16 Times The Vampire Diaries Shocked Our Socks Off

This is yet another means-to-an-end moment, but we didn't know it at the time. As one of our favorite characters is being strangled, we screamed at our TVs as Caroline struggled under that pillow. The joke's on Katherine, though, because this was the best thing that ever happened to Caroline's character. She's turned out to be the most badass — yet perky — vampire.