“	This isn't goodbye. This is... until we find a way. We're immortal, remember? We will find a way.	”
	— Tyler to Caroline in Down the Rabbit Hole

Tyler Lockwood is a main character who is a hybrid and plays for the football team at Mystic Falls High School. He was a werewolf until becoming the first successful hybrid after Klaus.

He is the son of Richard Lockwood and Carol Lockwood, and the nephew of Mason Lockwood who was a werewolf. He was initially portrayed to be arrogant, selfish and a bully. But after triggering the family curse that turned him into a werewolf, he has learned to tone his behavior down.

Before this revelation, he was referred to many times as a "dick," by both Matt Donovan and Jeremy Gilbert. He is shown to have an athletic build, and great strength as a human. He also has a short temper and becomes angry very easily. He didn't understand why he behaved the way he did, until Mason came to visit after Richard Lockwood's death.

Tyler is a member of the Lockwood Family.  

Contents 1 Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series 2 Personality 2.1 Untriggered Werewolf 2.2 Werewolf 2.3 Hybrid 3 Physical Appearance 4 Relationships 4.1 Richard Lockwood 4.2 Carol Lockwood 4.3 Caroline Forbes 4.4 Other Relationships 5 Powers and Abilities 6 Weaknesses 7 Appearances 7.1 Season 1 7.2 Season 2 7.3 Season 3 7.4 Season 4 8 Name 9 Behind the scenes 10 In the books 11 Trivia 12 Episode Count 13 Tropes 14 References 15 Gallery 16 See also 17 Comments

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

Personality

Untriggered Werewolf

In the beginning of series, Tyler had a very aggressive, arrogant and selfish personality. He showed this many times for example when he had fights with Jeremy Gilbert over his girlfriend Vicki Donovan. Tyler behaved like this because of his werewolf gene. In Season 2, when his uncle Mason came to town, he learned how to control his anger and tone down his behavior. But after discovering that his family carried the werewolf gene, Tyler was scared to become a werewolf himself.

Werewolf

His fears came true when he accidentally killed Sarah and triggered the curse. Tyler felt guilty for killing Sarah and when he discovered Caroline Forbes is a vampire they became friends and she helped him get through with his first transformation but he almost killed her when he was a wolf but she came back when he was back in human form. After this she became his friend then girlfriend.

Hybrid

When Tyler became a hybrid he started being his old self and he became very loyal to Klaus because he took the pain of transformation. In season 4 we see a new Tyler, this Tyler puts his friends and family before himself and really cares about Caroline, in Memorial He showed great sacrifice and bravery in Pastor's funeral when he interrupted the chant and stood on the stage to get the hunter's attention and give his friends especially Elena a chance to escape from Connor's trap .

Physical Appearance

Tyler has tanned skin, short black hair and dark brown eyes. His height is about 5'7 to around 5'8. Tyler has a muscular and toned body. Like all werewolves, his eyes will turn yellow when he becomes very angry. In his werewolf form, Tyler's fur is black and his eyes are yellow. In human form, Tyler often wears black jeans with a t-shirt and a jacket. On special occasions, such as parties, he wears a black suit. In Season 2, he starts wearing leather jackets.

Relationships

Richard Lockwood

Tyler and his dad never had a good relationship, because he was a horrible parent and treated him badly. On several occasions, Richard has had to step in because Tyler did something in public where Richard felt ashamed of him. Whenever Tyler and Jeremy got into a fight at a Career Night at Mystic Falls High School, Richard and Alaric stopped it, and Richard brought the two of them outside. Tyler's dad tried to get the two of them to fight each other, even though they didn't want to fight anymore. Tyler's dad also had a talk to him when Tyler got into a fight with Matt and then pulled Tyler to the side and hit him and told Tyler That is the last time you ever embarrass this family again. On the Founder's Day, Richard is angry at Tyler for not going home when he was asked to. It was the night of rounding up the vampires and he didn't want Tyler to be in danger. or it could be he doesn't like it when his son disobeys him, and doesn't like it when he doesn't do what he says, and being controlling then he grabbed Tyler on the he`s arm, and says to his son if I tell you to do something you do it, then Tyler tells him to get off me, shows that he has finally stand up to his father, and that he finally has enough of his father`s controlling attitude. doing his father's funeral Jeremy Gilbert comes in Tyler`s father's study to comfort Tyler, saying that when my parents died everyone said my dad was a great guy, but Tyler said in your case that was true, your dad was a great guy, but my dad was a dick, shows that he wasn't above disrespecting his dead father at his funeral, and that he didn't have any respect for his father, after the funeral he revealed to his mother that he has always hated his father, for treating him badly, After Richard's death, Matt Donovan made fun of Tyler's dad and poured alcohol over his picture. Tyler gets mad or it could be that he believes that pouring alcohol on a dead person's picture is wrong. Tyler never talks about his father, because he doesn't want to be reminded, of what kind of person his father was, and once to forget about him completely.

Carol Lockwood

Tyler seems to have grown up with a distant, but somewhat positive relationship with his mother. It is only after the death of his father that Carol began to have a closer relationship with her son. When Mason Lockwood disappeared once again, Carol informed Tyler that "I guess it's just you and me now." Although he doesn't show it very well, Tyler is clearly fond of his mother, even returning to town after her accident.

Caroline Forbes

Main article: Tyler and Caroline

When Tyler triggered his curse, Caroline Forbes wanted to help him. Though Damon demanded her not to be his friend, she did. Tyler once asked whether she is a werewolf, Caroline laughed and said she is a vampire after a skirmish. When the first Full Moon came, Caroline helps him through the first transformation and it seems they form a special bond. The two become closer and eventually began a romantic relationship. Due to Klaus falling in love with  Caroline, their relationship has become strained.Klaus promised that he will kill Tyler and Caroline pleased Klaus to let him live.Klaus told her to tell Tyler to leave town and hide which after a painful goodbye he did. They leave each vowing that they will find a way to be together again.

Other Relationships

• Tyler and Vicki (Ex-Girlfriend)
• Klaus, Caroline and Tyler (Former Love Triangle)
• Tyler and Matt (Friends)
• Jeremy and Tyler (Former Enemies/Friends)
• Tyler and Klaus (Enemies)
• Tyler and Hayley (Ex-Friends)

Powers and Abilities

• Transformation Control: Hybrids have the ability to transform at will and anytime that they desire. This makes them able to avoid obligatory turning during full moons. They can also perform partial transformations such as showing their wolf-eyes and teeth.
  • Werewolf Bite: Due to their werewolf heritage, a hybrid has a bite which is fatal to vampires, but the hybrid bite takes effect quicker than a normal werewolf bite. Werewolf venom is always accessible to them as opposed to their werewolf counterparts who can use it only when transformed.
  • Lycanthrope Enhancement: Hybrids are capable of using their wolf features to supplement their abilities.
  • Hybrid Claws - Hybrids can grow claws from their nails, even well they are still in their human form, it is unknown how sharp a hybrid claws are, well klaus was still in tyler's body, it was shows that a hybrid's claws is sharp enough, to penetrate a hybrid's very durable skin, and is able to rip another hybrid's heart out.

• Dream Manipulation: Hybrids can control dreams and subconscious like vampires. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapping in dreams.

• Emotional Control: Due to their vampire heritage, hybrids are able to exert certain control over their own emotions. They can turn off their humanity.

• Immortality: Hybrids stop aging once turned. Upon their transformation, a hybrid becomes immune to all conventional illnesses, diseases, virus and infection and therefore will live forever unless they are killed due to a weapon, weakness or methods that might kill a normal vampire or werewolf.

• Mind Compulsion: Hybrids can compel the minds of humans.

  

• Healing Factor: Given their joint vampire and werewolf heritage, a hybrid's ability to recover from injury is far greater than those of either individual parent species.

• Super Speed: Hybrids are faster than any werewolf or some vampires. Hybrids can use this abilities in human and wolf form. This appears to be one of Tyler's more pronounced traits as a Hybrid, able to take advantage of Klaus' five second headstart.

• Super Strength: Hybrids are much stronger than werewolves or vampires, but because of their vampire heritage their abilities get stronger with age, just like vampires and werewolves. Their wolf form will boast their power due to the werewolf side. A newly turned hybrid can go toe-to-toe with a 165-170 year old vampire such as Damon, who was on the verge of dying at the hands of Ray Sutton until Stefan saved him.

• Super Agility: Hybrids possess superhuman agility. They can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.

• Daytime Walking - Since hybrids are capable of consuming food other than blood due to their werewolf heritage, they do not have the weaknesses regarding sunlight nature caused vampires to suffer from. They can move around during the day and in the sun without the use a day walking ring.

• Immunity to Silver - Due to their werewolf heritage, magic bonded to silver doesn't affect a hybrid. Weapons made of silver might wound them, but the wound heals at super-normal rates than regular wounds.

Weaknesses

• Gilbert Device: A hybrid can be affected by the Gilbert device.

• Vervain: Hybrids are affected by vervain like their vampire counterparts.

• Wolfsbane: Hybrids are affected to wolfsbane like their werewolf counterparts.

• Uninvited Invitation: Due to their vampire heritage, hybrids are unable to enter a home without an invitation.

• Magic: Witches are able to give supernatural aneurysms that cause the blood vessels of non-original hybrids to explode.

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

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

• Hybrid Bloodline: Hybrids who were turned by Klaus who turned others will die if Klaus is staked with the White Oak Stake.

• Hunter's Curse: If a hybrid kills a member of The Brotherhood of the Five then they will be tormented by the hunter until they kill themselves or if the hunter is replaced then they will be free of torment.

Appearances

Season 1 Pilot The Night of the Comet Friday Night Bites Family Ties Haunted 162 Candles The Turning Point Fool Me Once Let the Right One In Under Control Isobel Founder's Day Season 2 The Return Brave New World Bad Moon Rising Memory Lane Kill or Be Killed Plan B Masquerade Rose The Sacrifice By the Light of the Moon The Descent Daddy Issues Crying Wolf The Last Day The Sun Also Rises Season 3 The Birthday The Hybrid The End of The Affair Disturbing Behavior The Reckoning Smells Like Teen Spirit Homecoming The New Deal Our Town The Ties That Bind Dangerous Liaisons (Voice Only) Heart of Darkness Do Not Go Gentle Before Sunset The Departed (possessed by Klaus at the end of the episode) Season 4 Growing Pains (possessed by Klaus till the end of the episode) Memorial The Rager The Killer We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes My Brother’s Keeper We’ll Always Have Bourbon Street O Come, All Ye Faithful After School Special Into the Wild Down the Rabbit Hole Bring It On (Voice Only) Pictures of You

Name

• "Tyler" comes from an English surname, meaning "tiler of roofs". As a first name, it became popular after the 1980s.

Behind the scenes

• The casting call was: "18 years old, athletic, cocky, attractive, and a bit of a jerk, he's an alpha male who demonstratively marks his territory (i.e. Vicki) every chance he gets, particularly in front of Jeremy. Tyler can't resist needling Matt about the fact that Elena seems to be falling for the new guy, Stefan...

In the books

• In the novels, Tyler's surname is "Smallwood" and he turns into a werewolf with the help of Klaus (Sue Carson is sacrificed in a ritual of blood). In the series, Tyler turns into a werewolf with the intervention of Katherine.
• Tyler Smallwood and Caroline were allied against Elena and Stefan. In the series, Tyler and Matt were allied against Stefan but then Matt learns to accept Stefan and approves of Stefan and his relationship with Elena. Caroline helps Tyler with the death of Sarah and the werewolf transformation.
• Tyler's family are direct descendants of the Smallwoods that were present at the founding of Fell's Church.
• Tyler Smallwood has jet black hair, pale skin, very dark eyes. He is described to be very tall (6'3"" to 6'7") with a broad, husky and muscular physique.
• Tyler Smallwood is much taller and and twice as broad then Stefan. On the show, Stefan is taller then Tyler.
• Stefan saves Elena from Tyler Smallwood sexually assaulting her. Tyler has been antagonistic towards Stefan and Elena ever since.
• One of Tyler's descendents was named Jacob Smallwood, Jacob was also a werewolf and passed on the werewolf gene after he was bitten by a wolf.
• Tyler has a cousin named Caleb Smallwood.
• Tyler Smallwood as two twins (werewolves) with Caroline, but in the series, Caroline is converted into a vampire by Damon and Katherine intervention. She was not related to Tyler until the episode Masquerade.
• Tyler is one of the two antagonists of "The Awakening" and "The Struggle", eventually becomes a recurring character in "The Fury" and finally a minor antagonist of "Dark Reunion".
• Tyler Smallwood does not appear in the trilogies "The Return Series" and "The Hunters Series".

Trivia

• Out of all the main characters he has missed the most episodes the other being Jenna.
• Both in the books and series he has a relationship with Caroline.
• He didn't appear in five episodes in a row in season two, beating Bonnie, who missed four episodes in a row in season one.
• He's the only main character throughout the series as a whole, who misses the most episodes in large gaps and has the most absences, even Alaric who was introduced mid-way through season 1, has appeared in more episodes than Tyler.
• In the series, it was unknown that Lockwoods have werewolf gene until Bad Moon Rising. But it was hinted in The Turning Point. After the scene Tyler hit Jeremy, he asked him "What is your problem, man?" when a full moon can be seen in the sky, explaining his aggressive behaviors.
• Tyler has interacted with all the main characters, except Jenna.
• Tyler is the only living main characters who have never been bitten by a vampire.
• He was turned into a Hybrid in The Reckoning.
• Tyler is the first successfully created hybrid, due to drinking a sample of doppelgänger's blood during his transition.
• Before discovering the bloodline of the main characters, the only one of the protagonists who would have died if Klaus was destroyed, would be Tyler. In the books, after the Klaus' defeat, Tyler escapes and does not return to town.
• Tyler is the first main vampire/hybrid character of the series to form a sire bond to his sire(Klaus).
• Tyler is the first werewolf/hybrid character to have his venom extracted.
• After Kimberley submitted to him, all hybrids present kneel to him, acknowledging him as their Alpha.
• After Carol's death, Tyler is the fourth orphan shown in the series after Elena, Jeremy and April.
• Tyler is the only successful hybrid to be shown in wolf form, as seen in After School Special.
• Tyler has showed his wolf form more than any other werewolf/hybrid in the series.
• Tyler returns for the prom for Caroline (4x19)

Episode Count

• In Season 1 Tyler doesn't appear in 11 episodes: You're Undead to Me, Lost Girls, 162 Candles, History Repeating, Bloodlines, Unpleasantville, Children of the Damned, A Few Good Men, There Goes the Neighborhood, Miss Mystic Falls and Blood Brothers.
• In Season 2 Tyler doesn't appear in 7 episodes: Katerina, The Dinner Party, The House Guest, Know Thy Enemy, The Last Dance, Klaus and As I Lay Dying.
• In Season 3 Tyler doesn't appear in 7 episodes: Ghost World, Ordinary People, Bringing Out The Dead, All My Children, 1912, Break On Through and The Murder of One.
• In Season 4 Tyler doesn't appear in 10 episodes: The Five, Catch Me If You Can, A View To A Kill, Stand By Me, Because the Night, American Gothic, The Originals, She's Come Undone, The Walking Dead and Graduation.... 

Tropes

• Abusive Parents - Richard Lockwood
• And I Must Scream - Before being turned into a hybrid by Klaus, Tyler had to change into a werewolf each full moon after triggering the curse. The process initially took hours to complete its excruciating transition. Also can be said for what he needed to do to break the sire bond to Klaus.
• He is introduced as a Jerk Jock, with a VERY short temper.
• Freudian Excuse: On season 1 we believe his behavior is due to his very aggressive father.
• But in season 2 we learn it's because of Lycantropy - He is a latent Werewolf.
• Like many Involuntary Shapeshifters , his transformation into werewolf are VERY PAINFUL.
• Mr Fanservice - winds up naked after transforming back from werewolf. Unlike Hulk he does not have Magic Pants.
• By the end of Season 2 he has morphed into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• In We'll Always Have Bourbon Street, when all the hybrids submit to him as their Alpha, it was his Awesome Moment of Crowning.
• By coincidence, that was also his Crowning Moment of Awesome!

References

Gallery

See also

The Vampire Diaries 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 • Season Five 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

Hybrids Main Hybrids Niklaus Mikaelson • Tyler Lockwood Deceased Hybrids Ray Sutton • Paige • Tony • Mindy • Daniel Warren • Dean • Chris • Kimberley • Adrian • Nate • First Pack Hybrids • Second Pack Hybrids • Third Pack Hybrids

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  Jeremy and Tyler?

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    MonsterFactory
    *___* God! I hope so.  2013-05-09T00:34:03Z
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