History Awesome / TheVampireDiaries

* In ''Picture's of You'', for those who found Vampire!Elena to be a Scrappy, you have to admit, [[spoiler: Bonnie using her expression on her]] was pretty damn awesome.

* Jeremy Curb Stomping three bullies in the season five premire.

* [[spoiler: Katherine managing to get away from both Silas and Jeremy and go on the run once again. Jeremy is a Hunter. Silas is ''the first immortal being in history.'' It just proves that while her vampirism gave her benefits, ultimately it's Katherine's cunning that makes her so dangerous.]]
* In ''True Lies'' Jeremy vs '''Silas'''. [[GoodOldFisticuffs One on one]]
** Just to illustrate how amazing this is: Silas may be the only truly immortal being on the planet, but he lacks the speed and strength of regular vampires. And since Jeremy is a Hunter, that means Silas can't use any of his mind tricks on him. Jeremy went one-on-one with a two-thousand year old immortal, and he ''nearly won.''

-->'''[[spoiler: Caroline:]]''' I can take you.

-->'''[[spoiler: Caroline:]]''' Yeah. I do. ''*commence [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp]], leaving Mason on the ground*'' Told ya.
** And the part a minute later where she kills out two cops with guns in about 30 seconds without getting a scratch... Also kinda disturbing...

* Bonnie and Damon are trapped in an afterlife prison with the sociopathic male witch it was created for, and it seems the only way out is to take him with them. Except first Bonnie sends Damon through alone, and then her ''teddy bear'' with all her magic attached, leaving herself alone with the tremendously pissed off witch forever. HeroicSacrifice doesn't begin to cover it.

* You have to give Nina Dobrev credit: she portrays what are essentially 3 very different characters (Elena, not-human Elena, and Katherine), and they're all distinct and each definitely their own character.

* After five seasons, [[spoiler: Katherine is finally put down for good. But not before leaving one last parting gift for Elena, in true Katherine Pierce style.]]

* After five seasons, [[spoiler: Katherine is finally put down for good. By Stefan the person that she least expected.]]

* After five seasons, [[spoiler: Katherine is finally put down for good. But not before she leaves a parting gift, in the form of injecting Elena's body with the Ripper virus.]] Subverted in that [[spoiler: Katherine ends up DraggedOffToHell after the Other Side refuses to accept her.]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Qetsiyah:]]''' [[spoiler: True love prevails. The universe be damned.]]

* A villainous one for Qetsiyah. It's not enough that she orchestrated events so that if Silas died as a witch, he would be with her for all eternity. [[spoiler: She made the Anchor - the one thing keeping the other side active - Amara herself, aka Silas' one true love. Meaning that if Silas had taken the cure and tried to destroy the other side, he wouldn't have been able to do so, since he could never hurt Amara. She remains immortal, and he stays a witch until his dying day, and then he goes to supernatural purgatory and Qetsiyah.]] As Damon said: a bona fide genius.

** Katherine's BigDamnHeroes moment when she shows up to save Jeremy from Silas, shotgun at the ready. It's the first time she's ever used a gun (according to her, anyway), and she downs Silas with three shots.

Katherine's BigDamnHeroes moment when she shows up to save Jeremy from Silas, shotgun at the ready. It's the first time she's ever used a gun (according to her, anyway), and she downs Silas with three shots.

** Just to illustrate how amazing this is: Silas may be the only truly immortal being on the planet, but he lacks the speed and strength of regular vampires. And since Jeremy is a Hunter, that means Silas can't use any of his mind tricks on him. Jeremy went one-on-one with a two-thousand year old immortal, and he ''nearly won.''

* In ''True Lies'' Jeremy vs '''Silas'''. [[GoodOldFisticuffs One on one]]

* In ''True Lies''[[GoodOldFisticuffs Jeremy vs '''Silas'''. One on one]]

* [[GooldOldFisticuffs Jeremy vs '''Silas'''. One on one]]

* [[spoiler: Katherine managing to get away from both Silas and Jeremy and go on the run once again. Jeremy is a Hunter. Silas is ''the first immortal being in history.'' It just proves that while her vampirism gave her benefits, ultimately it's Katherine's cunning that makes her so dangerous.]]

** Damon compelling the principal to give Jeremy a light punishment for it.

** And topped off by Elena [[spoiler: force-feeding Katherine the cure.]]

* In the season four finale [[spoiler: Klaus decapitates a witch with a ''graduation cap''. Yep. Threw it like a ninja star.]]

* [[spoiler: Jeremy's BigDamnHeroes moment when he saves Elena from being killed by Kol.]]

* [[spoiler: Jeremy's BigDamnedHeroes moment when he saves Elena from being killed by Kol.]]

* TheOriginals was picked up immediately after the pilot aired.

* In ''Picture's of You'', for those who found Vampire!Elena to be a Scrappy, you have to admit, [[spoiler: Bonnie using her expression on her]] was pretty damn awesome.

** Made even more awesome by the reveal the next episode that Silas hadn't even touched Klaus, that actually he had merely mindfucked him into submission.

* And then there's the moment we've all been waiting for: [[spoiler: Silas' first meeting with Klaus]]. It is the first time ever in the series that Klaus tries his usual tricks and finds that he has been OutGambitted and, more importantly, outmatched physically. [[spoiler: The episode ends with Silas ''stabbing Klaus in the back with Rebekah's white oak stake'', snapping it off and leaving Klaus to scream and writhe in sheer pain.]] And he does it with no back-up, no complicated magic. It shows how [[spoiler: dangerous Silas truly is if he can incapacitate freaking Klaus in less then ten seconds flat.]]

** The ads played their own part in this. Earlier in the season there was an irritating case of {{Never Trust A Trailer}} when an appearance by Katherine was hyped up, but turned out to be a hallucination. But this time they gave no hint that she would appear, letting it be twice as much of a surprise.

* And in 4x14, it's the return of the show's resident [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]] Katherine Pierce/Katerina Petrova, who just waltzes right into Silas' tomb, takes the cure and leaves [[spoiler: a dead Jeremy Gilbert and a dying Bonnie Bennett]] to deal with the imminent return of the world's oldest immortal being.

* One has to admire [[spoiler: Klaus completely turning his capture in the Gilbert house completely in his favor and his amusement. Tyler actually arrives to taunt Klaus on his hopelessness… only for the older hybrid to completely mind fuck and Troll Tyler so completely than one can only watch him in almost horrified awe]]. The man is even more dangerous with his words than with his actions