| Character | Last words | Details |
|---|---|---|
 Vicki Donovan | While she and Jeremy were making out, she told him that she has to leave and asked him to come with her. She accidentally bit his lip, and upon tasting his blood, lost control of her blood-lust and attacked him. Stefan, Damon, and Elena came to help him, and during the struggle, Stefan was forced to stake her. ("Haunted") | |
 Lexi Branson | During the episode Damon informed Lexi that he had a diabolical master plan, but he wouldn't tell her what it was. He set her up as the killer of a young teenage boy, resulting in her being dosed with vervain by the police force. As the deputies were dragging her away, she tried to escape, and Sheriff Liz Forbes shot her several times with wooden bullets to no effect. Before Lexi could reach the sheriff, Damon interceded and staked her. As she died, she asked, "Why?" ("162 Candles") | |
 Logan Fell | Alaric was introduced to Logan as Jenna's friend. Logan asked him why didn't he punch him or provoke him, to which Alaric replied that he's not a violent person. Logan told him that he's not a smart one, either. Alaric asked him why, so Logan replied, "'Cause you have no idea who you're talking to." Alaric staked him right afterward. ("The Turning Point") | |
 Noah | Stefan and Damon stopped him from hurting Elena. They questioned and tortured him. He told them about the Gilbert journals, but when they asked who else was working with him, he told them that they were going to have to kill him. ("Unpleasantville") | |
 Ben McKittrick | Stefan confronted him near the tomb. Ben attacked him, but Stefan knocked him down easily. Ben retorted, "Is that all you got?", to which Stefan replied "No. I got this," before setting him on fire with a flamethrower. ("Fool Me Once") | |
 Bethanne | Pearl forbade the other tomb vampires from leaving the house. Frederick wanted to leave, but Harper tried to stop him. He said that Pearl banned them from going, and to let it go. Later, they attacked Stefan and Damon in their house, where Stefan killed Bethanne in self-defense. ("There Goes the Neighborhood") | |
 Frederick | Frederick kidnapped Stefan while he was hunting in the woods one stormy afternoon. After Damon, Alaric and Elena rescued him, Frederick attacked Stefan out in the woods. He stabbed him a couple of times with a tree branch, informing him that those stabbings were for Bethanne and for the time they spent in the tomb. However, Elena stabbed him with a dart full of vervain and took advantage of him being incapacitated to feed Stefan her blood to heal him. Afterward, Stefan had the strength and the anger to stake Frederick to death over and over. ("Let The Right One In") | |
 Henry | Alaric and Damon were trying to find Isobel. They found an apartment in which they believed Isobel was living, but when they got there, they found Henry in it. He told them that John Gilbert was helping him adapt. Suddenly, his phone rang, but Damon told Henry to give him the phone. Damon didn't answer immediately, so Henry asked him if he was going answer. When he asked what was going on, he realized something was up and attacked Alaric, but Alaric staked him to death. ("Blood Brothers") | |
 Harper | Harper and Pearl were preparing to leave the town after Pearl was threatened by John. Pearl reminded him that he didn't need to come with her if he didn't want to, but he told her that since she saved him after he was left to die, he wanted to stay with her. At that moment, John burst in and shot both him and Pearl with a stake-shooting crossbow. ("Blood Brothers") | |
 Pearl | Pearl and Harper were preparing to leave the town after she was threatened by John. Pearl reminded Harper that he didn't have to come with her if he didn't want to, but Harper told her that since she saved him after he was left to die, he wanted to stay with her. She decided to help him with his luggage, and while they were distracted, John burst in and shot them both in the heart with a stake-shooting crossbow. ("Blood Brothers") | |
 Annabelle | After John activated the Gilbert device, she was taken into the basem*nt of the Gilbert medical building to be burned with the other vampires. John saw her and staked her, despite her begging him not to do it. ("Founder's Day") | |
 Trevor | After he and Rose caught Elena, they wanted to trade her for their freedom from Klaus, so they called Elijah. Trevor informed him that he was truly sorry and begged for his forgiveness. Elijah said that it was granted, but decapitated him soon after. ("Rose (Episode)") | |
 Slater | Elijah compelled him to tell Damon (who was on the phone with Slater) that they needed the moonstone in order to break the Sun and the Moon curse. Afterward, Elijah compelled him to stake himself in the heart, which he did, despite Slater knowing that it would kill him forever. ("The Sacrifice") | |
 Cody Webber | He and two other men came to Slater's old apartment to take the Petrova doppelgänger and bring her back to Klaus. Elijah showed up and asked them if anybody knew that they were there. After he replied in the negative, Elijah killed him. ("The Sacrifice") | |
 Rose | After she was bitten by a werewolf, she became incredibly sick. Knowing that Rose was suffering, Damon created a dream for her to help ease her pain. In it, they talked about her human life, and after she pointed out that she wasn't afraid anymore, she challenged Damon to a race, which she believed she would win due to her speed and age. She and Damon agreed to count to three, but on the count of two, Damon staked her in the heart to end her misery. ("The Descent") | |
 Isobel Flemming | Isobel was compelled by Klaus to find Elena and take her to the cemetery. Once there, when Klaus' witches were in possession of Katherine and Alaric (the latter of whom he planned to use as a vessel), Klaus' main witch Maddox gave Isobel the order to kill herself, which she did by ripping off her daylight necklace. ("Know Thy Enemy") | |
 Jenna Sommers | Klaus turned Jenna into a vampire and sacrificed her to break the curse. Elena urged her to fight back against him, but Jenna allowed herself to be sacrificed in order to ensure Elena's safety. ("The Sun Also Rises") | |
 Mikael | or "Freya, I'm so sorry. I love yo-" | The gang had a plan to kill Klaus using Mikael and his stake. Mikael threatened to kill Elena if Klaus did not confront him. At some point, Elena freed herself by revealing that she was in fact, Katherine. Mikael was surprised, and he gasped, "Katherine?" which were his last words before Klaus took the stake and killed Mikael. ("Homecoming") or Klaus killed him in order to get his ashes as part of his plan to kill Dahlia. ("Night Has A Thousand Eyes") |
 Sage and Troy | They both died after Finn's death. They came to the Salvatore boarding house to kill Stefan and Damon because they killed her true love. Suddenly, they both fell and died. ("The Murder of One") | |
 Alaric Saltzman | Alaric and Damon were fighting after Alaric had been turned into a vampire-hating/hunting Enhanced Original by Esther Mikaelson. After Damon asked him if that was all he had, Alaric responded with "Not quite." Moments later, Elena drowned after the truck she and Matt were in was run off the road by Rebekah, and because Alaric's life-force was tied to Elena's, he died along with her. He appeared as a ghost to tell Jeremy that he would always look after him. ("The Departed") | |
 Will | He was dying from a werewolf bite so Damon mercy killed him. ("Bring It On") | |
 Kol | Kol wanted to chop Jeremy's arm where he has his Hunter's mark so they couldn't get to Silas and the cure. Elena helped Jeremy to kill Kol to complete his Hunter's Mark by staking him with the white oak stake. ("A View to a Kill") | |
 Jesse | He was inflected with a ripper virus so Elena killed him to save Damon. ("Dead Man on Campus") | |
 Nadia Petrova | Nadia was on her death bed after being bitten by Tyler Lockwood. Katherine entered the room to say goodbye to her daughter. Katherine and Nadia exchanged conversation before Nadia started to repeat words she spoke in the 15th century while searching for her mother. Katherine gave Nadia a dream of the perfect day they should have had together before Nadia then passed away. ("Gone Girl") | |
 Kieran O'Connell | Kieran was suffering a hex that was cast on him and he began to lose his mind. Klaus killed him before he could kill his niece Cami. | |
 Thierry Vanchure | Elijah killed him to warn Marcel to stop his fight. Instead, it ignited more. | |
 Diego | Diego was dying from his werewolf bite when he saw Mikael approach. Mikael fed on him until he was dead. | |
 Gia | Gia was compelled to take of her daylight ring by Klaus as Elijah watched as punishment for daggering him, she burnt to death.("Fire with Fire") | |
 Ivy | Ivy is taken to Mystics falls Anti-Vampire Border By Tripp with few other vampires. ("The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get") | |
 Tripp Cooke | Tripp was taken to Mystics falls Anti-Vampire Border in exchange for Liz Forbes. ("Do You Remember the First Time?") | |
 Colin Phelps | Damon Extracts his heart. ("Prayer For the Dying") | |
 Lenore | Freya destroyed her body since she was being possessed by her mother Esther. | |
 Shen Min | Shen Min committed suicide by removing his daylight ring when Elijah tried to compel him to reveal information about the prophecy. | |
 Mohinder | Mohinder was killed by Tristan de Martel after losing a battle with Marcel Gerard at the Strix ball. | |
 Anton | When Klaus demanded to know where Cami went. Anton tried to explain what happened. Klaus in his anger breaks a picture frame. And uses a piece of wood from the frame to stake him. | |
 Florence | Florence died in the human body of Josette Laughlin after the resurrection with the Phoenix Stone.The body could not handle the spirit of a vampire and thus died. ("Best Served Cold") | |
 Lillian Salvatore | When Damon, Stefan and Valerie's plan to unlink and kill Julian went awry due to Mary Louise, Lily was forced to choose between saving Damon or Valerie after they were taken hostage by Julian. Assuming that they were still linked, Lily staked herself, hoping to kill both herself and Julian, much to her dismay, Mary Louise had already unlinked them. ("Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me") | |
 Julian | Julian was staked by Stefan while Valerie cloaked them. ("Postcards from the Edge") | |
 Aya | After unlinking Klaus' sireline but failing to unlink herself from Elijah, Elijah comes to kill Aya with the last of the white oak, however, cannot bring himself to carry out the action. Hayley stakes Aya as revenge for the Strix killing Jackson. | |
 Shawn | Shot with wooden stake by Matt Donovan and killed with wooden bullet by Penny Ares. ("I Would for You") | |
 Krystal | Shot with wooden stake by Rayna Cruz. ("I Would for You") | |
 Gaspar Cortez | Gaspar arrived to New Orleans after learning that the sire bond was broken. With the intent of finding the last white oak bullet and killing Klaus, he was decapitated by Klaus. | |
 Finn | He died as a result of the Bite of Lucien Castle. | |
 Camille O'Connell | After Lucien forced his way into her apartment the previous night, Camille awakes to have been bitten by Lucien. She knows that she only has hours remaining and goes to the Mikaelsons for help. Although trying everything they can, including the blood of baby Hope, they cannot find a cure for Camille. Camille dies later that night at the Abattoir, surrounded by her friends. | |
 Ashlynn | Stabbed; killed by the members of The Armory. ("Kill 'Em All") | |
 Wyatt | Gunshot wound with wooden bullet; killed by Alaric Saltzman. ("Kill 'Em All") | |
 Violet Fell | Staked; killed by Stefan Salvatore. ("Nostalgia's a Bitch") | |
 Lucien Castle | After stealing the magic needed from the Ancestors, Freya used the magic to reverse the spell used to create Lucien. After the spell was reversed and Lucien was an ordinary vampire, Klaus killed him by removing his heart. | |
 Lorenzo St. John | Enzo was killed by Stefan Salvatore who had his humanity turned off at the time. Stefan ripped out his heart. ("You Made a Choice to Be Good") | |
 August Müller | After August kills a lot of innocent Werewolves. Klaus ripped his heart out. | |
 Hayley Marshall-Kenner | Hayley sacrifices herself by throwing herself into the sunlight to save Hope | |
 Greta Sienna | Greta was killed by Hayley to save Hope. Hayley grabbed Greta's arm. And together they burned in the sunlight. | |
 Joshua Rosza | After saving Marcel from a group of vampires. Joshua is injected in the heart with a deadly dose of Werewolf venom. | |
 Emmett | Emmett and his followers are set up by Elijah and Antoinette for their crimes and trying to kill Hope. Hope uses her magic to kill Emmett and the group of vampires. | |
 Niklaus Mikaelson | Niklaus was staked by Elijah in order to free Hope of the Hollow. | |
 Elijah Mikaelson | Elijah was staked by Klaus in order to free Hope of the Hollow. |
