Angels

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**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.

## Characteristics

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

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.
The Grigori were a squad of elite angels who were sent to watch over and protect humanity but turned bad. They were believed to have been wiped out, but few of them survived. Some of these angels survived and began preying on humanity, kidnapping humans, trapping them in dream states of their perfect Heaven and feeding off of their souls. These angels had Angel Swords instead of Angel Blades, with each of their names written on them. Their survival was discovered in 2015 when Castiel and the Winchesters came up against Tamiel. In 2020, the surviving Grigori were hunted to extinction by the Nephilim Jack Kline under the orders of Billie as part of her plan for Jack to become strong enough to kill God himself. The last Grigori, Kabaiel, was killed by Castiel when he rescued Jack.

**Seraphim** are a whole other type of angelic being, who are stronger and more powerful than regular angels and Cupids. Like the archangels and the Grigori, Seraphs powers are imbued within them, and if they fall from or become cut off from Heaven, they don't lose any of their powers. Their current role on Heaven is unknown but one was sent over to watch, observe and learn about humanity.

Akobel and Castiel are the only Seraphim appeared so far.
**Rit Zien** are the medics of Heaven. Their name means "Hands of Mercy" in Enochian. On the battlefields of Heaven, their job was to heal Angels who had been injured. If the injury was too severe for them to heal, then they would give them a quick, painless death, by smiting them. Rit Zien have a unique way of smiting other, which consists of them placing their hand near the victims face, shining a pink light from their palm, and causing them to quickly, and painlessly implode into a pink liquid made of their own essence.

These are normal, common **angels**. In comparison to most other supernatural entities, angels are among the most powerful and feared beings in the series. Though not nearly as powerful as seraphs, archangels, or other higher supernatural beings, angels easily outclass black-eyed demons, lesser monsters, and other supernatural creatures, with the exception of the highest ranking demons. Angels possess a great number of formidable abilities that make them a dominant presence in the supernatural world. They are grouped into garrisons and are commanded by a garrison leader.

**Cherubs**, also called Cupids, are ordered as third class angels, and thus placed at the very bottom of the Celestial chain of command, Heaven's hierarchy. They follow Heaven's orders, particularly serving Michael. In their occupation, they are responsible for manipulating affection in certain, special bloodlines. John and Mary Winchester, for example, were "matched" by a Cupid on Heaven's orders so that Dean and Sam could be born.

**Intelligence Angels** are the intelligence division of Heaven. Their work is to gather information, fix the angels who cause problems, and occasionally, take control of the their minds if needed. These angels were under the leadership of Naomi before the fall.

A **fallen angel** is an angel who was expelled from Heaven. They are not a class of angel and therefore they look no different than normal angels. An angel who has fallen may or may not retain all of his or her abilities, depending on the rank of the angel. For example, a fallen Seraph, like Castiel, retains all of his powers, whereas a standard angel would lose a few of his or her powers, such as smiting and healing. A fallen angel's blood can be used in the Leviathan killing weapon. Known banished angels include Lucifer, Anna Milton, Zachariah, Castiel and the Grigori.

**Nephilim** are beings that consist of a mixture between a human soul and angelic grace. They are normally created when an angel and a human reproduce together. Nephilim are considered as one of the most dangerous beings in Creation and it is strictly forbidden to produce one. The only known Nephilim are Jane and Jack so far. They are shown to be extremely powerful with Jack being described as possessing "unimaginable power." Even from the womb he demonstrates powers such as healing and resurrection and through a partial possession, granted an angel the power to effortlessly incinerate a Prince of Hell, one of the most powerful demons to ever live. A Nephilim grows to be stronger than the angel who sired them. By stealing and absorbing Jack's grace, Lucifer became super-charged to the point that he could destroy the universe if he so wished. By having his grace stolen, Jack's body slowly broke down since the grace keeps his body intact. Through absorbing the grace of Alternate Michael, Jack was able to return to full power and no longer being plagued. Recently, Jack showed the ability to create new angels, something that only God was said to do. After his second resurrection, Jack stated that if he follows a plan laid out for him by Billie, Jack can become powerful enough to kill God himself.

## 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.

## 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 weaponizing 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.

### 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.
* **Werewolf Venom:** Werewolves can bite an angel and it weakened them a lot but they will in a couple of hours.

### 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.
* **Advanced Werewolf Venom:** Venom from the Upgraded Original Hybrid can kill an angel.

1. ↑ *The Gamblers*