Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25530642-20150804204255/@comment-25222572-20150812150204

T Angelus Ballack wrote: Mgc26133 wrote: ^ for some reason this took me back to a line in the season 1 of The Originals, where Klaus said "Marcel has everything I ever wanted. I want what he has. I wanna be king." Yeah, like there was ever a way that all of the vampires would be loyal to him, like they were to marcel with marcel not being in the picture. In the end, didn't he have to kill them all, and compel. No, not really. He schemed, Marcel caught on/was tipped off, launched a "foolproof" plan to stop Klaus which basically entailed overpowering him, bleeding him dry, dosing him with wolfsbane and vervain, until he dessicated, and then locking him in an underground vault for the better part of 100 years. Great plan, right? Apart from that whole "overpowering" thing..........Marcel had his entire vampire nation attack en masse, and Klaus slaughtered them, until Marcel finally caved and swore allegiance to him, just so his people wouldn't all die.

So yeah......he threatened and killed them until they obeyed. Not exactly the best way to inspire love and loyalty, is it? ;)

Heh. And a few episodes later his sister left, he got depressed, and he sort of lost interest in playing King anyway and Elijah had to take over while Klaus sat in his room, sulked, and painted........so, the entire thing was utterly pointless in the end.