(The Charmed Ones | Other Main Characters | Villains | Supporting Cast)
The other main characters of Charmed (1998), the only characters besides the Halliwells to be freatured in the opening credits. Beware of spoilers, only spoilers from the seventh and eighth seasons and the comics are meant to be blacked out. All character sheets contain major spoilers. Proceed reading at your own risk.note
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Other Main Characters
Andy Trudeau
Andy Trudeau
- Agent Mulder: Even before the events of the series, Andy specialized in the more unusual cases and was up to speed on the occult. As Season 1 progressed, he gained more of a reputation in this regard. After learning the big secret, he even said that he always believed in something beyond this world.
- Childhood Friend Romance: He has been friends with Halliwells since they were children, and dated Prue in High School before the two broke up to go seperate ways. While they briefly got back together when he returned to San Francisco, they broke up when Prue felt he couldn't handle her being a witch. In the end however it's made clear that he was the love of Prue's life.
- Fair Cop: For Prue, who falls for him. When we see him as a child, Andy is seen wearing a sheriff costume, indicating that he wanted to be a police officer since childhood.
- He Who Fights Monsters: A unique application of this trope, and the reason he has trouble committing to a relationship with Prue after learning she's a witch. The fact that she has magical powers doesn't bother him. However, as he puts it, he doesn't think he could stand spending the day fighting figurative monsters, then coming home to deal with literal monsters.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He was killed by a demon while trying to help the sisters. He could've been brought back due to a "Groundhog Day" Loop, but he convinced Prue while in the afterlife not to let it happen in order to stop the demon.
- Muggle: Andy is the first main character to be a mortal, and that's the main reason why he and Prue are struggling to be together. He ultimately accepts the magical nature of the sisters, but unfortunately gets killed by Rodriguez to protect them.
- Muggle Best Friend: Andy is a childhood friend of the sisters, and even though he and Prue had their relationship problems, Andy's still around to be there for the sisters. When the sisters travel to the past, we learn that the young Piper used to freeze poor Andy all the time, with adult Prue implying that that may be the reason why Andy is so suspcious of them.
- Occult Detective: Of the official police detective kind. His Agent Mulder tendencies meant that he and Darryl were unofficially the experts on the "freaky cases".
- One True Love: Prue's, with Cupid even insinuating he was the love of her life.
- Properly Paranoid: As more and more unsolved cases somehow involving a Halliwell piled up, Andy became this. After Andy learned the big secret, Prue learned he knew a lot more than he let on.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Tries to be because he cares for Prue and her sisters, but it has gotten in the way of both his work and their relationship at times.
- Secret-Keeper: For a few episodes in Season 1.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: As is typical of police detectives on this show.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's able to get Prue to sleep with him within the first two episodes, anyway.
- Together in Death: With Prue, as shown in the comics.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: He has been friends with the Halliwells all of their life, and not once did he ever suspect anything peculiar going on with them.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Him and Prue until he died.
Darryl Morris
Darryl Morris
- Played by: Dorian Gregory
Originally the partner of Andy Trudeau, Darryl became close to the Halliwells and became an ally to them after learning of their magic secret. Since then, Darryl repeatedly put his job on the line to help cover for the sisters when a case featured any magic. In 2003, Darryl was promoted to lieutenant when he arrested a dangerous criminal with the help of Leo Wyatt and the sisters.
Darryl was a close ally to the sisters until 2004, where he was framed for a murder by the Cleaners to prevent the exposure of magic and almost executed. Although the Halliwells managed to convince the Tribunal to spare him, Darryl retained his memories of the ordeal. The event caused a rift between him and the sisters. He did, however, assist the girls in their battle against Zankou. Afterwards, he moved to the East Coast with his family.
- Advertised Extra: Daryll is credited as a main character throught seasons 1-7, but he gets barely any focus and doesn't develop as much as other main characters. Daryll's appearances are about half a season, and starting from season 3, it's less than half a season.
- Agent Mulder: An inversion. Even after learning the big secret, he still tries to solve rational cases and "be normal." However, his involvement in strange unsolved cases and his bringing in (what appear to be) psychic girls for consultation make him appear like this trope to his colleagues.
- Agent Scully: Especially while partnered with Andy. He began to display a more open mind in Season 2 before learning the big secret.
- The Artifact: Initially in Season 2, as his primary role had been being Andy's partner. A few episodes turned this around by developing him as a character and having him interact more closely with the sisters.
- Badass Normal: Gets caught up in the sisters' magical messes a lot, yet more often than not manages to hold his own without gravely serious injuries.
- Black Best Friend: Despite being a main character, Daryll doesn't receive a lot of screentime. In season 1, he only exists to be Andy's partner. Once Andy's dead, Daryll's develops as the Friend on the Force for the sisters, but beyond that he's got almost no character arcs or focus.
- The Bus Came Back: He reappears in several Season 9 outings and returns again for Season 10's last few issues.
- Butt-Monkey: The shenanigans the sisters put the poor guy through...
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially in the early seasons.
- Extreme Doormat: At least until he comes very close to being executed. After that, he rightly tells the sisters where to shove it.
- Friend on the Force: He would often turn to the Halliwells with cases that he suspected magic had some form of interference. In turn the girls would use him as an informant to wherabouts of innocents and strange goings ons in San Francisco, as well as help in keeping the magical world a secret from the police and public in general.
- Happily Married: He's married and has 2 kids.
- Ignored Expert: In Season 7, he warns Sheridan to leave the sisters alone—saying what they do "is above reproach" and that certain forces won't tolerate their work being interfered with. Sheridan ignores him and ultimately gets vaporized for it.
- Last-Name Basis: In Season 1, almost everyone calls him "Morris". In one episode, he is surprised Andy of all people even remembers his first name. Later, as he becomes closer to the sisters, they switch to first-name basis with him.
- Muggle Best Friend: After Andy's death, he becomes the closest mortal around the Halliwell sisters apart from Victor and Darryl stays around for most of the series.
- Occult Detective: He and Andy became the experts on the "freaky cases," which he resents. After Andy's death, he becomes much more cooperative with the sisters, but also develops even more of a reputation for being associated with paranormal stuff.
- Properly Paranoid: After Andy's death and before learning the secret himself, Darryl knew the sisters were hiding something. However, in a subversion, he didn't want to know the secret. He did, though, want to make use of their secret to help people when necessary.
- Put on a Bus: The budget cuts in Season 8 led to Darryl being dropped altogether. "Run, Piper, Run" said he had moved back east with his family.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Takes Andy's place after the man's death. However, his "freaky cases" reputation tends to get in the way of the job at times, and then there's when he finds himself having to be reasonable when the sisters aren't.
- Satellite Character: In Season 1, he is little more than Andy's partner. After Andy's death, he takes his place in the show, minus the romantic component, as he is Happily Married.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Near the end of season 6, Darryl is almost executed as a scapegoat for the Cleaners to cover up the Magic World. While the sisters manage to save him, Darryl has finally enough of helping the sisters and risking his life for them. During season 7, while he still refuses to help them directly, he occasionally helps them out regardless and he keeps protecting them from Sheridan.
- Superpowers For A Day: During season 6, a spell that was supposed to make Darryl immune to bullets ends up backfiring and gives him Super-Strength and overall invulnerability instead. This lasted for only one episode.
- Secret-Keeper: Early in Season 2 onward, with his wife Sheila eventually being let in on the secret as well.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The killer he's trailing in "Y Tu Mummy Tambien" is actually a demon named Jeric, so he has no way to explain himself to his superiors when the guy pulls a vanishing act and steals back evidence in bloody fashion. While the sisters deal with the demonic side of things, Leo opts to help Darryl by posing as Jeric for a public arrest. Darryl thought this was ridiculous, but Leo forced the issue, so he was hailed as a hero and received a long-desired promotion.
- True Companions: To the Halliwells, to the point the Sisters didn't hesitate to threaten the council they would give up their powers and responsibilities as the Charmed Ones, and Piper even using magic to attempt smuggle Darryl out of jail to the safety of Magic School, in a bid to save his life, and according to his wife Sheila both she and Darryl look upon them all as part of the family. In the end while he kept his distance from them after the incident when he was nearly executed due to plans by the Cleaners to keep magic hidden, when the Charmed Ones needed him he was there. He even showed up to fight alongside the family in the big battle of magic in "The Power of 300".
Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon
- Played by: Greg Vaughan
Dan dated Piper when he moved in next door the manor. He noticed the girls' strange lives and often suspecting they were hiding something during the majority of their relationship. Due to Piper's unexplained disappearances and avoidance of his questions, Dan became increasingly frustrated. He was also constantly feeling threatened by Leo's presence, knowing his history with Piper and knew that Piper still cared for him. Eventually, Dan felt as though he was just 'geographically desirable' and that the basis of the entire relationship with Piper was based on this. Piper finally breaks up with Dan after realising she was in love with Leo more.
- The All-American Boy: He displays some of these characteristics, chiefly by being a friendly neighbor to the Halliwells.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Leo's Betty for Piper's Archie.
- Career-Ending Injury: He used to be a professional baseball player before a knee injury ended his career.
- Cool Car: When he was outside tending to his truck in "She's a Man, Baby, a Man!", the sisters made comments about a nice body and a great tan as a Double Entendre reference to both Dan himself and the truck. The confirmation that they were talking about Dan came via "Manny Hanks"note calling the truck awesome.
- Female Gaze: While washing his car, Piper was busy checking out his jean-clad rear.
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: During his brief season 2 fling with Piper.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's subject to Female Gaze and acts as a Love Interest to Piper.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: His reaction to finding out about Piper and Leo's magic. It was so bad Piper had to use magic to make him forget the whole thing and move on. To be fair, she had kept him at arm's length and in competition with Leo for much of their relationship, and he ended up finding out about the secret by being temporarily turned into an old man.
- Promotion to Parent: He had to take care of Jenny while her parents were in Saudi Arabia.
- Properly Paranoid: He had his suspicions about Leo (though some of this was prompted by jealousy). The suspicions grew over time until he was absolutely certain that Leo was hiding something, which he technically was.
- Reincarnation: Of Gordon Johnson, husband of P. Baxter and great-grandfather of the Halliwell sisters.
- Relationship Revolving Door: With Piper.
- Romantic False Lead: Fit the trope by dating Piper and making Leo jealous.
- Satellite Character: All of his screentime is devoted to giving Piper's life drama in some form.
Jenny Gordon
Jenny Gordon
- Played by: Karis Paige Bryant
Dan's niece and a neighbor of the Halliwells. Also a mortal.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Niece. After Jenny found out that Dishwalla was playing at P3, she sneaked into the club to watch the band play even after Dan forbade her to.
- Damsel in Distress: Her soul was consumed by the demon Masselin when she snuck out to P3; she was freed along with all his other victims when the sisters vanquished him.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Serves as a toned-down version to Kyle Gwydion, who was the Chosen One destined to vanquish the evil witch Tuatha. She gave him advice and helped him believe in himself.
- No Periods, Period: Averted, her period is the first thing she and Phoebe discuss.
- Put on a Bus: Dan mentioned Jenny had moved back to live with her parents again.
Leo Wyatt
Leonardo "Leo" Wyatt
- Played by: Brian Krause
Leo is initially introduced as just a handsome handyman in season 1, but throughout the season he is revealed to be something more than that. He is a Whitelighter, with the duty to guide and protect the Halliwell sisters, initially in secret. He and Piper fall in love with each other, but since the love between a witch and a Whitelighter is forbidden, Leo distances himself from her. He eventually gets together with Piper during season 2, something that the Elders don't like. After fighting for approval from the Elders during season 3, the two finally get married during the season. Throughout the series, Piper and Leo's love for each other is frequently challenged and they keep separating and reuniting with each other. Leo is the only main character besides Piper and Phoebe to appear in every season.
- Ascended Extra: Leo was a recurring character for the first season and half of the second. In "Pardon My Past," Krause was added to the main cast.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When he finally finds out that Gideon is the one that is responsible for the ruin of his family and the collective future of the timeline that Chris comes out of, he finally uses the Elder powers he's held back to their full extent and kills him. Leo takes it a step further in Season 7 where he spends his time actively going after potential threats to his family and the Charmed Ones.
- Blessed with Suck: Initially, as his whitelighter duty kept him and Piper from being able to truly get together.
- Bodyguard Crush: For Piper, which is later reciprocated.
- Broken Pedestal: When he finds out Gideon has actually been trying to kill his firstborn son in his absence from his family.
- Brought Down to Normal: Like Cole, this happens twice, and the second time is permanent.
- Cosmic Plaything: How he's written out of Season 8. The Angel of Destiny arranges for Leo to die so that the sisters have the focus and motivation to overcome the coming threat. Piper makes a deal for Leo to merely be taken away and returned once the sisters win.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While certainly not stupid, his pacifistic leanings routinely kept him out of the fighting. The Elders and other Whitelighters also regularly "sold Leo short" (though this had more to do with his relationship with Piper). However, when the Titans slaughtered many Elders, it was Leo who stepped up, organizing ways to protect the survivors and giving the sisters godly powers to fight the Titans.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: His entire relationship with Piper. Both endure obstacles at every turn, gut-wrenching heartache, being separated from each other several different times, constant threats against their children, and betrayals from those they thought they could trust. They never gave up, and they got to grow old together and see their children lead full lives.
- Fanservice Pack: Usually came with his moments of leveling up in badass, but also in season 8, where his face and hairstyle became a bit more rugged and his upper body more defined.
- Fantastically Indifferent: Leo takes all the weirdness of the Charmed Ones without a reaction beyond a mild comment.Leo: Why am I in the ocean?
Piper: Phoebe's a mermaid.
Leo: Oh. That explains it. - Female Gaze: Piper and Phoebe spent quite a bit of time ogling Leo's butt as he's fixing something in the fireplace.Phoebe: Quite possibly the finest glutes in the city.
Piper: In the state.
Phoebe: In all the land.- Prue walks in on Leo in the shower, and takes a second to look at Leo and remark "nice orbs" before being driven out by Piper.
- Healing Hands: A standard for whitelighters and Elders, though Leo takes this to an extreme in that he even uses this ability to heal broken pipes in a potential whitelighter's home when he can't handle them with standard human abilities and tools.
- The Heart: Lampshaded by Chris, who notes that the Charmed Ones are so dependent on Leo, they'd be absolutely lost without him.
- Heroic BSoD: Gets hit with this in succession in Season 6 and it carries over into Season 7 due to his mentor Gideon's betrayal and Gideon's part in Chris' death.
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: Being immortal, he's frequently on the receiving end of various calamities, such as Piper occasionally threatening to (or actually going through with) blowing him up, or when Paige testing her vanquishing potions on him.Leo: Dammit Paige, can you not practice on me? I may be dead, but it still hurts!
- Iron Butt-Monkey: In addition to his actual job as a Whitelighter, the guy gets regularly beaten, battered and bruised whilst protecting the sisters, often tasked with finding out information from the Elders, constantly gets treated like the punchline to every joke and yet, rarely ever complains about any of these things beyond simple passive-aggressive comments. He's that devoted to his wife and sisters-in-law.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: When Leo first appeared, he seemed like any other handyman. The first hints of what he really was came half a season down the line in "Wicca Envy" and a full explanation a little later in "Secrets and Guys." Of course, every character bio notes he's a World War II veteran that ascended to Whitelighter status.
- Locked Out of the Loop: For a while regarding Piper's pregnancy with Chris. To be fair, locking him out was easy since he and Piper alike didn't know it was POSSIBLE to get her knocked up in a dimension between life and death, and he had to hang with the Elders for a while immediately afterwards.
- The Medic: This is his role in initial seasons for the Charmed Ones.
- Mr Fix It: Apparently, his Healing Hands extend to being able to repair burst pipes. Which is especially strange since it's underlined repeatedly that his healing power is triggered through love. So,
Cargo Ship? - Mr. Fanservice: Both Piper and Phoebe commented lustfully on his glutes when he initially worked for them as a handyman.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After he kills Zola, he undergoes a massive guilt trip.
- Nice Guy: He's one of the nicest characters in the show, so naturally he's often the butt of the joke. Aside from a few passive-aggressive comments, he takes it all on the chin and with remarkable grace.
- Older Than They Look: Not bad for a guy in his seventies.
- The One Guy: The one man that the Charmed Ones trust in the magical world until Wyatt and Chris come into the picture.
- Omniglot: Leo can speak, understand and read every human language.
- Only Sane Man: As the sisters' Whitelighter, Leo often had to play this role—trying to guide them and ensure their emotions didn't affect their judgment.
- Papa Wolf: To both Wyatt and Chris.
- Promotion to Opening Titles: In Season 2.
- Say My Name: Being a Whitelighter/Elder, he can immediately orb to someone when they call his name. So, you often hear the sisters yell his name.
- Teleportation: One of his powers due to being a Whitelighter.
- Thrown Down a Well: In Season 8.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In Season 7, Lord Dyson, an Emotion Eater demon, tried to power up by feeding on Leo's pent-up rage and hostility. Leo had so much repressed anger that feeding on it caused Dyson to explode.
- Took a Level in Badass: After he became an Elder, he started using lightning bolts.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Implied to have happened off-screen in Season 8 when two demons who were turned invincible against their will come after his former Magic School students for revenge because he at some point captured the demons and allowed his class to use them for vanquishing practice. Yes, the former pacifistic angel instructed his good magical students to become the Agony Beam for training purposes.
- War Hero: Leo served in WWII. When he attended a reunion (pretending to be his own grandson) all the other veterans, many of them war heroes themselves, and their families all gathered around Leo to talk about how he saved their lives.
Cole Turner / Belthazor
Cole Turner / Belthazor
- Played by: Julian McMahon (Cole), Michael Bailey Smith (Belthazor)
Cole is Distract Attorney, who is secretly the demon Belthazor, who is sent by the Triad to defeat the Charmed Ones. Cole is, however, half-human and half-demon, thus he has the capicity to become good and feel love. He falls for Phoebe and turns against the Triad, killing them. After gaining the acceptance of Phoebe's sisters, Cole and Phoebe become a couple and he helps them fight against the Source of All Evil. During season 4, his demon half Belthazor is vanquished, making Cole fully mortal with no powers. After the Source is vanquished, Cole unwillingly absorbs the Source's power and becomes the new Source himself. With the Source within turning him evil, he proceeds to marry Phoebe and he later impregnates her with his demonic child. At the end, Cole is vanquished and his soul is separated from the Source's powers, but his human soul is trapped within the Demonic Wasteland. In season 5, Cole returns from the Demonic Wasteland after having absorbed several demon powers, to the point that he has become invulnerable. The sisters don't trust that he has become good, and after he kills a mortal to protect the identites of the sisters, Cole loses all hopes of being accepted by the Halliwells. With the help of the Avatars, Cole changes reality to kill Paige and get Phoebe back on his side, but that also causes him to revert back to Belthazor and lose his invulnerability. The Paige of the original reality escaped Cole's plan and together with the alternate Phoebe and Piper, Cole is then vanquished for good and stuck in the Cosmic Void since. In season 7, Cole makes a brief return where he meets Piper in the Cosmic Void and helps her reunite with Leo, while Cole is shown to have finally got over Phoebe.
- And I Must Scream: His fate after "Centennial Charmed" would seem to be this and may have been the intent. Trapped in a void, unable to interact with just about anyone, forever denied being with Phoebe, etc. However, it is amazingly subverted, as he has made peace with his fate and found a way to influence the real world.
- Batman Gambit: He arranged for Drake dè Mon to make an inverted Deal with the Devil which allowed Drake to become human, gain a soul and keep his powers, the catch being that he'd go to Hell if he used his powers for evil and either way he was dead after a year, on the condition that Drake found Phoebe and helped her regain her faith in love. He even arranged for Piper to be attacked and killed by Thorn Demons, a death which subverted Elder Odin's attempts trick Leo into giving up his family life for the Council, proving that love indeed conquers all. All this, revealed through one final appearance at the end of this year-long plan. All this, while stuck in a cosmic void. All this, to preserve his ex's belief in love even after she killed him.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Cole's reasons (well, the main one) for becoming insane and evil in Season 5 is because his powers were demonic and inherently evil which has been known to influence users. Another reason is that Cole was mortal when he absorbed the powers of the wasteland and mortals are unable to handle having magic powers without going insane or worse.
- Beard of Sorrow: Of sorts. After no longer being The Source, the next time he is seen, he's miserable and has a beard.
- Becoming the Mask: Revolving Door Edition.
- Being Evil Sucks: Combined with Being Good Sucks. From the time he first fell in love with Phoebe until the aforementioned Batman Gambit, he really, really couldn't do anything right.
- Brains and Brawn: Cole is very intelligent and cunning and usually careful. But whenever he transforms into the bigger and stronger Belthazor, he acts more like The Brute than anything else.
- Brought Down to Normal: Twice. Only for an episode the second time, though.
- Cassandra Truth: Inverted in "The Demon Who Came in from the Cold," where Cole claims to his old brotherhood that he killed the Triad because they were plotting to betray the Source. The top demons remain suspicious of this claim to say the least, but Cole himself was lying about it as a cover. Thing is, as viewers learn in Season 8, the Triad actually was plotting to betray the Source and seize power for themselves. Cole was right; he just didn't know it.
- The Corruption: When Cole takes in the Source's power/essence in the second part of season 4, Cole is obviously corrupted enough to turn evil, though not entirely suppressed. While he never manages to regain full control of himself, he ends up significantly deviating from the Source's design in his actions. The Source Cole comes off more like a merge of the two with the Source persona being dominant than the Source just wearing Cole's body, hence both tropes.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Usually when the sisters reject him it's the result of finding himself subject to at least the threat of this.
- Deader than Dead:
- In the show: Paige claims that he is after his second death. Turns out he wasn't. His soul survives, with all of his powers, in the Cosmic Void, still very much capable of affecting the world.
- In the comics: his quest for redemption ends in exactly this way when he jumps in the way of an attack meant for Coop. Said attack being a stab from a soul-erasing athame.
- Deadpan Snarker: By Season 5, he's gotten quite good at this.Cole: Stubborness is definitely a family trait. You've tried going upstairs twice, out the front door 4 times and through the wall 5.Piper get's thrown backwards through a wall.Cole: Make that 6 times. But hey, you haven't tried the chimney yet.
- Died on Their Birthday: Cole Turner's final death happened during his birthday, after he changed reality where Paige was murdered so he can be together with Phoebe again. After his death, the changes in reality were undone while he remained dead. To hammer this home even further, the changes in reality also resulted that Cole was back to being Belthazor and lost his invulnerability, meaning he died as the half-demon he was born as. At the end of the episode, Paige said "Happy birthday, Cole" after he's been vanquished.
- Escaped from Hell: Escapes the demonic wasteland by absorbing an Ermac's worth of demonic powers.
- "Eureka!" Moment: In the episode "Y Tu Mummy Tambien," Piper and Paige come to Cole for help, only to find him experimenting with different ways in how to kill himself. Piper suggests he take therapy, but Cole rebuffs it, stating he would "rather chop his head off than have it examined." This gives him the idea to conjure a guillotine to do just that. Of course, he never actually gets to use it, because after discussing Jeric, the Monster of the Week, with the sisters, he feels a connection with him and teams up with him.
- Expy: Is clearly an expy of Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Reformed demon starts a love affair with female hero, then reverts to evil. Then good again. Then semi-evil (see Season 2 of Angel). Brad Kern obviously agrees with the saying 'good writers borrow from other writers; great writers steal from them outright.'
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Were the first clue that he got infected by the Source.
- Good Feels Good: While mortal, he helps to save a woman from a burning car and comments afterwards that it felt good, due to a combination of being able to help others and get some action in his somewhat dull mortal life at the same time. When he returns from death the first time, he uses his powers to save lives and help people for awhile, but eventually being treated like a fearsome scourge or tool instead of a person wore on him.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His father was human and his mother was a demon.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: His reason for turning evil again in Season 5. He wanted to be good, to help, to make up for past sins, but the sisters absolutely refused to even consider that he was anything but evil. To be fair, he does a lot to inspire their distrust even while claiming to want to be good. There's also the part where Cole was a mortal infused with more demonic powers than he could shake a stick at, which in the Charmed universe has clearly been proven to be a toxic combination—not to mention being in part the source of the Halliwells' mistrust. Combine all this, his Sanity Slippage was not surprising in the least.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Has literally turned between good and evil seven times.
- Hero with an F in Good: Spending a century as a demonic hitman and depending on a woman's love to tether oneself to good is not a recipe for success as a hero.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Also an example of Too Dumb to Live. When Phoebe finally gets the chance to vanquish him, Cole, even after everything he has done to the Charmed Ones (to say nothing of currently being in an alternate reality he created where Phoebe openly hates their marriage and only stayed with him to protect Piper), is confident that she will not be able to go through with it. She does, without hesitation.
- I Can Change My Beloved: He believes he can become good again and stay that way after returning from the Demonic Wasteland, and almost pulls it off, only to be screwed over just before Phoebe gives him another chance.
- I Cannot Self-Terminate: Due to Nigh-Invulnerability. It turns out that just about nothing else can kill him, either.
- Iconic Sequel Character: One of the most prominent and notable characters, but does not appear until Season 3.
- Living Shadow: He had one as Belthazor.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Particularly in season 5, where being a mortal saddled with so many ungodly powers that he becomes invincible and his blood has turned acidic contributes both to the reason Phoebe continues to rejects him and why he doesn't take it very well at all.
- Love Redeems:
- Initially seems to be subverted. His love for Phoebe leads him to do good, but it wasn't enough to make up for all the evil he had done. Absorbing a whole lot of demonic powers (twice, and the second time to come back from the first time) didn't help.
- Going by "The Seven Year Witch" and then the comics, this actually does work in the end, as he's recollected himself in the Cosmic Void to the point of a Heel–Face Turn. No, he doesn't get back with Phoebe; in fact, he doesn't even try to do so. However, the fact that his good side was reawakened after a century of repression by falling in love with her to begin with means this counts.
- Manipulative Bastard: Is very good at manipulating people and events to get exactly what he wants, though he uses those skills only when he's evil
- Mr. Fanservice: Is nearly always seen as either a Sharp-Dressed Man or Walking Shirtless Scene.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: After his first death, he assimilates the powers of defeated demons.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Has this in Season 5 thanks to the powers he's absorbed from the Wasteland.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: As Belthazor.
- Redemption Equals Heroic Sacrifice: In his case, of his own existence.
- Reformed, but Rejected: His second attempt at redemption after coming back from being vanquished as the Source. Mainly because it wasn't a true reformation that would later come in the comics but rather a desperate attempt to convince Phoebe he was still worth having.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Phoebe rejects him, multiple times, on the grounds that he will always be evil. Primarily thanks to that repeated rejection, this comes to be.
- Screaming Warrior: Is prone to this when particularly anguished or pissed off.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He's Phoebe-sexual. No interest in anyone else, not even shapeshifters that can take her form.
- Split Personality: Cole and Belthazor are intially portrayed to be two sides of the same coin and share the same mindset, but later on, it's clear that Cole is the human half (with access to demonic powers) whereas Belthazor is the demon half. When Belthazor returns in season 4, his demonic nature starts to take over and he is about to attack the sisters despite being their ally for a long time. Killing only his demon half turns Cole into a full mortal, and it's because he has a human side that he is able to return from the Demonic Wateland thanks to having a soul, as he would have been devoured like all the other demons.
- Stalker with a Crush: Even after being told that it's over, he still continues to do anything he can to get back with Phoebe despite the innumerable times she tells him to stop and tries to kill him. He never even once tells Phoebe or any other character he was about to completely pass on the Source's power and demonic essence to the Wizard until Phoebe herself killed the latter.
- Status Quo Is God: Cole will never remain a pure human. If he loses his demonic powers, he will either be forced to regain them or he will gain new ones.
- Suicide by Cop: He gets so depressed over Phoebe's constant rejections and his Sanity Slippage that he tries to provoke the Charmed Ones into killing him. Phoebe realizes what he's doing and refuses to give him what he wants. Cole simply steals the vanquishing potion from her and uses it on himself... only to discover that he now has Complete Immortality and not even the Power of Three can kill him.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Phoebe often describes him this way. Is also fond of making the occasional snarky comment here and there.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: The Charmed Ones, especially Phoebe, adamantly refuse to believe he will ever not be evil after his return for the Wasteland, so he goes crazy and decides to go with it.
- Token Evil Teammate: As an Ascended Demon.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Whether he wants to or not, whether she's with him or against him, and all have been true at separate times, he tends to bring out some of the worst parts of Phoebe.
- Troubled, but Cute: It's definitely Phoebe's charm.
- Villain Ball Magnet: Whenever he is on the verge of letting go of his evil ties for good, something will inevitably force him back to the darkside. Whenever he is on the verge of accomplishing an evil goal or moving up in the pecking order, some idiotic or foolhardy decision will be the thing that keeps him back.
- Yandere: Becomes this towards Phoebe.
- You Monster!: After the demon Jeric mummifies Phoebe and Cole helps Jeric capture Paige so Isis's spirit can take over her body, Cole goes to Piper to inform her of the Sadistic Choice she's being put in between saving Phoebe or Paige. The only thing Piper can say to Cole is "how can you be so evil?" Cole just simply says "it's a gift."
Chris Perry Halliwell
Chris Perry Halliwell
- Played by: Drew Fuller
Introduced at the end of season 5, Chris Perry is a Whitelighter from a Bad Future who traveled to the past to save the Charmed Ones and to protect Wyatt from becoming evil. After convincing Leo to become a new Elder, Chris becomes the new Whitelighter of the Halliwells. He keeps tightlipped about the future and raises suspicion from the sisters and Leo. As it turns out, Chris is Wyatt's little brother and Piper and Leo's second son and his mission is to prevent Wyatt from becoming evil. At the end of season 6, Chris is killed by Gideon, the man responsible for Wyatt's turn into evil, but the baby Chris is born during the same day. With Gideon's death, the bad future is averted and Chris continues to live on in the changed future.
- Back from the Dead: Not really back, considering the Timey-Wimey Ball. It's more the fact that, with the Bad Future averted, Chris is no longer dead. Still considered a win, though.
- Bash Brothers: The last episode implies that in the changed future, Chris and Wyatt become this when they have taken over the Charmed Ones' duties in fighting evil. One of the tie-in novels confirms this while showing that their sister Melinda has completed the three-sibling team.
- Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Dies, then is born. It Makes Sense in Context.
- Cain and Abel: With Wyatt before Chris went back in time and changed things. Chris was the Abel to Wyatt's Cain.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: It's implied that Leo wasn't around for Chris due to his duties as an Elder, putting this trope in full effect if that's the truth... The only problem is that Chris doesn't think so and resents his father for it.
- Daddy Issues: Leo and Chris don't get along in their first encounters because Leo doesn't trust him, but later on, Chris' future issues with Leo rear its ugly head in full force.
- Dead Guy Junior: In the original timeline Chris was named after his paternal grandfather.
- Deadpan Snarker: He could snark with the best of them - a trait he most likely gets from his his mother.
- The Determinator: He will save his brother's soul and stop the Bad Future from happening, come hell and high water. It doesn't matter how many Deals with Devils or other shady things he has to do.
- Didn't Think This Through: When he first travels back in time, Chris arranges for Leo to be promoted to Elder so he can take his place as the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter... and only realizes later that with Piper and Leo separated, they won't conceive him and he'll be Ret-Gone. This is due to Real Life Writes the Plot, as the showrunners didn't figure out what they wanted to do with Chris until Holly Marie Combs became pregnant.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: His hair is at its longest when he's conflicted with Leo. In "Witch Wars", when they've begun to repair their relationship, it's shortened. Chris from the good future wears it much shorter.
- Generation Xerox:
- It's implied in the last episode that Chris is going to follow in the Charmed Ones' footsteps alongside Wyatt. One of the tie-in novels shows them fighting evil together along with a brief cameo by their younger sister Melinda to complete a three-Sibling Team like their mother and aunts.
- Dark-haired, snarky, dedicated to his family, and neurotic to a fault - he's basically a male Piper. Even more so when the changed timeline makes him the middle child of three siblings by adding a younger sister, Melinda.
- He’s also very similar to Prue - he has the same overprotective nature, non-orb-related telekinesis, steely determination, daddy issues, and an unfailing dedication to his family. Even his dour unrelenting intensity while demon hunting is practically copy and pasted from Prue’s later seasons.
- Good Is Not Nice: How he started. He eventually mellows out, but this still pops out occasionally. Extremely Justified considering what he's trying to prevent. Lampshaded by the Valkyrie Mist (yes, they exist) who, despite sharing a kiss with him, responds to his claim that he'd never hurt her by saying he would if he had to.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Like Paige, Chris is half-witch, half-Whitelighter.
- Kid from the Future: He's actually Piper and Leo's second son.
- Lamarck Was Right: Chris receives Whitelighter abilities, but has powers equivalent to Prue's.
- Meaningful Name: His first name came from Leo's father, while it's speculated that "Perry" came from the Halliwells' "P"-naming tradition.
- Morality Chain: For his fiancee Bianca.
- Mr. Fanservice: Phoebe (as Aphrodite) certainly thought so, as well as the sisters who take up the Halliwells' identities. Uniquely for this trope, he never appears shirtless or in a particularly sexual fashion, only being this trope by simply being a young Pretty Boy who's somewhat Troubled, but Cute.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Dishes out one to Leo in the episode "Spin City." Having earlier been turned into a spider demon, he viciously confronts Leo, who mockingly asks why he hates him. Eventually, the taunts drive Chris over the edge; he throws Leo across the room, and then pins him down and absolutely pummels him all while screaming "You don't know me!" Even after being cured of the demon infection, he continues to beat on Leo, leaving his face bloody in the process, until Piper comes in and pulls him off. Through it all, Leo just lets him vent his frustrations and doesn't even try to fight back.
- Only Sane Man: It certainly felt like this at times.
- Parental Abandonment: In the original future, his mom died when he turned 14 and his father was too busy to look after Chris due to his duties as an Elder, causing Chris to have deep-seated resentment towards Dear Old Dad (which he later gets over). Chris' grandpa had to step in to take care of him as a result. The entire situation is thankfully averted in the altered future, though.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Sports these when he was infected by a Spider Demon.
- Pretty Boy: The most boyish out of all the male lead characters.
- Promotion to Opening Titles: In Season 6.
- Raised by Grandparents: Because in his original timeline, Piper dies when he's 14 and Leo was off being an Elder, thus he ended up the rest of his youth being raised by Victor whom he's really attached to.
- Real Name as an Alias: Called himself "Chris Perry" when he first introduced himself. Subsequent material has suggested "Perry" is his middle name.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Chris went back to before he was even conceived in order to save Wyatt from turning evil.
- Sixth Ranger: Becomes the sisters' second Whitelighter with the intention of protecting Wyatt from the Face–Heel Turn accompanied by The End of the World as We Know It, and often comes across as an outsider as a result especially after his plan to get rid of Leo doesn't work out as he'd hoped for several reasons.
- The Unfavorite: In the unchanged timeline, to his dad, from his perspective at least. Of course, the fact that he's not nearly as powerful as Wyatt did little to help. He reacted with real indignation upon learning that Wyatt had powers while still in the womb, so one could imagine that he suffered from something of an inferiority complex.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about the deeper aspects of Chris' motivations without talking about his relationship to the Charmed Ones.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Chris will do whatever it takes to keep his future from happening, up to and including killing beings in his way and conducting back-door deals with demons.
Billie Jenkins
Billie Jenkins
- Played by: Kaley Cuoco
A young witch introduced in season 8, Billie is on her quest to find her kidnapped older sister Christy. She finds out about the survival of the Charmed Ones and becomes their sort-of protegé.
- Anti-Hero: She is trying to rescue her kidnapped sister, but recklessly hunts demons without a thought to the consequences.
- Break the Haughty: She's incredibly cocky and overconfident when the sisters meet her. Throughout the series, she has to be humbled and learn to be less reckless, and prioritise helping innocents above just killing demons. Losing her first innocent, nearly dying thanks to a supernatural infection and ending up in a hostage situation with a demon she tortured sees her maturing.
- Broken Ace: Six episodes into Season 8, her traumatic childhood is revealed; witnessing her sister being kidnapped in the middle of the night, and her parents refusing to let her talk about it.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While coming across as an annoying young adult and not particularly bright, she has come up with a computer scrying system and mastered telekinesis all by herself.
- Cain and Abel: She, the Cain, ends up having to kill Christy, the Abel, after she tries to kill Billie and the Charmed Ones. Even if you are not a fan of the Jenkins sisters, you have to admit that killing the Brainwashed and Crazy sister you spent your life searching for and trying to save up until that point is sad.
- Chekhov's Boomerang: "Twelve Angry Zen" shows that she can use her projection power to go back in time. She attempts this to stop the battle between the sisters in "Forever Charmed" and, while she doesn't affect the outcome through her actions, it does allow for her to bring the Charmed Ones back in time after Christy and Dumain steal Coop's ring.
- Compressed Vice: She becomes a Straw Feminist in the episode "Battle of the Hexes", though she does admit it's mostly coming from having "one too many lame dates lately".
- Cousin Oliver: It was her duty to attract a younger demographic and make the Charmed Ones hip again.
- Demoted to Extra: In the comics.
- Does Not Like Men: When she puts on Hippolyta's belt, it magnifies her dislike of men and nearly gets her to cause Gendercide.
- Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. She mentions failing meta physics and is more reckless than outright stupid.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: She screams when she sees a rat in the Wonderland spell. Of course justified here because the rat is gigantic with scary red eyes.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Her hair gets a little shorter and messier around the time her repressed memories of Christy's kidnapping surface, and she gives herself bangs after getting serious about finding her. After finding Christy, she brushes the bangs to the side.
- Face–Heel Turn: Of course, Billie thought it was a Heel–Face Turn. She got better.
- Fatal Flaw: Her obsession with Christy is her undoing. She's so determined to find her that she enrages half the Underworld, and nearly risks Leo's life in the process. And once she has Christy back, she's vulnerable to being manipulated by her.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Although she enters the series as Paige's charge, she ends up becoming close friends with Phoebe. The latter comforts her after her parents' deaths, tries to reach out to her even after the heel turn, and is shown to have forgiven her in the Distant Finale - where Billie is shown babysitting Phoebe's daughters.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Developed some nifty ideas, like "cyber-scrying" with online maps.
- Gamer Chick: Her interest in gaming is not explored, but hinted at in "Malice in Wonderland" when she says that killing demons "beats the Hell out of video games".
- Genki Girl: In the first half of the season, she's very enthusiastic about magic. She even Squees "that was awesome!" after she nearly blows herself up reading a spell out loud. Piper uses "perky" to describe her to Agent Murphy.
- Girly Bruiser: Played by the beautiful blonde Kaley Cuoco, wearing the height of early 2000s fashion, and also an Action Girl.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Bright blonde hair and very dedicated to helping innocents - in fact having to remind the Charmed Ones of that more than once. Notably, Christy has darker hair, and she's the irredeemably evil sister.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Her initial appearance was in head-to-foot vinyl and a black wig that resembled Prue's Season 3 hairstyle. Combined with the Telekinesis and She-Fu she used early on, this led to a belief that they were trying for another Suspiciously Similar Substitute of the character.
- Heroic Wannabe: Tries so hard to be a big hero. To her credit, her heart being in the right place helps remind the Charmed Ones of who they used to be.
- Imagination-Based Power: Her "projection" power, which let her do anything she could think about.
- Mind over Matter: Her projection ability allows her to transform the state of people and objects around her, even up to Reality Warper levels.
- Minion with an F in Evil: She's convinced that the Charmed Ones are evil and abusing their magic, and is even at first looking for non-lethal ways to stop them, until Christy's manipulation pushes her to do other things.
- Ms. Fanservice: Fond of tank tops, form flattering clothes and showing the odd bit of cleavage. Kaley Cuoco joked that Billie's style was basically her own wardrobe anyway.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She pretends to be a bit of a ditz to her roommate as part of her cover.
- Put on a Bus: Season 9 explains that the Sisters sent her to the East Coast to look over and protect Darryl, Shelia and their sons.
- She-Fu: She's able to use her telekinesis to do a lot of flips and cartwheels. However, it's subverted when she begins her training under the Charmed Ones; possibly a nod to this being Awesome, but Impractical.
- Sixth Ranger: Another youthful interloper to the Charmed Ones' lives after Chris, and one specifically to learn from them and fight demons on their behalf.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Is eventually convinced to turn heel by Christy.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: She falls in love with JD Williams, a man from 1955 who was kept in stasis by the demon of the week. Although she tries to save him, he's ultimately killed as part of a Heroic Sacrifice. Although implied to have become a whitelighter by the end, Billie never sees him again.
- Stepford Snarker: She's introduced as a wise cracking snarker who even sasses the Charmed Ones after they've recruited her. Then her Dark and Troubled Past of witnessing her sister's kidnapping at the age of five is revealed, coupled with how her parents tried to make her forget about it.
- Tomboyish Name: Especially notable given that the show already had two previous male one-shot characters named Billy.
- Took a Level in Kindness: While she already had a softer side, as shown by her kindness to Maya Holmes, she's an irresponsible snarker when she's introduced. Through training with the sisters, she becomes more empathic and dedicated to helping innocents. In fact, her turning on the Charmed Ones is motivated through belief that they're shirking their responsibilities.
- Unskilled, but Strong: With her projection power, she can do nearly anything with it, but has no skill on how to do so willingly. The episode "Twelve Angry Zen" shows her mastering it enough to travel back in time briefly.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Unlike Christy, who paints herself as this but is likely just pretending, Billie actually thinks that taking out the Charmed Ones is a Mercy Kill. Thankfully for everyone, the 'well intentioned' part wins out as she comes to her senses.
- Youngest Child Wins: She's younger than Christy and she's the Ultimate Power. This is unique to the show's mythology, where the eldest sibling usually is the most powerful.
