Gideon

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## Magical Characteristics

### Active Powers

* Apportation
* Conjuration
* Divination
* Electrokinesis
* Healing
* Invisibility
* Molecular Dispersion
* Orbing
* Portal Creation
* Sensing
* Telekinesis
* Telekinetic Orbing
* Transformation

### Inactive Powers

* Reconstitution
* Immortality

## Appearance

### Played By

* Gildart Jackson

**Gideon** was one of the most powerful and well-respected members of the Council of Elders, as well as the mentor of Leo Wyatt. He was also the headmaster of Magic School, possibly since its creation. While initially a friend to the Charmed Ones, he was later revealed to be the one trying to kill Wyatt and Paris. Gideon was convinced that the boy and girl was too powerful, and tried to kill him for the Greater Good.

## History

### Early Life

At an unspecified time, Gideon became the Headmaster of Magic School. It is possible he had been Headmaster since the school's creation after the destruction of Atlantis, as it was mentioned by the Elders that Gideon was the only one who could protect the school.

Gideon mentioned having first met the Charmed Ones when they were very young. He was also a supporter of the union of Leo and Piper in contrast to the rest of the Elders. He even went as far as to convince his fellow Elders to let them wed. However, after Wyatt and Paris were born, Gideon grew concerned that the children was too powerful and became convinced that Wyatt and Paris needed to die to protect the Greater Good.

### The Headless Horseman

In 2004, Gideon required the sisters' services when one of the students at Magic School conjured up the Headless Horseman, who started beheading teachers. However, they were lucky as the magic at the school kept them alive. Gideon sent his aid Sigmund to contact the sisters, only for him to be beheaded as he entered the manor. After the horseman escaped into the mortal world, Gideon panicked when a mortal innocent was killed by the horseman, realizing that he may have to shut down the school. After the horseman beheaded the sisters, the student responsible, Zachary, morphed into Paige to move the students away from Gideon. Zachary then confronted Gideon about keeping him trapped at Magic School while he wanted to leave. After the sisters returned to normal by vanquishing the horseman, they convinced Zachary to let Gideon go.

### True Intentions Revealed

Some time later, Gideon hired a group of Darklighters to target Leo. One of the Darklighters, Damien, ended up being sucked into the Ghostly Plane with Piper and Leo and continued to hunt them. While in the plane, Piper and Leo reunited as a couple and conceived Chris Halliwell. Damien then impaled Leo with an arrow. Meanwhile, Gideon pretended to help Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope in trying to save Piper and Leo and when they managed to escape, he healed Leo's injuries.

After the ordeal, Leo met with Gideon on the Golden Gate Bridge and informed him that he could not justify staying on earth any more and returned to the Heavens. Gideon then went to the Underworld to meet with the Darklighter leader and revealed his true plan, to keep Leo away and distract the Charmed Ones while he kills Wyatt and Paris.

### The Spider Demon

When Piper and her unborn baby were cocooned by the Spider Demon, Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope called Leo back from the Heavens for help. He went to Magic School for information on a wizard kidnapped by the demon, which Gideon provided before lecturing Leo about abandoning his Elder duties again. After the demon was vanquished, Piper agreed to stay at Magic School with Gideon for her safety, oblivious to his true intentions.

### The Tribunal and Barbas

When Darryl Morris was framed for murder by The Cleaners to prevent the exposure of magic, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope went to Gideon for help to stop his execution. Gideon gave them information about the Tribunal and agreed to act as their lawyer in the trial, while the Tribunal summoned Barbas. During the trial, Barbas tried to convince the Tribunal to relinquish their powers for personal gain and risking exposure. However, once it was revealed that Barbas set everything in motion by having the robber and Inspector Sheridan possessed by phantasms, Darryl is spared. However, due to misusing her magic, Phoebe lost her active powers which causes Penelope to lose Premonition and Empathy as well. Once the sisters left, Barbas taunted Gideon by reading his greatest fear—that the girls will discover his plan to kill Wyatt and Paris.

### Witch Wars

In order to warn Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Penelope, Leo, Chris, and Phoenix of Gideon's plan to kill Wyatt and Paris, he conspires with a demonic couple Corr and Clea to kill the Charmed Ones off in a demonic reality TV series. He does this by betraying a good witch, Tali, to her death by getting the sisters to protect her from the demonic contestants. Although one of his conditions was that no innocents were harmed, the demons, being evil, have other plans with a Darklighter killing Tali and a shapeshifter stealing the appearance of the crime reporter Kyle to get to the sisters themselves. Gideon pretends to save the day by forging a page on magical projector crystals he bugged the manor with. He then grabs a crystal to show a promotion for the series and claims that they're the ones after Wyatt and Paris. After the couple are vanquished, the Charmed Ones celebrate their success, with Gideon relieved that the others don't suspect him any more. Sigmund, who knows of the plan all along, worries that their attempts to kill Wyatt and Paris would be the reason why Wyatt and Paris turns evil, but Gideon ends up vanquishing him before he confesses to the Charmed Ones.

### The Parallel World

In his final attempt to kill Wyatt and Paris, Gideon was forced to contact his counterpart in the evil parallel world, so that world's Wyatt and Paris would be killed as well. To prevent Cole, Leo, Chris, and Phoenix from intervening in their plan, both Gideons turn invisible and blocks the potion necessary to create a portal, thus injuring their hands. After the Gideons heal each other, they manipulate the portal plan so that the Coles, Leos, Chris', and Phoenixs would cross over into each other's worlds.

When the plan to return Chris and Phoenix goes horribly wrong for the good Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope are forced to track down evil Cole, Leo, Chris, and Phoenix. However, evil Gideon sent their evil counterparts home, allowing them to move the good sisters through the portal and causing the worlds to turn unbalanced. The Gideons discuss this plan over a game of chess. Good Gideon sends Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope through the portal only to be attacked by the evil Gideon, telling them that they're not supposed to be there. The Pipers then lapse into labor and go to hospital—leaving good Gideon alone with good Wyatt.

### His Intentions are Discovered

While Cole, Leo, Phoebe, Paige, Penelope, Chris, and Phoenix are in the evil world's underworld (which looks more like a flourishing garden) with the good Barbas, evil Phoebe, Paige, and Penelope arrive and attack their counterparts while Cole, Leo, Chris, Phoenix, and Barbas take cover behind a large rock. When Leo wonders out loud about whether or not Gideon knew about the portal problems, Barbas suggests that Gideon know exactly how it could go wrong. Once the Pipers call the sisters to say that they are in labour, Cole, Leo, Chris, and Phoenix inform them that they need to save Wyatt and Paris as well.

Meanwhile, the Gideons plan their attack on the Wyatts and Paris' by orbing them out of their bedroom to the attic. They later bless an athame to penetrate his force field and kill him. Just then, the Wyatts orb the athame away from themselves and into the Gideon's chest before a power of *four* vanquishing spell is cast by the sisters and Penelope. The Gideons orb back to the mirror to heal themselves, knowing that they can breach his shield and with the worlds now unbalanced, they try to use it to their advantage.

### Working with Barbas

Gideon realized his mistake of causing a significant imbalance, but realized that Wyatt and Paris' death would be the "great evil" necessary to restore the balance between the two worlds. However, the Charmed Ones, Cole, Leo, Chris, and Phoenix soon discovered that in Chris and Phoenix' timeline Gideon took Wyatt and Paris away for several weeks in his attempt to kill the them. While Wyatt and Paris was able to fend him off, the trauma of having to constantly defend themselves as well as being betrayed by someone they thought they could trust was too much for their young psyche to handle, hence causing them to turn evil—thus making Gideon's concerns a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Meanwhile, the Phoebes, Paiges, and Penelopes search in the Gideons' office when they notice an echo in the room. The Phoebes open the curtain masking the mirror after they notice a chess piece.

To help him make the necessary great evil, he enlists the help of Barbas, who sets to work scaring a cheerful Piper into bewitching her sisters to make them as unusually happy as her followed by torturing Cole and Leo with a hallucination of Wyatt and Paris growing up to be evil so that Wyatt's and Paris' defenders would be distracted - allowing him to kidnap and kill Wyatt and Paris.

### Killing Chris and Kidnapping Wyatt and Paris

Chris is looking after Wyatt and Paris and searching through the book, when he hears footsteps. He then tries to flee with Wyatt and Paris, but Gideon knocks him back. Gideon then conjures up his athame, which he then uses to stab and kill Chris, as he runs towards Wyatt and Paris' cot. Leo orbs back from the hospital after Barbas finishes taunting him with the possibility of losing two sons instead of just one, only to find out that Gideon has breached the force field, picked Wyatt and Paris up and orbed them to the underworld with Barbas, stating that it was for the best.

Once the pair return to the underworld, Gideon and Barbas argue over how to kill Wyatt and Paris, with Gideon preferring not to get stabbed this time round. After Gideon notes how apparently Wyatt and Paris is cocky by not having their shield up, Barbas grows tired, grabs the athame, and pounces on Wyatt and Paris himself—only to fall to the floor as Wyatt and Paris orbs away. This results in a chase around the underworld by the pair until Gideon, via voice manipulation, lures Wyatt and Paris into a crystal cage using their father's voices.

### His Vanquish

While Chris was dying, Cole and Leo had to go to Magic School. There they came face to face with their evil counterparts where they discuss how to save their sons and daughters. Evil Cole and Leo notes that they were full of hope while at the hospital, to which Good Cole and Leo responded with fear. Knowing that Barbas was responsible, they realize that in order to find Gideon, they need to find Barbas.

Upon trapping Wyatt and Paris, Gideon calls for Barbas to administer the killing - who apparently turns up to see him. "Barbas" criticises his lateness, to which Gideon snaps at his impatience. He hands "Barbas" the athame, who grows suspicious. Gideon asks if there is something wrong. "Barbas" states that there is - and proceeds to stab Gideon. "Barbas" transforms into Leo as he flings Gideon across the room as Cole shimmers in. The real Barbas flames in and eavesdrops, while Gideon tries to defend his actions to kill Wyatt and Paris - including pulling the Elder card (to which Leo states that he is not one of them anymore) - but Cole and Leo refuses to have a bar of it.

After telling Gideon he was the reason why Wyatt and Paris turned evil in the first place, Leo orbs Gideon's magical mirror to the Underworld, and notifies Evil Cole and Leo on the other side not to kill Gideon. Gideon asks Leo what he was about to do. Leo replies with "A Great Evil," which was needed to restore balance to the parallel worlds. Both Cole and Leo strikes Gideon with lightning and fire. Before Gideon dies, he curses Cole and Leo about the potential consequences of their decision before turning to dust. Cole destroys the mirror to prevent any future contact between the worlds, which had since been restored, due to a paragon of good being killed by another.

## Personality

Gideon was a charismatic middle-aged Elder who possessed a great sense of responsibility and a great respect for the forces of good. He was very capable of using words skillfully, such as when he addressed the Tribunal, acting as a lawyer for the Charmed Ones.

However, Gideon was also consumed by a great fear for those who possess an unnatural number of powers, believing that those with power would inevitably end up turning evil. His fear of the horrors that would follow under such circumstances was so great that he was willing to plot the death of his pupil and great friend, Leo, and even murder Chris and innocent babies.

Gideon was easily ranked as one of the most manipulative characters in the series, since all his attempts on Wyatt and Paris' life were all carefully planned and calculated, planting false evidence here and there, to ensure that he will not be suspected by the babies caregivers.

## Powers and Abilities

***Basic Powers***

* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast spells and perform rituals. Gideon used this ability to curse an athame.

***Active Powers***

* **Apportation:** The ability to teleport beings or items across different planes or dimensions, Gideon used this to summon a box of Ronyx Crystals and an athame.
* **Conjuration:** The ability to draw objects into existence. Gideon used this ability so create a door to Magic School.
* **Divination:** The ability to observe others through a Crystal Ball.
* **Electrokinesis:** The ability to manipulate electricity and fire bolts of lightning.
* **Healing:** The ability to heal the wounds of others, unless that being is already dead. Although most Whitelighters can't heal evil beings, Gideon succeeded to heal his evil doppelganger.
* **Invisibility:** The ability to become unseen by the naked eye. His version was referred to as an "invisibility shield".
* **Molecular Dispersion:** The ability to utterly destroy objects and beings by tearing them apart on a molecular level.
* **Orbing:** The ability to teleport through the use of orbs. Gideon's orbs had a unique purple color.
* **Portal Creation:** The ability to open portals to other places and planes.
* **Sensing:** The ability to sense the location of other beings.
* **Telekinesis:** The ability to move objects and beings with the mind
* **Telekinetic Orbing:** The ability to transport objects with the mind through orbs. Gideon used this to orb Sigmund's head after he was decapitated.
* **Transformation:** The ability to change one object into another. Gideon used this ability to change the pages of a book into an entry on Ronyx Crystals.

***Other Powers***

* **Reconstitution:** The ability to reform the body after it has been destroyed.
* **Immortality:** The ability to possess an infinite lifespan and an arrested aging process.