Headscratchers / Legacies

• What exactly was Clarke planning to do to Malivore after awakening it? It's not as if he knew that Hope was the key to destroying Malivore due to possessing the blood of the three species that originally created the golem.
  • Clark himself doesn't know why Malivore let him back out and its implied he's one of the first "Malivore Monsters" to be released for the purpose of finding the keys and releasing his father. Being a creation of his father likely means it was a case of More than Mind Control for him.
• If Malivore was created by a werewolf, witch, and vampire originally, how on earth did none of the Original vampires NOT know about it. Like....wouldn't Hope have mentioned it to either Kol or Rebekah, who are both Original vampires?
  • A) All of the Mikaelsons were either daggered or otherwise kept to themselves and the alliance is more implied to be a secret agreement between three individuals. Malivore erasing any memory or record obviously leaves a blind spot in people's memories and in history, at least anyone still alive to remember.
  • B) This takes place after The Originals when most of the Mikaelsons are dead or "retired", even then Malivore likely erased their memories of any creatures or anyone who could've told them about him.
• How was everyone so stupid as to leave the knife completely unprotected? Couldn't one of the Acadamy's witches just place a simple barrier spell on it? In the series, it's implied that barrier spells eventually wear off, but that's no excuse to just have someone replace a barrier spell every few hours.
  • Landon was able to steal the knife without tripping the alarm in the first episode, so it's possible that the knife can render those spells ineffective. They did set up a barrier spell that trapped the monsters who came after it in a later episode.
  • Barrier spells appear to only work on the supernatural and not vanilla humans. In a season 3 episode, the Necromancer's barrier spell kept supernaturals out but humans could come and go as they pleased. It was Landon, whose half human and half Phoenix, who stole the knife in the beginning and it was Rafael's human girlfriend brought back as a zombie to successfully stole it. As its repeatedly pointed out over the series, when it comes to magic there's always a loophole.
• If Klaus and Hayley were both werewolf/vampire hybrids, how can Hope be the first Tribrid? Where did the witch part come from? Wouldn't one of her parents have to have been a Tribrid before Hope?
  • All the Mikaelsons were witches before they were turned. Esther (the Mikaelson mother) is a witch, hence Freya being one. Because Witches, when turned, cannot practice magic anymore, their witch side was nullified. But Klaus still passed it on.