Triad (Charmed)

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The Triad
Steven J. Oliver, Leland Crooke & Søren Oliver as The Triad
First appearance Magic Hour Last appearance Forever Charmed Created by Brad Kern
Statistics Name The Triad Status Vanquished Purpose Attaining ultimate power; attaining rulership of the Underworld; commanding upper level demons in The Source's stead Powers As demons of the highest level, comparable to The Source, they are highly resistant to most manners of attack, and all their abilities are extremely powerful. In addition to this, their power works as a collective, much like the Charmed Ones, stronger with all three alive. Fireballs Pyrokinesis Teleportation Telekinesis Summoning Conjuration Freezing time[1] Telepathy Banishing demons The Triad can also be seen generating vast amounts of bright energy to hone their powers, are very resistant to freezes Membership Current Members none Deceased Members Asmodeus Baliel Candor Expelled Members Xar Allies The Source The Brotherhood of the Thorn Dumain Belthazor Christy Jenkins

The Triad is a fictional group of powerful demons on the television series Charmed. They were at a high rank in the evil hierarchy in the series, serving as the "Big Bad" twice throughout the series' run.

The Triad first appear in season 3,^[2] and are played by Amir Aboulela, Rick Overton & Shaun Toub. At this time, they work for The Source. The Triad members are males, and have black eyes. They wear long dark red-like robes, with an upside down pentagram behind it. Each of them possesses many powers (including: fireballs, teleportation, summoning demons, manifesting objects, etc.) When they become aware of the existence of the Charmed Ones, they begin sending demons after them. When all of the previous demons fail, they order Belthazor, Cole Turner's demon half, to go after the Charmed Ones, Belthazor comes very close, but falls in love with Phoebe, which leads to him killing the Triad.^[3]

The Triad reappear in season 8, composed of 3 upper-level demons: Asmodeus, Baliel & Candor. This time, they wear a black robe, with an upside down pentagram on the front of it. They are responsible for Christy's kidnapping,^[4] they hired demons to guard her and raise her for all these years, which is why Christy Jenkins is evil. Those demons later get vanquished by Christy and by The Triad.^[4]

A demon named Xar, a former member of The Triad, orders a demon to tell the Charmed Ones that The Triad is back, thus exposing them. Xar tricks the Halliwell sisters into going after The Triad, because he doesn't want them to take over the Underworld. The Triad become aware of this, and kill Xar. The Charmed Ones go after them, and vanquish Asmodeus and Baliel, thus completely weakening the Triad, since there is only one member alive, Candor, who escaped without getting vanquished. Candor later appears, when he freezes the Charmed Ones and Billie, but not Christy, as he tells her that they taught her everything she knows, and now that The Triad is weakened, she must go forward alone, to reunite with the Ultimate Power, her sister Billie. Candor then leaves, and unfreezes the others.

Later on, Candor gets killed by Christy, for being responsible for the death of Christy's parents.^[5]

It is later discovered that The Triad cannot be destroyed as easily as previously thought. Their physical bodies can be vanquished but they continue to exist in spirit form until they are strong enough to constitute new bodies for themselves. Therefore, The Triad still exist, but as spirits, they continued to progress their plan to kill the Charmed Ones, with Dumain, who serves them. Their spirits later get vanquished by The Charmed Ones, using the power of The Hollow.^[6]

However, Dumain with Christy, went back in the past, to warn the Triad of their death, but as he was warning them, The Charmed Ones and Billie arrived from the future as well, and vanquished the Triad, once and for all. They proceeded to vanquish Dumain and Billie vanquished her sister Christy.^[7]

[edit] Trivia

• Their physical bodies can be vanquished but they continue to exist as spirits until they are strong enough to constitute bodies for themselves, this means that the Triad (from season 8) is the same Triad that appeared in Season 3. After Cole vanquished them,^[3] they continued to exist as spirits until they composed new bodies for themselves, therefore resulting in their return in Season 8.
• They kidnapped Christy Jenkins before the Charmed Ones were constituted and before they hired Cole Turner (Belthazor) to go after the Charmed Ones.^[4]
• Leland Crooke who plays a Triad member earlier on played Archduke Sebassis on the TV series Angel, who was also part of a demonic council of enormous power called the Circle of the Black Thorn, also in its final season.

[edit] References

1. ^ "The Last Temptation of Christy". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2006-02-19.
   When time was "frozen", the Triad made no attempt to murder the Charmed Ones, implying their power may be a communication tool only.
2. ^ "Magic Hour". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2000-10-12.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Power Outage". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2000-11-16.
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Kill Billie Vol.1". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2005-10-30.
5. ^ "Generation Hex". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2006-04-16.
6. ^ "Kill Billie Vol. 2". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2006-05-14.
7. ^ "Forever Charmed". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2006-05-21.

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