History Fridge / TheVampireDiaries

* There are two types of teasers for ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. One shows hints at what is going to happen next episode, the other just shows the three protagonists (Damon, Stefan, and Elena) hanging around. In these, Elena has always seemed ''way'' more [[TheVamp vampy]] than she is in the show. I figured this was either TrailersAlwaysLie+SexSells or a StealthPun. Then I realized something: [[EvilCounterpart Elena isn't the]] ''[[EvilIsSexy only]]'' [[ManipulativeBastard one played by that actress.]]--@/RedWren

* Caroline's seeming ease controlling herself and her murderous urges once she becomes a vampire seems bland at first, but it becomes brilliant when one remembers that becoming a vampire turned her into, as she put it, "an insecure, neurotic control freak on crack". Basically she has a predisposition toward control including of herself that got turned UpToEleven when she became a vampire.

* Caroline's seeming ease controlling herself and her murderous urges once she becomes a vampire seems [[MarySue MarySueish]] at first, but it becomes brilliant when one remembers that becoming a vampire turned her into, as she put it, "an insecure, neurotic control freak on crack". Basically she has a predisposition toward control including of herself that got turned UpToEleven when she became a vampire.

* At the risk of angering Stelena shippers, Elena choosing Damon and Stefan falling in love with Caroline actually makes perfect sense when you realize that, Stefan and Elena are doppelgängers, meaning the feelings they have for each other aren't technichally theirs but are Amara's and Silas' feelings for each other, but the feelings they developed for Damon and Caroline respectively aren't because they are dopplegangers but are their own feelings. Think about it, those feelings Stefan and Elena developed for Damon and Caroline wasn't forced by the universe and the balance of nature they developed those romantic feelings for those two on their own as an actual living being not a copy of someone else.

* The Travelers cannot gather in one place without disaster striking. They become Passengers in other people's bodies to get around this, so they're not physically together. Yet, their own unconscious bodies are kept in the same cave. Together. Hmmmm.

* There are two types of teasers for ''TheVampireDiaries''. One shows hints at what is going to happen next episode, the other just shows the three protagonists (Damon, Stefan, and Elena) hanging around. In these, Elena has always seemed ''way'' more [[TheVamp vampy]] than she is in the show. I figured this was either TrailersAlwaysLie+SexSells or a StealthPun. Then I realized something: [[EvilCounterpart Elena isn't the]] ''[[EvilIsSexy only]]'' [[ManipulativeBastard one played by that actress.]]--@/RedWren

* At the risk of angering Stelena shippers, Elena choosing Damon and Stefan falling in love with Caroline actually makes perfect sense when you realize that, Stefan and Elena are doppelgängers, meaning the feelings they have for each other aren't technichally theirs but are Amara's and Silas' feelings for each other, but the feelings they developed for Damon and Caroline respectively aren't because they are dopplegangers but are their actual actual own feelings. Think about it, those feelings Stefan and Elena developed for Damon and Caroline wasn't forced by the universe and the balance of nature they developed those romantic feelings for those two on their own as an actual living being not a copy of someone else.

* At the risk of angering Stelena shippers, Elena choosing Damon and Stefan falling in love with Caroline actually makes perfect sense when you realize that, Stefan and Elena are doppelgängers, meaning the feelings they have for each other aren't technichally theirs but are Amara's and Silas'feelings for each other, but the feelings they developed for Damon and Caroline respectively aren't because they are dopplegangers but are their actual actual own feelings. Think about it, those feelings Stefan and Elena developed for Damon and Caroline wasn't forced by the universe and the balance of nature they developed those romantic feelings for those two on their own as an actual living being not a copy of someone else.

** We also learn that in Season 7, Damon had a pet turkey as a child, which his father killed for Thanksgiving dinner on the grounds that "that animal was put on that Earth for sustenance." Damon might not want to drink animal blood from animals with feathers, because of that.

* Sybil hasn't bothered to have Damon go after Bonnie again like last time because after she was captured by the others, she was there when Stefan and Bonnie talked about saving Damon vs saving Enzo. Based on Bonnie's words, she must have concluded that Bonnie has washed her hands of Damon.
** Maybe she has, considering that she is the only one who hasn't dealt with him since.

* When Tyler's car crashes due to the effects of the Gilbert Device, his eyes turn golden. Of course this is to foreshadow that [[spoiler: he has the werewolf gene, but it makes no sense as one has to kill someone ([[AccidentalMurder accident or not]]) to activate the curse. Then it hit this troper that Caroline was at that point dying of internal bleeding caused by the crash; in other words the curse was just on the edge of being fulfilled.]]

* Damon being the one to realize the sire bond in Tyler makes a lot more sense in Season 4, when it's revealed [[spoiler: that he had a vampire sired to him in 1940s]]

* While Damon doesn't get along with Caroline, he hated her father for, among other reasons, torturing her by taking her daylight ring and burning her with sunlight. This becomes much clearer in "Mommie Dearest", where it is revealed that [[spoiler: his own father burned him with cigars.]]
* In season 7, Damon has been hit hard with a bad case of InformedWrongness, with [[spoiler: everyone blaming him for Rayna going after Stefan, when in fact it was Enzo's fault for manipulating events. However, since Damon turned all of their lives upside down with his return to Mystic Falls in season 1, it makes sense that their first instinct is to blame him when things go wrong.]]

* Unlike in most media [[OurVampiresAreDifferent where vampires possess mind control powers]], compulsion does not seem to particularly affect the mental faculties of those it controls unless the vampire using it specifies that the victim must not remember something or should think something in particular. This is later proven in "The Ties That Bind" when [[spoiler: one of Klaus's [[EliteMook Hybrids]] compels Jamie to shoot anyone who arrives at the house; while he sticks to the orders and attacks Stefan, he clearly does not understand why he is doing it.]] This means that others we have seen under compulsion, such as the man Isobel compelled to ''step in front of a car, resulting in his death'' were aware of what they were doing, [[AndIMustScream but completely unable to control their bodies]].
** Which gives one an even darker perspective of Damon's [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi "relationships"]] with Caroline and Andie.

* Every supernatural death goes through the anchor. Amara was the anchor when Elena and Jeremy kill Kol. That created a WHOLE lot of supernatural deaths, all at once.

** Katherine only started aging after Silas drank her blood to get the cure for himself. It's a bit murky on the show, but I think we're supposed to assume that as long as the cure isn't passed on to someone else, rapid aging doesn't come along with it. [Silas may have started aging if he'd lived much longer after Amara took the cure from him, but he wasn't technically a vampire and the cure was specifically formulated for his type of immortality, so it's possibly a side-effect only for former vampires who take the cure.
** There's a scene at the end of "Graduation" where Silas takes on Elena's form. We later learn that his lover, Amara, was the Original doppelganger making the whole thing very squicky.

* In season five we meet Nadia, a vampire who is revealed to be [[spoiler:the daughter that Katherine was forced to give up]]. Nadia has a lot of anger towards Katherine because [[spoiler:she feels that her mother abandoned her when she became a vampire]]. This is all well and good except for the fact that Elena exists, which means that Nadia had a child who she abandoned to become a vampire and search for Katherine- doing the exact thing to her child that she is so mad at Katherine for doing to her.

* When Elena and Jeremy [[spoiler: kill Kol, Klaus]] angrily threatens to [[spoiler:burn their house down.]] He's stopped from doing so, but I realized later this happens anyway, [[spoiler:only with Elena doing the burning]]
* Every supernatural death goes through the anchor. [[spoiler: Amara was the anchor]] when Elena and Jeremy [[spoiler: kill Kol]]. That created a WHOLE lot of supernatural deaths, all at once.
* [[spoiler: After Elena forces Katherine to take the cure]], her body begins to catch up with all the years that it has been supernaturally alive, causing her body to start to age and decay. [[spoiler: Katherine took the cure unwillingly, but remember who REALLY wanted it?]] Rebekah! If Rebakah had gotten her wish, imagine the fallout. Not only would she probably have died even faster, being more than twice Katherine's age, but the reactions of her brother's could have been... messy. Klaus is unstable enough with his siblings at least trying to keep him in check, and Elijah would have had the additional guilt of being the one to give her the cure.
** [[spoiler: Katherine]] only started aging after [[spoiler: Silas drank her blood to get the cure for himself]]. It's a bit murky on the show, but I think we're supposed to assume that as long as the cure isn't [[spoiler: passed on to someone else]], rapid aging doesn't come along with it. [[spoiler: Silas may have started aging if he'd lived much longer after Amara took the cure from him, but he wasn't technically a vampire and the cure was specifically formulated for his type of immortality, so it's possibly a side-effect only for former vampires who take the cure.]]
** There's a scene at the end of "Graduation" where Silas takes on Elena's form. We later learn that [[spoiler: his lover, Amara, was the Original doppelganger]] making the whole thing very squicky.

* The Travelers cannot gather in one place without disaster striking. They become Passengers in other people's bodies to get around this, so they're not physically together. Yet, their own unconscious bodies are kept in the same cave. Together. Hmmmm.

* The Travelers cannot gather in one place without disaster striking. They become Passengers in other people's bodies to get around this, so they're not physically together. Yet, their own unconscious bodies are kept in the same cave. Together. Hmmmm.

* [[spoiler: Damon and Bonnie]] being trapped in a time vortex, being forced to live the same day over and over again.

* In "A Few Good Men" Sheriff Forbes does a background check on Alaric and he has a clean record. However, in "1912" Meredith does another background check and finds several violent instances. How would the local law enforcement miss such things.
* How did Elijah not realize that Elena was wearing his mother's necklace. The only way it could possibly make sense if he didn't know of it.

* In season five we meet Nadia, a vampire who is revealed to be [[spoiler:the daughter that Katherine was forced to give up]]. Nadia has a lot of anger towards Katherine because [[spoiler:she feels that her mother abandoned her when she became a vampire]]. This is all well and good except for the fact that Elena exists, [[which means that Nadia had a child who she abandoned to become a vampire and search for Katherine- doing the exact thing to her child that she is so mad at Katherine for doing to her]].

* Katerina's "turning" may qualify as this, and/or FridgeTearjerker to explain: Katerina/Katherine ran-away from Klaus when Elijah told her about her about their plans to sacrifice her, and Rose walks in on her attempting suicide ( "I'd rather die than go back to Klaus ) and forces her blood into Katherine's system. When Trevor comes home, Rose ambushes him and scolds him for what he's done,and when they turn around to check on Katherine, she's hung herself. At first, one assumes that Katherine purposefully did this to turn herself into a vampire, but then you realize that Katerina ''had absolutely no way of knowing this.'' as she learned about Klaus (and, subsequently, vampires) from Elijah, but its highly doubtful that he told her all about turning and all that. Even though Katherine tells Elena that she had planned to become a vampire all along, all facts point to Katerina really having tried to kill herself, and her saying things like "You would have helped me run. That was never going to be enough" sounds like someone who had, originally, given up, and her saying "Better you die than I" sounds like someone who has been given a second chance at life. [[Tearjerker Which makes her personality change after turning that much more understandable]]

* When Elena and Jeremy [[spoiler: kill Kol, Klaus]] angrily threatens to [[spoiler:burn their house down.]] He's stopped from doing so, but I realized later this happens anyway, [[spoiler: only with Elena doing the burning]]

* When Tyler's car crashes due to the effects of the Gilbert Device, his eyes turn golden. Of course this is to forshadow that [[spoiler: he has the werewolf gene, but it makes no sense as one has to kill someone ([[AccidentalMurder accident or not]]) to activate the curse. Then it hit this troper that Caroline was at that point dying of internal bleeding caused by the crash; in other words the curse was just on the edge of being fulfilled.]]

* Seeing as we aren't getting a Christmas hiatus in Season 4 we have a higher chance of getting a holiday episode. Of course it's happiness level might be lower than the one Series/VeronicaMars had.
* Damon being the one to realize the sire bond in Tyler makes a lot more sense in Season 4, when it's revealed [[spoiler: that he had a sired to him in 1940s]]

* Katherine says that she had been taking vervain for 145 years in "Memory Lane". It seems to be just so she's not harmed by it, but in "Katerina" we learn that Originals can compel other vampires, so it also had the added bonus of protecting her.
* In "History Repeating", Damon vows to drink animal blood, but nothing with feathers. Though seems like a simple joke, if you remember in "You're Undead to Me", Damon killed the crow that followed him around for sustenance. He had a good reason for not wanting anything feathered

* Caroline's seeming ease controlling herself and her murderous urges once she becomes a vampire seem [[MarySue MarySueish]] at first, but it becomes brilliant when one remembers that becoming a vampire turned her into as she put it "insecure, neurotic control freak on crack". Basically she has a predisposition toward control including of herself that got turned UpToEleven when she became a vampire.

* In season five we meet Nadia, a vampire who is revealed to be [[spoiler:the daughter that Katherine was forced to give up]]. Nadia has a lot of anger towards Katherine because [[spoiler:she feels that her mother abandoned her when she became a vampire]]. This is all well and good except for the fact that Elena exists, [[which means that Nadia had a child who she abandoned to become a vampire and search for Katherine- doing the exact thing to her child that she is so mad at Katherine for doing to her]].