History Monster / TheVampireDiariesUniverse

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-->--Regarding the history of '''Inadu, the Hollow''', ''Series/TheOriginals'', "Voodoo In My Blood"

* Non-canon comic issues #37-39--"Circus of Souls" arc: [[RepulsiveRingmaster The Ringmaster]] leads a mysterious circus into Mystic Falls, abducting and brainwashing multiple people into joining him as his audience and workers, starting the comic off by having a family abducted through a mystical gem he got his hands on. After the Mystic Falls gang look into his operations, the Ringmaster has Damon abducted and tortured to be part of his show, before successfully brainwashing hundreds of people, and keeping them captive by threatening them with a ring of fire. After brainwashing Damon, when his friends come to his rescue, the Ringmaster gets Stefan in the middle of the show to have Damon [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath fight his brother to the death]] by giving him hallucinations. When foiled and beaten, the Ringmaster [[ManOnFire sets the carnival ablaze]] to leave his captives to die while he attempts to escape.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' & ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': [[CardCarryingVillain Malachai "Kai" Parker]] is a [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty]] witch with a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor sense of humor to go with it]]. In his past, Kai was denied the chance to perform the merge ritual with his twin sister Jo and lead the [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseGeminiCoven Gemini Coven]], and retaliates by [[SiblingMurder murdering his kid siblings]]. Spending years in a prison world, when Damon and Bonnie arrive, Kai torments them until he escapes, leaving Bonnie behind, while intending to hunt Luke and Liv down. Siphoning leftover magic, Kai experiments by torturing Elena. He eventually comes up on top of the merge, killing Luke in the process. Kai later attacks Jo and Alaric's wedding, stabbing his pregnant sister's stomach. Kai kills himself to complete his transformation, and so that the Gemini Coven will [[TakingYouWithMe die with him]], before binding Bonnie's life with a comatose Elena. Kai later escapes Hell, trying to sacrifice Elena to Cade, and tries [[WouldHurtAChild to kill his nieces]] Josie and Lizzie. Returning years later, Kai tries to trap a group of the students trapped in the prison world, including Josie, before [[SadisticChoice forcing Hope to choose]] between saving the twins or Landon, as the former will die when the prison world collapses and he compelled Landon to walk a path that could kill him, while he makes his escape.

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* ''Circus of Souls'' non-canon comic: [[RepulsiveRingmaster The Ringmaster]] leads a mysterious circus into Mystic Falls, abducting and brainwashing multiple people into joining him as his audience and workers, starting the comic off by having a family abducted through a mystical gem he got his hands on. After the Mystic Falls gang look into his operations, the Ringmaster has Damon abducted and tortured to be part of his show, before successfully brainwashing hundreds of people, and keeping them captive by threatening them with a ring of fire. After brainwashing Damon, when his friends come to his rescue, the Ringmaster gets Stefan in the middle of the show to have Damon [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath fight his brother to the death]] by giving him hallucinations. When foiled and beaten, the Ringmaster [[ManOnFire sets the carnival ablaze]] to leave his captives to die while he attempts to escape.

* Seasons 4 & 5: [[AGodAmI Inadu]], aka [[HumanoidAbomination the Hollow]], is an [[WickedWitch ancient witch]] who seeks power and domination over all things. Inadu was bestowed great powers since birth, with a lifetime of mass murder and chaos, purely for the fun of it. When she was first killed, she cast a final curse on her people, creating the first werewolves. As the Hollow, over the centuries she had [[ReligionOfEvil cultists]] carry out dark deeds in her name, mostly [[WouldHurtAChild child sacrifice]]; she was also behind several {{serial killer}}s. Inadu drives her followers into [[MindRape insanity]] and even [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]; including Evie Sinclair, and Jackson's grandfather, having the latter kill Hayley's parents. Following the downfall of the Mikaelsons, the Hollow's followers begin a new spree for a takeover of their own. The Hollow tries to draw power from Klaus and Marcel, tries goading them into killing each other, and threatens to trick Klaus into killing Hope. Inadu possesses Sofya and slowly kills Elijah, wiping out his bloodline for ritual sacrifice. Following her resurrection, she butchers her followers, and plans to take New Orleans for herself. Despite being killed by Hayley, she possesses Hope, attempting to completely take her over years after her seeming destruction.

Series/TheVampireDiariesUniverse operates on BlackAndGrayMorality, with very few characters truly pure. A select few, however, are [[CompleteMonster completely and irredeemably evil]].

->'''Davina Claire''': "Inadu channeled life in all its forms. Her hunger was insatiable. She loved the fear she inspired in others. Her people knew her as ruthless, unfeeling, empty. Until that became her defining quality. So they began to refer to her by that single trait... "The Hollow"."
->'''Hayley Marshall''': "She killed them all."
->'''Davina''': "Not because they hurt her or were unkind. She did it for fun."

* Season 7A: [[TheCorrupter Julian]] is Lily Salvatore's lover and father figure to the Heretics, seeing his "family" as [[ControlFreak posessive pawns]]. A pathological murderer and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], when Julian discovers that Valerie is pregnant with [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseStefanSalvatore Stefan]]'s child, [[AbusiveParents he beats her into a miscarriage]], silently taunting her as she recovers. When resurrected, Julian brainwashes dozens of people from other towns into filling up the school and restaurants as a living blood bank. He links his life to Lily's for protection and when she sees through his lies, Julian tries to force Lily to kill either Damon or Valerie, mockingly revealing he unlinked their lives when Lily [[HeroicSuicide stakes herself]]. Julian later uses a mystical dagger to entrap Stefan and Damon in their personal hells, later slaughtering his way through a mall. When the Salvatores return, it's discovered that Julian has built an chaotic vampire army that has taken over Mystic Falls, feeding off and tormenting the human population. Julian holds a [[GladiatorGames gladiatorial fight club]] where contestants fight to the death for his amusement, in which he has a suicidal Damon take part in. It's also revealed he's inadvertently created the vampire hunter Raina, having forced the girl to kill her father.
* Season 8: [[FallenHero Arcadius]], aka [[SatanicArchetype Cade]], was an ancient psychic. After being betrayed and executed by his people, Cade developed a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]], and used his power to create Hell for him to rule over. Cade would corrupt Sybil and Seline into the cannibalistic sirens, causing mass death, [[TheCorrupter corruption]], and damnation over the centuries. Cade would take people regardless of how remorseful they were or otherwise good people, dragging the denizens of the Other Side [[DraggedOffToHell into Hell]] upon its destruction. When summoned to Earth, Cade plans on warping young Josie and Lizzie into his new servants, before taking Damon and Stefan; Cade reveals to Stefan that he wants him for his horrid past and to seek out innocent souls for him. When an attempt to sacrifice Mystic Falls fails, Cade has Seline and Sybil burned alive. When Damon regains his humanity, Cade tries to force Damon to kill a hundred strangers or kill Caroline, before revealing he sent Stefan to track down and kill [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesUniverseElenaGilbert Elena]]; later, in the final fight against him, Cade tries to [[SadisticChoice force Damon to choose]] between Stefan and Elena's soul. Initially presented as a tragic figure, Cade is not only aware he became a worse evil he supposedly sought to eradicate, but is [[CardCarryingVillain proud of it]].

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' & ''Series/{{Legacies}}'': [[CardCarryingVillain Malachai "Kai" Parker]] is a [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty]] witch with a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor sense of humor to go with it]]. In his past, Kai was denied the chance to perform the merge ritual with [[CainAndAbel his twin sister Jo]] and lead the Gemini Coven, and retaliates by [[SiblingMurder murdering his kid siblings]]. Spending years in a prison world, when Damon and Bonnie arrive, Kai torments them until he escapes, leaving Bonnie behind, while intending to hunt Luke and Liv down. Siphoning leftover magic, Kai experiments by torturing Elena. He eventually comes up on top of the merge, killing Luke in the process. Kai later attacks Jo and Alaric's wedding, stabbing his pregnant sister's stomach. Kai kills himself to complete his transformation, and so that the Gemini Coven will [[TakingYouWithMe die with him]], before binding Bonnie's life with a comatose Elena. Kai later escapes Hell, trying to sacrifice Elena to Cade, and tries [[WouldHurtAChild to kill his nieces]] Josie and Lizzie. Returning years later, Kai tries to trap a group of the students trapped in the prison world, including Josie, before [[SadisticChoice forcing Hope to choose]] between saving the twins or Landon, as the former will die when the prison world collapses and he compelled Landon to walk a path that could kill him, while he makes his escape.

* Season 5: [[NoNonsenseNemesis Markos]] is the leader of the Travelers, a subculture of witches, and plans to undo every spell ever cast by a witch, [[FantasticRacism viewing their magic as an abomination]]. Centuries ago, Markos enacted a curse so that the distant descendants of Silas and Amara would be their doppelgängers, brainwashed into being drawn together, so he could use their blood for this ritual; even before he is resurrected, he orders the death of Stefan's doppelgänger, so Stefan and Elena will be the only ones left. Markos [[WeHaveReserves allows a loyal follower to die]] to demonstrate the result of his curse; begins the destruction of the Other Side, an afterlife for the supernatural, [[DraggedOffToHell causing its denizens to start hurtling into the void]]; abducts and tortures Stefan and Elena for more of their blood; leads the Travelers in a ritual [[GrandTheftMe to possess the population of Mystic Falls]], destroying their bodies to make the change permanent; and tries to unleash an anti-magic field that [[FinalSolution would have killed every vampire on the planet]]. In the season finale, Markos has another follower killed, after learning that Stefan was killed when he was still useful to them. In his dying moments, Markos uses Sheriff Frobes as a HumanShield.
* Season 7A: [[TheCorrupter Julian]] is Lily Salvatore's lover and father figure to the Heretics, seeing his "family" as [[ControlFreak posessive pawns]]. A pathological murderer and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulator]], when Julian discovers that Valerie is pregnant with Stefan's child, [[AbusiveParents he beats her into a miscarriage]], silently taunting her as she recovers. When resurrected, Julian brainwashes dozens of people from other towns into filling up the school and restaurants as a living blood bank. He links his life to Lily's for protection and when she sees through his lies, Julian tries to force Lily to kill either Damon or Valerie, mockingly revealing he unlinked their lives when Lily [[HeroicSuicide stakes herself]]. Julian later uses a mystical dagger to entrap Stefan and Damon in their personal hells, later slaughtering his way through a mall. When the Salvatores return, it's discovered that Julian has built an chaotic vampire army that has taken over Mystic Falls, feeding off and tormenting the human population. Julian holds a [[GladiatorGames gladiatorial fight club]] where contestants fight to the death for his amusement, in which he has a suicidal Damon take part in. It's also revealed he's inadvertently created the vampire hunter Raina, having forced the girl to kill her father.
* Season 8: [[FallenHero Arcadius]], aka [[SatanicArchetype Cade]], was an ancient psychic. After being betrayed and executed by his people, Cade developed a [[MisanthropeSupreme hatred for humanity]], and used his power to create Hell for him to rule over. Cade would corrupt Sybil and Seline into the cannibalistic sirens, causing mass death, [[TheCorrupter corruption]], and damnation over the centuries. Cade would take people regardless of how remorseful they were or otherwise good people, dragging the denizens of the Other Side [[DraggedOffToHell into Hell]] upon its destruction. When summoned to Earth, Cade plans on warping young Josie and Lizzie into his new servants, before taking Damon and Stefan; Cade reveals to Stefan that he wants him [[InLoveWithYourCarnage for his horrid past]] and to seek out innocent souls for him. When an attempt to sacrifice Mystic Falls fails, Cade has Seline and Sybil burned alive. When Damon regains his humanity, Cade tries to force Damon to kill a hundred strangers or kill Caroline, before revealing he sent Stefan to track down and kill Elena; later, in the final fight against him, Cade tries to [[SadisticChoice force Damon to choose]] between Stefan and Elena's soul. Initially presented as a tragic figure, Cade is not only aware he became a worse evil he supposedly sought to eradicate, but is [[CardCarryingVillain proud of it]].

->'''Davina:''' "Inadu channeled life in all its forms. Her hunger was insatiable. She loved the fear she inspired in others. Her people knew her as ruthless, unfeeling, empty. Until that became her defining quality. So they began to refer to her by that single trait... "The Hollow"."
->'''Hayley:''' "She killed them all."
->'''Davina:''': "Not because they hurt her or were unkind. She did it for fun."
-->--'''Davina Claire and Hayley Marshall, regarding the history of Inadu, the Hollow''', ''Series/TheOriginals'', "Voodoo In My Blood"

-->'''Davina:''' "Inadu channeled life in all its forms. Her hunger was insatiable. She loved the fear she inspired in others. Her people knew her as ruthless, unfeeling, empty. Until that became her defining quality. So they began to refer to her by that single trait... "The Hollow"."
-->'''Hayley:''' "She killed them all."
-->'''Davina:''': "Not because they hurt her or were unkind. She did it for fun."

->''"Well, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a sociopath. I know. Shocker. I like being a sociopath. You know, I’m not burdened by things like guilt or love."''
-->--'''Malachai "Kai" Parker''', ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', "The Day I Tried To Live"

* Season 3: [[FauxAffablyEvil Lucien Castle]], one of the Mikaelsons' first sires, is defined by his arrogance, sadism, and ambition. Originally a [[FromNobodyToNightmare timid peasant and servant]] who befriended [[Characters/TheVampireDiariesKlausMikaelson Klaus]], over time Lucien would surpass him. As [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Kingmaker Land Development Inc., Lucien uses his position to have werewolves in Louisiana hunted to near-extinction, with the few survivors, along with vampires, taken by his company for inhumane experiments. Lucien would frame Camille for his serial killings, before [[MindRape psychologically torturing]] her and and a detective for information. Acting as an uneasy ally to the Mikaelsons, Lucien [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betrays them after Klaus is unlinked to his bloodline]]. Lucien reveals he made a deal with the Ancestors to take over New Orleans and kill the Originals, in return for enhanced power and ruling over the remaining vampires. Upon his transformation, Lucien kills Finn and attempts to kill Elijah's bloodline, to kill his rival Tristan. Learning Aurora doesn't love him, Lucien denounces his love for her, stating [[LoveIsAWeakness all love is weakness]]. To spite Klaus, Lucien kills Camille, and plots to kill Rebekah, not caring that Aurora is part of her bloodline. In the final confrontation, Lucien forces Klaus to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to him]], threatening to rip out Hayley's heart.

''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' and its {{Spinoff}}s, ''Series/TheOriginals'' and ''Series/{{Legacies}}'', operate on BlackAndGrayMorality, with very few characters truly pure. A select few, however, are [[CompleteMonster completely and irredeemably evil]].