Angel Blade

**Angel Blades** are weapons carried by most angels. They are long, silver, triple-edged daggers (cross section of the blade would be a triangle) that can be used to kill angels, nephilim, hellhounds, demons, and other supernatural creatures. However angel blades can only harm but not kill an archangel. When an angel blade was used to kill an angel, intense light exploded from the vessel, leaving the body withered. These weapons are considerably powerful as they are one of the few weapons that could kill angels and reapers, making them one of the most powerful weapons in existence.

## Overview

Despite a claim that only angels could kill other angels, other beings had been able to successfully use these blades against angels at times. Demons, made use of these weapons, and it was shown that angel blades could, in fact, kill demons, when Sam killed two with one of these blades. Three demons were killed with angel blades, and an angel blade was used to stab Crowley in the arm, which caused him pain, but did not kill him.

According to Castiel in angel blades are "touched by God."

Angel blades can kill monsters as well. Castiel was able to kill a werewolf by stabbing him in the heart with his angel blade, and used one to slay several zombies. However, these were not true zombies and instead were corpses animated by souls from Hell possessing them. Blows from iron fence posts were also capable of easily stopping them. Later on down the road, Castiel was able to kill a djinn by stabbing him several times in the chest with an angel blade.

### Immunity

Archangels cannot be killed by an angel blade, as many melted down bullets barely affected Lucifer, and he survived being stabbed by Castiel and having a cage of gigantic angel blades pushed on him, although on both occasions he showed some visible pain. Michael was also able to extract Lucifer's grace with a regular angel blade.

Castiel briefly gained immunity to angel blades when he absorbed 30-40 million souls from Purgatory, surviving a back stab by Sam Winchester. He lost this immunity after he returned the souls.

The Darkness, when seeing Castiel draw an angel blade, laughed at him for believing it could affect her even while weakened by Heaven's mass smiting, suggesting even at a weakened state, an angel blade would not be able to harm Amara.

While the Nephilim Jane was killed by being stabbed through the throat with an angel blade, Jack, as the son of an Archangel and a human rather than the child of a regular angel, was unharmed when stabbed through the heart with one.

In his currently weakened state, Lucifer became more vulnerable to angel blades, as when Castiel stabbed him outside of the Needham Asylum, it not only hurt Lucifer more than ever but also caused his glowing red eyes to flicker a few times before going out, though he didn't suffer any lasting or serious harm, and Asmodeus believed Lucifer could be killed with a stab to the heart, but he recharged his grace enough that it wouldn't work by the time an attempt was made.

### Other uses

An angel blade could be melted and the pieces fashioned into bullets which were just as fatal to angels. Crowley pioneered this method. He used it to great effect to kill or send angels, including Naomi, fleeing, other users were the humans of a alternate universe. Like a regular angel blade, fatality of the bullets depended on the manner of use. To create fatal damage, the bullets had to target vital organs. Bullets fired from a gun could also be reused as Castiel was able to kill Ion by manually shoving one of the bullets into his eye.

An angel blade could also remove an angel's grace as shown by Metatron using it to steal Castiel's grace by slicing open his throat, Castiel stealing Theo's grace and Crowley Adina's. In an ironic twist of fate, Castiel later uses it to remove Metatron's grace from him. Castiel was later able to use an angel blade to open Lucifer's throat and continuously drain his grace in order to power a ritual.

## Beings Affected by Angel Blades

* **Angels** - All angels with the usual exception of the Archangels can be killed or harmed with angel blades, as it appears to be the main purpose of the angel blades' existence, the first on-screen instance of this being when Anna Milton killed Uriel with one.
	+ **Archangels** - Having many angel-killing bullets being fired at Lucifer continuously caused him some discomfort, enough so to distract him, it is presumable that angel blades have equal or higher capabilities than bullets. It is also worth noting that an grace-depleted Lucifer could have possibly been harmed or killed by an regular angel blade, as he stated himself to Duma when she and other angels advanced on him after learning he was weakened, "i'm not **that** weak".
* **Humans** - Killing and angel or demon with an angel blade also kills its human vessel. It was also stated by Fortuna that her demigod son could die to an angel due to being part human.
* **Black-eyed Demons** - As first demonstrated when Crowley's Tablet Hunters where killed and tortured with angel blades.
* **Hellhounds** - Even tho she was unsure if it was possible, the demon Meg killed some of Crowley's hellhounds with it.
* **Reapers** - As seen when Crowley killed Ajay with one.
* **Crossroad Demons** - As seen when Crowley comitted suicide with one.
* **Nephilim** - Regular nephilim can be killed by angel blades as seen when Castiel killed Jane with one. Jack Kline, the son of an archangel is immune to regular angel blades, not causing him any sort of pain or disconfort after being stabbed with it (even though his skin **was** penetrated by the blade, while higher beings like the Darkness don't even get pierced by them).
* **Werewolves** - An angel blade to the heart can kill a werewolf as seen when Castiel killed one of the Marina Werewolves with one.
* **Gog and Magog's Species** - God-Touched Weapons can kill members of this species, such as angel blades as stated by Castiel.
* **Djinns** - Djinns can be killed with angel blades as demonstrated when Castiel killed Alden Roy by stabbing him several times in the chest with an angel blade.

## Known Users

* Castiel
* Sam Winchester
* Dean Winchester
* Mary Winchester
* Diana Winchester
* Danae Tlanta
* Conri Tlanta
* Alexis Jackson

## Trivia

* Despite initial claims that an angel could only be killed by another angel, it had been shown that anyone who wielded an angel blade could kill one. It could be inferred that the statement meant that because only angels naturally had access to angel blades, that they are the only ones who could kill other angels.
* When first introduced angel blades were used specifically to kill angels. In later seasons it is revealed they can harm other species such as demons and monsters.
* Demons that were stabbed with the blade died with the same glow as when they were stabbed with the Demon-Killing Knife.
* Despite the Winchesters originally being the only hunters to have access to these weapons, both Asa Fox and Eileen Leahy were able to somehow get one.
	+ This was further disproven when Diana Winchester got her hands on several angel blades, and gave them to her allies, Danae Tlanta, Conri Tlanta, and Alexis Jackson.
* After evolving in their hunting experience, the Winchesters wield angel blades primarily against demons over the demon-killing knife.
* The Winchesters carry angel blades in sheaths on their belts.
* When Castiel kills Duma in Heaven using an angel blade, there is no blood left on the blade, presumably because Duma was killed in Heaven itself.
* After seeing Dean draw an angel blade while Sam draws the demon-killing knife, Lilith comments that Dean "upgraded".