(The Charmed Ones | Other Main Characters | Villains | Supporting Cast)
The supporting cast of Charmed (1998). 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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Recurring Allies
Characters who appear throughout multiple seasons. Katrina/Kit
Katrina/Kit
- Played by: Marita Geraghty
Kit is the house cat of the Halliwells, but eventually turns out to be a spirit animal who has been secretly guiding the sisters. She later returns once more in her real form, Katrina.
- All Witches Have Cats: As their spirit animals.
- Cats Are Magic: She can sense nearby evil creatures.
- Cats Have Nine Lives: Both for laughs in "Cat House" and for drama in "Pre-witched."
- Evil-Detecting Dog: As mentioned above, she can sense evil. She could see the warlock Rex's normally invisible astral form when he was in the manor.
- Familiar: For Serena, the witch in the pilot, and then for the Charmed Ones.
- Karmic Jackpot: Kit is rewarded for her exceptional services as the Charmed Ones' familiar by being transformed into a human by the Elders. (Largely to better enable her to prepare new familiars.)
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: After her transformation, Katrina takes care of cats who are intended to become witches' familiars. She has quite a lot of them under her wing.
- Put on a Bus: Disappears after the third season. When she returns for an episode in Season 5, she justifies it as being because the sisters were no longer new to the craft and didn't need a familiar anymore.
The Elders
The Elders
- Played by: Gerry Becker (Ramus), Andrew James Allen (Kevin), Eyal Podell (Roland), John Cothran, Jr. (Cecil), Ken Page (Adair), Ian Abercrombie (Aramis), James Avery (Zola), Elizabeth Dennehy (Sandra), John de Lancie (Odin), Bruce Gray (Kheel), Nigel Gibbs (Jonnah)
The Elders are the Whitelighters with the most authority. When the Charmed Ones need advice, Leo will often orb to the Elders to ask them. While they are inially opposed to the romance between Leo and Piper, they eventually agree to their marriage. At the end of season 5, the council of Elders are killed by the Titans, but are replaced by new Elders, including Leo.
- Jerkass Gods: Well, that's how the sisters view them—especially Piper, due to their opposition to her relationship with Leo.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After all the trouble they caused during the series, the comics revealed that they were recycled and replaced with an entirely new council because they were interfering too much.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Until mid-season 3 for the sisters (who met them on-screen up in the heavens), mid-season 4 for the viewing audience.
- Omniscient Morality License: They believe all their actions to be in the interest of the greater good, though in later seasons this motivation is marred by fear and internal politics more often than not.
- Our Angels Are Different: They're ascended dead people who level ground their way from guardian angels to magical administrators.
- Underestimating Badassery: In Season 5, one Elder admits he was among those who often sold Leo short.
Penny "Grams" Halliwell
Penny "Grams" Halliwell
- Played by: Jennifer Rhodes, Kara Zediker (young Penny in "Witchstock")
Penny is the grandmother of the Charmed Ones, dying at the beginning of the series. Patty raised Prue, Piper and Phoebe alone after Patty died, and she sealed their magic and memories away until her own death. She often returns in form of a ghost to assist the sisters. Due to her horrible love life and failed marriages, Penny has developed a hatred for men in general, which often puts her at odds with the male members of the family.
- Bad Liar: Called out for this in "Charmed Again, Part 1" when she denies having a clue why the Source thinks the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted after Prue dies.Piper: You know what, Grams? You were a lousy liar when you were alive, and now as a ghost, you're worse.
- Cool Old Lady: Pretty sure elderly warrior witches qualify for the list.
- Crusading Widow: The murder of her first husband is what got her to take demon-fighting so seriously, leveling up in both badass and jerkass in the process.
- Dating Catwoman: Her past relationship with the necromancer demon Armand.
- Does Not Like Men: Her defining trait. To the point she initially doesn't like Wyatt because he wasn't born a girl. Definitely part of her transition from Granola Girl to Crusading Widow, as she would get married four more times to guys who apparently weren't as good as her first husband Allen and this turned her cynical.
- Granola Girl: In the episode "Witchstock," where Paige gets sent to 1967, we see that she was quite the flower child.
- High Priestess: Is often called on to perform magical rituals such as Handfastings and blessings for her great-grandchildren.
- Jerkass: Towards men in general, but particularly Victor. She claims her reason for disliking him was because he was never part of the girls' lives growing up, but he counters by pointing out that she refused to let him see them. She definitively proves him right in the finale, when Piper grabs her and Patty from different points in the past, and she comments about Patty's attachment to Victor that "Apparently I hadn't chased him away yet."
- The Lost Lenore: Her first husband Allen, Patty's father and the sisters' grandfather, clearly meant a lot to her and cast a pall over her future relationships. The worst thing she can say about him is that he was very into being a hippie.
- Mama Bear: She's fiercely protective of her granddaughters. When she sees what she believes to be strange women in the house talking to young Prue and Piper (not realising it's the adult versions of the sisters having travelled back in time) she flings them out of the house with her telekinesis to get them away from the girls.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: Has apparently been spreading this viewpoint to her granddaughters for years if not decades."How many times have I told you? Men are utensils. You use them, wash them, and throw them in a drawer until you need them again."
- Mind over Matter: She was telekinetic. Which was passed down to Prue and Paige, and later to Piper's children, Wyatt, Chris, and Melinda.
- Never Mess with Granny: Even in death, Grams is quite a powerful witch.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The only time she is ever referred to by her full first name, Penelope, is in a spell that calls on the combined powers of the Halliwell ancestors, and even that is only inferred from the fact that she is listed in between Patty and Prue.
- Outliving One's Offspring: She outlived Patty by several decades, dying when her granddaughters were adults.
- Posthumous Character: Despite dying in the first episode, she's a frequent recurring character.
- Raised by Grandparents: She was the girls' primary caregiver after their mom died and Grams drove their dad off.
- Secret-Keeper: She was the only one Patty and Sam trusted to know about Paige.
- Widow Witch: It was the death of her first husband (the girls' grandfather) that knocked her out of her flower child phase.
Patty Halliwell
Patty Halliwell
- Played by: Finola Hughes
Patty is the mother of the Charmed Ones, but was killed by a water demon when Phoebe was still a toddler. She was Happily Married with Victor Bennett, but with Penny driving him away and Paty eventually falling for her Whitelighter Sam (Paige's father), she and Victor divorced for good. Patty makes repeated throughout the series, either as a ghost or due to Time Travel shenanigans.
- Deadpan Snarker: Patty is usually a Nice Girl, but every so often she shows where Piper and Paige got their sarcastic streak from. It usually comes up when Patty is dealing with her mother.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Subverted. She is consistently shown to be a loving mother and all four sisters practically worship her memory, but the show does mention several times that she was still a flawed individual, most notably her Secret Relationship with her whitelighter, Sam complete with Affair Letters. This is best summarized
. - Generation Xerox: In reverse. Just like how Grams dated a demon a la Phoebe and Cole, Patty fell in love and had an affair with Sam (Paige's biological father), just like Piper and her Whitelighter.
- Superpowerful Genetics: As with all witches on the show at least in terms of magic, not the power itself. Patty had the power of molecular immobilisation and Piper is the sister to have inherited this power.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Patty was told that it would not be possible for her to get pregnant again after Piper was born. She reveals this while already pregnant with Phoebe and later goes on to have a secret fourth child.
- Missing Mom: She got drowned to death while the sisters were children.
- My Secret Pregnancy: Patty kept her fourth pregnancy a secret from everyone except her mother and the baby's father for fear that the Elders would retaliate.
- Nice Girl: She's probably the least dysfunctional member of the family, all things considered.
Victor Bennett
Victor Bennett
- Played by: Tony Denison, James Read
Victor is the mortal father of the original Charmed Ones, but he left the family due to his differences with Penny and Patty. After many years, Victor finally returns to the lives of his three daughters during season 1. After his return in season 3, and he becomes more involved with the magical affairs of his family throughout the series, getting occasionally the opportunity to meet his dead ex-wife Patty again.
- Affair? Blame the Bastard: Averted in regards to Paige. Cheaper by the Coven even goes out of its way to show they're in touch, treat other well and that Victor is just as protective of her when he feels Penny doesn't have the sisters' best interest at heart when they're under a spell that she refuses to lift. This extends to the comics where he treats Paige's children just as well as he does his biological grandchildren.
- Badass Normal: For an old guy with no powers, he handles demons very well.
- Commonality Connection: He and Henry bond in the comics as the only two purely mortal husbands in a family of witches.
- Cool Old Guy: Victor is such a Cool Old Guy than even in a Bad Future he's considered to be “awesome”, as said by Chris himself, who obviously adores his grandfather.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Victor left the family shortly before Patty's death, causing degrees of resentment among Prue, Piper and Phoebe. However, Victor left due to severe disagreements with Patty and especially Grams over the sisters' magical heritage and claims that he could never protect them from demons.
- Deadpan Snarker: He was this at times, mostly when he deals with his dead mother-in-law.
- Doting Grandparent: Adores his grandsons as much as they adore him. The comics show him acting this way to the rest of his grandchildren, including Paige's children that he's not technically related to.
- The Determinator: After being stabbed in the gut, he wills himself to jump down some stairs and throws the demon holding Piper hostage.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The Victor that shows up in the first season is fairly different from what he'd be known for, coming across as somewhat heartless and morally ambiguous at best. And while his desire to protect his daughters is genuine, how he goes about it makes him come across as insincere and suspicious, such as by trying to steal the Book of Shadows. By the time he comes back in season 3, he is portrayed as being significantly more sincere in his attempts to be there for them and the moral ambiguity is completely dropped. It's such a near-180 from his previous appearance that the actor switch between appearances is more likely to be what accounts for it than any sort of Character Development.
- Honorary Uncle: The comics show that he is effectively a "bonus" grandparent to Paige's children, who he treats no differently from Piper and Phoebe's.
- While it's never elaborated on in any real detail, he fulfills a pseudo-honorary stepfather role to Paige as well, treating her like part of the family and being in touch with her as shown by Cheaper by the Coven. In said episode, he makes no distinction between her and his actual daughters when he argues with Penny about doing what's best for them. Despite having reason to dislike her, he never treats her any different from Piper and Phoebe and in general it appears Paige has a better relationship with him than with her own father for most of the series.
- Indy Ploy: When the girls' maturity was regressed to teenagers and Penny wouldn't undo the spell and Victor wanted it undone, Victor told her to call Patty to break the tie figuring there was a good chance Patty would side with him. It worked.
- Odd Friendship: He develops one with Henry in the comics, being the only purely mortal husbands in the Halliwell family.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives his oldest daughter and finds out in Season 6 that he'll outlive the other two unless the timeline gets changed.
- Papa Wolf: In "The Day the Magic Died" he throws himself at a Warlock to protect Piper even though he was seriously injured from the Warlock stabbing him. In season eight an Elder comes to him and suggests that Chris and Wyatt should be raised by them now that the Charmed ones are "dead". Victor replies that they'll take the boys over his dead body, and the Elder actually backs down.
- It's deconstructed in his first appearance and in the backstory. Despite having good intentions in "Thank You For Not Morphing", he actually makes himself come off as untrustworthy and has to jump through some hoops to show he's sincere. In the backstory, his saving Prue from the Nothing in "We All Scream for Ice Cream" actually ends up leading to him leaving because Penny insisted that this somehow proved he would not be able to handle helping protect them against demons.
- Raised by Grandparents: In the Bad Future he took over raising Wyatt and Chris after Piper was killed during their teenage years.
- Took a Level in Badass: While he was familiar with demons before the series started, as his appearances continued he became more calm around them and was always trusted to watch his grandsons when the need was there.
Wyatt Matthew Halliwell
Wyatt Matthew Halliwell
- Played by: Jason and Kristopher Simmons (child), Wes Ramsey (adult)
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The first son of Piper and Leo, born during season 5. Wyatt started to develop his power while still inside his mother's womb, being able to create force fields and making his mother invulnerable. After his birth, Wyatt becomes the target for countless demons who seek for his power. Wyatt is so powerful that the Elder Gideon sees him as a threat for the magical world in the future and tries to kill the child, not knowing that this is the reason why Wyatt turns evil in the bad future. After Gideon's death, Wyatt is set to turn out good, and his future self is shown to be very friendly and cheerful young man.
- Above Good and Evil: Evil Wyatt believes this.
- All Your Powers Combined: Wyatt was born with more power than ever imaginable in a Charmed One's descendant, being the offspring of a Charmed One and a powerful whitelighter. In the Bad Future, he uses them to full effect to exert his power over magical and non-magical people.
- Baby's First Words: His first word was "Mama", said to get Piper's attention because a demon was attacking him.
- Beard of Evil : Evil Wyatt has a goatee of pure menace.
- Big Brother Instinct: Even as a toddler, he had this (when he wasn't being competitive for his parents' attention). It's also worth noting that the existence of his sister and cousins is about the only thing he is capable of keeping quiet about to prevent them from being Ret-Gone.
- Big Good: In the future. Unless he's the Big Bad.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Future Wyatt is a cheerful, sweet lug who slaughters a roomful of demons with a gesture—and pretty much slaughters the room itself, too.
- Brainy Baby: After Wyatt was born, Paige designed a security system to alert the family to demons teleporting into the house. After only two such instances, Wyatt figured out the system was a way of getting attention, so he used his powers to set it off.
- Brought Down to Badass: In the comics, the Angels of Destiny manipulate things to extend the Twice-Blessed prophecy to Chris and Melinda, too, to create a more powerful Power of Three, which leads to Neena the first witch nearly ending the world, so they decide to do away with that whole prophecy. Consequently, Wyatt is now only going to grow up to be as powerful as you'd expect from an upper-level Halliwell family witch-Whitelighter like his brother and sister, not a near Physical God.
- Cain and Abel: Evil future Wyatt and future Chris had this sort of dynamic going on, although neither seemed particularly willing to kill the other.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: Whenever the adult version of him travels back in time he keeps accidentally blurting out details about what happens to his family in their futures. The one exception is the fact that he'll eventually have a younger sister and six cousins; he can keep quiet about them if it means preventing a repeat of Chris's near-Ret-Gone situation.
- The Chosen One: He inherited Excalibur, of all things!
- Cute Bruiser: His older self from the changed future is this - he's capable of wrecking an entire roomful of demons after his family.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Two in the bad future. The first was when, as a toddler, he had to spend months evading Gideon's attempts to kill him before finally killing Gideon himself, which royally messed up his moral compass. The second, which permanently pushed him over the edge, was the death of his mother when he was only sixteen.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: As an adult, his hair is long whenever he's evil and short when he's good. In "Imaginary Fiends" his hair changes instantly when Vicus corrupts his younger self.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- When Chris is briefly brought back to his present, evil Wyatt says that he would've killed anyone else for doing what he did. Wyatt even offers Chris forgiveness in exchange for his loyalty.
- In "Imaginary Fiends," evil Wyatt hesitates to attack his parents and aunts. Leo even gets through to him using The Power of Love, causing evil Wyatt to stand aside and watch on tearfully as his dad broke the curse that turned him bad.
- Evil-Detecting Baby: Wyatt tended to put up a blue force field if something evil came too close. Subverted when the plot needed a group to try and turn him by having the evil guy pretend to be nice and good.
- Give Him a Normal Life: A big concern of the sisters, especially Piper.
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: Was so powerful even from the womb that he turned Piper invincible when she was pregnant with him.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Like Paige, is a half witch, half Whitelighter.
- Healing Hands: In "The Seven Year Witch" he uses this power to heal Piper. Presumably his love for his mother is what allowed him to activate the ability.
- Infant Sibling Jealousy: Goes through this after his younger brother is born. He uses his powers to steal the baby's toys and at one point orbs the baby out of the house (luckily Victor is outside and finds him). He eventually gets over it and becomes more protective of his brother.
- Lamarck Was Right: Not only inherited the powers of his parents, but amplified them.
- Maiden Name Debate: Of a sort. Since Piper and Leo were happily married, the baby's last name could have been "Wyatt." But even Leo agreed he should have Piper's maiden name, saying "evil fears it, good magic respects it." Hence the reason "Wyatt" became his first name.
- Meaningful Name: His first and middle names, Wyatt and Matthew respectively, come from Leo and Paige, respectively. Piper specifically chose these names because of their actions to protect him in "Baby's First Demon."
- Nice Guy: Certainly nicer than Chris is when he comes from the future, but that may come from the fact that the Wyatt that comes from is from the changed future.
- Paint It Black: When a future version of Wyatt arrives in the present in "Imaginary Fiends," a demon named Vicus manages to infect baby Wyatt with evil and future Wyatt suddenly gains an all-black outfit as well as longer hair and a Beard of Evil—the same look he had in the original future.
- Playing with Fire: He incinerates a couple of demons with a wave of fire. This is a clue that Wyatt is starting to turn evil (again), since fire powers in general are bad, and in particular evil past life Phoebe had similar fire-throwing powers.
- The Pollyanna: Good future Wyatt is ridiculously cheerful and optimistic.
- Reality Warper: Has the power of projection just like Billie does, but is able to do so much more with it it's honestly scary.
- Ret-Gone: The plot of "Forget Me...Not" centers around Wyatt's inexplicable disappearance, not only from the Manor but also from the memories of his family. It turns out to be the work of the Cleaners after Wyatt endangered the Masquerade (more than they usually do, anyway).
- Unskilled, but Strong / Weak, but Skilled: Qualifies as both due to his status as a baby with powers beyond his conscious understanding or control... and also because the writers weren't ever very consistent about what he was capable of. The former is in reference to his powers being capable of much more than the sisters can accomplish individually, while the latter is in reference to his ability to use his powers to protect himself without the sisters' help when he needs to.
Sam Wilder
Sam Wilder
- Played by: Scott Jaeck
- Arc Welding: Patty and Sam's affair was originally only meant to provide a Generation Xerox for Piper and Leo, but when backstage conflicts required introducing a fourth sister, making her Sam's daughter made a perfect explanation for why she was kept separate from the other three.
- Brought Down to Normal: Clipped his wings after Patty's death due to guilt over what happened, making him mortal and able to die again. When the Elders just make him a Whitelighter again he averts this. Instead of clipping his wings, like he did the first time, he just stops using his powers so the Elders can't track his magic. Paige is the only person capable of finding him because of their blood relationship.
- Disappeared Dad: To Paige. He and Patty had to give her up to preserve the Charmed prophecy, so he couldn't be part of her life as she grew up. They're finally introduced in season 5, but Sam's personal demons mean he doesn't stick around to get to know her. When he shows up in season 8, Paige calls him out on not being around. Sam promises to try harder this time and earn a place in her life.
- Drowning My Sorrows: By the time he's reintroduced in "Sam I Am" he's started drinking to deal with the accumulated guilt over everything that's happened to him.
- The Lost Lenore: Patty is his as they were together when she died.
- My Greatest Failure:
- He blames himself for Patty's death as it was his job to protect and guide her. He stayed by the lake where she died to stop anyone else from being killed by the water demon, and to help Patty's daughters when they came to face the demon.
- He and Patty gave up Paige to protect her, but the decision weighed heavily on him. When he finds out she eventually became a witch anyway he feels even worse.Sam: You wanna understand, do you? When you hold that precious, little baby of yours in your arms, and you love her more than you ever loved anything in the world, and then you give her to someone else to raise and grow up with—
Piper: You and Mom did that to protect Paige.
Sam: Didn't work, did it?
- Secret Relationship: As a witch and Whitelighter, he and Patty weren't supposed to be together and had to keep their love hidden from the Elders.
- Together in Death: "P3 H2O" appears to end with him dying and being reunited with Patty's spirit but then in "Sam I Am" we learn that the Elders made him a Whitelighter again.
Mortals
Elise Rothman
Elise Rothman
- Played by: Rebecca Balding
- Arc Welding: Elise was introduced in Season 4, and the comics reveal that she was the friend whose murder by Cal Greene kicked off the Bad Future seen back in Season 2.
- Benevolent Boss: By Season 7, Elise suggests that Phoebe take a temporary sabbatical and hire a ghost writer for her column.
- Career Versus Man: Season 6 implies that Elise chose only her career over finding love.
- Characterization Marches On: Very stern and humorless in her initial few episodes, she eventually started showing a more comedic side; to the point that in Season 8, she's initially sobbing about how the apparently late Phoebe doubled their readership.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The Season 9 comics revisit the plot from the Bad Future of "Morality Bites" and it's discovered that Elise was the person who Cal Greene would have murdered.
- A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. The episode "Scry Hard" has a subplot where Elise takes the day off and leaves Phoebe in charge of the Bay Mirror.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She Took a Level in Kindness in Season 5.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Her hair growing slightly longer seems to coincide with her becoming nicer.
- Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Season 6's "Forget Me...Not" seems to imply that if she's getting on well with Phoebe, it's not the case for other employees.
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: Naturally she's thrilled when the lack of Sandmen cause everyone to act irritated and violent, as it means more news to report.
- Pet the Dog: Despite being ready to fire Karen if she doesn't meet her deadline, she ends up hiring Phoebe without so much as an interview. This is apparently due to Karen resigning offscreen and Elise liking what Phoebe ghost wrote.
- Power Hair: A little longer than most examples, but it fits.
- Secret-Keeper: She becomes one to the Halliwells in the comics, as Paige needs to heal her after Cal Greene nearly beats Elise to death, but they still need to make her look injured so Greene can be convicted.
- Took a Level in Badass: She temporarily gains magical powers over plants in Season 9, and fights alongside the Halliwells against Rennek in "The Power of 300."
- Took a Level in Kindness: Introduced as a Bad Boss in Season 4, and even in Season 5 she's overworking Phoebe to the point where her powers are affected. By Season 6 however, she's mellowed out. And in Season 8 she calls Phoebe the daughter she never had.
Agent Kyle Brody
Agent Kyle Brody
- Played by: Kerr Smith
- Anti-Hero: Has ostensibly heroic goals, but is a bit of an obsessive jerkass in achieving them.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Became a Whitelighter for his efforts in stopping the Avatars. He ascends another level in the comics as a member of the new council of Elders.
- The Extremist Was Right: Still thought the Avatars were shady and not to be trusted even after finding out they didn't kill his parents, Celerity demons trying to stop them did. As summed up by somebody he ended up working with to try to stop them anyway:Leo: Brody was crazy.Zankou: Brody was right!
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Andy. Law enforcement? Check. Agent Mulder? Check. Love Interest? Check. Killed Off for Real? Check, check, check.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In going after the Avatars.
Henry Mitchell
Henry Mitchell
- Played by: Ivan Sergei
- Badass Normal: He fought Simon Marx in a duel for Paige in "The Last Temptation of Christy." And won.
- Commonality Connection: A recurring subplot in the comics is Henry's anxiety over the danger his wife and daughters are in due to being witches, which puts a heavy strain on his relationship with Paige for a while, especially after their daughters' powers manifested and one of them set the house on fire. At one point he's shown bonding with Victor over the situation.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted with his first parolee that we see on the show, as he's beginning to get tired of Speed's constant brushes with the law the until Paige sets him straight about what the kid was doing on his last "job".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Andy, and Agent Brody to an extent.
- Talk to the Fist: How he wins his duel with Simon Marx.
Shelia Morris
Shelia Morris
- Played by: Sandra Prosper
Darryl's wife who knows about the secret of the Halliwells.
- The Ghost: She was mentioned for five seasons before she appeared for the first time in person in the 100th episode.
- Secret-Keeper: She was let in on the secret surrounding the Charmed Ones, and seemed pretty chill about it.
- True Companions: Even when Darryl was on the fence after his encounter with the Cleaners, Shelia still considered the sisters close friends and in her own words, "part of the family".
Good Demons
Drake dè Mon
Drake dè Mon
- Played by: Billy Zane
- Ascended Demon: An ex-demon who made a deal with a sorcerer to become human because he was enthralled with human literature and wanted to experience all the feelings it described.
- Deal with the Devil: Inverted in virtually every way as part of an awesome Batman Gambit on the part of Cole.
- Love Freak: Is so fascinated with The Power of Love he could pass for a Cupid. Cole made a great choice in picking him to revive Phoebe's faith in it.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Says that when he was a demon, he always found a way around killing people.
- Punny Name: His last name, presumably added after said inverted deal.
- Secretly Dying: One of the conditions of the aforementioned inverted Faustian bargain is that he would die in a year. He met the sisters toward the final stretch of that year.
The Seer
The Seer/Kyra
- Played by: Charisma Carpenter
- Anti-Villain: She had a bubbly yet cryptic personality and did her magic for clients both good and evil alike, but resented the evil and longed for the good.
- Back from the Dead: In the comics, she ends up being resurrected as a human and in a relationship with Cole's father Benjamin, who was also resurrected.
- Bargain with Heaven: Wants the Charmed Ones and the Elders to make her human in exchange for showing them the Avatars' plan for the future.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Her main reason for wanting to be human. Apparently she can't consciously feel good things because she's a demon despite the fact that she wants to. In context of the series (and even the episode), it's unclear whether she's actually right about this or not.
- Dark Is Evil: She's a demonic seer, so naturally she's predisposed to evil by default. Bonus points for having a past with Zankou, which implies a checkered history on her part for more than one reason.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Though by the time we meet her, she is far less evil than she thinks she is.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has a gift with girlish wit that's quite uncommon among demons.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Until she tells them her true name.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Starts showing through the bond she develops with Phoebe.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Hates the demonic life and wants to become human.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Earlier credits and The Book of Three guidebook spelled her name "Kira", but the current comics use "Kyra".
- Legacy Character: In Name Only, she's nothing like the previous titular Seer and doesn't even work for anyone like the Source. Though she was once in a relationship with Zankou, hinting that she may not have always been so different.
- Mood Whiplash: One minute Piper has her in a bright pink dress, and you think she's about to finally turn human if she hasn't already. The next, Phoebe walks into the room, turns out to be Zankou and unleashes a torrent of killer particles on her. It's even invoked in-universe: despite only knowing her for a day, the sisters feel the whiplash enough it compels them to finally join in on the Avatars' plans.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Sells out the Underworld the first real chance she gets at becoming human. Bonus points for said chance involving the creation of a future world where the Underworld is basically its own prison.
- Shout-Out: Her entire character is a big one to Cordelia Chase.
Other Magical Beings
The Angel of Death
The Angel of Death
- Played by: Simon Templeman, Lou Beatty Jr. (Clarence)
- Above Good and Evil: As he puts it, he isn't good or evil, he just is.
- Death Takes a Holiday: Should someone revive somebody without approval from an Angel of Destiny, Death will be very, very pissed.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: He isn't such a bad guy, and he tries to help the Halliwells the best he can. Of course, the restrictions to his job mean that that said help is usually limited to trying to help them deal with their grief.
- Clarence is particularly kind and sensitive about his job. He poses as a mortal and befriends Chris to make his unique situation (almost being erased from existence before he can actually be born) easier on him. When Chris is saved, Clarence doesn't pursue him any further and advises him to make the most of his second chance.
- Psychopomp: Part of his job is to collect souls and help them to cross on to the afterlife.
The Avatars
The Avatars
- Played by: Joel Swetow (Alpha), Patrice Fisher (Beta), Ian Anthony Dale (Gamma), Tony Todd (The Avatar of Force), various others
- Above Good and Evil: Describe themselves as this.
- The Evils of Free Will: Why their plan ultimately never maintains the required approval to succeed.
- Knight Templar: Consider themselves neutral rather than agents of the greater good, and their methods are moreso diplomatic than violent, but their goals and beliefs are perfectly aligned with the trope.
- The Needs of the Many: They refuse to resurrect Kyle Brody for this reason, as doing so would drain their power at the moment they're remaking the world into a Utopia. Alpha claims that they believe individual needs and fates should be sacrificed for the greater good.
- Order Versus Chaos: They are 100% on the order side, taking it to an Orwellian extreme.
- Reality Warper / Time Master: Though they have this power as a collective, the depths of what they can do with it can be limited if one of them dies or if the power is accessed too deeply over a period of time.
- Utopia Justifies the Means / Well-Intentioned Extremist: Their mission is to create a perfect world with no conflict. Trouble is, the plan basically amounts to Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul, and if the smiles don't stick on you, Big Brother Is Watching through outer-dimensional monitors and will literally handwave you out of existence.
Coop
Coop
- Played by: Victor Webster
A Cupid who is also Phoebe's final Love Interest and her True Love.
- Death by Childbirth: Turns out to be an inverted case, as he died in his mother's arms shortly after being born."I doubt I was alive long enough to open my eyes."
- Expy: Of the unnamed Cupid from Season 2, to the point that you have wonder they didn't just bring him back.
- Flat Character: Pretty much his only role was to be the handsome hunk that would eventually become Phoebe's husband. He only appeared in the last seven episodes of the final televised season.
- Hidden Depths: These begin to be explored in the comics, where Phoebe and the readers are actually allowed enough time to get to know him. In particular, the Coop name, which was first conceived as a sloppy informal stand-in for "Cupid", is revealed to be a shorthand for Coopersmith, the surname of at least some members of his human family.
- Love Freak: Being a Cupid, it comes with the territory.
- Matchmaker Crush: He was sent to help Phoebe find someone and ended up falling for her in the process.
- Playing Cyrano: When trying to set other guys up with Phoebe.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the Unnamed Cupid in season two in Heartbreak City.
- Took the Wife's Name: An issue of Season 10 shows that he took the name Halliwell after marrying Phoebe.
