The Vampire Diaries Universe's 25 Best Characters of All Time, Ranked

Thirteen years, 17 seasons, 331 episodes. That’s how long we’ve spent in the Vampire Diaries Universe™, and we’ve met quite a few characters along the way.

Which is why tonight’s series finale of Legacies (The CW, 9/8c) is all the more unfathomable. This isn’t just about a four-season show set a supernatural boarding school — it’s about the complicated history that got us there, and all the familiar faces we’ll miss.

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To that end, we decided to rank the franchise’s 25 best characters, be they vampire, werewolf, witch, hybrid, tribrid, or even (gasp!) human. A similar list was published several years ago, but after much consideration — not to mention a full re-watch of all three series — we decided that a few changes were in order. And it’s our list, so we can do that.

Read on to see our ranking of the franchise’s 25 best characters, then drop a comment with your own list (at least the top 10) below. And remember, this is just our opinion. It means nothing. Let’s all have a nice time celebrating these good-looking weirdos, some of whom we’ve been obsessing over for more than a decade.

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