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In the TV Show |
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Rose is half Turkish and half Scottish with no accent. |
She's Black with an Australian accent. |
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Lissa is Blonde with Green eyes. |
She is Brunette with Brown eyes.
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Dimitri has long hair that he sometimes wear in a ponytail. |
In the series, it's short. |
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Mason has Red hair and is covered in freckles. |
He's black.
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Rose and Lissa first meet Dimitri when he and the other Guardians find Rose and Lissa after running away from the academy. |
Dimitri meets Rose and Lissa after attacking Rose, thinking she's a threat to Lissa. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Lissa leaves the academy for three months after her family's deaths.
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Victor has one biological daughter named Natalie. |
Victor has two adopted daughters, Sonya and Mia. |
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Victor is white, old and has an illness. |
Victor is black, young and appears in good health.
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Sonya Karp was a teacher. |
Sonya Karp is not a teacher and works in a library. |
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Mia's parents serve other royals. |
Mia's father is Victor who adopted her.
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Mia is a Rinaldi. |
Mia is a Karp and is Sonya's adopted sister. |
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This does not happen in the books. |
Sonya could not specialize in magic and was sent to electro therapy.
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Rose and Lissa know about their psychic bond and keep it a secret. |
They don't know about the bond. |
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Andre used Mia and broke her heart. |
Andre and Mia were in an arranged marriage for political reasons but were on friendly terms.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Andre sleeps with Tatiana before his death. |
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Tatiana is an Ivashkov. |
In the series, she's a Vogel.
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Tatiana is Queen. |
She isn't, a new character named Marina is Queen. |
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Lissa cuts herself to deal with her depression. |
She burns herself with sunlight.
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Lissa meets Christian in the chapel attic. |
She meets him while trying to read Old Moroi. |
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Christian is snarky, sarcastic and doesn't care what people think of him. |
Christian is shy, sensitive and is hurt by his mistreatment from classmates.
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Christian's parents turned Strigoi and are later killed. |
They have not been killed yet and are looking for Christian. |
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Kirova is Headmistress. |
In the series, she's a Dean.
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Rose and Lissa run away from the school for two years. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Rose playfully flirts with Mason. |
They are friends with benefits.
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Rose is 17 and Dimitri is 24. |
They are both of age. |
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Dimitri becomes Rose's teacher and helps her catch up to the other Dhampirs. |
He becomes her mentor and Rose doesn't need to catch up.
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The school and the Royal Court are separated. |
In the series, they are connected. |
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St. Vladimir is located in Montana, |
It's somewhere in Europe.
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This does not happen in the books. |
Dhampir Women are either Guardians or forced into Communes for breeding. |
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All Moroi can do complusion. |
Only Spirit users can.
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Rose and Mikhail barely know each other. |
Rose and Mikhail are close friends. |
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This does not exist in the books. |
The Moroi have their own language called Aazh Naamori (Old Moroi).
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The Moroi have Romanian, Russian and Slavic Roots. |
This was erased in favor of Old Moroi. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Jesse leaves school grounds regularly to feed on and have sex with bloodwhores.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Rose sneaks Lissa out of the school grounds to talk and mourn Lissa's family. |
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Victor is straight. |
Victor is gay.
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Robert is Victor's half brother. |
In the series, he's his husband. |
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Mia is straight and dated Lissa's brother and Lissa's ex-boyfriend. |
Mia is gay and interested in a female Dhampir novice.
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Rose and Meredith are not close. |
Meredith is Rose's rival. |
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Lissa is close to Victor and calls him Uncle. |
He's her Godfather.
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Rose gets jealous of Lissa's relationship with Christian and breaks them up. |
Rose is supportive and has no problem with their relationship. |
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Dimitri's mom and sisters live normally, in Russia. |
In the series, they were forced into Communes.
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Dimitri is of full Russian Heritage. |
He was just born in Russia. |
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Mia bullies Lissa. |
Mia helps Lissa regarding Politics.
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Rose is still a virgin. |
She isn't. |
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Rose is snarky, rebellious and reckless. |
She isn't.
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This doesn't exist in the book. |
The Dhampirs have their own bar. |
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Dimitri's close friend he was a Guardian to was named Ivan. |
In the series, it's Alexei.
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Dimitri regularly wears a duster. |
He doesn't. |
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Janine Hathaway is white with red hair. |
She's black with short black hair and an Australian accent.
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Adrian smokes and drinks. |
He only drinks. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Lissa has a Specialization Ceremony to determine her magic element.
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The Moroi's religion is Eastern Orthodox. |
They have their own religion which includes priestesses. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Victor pressures Lissa to be Queen.
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The school has trained Psy-Hounds. |
They are uncontrollable, sometimes. |
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Lissa doesn't know about Rose's feelings for Dimitri's nor their relationship. |
She knows and is completely supportive.
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Rose and Dimitri's relationship is secretive and forbidden. |
It isn't and there's no reason to keep it secret. |
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This doesn't happen. |
Lissa needs to be married in order to be in position for the throne.
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Dimitri loves and reads cowboy novels. |
It's autobiographies of historical figures. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Jesse gets involved with a bloodwhore named Silver.
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Rose is framed in Queen Tatiana's murder. |
In the series, it's Lissa who is framed. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Dimitri sleeps with Tatiana.
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Lissa does not wear a tiara, despite being royalty. |
She regularly wears a tiara at parties. |
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Rose convinces Christian to break up with Lissa. |
Christian breaks up with Lissa on his own, to protect her from his parents.
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Andre died in the car accident with Lissa parents. |
He survived. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Andre is turned into a Strigoi.
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Tatiana sleeps with a Dhampir named Ambrose. |
In the show, she sleeps with Andre and Dimitri. |
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This does not exist in the book. |
The school and count combined is called The Dominion.
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Christian has blue eyes and is of Russian descent. |
He has black eyes and is Asian. |
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Dimitri is stoic to the point of emotionless and takes his duties series. |
He smiles, parties, drinks and bends the rules.
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The Guardians are strict and even punish a student for being drunk during training. |
The Guardians regularly party, drink and are more lax. |
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Lissa revives a raven. |
In the show, it's Sonya instead.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Mia gets branded as punishment for using her magic offensively. |
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Tasha trains Christian with his magic. |
It's Meredith who trains him.
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This does not happen. |
Christian's patents caused the car accident that killed Lissa's family and Rose. |
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Sonya Karp is white, has red hair and blue eyes. |
She's black with black hair and brown eyes.
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Christian has always been a student at St. Vladimir's. |
He is a transfer student from St. Jude's. |
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Rose kills her first two Strigois,Isaiah and Elena. |
She kills her first one, Mikhail.
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Rose gets 2 Molnjias. |
She gets 1. |
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A Dhampir named Lionel gives Rose her Molnijas. |
It's Dimitri, instead.
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Rose and Dimitri have their first kiss while under the Lust Charm Spell. |
It's when he tattoos her Molnija. |
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It is unknown what he specialized in. |
In the show, Andre was a Fire User.
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The Queen dies from Rose's stake to the heart. |
She is poisoned. |
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Victor's Illness is Sandovsky's Syndrome. |
He gets ill from Tatiana poisoning him.
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Victor has Lissa heal his illness. |
It's Sonya who heals him, instead. |
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Novices are told about the Alchemists when they graduate. |
Dimitri just warns Rose to run if she sees one.
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The Alchemists have a Golden Lily tattoo on their cheek. |
They have an odd design instead of a Lily and it's on the side of their face, not just the cheek. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Meredith know about the Tunnels that Alchemists use.
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During the Benchmarks, Rose is assigned to Christian. |
She gets assigned to Jesse. |
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Rose and Lissa are compelled to run away from the school by Ms.Karp. |
They run away on their own after the Dominion is in chaos.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Lissa and Christian get married. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Christian becomes a Monk.
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Tatiana is Slavic with gray hair. |
She's black with black hair. |
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Tatiana is in her early 60s. |
She's in her 30s.
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Lissa's family's car accident was caused by a drunk driver. |
Tatiana orchestrated the accident by using Christian's parents. |
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Lissa and Victor have the same green eyes. |
They are brown.
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Dimitri firmly believes in the Moroi system. |
Rose makes him question it and he is repeatedly unsure about it. |
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Rose is in a love trangle with Adrian and Dimitri. |
She is in a love triangle with Mason and Dimitri.
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Lissa's family were driving their car when the accident happened. |
They were riding in a limo. |
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Rose runs away from the Academy with Lissa to protect her from threats regarding her powers. |
She runs away with Lissa to protect Lissa since she is framed for Queen Marina's death.
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Rose runs away from the Academy with Lissa to protect her from threats regarding her powers. |
She runs away with Lissa to protect Lissa since she is framed for Queen Marina's death. |
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Sonya willingly turns Strigoi to deal with the effects of Spirit. |
She turns Strigoi because of her grief towards Mikhail's death.
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This doesn't happen. |
Mikhail is turned Strigoi and Rose kills him. |
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Dimitri is turned into a Strigoi against his will. |
It's Andre, instead.
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Tasha frames Rose for Queen Taiana's murder so she can have Dimitri. |
Tatiana frames Lissa so she can become Queen temporarily. |
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Mason dies which has a profound effect on Rose. |
Mason lives and It's Mikhail who dies instead.
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This doesn't happen in the book. |
Mikhail dies. |