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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce was born on Jun 5, 1473 in Bulgaria. She is the oldest child and first daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Petrova. Katherine is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. In 1490, she was disowned by her father because she brought shame upon her family after giving birth to a baby girl out of wedlock when she was seventeen. She was forced to give the baby up for adoption and then was then exiled to England. She quickly assimilated into English culture and met two nobleman brothers, Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson. At first, she was attracted to both men, but in time, she eventually learned that she was a Petrova doppelgänger and that Klaus was planning on using her as a sacrifice in order to break the curse that bound his werewolf side. She sabotaged his plan by running away with the moonstone, which bound the curse, and then tricked Rose into feeding her vampire blood so she could turn herself into a vampire. Because Katherine was no longer human, her blood no longer was a viable component of the ritual to undo the curse. Klaus was so infuriated with Katherine's sabotage, that she was forced to live on the run for over 500 years as he hunted her down. She was the main antagonist of season one (mostly off-screen through John Gilbert's and Isobel's actions, as both were working for her in order to kill off the tomb vampires), and one of the main antagonists of season two, the second half of season four and the first half of Season Five. She was also the final antagonist of season eight. Katherine can be considered the main antagonist of the series overall due to being a major antagonist in the first, second, fourth, fifth and eighth seasons and all the antagonists that were a result of her actions.
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce was born on Jun 5, 1473 in Bulgaria. She is the oldest child and first daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Petrova. Katherine is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. In 1490, she was disowned by her father because she brought shame upon her family after giving birth to a baby girl out of wedlock when she was seventeen. She was forced to give the baby up for adoption and then was then exiled to England. She quickly assimilated into English culture and met two nobleman brothers, Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson. At first, she was attracted to both men, but in time, she eventually learned that she was a Petrova doppelgänger and that Klaus was planning on using her as a sacrifice in order to break the curse that bound his werewolf side. She sabotaged his plan by running away with the moonstone, which bound the curse, and then tricked Rose into feeding her vampire blood so she could turn herself into a vampire. Because Katherine was no longer human, her blood no longer was a viable component of the ritual to undo the curse. Klaus was so infuriated with Katherine's sabotage, that she was forced to live on the run for over 500 years as he hunted her down. She was the main antagonist of season one (mostly off-screen through John Gilbert's and Isobel's actions, as both were working for her in order to kill off the tomb vampires), and one of the main antagonists of season two, the second half of season four and the first half of Season Five. She was also the final antagonist of season eight. Katherine can be considered the main antagonist of the series overall due to being a major antagonist in the first, second, fourth, fifth and eighth seasons and all the antagonists that were a result of her actions.
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One of the main antagonists of
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%% * AlphaBitch: Tied with Rebekah for biggest bitch in the entire series.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Elijah, Stefan and even Damon. Although all three men have claimed to either hate or resent Katherine, it is obvious that they all harbor a hidden affection or attachment to Katherine.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Elijah, Stefan Stefan, and even Damon. Although all three men have claimed to either hate or resent Katherine, it is obvious that they all harbor a hidden affection or attachment to Katherine.
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%% * BadassBoast: Katherine has an ego and does her fair share of bragging.
* BadassInDistress:: Katherine becomes this in the fifth season as she becomes a human after being cured of her vampirism. Because of consuming the cure and being mortal, she becomes significantly more vulnerable and finds herself in trouble more often.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Katherine is shown that she can still hold her own as a human if the season five premiere is any indication. She has proven to be capable of using the environment around her to her advantage to boot.]]
* TheBaroness: Katherine is a femme fatale who is selfish, ruthless and domineering. Katherine is of the Sexpot flavour.
* BavarianFireDrill: Good at doing this when impersonating Elena. In fact, Katherine has managed to trick Bonnie, Stefan, Matt and Damon into thinking she is Elena and even admits that she has gotten really good at it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Especially during the flashbacks during the 1400's and 1864. Katherine acted like a socialite.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Katherine may be physically beautiful but she is very manipulative, vain, cold and selfish by nature. See BeautyIsBad.
* BadassInDistress:: Katherine becomes this in the fifth season as she becomes a human after being cured of her vampirism. Because of consuming the cure and being mortal, she becomes significantly more vulnerable and finds herself in trouble more often.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Katherine is shown that she can still hold her own as a human if the season five premiere is any indication. She has proven to be capable of using the environment around her to her advantage to boot.]]
* TheBaroness: Katherine is a femme fatale who is selfish, ruthless and domineering. Katherine is of the Sexpot flavour.
* BavarianFireDrill: Good at doing this when impersonating Elena. In fact, Katherine has managed to trick Bonnie, Stefan, Matt and Damon into thinking she is Elena and even admits that she has gotten really good at it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Especially during the flashbacks during the 1400's and 1864. Katherine acted like a socialite.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Katherine may be physically beautiful but she is very manipulative, vain, cold and selfish by nature. See BeautyIsBad.
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* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Katherine is shown that she can still hold her own as a human
* TheBaroness: Katherine is a
* BavarianFireDrill: Good at doing this when impersonating Elena. In fact, Katherine has managed to trick Bonnie, Stefan,
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Katherine may be physically beautiful but she is very manipulative, vain,
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With Damon and Stefan. Arguably, even with Klaus and Elijah at times.
* BettyAndVeronica: Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica.
** Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
** Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
%% * BigBad: Of Season 1 and the start of Season 2.
%% * VillainousRescue: Occasionally. Sometimes Katherine will save the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, especially if there is something in it for her in return.
* BettyAndVeronica: Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica.
** Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
** Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
%% * BigBad: Of Season 1 and the start of Season 2.
%% * VillainousRescue: Occasionally. Sometimes Katherine will save the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, especially if there is something in it for her in return.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: With In modern times, she has a hostile and argumentative relationship with Damon and Stefan. Arguably, even Stefan who's often dripping with sexual tension. She also has this dynamic with Klaus and Elijah at times.
*BettyAndVeronica: BettyAndVeronica:
** Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica.
**Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
**Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline Later Stefan/Katherine/Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
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* BigBad:Of She's the primary antagonist of Season 1 (in the background) and the start of Season 2.
%% * VillainousRescue: Occasionally. Sometimes BigBreastPride: In contrast to Elena, Katherine will save always dresses in outfits with ample cleavage to show off her assets and acts smug about it when it catches the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, especially if there is something in it for her in return. eye of men.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Katherine is a Petrova Doppelgänger, meaning that she was basically a human blood bag when she was a human and that she was destined for a life of pain, tragedy and suffering.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Katherine is a Petrova Doppelgänger, {{Doppelganger}}, meaning that she was basically a human blood bag when she was a human and that she was destined for a life of pain, tragedy tragedy, and suffering.suffering. She spends most of her long life running away from Klaus due to her lineage.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the fifth season, Katherine may have lost all her superhuman abilities due to being cured of her vampirism and becoming human, but she was still majorly kick ass when she has to.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her the cure.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her the cure.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: In the fifth season, Katherine may have lost all her vampiric superhuman abilities due to being cured of her vampirism and becoming human, but she was still majorly kick ass when she has to.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In the season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her thecure. cure.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In the season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her the
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Her large breasts and cleavage-baring clothes tend to draw the attention of guys. Even ChasteHero Stefan, who knows better than to be attracted to Katherine, gets distracted by her the sight of her cleavage or sideboob on a couple of occasions.
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* CoquettishLipBiting: This is one of her CharacterTics, but while she sometimes uses it to [[TheVamp look seductive]], she also uses when she's [[NervousTics nervous]].
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* CoquettishLipBiting: This Biting her lips is one of her CharacterTics, but while she sometimes uses it to [[TheVamp look seductive]], she also uses it when she's [[NervousTics nervous]]. nervous]].
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%% * DesperatelyCravesAffection: In Katherine's case, the trope should be renamed ''Desperately Craves Stefan's Affection''.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Katherine hates it when others feel sorry for her.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Katherine dislikes talking about her tragic past because she hates it when others feel sorry for her. her.
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* DrivenByEnvy: Much of her attacks against Elena and her loved ones in the second season were driven by Katherine's jealousy of Elena, who she saw as replacing her. Towards the end of Season 2 however this abated, but returned in full force from season four and foward.
%% * DrivenToVillainy: The death of Katherine's family has driven her to always look out for herself in order to survive.
%% * DrivenToVillainy: The death of Katherine's family has driven her to always look out for herself in order to survive.
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* DrivenByEnvy: Much of her attacks against Elena and her loved ones in the second season were driven by Katherine's jealousy of Elena, who she saw as replacing her. Towards the end of Season 2 however this abated, but returned in full force from season four and foward.forward.
%% * DrivenToVillainy: The death of Katherine's Katherine could have been a normal girl with an ordinary life, but Klaus killing her family has driven and pursuing her all over the world made her adopt a selfish survivalist outlook that had her doing all kinds of amoral things to always look out for herself in order to survive. survive.
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%% * EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilTwin: To Elena. See LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, CainAndAbel, and RedOniBlueOni.
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%%* EvilTastesGood: Definitely enjoys the vampiric side of life.
%% * EvilIsPetty: Some of Katherine's actions against others are out of envy and malice.
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%%* EvilTastesGood: Definitely enjoys the vampiric side of life.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Katherine will manipulate, scheme, play mind games and will toy with others emotions in order to get what she wants without guilt. This is best show during her {{flashback}} scenes in season one, where she manipulates the entire Salvatore family against each other in order to obtain the moonstone.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Katherine will manipulate, scheme, play mind games and will toy with others emotions in order to get what she wants without guilt. This is best show shown during her {{flashback}} scenes in season one, where she manipulates the entire Salvatore family against each other in order to obtain the moonstone.
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* TragicVillain: Katherine became a much colder, ruthless person due to her tragic past where Klaus had her entire family killed out of revenge for Katherine running from him and still pursued her ever since, leading her to value self-preservation above all. Even Elena manges to sympathize with her for it
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* TragicVillain: Katherine became a much colder, ruthless person due to her tragic past where Klaus had her entire family killed out of revenge for Katherine running from him and still pursued her ever since, leading her to value self-preservation above all. Even Elena manges manages to sympathize with her for it
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* VanityIsFeminine: Katherine's one of the few major female antagonists in the series and has a narcissistic vanity as one of her major character traits.
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* VanityIsFeminine: Katherine's one of the few major female antagonists in the series and has a narcissistic vanity as one of her major character traits.
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* VillainousValour: Katherine's determination to survive no matter what.
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* VillainousRescue: Occasionally Katherine will save the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, usually because [[PragmaticVillainy there is something in it for her in return]] or because they share a common enemy.
* VillainousValour: Katherine's a massive bitch with little morals, but her determination to survive no matterwhat.what is always portrayed as a positive trait, and one that characters admire InUniverse, even when they don't like her.
* VillainousValour: Katherine's a massive bitch with little morals, but her determination to survive no matter
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Oh so much towards Stefan. In fact, she is more of a {{Yandere}} for him as she has spent over a century being obsessively in love with him to the point that she [[StalkerWithACrush stalked Stefan]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse has both atempted to kill or killed people]] that Stefan loves and cares about, including Elena. She visibly shows that she is very jealous of Elena because Stefan was in love with her and always chose her over Katherine.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Oh so much towards Stefan. In fact, she is more of a {{Yandere}} for him as she has spent over a century being obsessively in love with him to the point that she [[StalkerWithACrush stalked Stefan]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse has both atempted to kill or and actually killed people]] that Stefan loves and cares about, including Elena. She visibly shows that she is very jealous of Elena because Stefan was in love with her and always chose her over Katherine.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Stefan. Stefan couldn't stand Katherine and wanted nothing to do with her in the earlier seasons. Part of the reason for this is because Stefan held a strong resentment towards Katherine for playing Damon and himself (Stefan) against each other and forcing them to keep Katherine's identity as a vampire a secret. On top of it, Katherine had lied, manipulated, fed on and compiled Stefan for a prolonged period of time and had even fed him her vampire blood against his will through compulsion so that Katherine would turn Stefan into a vampire (along with Damon, although no compulsion was needed for Damon to drink from her). Stefan also had fallen deeply in love with Katherine's doppelgänger and descendant Elena, mostly because she was ''nothing'' like Katherine according to him. This made Katherine extremely hateful, vengeful and jealous of Elena that in season two, Katherine made repeated attempts to kill Elena and harm Elena's loved ones. This furthered Stefan's anger and resentment towards Katherine. However, this became subverted in season five. It seems as though Stefan was still holding onto some minor resentment towards Katherine regarding the things she had done to him in the past century, Stefan finally forgave her as she was dying, something that Katherine had been wanting from Stefan for over a century. Unfortunately, Katherine ruined her chances of Stefan truly and finally forgiving her for all of her immoral deeds when she decided to steal Elena's body and inhabit it as a passenger with the use of Traveller magic. Stefan discovered what she had done and although he was not overly furious at Katherine for what she did, he was still not too happy or pleased with it as it was her actions that caused chaos and destruction to ensue. Ultimately, to top it of, Stefan ends up being the one to kill Katherine with the use of the Traveller Knife, which can expel the spirit of a passenger from anybody that it inhabits.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Stefan. Stefan couldn't stand Katherine and wanted nothing to do with her in the earlier seasons. Part of the reason for this is because Stefan held a strong resentment towards Katherine for playing Damon and himself (Stefan) against each other and forcing them to keep Katherine's identity as a vampire a secret. On top of it, Katherine had lied, manipulated, fed on and compiled Stefan for a prolonged period of time and had even fed him her vampire blood against his will through compulsion so that Katherine would turn Stefan into a vampire (along with Damon, although no compulsion was needed for Damon to drink from her). Stefan also had fallen deeply in love with Katherine's doppelgänger and descendant Elena, mostly because she was ''nothing'' like Katherine according to him. This made Katherine extremely hateful, vengeful and jealous of Elena that in season two, Katherine made repeated attempts to kill Elena and harm Elena's loved ones. This furthered Stefan's anger and resentment towards Katherine. However, this became subverted in season five. It seems as though Stefan was still holding onto some minor resentment towards Katherine regarding the things she had done to him in the past century, Stefan finally forgave her as she was dying, something that Katherine had been wanting from Stefan for over a century. Unfortunately, Katherine ruined her chances of Stefan truly and finally forgiving her for all of her immoral deeds when she decided to steal Elena's body and inhabit it as a passenger with the use of Traveller magic. Stefan discovered what she had done and although he was not overly furious at Katherine for what she did, he was still not too happy or pleased with it as it was her actions that caused chaos and destruction to ensue. Ultimately, to top it of, Stefan ends up being the one to kill Katherine with the use of the Traveller Knife, which can expel the spirit of a passenger from anybody that it inhabits.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the books, Katherine (and Elena)'s mother was an angel, and she was a HalfHumanHybrid before becoming a vampire.
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* HotWitch: Katherine is actually a descendant of the Travelers witches is possesses magic, although spending most of her life as a vampire made her unable to practice it, until she got BroughtDownToNormal in season 5.
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* HotWitch: Katherine is actually a descendant of the Travelers witches is and possesses magic, although spending most of her life as a vampire made her unable to practice it, until she got BroughtDownToNormal in season 5.
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* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: There was no concept of doppelgangers in the book series; the reason Elena and Katherine looked so much alike was that they were half-sisters (born a ''long'' time apart) with the same mother and a StrongFamilyResemblance.
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%% * OperaGloves: Was seen wearing them during the 1864 flashbacks.
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce was born on Jun 5, 1473 in Bulgaria. She is the oldest child and first daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Petrova. Katherine is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She was the main antagonist of season one (mostly off-screen through John Gilbert's and Isobel's actions, as both were working for her in order to kill off the tomb vampires), and one of the main antagonists of season two, the second half of season four and the first half of Season Five. She was also the final antagonist of season eight. Katherine can be considered the main antagonist of the series overall due to being a major antagonist in the first, second, fourth, fifth and eighth seasons and all the antagonists that were a result of her actions.
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce was born on Jun 5, 1473 in Bulgaria. She is the oldest child and first daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Petrova. Katherine is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. In 1490, she was disowned by her father because she brought shame upon her family after giving birth to a baby girl out of wedlock when she was seventeen. She was forced to give the baby up for adoption and then was then exiled to England. She quickly assimilated into English culture and met two nobleman brothers, Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson. At first, she was attracted to both men, but in time, she eventually learned that she was a Petrova doppelgänger and that Klaus was planning on using her as a sacrifice in order to break the curse that bound his werewolf side. She sabotaged his plan by running away with the moonstone, which bound the curse, and then tricked Rose into feeding her vampire blood so she could turn herself into a vampire. Because Katherine was no longer human, her blood no longer was a viable component of the ritual to undo the curse. Klaus was so infuriated with Katherine's sabotage, that she was forced to live on the run for over 500 years as he hunted her down. She was the main antagonist of season one (mostly off-screen through John Gilbert's and Isobel's actions, as both were working for her in order to kill off the tomb vampires), and one of the main antagonists of season two, the second half of season four and the first half of Season Five. She was also the final antagonist of season eight. Katherine can be considered the main antagonist of the series overall due to being a major antagonist in the first, second, fourth, fifth and eighth seasons and all the antagonists that were a result of her actions.
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She is one of the main antagonists of the series.
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She is one of the main antagonists of the series.
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%% * BettyAndVeronica: Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica. Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica. Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
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** Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's
** Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
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%% * KickTheSonOfABitch: To Damon in 5x14 [[spoiler: when she tries to trick ripper!Damon into feeding on her so that Stefan would kill Damon. Unfortunately for Katherine, her plan doesn't work.]]
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%% * TheDarkChick: To Elena's TheChick.Elena.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: If Katherine isn't seen wearing black clothing, she is often seen wearing purple from time to time. Good colours for a murderous, vampiric ActionGirl who comes from a family of witches.
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* SupernaturalIsPurple: If Katherine isn't seen wearing black clothing, she is often seen wearing purple from time to time. Good colours for a murderous vampire who comes from a family of witches.
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%% * ShesGotLegs: And some pretty nice ones too.
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%% * NiceShoes: Katherine wears a lot of them, primarily high heels and stilettos.
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* {{Yandere}}: In regards to Stefan. Katherine was very obsessed with Stefan for over a century, so much so that she spent most of Stefan's immortal life [[StalkerWithACrush stalking him]], killing people that are close to him (including Elena), and obsessively going to extreme lengths to be with him, save him or protect him. She has repeatedly gone the route of MurderTheHypotenuse by killing or trying to kill women that were romantically involved or interested in Stefan. She is also known to become AxeCrazy whenever Stefan rejects her, chooses Elena over her, ignores her or shows no interest in her. It's taken UpToEleven in Season Five when she is so obsessed with him that Stefan has literally become the major reason for Katherine wanting to live. While she is dying and on her death bed due to old age and the effects of the cure, Katherine manages to manipulate Elena into stealing her body against her will with the use of a passenger spell so that she can inhabit her body and live as Elena. Just so that she can get Stefan to fall in love with her again with the belief that he's falling in love with Elena.
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* {{Yandere}}: In regards to Stefan. Katherine was very obsessed with Stefan for over a century, so much so that she spent most of Stefan's immortal life [[StalkerWithACrush stalking him]], killing people that are close to him (including Elena), and obsessively going to extreme lengths to be with him, save him or protect him. She has repeatedly gone the route of MurderTheHypotenuse by killing or trying to kill women that were romantically involved or interested in Stefan. She is also known to become AxeCrazy whenever Stefan rejects her, chooses Elena over her, ignores her or shows no interest in her. It's taken UpToEleven in In Season Five when Five, she is so obsessed with him that Stefan has literally become the major reason for Katherine wanting to live. While she is dying and on her death bed due to old age and the effects of the cure, Katherine manages to manipulate Elena into stealing her body against her will with the use of a passenger spell so that she can inhabit her body and live as Elena. Just so that she can get Stefan to fall in love with her again with the belief that he's falling in love with Elena.
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* [[ByronicHero Byronic Heroine]]: Katherine has a dark past and has committed many immoral acts. At the same time, Katherine could be viewed as a tragic character.
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!!Katherine Pierce ([=AKA=] Katerina Petrova)
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NinaDobrev
->''"Please I'm Katherine Pierce, I'm a survivor."''
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She is one of the main antagonists of the series.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Stefan. Stefan couldn't stand Katherine and wanted nothing to do with her in the earlier seasons. Part of the reason for this is because Stefan held a strong resentment towards Katherine for playing Damon and himself (Stefan) against each other and forcing them to keep Katherine's identity as a vampire a secret. On top of it, Katherine had lied, manipulated, fed on and compiled Stefan for a prolonged period of time and had even fed him her vampire blood against his will through compulsion so that Katherine would turn Stefan into a vampire (along with Damon, although no compulsion was needed for Damon to drink from her). Stefan also had fallen deeply in love with Katherine's doppelgänger and descendant Elena, mostly because she was ''nothing'' like Katherine according to him. This made Katherine extremely hateful, vengeful and jealous of Elena that in season two, Katherine made repeated attempts to kill Elena and harm Elena's loved ones. This furthered Stefan's anger and resentment towards Katherine. However, this became subverted in season five. It seems as though Stefan was still holding onto some minor resentment towards Katherine regarding the things she had done to him in the past century, Stefan finally forgave her as she was dying, something that Katherine had been wanting from Stefan for over a century. Unfortunately, Katherine ruined her chances of Stefan truly and finally forgiving her for all of her immoral deeds when she decided to steal Elena's body and inhabit it as a passenger with the use of Traveller magic. Stefan discovered what she had done and although he was not overly furious at Katherine for what she did, he was still not too happy or pleased with it as it was her actions that caused chaos and destruction to ensue. Ultimately, to top it of, Stefan ends up being the one to kill Katherine with the use of the Traveller Knife, which can expel the spirit of a passenger from anybody that it inhabits.
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: She made herself immune to the effects of vervain (which is poison to vampires) by dosing herself with vervain for the last centuries.
* ActionGirl: One of the most notable action females in the series and something of a CombatPragmatist as she often prefers sneak attacks than all-out brawls. Being a centuries-old vampire (who only gets StrongerWithAge) makes her one of the strongest non-Original vampires in the story, and she can easily fight off both Stefan and Damon.
* ActionFashionista: Katherine is very trendy, chic, stylish, and is [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery usually kicking ass in her most fashionable and trendy clothing]].
-->'''Katherine:''' ''[to Stefan]'' We both know I could rip you to shreds and do my nails at the same time.
* ActionMom: Katherine is discovered to have been the long-lost mother of Nadia. Katherine had given birth to Nadia at the tender age of 17 during the 1400's. Still, despite being a mother, Katherine was still badass and could kick major ass and they both work together as a mother and daughter evil team in season 5.
* ActionSurvivor: The reason why she's so dangerous and paranoid is mostly attributed to her spending five centuries on the run from the Original Vampires, which sharpened her survival senses. Even after [[spoiler: she cures her vampirism and loses all associated vampire powers, she's still able to rely on her wits to survive.]]
* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/NinaDobrev is Bulgarian in real life, as is Katherine InUniverse. This led to a misunderstanding on what we must assume was the writers' part: Nina Dobrev is sometimes referred to as "Nina Dobreva". In Bulgaria, the "a" at the end of her surname is a way to denote that she is a female member of the Dobrev family.
* AdaptationalNationality: She was German in the books, but became Bulgarian in the series to correlate with the fact [[ActorSharedBackground the actress who plays her is also Bulgarian]].
* AlasPoorVillain: In season five, Katherine begins to [[RapidAging age rapidly]] after consuming the cure at the end of season four. One can't help but feel sorry for her now that Katherine is dying, as she is seeking redemption for her past sins now. It is ultimately subverted when she tries to [[DemonicPossession take over Elena's body in her deathbed via a Passenger spell]] but it's eventually discovered and killed by Stefan and she gets DraggedOffToHell with no sympathy. When she makes her final return in season 8 as the FinalBoss she's treated as an irredeemable villain.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Katherine's affections for Klaus in the fifteenth century and Damon in the nineteenth century.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: For Stefan and Damon, after both claim to prefer Elena over her. However, Katherine's love for Stefan was stronger and she spent over a century stalking and pining for him.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Katherine is a highly sexual individual and she often uses this to get her way.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Averted. While it hasn't been shown that Katherine has an actual shoe obsession, it is obvious that Katherine loves her high heels and stilettos. This comes with being TheFashionista.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Katherine is an attractive and beautiful brunette who is smart, chic, composed, sexy and aloof.
%% * AlphaBitch: Tied with Rebekah for biggest bitch in the entire series.
%% * AlwaysSecondBest[=/=]AlwaysSomeoneBetter: With regards to Elena for Damon and Stefan, and Tatia for Elijah and Klaus.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Katherine's morality seems to be in the morally grey area. while Katherine has done many immoral deeds and acts, she does show that she has some humanity buried inside somewhere, considering how she helps the Salvatore brothers from time to time.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Katherine has proven that she can be rather ruthless when it comes to getting what she wants.
* AntiVillain: Katherine has been DrivenToVillainy due to the fact her blood makes her precious to the Originals, and she has been running from Klaus since her youth, and she was forced to do all sorts of dirty tricks, ruthless betrayals and manipulations in order to survive with the Originals breathing down her neck. Given both The Originals, Silas and the Travelers are all much bigger threats than her, she often works together with the Mystic Falls Gang. This gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the final episode when she comes BackForTheFinale as the queen of hell to be the FinalBoss of the series, and is portrayed more are irredeemably evil.
* ArchEnemy: Elena and Klaus. Katherine hates and resents Elena for getting the chance at a happy life she never did. In regards to Klaus, Klaus slaughtered her entire family out of revenge and Katherine has been running from Klaus ever since.
* TheAtoner: Katherine wants forgiveness and redemption now that she is dying in season five. [[spoiler: Subverted when she takes over Elena's body and returns to her old ways.]]
%% * AwesomeMcCoolname: Katerina Petrova has a nice ring to it, especially when Damon or Elijah say it.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Like Damon, she has the ability to get under other people's skin by accurately reading their body language. Has a perfect moment of this with [[spoiler: Rebekah]] in 4.18.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Elijah, Stefan and even Damon. Although all three men have claimed to either hate or resent Katherine, it is obvious that they all harbor a hidden affection or attachment to Katherine.
* AxeCrazy: Subverted. It may seem so in the beginning, but {{flashback}}s and interactions with other characters make it perfectly clear that Katherine is very much sane, just really obsessed [[spoiler: with saving her skin from Klaus.]]
%% * BadassBoast: Katherine has an ego and does her fair share of bragging.
* BadassInDistress:: Katherine becomes this in the fifth season as she becomes a human after being cured of her vampirism. Because of consuming the cure and being mortal, she becomes significantly more vulnerable and finds herself in trouble more often.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Katherine is shown that she can still hold her own as a human if the season five premiere is any indication. She has proven to be capable of using the environment around her to her advantage to boot.]]
* TheBaroness: Katherine is a femme fatale who is selfish, ruthless and domineering. Katherine is of the Sexpot flavour.
* BavarianFireDrill: Good at doing this when impersonating Elena. In fact, Katherine has managed to trick Bonnie, Stefan, Matt and Damon into thinking she is Elena and even admits that she has gotten really good at it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Especially during the flashbacks during the 1400's and 1864. Katherine acted like a socialite.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Katherine may be physically beautiful but she is very manipulative, vain, cold and selfish by nature. See BeautyIsBad.
* BeautyIsBad: Katherine may be physically beautiful but she can be very manipulative and immoral.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Damon and Stefan. Arguably, even with Klaus and Elijah at times.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica. Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica. Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
%% * BigBad: Of Season 1 and the start of Season 2.
%% * VillainousRescue: Occasionally. Sometimes Katherine will save the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, especially if there is something in it for her in return.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Damon. In terms of outlook and personality, Katherine and Damon have a lot in common and are quite a bit alike.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Katherine comes across as playful and harmless, but she is manipulative and cunning.
* BlessedWithSuck: Katherine is a Petrova Doppelgänger, meaning that she was basically a human blood bag when she was a human and that she was destined for a life of pain, tragedy and suffering.
%% * BlueBlood: Katherine seemed to have come from a wealthy and noble Bulgarian family.
%% * BodySnatcher[=/=]BodySurf: In season five, [[spoiler: Katherine takes possession of Elena's body using a Traveller's spell in order to survive.]]
%% * BrainyBrunette: Of the MagnificentBitch type.
%% * BreakoutCharacter[=/=]BreakoutVillain: Katherine is a very popular character within fandom and amongst the public.
* BreakTheCutie: Katherine was a sweet girl before losing her daughter and being forced to run from Klaus. The girl who once said life without believing in love was too cruel has become a manipulative, selfish woman.
%% * CorruptTheCutie: Indirectly by Klaus. Running away from Klaus and having her family murdered by him darkened Katherine's personality significantly.
* BrokenBird: Katherine's tragic life began after Klaus murdered her entire family back in Bulgaria.
* BroughtDownToBadass: In the fifth season, Katherine may have lost all her superhuman abilities due to being cured of her vampirism and becoming human, but she was still majorly kick ass when she has to.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her the cure.
* BrutalHonesty: Katherine will never hesitate to tell anybody exactly what she thinks, even if it's hurtful.
* [[ByronicHero Byronic Heroine]]: Katherine has a dark past and has committed many immoral acts. At the same time, Katherine could be viewed as a tragic character.
* CameBackWrong: After the cure was drained from Katherine's bloodstream, her 500 years of vampirism have started catching up to her at an accelerated pace.
* CatchPhrase: Although she doesn't use it that often, "better you than I" has been coming up a lot.
* TheChessmaster: Katherine is cunning, strategic and manipulative. She always has an agenda.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Katherine has zero issue with backstabbing others in order to get what she wants. Subverted with Elijah. She was going to betray him but couldn't because she honestly fell in love with him.
* CleavageWindow: Katherine often wears clothing that shows off her upper assets.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Oh so much towards Stefan. In fact, she is more of a {{Yandere}} for him as she has spent over a century being obsessively in love with him to the point that she [[StalkerWithACrush stalked Stefan]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse has both atempted to kill or killed people]] that Stefan loves and cares about, including Elena. She visibly shows that she is very jealous of Elena because Stefan was in love with her and always chose her over Katherine.
* CoquettishLipBiting: This is one of her CharacterTics, but while she sometimes uses it to [[TheVamp look seductive]], she also uses when she's [[NervousTics nervous]].
* ConsummateLiar: Katherine is very good at lying and manipulating others in order to get what she wants.
* TheCorrupter: Katherine did this to both Salvatore brothers, but especially Damon, who used to be a much better man until she encouraged all of his worst instincts. When she reunites with Damon, she even reminiscences how innocent and naive he used to be when they first met, and how she enjoyed turning him into the cynical and hedonist mess that he is.
* CostumePorn: Katherine's dresses and outfits during the 1400's and the 1864 flashbacks. Some of them exhibit traits of ImpossiblyCoolClothes, PimpedOutDress and GorgeousPeriodDress.
%% * CourtlyLove: With Elijah and Klaus in the 1400's and also, with both Stefan and Damon in 1864.
* CoveringUpYourGray: After Katherine is [[BroughtDownToNormal cured of her vampirism]] and the process is screwed by Silas, her body starts suffering from RapidAging to compensate for the 700+ years she has been alive, and the first physical difference that she notices is some of her hair turning grey. She starts dying her hair, wearing hoodies and baseball caps to hide it, but given she was previously TheFashionista and a ProudBeauty who would never wear such outfits, the rest of the cast quickly catches on.
* CrazyPrepared: Always has a backup plan.
-->'''Katherine:''' ''[to Damon]'' Do you honestly believe that I don't have a plan B? And if that fails a plan C and a plan D. You know how the alphabet works don't you?
* CulturedBadass: Seems to have been born into a wealthy Bulgarian family and was portrayed as being a WomanOfWealthAndTaste in the 1400 and 1864 {{flashback}}s. And despite her [[SilkHidingSteel frail-looking clothing]] she's still a very old and dangerous vampire who can rip anyone to shreds.
%% * CuteAndPsycho: Katherine is beautiful but she can be rather scheming, manipulative and psychotic.
* CynicismCatalyst: One could argue that Katherine became the cold, selfish, vengeful and manipulative person she did is because of Klaus and the fact that he murdered her entire family all to get back at Katherine for running from him and trying to stay alive. The murder of Katherine's family could have been the moment that Katherine became a much darker person who lost her innocence.
%% * TheDarkChick: To Elena's TheChick.
* DarkActionGirl: Katherine is a vampire and therefore, she has superhuman abilities which can assist her in combat and fighting. She knows how to kick ass when she has to. She is probably the strongest female character in the series next to Rebekah, who is an Original vampire and Qetsiyah, who is known to be one of the most powerful witches of all time. Katherine is the most kickass female character and she can even take down many of the male characters including both of the Salvatore brothers. She is also on par with other female vampires, such as Elena and Caroline for example. Katherine has shown that she is immensely stronger and more powerful than Elena due to the fact that Katherine has over five centuries on Elena in regards to age and being a vampire. Katherine has taken down plenty of male characters other than the Salvatore brothers such as Silas and Jeremy for example. In the fifth season, Katherine had become a human and had therefore lost her superhuman abilities as a vampire. She still showed that she was a very capable individual in terms of survival and she knew how to defend herself when she had to despite being significantly more vulnerable than she was before. Although, when Katherine became a human, she became more of an ActionSurvivor more so than an ActionGirl.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was banished by her family from her home in Bulgaria as a teen for having a child out of wedlock, with her daughter being given away without Katherine being even able to hold her. In England, she was sought after by Klaus due to being a Petrova {{Doppelganger}}, since he planned to use her as a HumanSacrifice to break his hybrid curse. She was forced to become a vampire to have the strength to run away from him. In {{revenge}} for her escape, he came back to Bulgaria and slaughtered her entire family, and still kept pursuing her, forcing Katherine to remain on the run for her entire life.
%% * DarkMistress: To Stefan, Damon, Elijah and Mason.
* DatingCatwoman: Katherine's relationship with Stefan and Damon back in 1864 was not considered to be appropriate considering that she is a vampire.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has a quick wit and gets a lot of the show's one-liners whenever she's around.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Averted as Katherine hasn't died. However, when Katherine discovers that she is dying, she has been trying to seek forgiveness from others and wants redemption for all of her past actions. The person she seems to want forgiveness from the most is Stefan. Katherine feels that Stefan caring for her means he considers her worthy of forgiveness.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She is selfish, cold, manipulative, and vain. She is described to be cold-hearted and will use people in order to get her way without feeling any guilt afterwards. Around Stefan, Damon or [[spoiler: Elijah]], Katherine's humanity seems to come through.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 3, she appears sporadically for the first half of the season, then takes off after "Homecoming". Returns to a significantly more important role for seasons 4 and 5.
%% * DesperatelyCravesAffection: In Katherine's case, the trope should be renamed ''Desperately Craves Stefan's Affection''.
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* TheDeterminator: Katherine NEVER gives up or quits and she is known for being a survivor. She has spent over 5 centuries running from Klaus, messing with his plans, and trying to kill him because he murdered her family.
* DidNotGetTheGuy: In regards to Stefan, despite dedicating herself to him many times her ruthlessness and manipulative side pushed him away.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: This happens in season 2 when most people thought Katherine was the BigBad. It was actually Klaus.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Katherine hates it when others feel sorry for her.
* DoomedHometown: After she escaped Klaus' attempt to use her as a HumanSacrifice, he traveled back to Bulgaria and got his {{revenge}} on her by murdering her entire family.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Katherine is part of the Petrova line, which have naturally occurring humans born physically identical to the first two Immortals, in her case Amara. She's Amara's second known {{Doppelganger}}, after Tatia and before Elena.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Unable to pass through Bonnie who's the Anchor to the Other Side and is dragged off to a dark world. WordOfGod says she's never coming back... which ended up being a lie, as she returns as the Queen of Hell and the FinalBoss of the series.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: Much of her attacks against Elena and her loved ones in the second season were driven by Katherine's jealousy of Elena, who she saw as replacing her. Towards the end of Season 2 however this abated, but returned in full force from season four and foward.
%% * DrivenToVillainy: The death of Katherine's family has driven her to always look out for herself in order to survive.
* DudeMagnet: Katherine appeals to many different male characters including Stefan, Damon, Elijah, Mason Lockwood, and Trevor.
* EntitledBitch: Katherine can be very selfish and a SpoiledBrat when she doesn't get her way. Katherine has felt like she deserves the life that Elena has.
* EternalLove: Katherine hoped to spend an eternity with Stefan. However, Stefan has fallen deeply in love with Elena, her doppelganger.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Katherine does a lot of curtsying during the 1400's and also during the 1800's in the flashbacks.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Katherine has always had a penchant for accessories, her daylight amulet is even a necklace (and later a bracelet).
%% * EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilTwin: To Elena. See LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, CainAndAbel, and RedOniBlueOni.
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%%* EvilTastesGood: Definitely enjoys the vampiric side of life.
%% * EvilIsPetty: Some of Katherine's actions against others are out of envy and malice.
* EvilWearsBlack: She tends to wear black or dark clothing to contrast with Elena's outfits, which are usually lighter in color.
* TheFashionista: Katherine has a penchant for expensive clothing and fashion takes a lot of pride in her appearance. She's often seen wearing a combination of trendy pants, skirts, and dresses, she usually wears high heels or stilettos and always wears an abundance of jewelry and lots of makeup. She always styles her hair, normally in soft body waves unless she is impersonating Elena (then she straightens her hair bone straight). Even back in flashbacks, she's seen as a GirlyGirl who was into frilly and fashionable dresses.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Katherine can be polite when she wants to be, and sometimes even acts as a FriendlyEnemy and teams up with the heroes, but she's usually planning something devious and can turn on anyone at the drop of a hat.
* FemmeFatale: Katherine is a beautiful, seductive woman who often uses her charms in order to get what she wants. And if she doesn't she's still dangerous enough to dispatch her victims without much trouble.
* FetishizedAbuser: Especially to Stefan in 1864. Not only did Katherine basically bite Stefan against his will and feed from him, but she also continuously compelled him to not be scared of her after he discovered what she truly was ''and'' to drink her blood against his will. Subverted with Elijah.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Katherine comes out of left field to be the final villain in the series as the Queen of Hell at the very last episode.]]
%% * {{Foil}}: To Elena. See LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine.
* FoolForLove: In regards to Stefan, especially in season five. Instead of actually focusing on developing a relationship with her long lost daughter Nadia (who has been searching for her for 5 centuries and even became a vampire all so she could find her mother), Katherine is much too busy obsessing with Stefan. Katherine was so desperate for him to love her that in 5.11, [[spoiler: she goes to extremes by [[GrandTheftMe stealing Elena's body and possessing it using a Travellers spell]], all so that Stefan would think she is Elena and fall for her again.]] When it comes to Stefan and her love for him, Katherine is extremely irrational.
* FreudianExcuse: Katherine became the ruthless person she is because of her very tragic backstory, which included having her baby daughter taken away from her after she was born, Klaus chasing her in order to have her killed and sacrificed and murdering her entire family as a punishment for running from him.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Stefan and Damon on occasion, especially when working together against The Originals. Katherine will help out the Salvatore brothers from time to time, but she often seeks to get something out of it in return.
* GiantPoofySleeves: Many of her outfits during the 1864 flashbacks had giant sleeves.
* GirlyBruiser: Katherine is very feminine but she can still kick major ass when she has to.
%% * GirlyGirl: Katherine is really feminine.
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%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Katherine wore many of them in the 1400 and 1864 flashbacks.
* GrandTheftMe: In season five [[spoiler:Katherine possesses Elena's body using a Traveller's spell on her deathbed, in an attempt to both cheat death and steal Elena's life so she can be with Stefan again.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Katherine has a jealous streak, especially in regards to Stefan and Damon. See ClingyJealousGirl.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In regards to romance and her family. Katherine hasn't had any luck with romance and men. Her family ended up being killed because she ran from Klaus after learning that he was going to sacrifice her in order to break his hybrid curse.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: It's really hard to tell which side Katherine is on sometimes.
* HellBentForLeather: Katherine's version of practicable clothing is usually a black leather jacket and leather pants, which give her a more imposing look than her chic outfits.
* HereditaryCurse: Katherine is descended from a line of Petrova {{Doppelganger}}'s. She has passed down the doppelgänger curse to her children and as a result, the Petrova doppelgänger lineage continues every 500 years. Katherine is the doppelgänger of Tatia while Elena is the doppelgänger of Katherine. She's pursed by Klaus due to this, as a Petrova {{Doppelganger}} sacrifice is needed to break his curse.
%% * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She was the one more or less responsible for Jeremy's death with Silas to finish him off. She is also the reason why Stefan dies in the series finale.]]
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%% * HiddenDepths: Katherine may seem manipulative and bitchy but if one looks back into her past, it's rather tragic.
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* HopeBringer: Characters speak of her as a legend or as a way to show that it is possible to defeat or evade Klaus. She's also used as a threat against Klaus by Damon in Season 4.
* HotWitch: Katherine is actually a descendant of the Travelers witches is possesses magic, although spending most of her life as a vampire made her unable to practice it, until she got BroughtDownToNormal in season 5.
* HumiliationConga: Has been going through a big and rather well-deserved one in season five when she begins to die via RapidAging.
* IfICantHaveYou: Katherine threatened Stefan that if he didn't break up with Elena, she would kill Elena and her loved ones. Stefan of course did NOT react well to this at all, in a BewareTheNiceOnes way. She even says again it word for word in episode 5x15 -- yet again it regards Stefan: If she can't have him, then no one else will.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: This could be one of the major reasons as to why Katherine is desperate for Stefan to love her. Katherine has most likely always suffered from a degree of loneliness and feeling unloved or unworthy of love due to her troubled past.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: Katherine loves Stefan and Damon. She turned them both in order to be with them forever.
* IWillWaitForYou: Katherine has repeatedly said that she will wait forever or for an eternity for Stefan to love her since the second season.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Katherine is absolutely terrified of dying and will do just about anything to prevent it. This has formed her arc in season five as we see her succumb to the effects of age and realize she can't save herself any longer.
%% * ImpossiblyCoolClothes: During the flashbacks in the 1400's and 1864. Even Katherine's modern wardrobe is sophisticated and chic.
%% * ImpracticallyFancyOutfit
* ItsAllAboutMe: Katherine has been shown to be very selfish, self-indulgent and narcissistic. She is all about self-preservation and looking out for herself, even at the expense of others.
* {{Jerkass}}: Katherine is so incredibly obnoxious, selfish, sarcastic and arrogant that many of the characters who interact with her often find her intolerable.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When she, as Elena, refused to get back together with Damon and cited all of the reasons they are a bad couple and she didn't want to be with him, it's exceptionally hard to find a single flaw in her logic. She can even come off as the OnlySaneMan.
* JerkJustifications: Katherine does immoral acts out of self-preservation thanks to her past. She had her baby taken away from her, was exiled from her own him, was chased by Klaus for centuries and had her entire family slaughtered by Klaus as a punishment for running from him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Katherine brought Damon the cure instead of running in Season 2. She also tanked a brilliant plan to kill Klaus in order to protect Damon and bring back Stefan's humanity at the same time. The woman multitasks. And in season four, [[spoiler: she gives the cure for vampirism to Elijah. This is the only weapon/advantage she has against Klaus, and she willingly and unselfishly hands it over to Elijah because he's the only person who still believes that she has some good in her somewhere.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In season 5, she starts to [[RapidAging age rapidly]] when Silas sucks the cure out of her system and her imminent death garners sympathy from the rest of the cast and Katherine seems to mellow out. Then she [[spoiler: takes advantage of Elena sympathy to possess her body.]]
* JokerImmunity: Katherine is a very popular character within the fandom. So, although she isn't featured on the show all that much, the writers have chosen not to kill her character off for good. Instead, she is a recurring character that comes and goes in every season. Can't hurt that she shares an actor with one the main characters, making bringing her in very easy.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Katherine is often seen being badass in her expensive and chic clothing.
* KickTheMoralityPet: Katherine claims to love Stefan so much for over a century, yet she has repeatedly done things that have both indirectly and directly hurt Stefan and those that he loves and cares about. Even when she does these things, Katherine expects Stefan to reciprocate her feelings when she really hasn't done anything to earn Stefan's love, affection or concern.
%% * KickTheSonOfABitch: To Damon in 5x14 [[spoiler: when she tries to trick ripper!Damon into feeding on her so that Stefan would kill Damon. Unfortunately for Katherine, her plan doesn't work.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: She's finally killed for good in "I Was Feeling Epic" when Stefan holds her down while Bonnie destroys hell and they're both consumed by the hellfire.]]
* KissOfDeath: Katherine kisses [[spoiler:Stefan before he stabs and kills her with the Travellers Knife.]]
%% * LadyAndKnight: A variation of this with Stefan in 1864 with Stefan being the Knight to Katherine's Lady.
%% * LackOfEmpathy: Katherine doesn't really show that much remorse over what she's done
%% * LadyOfAdventure: Katherine has traveled around the world.
* LifeDrinker. Katherine is a vampire, i.e. a living dead person. She drinks human blood in order to survive. She has the ability to live forever without physically aging. Although Katherine physically looks like she is 18, she is actually over 500 years old.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Katherine is the Dark Feminine to Elena's Light Feminine. They are polar opposites in personality, despite being [[{{Doppelganger}} physically identical]]. Although now that Elena is a vampire their personalities are balancing out more.
* LivingMacGuffin:
** Katherine was one back in the 1400's for Klaus as she was the Petrova doppelgänger that was going to be used as a sacrifice to break Klaus' hybrid curse. She's been on the run from him for centuries to avoid this fate.
** She was one for Silas for a time because [[spoiler: she is human after ingesting the cure for immortality in the season four finale and Silas wanted the cure running through her veins. Katherine even humorously refers to herself as a "moonstone".]]
* LongLostRelative:
** Katherine was revealed to be Elena's distant maternal ancestor in season two.
** [[spoiler:It was revealed in 5.05 that Katherine is the long lost mother of Nadia.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: According to flashbacks in 5.10, Katherine had seen Stefan before she had physically met him and she found herself instantly and strongly drawn to him.
* LoveHungry: Her obsession with Stefan has reached Qetsiyah levels of obsession and craziness. In regards to Stefan, especially in season five
%% * LoveHurts: Katherine has faced heartbreak in the name of love.
%% * LoveInterest: Katherine was a love interest to Elijah in 1492, and to Damon and Stefan back in 1864. She is also a love interest to Damon, Stefan and [[spoiler: Elijah]] in the present.
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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Despite being a pragmatic survivalist for centuries, she makes a ton of mistakes due to her falling in love with Stefan and wanting to be with him. Most notably after [[spoiler: stealing Elena's body in 5x11, instead of taking Nadia and leaving Mystic Falls with her, Katherine decides to stay in town so that she could get Stefan back. The Mystic Falls gang does end up founding out Katherine's secret, which only resulted in Stefan finding out, her daughter Nadia dying, and Katherine being killed by Stefan himself..]]
* LoveRedeems: Bits and pieces of her humanity and softer side come out, especially in regards to both Stefan and Elijah.
* ManipulativeBitch: Katherine will manipulate, scheme, play mind games and will toy with others emotions in order to get what she wants without guilt. This is best show during her {{flashback}} scenes in season one, where she manipulates the entire Salvatore family against each other in order to obtain the moonstone.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: With both Stefan and Damon in 1864, Katherine was already a 350+ year-old vampire while Stefan was a 17-year-old human and Damon was a 24-year-old human.
* MeaningfulName: The name Katherine means "pure". Ironically, Katherine represented innocence, naivety and purity before her life changed and turned into a tragedy. Her last name is Pierce. She does a lot of "piercing".
* MissingMom: She's a Missing Mom to her daughter Nadia. Nadia had been taken away from Katherine by her father immediately after she had given birth to her. In season five, Katherine is finally reunited with Nadia after 500 years.
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* MotorMouth: Even Damon thinks she needs to shut up at times.
* MsFanservice: Katherine is a HeadTurningBeauty who often wears revealing and skimpy clothing that shows off her assets and appeals to both the male characters and the male audience. She has plenty of {{fanservice}} heavy scenes, like {{shower|scene}}, {{lingerie|scene}} and {{bathtub|scene}} scenes.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Katherine loves Stefan; Stefan loves Elena. In season two, Katherine threatens to kill Elena (and everyone she cared about) if Stefan doesn't stop being with Elena.
* {{Narcissist}}: Katherine is very vain, proud and selfish. She thinks a lot of herself and always believes that she is one step ahead of everyone else.
%% * NiceHat: Katherine sometimes wore hats during the 1864 flashbacks along with her PimpedOutDress and OperaGloves.
%% * NiceShoes: Katherine wears a lot of them, primarily high heels and stilettos.
* NobleDemon: Katherine has her moments of taking the moral high ground although this is a rarity and this has only happened a few times with a few people (i.e. Stefan, Damon and Elijah, for example).
* NotGoodWithRejection: Katherine didn't take it too well when Stefan told her that he hated her.
* OfCorsetsSexy: As part of Katherine's wardrobe during the flashbacks (1400's and 1800's), Katherine was seen to wear many corsets as part of her outfits. Being a vampire, she also avers OfCorsetHurts as she has no need to breathe.
%% * OperaGloves: Was seen wearing them during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * OppositesAttract: With Stefan and Elijah. Both Stefan and Elijah are moral and noble while Katherine is highly morally ambiguous.
%% * ParasolOfPrettiness: Katherine had a parasol or umbrella in 1864.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When she is not resorting to kicking ass and fighting her opponents, she is good at making a point with her words, being very blunt and never holding back.
* PetTheDog: Katherine has a few of these moments, such as mourning Stefan's death in a {{flashback}}, or bringing Damon his cure in the season finale. And in 4x18 [[spoiler:she shows her love and gesture of trust towards Elijah]].
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* PimpedOutDress: Wore plenty of fancy dresses during the 1800's and in the 1400's as well.
* ThePollyanna: As a human girl, Katherine seemed to be rather idealistic, naive, optimistic and romantic by heart in the 1400's flashbacks. This changed when she became a vampire and suffered tragedy over the centuries.
%% * ProperLady: Appeared this way during the and 1400's flashbacks and also the 1864 flashbacks.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Katherine is this way in regards to both of the Salvatore brothers due to the brothers being in love with Elena. Katherine herself only really cares about Stefan and is quite willing to MurderTheHypotenuse.
%% * PsychoticLoveTriangle: With Elena and Rebekah over Stefan's affections. [[FatalAttractor Stefan]] sure does attract some obsessive and psychotic women.
* RapidAging: She swallowed the cure for vampirism she got BroughtDownToNormal, and when Silas pursued her and drained the cure out of her blood, she began developing a slower but still deadly version of this trope for immortals. With her hair has been turning grey, her teeth are falling out, and being only estimated to live a few months longer. She even tried to make a deal with Qetsiyah to get it fixed, but she refused. Her recently found daughter offers her own body for Katherine to BodySurf into using Traveler magic, but as ruthless as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Katherine is she is above ruining her daughter's life to save herself]]... however she isn't above stealing ''Elena'''s life and body, so she and Nadia plan to use Elena's body to host Katherine, but the plan ultimately fails and Katherine passes away.
* ReallyGetsAround: Katherine is a seductress has been with many men throughout the centuries, mostly to manipulate and use them.
* RedOniBlueOni: Katherine is the Red (passionate, impulsive, strong) to Elena's Blue (logical, calm, empathetic).
%% * RegalRinglets: Katherine's hair is curled outside of her Elena impersonations.
* TheResenter: Towards Elena. Katherine has always been jealous of Elena and has resented her because Elena has the normal life that she always wanted and also gained the love of Stefan.
* {{Retcon}}: In Season 5, it's revealed that Katherine comes from a family of witches.
%% * TheRival: To Elena and Rebekah for the attentions of the Salvatore brothers.
* TheRunaway: Katherine has been running from Klaus for 500 years.
* SensualSlavs: Katherine is a seductive HeadTurningBeauty that is originally from Bulgaria.
* SexGoddess: Out of all characters in the show, she's the one that takes full advantage of [[VampiresAreSexGods the natural sexual prowess that vampires have]]. Especially notable in her early relationship with the Salvatore brothers, where they were constantly seen in bed and she made plenty of use of the KissOfTheVampire.
%% * ShadowArchetype: To Elena at times. Sometimes it's inverted and Elena seems like a shadow of Katherine.
%% * ShesGotLegs: And some pretty nice ones too.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She's hardly modest when it comes to her body. In "Dinner Party", she's unperturbed about Damon [[ShowerOfAwkward walking on her showering]] and just casually stands naked in front of him while asking for a robe, although she does seem to take a perverse pleasure in his [[EatingTheEyeCandy confusing gawking]].
* ShowSomeLeg: Katherine often uses her sexy appearance to get what she wants.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: With primarily Stefan. For over a century to be exact.
* SmugSmiler: Due to her arrogance and teasing demeanour, smiling in a smug or coquettish fashion is one of Katherine's signature expressions.
* SmugSuper: Katherine brags that Bonnie's witchy ju-ju migraine doesn't work on her since she [[StrongerWithAge has been around for a long time]]. Not to mention that she lords it over Stefan that she is [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity immune to the effects of vervain since she has been dosing herself with vervain for the last century]].
* TheSnarkKnight: Katherine is very sarcastic and has a wicked and dry sense of humor, usually making jokes that no one else but her can even appreciate.
%% * {{Socialite}}: Especially during 1864. It is even apparent that Katherine was a status seeker during the 1400's.
* TheSociopath: Lying, murdering, and manipulating are as natural as breathing to her. Subverted in that she does care about some people.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In "Down the Rabbit Hole," she steals the vampirism cure that everyone has been looking for, and assures Silas' awakening.
* StalkerWithACrush: Katherine has kept tabs Stefan for centuries after he turned into a vampire and she [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] and was on the run from Klaus.
* StartOfDarkness: In Season 2, we learn what made Katherine become more cold, selfish and immoral. Klaus had been obsessed with finding her after she ran from him, because Klaus wanted to sacrifice her life so that he could break his Hybrid Curse. After Katherine committed suicide and became a vampire, she fled to her hometown. It was there that she discovered that Klaus got to her entire family and murdered them all in revenge. This devastated Katherine and ever since then, Katherine became a darker, more selfish person, only looking out for herself and basing her immortal life on self-preservation.
* {{Stripperific}}: Some of Katherine's outfits and clothing can be raher provocative and revealing.
* SugaryMalice: Katherine is very good at appearing sweet and polite to others when she needs them to further her agenda.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: If Katherine isn't seen wearing black clothing, she is often seen wearing purple from time to time. Good colours for a murderous vampire who comes from a family of witches.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: To Nadia. It was revealed during the fifth season that Nadia is Katherine's [[LongLostRelative long-lost daughter]]. Katherine had Nadia when she was seventeen years old. Katherine has also been a vampire for over 500 years, therefore, she has not physically aged because she is immortal. Katherine has been physically eighteen years old for over 500 years. Nadia is also a vampire, but actually looks older than Katherine; this could be because Nadia was turned at an older age than when Katherine was turned. Katherine was turned at the age of eighteen while Nadia was turned at the age of thirty, hence Nadia is physically 12 years older than Katherine in regards to physical age. However, both Katherine and Nadia are over 500 years old.
* TheTease: Katherine's specialty is teasing and flirting with the opposite sex, sometimes she just does it for fun and sometimes to manipulate them. Once, when sharing a hotel room with Stefan, she pretended she forgot her ModestyTowel after showering just so she could make Stefan pick it up and bring it to her while she was naked in the bathroom. Then she purposely left the door slightly ajar as she finished drying herself, letting Stefan have a peek at her ToplessnessFromTheBack.
* TeenPregnancy: Katherine had a daughter out of wedlock when she was seventeen, and the child was given away since her parents were ashamed of her having children out of wedlock. That child ends up being Nadia, who spent most of her life trying to track down Katherine.
* TookALevelInBadass: After Katherine tricked Rose into turning her into a vampire, she became much more powerful and thus a much more difficult target for the Originals.
* TragicVillain: Katherine became a much colder, ruthless person due to her tragic past where Klaus had her entire family killed out of revenge for Katherine running from him and still pursued her ever since, leading her to value self-preservation above all. Even Elena manges to sympathize with her for it
-->'''Elena:''' I forgive you. You weren't born evil. Life made you that way.
%% * UncannyFamilyResemblance: With Elena due to the doppelganger curse.
%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: With Elijah, Damon and Stefan. Sometimes even with Klaus. In 4x18, it looks like she and [[spoiler: Elijah]] resolved it.
* VanityIsFeminine: Katherine's one of the few major female antagonists in the series and has a narcissistic vanity as one of her major character traits.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: While she's TheVamp who constantly uses her sex appeal to manipulate men into doing her bidding, the one man whom she truly fell in love with, is Stefan, who is actually heroic. Ironically to her, his morals is why he's unwilling to be with her.
%% ** [[spoiler: [[NobleDemon Elijah]]]] presents an interesting case.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Goes through ones when trapped in the cave by Damon and Stefan and when Damon plans on feeding her to Silas.
** Season five has seen a slower and steadier one as she realizes she can't fight off her RapidAging and will soon be dead.
* VillainousValour: Katherine's determination to survive no matter what.
* WalkingTheEarth: That's something you gotta do, when you are getting chased by powerful enemies for centuries. As a result, she never really had a normal life, as she had to abandon everything the minute Klaus or Elijah got too close to her location.
* WickedCultured: Katherine comes from a wealthy and noble family. She is highly sophisticated, clever and manipulative.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In 2.09, "Katerina", 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.
%% * XanatosSpeedChess: It's why she has evaded Klaus for so long.
* {{Yandere}}: In regards to Stefan. Katherine was very obsessed with Stefan for over a century, so much so that she spent most of Stefan's immortal life [[StalkerWithACrush stalking him]], killing people that are close to him (including Elena), and obsessively going to extreme lengths to be with him, save him or protect him. She has repeatedly gone the route of MurderTheHypotenuse by killing or trying to kill women that were romantically involved or interested in Stefan. She is also known to become AxeCrazy whenever Stefan rejects her, chooses Elena over her, ignores her or shows no interest in her. It's taken UpToEleven in Season Five when she is so obsessed with him that Stefan has literally become the major reason for Katherine wanting to live. While she is dying and on her death bed due to old age and the effects of the cure, Katherine manages to manipulate Elena into stealing her body against her will with the use of a passenger spell so that she can inhabit her body and live as Elena. Just so that she can get Stefan to fall in love with her again with the belief that he's falling in love with Elena.
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!!Katherine Pierce ([=AKA=] Katerina Petrova)
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/NinaDobrev
->''"Please I'm Katherine Pierce, I'm a survivor."''
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Katerina Petrova ('''''Bulgarian:''' Катерина Петрова''), better known as Katherine Pierce is a Petrova doppelgänger and the vampire who sired Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She is one of the main antagonists of the series.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Stefan. Stefan couldn't stand Katherine and wanted nothing to do with her in the earlier seasons. Part of the reason for this is because Stefan held a strong resentment towards Katherine for playing Damon and himself (Stefan) against each other and forcing them to keep Katherine's identity as a vampire a secret. On top of it, Katherine had lied, manipulated, fed on and compiled Stefan for a prolonged period of time and had even fed him her vampire blood against his will through compulsion so that Katherine would turn Stefan into a vampire (along with Damon, although no compulsion was needed for Damon to drink from her). Stefan also had fallen deeply in love with Katherine's doppelgänger and descendant Elena, mostly because she was ''nothing'' like Katherine according to him. This made Katherine extremely hateful, vengeful and jealous of Elena that in season two, Katherine made repeated attempts to kill Elena and harm Elena's loved ones. This furthered Stefan's anger and resentment towards Katherine. However, this became subverted in season five. It seems as though Stefan was still holding onto some minor resentment towards Katherine regarding the things she had done to him in the past century, Stefan finally forgave her as she was dying, something that Katherine had been wanting from Stefan for over a century. Unfortunately, Katherine ruined her chances of Stefan truly and finally forgiving her for all of her immoral deeds when she decided to steal Elena's body and inhabit it as a passenger with the use of Traveller magic. Stefan discovered what she had done and although he was not overly furious at Katherine for what she did, he was still not too happy or pleased with it as it was her actions that caused chaos and destruction to ensue. Ultimately, to top it of, Stefan ends up being the one to kill Katherine with the use of the Traveller Knife, which can expel the spirit of a passenger from anybody that it inhabits.
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: She made herself immune to the effects of vervain (which is poison to vampires) by dosing herself with vervain for the last centuries.
* ActionGirl: One of the most notable action females in the series and something of a CombatPragmatist as she often prefers sneak attacks than all-out brawls. Being a centuries-old vampire (who only gets StrongerWithAge) makes her one of the strongest non-Original vampires in the story, and she can easily fight off both Stefan and Damon.
* ActionFashionista: Katherine is very trendy, chic, stylish, and is [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery usually kicking ass in her most fashionable and trendy clothing]].
-->'''Katherine:''' ''[to Stefan]'' We both know I could rip you to shreds and do my nails at the same time.
* ActionMom: Katherine is discovered to have been the long-lost mother of Nadia. Katherine had given birth to Nadia at the tender age of 17 during the 1400's. Still, despite being a mother, Katherine was still badass and could kick major ass and they both work together as a mother and daughter evil team in season 5.
* ActionSurvivor: The reason why she's so dangerous and paranoid is mostly attributed to her spending five centuries on the run from the Original Vampires, which sharpened her survival senses. Even after [[spoiler: she cures her vampirism and loses all associated vampire powers, she's still able to rely on her wits to survive.]]
* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/NinaDobrev is Bulgarian in real life, as is Katherine InUniverse. This led to a misunderstanding on what we must assume was the writers' part: Nina Dobrev is sometimes referred to as "Nina Dobreva". In Bulgaria, the "a" at the end of her surname is a way to denote that she is a female member of the Dobrev family.
* AdaptationalNationality: She was German in the books, but became Bulgarian in the series to correlate with the fact [[ActorSharedBackground the actress who plays her is also Bulgarian]].
* AlasPoorVillain: In season five, Katherine begins to [[RapidAging age rapidly]] after consuming the cure at the end of season four. One can't help but feel sorry for her now that Katherine is dying, as she is seeking redemption for her past sins now. It is ultimately subverted when she tries to [[DemonicPossession take over Elena's body in her deathbed via a Passenger spell]] but it's eventually discovered and killed by Stefan and she gets DraggedOffToHell with no sympathy. When she makes her final return in season 8 as the FinalBoss she's treated as an irredeemable villain.
%%* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Katherine's affections for Klaus in the fifteenth century and Damon in the nineteenth century.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: For Stefan and Damon, after both claim to prefer Elena over her. However, Katherine's love for Stefan was stronger and she spent over a century stalking and pining for him.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Katherine is a highly sexual individual and she often uses this to get her way.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Averted. While it hasn't been shown that Katherine has an actual shoe obsession, it is obvious that Katherine loves her high heels and stilettos. This comes with being TheFashionista.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Katherine is an attractive and beautiful brunette who is smart, chic, composed, sexy and aloof.
%% * AlphaBitch: Tied with Rebekah for biggest bitch in the entire series.
%% * AlwaysSecondBest[=/=]AlwaysSomeoneBetter: With regards to Elena for Damon and Stefan, and Tatia for Elijah and Klaus.
%% Fix also example indentation.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Katherine's morality seems to be in the morally grey area. while Katherine has done many immoral deeds and acts, she does show that she has some humanity buried inside somewhere, considering how she helps the Salvatore brothers from time to time.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Katherine has proven that she can be rather ruthless when it comes to getting what she wants.
* AntiVillain: Katherine has been DrivenToVillainy due to the fact her blood makes her precious to the Originals, and she has been running from Klaus since her youth, and she was forced to do all sorts of dirty tricks, ruthless betrayals and manipulations in order to survive with the Originals breathing down her neck. Given both The Originals, Silas and the Travelers are all much bigger threats than her, she often works together with the Mystic Falls Gang. This gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the final episode when she comes BackForTheFinale as the queen of hell to be the FinalBoss of the series, and is portrayed more are irredeemably evil.
* ArchEnemy: Elena and Klaus. Katherine hates and resents Elena for getting the chance at a happy life she never did. In regards to Klaus, Klaus slaughtered her entire family out of revenge and Katherine has been running from Klaus ever since.
* TheAtoner: Katherine wants forgiveness and redemption now that she is dying in season five. [[spoiler: Subverted when she takes over Elena's body and returns to her old ways.]]
%% * AwesomeMcCoolname: Katerina Petrova has a nice ring to it, especially when Damon or Elijah say it.
%% Is it acknowledged in universe?
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Like Damon, she has the ability to get under other people's skin by accurately reading their body language. Has a perfect moment of this with [[spoiler: Rebekah]] in 4.18.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: With Elijah, Stefan and even Damon. Although all three men have claimed to either hate or resent Katherine, it is obvious that they all harbor a hidden affection or attachment to Katherine.
* AxeCrazy: Subverted. It may seem so in the beginning, but {{flashback}}s and interactions with other characters make it perfectly clear that Katherine is very much sane, just really obsessed [[spoiler: with saving her skin from Klaus.]]
%% * BadassBoast: Katherine has an ego and does her fair share of bragging.
* BadassInDistress:: Katherine becomes this in the fifth season as she becomes a human after being cured of her vampirism. Because of consuming the cure and being mortal, she becomes significantly more vulnerable and finds herself in trouble more often.
* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Katherine is shown that she can still hold her own as a human if the season five premiere is any indication. She has proven to be capable of using the environment around her to her advantage to boot.]]
* TheBaroness: Katherine is a femme fatale who is selfish, ruthless and domineering. Katherine is of the Sexpot flavour.
* BavarianFireDrill: Good at doing this when impersonating Elena. In fact, Katherine has managed to trick Bonnie, Stefan, Matt and Damon into thinking she is Elena and even admits that she has gotten really good at it.
%% * TheBeautifulElite: Especially during the flashbacks during the 1400's and 1864. Katherine acted like a socialite.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Katherine may be physically beautiful but she is very manipulative, vain, cold and selfish by nature. See BeautyIsBad.
* BeautyIsBad: Katherine may be physically beautiful but she can be very manipulative and immoral.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Damon and Stefan. Arguably, even with Klaus and Elijah at times.
%% * BettyAndVeronica: Katherine/Stefan/Damon with Katherine being the Archie for Stefan's Betty and Damon's Veronica. Also, arguably, Stefan/Elena/Katherine with Stefan being the Archie for Elena's Betty and Katherine's Veronica. Now, there seems to be a possible triangle shaping up between Stefan, Katherine and Caroline with Stefan being the Archie to Caroline's Betty and Katherine's Veronica.
%% * BigBad: Of Season 1 and the start of Season 2.
%% * VillainousRescue: Occasionally. Sometimes Katherine will save the day or help out the Salvatore brothers, especially if there is something in it for her in return.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Damon. In terms of outlook and personality, Katherine and Damon have a lot in common and are quite a bit alike.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Katherine comes across as playful and harmless, but she is manipulative and cunning.
* BlessedWithSuck: Katherine is a Petrova Doppelgänger, meaning that she was basically a human blood bag when she was a human and that she was destined for a life of pain, tragedy and suffering.
%% * BlueBlood: Katherine seemed to have come from a wealthy and noble Bulgarian family.
%% * BodySnatcher[=/=]BodySurf: In season five, [[spoiler: Katherine takes possession of Elena's body using a Traveller's spell in order to survive.]]
%% * BrainyBrunette: Of the MagnificentBitch type.
%% * BreakoutCharacter[=/=]BreakoutVillain: Katherine is a very popular character within fandom and amongst the public.
* BreakTheCutie: Katherine was a sweet girl before losing her daughter and being forced to run from Klaus. The girl who once said life without believing in love was too cruel has become a manipulative, selfish woman.
%% * CorruptTheCutie: Indirectly by Klaus. Running away from Klaus and having her family murdered by him darkened Katherine's personality significantly.
* BrokenBird: Katherine's tragic life began after Klaus murdered her entire family back in Bulgaria.
* BroughtDownToBadass: In the fifth season, Katherine may have lost all her superhuman abilities due to being cured of her vampirism and becoming human, but she was still majorly kick ass when she has to.
* BroughtDownToNormal: In season four finale, Katherine becomes human again once Elena force-feeds her the cure.
* BrutalHonesty: Katherine will never hesitate to tell anybody exactly what she thinks, even if it's hurtful.
* [[ByronicHero Byronic Heroine]]: Katherine has a dark past and has committed many immoral acts. At the same time, Katherine could be viewed as a tragic character.
* CameBackWrong: After the cure was drained from Katherine's bloodstream, her 500 years of vampirism have started catching up to her at an accelerated pace.
* CatchPhrase: Although she doesn't use it that often, "better you than I" has been coming up a lot.
* TheChessmaster: Katherine is cunning, strategic and manipulative. She always has an agenda.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Katherine has zero issue with backstabbing others in order to get what she wants. Subverted with Elijah. She was going to betray him but couldn't because she honestly fell in love with him.
* CleavageWindow: Katherine often wears clothing that shows off her upper assets.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Oh so much towards Stefan. In fact, she is more of a {{Yandere}} for him as she has spent over a century being obsessively in love with him to the point that she [[StalkerWithACrush stalked Stefan]] and [[MurderTheHypotenuse has both atempted to kill or killed people]] that Stefan loves and cares about, including Elena. She visibly shows that she is very jealous of Elena because Stefan was in love with her and always chose her over Katherine.
* CoquettishLipBiting: This is one of her CharacterTics, but while she sometimes uses it to [[TheVamp look seductive]], she also uses when she's [[NervousTics nervous]].
* ConsummateLiar: Katherine is very good at lying and manipulating others in order to get what she wants.
* TheCorrupter: Katherine did this to both Salvatore brothers, but especially Damon, who used to be a much better man until she encouraged all of his worst instincts. When she reunites with Damon, she even reminiscences how innocent and naive he used to be when they first met, and how she enjoyed turning him into the cynical and hedonist mess that he is.
* CostumePorn: Katherine's dresses and outfits during the 1400's and the 1864 flashbacks. Some of them exhibit traits of ImpossiblyCoolClothes, PimpedOutDress and GorgeousPeriodDress.
%% * CourtlyLove: With Elijah and Klaus in the 1400's and also, with both Stefan and Damon in 1864.
* CoveringUpYourGray: After Katherine is [[BroughtDownToNormal cured of her vampirism]] and the process is screwed by Silas, her body starts suffering from RapidAging to compensate for the 700+ years she has been alive, and the first physical difference that she notices is some of her hair turning grey. She starts dying her hair, wearing hoodies and baseball caps to hide it, but given she was previously TheFashionista and a ProudBeauty who would never wear such outfits, the rest of the cast quickly catches on.
* CrazyPrepared: Always has a backup plan.
-->'''Katherine:''' ''[to Damon]'' Do you honestly believe that I don't have a plan B? And if that fails a plan C and a plan D. You know how the alphabet works don't you?
* CulturedBadass: Seems to have been born into a wealthy Bulgarian family and was portrayed as being a WomanOfWealthAndTaste in the 1400 and 1864 {{flashback}}s. And despite her [[SilkHidingSteel frail-looking clothing]] she's still a very old and dangerous vampire who can rip anyone to shreds.
%% * CuteAndPsycho: Katherine is beautiful but she can be rather scheming, manipulative and psychotic.
* CynicismCatalyst: One could argue that Katherine became the cold, selfish, vengeful and manipulative person she did is because of Klaus and the fact that he murdered her entire family all to get back at Katherine for running from him and trying to stay alive. The murder of Katherine's family could have been the moment that Katherine became a much darker person who lost her innocence.
%% * TheDarkChick: To Elena's TheChick.
* DarkActionGirl: Katherine is a vampire and therefore, she has superhuman abilities which can assist her in combat and fighting. She knows how to kick ass when she has to. She is probably the strongest female character in the series next to Rebekah, who is an Original vampire and Qetsiyah, who is known to be one of the most powerful witches of all time. Katherine is the most kickass female character and she can even take down many of the male characters including both of the Salvatore brothers. She is also on par with other female vampires, such as Elena and Caroline for example. Katherine has shown that she is immensely stronger and more powerful than Elena due to the fact that Katherine has over five centuries on Elena in regards to age and being a vampire. Katherine has taken down plenty of male characters other than the Salvatore brothers such as Silas and Jeremy for example. In the fifth season, Katherine had become a human and had therefore lost her superhuman abilities as a vampire. She still showed that she was a very capable individual in terms of survival and she knew how to defend herself when she had to despite being significantly more vulnerable than she was before. Although, when Katherine became a human, she became more of an ActionSurvivor more so than an ActionGirl.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was banished by her family from her home in Bulgaria as a teen for having a child out of wedlock, with her daughter being given away without Katherine being even able to hold her. In England, she was sought after by Klaus due to being a Petrova {{Doppelganger}}, since he planned to use her as a HumanSacrifice to break his hybrid curse. She was forced to become a vampire to have the strength to run away from him. In {{revenge}} for her escape, he came back to Bulgaria and slaughtered her entire family, and still kept pursuing her, forcing Katherine to remain on the run for her entire life.
%% * DarkMistress: To Stefan, Damon, Elijah and Mason.
* DatingCatwoman: Katherine's relationship with Stefan and Damon back in 1864 was not considered to be appropriate considering that she is a vampire.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has a quick wit and gets a lot of the show's one-liners whenever she's around.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Averted as Katherine hasn't died. However, when Katherine discovers that she is dying, she has been trying to seek forgiveness from others and wants redemption for all of her past actions. The person she seems to want forgiveness from the most is Stefan. Katherine feels that Stefan caring for her means he considers her worthy of forgiveness.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She is selfish, cold, manipulative, and vain. She is described to be cold-hearted and will use people in order to get her way without feeling any guilt afterwards. Around Stefan, Damon or [[spoiler: Elijah]], Katherine's humanity seems to come through.
* DemotedToExtra: In season 3, she appears sporadically for the first half of the season, then takes off after "Homecoming". Returns to a significantly more important role for seasons 4 and 5.
%% * DesperatelyCravesAffection: In Katherine's case, the trope should be renamed ''Desperately Craves Stefan's Affection''.
%% More context is needed than suggesting trope name change.
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* TheDeterminator: Katherine NEVER gives up or quits and she is known for being a survivor. She has spent over 5 centuries running from Klaus, messing with his plans, and trying to kill him because he murdered her family.
* DidNotGetTheGuy: In regards to Stefan, despite dedicating herself to him many times her ruthlessness and manipulative side pushed him away.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: This happens in season 2 when most people thought Katherine was the BigBad. It was actually Klaus.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Katherine hates it when others feel sorry for her.
* DoomedHometown: After she escaped Klaus' attempt to use her as a HumanSacrifice, he traveled back to Bulgaria and got his {{revenge}} on her by murdering her entire family.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Katherine is part of the Petrova line, which have naturally occurring humans born physically identical to the first two Immortals, in her case Amara. She's Amara's second known {{Doppelganger}}, after Tatia and before Elena.
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Unable to pass through Bonnie who's the Anchor to the Other Side and is dragged off to a dark world. WordOfGod says she's never coming back... which ended up being a lie, as she returns as the Queen of Hell and the FinalBoss of the series.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: Much of her attacks against Elena and her loved ones in the second season were driven by Katherine's jealousy of Elena, who she saw as replacing her. Towards the end of Season 2 however this abated, but returned in full force from season four and foward.
%% * DrivenToVillainy: The death of Katherine's family has driven her to always look out for herself in order to survive.
* DudeMagnet: Katherine appeals to many different male characters including Stefan, Damon, Elijah, Mason Lockwood, and Trevor.
* EntitledBitch: Katherine can be very selfish and a SpoiledBrat when she doesn't get her way. Katherine has felt like she deserves the life that Elena has.
* EternalLove: Katherine hoped to spend an eternity with Stefan. However, Stefan has fallen deeply in love with Elena, her doppelganger.
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Katherine does a lot of curtsying during the 1400's and also during the 1800's in the flashbacks.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Katherine has always had a penchant for accessories, her daylight amulet is even a necklace (and later a bracelet).
%% * EvilCounterpart[=/=]EvilTwin: To Elena. See LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, CainAndAbel, and RedOniBlueOni.
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%% Each of these tropes need to be explained separately. Also be sure to use correct example indentation.
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%%* EvilTastesGood: Definitely enjoys the vampiric side of life.
%% * EvilIsPetty: Some of Katherine's actions against others are out of envy and malice.
* EvilWearsBlack: She tends to wear black or dark clothing to contrast with Elena's outfits, which are usually lighter in color.
* TheFashionista: Katherine has a penchant for expensive clothing and fashion takes a lot of pride in her appearance. She's often seen wearing a combination of trendy pants, skirts, and dresses, she usually wears high heels or stilettos and always wears an abundance of jewelry and lots of makeup. She always styles her hair, normally in soft body waves unless she is impersonating Elena (then she straightens her hair bone straight). Even back in flashbacks, she's seen as a GirlyGirl who was into frilly and fashionable dresses.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Katherine can be polite when she wants to be, and sometimes even acts as a FriendlyEnemy and teams up with the heroes, but she's usually planning something devious and can turn on anyone at the drop of a hat.
* FemmeFatale: Katherine is a beautiful, seductive woman who often uses her charms in order to get what she wants. And if she doesn't she's still dangerous enough to dispatch her victims without much trouble.
* FetishizedAbuser: Especially to Stefan in 1864. Not only did Katherine basically bite Stefan against his will and feed from him, but she also continuously compelled him to not be scared of her after he discovered what she truly was ''and'' to drink her blood against his will. Subverted with Elijah.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Katherine comes out of left field to be the final villain in the series as the Queen of Hell at the very last episode.]]
%% * {{Foil}}: To Elena. See LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine.
* FoolForLove: In regards to Stefan, especially in season five. Instead of actually focusing on developing a relationship with her long lost daughter Nadia (who has been searching for her for 5 centuries and even became a vampire all so she could find her mother), Katherine is much too busy obsessing with Stefan. Katherine was so desperate for him to love her that in 5.11, [[spoiler: she goes to extremes by [[GrandTheftMe stealing Elena's body and possessing it using a Travellers spell]], all so that Stefan would think she is Elena and fall for her again.]] When it comes to Stefan and her love for him, Katherine is extremely irrational.
* FreudianExcuse: Katherine became the ruthless person she is because of her very tragic backstory, which included having her baby daughter taken away from her after she was born, Klaus chasing her in order to have her killed and sacrificed and murdering her entire family as a punishment for running from him.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Stefan and Damon on occasion, especially when working together against The Originals. Katherine will help out the Salvatore brothers from time to time, but she often seeks to get something out of it in return.
* GiantPoofySleeves: Many of her outfits during the 1864 flashbacks had giant sleeves.
* GirlyBruiser: Katherine is very feminine but she can still kick major ass when she has to.
%% * GirlyGirl: Katherine is really feminine.
%% HOW?
%% * GorgeousPeriodDress: Katherine wore many of them in the 1400 and 1864 flashbacks.
* GrandTheftMe: In season five [[spoiler:Katherine possesses Elena's body using a Traveller's spell on her deathbed, in an attempt to both cheat death and steal Elena's life so she can be with Stefan again.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Katherine has a jealous streak, especially in regards to Stefan and Damon. See ClingyJealousGirl.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In regards to romance and her family. Katherine hasn't had any luck with romance and men. Her family ended up being killed because she ran from Klaus after learning that he was going to sacrifice her in order to break his hybrid curse.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: It's really hard to tell which side Katherine is on sometimes.
* HellBentForLeather: Katherine's version of practicable clothing is usually a black leather jacket and leather pants, which give her a more imposing look than her chic outfits.
* HereditaryCurse: Katherine is descended from a line of Petrova {{Doppelganger}}'s. She has passed down the doppelgänger curse to her children and as a result, the Petrova doppelgänger lineage continues every 500 years. Katherine is the doppelgänger of Tatia while Elena is the doppelgänger of Katherine. She's pursed by Klaus due to this, as a Petrova {{Doppelganger}} sacrifice is needed to break his curse.
%% * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She was the one more or less responsible for Jeremy's death with Silas to finish him off. She is also the reason why Stefan dies in the series finale.]]
%% This needs explanation.
%% * HiddenDepths: Katherine may seem manipulative and bitchy but if one looks back into her past, it's rather tragic.
%% THIS IS TOO VAGUE.
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* HopeBringer: Characters speak of her as a legend or as a way to show that it is possible to defeat or evade Klaus. She's also used as a threat against Klaus by Damon in Season 4.
* HotWitch: Katherine is actually a descendant of the Travelers witches is possesses magic, although spending most of her life as a vampire made her unable to practice it, until she got BroughtDownToNormal in season 5.
* HumiliationConga: Has been going through a big and rather well-deserved one in season five when she begins to die via RapidAging.
* IfICantHaveYou: Katherine threatened Stefan that if he didn't break up with Elena, she would kill Elena and her loved ones. Stefan of course did NOT react well to this at all, in a BewareTheNiceOnes way. She even says again it word for word in episode 5x15 -- yet again it regards Stefan: If she can't have him, then no one else will.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: This could be one of the major reasons as to why Katherine is desperate for Stefan to love her. Katherine has most likely always suffered from a degree of loneliness and feeling unloved or unworthy of love due to her troubled past.
* ILoveYouVampireSon: Katherine loves Stefan and Damon. She turned them both in order to be with them forever.
* IWillWaitForYou: Katherine has repeatedly said that she will wait forever or for an eternity for Stefan to love her since the second season.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Katherine is absolutely terrified of dying and will do just about anything to prevent it. This has formed her arc in season five as we see her succumb to the effects of age and realize she can't save herself any longer.
%% * ImpossiblyCoolClothes: During the flashbacks in the 1400's and 1864. Even Katherine's modern wardrobe is sophisticated and chic.
%% * ImpracticallyFancyOutfit
* ItsAllAboutMe: Katherine has been shown to be very selfish, self-indulgent and narcissistic. She is all about self-preservation and looking out for herself, even at the expense of others.
* {{Jerkass}}: Katherine is so incredibly obnoxious, selfish, sarcastic and arrogant that many of the characters who interact with her often find her intolerable.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When she, as Elena, refused to get back together with Damon and cited all of the reasons they are a bad couple and she didn't want to be with him, it's exceptionally hard to find a single flaw in her logic. She can even come off as the OnlySaneMan.
* JerkJustifications: Katherine does immoral acts out of self-preservation thanks to her past. She had her baby taken away from her, was exiled from her own him, was chased by Klaus for centuries and had her entire family slaughtered by Klaus as a punishment for running from him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Katherine brought Damon the cure instead of running in Season 2. She also tanked a brilliant plan to kill Klaus in order to protect Damon and bring back Stefan's humanity at the same time. The woman multitasks. And in season four, [[spoiler: she gives the cure for vampirism to Elijah. This is the only weapon/advantage she has against Klaus, and she willingly and unselfishly hands it over to Elijah because he's the only person who still believes that she has some good in her somewhere.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: In season 5, she starts to [[RapidAging age rapidly]] when Silas sucks the cure out of her system and her imminent death garners sympathy from the rest of the cast and Katherine seems to mellow out. Then she [[spoiler: takes advantage of Elena sympathy to possess her body.]]
* JokerImmunity: Katherine is a very popular character within the fandom. So, although she isn't featured on the show all that much, the writers have chosen not to kill her character off for good. Instead, she is a recurring character that comes and goes in every season. Can't hurt that she shares an actor with one the main characters, making bringing her in very easy.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Katherine is often seen being badass in her expensive and chic clothing.
* KickTheMoralityPet: Katherine claims to love Stefan so much for over a century, yet she has repeatedly done things that have both indirectly and directly hurt Stefan and those that he loves and cares about. Even when she does these things, Katherine expects Stefan to reciprocate her feelings when she really hasn't done anything to earn Stefan's love, affection or concern.
%% * KickTheSonOfABitch: To Damon in 5x14 [[spoiler: when she tries to trick ripper!Damon into feeding on her so that Stefan would kill Damon. Unfortunately for Katherine, her plan doesn't work.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: She's finally killed for good in "I Was Feeling Epic" when Stefan holds her down while Bonnie destroys hell and they're both consumed by the hellfire.]]
* KissOfDeath: Katherine kisses [[spoiler:Stefan before he stabs and kills her with the Travellers Knife.]]
%% * LadyAndKnight: A variation of this with Stefan in 1864 with Stefan being the Knight to Katherine's Lady.
%% * LackOfEmpathy: Katherine doesn't really show that much remorse over what she's done
%% * LadyOfAdventure: Katherine has traveled around the world.
* LifeDrinker. Katherine is a vampire, i.e. a living dead person. She drinks human blood in order to survive. She has the ability to live forever without physically aging. Although Katherine physically looks like she is 18, she is actually over 500 years old.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Katherine is the Dark Feminine to Elena's Light Feminine. They are polar opposites in personality, despite being [[{{Doppelganger}} physically identical]]. Although now that Elena is a vampire their personalities are balancing out more.
* LivingMacGuffin:
** Katherine was one back in the 1400's for Klaus as she was the Petrova doppelgänger that was going to be used as a sacrifice to break Klaus' hybrid curse. She's been on the run from him for centuries to avoid this fate.
** She was one for Silas for a time because [[spoiler: she is human after ingesting the cure for immortality in the season four finale and Silas wanted the cure running through her veins. Katherine even humorously refers to herself as a "moonstone".]]
* LongLostRelative:
** Katherine was revealed to be Elena's distant maternal ancestor in season two.
** [[spoiler:It was revealed in 5.05 that Katherine is the long lost mother of Nadia.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: According to flashbacks in 5.10, Katherine had seen Stefan before she had physically met him and she found herself instantly and strongly drawn to him.
* LoveHungry: Her obsession with Stefan has reached Qetsiyah levels of obsession and craziness. In regards to Stefan, especially in season five
%% * LoveHurts: Katherine has faced heartbreak in the name of love.
%% * LoveInterest: Katherine was a love interest to Elijah in 1492, and to Damon and Stefan back in 1864. She is also a love interest to Damon, Stefan and [[spoiler: Elijah]] in the present.
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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Despite being a pragmatic survivalist for centuries, she makes a ton of mistakes due to her falling in love with Stefan and wanting to be with him. Most notably after [[spoiler: stealing Elena's body in 5x11, instead of taking Nadia and leaving Mystic Falls with her, Katherine decides to stay in town so that she could get Stefan back. The Mystic Falls gang does end up founding out Katherine's secret, which only resulted in Stefan finding out, her daughter Nadia dying, and Katherine being killed by Stefan himself..]]
* LoveRedeems: Bits and pieces of her humanity and softer side come out, especially in regards to both Stefan and Elijah.
* ManipulativeBitch: Katherine will manipulate, scheme, play mind games and will toy with others emotions in order to get what she wants without guilt. This is best show during her {{flashback}} scenes in season one, where she manipulates the entire Salvatore family against each other in order to obtain the moonstone.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: With both Stefan and Damon in 1864, Katherine was already a 350+ year-old vampire while Stefan was a 17-year-old human and Damon was a 24-year-old human.
* MeaningfulName: The name Katherine means "pure". Ironically, Katherine represented innocence, naivety and purity before her life changed and turned into a tragedy. Her last name is Pierce. She does a lot of "piercing".
* MissingMom: She's a Missing Mom to her daughter Nadia. Nadia had been taken away from Katherine by her father immediately after she had given birth to her. In season five, Katherine is finally reunited with Nadia after 500 years.
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* MotorMouth: Even Damon thinks she needs to shut up at times.
* MsFanservice: Katherine is a HeadTurningBeauty who often wears revealing and skimpy clothing that shows off her assets and appeals to both the male characters and the male audience. She has plenty of {{fanservice}} heavy scenes, like {{shower|scene}}, {{lingerie|scene}} and {{bathtub|scene}} scenes.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Katherine loves Stefan; Stefan loves Elena. In season two, Katherine threatens to kill Elena (and everyone she cared about) if Stefan doesn't stop being with Elena.
* {{Narcissist}}: Katherine is very vain, proud and selfish. She thinks a lot of herself and always believes that she is one step ahead of everyone else.
%% * NiceHat: Katherine sometimes wore hats during the 1864 flashbacks along with her PimpedOutDress and OperaGloves.
%% * NiceShoes: Katherine wears a lot of them, primarily high heels and stilettos.
* NobleDemon: Katherine has her moments of taking the moral high ground although this is a rarity and this has only happened a few times with a few people (i.e. Stefan, Damon and Elijah, for example).
* NotGoodWithRejection: Katherine didn't take it too well when Stefan told her that he hated her.
* OfCorsetsSexy: As part of Katherine's wardrobe during the flashbacks (1400's and 1800's), Katherine was seen to wear many corsets as part of her outfits. Being a vampire, she also avers OfCorsetHurts as she has no need to breathe.
%% * OperaGloves: Was seen wearing them during the 1864 flashbacks.
%% * OppositesAttract: With Stefan and Elijah. Both Stefan and Elijah are moral and noble while Katherine is highly morally ambiguous.
%% * ParasolOfPrettiness: Katherine had a parasol or umbrella in 1864.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When she is not resorting to kicking ass and fighting her opponents, she is good at making a point with her words, being very blunt and never holding back.
* PetTheDog: Katherine has a few of these moments, such as mourning Stefan's death in a {{flashback}}, or bringing Damon his cure in the season finale. And in 4x18 [[spoiler:she shows her love and gesture of trust towards Elijah]].
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* PimpedOutDress: Wore plenty of fancy dresses during the 1800's and in the 1400's as well.
* ThePollyanna: As a human girl, Katherine seemed to be rather idealistic, naive, optimistic and romantic by heart in the 1400's flashbacks. This changed when she became a vampire and suffered tragedy over the centuries.
%% * ProperLady: Appeared this way during the and 1400's flashbacks and also the 1864 flashbacks.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Katherine is this way in regards to both of the Salvatore brothers due to the brothers being in love with Elena. Katherine herself only really cares about Stefan and is quite willing to MurderTheHypotenuse.
%% * PsychoticLoveTriangle: With Elena and Rebekah over Stefan's affections. [[FatalAttractor Stefan]] sure does attract some obsessive and psychotic women.
* RapidAging: She swallowed the cure for vampirism she got BroughtDownToNormal, and when Silas pursued her and drained the cure out of her blood, she began developing a slower but still deadly version of this trope for immortals. With her hair has been turning grey, her teeth are falling out, and being only estimated to live a few months longer. She even tried to make a deal with Qetsiyah to get it fixed, but she refused. Her recently found daughter offers her own body for Katherine to BodySurf into using Traveler magic, but as ruthless as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Katherine is she is above ruining her daughter's life to save herself]]... however she isn't above stealing ''Elena'''s life and body, so she and Nadia plan to use Elena's body to host Katherine, but the plan ultimately fails and Katherine passes away.
* ReallyGetsAround: Katherine is a seductress has been with many men throughout the centuries, mostly to manipulate and use them.
* RedOniBlueOni: Katherine is the Red (passionate, impulsive, strong) to Elena's Blue (logical, calm, empathetic).
%% * RegalRinglets: Katherine's hair is curled outside of her Elena impersonations.
* TheResenter: Towards Elena. Katherine has always been jealous of Elena and has resented her because Elena has the normal life that she always wanted and also gained the love of Stefan.
* {{Retcon}}: In Season 5, it's revealed that Katherine comes from a family of witches.
%% * TheRival: To Elena and Rebekah for the attentions of the Salvatore brothers.
* TheRunaway: Katherine has been running from Klaus for 500 years.
* SensualSlavs: Katherine is a seductive HeadTurningBeauty that is originally from Bulgaria.
* SexGoddess: Out of all characters in the show, she's the one that takes full advantage of [[VampiresAreSexGods the natural sexual prowess that vampires have]]. Especially notable in her early relationship with the Salvatore brothers, where they were constantly seen in bed and she made plenty of use of the KissOfTheVampire.
%% * ShadowArchetype: To Elena at times. Sometimes it's inverted and Elena seems like a shadow of Katherine.
%% * ShesGotLegs: And some pretty nice ones too.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She's hardly modest when it comes to her body. In "Dinner Party", she's unperturbed about Damon [[ShowerOfAwkward walking on her showering]] and just casually stands naked in front of him while asking for a robe, although she does seem to take a perverse pleasure in his [[EatingTheEyeCandy confusing gawking]].
* ShowSomeLeg: Katherine often uses her sexy appearance to get what she wants.
%% * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: With primarily Stefan. For over a century to be exact.
* SmugSmiler: Due to her arrogance and teasing demeanour, smiling in a smug or coquettish fashion is one of Katherine's signature expressions.
* SmugSuper: Katherine brags that Bonnie's witchy ju-ju migraine doesn't work on her since she [[StrongerWithAge has been around for a long time]]. Not to mention that she lords it over Stefan that she is [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity immune to the effects of vervain since she has been dosing herself with vervain for the last century]].
* TheSnarkKnight: Katherine is very sarcastic and has a wicked and dry sense of humor, usually making jokes that no one else but her can even appreciate.
%% * {{Socialite}}: Especially during 1864. It is even apparent that Katherine was a status seeker during the 1400's.
* TheSociopath: Lying, murdering, and manipulating are as natural as breathing to her. Subverted in that she does care about some people.
* SpannerInTheWorks: In "Down the Rabbit Hole," she steals the vampirism cure that everyone has been looking for, and assures Silas' awakening.
* StalkerWithACrush: Katherine has kept tabs Stefan for centuries after he turned into a vampire and she [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] and was on the run from Klaus.
* StartOfDarkness: In Season 2, we learn what made Katherine become more cold, selfish and immoral. Klaus had been obsessed with finding her after she ran from him, because Klaus wanted to sacrifice her life so that he could break his Hybrid Curse. After Katherine committed suicide and became a vampire, she fled to her hometown. It was there that she discovered that Klaus got to her entire family and murdered them all in revenge. This devastated Katherine and ever since then, Katherine became a darker, more selfish person, only looking out for herself and basing her immortal life on self-preservation.
* {{Stripperific}}: Some of Katherine's outfits and clothing can be raher provocative and revealing.
* SugaryMalice: Katherine is very good at appearing sweet and polite to others when she needs them to further her agenda.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: If Katherine isn't seen wearing black clothing, she is often seen wearing purple from time to time. Good colours for a murderous vampire who comes from a family of witches.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: To Nadia. It was revealed during the fifth season that Nadia is Katherine's [[LongLostRelative long-lost daughter]]. Katherine had Nadia when she was seventeen years old. Katherine has also been a vampire for over 500 years, therefore, she has not physically aged because she is immortal. Katherine has been physically eighteen years old for over 500 years. Nadia is also a vampire, but actually looks older than Katherine; this could be because Nadia was turned at an older age than when Katherine was turned. Katherine was turned at the age of eighteen while Nadia was turned at the age of thirty, hence Nadia is physically 12 years older than Katherine in regards to physical age. However, both Katherine and Nadia are over 500 years old.
* TheTease: Katherine's specialty is teasing and flirting with the opposite sex, sometimes she just does it for fun and sometimes to manipulate them. Once, when sharing a hotel room with Stefan, she pretended she forgot her ModestyTowel after showering just so she could make Stefan pick it up and bring it to her while she was naked in the bathroom. Then she purposely left the door slightly ajar as she finished drying herself, letting Stefan have a peek at her ToplessnessFromTheBack.
* TeenPregnancy: Katherine had a daughter out of wedlock when she was seventeen, and the child was given away since her parents were ashamed of her having children out of wedlock. That child ends up being Nadia, who spent most of her life trying to track down Katherine.
* TookALevelInBadass: After Katherine tricked Rose into turning her into a vampire, she became much more powerful and thus a much more difficult target for the Originals.
* TragicVillain: Katherine became a much colder, ruthless person due to her tragic past where Klaus had her entire family killed out of revenge for Katherine running from him and still pursued her ever since, leading her to value self-preservation above all. Even Elena manges to sympathize with her for it
-->'''Elena:''' I forgive you. You weren't born evil. Life made you that way.
%% * UncannyFamilyResemblance: With Elena due to the doppelganger curse.
%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: With Elijah, Damon and Stefan. Sometimes even with Klaus. In 4x18, it looks like she and [[spoiler: Elijah]] resolved it.
* VanityIsFeminine: Katherine's one of the few major female antagonists in the series and has a narcissistic vanity as one of her major character traits.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: While she's TheVamp who constantly uses her sex appeal to manipulate men into doing her bidding, the one man whom she truly fell in love with, is Stefan, who is actually heroic. Ironically to her, his morals is why he's unwilling to be with her.
%% ** [[spoiler: [[NobleDemon Elijah]]]] presents an interesting case.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Goes through ones when trapped in the cave by Damon and Stefan and when Damon plans on feeding her to Silas.
** Season five has seen a slower and steadier one as she realizes she can't fight off her RapidAging and will soon be dead.
* VillainousValour: Katherine's determination to survive no matter what.
* WalkingTheEarth: That's something you gotta do, when you are getting chased by powerful enemies for centuries. As a result, she never really had a normal life, as she had to abandon everything the minute Klaus or Elijah got too close to her location.
* WickedCultured: Katherine comes from a wealthy and noble family. She is highly sophisticated, clever and manipulative.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In 2.09, "Katerina", 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.
%% * XanatosSpeedChess: It's why she has evaded Klaus for so long.
* {{Yandere}}: In regards to Stefan. Katherine was very obsessed with Stefan for over a century, so much so that she spent most of Stefan's immortal life [[StalkerWithACrush stalking him]], killing people that are close to him (including Elena), and obsessively going to extreme lengths to be with him, save him or protect him. She has repeatedly gone the route of MurderTheHypotenuse by killing or trying to kill women that were romantically involved or interested in Stefan. She is also known to become AxeCrazy whenever Stefan rejects her, chooses Elena over her, ignores her or shows no interest in her. It's taken UpToEleven in Season Five when she is so obsessed with him that Stefan has literally become the major reason for Katherine wanting to live. While she is dying and on her death bed due to old age and the effects of the cure, Katherine manages to manipulate Elena into stealing her body against her will with the use of a passenger spell so that she can inhabit her body and live as Elena. Just so that she can get Stefan to fall in love with her again with the belief that he's falling in love with Elena.
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