Raphael (Supernatural)

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> We're tired. We just want it to be over. We just want... Paradise [...] And whatever we want, we get!
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> **Raphael** to Dean Winchester, *Free To Be You and Me*

**Raphael** was the third of the four Archangels created by God. He was older than Gabriel but much younger than Michael and Lucifer. After Lucifer's rebellion and banishment, Raphael stood by Michael in taking over the entire universe, reality, and the entirety of existence.

In Season 4, Raphael protected Chuck from Lilith's harm and then tried to stop Dean and Castiel from stopping Sam from breaking the last seal and killed Castiel. In Season 5, he became a target of Castiel, who had been resurrected, and Dean to find God but he didn't have answers and they left him in a ring of holy fire as he vowed to kill the angel.

In Season 6, Raphael escaped and returned to Heaven with the intent of taking over and restarting the Apocalypse but was opposed by Castiel and a civil war began, forcing Castiel to team up with Crowley to obtain the souls of Purgatory. When Castiel betrayed him, Raphael allied himself with Crowley to obtain the power for himself, only to be killed by the angel when he took the power.

## History

### Early Life

The third Archangel, Raphael, like his brothers, Gabriel, Lucifer, and Michael was created by his father God infinitely long before the Big Bang, creation of the entire universe, light, life, reality, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Creation, The Multiverse, and creation of absolutely anything and everything else in all of existence. Raphael was created 1 centillion years after Lucifer and Michael, and 1 billion years before Gabriel. It is unknown why God created such a massive age gap between them all. Raphael, his father, his aunt Amara, and his three brothers lived happily together for more than 900 centillion years in "absolute nothingness" and then God created Heaven where they lived happily for untold eons and after eons of living joyfully in light and Heaven, God strated designing and upgrading Heaven, making it beautiful. When God began creating other things The Darkness would get jealous and destroy them all, which led God and his favorite son and most trusted lieutenant Lucifer (Supernatural) to plot to lock her away forever. At some point The Darkness began pleading with her nephew Lucifer and her brother God stating, *"Please don't do this. We are all family. I just want all of us six of us to be together forever, and only us. I can't let you create anything else. I love you brother. I love my nephews. But i cant let you create. Lets just continue living in nothingness like we have for since the beginning. Nothingness is all we need."* Raphael, his brothers, Michael, Lucifer, and Gabriel and their father God fought in the war against the Darkness, eventually winning the war by vastly weakening her and sealing her away. Raphael and his three brothers overpowered and significantly weakened The Darkness enough for God to entrap and lock her away forever. It has been noted that Raphael was God's least favorite son. It is unknown of the relationship between Raphael and his younger brother Gabriel or his older brother Lucifer. It has been implied that both Lucifer and Gabriel disliked Raphael, calling him an "stubborn, arrogant dick" and a "sanctimonious, goody-two-shoes, fanatical zealot". Raphael supposedly had a good relationship with his oldest brother Michael, due to him loyally serving as his second-in-command for millions of years and supporting his plan to release Lucifer from the cage and starting the Apocalypse for a greater purpose. Like Michael, Raphael is a traditionalist, determined and relentless to accomplish any goal or task. Raphael stated that he, his father, his brothers, and his aunt all happily lived in absolute nothingness for infinite eons, when there was literally utterly nothing. He stated that their age is "infinite", " incalculable ", and "far beyond comprehension". He has noted that the age of the universe (approximately 15 billion years old) is barely a newborn baby compared to him and his brothers. For millions of years, Raphael served as Michael's second-in-command and devoutly served his eldest brother and was extremely loyal to him and followed any order he gave.
The third Archangel, Raphael, like his brothers, Gabriel, Lucifer, and Michael was created by his father God infinitely long before the Big Bang, creation of the entire universe, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Creation, The Multiverse, and creation of absolutely anything and everything else in all of existence. Raphael was created 1 centillion years after Lucifer and Michael, and 1 billion years before Gabriel. It is unknown why God created such a massive age gap between them all. Raphael, his father, his aunt Amara, and his three brothers lived happily together for more than 900 centillion years, and then God created Heaven where they all lived happily in "absolute nothingness" for untold eons. When God began creating other things the Darkness/Amara would get jealous and destroy them all, which led to God and his favorite son and most trusted lieutenant Lucifer (Supernatural) to plot to lock her away forever. At some point The Darkness began pleading with her nephew Lucifer and her brother God stating, *"Please don't do this. We are all family. I just want all of us six of us to be together forever, and only us. I can't let you create anything else. I love you brother. I love my nephews. But i cant let you create. Lets just continue living in nothingness like we have for since the beginning. Nothingness is all we need."* Raphael, his brothers, Michael, Lucifer, and Gabriel and their father God fought in the war against the Darkness, eventually winning the war by vastly weakening her and sealing her away. Raphael and his three brothers overpowered and significantly weakened The Darkness enough for God to entrap and lock her away forever, God went on to create Heaven where he, Raphael, and his brothers lived happily in for more than 900 centillion years before light, the creation of the universe and creation itself. It has been noted that Raphael was God's least favorite son. It is unknown of the relationship between Raphael and his younger brother Gabriel or his older brother Lucifer. Raphael noted that he was highly impressed of his eldest brother Michael after seeing the immensity of his power when he effortlessly locked away the Leviathans in Purgatory, easily wiped out the Hellhound species, effortlessly obliterated billions of angels for siding with Lucifer during his rebellion against God, defeating Lucifer in combat and banishing him to Hell, and even effortlessly capturing, weakening and incapacitated Death and single-handedly locking him away inside a magically-warded impenetrable coffin 600 feet under Earth's surface where he was helplessly trapped for since the beginning of time. Raphael supposedly had a good relationship with his oldest brother Michael, due to him loyally serving as his second-in-command for millions of years and supporting his plan to release Lucifer from the cage and starting the Apocalypse for a greater purpose. Like Michael, Raphael is a traditionalist, determined and relentless to accomplish any goal or task. Raphael stated that he, his father, his brothers, and his aunt all happily lived in absolute nothingness for infinite eons, when there was literally utterly nothing. He stated that their age is "infinite", " incalculable ", and "far beyond comprehension". He has noted that the age of the universe (approximately 15 billion years old) is a newborn baby compared to him and his brothers. For millions of years, Raphael served as Michael's second-in-command and devoutly served his eldest brother and was completely loyal to him and followed any order he gave.

When God created humans and asked all angels, even archangels to bow down before them, Raphael was among those that did so. When Lucifer rebelled against God and Gabriel skipped out of Heaven and on to Earth, Raphael chose to side with God and Michael. However, at some point, Raphael lost faith in God and became weary of his father's duties. He also even believed that God was dead and that they were "*living in a God-less universe*". Though, he stayed by Michael's side blindly following his orders and served as his second-in-command for millions of years.

### Season 2

Raphael is referenced when Sam and Dean investigate a case where people claim angels are ordering them to kill. Father Reynolds, while administering Last Rites to Father Gregory's spirit, says "I call upon the archangel Raphael, master of the air, to make open the way. Let the fire of the Holy Spirit now descend, that this being might be awakened to the world beyond."

### Season 4

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When Dean went to Castiel for help about Lilith, the angel couldn't help him but told Dean that a Prophet would have an Archangel tethered to them to protect them from danger. This gave Dean an idea and he retrieved Chuck Shurley and put him in the same room as the demon. Raphael prepares to attack when Lilith is in Chuck Shurley's presence, shaking the room until Lilith flees.

Raphael effortlessly obliterates Castiel and his vessel after he rebels against Heaven by banishing Zachariah and sending Dean to stop Sam from killing Lilith.

### Season 5

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Raphael possessed his vessel, Donnie Finnerman, during a demon induced riot at a Pump 'n Go gas station in Maine. where thousands of demons were trying to capture the "angel" unbeknownst to the demons it was the archangel Raphael, he released a massive and extremely powerful divine light from his vessel which easily obliterated all 3,000 demons in an instant and caused an immense amont of casualties and damage throughout the town, equivalent to a "nuclear bomb". The damage caused by Raphael was attributed to an unbelievably powerful explosion, and the aftermath was witnessed by Deputy Framingham. Raphael abandoned Donnie, who was left in a catatonic state and returned to Heaven.

Raphael returns to Earth and his vessel to confront Castiel and Dean, who attempted to summon him. He manifests in the abandoned building they are hiding in, shorting out the electricity and the entire Northern Hemisphere. He threatens to take Dean to Michael, and to torture him should he refuse, but Dean and Castiel trick him into a circle of holy oil, which they ignite and trap him.

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They interrogate him to learn God's location. Raphael tells Dean and Castiel that God is dead, and that the Heavenly Hosts are tired of waiting with duties to fulfill and no guidelines. They want to bring forth paradise on Earth. Raphael brings about a storm that shatters the windows of the house. Castiel does not believe Raphael's assertion about God, and demands to know how he was resurrected, if not by God. Raphael suggests that it was Lucifer, because he needs all the rebellious angels that he can find. Castiel and Dean then leave Raphael, who warns the other angel not to leave him there, because he will catch up with him one day. Castiel replies, "Maybe one day. But today, you're my little bitch!"

### Season 6

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At some point, Raphael escapes the Holy Fire that Dean and Castiel left him trapped in. He assumes control of Heaven after the Apocalypse is averted. Raphael is ensconced in a palatial house, apparently part of the Heaven of disgraced Enron executive Ken Lay. He summons Castiel for a meeting. Raphael informs Castiel he will call an assembly of the Host of Heaven, at which he will ask Castiel to pledge his allegiance to Raphael. He announces that he will proceed to free Michael and Lucifer from the Cage and resume their apocalyptic battle. When Castiel refuses, Raphael beats him up and threatens to destroy him unless he bows down.

After Castiel makes his deal with Crowley, he returns to Heaven, and with the power of 50 billion souls obtained from Hell is able to make his first stand against Raphael, where he was only able to banish him temporarily.

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Sam and Dean investigate the deaths of three cops which mirror Egyptian plagues. Dean summons Castiel, and they discover that a boy has been using part of the Staff of Moses. Castiel later tells Sam and Dean that Heaven has been thrown into chaos without Michael, with angels going rogue, celestial killings, and the theft of their weapons. He also warns them that Raphael is back and trying to gain all of Heaven's weapons so that he can win the civil war against Castiel, then release Lucifer and Michael, putting the apocalypse back on track. When asked why, Castiel simply calls Raphael a "traditionalist" who wants "to end the story the way it was written." A soldier of Raphael attacks Castiel, then returns to his leader.

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Raphael and several of his soldiers track down Balthazar, the angel who stole the weapons and sold part of the Staff of Moses. Sam and Dean banish one of Raphael's soldiers with the Angel Banishing Sigil and Castiel kills another with an angel blade. Raphael then appears instantly behind Castiel effortlessly overpowers him and attacks him mercilessly, beating him to a bloody pulp. He voiced his doubt that God will bring him back a third time before readying to finish him off. Just as Raphael is about to kill Castiel, Balthazar appears and turns Raphael's vessel into a pillar of salt using Lot's Salt, forcing Raphael to look for a new vessel.

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Sam and Dean are given a key by Balthazar that supposedly opens the repository containing all of Heaven's weapons and are transported to an alternate reality to protect them from Raphael, who has started hunting them down. Raphael sends one of his most ruthless and feared angel assassins Virgil after them, and Virgil quickly overpowers Bathalzar and mercilessly attacks him and badly injures him by slashing him across the abdomen with an angel blade, with Bathalzar barely escaping with his life. When the Winchesters are transported back to their universe by Raphael where he created a portal that yanked them back, they are greeted by Raphael in a new female vessel. Balthazar then appears and tells Raphael that the key given to Sam and Dean was a decoy. Castiel, now in possession of all of Heaven's weapons, all unified, also appears and threatens Raphael, who disappears.

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Raphael forms an alliance with Crowley after Castiel betrays Crowley in their search for Purgatory. Castiel, who is outnumbered, is forced to give them the blood of a creature from Purgatory which is required to obtain all the souls from it. When the spell fails, Castiel returns revealing the blood was fake and that he has the souls and their power. Crowley beats a hasty retreat, but Raphael is unable to leave.

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Terrified, he asks Castiel why he would let a demon live but not one of his own brothers. Castiel replies that he has plans for Crowley, but not for Raphael, whom he obliterates with a snap of his fingers.

### Season 11

In *We Happy Few*, when discussing battling the Darkness, God tells the Winchesters that it is beyond his power to resurrect Raphael and Gabriel in time to fight the Darkness so they can help them as archangels are infinitely different from angels due to their being ancient primordial beings of nigh-omnipotent levels of power, and were created by God infinitely long before the creation of the universe and creation itself.

### Season 15

In *Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven*, Raphael is mentioned by Michael, who sadly comments on how all of his archangel brothers have died. Although it remains unknown if Michael approved of Raphael's attempt to open a portal to Purgatory, risking unleashing all the billions of monsters inside, it suggested that Michael still cared for Raphael, especially as he was the only archangel who stood by Michael and supported his desire to kill Lucifer and bring paradise on the universe.

In *Unity*, Amara reminds the Winchesters that it took the four archangels for Chuck to be able to lock her away the first time and wonders how they intend to do the same with her brother without the archangels.

## Personality

> Castiel, did you really think I would let you open that door? Take in that much power? If anyone is going to be the new God, it's me. Only me. Nobody else. If anyone... anything stands in my way of accomplishing that, then the pain and torture i will inflict will be infinite and incomprehensible. You don't want to know what happens when you anger me. I'm one of the last beings in all of existence that you want to anger.
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> Raphael to Castiel, *The Man Who Knew Too Much*

Raphael is a very ruthless, commanding, authoritative, emotionless, conservative, stern, stoic, serious, relentless, determined, hell-bent, and traditionally-minded Archangel who has lost faith in God and is weary of his duties. He believed that God was dead and that they are living in a godless universe, though he seems to have changed this view as he doubted God would bring Castiel back a third time while beating him. He supports Michael's plan to bring about paradise on Earth and for millions of years, Raphael has been a devout follower of his eldest brother Michael and loyally served as his second-in-command.

He has little patience with humans, and virtually no respect or consideration for human life, as evidenced by the fact that he callously left his first vessel Donnie Finnerman in a broken state. Raphael also has little tolerance for disobedience among his fellow angels and will not hesitate to slaughter anyone or anything that challenges him. Raphael is also incredibly arrogant, and appointed himself as the distributor of God's will. When asked how he knew that the Apocalypse was what God wanted, he simply replied "because that's what I want."

He is also extremely ruthless as evidenced when he threatened to torture Dean into saying Yes to Michael and when Castiel opposed Raphael's plan to restart the Apocalypse, he commanded Castiel to submit to him and coldly threatened to kill Castiel and anyone with him if he didn't.

Despite this, Raphael was not entirely without forgiveness or mercy, at least when dealing with his siblings. Upon their first meeting since Castiel's resurrection, although hostile, Raphael was willing to forgive Castiel. Similarly upon their first meeting after the Apocalypse, Raphael was again willing to offer him another chance, even after promising to destroy him on their next encounter, at the end of their last meeting.

Despite his status as an archangel and immense power, he is also very power hungry as after Crowley told him about Castiel's plans to increase his power by absorbing the billions of souls from purgatory, he decided to take the souls for himself and formed an alliance with Crowley as a means to complete this. He was also very eager to do this as shown when he was smiling when the ritual to absorb the souls was almost done (unaware that one of the ingredients were wrong and Castiel had already absorbed the souls)

Castiel has also once called Raphael a traditionalist, as he said to the Winchesters. Castiel stated that this was the reason for Raphael's plan to restart the Apocalypse after Lucifer and Michael were imprisoned in the cage.

When backed into a corner or faced with a more powerful being, Raphael can behave cowardly and resort to begging as shown in his final moments when he resorted to pleading to Castiel (who was now stronger than him after absorbing 100 billion souls) after he allowed Crowley go. He was visibly frightened when Castiel made it clear he was going to kill him.

## Powers and Abilities

> Raphael was an archangel, nowhere near as powerful as his older brothers Lucifer or Michael, but he was vast, strategic, and terrifyingly powerful and his most terrifying power is that he could create, control, manipulate and generate infinitely destructive apocalyptic storms and cosmic storms all over the entire universe, capable of utterly obliterating entire planets, stars, and galaxies with great ease. He was a trillion times more powerful than me and every angel in all of creation combined. He could of effortlessly wiped out the entire human race, monster race, demon race, and even angel race in an instant. He could obliterate an entire galaxy in an instant with a thought, he could of effortlessly destroyed absolutely all life in the entire universe with a snap of his fingers. He was even powerful enough to destroy literally the entire universe within two or three months tops. He was infinitely stronger than me. He could of effortlessly disintegrated me in an instant with a thought. I wouldn't of survived a straight fight even if he was weakened and only using 1% of his strength and power. Which is why i had to use the power of all of the 1 trillion souls from Purgatory including the 500 billion souls from Hell to even have a chance at beating him. Which is mind-blowing if you really think it thru it took me over 1 trillion souls to kill Raphael, and one soul is equivalent to 10 billion stars in power, heat and energy, and one soul is also literally more powerful than 750 centillion megaton nuclear bombs which could instantly destroy over 2 billion galaxies and could cause immense destruction throughout everywhere in all of existence. The power of one single soul is unimaginable, it's immeasurable and nearly infinite, and one soul can easily an entire galaxy. One soul could instantly disintegrate hundreds of angels in an instant, it could even obliterate them instantly. The power of only 1 billion souls combined could instantly destroy the entire universe. 1 trillion souls would instantly turn the entirety of existence to dust. Only God, Lucifer and Michael would survive. 1 trillion souls could temporarily weaken Lucifer and Michael, though it wouldn't kill either of them, it would weaken them enough where they would be weakened for a few hours before they would return to full power and completely heal. All of those souls could of even temporarily weaken God himself, albeit for only a a few minutes. But luckily i had complete control over the infinitely destructive power and only used it towards Raphael. I was going to explode and if I did then all of life, reality, the entire universe, creation, and all of existence would of instantly ended and would of been completely destroyed, luckily I did not, It took me over 1 trillion souls to kill Raphael. That's the immensity of his unimaginably vast power.
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> Castiel, a Seraph describing Raphael's immense power **Raphael**, *The Man Who Would Be King*

> Raphael will deceive you then effortlessly destroy you at the speed of thought. He's full of infinite power, endless wrath, and limitless destruction. When he betrays you, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it or do to him. He's an archangel, making him not only one of the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence, but also virtually impossible to defeat or kill. You can't kill him, capture him, or defeat him. He could instantly annihilate you and destroy all of demonkind with a snap of his fingers. Right now, he rules Heaven with an iron fist. He has over 500 million angels under his iron-fisted control and almost all of them are completely loyal him, and would blindly follow any order he gave to them. They would kill, even die for him. He practically has the entire universe under his control, he has the keys to Hell. You might think you’re the king of Hell, but really, Raphael is everyone's boss, including you. It won't be long until he takes over all of existence, kill us all. He will bring the whole universe to its knees and end all life in the entire universe. He is infinitely more powerful than me, I would not survive a straight fight against him, its conpletely impossible for me to defeat or kill him, he would effortlessly destroy me in an instant.
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> Castiel, describing Raphael's power and authority to Crowley,

> An ordinary angel trying to kill, overpower, defeat, trap, or capture Raphael is completely impossible, absurd, and incredibly laughable. It's infinitely more impossible than a human trying to capture a hurricane in a butterfly net or a human trying to drink all of the oceans on Earth. Raphael could effortlessly smite the entire angel race with a thought. A trillion angels combined would stand absolutely no chance against him, even in hand-to-hand combat he would very easily overpower and slaughter them all with his bear hands in two minutes tops. I'm a seraph, I'm much more powerful than ordinary angels, but compared to any archangel, compared to Raphael I'm a subatomic particle, I'm infinitely weaker, he is a trillion times more powerful than me and every angel in all of creation combined. He could literally effortlessly crush me in an instant with his bear hands without even trying, he could very easily disintegrate me with a thought in less than a picosecond.
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> Castiel, a Seraph, comparing Raphael's power and strength to angels and himself to the angel Bathalzar

> Raphael is an Infinitely destructive primordial force and has a very special power and unimaginably powerful ability to create, manipulate and control the weather, galactic winds, black holes, supermassive black holes, antimatter, dark matter, dark energy, energy, matter, coronal mass ejections, solar flares, cosmic rays, geomagnetic storms, meteor showers, and cosmic storms on an infinite scale. He could create cosmic storms and infinitely destructive apocalyptic storms all over the universe, and can make it so massive and powerful enough to easily destroy entire planets, stars and galaxies If he really wished to do so, he could create such infinitely powerful types of cosmic storms to utterly destroy the entire universe, which he could do in a matter of 30 days tops, but he would be able to undoubtedly accomplish it if he put his mind to it.
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> Zachariah describing Raphael's powers and abilities to Sam and Dean Winchester

> If i want something ill take it from anyone or anything. Whatever i want... i get!
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> Raphael describing his absolute authority

> No matter where i go or hide in the universe, Raphael will find me and kill me. I can't fight him, i wouldn't last two seconds, he's literally a gazillion times stronger than me and every angel in all of creation combined, he could turn us all to dust in an instant. Its absolutely impossible for me to defeat him. He's an archangel, he's omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immortal, indestructible, and nothing can kill him. There isn't a weapon anywhere in existence that could kill him. There is very few beings that has the juice to beat him. His older brothers could easily destroy him but they are locked in the cage. God himself could instantly eradicate him from existence but he has been inactive for eons and nobody but the archangels has seen him or even knows where he is or if he even exists, and if he exists and is out there somewhere nobody will ever find him. Death may have the juice to kill him but he doesn't get involved in anything no matter what the reason is. So i suppose, Raphael is unstoppable, unkillable, invincible, etc. Were all doomed.
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> Bathalzar to Castiel describing Raphael's power

> With my father forever gone, and my older brothers Lucifer Michael in the cage and my brother Gabriel hiding somewhere on Earth. With them gone. Heaven and Earth is mine... the universe is all mine
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> Raphael describing his supreme authority and dominance

> Raphael, is the archangel who is the protector of Chuck Shurley. Since Chuck has an immortal, indestructible, all-powerful godlike being on his shoulder he's totally untouchable. This archangel seriously scared Lilith badly, and she's the first and strongest demon ever. She was so petrified, and she smoked out immediately. This Raphael dude is one badass, terrifying, super-powerful being. He would of instantly turned Lilith into a tiny piece of charcoal. He could literally wipe out the entire demon race easily if he wanted to
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> Dean describing Raphael to Sam

> I just effortlessly and instantly blacked out the entire Northern Hemisphere with a thought. That's nowhere near a tip of the ice berg of what i truly can do with my powers. I'm so powerful in ways that you couldn't even dream of. My power is beyond comprehension. I’m an all-powerful higher being, and you think you could stop me?. I can end you with a mere thought if you were worth the effort.
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> Raphael describing his great power to Dean Winchester

As an archangel, Raphael was one of the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence, possessing a nearly unlimited and immeasurable amount of unimaginable power, his incredible supernatural power was nearly limitless and made him immeasurably more powerful than any Monster, Alpha, Demigod, Deity, Pagan god, Reaper, Leviathan, Witch, Ghost, Demon, Angel or nearly anything else in existence for that matter. When Castiel as a Seraph was at full power, Raphael was still infinitely more powerful than Castiel. Merely trying to summon, outsmart or trap him is, according to Castiel, much harder than capturing a hurricane in a butterfly net. Only a few beings are more powerful than him such as, for example, his older brothers, father, aunt, nephew and Death. Below are listed the powers he has demonstrated on the show.

* **Nigh-Omnipotence** - Being an archangel, Raphael was among the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe, as well as among the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence. As an archangel, he possessed near-infinite power and his unimaginably powerful abilities and tremendous supernatural powers were nearly limitless. He can do almost anything he wishes and can accomplish almost anything with very few exceptions. His immense power was shown when he caused a blackout on the entire Northern Hemisphere, and could create, manipulate, and summon unbelievably powerful catastrophic thunderstorms, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, cyclones, tropical cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, tornadoes, hailstorms, rainstorms, electrical storms, winter storms, blizzards, winter storms, wind storms, and wildfires all over the entire world and can even create, manipulate and summon cosmic weather such as, cosmic storms, solar flares, meteor showers, geomagnetic storms, cosmic rays, coronal mass ejections, stellar dust, cosmic lightening, etc. He can create, manipulate and control cosmic storms made from cosmic matter or energy capable of destroying entire planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy groups, and galaxy clusters, and can unleash immense destruction and annihilation all over the entire universe, further showing the immensity of his immeasurable power. Even while weakened and trapped in a holy ring of fire. Being the third archangel, he stroke great fear into angels and demons alike, and even Lilith (the first and most powerful Demon in all of creation) was terrified of Raphael and his mere reputation was enough for her to immediately flee from her vessel. Raphael can effortlessly annihilate any angels and demons. He can very easily kill even the mightiest of Pagan gods, deities, demigods, and chief gods by snapping his fingers. He noted that he is powerful enough to instantly exterminate the entire human, monster, and demon races with a snap of his fingers, and even claimed he could easily destroy Hell. Castiel noted that Raphael was powerful enough to effortlessly smite the entire angel race at the same time with a hand gesture and also noted that he could create and destroy entire planets, stars, dimensions, galaxies and alternate universes with a snap of his fingers. (off-screen) he effortlessly obliterated thousands of demons at the same time with a blast of holy white light just by raising his hand. The immensity of his power was further shown when he caused his vessel severe permanent damage just by briefly possessing him. He was superior to Gabriel, but significantly weaker to Lucifer and Michael, the later who opened a portal to Purgatory with just a simple snap, while Raphael needed a powerful spell to achieve this feat, however Michael did this with a strong vessel descended from Cain or Abel, while Raphael was in a regular one. He effortlessly overpowered and beat Castiel, a Seraph at full power, to a bloody pulp and Castiel was not able to fight back at all. Castiel noted that Raphael was powerful enough to enfinbsolutely all life in existence with a snap of his fingers, and even powerful enough to destroy the entire universe within two or three months.
	+ **Angelic Possession** - Raphael, like all celestial beings, required the use of a human vessel in order to physically interact with humans while on Earth, as it is a law that applies for all angelic beings, even archangels. He needed the vessels consent, however, as an archangel, Raphael could repossess a vessel without their permission by leaving a "crack" open as seen with Alternate Michael when reppossessing Dean Winchester without his permission. Despite needing the vessel's permission, his presence was so powerful that it permanently damaged his vessel psychologically, spiritually and physically. Also as an archangel, his true form, grace and power is so immense that it can severely damage his vessels soul.
	+ **Biokinesis** - Raphael was able to cause Sam and Dean internal pain when confronting them. Raphael noted that he can cause Dean infinite physical torture in ways that be couldn't imagine. Raphael can manipulate, distort, alter, create, and control the biological aspects of any being to an unlimited degree, either to harm, injure, distort, twist, or transfigure them. He can limitlessly create and cause any type of injuries, deaths, wounds, sicknesses, poisons, diseases, illnesses, infections, toxins, viruses, bacteria, germs, plagues, pandemic, etc on an infinite scale. He can limitlessly manipulate, distort, twist, transfigure, create, shape, and control the entire bodies and entire biological aspects of humans and any other supernatural creature, such as, tissues, joints, systems, atoms, fats, proteins, biomolecules, biologies, anatomies, elements, DNA, cells, minds, muscles, brains, body temperature, minerals, hormones, oxygen, skeleton, nutrients, senses, organs, energy, body parts, skin, bones, molecules, genes, blood, nerves, mass, blood vessels, physiology, biochemistry, body water, immune systems, intestines, nervous systems, digestive systems, organisms, etc. to an unlimited degree. He can age and de-age humans, break bones, inflict physical damage, cause internal and external bleeding, cause blinding, deafness, suffocation, strangulation, paralysis, cancer, diseases, viruses, illnesses, strokes, mental and physical disorders, speechlessness, heart attacks, and instant deaths and can injure, transfigure, harm, weaken, dismember and decapitate humans and supernatural creatures with mere hand gestures. He can even cause and create global pandemics, such as viruses and diseases throughout the air and can make it spread anywhere or everywhere on an cosmic scale with a snap of his fingers.
		- **Nigh-Omnipresence** - Raphael can be almost everywhere in the whole universe at once. He can exist simultaneously in almost all places at once if he chose too, including physical and spiritual realms as well. He can be nearly everywhere in the entire universe at the same time, except The Empty and places protected with powerful Enochian sigils.
		- **Torturing** - As an archangel, Raphael was a master torturer. He described the nature of his psychological, spiritual and physical torture as being infinitely beyond that of Zachariah's "imagination"a high-ranking angel who was Heavens grand torturur. As an archangel, he can torture souls to his whim, either to corrupt, distort or unravel them. Castiel when comparing the powerful white-eyed demon Alastair (the grand-torturer of Hell) to Raphael in terms of torturing, Castiel called Alastair a "boy scout" compared to Raphael. Castiel called Raphael, *"one of the most terrifying torturers in all of existence"*.
	+ **Electromagnetic Interference** - Raphael effortlessly blacked out the entire Northern Hemisphere. He can cause electricity to malfunction, fry, or go haywire.
	+ **Soul Absorption** - As an archangel, Raphael can absorb souls to an unlimited degree. He can absorb souls to boost his own powers.
	+ **Soul Channeling** - As an archangel, Raphael can channel thru anyone's soul either thru thought or by placing his plam on them and can feel/sense, and read the condition of it.
	+ **Soul Reading** - As an archangel, Raphael can sense/feel, and read if a human has a soul and the condition of their souls just by looking at them.
	+ **Soul Control** - As an archangel, Raphael can manipulate, remove, restore, weaken, and control the souls of humans and monsters.
	+ **Soul Manipulation** - As an archangel, Raphael can manipulate the properties of human souls. He can easily control a human soul to send it to whatever afterlife he wants.
		- **Electrokinesis** - As an Raphael could generate, manipulate and control electricity with such an intensity as he did when manifesting before Dean and Castiel. He also caused a blackout on the entire Northern hemisphere. He can effortlessly electrocute other beings to death and release a nearly unlimited amount of electricity from his hands at his target.
	+ **Holy White Light** - Raphael, like all archangels, could generate immense amounts of energy and release a massively powerful divine light from his vessel, capable of easily obliterating humans, demons, ghosts, deities, demigods, reapers, hellhounds, alphas, leviathans, monsters and angels. He could use it as an immensely powerful blast of light which seems to manifest as tremendous kinetic force, concussively throwing or repelling objects a considerable distance, as using the light against Castiel while talking in his office caused him to be instantly knocked out for a week and suddenly appeared in a grassy field, with Castiel severely injured and badly vomiting blood on the floor. He had complete control of the intensity of the blast, being able to instantly obliterate or damage absolutely any target no matter who or what it is. As an archangel, his holy white light is infinitely larger, deadlier and more powerful than all other angels, and isnoted that a full blast is so extraordinarily powerful it can easily destroy entire planets, stars, and even galaxies.
	+ **Disintegration** - As an archangel, Raphael could instantly make matter, humans, demons, monsters, deities, angels, and other beings to turn into dust. He can revert matter into pure energy. He can effortlessly disintegrate multiple beings at the same time in an instant with a snap of his fingers, hand gestures, or even thoughts.
	+ **Incineration** - As an archangel, Raphael could effortlessly incinerate humans, demons, monsters, ghosts, angels, reapers, leviathans, deities, and other beings to ashes either instantly or slowly, he incineerates them on a physical and spiritual level destroying their bodies, vessels, and souls. He can utilize, create, manipulate, generate, and control unimaginably high temperatures and make the heat infinitely hotter, stronger, and more intense than lava and the sun where it could easily incinerate indestructible objects and almost anything else, such as, objects, matter, energy, souls, cities, moons, and entire planets.
	+ **Molecular Combustion** - As an archangel, Raphael could render humans, demons, monsters, deities, and angels down to their component molecules with finger snaps, hand gestures, even thoughts as he did Castiel. He
	+ **Killing Touch** - Like all archangels, Raphael can simply touch any human, monster, demon, pagan god, deity, demigod, leviathan, reaper, and even angel and witha mere touch can instantly kill them if they desire to do so.
	+ **Pyrokinesis** - Like all archangels, Raphael can create, manipulate, shape, generate, augment, and control fire to an unlimited degree. He can even create, generate and control spiritual fire and can incinerate other beings destroying them physically and spiritually and destroying their souls. With finger snaps, gestures, or even thoughts he could create, manipulate, generate, shape, and control fire and can utilize ot however he wants. He can even launch fireballs at targets and set them ablaze with great ease, and from his hands he can generate immense fire and limitlessly launch the fire in a manner akin to a flamethrower. He can effortlessly set entire buildings, houses, towns, cities, countries, and even planets ablaze with a snap of his fingers.
	+ **Smiting** - Like all angels, Raphael can smite humans, monsters, demons, and other supernatural creatures, but as an archangel, his smiting is infinitely more powerful than all angels. Also as an archangel, he can effortlessly smite any demon, monster, alpha, demigod, deity, pagan god, leviathan, angel, and any other supernatural creature in an instant, and unlike a regular angel, he can smite another being without making physical contact and can instantly smite any number of beings at the same time with mere hand gestures. (Off-screen) he easily smote thousands of demons at the same time.
	+ **Portal Creation**  - Through some unexplained manner, Raphael was capable of generating a portal that yanked the Winchesters from the alternate universe to the main universe, where Raphael was expecting Virgil. As an archangel, Raphael could instantly create portals and rifts to almost anywhere in all of existence, even the Multiverse with snaps of his fingers.
	+ **Power Negating** - Raphael can easily negate the powers and abilities of angels, demons, monsters, ghosts, witches, psychics, deities, leviathans, and most other supernatural creatures. He can temporarily or permanently prevent even the most powerful witches and psychics from using their powers, strength and abilities. He can effortlessly prevent lesser supernatural creatures from using any of their powers and abilities.
	+ **Power Augmentation** - Raphael can enhance the powers of angels and other beings, either temporarily or permanently. He enhanced the powers and strength of all of his loyal angelic soldiers, such as his most feared warrior Virgil, vastly enhancing his physical strength to the point where he was able easily overpower and beat the Seraph Castiel to a bloody pulp. He also temporarily augmented Crowley's invulnerabilities and immunities, such as immunity to angelic smiting and common demonic weaknesses such as, the demon-killing knife, exorcisms, devil traps, spells, hexbags, and magic. As an archangel, while he was the ruler of Heaven he immensely magnified the power of Heaven, making Heaven at full power and its gates and defenses impenetrable, unbreakable and untouchable, and also all angels greatly strengthened at at their fullest potential.
	+ **Power Granting** - Raphael can grant protection, immunity, abilities, and powers to humans and other beings, either temporarily or permanently. He was able to grant Crowley immunity from Castiel's smiting and grant him temporarily immunity to common demonic weaknesses such as, salt, holy water, devils traps, spells, magic, exorcism, demon-killing knife, hexbags, and enhanced super strength and invulnerability.
	+ **Power Stripping** - Raphael can strip powers, strength, invulnerabilities, immunities, and abilities from angels, demons, monsters, ghosts, demigods, reapers, deities, psychics, witches, and other supernatural creatures, either temporarily or permanently. He can turn an immortal being into a mortal being. He can strip any type of power, weather it be angelic, demonic, psychic, witchcraft, spellcraft, or magic.
	+ **Self-Power Augmentation** - As an archangel, like his brothers, Raphael had a very unique power to temporarily enhance his already-immense power and strengthen himself.
	+ **Reality Warping** - As an archangel, Raphael can alter the very fabric of reality to an unlimited degree, such as manipulating, changing, and controlling the flow of time, slowing, speeding-up, freezing, and reversing time, instantly creating absolutely anything he desires out of thin air, trapping people and other beings in time loops, recreate events, grant wishes, instantly creating matter and energy out of nothing, reshaping objects, instantly creating entire worlds, dimensions, planets, stars, galaxies, alternate realities, and even entire universes. He can it's instantly create entire universes on an infinite scale and limitlessly add in absolutely anything he desires to the universe with a mere thought. He can create alternate realities and limitlessly add in limitless timelines, people, beings, objects, places, things, etc. with thoughts. His reality warping abilities is so unimaginably powerful that he can even influence the universe itself to an immense degree. His mere arrival on Earth was enough to blackout everything from an entire room and the entire Northern Hemisphere.
	+ **Chronokinesis** - As an archangel, Raphael could travel and send themselves, and/or others backwards or forwards through time, no matter how far into the future or how far into the past. Castiel noted that archangels can manipulate, alter, and control time to an unlimited degree and can travel through time limitlessly, as far as predating the Big Bang or trillions of years into the future. Also as an archangel, his time-traveling abilities is infinitely greater than Angels. He can effortlessly speed-up, slow, freeze, or reverse the flow of time to an unlimited degree. He can change the past or future however he desires as well. He can also trap anyone in time loops for as long as he wants, even indefinitely and endlessly. He can create, manipulate, and control time loops to an unlimited degree, and can even trap entire universes in endless time loops.
	+ **Cosmic Weather Manipulation** - Raphael can create, manipulate and control cosmic weather, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, meteor showers, geomagnetic storms, and cosmic storms to an infinite degree, powerful, destructive and massive enough to destroy entire planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy groups, and galaxy clusters. He can cause infinitely destructive catastrophic cosmic storms all over the entire universe. He noted that that he could utterly destroy the entire universe within 30 days.
	+ **Unlimited Conjuration** - Raphael could instantly create absolutely anything out of thin air with a thought to an unlimited degree. He can create anything and everything from races of beings, creatures, objects, weapons and entire universes.
	+ **Telepathy** - Raphael can read minds. He can read, detect and sense the thoughts and memories of humans and angels. He can communicate mentally with other beings as well no matter far apart he is from who he wants to communicate with. He often held telepathic conversations with his soldiers and eldest brother Michael. He can also communicate with angels on "Angel Radio". While in any vessel, he has complete access to all thoughts and memories of the vessel he is occupying.
	+ **Empathy** - Raphael could read, feel/sense the emotions of humans and any other being at will.
	+ **Astral Projection** - As an archangel, Raphael could display his immeasurably large divine wings in a gigantic shadowy form. He could also display his true form and size to angels to intimidate them. He noted that his true form and size is an infinitely large humanoid figure of pure white light and over 100,000 light years in height, width and length which is the size of an entire galaxy. Castiel noted that an archangels true forms are pure cosmic energy.
	+ **Technopathy** - Raphael can manipulate, modify, and control technology at will. He can fix, start, destroy, and turn off any type of electronic devices with a thought, such as vehicles, airplanes,ships, drones, surveillance devices, listening devices, jets, elavators, televisions, cell phones, computers, cameras, etc.
	+ **Mind Control** - As an archangel, Raphael can make humans, demons, and angels do absolutely he wants against their will by verbal commands or even thoughts. He can control the minds of humans and the entirety of their free will and force them to do absolutely anything he desires with thoughts.
	+ **Mental Manipulation** - Raphael can control, manipulate, fabricate, restore, and erase the minds, memories, thoughts, actions, behavior, personalities, and emotions of humans, ghosts, monsters, demons, angels and other beings to an unlimited degree. He can instantly erase, alter, modify, and restore memories, make anyone say, think or do anything he desires, and control their minds, thoughts and actions and can make them act anyway he wants with verbal commands, hand gestures, or mere thoughts
	+ **Memory Manipulation** - Raphael can control, erase, modify, restore, fabricate, and manipulate memories of humans and other beings to an unlimited degree. After he completely he shortened and restored the electricity of the entire Northern Hemisphere, he then erased the memories of all angels and everyone within the entire Northern Hemisphere, so they would not remember the in incident and so he could keep a very low profile.
	+ **Mental Projection** - As an archangel, Raphael can effortlessly project images, visions, premonitions, and thoughts inside other beings minds to communicate with them and send them messages.
	+ **Hallucination Projection** - As an archangel, Raphael can create, manipulate, fabricate, project, and control hallucinations/illusions to an unlimited degree, and can cause his any being to see, hear, smell, and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are. His hallucination abilities is so powerful, where he can create complex, detailed and incredibly realistic images, people, creatures, places, objects, worlds, dimensions, and even universes. He can place his target and/or targets in simulated conditions and circumstances and accurately replicate a limitless variety of different phenomenon and other effects. He can create limitless hallucinations/illusions and make them seem absolutely real. He can trap his targets in their hallucinations/illusions for as long as he wants, even indefinitely
	+ **Dream Walking** - Raphael can appear in people's dreams, he would usually do it to communicate with others if he couldn't find the person he is looking for because they would be protected by powerful Enochian sigils, or to talk privately.
	+ **Unlimited Wish Granting** - As an archangel, Raphael can limitlessly grant wishes to himself and other beings. He can grant absolutely any type of wish he desires to an unlimited degree, such as entire worlds, dimensions and universes. He can infinitely and endlessly grant wishes instantly with a thoughts, even if its a direct contradiction to scientific laws. He can grant wishes that are unrealistic universes, fictional beings, and fairy tale worlds and absolutely anything he wants.
	+ **Omni-Dream Manipulation** - As an archangel, Raphael could manipulate, shape, create, control, and enter dreams of any being and can control and manipulate the dreams however he desires to an unlimited degree, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, and observing any and all beings dreams as well as nightmares and daydreams, including past dreams. He could create, produce, manipulate, control, and modify dreams on a universal scale, entrap anyone in their dreams and nightmares endlessly, produce, control and modify dreams, bestow lucid dreams and nightmares, and promote emotional/spiritual healing within dreams. He can even trap anyone in their dreams for as long as he wants, even forever. As an archangel, Raphael is virtually omnipotent with this ability. He can even be present in everyones dream in the universe at the same time, create, manipulate and control entire alternate universes within their dreams, and bend the universe to his will, and can manifest/materialize dreams into reality.
	+ **Invisibility** - As an archangel, Raphael can render himself invisible at will. He could only be seen when he wanted to be seen.
	+ **Intangibility** - As an archangel, Raphael could pass thru physical matter unfazed. He could make himself intangible at will.
	+ **Sedation** - Raphael could instantly render animals, humans, demons, monsters, and angels unconscious with a touch, finger snap, or even a thought.
	+ **Conversion** - As an archangel, Raphael could instantly transform a being into something entirely new and different type of being with either a touch or snap of his fingers. For example he can transform a human into an animal, such as a cat, dog, lion bear, horse, rat, or even insect. He can transform an animal into a human. He can also transform a monster or demon into a human again. He could of transformed almost any being into anything he wished. He used this ability on lesser angels who have failed him by transforming them into worms, maggots, insects, gnats, rodents, and if he was feeling "generous" transform them into a normal human.
	+ **Animal Communication** - As an archangel, Raphael could speak, understand and communicate with animals.
	+ **Omnilingualism** - As an archangel, Raphael could speak and understand all languages in the universe.
	+ **Illusion Casting** - As an archangel, Raphael can create, manipulate, fabricate, and control illusions and hallucinations to an unlimited degree, which he can drive people insane. He can create extremely realistic illusions and hallucinations and make anyone think that it is truly real.
	+ **Lie Detection** - As an archangel, Raphael could instantly sense and detect if another being was lying or not.
	+ **Pathokinesis** - As an archangel, Raphael could alter anyone's emotions.
	+ **Hypnotism** - As an archangel, Raphael could easily hypnotize humans, demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. He could hypnotize almost any being by putting them in a trance and unwillingly force them to think or do anything he wants by verbal commands or hand gestures.
	+ **Exorcism** - As an archangel, Raphael could effortlessly force demons out of their vessels in an instant and instantly send them back to Hell with a thought. He also can use this ability on angels by snapping his fingers and forcing angels out their vessels and instantly sending them back to Heaven.
	+ **Precognition** - As an archangel, Raphael can see the future and can accurately predict the future, even if its trillions of years into the future. But cannot always see the full picture, but can see most of it.
	+ **Necrogenesis** - As an archangel, Raphael can induce cell death in organic and inorganic lifeforms. He can kill almost any being by touching them or just thinking it.
	+ **Thermokinesis** - As an archangel, Raphael could create, manipulate and control heat or cold to an unlimited degree. He could burn other beings from the inside out, and make their blood boil, and freeze other being to death by touching them, snapping his fingers or by thoughts. he can manipulate the tempurature of large areas, and entire planets by increasing or decreasing it however he wants. He can generate heat much hotter than the Sun,and could generate such unbelievable heat where he can completely melt metal, iron and steel objects instantly and even melt or in incinerate other beings in an instant with finger snaps or touches. He can also generate belowzero tempuratures and generate such extreme cold cuasing objects, areas, beings, and entire cities to completely freeze. He would often use this ability by giving humans and other beings third degree burns. He can even cause an ice age on Earth if he wanted to and could set entire planets ablaze instantly.
	+ **Super Breath** - As an archangel, Raphael could generate extremely powerful and massive blows air from his mouth, powerful enough to easily blow over other beings a tremendous distance away, and blow over entire buildings, towers, and skyscrapers, and can cause vast destruction to large areas, similar to tornadoes.
	+ **Localization** - Raphael can instantly track and locate
	+ anyone and anything absolutely anywhere in existence, no matter where they are in the entire universe. As an archangel, he can instantly locate anyone and anything in the universe, even if he has not been told of the location.
	+ **Self-Duplication** - Raphael can create limitless copies of himself with a thought.
	+ **Sonic Scream** - Raphael's vocals are so powerful and intense it can cause tremors and full-fledged earthquakes on a massive scale. His loudest scream can cause extremely violent quakes and immense destruction all over the entire universe.
	+ **Spell Breaking** - As an archangel, Raphael could effortlessly break almost any spell, even the most powerful of spells. He can easily break binding and depowering spells, which would render regular angels completely powerless.
	+ **Supernatural Concealment** - As an archangel, Raphael could conceal himself so powerfully where absolutely no being in existence could find him, even God himself.
	+ **Regeneration** - Raphael's nonlethal wounds could heal instantly. Absolutely all conventional weapons and objects and absolutely all ordinary weapons and objects is absolutely impossible to harm him. Not even every nuclear bomb combined could harm him. Bullets, swords, machetes, arrows, daggers, and knives bounce harmlessly off of Raphael's skin and he is completely unhurt. If he was wounded or injured by an extremely powerful supernatural weapon or object, such as angel blades, holy fire, angel-killing bullets, the Colt, or heavens weapons he would heal instantly and completely. But conventional weapons wouldn't even pierce his skin, thus his skin, tissue and bones are completely unbreakable, invulnerable and indestructible to all conventional weapons, guns, objects, knives, and bombs.
	+ **Absolute Agility** - As an archangel, Raphael had limitless superhuman agility, reflexes, dexterity, bodily coordination, reaction time, accuracy, equilibrium, and balance he could effortlessly react to faster-than-light speeds, and catch, dodge or deflect incredibly fast incoming damage with great ease and without even looking such as speeding bullets, arrows, daggers, and knives, as seen when Dean threw an Angel Blade at Raphael as fast as he could when he was just a few feet back from him, the latter easily caught it in his grasp before it could hit him. He also did so without even turning around. He could react to everything there is no matter how fast it comes. He can jump off towers and harmlessly land on his feet, easily climb up walls for as long as he wants, jump extremely far distances for miles, even can jump cosmic distances to other planets and galaxies, and had supreme superhuman accuracy which enables him to easily and accurately hit his target no matter how fast his target is moving and no matter how far his target is.
	+ **Absolute Speed** - As an archangel, Raphael has limitless superhuman speed which trancsends both levels of speed infinitely and absolutely, and also transcends the logical limits and boundaries of speed as a concept. He is beyond and qualitatively superior to all concepts of speed and the dimensions of time and space and are capable of performing movement beyond infinite dimensions of time due to transending the very concepts of movement itself. He can run, move, fly and react infinitely faster than the speed of light, he can fly 93 billion light-years much faster than a yoctosecond. He can go everywhere in all of existence faster than instantly, in a similar manner to omnipresence.
	+ **Absolute Senses** - As an archangel, Raphael has infinite senses of hearing, sight, taste, smell, touch, and detection. He can hear, see, smell, detect, and otherwise sense almost everything in the entire universe, except places and people protected by very powerful Enochian sigils. He could even hear the thoughts of anyone and everyone in existence if he chose too. Raphael could instantly sense anything that posed a threat to a prophet, regardless of where he was in the universe. From heaven, he was able to sense Lilith's killing intent after Dean brought Chuck in to the same room with her, which provoked him to descend down to earth to protect him.
	+ **Absolute Stamina** - As an archangel, Raphael had unlimited stamina, could never tire and could remain endlessly and infinitely engaged in a task for as long as he saw fit even forever. He did not ever need to eat, drink, breathe, rest, or sleep to sustain himself or his vessel, he did not get hot or cold, and did not need to urinate or defecate. He could do absolutely any kind of physical activity forever, such as, running, moving, walking, fighting, etc. limitlessly and endlessly.
	+ **Absolute Strength** - As an archangel, Raphael endowed his vessels with a tremendous level of superhuman strength, his physical strength was virtually incalculable and limitless, and could lift, carry, move, or exert an infinite amount of force and mass. He could shatter entire planetary systems with a single strike, cause highly destructive quakes by punching the ground, easily break and destroy indestructible objects and beings, distort the very fabric of reality with his bear hands alone, shatter the boundaries of time and space on a massive scale with his raw physical strength. He could easily throw humans, demons, monsters, angels, boulders, and vehicles into orbit and can generate colossal shockwaves with his mighty punches. Castiel noted that an archangel could easily move and exert infinite amount of force and mass with their raw physical strength. He can easily lift other beings in the air with one hand by their necks and throw them miles away with a flick of their wrists, tear thru flesh with great ease, easily break thru reinforced steel walls and doors, effortlessly lift vehicles over their heads, and punch the ground and cause a major tremor and destruction. He once thru an angel into orbit for failing him. Raphael could casually and effortlessly overpower other beings with great ease. He very easily overpowered Castiel during a fight, nearly beating the seraph to a bloody pulp.
	+ **Flight** - As an archangel, Raphael could fly, hover, and levitate with and without a vessel. He could fly absolutely anywhere he desires and could fly endlessly and limitlessly. Even without using his wings he could still fly. In his true form he can fly as an immeasurably large bright pure light. In his vessel, his wings are seemingly immeasurable and limitless. He could fly absolutely anywhere in the entire universe, including Heaven and Hell. He could fly infinitely faster than the speed of light, and can fly 93 billion light years faster than picosecond. Wherever he landed cuased an immensely destructive eruption which he landed with unbelievable force and speed, powerful enough to destroy an entire city.
	+ **Resurrection** - As an archangel, Raphael could effortlessly bring deceased individuals back to life with a snap of his fingers. He could of brought humans back to life no matter how long they were dead, even if every cell of their being was completely disintegrated he could still easily bring them back to life to their full health in an instant. As an archangel, Raphael could of even brought angels back from The Empty, but only within 24 hours.
	+ **Spell Casting** - As an archangel, Raphael could easily cast spells to an unlimited degree. He claimed that he knew absolutely every spell in all of existence and knew how to perfectly perform every spell in all of existence. Castiel said of Raphael's knowledge of spellcraft, *"There isn't a spell in history of creation that Raphael didn't know how to perform. There is absolutely no witch in history of existence is even close to Raphael in performing spells. No Witch had nowhere near the knowledge of spellcraft and magic that Raphael knew. He was infinitely more powerful than every witch in history of the universe combined."*
	+ **Voice Mimicry** - As an archangel, Raphael could manipulate, augment, change, alter, and control his voice to anyone and anything he wished. He could perfectly mimic other beings voices and could even increase the sound of his own voice or other beings voices to an unlimited degree, and could increase it loud enough where everyone in the universe could hear him.
	+ **Shapeshifting** - As an archangel, Raphael could instantly change his form to absolutely anything and anyone he wants to an unlimited degree, weather he's with or without a vessel. As an archangel, his shapeshifting abilities is immeasurably more advanced than that of most beinga in all of existence, and even far more advanced than the Alpha Shapeshifter, Leviathans, and Eve. He can change into absolutely anything and anyone he wants and can limitlessly create, manipulate, alter, change, and control his shape, color, density, size, or to be solid, liquid, pure energy, or gaseous. He can apread his form into smaller segments that would keep his ability to transform and recombine as he wished. He can change into absolutely anything and anyone he imagined and wished.
	+ **Supernatural Perception** - Raphael could see the true forms of angels and demons thru their vessels. He can see a human possessed by a demon, ghost, or angel. He can see and perceive the true forms of any supernatural creature and can see beings and objects that are rendered invisible to the human eye such as, reapers, ghosts, hellhounds, fairies, and horsemen. As an archangel his astral perception is far stronger than that of most beings, He can also see and perceive human souls departing to an afterlife immediately after their deaths, grace within an angel thru their vessels, and the Veil.
	+ **Clairsentience** - Raphael can see, detect and sense any type of supernatural beings and energies and can instantly sense and detect the powers and weaknesses of any being. He instantly see the history of any place, being or object. He can also instantly detect and differentiate types of angels, demons, monsters, ghosts, deities, and other beings. He can even instantly detect and indentify who and what something and someone is. He can also instantly detect, indentify and sense absolutely any type of spell, curse, hex, sigil, and magic.
	+ **Energy Blasts** - As an archangel, Raphael could create, augment, generate, project and control energy blasts and could utilize it to launch extremely powerful and massive balls of immense energy at his targets, powerful enough to obliterate or damage objects, buildings, and other beings. He could launch an unlimited amount of energy blasts at his targets and could increase it's size and power anyway he desires.
	+ **Exorcism** - As an archangel, Raphael could snap his fingers and instantly exorcise demons from their hosts and instantly send them back to Hell. He also has the power to exorcise angels from their vessels and instantly send them to Heaven.
	+ **Healing** - As an archangel, Raphael could instantly cure absolutely any disease, wound, injury, virus, illness, and infection, and can instantly bring absolutely any being back to their optimal physical health.
	+ **Unlimited Telekinesis** - Raphael could easily move and exert force on matter, and can move objects and people with his mind to an unlimited degree. Capable of effortlessly moving incalculably heavy objects such as, vehicles, trains, houses, buildings, towers, skyscrapers, ships, boulders, moons, asteroids, and entire planets.
	+ **Teleportation** - Raphael could transverse absolutely anywhere in the entire universe instantly, and can travel from one place to another virtually anywhere in existence, instantly, without occupying the space in between. Castiel said he could fly faster than the speed of thought.
		- **Apporting** - He could teleport any number of objects or beings with or without him accompanying them. He could even teleport extremely large objects such as, towers, skyscrapers, buildings, houses, vehicles, airplanes, ships, moons, and even entire planets to anywhere he wants.
	+ **Terrakinesis** - As an archangel, Raphael could manipulate the earth itself to an unlimited degree, causing tremors and earthquakes. As an archangel, he could cause the entire universe to violently shake, and he can cause tremors throughout the whole universe.
	+ **Elemental Control** - As an archangel, Raphael could control the Earth, weather, wind, fire, water, air, temperature, electrical fields, and elements themselves to an unlimited degree, enough to easily create, summon and cause natural disasters, cataclysmic events, apocalyptic types of infinitely destructive storms all over Earth, and even all over the entire universe, either willingly or due to his presence.
	+ **Weather Manipulation** - As an archangel, Raphael possessed total control over the weather, able to summon, manipulate and create colossally powerful catastrophic storms easily. His mere arrival on Earth could cause lightning storms, thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, cyclones, tropical cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, snow storms, rainstorms, ice storms, droughts, volcano eruptions, wind storms, tempurature flucuations, hailstorms, and wildfires all over the entire planet. His control over the weather is so powerful that he could cause infinite destruction all over the entire universe. He could create, manipulate, summon, augment, and control cataclysmic types of infinitely destructive storms all over the entire universe, capable of destroying entire planets, stars and galaxies all across the entire universe. He noted that he could flood the entire Earth.

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* **Nigh-Omniscience** - As an archangel, Raphael possessed an near-infinite amount of knowledge, understanding and awareness of The Universe. He could instantly sense and detect major events transpiring throughout everywhere in all of existence, and knew almost everything. He knew of an unknown method of releasing Michael and Lucifer from the Cage without using the rings of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. He knew how to speak and understand every language in the entire universe. He claimed that he knew every spell, curse, and every type of magic in the universe, and how to successfully perform every spell in all of existence. He instantly knew that Castiel was trying to work with Crowley to split the absorption of the Purgatory souls. He instantly knew that the angel Bathalzar sent Sam and Dean to an alternate universe and even knew which universe he sent them to and created a portal that yanked them back to the main universe. He knew the exact number of monster souls in Purgatory and knew of an extremely rare spell of where he could absorb all of the souls. From Heaven, Raphael instantly sensed that the Prophet Chuck Shurley (Unbeknownst to Raphael was God) was in danger and instantly descended down to Earth to protect him.
* **Cosmic Awareness** - As an archangel, Raphael could hear everyone's prayer on Earth at the same time. He became instantly aware of "Chuck" (God) if he was in any danger, no matter where he was in existence. From Heaven, Raphael was instantly aware that chuck was in danger and instantly sensed Lilith's killing intent on Chuck and immediately descended from Heaven to Earth to protect him. Raphael was instantly aware that a few dozen angels were vastly outnumbered by thousands of demons, and he noted he was over 52 billion light years away from Earth destroying a small uninhabitable planet when he became aware of this, and from there he instantly descended to Earth to kill the thousands of demons in a blast of holy white light. Raphael noted that he sees, hears, and is aware of everything that happens in Heaven, Hell, and on Earth. He would become aware of any major event transpiring all over the entire universe.
* **Immortality** - As an archangel, Raphael was one of the first beings in all of existence. His age is virtually infinite, incalculable and timeless. He had an infinite lifespan, and couldn't be affected by age, diseases, viruses, illnesses, infections, poisons, or toxins. He couldn't get tired and did not require food, sleep, water, rest, or oxygen to sustain himself or his vessel. He is near-absolute immortal, and could absolutely live forever. At the time of his death, he was infinitely more than 900 centillion years old, he was infinitely older than light, creation and the universe itself. He is so infinitely old that he considers the 15-billion-year-old universe a "newborn baby" compared to him.
	+ **Invulnerability** - As an archangel, Raphael was nearly completely invulnerable to almost all forms of supernatural harm in all of existence. Bullets and knives bounce harmlessly off of his body and is is completely unaffected by extreme tempuratures, fire, lava, suffocation, strangulation, drugs, illnesses, diseases, infections, toxins, viruses, radiation, pressure, poisons, blunt force trauma, and most forms of spells and magic. He is invulnerable to almost all supernatural weapons/objects. It is completely impossible for him to be killed or harmed by any conventional means. Not even a nuclear bomb could harm him. The only weapon in all of existence that could kill him was an archangel blade though it must be used by another archangel to be effective. More powerful entities, such as Lucifer, Michael, God, The Darkness, Jack, Death, and Castiel (while empowered by billions of Purgatory souls) were able to kill him.
	+ **Nigh-Invincibility** - As an archangel, Raphael's true form and his vessel was virtually invincible, and next to nothing could kill him. The only thing that could kill him is an archangel blade (if wielded and used by another archangel) if he was stabbed with the archangel blade by a non-archangel then he would be completely unharmed and would instantly regenerate, very few beings could harm him. The only beings in all of existence that could harm and kill him is God, The Darkness, Death, Jack Kline, and his older brothers Lucifer and Michael. The only reason Castiel was able to kill him is he was empowered by over 130 billion souls, without the souls Castiel would be absolutely no threat to him.
	+ **Indestructibility** - As an archangel, Raphael himself and his vessel was nearly completely indestructible, next to invincible, and is almost impossible to kill. He is impervious to nearly all forms of supernatural weapons/objects/methods and he has very few weaknesses. The only thing in all of existence that can kill him is an archangel blade if wielded and used by another archangel. More powerful beings, such as, Michael, Lucifer, God, The Darkness, Death, Jack Kline, and Castiel (While he was temporarily empowered by 130 billion souls) can also kill him. His youngest archangel brother Gabriel is powerful enough to harm and weaken him, but can't kill him.
	+ **Immunity** - As an archangel, Raphael was immune to almost all weaknesses that would easily kill, effect, harm, banish, mislead, exorcize, or trap all angels, such as angel blades, angel-killing bullets, holy fire, angel swords, angel saws, the Colt, the First blade, angel traps, angel depowering sigils, angel imprisoning sigils, supernatural handcuffs, energy focusing sigils, hex bags, heavens weapons, enochian brass knuckles, angel warding, angel proofing sigils, angel blocking sigils, and even Death's Scythe. He was also completely immune to Metatron's expelling angels spell where it burned off all angels wings and significantly weakened them all, Raphael and his brothers retained their wings and full power. He had immunity to almost all spells, magic, hexes, witchcraft, vodoo, and curses. He also had limited immunity to Hands of God, which could instantly obliterate virtually all beings in existence. Though, a blast from any Hands of God couldn't kill him, it could cause him great pain and could temporarily negate his powers. He was immune to almost all types of supernatural objects/weapons, and was even immune to all Heavens weapons, and his immunity was so powerful that Castiel noted even if all Heavens weapons were combined and unified it still would not be strong enough to kill him, though it could significantly weaken him. As an archangel, he could not be expelled by any his vessel.

## Weaknesses

Despite being one of the Archangels, making him one of the most powerful beings in all of existence, Raphael had weaknesses inherited in all Archangels.

### Harming, Misleading and Trapping

* **Heaven's Weapons** - Lot's Stone was able to transmute his vessel's body into salt beyond repair, and all of Heaven's weapons unified could significantly weaken and fatally wound Raphael, which would tame a long time to regenerate himself and his strength and powers.
* **Gabriel** - Raphael's youngest brother Gabriel, as an archangel is powerful enough to challenge, harm and weaken him, but cannot kill him with his own power, like Lucifer and Michael can. However, Gabriel could kill Raphael if stabbing him in the heart with an archangel blade.
* **Lucifer's Cage** - Capable of containing and trapping any archangel, and even any being, such as, God himself.

### Banishing or Destroying

* **Higher Primordial Entities** - The Darkness and God could effortlessly destroy Raphael. As a lesser archangel, Death could effortlessly kill Raphael, but Death is no match for higher archangels, such as Lucifer or Michael.
* **Souls** - Empowered by 100 billion souls, Castiel was able to temporarily banish and weaken Raphael. Consumption of over 250 billion souls gave Castiel so much power that he could snap his fingers and obliterate Raphael.
* **Archangel Blade** - An archangel blade can kill an archangel in the hands of another archangel.
* **Archangels** - Lucifer and Michael were his older brothers and were immeasurably more powerful than him. Lucifer noted that he can effortlessly disintegrate Raphael with a snap of his fingers. Raphael admitted that Michael could instantly smite him. Castiel said of comparing Raphael's power to Michael's and Lucifer's *"Michael is literally trillions of times more powerful than Raphael. He could instantly destroy Raphael with a thought. Lucifer is also infinitely more powerful than Raphael. Lucifer could easily obliterate him with a snap of his fingers. Though, Raphael is an archangel, nonetheless, he is still unimaginably powerful, his power level is nearly infinite and limitless, but Michael and Lucifer are infinitely beyond him. Raphael is a gnat, a subatpmic particle compared to his older brothers"*

## Death

### Killed By

* Castiel

After taking in all of the souls of Purgatory, Castiel rendered Raphael powerless, preventing Raphael from escaping. As Raphael tried to convince Castiel to spare him, Castiel exploded Raphael at the molecular level with a snap of his fingers, killing the archangel.

## Appearances

* Season 2
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* Season 4
	+ *The Monster at the End of This Book* Template:C
	+ *Lucifer Rising* Template:C
* Season 5
	+ *Sympathy for the Devil* Template:C
	+ *Free To Be You and Me*
	+ *Changing Channels* Template:C
* Season 6
	+ *The Third Man*
	+ *Caged Heat* Template:C
	+ *The French Mistake*
	+ *The Man Who Would Be King*
	+ *The Man Who Knew Too Much*
* Season 7
	+ *Meet the New Boss* Template:C
	+ *Hello, Cruel World* Template:C
* Season 8
	+ *The Great Escapist* Template:C
* Season 11
	+ *The Devil in the Details* Template:C
	+ *We Happy Few* Template:C
* Season 13
	+ *Devil's Bargain* Template:C
* Season 15
	+ *Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven* Template:C
	+ *Unity* Template:C
* *A Very Special Supernatural Special* Template:C

## Lore

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His name means "God Heals". In multiple interpretations, including the Book of Enoch, Raphael was responsible for binding Azazel to a clear, deserted landscape. He was also mentioned in the Book of Tobit, although the Book isn't found in Protestant Holy Bibles. In the Book of Tobit, Raphael healed Tobit of his blindness and delivered Tobit's daughter, Sarah, from Asmodeus.

In Islam, Raphael, under the name Israfel, is the Archangel who sounds the start of Judgment Day. To Roman Catholics, Raphael (venerated as Saint Raphael) is the patron saint of doctors, medical workers and travelers.

He is also said to be the one to slay the Leviathan.

## Trivia

* Raphael is one of the three main antagonists of Season 6; the others are Crowley and Castiel.
* He is the only Archangel who never interacted with Lucifer while on Earth in a vessel; although, as brothers, interactions between them did take place in Heaven.
* Dean calls Raphael a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel" the first time he hears his name. This is a reference to the series *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*, in which one of the heroes is named Raphael.
	+ Coincidentally, they are both rather hot-headed and care a lot about their three brothers, even though they rarely show this.
* It is never revealed how Raphael escaped the Holy Fire Dean and Castiel left Raphael in in *Free To Be You and Me*. However, Holy Fire is only shown to have a limited effect on the two Michael's who appear in *Supernatural* and Lucifer, suggesting that Raphael may have been able to break out on his own with enough time.
* In *The Third Man*, Castiel mentions that Raphael likes to "follow traditions". This explains why he wants to summon back Lucifer and Michael in order to end the Apocalypse the way the traditions says so. An in-joke could be present here as the angels who followed Michael before Raphael seized power would be known as the Pre-Raphaelites.
* Raphael's new vessel bears many resemblances to Semirhage, one of the Forsaken from the Wheel of Time series, particularly in his/her healing archetype and earlier dismissive attitude of Zachariah's skill in torture. Raphael also physically resembles this character.
* Raphael is the only Archangel to only use African-American hosts.
* Raphael has been featured second-least out of the four archangels, having appeared in a total of 3 seasons and 5 episodes.
* He is the first main antagonist who has been killed by someone that isn't a Winchester. After him, Metatron was killed by The Darkness after he had switched sides and joined the Winchesters. He was a main antagonist of Season 9. Rowena was temporarily killed by Lucifer twice, Doctor Hess was killed by Jody Mills, Crowley killed himself after officially siding with the Winchesters, and Asmodeus was killed by Gabriel.
* He is also currently one of only three main antagonists to die who is also an angel, the others being Metatron and Lucifer as Michael, Naomi and Castiel all lived in the end.
* Raphael is one of three angels shown to possess a male and female vessel, alongside Castiel and Hannah.
* Raphael was killed in the same manner he had killed Castiel in *Lucifer Rising*, by Castiel himself.
* Raphael is the first archangel shown to possess both a male and female vessel. The second is Alternate Michael
* His belief that God was dead was proven false as it turns out he was ironically watching him as Chuck Shurley.
	+ Also his belief was proven hazardous as it was shown if God dies the world will be destroyed.
* Raphael is the only Archangel to not show destructive wrath on screen. Michael showed it killing Anna, Lucifer when he slaughtered a group of pagan gods, and Gabriel when he smote Asmodeus. Raphael did easily destroy thousands of demons in one shot but off screen.
* Raphael is the first archangel to die in the series. Though Gabriel was apparently killed in *Hammer of the Gods*, this was proven to be a trick. Gabriel was later killed by the Apocalypse World Michael in *Exodus* while Lucifer was killed by Dean Winchester in *Let the Good Times Roll*.
* He's the only Archangel that doesn't have a known counterpart in Apocalypse World. It was confirmed by the Alternate Michael that his world did have a Lucifer and may still have a Gabriel, but he said nothing about Raphael. As the two worlds had the same history up until 1973, Raphael presumably exists and was never mentioned or died during the Apocalypse.
* Raphael is the only archangel not to have a counterpart either seen or mentioned from Apocalypse World or in The End.
* The power difference between Raphael and Michael can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Raphael required a spell to open a doorway to Purgatory in *The Man Who Knew Too Much* while Michael could open a twelve-hour rift to Purgatory with just a snap of his fingers and his innate archangel powers in *Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven*.
* Raphael is the only appearing Archangel to not be an ally of Team Free Will for at least a short period of time, though Lucifer and Alternate Michael ultimately betrayed the alliances.
* Raphael is the only archangel to not appear in the series penultimate episode *Inherit the Earth* in some form: Michael and Lucifer both appear in person while Gabriel is in the flashback sequence at the end.

## References

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1. ↑ *Houses of the Holy*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *The Monster at the End of This Book*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Lucifer Rising*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 *Free To Be You and Me*
5. ↑ *The Man Who Would Be King*
6. ↑ *The Third Man*
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *The French Mistake*
8. ↑ *Sympathy for the Devil*
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 *The Man Who Knew Too Much*
10. ↑ *Devil's Bargain*