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Enzo is a major recurring character that appears in Season Five. He is a charismatic but tortured figure from Damon's past who turns up in Mystic Falls to connect with him.

Early Life
Enzo was found by the Whitmore family after he left his post in Eastern Europe during WWII. He was imprisoned by Dr. Whitmore and forced to endure his torture for ten years. Damon was imprisoned due to Joseph Salvatore selling him out, and Enzo reached out a hand of friendship with the young vampire. They would talk about many things to keep thier hope of escape up. Enzo planned to have Damon take his ration of blood for a year so that he would be stronger and assist in the escape. During the annual New Year's Eve Party at Whitmore, Damon broke free of his chains and attacked everyone but, in the process, caused a fire. Enzo was still stuck in a cage laced with vervain and Damon attempted to free his friend to no avail. Realizing that he could not free his friend and fearful that Augustine would take him back, Damon turned off his emotions and abandoned him. Enzo continously screamed for his friend to free him and presumably died. However, it is revelaed at the end of The Cell that Enzo is alive, and possibly the vampire who killed Megan.

Season Five
Enzo makes his first present day appearance in The Cell. Elena wakes up, strapped to a table in a lab as she hears some humming from nearby. She turns her head and Enzo "welcomes" her, introducing himself. She looks to him, shocked after hearing Damon's story of his death as he continues to quietly sing a song.

In Fifty Shades of Grayson,

Personality
Enzo is a charismatic person who had lived quite a fulfilling life prior to his imprisonment by Augustine. Despite his imprisonment, he remained hopeful to one day escape and possibly take revenge on Augustine for their torture on him. After it is revealed that he was still alive and imprisoned, Enzo may be losing his mind as a result of the decades of torture, as he slowly hums a song just after he introduces himself to Elena.

Damon Salvatore
Enzo met Damon in 1953, they were both captured and tortured by the Augustine society for scientific purposes. Having been in captivity ten years longer, Enzo taught Damon how to "live for the future", when they're free instead of the moment, individually planning their revenge. Enzo seemed to care for Damon, one day allowing himself to be tortured in Damon's place. On the night of their planned escape, Damon accidentally started a fire and was unable to free Enzo, and turned off his humanity to escape the pain of his "death" before abandoning him.

Name
Enzo is of Italian and Old German origin, and the meaning is "home ruler". Variant of Henry.

Powers and Abilities
Some of these powers are more potent when the vampire gets older and feeds on human blood.


 * Super Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful than werewolves that are not in wolf form.
 * Super Agility - Vampires possess superhuman agility. They have shown that they can move, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. Vampires can jump with their super speed too. Vampires that feed on human blood can jump much higher than vampires that feed on animal blood.
 * Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
 * Emotional Control - Like all vampires, Enzo has the ability to switch off his humanity.
 * Dream Manipulation - Vampires can control dreams and subconscious. The vampires can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams.
 * Heightened Senses - Vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight and smell that far exceed those of humans and werewolves.
 * Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
 * Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection.
 * Healing Factor - Vampires heal extremely quickly, but still feel the pain of a wound before it heals. Vampires can snap their bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.The only injury that cannot be healed on its own is a werewolf bite.
 * Lapis Lazuli - He possesses a Lapis Lazuli ring that enables him to walk in daylight without being harmed.
 * Sire Bond - Sire Bonds can be formed when a human is turned with the blood of the vampire whom they had strong human feelings for.

Weaknesses

 * Decapitation: The act of dismembering or removing the head of a vampire will result in permanent death.
 * Fire or Sunlight: The act of exposing a vampire to fire or sunlight will result in permanent death.
 * Vervain: The act of exposing or ingesting a vampire with vervain causes a vampire to become severely feverish and weak. Also, If a vampire's skin is exposed to vervain, it can result in burning them. Also vampires can't compel anyone on vervain.
 * Wood: The act of wounding a vampire with wood will cause the vampire to become severely weak and if a vampire takes a wooden stake through its heart it will result in permanent death.
 * Heart Extraction: The act of extracting or removing the heart of a vampire will result in permanent death.
 * Invitation: Vampires cannot enter a home without an invitation by the owner.
 * Magic: Vampires are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft including the creation of harmful magical objects.
 * Desiccation: Vampires who abstain from blood for extended amounts of time will eventually desiccate into mummification.
 * Vampire Bloodline: If an Original vampire dies, all vampires descended from their bloodline will slowly perish.
 * Werewolf Bite: The bite of a werewolf is extremely lethal to vampires. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak and go rabid until it kills them. Klaus' hybrid blood can cure the bite.
 * Broken Neck: Breaking a vampires neck is a common way to subdue one, it will not kill them but it will keep them unconscious for several hours and when they are still unconscious they won't have a pulse and appear to be dead.

Appearances
Season Five
 * The Cell
 * Fifty Shades of Grayson

Trivia

 * He will have a major recurring role throughout Season 5.
 * He is experiment number 12144 in the Augustine Society.
 * He and Damon were friends.