130 Facts About Damon Salvatore

Damon Salvatore is a fictional character In L J Smith's novel series The Vampire Diaries.

Damon Salvatore is portrayed by Ian Somerhalder in the television series.

Damon Salvatore is part of a love triangle between his brother Stefan and a female vampire named Katherine Pierce whom they were both compelled to love when they were still human.

Damon Salvatore is a vampire, turned by Katherine Pierce 145 years prior to the series' debut.

Damon Salvatore is the son of late Giuseppe Salvatore, ripper Lily Salvatore and older brother of Stefan Salvatore.

Damon Salvatore is portrayed as charming but cruel, taking pleasure in killing and feeding on humans, while Stefan satisfies his vampiric hunger by feeding on animals.

Damon Salvatore has brief moments of compassion such as erasing Jeremy Gilbert's memory of vampires and removing his "suffering" so Jeremy can get his life back on track.

Damon Salvatore apologizes for turning Vicki Donovan into a vampire and admits it was wrong.

Damon Salvatore admits to Elena that he came to the town wanting to destroy it but actually found himself wanting to protect it.

Jeremy survives because of the ring, but Damon Salvatore's action incurs Elena's wrath and pain.

Elena blinks and her vervain necklace is back around her neck, Damon Salvatore is gone and her window is open with the curtains blowing.

Damon Salvatore had no recollection as to how the necklace was returned to her.

Damon Salvatore puts her out of her misery, leaving him to mourn the death of his one of few real friends.

Elena and Damon Salvatore then begin to mend fences, and Elena gives him an affectionate hug to help comfort him after Rose's death.

Damon Salvatore begins showing another side of himself in small acts that help build what once was an impossible friendship between Elena and himself after she clearly stated that he has lost her forever.

Damon Salvatore is bitten by Tyler the werewolf at the end of the season.

Damon Salvatore forgives him, telling him that she cares for him through grief-stricken tears.

Damon Salvatore got under my skin and no matter what I do, I can't shake him.

Damon Salvatore chooses the latter when she calls Damon to tell him her decision.

Not wanting anyone to know he was in town and after giving her some advice about life and love, Damon Salvatore compels her to forget.

Damon Salvatore remembers this as he fights Alaric and seems accepting of his death when Alaric, whose lifeline is tied to Elena's, suddenly collapses in his arms.

Damon Salvatore starts season 4 at Elena's bedside after finding out about her dying with vampire blood in her system, causing her to start the transition to Vampire.

Damon Salvatore decides to first try to kill Rebekah with a White Oak Stake, yet she overpowers him.

Later in part of a plan with the Sheriff and Meredith Fell, Damon Salvatore uses Matt as bait to draw out the deputies and Pastor Young.

When Stefan finds out Damon Salvatore has to feed Elena his blood he is very angry and hits Damon Salvatore who just got in a fight with the vampire hunter.

Damon Salvatore has decided to leave town, but through the early episodes of Season 4 seems to be looking for reasons to stay.

The Five, shows Damon Salvatore tasking Stefan with learning more about the Vampire Hunter, Connor while Damon Salvatore decides to accompany both Bonnie and Elena to College.

Damon Salvatore helps uncover the mystery about the hunter's curse with the help of Bonnie and Professor Shane.

Klaus shows up and threatens Damon Salvatore, wanting him to get Jeremy's mark completed earlier rather than later.

Damon Salvatore is shown to be reluctant, not wanting to hurt innocents for Elena's sake, but Klaus follows through with his plans regardless.

Later in the episode Elena calls Damon Salvatore and confesses she is in love with him and it is the "most real thing she's ever felt in her entire life", in a moment of weakness Damon Salvatore tells her to come to see him.

In Catch Me If You Can Damon Salvatore tells the boys to run since Jeremy is not ready to take on all these vampires.

Later when Elena arrives her and Damon Salvatore argue over the killing of innocents and tells her to take Matt home while he and Jeremy take care of Klaus's newly turned vampires.

Damon Salvatore spends the next episode locked up and bled dry by a jealous and snarky Stefan and engages in a conversation with Klaus about Caroline, Rebekah, and Elena.

When Jeremy goes missing and Bonnie and Shane stay behind to try a locator spell, Damon Salvatore stays to keep an eye on Shane.

Damon Salvatore later begins torturing Shane for information, but Shane starts analyzing Damon and telling him Elena will go back to Stefan once she is cured.

Damon Salvatore goes with Vaughn to the cavern close to where Silas is buried and eventually overpowers him, but not before Vaughn injures Rebekah.

Damon Salvatore urges Stefan to go get the cure for Elena, uncaring that there is only enough for one because he wants it for the girl he loves.

An exhausted Damon Salvatore admits that he cannot control everything and is tired.

Elena, who had been in denial about Jeremy's death, comes into reality and demands Damon Salvatore bring Jeremy's body downstairs.

When Elena starts breaking down Stefan urges Damon Salvatore to help her, indicating he should invoke the sire bond to take away her pain instead Damon Salvatore tells Elena to shut off her emotions.

Damon Salvatore finds an old friend from his past, Will, dying from a werewolf bite and kills him out of mercy.

Damon Salvatore arrives back home just in time to stop Elena from killing Caroline and takes her with to New York.

Elena finds out and attempts to play him all the while Damon Salvatore tells her and Rebekah about his time here in the 1970s.

Damon Salvatore admits that he had his emotions off and Lexi had come to help him on Stefan's behalf he tricks her into believing he fell in love with her only to leave her trapped on the roof during the day as revenge.

Damon Salvatore reveals that the reason he killed Lexi in season one was out of the guilt she stirred in him.

Damon Salvatore then calls Stefan and the brothers attempt to track down Elena.

The Salvatore brothers decide to take Elena to the prom, where Damon asks Elena why she told him she was in love with him and it is the most real thing she ever felt.

However, later when Bonnie nearly kills Elena, she cries out for Damon to help her and he locks her up in the Salvatore basement.

Damon then manipulates Elena's dreams in an attempt to remind how much she loves her friends in family, however when it does not work the Salvatore brothers try torturing Elena to get her to feel emotion.

Damon Salvatore realizes that Elena is smart and that torture will not work.

When Elena focuses her hate on Katherine Damon Salvatore tells Elena where Katherine is but tells her she should not try and kill her.

Damon Salvatore admits he hates Katherine he knows once Elena kills her all her other emotions will all come flooding back in.

Damon Salvatore gets shot by Vaughn with a bullet laced with werewolf venom, and almost dies, but Klaus comes back to Mystic Falls and saves him.

Katherine begs Damon Salvatore to protect her as she feels someone is after her, Damon Salvatore by the help of Jeremy's vampire hunter instincts that Silas is possessing as Stefan.

Damon Salvatore finally finds Stefan inside a hut where he is tied up in the chair and Qetsiyah makes a link of Stefan with Silas which fries Stefan's brain.

Damon Salvatore, to make Stefan remember about his past life, gives him his journals and spends quality time with him.

Damon Salvatore wants to help Silas so that Silas can do a spell to swap his life with Bonnie as Silas wants to die.

Silas needs Damon Salvatore to kill Stefan so that he can get back his power.

Stefan, after waking up, tricked Damon Salvatore and snapped his neck.

The only way is by the cure so Elena and Damon Salvatore call Katherine who has the cure in her blood and after she arrives her blood is drained by Silas, but still Katherine lived.

Damon Salvatore then calls Silas and tells him to come to get her.

At the beginning of season 6, Damon Salvatore is still trapped in the 1994 snapshot with Bonnie, forced to relive the same day over and over again.

Back home, things are not as Damon Salvatore expected them to be.

Troubled with the news that his mother is still alive after believing she had been dead since 1858, Damon Salvatore's informed by Kai that his mother was placed in a Prison World due to being a Ripper and the heinous number of deaths she had caused.

Damon Salvatore is disturbed to learn when he gets to Lily that she has been trapped with other vampires and they allowed her to drink their portions of blood to stay alive.

Damon Salvatore is reluctant to leave without them, but Damon threatens to leave her behind if she does not go.

Damon Salvatore confronts Bonnie, who had taken the Ascendant, and tells her that Lily is threatening to destroy the cure if he does not return with the means to get her "family" back.

Damon Salvatore confesses that he was selfish and afraid of losing her but agrees that she should take it and that he'll take it with her.

Damon Salvatore tells him he needs to think about it before making that decision and enlists Stefan to try to make sure Damon is certain of his choice to become human.

Damon Salvatore almost decides he'd rather stay a vampire until he witnesses an interaction between an older couple.

Damon Salvatore tells him that the spell is permanent and any attempt to find a loophole in the spell will result in the death of both Bonnie and Elena.

Damon Salvatore tells Bonnie he is sorry and leaves the room.

Damon Salvatore allows himself to enter Elena's subconscious to say his goodbye, dancing with her and telling her that he'll never be ready to live the next 60 years of his life without her.

Stefan and Damon Salvatore move the coffin holding Elena to a crypt and have Bonnie seal the door magically to keep away those seeking the Cure.

The last scene shows Damon Salvatore looking torn standing on the clock tower he once sat on with Elena, who is asleep still, obviously.

Damon Salvatore has to deal with finding out who he is without Elena and coming to terms that he cannot kill his best friend Bonnie to bring her back quicker, after Kai bonds their life at the ending of Season 6.

Damon Salvatore seems stoic at first but when Julian is brought back to life, it shows his playful, joyful side.

Damon Salvatore managed to bring her lunatic boyfriend back to life, shortly after she is shown his true colors.

Damon Salvatore then dies and Stefan and Damon bury her.

Damon Salvatore then decides to compel Enzo and Damon to kill each other, unless Bonnie chooses who should live.

Damon Salvatore turns his humanity off and sells his soul to Cade as he returns to his old ways as the Ripper, doing killing spree in the country with his brother.

The necklace which Stefan gave to Elena when she was still mortal is believed to be the reason why Damon Salvatore keeps remembering Elena, thus resulting in Stefan getting rid of it.

Damon Salvatore offers to sacrifice himself to make sure that Katherine returns to hell during their plan to stop the hellfire from destroying Mystic Falls.

Damon Salvatore says that it is the only time that he becomes a good brother to Stefan, compelling him to leave and stay away from the tunnels.

Stefan saves Damon Salvatore, who is a human, and dies with Katherine.

In Legacies, another spin-off series, Damon Salvatore was referenced several times.

At the start of season 1, Damon Salvatore was a self-proclaimed loner, often keeps to himself.

Damon Salvatore gradually involved himself in the lives of many people in Mystic Falls by developing friendships with several humans.

Damon Salvatore always puts her safety first before anyone else, even his.

Damon Salvatore met her while searching for Klaus and hooked up with her shortly after.

Unfortunately Damon Salvatore ticked off Jules, a werewolf, and she showed up on a full moon for revenge.

In general, Damon Salvatore is fiercely protective of Elena and always puts her safety ahead of all else.

Damon Salvatore comes to Elena's rescue at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant when Elena is left stranded without a partner, and the two dance.

Damon Salvatore remains doubtful, so in "O Come, All Ye Faithful" he sets her "free".

When Elena has to leave for college, Damon Salvatore stays behind in Mystic Falls and they have a functional long-distance relationship.

Damon Salvatore refuses to believe in this and assures Elena that he will fight for her and their future together as she is his life.

When Elena makes it back but Damon Salvatore is trapped on the collapsing Other Side, Elena is devastated.

Damon Salvatore says his last goodbye to Elena, telling her that she is by far the best thing that has ever happened to him, and that being loved by her is "the epitome of a fulfilled life", as Elena sobs inconsolably.

Damon Salvatore pretends to be happy, but she is secretly taking witch herbs to hallucinate Damon.

Damon Salvatore slowly falls in love with him again, ultimately declaring that no matter whether she has memories of him or not, she always finds her way back to him.

However, Damon Salvatore is afraid that this will mean losing Elena.

Elena initially rejects the cure, but Damon Salvatore decides to take it with her so that they can have a human life together, including children.

Damon Salvatore recalls a memory from season 4, where Damon declares that there would be nothing more miserable than becoming human again.

Stefan attempts to convince Damon Salvatore that becoming human would be a bad decision, but Damon Salvatore ultimately realizes that one lifetime with Elena is infinitely better than an immortal one without her, and confidently believes her to be his soulmate.

Damon Salvatore spends the next two seasons devoted to Elena, waiting for her to wake up.

However, Damon Salvatore is committed to staying true to Elena and doing right by her.

When Damon Salvatore realizes that he is a potential danger to his friends and family because he does not believe he is good without Elena, he decides to desiccate himself next to her.

Damon Salvatore writes to Alaric that before Elena, he did not know what it was like to be happy, fulfilled or complete and that he does not want to continue living without that feeling.

Damon Salvatore needed this to open the tomb which Katherine was locked in.

At first, Bonnie did not want to have anything to do with Damon Salvatore, saving his life only for Elena's sake and soon blaming him for Caroline's transition into a vampire.

However, as time went on, Bonnie was put into situations where she had to work with Damon Salvatore to achieve what they both wanted.

However, their unique friendship hit a speed bump when Damon Salvatore reverted to his old ways.

In season 7, Damon Salvatore initially detests Bonnie presence as she reminds him of Elena being missing from his life but later they both end up saving each other's lives a couple of times.

At one point, when Damon Salvatore thinks that he killed Elena, he doesn't let Bonnie know about it as he didn't wish to lose her too for which he was ready to get blackmailed by Enzo given that his best friend doesn't discover the truth about Elena.

Damon Salvatore even chopped of Enzo's hand to rescue Damon without hesitating.

However, when Bonnie almost died while saving Damon Salvatore, he decides to leave Bonnie to ensure her safety and desiccate himself until Elena wakes up which leaves Bonnie heartbroken.

Damon Salvatore confronts him and doesn't forgive him for deciding to abandon her for her entire life and decides against reading the letter that Damon left her.

Damon Salvatore doesn't appreciate Bonnie's relationship with Enzo much but respects his friend's decision.

Damon Salvatore tries to apologize to Bonnie on several occasions but she turns him down and returns the letter the gave her, unread.

When Enzo protests, Damon Salvatore tells him that he did what Enzo couldn't, he indirectly saved Enzo and Bonnie's relationship.

Damon Salvatore further tells that Bonnie already hates him and can't hate him anymore and he can live with her hatred as long as she survives.

When she becomes a huntress, after her best friend Caroline and her boyfriend Enzo fail, Damon Salvatore is the one to wake her up from her deep sleep.

When Bonnie tries to kill Damon Salvatore, he apologizes for leaving her and admits that he admires her and loves her a lot.

Just like Kai, Aisha and Enzo, Sybil doubted that Bonnie and Damon Salvatore are more than just friends.

When Damon Salvatore wakes up from his sleep, he visits Bonnie to read out his letter to her and promises to her that he will never leave her.

Later, when Damon Salvatore turns human she breaks the spell that links her life to Elena's and brings Elena back to life.

Damon Salvatore first meets Enzo when he is captured by Augustine in 1953.

Damon Salvatore executed the plan and, failing to be able to free Enzo, leaves him behind to die and escapes by himself.

Damon Salvatore is shocked to see Enzo, initially believing he had died.