The Vampire Diaries/Characters: Difference between revisions

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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.

* [[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]]

* [[~~Straight~~ ~~Gay~~]]

* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

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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.}}