'The Vampire Diaries' Death Toll: Characters we've loved and lost

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Slater (Trevor Peterson)

We loved him because: Aww, geek vamp! This perpetual college kid, who was turned in the 1970s, used Craigslist to track down Big Bad Elijah. How cute is that?

We lost him because: Elijah used him to aid his Big Bad Plan, compelling Slater to plant some information about that freaking moonstone. When he was finished with him, Elijah disposed of him, compelling him to stab himself in the heart with a stake.