The first two seasons of The Originals have been chock full of Mikaelson infighting and witchy interference in their lives. It’s about time we got an external enemy like Lucien Castle that can pose a real threat to The Originals.

The only problem with having protagonists as complicated and flawed as the Mikaelsons is that normal villains just don’t measure up. The Original family was introduced on The Vampire Diaries to up the ante and introduce a new breed of vampires. When those vampires are no longer the antagonists, but the heroes of the story, you have to find a new level of villains to threaten them. Esther and Mikael have put up a good fight before, and Dahlia was downright scary, but all of them have lacked the ability to truly terrify the Mikaelsons because of one plain fact: They couldn’t kill them.

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Sure, Dahlia’s constant threats against Hope had us scared, but not because Dahlia could kill. We were scared because she wanted to rip an innocent child from her family due to a deal she made centuries before. It wasn’t ever a matter of her defeating the Originals, but her taking the one thing that has made Klaus into a better man.

Lucien is another matter altogether. He may have put on quite a show at the beginning of the season, but he had easily faded into the background recently. We almost believed he was no threat at all. The prophecy was starting to feel less and less important as Tristan, Aurora, and Lucien seemed to have been taken care of or befriended.

Not anymore. Lucien has been biding his time and cooking up a plan no one saw coming. Thanks to Klaus and Hayley’s road trip, they know what threat they’re facing, but that may not be enough to save them. Now that Lucien has the same immortality they do, and a new weapon to kill them with, he is the most lethal force they’ve yet to come up against.

He’s immortal, he’s backed by the ancestors, his bite can kill the Mikaelsons, and he’s about to have a super-Original girlfriend by this side, who is a special kind of crazy in her own right. We are excited to see how The Originals battle this adversary. The Mikaelsons have a weakness in the White Oak, so there has to be a weakness for Lucien and whomever gets the second dose (seemingly Aurora). How and why they figure out what that weakness is will determine how great a threat Lucien continues to be.

The only thing we’re absolutely certain of is that super-Original Lucien and Aurora are going to put up one hell of a fight. It’s only a matter of time before we see just how great that fight is going to be.

Do you think Lucien is the greatest threat on ‘The Originals’ yet?