If you've ever found yourself shaking your head at the whole Whitmore College storyline of the hit CW show, The Vampire Diaries, then you have come to the right place.

Welcome to the world of The Vampire Diaries. The popular supernatural drama featured a love triangle between two immortal brothers and one beautiful human teen girl, and the supernatural threats they had to battle both from outside forces and from within themselves. The show featured several major eliminations, resurrections, curses, ancient immortals, and blood. Lots and lots of blood. It was one of the most popular franchises The CW had prior to the DC Comics Arrowverse years, and yet the show was not without its pitfalls.

Who remembers the Five? How about Silas, the oldest vampire in the world and yet somehow not an Original. Maybe you remember the college professor who harmed vampires at Elena's college. If you don't remember these or if you do and can't understand what the purpose of these storylines were, then you are not alone. The show was filled with meaningless and confusing stories that ultimately went nowhere. Why introduce the oldest and most powerful vampire to ever exist, only to end him after five episodes? Who were the Travelers exactly?

Well, that's what we're going to find out. Okay, not really, but we're going to explore twenty-five plot holes left behind in the chaotic and blood-soaked world of The Vampire Diaries. Bring your vervain, unless you want to fall down these plot holes forever!

25 Founders No More

In season four of the show, we learn that Pastor Young has created a new Founder's Council. The Council was originally made up of the town's founding families, who protected the town from the supernatural, most dominantly vampires.

Originally the council was formed by the town families like the Lockwood's or the Forbes family.

However after the new council failed to keep Stefan, Rebekah, and Elena, imprisoned, Pastor Young decided it was time to clean house and blow up his home with the entire council inside. Um, what was the point of introducing the council, to begin with? I mean this particular story didn't really have any sort of meaningful impact on the main story, so why introduce it, to begin with? The who council thing is one of those story lines that is a "been there, done that" kind of thing, so let's end the council once and for all.

24 Ignorance Is Bliss

Most of these powerful enemies and intense battles take place within the town limits of Mystic Falls. Several festivals, parties, and town hall meetings, have ended with limbs being torn off and blood being drained from innocent bystanders by bloodthirsty vampires. In all that time, these creatures have exposed themselves to the townspeople of Mystic Falls, often times to the villain's amusement.

Um, so why don't any of the town's citizens seem to realize their town is under attack?

In Mystic Falls, no one outside of the town council or the supernatural community seems to be aware that anything is going on. Despite the fact that several people don't age and there are more massacres than anywhere else in this state. How has no one called the military for help? On a side note, where are all these people coming from? Eventually, you'd think everyone would perish.

23 Sleeping Curse

It's safe to say that the heart and soul of the show was Nina Dobrev, the actress who brought protagonist Elena Gilbert to life, as well as several of her doppelgangers. Her acting chops were some of the best on the show, and she became the emotion and heart of the entire show. In a twist, Nina Dobrev's exit surrounded a magical sleeping curse that linked Bonnie's life to Elena's. As long as Bonnie lived, Elena would sleep. She told Damon she'd see him in sixty years and then fell into her coma. It was an emotional goodbye. However in the series finale, the emotional struggle of the curse suddenly lifted when Bonnie found a way to break the curse without perishing. However, this magical cure-all was done off screen during a commercial break, and kind of became anti-climatic after two years of this coma story.

22 School Rules

One of the classic aspects of any teen supernatural driven show is the fact that the main characters always start off in high school. For some reason the shows always like to explore a four year or four season story where we see the characters grow from children into young adults, or at least they try to. When the show starts, the human characters are juniors in high school. It takes four years (or seasons) for the kids to graduate, and then they get into college. However throughout the four seasons they spend very little time in school. In fact most of their time in school features some pretty grisly passings. The rest of the time is filled with parties, dances, and life or demise fights with supernatural creatures. How did they manage to graduate at all, and how did they get grades good enough for college?

21 Hybrid Whim

Klaus, the OG Original, spent his first few episodes fighting to break the curse that kept his werewolf side dormant. His story was a very complex one. He was the eldest of the Mikaelson children, and the most powerful. He was the first of the vampires to be born, and yet he also was part werewolf, and so a curse was put on him to reduce his power.

When he did so he became a hybrid, in fact, the Original hybrid.

He then decided to create his own family and sired 12 hybrids, including Tyler Lockwood. However, Tyler and the rest of the hybrids tried to sever the sire bond Klaus had over them. When the Original found out, he ended everyone but Tyler, leaving him to suffer after eliminating Tyler's mother, Mayor Lockwood. Um, what was the whole point of the hybrid family if that's what their ultimate end was?

20 Doppelganger Drama

OK, the original intent behind the doppelganger was genius. Giving Nina Dobrev a chance to shine as both the innocent Elena and the evil Katherine was amazing. Both characters were from the Petrova family and shared the same DNA. It was a unique opportunity to see the many sides of Dobrev's acting, with the very sweet and human Elena caught in a love triangle and the devious and power hungry Katherine manipulating the Salvatore brothers in order to escape those she'd royally wronged in the past. They could not have been more different, and yet they were all part of the DNA of Dobrev's performance on the hit supernatural drama. However, things became really tiring when they introduced more than two Petrova doppelgangers and even added a doppelganger for Stefan at one point. It became a bit overdone and really didn't go anywhere. There were too many doppelgangers people!

19 Bonnie's Safe

One of the more powerful characters from the original cast has to be Bonnie. Played by the incredible Kat Graham, the character was one of Elena's best friends who learned she was from a long line of powerful witches who helped keep a lid on the supernatural dealings in Mystic Falls. Her spells and magic helped save the day time and time again, and her power ended up drawing the attention of several of their enemies.

This attention often led to her being taken or worse, eliminated.

It's a safe bet that Bonnie, everyone's favorite witch, is going to live forever. She's perished more than Jeremy Gilbert, but somehow always finds a way to come back. Her magic keeps her from passing, even when she's trapped in a prison world in the year 1994. While it's a magical show, it kind of takes away the suspense and shock around her character.

18 Elena = The Key

At one point or another on the hit show, it's safe to assume a magic spell is going to be required. Whether the group was forced to lift a curse, locate someone who had been taken, or bring someone back from the grave, a spell was required. These spells always required special ingredients, leaving the characters to go find the materials they needed for part of the episode, and always garnering the attention of their enemies in the process of procuring those items. Well, if there's a magic spell or curse that needs lifting, you better make sure Elena Gilbert is around on the show. You see, any time a magical solution is needed, or someone's blood is required for a spell, it's always Elena who is tapped for the role. She is the show's protagonist, but some of the other characters have to have some sort of value, right?

17 Powers Be Gone

When a show goes through their growing pains and beginning years, several aspects of the show change within a few episodes. Characters disappear and stories tend not to pan out, being replaced by what will eventually become the show's ultimate premise. However there was one interesting aspect about one of the show's main characters that disappeared rather quickly in the show's first season, and it kind of baffles my mind. In the show's inception, Damon had a nifty little trick. He could somehow control and summon a large fog, as well as summon and control crows. The crow thing was creepy because he used it to spy on Elena a lot. It's a unique if not strange power, but being a vampire you expect some creepy stuff to happen. However these powers seem to disappear and get ignored after only a couple of episodes. What was the point of introducing these elements to begin with?

16 Age Matters

In the supernatural world, it's often said that the older you are the more powerful you become. The biggest example of this seems to be The Originals. The Mikaelson clan are some of the oldest, most powerful beings on the planet, with oldest brother Klaus being the most powerful of them all. The brings increased speed, strength, and resistance, to things like vervain and sunlight. This immortal beings being powerful thing seems to be brought up a lot on the show, and yet turns out to be meaningless when the younger supernaturals and humans end up defeating them.

The biggest example I can find of this on the show is none other than Silas.

The doppelganger of Stefan and the oldest vampire in the world, the immortal from Ancient Greece only survived for five episodes on the show and proved to be kind of pointless in the grand scheme of things.

15 Hunter's Tattoo

When the showrunners were getting ready to set up The Originals as its own spin-off series, they decided they needed a new and powerful threat to combat. Enter The Five. An elite group of vampire hunters, these beings were so dangerous that even Klaus, the original hybrid, feared them. Yet they knew about a cure to vampirism, and the Salvatore Brothers decided to follow the hunter's tattoos to a mysterious island to find the cure. These tattoos covered the body of a hunter, and supposedly held the secret map to the vampire cure. However, the cure wasn't a real cure, but instead, an ancient vampire named Silas. This evil vampire was released, and the tattoos proved to be completely pointless and were never mentioned again. Along with the vampire cure, the Five disappeared as well and proved pointless to the entire Silas story as a whole.

14 No Chance In Heck

Can we just say that the show seemed to get really strange once Elena left? When the seventh season ended, fans worried about Damon and Enzo's fate, as both were taken by a mysterious creature. In the final season, we learned they were taken and being controlled by a siren, who uses them to become their old eliminating selves, which gives her power.

Eventually, they are freed after the group learns she serves a creature named Cade, the ruler of tthe underworld.

Stefan is forced to become the ripper in order to serve Cade, but in the end, these plotlines boil down to a big throwaway as it's revealed the entire season was not orchestrated by Cade, but instead by Katherine, Elena's first evil Doppelganger. She wants to rule the underworld and then escape back to the real world. So there really was no point in either the siren or Cade. Okay...

13 The "New" Original

The story behind the Originals was one of the more fascinating parts of the show's first few seasons. The Mikaelsons were a family living near a village filled with werewolves. In order to protect her family, the mother of the Mikaelson children (who happened to be a witch) used a spell to turn her children into the Original vampires, with Klaus being the oldest and most powerful. Klaus goes on to possess the body of Alaric, everyone's favorite teacher turned vampire hunter. Using Alaric's body, he terrorizes the town and ends Alaric's love interest, Jenna. So it's been established how Alaric pretty much hates the Originals. However, in later season magic, the cure-all solution to any supernatural problem, is used to turn him into an Original, which makes no sense considering the Originals are the first vampires, and he clearly isn't. It also turns him into an evil vampire, which is a complete departure for his character.

12 College For Vampires

No this wasn't an all-vampire school. However, like most teen dramas, the show found Elena and Caroline attempting to attend college at Whitmore College. The show featured some very familiar plots, like the young vampire girls attempting to fit into the college lifestyle, learning how to share a room as roommates and balancing their college life with their supernatural tendencies. However like most shows, this plot goes no where as the teachers at the school somehow know about vampires and have been experimenting on the creatures for years. They have been capturing vampires, imprisoning them for decades and even harming them for their own nefarious purposes.

Damon even has a history at the school.

Soon the show moves away from the college setting and returns to Mystic Falls. So it's really about as pointless as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's college years, except the college actually factored into a season's plot.

11 New Sheriff In Town

One of the most harmed human characters on the show has to be Matt Donovan. Not only was his sister one of the first people to be eliminated, turned, and then eliminated again, but he became an orphan. On top of that, he spent eight seasons being destroyed, used as bait, and even becoming a feed bag for vampires. However, it all culminated in the final season when he became a deputy in the town of Mystic Falls, only for the rest of the law enforcement in the town to be slaughtered by supernatural creatures. Not only that, but Sheriff Forbes, Caroline's mother, passes of cancer in the show and he is the most senior official in the town, and thus becomes the new Sheriff of Mystic Falls. Why wouldn't there be a special election or even an outside hire? What qualifies this kid to be a sheriff?

10 Vampire History 101

The Salvatore brothers are one hundred and forty-five years old when the series begins. That's a lot of years to be alive, traveling the world without ever aging a day. The flashbacks of the brothers feature a lot of sight seeing, experiencing history in the flesh and struggling back and forth between turning off their humanity and becoming a part of human society. Despite the fact that they are nearly 150 years old, the brothers are fairly young in the grand scheme of things compared to the other immortal beings they meet.

In all that time you would think the Salvatore's are very knowledgeable of the supernatural world.

However that is far from the case. Despite having dated Rebekah, Stefan has never heard of the Originals before Elijah shows up. They are clueless about werewolves, witches, and even vampire hunters. What kind of supernatural bubble have these brothers been living in?

9 Brother Woes

The show's first season spent a lot of time defining and exploring the complicated relationship between Elena and her brother Jeremy. With Elena being adopted, there was always a strain between them, but the bond grew over time and the love was always there. When Nina Dobrev left the show, her character's exit was explained by a magical coma that would put her into a deep slumber.

On the show, her character has a brother named Jeremy.

He has perished, become a vampire hunter, and lost almost everyone because of the supernatural. When he leaves he pretends he's going to art school, when in reality he's still a vampire hunter. However, not once did Jeremy return to the show. Not even when his sister had to go into a magical coma, or when she awakened in the series finale. I know the actor playing him left the show, but couldn't he have made a minor appearance either time?

8 The Jenna Problem

One of the original characters on the show is Aunt Jenna. Jenna is the young aunt who takes in the Gilbert children after the untimely passing of their parents. She's younger and has to learn how to be a parent as she goes along. She finds herself thrust into this supernatural world after her niece gets involved with a vampire, and her boyfriend Alaric is revealed to be a vampire hunter with a mission of vengeance. Aunt Jenna, the aunt of Elena and Jeremy, meets her untimely end when Klaus uses her in the ritual to lift his curse and become a hybrid. She's turned into a vampire before being harmed. However, this turns out to be a problem later on when the other side is introduced, where all supernatural creatures go after passing. Despite being a vampire before perishing, she's nowhere to be found on the other side. Why?

7 Blood Problem

One of the most iconic things to occur on the show is for one of the vampire characters to grab someone and drain them of blood. It usually happens after they use their supersonic speed to grab a person, hold them by the neck, and then plunge their fangs to drain the innocent bystander. It's always such a visceral moment. However, on the show, some people are more likely to survive a blood draining session than others.

Some people just can't hold their blood.

On the show, it appears only the most important characters can survive longer than a second being drained by a vampire. Characters like Matt can survive Elena feeding on them for a long time. However random extra's seem to be cannon fodder as they are drained in one large bite. Yikes. I think it's safe to assume that if you only have a one or two episode appearance, there's a good chance you will be drained of blood.

6 Immortal Quandary

As we previously discussed, the Mikaelson clan are the most powerful vampires in the world of The Vampire Diaries. They are some of the oldest supernatural creatures to ever live and can survive things that would eliminate most supernatural creatures. The Originals immortality and power is tied to the White Oak Tree their mother used to complete the spell. Later on in the series, the White Oak Tree is burned down and the pieces left behind are used to fashion special weapons. These powerful stakes made of the tree have the power to end the Originals, albeit only by keeping the stakes buried in their hearts. Should the stakes be taken out of their bodies, they return to life. However when the tree burns down, they retain their power and longevity, and yet, when Original Alaric has his life and immortality tied to Elena's life, he has to end her to remain powerful. Um, what? Where's the logic in that?