The Vampire Diaries: Difference between revisions

* [[Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch]]: How Caroline sees her feud with Elena.

* [[Black Eyes]]: Damon

* [[Breakout Character]]: Damon, who replaces Elena as the main character in the new trilogy.

** Actually, the focus shifts from Elena to the ensemble cast of her friends - Bonnie especially.

** The focus shifts to the ensemble cast in the fourth book, but in the three books after that (The Return Trilogy), the focus is on Damon. The author even says she calls it "The Damon Trilogy".

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Tyler. And ''how''.

* [[Red String of Fate]]: While having an out of body experience in ''Shadow Souls'', Elena realizes that she might have one of these with Stefan- either a silver one from heart to heart, or a red one from pinky to pinky. It turns out to be the former, and she uses it to travel to him.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Elena

* [[Badass Normal]]: Alaric, Bill, and Jeremy. Elena is not technically Normal but because she is [[Blessed With Suck]] she probably falls under this as well.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: Katherine begs Damon to NOT kill Elijah stating that since Elijah had compelled her to stay in the tomb, his death would keep her trapped permanently. {{spoiler|1=Elijah gets killed. Then Damon finds out that Elijah's death actually cancels the compulsion he gave Katherine. So Elijah's death = Katherine's freedom}}. Brilliantly played!

** Seems to be shifting to Bonnie as Brains, Caroline as Brawn and Elena as Beauty.

* [[Berserk Button]]: if you like having a little brother, don't tell Damon that you prefer Stefan.

* [[Domino Revelation]]: First we learn about vampires then witches and eventually werewolves.

** Well Bonnie's witchhood was brought up in the first episode where werewolves didn't come up until season 2.

* [[Dream Sequence]]: Stefan has one in which Elena is bitten by Damon. Damon finds this hilarious.

** Damon himself causes it - as he does a dream where Elena finds herself kissing him. She screams in horror when she discovers this and throws herself across the room.

** Several other vampires feed on blood from a blood bank, or feed on humans but only rarely and lightly from any individual in a deliberate attempt to avoid endangering them. Most vampires who do so do it out of prudence (leaving bodies lying around all over the place would endanger [[The Masquerade]]) rather than humanitarianism.

* [[Friends With Benefits]]: Damon and Rose, apparently.

** It's implied that this ability {{spoiler|fades with age, but older vampires have either become true sociopaths, or delude themselves into believing that it is permanent so that they can live with the guilt}}.

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: although not everyone involved likes it.

{{quote| Aren't you worried that one day all the forest animals are going to band together and fight back? I mean, surely they talk.}}

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: In ''Homecoming'', almost every single character has their own plan and agenda.

** To a greater extent, {{spoiler|John sacrifices himself for Elena by transferring his life force to her}} and in the season finale {{spoiler|Stefan sells himself to Klaus in exchange for a cure for Damon's wolf bite.}}

*** And in the third season finale, {{spoiler|Elena insists that Stefan rescue Matt while the two of them are drowning, mirroring how Elena's father insisted Stefan save Elena before the show began.}}

** Don't forget about [[Unfabulous|Geena]].

** [[Family Matters|Little Richie]] is all grown up and may not have Bonnie's best interests in mind.

** Subverted when {{spoiler|''Elena''}} confronts him with the reveal in order to get him to let her go.

* [[Magic Powered Pseudoscience]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan Gilbert's anti-vampire devices are just fancy clockwork. Emily enchanted them without his knowledge.}}

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Because of how much the creators love the [[Anyone Can Die]] trope, this trope abounds.

* [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|Alaric}} was killed shortly before it was announced that CW would pick up a new show starring his actor.

* Nakama: In the show, Damon + Elena + Stefan + Caroline + Bonnie + Jeremy + Alaric.

* [[New Transfer Student]]: Stefan poses as this to get close to Elena.

** It is possible, if not likely, that Damon allowed Stefan to beat him because Damon was drinking human blood while Stefan wasn't, making Damon significantly stronger than Stefan.

* [[Noble Demon]]: Elijah

** "Haunted" states the same fact, but there's still the question of why Bonnie's family had to be from Salem specifically.

** Actually, "Haunted" toys with this trope: according to Bonnie's grandmother, no actual witches were persecuted in Salem because the real ones had enough power to escape beforehand.

* [[Product Placement]]: PAINFULLY played straight.

** "So I Binged it."

*** It can be taken that way since ultimately all of the tomb vampires were killed. It did serve as a catalyst to {{spoiler|have Caroline turned into a vampire by subsequent events}}.

** So the the main cast plans for half the season on how to avoid loosing anyone in the ritual. People die, hard things are done to come up with plan, they acquire all the mcguffins they can to make sure the Big Bad dies and collect a huge ammount of allies for the end fight. The conclusion? {{spoiler|the ritual still happens, Elena still(sort of) dies, the Big Bad still triumphs, a lot of cast members die, their best asset Elijah betrays them and the whole ritual ends with a double-funeral on the good guys side and everyone heart-broken and devastated.}}

** {{spoiler|Jeremy's}} "Enough already" to {{spoiler|Bonnie}} in "Crying Wolf".

** Caroline does one back to Tyler in the Season 3 premiere when he's telling her that if she doesn't want him to date she should tell him.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Elena, slowly but surely. It starts in "Haunted" when {{spoiler|she goes after Vicki with a 2x4}}, continues in "Unpleasantville" when she manages to hold off a vampire with just a few pencils long enough for Damon and Stefan to kill him, and becomes even more noticeable in "Let The Right One In" when she saves Stefan by staking Frederick with a vervain dart and momentarily incapacitating him and by offering Stefan some of her blood.

** Also Caroline after {{spoiler|Katherine turns her into a vampire. With no help from anyone, she manages to feed herself, glamour a nurse into forgetting that she attacked her, and call Damon out for behaving so badly towards her, even flinging him down a hallway.}}

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: this show '''loves''' this Trope. Stefan, Jeremy, Vicki, Tyler and particularly Damon all count.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Jeremy, especially in 02x10. Arguably also [[Love Makes You Dumb]].

** So did Caroline in 1X22 and then {{spoiler|she was a good looking waking up as a vampire in 2X1.}}

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Mr. Tanner, {{spoiler|Logan, "Uncle" Zach, Vicki, Harper, Pearl...}}

** Another one with The Sun Also Rises, the penultimate episode of the second season. Here we have {{spoiler|the deaths of Jules, Jenna, and John, Elijah's betrayal, the official breakup of Matt and Caroline, and Damon revealing to Stefan that he's dying.}}

** "Murder of One" reveals that {{spoiler|killing an Original kills every vampire that they have ever turned (and that any vampire descendants), ergo killing them all would kill all vampires.}}

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