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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Was blonde in the original books, now a brunette.
* [[Badass Normal]]: She's getting there.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: A rather heroic version of this. She '''literally''' stabs {{spoiler|Rebekah}} in the back in "Homecoming". Justified in the case of what happened with Elijah but {{spoiler|Rebekah}} is not happy about it
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Jeremy.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Identical Grandson|Identical Granddaughter]]: Katherine, several generations removed.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Erasing Jeremy's memory from {{spoiler|Vicki being a vampire and of her death}}, and lying to everyone about it to protect them.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Says this almost word-for-word to Stefan.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: {{spoiler|Or so she thought.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
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* [[Berserk Button]]: If you want to get on Stefan's bad side, trying hurting Elena. Or Caroline.
{{quote|''"Hurt her again and you're '''dead'''."''}}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: He may be the nice brother (and all-around good guy) but he is not to be crossed.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: To Damon's Red.
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: Stefan has to resist the urge to drink human blood every day, as human walk all around him.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He's usually stoic but his scenes with Damon are true snark to snark combat.
* [[The Dragon]]:(season 3) To Klaus.
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Portrayed by Ian Somerhalder. }}
 
Stefan's older brother, and most certainly ''not'' a [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire]]. He long ago swore to make Stefan's life "an eternity of misery". At first, he kills a lot of people in Mystic Falls, but later moderates his behaviour for a number of reasons - though he remains dangerous. When he wants to, Damon can be charming and hilarious... but also cruel and capricious, and capable of killing on a whim. For the first season, Damon was the series's Antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena.
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Damon is the epitome of this trope. He loves Elena, she doesn't love him back. He loves Katherine, who also doesn't love him back, but instead loves Stefan. Who is in love with Elena.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: To Elena at the Originals' Ball
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Swings around between Type III and Type V.
** Recently he settles down with Type III / [[Good Is Not Nice]].
* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Elena, in every single way. Hurting Stefan is also not a good idea.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: He may enjoy screwing with Stefan, but he's the only one allowed to do so, as the tomb vampires painfully learn.
* [[Black Sheep]]
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: At times he genuinely doesn't seem to comprehend that Elena might be upset because he murdered someone she didn't even know. Even when he {{spoiler|attempts to kill Jeremy}}, he seems to class it as bad because it made Elena upset, not because he thought it was morally wrong.
* [[Character Development]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Is Damon a guy who's had a really tough life and just happens to be humanity's natural predator, is he a [[Complete Monster]] who only presents a soft side to manipulate people, or are [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires so unlike humans]] that it's impossible to determine his motivations? It can vary from episode to episode.
* [[Forgot About His Powers]]: His abilities to extent his influence and senses via a tame raven and making a fog appear to confuse his victims, seems to have been written completely out of the show. While Damon himself kills the raven out of a desperate need of blood, the fog thing is just sort of forgotten, and is never brought up again
* [[Fully-Embraced Fiend]]
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* [[Cute Witch]]
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: At first, but eventually learns to enjoy her powers and the good she can do with them.
* [[Love Triangle]]: In season 2, between her, Luka and Jeremy.
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]
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* [[Badass Normal]]: Shoots a hybrid in the back with a crossbow then decapitates him without flinching.
* [[Back From the Dead]]
* [[Bullying the Dragon]]: He's one of the few people who has little to no problem standing up to Damon and telling him off despite the frequent death threats.
* [[Cartwright Curse]]: Lampshaded: ''"You know I don't have the best of luck with girlfriends."''
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* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: After Anna is killed, he attempts to kill himself in order to turn into a vampire and thus turn off his emotions.
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: In the season one finale.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: In the first season, he's perfectly willing to tell off Tyler for his treatment of Vicki despite Tyler's bullying and threats.
* [[I See Dead People]]: Seems to be a side-effect from him coming [[Back From the Dead]] at the end of season two.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Some have this perception of him in early episodes, but it disappears when his angst does.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Is rather ripped for being so young
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Back From the Dead]]: Katherine kills her, but since she still had Damon's blood in her system, she turns into a vampire.}}
* [[Badass Adorable]]
* [[The Big Guy]]: a non-traditional example. Caroline is constantly having her strength played up, she is constantly out-muscling other characters, lifting them out of wells, even lifting a heavy stone door requiring both brothers in another scene. Even her ethics have become more Chewbacca-like, with a valuing of courage and loyalty to friends rather than the more complex Hero and Heart ethics of Stefen and Elena.
* [[Character Development]]: Has become more interesting and tolerable since she {{spoiler|was turned.}}
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: More so, ever since she became {{spoiler|a vampire.}}
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* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Stefan (though [[Fan-Preferred Couple|the shippers disagree]]).
* {{spoiler|[[Stages of Monster Grief]]: Stage One (Denial) perfectly played}} in season 2, episode 2, "Brave New World."
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Pretty much fits to a 'T'
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|Upgraded to vampire beginning of season 2.}} Seems to agree with her - As of the the fifth episode of Season 2 she's {{spoiler|kicking the crap out of the resident hunky werewolf dude by punting him ten feet into a tree after kneeing him in the vitals.}} Moments later she's saving the day by {{spoiler|chomping on the local [[Red Shirts|deputies]] necks in front of her mother. As her mother is the sheriff and a prominent member on the local anti-vampire committee it probably won't end well.}} At least there's always handy vampire mind control to [[Status Quo Is God|set things right again.]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Type A.
* {{spoiler|[[Vampire-Werewolf Love Triangle]]: Becomes a center of one between Matt and Tyler.}}
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Perhaps the reason for his mature outlook is that he had to grow up fast - unlike most of the other characters, Matt isn't the descendant of an ancient family, but from the wrong side of the tracks; from an early age, he had to look after his irresponsible alcoholic mother and stoner big sister.
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* [[Better as Friends]]: from Elena's perspective, though he doesn't agree.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]
* [[The Generic Guy]]
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* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]: Although Caroline believed she removed his memories of the supernatural at his own request}} in ''Know Thy Enemy'', he {{spoiler|was on vervain at the time, and is now working with Sheriff Forbes as a spy.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Token Human]]: The only cast member left with no supernatural elements or special abilities.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: To Elena.
 
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: His father was a womanizing, abusive alpha male who tried to force him to fight Jeremy "like a man".
* [[The Generic Guy]]
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Justified, it's a side-effect of his latent lycanthropy.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Matt, at first.
* [[Jerkass]]: But then [[Character Development|evolves]] into a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].
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* {{spoiler|[[Painful Transformation]]}}
* [[Put on a Bus]] / [[The Bus Came Back]]: Leaves mid-way through S2, but then returns for the last couple of episodes.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: With Caroline.
* [[The Stoner]]: At first, but less than Vicki or Jeremy.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: If she looks just a year older than her niece... that's because in real life, she is.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Is quickly demoted to a [[Plot Device]] for {{spoiler|inviting vampires into the Gilbert house or getting compelled by them.}}
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, she becomes Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian.
 
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The replacement history teacher after [[Sadist Teacher|Mr Tanner]] was killed by a [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|mountain lion]], Alaric is much friendlier. But he's not without secrets - he came to Mystic Falls to hunt vampires, in particular the one that killed his wife. He finds rather more than he planned to... but settles into working with the heroes to protect the town from supernatural threats.
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* [[Actually Not a Vampire]]: In his first few episodes there are hints dropped that he is a vampire.
* {{spoiler|[[Ax Crazy]]: His alter ego.}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: History teacher by day, vampire hunter by night.
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* [[Black Sheep]]
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Rescue the werewolf and vampire and kill the witch that he needs to perform his ritual? Doesn't matter, he's got a back-up of each of them.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]
* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Does this to Stefan in the season two finale}}.
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: His punishment towards Katherine for running away from him.
* [[Evil Brit]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Does this to Alaric, which is how we first meet him.
* [[I Am Not My Father]]: Becoming Mikael is Klaus' worse nightmare.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Seemingly a large part of his desire to create {{spoiler|his own race}}. In ''The Hybrid'' he bitterly refers to {{spoiler|Stefan}} as his only companion. Of course, any sympathy this might evoke rather vanishes when one remembers that the reason ''why'' he's so alone is he murdered his entire family.
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: As she believes.
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: After she is turned, everyone around her suddenly looks like a walking blood bag. According to Stefan, this is usual for a new vampire, but it's made [[It Got Worse|much worse]] by the fact that Vicki was a drug user.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: The first big death in a long line of many.}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Dances around in her undies under Damon's compulsion
* [[Really Gets Around]]: According to Tyler.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]
* [[Seventh-Episode Twist]]: To prove the point that anyone can die, the writers killed off Vicki, a character heavily established as Matt's sister, the first character turned into a vampire onscreen, and the center of a prominent secondary love triangle between Jeremy and Tyler.
* [[The Stoner]]
* {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]}}
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Portrayed by Sebastian Roché. }}
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Mikael is this to Klaus.
* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: to Klaus.
* [[The Dreaded]]: Klaus, a werewolf-vampire hybrid who can't be killed and treats everyone around him like an insect...is absolutely terrified of him.
* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]}}
* [[Food Chain of Evil]]: He only feeds on other vampires.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Killed his own sons for trying to help a vampire escape.
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]
* [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
 
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{{quote|Portrayed by Randy J. Goodwin.}}
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* [[Badass]]: Takes down a whole group of werewolves singlehandedly.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
* [[Papa Wolf]]
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* [[The Obi-Wan]]: to Stefan, during his [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ripper]] days.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: Her unfinished business that causes her to {{spoiler|return as a ghost is to teach Elena how to help restore Stefan's humanity.}}
* [[Posthumous Character]]: We discover far more about her after her death than we got the chance to in her single episode appearance.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
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* [[Birds of a Feather]]: With Damon
* [[Conversation Casualty]]: A sympathetic version. Rose is already dying, having been bitten by a werewolf; Damon gives her a Dying Dream of her human life centuries ago, during which he challenges her to a race. He stakes her during the countdown.
* [[Friends with Benefits]]: With Damon
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}
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* [[Brainy Brunette]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[May-December Romance]]: With Alaric.
* [[Power Trio]]: With Elena and Bonnie
* {{spoiler|[[Secret Identity]]: In ''Midnight'' she reveals herself to be a hunter-slayer.}}

Revision as of 12:08, 31 December 2014


Television Series

Main Characters

Elena Gilbert

"I don't question why everyone tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I try so hard to save everyone else."
Portrayed by Nina Dobrev.

A pretty and popular girl who reassessed her priorities following the death of her parents in a car crash of which she was the only survivor. She starts dating a new arrival in town, Stefan Salvatore, only to discover after a series of eerie incidents that he is far from normal... Unbeknown to her, she is far from normal as well. As a Gilbert, she is a descendant of one of the town's Founding Families. She dies in "The Departed" before it was revealed that Meredith had given her vampire blood earlier in the night and she wakes in the transitional stage.

Stefan Salvatore

"I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother."
Portrayed by Paul Wesley

A hundred-and-sixtysomething vampire, Stefan is a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire who avoids drinking human blood, choosing to feed from animals instead. As a result, he is weaker than most other vampires - in particular, his elder brother Damon, who bears a grudge against Stefan. Early in the series, Stefan meets and begins to develop feelings for Elena, and decides to pursue a relationship with her while protecting her both from his own nature and other vampires. As of the season 2 finale he is on a killing spree with The Big Bad Klaus.

"Hurt her again and you're dead."

Caroline: Why are you looking at him with your serious vampire look?
Stefan: My wha… my serious vampire look?
Caroline: Umhm… I mean it’s different from your worried vampire look. Neither of which stray too far from your "Hey, it’s Tuesday" look.

Damon Salvatore

"It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud."
Portrayed by Ian Somerhalder.

Stefan's older brother, and most certainly not a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire. He long ago swore to make Stefan's life "an eternity of misery". At first, he kills a lot of people in Mystic Falls, but later moderates his behaviour for a number of reasons - though he remains dangerous. When he wants to, Damon can be charming and hilarious... but also cruel and capricious, and capable of killing on a whim. For the first season, Damon was the series's Antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena.

  • All Love Is Unrequited: Damon is the epitome of this trope. He loves Elena, she doesn't love him back. He loves Katherine, who also doesn't love him back, but instead loves Stefan. Who is in love with Elena.
  • Anguished Declaration of Love: To Elena at the Originals' Ball
  • Anti-Hero: Swings around between Type III and Type V.
  • Badass
  • Berserk Button: Elena, in every single way. Hurting Stefan is also not a good idea.
  • Big Brother Instinct: He may enjoy screwing with Stefan, but he's the only one allowed to do so, as the tomb vampires painfully learn.
  • Black Sheep
  • Blue and Orange Morality: At times he genuinely doesn't seem to comprehend that Elena might be upset because he murdered someone she didn't even know. Even when he attempts to kill Jeremy, he seems to class it as bad because it made Elena upset, not because he thought it was morally wrong.
  • Character Development
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Depending on the Writer: Is Damon a guy who's had a really tough life and just happens to be humanity's natural predator, is he a Complete Monster who only presents a soft side to manipulate people, or are vampires so unlike humans that it's impossible to determine his motivations? It can vary from episode to episode.
  • Forgot About His Powers: His abilities to extent his influence and senses via a tame raven and making a fog appear to confuse his victims, seems to have been written completely out of the show. While Damon himself kills the raven out of a desperate need of blood, the fog thing is just sort of forgotten, and is never brought up again
  • Fully-Embraced Fiend
  • Heartbroken Badass
  • Heel Face Turn
  • I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Both subverted and played straight, due to the vampire conversion process being... somewhat complex. Damon loves Katherine dearly, but hates Stefan; he had chosen to die instead of completing the conversion, but Stefan talked him out of it, thus creating the monster we know today. It's only been touched on briefly, but all signs are that Damon deeply resents the whole affair.
    • Now that Katherine's back and proclaiming that Damon was only a byproduct of her obsession with Stefan, played pretty much entirely straight.
  • Jerkass Facade
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Karma Houdini: Has as of yet suffered no consequences for killing Lexi, raping Caroline, snapping Jeremy's neck, trying to kill Caroline, forcing his blood on Elena, and countless other crimes.
  • Ladykiller in Love: With Elena.
  • Love Hurts
  • Love Makes You Evil: His love for Katherine...
  • Love Redeems: ... And his love for Elena.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Enjoys wearing low neck shirts and walking around shirtless.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: A bad case. The number of their current, potential, and former allies that Damon has killed or tried to kill for very little reason is quite staggering, and greatly exceeds the number of definite enemies he's killed.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Damon loves to unnerve people by getting in their face.
  • Red Oni: to Stefan's Blue.
  • Romantic Runner-Up: Twice, towards Katherine and Elena, both times to Stefan.
  • Tall, Dark and Snarky: Oh so much.
  • Token Evil Teammate
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With both Alaric Saltzman and his brother, Stefan. Both are Type 2.

Bonnie Bennett

"You saw what I was able to do tonight. I know who I am now. If Damon spills one drop of human blood, I'll take him down."
Portrayed by Kat Graham.

Elena's best friend, Bonnie begins the series haunted by strange visions. She soon discovers that she is a witch, like her grandmother before her - but finds herself torn between her loyalty to Elena and her desire to protect the town from the vampires.

Jeremy Gilbert

"Why does everyone keep dying on me?"
Portrayed by Steven R. McQueen.

Elena's little brother took their parents' death poorly, falling into self-destruction and drug abuse. He also fell in love with the troubled and older Girl Next Door, Vicki Donovan. But he's far from stupid, and Elena's desperate attempts to protect him from the vampires only serve to make him suspicious and start to distrust her.


Caroline Forbes

"So you're saying now I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?"
Portrayed by Candice Accola.

Elena and Bonnie's other friend (and uncomfortably aware of this), Caroline is a similarly rich and privileged young woman. She is a descendant of the founding families through her mother, Sheriff Liz Forbes, but the importance of her mother's job means that Caroline often feels neglected, leading to a troubled relationship between the two of them. Desperately insecure and somewhat resentful of existing in Elena's shadow, things get even worse for Caroline when the attractive older man who catches her eye turns out to be Damon Salvatore, who uses her as a minion/sex-toy/blood-bank. After she is freed from his control, she starts dating Elena's ex, Matt - which isn't especially good for her inferiority complex. 

In the second season, she is turned into a vampire by Katherine, and actually manages to settle from comfortably into this life despite the difficulties.

Matt Donovan

"I get it, this is your life now. But you know what my life is, Caroline? My life is an absentee mom, and a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes, but it's my life and I think that I just want to live it without all this."
Portrayed by Zach Roerig.

Elena's childhood friend and ex, Matt was willing to give Elena space after the death of her parents, hoping that the two might eventually get back together. Naturally, he was somewhat upset when Elena then fell for Stefan... but was able work past it, befriending his 'love rival' and eventually beginning a new relationship with Caroline.

Perhaps the reason for his mature outlook is that he had to grow up fast - unlike most of the other characters, Matt isn't the descendant of an ancient family, but from the wrong side of the tracks; from an early age, he had to look after his irresponsible alcoholic mother and stoner big sister.

Tyler Lockwood

"I have no one else to tell. I’m sorry about earlier. It’s just, I’m alone with this. What’s gonna happen to me? I’m gonna turn on the next full moon, and I won’t be able to stop it. I’m scared."
Portrayed by Michael Trevino.

Matt's best friend, though the two couldn't be more different - Tyler seems to be nothing more than a Jerk Jock, and the son of the town's Mayor. But his parents are very unpleasant people... and Tyler has actually inherited more from his father than just womanizing ways and a hair-trigger temper... 

The Lockwood bloodline are actually potential werewolves, and following Katherine's plan in the second season Tyler becomes a full werewolf himself.

Jenna Sommers

"I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure."
Portrayed by Sara Canning.

In a better world, Jenna could have been an awesome aunt to Elena and Jeremy. With the tragic death of her sister and brother-in-law, however, she's had to step up into the role of guardian for the two of them, for which she is rather less suited. Still, she tries... and at least she has a nice love interest now in the form of Alaric, following the second mysterious disappearance of Logan "Scum" Fell. She was turned into a vampire and then sacrificed by Klaus.

  • Adults Are Useless: Made very, very clear in the first season finale.
  • Cool Big Sis: Fills this role much better than the one of "responsible parent".
  • Kick the Dog: Found out she was the last person to know about the vampires, was turned into one, and then staked by Klaus in order to complete his ritual.
  • Killed Off for Real: While attempting to throw a wrench into Klaus' plans.
  • Older Than They Look: If she looks just a year older than her niece... that's because in real life, she is.
  • Out of Focus: Is quickly demoted to a Plot Device for inviting vampires into the Gilbert house or getting compelled by them.
  • Promotion to Parent: After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, she becomes Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian.

Alaric Saltzman

"I was a little too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask any questions."
Portrayed by Matt Davis.

The replacement history teacher after Mr Tanner was killed by a mountain lion, Alaric is much friendlier. But he's not without secrets - he came to Mystic Falls to hunt vampires, in particular the one that killed his wife. He finds rather more than he planned to... but settles into working with the heroes to protect the town from supernatural threats.

  • Actually Not a Vampire: In his first few episodes there are hints dropped that he is a vampire.
  • Ax Crazy: His alter ego.
  • Badass Normal: History teacher by day, vampire hunter by night.
  • Came Back Wrong: Developed a psycho killer alter-ego because of this.
  • Cool Teacher
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: His ring protects him from being killed supernaturals. Damon once killed him solely for this purpose
  • Grand Theft Me: Ends up on the receiving end of this.
  • Love Hurts
  • Parental Substitute: Looks to become this to Elena and Jeremy after Jenna's death.
  • Red Herring: When he is first introduced, there are many exceedingly obvious hints that he is a vampire, who has been behind the recent murders. His true identity as a vampire hunter is revealed when he kills the vampire that was actually behind them.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Pre-series, after losing his wife.
  • Serial Killer: During his blackouts.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 2 with Damon Salvatore. Damon may have killed him and turned his wife into a Vampire, but they have this weird friendship going on that even the writers love, and which they have named "Team Badass".
  • You Killed My Wife

Klaus Mikaelson

"Love is a vampire’s greatest weakness and we are not weak. We do not feel and we do not care."
Portrayed by Joseph Morgan/Matt Davis (when he was possessing Alaric)/ Michael Trevino also via possession

A hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Lord Niklaus (known pretty much universally as Klaus) is the main antagonist from Season Two onward. He's responsible for numerous character deaths and his manipulations stretch back all the way to Season One, before he made an onscreen appearance or was even mentioned. 

put in the next episode he's back up again, though in a new body
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old
  • Villainous Breakdown: Had a small one in "The Hybrid" when he failed to make new hybrids for his army, then another in "Bring Out the Dead" when his siblings threatened to leave him forever alone and unloved, then again in "Do Not Go Gentle" when he ranted at Esther's corpse that she would never destroy him.

Vicki Donovan

"Don`t start with the little twelve-steps thing. School councilor has been down that road, it doesn`t work for me."
Portrayed by Kayla Ewell.

Matt’s older sister and Jeremy’s first girlfriend, Vicki is a compulsive drug user who gets high to avoid her crappy life. She is turned by Damon on a whim.


The Originals

Elijah Mikaelson

"Young vampires — so arrogant. How dare you come in here and challenge me?"
Portrayed by Daniel Gillies.

An Original vampire, Elijah is the most sophisticated member of his family. He alternately works for Klaus and against him throughout the series. He was once in love with Katherine and tried to save her from his brother but she betrayed him. He has developed a fondness for Elena as well.

"I'm a little behind the times but I believe the term you're looking for is 'OMG'."

Rebekah Mikaelson

"If you come after my brother, I will rip you apart."
Portrayed by Claire Holt.

An Original vampire, Rebekah is the only daughter of the Original family. She had a romance with Stefan in the 1920s. Klaus staked her when she chose Stefan over him. She was unstaked by Klaus in an effort to find out why his hybrids were failing. Her cruel nature masks her emotional insecurity.

Mikael

"I can kill Klaus and I will." he doesn't

Portrayed by Sebastian Roché.

Esther Mikaelson

"I love my family, Elena. But they are an abomination."
Portrayed by Alice Evans/ Claire Holt.

  • Big Bad: Could share this with Klaus but she have been more of a threat in recent episodes than Klaus.
  • Hot Mom
  • Knight Templar Parent: Wanted so badly to protect her children that she turned them into vampires, a plan which required killing them.
  • Mama Bear
  • The Stoic
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Has come to believe that she made a mistake turning her children into "monsters" and unleashing vampires upon the world. Hatches a plan to kill them all, for the greater good.

Kol Mikaelson

" Again with the dagger threats, don't you have any other tricks? "
Portrayed by Nathaniel Buzolic

Finn Mikaelson

" I will be ready to die."
Portrayed by Caspar Zafer


Salvatore Family

Giuseppe Salvatore

These creatures are of the darkest parts of hell, they have the ability to control your mind, seduce your spirit. They are deadly. They must be destroyed!
Portrayed by James Remar.

Zach Salvatore

Blood only runs so deep when you're related to vampires.

Portrayed by Chris William Martin

Forbes Family

Sheriff Elizabeth 'Liz' Forbes

I`m not going to let people get caught in the crossfire of a pissing contest between a hybrid and a vampire.
Portrayed by Marguerite MacIntyre.

Bill Forbes

You're a vampire, sweetheart. I don't think you'll ever be okay again.
Portrayed by Jack Coleman.

Lockwood Family

Mayor Richard Lockwood

Portrayed by Robert Pralgo.

Carol Lockwood

"You know, if you`re going to bring a girl home I wish she`d have the tact not to sneak out like a prostitute."
Portrayed by Susan Walters.

Mason Lockwood

"Oh, what am I? I apologize. I’m an animal."
Portrayed by Taylor Kinney.

Tyler: Your eyes, they glowed... what was that?
Mason: Reflection. Off car headlamps.

Martin Family

Jonas Martin

Portrayed by Randy J. Goodwin.

Luka Martin

Portrayed by Bryton James.

Greta Martin

Portrayed by Lisa Tucker.

Other Vampires

Logan Fell

Portrayed by Chris Johnson.

Katherine Pierce / Katerina Petrova

I will always look out for myself. If you're smart, you'll do the same.
Portrayed by Nina Dobrev.

  • Acting for Two
  • Ax Crazy: Subverted. It may seem so in the beginning, but flashbacks and interaction with other characters make it perfectly clear that Katherine is very much sane, just really obsessed with saving her skin from Klaus.
  • Badass
  • Bait And Switch Big Bad: After a season of build-up around her, her appearance right at the end of season one where she stabs John Gilbert (the previous seasons BigBad) in the gut seems to be setting her up as season two's Big Bad. However, it transpires that she is in fact only running away from the real Big Bad, Klaus.
  • Catch Phrase: Although she doesn't use it that often, "better you than I" has been coming up a lot.
  • The Chessmaster
  • Doomed Hometown: After she escaped the Originals, they got their revenge by murdering her entire family.
  • Evil Counterpart: to Elena.
  • Evil Tastes Good
  • Faux Affably Evil
  • Femme Fatale
  • I Love You, Vampire Son: To Stefan.
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • Of Corsets Sexy: In the flashbacks.
  • Pet the Dog: Has a few of these moments, such as mourning Stefan's death in a flashback, or bringing Damon his cure in the season finale.
  • Start of Darkness: Episode 2x09, "Katerina".
  • The Vamp
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In 2x09, "Katerine" we find out that she gave birth out of wedlock; wasn't even allowed to hold the baby before it is given away; and then she gets sent away to England ( keep in mind that she most likely was all alone when she first came); then she meets and falls for Klaus, and has feelings for/trusts Elijah, only to find out that they both wanted to kill her; and then she tries to kill herself in order to stay away from Klaus, only to have vampire blood forced into her system; then she uses that to kill herself and become a vampire; and when she returns home, her entire family, along with anyone else that she loved, and most likely, the whole village is dead, killed by Klaus. Wow.
  • Yandere: For Stefan oh so much,she even stalks him (as seen in "The End of The Affair").

Alexia ‘Lexi’ Branson

"Because when you can hurt, you can love... Love, Stefan, that's the point..."
Portrayed by Arielle Kebbel.

Anna

"Dracula was a complete wuss. Never showered. Very smelly."
Portrayed by Malese Jow.

Isobel Flemming-Saltzman

"I'm so sorry, Elena. I was such a disappointment to you."
Portrayed by Mia Kirshner.

Pearl

"Mystic Falls is our home, Damon! They took that from us, our land, our home. It's time we rebuild!"
Portrayed by Kelly Hu.

Rose

" I can never forget it, what it's like to be human. It haunts me. It's the only thing that’s kept me going."
Portrayed by Lauren Cohan.

Sage

"A woman isn’t just for food. She’s for pleasure.
Portrayed by Cassidy Freeman.

Other Recurring Characters

John Gilbert

"You know, Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. It’s what I know. It’s what your father knew."
Portrayed by David Anders.

Maddox

Portrayed by Gino Anthony Pesi.

Dr. Meredith Fell

Portrayed by Torrey DeVitto.

Abby Bennet

Portrayed by Persia White

Book Characters

Book Series

Meredith Sulez

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