet Man/Timeguy/SNG claps sort of like Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat game when he was sitting in throne room in the background. You know, after one of the fighters defeats another.