Major villains in Charmed

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At its first two seasons, Charmed episodes were mostly unrelated encounters with the forces of Evil, the main villains weren't clearly pronounced and didn't stay long, but later seasons saw them fighting against several "Big Bads".

Here is a list of the major villains in Charmed.

Contents 1 Season 1 2 Season 2 3 Season 3 4 Season 4 5 Season 5 6 Season 6 7 Season 7 8 Season 8 9 References

[edit] Season 1

Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster (portrayed by Neil Roberts and Leigh-Allyn Baker). They were first introduced when Prue applied to a job at Buckland's Auction House. While Rex tested her knowledge of art, Hannah "accidentally" pushed a stepladder, knocking over a bucket of paint right above Prue. When Prue deviated the paint's trajectory with her power, Hannah concluded she was "either the luckiest woman alive, or [...] a witch"^[1]. Hannah once almost gave them away when Prue used a truth spell on herself, which forced her to say "... it's my mission in life to destroy you". Having heard this, Rex passed it as "office rivalry", and scolded her later. Hannah then revealed she had powers when she lighted Rex's cigar with only her breath^[2]. After this, Rex put Melinda Warren's locket medallion in front of Prue, and when she opened it, a powerful warlock that was concealed inside, Matthew Tate came out, and chased the Charmed Ones, but the Charmed Ones conjured Melinda, who locked him up again^[3]. Finally, they decided to act themselves, having Prue arrested for stealing a precious tiara by manipulating her mind and having killed an auction house guard with all evidences pointing towards her. When Piper and Phoebe helped Prue get out of prison, Rex took a picture of them and blackmailed them, asking for their powers and giving them a lamp that could store them. Having their powers removed, they gave the lamp back to Rex at the auction house. While the sisters faced Rex and Hannah in her panther form, Leo, who was believed to be a simple handyman, performed magic on the Book of Shadows and returned their powers. Piper froze the scene, and Prue moved Rex in face of her, so she would accidentally kill him. Having done so, Hannah reverted to her human form, before being vanquished herself by an unknown force^[4].

Agent Rodriguez (portrayed by Carlos Gomez). Posing as an Internal Affairs agent, Rodriguez questioned Andy Trudeau after he took the murder weapon used by a ghost so that Prue and Phoebe could stop the murderer (a ghost, actually). He told he was worried with the recent apparition of numerous unsolved cases Trudeau and Darryl Morris seemingly abandoned and he knew he was covering somebody^[5]. He went on with his investigation, treatening Trudeau, but the latter still didn't say who he covered, and instead returned his gun and shield. While spying on Morris and Trudeau, Rodriguez could hear Andy was covering for Prue Halliwell, and killed his partner with a supernatural power, thus revealing his demonic nature^[6]. In a final effort, he teamed up with the demon Tempus who reversed time each time he failed to kill the Charmed Ones, but the witches eventually got him tied up (however, not before he could kill Andy) , used the spell to break the time loop, untied him, and Prue killed him by redirecting on himself his own energy ball^[7].

[edit] Season 2

This season doesn't have any major villains. The Council that was introduced in the finale was not seen again until it was vanquished in season 4, as the Triad took its place in season 3.

[edit] Season 3

The Triad (portrayed by Rick Overton, Amir Aboulela and Shaun Taub) and Belthazor (portrayed in his demonic form by Michael Bailey-Smith and in his human form as Cole Turner by Julian McMahon). Posing as an ADA, Cole Turner quickly earned the Halliwells' trust, hiding the fact that he was in fact a demon sent to kill them. He had an assistant that was his shadow with a mind of its own, whom he frequently ordered to report what he learned to the Triad, remaining shadowless in the meantime^[8][9]. After Prue and Phoebe found a red-faced demon^[10], they researched to find out he was Belthazor, a legendary and powerful demon, more that a century old. After attacking the Charmed Ones and even trying to kill their ancestor in the past^[11], Cole eventually switched to Halliwells' side and, after being sold out to the Triad by a demon, killed the Triad instead^[12]. When the Halliwells found out Cole was Belthazor, Phoebe, who at that time shared a romantic relationship with him, faked a vanquish, so he could get away^[13]. Cole eventually came back as a good guy, even helping save Phoebe^[14]. He even attended Piper and Leo's wedding^[15]. However, when he went back to his demon brotherhood undercover for Halliwells^[16], the brotherhood forced him to kill a witch the Halliwells were protecting in exchange for his father's soul, which Phoebe saw, and pushed him away^[17], after what he came back to evil. She later switched him back to good with a potion^[18].

[edit] Season 4

The Source of All Evil (portrayed by Ben Guillory, then by Peter Woodward and once by Alastair Duncan) and The Oracle (portrayed by Krista Allen). The Source is the master of the Underworld. His face mostly hidden, only a few have seen it. After having Prue killed by his assassin, Shax, in the last season finale, he tried to make Paige turn evil, but failed^[19]. He later tried to make Piper give up the Charmed Ones' powers by making her believe the real world was just a delusion. When Cole and Leo tried to save her, the Oracle took Cole's fireball destined for the Source and died. Cole also injured the Source, so he had to pull back to recover^[20]. He eventually attacked at full strength using an ancient artifact known as The Hollow, but a demon named The Seer helped the Charmed Ones to take him out. His true face was also revealed in the process, he was half-faced. As The Seer was leaving, she said that the powers of the Source went to "the void"^[21].

The half-faced demon later appeared in the season 8 episode Desperate Housewitches, summoned by a demon, and was sent back to the Wasteland after the summoner died.

Cole Turner/The Source of All Evil (portrayed by Julian McMahon), The Seer (portrayed by Debbi Morgan) and The Source's unborn heir (taking control over characters portrayed by Alyssa Milano and Debbi Morgan). In fact, the aforementioned void was in Cole, after Phoebe finally got Belthazor out of him^[22]. He had to associate himself with the Seer, as the Source's growing powers took control over him^[23]. While Cole still wanted to marry Phoebe, the Source inside of him turned it into a new direction: she unknowligly married him in a dark ceremony after he sabotaged the normal one at a church^[24]. After another dark ritual, Cole impregnated Phoebe with an evil child. Paige was the first sister to find out Cole was evil^[25], and Phoebe and Piper learned it when Phoebe joined Cole to become his queen^[26]. Cole was eventually officially crowned as the Source and Phoebe was named his queen, but as she played double agents, and had to choose a side, she finally chose good and the Halliwells vanquished Cole^[27]. After his vanquish, The Seer took Phoebe's unborn child into her, proclaiming herself the bearer of the Source's heir. During the coronation, the unborn child's powers went out of control, and everyone present at the coronation, save for the Halliwells, got vanquished, including the Seer^[28].

The Seer later appeared in the season 5 episode Centennial Charmed in an alternate reality.

[edit] Season 5

Cole Turner (portrayed by Julian McMahon). As Cole was a demon with a soul, his vanquish sent him to a demonic Wasteland, but alive (as opposed to turned into a concentration of energy like other demons), and eventually learned to capture the vanquished demons' powers, and returned to the real world in last season finale^[29]. He resurfaced when Phoebe was filing for divorce^[30]. While Phoebe still loved Cole, she wanted him as far away as possible^[31]. That's where the Avatars, powerful beings beyond good and evil, found him. When he refused to join them, they gave him immortality against his own will^[32]. After some time spent self-pitying, Cole finally attacked the Halliwells, first using the law and sending Paige to prison, so he could get their Manor and get to the Nexus ^[33], then becoming an Avatar and changing the reality to the one where Paige never came along. Paige managed to get to this reality as well, found Piper and Phoebe and together, they vanquished Cole, as in this reality, he was no longer immortal^[34].

Cole later was seen in the season 7 episode The Seven Year Witch, trapped forever in Limbo as a punishment for his past deeds.

[edit] Season 6

Gideon (portrayed by Gildart Jackson), Sigmund (portrayed by Christopher Neiman) and Barbas (portrayed by Billy Drago). Gideon was the headmaster of the Magic School, set in an alternate plane, and also an Elder, and Sigmund was his assistant. He initially asked the Halliwells for help when some of his teachers and students were decapitated by a headless horseman, and gained their trust^[35]. His motives weren't evil, as he thought he acted for the greater Good. In his opinion, Piper and Leo's son Wyatt was too powerful to be kept alive. His plan was furthermore complicated by the presence of Chris, the second son of Piper and Leo and a future half-whitelighter, who came to save his brother Wyatt from whatever was going to turn him evil in the future. As for Barbas, the demon of fear previously vanquished by the Charmed Ones, he was reconjured by the Tribunal and kept alive since then, partnering with Gideon in the finale^[36]. Gideon managed to make the Halliwells believe Wyatt is going to be made evil by the hosts of a demonic reality TV show, which involved killing witches. After they were vanquished, Gideon killed Sigmund when he was about to tell everything to the Charmed Ones^[37], then sent Leo and Chris in a mirror dimension where Evil ruled, as well as Paige and Phoebe, to get them out of his way. In the evil world, the good Barbas told that Gideon was behind this all along. As Gideon's evil counterpart was caught trying to kill Wyatt, Phoebes and Paiges of both worlds tried to vanquish him, and the balance between Good and Evil shifted^[38]. The Good world became too good, which affected Piper and then, by a spell she wrote under Barbas' influence, Phoebe and Paige. Leo managed to turn them back to normal and, after Chris died by Gideon's hands, Leo went to avenge his death, killing Gideon and restoring the balance in the process^[39].

Barbas was vanquished for good in the next season premiere.

[edit] Season 7

The Avatars (portrayed mainly by Joel Swetow, Patrice Fisher, Ian Anthony Dale and, since the seventh episode, Brian Krause). Previously featured in season 5, they came back for Leo. They plan was to change the world into an Utopia, which will imply that, as the demon Zankou puts it, "[the Elders] will be out, and [the demons] will be gone"^[40]. After continuously haunting a very unstable Leo as flying heads^[41], they put the other Elders against him with help of a possessor demon^[42], and when Piper and Phoebe died after a demon attack, the avatar Alpha finally showed up to Leo as he was in a vision and, after explaining what they were about and what powers they possessed, made him join them as the only way to bring Phoebe and Piper back to life^[43]. He had tough time hiding the fact that he's an Avatar, as the Halliwells thought they were a threat and Paige's boyfriend Kyle Brody was willing to kill them^[44], but the truth eventually came out in a good way, as the Seer Kira explained the Halliwells that the Avatars would rid the world of demons^[45]. Joining forces with them, the Charmed Ones helped them bring the Utopia^[46]. Leo then realized that Avatars took away people's free will, changing their ways of thinking and killing those who caused conflict. Leo sacrificed himself so that the Charmed Ones would realize how bad Utopia is, and when they finally did, they teamed up wth the demon Zankou and threatened to kill the Avatars if they don't revert the world back to the way it was. So they did, the world got back as it was, Leo was revived, and the Charmed Ones got a new villain on their hands: Zankou. The Avatars left and weren't heard of again^[47], however one of them, played by Bianca Chiminello, briefly appeared in season 8, summoned by Piper.

Zankou (portrayed by Oded Fehr). He was the Source's rival that the Source ordered to lock up as he was too powerful. He was freed when the demons learned that the Seer Kira was about to tell the Halliwells about the Avatars, as an easy way to eliminate them all^[45]. After a failed attempt on killing the temporarily powerless Piper and Phoebe, and telling the Elders Leo was an Avatar^[40], he enlisted Kyle Brody^[46], then Leo and finally the Charmed Ones' help to bring down the Utopia, which he succeeded.^[47] Some time later, he lured everyone out of the Manor and went to the basement, searching for the Nexus. As the Charmed Ones arrived, he already found it, but the Shadow went into Leo, who by then had become a mortal, and the Shadow couldn't choose between Good and Evil, so it went inside a neutral being^[48]. Since then, he plotted on stealing the Book of Shadows, so that the sisters couldn't outdo him again. He did so by enlisting the help of an alchemist and make the Charmed Ones confront the dead bodies of the innocents they didn't save. As their emotions were tied to their powers and therefore to the Book, Zankou could steal it while the Charmed Ones' self-confidence went down^[49]. When he took in the Shadow, the Charmed Ones, hidden at Magic School, expelled it from him with a spell. Realizing he couldn't do it without disempowering them, Zankou proceeded on stealing Piper and Phoebe's powers. The Charmed Ones' could lure him away by channeling Prue's power of astral projection, then got back to the attic and converted the Book back. As Zankou finally opened the Nexus and ansorbed the Shadow, the Charmed Ones (still using their astral projections) recited the spell that would destroy the Nexus. The Shadow exploded and Zankou was blown up with it. The Charmed Ones used this opportunity to fake their deaths and, by glamouring themselves, to start a new life^[50].

Inspector Sheridan (portrayed by Jenya Lano). While hardly a demonic threat, she was the Halliwells' nemesis in the real world. After the future Chris' death in the last season finale, she suspected there was something wrong with the Halliwells, and forced Darryl Morris to help her investigate on the sisters^[41]. She was put in a coma by Kyle Brody^[51], then Kyle, having become a Whitelighter, erased her memory^[52]. However, it was triggered when Piper and the demon Imara posing as Phoebe killed two demons posing as lawyers, and she went back on their case^[53]. The Homeland Security agent Keyes finally revealed their secret to her, and she volunteered to infiltrate the Manor equipped with a hidden camera. However, the house was desert safe for Zankou, who killed her with an energy ball as soon as he saw her^[50].

[edit] Season 8

The Triad (portrayed by Soren Oliver, Steven J. Oliver and Leland Crooke), Dumain (portrayed by Anthony Cistaro), Billie Jenkins (portrayed by Kaley Cuoco) and Christy Jenkins (portrayed by Marnette Patterson). After finally starting a new life, Paige got a call from a new charge, Billie, whom she found. Billie was introduced as a newbie witch, and when she found out the Charmed Ones' weren't dead, she asked them to teach her the craft, for what she wouldn't tell a soul about who they were^[54][55]. The Charmed Ones accepted her under their roof and the teaching went through good and bad. While fighting a demon, Billy got to face a painful memory, the one where her sister got abducted by the demon that looked like the one she was fighting^[56]. She successfully tracked the captor down, but a demonic bounty hunter Burke imprisoned him in ice, so he couldn't tell anyone. Billie couldn't get any information from Burke neither, as he asked for immunity in exchange for freezing Leo, who was destined to die this day, then got vanquished himself by an unknown force^[57]. Billie later realized she had a new power, the power of projection which made everything she wished come true without a spell^[58]. She finally found her sister, who was in an almost catatonic state but went better then^[59]. What she didn't know, was that her sister was working with the surprisingly alive Triad. The Charmed Ones kill two of the Triad Members, but Candor, the last one to stay alive, set Christy on a mission to get Billie to their side, as Billie was "the ultimate power" (similarly, Christy was referred to by the demons as "The Key", as in "The key to the ultimate power", being able to truly bond with Billie and make her switch)^[60]. After Candor got Billie and Christy's parent killed, Christy killed him and convinced Billie it was the Halliwell's fault their parents died^[61][62]. Billie truly believed it when Christy helped her get into the Charmed Ones' dreams and see they don't care about the Greater Good anymore^[63]. Christy inroduced Billie to Dumain, whom she was considering as an imaginary friend, who confirms Christy's suspicions of the Charmed Ones' to Billie and makes them pass for selfish and corrupted by power. After performing some tricks on the Charmed Ones' to make the Magical Community believe the Chamed Ones abandoned them, he succeeded to turn Billy against them. The Charmed Ones escaped to the Underworld with their Book of Shadows^[64], where they were spotted by the demons Nomed and Zohar, who later revealed to them that the Triad always dies only to be reborn in spiritual form, and to trully kill them is to kill them while they aren't corporeal yet. After a first fight against the Jenkins, the Halliwells accepted the demons' help. Zohar and Nomed then revealed to the Halliwells the Triad and Dumain's plan: they wanted to get the Hollow in Billie and Christy. Dumain kidnapped Wyatt so that the Jenkins could summon the Hollow. The Halliwells and the Jenkins all summoned the Hollow at the same time, it splitted and infected all of them. the Halliwells used its powers to kill the Triad, then went back to the Manor for a final confrontation. In a big fight that ensued, the Manor was destroyed, and Piper and Billie were the only one left alive. Leo was returned by the Angel of Destiny^[65] and together, they used the Cupid Coop's ring to travel back in time to get Patty and Penny, then to the fight, and Piper, Penny and Patty banished the Hollow before the Manor was destroyed. Billie, who by then had already understood she had been manipulated by the Triad all along, tried to make Christy switch to Good, but to no avail. As Dumain and Christy used Coop's ring to get back in time to warn the Triad about the Halliwells summoning the Hollow at the same time, the Halliwells got back to that same moment as well, using Billie's projection power. After the Charmed Ones killed the Triad and both Dumains (past and present), Billie tried one last time to sway Christy to her side, but instead Christy threw a fireball at her. Billie deflected it and Christy was incinerated.

Billie was later seen in flashforwards, as a babysitter for Phoebe and Coop's children^[66].

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