“	It worked, Jer. I did the spell that brought you back. I didn't think it would work, but I closed the veil and you're still... here.	”
	— Bonnie to Jeremy in Graduation

Bonnie Bennett is a main female character of The Vampire Diaries. She was best friends with Caroline Forbes. While she fills the role of counselor and confidante, Bonnie is also the brassy-but-cautious witch, who discovers her powers just in time to help out her family and friends.

Bonnie was also noted for having many heroine tendencies, namely, being repeatedly ready to sacrifice herself for her friends. As her powers have increased, the witch has stepped up at pretty much every opportunity to trade her life for those of her friends. Luckily, Bonnie was alive and well, her spell-casting abilities most definitely came in handy when the Original Vampires came to Mystic Falls.

Since gaining the power of Expression, Bonnie has become one of the most powerful characters in the series. She was able to take down two members of the Original Vampire family with ease.

Bonnie attempts to use spirit, expression, and dark magic to bring to bring back Jeremy and the others who shouldn't have died. Her Grams warned her that no magic was strong enough to challenge the will of Nature but Bonnie refused to listen. It was too much for her therefore killing her in the process.

Bonnie was a member of the Bennett Family.

Contents 1 Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series 2 Personality 2.1 Human/Witch 3 Physical Appearance 4 Relationships 4.1 Sheila Bennett 4.2 Lucy 4.3 Caroline Forbes 4.4 Elena Gilbert 4.5 Jeremy Gilbert 4.6 Matt Donovan 4.7 Other Relationships 5 Powers and Abilities 6 Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities 7 Novels 8 Appearances 8.1 Season 1 8.2 Season 2 8.3 Season 3 8.4 Season 4 9 Name 10 Behind The Scenes 11 Trivia 12 Episode Count 13 Tropes 14 Videos 15 Gallery 16 See also 17 Comments

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

Personality

Human/Witch

At the beginning of the series

s, Bonnie was an upbeat and positive person. However, as the series goes on, and Bonnie begins to suffer the losses of people close to her, (most notably her Grams and Jeremy) she begins to become a much more serious person. Throughout the series, Bonnie remains a strong person, who was loyal to her friends, even though there has been tensions between her friends. While Bonnie has become friends with Stefan, she remains barely cordially with Damon, though there have been implications that the two care for each other deep down. Bonnie's biggest defining trait, as well as her greatest weakness, is her loyalty to her friends. Multiple times throughout the series, Bonnie willingly taps into dark powers in order to save the people she cares for, despite knowing the consequences. She believes that it was her duty to help those close to her, despite whatever it may cost her, a trait that every single member of her family has warned her on at some point. Despite her strength in the face of loss, all of the tragic events that have happened to her and her friends has worn on her, most evident with Jeremy's death, where she was pushed to the point of agreeing to go through with a plan to destroy the veil between the realm of the living and the supernatural dead just to bring Jeremy back, despite the fact that doing so would also resurrecting every single supernatural creature that has died, however she was also arrogant, believing that she could take out, two very powerful immortal beings, like Klaus and Elijah, underestimate's what they both are capable of doing, even threatening her cousin Lucy, forgetting the fact, that Lucy is more powerful, and experience then she is.

Physical Appearance

Bonnie was a beautiful young woman with brown skin, olive green eyes, a heart-shaped face and black hair that has changed throughout the seasons (from wavy to straight). Her style was described as being gypsy chic with a bit of a hippie trend and dresses in a casual manner with nice tops and jeans, but on special occasions will dress up even more. She usually wears very little make up and likes accessories. She was approximately 5'2" (160 cm) and has a nice physique. She was also seen wearing necklaces, earrings, bracelets and trinkets sometimes.

Relationships

Sheila Bennett

Bonnie visited her grandma on the weekends. When Bonnie didn't know what was happening with her powers she went to her for help. Grams explained the history first and also taught her spells. When Bonnie and Elena were kidnapped, Grams got Stefan to save them both. Grams also helped open the tomb, so that Damon would leave town. After Grams and Bonnie opened the tomb, Grams lied down and because the spell took so much out of her, she died. Bonnie was devastated, took a few weeks off from school after her funeral. Since then Bonnie has taken witchcraft more seriously. After the veil between the living and the dead is broken, a vast group of spirits return to Mystic Falls, including Sheila Bennett. After she reveals to Bonnie that the balance of nature has been offset, together, Bonnie and Sheila perform a spell that would destroy The Original Witch's Talisman. Before her departure, Sheila gives words of encouragement to Bonnie, reminding her of her strength, and how proud she is of how far Bonnie has come. When Elena was transitioning into a vampire, Bonnie tried to pull her human spirit from the other side but she was stopped by Sheila, who warned her of the dark magic she was using and to stop messing with nature. When she continued to do so, Bonnie watched her grandmother die right in front of her. Then can now presumably stay together on the Other Side after she told Jeremy that she could stay with grams and she left holding her hand.

Lucy

Lucy seemed to be Katherine's friend. She appeared in Masquerade. She is a witch and also Bonnie's cousin. She linked Elena to Katherine, in order to protect her. After Bonnie learned that she can trust Lucy, she handed over the moonstone. Lucy suffocated Katherine, and after that gave Bonnie the moonstone and left town soon after. However, before she left she told Bonnie that she was a good witch and that she needed to continue to fight. She also reassured Bonnie that she would see her again.

Caroline Forbes

Main article: Caroline and Bonnie

The friendship between Bonnie and Caroline is one that has become stronger after Bonnie honing her witchcraft and Caroline becoming a vampire before they were cheerleaders in high school and they were also best friends with Elena Gilbert. Caroline was a shallow girl who envied Elena and usually talked to Bonnie about it. After Caroline transitioned into a vampire Bonnie was angry over this and lashed out at Damon but eventually Bonnie's love for her friend over came her natural dislike for vampires and the two were best friends again. After the Salvatore brothers killed Bonnie's mother, she kept the body at Caroline's house and it was Caroline who explained to Elena the strain it put on Bonnie being Elena's friend.

Elena Gilbert

Main article: Elena and Bonnie

Elena is one of Bonnie's best friends since childhood. She is the first person that Bonnie tells she is a witch. Bonnie has said that she "loves Elena like a sister" and has said that she would "die for her." They are very close and would do anything for each other. After Elena and the Salvatore brothers' indirectly cause Sheila Bennet's death, their friendship goes through a temporary rough patch. Their friendship is later rekindled, and they remained best friends. After Jeremy's death, Elena turns off her humanity, and later attacks Bonnie at prom in an attempt to kill her, again causing a strain on their friendship. After Elena turns her humanity back on, they make amends, and Elena apologizes for her actions, to which Bonnie replies, "You weren't you. I know what that's like. I wasn't me for a long time," in reference to [expression] having an effect on her mind.

Jeremy Gilbert

Main article: Jeremy and Bonnie

Jeremy was the first to develop romantic feelings and the first to express desire for a more romantic relationship between the two. However, Bonnie was reluctant, but eventually gave into her feeling for him. Jeremy and Bonnie then started a relationship, after they got Elena's blessing to go ahead. Jeremy is over protective of Bonnie probably because he doesn't want to lose her like his past two girlfriends. Bonnie has proven her love for Jeremy when she willing brought him back to life, no matter the consequence. However, after Bonnie brought him back to life he started seeing and talking to the ghost of his ex-girlfriend, much to Bonnie's displeasure. Elena caught Jeremy kissing Anna, she then informed Caroline who in turn relayed this information to Bonnie. A heartbroken Bonnie then ends their relationship.

Matt Donovan

Main article: Matt and Bonnie

Matt and Bonnie are great friends they have been friends since childhood. In the pilot Bonnie is seen talking and trying to comfort him about Elena. In season 3 Matt mentioned he and Bonnie were lifeguards last summer. Matt also has a lot of trust in Bonnie that he trust her with his life in The Reckoning. Even though Matt is feeling lonely, Bonnie tells Matt: "You’re the only one of us who actually gets to live their life like a normal person, no matter how lost you feel. Don’t forget that."

Other Relationships

Damon and Bonnie (Friends/Allies)   Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie (Best Friends)    Stefan and Bonnie (Allies/Friends) Luka and Bonnie (Ex-Friends) Bonnie and Klaus (Enemies) Bonnie and Esther (Enemies) Bonnie and Kol (Enemies) Bonnie and Atticus (Former Friends)  Bonnie and Rudy (Father) Bonnie and Silas (Enemies) Bonnie and Katherine (Enemies, Partners, Allies)

Powers and Abilities

Bonnie is most notably the most powerful Witch in her generation. She is capable of performing spells without some of the most important reagents to gain the desired effect. Bonnie's only known limitation as of late is dependent on her emotional status and confidence in her abilities (Though with a lack of proper magical control). Her magical strength is equal to, if not greater, than her ancestor Qetsiyah, the co-creator of the Immortality Spell with Silas, The First Vampire. Bonnie is the only known witch to ever unite all of magic in a single spell, though the use of it over-exerted her and she died. Along with her exceptional prowess as a Witch, Bonnie also possesses the more common Witch abilities (And a few unique) of:

• Channeling: The act of channeling or drawing other forms of energy and power by focusing on celestial events.

• Conjuration: The act of calling, commanding, or summoning an element, object, person, or spirit already in existence.

• Elemental Control: The act of controlling and manipulating the elements of air, earth, fire, water, and weather.

• Mind Control: The act of controlling and manipulating the minds of humans. (Similar to Compulsion)

• Mind Stunning: The act of bemusing and rendering someone unconscious.

• Pain Infliction: The act of creating and inflicting excruciating pain upon another person, especially vampires.

• Precognition: The act of foreseeing future events and happenings.

• Spell Casting: The act of changing and controlling events by magical influence.

• Telekinesis: The act of controlling and manipulating the movements of objects and persons.

• Witches Brew: The act of brewing and concocting supernatural elixirs and potions that contain mystical properties.
• Healing Factor: Bonnie was able to quickly heal herself after being bitten by Elena.
• Petrification: As part of her Expression powers, Bonnie was able to desiccate a powerful creature such as Silas, a warlock and the first vampire, turning him into stone.
• Uniting Magic: Bonnie is capable of using Spirit Magic, Dark Magic, and Expression in tandem to perform a spell. 
• Ressurection: She, along with Emily Bennett and Esther, are the few witches known to be capable of defying the will of nature and returning someone who had died back to life. Though in Bonnie's case it costed her own life.

Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities

• Fear: A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the condition or feeling of being afraid could cause a witch to temporarily lose their powers.

• Overuse Of Magic: The excessive use of magic could lead a witch to death from over-exertion. Inevitably, it was this that caused her initial death when uniting the three magics.

Novels

Main article: Bonnie McCullough

Bonnie McCullough is a main female character of The Vampire Diaries book series. She is an 18 year old psychic human girl (who is also said to be a witch) who is from the small town of Fells Church, Virginia. Bonnie is best friends with Elena Gilbert, Meredith Sulez, Matt Honeycutt and Stefan Salvatore. Bonnie is the only person within the entire series to develop a deep, strong, tender and genuine relationship with Damon Salvatore. Bonnie was born on September 8, 1974 (1992 in the present version) in Fells Church, Virginia. She is of Scottish American descent and she is descended from ancient Celtic Druids (pronounced Droo-ids). She has witch ancestry and she possesses psychic powers, which developed and became immensely powerful and strong over a period of time throughout the course of the series. Bonnie has a Scottish grandmother from Edinburgh, Scotland, who is a psychic witch (like herself) and whom she was very close to. She has one older sister named Mary McCullough, who is a nurse and who is two to three years older than her. It has been mentioned in the novels that Bonnie might possibly have another sister other than Mary, although this is not certain and has not been confirmed so it is assumed that Bonnie only has one sibling. Bonnie has slowly learned to control her strong abilities as a psychic, although her powers often become much too overwhelming for her to handle at times. Bonnie's psychic abilities are hereditary according to Bonnie, and she says that the psychic powers always skip a generation. Bonnie's grandmother has the psychic (witch) abilities, but she says that her mother doesn't possess them. Bonnie has also dabbled in the art of witchcraft successfully and she had done this when trying to help Elena find Stefan when he had gone missing in The Struggle.

Physically, Bonnie is described to be a small, petite girl with deep, large brown eyes, a heart shaped face, long strawberry red-gold hair (which is curly permed) and very fair skin or complexion, which is said to be highly translucent and opaque. Bonnie's physical appearance is often described to be innocent, dainty and childlike. Initially, in the very beginning of the series, Bonnie comes off as kind hearted and caring, but she is not seen to be very bright, scholarly and intelligent at all. In Dark Reunion, Bonnie begins to dabble in the art of witchcraft, and successfully pulls off a summoning ritual to call Stefan back to Fell's Church, then successfully manages to help Stefan communicate with a ghost!Elena by various means. At the end of Dark Reunion, Bonnie is the one who screams about the unfairness of their tragic fate, which triggers Elena's return from the afterlife. It is unknown if Bonnie's strong and powerful powers played any significant role in making this happen, or if it was just a matter of lucky timing (it was the night of the summer solstice, when ghosts were said to be prone to returning to Earth anyway). She slowly realizes that she isn't as dumb as she believes herself to be (and, as a result, as she's convinced everyone else she is), and that she's actually rather resourceful, useful, needed and loved by all of her friends. Although Bonnie's characterization generally appears to be light-hearted, bubbly and sweet, Bonnie is deeply fascinated with and drawn to darkness and unconventionality, especially with death. Bonnie frequently talks about, fantasizes about and romanticizes death, especially her own; constantly talking about her Scottish grandmother's prophecy that she would be young and beautiful in her grave, and she is going to die romantically. She is fickle, idealistic and flighty when it comes to the opposite sex.

Bonnie is described to be highly flirtatious and coy. She has a habit of chasing boys, therefore, this has made her look somewhat flighty, ditzy, unstable and even promiscuous when it comes to the opposite sex. She has had numerous boyfriends, crushes and infatuations whom she doesn't seem to take seriously at all due to her fickleness, flightiness and her inability to commit to a stable, long-term romantic relationship. Bonnie has shown some interest in Matt Honeycutt. She begins to develop a relationship with Matt (especially in Dark Reunion), although Matt is still very much in love with Elena. Matt has been seen to be very protective over Bonnie, especially where Damon is concerned, and he appears to have a brother-sister, best friend or platonic connection with her. She has a pleasant and easy-going connection with Matt. Bonnie has a very deep, strong, indescribable and undeniable attraction and connection with Damon Salvatore. She deeply and strongly cares about him (unconditionally) and is indescribably and undeniably drawn to him. Damon has saved her life on various occasions throughout the course of the series and because of it, Damon is seen as Bonnie's hero and protector. Damon has shown to be fiercely protective (sometimes overly protective) of Bonnie even though he won't and can't admit it to himself (for whatever unexplained reasons) and he is always there for her whenever she is in trouble of any kind. Bonnie is Damon's "weak spot" although Damon constantly and repeatedly tries to deny it throughout the series. By the end of the original series, Bonnie had become significantly more mature, grounded and serious; focusing on the more important issues and problems at hand rather than about the opposite sex and chasing boys. She even surprises herself a few times with her own insightful, helpful contributions to the fight against Klaus. Bonnie, who is a powerful psychic with supposed witch ancestry, is often greatly overwhelmed by her powers, and attempts to repress the true extent of them without very much success.

Appearances

Season 1 Pilot The Night of the Comet Friday Night Bites Family Ties You're Undead to Me Haunted 162 Candles History Repeating The Turning Point Bloodlines Unpleasantville Children of the Damned Fool Me Once Miss Mystic Falls Isobel (episode) Founder's Day Season 2 The Return (episode) Brave New World Bad Moon Rising Plan B Masquerade Rose (episode) Katerina The Sacrifice By The Light of the Moon Daddy Issues Crying Wolf The Dinner Party The House Guest Know Thy Enemy The Last Dance The Sun Also Rises As I Lay Dying Season 3 The Birthday (video phone appearance) Disturbing Behavior The Reckoning Smells Like Teen Spirit Ghost World Ordinary People Homecoming The New Deal Our Town The Ties That Bind Bringing Out The Dead All My Children Break On Through The Murder of One Do Not Go Gentle Before Sunset The Departed Season 4 Growing Pains Memorial The Five The Killer We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes We’ll Always Have Bourbon Street O Come, All Ye Faithful After School Special Catch Me If You Can A View To A Kill Into the Wild Down the Rabbit Hole Stand By Me Because the Night Pictures of You She's Come Undone The Walking Dead Graduation

Name

• Bonnie is a feminine first name of Scottish/Scots-Irish origin which means "pretty", "beautiful" or "attractive". It is pronounced BAHN-ee or BON-ee.

• Bonnie comes from the Scottish word "bonnie" and is also diminutive of the French word "bonne", meaning "good". Commonly used as a fond nickname. The old nursery rhyme claims that "the child who is born on the Sabbath Day/is bonny and blithe and good and gay", which makes this an appropriate name for a Sunday's child. Literary: Scarlett O'Hara's daughter by Rhett Butler was named "Bonnie Blue". A famous American bearer was Bonnie Parker, accomplice of the bank robber Clyde Barrow; their life was made into the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde". The name is also used as a pet form of Bonita. Actress Bonnie Hunt; Olympic speedskater Bonnie Blair.

• Variants of the name Bonnie include Bonne, Bonn, Bon-Bon, Bonnette, Bonnet, Bonnebell, Bonnee, Bonnell, Bonney, Bonni, Bonnibel, Bonnibell, Bonnibelle, Bonnie-Jo, Bonnin, Bonny, Bonny-Jean, Bonny-Lee, Bunni, Bunnie, Bo, and Bunny.

Behind The Scenes

• The casting call was: 17 years old, bubbly, adorable, loyal and bighearted, she is Elena's best friend who is developing her psychic abilities and senses that Stefan is dangerous. She also "sees" the black crow of death that seems to be following Elena...

Trivia

• Bonnie Bennett's character is loosely based off Bonnie McCullough from the novels.
• Bonnie stated she was a psychic in Pilot, and that she was a witch in 162 Candles.
• Bonnie is the first one to see Stefan Salvatore before Elena.
• Bonnie is the first witch to be seen in the series.
• Because of her powers, Bonnie is considered the most powerful main character.
• Bonnie is the only witch to live the longest amount of time throughout the series.
• Bonnie has been possessed by her ancestor Emily twice.
• The Bennett line of witches has been in Mystic Falls dating all the way back to the Middle Ages with Ayana. However, Sheila tells Bonnie that their family was originally from Salem, Massachusetts, and first came to Mystic Falls after the Salem witch trials, which hadn't taken place until the late 17th century.
• Along with Bonnie, all main female characters have died at some point, Bonnie's death occurring during the 60's dance which she managed to revive from later that night with a spell, Bonnie, Caroline, and Elena are the only ones to escape permanent death and only Bonnie is the only one to retain her humanity.
• In the TV show Heroes, a character named Claire Bennett went back in time and used the alias Bonnie to interact with her mom, also Claire Bennett's father Noah Bennett is played by Jack Coleman, the same actor who played Caroline's late father Bill Forbes.
• Unlike Elena and Caroline, Bonnie has not yet been seen having sexual intercourse with anybody, indicating she's a virgin. Although she might have when she was with Jeremy or if she had unknown past relationships.
• Bonnie, Alaric, Rebekah and Tyler, are the only characters who had their body used by another character. Bonnie was first who was possessed, and she was possessed by her ancestor Emily Bennett.
• Until Tyler during season 2, Bonnie was the only main character who was absent for a period of four episodes in a row.
• Bonnie is the best friend of Elena, just like their mothers Abby and Miranda.
• Her car is a blue ribbon metallic Toyota Prius registered JR7-5183.
• The Toyota Prius that Bonnie drives is also Katerina Graham's personal car.
• Bonnie is the only witch who has been possessed by another witch in the series.
• Bonnie is also the only witch who revived a human with no other human connect.
• Bonnie is the second witch to desiccate an Original; Klaus.
  • The first was her mother; Abby.
• Bonnie once stated that she can't cook, like her friend Elena.
• Bonnie's house number is 2136.
• So far, Bonnie is the only supernatural that turned humans into mediums (Jeremy and Matt).
• She's the only main character to have both parents alive in some way. Matt might as well have both parents alive, but his father's status is unknown.
• Bonnie is the only character and witch shown using expression magic so far and on another character.
• Bonnie is the only witch that used three types of magic at the same time: Spirit Magic, Dark Magic, Expression Magic.
• Bonnie is fifth main character who dies after Vicki, Jenna, Alaric and Jeremy.
  • She is the third main female after Vicki and Jenna who dies.
• Nicknames given to her:
  • Katherine Pierce: Bon Bon

Episode Count

• In Season 1 Bonnie doesn't appear in 6 episodes: Lost Girls, A Few Good Men, There Goes the Neighborhood, Let The Right One In, Under Control and Blood Brothers
• In Season 2 Bonnie doesn't appear in 5 episodes: Memory Lane, Kill or Be Killed, The Descent, Klaus and The Last Day.
• In Season 3 Bonnie doesn't appear in 5 episodes: The Hybrid, The End of The Affair, Dangerous Liaisons, 1912 and Heart of Darkness.
• In Season 4 Bonnie doesn't appear in 5 episodes: The Rager, My Brother’s Keeper, Bring It On, American Gothic and The Originals.

Tropes

• Bonnie went through an Adaptation Race Lift, as the character was Scottish in the books. To follow TV quotas she is the Token Minority and is Elena's African-American Best Friend.
• She is also very much the Magic Mystic African American: like most witches in the series, she seems to do her magic work to help the series protagonists instead of her own objectives.
• Whenever she abuses her magic powers, she gets Psychic Nosebleed. During cases where the spell is not complete even after said nosebleed, she ends up using her own life force to power the spell .
• Like many characters in the show, she suffers from Parental Abandonment: her mother left home when she was just 5 years old and she was raised by a frequently absent father.

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Characters Main Characters Elena • Stefan • Damon • Katherine • Jeremy • Bonnie • Matt • Caroline • Tyler • Klaus Past Main Characters: Alaric • Jenna • Vicki Recurring Characters April Young • Abby Bennett Wilson • Kelly Donovan • Elijah Mikaelson • Meredith Fell • Elizabeth Forbes • Jamie • Kol Mikaelson • Carol Lockwood • Hayley • Professor Shane • Rebekah Mikaelson Deceased Characters Anna • Emily Bennett • Sheila Bennett • Aimee Bradley • Lexi Branson • Brady • Esther • Finn Mikaelson • Isobel Flemming • Bill Forbes • John Gilbert • Harper • Jules • Mason Lockwood Richard Lockwood • Logan Fell • Maddox • Greta Martin • Jonas Martin • Luka Martin • Ben McKittrick • Mikael • Pearl • Rose Sage • Zach Salvatore • Andie Star Guest Characters Alice • Lucy • Bethanne • Amber Bradley • Bree • Coach Lyman • Dana • Deputies • Tobias Fell • Frederick • Samantha Gibbons • Grayson Gilbert • Miranda Sommers-Gilbert • Samantha Gilbert • Johnathan Gilbert • Gloria • Lee • Marianna Lockwood • Vanessa Monroe • Noah • Giuseppe Salvatore • Slater • Ray Sutton • Stevie • Tony • Trevor Minor Characters Season One • Season Two • Season Three • Season Four Families Gilbert Family • Salvatore Family • Lockwood Family • Bennett Family • Donovan Family • Petrova Family • Forbes Family • Fell Family • Martin Family • Mikaelson Family • Shane Family • Young Family • Founding Families Species Vampire • Witch • Werewolf • Human • Ghost • Doppelgänger • Hybrid • Succubus

Witches Main Witches Bonnie Bennett • Lucy • Nandi LaMarche • Sophie • Davina Deceased Witches Qetsiyah • Sheila Bennett • Emily Bennett • Ayana • Esther • Jonas Martin • Luka Martin • Greta Martin • Maddox • Gloria • Valerie LaMarche • Bree • Unnamed Witch • Caitlin Shane • Massak • Aja

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