Biggest Vampire Diaries Plot Twist That The Show Completely Undid
How does the cure for vampirism work?
The vast Vampire Diaries universe has attracted millions of fans worldwide. Viewers were enchanted with beautiful and sometimes troubled relationships and what seemed like an infinite number of creative plot twists often making the story breathtaking.
However, not all of these twists influenced the plot as they should have, some were reversed or undone and became plot holes to the dismay of the show's fans.
One of the biggest plot twists that have become plot holes refers to the supernatural lore of Vampire Diaries.
The cure to vampirism has become the show's deus ex machina, and the rules for using it changed several times.
At first, the stakes were high. When viewers first learn about the cure, only one dose of it exists in the universe. It leads to the conclusion that only one vampire ever could use the cure and become human again. What a priceless artifact! And what an intense intriguing twist!
Of all fan-favorite vampires, only one can become human. Who will it be?
But then the rules for using the cure suddenly changed. Turned out, a vampire who has taken the cure becomes its carrier, and the cure can be taken from their blood.
It seems at first that a vampire willing to take the cure has to drain a carrier of all their blood, an impossible sacrifice if a carrier is a friend or a loved one. However, the final season changed the rules again. After Elena becomes the carrier, Bonnie extracts the cure from her blood taking not all the blood but only one syringe.
And this single syringe makes Stefan human again.
"This annoyed me. Saying they needed to drain every drop of blood from the person who'd taken the cure. Next season – oh just get a syringe full that works too. But only once, bizarrely. Multiple syringes from the same person therefore wouldn't work?" one of the fans wrote, and the question they ask is what many viewers wonder.
If only one syringe of a carrier's blood works, what's to stop every vampire from taking the cure?
The show tries to give an explanation to that, describing how losing the cure from one's blood makes the carrier's age catch up to their real age and die if they are older than a human should be. But fans still are not sold on the explanation and consider the cure to be a huge plot hole.