"Diabolical plans"
Damon Salvatore
Birthdate	nowiki</nowiki> 1840 (age 24/171)
Family	nowiki</nowiki> Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father) Unnamed Mother † (Deceased) Stefan Salvatore (Younger Brother) Zachariah Salvatore † (Nephew) Unnamed Half-Brother † Joseph Salvatore † (Cousin) Zach Salvatore † (Distant Nephew)
Occupation	nowiki</nowiki> Confederate soldier (1864) Head of the Founder's Council (Present)
Species	nowiki</nowiki> Human Vampire
Transfiguration date	nowiki</nowiki> 1864 by Katherine Pierce
Significant sires	nowiki</nowiki> Isobel Saltzman (2007) Vicki Donovan (2009) Caroline Forbes (2009) Abby Bennett Wilson (2010)
Significant kills	nowiki</nowiki> Samantha Gilbert (1st time) Isobel Flemming (as a human) Darren Malloy and Brooke Fenton William Tanner Zach Salvatore Vicki Donovan (as a human) Logan Fell (as a human) Lexi Branson (as a vampire) Bree Samantha Gibbons Jeremy Gilbert (revived by Gilbert Ring) Alaric Saltzman (revived by Gilbert Ring, twice) Mason Lockwood Elijah Mikaelson (1st time) Rose (as a vampire) Jessica Cohen Luka Martin Maddox Greta Martin Abby Bennett Wilson (as a witch) Kol Mikaelson (3rd time)
Status	nowiki</nowiki> Undead
Cause of death	nowiki</nowiki> Gunshot wound to the chest (as a human)
Killed by	nowiki</nowiki> Giuseppe Salvatore (as a human)
Played by	nowiki</nowiki> Ian Somerhalder
First seen	nowiki</nowiki> Pilot
Last seen	nowiki</nowiki> The Departed

“	Have I told you lately how much I appreciate you not being the dumbest brother on earth?	”
	— Damon to Stefan in The Departed

Damon Salvatore is the brother of Stefan Salvatore and a distant relative of Zach. He was born in the 1800s with his brother until he became a vampire. At the time of his return to Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan hadn't seen each other in 15 years because of their bitter and violent relationship. Damon's sole purpose for coming back to Mystic Falls was to free Katherine Pierce, the vampire who turned him and the woman he loved.

After the realization that Katherine never loved him, Damon started working with Stefan and Katherine's doppelgänger Elena Gilbert, with whom he fell in love with and has constantly tried to protect her. Damon is also the head of the Founder's Council along with Sheriff Forbes and currently lives with Stefan in the Salvatore Boarding House. For the first season, Damon was the congeries's antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena. He had been bitten by Tyler Lockwood (now Hybrid) during a full moon which meant he was slowly dying but was later saved after being fed Klaus' blood by Katherine which healed him.

Damon is a member of the Salvatore Family and a part of Founder's Council.

Contents 1 Early History 2 Season One 3 Season Two 4 Season Three 5 Relationships 6 Physical Appearance 7 Personality 8 Powers and Abilities 9 Weaknesses 10 Appearances 10.1 Season One 10.2 Season Two 10.3 Season Three 10.4 Season Four 11 Novels 12 Stefan's Origins series 13 Trivia 14 Comments

Early HistoryEdit

Damon was born to Giuseppe Salvatore and unnamed mother on June 28, 1840. He was in the Confederate army but much to his father's disapproval, he quit. He and his brother Stefan developed a mutual deep infatuation and for a vampire named Katherine Pierce. Stefan and Damon became rivals for her affections and she played with both of them in return, planning to change them into vampires herself.

Damon was willing to give up his life and spend eternity with Katherine. He begged Stefan not to alert their father to Katherine's status as a vampire, but Stefan inadvertently broke that promise and Katherine was caught. Damon was devastated so he and Stefan devised a plan to rescue her, but the brothers were shot by their own father while attempting to do so. They had Katherine's blood in their systems so they began transitioning into vampires. Because Katherine was now dead, Damon felt his reason for living was gone and decided to die and not complete the transition. However, after Stefan changed, he convinced Damon to complete the transitioning. Damon, furious that Katherine had chosen to turn Stefan as well, vowed him a life of misery.

When Emily Bennett, Katherine's handmaiden who was also a witch, saw he had completed transitioning, she revealed that she had protected Katherine and the other vampires when they were placed in Fell's Church. She also gave them their protection rings, telling them that Katherine had her make them. For the next 145 years, Damon plotted to set Katherine free. He also planned to return to Mystic Falls for the purpose of freeing Katherine.

He has recently returned to the town of Mystic Falls. He was the cause of the recent string of deaths occurring in and around the town because he still fed on humans, unlike Stefan, and was stronger than his brother because of this.

Like all vampires, Damon has the power of persuasion and immortality, as well as increased strength and speed. Like Stefan, he wears a ring that allows him to be in the sunlight without burning.

Season OneEdit

He taunts Stefan about drinking Elena's blood, and how he plans on staying and wreaking havoc. He wastes no time in showing Stefan who is the more powerful brother. He later turned Vicki Donovan into a vampire after he killed all of her friends for a midnight snack. He made a deal with Bonnie Bennett's ancestor, Emily Bennett, that if he protected her children, she would release his vampire true love Katherine Pierce from a mystical prison but in reality there are 26 other vampires who have been trapped for more than a hundred years and haven't fed.Emily comes back and possess Bonnie, and destroys the essential crystal amulet. She has now trapped all of the vampires forever, making Damon so furious that he attacked Bonnie out of pure rage until Stefan pulled him away and then gave blood to Bonnie so she could heal.

Damon later was informed in the episode Bloodlines that there might be another way to bring Katherine back. His information is correct and the tomb is opened. After Grams and Bonnie opened the tomb with their magic, Damon discovered Katherine is not in there. He later learned from Anna's mother Pearl, another vampire from 1864 that was trapped in the tomb, that Katherine put the guard at the church right before it burned down under her spell, who was also obsessed with her and he let her go. Anna then said the last time she saw Katherine was in Chicago in 1983 and that she knew where Damon was all along but she didn't care, making Damon realize Katherine never cared about him but that he was just one of many under her spell. He was heartbroken, causing Elena to hug him.

After the vampires were released from the tomb, Stefan was tortured by a vampire named Frederick and some other vampires from the tomb. Damon teams up with Elena and Alaric to save him, and tells Elena that he understands her love for Stefan. He knows what it feels like to have someone you love trapped (literally). Their rescue, along with help from Alaric is successful. Elena helps Stefan to the car and Frederick attacks them. She had to give Stefan her blood so he survives. Stefan instantly has an intense blood-lust for human blood, brought on from not having human blood in so long. When Damon found out Stefan is addicted to human blood, he tells Elena. The bloodlust causes Stefan to lose control and he becomes extremely violent. Damon explains to Elena the simple truth- Stefan should have been learning how to control the need for human blood instead of not drinking it at all. In "Miss Mystic Falls" Stefan is supposed to escort Elena in the competition. At the last minute, Stefan goes out of control and runs away with a girl who also was in the Miss Mystic competition. As Elena's name is called, she walks down the stairs horrified to not see Stefan standing there. Damon quickly goes to the end of the stairs to be her escort, and smiles gratefully. They share an intense dance while wondering where Stefan has gone. After the competition they find Stefan and are able to save the girl. Damon and Elena locked Stefan up in the basement of the Salvatore Boarding House to try to get him back to normal. The episode ends with Damon and Elena sitting outside of the basement staring at each other, and exhausted.

In Blood Brothers, it's revealed that Stefan and Damon both drank Katherine's blood (Damon willingly, Stefan with compulsion), so when they were shot trying to save Katherine Pierce, the vampire girl they both loved, they started to change into vampires instead of dying. It was revealed that their own father shot them because they sided with the vampires. Stefan forces Damon to turn into a vampire, and Damon promises Stefan an eternity of misery. Damon makes sure Elena knows that Stefan forced him to be a vampire, so that she could have both sides of the story, and understand Damon's anger.

The day of Mystic Fall's 150th Founder's Day celebration John Gilbert injected vervain into him, trapping him in the basement of the Gilbert Building with the help of the activation of the device. Because of Elena, Bonnie is able to get rid of the flames for a short while Stefan saves him. Afterward, he goes to Elena's house to have a talk with Jeremy, apologizing for Vicki and telling him that Anna is dead even though he wanted to help her. He offers to erase his memories, but Jeremy declines. On his way out of her house Damon talks with Elena and they kiss, but it is later revealed that she is in fact Katherine pretending to be Elena. Damon is in awe that the only reason Bonnie saved him was because of Elena, and more importantly that Elena felt that he was worth saving.

Season TwoEdit

Damon arrived at the hospital and spoke to Sheriff Forbes who told him of Richard Lockwood's death and her worries for Caroline's health. Damon comforted her. When Elena arrived, Damon brought up "Their Kiss" but when Elena remembered nothing of what had happened, he soon realized it was Katherine posing as Elena. Damon and Elena arrived back at the Gilbert house just as Katherine escaped Stefan. Stefan lost control when he heard that Damon tried to kiss Elena but Elena reminded him it was Katherine, not her. Katherine appeared at the Salvatore Boarding House to say goodbye and she and Damon kisses. Damon stopped and demanded the truth from her. Katherine admitted she didn't love him and never did; it was always Stefan.

This tore Damon apart. So, he got drunk and went to Elena's house. He tried to get her to admit that she had feelings for him, but she insisted it was only Stefan, denying his kisses. Out of anger, Damon snapped Jeremy's neck and left, but fortunately, Jeremy came back to life with the help of his ring.

Elena is furious at Damon for what he did to Jeremy, and is very cold toward him. In "Bad Moon Rising" Elena, Damon, and Alaric go to Duke to see Isobel's old research. Elena doesn't hide her anger from Damon, but does soften a little after he takes an arrow in the back for her. Isobel's research assistant assumed Elena was Katherine (from reading all of Isobel's research) and had tried to kill her. Damon saved Elena's life, and Elena in turn removes the arrow from is back. After they explain to the research assistant who they are, Damon finds a book about Katherine and her family, and offers it to Elena as a peace offering. When Damon is saying goodbye to Elena when they're home, Elena shocks him by telling him that he has lost her forever. He informs her that her and Katherine have more in common than just there looks, and quickly leaves.

Mason Lockwood reveals to Elizabeth Forbes that Damon and Stefan were vampires. She denies this immediately, but Mason proves it by spiking a cup of lemonade with vervain, and lets Elizabeth watch Damon drink the vervain and spit it out, choking. Later, Damon, who is furious at Mason for giving him vervain, attempts to kill him together with Stefan, falling right into Elizabeth's trap. The Salvatore brothers get shot several times with wooden bullets, and are dragged to the basement, where Elizabeth tortures them to get information. Damon refuses to give anything, while Stefan is still unconscious, and Elizabeth orders to have them staked. Damon wonders why Liz is doing this, as they were friends. Elizabeth replies that the friendship was a lie and shoots him again. Just before the Salvatores were staked, Caroline and Elena arrive and Caroline drains a deputy of blood, and kills another. Elena shouts that she will not let Sheriff Forbes kill THEM- referring to Damon as well. As Elizabeth is horrified at her daughter, she tells Damon to kill her after she is threatened. Damon yanks Elizabeth up, but does not hurt her, saying that

they were still friends, showing more of the humanity left inside him. He intends to hold her captive at the Salvatore Boarding House until the vervain wears off and he will be able to compel her. After trying to get Sheriff Forbes to accept Caroline, and by treating the Sheriff like a friend, Elena tells him as she leaves that that was the Damon who was her friend.

He tortures Mason and after finding out what he needs to know, rips his heart out. He then calls Katherine and teases her, which causes her to go to Plan B... showing Elena that she knows her fight with Stefan is fake and that she can get to anyone, causing Jenna to stab herself. Elena then breaks up with Stefan and as she walks out in tears Damon tries to apologize, showing more humanity saying he just didn't think. He is upset that Elena is so sad, and you can tell he really misses his best friend. When Elena responds with it doesn't matter and that Katherine has won Damon looks upset. He seems more determined to kill Katherine than ever, and even ever so slightly tears up after Elena leaves.

The next day Caroline pays the Salvatore Brothers a visit and tells them that Katherine has a message that she wants the moonstone and if she doesn't get it then she'll kill until it rains blood, at the masquerade ball. Then Damon, Stefan, Bonnie, Alaric and Jeremy make plans to kill her at the ball, meanwhile Katherine is visited by a witch. In masquerade ball everything goes as planned and Katherine gets trapped in a room in Lockwood's mansion by a spell similar to the tomb spell but when they try to kill her. Elena also gets hurt and Bonnie goes to the other witch and gets a feeling that she can trust her and gives her the moonstone. Later the witch breaks the spell on Elena and goes to give Katherine the moonstone. Only on the condition that when she gives her the moonstone she'll no longer owe her anything to which Katherine agrees but as soon as she takes the stone she fell unconscious and Damon puts her in the tomb where she should have been for past 145 years but Katherine says that Elena's in danger but Damon thinks that she's lying and says he'll protect her.

Meanwhile when Elena goes to the parking lot she's kidnapped by a masked man compelled by a vampire named Trevor. Damon along with Stefan rescues Elena and he kills an ancient vampire there. His feelings for Elena are shown when she is running down the stairs to hug Stefan but Damon smiles because he thinks she is going to hug him. Elena then whispers "thank you" to Damon and he replies with "you're welcome". At the end Damon returns the vervain necklace that Elijah had ripped off Elena's neck. Elena couldn't believe he had found it and was extremely happy. Damon takes the opportunity to tell her how much he loves her, but that now he realizes he can't be selfish with her if wants to protect her. He tells her that Stefan deserves her and that he doesn't. Then he comments that he wishes she could remember this, but that she can't. Right before he compels her to forget, tears can be seen in his eyes and then he is gone. Elena opens her eyes to find the windows open and the necklace on her neck. When Rose begins to take residence in the Salvatore boarding house, Damon begins to start a small relationship with her. In the next few episodes, Damon does by helping the "gang" out. Things change however when a werewolf called Jules came to Mystic Falls looking for Mason. Damon and Alaric tested Jules by putting wolfs bane in her drink but she caught them out straight away. She could also smell that Damon was a vampire. When it was the full moon, Jules came through a window of Damon's home and she tried to bite Damon but bit Rose instead.

As a werewolf bite can kill a vampire, Rose became really ill and Damon staked her (when she was dreaming) to end her suffering. We last saw Damon drunk and upset about Rose, laying in the middle of the road. A girl name Jessica stopped in her car but Damon compelled her and tore her throat out.

Damon and Elena begin acting like best friends again during the episode Daddy Issues.

In Crying Wolf, Damon is left at home while Stefan and Elena are having a romantic weekend at the lake house. Damon confronted Elijah and he was overpowered by him easily. Towards the end of the episode, Damon was tied down by Jules and her werewolf friends and he was tortured when Jules asked him about the moonstone and he doesn't want to answer.When they were about to kill him, Elijah came to his rescue. He left the moonstone on the table and asked the werewolves to come get it.

When one of the werewolves came to retrieve it, his heart was pulled out despite his speed, which was no match for Elijah 's. Elijah then kills every werewolf in the room except Jules who escaped. He then released Damon and emphasized on the fact that this is the 3rd time he has saved Damon and expects him to not forget what he can and will do to him. Damon gives Elijah a look that indicates that he is fascinated and intimidated by him, something Damon has never done to anybody else before, including such powerful vampires as Pearl and Lexi. Damon is determined to keep Elena safe, and calls Stefan to tell him to keep Elena out of Mystic Falls for a while.

In The Dinner Party, Damon decides to kill Elijah at the dinner party. He goes to Katherine and gives her a bottle of blood and some cloths and starts to talk about the dagger and white ash; specifically if it can kill an original. During the dinner party Damon is alone with Elijah in the library. He prepares to use the dagger but is stopped by Alaric who tells him the dagger will kill him if he uses it. Later after Elijah was staked by Elena, Damon goes to his shower thinking Andie is taking a shower, however, he is shocked to see Katherine there.

In The House Guest, Katherine playing with Stefan and Damon's minds by impersonating Elena. Damon later tries to destroy Elijah's body with a flame-thrower, unsuccessfully. Katherine appears to reveal that she wanted to get out of the tomb no matter what and explains that she knew Damon would die. When Luka tries to free Elijah Damon unknowing kills him with flamethrower.

After Klaus comes into town, in Alarics body, Damon and the others try to plot against him. But having Alaric in their middle, not knowing that he is in fact possessed by Klaus, makes it they reveal all their secrets to their enemy. When Bonnie finds out what is going an, she plans to fake her own death with the help Damon. While Damon knows that Bonnie will be ok, Elena and Stefan are furious, their best friend is dead. Luckily Bonnie casts a spell on herself, which brings her back to life, and is now hidden with Jeremy in an unknown Cellar. Klaus assumes 'the witch' to be dead, Damon's plan worked out perfectly. &nbsp

Damon is mad when he finds out Elena freed Elijah and is even more angry when Stefan thought it was okay. Later he and Andie goes to Alaric's apartment when they find Katherine, he gives her vervain so Klaus cant compel her and says he will be back to collect for a flavor. After he and Stefan fight over Elena when Elena and Elijah walk in he told them all they can go to hell and leaves. Later Andie tries to comfort Damon and he all most kills her, but then compelled her to leave.

In episode The Last Day, Damon discovered that Elena plans to die in the ritual and come back to life with a Elixir that Elijah has. After hearing there's a chance it might not work, Damon forces Elena to drink his blood. Stefan arrives and the two fight until Stefan ends up with a stake in his stomach. Damon leaves to have a drink at the Grill where Alaric join him and Klaus soon shows up saying he better not try to stop the ritual tonight.Damon goes to Katherine to get info on were is Klaus keeping his werewolf, after finding out its in the tomb he head there and is attack by Maddox however he is saved by Matt Donovan who he knocks out and finds he has wooden bullets. After freeing Caroline and Tyler, the full moon is here and Tyler changes Damon fights him and tells Caroline and Matt to run lock themselves in the Lockwood cellar. Damon goes to confront Klaus and discovers he has a back up vampire and werewolf and knocks him out. When he comes to, Katherine tells him she called Jenna to lure her to Klaus to be a vampire. He ask why didn't he use him and he discovered he got bit from the fight with Tyler.

In The Sun Also Rises, Damon tells Stefan, Elijah, John and Alaric about the new development that they have to face: Jenna is being used in the sacrifice. During this time, John, Jeremy and Bonnie discover that there is a spell that they can use to have Elena come back as a human: if a parent ties his life to that of his dying child, his life force will be transferred to the child as soon as he dies.

John has Bonnie cast this spell while Stefan tries to take Jenna's place in the sacrifice. Klaus refuses and kills Jenna before drinking Elena's blood. As Klaus is in transition, Bonnie and Damon arrive and she attacks Klaus with all the power of the dead witches while Damon kills Greta Martin, Klaus's witch. Damon takes Elena away while Stefan stays to make sure that Klaus dies. However, Elijah betrays them when he learns that Klaus can help him find the bodies of their dead siblings which was the reason why Elijah wanted Klaus dead, for his part in the death of his family. As Klaus and Elijah escape, Damon brings Elena back to the witch burial site where he tells Alaric and Jeremy who had been trapped in the house by Bonnie that Jenna was dead. Elena then returns to life as a human while John dies due to him losing his life force to save Elena. Damon goes to the funeral for both Jenna and John. There he tells Stefan that Tyler had bitten him. Stefan swore that he would find a cure for him but Damon says that there is no cure and that all he wanted was that Stefan not tell Elena as she wouldn't bare to lose someone else. The episode ends with Damon walking away and Stefan looking at him.

In As I Lay Dying, Stefan searches for a cure to heal Damon's werewolf bite. He goes with Bonnie to the old mansion and she talks to the spirits. They hear from the spirits that Klaus can help Damon. Stefan makes a deal with Klaus to save Damon. Klaus bites Katherine, then gives her his blood to heal her and show Stefan that this is how he can heal Damon. Klaus' blood is the cure for a werewolf bite. Klaus makes Stefan drink many bags of blood until he will let Damon have his blood. Klaus then gives his blood to Katherine and compels her to take it to Damon. Even though she was on vervain and didn't have to obey Klaus, she takes it to Damon anyway and heals him.

Season ThreeEdit

Elena arrives at the Salvatore Boarding house in The Birthday to tell Damon that Sheriff Forbes gave them another lead, which he replies to "Another dead end?". In secret, Damon is recording all the reports of animal attacks, tracking Stefan and Klaus' trail. Damon's girlfriend Andie is able to get Damon the address of the last victim's family member, to where Alaric and Damon travel to. As the enter the house, they find blood splatters on the furniture. Two female bodies are in a sitting position on the couch. Damon immediately recognizes that Stefan did it, by the way the bodies were ripped apart, then pieced back together. The duo find a trap door that leads to a basement where chains were kept, making them believe werewolves sometimes came there. Afterwards, Damon places all the evidence on fire.

As Elena is dressing for her birthday party, Damon arrives and gives her her lost necklace, saying Alaric found it in his apartment. He accompanies her downstairs, where they find a huge party going on. Appearing to be worried about Andie's whereabouts and her being late for the party, he travels to her workplace, finding Stefan there. Stefan compelled Andie to stand on top of a rig and stay there until he commands - when he told her it was alright to move, she fell towards the ground. Stefan attacked Damon and kept him against the wall, keeping him from saving her. It was his message to Damon, telling him to let him go. When he gets back to the house, Elena confronts him about all the leads he was gathering, and he tells her

to stop looking for Stefan, because he's "gone".

Elena is still headstrong on bringing Stefan back in The Hybrid, determination fueled as she believed he called her. Damon still doesn't want to help her, and burns the papers containing the data he's been collecting.

After Elena roped in the help of Alaric and headed off the mountains in search of Stefan, Alaric secretly contacts Damon and tells them where they are, as he doesn't want Elena there without being protected. Damon pushes her into the lake, telling her she should go home, but Elena convinces him otherwise.

They find Ray Sutton and bind him to a tree; unfortunately, being a hybrid, Ray starts to transform and they flee - Damon leads a rabid Ray away, where Stefan saves him. Damon appears to Elena in her room, telling her that he will help her bring Stefan back, because even in his darkest place, he still wouldn't let him (Damon) die.

Katherine calls Damon in The End of The Affair, with news that Stefan and Klaus are in Chicago. Damon informs Elena of it, and they drive to Chicago. They first go visit Stefan's old apartment, where Damon shows Elena Stefan's list of killings. Damon then goes to Gloria's Bar, asking Gloria where Stefan is. Gloria proves a bit helpful, telling him that they will be back later that evening. Elena and he concoct a plan, where she will be able to talk to Stefan, and Damon will distract Klaus. As Elena talks to Stefan in the parking lot, Damon faces Klaus, almost being killed, if Gloria hadn't saved him. Katherine again calls Damon at the end of the episode, and he tells her she was right, but unfortunately they couldn't get him back.

After Stefan broke up with Elena, Damon is keeping a eye on her in Disturbing Behavior, by helping her make chili for the Founders Party, to make sure she doesn't break down. Sheriff Forbes later requests the help of Damon, to compel her ex-husband Bill to leave town. Alaric later approaches Damon and tells him to "take a beat", meaning to stay away from Elena. At the council's meeting, the sheriff reports that there hasn't been any vampire attacks. Bill Forbes then enters, accusing them of being "blind", baffling Damon how Bill could have resisted compulsion. As Damon, Elena and Alaric walk out of the Lockwood mansion, arguing about the return of Bill, and whether or not vervain should be added to the water supply. They believe now that Stefan's not there, Damon needs help to keep himself in check. Damon temporarily kills Alaric as he didn't want to let him past him.

Damon later goes back to the mansion, where Bill is. They talk about how he could have resisted compulsion, and Damon then attacks Bill, feeding off of him. Caroline intervenes and feeds him some of her blood to heal him. Damon and Caroline fight, and she runs off with her father. Elena enters and they argue about him being so reckless, and that she doesn't want him to be that way. Damon replies that he's not like Stefan. At the Salvatore boarding house, Damon waits until Alaric is revived, apologizing, but saying that he's fed up that everyone wants to change him. At the end of the episode, Katherine shows up at the front door with Elena's necklace, offering him to go on a road trip, to find a way to beat Klaus once and for all.

Damon and Katherine and driving far away from Mystic Falls in The Reckoning. Along the way, Katherine pities Elena for trying to change Damon, and tries to seduce him, only Damon resists. He stops the car, demanding what Katherine's plan is. She tells him that Klaus is searching for the necklace, and that means she has leverage. She shows him that she has Jeremy in the trunk. Katherine reveals that Pearl had information on a vampire hunter that could kill the Originals. Pearl had shared all her information with Anna, but with them both dead, Jeremy is the only one able to contact her, which is why Katherine kidnapped him.

After Damon hurts Jeremy, Anna is quick to tell them her secrets, and give them a name; Mikael. Katherine had been keeping Damon's phone, and Damon demands it back, where he finds out that Bonnie has been searching for him, and that Klaus is back in town.

Damon goes back to town, having a face down with Klaus in the parking lot, scaring him away by telling him Mikael has been released. He then goes to save Elena, and takes her back to the boarding house, where he tells her he will never leave her again. Stefan interrupts them, informing them he will be staying there to keep a eye on Elena for Klaus' sake.

In Smells Like Teen Spirit, Damon finds that Stefan is holding parties in the house, where he is recklessly drinking from young girls if they loose a game of Twister. Rebekah enters, telling them that Klaus left her alone. She walks off to find herself a room, even after Stefan and Damon denied her the invitation of staying there. Damon calls Katherine to find out how far she is waking Mikael, but unfortunately she has had no luck. Damon then calls Elena at school, telling Elena rather not to visit their house, not only because of Rebekah, but because Stefan being a bit wild.

Elena is training at Alaric's apartment, and Damon comes to give her a lesson on where a vampire's weakpoint is, and where she could stake one.

Alaric, Damon, Elena and Caroline devise a plan to capture Stefan and lock him up. Tyler disagrees with the plan, and Damon figures out that he's been sired - loyal to Klaus because his blood transformed him.

Damon distracts Rebekah with his "charms", but she suspects that he has only been distracting her and trying to hide something from her. She stabs him with a piece of wood and walks away. Later, at the Salvatore house, Damon is applying first aid to Elena's face after she "almost got barbecued". They both talk about how they acted that night, and how they executed their plans. Damon is later knocked unconscious, and it is revealed to be Mason Lockwood who attacked him.

In Ghost World opens with Damon tied to a chair, with a hit poker in his chest. Damon believes it to be Stefan that did it, but Mason Lockwood had actually been the one who tortured him. Damon drives downtown to the setup of the Night of Illumination, telling Bonnie that she screwed up with the spell, and that she needs to fix it, because Mason Lockwood is after him for revenge. Alaric and Damon are at the bar, when Mason appears, knocking Damon in the head with a glass. Mason tells him that he only wants a apology. Damon gives a apology that he doesn't really mean, and Mason accepts, telling him they should meet down at the old Lockwood cellar, where he will help him with the Klaus problem.

Damon goes to the cellar as he had hit a snag in his other lead to defeat Klaus. Damon breaks through a wall that reveals a tunnel, and the duo traverse through it. Unexpectedly, Damon is stabbed with wooden stakes from different directions. Mason goes to fetch a shovel to break the stakes apart, and then removes it. Damon can't believe Mason trusts him after all he's done. Mason confesses that he's not after revenge, but redemption, and that he wants to help Tyler. They find a cave, but somehow Damon can't enter it, and Mason goes on ahead. When Bonnie does the spell to send the ghosts back, Mason disappears, and Damon is in need of a person to get into the cave. He calls Alaric, as he's the only person Damon trusts, other than Elena. Damon repeats the same apology to Alaric, but meaning it this time.

In Ordinary People he frees Stefan from his captivity in the cellar and goes to a bar with him. There they talk about brotherly bond and he helps to hide that Stefan bites the barkeeper several times. They meet Mikael who was about to rip Damon's heart out if Stefan doesn't tell him where he can find Klaus. Then, he spared Damon after Stefan said he could lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls. Outside Damon beats Stefan and goes away. At the Gilbert's house he lays in Elena's bed and when she lays down as well, she states that Damon maybe will be the only one who can save Stefan.

In Homecoming he plans together with Mikael how Klaus can be killed. Mikael showed him the White Oak Stake, the only weapon that can kill an Original. When Stefan comes Mikael fed on him, incapacitating him. At the homecoming dance, he kills a hybrid and confronts Tyler Lockwood after he injected Caroline vervain. When Tyler almost bit him, Bonnie stopped Damon from staking Tyler with the White Oak Stake. When Mikael and Klaus have a conversation he surprises Klaus after Mikael stabbed Katherine, who was impersonating Elena. He stabbed him in the stomach and was about to stake him in the heart when Stefan stopped. Stefan was free and Damon gets home, angrily. He tells Elena that he had Klaus and could have finished him off. He receives a phone call from Katherine, saying goodbye. Elena calms Damon down and they promise that they'll survive that Stefan's gone again.

In The New Deal Damon is with Alaric at the Grill, drinking. Elena approaches him, while he is playing dart. They have a conversation but Klaus interrupts them. Together with his hybrid Tony he has come to ask Damon and Elena to find Stefan. Later, Klaus comes to the Salvatore Boarding House and reveals that Stefan stole the coffins of the Originals. Damon was called to the Gilbert House after Klaus almost killed Jeremy and splits the news. Then he and Elena goes to the Witch House, trying to find Stefan. While waiting outside because the witches doesn't want to let him in without burning his skin, Elena talks to Stefan unsuccessfully. Finally, bares to go inside the house to talk to his brother. Damon beats the truth out of Stefan by staking him in the stomach several times. Stefan reveals that he saved his brother because Klaus' hybrids would have killed Damon. After telling him to stop saving his life Damon leaves. Later, back Stefan reveals that the dead witches are hiding the coffins, making them invisible for Klaus. After he came to Elena's house, she gets Damon to compel Jeremy. Damon sits down and compels him to leave town to go to Denver. Outside, he and Elena discuss if it was right to compel Jeremy and they also talk Stefan. Damon thought he doesn't have to feel guilty anymore and is about to go. But then, he returns to Elena, kissing her and she kisses back.

In Our Town Damon takes a shower and then teams up with Stefan to go to the Witch House because they are meeting Bonnie. They find out that a Hybrid was there and Damon killed him by ripping his heart out. At the house he sums up that three Originals are in the coffins but there are four coffins. He goes with Alaric to a fundraising for the Wickery Bridge. As they talked about Elena and that there is something changing with here, Damon leaves and finds Klaus talking to Carol. He has to find out that Klaus had convinced the mayor that his Hybrids would protect Tyler and the town. After Stefan captured Elena and wanted her to turn into a vampire, he calls Damon, informing me. Then Damon talks to Klaus that he has no idea if Stefan is really going to kill Elena and advises Klaus to obey. He picks up Elena after Klaus obeyed to get his Hybrids out of Mystic Falls and takes her home. He hopes her to be okay and leaves. He went with Liz Forbes and they find Brian Walkers, Meredith Fells ex-boyfriend, staked although he's not a vampire.

In The Ties That Bind, he gives Bonnie and Elena the info about Abby Bennett Wilson. He later meets Alaric in the Grill and they talk about Meredith Fell and Damon hints that she could have killed her boyfriend. To talk to Meredith, he went to the hospital and accused her of having killed the medical examiner. When Damon was about to go, Meredith injected him with vervain to take his blood. He then wakes up and went to Alaric, telling him what his "girlfriend" has done. Damon went to the Witch House, unaware of Klaus following him. He found out that the coffins were them and after the spirits stopped torturing him, Klaus got them to show him the coffins. After he figured out, the fourth was gone he threatens Damon that he'll rip out his heart. After Klaus took the coffins, Damon went home and Stefan came in. They have a conversation, where Damon asked how Elena was. As a response Stefan hit him because Elena told him, she has kissed Damon. Damon states he doesn't want to talk about it. Then he holds up a White Oak Ash Dagger which he has removed from Elijah's heart, bringing him back to life again.

In Bringing Out The Dead, Damon is seen with Stefan at the dinner hosted by Klaus. Before that, he is shown to have met up with Elijah, and they spoke. He helps Elijah removing the daggers from the Originals and brings them to life. Then, he leaves and lets Elijah, Rebekah, Kol and Finn to take care of Klaus. After they leave the Originals Damon and Stefan talk, and Damon thanks Stefan for saving his life all the time, and tells Stefan that he loves Elena.

Damon is shown with Stefan and Elena at the Gilbert house when discussing Esther was in the coffin, and when Elena receives her invitation. Damon does not want her to go, because it is dangerous. Damon is seen at the ball talking to Carol Lockwood, when Elena shows up. He tells Elena she is not supposed to be here but then offers his arm (along with Stefan) to Elena as they accompany her at the Mikaelson's ball in Dangerous Liaisons. He tries to protect Elena from the Original Witch, Esther, saying that it is to dangerous to go and he won't let her. Damon then offers his hand to Elena with Stefan watching on, as they go and dance together. Damon tells Elena that she looks stunning. When it is time to switch partners Damon ends up dancing with Rebekah. Damon is then shown walking into a room where Stefan and Elena are informing Elena he got her text, but he has his neck broken by Stefan who respects Elena's decisions to meet Esther. When he wakes up he is angry at Stefan but then understands Elena's decision but he then implies to Stefan that he cares too much and is not happy about the revelation. Damon finds Elena and tells her they are going home but Elena refuses. Damon says he is just trying to protect her and tells her that he is mad because he loves her. Elena then says that his love is a problem and Damon is severely hurt.

When Kol tries to kill Matt Donovan, Damon who is now unstable and angry saves Elena's friend and throws Kol from balcony and breaks his neck. In the final scene Damon who is now drunk, comes up to Rebekah and they talk a little and after some persuading, Rebekah has sex with him.

In All My Children, Damon is seen in bed beside Rebekah. When Damon and Rebekah come to the door, Elena is standing there looking shocked. By the end of the episode, Damon turns Bonnie's mother in to a vampire in order to break the witch bond with Ester. Later we find out that Stefan lost the coin toss and should been the one to turn Abby into a vampire.

In 1912, Damon spends some time with his brother. He is worried because Stefan refuses to drink blood.

Damon wants to help Stefan to learn moderation and teach him how to control his bloodlust instead of being controlled by it. Damon promises whenever Stefan would go to far, he would pull him back. When Stefan asks why he would do this, Damon confesses to Stefan, that he is all that he has left.

In Break On Through , Damon enlists Sage's help to get into Rebekah's mind and see what she is hiding. He ends up sleeping with Rebekah, and through Sage's special ability to get into people's minds, she discovers that White Oak tree from the Old World which potentially could kill the originals not totally burned down. Damon then looks through old records from his bookshelf, and discovers that the White Oak was used to make the Wickery Bridge. He then goes to Wickery Bridge to retreieve the Oak, only to be dissapointed as Rebekah is burning it. At the end of the episode, Damon reveals to Stefan he sold his rage to Sage after she crossed him by telling Rebekah about the White Oak, and that Rebekah left out a part of the bridge made of the same white oak- the Wickery Bridge sign.

In the Murder of One, Damon meets Elena at the door and refuses to let her in. He assures her that the history teacher is okay. She suspects he is up to something but eventually takes his word.Alaric,Stefan, and Damon have spent the night turning the old Wickerly Bridge sign into white oak stake.Apparently Rebekah’s more than a bit miffed at Damon for sexing her up then using Sage to read her mind. So she sneaks into the Salvatore house and knocks Alaric out. Before Damon can figure out what’s happening, Bekah’s within kissing distance. “Hello Lover,” she growls. Then she stabs Damon in the gut.Damon dreams that Elena has come to save him. When he wakes, he realizes that Rebekah planted the thought.On finding about the bloodline issue,Stefan marches over to Klaus. He drops a bag filled with eight of the remaining daggers on the floor, tells them Finn is dead and offers to trade the weapons for Damon.It sounds too easy. So Klaus compels a nearly drained Damon to go home. Before Damon amputates his own hands in an attempt to free himself from the chains, Klaus tells Damon to stop. Then he compels the eldest Salvatore to tell him how many stakes really exist. “Eleven,” Damon says without hesitation. This prompts Klaus to make a big old speech about how he gave Stefan’s life purpose by giving him something to hate. He’s so full of himself that Stefan can’t help but try to kill him. Klaus easily squashes his attempt. Then Rebekah frees Damon and tells Stefan that if he turns in the remaining three stakes she and Klaus will let them live. Later Damon goes over to Alaric’s to get the last stake. But Alaric can’t find it. It’s been moved from the hiding place behind the bookshelf. After snarking ‘Ric for hiding it in such a clichéd place, Damon asks, “Are you telling me that your vampire-hating alter ego has a stake that can kill an entire line of vampires. Possibly mine?” Alaric responds with some of the scariest words D has ever heard. “That’s exactly what I’m telling you.”

RelationshipsEdit

• Stefan and Damon
• Elena and Damon
• Damon and Katherine
• Damon and Alaric
• Damon and Liz
• Damon and Caroline
• Damon and Rose
• Damon and Jeremy
• Damon, Elena and Stefan
• Stefan, Damon and Katherine
• Elena, Damon, and Katherine
• Damon and Isobel
• Damon and Andie
• Damon and Bonnie
• Damon and Elijah
• Damon and Klaus
• John and Damon
• Damon and Rebekah
• Damon and Sage
• Damon and Bill
• Damon and Samantha
• Damon and Kol

Physical AppearanceEdit

Main article: Damon Salvatore/Appearance

Damon appears to be in his mid 20's has light blue eyes and dark brown hair that goes to just below his earlobes, and is styled in a casual disarray style. He's pale, and has a good physique, toned and fit, and he knows it. Damon usually wears darker clothing – black boots under dark jeans, a black shirt (whether just a t-shirt or button up depends on the occasion) and is rarely seen without his leather jacket.

PersonalityEdit

Damon tries to show that he has no humanity left in him, but Elena continuously shows him that there is something inside of him that cares. Damon throughout the show changes, growing from an immature, snarky, glib, arrogant and self confident vampire into a somewhat weak, even more selfish, still sarcastic, but proves he can be capable of love. Damon is very arrogant but he keeps his word on some level. Ian Somerhalder stated that he thinks that deep down Damon is a very lonely and unhappy man that uses humor to mask the intense pain. In reality, Damon is actually longing for acceptance, and very isolated and lonely because of his years as a vampire. As a human, he wasn't accepted for who he was and often was reprimanded by his father for his actions and choices. He claims to be able to turn his emotions on and off like a switch, but he is actually quoting Stefan, seeing as how Stefan first said it to him when he first became a vampire and is eventually told by Rose that there is no switch on the emotions, it just easy to believe so when you first become a vampire, however, the switch does exist as once Klaus compelled Stefan to "shut it off" he became a very different person.

He uses a dry sense of humor and mediocre snark remarks as a way to compensate for his loneliness, acting like he doesn't need anybody and is in fact, happier on his own, but deep down inside he knows that he isn't he just refuses to admit it.

He seems to be feeding on blood from blood packs through half of Season One and continues to Season Two.

He shows loyalty and love frequently, though he tries to hide it. He numerously saves Stefan's life, and helps protect Elena as well. In Bad Moon Rising, when Vanessa attempts to shoot Elena with an arrow, Damon runs in front of her showing that he truly loves her. He apologizes to Jeremy for everything, and sincerely thanks Bonnie for saving him. When Isobel comes back for the device he tells her to tell "the bitch" Katherine to get it herself, but later gives it to Elena. When he realizes that Elena didn't kiss him he gets angry and after Katherine and Elena both say they want Stefan he goes mad and snaps Jeremy's neck, killing him. A ring saves Jeremy but Elena hates him. Damon shows true regret and apologizes frequently. He also spares Sheriff Forbes life after she shoots him with wooden bullets because he says they're friends. Damon does have true and honest feelings for Elena and we know this when in episode 8 (season 2) in "Rose", He goes to Elena's room and says this:

Damon: "I need to say it once. You need to hear it. I love you, Elena. And because I love you, I can't be selfish with you. Why you cant know this cuz---I don't deserve you...but my brother does. God, I wish you didn't have to forget this...but you do...."

He Then compels her to forget everything he just told her in that conversation. This shows that Damon can be a truly kind vampire and not just evil. Because Elena has been compelled to forget Damon may never get his chance with her and this shows that he has given up his jealousy for Elena and his brother Stefan.

Damon admitted to missing humanity in a drunken state to a girl and later victim named Jessica. A secret he kept from all of those around him, but he tried to convince himself he is what he was meant to be: a ruthless, murdering vampire. Damon then tricks her into thinking she is free, and immediately kills her after; an attempt to prove to himself that his humanity no longer exists. While he could just try to get help for everything, he chooses not to out of arrogance and pride.

He appears to be very arrogant while confronting older vampires like Anna, Pearl, Elijah, Klaus, Katherine and Rose. It often ends in near-death experiences because of it.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Some of these powers are more potent when the vampire gets older and feeds on human blood.

• Super Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful then werewolves that are not in wolf form.

• Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.

• Emotional Control - Like all vampires, Damon has the ability to switch off his humanity.

• Heightened Senses - They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings, smell blood, and see in total darkness.

• Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.

• Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection. The only known disease or infection that can kill a vampire is a werewolf bite.

• Healing Factor - Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.

• Lapis Lazuli - He possesses a Lapis Lazuli ring that enables him to walk in daylight without being harmed.

WeaknessesEdit

• Vervain - When ingested, vervain causes a vampire to become severely weak and feverish. Also, If a vampire's skin is exposed to vervain, it can result in burning them. Damon is immune to it however.

• Wood - If a vampire is wounded by wood it will cause the vampire to become severely weak and if a vampire takes a wooden stake through its heart it will result in death.

• Fire or Sunlight - Any exposure to fire or sunlight will result in death to a vampire.

• Heart Extraction - The act of removing a vampire's heart will result in death.

• Werewolf Bite - The bite of a werewolf is extremely lethal to normal vampires.

• Magic - Witches are able to give supernatural aneurysms that cause the blood vessels of vampires to explode.

• Decapitation - The act of dismembering or removing the head of a vampire will result in death.

• Uninvited Invitation - Vampires cannot enter a house without being invited in. If they are in the house without being invited in they will become disoriented.
• Vampire bloodline - Vampires who were turned by an original who turned others will die if the original is staked by the white oak stake.
• Drain of Blood - If a vampire does not have any sort of blood in their systems it will weaken them and make them be in a coma and it will cause their viens rubbing againest each other and it is quite painful. But if a human is near the vampire, their blood lust will be to powerful to obstain.

AppearancesEdit

Season One Edit

• Pilot
• The Night of the Comet
• Friday Night Bites
• Family Ties
• You're Undead to Me
• Lost Girls
• Haunted
• 162 Candles
• History Repeating
• The Turning Point
• Bloodlines
• Unpleasantville
• Children of the Damned
• Fool Me Once
• A Few Good Men
• There Goes the Neighborhood
• Let the Right One In
• Under Control
• Miss Mystic Falls
• Blood Brothers
• Isobel
• Founder's Day

Season Two Edit

• The Return
• Brave New World
• Bad Moon Rising
• Memory Lane
• Kill or Be Killed
• Plan B
• Masquerade
• Rose
• Katerina
• The Sacrifice
• By the Light of the Moon
• The Descent
• Daddy Issues
• Crying Wolf
• The Dinner Party
• The House Guest
• Know Thy Enemy
• The Last Dance
• Klaus
• The Last Day
• The Sun Also Rises
• As I Lay Dying

Season ThreeEdit

• The Birthday
• The Hybrid
• The End of The Affair
• 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
• Dangerous Liaisons
• All My Children
• 1912
• Break On Through
• The Murder of One
• Heart of Darkness
• Do Not Go Gentle
• Before Sunset
• The Departed

Season Four Edit

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NovelsEdit

As with the series, he initially serves as the main antagonist until the third book, where he becomes an anti-hero. In the books he is born in Florence, Italy and is described as arrogant, charming and seductive, but he is known to keep his word. Ian Somerhalder's television portrayal is faithful to the handsome, hedonist of L. J. Smith's creation. Damon loves the undead life and all that it entails, and we're never quite sure if we should love him or hate him. He leaves countless broken hearts in his wake, but the heart Damon desires most is Elena's.

Stefan's Origins seriesEdit

Damon comes home from the Confederate Army where he served with "General Groom's boys". He drinks and gambles as a human. Even though he is the second one to see Katherine, he is the first of the brothers to be with her. He wants to die rather than become a vampire but Stefan brings back the barmaid, Alice, for him to feed on. When they first turned, Damon is weaker than Stefan because he refuses to feed often. Damon often points out to Stefan that the blood is weakness to him because it consumes him and makes him a killer, because he can't control his urges. Damon was better at compulsion than Stefan and it is assumed that Katherine taught him how to compel people. He kills Callie Gallagher, the daughter of a vampire hunter who captured Damon and used him as a circus act, when trying to kill Stefan. Damon is often criticized by his father or by his father to Stefan.

TriviaEdit

• He is the first vampire and first main character to be seen in the series.
• He's bitten by Tyler in The Last Day.
• Damon drinks coffee, a seen in Haunted and Klaus (episode).
• Unlike his brother Stefan, Damon is extremely fond of dancing. Seen in Miss Mystic Falls ,The Last Dance,Dangerous Liasons and Break On Through
• He occasionally smokes cigars. Seen in Know Thy Enemy.
• He has a closet chock full of black leather jackets. Seen in Know Thy Enemy.
• His favorite swear word is "Dick".
• He doesn't like Taylor Swift music. He sarcastically tells Stefan he has an unflinching ability to listen to her music. Seen in Night of the Comet.
• He likes pickles. Seen in Bloodlines.
• His favorite alcoholic beverage is Bourbon.
• His favorite clothing brand is John Varvatos.
• His favorite book is "Call of the Wild" by Jack London, as seen in Isobel (episode).
• He read a bit of one of the Twilight books of Caroline's, as seen in Family Ties, and hated it, while reminiscing Anne Rice's vampire novels.
• He has read Gone With The Wind, a classic romantic novel. Seen in The Descent.
• In episode The House Guest Damon seems to have a blackberry Storm.
• The first powers he was seen using is no longer on the TV show because they were considered too supernatural. They were controlling fog, flight, and using a crow to spy on people.
• In The Return the first episode of the second season, Damon is starting to revert back to his old devious ways.
• He is responsible for the majority of murdered witches throughout the series.
• He along with Elena and Stefan appear in all of the episodes.
• In the books, Damon is constantly shown as a very strong and powerful vampire. He has many powers and it is always noted that he really is an exceptionally powerful vampire. In the show, he is still very strong, but he is not compared to others like in the books. All of his unique powers are rarely shown in the show, nor is how he is naturally powerful compared to others.
• In the books, Damon is considered by others as very dangerous, sadistic and cruel. In the series Damon is manipulative and cruel at first, but changes and helps Elena (in the search for information of Katherine and protects her from being taken to Klaus for Cody and Elijah), Stefan (he helps to protect Elena constant hazards and makes a promise that will keep them safe and away from the tomb), Caroline (Damon gives his blood to prevent death at the beginning of the second season, this is because he kissed Katherine pretending to be Elena).
• He at one point had sexual relationships with the three first characters to have an episode named after them:
  • Isobel Saltzman had a affair with him before and possibly after he turned her into a vampire. (A Few Good Men, Isobel)
  • Rose slept with him after they both got drunk. (Katerina)
  • Katherine Pierce had a sexual relationship with him in 1864. After her return they nearly have sex but were interrupted when Katherine declare she never loved him. (Lost Girls, Children of the Damned, The Return)
• In the books he owns a black Ferrari but in the series he drives a blue Camaro convertible.
• Damon shows friendship and loyalty to Elena and Stefan with others as well like Bonnie, Caroline, Alaric, Jeremy and Rose.
• In the TV series, Damon is the only main character vampire who have not been locked in the tomb.
• He and Stefan are roughly 350 years younger than their novel counterparts.
• Damon was the second vampire to be bitten by a werewolf and the second to be cured.
• In the last episode of season two, Elena comforts Damon, similar to the scene of Damon and Rose in their final moments.
• In the books Damon has the ability to shape shift into a crow and wolf. In the series, Damon can control a crow and the mist but they were removed.
• Damon from the series shares one big difference with Damon from the books: Damon in the books loves being a vampire and he tried to return to that state when he was accidentally turned into a human; Damon in the TV series seems to love his hedonist life style as a vampire but, as he said to Jessica Cohen, he misses being human beyond anything else.
• In present time Damon kissed both Petrova Doppelgängers for the first time in the Season Finale's Season One (Katherine) and Season Two (Elena).
• He has killed the most characters in the series, 25. Second being Klaus, but unlike Klaus all of Damon's kills were on-screen.
• Damon is the first character who kills Elijah. But it wasn't permanent, because he used a wooden stake.
• Damon became friends with every character he tried to kill but failed. The only exception to this is Klaus (He tried to kill him in Homecoming).
• Though Damon's exact age has never been stated in the TV series, he tells Alaric he is in his 160s in Bad Moon Rising , making his age between 162 and 169.
• He usually prefers black clothing and nothing else.

Vampire Diaries Characters
Main Characters
Stefan Salvatore | Damon Salvatore | Elena Gilbert | Katherine Pierce | Jeremy Gilbert | Bonnie Bennett | Matt Donovan | Caroline Forbes | Tyler Lockwood | Alaric Saltzman | Jenna Sommers | Vicki Donovan | Klaus
Recurring Characters
Elijah | Rebekah | Kol | Finn | Esther | Mikael | Rose | Mason Lockwood | Isobel Flemming | John Gilbert | Anna | Pearl | Carol Lockwood | Emily Bennett | Sheriff Forbes | Logan Fell | Sheila Bennett | Kelly Donovan | Lexi
Guest Characters
Richard Lockwood | Vanessa Monroe | Trevor | George Lockwood | Giuseppe Salvatore | Frederick | Johnathan Gilbert | Harper | Lee | Noah | Cherie and Frank | Deputies | Samantha Gibbons | Mystery Man | Tiki's Grandfather  | Tiki  | Amber Bradley | Sage | Miranda Sommers-Gilbert | Grayson Gilbert | Ben McKittrick | Slater
Minor Characters
Season One | Season Two | Season Three
Families
Gilbert Family | Salvatore Family | Lockwood Family | Bennett Family | Donovan Family | Petrova Family  Forbes Family | Fell Family | Martin Family | Mikaelson Family | Founding Families
Species
Vampire | Witch | Werewolf | Human | Ghosts | Doppelgänger | Hybrid