title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Suzuki-badged version called Suzuki Swace was introduced in September 2020. It is based on the Corolla estate with 1.8-litre hybrid engine and sold in Europe only.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In the UK, the Corolla Hatchback and Touring Sports are marketed as Icon, Icon Tech, Design and Excel. The top-of-the-line Excel is only sold with 1.8-litre "2ZR-FXE" or 2.0-litre "M20A-FXS" hybrid engines.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In Brunei, the Corolla Altis saloon was launched in January 2020. It is fully imported from Thailand. The models include 1.6- and 1.8-litre petrol engines with 7-speed CVT transmissions.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Corolla Altis for the Indonesian market was launched on 12 September 2019 and is fully imported from Thailand. Initial trim levels were 1.8 G, 1.8 V and 1.8 Hybrid paired with CVT. All-around disc brakes are standard on all models. The hybrid trim is equipped with Toyota Safety Sense.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: On 8 February 2022, the G trim was dropped from the lineup, leaving only the V and Hybrid trim levels. The Hybrid trim gained a wireless charger and updated Toyota Safety Sense, which consisting all-speed Dynamic Radar Cruise Control and adds Lane Tracing Assist.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In Malaysia, the Corolla is offered in 1.8 E and 1.8 G trim levels paired with CVT, with Toyota Safety Sense only available for the latter. Although marketed as "Corolla" only, it retained the "Altis" badge like the rest of other Southeast Asian countries as it is a CBU model imported from Thailand.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In the Philippines, initial trim levels of the Corolla Altis were 1.6 E (with manual transmission only), 1.6 G (with either manual transmission or CVT), 1.6 V (with CVT only) and 1.8 V Hybrid (with eCVT only). In November 2021, the Corolla Altis gained an 8-inch infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard for the V and Hybrid trims, while the manual transmission option was dropped for the G trim. In April 2022, the GR Sport variant, based on the 1.6 V model was launched.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Corolla Altis made its official debut during the Singapore Motorshow on 9 January 2020; in Standard and Elegance trims and a Hybrid variant. It is offered only with the 1.6-litre engine with Dual VVT-i mated to a 7-speed Sequential transmission with Super CVT-i for the petrol variants and 1.8-litre engine for the hybrid.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: Thailand was the first country in Southeast Asia to launch the E210 series Corolla Altis. Based on the 1.6 J, the cheapest model of the Thai market Corolla Altis is called Limo, which is intended for taxi purpose. The other trim levels are 1.6 G, 1.8 GR Sport, Hybrid Entry, Hybrid Mid and Hybrid High. All engines are paired with CVT. Toyota Safety Sense was exclusive to Hybrid High trim. In January 2021, the Hybrid trim levels Entry, Mid and High were changed to Hybrid Smart, Hybrid Premium and Hybrid Premium Safety respectively and the 1.8 Sport trim was also introduced. In January 2022, the Limo and Hybrid Smart trims were discontinued and Hybrid Premium Safety trim was replaced by Hybrid GR Sport.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In Vietnam, the E210 Corolla Altis was released on 9 March 2022 and is offered in 1.8 G, 1.8 V and 1.8 HV grade levels. Unlike the previous generation, it is imported from Thailand instead of being locally assembled.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Corolla Hatchback was launched in Australia on 7 August 2018, while the Corolla saloon went on sale on 26 November 2019. Both the hatchback and saloon are available in three trim levels: Ascent Sport, SX and ZR. All variants are powered by a 2.0-litre engine. The 6-speed manual transmission is only available as standard on the base model Ascent Sport, while automatic CVT is optional for the Ascent Sport and standard on the mid-level SX and top-of-the-line ZR. The 1.8-litre engine with hybrid drivetrain is also available for all trim levels except the ZR trim of the Corolla saloon.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: All the Australian Corolla hatchbacks and saloons come with seven SRS Airbags, Lane Departure Alert, Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Traction Control, Hill-start Assist Control and Active Cornering Assist. The base model with manual transmission is equipped with High-speed Active Cruise Control, while all the CVT models have All-speed Active Cruise Control. The SX and ZR have dual zone air-conditioning and wireless phone charger. The ZR comes with standard heated front sports front bucket seats, intelligent ambient illumination, auto-dimming rear view mirror, eight-speaker JBL audio system and 18-inch alloy wheels.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Corolla Hatchback is available in GX, SX and ZR trims with options for petrol or hybrid models for each. The petrol and Hybrid models all share the same engine for each of their respective power plants. All are equipped with CVT transmission.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The E210 Corolla Hatchback has been available in South Africa since February 2019 in two trim levels: XS and XR. Both are powered by a 1.2-litre "8NR-FTS" engine. Both the six-speed iMT and CVT are available on the XS trim, while the XR is only offered with CVT.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: Sales of the saloon began in March 2020. Both XR trims get a six-speed manual or CVT, while the XS remains available as either a CVT or Hybrid as of September 2021. Unlike the previous generations, the E210 Corolla saloon is no longer manufactured in South Africa, while the older E180 continues to be produced in the country and sold as the Corolla Quest.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: In 2022, Toyota Motors North America announced a facelift for the Corolla for the 2023 model year, with all models receiving new exterior styling inspired by the GR Corolla. Under the bonnet, the LE and XLE models received the same powertrain as the previous SE and XSE trims: the 2.0-litre "M20A-FKS Dynamic Force" inline four-cylinder engine and the "K120 Direct Shift" continuously variable transmission with a physical first gear. Hybrid models retained the 1.8-litre "2ZR-FXE" inline four-cylinder engine mated to Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive, but received a more powerful electric motor–generator and a smaller lithium-ion battery that sits under the rear seat increasing luggage space. Hybrid technology, which was previously only available in a single LE trim, will now be offered in SE and XSE trims, and all hybrid trims will be available with four-wheel drive. All trims will have the updated Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 suite of advanced driver-assistance systems and an 8-inch touchscreen with the Toyota Audio Multimedia system capable of Over-the-Air (OTA) updates that debuted on the XK70 series Tundra. The 2023 Corolla lineup went on sale in October 2022.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: For the facelift in the European market, Toyota will also offer new exterior styling for the Corolla, but will eliminate all non-hybrid powertrains. The Corolla will now be powered by either a 1.8-litre "2ZR-FXE" hybrid petrol engine with a combined output of , or a 2.0-litre "M20A-FXS Dynamic Force" hybrid petrol engine with a combined output of . European market Corollas will also feature the new Toyota Audio Multimedia system, but utilising a 10.5-inch touchscreen, larger than the previous 8-inch screen.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: For the Japanese market, the facelifted Corolla was launched on 3 October 2022, retaining the saloon, Sport (hatchback) and Touring (estate) configurations. Both the "8NR-FTS" and "2ZR-FAE" engine options were replaced by newer "M15A-FKS" engine for the saloon and Touring models, and the "M20A-FKS" engine for Sport model. The "2ZR-FXE" hybrid drivetrain was retained on the facelifted model, with the "1VM" electric motor (rated at and ) replacing the previous "1NM" motor.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The facelifted Corolla for the Australian market was launched on 8 November 2022. Similar to the pre-facelift model, the grade levels offered are Ascent Sport, SX and ZR with either a 2.0-litre "M20A-FKS" petrol or a 1.8-litre "2ZR-FXE" hybrid petrol engines.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The GR Corolla is the high-performance variant of the E210 series Corolla, which is only available in hatchback body style. It is built with assistance from the company's Gazoo Racing (GR) division. It was first introduced on 31 March 2022.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The GR Corolla will be built mainly for the North American market as Europe received the GR Yaris (which is not sold in North America). The GR Corolla will also be sold in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Thailand (limited to nine units).


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: The Corolla in its most basic Latin American configuration with 7 airbags received 5 stars for adult occupants, 5 stars for toddlers, and "Advanced Award" from Latin NCAP in 2019.


title: Toyota Corolla (E210)

text: On 2 October 2018, the Corolla Hatchback received a "Top Safety Pick Award" but not a "Plus" award because of its lack of good-rated headlamps. The same ratings were also received in 2019 for the 2020 model year Corolla saloon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon Salvatore is a fictional character In L. J. Smith's novel series "The Vampire Diaries". He is portrayed by Ian Somerhalder in the television series. Damon is the one of the two main protagonists along with Stefan Salvatore, especially in the story's main setting, Mystic Falls.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: He is part of a love triangle between his brother Stefan (Paul Wesley) and a female vampire named Katherine Pierce (Nina Dobrev) whom they were both compelled to love when they were still human. A century after Damon and Stefan leave Mystic Falls, they both return and meet Elena Gilbert (also Nina Dobrev), a mortal who looks exactly like Katherine. Damon wants to ‘win’ Elena away from Stefan, but she chooses Stefan over Damon, then Elena later breaks up with Stefan after she develops feelings for Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Ian Somerhalder was cast as Damon Salvatore at the end of March 2009, six months before the premiere of the series. The initial casting call for the character required an actor in his early- to mid-twenties to play a "darkly handsome, strong, charming, and smug vampire who can go from casual and playful to pure evil in less than a heartbeat." Somerhalder had not read the books until filming began.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon Salvatore is a vampire, turned by Katherine Pierce 145 years prior to the series' debut. He is the son of late Giuseppe Salvatore, ripper Lily Salvatore and older brother of Stefan Salvatore. Damon is portrayed as charming but cruel, taking pleasure in killing and feeding on humans, while Stefan satisfies his vampiric hunger by feeding on animals.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the first season, Damon appears as the older brother of Stefan Salvatore, and plays the main antagonist. He has brief moments of compassion, however, such as erasing Jeremy Gilbert's memory of vampires and removing his "suffering" so Jeremy can get his life back on track. Damon apologizes for turning Vicki Donovan into a vampire and admits it was wrong. Damon admits to Elena that he came to the town wanting to destroy it but actually found himself wanting to protect it. The two begin to kiss passionately before getting interrupted - it is later revealed that it was not Elena he kissed, but Katherine Pierce. Later in the season, it is also implied that he actually feels human emotions, such as pain and love.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In season two, both Katherine and Elena tell Damon that they love Stefan, not him. As an expression of his anger, pain, and hopelessness, he snaps Jeremy Gilbert's neck, not realizing he is wearing a ring that reverses the damage done by supernatural creatures or forces. Jeremy survives because of the ring, but Damon's action incurs Elena's wrath and pain. When Bonnie also discovers it was his blood that enabled Caroline Forbes to become a vampire, the two declare their hatred for him, leaving angrier than ever. After saving Elena with Stefan in episode 8 of season 2, Damon shows up in Elena's room with the vervain necklace that was ripped from her neck earlier in the episode. Before he gives it back, he tells Elena that he is in love with her, and because he is in love with her, he cannot be selfish with her. He also states that he does not deserve her, but that his brother does. He kisses her forehead and says he wishes she could remember this, but she cannot. Elena blinks and her vervain necklace is back around her neck, Damon is gone and her window is open with the curtains blowing. She had no recollection as to how the necklace was returned to her.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In one episode, Damon joins Rose to find out why the originals are after Elena; after some time and clever banter, the two have sex, stating that they could rid themselves of emotion. However, when Rose, Damon's old friend, is mortally bitten by a werewolf, he gives her the memory of her life prior to becoming a vampire and helps her remember how good it felt to be able to walk and feel the sunlight, without it burning her. Damon puts her out of her misery, leaving him to mourn the death of his one of few real friends. Elena and Damon then begin to mend fences, and Elena gives him an affectionate hug to help comfort him after Rose's death. Damon 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. After he spares Caroline's mother, Elena says how that was the person she was once friends with. It is hard for Damon to accept that he has to change to have her in his life, which he explains to Andy Star, his compelled girlfriend a few more episodes in. Damon is bitten by Tyler the werewolf at the end of the season. Elena takes care of him, and right before he is cured by the blood of Klaus, the original hybrid, she gives him a "goodbye" kiss, because she is sure he is going to die. She forgives him, telling him that she cares for him through grief-stricken tears.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the third season, Damon helps Elena in bringing his brother, Stefan, back to Mystic Falls after Stefan becomes Klaus' henchman. The arrangement transpired after a bargain for his blood that would cure Damon of the werewolf bite he had received from Tyler. At first, he is reluctant to involve Elena in the rescue attempts, employing Alaric Saltzman, Elena's guardian, instead of as Klaus does not know that Elena is alive after the sacrifice which frees Klaus' hybrid side. However, Elena involves herself, desperate to find Stefan. Damon, though hesitant at first, is unable to refuse her because of his love for her. He also points out to her that she once turned back from finding Stefan since she knew Damon would be in danger, clearly showing that she also has feelings for him. He tells her that "when (he) drag(s) (his) brother from the edge to deliver him back to (her), (he) wants her to remember the things (she) felt while he was gone." When Stefan finally returns to Mystic Falls, his attitude is different from that of the first and second seasons. This causes a rift between Elena and Stefan whereas the relationship between Damon and Elena becomes closer and more intimate. A still loyal Elena, however, refuses to admit her feelings for Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In 'Dangerous Liaisons', Elena, frustrated with her feelings for him, tells Damon that his love for her may be a problem and that this could be causing all their troubles. This incenses Damon, causing him to revert to the uncaring and reckless Damon seen in the previous seasons. The rocky relationship between the two continues until the sexual tension hits the fan and in a moment of heated passion, Elena – for the first time in the three seasons – kisses Damon of her own accord. This kiss finally causes Elena to admit that she loves both brothers and realizes that she must ultimately make her choice as her own ancestress, Katherine Pierce, who turned the brothers, once did. An assessment of her feelings for Damon, she states this: "Damon just sort of snuck up on me. He got under my skin and no matter what I do, I can't shake him."


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the season finale, a trip designed to get her to safety forces Elena to make her choice: to go to Damon and possibly see him one last time; or to go to Stefan and her friends and see them one last time. She chooses the latter when she calls Damon to tell him her decision. Damon, who is trying to stop Alaric, accepts what she says and she tells him that maybe if she had met Damon before she had met Stefan, her choice may have been different. This statement causes Damon to remember the first night he did meet Elena which was, in fact, the night her parents died - before she had met Stefan. Not wanting anyone to know he was in town and after giving her some advice about life and love, Damon compels her to forget. He 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 is grief-stricken, knowing that this means that Elena has also died and yells, "No! You are not dead!" A heartbroken Damon then goes to the hospital demanding to see Elena when the doctor, Meredith Fell, tells him that she gave Elena vampire blood. The last shot of the season finale episode shows Elena in transition.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon 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 decides to first try to kill Rebekah with a White Oak Stake, yet she overpowers him. Rebekah is shot at through the Window and Damon escapes.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Later in part of a plan with the Sheriff and Meredith Fell, Damon uses Matt as bait to draw out the deputies and Pastor Young. After dispatching the deputies, Damon decides to take out some aggression on Matt and is about to snap his neck when stopped by the new vampire Elena. After Elena and Stefan go hunting on animals the next morning and Elena has her first feed on a deer she pukes the blood out. Meanwhile, it seems a new vampire hunter is in town. Elena goes to Damon for help, he pulls her with him to the bathroom and makes her drink his blood because he says "You need warm blood from the vein, so maybe that'll do the trick." He says it is personal and Elena wonders why but no answer was given. She drinks his blood but pukes hours later. When Stefan finds out Damon has to feed Elena his blood he is very angry and hits Damon who just got in a fight with the vampire hunter.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon has decided to leave town, but through the early episodes of Season 4 seems to be looking for reasons to stay. Meredith Fell seems to be one who convinces him in 'The Rager' to stay to help Elena with her transition to Vampire. Indeed, a renewed conflict over ideology and what sort of Vampire Elena will become drives, Damon and Stefan, apart.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: The Five, shows Damon tasking Stefan with learning more about the Vampire Hunter, Connor while Damon decides to accompany both Bonnie and Elena to College. This trip is ostensibly about teaching Elena the 'hunt': how to catch, feed and erase. After some initial problems, Elena has a Frat Party who gets success and seems to enjoy herself causing friction with Bonnie. She leaves the party and later states that she does not want to be like Damon. In the next episode, she begins to believe that Stefan is lying to her and takes things into her own hands to kill the vampire hunter who is holding her brother, Matt, and April captive. She does and begins to suffer from hallucinations at the end of the episode. After asking Stefan why he wants to cure Elena, Damon tells him that he loves Elena as a vampire or human.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the episode 'We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes', Damon helps Elena in dealing with her hallucinations and saves her from committing suicide. He also helps uncover the mystery about the hunter's curse with the help of Bonnie and Professor Shane. At the end of the episode, he reveals the truth about the cure to Elena and explains how Stefan has been lying to her only to find this possible cure for vampirism. However, Elena breaks up with Stefan at the end of the episode after confessing her gradually growing feelings for Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the following episode "My Brother's Keeper", Elena tells Damon he is the reason she and Stefan broke up and at the end of the episode Damon and Elena finally have sex. After that it turns out Elena is sired with Damon, first they think it is the reason why Elena loves Damon, but in the episode "We'll Always Have Bourbon Street" they found out that it only affects how a person acts, not how they feel. The sire-bond can only be broken when Damon leaves Elena and tells her to stop caring about him according to a witch in New Orleans named Nandi. In the following episode Damon goes with Elena to her family's lake house to help with Jeremy's Hunter instincts. In the episode Elena tries to act like a couple with Damon, but he refuses to even kiss her out of his guilt about the sire bond and worry that he is taking advantage of her. At the end of the episode Damon invokes the sire bond telling Elena to return to Mystic Falls while he trains Jeremy "O Come, All Ye Faithful". Elena kisses him goodbye.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In 'After School Special', Damon is at the Lake House training Jeremy, along with Matt Donovan. Klaus shows up and threatens Damon, wanting him to get Jeremy's mark completed earlier rather than later. Damon 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 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 tells her to come to see him. Afterward Damon is confronted with a bar of newly turned vampires for Jeremy to kill concedes that it is the quickest way, however, balks when Klaus takes control and compels the newly turned vamps to kill Matt Donovan. In Catch Me If You Can Damon tells the boys to run since Jeremy is not ready to take on all these vampires. Later when Elena arrives her and Damon 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. However Kol shows up and has killed all the vampires, determined to stop them from finding the cure & waking Silas, and threatens Jeremy's life. Kol compels Damon to stake himself and later to kill Jeremy and to forget what Kol compelled him to do. Upon arriving back in Mystic Falls Damon begins to seek out Jeremy due to the compulsion, however, when he sees him in the grill he realizes what Kol compelled him to do and tells Jeremy to run. Damon chases Jeremy throughout Mystic Falls and advises Jeremy that he is compelled and he needs to kill him. Jeremy shoots Damon in the head and when Damon awakens later starts cursing the youngest Gilbert, calling him stupid for not killing him. At the end of the episode Damon catches up with Jeremy Elena follows and urges Damon to fight it because "You love me and I love you", but he tells her that he cannot, falls to his knees and urges Jeremy to kill him. Stefan shows up just in time to break Damon's neck and lock him up until they can take care of Kol. Damon 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.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: When the group goes to the mysterious island to find the Cure, Damon continues to be suspicious of Professor Shane. When Jeremy goes missing and Bonnie and Shane stay behind to try a locator spell, Damon stays to keep an eye on Shane. He later begins torturing Shane for information, but Shane starts analyzing Damon and telling him Elena will go back to Stefan once she is cured. Elena interrupts the torture session and Damon storms out and Elena follows. She tells Damon that she is sure her feelings for him are real and asks him to become human with her, however, Damon tells her he has no desire to be human and that human/vampire relationships are doomed and stalks off. Afterward he is captured by Vaughn, another member of the Five, who tortures Damon and leads him around with a noose around his neck. Damon goes with Vaughn to the cavern close to where Silas is buried and eventually overpowers him, but not before Vaughn injures Rebekah. Elena and Stefan come across the injured Damon and Rebekah, Stefan stays while Elena rushes to find Jeremy. Damon 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. After Stefan leaves Rebekah comments that Damon did something selfless and remarks that he will always love Elena. An exhausted Damon admits that he cannot control everything and is tired.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: After Katherine kills Jeremy in 'Down the Rabbit Hole' Damon stays behind determined to find the missing Bonnie, telling Stefan he cannot come home without her. Eventually he finds Bonnie, hugging her in relief, but when the two arrive back in Mystic Falls in informs Stefan Bonnie has lost her mind. Elena, who had been in denial about Jeremy's death, comes into reality and demands Damon bring Jeremy's body downstairs. When Elena starts breaking down Stefan urges Damon to help her, indicating he should invoke the sire bond to take away her pain, however, instead Damon tells Elena to shut off her emotions. In the next episode Damon begins trying to track Katherine in order to find the cure while Rebekah attempts to tag along. He finds an old friend from his past, Will, dying from a werewolf bite and kills him out of mercy. He arrives back home just in time to stop Elena from killing Caroline and takes her with to New York. While in NY Damon begins investigating Katherine's whereabouts and tries to keep that he is looking for the cure from Elena. Elena finds out and attempts to play him all the while Damon tells her and Rebekah about his time here in the 1970s. He admits that he had his emotions off and Lexi had come to help him on Stefan's behalf, however, he tricks her into believing he fell in love with her only to leave her trapped on the roof during the day as revenge. He reveals that the reason he killed Lexi in season one was out of the guilt she stirred in him. Elena kisses Damon and attempts to steal Katherine's address out of his pocket, however, Damon was aware she was trying to play him the entire time and attempts to convince her to turn her emotions back on. Rebekah shows up and snaps his neck. He then calls Stefan and the brothers attempt to track down Elena. The decision to give up on the cure after Elena kills a waitress and threatens to kill people.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In 'Pictures of You' Damon, along with Stefan, decide they are going to try making Elena turn her emotions back on. 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. Elena tells Damon that she only said it because of the sire bond and she feels nothing for him. 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 (per Stefan's advice) try torturing Elena to get her to feel emotion. Elena however calls their bluff and attempts to kill herself, knowing Damon would never really hurt her and let her die. Damon realizes that Elena is smart and that torture will not work. After Katherine frees Elena Damon comes up with a plan, killing Matt in front of her (while he wore the Gilbert ring) and it works to get Elena's emotions back on. When Elena focuses her hate on Katherine Damon tells Elena where Katherine is but tells her she should not try and kill her. Damon admits he hates Katherine, however, he knows once Elena kills her all her other emotions (grief & guilt) will all come flooding back in. Elena stakes Damon in the stomach when he attempts to stop her.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the season finale 'Graduation', he tries to give the cure to Elena, but Elena refuses, which tells him that there is no more sire bond. He gets shot by Vaughn with a bullet laced with werewolf venom, and almost dies, but Klaus comes back to Mystic Falls and saves him. At the end of the episode, Elena proclaims her love for him stating that of all the decisions she has made choosing him will prove to be the worse one.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Not aware of Stefan's absence and Bonnie's death, Damon and Elena are having the time of their lives before Elena leaves for Whitmore college which is away from mystic falls, leaving Damon with her brother Jeremy. College brings a lot of ups and downs to the on-screen romance. Katherine begs Damon to protect her as she feels someone is after her, Damon by the help of Jeremy's vampire hunter instincts that Silas is possessing as Stefan. Silas gives Damon a crash course on why he looks like Stefan and tells where was he the whole summer, shocked to know about this he starts to search Stefan with the help of Stefan. Silas mind-controlled Elena to kill Damon but Elena resists it by thinking about her worries for Stefan. Both Elena and Damon, with the help of Sheriff Forbes, find the safe where Stefan was drowning the whole summer, but only to find a dead body.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Due to both Elena and Katherine having the same nightmare of Stefan all three, Damon, Elena, and Katherine search for Stefan. Damon 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. Qetsiyah reveals to Damon that his relationship with Elena is doomed. Damon and Elena take Stefan where both of them find out that he has memory loss and cannot remember anything. Damon, to make Stefan remember about his past life, gives him his journals and spends quality time with him. Jeremy tells Damon that Bonnie is dead and Damon finally tells Elena about Bonnie. At Bonnie's funeral, Damon consoles Elena. Damon wants to help Silas so that Silas can do a spell to swap his life with Bonnie as Silas wants to die. Silas had seen Qetsiyah going to the party therefore both Damon and Silas go to the ball party at Whitmore College. Silas needs Damon to kill Stefan so that he can get back his power. Stefan, after waking up, tricked Damon and snapped his neck.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: At Salvatore's mansion they bring a desiccated Silas, to trade Silas's life with Bonnie he must become mortal (witch). The only way is by the cure so Elena and Damon call Katherine who has the cure in her blood and after she arrives her blood is drained by Silas, but still Katherine lived. Amara is then awakened and revealed to be the mystic anchor. She then cures herself of her immortality by feeding off Silas. As soon as Amara is awakened, she wants to die. Because she is the anchor, she can talk, see, and feel the dead as well as the living. Amara has mental problems and tries numerous attempts to kill herself.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In order for Bonnie to be "alive" again, she must swap places with Amara and become the new anchor. Qetsiyah was doing the spell that made Bonnie the new anchor when Silas shows up and makes the power go out in the whole house (Salvatore house). Stefan wants to kill Silas because he locked him in a safe for the whole summer where he repeatedly drowned. So, when the lights go off, Stefan grabs Amara and goes outside the house. He then calls Silas and tells him to come to get her. Silas originally wanted to kill Amara anyway so she could find peace. The rest of the group search the whole house to find Amara. Qetsiyah also runs when the lights are off to find Silas. When she meets up with him, they talk until he runs to Amara. Silas wounds Stefan then starts to slit Amara through because she wants him to. Stephen grabs the knife and kills Silas then Amara stabs herself. Damon runs to Amara and repeats that she should stay alive and not die. The spell works before Amara dies. Bonnie comes back alive.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: At the beginning of season 6, Damon is still trapped in the 1994 snapshot with Bonnie, forced to relive the same day over and over again. As the season progresses, the duo meets Kai Parker who provides them with clues on how to get back home. In a truly selfless act, Bonnie manages to send Damon back while she remains in 1994 with Kai. Back home, things are not as Damon expected them to be. Elena has compelled her memories of their time together and moved on. After a few initial setbacks, Damon sets his mind to woo her back.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: As the season progresses, Elena falls for Damon all over again as they search for a way to free Bonnie and she becomes a large part of his support as his good friend Liz Forbes becomes more and more ill with cancer. Kai, who escaped the Prison World without Bonnie and merged with Luke, has absorbed some of Luke's qualities and is now moved by guilt to help free Bonnie. With his help, he, along with Damon, Elena, and Jeremy, are able to visit the Prison World and remind Bonnie that there is still magic residing in Qetsiyah's headstone in Nova Scotia.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: After the death of Liz, Caroline is unable to bear the pain of losing her mother and chooses to turn off her humanity just as Bonnie returns. Bonnie brought back with her a strange video she had caught while leaving a second Prison World she had been moved to set on October 31, 1903. She shows the video to Damon and he recognizes his own mother, Lillian Salvatore, standing in the background. Troubled with the news that his mother is still alive after believing she had been dead since 1858, Damon'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. Unfortunately, Stefan is forced by Caroline to turn off his humanity, and Kai, Bonnie, Damon, and Elena have to travel to Lily's 1903 Prison World to retrieve her and use her as a means to get Stefan back.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon 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. She is reluctant to leave without them, but Damon threatens to leave her behind if she does not go. Bonnie, Damon, and Elena leave with Lily, leaving Kai behind. When they return, Bonnie gives Damon a gift she had gotten for him during her trip to Nova Scotia in the 1994 Prison World: the cure to vampirism. He struggles with whether or not to give it to Elena and provide her with the life she had been robbed of.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: After using Lily to get Stefan's humanity back and he is used to bringing Caroline back, Lily is adamant about returning to her Prison World to retrieve what she considers to be her family. Damon 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. However, when he decides to let Bonnie destroy the Ascendant, he comes home to find that Lily had actually given the cure to Elena instead. He 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.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Elena takes the cure and, unexpectedly, her memories return and she remembers when she had traveled to Nova Scotia with Damon in search of the cure the first time, he'd told her that he used to miss being human, but, now, he could not imagine anything more miserable. She 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 almost decides he'd rather stay a vampire until he witnesses an interaction between an older couple. Before Jo and Ric's wedding, he tells Elena he'd made his choice to live one lifetime with her. During the wedding, Kai shows up and stabs Jo before causing an explosion. The second to last episode ends with Elena lying unconscious on the ground.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the last episode of the 6th season titled "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" Damon rushes Elena to the hospital after vampire blood fails to heal and awaken her. At the hospital the doctors tell him that she is medically healthy and they see no reason why she is not awake. Kai stumbles into the hospital injured. After consuming Lily's blood and killing himself, Kai's ability to siphon magic allowed him to become another Heretic (a vampire with witch-like power), but he was soon bitten by a transforming Tyler, who had re-triggered his werewolf curse. Kai tells Damon and he is linked to Elena's life to Bonnie's and as long as Bonnie lives, Elena will remain asleep but perfectly healthy. He also 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 returns to the wedding to find Bonnie badly injured on the floor and Kai's reminder that letting Bonnie die will allow Elena to regain consciousness. Damon tells Bonnie he is sorry and leaves the room. Kai is irritated that his plan to torture Damon with an impossible choice had failed and, while he is distracted, Damon decapitates him from behind. Damon saves Bonnie's life and they go to the Salvatore boarding house to say their goodbyes to Elena, deciding that they will allow Bonnie to live her life, and, when she dies, Elena will wake. Damon 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 move the coffin holding Elena to a crypt and have Bonnie seal the door magically to keep away those seeking the Cure.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: The season ends with the impression that quite a bit of time has passed. Mystic Falls is desolate and run down after the return of the other Heretics, Lily's "family". The last scene shows Damon looking torn standing on the clock tower he once sat on with Elena, who is asleep still, obviously.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: This season has flashbacks between three years from now and the present. Damon 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.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Alaric tries to find a way to get his wife Jo back from the dead. Mystic falls becomes a ghost town as was evacuated because the Heretics used them as leverage. Bodies got dropped, Matt Donovan got angry. Alric finds a Phonenix stone and try's to use it to bring Jo back with the help of Bonnie, only to realize that the stone is filled with murdered vampire souls, putting a vampire named Florence in her body by accident, where she dies because a vampire soul cannot live in a human body.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Caroline gets kidnapped when Damon and Bonnie murder one of Lillian's 'children', and finds out from Valerie, Stefan's first love, she is pregnant with Alaric and Jo's twin Gemini babies. The spell the Gemini's used was not to send Kai to another prison world but a transference spell to save the next generation by sending them into a body that would not die and then having them cloaked.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Nora and Mary Louise Heretics spend the season dealing with their relationship problems and their own family, along with the death of two of their brothers. Beau, another Heretic is a mute with the same X mark on his throat as Julian has on his chest, which took his voice. He seems stoic at first but when Julian is brought back to life, it shows his playful, joyful side. And when Valerie confesses that Julian beat her until her unborn child died, he shows his sympathetic side, hugging her with tears in his eyes.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Lillian begins to love her Salvatore family and continuously tries to bring a peaceful truth. Even as Damon killed 2 of her children. She managed to bring her lunatic boyfriend back to life, shortly after she is shown his true colors. And helps her Salvatore family kill to kill him. The tide changes when Mary Louise helps Julian. Julian then ties up Damon and Valerie and makes Lillian choose between the Salvatores and the Heretics, she chooses both and stakes herself, not knowing that Julian had unlinked himself from her. She then dies and Stefan and Damon bury her. Julian grieves her death and flies off the rails, going on a murder spree and creating an army. Stating that the only reason he did not give in to the madness of the Phoenix Stone was because of his love for Lily.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: The season ended with Damon and Enzo get taken by an unknown creature in a vault. Concluding in a cliffhanger, the next season reveals what really happened to Damon and Enzo.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the show's final season, Damon and Enzo are revealed to be killing "the worst of the worst" humans as Stefan, Bonnie, and Caroline search for them. The murder spree then leads to the reincarnation of a siren named Sybil, who has the powers to seduce and erase specific memories in anyone's mind, thus making them committed and loyal to her.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Stefan and Bonnie find Damon and Enzo after a turned-on humanity Enzo gives clues to Bonnie on where they can be found. However, both Damon and Enzo threatened them and told them to stay away. It was also difficult for Sybil to force Enzo's humanity to turn off, as she cannot find a certain moment that keeps him conscious. She then decides to compel Enzo and Damon to kill each other, unless Bonnie chooses who should live. She ends up choosing Enzo, which hurt Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: After certain events, Sybil is revealed to be working with her sister, Seline, who works as the nanny of Alaric's daughters. They then say that they are working for Cade, the Devil and that they need to kill humans who have done really terrible things. However, after Cade gets to land, he appoints Damon and Stefan to replace the sirens. Damon, who still has his humanity off, forces Stefan to join him. Stefan then gets left with no choice in order to protect Caroline and their friends. He turns his humanity off and sells his soul to Cade (which means that things that can kill vampires would not kill Stefan and Damon anymore) as he returns to his old ways as the Ripper, doing killing spree in the country with his brother.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: During Damon's time with Stefan, he starts to remember Elena, getting distracted with his and his brother's job. This bothers Stefan, saying that Damon needs to forget about Elena. The necklace which Stefan gave to Elena when she was still mortal is believed to be the reason why Damon keeps remembering Elena, thus resulting in Stefan getting rid of it. Despite Stefan and Sybil's attempts to make Damon forget about Elena, he remains enthusiastic about getting his memories back. After Sybil turns his humanity on but takes his mind into hell, Caroline and Bonnie are forced to call Stefan, also expecting that Stefan's humanity might come back. However, it does not work on Stefan after he enters Damon's mind to make him conscious, but it does work on Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Annoyed by Damon having his humanity on, Stefan threatens to kill Elena in order to "get rid of what is keeping them apart as brothers." The two brothers exchanged conversations that were similar to the first season, when it was Damon who was threatening Stefan that he will harm Elena, except that the roles have been switched for this moment. Stefan goes to Bonnie and Enzo's safe house where they hide Elena, and in order to get inside the house without invitation, he forces the realtor to change the owner in the contract and he kills her later. Enzo gets forced outside the house as he waits for Bonnie to take the cure, which she is supposed to give to Enzo. However, Stefan ends up taking the cure as a self-defense mechanism of Bonnie when he kills Enzo and threatens to kill her too. Bonnie becomes unforgiving to Stefan, even after he gets to become a human again.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Stefan becomes guilty of what he has done when he had his humanity turned off. This also results in both Damon and Stefan not working for Cade anymore, in which Cade decides to bring hellfire into Mystic Falls to destroy the entire town. Through a bell, numerous vampires and characters who have been killed in the past seasons have returned, such as Vicki Donovan and Kai Parker. After Damon sees awoken up Elena, he hugs her tight, only to realize that it was Katherine who comes back from hell.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon offers to sacrifice himself to make sure that Katherine returns to hell during their plan to stop the hellfire from destroying Mystic Falls. He 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. However, Stefan actually has vervain in his system, which means that Damon's compulsion failed. Stefan decides to take the human cure from his own veins, making him age faster and eventually, reach death. While Damon is already holding onto Katherine while waiting for the hellfire to kill both of them, Stefan injects the cure to Damon. Stefan saves Damon, who is now a human, and dies with Katherine.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Bonnie successfully breaks the spell that Kai has put on her and Elena's life. Elena wakes up during Stefan's funeral, where Damon and Caroline are saying their goodbyes to Stefan. Devastated by his death, Damon and Caroline show how their relationship improves. After bidding farewell to Stefan, they both reunite with Elena, with Damon sharing a kiss. During the funeral, Damon gives his daylight ring to Stefan, while Elena gives her vervain necklace.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon hands over the Salvatore Boarding House to Caroline, which she then turns into the Salvatore Boarding School for the Gifted, where Alaric's daughters are staying. Caroline also receives a gift from Klaus, saying that he will always be waiting for her no matter how long it takes.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In a flash-forward scene, a medical student Elena is seen writing on her diary outside the Salvatore crypt in the cemetery, while a crow flies over her head as she sees Damon. The scene is a nod to the cemetery scene in the show's pilot episode of season 1 when Damon can control fog and crows. They are also revealed to be married, growing old, and finding peace together. As Elena reunites with her family in the Gilbert house, Damon reunites with Stefan in the Salvatore Boarding House with the words, "Hello, brother." This line is both his first and last words in the entire series.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the final season of the show's spin-off series " The Originals", a medical clinic in Mystic Falls has the name "Elena Salvatore M.D" embedded on the glass. This means that Damon and Elena are married and that she successfully becomes a medical doctor.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In " Legacies", another spin-off series, Damon was referenced several times. His classic car was shown being driven, specifically by Alaric's now-grown-up daughter Lizzie Saltzman and her vampire love interest, Sebastian. Lizzie reveals that it was Damon's gift to her and Josie for their Sweet 16. Damon and Elena were referenced again when Lizzie and Josie mentioned that the couple is busy as they "have their own child to take care of." Their child's name, Stefanie Salvatore, was also mentioned. The name Stefanie is inspired by Damon's late brother Stefan.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: At the start of season 1, Damon was a self-proclaimed loner, often keeps to himself. Despite his initially antagonistic relationships with humans such as Alaric Saltzman and Sheriff Elizabeth Forbes, Caroline's mother. Damon gradually involved himself in the lives of many people in Mystic Falls by developing friendships with several humans. After spending time with Elena Gilbert, Damon becomes more empathetic and falls deeply, madly and passionately in love with her. He always puts her safety first before anyone else, even his.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon's most prominent love, aside from Elena, was Rose. He met her while searching for Klaus and hooked up with her shortly after. Unfortunately Damon ticked off Jules, a werewolf, and she showed up on a full moon for revenge.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon has had a challenging relationship with his younger brother Stefan Salvatore for over a century. Before they became vampires, they both loved the vampire Katherine Pierce. Damon shows that he has nurtured a long-standing desire to reunite with Katherine throughout the first season. In the first season, we learn that it was Stefan who convinced Damon to feed and complete his transformation after Katherine turned both brothers into vampires. Despite the feud between the Salvatore brothers, both Damon and Stefan always have each other's backs. Damon is always there for Stefan when it really matters, e.g., saving him from being tortured, helping him through withdrawal, and working with him to kill common enemies. And Stefan will still give up his own life for Damon's survival. They both actually love each other but will not admit it.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: After learning of Katherine's deceit, Damon starts to fall for Elena. In general, Damon is fiercely protective of Elena and always puts her safety ahead of all else. Damon comes to Elena's rescue at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant when Elena is left stranded without a partner, and the two dance. In the episode "Rose", Damon confesses his love for her only to compel her to forget about it because he does not believe he is worthy of her. Throughout the third season his relationship with Elena grows; she learns to fully trust him, and they begin to rely on each other as a team. They share two passionate kisses, but Elena remains in denial about her feelings for him. After a long struggle, Elena still chooses Stefan much to Damon's dismay.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In the following season, Elena realizes that her feelings for Damon cannot be denied any longer. She and Stefan break up, and in the following episode Damon and Elena finally get together and have sex. Damon and Elena then both individually discover that Elena is sired to Damon, making Elena's feelings unfortunately known; however, Elena insists that her love for Damon is the most real thing that she has ever felt in her entire life. Damon remains doubtful, so in "O Come, All Ye Faithful" he sets her "free". In an interview before the season finale, Julie Plec stated that "This year, she's had a very traumatic roller coaster of life experience and it's changed her irrevocably—and at the center of it all was the diehard belief that she loved Damon, that she loved him more than she'd ever loved anyone." In "Graduation", after the sire bond is broken and there remains no doubt about Elena's feelings, she reveals that she is in love with Damon.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon and Elena spend the next few months together, having the summer of their lives. When Elena has to leave for college, Damon stays behind in Mystic Falls and they have a functional long-distance relationship. However, in the episode "Original Sin", Tessa, who is revealed to be Qetsiyah, tells Damon that the doppelgangers are fated to fall in love and that he is only a bump in the road that makes their story interesting. Damon refuses to believe in this and assures Elena that he will fight for her and their future together as she is his life. It is later revealed that there is nothing fated about Stefan and Elena, but that they were merely drawn together by a spell. After a tumultuous, back and forth relationship, Damon and Elena get back together at the end of the season, and they choose to sacrifice themselves together to save Stefan and Alaric and their other friends on the Other Side. When Elena makes it back but Damon is trapped on the collapsing Other Side, Elena is devastated. Damon 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.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In season 6, Elena is unable to move on from Damon's death months later. She pretends to be happy, but she is secretly taking witch herbs to hallucinate Damon. When the herbs make her dangerous to humans, Elena decides to have Alaric compel away her memories of Damon, because she will never be able to move on otherwise. When Damon returns, he attempts to help her remember their love story, but the compulsion will not break. Not remembering any of the good things about Damon, Elena still decides to give him another chance. She 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. When Bonnie returns from the prison world, she gifts Damon with the cure for vampirism, knowing that he wanted to give it to Elena. However, Damon is afraid that this will mean losing Elena. They discuss what human life together would be like. Elena initially rejects the cure, but Damon decides to take it with her so that they can have a human life together, including children. Damon always wanted Elena to have the human life she always dreamed of. Elena takes the cure, which breaks the compulsion, and her memories of Damon return to her. She recalls a memory from season 4, where Damon declares that there would be nothing more miserable than becoming human again. Elena is afraid that Damon would regret taking the cure, so she challenges him to think it through carefully. Stefan attempts to convince Damon that becoming human would be a bad decision, but Damon 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 and Elena excitedly anticipate the beginning of their human future together, until Kai puts Elena under a sleeping spell, tied to Bonnie's life.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon spends the next two seasons devoted to Elena, waiting for her to wake up. He repeatedly states that he is miserable without her, and will spend the next 60 or so years unhappily until Bonnie dies. However, Damon is committed to staying true to Elena and doing right by her. Elena is shown to be Damon's moral compass and his guiding force throughout the two seasons. When Damon is in the Phoenix Stone's version of hell, a vision of Stefan asks Damon "What would Elena do?" and this prompts Damon to forgive his mother, freeing him from hell. The phoenix stone's influence remains, and Damon accidentally lights Elena's coffin on fire (or so he thinks). Believing that he has unwittingly killed the love of his life, Damon becomes suicidal. When confronted with the hunter Rayna, Damon commands her to kill him because he is already in hell in a world without Elena. Enzo then reveals to Damon that Elena is still alive, renewing Damon's hope.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: When Damon 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. He 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. After Stefan wakes Damon from his desiccation, Damon continues to be devoted to his future with Elena. At the end of season 7, he is lured into a trap by a siren, hearing Elena's voice calling out to him. When the siren takes control of Damon's mind in season 8, Damon spends a significant amount of time sleeping, seeking refuge in dreams of his memories of Elena. When Sybil erases Elena from Damon's consciousness only to insert herself into their memories, Damon fights back, instinctively drawn back to Elena. His love for her prevails, and he breaks the siren's mind control, regaining his memories of Elena. Julie Plec stated that "I think the only hope that he's holding on to is the idea of the two of them living in Tribeca in their brownstone and raising kids and having a life together as humans when this is all said and done." After Stefan gives Damon the cure to vampirism, turning him into a human, and Bonnie unbreaks the spell on Elena, Damon and Elena finally reunite. They begin their life together, getting married while Elena goes to medical school and becomes a doctor. Eventually they return to Mystic Falls to grow old together, where they died together of old age. We last see them walking hand in hand in the afterlife before reuniting with their respective families.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Alaric is a vampire hunter looking to avenge his wife by killing the vampire that killed her. It is soon revealed that the vampire that Alaric is hunting is actually Damon. Before killing Alaric, he confesses that he did not kill Isobel but turned her. Alaric is brought back to life by the Gilbert ring. The two remain enemies but work together on occasion. Eventually, the two become best friends and drinking buddies. Even after Alaric is turned into a vampire who kills other vampires, Damon does his best to ensure that they do not have to kill him. But with Elena's death, Alaric dies as well while Damon holds him. In the episode, "Memorial", it is clear that Damon still misses his friend as he talks to Alaric at his grave. Unknown to him, Alaric listens to the whole thing and even responds with "I miss you too, buddy". Damon's drinking buddy.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Bonnie first saw Damon in Friday Night Bites when he dropped Caroline off at cheerleading practice. They first interacted in Haunted, when Damon learned that Bonnie had come into possession of the Bennett Talisman. He needed this to open the tomb which Katherine was locked in (for 145 years or so he believed). At first, Bonnie did not want to have anything to do with Damon, 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 to achieve what they both wanted (albeit reluctantly at first). Their teamwork has often proved to be beneficial for both of them. Their relationship has even come to a point where Damon is visibly worried about Bonnie's well-being and was devastated when he found out about her death.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: The improvement of their relationship is seen in Damon's efforts to help bring Bonnie back from the dead. However, their unique friendship hit a speed bump when Damon reverted to his old ways. Finally, they stood side by side with each other as The Other Side collapsed, holding each other's hand and at peace with what is to come for both of them. They later discover that they are trapped in a 1994 Prison World. During that time, they start to bond and form a close alliance to take down Kai. Before sending Damon back home, she mentions that he is not exactly the last person she would wanna be stuck with. When Damon returns home, he does everything he can to find a way to bring Bonnie back, including a long road trip to Oregon to seek the Gemini Coven and also compelling Alaric to steal the Ascendant from Jo. They finally reunite at the Salvatore Boarding House with a hug after Sheriff Forbes's funeral. It is shown that Damon and Bonnie genuinely care about each other and have made sacrifices for each other.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: The clear changing point of their relationship is when in season 6, they are stuck in the Gemini prison world. After that they both show extreme love and fondness of each other. Damon gives up the chance to see Elena again because of his friendship with Bonnie (which must have been extremely hard for him, seeing as Damon has a Selfish streak. Bonnie was one of the things that kept him going while Elena was away, and one of the positive influences he had. In season 7, Damon 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. Damon and Bonnie grow really close to an extent that Bonnie who always tends to do the right thing, was ready to break any rule for Damon and went really far to help him. At one point, when Damon 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. Her friendship and love for Damon was so strong that it even made Enzo (later Bonnie's boyfriend) envious of him. She even chopped of Enzo's hand to rescue Damon without hesitating. However, when Bonnie almost died while saving Damon, he decides to leave Bonnie to ensure her safety and desiccate himself until Elena wakes up (or Bonnie dies) which leaves Bonnie heartbroken. She 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. After 3 years, when Stefan wakes Damon up, Bonnie admits in a medical care centre that a person whom she loved and admired dearly, abandoned her and didn't care to even contact her after being back and now she has decided to move on. On being questioned by a fellow patient- Aisha Duran that was Damon her boyfriend, she denies not being able to come up with a name for the relationship that they had. On knowing that Bonnie is dying, Damon leaves no stone unturned to make sure she lives and asks for her forgiveness. Damon doesn't appreciate Bonnie's relationship with Enzo much but respects his friend's decision. Damon tries to apologize to Bonnie on several occasions but she turns him down and returns the letter the gave her, unread (She always carried his letter with her). Damon forces Bonnie to open the vault against her wish to save her life knowing that she would hate him. When Enzo protests, Damon tells him that he did what Enzo couldn't, he indirectly saved Enzo and Bonnie's relationship. Damon 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 is the one to wake her up from her deep sleep. When Bonnie tries to kill Damon, he apologizes for leaving her and admits that he admires her and loves her a lot (just like Elena did). Damon along with Enzo enters the armoury to free Bonnie from her huntress side and get trapped.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: In season 8, Damon and Enzo are held captive by Sybil who was freed when the vault opened. Sybil finds out the reason of Damon's disloyal behaviour is Bonnie and orders him to kill her. Damon attempts to kill Bonnie but she is somehow always saved by her friends. After knowing that Enzo also has feelings for Bonnie which are not allowing him to be faithful to Sybil, she asks Bonnie to choose one between Damon and Enzo to be allowed to live. Just like Kai, Aisha and Enzo, Sybil also doubted that Bonnie and Damon are more than just friends. Seeing that Damon was about to kill Enzo, Bonnie chooses Enzo to live which angers Damon. However, Sybil chooses Damon and orders Damon to kill Bonnie who is saved by Alaric. When Damon 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. They both reconcile. Their friendship again hits a rough patch when Stefan kills Enzo and Kai returns. Bonnie fights with Cade (who runs hell) to save Damon's life even though he tells her to go away. They both share a dance at Stefan and Caroline's wedding. Both of them defeat Kai and their plan to stop the hell fire and Katherine works. Later, when Damon turns human she breaks the spell that links her life to Elena's and brings Elena back to life. She returns Damon the love of his life and decides to travel the world and live her spared life to the fullest with Enzo's ghost watching over her.


title: Damon Salvatore

text: Damon first meets Enzo when he is captured by Augustine in 1953. Through being tortured together, Damon and Enzo quickly build a strong bond. After 5 years of captivity, they finally create an escape plan. Damon executed the plan and, failing to be able to also free Enzo, leaves him behind to die and escapes by himself. The pair are reunited decades later with Enzo vengeful and ready to kill Damon for leaving him behind. Damon is shocked to see Enzo, initially believing he had died. They soon rekindled their friendship and went on a killing spree together, alienating Damon from his friends in the process. This reunion is short lived as Enzo is killed by Damon's brother, Stefan, after finding out Damon had killed the love of Enzo's life after escaping from captivity without him. Their friendship is strained from this point on until the 8th season when Damon and Enzo are held in mental captivity together by a supernatural siren. They rebuild a friendship in this time together until Enzo is ultimately killed, yet again, by Damon's brother, Stefan. Many fans have speculated Damon and Enzo having a romantic connection at some point during their companionship during the series.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 14 June 2020, Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead, hanging from the ceiling fan at his home in Bandra, Mumbai, aged 34. The cause of death was ruled to have been suicide and the official postmortem reports concluded Rajput died of asphyxia due to hanging. The Mumbai Police launched an investigation into the death, which was the subject of widespread speculation and rumours.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: A week prior to his suicide, Rajput had searched on the Internet three subjects multiple times: Disha Salian, who he had worked with on some projects and who had died about a week before him; news reports containing his own name; and information about a mental illness.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 13 June 2020, the night before his death, Rajput retired to his bedroom after dinner. At around 2 a.m. on Sunday, 14 June he made two phone calls, one to Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty and another to television actor Mahesh Shetty. Neither call was answered. Rajput then woke up early that morning. Some time after, he Googled information about "schizophrenia", "bipolar disorder" and "painless death".


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Two of Rajput's friends were living with him. In the morning of 14 June, he spoke to his sister over the telephone at around 9 a.m. and an hour later he had a glass of juice and his tablets. At around 11:30 a.m., his cook knocked several times on the door of his room, to confirm the menu for the day. He and Rajput's friends received no response. They then called a key-maker to open the door, following which they called Rajput's sister and the police. He was found hanging from the ceiling fan. No suicide note was recovered.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: "The Indian Express" reported that the Mumbai Police said the actor had shown symptoms of clinical depression and was consulting a psychiatrist. Times Now reported that medical papers and anti-depressant pills were found in his house.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: The Mumbai Police commenced an investigation, stating the death was being treated as a suicide. A team of three doctors conducted an autopsy and submitted their provisional postmortem report at Bandra Police Station. On 15 June 2020, the Mumbai deputy commissioner of police said "The provisional cause of death is asphyxia due to hanging." The final postmortem report, received on 25 June 2020, confirmed the cause of the death as asphyxia due to hanging and said it was a "clear case of suicide." The autopsy doctors placed the time of death at 10 to 12 hours before postmortem examination on 14 June at 11:30 p.m.—meaning between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (Indian Standard Time). The report added that no foul play was found. On 27 July 2020, Mumbai Police received the viscera report, which likewise ruled out any foul play.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 15 June 2020, Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh stated the police would also probe the "professional rivalry" in the film industry as the cause of Rajput's depression. The police revealed Rajput was upset with being linked to the death of Disha Salian. Salian had died five days before him, and a case of accidental death was registered. She died after falling from the fourteenth floor of her building. On 3 August 2020, Police Commissioner of Mumbai Param Bir Singh said investigators had found no link between the deaths of Rajput and Salian.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Interrogation of three psychiatrists and one psychotherapist confirmed Rajput had consulted them and was on medication prescribed by them.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: The police also revealed that Rajput had initially tried to hang himself with the belt of a bathrobe, but it could not sustain his weight. Following this, he used a green kurta. His clothes were strewn over the floor of his bedroom; the police concluded they had fallen out when he had pulled the kurta from his cupboard. Due to a discrepancy between his height and the distance between his bed and the ceiling fan, the police concluded he had hanged himself in an inclined position. No sign of struggle was found.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 25 July 2020, Rajput's father, K. K. Singh, filed an FIR at Patna, where he lives, against Rhea Chakraborty and six others, including her family members, for abetment of suicide. He also accused them of wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, theft, criminal breach of trust, and cheating. He alleged in his complaint that Chakraborty cheated Rajput financially and mentally harassed him. On 28 July, India Today reported that Chakraborty had been booked in the case. In a petition filed at the Supreme Court, Chakraborty claimed she had no role in the actor's death and was falsely implicated by Rajput's father. She also sought transfer of the probe in the FIR to Mumbai, saying that there cannot be an impartial investigation in Bihar.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Acting on the FIR filed in Patna, an investigative team was formed by Bihar Police and was sent to Mumbai to probe the case. Although the investigation continued only for a brief period as the case was later transferred to CBI. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which investigates financial crimes, also registered a money laundering case over transactions worth 15 crores rupees based on the complaint registered by Rajput's father.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Multiple reports stated that Sushant had hosted a party at his house on 13 June 2020, the night before his death. This was denied by Mumbai Police and his house help, who was interrogated by Bihar Police. Mumbai Police initially reported that the CCTV in Rajput's house was not working, but on 3 August said they had assessed CCTV footage that ruled out any party at Rajput's Bandra apartment on 13 June 2020.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 3 August 2020, Mumbai's police commissioner said there was no misappropriation of funds from Rajput's bank accounts and no money had been transferred to Rhea Chakraborty's accounts. On 4 August 2020, Mumbai Police appointed Grant Thornton as the financial forensic auditor in the case. During the investigation, reported "Hindustan Times", the Mumbai Police revealed the actor's family had informally complained to the Mumbai Police in February 2020 about Rajput's life is in danger.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 6 August 2020, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Indian national government's top investigating agency, re-registered the Patna Police FIR accusing Chakraborty and others of wrongdoing, thus taking over the case.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 19 August 2020, the Supreme Court allowed the CBI to take control of the investigation and ordered the CBI to look into any future cases registered in relation to Rajput's death. On 21 August 2020, Sudhir Gupta, head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS) and leader of a forensic medical team tasked by CBI for assistance, told the Press Trust of India, "We will look into the possibility of murder. However, all probable angles will be thoroughly examined." Gupta told Asian News International (ANI), "We will also examine other trace evidence preserved at the time of autopsy to differentiate between hanging and murder allegations."


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 26 August 2020, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), India's national drug law enforcement agency, registered an FIR against Rhea, her brother Showik, and three others. The ED had requested the NCB to join the investigation after its financial probe found that drugs were supplied to Rhea and Sushant. Specifically, the FIR invoked sections of India's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act) dealing with cannabis. On 4 September 2020, the NCB arrested Showik Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput's house manager, charging them under provisions of the NDPS Act. The NCB arrested Rhea Chakraborty on 9 September for allegedly procuring drugs for Rajput; she was one of 20 persons arrested by the NCB in connection with the drugs angle being probed in the actor's death. On 6 October 2020, Mumbai Sessions Court extended Chakraborty's judicial remand until 20 October 2020, but a day later she was granted bail by the Bombay High Court. The high court rejected the NCB's theory that Chakraborty had harboured and financed Rajput's drug addiction, finding instead that she was not part of the chain of drug dealers involved in the case. "She has not forwarded the drugs allegedly procured by her to somebody else to earn monetary or other benefits," wrote Justice Sarang Kotwal. On 5 March 2021, the NCB submitted a chargesheet against 33 people including Chakraborty and her brother. On 28 May 2021, Singh's flatmate Siddarth Pithani was arrested by NCB. After 2 unsuccessful bail applications, Pithani was granted bail on 4 July 2022. On 12 July 2022 the NCB filed draft charges against 35 people, including Rhea Chakraborty and her brother. The NCB claimed that Rajput had been using numerous people to obtain drugs since 2018 and accused his flatmate Pithani and others of “aiding and abetting” Rajput to “extreme drug addiction.”


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 7 September 2020, Chakraborty filed an FIR against the late actor's sisters, claiming that Rajput "was unlawfully prescribed psychotrophic substances at the behest of his sister Priyanka" and that these had been supplied without proper consultation and using a forged prescription. She requested an investigation into whether these had resulted in his suicide or a decline in his mental state.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: The following month, Rajput's sisters asked the High Court to cancel the FIR. The Bombay High Court agreed to invalidate the FIR against his sister Meetu but upheld the FIR against his sister Priyanka, stating that there was "prima facie evidence" against her. The Supreme Court also rejected an appeal filed by Priyanka Singh and the filing was handed to the CBI to investigate.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 3 October 2020, Dr. Sudhir Gupta of AIIMS, leader of the CBI-designated forensic medical team, said, "Sushant death is a case of suicide. Murder completely ruled out." Gupta told ANI, "There were no injuries over the body other than hanging. There were no marks of struggle/scuffle in the body and clothes of the deceased." On 5 October, ANI reported that the AIIMS medical board had submitted its report to CBI confirming that Rajput died by suicide and ruling out the murder angle. On 15 October, the CBI said it "continues to investigate the death of Rajput. There are certain speculative reports in the media that the CBI has reached a conclusion. It may be reiterated that these reports are speculative and erroneous."


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput's death was generally perceived as being unexpected and shocking and sparked debates over mental health. Several prominent leaders and actors responded on social media. On Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Rajput "a bright young actor gone too soon". Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli too expressed their shock on Twitter.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: A few hours after Rajput's death, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam claimed that Rajput had signed seven films after his 2019 box office hit "Chhichhore" and had lost them all within a span of six months.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 15 June 2020, Maharashtra Cyber Police tweeted that some pictures of Rajput being circulated online were "disturbing and in bad taste", warning people that posting such pictures on social media would invite legal action.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: , at least three fans had reportedly committed copycat suicide, including a 30-year-old television actor and a 13-year-old girl using the same method as Rajput.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Following allegations that Rhea Chakraborty was responsible for his death, some Bhojpuri songs, which abused and threatened her, became popular in his home state of Bihar.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput's sister Shweta Singh Kirti initiated a 'Global Prayers for SSR' campaign to urge all to collectively pray for him on 15 August at 10:00 am local time. Along with family members and fans, many celebrities include Kriti Sanon, Ankita Lokhande and Ekta Kapoor also joined in this movement.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: During the course of ongoing investigations, the case received widespread and continuous media coverage and attention. On 3 September 2020, considering two public interest litigation petitions alleging an "unfair, malicious and false media campaign" against Mumbai Police, the Bombay High Court advised, "We urge and expect the media to exercise restraint in reporting of the investigation with respect to the death, [such that it] would not hamper investigation in any manner." On 5 October 2020, Mumbai Police stated that its cyber unit had identified more than 80,000 fake accounts on social media platforms from various countries in Asia and Europe seeking to discredit their ongoing official investigation. Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh termed this as "a motivated campaign with vested interests" to malign Mumbai Police. He added that those found to have violated the law would be prosecuted under the Information Technology Act. On 23 October 2020, the nongovernmental News Broadcasting Standards Authority directed news channels Aaj Tak, Zee News, News 24 and India TV to air an apology for insensitive reporting and sensationalizing Rajput's death. Several people were arrested by Mumbai Police and were booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. They were accused by Mumbai Police for concocting conspiracy theories and making sensational and defamatory allegations against the Maharashtra government and Mumbai Police.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: A social media study titled, "Anatomy of a Rumour" had found that the BJP leaders and their supporters were actively promoting the murder conspiracy theory for the death. The Hindutva party, BJP had used Sushant's death as a campaign issue in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. "Newslaundry" reported that BJP had portrayed Sushant as "a son of Bihar who fell victim to the big bad world of Bollywood, run by the old elite".


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput's maternal uncle, alleging that his nephew was murdered, had demanded a CBI probe on the day of the actor's death. Several political leaders, mostly from Bihar also demanded a CBI investigation into the case. Hindi actor Shekhar Suman created a forum called #justiceforSushantforum demanding a CBI probe into the death. Actress and BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly, in a series of tweets with hashtag #cbiforsushant, questioned the actor's death and called for an "independent unbiased CBI investigation".


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput's fans demanded an inquiry on various social platforms. On 16 July 2020, "Hindustan Times" reported that in the wake of Rajput's suicide, "a massive online campaign fuelled by conspiracy theories has been demanding a CBI investigation into the matter." Actress Rhea Chakraborty, who "identified herself as Sushant's girlfriend," wrote the "Hindustan Times", asked for the aid of Amit Shah, India's Minister of Home Affairs, in launching a CBI probe. Former union minister Subramanian Swamy wrote a letter to PM Modi requesting a CBI probe, which was acknowledged by the PM's office on 25 July.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh questioned the necessity of a CBI probe into the death. "The Mumbai Police is competent enough to handle such cases," he said on 17 July. On 22 July, the Twitter hashtag #Candle4SSR trended with two million tweets from Rajput's fans around the world, as part of their online campaigns demanding a CBI investigation since the actor's death. On 29 July, Home Minister Deshmukh reiterated that the investigation would not be transferred to the CBI.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: On 5 August 2020, however, Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India, told the Supreme Court that the executive branch of India's national government had accepted the recommendation by Bihar's state government for a CBI inquiry into Rajput's death. On that basis, officials said, CBI had decided to start the probe. On 8 August 2020, the Maharashtra government told the Supreme Court that the CBI had shown "indecent haste" and should not have registered the case while proceedings were still pending before the court.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput's death sparked a debate in India about nepotism and related malpractices in the Hindi film industry. A day after Rajput's death, actress and filmmaker Kangana Ranaut speculated that the actor was a victim of the Hindi film industry's nepotistic nature and it didn't acknowledge Rajput's work which led to his mental suffering. A case was registered against Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Salman Khan, Ekta Kapoor and four others in the Patna High Court by a lawyer, Sudhir Kumar Ojha, alleging that Rajput had been denied opportunities due to nepotism, leading to his suicide, but the case was later dismissed on 8 July. Johar and Alia Bhatt were then bullied on social media.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Following this, Simi Garewal and A. R. Rahman spoke about nepotism that they faced in Bollywood. Sonu Nigam referred to the nepotism in the music industry as "music mafia".


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Amid the debate over nepotism, vote brigading by Rajput's fans led to the trailer of "Sadak 2", released on 12 August 2020, to become the most disliked trailer on YouTube within 24 hours of its release. Speculating that Rajput had despaired of being shut out of the film industry due to favoritism, his fans blamed Hindi film industry insiders, including Mahesh Bhatt, director of "Sadak 2", and his daughter Alia Bhatt, one of the film's stars, who had spoken dismissively of Rajput in a talk show.


title: Death of Sushant Singh Rajput

text: Rajput was cremated by his father at Pawan Hans Crematorium, Vile Parle on 15 June 2020. Actors Kriti Sanon, Shraddha Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Ranvir Shorey amongst others were present at his funeral proceedings. After cremation, Rajput's ashes were immersed by his family members in Ganges River, Patna on 18 June 2020.


title: The Core

text: The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D. J. Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, and Alfre Woodard. The film focuses on a team whose mission is to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of the Earth's core. The film was released on March 28, 2003, by Paramount Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $74 million worldwide with a production budget of $85 million.


title: The Core

text: Several small, disparate incidents involving the Earth's magnetic field cause scientists led by geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and scientists Dr. Serge Leveque and Dr. Conrad Zimsky to conclude that the Earth's molten core has stopped rotating. Unless it can be restarted, the field will collapse within months, exposing the surface to devastating solar radiation. The U.S. government back a secret project to build a vessel that can drill to the core and release nuclear weapons to restart the rotation. They utilize the work of Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzelton who has developed a material "Unobtainium" that can withstand and convert extreme heat into electricity, as well as a laser-based high-speed drilling array. NASA pilots Commander Robert Iverson and Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs are enlisted to pilot the multi-compartment vessel "USS Virgil", while computer hacker Theodore Donald "Rat" Finch is brought on to keep news of the pending disaster or the attempt to restart the core from the Internet.


title: The Core

text: "Virgil" is launched through the Marianas Trench and successfully makes its way through the crust. The team accidentally drills through a gigantic empty geode structure, damaging the lasers when it lands at its base. As they traverse outside the ship to free the vessel from the crystalline structures, the geode starts to flood with magma, and Iverson is impaled by a falling shard and falls into the magma. The rest manage to return in time as "Virgil" continues its descent. Further down, they pass through a field of gigantic diamond formations, one of which breaches the last compartment housing the detonation timers for the nuclear charges. Leveque sacrifices himself to make sure that the others have the charges and launch codes before the compartment is crushed by the extreme pressure.


title: The Core

text: The team reaches the molten core and realizes it is much less dense than previously thought, throwing off their calculations on restarting its motions. They communicate with the surface, where Lieutenant General Thomas Purcell, overseeing the operation, orders them to abandon the effort and return immediately as they plan to use a secondary protocol to restart the core. Finch is secretly communicating with the "Virgil" team and learns that this secondary protocol is the top-secret project "DESTINI" (Deep Earth Seismic Trigger INItiative). Keyes finds that Zimsky was a lead scientist on "DESTINI," a tectonic weapon intended to be used by the U.S. but, when first tested, had caused the core's rotation to stop. Finch redirects power from DESTINI to prevent Purcell from activating it again, as Keyes fears that it could destroy the Earth instead of restarting the core. Meanwhile, destructive events, including a lightning storm in Rome and a burst of ultraviolet rays that destroys the Golden Gate Bridge, alert the world to the situation.


title: The Core

text: On "Virgil", the remaining team comes up with a plan to place an explosive in each of the remaining compartments, release them, and time their detonations in an exact sequence to trigger the core's rotation through constructive wave interference. Due to the faulty design of "Virgil" because of time constraints, Brazzelton has to sacrifice himself to engage the compartment detachment mechanism in the vessel's underbelly. As they set the charges, Keyes and Zimsky realize that they need more explosive power than previously thought and in their race to adjust timings, Zimsky becomes trapped in a detached compartment. Keyes uses "Virgil"s nuclear power source to provide the additional energy for the final detonation. While it leaves the main compartment powerless and Keyes and Childs trapped, the other explosions successfully restart the core's rotation. Keyes recalls that the unobtainium shell can convert the heat and pressure to energy, and the two of them wire the shell directly to their systems in time to power the craft and ride the pressure wave out of the core and up towards the surface through tectonic plates, eventually breaching into the floor of the ocean near Hawaii. Due to the much lower heat and pressure in this environment, "Virgil" no longer has sufficient power to establish communications. The government searches for them, and Finch, tracking nearby whale sound, realizes that the "Virgil" crew are using low-power ultrasound to draw whales nearby. Keyes and Childs are soon rescued.


title: The Core

text: In the aftermath, Finch uploads information about "Virgil" and its team and the classified information about "DESTINI" across the Internet, causing the world to revere the crew as heroes.


title: The Core

text: The original plan for the shuttle landing scene had been for "Endeavour" to attempt a landing at Los Angeles International Airport with the shuttle coming to a halt on the nearby beaches. However, due to the events of September 11, 2001, the crew was not allowed to film at LAX. The scene was therefore rewritten with "Endeavour" landing in the LA river.


title: The Core

text: "The Core" garnered mixed reviews from critics. It has a 40% approval rating based on 157 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10, on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes; the site's consensus states, "A B-movie with its tongue planted firmly in cheek, "The Core" is so unintentionally (intentionally?) bad that it's a hoot." On Metacritic, another aggregation website, the film has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100 based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". In his review, Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars out of four and said "I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it."


title: The Core

text: The film grossed $31.1 million in United States theaters, and another $43.0 million overseas for a total worldwide gross of $74.1 million against a production budget of $85 million.


title: The Core

text: Several reviews cited the numerous scientific inaccuracies in the film. Elvis Mitchell of "The New York Times" said, "The brazen silliness of "The Core" is becalming and inauthentic, like taking a bath in nondairy coffee creamer. The Earth core's inability to turn is mirrored in the cast's inability to give the picture any spin." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" was a little more forgiving, saying, "If "The Core" finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood. After all, a film that comes up with a rare metal called unobtainium can't be dismissed out of hand."


title: The Core

text: In response to criticism of his screenplay's lack of scientific realism, screenwriter John Rogers responded that he tried to make the science accurate, but expended three years fighting "to get rid of the ... dinosaurs, magma-walks in 'space-suits', bullshit-sci-crap sources for the Earth's crisis, and a windshield for the ship "Virgil"."


title: The Core

text: On March 30, 2009, it was reported that Dustin Hoffman was leading a campaign to get more real science into science-fiction movies. Hoffman is on the advisory board of the Science & Entertainment Exchange, an initiative of the United States National Academy of Sciences, intended to foster collaborations between scientists and entertainment industry professionals in order to minimize inaccurate representations of science and technology such as those found in "The Core".


title: The Core

text: On February 21, 2010, "The Guardian" ran an article about American professor Sidney Perkowitz's proposals to curb bad science in science fiction movies. In the article, Perkowitz is said to have hated "The Core". "If you violate [the coherent rules of science] you are in trouble. The chances are that the public will pick it up and that is what matters to Hollywood. "The Core" did not make money because people understood the science was so out to lunch," he added.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: Over the Moon is a 2020 computer-animated musical fantasy film directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs, from a screenplay by Audrey Wells with additional screenplay material by Alice Wu and Jennifer Yee McDevitt. The film was produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation, and animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It stars the voices of Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Oh. The plot follows an adventurous girl named Fei Fei, who builds a rocket ship to meet a mythical goddess on the moon.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: "Over the Moon" was first shown at the Montclair Film Festival on October 17, 2020, followed by its Netflix and select theaters release on October 23. The film grossed $860,000 worldwide; it earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards. It is the final film that Wells worked on before her death, and it was dedicated to her memory.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: A girl named Fei Fei is being told the legend of the Moon goddess Chang'e who took a potion for immortality, causing her to become a goddess and ascend to the Moon without her lover Houyi, and awaits for him there. In preparation for the annual Moon Festival, Fei Fei and her family make mooncakes for the village. However, Fei Fei's mother falls ill, and gives her daughter a white rabbit named Bungee before passing away.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: Fei Fei, who still believes in Chang'e four years later, is upset when she learns that her father is engaged to Ms. Zhong, and is annoyed by her son, Chin. Fei Fei's family joins them for the Moon Festival celebration, and she remembers her mother. Inspired by a crane and the legend of Chang'e, she decides to build a rocket to the Moon to prove that Chang'e is real. She designs a rocket that resembles a Chinese paper lantern in the shape of a rabbit that uses fireworks to boost her speed. Her rocket almost succeeds until she realizes that Chin snuck aboard her rocket and they begin to crash to Earth. Suddenly, the rocket is captured in a mystical beam of energy and taken to the Moon. They crash-land after being "attacked" by 2 friendly foo dogs, who then rescue them and take them to Lunaria.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: They are introduced to Chang'e and her backup dancers, the Lunettes. Chang'e tells Fei Fei that she was supposed to deliver a gift for Chang'e to bring Houyi back. Fei Fei takes a photo with Chang'e to prove she is real, but Chang'e takes the photo from Fei Fei and demands the gift. Fei Fei doesn't know what she is talking about, and a frustrated Chang'e announces a competition to find her gift before the last of the moondust falls. Fei Fei gets upset with Chin and leaves him, getting a ride with the Biker Chicks to the crash site. Chin sees some Lunettes with the photo and is captured by Chang'e who demands the location of the gift. Chang'e challenges Chin to a game of ping pong that Chin wins, further upsetting Chang'e. Chang'e cries in despair that she will never see Houyi again. While Chin is trapped in a chamber by Chang'e, Bungee follows the Jade Rabbit into his workplace. Meanwhile, Fei Fei and the Biker Chicks head to her rocket's crash site, where the former meets an exiled Lunarian named Gobi. She discovers her Chang'e doll, which she suspects to be the gift, but the Biker Chicks snatch the doll and leave Fei Fei and Gobi behind.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: Fei Fei and Gobi head to Lunaria on the backs of giant toads, where Gobi reveals that Chang'e exiled him due to a song about moving on. Fei Fei and Gobi catch up to the Biker Chicks, but during their scuffle, the doll is destroyed. However, Fei Fei discovers in one of her mooncakes a broken half of an open jade circle and realizes that it is Chang'e's gift. They return to Lunaria's palace, rejoin Chin and Bungee, and present the gift to Chang'e, who makes a full jade circle. Chang'e and Houyi are then briefly reunited, but Houyi tells Chang'e to move on before fading away. Refusing to accept this, Chang'e slips into a state of depression, causing all the light in Lunaria to extinguish.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: Fei Fei tries to reach out to Chang'e, but the moment she enters Chang'e's state of sadness, she also becomes depressed due to a vision of her mother. Realizing that they both must move on from their tragedies, Chang'e and Fei Fei encourage each other to find the love all around them. This allows the two to accept their loved ones' deaths, restoring light to Lunaria.


title: Over the Moon (2020 film)

text: Chang'e thanks Fei Fei and allows her and Chin passage back home—excluding Bungee, who stays on the Moon with Jade Rabbit—and lifts Gobi's banishment. Fei Fei and Chin bid farewell to the Lunarians and return home, where Fei Fei accepts her father and Mrs. Zhong's marriage and Chin as her brother. About a year later, Fei Fei is living happily with her new family and continues to look up at the Moon, watching as cranes fly up towards it in the night.