Marcellus Gerard

Marcellus Marcel Gerard is the anti-heroic teteragonist of the Originals. He is Klaus' former protege and was the king of New Orleans.

He was introduced as a villain due his diabolical tactics to keep his position of power and has shown to be a major enemy of Klaus. However, he is actually a true anti-hero, as he did all those evil things just to protect the teenage witch, Davina Claire.

Marcel has shown to have an interesting relationship with the Mikaelsons, being a frenemy of Elijah, a former lover to Rebekah and a former enemy and current frindd of Klaus.

A long time ago, Marcel was a slave whose father was a slavemaster. When he hit the man with a rock, Klaus was impressed and he ended adopting the boy and named him Marcel.

Later on, he became Klaus' protege and fell in love with Rebekah and the two started a relationship but Klaus made Marcel choose between him wanting to be a vampire or his love for Rebekah.

He chose to be a vampire and Klaus turned him. As Klaus and his family help build the French Quarter of New Orleans, Klaus' tyranny caused Marcel and Rebekah to conspire to bring Mikael back to New Orleans to kill Klaus but Mikael held Marcel, Rebekah and Elijah hostage for a show and compelled the audience to laugh.

As Klaus quickly saved them and battled Mikael, the vampire who hunts vampires burnt the theatre. Later on, Marcel somehow became King of the French Quarter and was fighting against Klaus for power.

Later on, Klaus manipulated Marcel into making Davina a weapon for Klaus (due to her powers) but Marcel protected her from the Harvest ritual. This was when Klaus and Marcel were on better terms.

However, when the Original Hybrid found out about Marcel and Rebekah's betrayal, he hunted down to kill Rebekah but Elijah prevented that.

Klaus and Marcel's relationship was strained and Marcel was building a vampire army to fight against the werewolves for their power.

Marcel was given a weapon that when stabbed on someone, they will have 12 scars and die.

Marcel wanted that weapon to kill Klaus but when the witches were going to sacrifice Klaus' child, Marcel (probably) fully redeemed himself by killing Monique from Hope and took the baby, so as a result, Marcell saved Klaus' child and their relationship was mended.

In the next season, Josh helps Marcel build a vampire community as they were chased out of the quarter and the werewolves and the witches have made an alliance to fight against Klaus.

Marcel teamed up with Elijah, Klaus, Cami and Hayley to kill the Guerreras that have the moonlight ring that weakens Klaus and they successfully do that.

Later on, Marcel, Elijah, Oliver, Hayler and Aiden team up to save the young boys from being taken as werewolves for Esther, Finn and Kol.