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!!'''WARNING: Only spoilers from the current season (Season 3) are whited out.'''

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!Other Mikaelsons

[[folder:Mikael]]
!!Mikael
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am Mikael, the Vampire who '''hunts''' Vampires!"'']]
->'''Played By:''' [[Creator/SebastianRoche Sebastian Roché]]

-->''"Mothers love their children. Fathers make them strong."''

Mikael (also known in the supernatural world as The Hunter and The Destroyer, because of his pursuit of his children, and the destruction he leaves in his wake), is one of the Original Vampires, the Original Vampire Hunter, and is the vampire who hunts vampires. He is the husband of the Original Witch Esther, and the father of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik Mikaelson. Mikael is also the step-father of the Original Hybrid Niklaus "Klaus" Mikaelson, making Hope Mikaelson his step-granddaughter. With both Silas and Amara (the world's first immortal man and woman respectively) cured and dead, Mikael, being the father of the Original Vampires, is the oldest, most feared, and is the most dangerous and deadly vampire in the world.
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* AbusiveParent: To all his children (except Freya) to varying degrees. He's tyrannical and cold toward them, but Klaus is the one who gets physical as well as psychological/emotional abuse. In his final moments, Klaus asks why he hated him. Mikael himself says he doesn't know, he just did.
* AbusiveParents: He himself had an abusive father, who would 'correct' him. This initially didn't affect Mikael as Esther tells Klaus (and flashbacks show) that Mikael doted on Finn and loved his daughter Freya. Freya's "death" made Mikael think his father's ways were the correct way. When Davina tells him she thinks his father is a "dick", Mikael explains that "Mothers love their children, Fathers make them strong"
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Ironically a trait he shares with his son. Sometimes he has noble aims and traits, and others he viciously murders the innocent without pause or regret. In the end, the only thing he thinks matters is strength.
* AlasPoorVillain: As capable of evil as he was, Mikael's last moments were deeply touching. He killed by a surprise attack by Klaus and gives his farewell to Freya, showing previously unknown depths of humanity and vulnerability. Out of all his children, only Freya mourns him.
* AntiVillain: He is a man who hunted his son for centuries for killing his wife, blaming him for it and turning his family against him, and also for being an immortal blot on his honor. His goal is to wipe out the vampire race he himself created, but he'll slaughter hundreds of innocent people indiscriminately if it ends in Klaus' death. He's every bit as much a mass murderer as any of his children, but believes it's all justified if he kills Klaus.
* ArchnemesisDad: To Klaus - the two's mutual hatred goes back to even before they were vampires.
* TheAtoner: In a very bizarre way, he's atoning for the creation of vampires.
* BackFromTheDead: Courtesy of Davina, who altered the spell so she can gain control of him until she's ready to unleash him on Klaus. He is now completely free of the enslavement spell thanks to Kol.
** BackForTheDead: Sadly only lasted one season before Klaus ended up killing him a second time.
* BadassBoast: He has a tendency to make them. The scary thing is, they're often entirely accurate.
* BadassInDistress: Finn neutralizes him midway through season 2 and uses him to fuel Finn's witch powers. He's stuck this way until Freya frees him.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Esther in the first half of Season 2; where she wants to persuade her children to give up their vampirism and convert to witch bodies, he just wants to kill them.
* BullyingADragon: Klaus meets up with Mikael at a bar to discuss teaming up against Dahlia, and, being Klaus, he can't help but challenge Mikael. A fully recovered and fully powered Mikael offers to give him a repeat beating.
* CombatPragmatist: Mikael is a veteran warrior - a Viking who knows that only the rules in a fight are to survive and win. Anything else is just folly. Best exemplified when Klaus looks set to overpower him in their second season 2 fight; he throws the Tunde blade at Cami, then stakes Klaus while he was distracted saving her.
* CurbStompBattle: A trained and highly skilled warrior, with an Original's strength, speed and toughness - most fights against him go this way. The only time we see Klaus have an equal fight with his father is when Mikael has been slowed down by a vast amount of wolf venom - and even then Klaus never came close to outright beating his father.
* DemotedToDragon: Davina was smart enough to alter the resurrection spell to place him entirely under her control, which Mikael himself is very displeased with. When she temporarily loses the bracelet that keeps him under her power, he immediately tries to kill her and is only stopped due to Elijah's intervention.
* DespairEventHorizon: Freya's death transformed him from a loving husband and father to a cold man, icily indifferent towards his family at best, raging and abusive at worst.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Mikael's wife was unfaithful to him, and he reacted by murdering her lover and his entire family. He proceeds to violently abuse the bastard child for his entire life - even BEFORE he found out that Klaus was a bastard.
* TheDreaded: Klaus is immensely powerful, nigh-invincible and treats everyone around him like an insect who can't hurt him...and Mikael '''terrifies''' him to his very core. In-universe, he's referred to as ''The Destroyer,'' and numerous flashbacks show the mere prospect of him turning up is enough to have all his children fleeing for their lives immediately.
* TheDeterminator: Nothing will stop Mikael from killing Klaus, not even the weakness caused by werewolf venom, the pain of Pape Tunde's dagger or even death itself. He came back from the latter and over-came the former to stake his step-son.
* DisappointedInYou: With Klaus; when he was born Mikael thought he had the potential to become a true warrior. When this turned out not to be the case, it contributed towards his crushing hatred of his bastard son.
* TheDragon: Briefly this for Esther and then for his beloved daughter Freya, who he was recently reunited with.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He was killed again by Klaus before the end of Season 2, much to many fans' displeasure. That said, flashbacks and hallucinations enabled him to maintain semi-regular appearances on the show until its end.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He was already a formidable Viking warrior pre-Vampirism. Then Esther's curse turned him into arguably the strongest supernatural being on the planet.
* EnemyMine: Teams with Klaus to take out Dahlia, as both haved loved ones (Freya, Hope) they want to protect from her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Freya, most obviously - he's even willing to team up with Klaus to protect her from Dahlia. It's also mentioned Rebekah was his favourite after Freya's death, and part of his enduring hatred of Klaus was for his murder of Esther - something he seems absolutely '''livid''' at to Cami, even knowing she's BackFromTheDead.
* FaceHeelTurn: He was a good man once upon a time - a doting father and loving husband. Then Freya's death shattered him, and he slid further and further into being an AbusiveParent. Then came vampirism, heigtening his hatred of Klaus to insane degrees.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He faces it stoically, only reaching out to his beloved daughter one last time. [[WordOfGod An interview at the time with the producers]] indicated that he realised that Klaus' killing him was likely the only way to get the ingredients to produce a Dahlia-killing weapons, and so accepted his fate to save his daughter.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mikael is very polite to Davina, and in flashbacks is revealed to have reached out to both Elijah and Marcel, claiming his battle was only wth Klaus. But any time he's in range of the Hybrid, this instantly goes out the window, as evidenced by his crucifying Marcel and killing hundreds of theatre-goers just to get at his son.
* FatalFlaw: For all his intelligence and power, his dismissive nature of his son has killed him twice. He keeps underestimating Klaus' cunning and strength.
* FoodChainOfEvil: He only feeds on other vampires so he does not have to feed on humans - but we find out in season 2 that he will break this rule if he's desperate enough.
* FreudianExcuse: Defied: even at White Oak Stake-point, when a raging Klaus demands to know why Mikael hated him so much, all Mikael's previous excuses - his role in Henrik's death, the murder of Esther, turning the rest of his family against him - fall away and he honestly looks genuinely confused as he admits he doesn't know why. He just did.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The reason the Mikaelsons became the Original vampires, the primary reason why Klaus ended up the way he did, and the reason the Originals were run out of New Orleans/Marcel became the King. Virtually everything in the series can be traced back to him in some form or another.
* HazyFeelTurn: Still hates Klaus with a fiery passion, but ends up aligning with him out of fear of what Dahlia will do to Freya.
* HeroicWillpower: Mikael's focus and willpower is so strong, he is able to tolerate the effects of werewolf venom and even pull out Papa Tunde's dagger, a weapon that paralyzes Originals (even Klaus) and leaves them in agony. He tells Davina that by fighting through pain and ignoring it, nothing can hold power over them cue him proving himself correct when he pulled out the dagger and could tolerate the affects of werewolf venom. He is also the only one able to wound Dahlia while being desiccated by her, something even Klaus couldn't do.
* HiddenDepths: Reuniting with Freya lets the audience see traces of the loving father he once was.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Hunts and feeds nigh-exclusively on vampires after coming to regret his role in their creation.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Condemns his children for acting like bloodthirsty animals, but he's as bad as them, if not worse. His New Orleans rampage sees him killing hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents to get Klaus, and his macabre theatre display shows he's every bit as much of a {{Sadist}} as Klaus.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He'll kill innocents by the score and even nearly off his other children just to kill Klaus. To him, any means justify Klaus' death.
* {{Immortality}}: The oldest and strongest Original Vampire.
* ImAHumanitarian: Not normally, but he'll feed on humans when desperate - such as when Klaus is coming after him and he's severely weakened from Papa Tunde's blade.
* IrrationalHatred: Even before finding out that Klaus wasn't his son Mikael displayed a disproportional amount of anger towards him growing up and abused him mercilessly. [[spoiler:Right before he killed him for good Klaus asks why his father always hated him so much and Mikael admits that he doesn't know; he just did.]]
* KickTheDog: Most of the things he does to Klaus can be considered this - offing his favourite horse, creating a macabre theatre of his tortured and murdered loved ones - but threatening to kill Cami in front of Klaus out of sheer spite is a new low.
* KilledMidSentence: "Freya, I'm so sorry. I lo-"
* LightningBruiser: One of the strongest and fastest supernatural beings on the show. Even a fully Hybrid Klaus is capable only of stalemating him.
* MightMakesRight: Mikael believed this fimly after Freya's death. He sought to toughen his children because in his mind, only the strong survived and his methods were occasionally quite harsh to say the least. Klaus was frequently the target for standing out from the rest of his siblings.
* MoralityPet: Freya. When she "died" Mikael was so grief stricken that he become a completely different person, a darker and more abusive one. When she revealed to him her survival, he was willing to do anything for her - even working with Klaus to kill Dahlia.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Inadvertently created the plague of vampirism to protect his own children, and also kicked off the eternal war between vampires and werewolves by murdering his wife's lover and his family.
* TheNicknamer: He refers to Davina was 'little witch' and less endearingly to Klaus as 'boy and 'bastard'.
* NominalHero: Only in that as bad as he is, Klaus is frequently much worse.
* ParentalFavoritism: He doesn't bother hiding the fact he loves his daughters (particularly Freya) more than he can ever care for his sons.
* PapaWolf: Don't even ''try'' to hurt Freya in his presence. Dahlia found that out the hard way and got impaled for it, though it didn't really stick.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: He is a one man wrecking ball who has laid cities to ruin and fire...and he is proud of it.
* PetTheDog: Mikael named his sword with a word that meant "blonde" or "golden" and consecreted it in goat's blood, so that whenever he went out to battle, he could always be reminded of his daughter, his favourite child. He also praised Davina and Cami when they showed courage.
* PosthumousCharacter: Even after his second death, keeps popping up in flashbacks, then as one of the Hollow's hallucinations.
* {{Pride}}: [[MamaBear Esther made the Mikaelsons vampires to protect her children.]] Mikael did it so not to look weak. As Rebekah pointed out, Mikael could have moved his family away from the werewolves. But that was too much for his ego, so he convinced Esther to make him and their children superhuman, with the power to surpass the wolves. Worst, he gave his family no choice in the matter, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leading to not only the Vampire curse, but to the monsters both he and his children become.]] Rebekah at one point specifically notes this as the trait that vampirism heightened in Mikael.
* RedBaron: He is called The Destroyer and the Vampire that hunts Vampires - and he damn well earned both of the titles.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Stongly hinted he saw Rebekah as this for Freya.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His entire motive behind trying to kill Klaus. Until Esther's murder, he might have hated Klaus but didn't want to kill him, as he was content to have Esther "cleanse" him of his werewolf side. After this it became a bitterly personal mission to off his bastard son - especially after the rest of the family sided with Klaus after he lied that Mikael killed Esther.
* SpannerInTheWorks: To Esther's plan; his finding his way back to the land of living visibly shocks his once-wife when Klaus tells her of it, as having their father after them is a major hindrance to her plan of making her children take up witch bodies once more.
* SuperStrength: The most powerful Original. Even Klaus with his werewolf side unlocked could only ever stalemate him at best. WordOfGod says this is because Mikael was far stronger than them all when they were all human and so his strength was amplified more then theirs.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Klaus loathe one another, but Dahlia's threat to Freya and Hope is so great they willingly work together to bring her down.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In terms of his portrayal as opposed to character evolution. He's portrayed far more negatively than in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', where Klaus was the BigBad. Here he's far more unhinged after his resurrection, and we see the lengths he'll go to to kill Klaus - including murdering hundreds of innocents, and feeding on Cami.
* TookALevelInBadass: After much build up, he was killed off by a sneak attack by Klaus in the third season of ''The Vampire Diaries'', without getting to do a anything that made him feared. But after his resurrection we get to see his strength and determination, as he massacres a werewolf pack with ease, curb-stomps Elijah, manages to overcome the pain of Papa Tunde's dagger and stalemates Klaus several times over. He only dies when taken by surprise.
* TrainingFromHell: He was beginning to put Davina through it and praised her when she fought through pain to stand up.
* TragicMonster: When all is said and done he is as much of a tragedy as his children. A father that lost his favourite child and became hard and bitter as a result. A warrior that sought to protect his children by giving them the strength to fight the wolves, only to see them degenerate into monsters. A family man who was framed for his wife's death by the son who he hated so much. A mass-murderer fuelled by his rage and pride, driven to relentlessly pursue and try to kill his own family for a thousand years. And then, just as he got back the daughter he loved above all others, he was killed by Klaus.
* UnPerson: Mikael doesn't just want to kill Klaus; he wants to make him into an UnPerson by destroying everything he built, killing everyone who knows him and essentially wiping him from history.
-->''"As I walked the streets, your name was spoken of in reverent tones by the city's finest. So after I kill you, I will remain here in New Orleans until every last person who remembers you is dead. The deeds of the mighty Klaus will be remembered by no one. And you, boy, will simply never have existed."''
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His intention to kill Klaus - long since degenerated into a monster whose humanity was as dead as Mikael's own - was a noble one. Yet he was willing to sacrifice thousands of innocents, burn whole cities to the ground and even kill his other children to do so.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Klaus was this to him, but it's heavily implied that Mikael had a similar relationship with his own father.
-->''"I was half your age the first time my father gave me the staff. I would have torn every muscle rather than let him see me strain, and had I, he would have corrected me."''
* WorfHadTheFlu: Somewhat averted; despite suffering from Wolf venom and not having fed he still managed to fight Klaus on equal terms. When incapacitated by Papa Tunde's dagger he managed to power himself out of it. He even managed to outsmart Klaus in their second fight, using his son's affection for Cami to ditract then stake him. He would have most likely been able to finish off Klaus once and for all if Klaus' allies had not intervened.
* WouldHurtAChild: Aside from being abusive to a young Klaus, he doesn't hesitate to try and kill Davina when the opportunity arises to free himself from her control.
* VillainDecay: Despite his fearsome and well deserved reputation as a threat, he has been killed off twice without much of a a fight in an almost [[{{AntiClimaxBoss}} anticlimactic nature by Klaus.]]
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[[folder:Esther]]
!!Esther
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I will systematically destroy everything they hold dear."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see Esther's original body.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikaelson_esther_1128.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Played By:''' Natalie Dreyfuss, Creator/AliceEvans, Creator/ClaireHolt, Hayley [=McCarthy=] & Sonja Sohn

A witch and one of the most powerful witches in history.

Esther is the wife of Mikael and former lover of Ansel. She is the mother of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik. Esther is the sister of Dahlia and the grandmother of Hope Mikaelson.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: During her appearance in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', her desire to kill her children - thus removing vampires from existence - was somewhat justified, given the atrocities the Originals caused and the inbalance they created in nature. Here her fear of her sister is so great she's willing to sacrifice the wolves of the Quarter and kill a months-old baby to avoid visiting Dahlia's wrath on her family.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: While she's a powerful witch in her own right, her older sister is much more powerful than she is, a fact that makes her scared for her family.
* BackFromTheDead: Returns in the body of the last harvest girl in the season 1 finale. After a few body hops, Freya kills her again midway through season 2 - then the Mikaelsons resurrect her in her original body as part of their plot to kill Dahlia.
** BackForTheDead: She sacrifices herself to let her children kill her and her sister that same episode.
* BadBoss: Views the Crescent Wolves as little more than expendable foot soldiers - even using their children as prepubescent time bombs at one point. This eventually causes them to break with her as Hayley assumes her birthright as their queen.
* BrokenPedestal: To all her children in season 2 - especially Finn, once she becomes a vampire.
* CassandraTruth: Warns Klaus Freya can't be trusted, something quite accurate at that stage.
* TheChessmaster: She's running several schemes all at once: making moonlight rings for werewolves in exchange for their loyalty to her, and using her sons as spies to ingratiate themselves to the non-vampire allies of the Originals.
* DarkSecret: The pendant she gifted Klaus as a gift to her favourite was actually a magical amulet that suppressed his werewolf side and kept him weak - the very thing Mikael despised so much. He's utterly distraught when he realises how she manipulated him.
* DealWithTheDevil: She couldn't have children originally, and turned to her older sister Dahlia for help to make her conceive. Dahlia agreed to help her, in return for the life of her firstborn and each firstborn of every subsequent generation that carries her bloodline.
* TheDeterminator: Not even death will stop her from trying to wipe her children - and her grandchild - from the face of the earth.
* FantasticRacism: Against vampires, for good reasons of course.
* FatalFlaw: Her plans go wrong because she fails to understand how her children have changed since her death - the Always and Forever bond, Klaus' love for hope and Kol falling for Davina all contribute to her ultimate defeat.
* FreudianExcuse: She believes that by terrorizing them so much they'll agree to transfer into mortal bodies she's saving her children from Dahlia - but it's clear from her interactions with her sons that it's as much about enforcing her warped vision of what her family should be.
* GlassCannon: One of the most powerful witches ever - but she's still as vulnerable as any human, as Klaus proves when he easily kills her by stabbing her in the neck.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The creator of the vampire race, admittedly at Mikael's behest. Everything in the series ultimately stems from her.
* HeroicSacrifice: Sacrifices herself to save her children in the season 2 finale, letting Klaus run her and Dahlia through.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her plans repeatedly go awry because she continually fails to understand her children, be it Klaus' genuine love for his daughter Hope or Kol's falling in love with Davina.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Spectacularly so. When Klaus and Rebekah turn her, her son gives her the choice to either die with her morals intact, or feed on a blood bag and become the thing she hates. To Finn's disgust, the hunger is so great she does the latter.
* [[ItsNotYouItsMe It's Not You, It's Your Vampirism]]: In 2.03, it's revealed that Esther plans on killing her children and then placing their souls into mortal bodies, like she did with Kol and Finn, to free them from the 'curse' she put on them.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: She becomes increasingly unhinged throughout the season, but making a deal with Mikael to let him kill Klaus is definitely the point where's there's no going back.
* KarmicTransformation: Esther turned her children into vampires without their consent and later tried to kill them, believing them to be abominations. It is therefore rather fitting that Klaus kills her while she unknowingly had Rebekah's blood in her system therefore turning her into the very thing she hates most; a vampire.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Willingly gave away Freya to her sister Dahlia in order to have more children. A thousand years later, twisted by Dahlia's influence, Freya makes a point of killing her mother.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: She might be bad, but as we later find out, Dahlia is so much worse. Her desperate attempts to kill Hope in the early part of the season are motivated by her fear Dahlia will come to collect on their deal.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: In Esther's mind, all that she has done to her children was borne out of love. In 2.03, Klaus tells Hayley that it was her love for them that led her into turning them into vampires - specifically, that the loss of his youngest brother 'drove her over the edge.' In her twisted way, her plans to have them give up their vampirism and kill Hope are to protect them from her sister.
* MamaBear:Deep, deep, ''deep'' down, she still loved her children. It took Dahlia nearly killing them in front of her to realize that, giving her the motive to willingly sacrifice herself so Dahlia could be killed.
* MyGreatestFailure: As they die, she apologizes to Dahlia for abandoning her when they were young, which started the chain of events that led to the Mikaelsons becoming vampires, calling it 'my most grievous sin.'
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By consecrating her bones in New Orleans soil, her children unwittingly let her take control of the ancestor witches and use her power to continue her vendetta against her family.
* NeverMyFault: Her season 2 appearances have her consistently failing to acknowledge her shortcomings, be it the hypocrisy of setting Klaus up for a lifetime of hatred from Mikael to protect the affair that produced him, her role in the creation of vampires or her Klaus-esque tactics of using the Wolves as cannon fodder.
* TheNthDoctor: Played by three actresses in season 2.
* OffingTheOffspring: Her ultimate goal was seemingly to destroy her children and bring balance back to nature. This extends to her grandchild as well.
* ProperLady: She carries herself with a certain poise and speaks very eloquently, not even trying to act like a sixteen year-old girl living in the 21st century. It's how Klaus realizes who she truly is when he meets her.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In her final appearance, stops Dahlia killing her children and sacrifices herself to ensure her sister's death.
* SadisticChoice: In the mid-season finale, Klaus and Rebekah trick her into drinking vampire blood and then kill her. She wakes up in transition, stripped of her powers and her ability to jump into bodies, and is offered a choice by Klaus: drink the blood bag he leaves for her, thus becoming a vampire and everything she has hated for a millenium...or die permanently. He then adds this is still more than Esther offered her children, turning them into vampires without consent from any of them. The following episode reveals she chose vampirism, much to Finn's horror and disgust.
* TakingYouWithMe: Does this to Dahlia in the season finale, so Klaus can kill them both.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her involvement in the series isn't meant to be known until the season 1 finale, let alone her ''resurrection.''
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She's determined to save her children from Dahlia by returning them to mortal bodies - and if Hope has to die, so be it.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Is given one by Klaus, of all people, in 2.02. He tells her (while under the assumption that she's Cassie) that he and his siblings never agreed to become vampires and were turned against their will by their mother, and yet she called them 'abominations' as though she never had a part to play in their creation. For a moment, Esther seems to be affected by his words before she regains her composure.
** Is given a chilling one by Finn in 2.10, when he sees that she chose to become an 'abomination' rather than die for her principles.
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[[folder:Finn Mikaelson]]
!!Finn Mikaelson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Change, dear brothers, is inevitable."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click to see Finn's original body.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikaelson_finn_4123.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Played By:''' Caspar Zafer & Yusuf Gatewood

-->'''Klaus:''' Finn, the devoted acolyte, his love all too easily warped by our mother's sick hate.

The second oldest of the Original siblings. He was notable amongst his siblings for being the most moral (even more so than Elijah initially) and quiet, as well as hating what he had become and plotted with his mother Esther to bring an end to the rest of his siblings. He - along with Esther and Kol - have been brought back from the dead to finish out what they'd started. His soul is in the body of a warlock; he has gone undercover as Cami's guidance counselor to get information about Klaus' movements.
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* AndIMustScream:
** He spent 900 of his 1,000+ years as a vampire daggered and kept in a coffin thanks to Klaus. It's later revealed being like that for so long actually caused him to regain consciousness of a sort, trapped in his own mind and unable to do anything about it. When Klaus puts him back in it in season 2 as punishment, he does scream the whole time.
** Once Freya brings him back he plans to possess a witch and live out his life as a mortal - then Davina curses him to be trapped in the vampire body he so despises.
* ArchEnemy: He and Kol despise each other, even more than his other brothers.
* BackFromTheDead: Esther resurrects him in the body of a warlock following his death in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. After he's removed from Vincent, in season 3 he is brought back in his original body by Freya.
** BackForTheDead: He's killed a few episodes later by the newly powered-up Lucien.
* BerserkButton: Taunting him about the fact he spent so long daggered always gets an angry reaction out of him.
* CassandraTruth: He's actually the first one to reveal Dahlia's existence to Klaus and Elijah. However, given all he's done to them by that point, they aren't inclined to listen.
* CoDragons: To Esther, with his brother Kol.
** DragonAscendant: After Esther becomes a vampire he takes over as the main threat to Hope until the middle of season 2.
* DeadpanSnarker: About the only form of wit he ever displays.
-->'''Finn:''' [to Klaus]: As for the seat across from me, that's reserved for another of our clan. Care to wager an educated guess? How about a paranoid one?
* DiscOneFinalBoss: After the defeat of Esther and Mikael vanishing, Finn takes over as the main villain for season 2 - and is defeated just in time for Dahlia's arrival.
* DiesWideOpen: As Lucien's bite takes him.
* DueToTheDead: After his death, his siblings scatter his ashes in the Mississipi, with even Kol commenting that he hopes Finn has finally found peace.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Totally devoted to his mother - at least until she becomes a vampire - and his sister Freya.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: As his siblings' frantic attempts to save him with magic and Klaus' blood fail, he accepts his fate and only asks they stay with him as he dies.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Finn is unfailingly polite with Cami, but with his brothers it doesn't take much for him to drop the facade.
* GlassCannon: He's one of the most powerful witches seen in the series, but he's as vulnerable as any other witch to physical harm. Best seen when he goes head-to-head with Klaus in mid-season 2 and his brother mortally wounds him fairly easily.
* GoOutWithASmile: As his siblings rush to save him from Lucien's bite, he notes with a smile he's finally seeing the "Always and Forever" devotion they always talk about, dying soon after.
* HeelRealization: Downplayed in that he still doesn't regard himself as evil, but after he returns in season 3 he tells Elijah that after reflecting on what they've all become he's got no more desire to fight them, instead wishing to possess a witch body to live out his days in peace.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: His representational magic trap fails because he genuinely didn't expect Klaus to forgive Elijah for killing Tatia.
* IAmAMonster: He certainly thinks this when he's a vampire.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After discovering his mother chose to become a vampire to save her own life, he seeks to kill the months-old Hope himself.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Curses Kol to die after Kol tries to stop his schemes. The following season Davina traps him in his vampire body, ruining his plan to possess another witch and live out his life as a mortal, in retaliation.
* MommasBoy: The only sibling who knows the price Esther paid to have more children, he's totally devoted to her no matter what.
* MoralityPet: He has one in the form of Cami, who he takes on Hayley and her wolves to save. Unluckily for him, it's a trap.
* MouthOfSauron: For his mother, Esther, when it comes to dealing with the wolves. Esther is usually busy with spells and schemes, so Finn relays her wishes.
* OhCrap: He makes this face when he realizes that Elijah had simply let him talk uninterrupted for several minutes while the house had time to be filled with methane from a broken heater.
* PetTheDog: Couldn't care less that Rebekah is burning up from the Strix curse as Freya tries to save her - but when he sees Elijah feed Freya his blood to keep her from dying in the effort, he lends her his own power, just this once.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives viciously accurate speeches to Klaus and Elijah.
-->'''Finn:''' [to Elijah] Linens and silk can't disguise your pathetic self-loathing.
-->'''Finn:''' [to Klaus] And you, despite the arrogant facade, you're still the same paranoid little boy full of hate and fear.
-->'''Finn:''' [to Klaus and Elijah] Do tell me, what'd I miss? Regale me with your contributions to society. Medicine, philosophy, art? Or have you two merely cut a path of destruction across time?
* ScaryBlackMan: When possessing Vincent. Not because he's particularly intimidating physically, but due to his power and ruthlessness.
* SecretKeeper: The only one of the Original siblings to know of their mother's deal with Dahlia and what really happened to Freya.
* SharpDressedMan: He's always immaculately dressed when he's possessing Vincent.
* SiblingRivalry: As a boy, he was jealous of the attention that Klaus received from their mother. He also thought that Elijah coveted the role of the oldest brother so he could lead the other Originals, and that reason was why he went along with Klaus daggering him for nine hundred years. The subject still remains sensitive to him.
* SpottingTheThread: When he's interrogating a captive Marcel, he realises that while Marcel keeps telling him Hope is dead, he can't remember how - hence, he's been compelled to forget the details. As the only ones able to compel vampires are Originals, he quickly works out this means Hope is still alive and his brothers know it.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: In his Original body.
* ThwartedCoupDeGrace: When he's got Elijah cornered in the safe house, he chooses to monologue for several minutes and taunt Elijah about his carnage and how he's failed to protect Hope. This gives enough time for the exposed gas leaking from the broken heater to saturate every room in the house, as Elijah calmly points out before taking off his sunlight ring and putting his hand in front of a clear window.
* UndyingLoyalty: To his mother, Esther. Until she becomes a vampire.
* VillainousCrush: On Cami. Used against him when the non-Mikaelson regulars use it to lure him into a trap and capture him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Like Esther, truly believes killing Hope will stop Dahlia's arrival.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Finn doesn't. When Davina traps him in his vampire body, he begs Elijah to let him use it to end his life, pleading that his current existence was a curse.
* TheWorfEffect: He's killed by Lucien to show that his bite can in fact kill the other Mikaelsons.
* WouldHurtAChild: In 2.04, Finn plans to exploit a blood moon to activate the werewolf curse in untriggered prepubescent children by having them kill the humans who oppose the witch faction. Later, he's dead-set on killing Hope, who's only a few months old, to prevent Dahlia's arrival.
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[[folder:Henrik Mikaelson]]
!!Henrik Mikaelson
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[[caption-width-right:336:''"Years later, my brother Henrik was killed by the werewolves in our village. The loss of another child pushed my mother over the edge."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Devon Allowitz

-->''"Our youngest brother was killed by our village's greatest threat."''

Henrik Mikaelson was born in the 10th century and was a member of the Mikaelson Family, being the youngest child of Mikael and Esther Mikaelson. Henrik has six siblings consisting of three older brothers; Finn, Elijah, Kol, a maternal older half-brother named Niklaus and two older sisters, Freya, and Rebekah. He was also the uncle of his sister Freya's unborn son and his brother Klaus' daughter Hope. He was mauled by a werewolf, the village people's greatest threat and his death is what drove his mother to protect her other children by turning them into Original Vampires.
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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Henrik is the youngest of the 7 Mikaelson siblings.
* BarbarianLonghair: In the flashbacks to the 10th century.
* CanonForeigner: Henrik as a character doesn't exist in the novel series.
* DyingAsYourself: Hernik died an untapped witch, and unlike his older brothers Finn and Kol, he did not return in another body.
* PlotDevice: His death was the reason for the creation of Original Vampires. He has only appeared in flashbacks and has been mentioned less than 5 times throughout the series. His voice has never been heard.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Henrik's death by the hands of werewolves led Mikael and Esther to cast the immortality spell on their family, inadvertently creating the vampire race, and more or less leading to the events of the rest of the franchise.
* RememberTheNewGuy: In the flashbacks with the Mikaelson siblings as children, he was there despite not being shown.
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[[folder:Hope Mikaelson]]
!!Hope Mikaelson
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->'''Played By:''' Alexandria & Victoria Collins, Charlie & Blake, Summer Fontana and Creator/DanielleRoseRussell

The daughter of Klaus and the vampire-werewolf hybrid Hayley Marshall. Hope is the result of a one-night-stand between her parents and after she was born her family agreed to fake her death to protect her from all those who wish her harm. Klaus, after promising to get Hope back one day, gives her to the only person he can trust to protect and raise his daughter: his sister, Rebekah.

In mid-season 2, Klaus and Hayley are reunited with Hope and after the threats of Finn, Esther and their aunt Dahlia have passed but Hayley and her Pack have been cursed, Hope now lives in New Orleans under the protection of Klaus and her aunt Freya.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Almost as soon as she's born, her mother Hayley is killed by Monique. Subverted in that Hayley woke up in transition, due to dying while Hope's blood was still inside her.
* CreepyChild: She has a rather focused, unsettling stare when she's using her witch powers.
* DaddysGirl: Even before being born, she's the only thing Klaus loves unconditionally.
* {{Dhampyr}}: She is half vampire and currently half mortal. She's also a witch as well as an untriggered werewolf, meaning until she grows up and makes her first kill, she will be a witch with healing abilities slightly inferior to that of a vampire.
* EnfantTerrible: According to the witches, even before Esther becomes the leader of the ancestor witch spirits.
* HappilyAdopted: By her Aunt Rebekah when New Orleans wasn't safe for her.
* HealingFactor: Is one of her hybrid powers.
* HybridPower: Hope has demonstrated magic abilities from her witch side and healing abilities from her vampire side, though the latter power is slower than a full vampire's healing factor.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: The reason she was sent away by her family, as it's too dangerous to keep her in New Orleans.
* MacGuffinSuperPerson: The fact that something like her could even exist kicks off the plot of the show, and drives much of the conflict seen in season one. People either want to kill/use her, or protect her at all costs.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: Is part werewolf, part vampire ''and'' part witch.
* OffingTheOffspring: In the season finale, it's revealed that her grandmother Esther had taken control of the ancestor witches, and it was her decree that Hope should be sacrificed and her grandmother, great-aunt and uncle ''all'' want to harm/kill her for their own purposes.
* PowerIncontinence: Dahlia claims that Hope runs the risk of this, if she isn't allowed to take her and her powers run wild.
* SinsOfOurFathers: As Klaus notes, Hope has 'inherited' all his enemies by virtue of being his daughter.
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->'''Played By:''' Alexandria & Victoria Collins, Charlie & Blake, Summer Fontana and Danielle Rose Russell

* YourCheatingHeart: Had an affair with another man (who turned out to be a werewolf), the result of which was Klaus. He returns in season 2, and she's deeply upset Klaus killed him.

* WouldHurtAChild: In 2.04, Finn plans to exploit a blood moon to activate the werewolf curse in untriggered prepubescent children by having them kill the humans who oppose the witch faction. Later, he's dead-set on killing Hope, who's only a few months old, toprevent Dahlia's arrival.

* SecretKeeper: The only one of the Ooriginal siblings to know of their mother's deal with Dahlia and what really happened to Freya.

* ImAHumanitarian: Not normally, but he'll feed on humans when desperate - such as when Klaus is coming after him and he's severely weakened from Papa tunde's blade.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Inadvertantly created the plague of vampirism to protect his own children, and also kicked off the eternal war between vampires and werewolves by murdering his wife's lover and his family.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His entire motive behind trying to kill Klaus. Until Esther's murder, he might have hated Klaus but didn't want to kill him, as he was content to have Esther "cleanse" him of his werewolf side. After this it became a bitterly personal mission to off his bastard son - especially after the rest of the family sided with Klaus after he lied Mikael killed Esther.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In terms of his portrayal as opposed to character evolution. He's portrayed far more negatively than in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', where Klaus was the BigBad. Here he's far more unhinged afer his resurrection, and we see the lengths he'll go to to kill Klaus - including murdering hundreds of innocents, and feeding on Cami.

* KarmicTransformation: Ester turned her children into vampires without their consent and later tried to kill them, believing them to be abominations. It is therefore rather fitting that Klaus kills her while she unknowingly had Rebekah's blood in her system therefore turning her into the very thing she hates most; a vampire.

In mid-season 2, Klaus and Hayley are reunited with Hope and after the threats of Finn, Esther and their aunt Dahlia have passed but Hayley and her Pack have been cursed, Hope now lives with back in New Orleans under the protection of Klaus and her aunt Freya.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Willingly gave away Freya to her siser Dahlia in order to have more children. A thousand years later, twisted by Dahlia's influence, Freya makes a point of killing her mother.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: After the defeat of Esther and Mikael vanishing, takes over as the main villain for season 2 - ad is defeated just in time for Dahlia's arrival.

* AntiVillain: He is a man who hunted his son for centuries for both killing his wife, blaming him for it and for turning his family against him, and also for being an immortal blot on his honor. His goal is to wipe out the vampire race he himself created, but he'll slaughter hundreds of innocent people indiscriminately if it his ends of killing Klaus. He's every bit as much a mass murderer as any of his children, but believes it's all justified if he kills Klaus.
* ArchnemesisDad: To Klaus. They're bitter enemies.

* {{Pride}}: [[MamaBear Esther made the Mikaelsons vampires to protect her children.]] Mikael did it so not to look weak. As Rebekah pointed out, Mikael could have moved his family away from the werewolves. But that was too much for his ego, so he convinced Esther to make him and their children superhuman, with the power to surpass the wolves. Worst, he gave his family no choice in the matter, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leading to not only the Vampire curse, but to the monsters both he and his children become.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His entire motive behind trying to kill Klaus. Until Esther's murder, he didn't want to kill Klaus, as he was content to have Esther "cleanse" him of his werewolf side. After this it became a bitterly personal mission to off his bastard son - especially after the rest of the family sided with Klaus after he lied Mikael killed Esther.

* SuperStrength: The most powerful Original. Even Klaus with his werewolf side unlocked could nly ever stalemate him at best. WordOfGod says this is because Mikael was far stronger than them all when they were all human and so his strength was amplified more then theirs.

* TookALevelInBadass: After much build up, he was killed off by a sneak attack by Klaus in the third season of ''The Vampire Diaries'', without getting to do a anything that made him feared. But after his resurrection we get to see his strength and determination, as he massacres a werewolf pack with ease, curb-stomps Elijah with ease and stalemates Klaus several times over. He only dies when taken by surprise.

* TragicMonster: When all is said and done he is as much of a tragedy as his children. A father that lost his favourite child and became hard and bitter as a result. A family man that sought to protect them by turning them into monsters. A warrior who was framed for his wife's death by the son who he hated so much. A mass-murderer fuelled by his rage and pride, driven to relentlessly pursue and try to kill his own family for a thousand years. And then, just as he got back the daughter he loved above all others, he was killed by Klaus.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Somewhat averted; despite suffering from Wolf venom and not having fed he still managed to fight Klaus on equal terms. Even when incapacitated by Papa Tunde's dagger he managed to power himself out of it. He even managed to outsmart Klaus in their second fight and stake him. He would have most likely been able to finish off Klaus once and for all if Klaus' allies had not intervened.

* DaddysGirl: Klaus is besotted with her even before she's born.

* PetTheDog: Couldn't care less that Rrebekah is burning up from the Strix curse as Freya tries to save her - but when he sees Elijah feed Freya his blood to keep her from dying in the effort, he lends her his own power, just this once.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He'll kill innocents by the score and even nearly off his other children just to kill Klaus. To him, any ends justify Klaus' death.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: He'll kill innocents by the core and even nearly off his other children just to kill Klaus. To him, any ends justify Klaus' death.

* BackFromTheDead: Returns in the body of the last harvest girl in the season 1 finale. After a few body hops, Freya kills her again later in the season - then the Mikaelsons resurrect her in her original body as part of their plot to kill Dahlia.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Averted big time. He dislikes vampires and doesn't feed on people but he is a cranky, extremly aggressive and violatile vampire who has little patience for others and kills with no hesitation if he believes it convenient.

* {{Pride}}: [[MamaBear Esther made the Mikaelsons vampires to protect her children.]] Mikael did it so not to look weak. As Rebekah pointed out, Mikael could have moved his family elsewhere, away from the werewolves. But that was too much for his ego, so he convinced Esther to make him and their children superhuman, with power to surpass the wolves. Worst he gave his family no choice in the matter, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero his pride leading to not only the Vampire curse. But to the monsters both he and his children become.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: In terms of his portrayal as opposed to character evolution. He's portrayed far more negatively than in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', where Klaus was the BigBad. Here he's far more unhinged afer his resurrection, and we see the lengths he'll go to to kill Klaus - including murdering hundreds of innnocents and feeding on Cami.

* GoOutWithASmile: As his siblings rush to save him from Lucien's bite, he notes with a smile he's finally seeing the "Always and Forever" devotion the always talk about, dying soon after.

* AffablyEvil: Finn is unfailingly polite, especially with Cami.
* AndIMustScream: He spent 900 of his 1,000+ years as a vampire daggered and kept in a coffin thanks to Klaus. He did not enjoy it.
** And then Freya takes his soul out of his current body and into her pendant. She did promise to keep him safe, after all...
** Its doubtful this trope applies to that as Finn clearly knew she was saving him, she showed him the pendant and he has no objection.
* AntiVillain: His plan to wipe out vampires aside, Finn was initially the most moral Original vampire introduced in TVD, he was quiet, calm, hated vampirism, his death at Matt Donovan's hands was tragic in many ways, their plan failed and they killed the only Original that wished them no harm. The sole reason Finn was kept in the coffin for 900 years was because he couldn't stand his sibling's evil ways and frequently objected to them which Klaus soon tired of. Present day Finn is more darker than before, it is noted that its because of Esther, both Finn and Freya confirm this with Finn saying he hardened himself due to his mother's convictions and moral cause, and Freya believes Esther twisted him. In season 2, he looses the "anti" part. See JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope for details.
* BackFromTheDead: Esther resurrects him in the body of a warlock following his death in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''.
** In season 3 he is brought back in his original body by Freya.

%%* DeadpanSnarker
%%* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not evil, but he is no longer as moral as he once was as Esther's conviction caused him to hardened his heart and become more ruthless.
* GlassCannon: Finn/Vincent is a very powerful witch able to hold his own against both his brothers. Also when attempting rescue Cami he is able to disable a Werewolf boosted by a Moonlight ring and Hayley who is a dangerous Hybrid. However he is still in a human body so was taken down by a few well placed arrows.
* IAmAMonster: He certainly thought this when he was a vampire.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: In season 2, uses prepubescent wereolves as ChildSoldiers to kill humans who oppose the witch faction. After discovering that Esther chose to transition to vampirism rather than die with her so-called morals intact, he's become more unhinged and dangerous, willing to put innocent bystanders at risk if it means he can kill his siblings. When he discovers his infant niece Hope is still alive, he seeks to kill her himself.
* LightningBruiser : When he stabs Klaus in the hand just after waking up he moves so fast than his brother has can only look on in horror
* MommasBoy: Finn pretty much does whatever Esther tells him to do, and is fiercely loyal to her. Also Finn is the only one who knows the price his Mother paid to have children, hence his loyalty to her.
* MoralityPet: He has one in the form of Cami, who he quickly gets a crush on.

* UndyingLoyalty: To his mother, Esther. Until she becomes a vampire.
%%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld

* ScaryBlackMan: In his current form. Not because he's particularly intimidating physically, but due to his power and ruthlessness.
* SharpDressedMan: Finn is usually very well-turned out.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Was this when he was an Original, he was more moral than Elijah as a vampire, this has changed in his TO appearances.
* VillainousCrush: On Cami.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Finn doesn't. He was ready to sacrifice himself to help Esther (using his blood to link him together with his siblings) to kill all the family. However, he does miss the invulnerability he had as a vampire, calling his new body 'vulnerable'.
%%* WickedCultured
* WouldHurtAChild: In 2.04, Finn plans to exploit a blood moon to activate the werewolf curse in untriggered prepubescent children by having them kill the humans who oppose the witch faction. At best, he considers them to be foot soldiers and doesn't care if they live or die, as long as they fight.
** This may have simply been a trap to lure out the mole, as Finn and Esther being very cunning, would have suspected a mole.
** Finn quickly figures out that Hope is still alive, and immediately sends Marcel and his pack of vampires to find her and Elijah.

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* HiddenDepths: His reunion with his daughter really brings out the emotion in him and nearly reduces him to tears, and he embraces Freya wholeheartedly, this is the most humanity we have seen out of him yet, it also counts as a [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming heart warming]] moment.

!!Hope Niklausdotter

->'''Played By:''' Alexandria & Victoria Collins, Charlie & Blake, and Summer Fontana

* TookALevelInJerkass: During her appearance in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', her desire to kill her children - thus removing vampires from existence - can be somewhat justified, given the atrocities the Originals caused and the imbalance they created in nature. But going after her granddaughter - a newborn baby who hasn't done anything to anyone - offers her no such excuse.
** This becomes more pronounced in the second season. She has no qualms about endangering Kol's life when she orchestrates a werewolf attack on Davina. And when he cal her out for putting him in danger, she bluntly tells him that he lives or dies 'by her grace' and subdues him with her powers.

* OnlySaneMan: Was this when he was an Original, he was more moral than Elijah as a vampire, this has changed in his TO appearances.

* PosthumousCharacter: Mikael was killed by Klaus in Series/TheVampireDiaries, but he still makes regular appearances in flashbacks and continues to impact Klaus' actions. He also turns up as a ghost from time to time to wreak havoc, culminating in his resurrection thanks to Davina.

* TookALevelInJerkass: In terms of his portrayal as opposed to character evolution. He's portrayed far more negatively than in Series/TheVampireDiaries, where Klaus was the BigBad. Except he's now long dead, and everything we see of him is from the past, making Klaus far more sympathetic in retrospect.
* TookALevelInBadass: After much build up, he was killed off by a sneak attack by Klaus in the third season of The Vampire Diaries, without getting to do a anything that made him feared. here we get to see what makes him deadly cue a somewhat curb stomp fight whenever he faces Elijah and later Klaus. Showing why he is The Dreaded. His sheer strength seems to be superior to Klaus and he has excellent fighting abilities utilizing a lot of technique.

* TookALevelInJerkass: During her appearance in TheVampireDiaries, her desire to kill her children - thus removing vampires from existence - can be somewhat justified, given the atrocities the Originals caused and the imbalance they created in nature. But going after her granddaughter - a newborn baby who hasn't done anything to anyone - offers her no such excuse.

* BackFromTheDead: Esther resurrects him in the body of a warlock following his death in Series/TheVampireDiaries.

* AbusiveParent: To all his children to varying degrees. He's tyrannical and cold toward them, but Klaus is the one who gets physical as well as psychological/emotional abuse.

* HiddenDepths: His reunion with his daughter really brings out the emotion in him and nearly reduces him to tears, and he embraces Freya wholeheartedly, this is the most humanity we have seen out of him yet, it also counts as a HeartWarming moment.

* {{Badass}}: Even without his vampire powers, Finn is a highly formidable and extremely dangerous opponent. He takes to his witch powers very quickly. He's even powerful enough to subdue ''Mikael'' and channel his vampiric energy to augment his powers.

* DyingAsYourself: Hernik died an untriggered witch, and unlike his older brothers Finn and Kol, he did not return in another body.

* TheUnfavorite: Henrik mostly goes unmentioned by his parents and siblings.

->'''Played By:''' Alexandria & Victoria Collins

* {{Dhampyr}}: She is half vampire and currently half mortal. She's also a witch as well as an inactive werewolf, meaning until she grows up and makes her first kill, she will be a witch with healing abilities slightly inferior to that of a vampire.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: In season 2, uses prepubescent wereolves as ChildSoldiers to kill humans who oppose the witch faction. After discovering that [[spoiler: Esther chose to transition to vampirism rather than die with her so-called morals intact]], he's become more unhinged and dangerous, willing to put innocent bystanders at risk if it means he can kill his siblings. When he discovers his infant niece Hope is still alive, he seeks to kill her himself.

* MommasBoy: Finn pretty much does whatever Esther tells him to do, and is fiercely loyal to her. [[spoiler: Also Finn is the only one who knows the price his Mother paid to have children, hence his loyalty to her.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:He makes this face when he realizes that Elijah had simply let him talk uninterrupted for several minutes while the house had time to be filled with methane from a broken heater.]]

* ThwartedCoupDeGrace: [[spoiler: When he's got Elijah cornered in the safe house, he chooses to monologue for several minutes and taunt Elijah about his carnage and how he's failed to protect Hope. This gives enough time for the exposed gas leaking from the broken heater to saturate every room in the house, as Elijah calmly points out before taking off his sunlight ring and putting his hand in front of a clear window.]]