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* ActionGirl: Elena is highly capable of taking care of herself and can be quite kick ass when she needs to be. She'll especially get motivated if her loved ones are ever in danger.
* [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitch / Queen Bee]]: Before meeting Stefan, Elena fit this trope. Elena was known to be vain, selfish, spoiled and childish. She was also highly competitive and was known as the Queen at her high school. Elena would often be in competition with her former friend turned rival, Caroline for the title of Queen Bee at school in terms of social status and popularity.
* AngelicBeauty: In terms of her physical appearance, Elena is frequently described as looking like an angel and having a rather angelic physical traits, qualities, and appearance. This is because Elena [[spoiler: is actually half human/half angel (Guardian) and all Guardian's share a similar physical colouring and appearance to Elena.]] Elena has light pale golden blonde hair, deep blue lapis lazuli eyes and creamy, white skin.
* BadassDamsel: Yes, sometimes Elena is the damsel in distress, but she can also be pretty badass when she needs to be.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Because of Elena's physical beauty, everyone equates her beauty with her being a good hearted person with an empathetic, compassionate and caring nature. Even though she has her share of flaws such as her vanity, selfishness, her stubbornness, her immaturity, and her self-centredness. Despite her possessing these flaws, they are often overlooked by almost everyone, because of her physical beauty.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: In regards to Elena and her relationship with Stefan. Before meeting Stefan, Elena was told by her psychic friend Bonnie that she would meet a tall, dark and handsome stranger. Coincidentally, about 5 minutes later, Stefan arrived, implying that Stefan and Elena meeting was fate, destiny or "in the stars".
* BelligerentSexualTension: Elena had this with Damon. She had an ongoing sexual attraction to Damon throughout the series and Elena constantly tried to deny it due to her love for Stefan.
* BettyAndVeronica: Elena is in a [[LoveTriangle love triangle]] with the two Salvatore brothers, Stefan and Damon. Elena is the Archie to Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica. However, [[spoiler: Elena finally chose Stefan in ''The Hunters: Destiny Rising'' as her final choice, meaning that Elena (Archie) chose Stefan (Betty) over Damon (Veronica).]]
* BrokenBird: Elena fit this trope, especially after her parents died in a tragic car accident.
* TheChick: Elena is the person who encourages teamwork and loyalty and brings everyone together because of it.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Elena is this way when it comes to Stefan. At the beginning of the series, Elena and Caroline were in competition for Stefan's attention, with both girls wanting to be Stefan's object of affection. At the Homecoming Dance, Stefan had asked Caroline to go to the dance with him. This made Elena very envious and jealous, heating up the rivalry between her and Caroline. Elena has also said that she will have Stefan and he will be hers, even if it killed them both.
* CommonMarySueTraits: Elena definitely displays or possesses some traits of a Mary Sue. She is a highly idealized character and comes off as too perfect, especially to readers.
* DamselInDistress: Although Elena is a very capable individual, Elena sometimes needs her vampire suitors (Stefan and Damon) to save her from time to time.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Elena originally starts off as a cold, vain, shallow and selfish individual, but she becomes a much kinder, caring, selfless and compassionate person as the series progresses. Much of the change in her personality, behaviour and attitude happened after meeting Stefan.
* {{Determinator}}: Elena is highly determined and when she wants something, she will stop at nothing to get it. This is one of Elena's primary personality traits. Examples of this include Elena's determination to have Stefan at the beginning of the series and when Stefan was trapped in the Dark Dimension, Elena went to Hell and back (literally) just to get Stefan back. Bottom line, when Elena is determined about anything, she won't stop till she gets it.
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: Elena is physically beautiful, therefore, she attracts males/men like moths to a flame. Elena is the object of desire for almost every boy in Fells Church. She attracts much male attention but at the start of the series, the one person she wants to gain attention from is Stefan Salvatore. She is deeply hurt when Stefan makes efforts to avoid her. Almost every single known male character of the series has show interest, has been attracted or has been in love with Elena. These male characters include Stefan, Damon, Matt, Tyler, and Caleb.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Elena has the admiration and respect from many girls as well. She is the type of girl that all the guys want and all the girls want to be like. Meredith and Bonnie are often shown to be in awe of Elena and Bonnie even desires to be like her and come out of Elena's shadow.
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Although Elena is incredibly strong and capable physically, Elena is also rather vulnerable emotionally.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Elena is the object of male desire mot likely because she is blonde.
* FatalFlaw: Elena has a few: her selfishness, her shallowness, her vanity and her immaturity.
** {{Greed}}: At the start of the series, Elena seemed to want it all: boys, popularity, status. But the one she wanted most of all was Stefan and she did everything to get him, including scheming and plotting.
** {{Pride}}: Elena is known to be very vain and proud, especially at the very beginning of the series. Her pride is often her downfall and her stubbornness is associated with her pride.
** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: Elena is also capable of great jealousy, especially in regards to Stefan.
* FateDrivesUsTogether: This is a trope that is always representative of Stefan and Elena and their love story: FATE, FATE, FATE. DESTINY, DESTINY, DESTINY. In almost every single book, there is always an implication about how Stefan and Elena are destined and meant to be together because they are each other's OneTrueLove.
* GirlNextDoor: At the start of the series, Elena is a regular, normal human girl who is popular and beautiful. As the series progresses, Elena starts to discover that she is not as normal as she has always thought..
* HairOfGold: Elena has long, pale blonde hair and there is much emphasis on her hair and it's colour in the novel series.
* TheHeart: Elena is the person who brings everyone together and who holds everyone together, especially during tough times.
* [[TheHero Heroine]]: Elena is the central character of the entire novel series. She is the one who serves the role of the series to protect all of her loved ones and keep them safe. She is opposite Stefan, with Stefan being TheHero of the novel series.
* HeroicSacrifice: Elena does this frequently throughout the series. In [[spoiler: ''The Fury'', Elena sacrifices her immortal life by burning in the sunlight in order to protect Stefan and Damon from Katherine. This results in her becoming a spirit of the afterlife in ''Dark Reunion''.]] Bonnie mentioned that Elena's sacrifice was selfless. Elena makes sacrifices and risks her life in order to [[spoiler: save Stefan from the Dark Dimension in ''Shadow Souls'']]. She also [[spoiler: makes a deal with the Guardians in ''Destiny Rising'' to save Damon's life so that he doesn't succumb to darkness.]] Elena makes small sacrifices for her friends and family throughout the series in order to protect them.
* IceQueen: Elena starts off as this trope at the start of the series. She is generally vain, cold, selfish and spoiled. Tyler Smallwood referred to her as the ''Ice Princess''. However, this eventually changed after she met and fell in love with Stefan.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost all of the characters in the novel series frequently comment about how physically beautiful and drop dead gorgeous Elena is.
* TheIngenue: Elena is often described as being young, pure, innocent and virginal. Although Stefan and Damon don't originally think of Elena as a virgin, it was revealed that Elena is in fact, actually a virgin. Stefan referred to Elena as a maiden.
* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Elena fits this trope because her physical traits and physical beauty is described to be angelic, inhumane and ethereal. This is because Elena is [[spoiler: part angel (Guardian) and therefore, because of this, Elena is indeed half non-human.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: During the beginning of the series, Elena starts off as being a selfish, self-indulgent and self-absorbed character who thinks that the world revolves and centres around her. As the series progresses however, Elena learns to become more selfless, generous and compassionate.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Elena is the Light to Katherine's Dark. While Elena was more compassionate, kind and caring, Katherine was more sinister, evil and selfish.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Elena is this for all of her loved ones, but she is especially this for Stefan (and even Damon). Stefan has been shown to be unable to function as an individual without Elena. Elena has also been shown to be unable to completely function without Stefan in her presence.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Elena's hair in the novels is often emphasized as being long, luscious, pale blonde and gorgeous. There is almost always a reference to how long and beautiful Elena's hair is in the novel series.
** Aside from Elena, Katherine also fit this trope. Katherine's hair was a pale blonde like Elena's except Katherine's hair was extra long that it trails on the floor behind her. Elena noticed the length of Katherine's hair in "The Fury".
* LovableAlphaBitch: As the series progresses, Elena becomes a much kinder, more compassionate and giving person.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Elena with Stefan. Elena felt an immediate connection with Stefan. Stefan, on the other hand, took some time to come around and reciprocate Elena's affections. When Stefan did reciprocate Elena's affections, he fell hard and fast for her, and vice versa.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: This happened in the very beginning of the series, when Elena sensed that she was going to meet someone "very special" on the first day of school. Elena had mentioned that during her vacation in Paris, she felt that she was "missing something". Bonnie had told Elena after reading her palm that she would meet a "tall, dark, and handsome stranger" (the stranger being Stefan) before Stefan encountered Elena.
* LoveTriangle: Elena is in a love triangle with Stefan and Damon Salvatore, two vampire brothers. This is much of the focus of the novel series and is the main love triangle of the series. Elena has also been in a love triangle with Stefan and Matt, a love triangle with Stefan and Katherine and a bit of a love triangle with Damon and Bonnie.
* {{Narcissist}}: Elena is obsessed with her physical beauty and she often uses her beauty to get what she wants, including boys, popularity and status. Because of this, Elena has come off as vain, self-absorbed and self-centred. Elena's biggest FatalFlaw is her vanity and selfishness.
* OfficialCouple: Elena has this type of relationship with Stefan. Her romance with Stefan is the main romantic couple of the series and most of the series revolves around their love story.
* PluckyGirl: Despite all of the tragedy that she has endured, especially after losing her parents in a car accident, Elena still remained brave, courageous and optimistic about her life. After enduring problems, Elena always comes back from it, stronger than she was before.
* PowerTrio: Elena alongside Meredith and Bonnie fit this group trope.
** BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Elena, Meredith and Bonnie fit this specific Power Trio trope with Elena as the Blonde, Meredith as the Brunette and Bonnie as the Redhead. Since Caroline is also a Redhead due to having auburn red hair, she could also classify as being the Redhead of the group, but since the beginning of the series, Caroline has been a rival of all three girls, especially to Elena.
* {{Protagonist}}: Elena is the main character of the entire novel series as much of the series revolves around her. Much of the series is generally from her point of view; she shares this role with Stefan.
* ReincarnationRomance: Elena has this type of relationship with Stefan. Elena and Stefan share a love so deep, strong, and powerful that it has overcome basically everything bad that has happened. Not even death could keep the two apart; [[spoiler: this happens in Dark Reunion, when Elena is a spirit of the afterlife after she had died sacrificing her life to save Stefan and Damon from Katherine killing them all. At the end of Dark Reunion, Elena comes back from the afterlife and happily reunites with Stefan.]] It has been revealed in "Shadow Souls" that Elena and Stefan bound by the RedStringOfFate. The two have endured many struggles, issues and chaos that have tried to come between them. Nevertheless, their love is so strong that it has managed to conquer all of the obstacles that have been thrown at them throughout the series.
* RedStringOfFate: In this specific novel series, the equivalent of this ancient theory is the Soulmate Principle, which instead of a red string linking two destined lovers from pinky to pinky, a silver cord is used to link two destined lovers heart to heart. Elena is bound to Stefan by a silver cord, which links them together heart-to-heart or soul to soul. This implies that Elena and Stefan are destined soul mates and are each other's OneTrueLove. In Vampire Diaries mythology (also used in Secret Circle and Night World), the Soulmate Principle is described as follows:
-->''"The Soulmate Principle is an ancient theory frequently used in most of L.J. Smith's trilogies and series, including the Night World series, The Secret Circle series and The Vampire Diaries series. It is the theory that two people who are true Soul mates are connected by a 'silver cord' only visible to the Soul mates themselves. Through the silver cord, the Soul mates can feel what each other are feeling if the person concentrates. The strength of the connection varies. Some Soul mates know instantly that something is amiss - or that they are connected to the other person - by a simple touch, a spark of electricity that travels from one to the other, but for some Soul mates it takes years to figure it out. Exchanging blood is one way for a person to find out they are Soul mates with someone else. Soul mates can enter each other's mind and see their memories, thoughts, and feelings. Thoughts and memories can be blocked, but it takes concentration. If the concentration lapse during the time that one person is in someone else's mind, the blocks will fall down to allow the other person to see everything. The whole Night World series is based on the Soulmate principle but it is also used in The Vampire Diaries and The Secret circle series. This is the idea that for everyone in the world, there is a Soulmate. You don't have to look like your Soulmate, act like them, be the same age as them; heck, you don't even have to like them, but from the moment you meet them, you know that you'll never be completely happy without them'''."''
* SpoiledSweet: Elena has a sense of entitlement and she gets everything she wants. She'll do anything and everything to get what she wants, no matter what it is.
* StarCrossedLovers: Elena and Stefan are the epitome of this trope. Throughout the series, both Elena and Stefan constantly fight to be together and stay together, but many obstacles have tried to come between them. Something ...or someone is almost always trying to tear these two young lovers apart.
* SuperpowerLottery: Being half angel (Guardian), Elena possesses special powers and abilities.
* TrueCompanions: Elena is this with both Meredith and Bonnie. She has been friends with both since the first grade.
* {{Tsundere}}: Elena is Type A.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Elena almost constantly had this with Damon throughout the series. Despite Elena's strong, undying, all-consuming and powerful love for Stefan, Elena had a strong desire and sexual attraction to Damon and vice versa.
* VirginPower: Elena is known to be a virgin or a maiden in the novels. Stefan and Damon refer to Elena as such.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Elena and Damon have this type of relationship. Throughout the series, Elena and Damon have this constant on and off, hot and cold type of relationship, therefore, their relationship often leaves the readers wondering if they will take their relationship farther in future books.
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* {{Badass}}: Stefan is a strong, capable fighter despite only living on an animal blood diet. He may be weaker than his brother, but he can kick ass and take names when he has to.
** BadassBookworm: Stefan, especially during his human years, was highly scholarly, academic and was highly ambitious. According to Damon, he was ambitious with his studies and had ambitions and goals.
** BadassPacifist: Stefan will not kill unless he really has to. But if he has to, he will selflessly sacrifice himself and put himself in the line of fire in order to protect everyone.
** CulturedBadass: Stefan comes from an aristocratic upbringing and is highly knowledgable of different tastes of art, music, literature, etc.
* BerserkButton: If you hurt, threaten or harm anyone that Stefan loves or cares about (esp. Elena), watch Stefan explode. And when he gets angry, he is chilling and scary; even more scary and out of control than Damon.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stefan may be the nice, caring, compassionate, good brother, but DO NOT betray, manipulate or cross him. He is chilling and scary if crossed.
* {{Bishonen}}: Physically, Stefan is described as being extremely inhumanely beautiful and drop dead gorgeous with fine facial features. He is so physically attractive that he literally attracts every single female that he passes by in the beginning of the series. As opposed to his brother, Damon, Stefan is often described to be more boyish in appearance, almost possessing a "pretty boy" appearance.
* BlessedWithSuck: Stefan hates being a vampire and views his vampirism as a curse, despite the fact that he can live forever and possesses powers and abilities.
* BlueBlood: Stefan, like Damon, comes from wealth and an aristocratic family. Stefan was a nobleman during his human years.
* CainAndAbel: Stefan and Damon are the epitome of this trope. Stefan is the Abel (the good brother) to Damon's Cain (the bad brother).
* ChickMagnet: Stefan is irresistible to the opposite sex and he has attracted every single main female character of the series including Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Meredith and Katherine. Not to mention that he caught the eye of every single female of the entire Robert E. Lee High populous.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Stefan has a strong hero or saviour instinct. He feels the constant need to sacrifice himself, put himself in harms way in order to try to save and protect everyone. If Stefan fails to do so, he will end up harbouring guilt. Stefan's sense of heroism is so extreme at times, that it is seen as extreme martyrdom.
* TheDandy: Stefan is always concerned with his appearance and always likes to look presentable, neat, well-dressed and well put together. Stefan was raised to dress with noble standards due to his nobility and social status as an aristocrat.
* DeadpanSnarker: Stefan has a very dry wit or sense of humour and he can be a bit sarcastic at times.
* DeusAngstMachina: Stefan is the epitome of this trope. Stefan is pretty much always angsting over something, especially something concerning his dark, mysterious past and all the tragedy that he endured during his human life.
* DistressedDude: Although Stefan is the hero and the protector, sometimes he needs a little saving as well. An example of this is when Stefan is kidnapped and trapped in the Dark Dimension in ''Shadow Souls''. Elena and her friends, including Damon, travel all the way to the Dark Dimension in order to save him from the prison in which he was being held captive.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Stefan is a centuries old immortal who has lived on Earth since the 14th century. He has been around since the Renaissance Period.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Although Stefan is an immortal capable of being scary, Stefan is an ultra kind, sweet, compassionate and caring vampire with a heart of gold and a hold onto his humanity.
* TheHero: Stefan is the male lead character of the entire novel series. He is the good, moral and benevolent brother between himself and Damon. He is seen to be the protector, leader and saviour. He is opposite Elena, with Elena being [[TheHero The Heroine]] of the novel series.
** ByronicHero: Stefan could be seen as this trope, because he has an ultra dark past and has a generally pessimistic, cynical outlook on life, especially before he met Elena. Before the series began, Stefan had a very cynical view on his life as an immortal. He lived in the shadows and in the darkness, yearning to be accepted by humanity. Stefan could classify as this trope because of his deep, dark past and his all consuming guilt over his actions.
** IdealHero: Stefan could also classify as this trope because he is the main romantic lead for the series heroine, Elena. Stefan is noble, courageous, chivalrous, romantic, gallant, brave and heroic; traits and qualities which are often found in an ideal romantic lead.
** TragicHero: Stefan fits this trope because he is an incredibly tragic figure who has endured much guilt, suffering and pain.
* HeroicWillpower: Stefan fights his urges to kill innocent humans and also, he fights the urge to drink human blood almost on a daily basis.
* HiddenDepths: There is definitely more to Stefan than what you see. Stefan is a character who is an ocean of secrets.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Stefan always yearns to be a normal, human again. He is incredibly self-loating and he hates being a vampire. During his immortal life living in the darkness and in the shadows, Stefan wanted to live amongst humans and fit in with them.
* {{Immortality}}: Stefan is a vampire and therefore, he will live forever without aging. Although Stefan physically looks like a 17 year old teenage boy, he is actually over 500 years old.
** Stefan is Type V, which is the TheUndead.
* KnightInShiningArmor: See PrinceCharming. Elena views Stefan as her true beloved, her hero and her saviour. Stefan always saves his DamselInDistress Elena whenever she happens to be in any kind of trouble.
* {{Kuudere}}: Stefan is Type I. He is very calm, cool, collected and composed and he rarely loses his temper.
* TheLeader: Stefan is a leader in the sense that he has the ability to lead a course of action effectively. If there is a problem or a mission to be solved or achieved, Stefan will often take the lead and rally the group to victory. Stefan is also seen to be highly protective of "his humans".
** Stefan is Type II. He is levelheaded, calm, cool and collected.
* LoveTriangle: Stefan, the hero, is in a love triangle with Elena, the heroine and Damon, the anti-hero/antagonist. The love triangle between Stefan/Elena/Damon is the main storyline or plot of the series. Although, in the love triangle, Stefan and Elena are the main, focal [[OfficialCouple romantic pairing]] of the series and Damon is the third point of the triangle.
* KissOfTheVampire: Stefan often engages in blood sharing with his love interest, Elena. Blood sharing is known to be an intimate and sacred act between the vampire and it's victim and is the equivalent of making love or a sexual act since vampires are impotent. Stefan and Elena often engage in blood sharing in which Stefan bites Elena's neck and takes some of her blood and Stefan feeds Elena his vampire blood in return in order to replenish her after he takes blood from her.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Stefan is the epitome of this trope. He is always offering himself up to be sacrificed in the place of someone, especially someone that he loves and cares about. Stefan's name even represents martyrdom.
* MessianicArchetype: In the novels, Stefan is portrayed as a noble, innocent, pure of heart, selfless, altruistic character who is prone to martyrdom. He is named after the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen. Stefan's surname, Salvatore', also means 'Saviour' in Italian. Stefan is also a young man of faith, has strong values and morals and was strongly religious during his human life (he was a Catholic).
* OldSchoolChivalry: Stefan is known to be extremely polite, respectful and chivalrous towards the opposite sex.
* PrinceCharming: Elena thinks of Stefan as this. She views him as her true beloved and mate.
* TheQuietOne: Stefan was really quiet and hardly spoke at the beginning of the series. He was seen as a brooding, quiet, and mysterious loner who kept to himself and didn't open up to the human around him.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Stefan may physically look like a boyish seventeen year old teenage boy, but in reality, Stefan is really 500 plus years old. Stefan has remained physically youthful because of his immortality as a vampire.
* RedOniBlueOni: Stefan is the Blue Oni to Damon's Red Oni. Stefan is calm, practical, cool and logical while Damon is passionate, impulsive, hot-headed and reckless.
* SharpDressedMan: Stefan has expensive taste in clothing due to his aristocratic upbringing. He is always dressed sharply and neatly and he hates to look unkempt, untidy and sloppy.
* TheStoic: Stefan is seen to be noble, calm, composed, cool and collected for most of the time. However, don't cross him for he can become quite scary and violent.
* SuperpowerLottery: Because of Stefan's vampirism, Stefan possesses standard vampire powers and abilities.
** {{Immortality}}: Stefan is able to live forever without ever physically aging. He can also never die from normal human circumstances. Although Stefan physically looks 17, he is really 500 plus years old.
** SuperSpeed: Stefan can move and run much faster than that of a normal human.
** SuperReflexes: Also known as super agility. Stefan can react much faster and quicker to situations than that of a normal human. He is also able to jump, climb and move faster than a regular human would.
** SuperStrength: Stefan is able to carry or lift heavier objects with much ease and little effort.
** MindManipulation: Stefan is able to control the mind of any human, influencing their thoughts and their actions in the process. The only way to prevent Stefan from mind influencing someone is for the human victim to have vervain on them.
** HealingFactor: Stefan can get stabbed, shot or wounded and he will heal almost immediately.
** {{Shapeshifting}}: If Stefan consumes a certain amount of human blood, Stefan has the ability to shape shift into any animal form. Stefan has transformed into a hawk, eagle and a falcon during the original trilogy after breaking his promise and drinking human blood.
** SuperSenses: All of Stefan's senses, such as sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing have become clearer, stronger and heightened. Stefan is able to see, smell and hear things from a greater distance than that of a normal human.
** [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Animal Communication]]: Stefan is able to communicate with animals as well as control them if he consumes a certain amount of human blood.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Stefan fits this trope to a T. Stefan is Italian who is extremely good looking and classically handsome with dark (jet black) hair.
* [[VampiricDraining VampireDrainer]]: Stefan is a vampire, therefore, he nourishes himself and lives off of the human life essence (which is blood). Except, Stefan is a vegetarian vampire, so he really nourishes himself from the blood of animals.
* VegetarianVampire: Stefan fit this trope because he is a vampire that lives on a strict animal diet. Stefan mostly feeds on the blood of deer, doves and other forest animals. This is mostly due to Stefan's values and morals and the belief that killing or taking human life for blood is immoral and wrong. Because of Stefan abstinence of human blood, he is a lot weaker than Damon in terms of Power (who lives on a strict human blood diet). Still, despite this, Stefan displays the standard vampire powers and abilities such as super speed, super senses, super strength, mind compulsion, etc.
* YoungestChildWins: Stefan is the youngest child between himself and Damon. As the youngest child, it was shown that Stefan was always strongly favoured over Damon since their human years. Stefan was always given more love, respect, and attention and everyone (especially Stefan and Damon's father, Conti Di Giuseppe) always strongly preferred or favoured Stefan over Damon. Because of this, Damon's jealousy and hatred for Stefan became stronger over the course of both his human and immortal life. Due to Damon's jealousy of Stefan, Damon had made it his life's goal to make Stefan's life a living hell by emotionally, mentally, verbally and physically tormenting, taunting and threatening him.
'''Damon Salvatore'''
'''Bonnie Mc Cullough'''
'''Meredith Sulez'''
* {{Badass}}: Meredith is tough, strong and a very capable fighter and she is also a [[spoiler: vampire hunter/slayer.]]
** BadassBookworm: Meredith is badass ....and she's also smart and academic.
** BadassNormal: Meredith is badass but she possesses no special powers and abilities. She is a normal human girl.
* BrainyBrunette: Meredith is highly intelligent, smart and capable and she is known as the brains in her circle of friends. She is probably the smartest female character in the entire series, even more so than Elena.
* DeadpanSnarker: Meredith can be quite snarky and spunky when she wants to be and she possesses a dry sense of humour.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Meredith has proven that she is extremely competent in regards to planning. She is always there to help her friends, especially Elena. She often offers much to the group due to her intelligence, practicality and logical thinking.
* MayDecemberRomance: Meredith has this type of romantic relationship with Alaric. Meredith is a high school student and Alaric is a teacher at her school, implying that there is a sizeable age difference between the two at the beginning of the series.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Meredith, along with Elena and Bonnie, are all regular high school students at the beginning of the series.
* PowerTrio: Meredith alongside Elena and Bonnie fit this trope.
** BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Meredith, Elena and Bonnie fit this specific Power Trio trope with Elena as the Blonde, Meredith as the Brunette and Bonnie as the Redhead. Since Caroline is also a Redhead due to having auburn red hair, she could also classify as being the Redhead of the group, but since the beginning of the series, Caroline has been a rival of all three girls.
* [[spoiler: SecretIdentity: In ''Midnight'', Meredith reveals herself to be a vampire hunter-slayer.]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Meredith is the most logical, intelligent and practical of her inner group.
* UnfazedEveryman: [[spoiler: At least until the ''Return'' trilogy.]]
'''Matthew ''Matt'' Honeycutt'''
'''Caroline Forbes'''
'''Tyler Smallwood'''
'''Alaric K. Saltzman'''
'''Katherine Von Schwartzschild'''
'''Klaus'''
'''Sage'''
'''Judith Maxwell'''
'''Margaret Gilbert'''
'''Vickie Bennett'''
'''Lady Ulma'''
'''Misao'''
'''Shinichi'''
'''Elena Gilbert'''
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* ActionGirl: Elena is highly capable of taking care of herself and can be quite kick ass when she needs to be. She'll especially get motivated if her loved ones are ever in danger.
* [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitch / Queen Bee]]: Before meeting Stefan, Elena fit this trope. Elena was known to be vain, selfish, spoiled and childish. She was also highly competitive and was known as the Queen at her high school. Elena would often be in competition with her former friend turned rival, Caroline for the title of Queen Bee at school in terms of social status and popularity.
* AngelicBeauty: In terms of her physical appearance, Elena is frequently described as looking like an angel and having a rather angelic physical traits, qualities, and appearance. This is because Elena [[spoiler: is actually half human/half angel (Guardian) and all Guardian's share a similar physical colouring and appearance to Elena.]] Elena has light pale golden blonde hair, deep blue lapis lazuli eyes and creamy, white skin.
* BadassDamsel: Yes, sometimes Elena is the damsel in distress, but she can also be pretty badass when she needs to be.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Because of Elena's physical beauty, everyone equates her beauty with her being a good hearted person with an empathetic, compassionate and caring nature. Even though she has her share of flaws such as her vanity, selfishness, her stubbornness, her immaturity, and her self-centredness. Despite her possessing these flaws, they are often overlooked by almost everyone, because of her physical beauty.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: In regards to Elena and her relationship with Stefan. Before meeting Stefan, Elena was told by her psychic friend Bonnie that she would meet a tall, dark and handsome stranger. Coincidentally, about 5 minutes later, Stefan arrived, implying that Stefan and Elena meeting was fate, destiny or "in the stars".
* BelligerentSexualTension: Elena had this with Damon. She had an ongoing sexual attraction to Damon throughout the series and Elena constantly tried to deny it due to her love for Stefan.
* BettyAndVeronica: Elena is in a [[LoveTriangle love triangle]] with the two Salvatore brothers, Stefan and Damon. Elena is the Archie to Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica. However, [[spoiler: Elena finally chose Stefan in ''The Hunters: Destiny Rising'' as her final choice, meaning that Elena (Archie) chose Stefan (Betty) over Damon (Veronica).]]
* BrokenBird: Elena fit this trope, especially after her parents died in a tragic car accident.
* TheChick: Elena is the person who encourages teamwork and loyalty and brings everyone together because of it.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Elena is this way when it comes to Stefan. At the beginning of the series, Elena and Caroline were in competition for Stefan's attention, with both girls wanting to be Stefan's object of affection. At the Homecoming Dance, Stefan had asked Caroline to go to the dance with him. This made Elena very envious and jealous, heating up the rivalry between her and Caroline. Elena has also said that she will have Stefan and he will be hers, even if it killed them both.
* CommonMarySueTraits: Elena definitely displays or possesses some traits of a Mary Sue. She is a highly idealized character and comes off as too perfect, especially to readers.
* DamselInDistress: Although Elena is a very capable individual, Elena sometimes needs her vampire suitors (Stefan and Damon) to save her from time to time.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Elena originally starts off as a cold, vain, shallow and selfish individual, but she becomes a much kinder, caring, selfless and compassionate person as the series progresses. Much of the change in her personality, behaviour and attitude happened after meeting Stefan.
* {{Determinator}}: Elena is highly determined and when she wants something, she will stop at nothing to get it. This is one of Elena's primary personality traits. Examples of this include Elena's determination to have Stefan at the beginning of the series and when Stefan was trapped in the Dark Dimension, Elena went to Hell and back (literally) just to get Stefan back. Bottom line, when Elena is determined about anything, she won't stop till she gets it.
* [[ChickMagnet Dude Magnet]]: Elena is physically beautiful, therefore, she attracts males/men like moths to a flame. Elena is the object of desire for almost every boy in Fells Church. She attracts much male attention but at the start of the series, the one person she wants to gain attention from is Stefan Salvatore. She is deeply hurt when Stefan makes efforts to avoid her. Almost every single known male character of the series has show interest, has been attracted or has been in love with Elena. These male characters include Stefan, Damon, Matt, Tyler, and Caleb.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Elena has the admiration and respect from many girls as well. She is the type of girl that all the guys want and all the girls want to be like. Meredith and Bonnie are often shown to be in awe of Elena and Bonnie even desires to be like her and come out of Elena's shadow.
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Although Elena is incredibly strong and capable physically, Elena is also rather vulnerable emotionally.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Elena is the object of male desire mot likely because she is blonde.
* FatalFlaw: Elena has a few: her selfishness, her shallowness, her vanity and her immaturity.
** {{Greed}}: At the start of the series, Elena seemed to want it all: boys, popularity, status. But the one she wanted most of all was Stefan and she did everything to get him, including scheming and plotting.
** {{Pride}}: Elena is known to be very vain and proud, especially at the very beginning of the series. Her pride is often her downfall and her stubbornness is associated with her pride.
** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: Elena is also capable of great jealousy, especially in regards to Stefan.
* FateDrivesUsTogether: This is a trope that is always representative of Stefan and Elena and their love story: FATE, FATE, FATE. DESTINY, DESTINY, DESTINY. In almost every single book, there is always an implication about how Stefan and Elena are destined and meant to be together because they are each other's OneTrueLove.
* GirlNextDoor: At the start of the series, Elena is a regular, normal human girl who is popular and beautiful. As the series progresses, Elena starts to discover that she is not as normal as she has always thought..
* HairOfGold: Elena has long, pale blonde hair and there is much emphasis on her hair and it's colour in the novel series.
* TheHeart: Elena is the person who brings everyone together and who holds everyone together, especially during tough times.
* [[TheHero Heroine]]: Elena is the central character of the entire novel series. She is the one who serves the role of the series to protect all of her loved ones and keep them safe. She is opposite Stefan, with Stefan being TheHero of the novel series.
* HeroicSacrifice: Elena does this frequently throughout the series. In [[spoiler: ''The Fury'', Elena sacrifices her immortal life by burning in the sunlight in order to protect Stefan and Damon from Katherine. This results in her becoming a spirit of the afterlife in ''Dark Reunion''.]] Bonnie mentioned that Elena's sacrifice was selfless. Elena makes sacrifices and risks her life in order to [[spoiler: save Stefan from the Dark Dimension in ''Shadow Souls'']]. She also [[spoiler: makes a deal with the Guardians in ''Destiny Rising'' to save Damon's life so that he doesn't succumb to darkness.]] Elena makes small sacrifices for her friends and family throughout the series in order to protect them.
* IceQueen: Elena starts off as this trope at the start of the series. She is generally vain, cold, selfish and spoiled. Tyler Smallwood referred to her as the ''Ice Princess''. However, this eventually changed after she met and fell in love with Stefan.
* InformedAttractiveness: Almost all of the characters in the novel series frequently comment about how physically beautiful and drop dead gorgeous Elena is.
* TheIngenue: Elena is often described as being young, pure, innocent and virginal. Although Stefan and Damon don't originally think of Elena as a virgin, it was revealed that Elena is in fact, actually a virgin. Stefan referred to Elena as a maiden.
* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Elena fits this trope because her physical traits and physical beauty is described to be angelic, inhumane and ethereal. This is because Elena is [[spoiler: part angel (Guardian) and therefore, because of this, Elena is indeed half non-human.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: During the beginning of the series, Elena starts off as being a selfish, self-indulgent and self-absorbed character who thinks that the world revolves and centres around her. As the series progresses however, Elena learns to become more selfless, generous and compassionate.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Elena is the Light to Katherine's Dark. While Elena was more compassionate, kind and caring, Katherine was more sinister, evil and selfish.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Elena is this for all of her loved ones, but she is especially this for Stefan (and even Damon). Stefan has been shown to be unable to function as an individual without Elena. Elena has also been shown to be unable to completely function without Stefan in her presence.
* LongHairIsFeminine: Elena's hair in the novels is often emphasized as being long, luscious, pale blonde and gorgeous. There is almost always a reference to how long and beautiful Elena's hair is in the novel series.
** Aside from Elena, Katherine also fit this trope. Katherine's hair was a pale blonde like Elena's except Katherine's hair was extra long that it trails on the floor behind her. Elena noticed the length of Katherine's hair in "The Fury".
* LovableAlphaBitch: As the series progresses, Elena becomes a much kinder, more compassionate and giving person.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Elena with Stefan. Elena felt an immediate connection with Stefan. Stefan, on the other hand, took some time to come around and reciprocate Elena's affections. When Stefan did reciprocate Elena's affections, he fell hard and fast for her, and vice versa.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: This happened in the very beginning of the series, when Elena sensed that she was going to meet someone "very special" on the first day of school. Elena had mentioned that during her vacation in Paris, she felt that she was "missing something". Bonnie had told Elena after reading her palm that she would meet a "tall, dark, and handsome stranger" (the stranger being Stefan) before Stefan encountered Elena.
* LoveTriangle: Elena is in a love triangle with Stefan and Damon Salvatore, two vampire brothers. This is much of the focus of the novel series and is the main love triangle of the series. Elena has also been in a love triangle with Stefan and Matt, a love triangle with Stefan and Katherine and a bit of a love triangle with Damon and Bonnie.
* {{Narcissist}}: Elena is obsessed with her physical beauty and she often uses her beauty to get what she wants, including boys, popularity and status. Because of this, Elena has come off as vain, self-absorbed and self-centred. Elena's biggest FatalFlaw is her vanity and selfishness.
* OfficialCouple: Elena has this type of relationship with Stefan. Her romance with Stefan is the main romantic couple of the series and most of the series revolves around their love story.
* PluckyGirl: Despite all of the tragedy that she has endured, especially after losing her parents in a car accident, Elena still remained brave, courageous and optimistic about her life. After enduring problems, Elena always comes back from it, stronger than she was before.
* PowerTrio: Elena alongside Meredith and Bonnie fit this group trope.
** BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Elena, Meredith and Bonnie fit this specific Power Trio trope with Elena as the Blonde, Meredith as the Brunette and Bonnie as the Redhead. Since Caroline is also a Redhead due to having auburn red hair, she could also classify as being the Redhead of the group, but since the beginning of the series, Caroline has been a rival of all three girls, especially to Elena.
* {{Protagonist}}: Elena is the main character of the entire novel series as much of the series revolves around her. Much of the series is generally from her point of view; she shares this role with Stefan.
* ReincarnationRomance: Elena has this type of relationship with Stefan. Elena and Stefan share a love so deep, strong, and powerful that it has overcome basically everything bad that has happened. Not even death could keep the two apart; [[spoiler: this happens in Dark Reunion, when Elena is a spirit of the afterlife after she had died sacrificing her life to save Stefan and Damon from Katherine killing them all. At the end of Dark Reunion, Elena comes back from the afterlife and happily reunites with Stefan.]] It has been revealed in "Shadow Souls" that Elena and Stefan bound by the RedStringOfFate. The two have endured many struggles, issues and chaos that have tried to come between them. Nevertheless, their love is so strong that it has managed to conquer all of the obstacles that have been thrown at them throughout the series.
* RedStringOfFate: In this specific novel series, the equivalent of this ancient theory is the Soulmate Principle, which instead of a red string linking two destined lovers from pinky to pinky, a silver cord is used to link two destined lovers heart to heart. Elena is bound to Stefan by a silver cord, which links them together heart-to-heart or soul to soul. This implies that Elena and Stefan are destined soul mates and are each other's OneTrueLove. In Vampire Diaries mythology (also used in Secret Circle and Night World), the Soulmate Principle is described as follows:
-->''"The Soulmate Principle is an ancient theory frequently used in most of L.J. Smith's trilogies and series, including the Night World series, The Secret Circle series and The Vampire Diaries series. It is the theory that two people who are true Soul mates are connected by a 'silver cord' only visible to the Soul mates themselves. Through the silver cord, the Soul mates can feel what each other are feeling if the person concentrates. The strength of the connection varies. Some Soul mates know instantly that something is amiss - or that they are connected to the other person - by a simple touch, a spark of electricity that travels from one to the other, but for some Soul mates it takes years to figure it out. Exchanging blood is one way for a person to find out they are Soul mates with someone else. Soul mates can enter each other's mind and see their memories, thoughts, and feelings. Thoughts and memories can be blocked, but it takes concentration. If the concentration lapse during the time that one person is in someone else's mind, the blocks will fall down to allow the other person to see everything. The whole Night World series is based on the Soulmate principle but it is also used in The Vampire Diaries and The Secret circle series. This is the idea that for everyone in the world, there is a Soulmate. You don't have to look like your Soulmate, act like them, be the same age as them; heck, you don't even have to like them, but from the moment you meet them, you know that you'll never be completely happy without them'''."''
* SpoiledSweet: Elena has a sense of entitlement and she gets everything she wants. She'll do anything and everything to get what she wants, no matter what it is.
* StarCrossedLovers: Elena and Stefan are the epitome of this trope. Throughout the series, both Elena and Stefan constantly fight to be together and stay together, but many obstacles have tried to come between them. Something ...or someone is almost always trying to tear these two young lovers apart.
* SuperpowerLottery: Being half angel (Guardian), Elena possesses special powers and abilities.
* TrueCompanions: Elena is this with both Meredith and Bonnie. She has been friends with both since the first grade.
* {{Tsundere}}: Elena is Type A.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Elena almost constantly had this with Damon throughout the series. Despite Elena's strong, undying, all-consuming and powerful love for Stefan, Elena had a strong desire and sexual attraction to Damon and vice versa.
* VirginPower: Elena is known to be a virgin or a maiden in the novels. Stefan and Damon refer to Elena as such.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Elena and Damon have this type of relationship. Throughout the series, Elena and Damon have this constant on and off, hot and cold type of relationship, therefore, their relationship often leaves the readers wondering if they will take their relationship farther in future books.
'''Stefan Salvatore'''
* {{Badass}}: Stefan is a strong, capable fighter despite only living on an animal blood diet. He may be weaker than his brother, but he can kick ass and take names when he has to.
** BadassBookworm: Stefan, especially during his human years, was highly scholarly, academic and was highly ambitious. According to Damon, he was ambitious with his studies and had ambitions and goals.
** BadassPacifist: Stefan will not kill unless he really has to. But if he has to, he will selflessly sacrifice himself and put himself in the line of fire in order to protect everyone.
** CulturedBadass: Stefan comes from an aristocratic upbringing and is highly knowledgable of different tastes of art, music, literature, etc.
* BerserkButton: If you hurt, threaten or harm anyone that Stefan loves or cares about (esp. Elena), watch Stefan explode. And when he gets angry, he is chilling and scary; even more scary and out of control than Damon.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stefan may be the nice, caring, compassionate, good brother, but DO NOT betray, manipulate or cross him. He is chilling and scary if crossed.
* {{Bishonen}}: Physically, Stefan is described as being extremely inhumanely beautiful and drop dead gorgeous with fine facial features. He is so physically attractive that he literally attracts every single female that he passes by in the beginning of the series. As opposed to his brother, Damon, Stefan is often described to be more boyish in appearance, almost possessing a "pretty boy" appearance.
* BlessedWithSuck: Stefan hates being a vampire and views his vampirism as a curse, despite the fact that he can live forever and possesses powers and abilities.
* BlueBlood: Stefan, like Damon, comes from wealth and an aristocratic family. Stefan was a nobleman during his human years.
* CainAndAbel: Stefan and Damon are the epitome of this trope. Stefan is the Abel (the good brother) to Damon's Cain (the bad brother).
* ChickMagnet: Stefan is irresistible to the opposite sex and he has attracted every single main female character of the series including Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Meredith and Katherine. Not to mention that he caught the eye of every single female of the entire Robert E. Lee High populous.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Stefan has a strong hero or saviour instinct. He feels the constant need to sacrifice himself, put himself in harms way in order to try to save and protect everyone. If Stefan fails to do so, he will end up harbouring guilt. Stefan's sense of heroism is so extreme at times, that it is seen as extreme martyrdom.
* TheDandy: Stefan is always concerned with his appearance and always likes to look presentable, neat, well-dressed and well put together. Stefan was raised to dress with noble standards due to his nobility and social status as an aristocrat.
* DeadpanSnarker: Stefan has a very dry wit or sense of humour and he can be a bit sarcastic at times.
* DeusAngstMachina: Stefan is the epitome of this trope. Stefan is pretty much always angsting over something, especially something concerning his dark, mysterious past and all the tragedy that he endured during his human life.
* DistressedDude: Although Stefan is the hero and the protector, sometimes he needs a little saving as well. An example of this is when Stefan is kidnapped and trapped in the Dark Dimension in ''Shadow Souls''. Elena and her friends, including Damon, travel all the way to the Dark Dimension in order to save him from the prison in which he was being held captive.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Stefan is a centuries old immortal who has lived on Earth since the 14th century. He has been around since the Renaissance Period.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Although Stefan is an immortal capable of being scary, Stefan is an ultra kind, sweet, compassionate and caring vampire with a heart of gold and a hold onto his humanity.
* TheHero: Stefan is the male lead character of the entire novel series. He is the good, moral and benevolent brother between himself and Damon. He is seen to be the protector, leader and saviour. He is opposite Elena, with Elena being [[TheHero The Heroine]] of the novel series.
** ByronicHero: Stefan could be seen as this trope, because he has an ultra dark past and has a generally pessimistic, cynical outlook on life, especially before he met Elena. Before the series began, Stefan had a very cynical view on his life as an immortal. He lived in the shadows and in the darkness, yearning to be accepted by humanity. Stefan could classify as this trope because of his deep, dark past and his all consuming guilt over his actions.
** IdealHero: Stefan could also classify as this trope because he is the main romantic lead for the series heroine, Elena. Stefan is noble, courageous, chivalrous, romantic, gallant, brave and heroic; traits and qualities which are often found in an ideal romantic lead.
** TragicHero: Stefan fits this trope because he is an incredibly tragic figure who has endured much guilt, suffering and pain.
* HeroicWillpower: Stefan fights his urges to kill innocent humans and also, he fights the urge to drink human blood almost on a daily basis.
* HiddenDepths: There is definitely more to Stefan than what you see. Stefan is a character who is an ocean of secrets.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Stefan always yearns to be a normal, human again. He is incredibly self-loating and he hates being a vampire. During his immortal life living in the darkness and in the shadows, Stefan wanted to live amongst humans and fit in with them.
* {{Immortality}}: Stefan is a vampire and therefore, he will live forever without aging. Although Stefan physically looks like a 17 year old teenage boy, he is actually over 500 years old.
** Stefan is Type V, which is the TheUndead.
* KnightInShiningArmor: See PrinceCharming. Elena views Stefan as her true beloved, her hero and her saviour. Stefan always saves his DamselInDistress Elena whenever she happens to be in any kind of trouble.
* {{Kuudere}}: Stefan is Type I. He is very calm, cool, collected and composed and he rarely loses his temper.
* TheLeader: Stefan is a leader in the sense that he has the ability to lead a course of action effectively. If there is a problem or a mission to be solved or achieved, Stefan will often take the lead and rally the group to victory. Stefan is also seen to be highly protective of "his humans".
** Stefan is Type II. He is levelheaded, calm, cool and collected.
* LoveTriangle: Stefan, the hero, is in a love triangle with Elena, the heroine and Damon, the anti-hero/antagonist. The love triangle between Stefan/Elena/Damon is the main storyline or plot of the series. Although, in the love triangle, Stefan and Elena are the main, focal [[OfficialCouple romantic pairing]] of the series and Damon is the third point of the triangle.
* KissOfTheVampire: Stefan often engages in blood sharing with his love interest, Elena. Blood sharing is known to be an intimate and sacred act between the vampire and it's victim and is the equivalent of making love or a sexual act since vampires are impotent. Stefan and Elena often engage in blood sharing in which Stefan bites Elena's neck and takes some of her blood and Stefan feeds Elena his vampire blood in return in order to replenish her after he takes blood from her.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Stefan is the epitome of this trope. He is always offering himself up to be sacrificed in the place of someone, especially someone that he loves and cares about. Stefan's name even represents martyrdom.
* MessianicArchetype: In the novels, Stefan is portrayed as a noble, innocent, pure of heart, selfless, altruistic character who is prone to martyrdom. He is named after the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen. Stefan's surname, Salvatore', also means 'Saviour' in Italian. Stefan is also a young man of faith, has strong values and morals and was strongly religious during his human life (he was a Catholic).
* OldSchoolChivalry: Stefan is known to be extremely polite, respectful and chivalrous towards the opposite sex.
* PrinceCharming: Elena thinks of Stefan as this. She views him as her true beloved and mate.
* TheQuietOne: Stefan was really quiet and hardly spoke at the beginning of the series. He was seen as a brooding, quiet, and mysterious loner who kept to himself and didn't open up to the human around him.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Stefan may physically look like a boyish seventeen year old teenage boy, but in reality, Stefan is really 500 plus years old. Stefan has remained physically youthful because of his immortality as a vampire.
* RedOniBlueOni: Stefan is the Blue Oni to Damon's Red Oni. Stefan is calm, practical, cool and logical while Damon is passionate, impulsive, hot-headed and reckless.
* SharpDressedMan: Stefan has expensive taste in clothing due to his aristocratic upbringing. He is always dressed sharply and neatly and he hates to look unkempt, untidy and sloppy.
* TheStoic: Stefan is seen to be noble, calm, composed, cool and collected for most of the time. However, don't cross him for he can become quite scary and violent.
* SuperpowerLottery: Because of Stefan's vampirism, Stefan possesses standard vampire powers and abilities.
** {{Immortality}}: Stefan is able to live forever without ever physically aging. He can also never die from normal human circumstances. Although Stefan physically looks 17, he is really 500 plus years old.
** SuperSpeed: Stefan can move and run much faster than that of a normal human.
** SuperReflexes: Also known as super agility. Stefan can react much faster and quicker to situations than that of a normal human. He is also able to jump, climb and move faster than a regular human would.
** SuperStrength: Stefan is able to carry or lift heavier objects with much ease and little effort.
** MindManipulation: Stefan is able to control the mind of any human, influencing their thoughts and their actions in the process. The only way to prevent Stefan from mind influencing someone is for the human victim to have vervain on them.
** HealingFactor: Stefan can get stabbed, shot or wounded and he will heal almost immediately.
** {{Shapeshifting}}: If Stefan consumes a certain amount of human blood, Stefan has the ability to shape shift into any animal form. Stefan has transformed into a hawk, eagle and a falcon during the original trilogy after breaking his promise and drinking human blood.
** SuperSenses: All of Stefan's senses, such as sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing have become clearer, stronger and heightened. Stefan is able to see, smell and hear things from a greater distance than that of a normal human.
** [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Animal Communication]]: Stefan is able to communicate with animals as well as control them if he consumes a certain amount of human blood.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Stefan fits this trope to a T. Stefan is Italian who is extremely good looking and classically handsome with dark (jet black) hair.
* [[VampiricDraining VampireDrainer]]: Stefan is a vampire, therefore, he nourishes himself and lives off of the human life essence (which is blood). Except, Stefan is a vegetarian vampire, so he really nourishes himself from the blood of animals.
* VegetarianVampire: Stefan fit this trope because he is a vampire that lives on a strict animal diet. Stefan mostly feeds on the blood of deer, doves and other forest animals. This is mostly due to Stefan's values and morals and the belief that killing or taking human life for blood is immoral and wrong. Because of Stefan abstinence of human blood, he is a lot weaker than Damon in terms of Power (who lives on a strict human blood diet). Still, despite this, Stefan displays the standard vampire powers and abilities such as super speed, super senses, super strength, mind compulsion, etc.
* YoungestChildWins: Stefan is the youngest child between himself and Damon. As the youngest child, it was shown that Stefan was always strongly favoured over Damon since their human years. Stefan was always given more love, respect, and attention and everyone (especially Stefan and Damon's father, Conti Di Giuseppe) always strongly preferred or favoured Stefan over Damon. Because of this, Damon's jealousy and hatred for Stefan became stronger over the course of both his human and immortal life. Due to Damon's jealousy of Stefan, Damon had made it his life's goal to make Stefan's life a living hell by emotionally, mentally, verbally and physically tormenting, taunting and threatening him.
'''Damon Salvatore'''
'''Bonnie Mc Cullough'''
'''Meredith Sulez'''
* {{Badass}}: Meredith is tough, strong and a very capable fighter and she is also a [[spoiler: vampire hunter/slayer.]]
** BadassBookworm: Meredith is badass ....and she's also smart and academic.
** BadassNormal: Meredith is badass but she possesses no special powers and abilities. She is a normal human girl.
* BrainyBrunette: Meredith is highly intelligent, smart and capable and she is known as the brains in her circle of friends. She is probably the smartest female character in the entire series, even more so than Elena.
* DeadpanSnarker: Meredith can be quite snarky and spunky when she wants to be and she possesses a dry sense of humour.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Meredith has proven that she is extremely competent in regards to planning. She is always there to help her friends, especially Elena. She often offers much to the group due to her intelligence, practicality and logical thinking.
* MayDecemberRomance: Meredith has this type of romantic relationship with Alaric. Meredith is a high school student and Alaric is a teacher at her school, implying that there is a sizeable age difference between the two at the beginning of the series.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Meredith, along with Elena and Bonnie, are all regular high school students at the beginning of the series.
* PowerTrio: Meredith alongside Elena and Bonnie fit this trope.
** BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Meredith, Elena and Bonnie fit this specific Power Trio trope with Elena as the Blonde, Meredith as the Brunette and Bonnie as the Redhead. Since Caroline is also a Redhead due to having auburn red hair, she could also classify as being the Redhead of the group, but since the beginning of the series, Caroline has been a rival of all three girls.
* [[spoiler: SecretIdentity: In ''Midnight'', Meredith reveals herself to be a vampire hunter-slayer.]]
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Meredith is the most logical, intelligent and practical of her inner group.
* UnfazedEveryman: [[spoiler: At least until the ''Return'' trilogy.]]
'''Matthew ''Matt'' Honeycutt'''
'''Caroline Forbes'''
'''Tyler Smallwood'''
'''Alaric K. Saltzman'''
'''Katherine Von Schwartzschild'''
'''Klaus'''
'''Sage'''
'''Judith Maxwell'''
'''Margaret Gilbert'''
'''Vickie Bennett'''
'''Lady Ulma'''
'''Misao'''
'''Shinichi'''
