What's the Difference between The Vampire Diaries the Book and The Vampire Diaries the TV Show?
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In the TV Show |
Elena Gilbert
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Elena Gilbert
Portrayed by: Nina Dobrev
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Stefan Salvatore
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Stefan Salvatore
Portrayed by: Paul Wesley
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Damon Salvatore
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Damon Salvatore
Portrayed by: Ian Somerhalder
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This Character does not appear.
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Jeremy Gilbert
Portrayed by: Steven R. McQueen
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Bonnie McCullough
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Bonnie Bennett
Portrayed by: Katerina Graham
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Katherine von Swartzchild
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Katherine Petrova/Pierce
Portrayed by: Nina Dobrev
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Margaret Gilbert
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This Character does not appear.
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Mrs. Flowers
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This Character does not appear.
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Matt Honeycutt
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Matt Donovan
Portrayed by: Zach Roerig
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Tyler Smallwood
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Tyler Lockwood
Portrayed by: Michael Trevino
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Caroline Forbes
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Caroline Forbes
Portrayed by: Candice Accola
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Meredith Sules
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This Character does not appear.
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Judith Maxwell
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Jenna Sommers
Portrayed by: Sara Canning
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The Vampire Diaries Book vs TV Show
| In the Book |
In the TV Show |
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In the books Caroline is pregnant by Tyler, and the baby turns her into a werewolf. |
In the show, Caroline doesn't get pregnant, and Katherine turns her into a vampire in season 2. |
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Elena drinks Damon's blood and crashes her car into water and drowns. She becomes a vampire. |
Damon forces Elena to drink his blood so she can be protected when Klaus wants to sacrifice her. She dies, but a spell is used to keep her from becoming a Vampire.
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Damon drives a black Ferrari. |
Damon drives a blue Camaro convertible. |
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Elena sister adopts a cat into the house and name it snowball, which is really Katherine pretending to be a cat, in disguise. |
This don't happen in the show, since Elena, have a brother, instead of little sister. Plus since season 1 the Gilbert house has been pet free.
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In the books, the weather changes a lot, from fall, to winter, to spring to summer. |
In the show time and months past, but the weather really don't change much, (except for a couple of episodes in season 1 when it was cold, like the episode where jeremy kissed anna ,in the woods, at that party. |