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7	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/archangel_raphael.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: Cool, but ''not'' rude]]
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9	The Archangel Raphael is one of the seven Archangels mentioned in Literature/TheBible, specifically in the Literature/BookOfTobit (which not all religious groups consider to be {{canon}}). He is seen as a healer and guide, acting as an assistant to Death, as his Traveler persona, on some occasions. He is also seen in the Islamic faith as the trumpet blower for death, replacing ArchangelGabriel. Along with Gabriel and [[ArchangelMichael Michael]], Raphael is one of the three archangels recognised by the Catholic Church, while Michael is the only archangel named in Biblical books that ''everyone'' considers canon.[[note]] In the Judaic mystical system of the Kabballah, and in the Christian mystic school of Rosicrucianism, a fourth Archangel, [[ArchangelUriel Auriel]], is named and honoured.[[/note]]
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11	Raphael is associated with the element of water, and one of the most common images of him according to Website/{{Wikipedia}} is of him holding a water flask. As water [[HealItWithWater is associated with healing and life]], it is fitting that he is the patron saint of doctors. He's sometimes also associated with air and is depicted with a bow and arrow. According to some sources, he is also a regent of the sun.
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13	Subtrope of CelestialParagonsAndArchangels. See his brethren in ArchangelAzrael, ArchangelMichael, ArchangelGabriel, ArchangelUriel, and (possibly) the FallenAngel version in Archangel Lucifer, aka {{Satan}}. Also take a look at OurAngelsAreDifferent. Contrast {{Asmodeus}}, his ArchEnemy in the source material. See also TheMedic.
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20	* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'': He is the greatest healer alive and the only one with the power to truly bring back the dead. He's also a giant sleaze. (At first anyway)
21	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Raphael is the patron of Terra of the Left and the source of his powers. Interestingly, in this series Raphael is associated with the element of Earth rather than Water (which would be the field of ArchangelGabriel).
22	* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'': Name-dropped by Issei, but has yet to full appear in the story. He's one of the Four Great Seraphim, the Leaders of Heaven (due to [[GodIsDead God being dead]] and all that).
23	%%* ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'': Mikael's teacher.
24	* ''Manga/KingOfCards'': Raphael is one of the four archangels in the card game.
25	* ''Anime/SevenHeavenlyVirtues'': A GenderFlip version of Raphael is the Angel of Temperance, but she doesn't really live up to her title, since she overindulges in food, especially sweets. That said, she is one of the nicest and most levelheaded angels in the series and helps a man reach his dream of becoming a pastry chef.
26	* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': Raphael is the guardian ghost of John Denbat.
27	* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': Raphael is the name of one the Seven Virtue Series Ultimate Skills, specifically "Wisdom King Raphael". [[TheHero Rimuru's]] own "[[BenevolentAI Great Sage]]" Unique Skill evolved into Raphael during Rimuru's ascension to [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon Lord]] status, which boosted its analysis and data-gathering abilities much higher befitting the archangel's association with being a guiding force. Rimuru himself is also heavily connected to [[MakingASplash water]] (as it was one of the first offensive abilities he mastered) and to healing (by virtue of creating extremely potent magical healing potions, a godly HealingFactor, and eventually straight-up the ability to heal fatal wounds of others and [[BackFromTheDead bring the dead back to life]] under proper conditions). [[spoiler:This also leads to Raphael [[BecomeARealBoy accelerating on its path to gaining its own ego]] until Rimuru renames ''her'' "Ciel", allowing her to become her own separate existence from him.]]
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31	* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'': The alicorn deity Healing Dusk is the setting's counterpart of the Archangel Raphael, to go along with Ascending Dawn being ArchangelMichael, Midday Morning being ArchangelGabriel, and Morning Star being {{Satan}}. His status as a healer and guide corresponds to Raphael being such, and his being a god of water corresponds to Raphael being symbolically connected to water as well.
32	* ''Fanfic/Earth27'': Raphael is an archangel known for his brilliant peacock-patterned wings, his stern demeanor, and his healing abilities, which are legendary even among angels. Although he was once gracious and loving, Raphael has lost his faith in Humanity and has turned his focus inward to improving the Heavenly Host and his own station. As the Keeper of Laws, he is often considered to be the third in Heaven's chain of command, beneath the Presence and Michael. Raphael once held the title of Metatron, over two thousand years ago, and longs for the day he might be restored to that title.
33	* ''Literature/GoodOmens'':
34	** A popular theory in the Tumblr community (especially after the release of [[Series/GoodOmens2019 the series]]) is that [[spoiler:Crowley was Raphael before he sauntered vaguely downward]].
35	** ''Fanfic/ManchesterLost'': Raphael is Aziraphale's [[PapaWolf adopted father]]. Kind, loving and a little bit ditzy, nevertheless, do ''not'' threaten Aziraphale if you plan on living. [[BewareTheNiceOnes He's still an Archangel, and he will show you why.]]
36	* ''[[https://my.w.tt/oJ97Jv70VT How Can It This Be]]'': Michael has to explain to the Music/SpiceGirls what happened. He wears a court uniform upon his appearance and very nice to them.
37	* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'': Raphael is referenced as one of four Archangels (himself, Gabriel, Michael, and Tephiroth) who lead the military forces of the Angel Federation. Because of his pacifistic nature, he is in charge of civil engineering and the federal economy.
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41	%%* ''Film/DarkestDays'':
42	%%* ''Film/DarkestAdversary'':
43	%%* ''Film/{{Faust}}'': Raphael appears.
44	* ''Film/Gabriel2007'': Known for his leadership skills, the Archangel Raphael is impeded from fighting the war in purgatory only after he receives a near fatal bullet wound.
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48	* ''Literature/ABatalhaDoApocalipse'': Rapahel, God's Healing, was one of the five archangels that were created before the universe to help God fight Tehom, the Darkness. He was kind and honest, and left the known heavens after his brothers started killing humans.
49	* ''Literature/{{Damiano}}'': Raphael appears as a major character in opposition to Lucifer.
50	* ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'': One of the leaders of the Archangel Council, Raphael fulfills his role of healer, as well as story's BigBad.
51	* ''Literature/ILucifer'': Raphael appears, along with Michael and Gabriel. Since ''Lucifier'' is narrating, he doesn't receive much in the way of characterisation.
52	* ''Literature/ParadiseLost'': Raphael appears to re-warn Adam not to eat the fruit. It doesn't work.
53	%%* ''Literature/PenrynAndTheEndOfDays'': Raphael appears as a major character.
54	* ''Literature/ToReignInHell'': Raphael and [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] help Yaweh as he oversees all of Heaven.
55	* ''Literature/{{Shadowmancer}}'' has Raphael as a misanthropic angel who goes by the alias Abram Rickards and who joins the protagonists in the last part of the book.
56	* ''Literature/SmallFavor'': Raphael is mentioned in passing by [[TheFairFolk Mab]]. He is referred to as the [[RedBaron Demon Binder]], and Lab says that he likes to take matters into his own hands. In addition, [[FallenAngel Lasciel]] recognizes his style in the wards on Michael's safehouse.
57	* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': Raphael holds the position of second-in-command in the angelic order of Messengers. He only appears once, delivering a special message straight from [[{{God}} Elohim]] to the warrior angel Validus on earth.
58	* ''Literature/WomenOfTheApocalypse'': In the first novella, the archangel is charged to help Alexandra defeat [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Pestilence]].
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62	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In "The Big Game/Revelations", [[spoiler:the killer is a man with three different personalities, one of whom is supposed to be the Archangel Raphael. This personality is [[KnightTemplar a very bad man]].]]
63	* ''Series/{{Dominion}}'': It's been confirmed Raphael exists, [[TheGhost although he's yet to appear]], with Michael stating that he's declared neutrality in the war between humanity and Gabriel's forces. He is also mentioned as being Uriel's twin being created at the same time.
64	* ''Series/{{Hex}}'': A particularly unsympathetic version appears as Ella's mentor. He [[GoodIsNotNice acts completely ruthlessly]] towards her and everybody else, and gives rather creepy proto-"pick-up artist" romantic advice to Leon, before well and truly putting himself on the "evil" side by trying to rape her. She grabs him painfully by the balls, and he subsides before [[PutOnABus disappearing from the plot]] with no explanation.
65	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Raphael is one of the four archangels. Not as important as his brothers [[ArchangelMichael Michael]], [[ArchangelGabriel Gabriel]] and [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] at first, he becomes [[BigBadEnsemble one of the main villains]] of season 6, where he wants to restart the Apocalypse.
66	* ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' has ''a'' Raphael, played by Alexis Cruz (eventually better known as [[Franchise/StargateVerse Skaara]].) It's unknown, though, if he is ''the'' Raphael.
67	* ''Series/TheWatcher'': Raphael cuts off his wings for a human named Sarah, who dies, leaving Raphael to wander as a FallenAngel.
68	* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Raphael is a good friend of Michael's, with whom he watched over the other angels of Heaven.
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72	* Literature/TheBible of course, with the Literature/BookOfTobit and its adaptations (as "Tobias and the Angel").
73	* One of the four main archangels in Islam (known in Arabic as Israfil), he is made reference to in ''Literature/TheQuran'', though not by name, as a trumpet angel, referring to his role as the angel who will sound the trumpet signaling the beginning of the end of the world. In other Islamic literature, he is given more detail as an archangel of music and healing.
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77	* ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'': Raphael is one of the seven Beryls and female as all but one of them. She is equalled with the Mother Nature, encarnating life and -- of course -- nature.
78	* ''TabletopGame/{{Engel}}'': The archangel Raphael sends his angelic servants to heal the wounded and support the fight of the Angelitische Kirche against the demons send by the Lord of Flies. They have healing powers depending on their rank and age from healing minor wounds to regrow severed limbs and reviving the death. They discovered that it is possible to use their powers in reverse, enabling the most powerful of Raphaels Angels to turn their enemies to dust with a mere touch. And still the angels send by Gabriel refer to themselves as Deathangels...
79	* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': The Archangel Raphael is prominently ''missing'' from the ranks of Heaven. Canonically, Raphael (the Elohite Archangel of Knowledge) died in 1008 CE in the battle against Legion, the Demon Prince of Corruption. However, a sidebar in one of the supplements hints that there may be more to the story, that Raphael did ''not'' die outright but instead suffered the loss of all her Celestial forces to became a ''Remnant'' -- effectively a Corporeal "ghost" of a former angel -- and that the amnesiac Remnant became the Renaissance artist Raphael. A rumor among the demons instead claims that Kronos, the Demon Prince of Fate, collected Raphael's Remnant and used it create another Prince, Vapula; the reasoning goes that they have thematically similar domains (Knowledge and Technology), they are of matching Choir and Band (Habbalah like Vapula are fallen Elohim), and Vapula came around shortly after Raphael died.
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83	* ''VideoGame/{{Enigmatis}}'': In the second game of the trilogy, the [[PlayerCharacter Detective]] learns from [[spoiler:the prisoner in the catacombs of Ravenwood Park that when [[{{Asmodeus}} the Archdemon Asmodai]] and his Reapers ravaged the world, humanity pleaded to the heavens for a saviour -- and {{God}} responded to their prayers by sending Raphael to slay the Archdemon. Raphael fulfilled the task given to him, weakening the Reapers greatly, but as he was weakened by the battle, they managed to turn Raphael into a SealedGoodInACan, who in turn was imprisoning Asmodai as the Reapers began fighting among themselves, slaying each other so that eventually, the last survivor would become Asmodai's new host. In the climax of the third game, Raphael is freed from his imprisonment and, with the help of the Detective, destroys Asmodai once more before giving her a grateful bow and returning to the heavens.]]
84	* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': Raphael appears [[UndyingLoyalty as a loyal follower of Lucifer]], who is the strongest of the original Primal Beasts and [[BenevolentBoss their benevolent leader]]. [[OurAngelsAreDifferent He is the primarch of wind]] who exists to regulate the wind element, keeping it in balance with his power. He also has exceptional healing abilities, being able to heal people and primals alike with his magic. Unlike the other primarchs, not much is known about him due to his reticent personality, though his NPC profile describes him as wise. He tends to keep his distance from the other primarchs, leaving them in the dark about what he's thinking.
85	* ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons'' has Raphael as part of the Archangel pantheon in the Rare Egg Machine. Ironically, he's the Light Attribute of the group. He's even sub-typed as Healer, and even his Active skill not only turns your entire board to heart orbs, but makes you immune to damage for two turns.
86	* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': Raphael occasionally pops up as a high-ranking member of the Seraph Clan. His moral stance has varied from being a WellIntentionedExtremist to an outright demented KnightTemplar, but he ''has'' consistently specialized in support and healing spells, often having access to the [[{{Panacea}} Prayer]] skill.
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90	* ''Webcomic/AngelDown'': Raphael is one of the four archangels. Paladins appointed by him have a [[HealingHands healing touch]] alongside their [[OnePersonOnePower unique mark ability.]]
91	* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd'': Raphael is one of the remaining archangels, but he's been missing from Heaven for a long time. It turns out he's been journeying through Purgatory, helping the citizens there at their level.
92	* ''Webcomic/{{Deities}}'': Raphael is a minor character. In the comic his nickname is Ralph. According to WordOfGod he's God's medic, masseur, chiropractor, etc., and he hates his job more than anyone else in the Deities' universe.
93	* ''Webcomic/HolyBibble'': Raphael is a nerdy scientist angel. Unlike many of the other angels, he is one of the few who appears to actually be genuinely nice.
94	* ''Webcomic/{{Lessa}}'': Rabiel -- called Raphael by humans -- is the Apostle of Medicine and the angel who's taken over [[PhysicalGod Lessa's]] duty of escorting the dead.
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98	* ''Literature/{{Anachronauts}}'': Raphael is [[spoiler:the true source of British steam]].
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