Angel/Supernatural

Like we're actually a family? When what we really are are a bunch of glowing lights filled with self-loathing or delusions of grandeur. Or both.	”	
 	 	
Angels are powerful celestial beings of light created by God and as of recently, the Nephilim Jack Kline, his grandson. They are responsible of maintaining Heaven and guard the souls of righteous humans. They power Heaven and at full potential they are imbued with considerable power. Angels also have connections to Prophets.
Angels are one of the most powerful entities in the series, generally outclassing most demons, monsters, ghosts, and other supernatural creatures with few exceptions.
Upon death, all angels are sent to a realm called The Empty, where they, along with all deceased demons, slumber for eternity.
It was recently revealed that due to the fall and the resulting fighting, angels are now an endangered species. In fact, there are less than a dozen left in Creation.
After Heaven was attacked by an entity called The Shadow, the angel, Duma overthrew Naomi, the current leader of Heaven at the time and took control. Duma manipulated Jack into turning a few humans into angels by taking their souls and forge them into angels, slightly increasing the number of angels until Castiel killed her.
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== Characteristics ==
“	Perfect. Like a marble statue. Cold... no choice... only obedience.	”
 	 	
As warriors of God and agents of fate, angels are extremely powerful beings in the supernatural world. They are superhuman beings superior to mortals in both power and intelligence. Their true spiritual forms or visages prove overwhelming to most mortals; however, some 'special' people can view their true visages without suffering lasting effects; demons also can't look at them in their true form without damaging their hosts. A key example of this: Pamela Barnes used her psychic powers to see the true form of Castiel and her eyes burned out as a result of her actions; human souls are able to see them in their true forms. Although not physically seen as they have no physical presence or being of their own, an angel's presence has been seen or manifested on earth as a brilliant white light (or a bluish luminous smoke if they have no wings). Respectively, angels in their true form do have large swan-like wings on their backs which can range in number anywhere from two to six. In Lazarus Rising, Castiel displays his wings through his shadow.
When angels die after being stabbed by an angel blade, shadows of their wings are burned into the surface on which they are lying, as seen in the opening of On The Head Of A Pin. Also, in Dark Side of the Moon, Zachariah tells Dean and Sam that in his true form he has six wings and four faces, one of them being that of a lion. He also explains that the reason that humans can't see an angel's wings while in a vessel is because their senses are limited or too dull to perceive them. However, as shown in Stranger in a Strange Land, angels always see each other's true form in any vessels. In Sacrifice, an angel's fiery wings were physically seen for the first time.
After Metatron expelled the angels from Heaven, most of them lost their wings as a result. When Gadreel displays his wings to three demons, they are shown to be damaged. Since the spell is irreversible, most angels known have broken wings.
An angel's true form also appear to be very large in height, as evidenced when Castiel states that his true form is "approximately the size of your Chrysler building". However, according to Castiel and Metatron, angels may actually just be waves and lights of pure energy, and how this fits in with their true form, is unknown. Lucifer's true form was so intense it obliterated an entire convent, and as Lucifer rose from the cage, Sam and Dean were able to see an immense white light flash from the perspective of an airplane overhead.
Anna Milton describes angels as being emotionless, not permitted to have feelings or free will. She even goes on to compare angels to marble statues, in the sense that they're both cold, loyal and have no choice. However, Castiel has shown loyalty to the Winchester brothers and regret when he was ordered to kill Anna. Gabriel has shown anger and love towards his brothers, Michael and Lucifer, in Changing Channels. In Dark Side of the Moon, Zachariah shows clear signs of anger, pettiness and arrogance. In Hammer of the Gods, Lucifer is saddened and sheds tears over having supposedly killed Gabriel. In My Bloody Valentine, Cupids are shown to be very cheerful, emotional, and love giving hugs as opposed to handshakes. To be more accurate, angels are very much capable of both developing human emotions and flaws of character, rather the majority of them choose not to show or admit to having emotions as emotions are considered doorways to doubt as well as a weakness, and they are not permitted to display emotions for the same reasons.
Angels consider themselves family to one another, referring to each other as brothers and sisters. The angels also refer to God as their father. Even though God is their 'father', all angels except the archangels, Metatron, and Gadreel have never actually seen God or his true face. According to Anna Milton, only four angels have actually met God and seen his true face. This number later proves to be false, and six angels are said to have met him. This increased to seven after Castiel meets him.
Due to their age and power, many angels look down upon humans and see them as inferior. Lucifer rebelled because God loved humans, a flawed and arrogant species, more than angels. Some angels continued to hold resentment to this many thousands of years later, as evidenced by Uriel and his followers. Despite this, angels guard the souls in Heaven, and as shown in What's Up, Tiger Mommy? refuse to pawn them, even for the Word of God. Feelings of resentment aren't universal, as some angels such as Samandriel, Joshua and Inias are much more civil with humans, while others, such as Anna, Gabriel, and (eventually) Metatron, consider them better than angels because, despite their inherent flaws, a lot of them strive to do good.
While outside of a vessel, angels either appear to humans as a brilliant white light, or a bluish luminous smoke (depending if they have their wings or not). While within a vessel, angels only have their powers thanks to their grace. Without it, they are just like humans and become subject to the process of life and death, as stated by Metatron when he removed Castiel's grace. Anna stated that removing it voluntarily is very painful, comparable to a human removing a kidney.
Unlike humans, because they lack physical bodies, angels do not reproduce while in their true forms, as reproduction is a purely physical process. Anna tells Dean that one of the things that humans have that angels don't is sex. Dean even describes angels as "Ken dolls" meaning that the only way for them to have sex is to possess a human. Only while within a human vessel can angels mate with humans, resulting in Nephilim. It has not been seen if they can mate with other angels in human vessels or what the resulting offspring would be.
The episode Torn and Frayed has shown that after a sufficient amount of torture, angels can be broken and their "operating system" be accessed. Angels have secret knowledge pre-programmed into their being that they aren't even aware of. The screams an angel makes when tortured sends out ripples that cause strange occurrences, such a glass bottle shattering or a bush lighting on fire.
When angels fall from Heaven, they appear like meteors to the human eye. Anna explained that when she told her story to the Winchesters, and it was demonstrated when all the angels fell from Heaven, due to Metatron's spell. However, being expelled from Heaven due to this spell, doesn't deny angels their Heavenly powers, although it burns off their wings, which denies them teleportation, and forces them to manifest as bluish luminous smoke.
Similar to demons, Angels possessing a vessel can change the eye color of their vessel; in the case of Angels, they can cause the vessel's eyes to turn bright blue. Unlike demons however, Angels rarely do this so as not to draw attention to themselves and only do so in stressful or combat situations. Among Angels, the Archangel Lucifer is unique as his vessel's eyes glow red instead of blue.
Most angels, when possessing vessels, often dress in suits or formal wear. There are a few exceptions. Sometimes, if the vessel they possess did not originally wear something formal, the angel would change. An example of this being Raphael and Alternate Michael.
Many angels have names of Hebrew origin. Many angels also have names ending in "el". Examples include: Castiel, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Hael, Gadreel, Uriel, Rachel, Nithael, Jophiel, Ambriel, Nathaniel, Mirabel, Asariel, Muriel, and Samandriel.
Angels have also been shown to not be distressed from witnessing violence and gore. While humans can get frightened and traumatized by witnessing violence, angels appear to be typically unphased when seeing bloodshed and gore.
Angels are capable of sharing control with their vessels, though they typically don't do so. Gadreel shared control with Sam Winchester, though to hide his presence, he would erase Sam's memory each time of Gadreel having control and anything revealing that might've happened in that time. When Gadreel would switch back, Sam would often act as if he had never been interrupted, sometimes completing sentences that he had started before Gadreel took over. Sam later told Castiel that it was more like they were sharing headspace than a full possession. On another occasion, Lucifer willingly relinquished control to Castiel so that he could help the other angels to follow through with their plan to fight the Darkness. On a unique occasion, the Apocalypse World Michael was able to power his vessel Dean Winchester from within while Dean remained in control in order for Dean to fight and kill Lucifer. After escaping from Lucifer's Cage, the Main Universe Michael willingly shared control with his vessel Adam Milligan. In this case, Michael was able to manifest to Adam as an exact duplicate of his vessel to communicate with him even while Adam was in control and Adam in turn appeared to be aware of the world around him even when Michael was in charge, resulting in a seamless transition between archangel and vessel when they traded places.
== Types of Angels ==
* Archangels
* Grigori
* Seraphim
* Rit Zien
* Regular Angels
* Cherubim
* Intelligence Angels
* Fallen Angels
* Nephilim
: Main article: Archangels
The Archangels are the four eldest and most powerful of God's angels, they were the only ones to have seen his face, with the exception of Castiel, Metatron and Gadreel. They are far more powerful than any other angelic rank, being imbued with near unimaginable and immeasurable power and authority. Furthermore, they are some of the strongest beings in all of Creation. The four archangels were created in this specific order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel. The archangel Michael is the only one alive in the main universe. Castiel killed Raphael when the angel was imbued with the power of 40 million souls from Purgatory. Gabriel was killed by the Michael from Apocalypse World, while trying to hold him off so Dean and Sam could escape. While empowered by this Michael who he was acting as a vessel to, Dean Winchester killed Lucifer. Alternate Michael was killed by Jack.
Before creation, together with God, the archangels took part in a terrible war with Amara. This war resulted in The Darkness being locked away by the Mark of Cain.
Currently the only known living archangel in any universe is the Main Universe Michael. Locked in Lucifer's Cage since the end of the Apocalypse, Michael escaped after God threw open every door in Hell and currently wanders the Earth in the body of his vessel Adam Milligan with whom Michael shares control. However, Michael has turned against God after learning of his various betrayals, though Michael refuses to help fight his father directly.
== Known Angels ==
* Castiel, an Angel, the one who pulled Dean out of Hell
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=== Archangels ===
* Michael (deceased)
* Lucifer (deceased)
* Raphael (deceased)
* Gabriel (deceased)
=== Seraphim ===
* Akobel (deceased)
* Castiel
=== High-Tier Angels ===
* Metatron (formerly, deceased)
* Anna Milton (deceased)
* Gadreel (deceased)
* Ishim (deceased)
* Virgil (trapped in alternate world, deceased)
* Zachariah (deceased)
=== Intelligence Angels ===
* Bartholomew (deceased)
* Esper (deceased)
* Ion (deceased)
* Naomi
* Naomi's Intelligence Soldier
* Nathaniel
=== Angels (A-M) ===
* Abner (deceased)
* Adina (formerly, deceased)
* Asariel
* Azrael (mentioned only, deceased)
* Balthazar (deceased)
* Bartholomew's Assistant (deceased)
* Benjamin (deceased)
* Benjamin (Castiel's Faction)
* Blonde Angel (deceased)
* Conrad
* Constantine (deceased)
* Daniel (deceased)
* Duma (deceased)
* Duma's Henchmen
* Efram (deceased)
* Elijah (deceased)
* Eremiel
* Esther (deceased)
* Ezekiel (mentioned only, deceased)
* Ezra (deceased)
* Farmer Angel
* First Council Member
* Flagstaff
* Glee Club Angel (deceased)
* Hael (deceased)
* Hannah (deceased)
* Head Angel (deceased)
* Hester (deceased)
* Hozai (deceased)
* Indra
* Ingrid
* Inias
* Isaac (mentioned only)
* Jonah (deceased)
* Joshua (deceased)
* Josiah (deceased)
* Kaia's Abductors (deceased)
* Kelly's Attackers (deceased)
* Kelvin (deceased)
* Kim Schortz Angel
* Lily
* Malachi (deceased)
* Mansion Attackers (deceased)
* Mirabel (deceased)
* Miriam (deceased)
* Muriel (deceased)	
=== Angels (N-Z) ===
* Neil
* Nithael (deceased)
* Oren (deceased)
* Pharmacist Angel (deceased)
* Purah
* Rachel (deceased)
* Rebecca (deceased)
* Samandriel (deceased)
* Second Council Member
* Serafina
* Shipyard Attackers (deceased)
* Sophia (mentioned only, deceased)
* Thaddeus (deceased)
* Theo (formerly, deceased)
* Third Council Member
* Transformed Angels
* Tyrus (deceased)
* Uriel (deceased)
* Zuriel
=== Low-Tier Angels ===
* Ambriel (consumed by Amara)
* Anael
=== Nephilim ===
* Jane (deceased)
* Jack Kline
* Queen of Sheba (deceased)
=== Cherubim ===
* Cupid (deceased)
* Cupid
* Gail
* Trucker Cupid (deceased)
=== Rit Zien ===
* Ephraim (deceased)
=== Grigori ===
* Tamiel (deceased)
* Sariel (deceased)
* Kabaiel (deceased)
=== Alternate Timeline Angels ===
* Michael (The End) (mentioned only, erased)
* Lucifer (The End) (erased)
* Castiel (The End) (formerly, erased)
* Castiel (Lebanon) (erased)
* Zachariah (Lebanon) (deceased, erased)
* Castiel (The Trap) (erased)
=== Alternate Reality Angels ===
* Angel Commander (deceased)
* Lucifer (Apocalypse World) (mentioned only, deceased)
* Michael (Apocalypse World) (deceased)
* Zachariah (Apocalypse World) (deceased)
* Zachariah's Henchmen (deceased)
* Prison Camp Commander (deceased)
* Prison Camp Angels (deceased)
* Executioner Angel (deceased)
* Balthazar (Apocalypse World) (mentioned only, deceased)
* Balthazar's Army (deceased)
* Road Attackers (deceased)
* Arthur and Charlie's Captors (deceased)
* Castiel (Apocalypse World) (deceased)
* Gabriel (Apocalypse World) (referenced only, deceased)
* Lucifer (Proverbs 17:3) (deceased)
=== Non-Canon ===
* Azazel (Anime Series) (formerly, turned demon; deceased)
* Abbadon (tie-in-Novels only, deceased)
== Death ==
Upon death, a pair of wings, reflecting the angel's own, are brazed into the wall and floor around them. It is revealed in The Big Empty that angels go to The Empty after death where they are to sleep for all eternity with demons. It was hinted in Byzantium and confirmed in Moriah that Nephilim go to the realm after their own death.
Though they can revive humans from death, angels do not seem to have the power to resurrect other angels, although Raphael thought that the fallen archangel Lucifer might have brought Castiel back in an effort to bring the rebellious angel to his side. God, however, was able to revive angels, as he resurrected Castiel three separate times. Miriam has indicated that the Nephilim Jack, who has the power to do "almost anything", cannot resurrect an angel once they are "all the way dead." However Jack was able to telepathically call out to Castiel even in The Empty, a realm which God was said to not have influence over. The Shadow, the ruler of the Empty is also capable of resurrecting angels, as it did with Castiel. Billie, the current incarnation of Death, has shown the ability to resurrect someone from the Empty as well, bringing back the Nephilim Jack.
When killed by an alternate Michael in Exodus, the archangel Gabriel died the same way as any other angel killed in the series. However in Let the Good Times Roll, when the super-charged Lucifer was killed by Dean Winchester, fire streamed from his fatal wound and his vessel's eyes and mouth before his wings exploded in a burst of fire. After Lucifer's death, he was left surrounded by the burned imprint of his wings like any other dead angel. This different death for Lucifer was possibly due to him being supercharged by Jack's grace at the time that Lucifer was killed.
== Appearances ==
Even though they didn't officially and properly appear until Season 4, Angels, along with Demons, are arguably the most recurring supernatural creatures in the series, appearing in a total of over 100 episodes so far.
* Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting (non-canon, mentioned only)
=== Season 1 ===
* Something Wicked (mentioned in prayer)
* Devil's Trap (mentioned in prayer)
=== Season 2 ===
* Houses of the Holy (mentioned only)
* Tall Tales (first appearance of an Archangel)
=== Season 3 ===
* Sin City (mentioned only)
* Red Sky at Morning (mentioned in prayer)
* Malleus Maleficarum (mentioned only)
* Mystery Spot
* Jus In Bello (mentioned only)
=== Season 4 ===
* Lazarus Rising (first named proper appearance of an angel)
* Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
* In The Beginning
* Metamorphosis (mentioned only)
* Monster Movie (mentioned only)
* It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
* I Know What You Did Last Summer (first appearance of a fallen angel)
* Heaven and Hell
* Criss Angel Is A Douchebag (mentioned only)
* Death Takes A Holiday
* On The Head Of A Pin
* It's A Terrible Life
* The Monster at the End of This Book (first named semi appearance of an Archangel)
* Jump the Shark (mentioned only)
* The Rapture
* When The Levee Breaks
* Lucifer Rising
=== Season 5 ===
* Sympathy for the Devil (first named proper appearance of an Archangel)
* Good God, Y'all
* Free To Be You and Me
* The End
* Fallen Idols (mentioned only)
* I Believe The Children Are Our Future
* Changing Channels
* Abandon All Hope...
* Sam, Interrupted (mentioned only)
* Swap Meat (mentioned only)
* The Song Remains the Same
* My Bloody Valentine (first appearance of a Cherubim)
* Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (mentioned only)
* Dark Side of the Moon
* 99 Problems
* Point of No Return
* Hammer of the Gods
* The Devil You Know (mentioned only)
* Two Minutes to Midnight
* Swan Song (first appearance of a Seraphim)
=== Season 6 ===
* The Third Man
* You Can't Handle The Truth
* Family Matters
* Caged Heat
* Appointment In Samarra
* Like A Virgin
* The French Mistake
* My Heart Will Go On
* Frontierland
* Mommy Dearest
* The Man Who Would Be King
* Let It Bleed
* The Man Who Knew Too Much
=== Season 7 ===
* Meet the New Boss
* Hello, Cruel World
* The Girl Next Door
* Defending Your Life
* Slash Fiction (mentioned only)
* Repo Man
* Out With The Old (mentioned only)
* The Born-Again Identity
* Reading Is Fundamental
* There Will Be Blood (painting only)
* Survival of the Fittest
=== Season 8 ===
* What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
* Blood Brother
* A Little Slice of Kevin
* Hunteri Heroici
* Torn and Frayed
* As Time Goes By (mentioned only)
* Goodbye Stranger
* Taxi Driver
* The Great Escapist
* Clip Show
* Sacrifice	
=== Season 9 ===
* I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
* Devil May Care
* I'm No Angel
* Slumber Party
* Dog Dean Afternoon
* Heaven Can't Wait (first appearance of a Rit Zien)
* Rock and a Hard Place
* Holy Terror
* Road Trip
* First Born
* Captives
* Meta Fiction
* King of the Damned
* Stairway to Heaven
* Do You Believe In Miracles?
=== Season 10 ===
* Black
* Reichenbach
* Soul Survivor
* Fan Fiction (mentioned only)
* Girls, Girls, Girls
* The Things We Left Behind
* The Hunter Games
* There's No Place Like Home (mentioned only)
* The Executioner's Song
* Inside Man
* Angel Heart (first appearance of a Grigori)
* Dark Dynasty
* The Prisoner
* Brother's Keeper
=== Season 11 ===
* Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
* Form and Void
* The Bad Seed
* Baby
* Thin Lizzie (mentioned only)
* Our Little World
* O Brother, Where Art Thou?
* The Devil in the Details
* Into the Mystic
* The Vessel
* Beyond the Mat
* Hell's Angel
* The Chitters (mentioned only)
* Don't Call Me Shurley (mentioned only)
* All in the Family
* We Happy Few
* Alpha and Omega
=== Season 12 ===
* Keep Calm and Carry On
* Mamma Mia
* The Foundry
* American Nightmare (mentioned only)
* The One You've Been Waiting For (mentioned only)
* Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox (mentioned only)
* Rock Never Dies
* LOTUS
* First Blood
* Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets
* Stuck in the Middle (With You)
* Family Feud
* Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
* The British Invasion
* The Future
* Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes (mentioned only)
* There's Something About Mary
* Who We Are (mentioned only)
* All Along the Watchtower
=== Season 13 ===
* Lost & Found
* The Rising Son
* The Big Empty
* Advanced Thanatology
* Tombstone
* War of the Worlds
* The Bad Place
* Various & Sundry Villains
* Devil's Bargain
* Good Intentions
* A Most Holy Man (mentioned only)
* Scoobynatural
* The Thing
* Bring 'em Back Alive
* Funeralia
* Unfinished Business
* Beat the Devil
* Exodus
* Let the Good Times Roll
=== Season 14 ===
* Stranger in a Strange Land
* Gods and Monsters
* The Scar
* Mint Condition (mentioned only)
* Nightmare Logic (mentioned only)
* Optimism
* Unhuman Nature
* Byzantium
* The Spear
* Nihilism
* Damaged Goods (mentioned only)
* Prophet and Loss
* Lebanon
* Ouroboros
* Peace of Mind
* Game Night
* Absence
* Jack in the Box
* Moriah
=== Season 15 ===
* Back and to the Future
* Raising Hell
* The Rupture
* Golden Time
* Last Call
* Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
* The Trap
* The Gamblers
* Galaxy Brain
* Destiny's Child
== Trivia ==
* Eric Kripke never originally intended for angels (excluding Lucifer) to appear on the series. In the first three seasons, he had a staunch "no angel policy."
* Season 1 is the only season to not feature an angel.
* So far only seven angels have met God in person: The Archangels, Gadreel, Metatron, and Castiel.
* Angels on the main Earth usually wear business suits or dresses but after the fall, some have taken to wearing casual clothing while the angels of Apocalypse World wear field combat attire.
* When they first appeared, angels were shown to be ignorant of human pop culture (books, movies, TV shows, etc.), and even aspects of speech such as sarcasm and expressions. However, like demons, when an angel possesses a human, they gain all the vessel's memories, which should negate any lack of knowledge they might have had before taking a vessel. It appears that some have adapted after Fall of the Angels, as seen in the case of Miriam.
* Angels of the main reality have lost their ability to teleport, while the angels of Apocalypse World retain their abilities.
* Dean Winchester initially didn't believe in angels, until he met Castiel in Season 4.
** In contrast, Sam did and was amazed that he was right about their existence.
** Mary Winchester also did not believe until she met Anna Milton but her memories were erased until she met Castiel in Season 12.
* With Jack becoming the new God, it is unknown if he created new angels or if his mere presences held off the destruction of Heaven.
* In the Christian religion, there are 9 ranks in the Christian angelic hierarchy: the Seraphim, the Cherubims, the Thrones, the Dominions, the Virtues, the Powers, the Principalities, the Archangels and the Angels:
** The Seraphim are the highest angelic class and they serve as the caretakers of God's throne.
** The Cherubim guard the way to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden and the throne of God.
** The Thrones are living symbols of God's justice and authority.
** The Dominions regulate the duties of lower angels.
** The Virtues supervise the movements of the heavenly bodies in order to ensure that the cosmos remains in order.
** The Powers are the bearers of conscience and the keepers of history. They are also the warrior angels created to be completely loyal to God.
** The Principalities preside over the bands of angels and charge them with fulfilling the divine ministry.
** The Archangels are the administrators of duties for the angels and they are also their commanders.
** The Angels are the lowest order of the angels. They are sent as messengers to mankind.
* Castiel has noted that Benjamin is an "angel" as opposed to "male" or "female," suggesting angels are non-binary/genderless, despite their usage of masculine and feminine pronouns.
== Powers and Abilities ==
As warriors of God and agents of Fate, Angels are powerful beings in the supernatural world, possessing a wide range of abilities that vary from Angel to Angel depending on the class of the Angel. Angels get their power from their grace and wings. Their grace supplies them with a certain amount of enochian magic and the condition of wings affect their overall strength and abilities.
=== Low-tier Powers ===
Common powers granted to all angels with varying levels of effectiveness.
* Angelic Possession - Similar to demons, angels require a vessel while on Earth. However, they must have the vessel's permission before they can take control. Gadreel states that even once they are possessed, the vessel can expel the angel at any one but this presumably does not apply for all angels. Angels can only continue to possess humans of a specific bloodline otherwise their vessels will be unable to contain the angel and explode. This goes even more so for archangels as any vessel they possess that is not their true vessel will begin to deteriorate.
* Astral Projection - Angels can project shadowy forms of their wings onto surfaces at will. If one is killed by Angel Blades, its wings are burned onto the surface on which they died.
* Dream Walking - Angels can appear in people's dreams, they usually use this to communicate, when they can't find the person they're looking for, or want to talk privately. Lucifer was able to talk to his future vessels in their dreams.
* Electromagnetic Interference - Angels can manipulate electrical appliances. Castiel caused a dozen car alarms to stop by raising his hand.
* Flight - When angels are disembodied on Earth, they can fly anywhere they desire, usually in the form of bright smoke or pure light.
* Immortality - Angels do not age and cannot be killed by any ailment or mortal damage. Some angels have existed since the beginning of time.
* Invulnerability - To date, the only things capable of killing angels are Angel Blades, Holy Fire, a stronger angel, Death, God, Amara, and Leviathans. Archangels have even fewer weaknesses, as Michael wasn't killed by Holy Fire, and they can only be killed conventionally by Archangel Blades, as an Angel Blade was unable to kill one. It has been stated that Death's Scythe can kill angels.
* Localization - Angels can localize any human who is not protected by enochian sigils.
* Limited Cosmic Awareness - All angels have a certain degree of knowledge and awareness of the universe. They have knowledge of demons, other angels, symbols, spells, artifacts, prophets, nephilim and more. They also generally have awareness of the level of power a being has.
** Multilingualism - Due to their age, angels are proficient in most, if not all, languages ever spoken on earth. Castiel proven to be proficient in Latin and Ancient Canaanite, both dead languages, and Alternate Michael succeeded to quote a verse from the Koran in perfect Arabic.
* Protective Charm - An angel can protect an individual from most forms of physical damage. This degree of protection is linked to an angel's power. Castiel was able to prevent his vessel Jimmy Novak from burning his hand in a pot of boiling water as a sign of faith. Raphael was capable of making Crowley immune to Castiel's smiting.
* Pyrokinesis - Castiel displays the ability to burn through ropes holding him, even before he becomes a Seraph.
* Regeneration - If an angel's vessel is damaged, it will repair itself nearly instantly unless the wound was caused by angelic weaponry.
* Reality Warping - Angels are powerful enough to bend reality to their will. The more powerful the angel, the greater their capability. Even angels cut off from Heaven possess this power to some extent, as Castiel was able to carve the Enochian Sigil into Sam and Dean's ribs simply by touching their chests. As a regular angel, Castiel was able to remove the existence of a door to prevent Dean from escaping the "beautiful room". Other examples include when Zachariah broke and repaired Sam's legs by pointing at them, removing a persons lungs with no incisions or Castiel assembling a board game by shaking the box. Archangels possess this power to the greatest extent, being able to conjure items and beings out of nothing. The most notable example is Gabriel, who lived on Earth by masquerading as a trickster named Loki.
* Sedation - Angels are able to render humans unconscious with a touch.
* Smiting - Perhaps an angel's most versatile and terrifying weapon, smiting (sometimes known as the Killing Touch) allows the angel to kill almost any demon, monster and even humans with a touch. Smiting is often exhibited when angels place their hands or palms on their adversaries' face, forehead, or mouth.
* Super Stamina - Angels never tire, and they do not require food, water, oxygen, or sleep to sustain themselves.
* Super Strength - Once possessing a vessel, angels use their power to dramatically increase the physical strength threshold of their hosts. Their strength varies from angel to angel, depending on their position within the celestial hierarchy; lesser angels (cherubs, rit zien and common angels) are still considerably powerful and are able to destroy most monsters and regular to mid-level demons, while seraphim, mid-level angels, can destroy all monsters and middle to high-level demons and virtually all lesser angels. Archangels are the most powerful class of angel of all, and one of the most powerful beings in Creation overall. As such, they easily outclass most other supernatural beings with God, Death, Jack and Amara being their only confirmed superiors.
* Super Senses - All angels enhance their vessels' senses to a superhuman level. Angels possess an acute sense of smell. This sense of smell is heightened to the point where they can identify people by smelling their body, bone or by their blood. Angels can also identify people by sniffing their genes and hormones as well.  Because angels operate on a different plane of existence, they can see atoms and ions which are impossible for humans to see. Angels can hear a humans conversations miles away from them, and they are somehow able to locate any human on the planet and find them, but they can't locate people if they are protected by an Enochian charm or symbol. They also have an amazing sense of taste and are able to taste every molecule in a piece of food.
* Supernatural Perception - Angels are able to see almost all supernatural activity around them. Castiel could even see Reapers, which remain invisible except to those they are seeking. They can also see demons and Hellhounds. They can also sense any location, being, or object not protected by Enochian Symbols. This perception also extends to electromagnetic waves, and can decipher radio modulation signals, as Castiel described himself as a "multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent" in his true form and can thus perceive such energies.
* Telekinesis - Angels are able to telekinetically move beings and objects with their mind. They are able to use this power in a more aggressive manner like demons, but are often not depicted as doing so.
* Telepathy - Angels can read the minds of other angels if they have the permission of the angel. Higher angels such as Seraphs and Archangels can also read humans minds.
* Terrakinesis - Hael was able to carve the Grand Canyon with her powers.
* Temporal Awareness - Angels are capable of becoming aware whenever any alteration occur within the time-stream, allowing them to discern alternate timelines and the like. With this, angels like Castiel and a younger Uriel have identified other time-travelers in this manner.
* Voice Mimicry - Angels can perfectly mimic the voice of mortals.
* Lie Detection - Angels can sense whether or not a human is lying to them if they so wish.
* Spell Casting - Angels can cast spells.
=== Enhanced Powers through connection to Heaven ===
To lower-level angels, certain powers are granted and maintained as long as they stay connected and loyal to Heaven and its rulers. Should they rebel and fall, those powers will wane and eventually vanish in time, and after that all of their powers will eventually vanish, rendering them mortal. However, higher-level angels such as Seraphim, Grigori, the Scribe of God and archangels do not suffer from this condition.
* Enhanced Chronokinesis - Using the power of Heaven, angels are able to enhance their ability to travel through the time if they own the ability.
* Healing - Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously.
* Resurrection - Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject. The only known exception was when Castiel went to Lucifer's cage and only was able to raise Sam's body. His soul remained in the cage for over a year after. Castiel mentions that angels had to lay siege to Hell in order to retrieve Dean. However, if the soul is in Heaven, they apparently don't need to physically retrieve it as Castiel was able to resurrect Bobby Singer without retrieving his soul and Gadreel was able to do the same with Charlie Bradbury. Similar to the Human Body Restoration Ritual, angels can restore human bodies that have been destroyed. This was shown in Point of No Return when Zachariah resurrected Adam Milligan after Sam and Dean burned his remains.
* Smiting - Angels are able to destroy low to mid-level demons with a simple touch, however the demon has to be in a host body, as this doesn't work on their smoke form. However, they can grip a demon's smoke form and force it back into a host body to smite the demon. They can also use it to kill monsters and humans.
=== Mid-tier Powers ===
Abilities more commonly used by higher classes of angels such as the Seraphim, the Grigori and the archangels, although it is possible that these powers can also be used by low level angels. Mid-Tier powers are generally defined by powers that regular angels can access through heaven, where as angels with mid-tier powers do not need a connection to maintain that ability.
* Advanced Astral Projection - Higher angels astral form is more intense than lower angels.
* Advanced Biokinesis - Seraphs can stop people from turning into monsters. Higher-level angels, such as Grigori Tamiel was able to render a man blind with just a touch.
* Advanced Chronokinesis – Higher angels can travel through time and are also able to transport people through time and bring them back without need an external source to power them. 
* Clairsentience - Zachariah from an alternate reality was able to track a Nephilim when it used it's powers. The fallen angel Anna was to detect that Sam has been drinking demon blood.  
* Advanced Dream Walking – The seraph Castiel was able to enter Fred Jones' dream and took Sam with him.
* Advanced Healing - While normal angels possess the ability to heal through their connection to Heaven, Seraphim up possess the power of their own-not needing aforementioned connection.
* Advanced Holy White Light - A particularly lethal power, some angels can unleash a highly concentrated blast of pure energy from their palms to destroy targets. The level of destruction can be controlled. Castiel was able to destroy a door when he was just a regular angel due to using Adina's grace. It is unknown that regular angels can use this power to smite supernatural beings unlike a seraph.
* Advanced Pyrokinesis - Powerful angels can generate and manipulate fire. Michael was proficient enough to kill another angel, Anna, by setting her ablaze from within. Interestingly, this didn't simply destroy the vessel, it also killed the angel, suggesting the fire had a supernatural element to it.
* Advanced Resurrection - Castiel as a Seraph was able to bring people back without needing connection to Heaven. The archangels also posses this. Following the Fall of the Angels, stronger angels still retain this power, though except for the archangels, it is not nearly as easy for them. Gadreel managed to resurrect Sam Winchester and Charlie Bradbury soon after the Fall, though each time, it weakened him. Lucifer was able to resurrect Sam and Maggie without much effort, but Castiel was only able to resurrect Jack for a short period of time and couldn't heal the condition that killed him in the first place. While resurrecting Jack, Castiel had to travel into Heaven itself to find Jack's soul in order to send him back into his body.
* Advanced Smiting - Higher angels are able to smite beings with less effort and stronger than common angels. When higher angels, fell from the grace, they don't lose their ability to smite.
* Advanced Telepathy – By touching Rowena's forehead and concentrating, Castiel was able to see her memories.
* Hypnotism - As a seraph, Castiel was able to hypnotize a Secret Service agent by placing his hand on the man's forehead and giving him a command.
* Invisibility - Seraphs and Cherubs can become invisible to humans.
* Memory Manipulation - Powerful angels are able to erase, restore, alter, and fabricate memories in the minds of humans. Castiel was able to use this power to implant his memories of God's various betrayals into Michael's head despite his powers failing and the strength of the archangel.
* Soul Reading/Channeling - Angels are able to physically interact with and read a human's soul by literally placing their hands inside a person's chest. However, the process is an painful experience for the human and could leave a person with physical and mental damage. They can also use the soul as a source of energy, but the pain is even greater for the human, and there is the risk of an explosion if the angel is not careful.
* Power Negation - Powerful angels such as seraphs are capable of removing psychic powers from human beings permanently. However, the process is very painful and can leave the person mentally damaged.
* Forcing Possession - Powerful angels can hold a demon in smoke form as if it was tangible and force the demon to return to its vessel. This was demonstrated by Castiel on Ellsworth.
=== High-tier Powers ===
Extremely powerful abilities, used only by Heaven's most powerful denizens, the archangels, but Metatron also shares a few of these powers.
* Advanced Terrakinesis - Archangels are able to create severe quakes.
* Conversion - Lucifer created the race of demons by twisting humans souls. It is unknown if other archangels have the capability to do so.
* Cosmic Awareness - All archangels and Metatron have a superhuman knowledge of the universe.
* Electrokinesis - Raphael could produce powerful arcs of electricity that appeared from his back.
* Energy Blasts - Archangels are capable of conjuring and weaponising powerful blueish energy in the form of blasts, as shown when Lucifer attacked the Alternate Michael with a single blue energy blast, which knocked him off his feet but did no damage. Michael then used the same attack with much more power, quickly overwhelming and severely weakening Lucifer.
* Highly Advanced Chronokinesis - Archangels have the most advanced powers over time. Gabriel is able to put someone through a time loop for as long as he wants. Michael was able to effortlessly send two humans back to their time with a single touch. Lucifer was able to transport someone into the past even when other angels had lost their powers. Even while warding was keeping Lucifer from entering the location himself, he was still able to get the person there.
* Highly Advanced Holy White Light - Archangels can blast nearly anything into oblivion with their white light. They can also control this power from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it.
* Highly Advanced Reality Warping - Like some Angels and Seraphs, Archangels can alter reality, albeit to a greater degree. This ability is better demonstrated by the archangel Gabriel, who can create anything he wants out of thin air and can even put people in a TV universe.
** Conjuration - Gabriel is able create things out of thin air.
* Immunity - Michael has displayed a limited immunity to holy fire as it only hurts him rather than being fatal. Lucifer has displayed immunity to the Colt, however it did cause him temporary pain. He could also only be temporarily contained by a combination of warding and holy fire.
* Mental Manipulation - Metatron was able to implant Castiel's mind of every book, movie and TV show he had encountered with a touch when he was connected to Angel Tablet.
* Molecular Combustion - Archangels are able to render beings, including lower angels, down to their component molecules, causing them to explode. Both Raphael and Lucifer have displayed this power as did Castiel while powered by the souls of Purgatory. Lucifer regularly used this to kill offending angels and demons.
* Power Augmentation - Lucifer's presence on Earth greatly enhanced the powers of Jesse Turner.
* Power Granting - Raphael was able to make Crowley immune from angelic smiting of a seraph. Gabriel was able to grant the beautiful women he created for Dean super strength. While Dean acted as his vessel but remained in control of himself, the Alternate Michael was able to grant Dean his abilities to fight and kill Lucifer. In addition, he granted Dean the ability to wield the archangel blade to kill Lucifer, a weapon that normally could only be used to kill an archangel in the hands of another archangel. While talking with Castiel, Lucifer mentioned giving the Princes of Hell their powers when he first created them and thus being confused by the source of the powers Asmodeus had that Lucifer didn't give him.
* Precognition - Lucifer and Michael are able to see a glimpse of the future.
* Shapeshifting - Lucifer was able to take multiple forms while not in a vessel, and while in vessel, Gabriel could also do this. When the angels fell in Season 9, they took the form of their grace. Gadreel was able to appear as Dean in Sam's head.
* Thermokinesis - Lucifer demonstrated the ability to freeze a pane of glass with his breath. His presence can cause an entire town to drop in temperature. Michael could do the opposite and caused a door handle to heat up intensely. Lucifer later showed the ability to heat up the Supernatural Handcuffs to the point that they melted.
* Weather Manipulation - Raphael was able to generate storms that caused blackouts over the entire Eastern Seaboard. Lucifer unleashed incredibly fierce winds with his release and also causes thunder when summoned.
* Exorcism - Lucifer at least was capable of exorcising demons and sending them back to Hell with just a snap of his fingers.
* Portal Creation - Through the use of spells, Raphael, Lucifer and the Apocalypse World Michael could open portals and rifts to alternate universes. With just a snap of his fingers, the Main Universe Michael could open a twelve-hour rift to Purgatory while Raphael needed the help of a spell uncovered by Crowley and Castiel as part of their own plans.
=== Combined Host ===
When angels act together, they are capable of feats not normally achievable by individuals.
* Capture - Angels disabled and abducted Alastair, who was powerful enough to overpower regular angels in an individual fight, after the demon's failed attempt to kill Reapers to break a seal.
* Combined Smiting - The angels of Heaven are able to combine their powers into an extremely powerful focused smite. This was shown when all the angel in Heaven smited Amara in a single unified blow and believed that not even she could survive an attack of such magnitude. Despite the attack proving not to be fatal to her, it did seem to somewhat weaken her and she did need magical assistance, from Rowena, to help her recover. Also, a result of the smiting caused Dean to become ill from smiting sickness, if he entered the area the smiting took place. The angels performed this attack again on Amara in God's war against her.
* Angel Barrier Removal - A group of six angels were able to combine their power to perform a ritual to heat up and melt the angel warding on a ship. Though this took time and effort and they only came close to breaking through the warding before they were killed.
=== Unique Powers ===
* Matchmaking - Certain types of angels in the Cherub class, e.g. Cupids, use a special sigil called a Cupid's Bow to bring couples together. Couples touched by a cupid have their hearts marked with an enochian sigil.
* Empathy - Angels in the Rit Zien class can sense another beings emotions and experiences related to pain.
* Unique Smiting - The Rit Zien have a unique method of smiting their victims by vaporizing them completely.
=== Former Powers ===
* Apporting - Angels were able to apport humans and monsters when they had wings.
* Teleportation - Angels are able to travel from one place to another, instantly, without occupying the space in between. However, they require their wings to teleport. They can also summon or send other beings. After the Fall, angels lost the ability to teleport. However, the archangels and Grigori are still able to teleport.
* Chronokinesis - Angels can travel through time, in either direction. They can also take others with them, and just send others without going themselves. However, this is a very difficult ability to master with or without Heaven's assistance. More powerful angels such as Seraphim or Archangels are able to manipulate time with less effort, even when cut off from Heaven. Unfortunately after the Fall, angels lose their ability to travel through time. However, Lucifer is still able to use this power as he still had intact wings.
== Weaknesses ==
When at full power, Angels are supremely powerful entities and have few weaknesses compared to other supernatural beings such as demons or monsters. However, there are many means that can be used against angelic beings. 
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=== Harming, Misleading, Banishing and Trapping ===
* Angelic Exorcism - There is an exorcism chant to expel angels from their human vessels and send them back to heaven. The Whore of Babylon also knew an enochian chant which causes angels severe pain.
* Angel Warding - Angel wards are Enochian sigils that can depower, kill hide someone from them or prevent the entry of an angel in a certain location. When Enochian sigils are placed on human rib cages, they prevent any type of angel from detecting and finding them.
** Angel banishing sigils - These sigils are capable of banishing angels and even archangels alway.
** Angel Depowering Sigil - A sigil capable of depowering an angel. Archangels are significantly weakened though not fully depowered by this.
** Angel Imprisoning Sigil - It could temporarily imprison them. When imprisoned, they can lose their powers temporarily. The sigil also block any sound from inside of the warded room to be heard by any angels in outside of the room.
** Angel Proofing Sigil - It prevents an angel from entering a room, or listening sounds coming from inside.
** Angel Traps - It's another way to trap angels besides Holy Fire circles.
** Angel Suppressing Sigil - It is used to give control of a vessel to the human the angel is inhabiting.
* Magic/Spells - Castiel once stated that if the right spells were cast upon a book, reading it could potentially kill him. Rowena was able to restrain and curse Castiel. She was also able to paralyze Lucifer in a weakened state and banish him to the depths of the ocean.
** Angel Depowering Spell - It is capable of depowering nearby angels if certain trail along with the sigils.
** Expelling Angels Spell - This spell banishes all angels from Heaven, causing them to fall from sky. The spell also burns the wings of angels and weakens them significantly.
* Anti-Christ - A cambion, destined to be anti-christ, is said to be able to char the entire Host of Heaven, yet it is not tested. Only thing a cambion could do so far was turning a cutoff angel from heaven into a toy figure.
* Brain Tinkering - Naomi possessed a drill with which she could remove angels' memories and brainwash them. After being stabbed in the head with the drill, Naomi was believed to be dead but ultimately survived. However, the drill did significant damage, requiring years for Naomi to put her thoughts back together enough to be "mostly there". One of Crowley's demons was able to block at least some of Samandriel's powers by placing large metal spikes into his vessel's brain. They can also break into the angel's "factory settings" through this method.
* Eve - A being older than the angels themselves, she can suppress their powers through her mere presence alone.
* Grace Removal - An angel's grace is what supplies it with Enochian magic, and therefore if it is removed they will be rendered powerless and mortal. Grace can be removed by slitting their throat with an angel blade and drawing it out of their vessel and/or spirit. The grace can then be consumed by any angel or placed inside a vial.
* Hands of God - These items contain a portion of God's power and it can harm an archangel to a certain degree.
* Hexbags - Hexbags can used to prevent angels from detecting and finding someone.
* Hordes of Demons - Masses of demons can immobilize angels rendering them unconscious, like when Crowley's minions demonstrated on Castiel's soldiers. Kipling's demons were also able to beat up and capture Castiel. (Castiel, however, himself stated that he was more embarrassed than hurt.)
* Horsemen - At least when they're inside their human vessels, angels can be affected by the powers of Horsemen such as Famine and Pestilence. The most powerful Horseman, Death, was likely capable of exterminating angels altogether.
* Hyperbolic pulse generators - It is capable of exorcising an angel, including an archangel, from their vessel.
* Lucifer's Cage - This cell can hold any angel without any internal means of escape.
* The Colt - Even the angel Castiel believed that the gun could kill the archangel Lucifer, however it was only able to knock him down and cause him great pain, greater pain than angel-killing bullets, impling that the Colt could ideed kill lower angels. In the non-canon novel Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting, Bobby speculated that the other four beings the colt can't kill are the other three archangels (Gabriel, Raphael and Michael) and God himself, further impling that regular angels are within the grasp of the weapon's powers, but says that maybe Lucifer was just lying since "he is Satan after all, can't be trusted to tell you the time". This book takes place between season 6 and season 7.
* Enochian Brass Knuckles - These magical knuckles can weaken, hurt and prevent an angel to use their powers temporarily. However, the effect is lesser on archangels though it is still capable of hurting them.
* Mark of Cain - The Mark is capable of corrupting even Archangels, as seen with Lucifer. 
* Heaven's Weapons - Lot's Salt can dissolve an archangel's vessel, as it did to Raphael's. All of Heaven's weapons acting together can seriously wound, and might kill, Raphael.
* Weak Vessels - Having a weak vessel prevents an angel to use his full power.
* Very Powerful Psychics - Chip Harrington was powerful enough to telekinetically defeat Sam Winchester and the Seraph Castiel at the same time.
* Sufficient Mechanical Trauma - A sufficient level of mechanical trauma is enough to somewhat effect angels. Miriam was briefly stunned after being smashed in the face with a fire extinguisher. Michael was also briefly knocked out, hitting his head on a rock after being tripped by Kaia Nieves, though Michael was completely off guard and all but recovered within a mere second.
* Vessel Resistence - The special child Sam Winchester took back control of his body and overpowered Lucifer before jumping in the cage after consuming gallons of Demon Blood. Similarly, he took back control to expel Gadreel by just revoking consent of possession. Castiel also took control of himself to stop Lucifer from killing Sam but admitted that he was giving his all to do it. With help from Castiel and Sam, Dean seized back control of himself after locking the Alternate Michael in his subconscious. Dean was able to keep Michael imprisoned for a significant amount of time, something that Castiel admitted took unimaginable strength. Michael only escaped after Dean was knocked unconscious and immediately sought out a new vessel rather than risk remaining in Dean.
=== Killing ===
* Angel Blades - Any angel with the exception of archangels can be killed by stabbing them with an angelic blade in a vital area of their vessel, they can also be used to harm/torture angels in non-vital areas.
** Angel Swords - Works the same as angels blade but for longer ranged combat
** Angel-killing bullets - Bullets forged from melted-down angel blades are capable of killing all angels apart from archangels, although they can still cause mild disconfort to archangels as seen when Dean Winchester briefly held Lucifer back by blasting with hundreds of bullets.
** Archangel Blades - An archangel blade can kill any angel, including an archangel. However, it must be wielded by another archangel to kill an archangel. On rare occasions, the archangel blade can be used to kill an archangel if the wielder is a vessel who is powered by an archangel from within even though the vessel retains control.
* Holy Fire - Encased in a circle of flames created from Holy Oil, the angel is trapped. The trapped angel still can use some of their powers. Touching the flame will kill the vessel and the angel. However, it cannot kill Michael, being only able to banish him.
* Death - As the embodiment of mortality, and one of the most powerful beings who ever came to exist, it is very likely that he could kill angels with ease. In fact, even when Castiel absorbed all of the souls of Purgatory and became the most powerful angel in history, surpassing even archangels, it was to Death that the Winchesters and Bobby turned to in order to kill Castiel. Castiel, in his turn, chose to release Death from the spell they used to control Death rather than risk a confrontation with the Horseman, very likely in acknowledgement of the fact that Death could kill any angel no matter how beefed up they were. Previously, Death voiced sharp contempt towards Lucifer, calling him a brat and a child, in what can easily be seen as an indication that not even archangels could be compared to him in power.
** Billie - As the new Death, Billie easily overpowered Castiel, despite the fact that their confrontation happened when Billie was mortally wounded. It is likely that she could, in effect, kill angels, especially when in full possession of her powers, since she inherited many, and perhaps all, of the abilities of the original Death, who was one of the most powerful beings in the universe.
* Death's Scythe - This weapon is capable of killing angels.
* Energy Focusing Sigil - This spell can kill any angel directly in the path of the exploding angel, atomizing any angels nearby and killing anything else while blowing the whole area up.
* Falling from Heaven - Falling from Heaven as a result of Metatron's spell can be fatal for weaker angels, many angels died from this fall alone, the ones that survived lost their wings.
* High-tier Angels - Stronger angels can overpower a weaker Angel. Archangels are capable of easily killing ordinary angels with their own power. Rit Zien are able to smite wounded angels. A Grigori was able to beat a wingless angel in a fight. Later, Seraphim was able to kill two angels, despite being weakened from torture.
* High-tier Demons - The higher ranking demons are able to fight, overpower, harm, and banish lower and regular level angels. It is open to debate if any demon can kill angels on his own abilities. Alastair shrugged off Castiel's attempts to smite him and severely beat him twice; Lilith, too, was said to have won battles against angels for the seals keeping Lucifer in the cage. The first Knight of Hell, Cain, easily negated Castiel's holy light and similarly defeated him with no problem, as did the Prince of Hell Ramiel. However, killing angels is a much rarer ability. Alastair conceded all he could do to Castiel (after beating him) was sending him back to heaven, and he also said that Lilith, too, did not now how to kill an angel. Ramiel easily beat Castiel, but to inflict the final blow, he employed the Lance of Michael, so it can't be said for sure that he had the power to kill angels on his own. Another of the Princes of Hell, Dagon, did kill several angels with her hands, but it is implied that she was borrowing powers from Lucifer. A third Prince of Hell capable of subduing angels, Asmodeus, was likewise stealing many of his powers from another archangel, Gabriel. However, it's possible that Cain was able to kill angels without resorting to special objects or borrowing someone else's powers; at least that is what is implied when he told Castiel he could end him, though Cain was not bearing any weapon known to work on angels at the moment.
* Lance of Michael - This weapon is capable of poisoning and killing angels of all classes, including archangels.
* Leviathans - Leviathans can negate powers of lower angels and easily kill them.
* The First Blade - The First Blade can kill angels.
* The Shadow - While in The Empty, it easily overpowered Castiel. When it attacked Heaven, The Shadow effortlessly defeated the remaining angels, and was able to possess Naomi and Duma against their will. It left one of the angels in comatose state and according to Naomi, Heaven would have fallen had nothing been done to stop it compelling her to attempt to give in to what it wanted.
* Souls - After consuming millions of souls Castiel became powerful enough to kill thousands of angels in Heaven.
* Primordial Entities - The Darkness, God, and Death can kill any angel effortlessly.
* Lack of Angels in Heaven - Angels are bound to Heaven and serve as a power source for Heaven while in it. If there aren't a sufficient number of lower angels in Heaven (or an archangel) the angels that are in Heaven will burn out in an attempt to maintain it.
* Nephilim - The Nephilim Jane was shown to be stronger than Castiel and Metatron combined as she overpowered them with no visible effort, with them only winning the fight by taking her by surprise from behind.
** Jack Kline - The Nephilim Jack proved to be more than a match for any angel, as he had effortlessly killed countless of them in Apocalypse World with his extreme power. Even Archangels were powerless against him, as he caused severe agony to the alternate reality version of Michael, the most powerful Archangel in existence, with a mere gesture; leading Michael to have to expose his deal with Lucifer (as a means to distract Jack) in order to make the pain stop and forcibly compelled Lucifer into admitting the truth about murdering Jack's friend. Even in a weakened state, Jack effortlessly killed Michael using the power of Enochian magic. Angels are shown to know if their vulnerability to him as they attempted to prevent his birth out of fear that he would use his power for evil purposes and later, after his birth, when pursuing him, communicated with him via angel radio to cause him pain in an effort to keep him from overpowering them. A powerful wave of energy released from the rift opened by Jack and Kaia Nieves was able to explode six nearby angels.
* Heart Removal and Consumption - Jack was able to kill several Grigori by removing and eating their hearts in order to become stronger under the orders of Billie.
== Story ==
=== Early History ===
“	You, celestial being, have been created to be an angel of the Lord.	”
 	 	
Sometime after God came into being, he created four supreme angels called archangels (Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel) who helped him defeat The Darkness in a terrible war. With the archangels' help, God managed to seal his sister away with a Mark, which he entrusted to Lucifer.
With Amara gone, God could finally begin to work and create the existence. God created Heaven and all other angels and began to live among them in Heaven as their home.
After creating humans, God assigned Gadreel to protect his cherished creations in the "Garden of Eden". He then asked all the angels to bow down to humans as his greatest creation and love them more than him. Lucifer, due to the corrupting effect of the Mark, became envious, as he was God's favorite creation before humans, and saw that humans were broken, flawed, and murderous. Lucifer attempted to convince God of the flawed nature of humans, but God didn't listen. Faced with this situation, Lucifer became increasingly desperate. He went to Michael and asked him to stand with him, but Michael refused. Whereas Raphael chose to side with God and Michael, Gabriel, being unable to deal with the constant arguments, fled to Earth, posing as The Trickster, Loki. Michael and Lucifer later fought until, eventually, Michael cast Lucifer out of Heaven. Out of anger against God, Lucifer corrupted a human soul, who would later be known as Lilith, into the first demon. Lucifer then slipped past Gadreel into the garden and poisoned the Earth with his own evil, forcing God to lock Gadreel away (for thousands of years), as he failed to keep Lucifer out of the garden. God then had Michael personally cast Lucifer into Hell, specifically Lucifer's Cage. Lucifer was locked away with over 600 powerful seals, 66 of which needed to be broken for his release. A prophecy states that one day Lucifer will break free, initiating the Apocalypse, and that Michael will kill him and bring paradise to Earth.
Following the failure of Gadreel, and the fall of mankind, God left Heaven. Before he left, God picked the angel Metatron to be his personal scribe, and take down his word. He told the scribe all his secrets, and Metatron wrote them down on various stone tablets. Out of fear that the archangels would steal the information of God from him, Metatron fled to Earth, choosing to live among a Native American Tribe.
Castiel and his garrison tentatively watch the first humans hold dominion over the Earth, as God originally intended. Castiel watched events like the falling of the Tower of Babel and the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah. Castiel's immediate garrison - Anna, Uriel, Hester, Balthazar and Inias - are stationed to protect and watch the Earth. They watch and wait in silence for thousands of years, hearing nothing from God or their superiors in Heaven.
In the 1970s, the angels secretly arranged for John and Mary to fall in love and conceive two children: Sam and Dean. These children were meant to act as perfect vessels for Michael and Lucifer.
Angels also have their own language, Enochian. This language is also known by different beings such as Crowley to an extend.
=== Season 2 ===
The first appearance of an angel/archangel was made in Season 2. Masquerading as the Trickster Loki, Gabriel killed three people at a college while positioning himself as the school janitor. Once Sam and Dean showed up to investigate the deaths, he began to manipulate them into fighting among themselves. Eventually catching on, Sam, Dean, and Bobby attack Gabriel, and Dean stabs him, believing him to be dead. However Gabriel was revealed to have survived, with Dean only stabbing an elaborate illusion.
=== Season 3 ===
Bent on both revenge and teaching Sam a lesson, Gabriel (still masquerading as the trickster) had set up a mystery spot which the boys investigated. Once there, the boys were trapped in a time loop causing the day (which happened to be a Tuesday) to repeat infinitely. Every day, Dean would die and Sam was powerless to stop it from happening. Eventually Sam discovered that Gabriel was to blame for the time loop and confronted him, threatening him and convincing Gabriel to end the cycle. Supposedly he did so, resuming the flow of time and releasing the boys. However, on the first Wednesday after the time loop Dean was killed again, seemingly permanently. Sam spent the next 6 months hunting Gabriel, intent on either bringing Dean back or killing him. Sam eventually found Gabriel who revealed to him that Dean's numerous deaths were to teach him a "lesson", and that the brothers are each other's ultimate weakness. Gabriel was apparently trying to show Sam that nothing is gained from sacrificing themselves for one another, and that the "bad guys" would always use one brother against the other. Sam continued to beg for Gabriel to bring Dean back to life and reset time, and he reluctantly did so.
=== Season 4 ===
In 2008, Dean was killed by Hellhounds under the orders of Lilith. While in Hell, Dean broke the first seal to free Lucifer. Castiel was sent to rescue Dean from Hell. He led a siege against Hell's defenses, along with Uriel and several other angels. Castiel successfully saved Dean, resurrecting him but he was not in time to stop him from breaking the very first seal. Castiel soon revealed himself to Dean and told him of the angels' mission to stop Lucifer from rising. On Earth, the angels tried to stop Lilith from bringing about the Rising of the Witnesses, but they failed, and another seal was broken.
When two witches prepare to summon the demon Samhain - which will break yet another seal - Castiel and Uriel are sent to destroy the town to prevent Samhain's rise. The Winchesters, however, refuse to let them kill everyone in the town, and set out to stop Samhain's summoning themselves. Unfortunately, they fail to prevent the summoning, and though they defeat Samhain, the seal is already broken.
Fallen angel Anna Milton is on Earth, as she "cut" out her grace and fell, and is in psychiatric ward. She has no memory of being an angel but can hear angels speaking in her head on "angel radio". She escapes the psych ward after demons start coming after her. After much searching, Alastair, a demon who is accompanied by two demons, finds her. Castiel and Uriel arrive, and the opposing sides face off. Uriel easily dispatches both of Alastair's guards, while Castiel is overpowered and apprehended by Alastair. Anna regains her grace, and becomes a full-blown angel again. In consequence of her consuming her grace, intense light leaks out of her eyes, and envelopes the room, destroying Alastair's vessel.
The angels manage to save a seal - in this case the attempted killings of two reapers - by tricking Sam and Dean into investigating a town where people have stopped dying. In addition, they capture Alastair. Around this time, seven angels from Castiel's garrison are murdered, and Lilith is immediately suspected.
Castiel and Uriel have Dean, Alastair's former apprentice during his time in Hell, torture Alastair to learn how Lilith is killing the angels. Alastair, however, breaks free, beats up Dean, and almost exorcises Castiel when Sam appears and - after learning from Alastair that Lilith is not behind the deaths of the angels - kills Alastair with his blood-fueled powers. Castiel later discovers that his friend Uriel is the true culprit as well as an agent of Lucifer. Uriel tries to convince Castiel to help him free Lucifer, but Castiel refuses and fights his old friend. Though Uriel gets the upper-hand, Anna appears and stabs him with an angel blade, killing the traitor.
Some time after this, Castiel learns something important and tries to warn Dean, but is captured by the other angels and taken back to Heaven, where he is tortured into obedience. It's later revealed by Zachariah, a higher ranking angel and Castiel's direct superior, that senior management intends on allowing the 66 Seals to break, in order to bring about the Apocalypse. To that end, they abduct Dean to prevent him from stopping Sam in killing Lilith, as Lilith is the final seal. Sam and Dean are Lucifer and Michael's true Vessels respectively, and would be used by the archangels during the fight. The angels believe that the Apocalypse is God's plan, and will cause everlasting paradise on Earth. It's also revealed that God has left Heaven, leaving the archangels in charge to do whatever they wish.
Castiel rebelled and helped Dean escape Zachariah, after banishing him. Castiel took Dean to Chuck Shurley, prophet who foresaw The Apocalypse coming (and who unknown to all was God in disguise). After learning Lilith's location from him, Castiel sent Dean there while he was killed by the archangel Raphael for his desertion. Lucifer was set free by Lilith's death at Sam's hands.
=== Season 5 ===
As planned, Lilith is killed (the last seal) by Sam, and Lucifer is freed. Zachariah is sent to claim Dean as a vessel for Michael but Dean says no to Michael, which impairs "the final charge", making Lucifer unstoppable for the remainder of season 5. Castiel, who had been killed is resurrected by God, who is revealed by the angel Joshua to still be around. Castiel rebels against Heaven and actively helps the Winchesters.
Lucifer also unleashes deadly plagues upon the world, with the intent of destroying humanity.
In My Bloody Valentine, it is revealed that for their true vessels to be born, that Heaven arranges for a Cherubim to make humans fall in love. This was the case for the Winchesters being born.
Throughout the season, Zachariah tries repeatedly to get Dean to say "yes", but Dean continues to refuse and eventually kills Zachariah himself. However, Michael claims the resurrected Adam Milligan (Sam and Dean's half-brother) to be his vessel.
Soon Lucifer makes contact with Sam, revealing that he is his true vessel though like his brother refuses to consent. Anna Milton attempts to stop the Apocalypse on her own by going back in time and killing John and Mary Winchester to prevent Sam's birth. She fails, however, and is killed by Michael. Gabriel resurfaces and tries to help the Winchesters kill Lucifer, but is killed himself. Throughout the season, Castiel, now a fallen angel with limited power works with the Winchesters to stop the Apocalypse.
Finally in Swan Song, Michael - in the vessel of Adam - confronts Lucifer, archangel to archangel. Dean interrupts the fight, along with Bobby and Castiel, and manages to distract the archangels long enough to reach Sam, who is serving as Lucifer's vessel. Sam briefly regains control of his body during the fight and uses his moment of clarity to throw himself/Lucifer and Adam/Michael into Lucifer's Cage, ending the Apocalypse. Castiel, though killed by Lucifer during the final confrontation, is resurrected by God again as a Seraph and he resurrects Bobby, heals Dean and heads back to Heaven to restore order as the new leader now that Michael has been imprisoned.
=== Season 6 ===
In the aftermath of Michael's imprisonment and God's abandonment of Heaven, the angels fall into disarray. They don't know what to do or who to take orders from. Castiel, who had rebelled against Heaven in order to help the Winchesters, returns to Heaven and starts preaching the idea of Free Will to his fellow angels. However, many of the angels can't even grasp the concept. The remaining archangel Raphael confronts Castiel and demands that he kneel and repent for his rebellion. Raphael also plans to release Michael and Lucifer from the Cage, thus restarting the Apocalypse. When Castiel refuses to go along with this, Raphael threatens to destroy him and his followers unless they submit.
Castiel reluctantly makes a pact with the new King of Hell Crowley. Crowley and Castiel go to Hell, which Crowley personally re-designed, and there they plot to open Purgatory and absorb the souls of all the deceased monsters inside. Crowley gives Castiel 50,000 souls, which he uses to initiate a war against Raphael. Castiel also pulls Sam's body out of Lucifer's Cage, but is unaware that he was unable to rescue his soul as well. Despite gaining control of Heaven's Weapons, which the angel Balthazar had stolen from the heavenly vault, Castiel's war goes badly, and he becomes more and more desperate to find Purgatory. When the Winchesters discover what he's been doing, they confront him, and he tries to convince them that he has no other choice but to follow through with his plan. When the brothers refuse to back down, Castiel breaks Sam's 'wall', a barrier put in place by Death between his consciousness and his tormented soul, allowing his horrific memories of Hell to flood his mind and incapacitate him.
Later, Castiel goes back on his deal with Crowley, and after opening Purgatory successfully, takes in all of Purgatory's souls. Unknown to him, he also absorbs the Leviathans. Castiel, utilizing/channeling the souls power essentially becoming god-like, obliterates Raphael.
=== Season 7 ===
Castiel then goes to Heaven, and smites every surviving angel who ever helped Raphael. He informs the remaining angels that he is their father now, and that they must be obedient children or suffer the consequences. He then returns to Earth to begin destroying everything he perceives to be evil. Eventually, realizing the error of his ways, he goes to the Winchesters and Bobby for help. He says that if he were strong enough, he'd "fix" Sam. With their aid, he manages to send the souls back to Purgatory, but the Leviathan remain.
The Leviathan take over his vessel and him, and beat up Dean and Bobby. Then, they leave, and disperse into the water supply, leaving Castiel and his vessel seemingly destroyed. However, he is resurrected yet again, and Castiel awakens without any memory of who or what he is. He goes by the name "Emanuel" and marries the human woman who found him. Dean and Meg are able to remind him of who and what he is, and he, upon re-gaining his memory, tries to save Sam - who's been driven to near insanity by hallucinations of Lucifer - but realizes that the 'wall' has completely crumbled. He then shifts Sam's "pain" (condition) unto himself. While this cures Sam, Castiel is forced to stay at the mental hospital under the protection of Meg.
Meanwhile, back in Heaven, the angels Hester and Inias have taken command of the few angels remaining. When Dean and Sam break the "shell" of The Word of God, a ting is emitted, one that only angels can hear. When Castiel hears it, he awakens, only differently; more timid, calm, and refused to fight. At the same time, Hester and Inias go to Earth to retrieve both the Word and the Prophet Kevin Tran - who has been chosen to be the Keeper of the Word. However, the Winchesters need Kevin to the stop the Leviathan and a conflict ensues between the Winchesters and the angels. The dispute ends when Meg steps in and kills Hester, after which Inias takes charge and agrees to stand down.
Castiel provides Dean and Sam with his blood for the weapon then goes off on his own. When looking for flowers and fruit (flowers come first obviously) he can't hear anything from his garrison. After a long silence, he goes to the home of the Prophet Kevin Tran and finds the entire Garrison dead or in hiding - victims of the Leviathan.
Upon Dean's request, Castiel teleports himself and Dean to the Impala, and he ultimately decides to take part in the fight. Together, the two of them sneak into SucroCorp's lab, where they find Dick Roman and another Leviathan Royce testing a batch of poisoned creamers. Cass douses Royce with Borax as Dean beheads him. He then restrains Dick Roman long enough for Dean to stab him with the Bone Of Righteous Mortal Washed In the Three Bloods of Fallen, killing the Leviathan leader, though he and Dean are transported to Purgatory in the process.
=== Season 8 ===
A repercussion of stabbing Dick with the Anti-Leviathan weapon, both Dean and Castiel are pulled into Purgatory. Heaven's angels are terribly reduced, leaving an unknown amount of angels. An observer and admirer of Castiel, Samandriel, takes a vessel, and contributes in the auctioning of one of the Words of God. For a full year, Castiel survived being hunted by an endless swarm of monsters while regaining his sanity before he somehow escaped.
A new group of angels, led by Naomi, revealed they rescued Castiel from Purgatory. They are keen on keeping track of developments involving the tablets containing the Words of God.
When the angel Samandriel is captured and tortured, he reveals there is an angel tablet to the demon Crowley. Naomi then orders Castiel to kill Samandriel. Castiel, without a choice and without remembering her orders, stabs him with an angel blade, killing him, after Sam, Dean, and himself rescued him from Crowley's demons. While rescuing him and hearing Samandriel being broken, Castiel remembers Naomi torturing him in a similar manner. Naomi later sends Castiel to find the Angel Tablet which is located in one of Lucifer's Crypts. With the help of Meg and the Winchesters, Castiel locates the tablet, but on Naomi's orders, tries to kill Dean. The tablet sets Castiel free and he flees with it to protect it from everyone. The angels are shown to have no luck locating him. Crowley offers a deal between himself and Naomi who he knows, but she disappears before he can even finish.
Naomi later captures Castiel and reveals that he has taken part in many atrocities throughout human history but has had them erased from his mind as he never truly follows his orders. Naomi is forced to flee when Crowley arrives with a gun capable of killing angels as the bullets are made from a melted-down angel blade. Crowley is working with the angel Ion who is disillusioned with Heaven and the angels due to what they are being forced to do. Crowley gets the angel tablet from Castiel, but after he leaves, Castiel manages to kill Ion and escape. At the same time, the Winchesters find Metatron who explains that when God left, the archangels decided to take over everything, a plan that Naomi is apparently still following. Metatron is convinced to help and rescues Kevin Tran from Crowley. Castiel later comes to the Winchesters for help, severely wounded and badly weakened by Crowley.
Metatron eventually comes to Castiel for help after learning the state of Heaven and about him from Kevin Tran. Heaven is in a state of civil war with many factions warring for control. While Naomi had been believed to be the new ruler of Heaven, she is merely one of the many faction leaders. Metatron has decided to seal up Heaven to prevent the war from spilling onto Earth and to force the angels to sit down and hash out their problems. Castiel and Metatron start the trials to seal up Heaven by killing a Nephilim, the child of an angel and a human.
Metatron later revealed to Castiel that the second trial is to retrieve the bow of a cupid. Before they could complete the trial, however, Naomi's agents located the pair. Metatron was captured by Naomi and a host of angels. Castiel pursued the second trial and managed to convince a cupid to give up her bow, thus completing the second trial. Meanwhile, Naomi attempted to uncover Metatron's knowledge of the tablets, but discovered that Metatron was actually planning revenge to all the angels in heaven. The trials Metatron revealed to Castiel were not in fact the trials on the angel tablet to close heaven but a spell to expel all angels from heaven. Naomi rushes to warn Castiel and Dean. The revelation causes Naomi to regret her actions and those of all angels, telling Castiel and Dean that angels are supposed to protect humanity and lost sight of that somewhere along the way.
Trying to discover the truth for himself, Castiel traveled to Heaven, only to find Naomi dead in her office. Metatron confirmed Naomi's revelations and took Castiel's grace, completing the third part of the spell. This turned Castiel human, and caused all angels to fall down to Earth.
=== Season 9 ===
All of the angels have fallen from Heaven in what most humans believe to be a "global meteor shower." Some have taken vessels, but most were still encircling the world looking for vessels. Most blame Castiel for what happened and began looking for him for revenge. Desperate to save Sam, Dean prayed to all angels for help, but only Ezekiel came to help while three come looking for Castiel's location. Dean killed one with an angel blade and banished the other two while Ezekiel took Sam as his vessel to heal both Sam and himself from their injuries. At the same time, an angel named Hael approached and ultimately kidnapped Castiel, planning to possess Castiel in order to become stronger and to fit in on Earth easier. Castiel managed to defeat Hael by crashing her car, but was forced to kill her when she threatened to broadcast to all angels where to look for him.
When Ezekiel was forced to reveal himself to save Sam from Abaddon's demons. His astral projection was similar to that of previous angels, although his wings were noticeably broken. Ezekiel later revealed a faction of angels led by Bartholomew, who is a protegee of Naomi, are hunting down Castiel for revenge and gaining power. Bartholomew is shown to be using an internet preacher with a worldwide following to spread the word to say "Yes" to angels if they come looking for a vessel, allowing him and his faction to gain bodies at a fast rate. He sends angels out to look for Castiel, but after one attacks him, Castiel uses tattoos to hide himself from the angels. Bartholomew then sends out rogue Reapers to look. Dean finds out Castiel thanks to Ezekiel and rescues him, killing two Reapers along the way, but Castiel is killed. Ezekiel resurrects Castiel and later tells Dean that Castiel must leave or he will have to, as if the angels find him, they will attack the Bunker and Sam, Dean, Castiel and Ezekiel will not be able to survive a full incursion. Even though Ezekiel is slowly healing Sam, if he leaves Sam, Sam will die. So Dean is forced to tell Castiel to leave.
Castiel later calls Dean on a case. They discover the angel Ephraim, who'd taken possession of a man who had become deeply religious, so much so that he drove his wife away. Blinded by religious fervor and a desire to serve God, the man let Ephraim into his body. Ephraim began a killing spree, using his abilities of pain-detection to track down the gravely injured or emotionally despondent and using his healing abilities to heal them or his special smiting abilities to give them a quick and virtually painless death, ending their misery. Castiel was forced to kill him.
Metatron returned to Earth to speak to the angel in Sam's body, revealing that he knows the angel possessing Sam is not Ezekiel, but Gadreel. Metatron tells Gadreel he plans to rebuild Heaven and restore it to its former glory. He invites Gadreel to be his second in command, and restore his besmirched name. Gadreel agrees, but Metatron demands a demonstration of his loyalty. He wants those who could oppose him killed, and gives Gadreel a piece of paper with the first target; Kevin Tran. While Castiel is being tortured by Malachi, he learns that Ezekiel was one of the angels who was killed during the angel's expulsion from Heaven. After he escapes, Cass passes this information onto Dean. Dean decides Ezekiel must be expelled and asks Kevin for a spell that will help him speak to a Sam, while repressing the angel. However Gadreel was aware of Dean's plan and knocks him out. Gadreel then finds Kevin in the main bunker room and despite Dean's intervention, he kills Kevin and leaves with the angel and demon tablets. At the same time, the factions led by Malachi and Bartholomew go to war for rule of Heaven, something that is bad as either ruling wouldn't be a good thing.
Gadreel discovers the pop idol Corey is actually possessed by the angel Thaddeus, who tortured him and another angel called Abner during their imprisonment in Heaven. Gadreel later kills him with an angel sword on the orders of Metatron. Metatron demanding test of loyalty, gives Gadreel's another target which turns out to be his friend Abner. The angel Abner possessed an abusive man and was now living a happy family life. Dean, Cass and Crowley later track down the Impala - and Gadreel who has killed Abner. Gadreel is quickly taken hostage and Crowley begins the painful process of accessing the angel's mind. He is able to access Gadreel's "programming" and makes the angel reveal his identity. Castiel is enraged, as he views Gadreel as responsible for everything from the absence of God to the Apocalypse. Crowley offers to possess Sam, and alert Sam to Gadreel's presence, so he can expel the angel. Dean agrees, and gets Castiel to remove Sam's anti-possession tattoo. Crowley then enters Sam's mind and convinces Sam that an angel is possessing him, but Gadreel finds them. A fight ensues but Sam is strong enough and expels Gadreel from his body. Crowley leaves voluntarily. Gadreel returns to the bar where Metatron is, and repossesses his original vessel.
Castiel later learns that a third faction has developed led by an angel named Rebecca. This faction, the Penitents coexist with humanity harmlessly, but are slaughtered by Bartholomew and his followers. Castiel is captured by members of Bartholomew's faction who take him to Bartholomew who wants to ally himself with Castiel now, believing that with Castiel on his side, he can unite all of the angels under his rule. Bartholomew's faction is tracking Metatron who has appeared on Earth at least three times since the Fall, but they are also ruthless, killing any angel that doesn't join them, even harmless factions like the Penitents. Castiel doesn't agree with Bartholomew's methods and after Castiel is forced to kill Bartholomew in self-defense, many of Bartholomew's followers decide to follow Castiel in a less violent way where angels don't kill other angels anymore.
Metatron has Gadreel start killing angels that won't follow him and after an unsuccessful attempt by Sam and Dean to trap Metatron who has attained God-like powers from the Angel Tablet, Castiel amasses an army against Metatron. Both sides work on uniting all the angels against each other, with Gadreel killing Malachi and anyone else who they approach who refuses to join. As Castiel's army is larger than his, Metatron begins using suicide bombers brainwashed to believe they are acting in the name of Castiel to unite all of the angels under himself, succeeding in getting Castiel's faction to abandon him. However, this turns Gadreel against him. While Dean and Sam confront Metatron on Earth, Gadreel and Castiel sneak into Heaven to shatter the angel tablet and Metatron's connection to it to return him to a regular angel.
After being captured, Gadreel sacrifices himself to make Hannah see reason and Castiel manages to find and shatter the tablet, but not before Metatron mortally wounds Dean. Metatron confronts Castiel, not knowing he is secretly broadcasting the entire conversation over "angel radio" and reveals his low opinion of humanity and the angels, causing everyone to turn against him. Metatron is captured and locked in Heaven's dungeon. While the other angels once more turn to Castiel for leadership, all he wants to be is a normal angel again and faces the prospect of dying when his grace burns out unless he replenishes it.
=== Season 10 ===
Following Metatron's defeat and imprisonment, a weakening Castiel returns to Earth while the angels form their own government. According to Metatron, under Hannah's leadership, Heaven is being run better than it has been since God left. Six weeks after Metatron's defeat, Hannah approaches Castiel for help in finding rogue angels and bringing them home. Two of these angels are Daniel and Adina who wish to stay on Earth and live out human lives. Castiel is forced to kill Daniel to save Hannah, but abandons the mission to aid Sam in his efforts to cure Dean who is now a demon. Their trip is interrupted by Adina who attacks the severely-weakened Castiel and attempts to kill him and Hannah. Crowley saves them, taking Adina's grace and killing her. Crowley restores Castiel's health and power with Adina's grace in exchange for him helping to stop Dean for good. After helping to cure Dean, Castiel and Hannah continue on their mission of finding angels to return to Heaven, but an encounter with her vessel's husband causes Hannah to return to Heaven permanently so that Caroline can return to her normal life.
After Dean slaughters a group of humans under the influence of the Mark of Cain, Castiel enlists Ingrid's help to bring Metatron to Earth so he can be questioned in hopes of a cure. Metatron claims knowledge of the cure, but demands that he gets many things in exchange, leading to Dean torturing and nearly killing him for information. Castiel and Sam break in in time to stop him and Castiel returns Metatron to Heaven rather than continue to risk his life. Following this, Castiel takes up an effort to find a cure for Dean, mainly by locating Cain, the previous wielder of the Mark. Castiel's search for Cain leads him to find out that Cain is slaughtering his descendants and Castiel teams up with the Winchesters and Crowley to bring an end to the Father of Murder. Though Cain is so powerful that not even Castiel's holy abilities can harm him, he succeeds in helping draw Cain into a trap, allowing Dean to finally kill him.
Following Dean's condition worsening, Sam and Castiel decide to force Metatron to help, but Hannah refuses to let Castiel into Heaven to get him, knowing Metatron will want his freedom in exchange which can't happen. Teaming up with Bobby Singer, they raid Heaven and break Metatron out. Castiel removes Metatron's grace, rendering him human and he admits that he actually doesn't know of a cure which Castiel can tell is the truth. To stop Sam shooting him, Metatron confesses that there is some of Castiel's grace left and offers to lead him to it. Metatron leads Castiel to his grace in a library, fighting an angry Cupid along the way. However, while they search the books for the grace, Metatron reveals his true plan is to retrieve the grace and the demon tablet and escape. He stuns Castiel and retrieves the tablet, but flees when he sees that Castiel has found his grace. Castiel takes in his grace, regaining his full power and status as a Seraphim, though his wings remain broken. However, he and Sam keep Metatron's escape with the demon tablet from Dean despite worrying about what Metatron can do with the tablet and his freedom.
After getting a call that his vessel's daughter is in the hospital, Castiel discovers that some of the Grigori, long thought wiped-out, have survived and are now feeding off of human souls. Castiel and the Winchesters come into conflict with the Grigori Tamiel who had kidnapped Jimmy Novak's wife, Amelia and had been feeding on her soul for two years. Castiel is able to rescue Amelia, but she is beyond his ability to heal and she sacrifices herself to save her daughter Claire. In the fight that follows, Claire kills Tamiel with his own angel sword, but there are other Grigori out there.
Following the encounter with Tamiel, Castiel continues his efforts to save Dean from the Mark of Cain. He acts as a guard for Charlie Bradbury and Rowena as they attempt to translate the Book of the Damned to use it to save Dean. Charlie eventually escapes to get away from Rowena, but is killed by Eldon Frankenstein. Following her death, Dean goes on a revenge rampage and Castiel attempts and fails to stop him. After decoding the Book of the Damned, Castiel calls on Crowley to help gather the necessary ingredients and watches as Rowena successfully removes the Mark of Cain from Dean's arm. However, unknown to them, the Mark's removal unleashes Amara, a primordial evil that took God and his Archangels to beat. After the Mark is removed, Rowena escapes and puts Castiel under a spell that makes him attack Crowley.
=== Season 11 ===
Under the influence of Rowena's spell, Castiel attacks Crowley who escapes by smoking out. Still under the effects of the spell, Castiel travels to the portal to Heaven for help only to find it gone. Learning of Amara's release, Castiel prays to his siblings for help and Efram and Jonah respond and lead him to a warehouse, explaining that the angels moved the portal after Metatron's escape. However, they have no intention of taking Castiel to Heaven and instead chain him up. They torture him repeatedly for information on Metatron, refusing to believe Castiel when he correctly informs them that Metatron tricked him and escaped.
Finally, Hannah arrives and puts a stop to the torture, but is unable to heal Castiel or break Rowena's spell. Hannah informs Castiel that the alarms in Heaven have gone off for an unknown reason and Castiel informs her of the escape of the Darkness. Hannah asks him about the Winchesters location and Castiel realizes the whole thing is a trick in hopes of getting information out of him. Hannah explains that since he helped Metatron escape, most of the angels hate Castiel now and she is working under orders from the new democracy in charge of Heaven to find out what he knows. When Castiel refuses to cooperate, Efram and Jonah attempt to use a device similar to the one Crowley used to hack Samandriel and Gadreel to hack Castiel's brain. As Hannah distracts the other angels with her objections, Castiel falls back under the influence of Rowena's spell and breaks free, killing Jonah in self-defense. An angry Efram murders Hannah for her interference before Castiel kills him too. Castiel later travels to the Bunker to enlist Sam and Dean's help.
The angels later meet on Earth, aware that Amara plans to take over Heaven. They figure that their leaders won't do anything, so they have to spread the word that they unite and move against the Darkness. When three angels call on Amara to surrender they warn that each and every angel in the sky is ready to smite her with one blow. After Amara kills the angels a blast of heavenly light smashes down. To check if the Darkness survived, the angels sent Ambriel to Earth.
Later, the angels are approached by Lucifer possessing Castiel's vessel. He promises them victory in the war if they accept his help. Amara, fully recovered, strikes Heaven with a powerful wave that knocks every angel off their feet. Amara also kidnaps Lucifer for torture.
Lucifer returns to Heaven weeks later, fully healed and intent on gaining their help. The angels all gather around him armed with angel blades, showing hostility, so Lucifer switches places with Castiel, in hopes that they would listen to him. The angels disregard Castiel also, but Castiel insists that they all have their part in this war, and for Castiel, it's being Lucifer's vessel. The angels are hesitant and wish for God to personally tell them after learning he was on Earth the whole time. Castiel encourages them to help God fight the Darkness, if they so choose, which they finally agree to.
During the battle, Rowena and the witches launch the first attack, weakening Amara's vessel. Once complete, the angels create another combined smite and launch it against Amara, thus weakening her further. Their attack is followed up by the demons' own assault.
However, the battle ends in Amara's favor with God left dying on the floor and Lucifer expelled from his vessel. Convinced the world is going to end and sensing God dying, the angels lock up Heaven and choose not to grant any further assistance, as Castiel soon finds out.
Fortunately, the Darkness reconciles with God and heals him saving both the world and Heaven from destruction.
=== Season 12 ===
The angels are mostly vacant in the first half of season 12. We learn that in 1901, a group of angels, including Castiel, went to a house to destroy a Nephilim. The leader of the angels, Ishim, was lying to them. The alleged 'Nephilim' was a little human girl. The mother of the girl, Lily Sunder, hunted down that group of angels, killing several before the truth came out and Castiel finished it for her. Other than that, the angels have been heard over angel radio after the archangel, Lucifer, got Kelly Kline pregnant.
The main goal of the angels is to get rid of the unborn child, and two angels have already attempted to execute Kelly, only to be stopped by Dagon. The angel Joshua has also decided to take charge of Heaven during the course of this mission, and according to the angel Kelvin, if Castiel helps, he will be forgiven by their siblings and accepted back into Heaven.
The mission led by Joshua is a failure and all angels who partook in it, aside from Castiel, are killed by Dagon.
=== Season 13 ===
Three angels - Conrad, Lily and Miriam - set out to capture Lucifer's newly born son Jack. The three are hindered in their quest by Dean and Sam Winchester, with Conrad and Lily getting banished and Miriam killed.
During The Rising Son, Lucifer and Mary encountered the alternate version of angels in Apocalypse World who are more soldier like. It is revealed by the Angel Commander that Michael killed this world's Lucifer and is the ruler of Apocalypse World. Lucifer kills the angels sent after him but Michael appears and learns of Lucifer being from another world and attacks him, ending with Lucifer being captured by the latter.
During Patience, the essence of Castiel awakes from hearing Jack's telepathic call in an unknown realm and is left confused by his location.
In The Big Empty, Castiel learned from The Shadow that after death, angels along with demons are sent to The Empty to slumber for eternity. Castiel was shocked to learn that every angel who ever died was in the realm. Castiel also became the first angel to ever escape after he annoyed the entity by staying awake and demanding his release.
“	Castiel, the angels... Our numbers were greatly diminished after the fall. No one's made new angels since the dawn of Creation. We're going extinct. You would need a powerful force to make more of us.	”
 	 	
It was seen in War of the Worlds, Michael has made plans to invade the prime Earth after seeing it in the captured Lucifer's mind and has his followers open a Rift using Lucifer's grace. However, it backfires as Lucifer uses it to escape back to his world. On Earth, Castiel learns from an angel named Duma that after the Fall the number of angels has drastically decreased and they are close to extinction. They need Jack to use his powers to replenish their numbers as God has left. Castiel refuses to help them enslave Jack and fights them but is nearly killed until Lucifer makes his appearance and they retreat. Lucifer informs Castiel of Michael before they get captured by Asmodeus.
The angels continue to try and procure Jack as seen in The Bad Place. After Jack visits a Dreamwalker named Derek Swan for help in opening a rift to Apocalypse World, two angels looking for Jack visit Derek soon afterwards and torture him for information about Jack. After Derek directs them to Kaia Nieves, another dreamwalker, the two angels smite him to cover their tracks. However the Winchester's find out about Derek's murder and use it to find Jack who is attempting to rescue Mary from Michael in the Apocalypse World. The two angels who interrogated Derek find Kaia and abduct her to use as a bait to lure Sam, Dean and Jack to them. After they arrive to save Kaia, the female angel attempts to get Jack to come with them but Jack refuses and the angels attempt to kill the Winchester's and take Jack by force. After banishing the female angel, Jack kills the male to stop him from killing Dean. Near Sioux Falls, the female ambushes Sam, Dean, Jack and Kaia and chases them into the Larsen Bros. Shipyard with five other angels as backup. As Sam, Dean, Jack and Kaia flee onto an abandoned cargo ship, Sam sets up warding to keep the angels out but they perform a ritual to gradually destroy the sigils so Jack and Kaia decide to open a rift to Apocalypse World. As the angels are close to breaking through the warding, Jack and Kaia finally open a rift disintegrating the attacking angels in the process and briefly sending the Winchester's to the Bad Place and stranding Jack in the Apocalypse World.
In Various & Sundry Villains, Lucifer and Castiel make their escape but comes to blows, which leaves both wounded.
During Devil's Bargain, Lucifer claimed that since he was around to witness the creation of every angel by God, he not only knows how to build an angel, but also how to restore a fallen angel's wings.
After offering to create new angels and restore the wings of the current angels, Lucifer was made the undisputed ruler of heaven. It is also revealed Gabriel is still alive and held captive by Asmodeus who has started to prepare for the invading Michael.
In Good Intentions, Alternate Bobby mentioned the angels of Apocalypse World were commanded by Michael to exterminate the human race. The remainder of humanity is relegated to small colonies that are targets for any angels that locate them. Angels are known to "dive-bomb" human colonies and wipe out every single person they can find. Human survivors are often left sporting various injuries and are protected by the remaining hunters in the world. It is shown after his arrival, Jack was later captured by Michael and held along with Mary Winchester. After escaping Michael's captivity, Jack saw the influence on the world by Michael and the angels. Jack decided to defend several humans from an attack by angels and promising to destroy Michael.
In The Thing, Gabriel is liberated by Arthur Ketch and delivered to the Winchesters who tend to him and use his grace to open a rift.
During Bring 'em Back Alive, Dean sees the tyrannical rule of the angels in Apocalypse World with them imprisoning or killing humans in Michael's name. It was also mentioned that in the past few months, Jack is now waging war against the angels who are rounding up resistance leaders. On Earth, Lucifer struggles with his new role, eventually admitting to Anael privately that he can't actually do the things he said. He subsequently abandoned Heaven after deciding to find his son. Likewise, a rejuvenated Gabriel wanted no part in helping in the conflict with fighting the Alternate Michael.
“	Well then, let me make this divinely simple for you. There are a grand total of nine angels in Heaven - present company included - and one or two on Earth, and... that's all. We are the last men, women, and divine waves of light still standing.	”
 	 	
In Funeralia, Castiel visits Heaven and requests the angels' help with finding a still living Gabriel and reveals to them that he also needs their help in battling the Alternate Michael both of which surprise them. To Castiel's shock, he meets Naomi in Heaven, alive after her apparent death years earlier. Naomi explains the gravity of the angels' situation: at the time of their conversation, there is only nine angels in Heaven, including Naomi and Castiel and one or two on Earth "and that's all." With less than a dozen angels left alive, Heaven is running out of power and the angels will burn out with it. The angels are unable to leave Heaven without it crumbling and releasing all of the souls stored in it upon the Earth. The angels' only hope is to find Gabriel who can stabilize Heaven otherwise they don't have much time left. After informing Castiel of the situation, Naomi accompanies him back to Earth and then seals the portal until the situation is resolved one way or another.
in Unfinished Business, Gabriel is shown to hunting a group of Demigods who sold him. After killing one of them, Gabriel senses the Witch, Rowena MacLeod using a tracking spell on him. Realizing that the Winchester's are looking for him, Gabriel goes to a hotel where they are staying to see if they have any more of his Grace as he drained it killing Asmodeus and it has only just started replenishing. In Apocalypse World, Jack is continuing his campaign against Michael by killing his angel commanders. Jack initially believed that he had Michael cornered but was led into a trap but he survived along with Mary.
On Earth, Sam, Dean, and Gabriel are ambushed by the two other demigods who are there to capture Gabriel. After killing one of them and scaring away the other, Gabriel explains that he is hunting down the demigods and their father Loki in revenge for selling him to Asmodeus. The Winchester's agree to help Gabriel kill the other demigods if he will help them in battling Michael, which he agrees to. After killing The remaining demigods Sleipnir and Loki, Gabriel moves on from his past as a Trickster and decides to help them save Mary and Jack as well as battling Michael.
During Beat the Devil, Gabriel captures Lucifer who was shocked his brother was still alive. Gabriel traveled to Apocalypse World with the Winchesters to save Jack, he was also made aware of Heaven's state. Lucifer soon learns of his son's location and after being sent to the other world decides to find him. Lucifer resurrects a recently killed Sam after revealing he drained the grace of several of Michael's soldiers, while tailing Sam's group. Lucifer is finally able to meet his son after forcing Sam to team up with him.
In Exodus, Gabriel and Lucifer have sided with the Winchesters against Michael killing several attacking angels such as the Road Attackers and Arthur and Charlie's Captors along the way. An exodus of humans through the rift is made, Michael soon arrived at the sight where he overpowered Lucifer in a brawl and killed Gabriel after a short fight. However, Michael was distracted from crossing as the rift would close on him, leaving him with a wounded Lucifer, who Sam kept from going through the rift to keep him from influencing Jack. Lucifer soon broke a deal with Michael, he would give him the ingredients to create another Rift, on the terms of Lucifer obtaining his son and Michael conquering the world.
In Let the Good Times Roll, Michael and Lucifer make it to the main universe. While Lucifer finds Jack in a forest and offers to take him on a journey to outer space, Michael attacks the Winchesters at the Men of Letters Bunker, and incapacitates Sam and Castiel before turning on dean, but while Michael is in the process of killing Dean, Sam prays to Jack who attacks Michael and uses his powers to damage his vessel, leaving him severely weakened. Dean and Sam expose Michael and Lucifer's deal to Jack as well as Lucifer's murder of Maggie; one of the refugees from Apocalypse World. While Lucifer denies these claims at first, Jack telepathically forces Lucifer to admit the truth which confirms Lucifer was the one who killed her. Enraged, Jack immediately turns against Lucifer and effectively disowns him as his father. Deciding that if he can't have Jack, he only needs his power, Lucifer takes Jack by surprise with an Archangel Blade and extracts and Consumes his Grace leaving jack powerless and Lucifer much stronger than he ever was before. Lucifer then kidnaps Jack, and Sam when he attempts to save Jack. While Lucifer decides to force Sam and Jack to kill each other and then destroy everything in The Universe, Dean makes a deal with Michael in order to defeat Lucifer once and for all; Dean agrees to act as Michael's vessel while they are fighting Lucifer but with Dean in control.
As Jack attempts to sacrifice himself to give Sam a chance to live, Dean teleports into the church where Lucifer has Sam and Jack and using Michael's power kills Lucifer. As Sam, Dean and Jack celebrate Lucifer's death, Michael takes full control over Dean and departs in order to begin his own reign of terror.
=== Season 14 ===
In Byzantium, after Jack died due to his lack of grace causing his body to crumble, his Soul ascended to Heaven but The Shadow, the being that rules The Empty, the realm where angels and demons are sent after death, was able to sense his death. Wanting revenge on Castiel for waking him up, The Shadow invaded Heaven to claim Jack as its property. The Shadow broke through Heaven's gates and attacked the remaining angels, apparently incapacitating at least one of them. In the aftermath of the attack, "angel radio" begins playing a distress signal, causing Castiel who is working with Sam and Dean to revive Jack to go to Heaven to find out what's going on and to do his part in reviving Jack. He finds two angels on the floor of Heaven, Zuriel, who shows no signs of response, and Duma, who wakes up, somewhat weakened and confused. Castiel explains, that he is in Heaven for Jack, and Duma, scared of being left alone asks him to let her go with him.
They arrive in Jack's heaven but he is not there. Naomi arrives and explains that the angel half of Jack's soul allowed him to realize he was in Heaven. She explains that Heaven is under attack from The Shadow, while reminding Castiel of the entity that wants to take Jack to the empty. She reveals Castiel is the only angel to ever escape the realm and how she wants to give in to the entity's demands, as it has threatened that Heaven will fall if they don't, and attempts to persuade Castiel to help her. After a moment of consideration, Castiel refuses. Naomi attempts to get Castiel to reconsider but the entity latches itself into her and begins to possess her, causing Castiel and Duma to run.
After seeing Naomi being consumed, Castiel becomes even more determined to find Jack and get him back to Earth before the entity further effects Heaven. He deduces that Jack is in Kelly Kline's Heaven and leaves with Duma to find him. The two arrive in Kelly's Heaven and split up to find Jack. Castiel finds Jack in a house with Kelly, and convinced Jack to come back to earth. As Castiel prepares to pull Jack's soul into his body, Duma arrives and is revealed to be possessed by the Shadow. The Shadow attempts to take Jack, but Castiel realizes that he is who the Shadow really wants, and attempts to convince it to take him instead. The Entity agrees but wants to wait until Castiel finally allows himself to be happy. Castiel accepts and The Entity releases it's hold on the angels and departs back to the empty, allowing Castiel to resurrect Jack. As a reward for saving Heaven, Naomi gives Castiel, the archangel Michael's location.
During The Spear, Michael has assembled a large army of monsters enhanced with his grace and prepares to launch a full scale invasion. Team Free Will attempt to gather ways to defeat him, such as collecting the Hyperbolic pulse generator and her spear. However, Michael anticipated the strategy and destroys the sphere after defeating Sam and abducting Jack. Sam recovers and slaughters the monsters in Michael's fortress, while Dean and Castiel obtain the spear. Armed with the weapon capable of killing Michael, they confront him. Fighting the Archangel proves fruitless, as they are tossed aside or wounded but Dean nearly kills Michael with the spear. However, Michael possesses Dean again, having left a way to enter his mind without consent. He soon destroys the spear while revealing his ploy to break Dean's spirit as well to rid any attempt to kill him. Michael then unleashes his monster army on the city.
As of Nihilism, Michael taunts his enemies while torturing them but his arrogance allows them to catch him off-guard and capture him. Michael is undaunted and his forces come to rescue him, while Sam summons a Reaper to appear. Jack and Castiel can't see the reaper Violet, though Michael notices her presence and taunts her about locking Death away and the enslavement of her kind in his world and she is disturbed by this and taunts his situation. After they are transported to the bunker. Using a mind-link device, Sam and Castiel enter Dean in an imaginary bar with Pamela Barnes and a loop of the same event to occupy him. Soon Castiel and Sam get through to Dean who realizes the situation, just as Michael appears (in form of Dean). The group realize he is powerless in Dean's mind and stalling until his forces retrieve him. With this knowledge, they attack the Archangel. While Michael fights the trio, Michael's monster army invade the bunker and start to slaughter the hunters. Seeing this, Jack taps into the Enochian magic keeping him alive to destroy the monsters. While in Dean's subconscious, Michael gains the upper-hand over his enemies before mocking them on trying to get him to evacuate Dean's body since it might cause physical repercussions on Dean. Hearing this, Dean decides to not eject him but keep him locked away. With help from the others, Dean puts Michael behind a locked door while he regains control of himself. Because of his imprisonment, Michael's monster army are left in disarray and scatter, stopping the threat. In Dean's subconscious, Michael continuously bashes on the locked door and screams to be released as Dean struggles to keep him trapped but worries over his control. Billie appears to Dean and notes on the Archangel bashing around in Dean's mind are keeping him occupied though warns Dean that Michael most likely won't stay trapped for long. She also gives Dean a way that defeats Michael and protects the world from him.
It is shown Ouroboros, Michael is still trapped in Dean's mind and continues to struggle at getting free. After Dean is incapacitated, Michael escaped Dean's mind but rather than possess Dean again, he took Rowena MacLeod as a vessel to get revenge. Michael nearly killed Team Free Will but Jack intervened and once again tapped into the power of his soul and battles with Michael who taunts Jack. Jack is able to withstand Michael's attacks and exorcises Michael from Rowena. As Michael swirls above everyone in a cloud of white light, Jack raises his arms and declares that the Archangel won't hurt anyone ever again. Jack then incinerates the archangel away before consuming his grace.
Jack announces that Michael is dead and reveals that Michael's grace has fully restored Jack's own powers as a Nephilim.
In Game Night, Nick sought to become one with Lucifer again and aligned himself with demons. Devising a way to resurrect Lucifer, Nick abducted and later used the prophet Donatello Redfield as a way of speaking to Lucifer. Still awaken in the realm, Lucifer told Nick to resurrect him that his blood was needed. Nick allowed himself to be captured and requested to speak with Jack. Nick antagonized Jack enough to get a sample of his blood. Nick used Jack's blood along with a ritual to open a rift to the empty. Nick was about to consent to possession but Jack appeared and sent his father back to his prison of nothingness. Jack then burned Nick to death, to forever cease his attempts to bring Lucifer back.
In Jack in the Box, Duma, has usurped Naomi status as the ruler of heaven and had her imprisoned. She persuades Jack to her side and has him come to Heaven. Duma establishes a reign of terror by having Jack kill non-believers and using her authority to threaten the other angels. She also tells Jack that he is needed to create new angels and he does so by taking a human soul out of its body and "forging" them to become one. Though it seems the angels numbers were slowly increasing, Castiel had been notified of what was going on by another angel and returned to Heaven to stop Duma's plans. Castiel was forced to kill her after she made a threat against John and Mary's souls.
=== Season 15 ===
In Back and to the Future, the demon Belphegor tells Dean that every door in Hell opened when God started the end of the world. Dean realizes that this includes Lucifer's Cage which Belphegor confirms. Dean asks about Michael and Belphegor tells Dean that the last he heard, Michael was just sitting there. However, Belphegor points out that if Michael got out, he might hold a grudge against the Winchesters for trapping him.
In Proverbs 17:3, Sam has a nightmare where he is possessed by Lucifer, wearing a white suit like the Lucifer Dean encountered in The End. Dean shoots Lucifer through the head with the Colt from behind, apparently killing him. However, to Dean's shock, Lucifer heals the wound and then burns Dean to death, stating that they both knew it always had to be that way. After being resurrected by God, Lilith reveals that as she sacrificed herself so that Lucifer could start the Apocalypse, she feels as if her sacrifice came to nothing and blames Sam and Dean for it.
In Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven, when the Winchesters and Castiel need to see out Michael's help, Dean suggests that both Lucifer and God had been lying about Michael's insanity which is proven to be true. After finally escaping from Lucifer's Cage with Adam Milligan, Michael is left unsure of what to do with himself now that the other archangels are dead and God is apparently still gone. As they discuss what to do next, Lilith arrives looking for Michael on God's orders. Instantly taking control, Michael is surprised to see that the demon is alive. Lilith explains that she had been sent to fetch him and Michael asks who sent her and she replies that it was God. He is immediately skeptical of the demon's claims as he believes his father wouldn't send a demon to get him. She quickly reminds Michael that the two had worked together in the past, to set up the Apocalypse. He then says that was only to bring God back and Lilith says that while it hadn't worked back then, he had come back on his own and wants to speak with him. Michael orders her to leave but she insists that she can't leave without him. He then obliterates her in a flash of white light after Lilith grabs him, leaving nothing but a pile of ash. Noticing that the entire diner witnessed his actions, Michael erases their memories with a snap of his fingers.
After getting rid of Lilith, Michael begins bouncing all over the globe, finally ending up in Cairo, Egypt with Prophet Donatello Redfield sensing his movements. Castiel reaches out to Michael through prayer, asking for him to come, acknowledging their past and the greater war that is taking place against God. Michael agrees to meet with Castiel in a factory, but is not at all pleased to see his brother as Castiel called him assbutt, set him on fire, and then helped send Michael to Hell. He also refuses to believe Castiel in his claim that God is now his enemy. As Michael speculates if Castiel had really come to beg forgiveness, Castiel surrounds the archangel in a ring of Holy Fire. As the Winchesters enter with the Supernatural Handcuffs, Michael angrily demands to know what Castiel has done.
Taken back to the Men of Letters bunker in handcuffs, Michael calls the Winchester's actions stupid and starts to comment on how Sam looks compared to the last time Michael saw him in the Cage. Sam cuts Michael off and insists that they need his help. Michael is incredulous that they want him to trust them when Castiel doomed him to Hell and Dean let Lucifer walk free while Adam was trapped in Hell. Sam explains that with what they do, they have gotten too used to losing people and with Adam they said goodbye because they thought they had to but were wrong. Michael tells Sam that he shouldn't be telling him that but Adam, right before he returns control to their brother, surprising the Winchesters that Michael lets Adam have control. Adam explains that he and Michael reached an agreement in the Cage where they only had each other.
Michael quickly retakes control and demands to know why he is there. Castiel starts to explain that they need his help because God did truly return as the Cage didn't "just open on its own". Michael tells them that if God had truly return then he will bring paradise, but Dean counters that he wouldn't as paradise is boring and God only wants to be entertained meaning they are all his puppets, especially Michael. Michael refuses to listen, angrily claiming that they are lying and returns control to Adam who states that Michael isn't listening.
Alone, Adam begins to think that maybe his brothers aren't lying about God. Still refusing to listen, Adam points out to him that Sam and Dean always try to be on the right side of things like when they tried to stop him from saying "Yes" to him. Michael asks if Adam now forgives them and Adam quickly tells him no but that wasn't what this was about. Michael tells him that he has known his father for eternity and won't believe their claims but Adam suggests that Michael might not know his father as well as he thinks as all parents "keep secrets". With more probing, Adam finally gets Michael to admit that he won't consider the truth as it would mean that Michael - the Good Son, the Favorite - doubts his father which is against everything Michael has been and believed in his whole life. Adam questions if Michael really still believes that after God abandoned him in Lucifer's Cage.
When Castiel returns, Michael has retaken control and refuses to betray his father and everything he believes in. Castiel tells the archangel that he never really liked him, even when he was just another angel, as he always thought Michael to be too haughty and "to paraphrase a friend, you had an entire oak tree shoved up your ass.", which Michael did not react to, remaining cold and dismissive, but when Castiel notes he pities Michael as he was never God's favorite but just a tiny part of God's story and figures that at least Lucifer knew that God couldn't be trusted, this is the last straw and Michael furiously attacks Castiel, easily overpowering him despite having the cuffs on. As he swiftly used his cuffed hands to choke the Seraph, Castiel, unable to break free of Michael's fury-driven grip, responds by showing the archangel his memories of God's betrayal. These memories included God's masquerade as the Prophet Chuck, the war with the Darkness, the murder of his nephew Jack and the Apocalypse World Michael.
Disillusioned by God's betrayal, Michael becomes distraught that God lied to him, despite his actions and questioning the relevance because he wasn't even the only Michael. He then agrees to help and Michael provides Dean and Castiel with the spell that can lock God away. While they have most of the ingredients he tells them that they will also need the nectar from a Leviathan Blossom which only grows in Purgatory. With a snap of his fingers, Michael opens a twelve-hour rift, but refuses to come with them and help further. Dean removes the handcuffs and at Dean's request, Michael returns control to Adam so that Dean can apologize to his brother before Adam and Michael leave the bunker.
In The Trap, God reveals that the visions Sam saw such as the other Lucifer were actually his memories of the Multiverse. This meant there was a universe where Lucifer still lived. Once God left Earth, Billie approached Jack in The Empty to tell him "its time".
During The Gamblers, Jack was resurrected by Death after receiving word of God's departure of Earth. At her instruction, Jack stayed cloaked and hunted the elite class of angel, the Grigori. Using his hunting knowledge, Jack killed several after learning they were still consuming souls. After being discovered alive, Castiel tracked and saved him from last Grigori who captured Jack. Castiel fought and killed the last Grigori, officially causing them to be extinct. Jack explained to Winchesters of how Death brought him to be regain strength to kill God.
In Galaxy Brain, Billie reveals God is destroying the Multiverse. This means the angels of those universes are going extinct. It is also revealed that Jack is meant to be the one who permanently kills God once he gains the power.
In Destiny's Child, it is unknown what the statuses of angels are in the other worlds, as God is stated to be almost done wiping out the multiverse. Jack regains his soul after he visits The Occultum.
In Carry On, it remains unclear what became of the angels of this world, as Jack became the new God and reformed Heaven.