Barbas (Charmed)
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| Barbas | |
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 Billy Drago as Barbas |
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| First appearance: "From Fear to Eternity" |
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| Last appearance: "A Call to Arms" |
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| Created by: | Constance M. Burge |
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| Full name: | Barbas |
| Status: | Vanquished |
| Species: | Upper Level Demon; Demon of Fear |
| Affiliation: | Barbas had a small following growing in season 5 and again in 7, as at that those points he was the most powerful demon. He does not seem to affiliate with the Source, who may be the one who imprisoned him. |
| Notable family: |
None, but there is another Fear Demon in season 8's Still Charmed & Kicking |
| Notable powers: |
Barbas is a very powerful upper level demon, and having an "of" title implies he's one of the more powerful ones. He has the power to:
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| Portrayed by: |
Billy Drago |
Barbas the Demon of Fear, a fictional character from the popular WB television series, Charmed. He is played by Billy Drago.
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[edit] Character history
Barbas has the power to see a person's greatest fear and turn it against them, which literally scares them to death[1] (however, in later appearances, he used this power to manipulate his victims rather than simply kill them). His name is taken from Barbas, the Great President of Hell in Judeo-Christian demonology.
He appears on Earth once every thirteen hundred years on Friday the 13th for twenty-four hours.[1] His appearance is attributed to the universal convergence of negative energies as derived from astrological charts. He derives his life force by feeding off the fears of witches. If he can kill 13 unmarried female witches before the stroke of midnight on Friday the 13th he will be able to break free from his eternal bonds and walk the earth for eternity.[1] But this changed a little, since the show decided to bring back more often.
One way to defeat Barbas is to overcome one's greatest fear.[1] However, ways to vanquish Barbas are limited. Since the Charmed Ones were unable to vanquish Barbas until Season 7, it is quite possible that he is more powerful than even the Source, especially if one takes into account the fact that the position of the Source is granted for a number of reasons, including power, lineage, and political influence. Barbas has only been vanquished twice; first by Cole in Season 5, using the powers that he took from the Demonic Wasteland,[2] and then by the Charmed Ones in Season 7, who by this time were proficient enough in potion-making to vanquish him.[3]
[edit] The whole story
- "From Fear to Eternity"
- Episode 13, Season 1, first shown 10 February 1999, He makes his first appearance at the mark of 12 on Friday the 13th. His plan is to kill 13 unmarried witches before midnight of Friday the 13th or else he will stay trapped in the underworld. If he succeeds, he will be allowed to wreak havoc on the world, every single day. Prue vanquishes him by overcoming her fear.
- "Ms. Hellfire"
- Episode 9, Season 2, first shown 13 January 2000, It's another Friday the 13th, and Barbas somehow manages to return, mad at the sisters for previously having vanquished him. He hires Bane Jessup and Ms. Hellfire, two assassins to kill the sisters for him. Prue repels the bullets using her powers, killing Ms. Hellfire. Bane gets caught and ends up in jail. The sisters defeat Barbas again and put him back in purgatory.
- "Sympathy for the Demon"
- Episode 7, Season 5, first shown 3 November 2002, Barbas returns again, and he manages to get into the sister's house, where he implants their worst fears. All three of the sisters and Cole are affected and this causes a major shift in power when a great deal of power flows from Cole into Barbas. Paige eventually orbs a potion onto Barbas, stripping him of his stolen powers; Cole then vanquishes him with an energy ball. This is the first time Paige deals with Barbas.
- "Crimes and Witch Demeanors"
- Episode 19, Season 6, first shown 25 April 2004, Barbas returns, brought back from Purgatory as a lawyer of sorts, to prosecute the sisters' misuse of powers. In the end Barbas wins and Phoebe is temporarily stripped of her powers. Barbas thinks that without their powers, the sisters will be easier to kill. Barbas also discovers the Elder Gideon's worst fear.
- "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 1)" / "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)"
- Episode 22–23, Season 6, first shown 16 May 2004, Barbas approaches Gideon for a part in helping to destroy the Charmed Ones. Aware that Barbas knows his worst fear, Gideon agrees and Barbas distracts the sisters long enough for Gideon to get his hands on Piper's first-born child, Wyatt. The sisters then travel to a parallel dimension to make an agreement with their parallel selves. The Barbas in that dimension exists as the Demon of Hope and is as equally powerful as his counterpart.
- "A Call to Arms"
- Episode 1, Season 7, first shown 12 September 2004. Barbas is being tracked by Leo for conspiring with Gideon. In this episode he tries, yet again, to kill the sisters by infecting Piper and Leo with their worst fears. Although he manipulates Leo into killing an Elder, he fails yet again to kill the sisters as Phoebe and Paige are there to help them. Phoebe and Paige make a strong vanquishing potion, using it against Barbas. Before being vanquished, Barbas stated that he would return again because "fear always comes back".
[edit] Demon of Hope
Barbas appears as the Demon of Hope in an alternate reality that is the exact moral reverse of the main Charmed reality. This happens in the final episodes of the 6th season, It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 1 and Part 2
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d "From Fear to Eternity". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 1999-02-10.
- ^ "Sympathy for the Demon". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-11-03.
- ^ "A Call to Arms". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2004-09-12.
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