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The titular heroines 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 As per wiki's policy, all trope names should be visible which may indicate if the character died or if they are deceiving.

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The Charmed Ones

As a group

Before her execution, Melinda Warren made a prophecy that one day her family line would produce "The Power of Three", a trio of sister witches who would become a great force for Good. The prophecy finally came true in the late 20th century with the birth of the Halliwell sisters.

Initially the Charmed Ones comprised of Prudence, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell. Following Prue's untimely death in 2001, her destiny was transferred to their secret half-sister Paige Matthews.

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• Ambiguously Christian: While the sisters are practising Wiccans during the series (as seen by Piper's wedding and Prue's funeral) it's often indicated that they had some exposure to Christianity during their childhoods. In one episode, Piper freaks out that being a Witch means she's evil and is only consoled when she steps into a church and isn't immediately struck dead. Paige was given to a nun after her birth who selected her adoptive parents from the congregation. She mentions attending services with them and celebrating Christmas and Easter.
• Badass Family: They are the strongest witches in existence and are sisters, who are the descendants from a powerful line of witches and became mothers and aunts for the next generation of their family. This includes their spouses and ex spouses.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: They tended to switch roles over the course of the series as their powers and abilities grew, but in general:
  • Prue was the Brains, being the oldest and the most focused on learning how to control her magic. She eventually took on more of a Brawn role after picking up some martial arts skills during season three.
  • Piper started out as the Brawn due to her time-freezing power being the best for stopping enemies cold. Her combustion power emphasised this further. She also showed some Brains due to her skill with potions.
  • Phoebe starts out as the Beauty due to being the youngest and having the "passive" power. She makes an effort to become more Brawny by taking up martial arts late in the first season.
  • Paige also starts out as the Beauty, largely because Piper and Phoebe have three years of experience as Witches that she needs to catch up on. She throws herself into studying and becomes the new Brains, even taking on a teaching role at Magic School.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: When the sisters become evil, their makeup becomes darker and heavier. Most notably in "Bride and Gloom" when they became warlocks. Phoebe herself dons this in season one when possessed by the woogyman and as the Queen of the Underworld.
• Family Theme Naming: All of their first names start with a "P", continuing the tradition started with Penny and Patty. The nun that arranged Paige's adoption mentions that the only request Patty made before giving her up was that she be given a "P" name by her new family.
• Fearful Symmetry: In "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World", Phoebe and Paige meet their counterparts from a mirror universe where morality is inverted. Their evil selves think and act in near-exact ways, leading to a Mirror Match when the Phoebes try to fight each other.
• Former Teen Rebel: All of them but Piper went through a "rebellious" phase as teenagers.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Prue is Melancholic- Independent, passionate, hard working, detached, stubborn, often doesn't trust others (particularly strangers), and is not quick to get over a grudge (just ask Phoebe or her dad).
  • Piper is Choleric- Stubborn, hot-tempered, and demanding, especially in the later seasons.
  • Phoebe is Sanguine- Adventurous, mischievous, somewhat ditzy, and the most spontaneous and impulsive of the sisters.
  • Paige is Phlegmatic- She actually has quite a few similarities to Prue in terms of personality, especially in independence and stubbornness. However, she is also much more easy-going and a lot more ditzy.
• The Hecate Sisters: The original trio followed this pattern, albeit without the usual age gap between the archetypes. Phoebe was the Maiden, being the youngest and most carefree. Piper was the Mother, being the cautious and reserved middle child. Prue was the Crone, being the oldest she was more cynical and likely to take a leadership role.
• Hot Witch: They're all powerful witches and all extremely good-looking. Melinda Warren even joked about it, claiming that "great cheekbones" follow her family line just like their magic.
• Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: After vanqusihing Zankou and faking their deaths, Piper, Phoebe and Paige pose as their own "cousins" who've stepped in to help care for Wyatt and Chris.
• Raised by Grandparents: Prue, Piper and Phoebe were raised by their grandmother after their mother died when they were young. Grams chased their father away so he wasn't around much either.
• Rule of Three: There must be three sisters for the group to qualify as the Charmed Ones of prophecy. Patty deliberately hid Paige's existence partly because she was afraid of the complications a fourth child would pose to the prophecy. Apparently Prue's death forced The Elders to overlook the issue in favor of restoring The Power of Three. After Prue possessed Patience to get back into the living world, she discovered that having all four sisters in one place actively made all of them weaker because two telekinetic sisters was throwing off the balance between the three powers.
• Shared Family Quirks: Stubbornness is a defining quality of the sisters and entire Warren-Halliwell family line in general. Even the very starter of their bloodline; Melinda Warren states that stubbornness and high cheek bones are a Warrens' defying traits.
• Story-Breaker Power: A bad one with the original Power of Three spell ("The Power of Three will set us free... The Power of Three will set us free...") It is even stated in-universe that it's their strongest spell. This becomes even more egregious when all the sisters just needed to be within proximity of each other and only one of them has to chant the spell. This also extends to at least one of the magical powers each sister has.
  • Prue as seen in the Bad Future of "Morality Bites" unintentionally destroyed a wall in the attic with a simple flick of the wrist then come the next season, she was able to blow up a door and deflect a powerful wind blast that earlier knocked both her and Piper into a wall.
  • Piper is able to blow up beings and objects, The two most blatant examples was when she first manifested the power and she was able to blow up a demon, slightly weaker then Cole Turner/Belthazor and was even able to blow up the Source of all Evil himself with one shot, but he could reform.
  • Phoebe's empathy power allowed her to sense intentions (good or evil) and channel/use the powers of others along with being near immune to the power being used on her while she is channeling it. She displays all of this in the second episode after he discovered this power.
  • Paige subverts this as both her powers allows her to teleport things and beings closer or further away from her. This actually only comes into place twice in the series as she was able to orb an infected demon out the manor to magic school and orbed a leprechaun into the bay. This is a contrast to Prue who was often flinging beings away from her.
• Three Faces of Eve: After Prue's death, the sisters fell into this pattern.
  • Piper was the "Wife", growing from middle child to older sister. She's also the first to become an actual mother with the birth of Wyatt in season five.
  • Phoebe was the "Seductress" due to her tumultuous lovelife in the latter seasons.
  • Paige was the "Child", being new to the craft and exploring the magical world for the first time.

Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell

Prudence 'Prue' Halliwell

Played by: Shannen Doherty, Emmalee Thompson (little Prue)

Born on October 28th, 1970, Prue was the oldest Charmed One. Always regarded as the bravest and most powerful of the four sisters. Her Wiccan powers were based on mind and movement: the ability to move things with her mind and the ability to project herself in astral form. Prue worked as a successful photo journalist, a career she had wanted to pursue since childhood.

Despite her formidable powers and sharp intellect, Prue was tragically murdered on May 17th 2001 by the Source's personal assassin, Shax; temporarily severing the Power of Three.

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• The Ace: Frequently touted as the most powerful of the sisters, on both sides. She's also the most confident of all of them, and the most willing to go after demons. Even after she dies, Paige feels inferior to her, nicknaming her "Prue, Superwitch." It's presented as an ironclad rule that in any set of magical siblings, going all the way back to the children of the first witch, the firstborn will be the strongest. Her fight with Paige when the two meet for the first time demonstrates that Prue is still the strongest sister on an individual basis even without being Charmed One.
• Action Fashionista: She has the most offensive active power of her sisters (at least until Piper's second power emerges), frequently pulling off She-Fu as she gets stronger, and she's also obsessed with clothes. She even undergoes an Emergency Impersonation on Ms. Hellfire after she got excited about trying on her wardrobe.
• Actor Allusion: "Coyote Piper": Shannen Doherty played an Alpha Bitch in Heathers. Here, her character Prue turns out to have been very popular in high school, bordering on Alpha Bitch.
• Aesop Amnesia: In season 3 Prue learns multiple times not to focus too much on her witch duties and relax. Each time she goes back to being Superwitch by the next episode.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Even more so than Phoebe, she's drawn to guys who are dangerous or even outright villains. In season two she ends up sleeping with Bane Jessup, a wanted criminal. "Just Harried" sees her astral self flirting with a biker she meets at a bar.
• All Psychology Is Freudian: It's that or magic. Prue's "split" persona in "Just Harried" - where her Inner Desires manifest as an alter ego that goes away with some Character Development.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Prue is the tallest out of herself, Piper, and Phoebe. She was also the wisest of the sisters and handled the fight against evil with great dedication.
• Ancestral Name: The name Prudence has been used repeatedly throughout the family ever since Melinda Warren's daughter.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the Season 9 comics, when she becomes the Nexus of the source of all magic.
• Astral Projection: The first new power Prue develops. The theory behind its development was that if Prue could move things with her mind, her own body shouldn't be an exception. Despite being called astral projection, Prue's astral body was physical making it nearer to cloning than true astral projection. Notably, Prue was unable to use her telekinesis in "astral mode". Later in the series, Prue was able to use her astral projection with enough finesse that she needn't require to return to her physical body to project to different places.
• Attack Reflector: Initially Prue would move fire and energy balls back at demons. Some deflector shields also acted as, well, reflector shields.
• Author Avatar: Constance M. Burge stated that the Halliwell sisters were based off herself and her own Real Life sisters. Prue is based on Burge's eldest sister
• Back from the Dead: Twice. Her sisters still pulled it off more than her, though. She even returns in the comic books, too, years after she was Killed Off for Real. Unlike the TV series, there was no contract to prevent her from returning. Not having access to Shannon Doherty's image was circumvented by having Prue possess a comotose witch with a very different look.
• Balancing Death's Books: Whenever the Angel of Death shows up, the sisters usually have to learn An Aesop about this. His first appearance has Prue trying to stop him taking an innocent, and eventually learning that it's the man's time to go.
• Brainy Brunette: She is the most classically smart and intelligent of the sisters, working in a museum and eventually an auction house.
• Broken Bird: She becomes emotionally distant after witnessing her mother's death and can't say the words "I love you" to her sisters Piper and Phoebe because it is the last thing she ever said to her mom. Her dad abandoning her and her sisters also didn't help matters as she has developed major trust issues from it.
• Broken Pedestal: Prue cites Finley Jones as someone who inspired her to take up photography, she's understandably excited when she get's to photograph him, only to find out he's quite a Jerkass.
• Butt-Monkey: Occasionally the show will pick her out as it's chew toy. Such as the episode where she's turned into a man in order to kill a succubus demon, as well as being turned into a literal bitch in one episode.
• Career Versus Man: The Bad Future shown in "Morality Bites" portrays Prue as a Corrupt Corporate Executive who owns three additional Buckland's auction houses in London, Paris and Tokyo. She is dismayed to learn that she doesn't have a husband, and resolves to not turn out like that. It's worth noting that it's not just the lack of husband that troubled her - her assistant didn't even know she had another sister and only knew Phoebe from the news. On a broader scale, after she breaks up with Jack in season two she never has a long-term relationship again for the rest of her time on the series. Despite hitting it off with several guys, none of them last as she's too focused on her magic. It's implied that she wasn't willing to fully apply herself to another relationship because she never fully got over Andy.
• Cassandra Truth: While she's trying to warn her sisters about the Triad and that someone's out to get them, it takes a nighttime invasion of the house along with her getting abducted by a crazy co-worker of Piper's before they finally believe her.
• Character Development: Prue began as an uptight and humourless grudging Team Mom. As her powers increased, she became friendlier to her sisters and less like a nagging parent - not to mention she Took a Level in Badass.
• Cool Big Sis: Piper and Phoebe look up to Prue as she is the oldest and most fearless sister, ever since their mom died and their father abandoned them, she has been more of a mother figure toward the other sisters. In the comics she finally has the opportunity to become one to Paige.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not as much as Piper or Paige, but she can also be quite sarcastic and witty at times, especially toward anyone she doesn't trust, which is often.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She gradually loosens up considerably over the course of the series, especially toward her sisters. Especially notable is the fourth episode "Dead Man Dating", where Phoebe expects a lecture when she confesses to getting a job as a hotel psychic to pay for Prue's birthday present and Prue's response is...
  "You were trying to do something good, and now you'll get the chance to do something great.^note Using her powers to save a man's life. I couldn't ask for a better birthday present than that."
• Die or Fly: Got her empathy under control just as a demon was about to murder her sister.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Prue frequently uses her telekinesis to cause slapstick injuries to Andy or other men who annoy her.
• Dramatic Irony: In the season 10 comics, the leader of the old ones gets Prue to believe that her sisters never really loved her because of how easily they replaced her with Paige. Anyone familiar with the show knows that Paige's integration into the family was anything but easy.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: At the end of Season 3 ("All Hell Breaks Loose"), Prue is Killed Off for Real by a Monster of the Week. Prue had somehow lived through two deaths and bigger bads before, but this is what seemed to trump her in a quick one second death that could have been easily avoided.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Prue's telekinesis power operates quite differently in the first few episodes. Notably, in the pilot she teleports creamer into a cup of coffee; in Season 4 Prue's inability to directly teleport objects is used to distinguish between her and Paige. In the second episode, she barely struggles to move an entire elevator full of people up several floors. She also uses it unintentionally on objects out of her line of sight, without realizing she's even doing it. It's pretty jarring to rewatch and see the difference, since she typically uses her power to deflect energy balls or toss demons around.
• Emotional Powers: Her powers seem to be triggered most strongly by anger.
• The Empath: Temporarily gains this power in "Primrose Empath" by taking it from a demon who had been given the power as a punishment. It doesn't go over very well for her.
• Everybody Loves Blondes: Prue's future self was shown to be blonde, where she was the sexy, powerful and successful business woman.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Across the series, Prue's hair begins in a bob but is waist length by season 3 as her witch powers grow.
• Face Your Fears: There's an episode where she has to face a water demon, with her greatest fear just so happening to be water due to her mother dying of drowning.
• Fake Shemp: We see "Prue" from behind during a Season 5 episode in footage from "Just Harried". Her hand also appears in Season 7's "Charmageddon" when Phoebe sees a premonition of Piper's death in "All Hell Breaks Loose".
• Friend to All Children: In "Secrets and Guys", she comes to the rescue of a young witch when he signals for help and acts as a guardian and mentor.
• Good Bad Girl: What she longs to be. In "Just Harried", her Id manifests as a rebellious bad girl who hustles people at pool and flirts with a bad boy. Even then however, she's not the murderer she's assumed to be.
• Grand Theft Me: At some point after her death, Prue possessed the body of a comatose witch known as Patience, thus allowing Prue to have a major role in the comics without having to pay for Shannon Doherty's likeness.
• Hot Witch: Not at first, where she dressed very conservatively, but her powers and confidence growing corresponds to her wardrobe becoming more flattering and glamorous. Granted, this is because her actress began accompanying the wardrobe mistress on shopping trips and picking out her own clothes, but still.
• Hypocrite: She often has a "one rule for me, different rule for everyone else" attitude. She first lectures Phoebe on not misusing her magic, but will then use her powers for personal gain or mild revenge. She's also persistent in trying to redeem her old high school boyfriend while he's actively trying to murder innocents, while considering Cole irredeemable.
• An Ice Person: Her past self was able to create freezing clouds of ice/mist.
• Improbable Age: Despite being in her twenties, Prue is already in a prominent position at Buckland's Auction House after several years being a successful museum curator. There is a small justification since Rex and Hannah hired her and they're after her magic. After they're vanquished, Prue is in constant clashes with the senior members of the auction house.
• Irony: Her being the in-universe "Super-Witch" of the first three seasons, ends up killed off offscreen, never to return again.
• Killed Off for Real: Due to a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, when her actor left the show. She refused to come back, preventing her character from returning, even as a white lighter (explained in show that she couldn't appear to her family or it would mess with their grieving process).
• Literal Split Personality: Seems to happen to her a lot.
  • In the episode "Which Prue Is It Anyway?" Prue makes two clones of herself that display different aspects of her personality.
  • Done again in the episode "Just Harried" when Prue's id decides to get a little action via astral projection.
• Memory Wipe Exploitation: In a first-season episode, the three sisters have cast a spell on themselves where anyone whom they question will answer truthfully. Prue takes advantage of this to be honest with her Friend on the Force boyfriend Andy — she tells him the truth about her family's powers and their fight against evil and asks him if she could still have a relationship with him under those circumstances. He answers "No", and then immediately forgets the conversation when the spells wears off. He calls her out in a later episode for making a final decision based on how he reacted with only a few minutes to process it.
• Me's a Crowd: A mild example in "Which Prue is it Anyway?" when Prue creates two magical clones of herself to both multiply her power and avoid someone trying to kill her. It's implied late in Season 3 that her astral projection power would have eventually grown into this if she hadn't died.
• Mind over Matter: Prue's first primary power is telekinesis, with her anger being the trigger. Originally Prue channels her power through her eyes by squinting. This becomes a plot point in an episode where a pair of enemies assume Prue channelled her power through her hands like her ancestor, Brianna. She does later begin channeling her telekinesis through her hands, however.
• More than Mind Control: In the season 10 comics, the leader of the old ones twists Prue's resentment of her premature death and how easily she appeared to be replaced to have her try to kill her sisters, turning Prue into the season's Final Boss and forcing Piper to deliver a Mercy Kill.
• Omniglot: She's apparently fluent in Latin. Justified as she was an antique specialist so she would have to know a few other languages I know if an item was real or fake.
• One-Hour Work Week: Subverted later on in the show; Prue works as a freelance photographer after quitting her job at Bucklands. She's at least seen with a camera in various episodes, with references to various photoshoots. Even before leaving Buckland's, she was able to justify demon hunting in episodes like "Ms. Hellfire" by claiming she was out on assignment and bringing in the eponymous hitwoman's belongings.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her family and close friends always call her "Prue", and if she's called "Prudence" she'll insist on being called "Prue".
• Personality Powers:
  • Prue is motherly but also very controlling, and gets the power of telekinesis.
    • It also reflects on how she kept others at a distance emotionally.
  • Later Prue essentially gains the power to clone herself, when she feels the need to be in two places at once.
• Promotion to Parent: Though Grams was still around to take care of them after Patty died and Victor left, Prue took on a lot of responsibilities to help take care of her younger sisters. In fact, in the series pilot, Piper describes her as being more like a mother than a sister.
• Properly Paranoid: In "Sight Unseen". She becomes obsessed with the Triad and is completely convinced that they are out to get her. Her sisters blow this off as her being paranoid, turns out though that someone really was after them, just not the Triad...yet.
• Put on a Bus to Hell: Her sisters can summon the dead at any moment...except her apparently. The comics reveal that by the time they could have called on her without interfering with the grieving process she had already possessed Patience to get back into the living world.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her natural hair is an almost black color, and she has rather pale skin compared to that of her sisters.
• She-Fu: Prue sometimes uses her power of telekinesis to amplify her combat skills - she pulls off a wall-backflip in "Blinded by the Whitelighter" while practice fighting.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: She has the most noticeable costume evolution of the sisters. Her Season 1 outfits include mostly cardigans, sweaters, business suits and long skirts, with only the occasional sexy outfit. Her confidence and fearlessness as a witch growing in Season 2 sees her baring her midriff, wearing tighter pants and a lot of leather jackets. By Season 3, she's the one joking about not having anything appropriate to wear for a demon battle when Natalie criticises their clothing choices.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: Develops martial arts skills on-par with Phoebe in Season 3, though Ms. Hellfire did establish that she's taking Tae Bo classes at the beginning.
• Take That!: Season 3 seemed to be throwing these toward Shannen Doherty as she is Put on a Bus to Hell. In "Sin Francisco", she was possessed by the Deadly Sin of Pride, turning her into a raging egomaniac. "Look Who's Barking" turns her into a literal female dog, and she also was responsible for destroying Piper's wedding in "Just Harried". It seemed like everybody was grateful to see her leave.
• The Spock: She is the most responsible and level-headed of the sisters. This is a result of her being the oldest and having to help take care of them during their childhoods.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Prue had a tendency to redirect the focus of plotlines towards her. Most egregiously, the episode "Just Harried" was about Piper's wedding, and ended up becoming a Prue-centered storyline. Piper lampshades this when preparing for Phoebe's wedding.
  "Only Prue could make my wedding day all about her."
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She is cold toward most people, with her warm side mostly shown toward her sisters Piper and Phoebe and her season 1 love interest Andy.
• Time-Travel Tense Trouble: She always runs into difficulty when trying to get her head around the concept of tenses when time travel is involved.
  Prue: We barely got away as it was... Is. Will be. You know, I've never been good with tenses.
• Together in Death: With Andy, as shown in the comics.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Prue was very cold and aloof to most of the other characters in Season 1. Starting with "Out of Sight", she started to loosen up and become a lot more fun-loving.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening:
  • For her original power of telekinesis, it's anger. Phoebe immediately notices and provokes her by mentioning their Disappeared Dad to make her angrier.
  • Her power of astral projection emerges when she's overwhelmed with stress, specifically when she feels a need to be in two places at once.
• You Need to Get Laid: On more than one occasion her sisters have commented that she's focusing too hard on work or witchcraft and needs to have some fun instead.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Prue has had a fear of water ever since her mother drowned. It's usually under control enough for everyday life like showering, but Barbas is able to take advantage of it.

Piper Halliwell

Piper Halliwell

Played by: Holly Marie Combs, Ellen Greer (elderly Piper), Megan Corletto (young Piper)

Born in August 7, 1973 Piper Halliwell is the oldest Charmed One after the death of her sister, Prue. She is the wife of Leo Wyatt and the mother of their three children; Wyatt, Chris and Melinda Halliwell.

After the death of Prue, Piper is considered the most powerful of the sisters. Her powers work through the manipulation of molecules: slowing them down to the point of freezing them and speeding them up to induce heat and explosion.

Piper works as a chef in her own restaurant which she named "Halliwell" as a tribute to her family. She opened the restaurant after closing down her nightclub, P3.

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• AB Negative: It is revealed that she shares this blood type with Andy in the episode "The Wendigo", which is bad news as that's the blood type the Wendigo goes for.
• Action Mom: She becomes pregnant at the end of Season 4, is blessed with invincibility while pregnant with Wyatt and continues to be a heavy hitter even after having two children.
• Babies Ever After: She and Leo have two sons during the series, and the Grand Finale confirms they will go on to have a daughter.
• Battle Couple: With Leo (after he becomes an elder). Lightning bolts and explosions everywhere!
• Berserk Button: Pregnant Piper isn't too fond of people touching her belly. During her second pregnancy she starts freezing entire rooms to duck out of the way of people trying to touch her.
  Piper: Why is my stomach suddenly public property? And complete strangers are always touching me?
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: When Phoebe and Paige want the perfect man to accompany Piper on her birthday in "Prince Charmed", they make another list of attributes:
  Paige: Has a really big...
  Phoebe: Paige?
  Paige: Ehh, this the perfect guy, or what?
  Phoebe: (Beat) All right, throw it in.
• Blood Knight: In the episode "Hell Hath No Fury", she seems quite hell bent on destroying every last bit of evil she can find without much regard for her own safety, let alone that of Phoebe's, or Cole's. It eventually bites her in the ass as she gets turned into a Fury.
• Brainy Brunette: In the later seasons as her knowledge of the magical world grows.
• Brought Down to Badass: During her first pregnancy Wyatt is able to use his powers to heal and protect her, effectively making her invincible for several months. After she gives birth Piper still has her own powers but has to adjust to the fact that she's vulnerable to injuries again.
• Bullet Time: Not a straight example, her ability to seemingly stop time demonstrates this when she freezes bullets, and that tends to happen on occasion.
• Byronic Hero: By Season 6, her goal is to protect her children and the rest of her family from whatever evil is after them. She's sometimes quite selfish in that regard, especially by Season 8 when she's desperate to get Leo back, but does show her softer side to her sisters and is a very loving mother.
• Catchphrase:
  • She called out "Leo! Leo!" so often, it may as well have been a catchphrase.
    Chris: Ever notice at the first sign of trouble, you always call out for Leo?
  • She's also fond of "Are you out of your mind?"
  • She will often say "oh my" as well.
• Chef of Iron: Piper is a great cook, so her skills are extra useful in creating potions.
• Character Development: Pretty much all of the sisters experience this to some degree, though she's probably the most dramatic example. In the first two seasons was the quiet, shy, mousy middle sister content to fade into the background while Prue and Phoebe took center stage. During Season 3, and especially into Season 4, circumstances, including the death of Prue and her acquiring a newer, much more aggressive power, she was forced to adopt a no-nonsense, take-charge attitude about things and become the matriarch of the family. She never got over her desire for a normal, magic-free life, but she became much more adaptable to the perpetual crises the family faced. Her more snarky side also didn't really emerge until season 2.
• Consistent Clothing Style: For the first three and a half seasons, before the show stopped caring about hiding the main actresses' tattoos, Piper regularly wore watches, large bracelets, and the like on both wrists to hide Holly Marie Combs' real-life wrist tattoos.
• Cool Aunt: She finally gets to join her sisters as one in the comics. She is particularly close to Paige's daughters due to them each getting a lesser version of one of Piper's main powers.
• Cool Big Sis: While not to the level of Prue before her, she starts to become this after Prue dies and she becomes the oldest sister.
• Curse Cut Short: If anyone's going to try and swear, it's probably Piper.
  Phoebe: Who's Natalie?
  Piper: She's a f—
  Leo: Fellow whitelighter. See, we finish each other's sentences.
  Piper: That wasn't what I was gonna say.
• Deadpan Snarker: Easily the most snarky of the sisters.
  Guard: Hold it! You can't go in there.
  Piper: Excuse me?
  Guard: It's a V.I.P. area.
  Piper: Oh, you're assuming because I'm not tall, tattooed, or big-breasted I'm not important? That's a bad assumption because I own this club which makes me a V.V.V.I.P.!
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: She used to have to get stressed or scared before being able to freeze things.
• Die or Fly: Piper learned to freeze time initially when Jeremy tried to stab her in the face.
• Divergent Character Evolution: When she became the lead witch, her desire for a normal life helped differentiate her from Prue when she was the main character.
• The Dreaded: Piper's Mama Bear tendencies are this for the demons, to the point that they feel the necessity to send her an emissary to calm her down and swear than no one will threat her son Wyatt again. Worth to notice that Piper managed to scare every demon alive so badly with just a single rampage, that they want to avoid another.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In "Long Live the Queen", in response to Phoebe turning evil she starts drinking the inventory at P3.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Her entire relationship with Leo. 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. She also is able to find a balance between Charmed duties and leading a normal life, eventually opening her own restaurant like she'd always dreamed.
• Emotional Powers: Her freezing power is triggered by fear and her combustion power is triggered by anger.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Unlike her other sisters, her hair doesn't change very much in the series. It grows to waist length during the second season and stays that way - but she does give herself bangs around the time she and Leo have some marriage issues.
• Eye Colour Change: As a child, Piper is portrayed with green eyes while as an adult she has brown eyes.
• First Law of Resurrection: She dies 9 times over the course of the show.
• Friend to All Children: She helps a young fire starter to accept and learn to control his magic while protecting him from demonic bounty hunters.
• Genre Savvy:
  Prue: We are perfectly safe here.
  Piper: Don't say that. In horror movies, the person who says that is always the next to die.
• Generation Xerox: To Grams, if her "took a level" tropes below are any indication. Grams is also mentioned to have helped teach her how to cook.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Early on there was one between her and Phoebe over Leo. You can probably guess who won that one.
• Happily Married: With Leo, although their relationship wasn't without its bumps and strained moments.
• Having a Blast: Piper's second power. It's explained as the natural progression of her first power to stop time: at first she halted molecular movement, and now she can accelerate it.
• The Heart: Best said by their mother on her wedding day: "I always knew you would by the first to get married; you're the heart of this family, Piper."
• Heroic BSoD: Each sister suffers this quite often, but Piper's after Prue is killed by Shax is the crowning example in the series.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: A Yo Yo Plot Point for Piper is her desire to live a life without vanquishing demons in it. It first appears Episode 2 but is explored in more depth in season 2, remaining a sore point for her for the remainder of the series.
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose," when Piper is shot by a sniper and is close to death, she says, "Prue, I'm cold. I can't - I can't - I can't feel my legs. Don't go. I love you."
• An Ice Person: When the sister were briefly turned into warlocks, Piper's regular power of molecular immobilization, that made molecules slow down to a point, became molecular inhibition, a power that stopped molecules altogether causing them to freeze. She lost this power when she became a witch again.
  Piper to Phoebe [[Now there's a freezing power with kick.]]
• Improbable Age: Sets up and is able to run a night club in her mid-20s too, despite her background being as a chef and bank teller. Subverted at first because the club initially does very poorly, but intervention from Leo helps put it on the map.
• The Kirk: Though she becomes The Spock after Prue's death.
• "Leave Your Quest" Test: Tends to happen a lot and chances are very good that she will be the most tempted by it.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: When she and Leo temporarily break up in season two she starts dating Dan who lives next door to her.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She's marked as a Tomboy with a Girly Streak by her beautiful waist-length hair, which is always styled in a Simple, yet Opulent way.
• Mama Bear: Even before the birth of her own children, she had this aspect. Most notable was when a demon make the huge mistake of kidnapping her son Wyatt (see The Dreaded trope abode).
  Piper: Which one of you dirtbags put the bounty on my baby?!
• Married in the Future: In a Season 2 episode, the sisters travel ten years into the future where they discover that Piper and Leo had been married, had a daughter together, and then divorced during the ten intervening years. After returning to their own time, Piper and Leo do get married in Season 3, but the divorce never happens and the daughter only comes after two sons and they are shown to still be happily married 30-40 years later in the series finale.
• Middle Child Syndrome: In the beginning, Piper suffers from this because Prue was hard working career woman and Phoebe was adventurous. She felt like the peacekeeper and the most normal one. After Prue died, Piper became the oldest and Phoebe became the middle. Averted when their mother visits Piper on her wedding day.
  Patty: I always knew you'd be the first to get married. You're the heart of this family, Piper.
• Motherhood Is Superior: There's an aversion in an episode where she was depressed because Leo and her sisters were better at taking care of Wyatt than she was.
• Neat Freak: She's the most likely to complain about damage to the Manor and its furnishings. This gets exaggerated twice, on both occasions she was cursed and became obsessively cleaning the manor.
• Nice Girl: In the early seasons.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her obsession over getting Leo back from the Angel of Destiny, while almost simultaneously scolding Billie for obsessing over her missing loved one, is a major factor in Christy being able to manipulate Billie into a Face–Heel Turn.
• No-Sell: Her powers don't work on her sisters, or any good-aligned witches. This comes in handy when she develops her combustion power and can't intially control it, as it means she at least doesn't have to worry about accidentally blowing up her sisters.
• Onee-sama: She was so torn up over Prue's death that, in an alternate timeline where the Charmed Ones were never reformed, she'd dedicated her life to hunting down the demon who killed her. Even in the series timeline proper, she has much trouble accepting Paige into her life through the first quarter of Season 4 and doesn't really learn to trust the girl's judgment until the conclusion of the whole Source!Cole fiasco.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A slightly different kind of powerhouse. Despite being the shortest of all the sisters, she arguably packs the most firepower of all the sisters, eventually being able to quite literally make anyone explode with just a flick of her hands.
• Plague of Good Fortune: Whenever things were starting to go right with her life, she would angst about how something was inevitably going to happen to spoil in, in keeping with the Personal Gain Hurts mentality of the show.
• Playing with Fire: Downplayed as her molecular combustion power can cause a lasting fire, she controls the strength of the explosion not the fire itself. This extends to her molecular acceleration power as well because while she can heat up objects causing them to melt, burn, ignite,etc she still can't control heat or flames.
• Power Perversion Potential: She's the first of the sisters to exploit this. During her first time sleeping with Leo, she panics and freezes him in the middle of it. She admits to doing it willingly multiple times for maximum pleasure.
• Pregnant Badass: Enough to go up against an invincible demon and actually manage to knock him down a few times, while deflecting all of his attacks fairly successfully. It turns out being pregnant with Wyatt only made her more powerful, as she could draw upon his powers.
  Paige: You know, this happened a little too easily. What if it's a trap?
  Piper: So what if it is? I'm unbreakable, dude.
• The Quiet One: Due to being the middle child she was often this way. She grows out of it over the course of the series and becomes just as outspoken as her sisters.
• Series Continuity Error: In "That 70's Episode", the sisters time travel back to March 24, 1975, meaning that Piper would've only been about 1 and a half years old at the time, however little Piper is portrayed by someone who was about 5 or 6 at the time.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Initially in very modest clothes like sweater sets and conservative cardigans, her style becomes more tomboyish, and she's more likely to wear jeans, t-shirts and tank tops.
• Supreme Chef: She's often stated to be a natural in the kitchen, and has the professional experience to back it up. It's implied that her skill at potion-making is a result of her being such a good cook, as the two skillsets have a lot of overlap.
• Team Mom: Lampshaded at least twice: Phoebe tells Leo to think of Piper as a mom ("I know I do"), and Paige once tells her to stop mothering her and Phoebe.
• Time Master: What her power was first described as. Season 3 later tells us it's not freezing time, but molecules. This was probably done to avoid confusion with actual Time Master and Time Travel powers seen on the show.
  • Molecular Immobilization. Initially Piper could slow down molecules to the point where they stopped, freezing them (not literally, except for that one time). Piper's trigger was panic. At first, Piper mostly activated her power out of fear and could only freeze people or things for a short while before they unfroze. They were also restricted to the room she was in and a unclear distance when outside. Eventually this power advanced to the point that Piper could freeze good witches, who were originally immune, and upper-level demons, although some managed to break through, with great difficulty. She could also selectively unfreeze things; unfreezing a desired target, or even body parts, while maintaining the rest of the environment.
  • Molecular combustion. Piper developed the power to speed up molecules to the point where they would explode. This was triggered usually when Piper was angry. The primary issue that came with her combustion power was that it was activated in the same way as her immobilization power. At first, Piper struggled to differentiate between the two but mastered it quickly. The power became strong enough that Piper was able to vanquish demons who didn't need a specific potion or spell with it. Notably, this power was developed shortly before Prue died, setting up Piper as the most powerful of the sisters in her place.
    • Molecular acceleration. Developed in the follow up comics, this power was a more controlled version of Piper's combustion power. It allowed her to heat, melt or ignite objects without blowing them up. It was also very useful for cooking.
  • During the comics, when inside the Nexus of the All, the All being the very source of magic, Piper's powers expanded to their zenith. This briefly granted her molecular reversion which allowed her to reduce objects to their original state, turning Rennek's soldier back into the base materials they were created from; sand, plants, water.
• Time Stands Still: Subverted. Piper can freeze opponents (or Muggles that the Masquerade needed to be kept around) temporarily. Although her power is explained not as stopping time but slowing molecular motion. She develops the ability to speed up molecular motion, causing things to explode.
• Token Wholesome: Compared to her other sisters (and that includes Prue too) Piper was rarely used for Fanservice. The only times she really got in on the Sexy Whatever Outfit theme was whenever all three sisters did (Valkyries, Goddesses etc). She only had one blatant Fanservice episode ("Coyote Piper") in contrast to the other three. Her clothing was always more modest too. Aaron Spelling told Holly Marie Combs that she would be the Kate Jackson figure of the show, referring to the actress who filled this role on Charlie's Angels.
• Tomboyness Upgrade: More so in terms of attitude than fashion, but her style becomes very no-nonsense, often only wearing a skirt or dress for a formal occasion. In Season 5, she's complaining about how colourful and frilly all maternity clothes are.
• Took a Level in Badass: Over the first four seasons, we saw her progress from being the mousiest, most timid of the sisters to the one nobody wanted to screw with.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: During the final years of the show, after years of struggling to keep the various facets of her family together, continually having magic interfere in her normal life, losing a sister, and all the other insanity of their lives finally started to wear on her. She becomes increasingly selfish in later seasons, with her treatment of Leo often verging on Comedic Sociopathy. After defeating the Ultimate Power however, she Took a Level in Kindness and is seen in the Distant Finale as a sweet grandmother. Future Wyatt even refers to her as an optimist.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening:
  • Hers is panic, although the awakening is actually quite beneficial, since it allows her to finish an audition recipe and get hired at Quake.
  • The explosion power is a straighter example. It awakens in a moment of frustration while she's in public, and she keeps accidentally making things explode without meaning to. It takes two episodes for her to get to the point where she can use it willingly.
• World's Strongest Woman: By the time of season 5, she is easily the most powerful witch to have ever existed.
• White Sheep: While Paige and Phoebe both went through rebellious phases as teenagers, Piper was "the good one" who never acted out and was generally a bit of a dork in high school.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's afraid of tarantulas.

Phoebe Halliwell

Phoebe Halliwell

Played by: Alyssa Milano, Samantha Goldstein (10 year old Phoebe), Frances Bay (elderly Phoebe), Lori Rom (unaired pilot)

Born on November 2nd, 1975 Phoebe Halliwell is the middle sister after the death of her older sister, Prue and the discovery of their half-sister, Paige. She is the wife of a cupid named Coop and the mother of their children; P.J (Prudence Johnna), Parker and Peyton Halliwell. She was once pregnant with a son, fathered by her ex-boyfriend Cole but she lost the baby.

Phoebe was once considered the weakest of the Charmed Ones by demons as her powers were more passive than active. However, she consistently proved them wrong with her formidable martial arts skills and her spell-casting talent.Her Wiccan powers gradually advanced to include offensive aspects such as levitation. Her main powers included premonitions, empathy and psychic reflection.

Phoebe is a famous columnist and an occasional reporter in the Bay Mirror as well as the author of a best-selling novel.

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• Action Girl: While none of the sisters are slouches in a fight, Phoebe is the one with the best hand-to-hand combat skills. She started training partway through the first season after getting sick of having a passive power while Prue and Piper had active ones.
• Actor Allusion: Alyssa Milano was the visual model for The Little Mermaid character Ariel when she was sixteen, reflected in her character:
  • "Thank You For Not Morphing": Victor comments Phoebe always loved the water and was "like a fish."
  • "Chick Flick": She wears a Miami High Mermaids shirt.
  • "A Witch's Tale": She's turned into a mermaid.
• Aesop Amnesia: Post-Cole Phoebe has several relationships where she keeps things at a distance, and has to learn to allow herself to let go and fall in love. And then it repeats all over again come her next boyfriend.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Learning that Cole is a demon does nothing to diminish her feelings for him. In "Just Harried" she responds to Prue telling her about a biker guy she met by agreeing that he sounds "yummy".
• Attack Reflector: She can reflect attacks with her empath powers.
• Author Avatar: Constance M. Burge stated that the Halliwell sisters were based off herself and her own Real Life sisters. Burge based Phoebe on herself.
• Babies Ever After: The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue reveals that she and Coop will have three daughters of their own.
• Badass Normal: Before she got "active" powers on par with her sisters.
• Battle Couple: Her and Cole, once she discovers he's a demon and he reforms. In "Enter The Demon" he coaches her to help her bring her fighting skills up to his level. He tries to continue on after he loses his demonic powers, but Phoebe's too worried about his safety and won't let him participate.
• Black Sheep: She was this initially, especially in Prue's eyes, due to leaving the family to go to New York.
• Boyish Short Hair: Cuts her hair to a short pixie style just before season six (due to Alyssa Milano cutting her hair for her 30th birthday).
• Brought Down to Normal: After abusing her powers for personal gain, the cardinal rule for witches, the Tribunal strip Phoebe of her active premonition, levitation and empathic powers leaving her with only her basic powers, spell-casting and potion-making. She does regain her premonition power but it's not until the comics that her levitation and empathic powers come back.
• Call-Back: The episode "All Halliwell's Eve" had a scene where Phoebe is told her true love's name begins with a C. At the time, she thought it meant Cole, but it turns out at the end to mean a Cupid named Coop.
• Character Development: Phoebe goes from immature Naïve Newcomer to successful businesswoman and confident witch. After suffering from a bad case of Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places she's Happily Married by the finale. Likewise, while she has problems abusing her powers, she eventually overcomes them and matures.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: A famous love advice columnist who has multiple struggles finding a lasting relationship for herself.
• Cool Aunt: Shares this role with Paige in their nephews' lives while being the one who spoils her nephews more.
• Dating Catwoman: Her relationship with Cole once she learns that he was assigned to kill her and her sisters.
• Dead Guy Junior: Phoebe's mother mentions that she was named after her favorite aunt. Pheobe's oldest daughter P.J. (Prudence Johnna) counts too.
• Deadpan Snarker: Probably the least snarky of the sisters, but she is no stranger to it either.
• Demonic Possession: Twice, by Isis and another by LuLu.
• De-power: In Season 6, a magic court hearing ended with her losing all the powers she'd gained up to that point (though she retains the ability to cast spells). She eventually regains her premonitions in Season 7, but not levitation or empathy.
• Die or Fly: Her levitation power activates for the first time when a demon takes a swing at her with an athame and she flies out of his reach.
• Dramatic Irony: The episode "All Halliwell's Eve" opens with Phoebe talking about how much she hates the stereotype of witches as wearing pointy hats and cackling while riding broomsticks. Later on in the episode when the sisters are in the 17th century Virginia colony, they need to ward off a group of men with muskets and Phoebe declares "I'm embracing the cliche" and puts on the hat and flies on a broomstick, cackling for good measure to scare the men away. Yep, she is for all intents and purposes to blame for the very stereotype she was complaining about.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Freebie." It's also a bit of a Berserk Button for her, which her sisters gleefully press to annoy her.
• The Empath: Phoebe eventually develops this power. As it's a natural power for her she doesn't suffer the same My Skull Runneth Over problem that Prue faced when she temporarily held this power. Unfortunately, she doesn't get the same No-Sell effect as Piper's abilities and is stuck feeling everything Piper and Paige feel. Chris eventually steps in with a potion for them to take that will block Phoebe's ability to read them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: During Phoebe's stint as the Queen of Evil and literally being poisoned into being evil by the Seer, she detested the death of innocents and demons alike. Though in the end this may be in part due to Phoebe's innate goodness overtrumping whatever evil, be it the hell-spawn inside her, her love for Cole or the aforementioned evil tonics the Seer was feeding her, she was slowly succumbing too.
• Evil Me Scares Me: A number of times, Phoebe is briefly turned evil. All the sisters have, but with her it's a particular plot point because not only was her birth was close enough to the Nexus that she's more susceptible to it, her past life was evil as well. The possibility of turning evil becomes one of Phoebe's worst fears.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Bobs, buns, pigtails, shoulder-length, straight, curly, hairnets, ponytails, she's done it all throughout the series. The hair color has also been pretty much everywhere within the blonde-brunette line.
• Fetus Terrible: Played straight for her child, who was the offspring of a Charmed One turned (temporarily) evil, and the Source of all evil. It was slowly corrupting Phoebe, even granting her a power she had in her past evil self.
• Fights Like a Normal: She learned martial arts largely because, unlike Prue and Piper, her power was more passive and didn't have a combat application.
• First Law of Resurrection: Over the course of the show, she dies 9 times.
• Flash Back / Flash Forward: The nature of Phoebe's power of premonition is that she sees visions of what might happen, and sometimes what had already happened. Then there are spells that have been cast by others to see scenes from both the past and the future.
• Foreshadowing: "Is There A Woogy In The House" and "Pardon My Past" foreshadow how easily Phoebe can be tempted towards evil.
• Former Teen Rebel: Was a juvenile delinquent also known as "Freebie" in her school days. In "Hyde School Reunion" Phoebe is briefly turned into her teenage self. It's not pretty. She wasn't much better after school either, shoplifting, squabbling and generally being a walking headache for Grams and Prue. Only after gaining her powers and learning about her witch duties does she begin to clean up her act and learn responsibility. Until later seasons, that is, if the It's All About Me entry below is any indication.
• Friend to All Children: She seems to be the most compassionate with kids out of all the sisters. Comforting a hospital bound boy, getting a little girl being hunted by trolls to safety and using her empathy to understand her infant nephew's struggles.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": The season 8 premiere has the sisters holding a funeral for themselves. Phoebe tries to hit on a guy who was mourning her.
• Future Me Scares Me:
  • In a Season 4 episode, Phoebe met her elderly self from the future; Future Phoebe was a nasty, grouchy and bitter old woman. Phoebe then attempted to learn about the events that led up to this future, to prevent herself from going the same path. It did not work.
  • In "Morality Bites," Phoebe is horrified that her future self murdered a man in cold blood with her powers. The man himself was a murderer, but Phoebe couldn't believe that she would break the rules and do such a thing. This causes the moment that most pronounces her leveling-up in Jerkass to date at the time, setting up an old friend to get killed by demons over a bank heist and thinking nothing of it afterward, to become that much more disturbing.
• Gender-Blender Name: Not her but her middle child Parker, which is more times than not a boys name.
• Girls Love Chocolate: She certainly does. It's apparently her favorite sweet.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her power of empathy, which allows her to perceive the emotions and feelings of any being in her vicinity, which does not seem to be this great thing at least until she (reasoning thanks to Leo on how the emotions of magical beings affect their powers) realizes that she is able to use any kind of magical power of other magical beings (including her sisters) against them. In the ninth season of comics develops an extremely lethal capacity that allows her to hurt or kill someone simply by putting her hands in front of her temples and overloading her brain with all the negative emotions she has experienced (this power is also the only one, between those available of the Trio, capable of significantly damaging a colossally powerful being like Neena, the first witch in history). This empowerment of her empathic power was the power with which she was convicted of murder in the alternative future seen in the second season.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: After learning that Cole has become the new Source of Evil and that she's pregnant with his child she turns evil to be with him. The next episode sees her struggling with being Queen of Evil and her calling as a Charmed One. She even gets to the point of writing Dear John Letters for both Cole and her sisters because she can't choose which side to take.
• Hidden Depths: Her magic is supportive in and out of combat as she can both avoid/warn others of any type of danger. This can naturally/literally be seen with premonitions, her empathy can sense the intentions of others, and her levitation allows her to physically move herself and others out the way of danger.
• How Do I Shot Web?: She never was able to fully master her empathy power before it was taken from her.
• Important Haircut: Averted. Piper briefly comments on Phoebe's new hairstyle in the first episode of season 6, but that's only because Alyssa Milano showed up with an extremely short haircut right before they started filming that season.
• Improbable Age: Averted. Phoebe is in college in the first three seasons and gets a job on a fluke in the fourth - and she still goes back to college to get extra understanding for her new career.
• Informed Attractiveness: People on the show talked about Phoebe as if she were the most gorgeous creature to ever walk the Earth. While Alyssa Milano was certainly beautiful, she wasn't significantly more attractive than Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs and Shannen Doherty.
• It's All About Me: In later seasons, but particularly Season 5. After becoming an advice columnist, she repeatedly ignores saving people/her sisters/the world to focus on her advice column.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Somewhat in the beginning, particularly ticking off Prue with her rebellious and over-adventurous attitude, though her heart was always in the right place when it came to protecting innocents at the time.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: Particularly in the fourth season, where she not only had six different hairstyles, but by the end would make her transition in color from the dark blonde of her earlier years to the almost black hue of her later years.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Phoebe needs to overcome her emotions and vanquish Cole. Twice. The first time she doesn't do it, instead faking his death. The second time wouldn't have happened if she hadn't taken the Idiot Ball an episode earlier. The third time he's vanquished is an aversion, as it was in an altered timeline where she'd fallen out of love with him.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Initially she's the only one with no active powers (her sisters can move objects and freeze things while she can see visions of the past and future) and took to learning martial arts. She eventually develops an active power, levitation, that is of great use in combination with her martial arts skills.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Cole aside, she is hit with this hard in Season 6. After having a vision of being pregnant, Phoebe becomes obsessed with finding the right man to the point of prioritizing her love-life over her duties as a Charmed One. To her credit, none of these men are demons like Cole.
• Love Cannot Overcome: Phoebe tells this to Cole after he's been vanquished and tries to convince her to resurrect him. She tells him that she does still love him, but they've tried everything to make it work and it just isn't enough.
• Love Makes You Evil: Phoebe willingly becomes the Queen of the Underworld to stay with Cole.
• Madonna-Whore Complex: Played straight in early seasons, especially "Is There A Woogy In The House?" where Phoebe dresses modestly at the start - but starts wearing less clothes when she gets possessed.
• Mama Bear: She has her protective moments towards Wyatt, most notably in "Witch Wars":
  Phoebe: See what happens when you make a play for our baby?! Who wants to play next? What's the matter? Scared of me? (shimmers into the demon bar) Well, are you?! Are you?!
• The McCoy: Phoebe is usually the one to follow her emotions for solutions to problems.
• Meaningful Name: Phoebe is also the name of the Greek myth's Titan of Prophecy.
• Meet Cute: In a Clip Show episode, Coop describes Phoebe and Cole's meeting as this. It consisted of Phoebe nearly roundhouse kicking Cole, who catches her leg.
• Mistaken for Gay: Piper and Phoebe are fighting over Leo in the first season episode "The Fourth Sister", and Leo is led to believe that Phoebe and Aviva are partners thanks to Piper's not-so-subtle hints.
• Monster/Slayer Romance: As a Charmed One she's supposed to fight demons. She ends up falling for Cole, a demonic assassin sent to kill her and her sisters.
• Morality Chain: Many characters have explicitly stated that Phoebe plays this role in making sure that Cole remains good. In fact, Cole's well-known tendency for being a Heel–Face Revolving Door is pretty much a function of his relationship with Phoebe — that is, Phoebe and Cole are constantly breaking up and reestablishing their relationship, and every time this happens, it has a major effect on Cole's status as evil or good. Although Phoebe is very much aware of her power to be Cole's Morality Chain, she usually seems to be merely yanking his chain based on her own emotions, rather than consistently using her influence to make sure Cole becomes and remains a redeemed demon.
• Ms. Fanservice: Phoebe is subject to more skin revealing transformations than any other Halliwell on the show. She's even the first to wear a "fetish" outfit (a revealing fortune-teller outfit).
• My Girl Is Not a Slut: Averted with her long list of love interests, played straight by the Fandom who hurl the word "slut" at her while ignoring that the majority of her love interests were steady boyfriends.
• Nice Girl: For all her flaws and temptations, she is a friendly person, whom at the core of her being is a kind and compassionate woman who loved her family more than anything and above all else, even as the Queen of Evil, strove to protect the innocent from harm.
• Not Quite Flight: Phoebe's second power that she developed was levitation. She mostly used it to amplify her combat skills, using the momentum it granted her to deal tougher blows. There's never really an explanation as to why Phoebe's psychic power of premonition would grow into a physical power. It's particularly odd as many characters emphasise that powers grow from the original power, not just at random.
  • Although, it is still classified as a supportive power there are a few hints shown that the power seems to stem from evading dangers, just more so on a physical level.
• Now I Know What to Name Him: When she time travels to meet her pregnant mother, she remarks how obvious it is that she would choose another P name and that "it's not too late to change it." She also briefly mentions that she must have named Phoebe after her favorite aunt.
• Odd Name Out: Fitting for her initial characterization as the rebellious sister and the one who's most likely to be corrupted by evil, her name is the only one who didn't begin with a hard "P" sound. She's the only one said to be named after a relative too (Patty's "favourite aunt").
• One-Hour Work Week: Inverted. While she does have to read and pick the letters, Phoebe's advice column really shouldn't take that much time at all to write, but she frequently treats it as being vastly time-consuming and an excuse to ignore saving innocents. She does have to do a lot of additional PR, such as interviews and television appearances, particularly whenever Jason is around.
• Painful Rhyme: Invoked, and then averted. Phoebe is tasked with creating a spell to nullify a demon's deflection power, and comes up with "I'm rejectin' your deflection". When Drill Sergeant Nasty Whitelighter Natalie inspects it, everyone expects her to dismiss it and have Phoebe think of a new one, but she just says it's fine. In "Charmed Again" the best rhyme she can come up with for "undo" is "Timbuktu", she admits she was reaching with that one.
• Personality Powers: She's the youngest and most impulsive who lacks forethought, and gains the power to literally see the future.
• Phony Psychic: Phoebe applies for a position like this, noting that it would be the last place anyone would expect to find a real psychic like herself.
• Playing with Fire: Not one of her regular powers, but Phoebe seems to have an affinity for throwing jets of flame whenever she sides with evil. (One episode shows that she was pyrokinetic and evil in a past life.)
  • Surprisingly enough, during one of these instances she wasn't evil but unknowingly granted a heat based magic from an evil witch
• Police Psychic: Not really though when she helps Morris solve his cases, she sort of acts as this by default. It also gets pointed out in one episode where Morris brings Phoebe and Paige to a crime scene, when he goes to check them in, the cop at the door says "oh right, your psychic friends."
• Power Incontinence: Phoebe is practically the queen of this trope (not that the other sisters are entirely innocent). She doesn't have any sort of control over her premonitions until season 6 (and even then she never learns how to turn it off), the flying power she accidentally stole from the dragon in season 2 was unreliable to say the least and she never learned to control her empathy power ever.
• Psychic Powers: To her disappointment, Phoebe's powers were psychic/mental in nature where her sisters' were physical and show-y. However, over the series her powers grew into making her a formidable witch, even on her own.
  • Premonition: Phoebe's first power, original power was the power of premonition, seeing the future. This quickly evolved to include retrocognition, seeing the past. Phoebe learned to call her premonitions on command, them previously just happening to her. Her premonitions evolved into astral premonitions, a Hybrid Power of astral projection and premonition that allowed her to project her consciousness into the past or future to view events first hand either as an astral body or in her past/future self's body.
    • Intuition: As part of her premonition power, Phoebe begins being able to intuitively predict where and when an attack is going to come from. This made her incredibly effective in combat that demons preferred to attack her sisters over her due their lack of Phoebe's intuition.
  • The Empath: In season 6, Phoebe gained empathy, feeling others' emotions. Initially unable to control her power at all, Phoebe distanced herself from everyone. Eventually she got the hang enough that she was able to be around other without too much of a struggle.
    • Power Copying: By channelling the emotions of enemies, the force behind magical powers in the Charmed universe, Phoebe was able to use demons' powers against them.
    • Psychic reflection: In the comics, Phoebe's powers grew to be able to overload others' brains with emotions. It was first seen in "Morality Bites" when the sisters travelled to the future when Phoebe has developed the power. Before she chronologically manifested the power, Phoebe was confused at how her passive power could hurt anyone.
      Phoebe: What did I do, premonition the man to death?
• Really Gets Around: Her nickname in high school was "Freebie." Despite this nickname though, she's more likely to have long-term boyfriends; her first love interest at all is her ex-boyfriend Clay from her time in New York, and she doesn't get another until Season 3, and is with him until Season 5. Likewise the next guy she's with for most of that season too. She has three more short-term boyfriends - but the latter two ending weren't her fault - Drake was dying and she was hoping to marry Dex. Paige and Prue are the sisters more likely to be bed-hoppers, and Piper gets close to the same amount of guys, despite getting married in Season 3.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Her Levitation power had to be dropped because putting someone on wires, and the added insurance costs, was too expensive for the show's budget.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Phoebe's relationship with Cole goes from on, to off, to on again briefly, to off again, which is where it stays for pretty much the rest of the series, despite all of Cole's attempts.
• Repower: Phoebe gains the ability to levitate and control electricity in the future in a second season episode, but ultimately only learns to levitate when that future was averted. This was also discussed during "Is There A Woogy in the House?" when the woogyman/Hollow/Shadow temporarily possesses Phoebe; Piper mentions that their powers are supposed to progress, and not grow in random, in response to Phoebe suddenly being able to will objects into existence.
• Seers: Her premonition power basically makes her one of these.
• Serial Romeo: Initially, though it's Deconstructed as the show goes on. The endless stream of failed relationships leaves her broken and terrified of love and when she finds out she will have a baby in the future she resorts to using her premonition powers to see if a relationship will go anywhere on the first date (for which she is punished by the Elders). This then gets Reconstructed as Phoebe considers getting a sperm donor but then realises that she doesn't just want a baby, she wants love as well and a Cupid is sent to help her out.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Her clothing was usually the skimpiest even outside of magical transofrmations. She's also perfectly happy to strip off for a skyclad ritual in "Witch Trial" while Piper was uncomfortable with it.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Not a teenager, however anytime she meets a half decent looking guy, more times than not, she'll be among the first to make a few comments about how hot he is, possibly even start flirting with him.
• Standard Female Grab Area: In the episode "From Fear to Eternity". Barbas lures her into a trap and when she tries to attack him, he does the standard grabbing her by the upper arms where she is apparently rendered motionless.
• Stripperific: Whenever she's transformed into something (genie, mermaid, superhero etc.) her costume usually ends up being skimpier than anyone else's. Then again most of her costumes, even when she's not being turned into something, are often extremely revealing. This gets lampshaded in "Sin Francisco" when Prue advises her to wear an actual shirt to a meeting with her college professor, as opposed to her current "shirt" that looks more like four scraps of fabric held together with safety pins.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: In "That 70's Episode", Phoebe suddenly reveals the ability to pick locks. Lampshaded by Prue, who rhetorically asks, "Why am I not surprised that you know how to do this?"
• Took a Level in Badass: Phoebe just had premonitions in the first season. But she started training in martial arts, gained a levitation power and was much more effective in combat.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Some think that Phoebe went from a likable, well-meaning ditz to a self-obsessed, selfish jerkass over the years. Others argue that after everything she went through between losing Prue and Cole it's understandable that her personality would become sharper.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Season 7 sees Phoebe taking a sabbatical from her advice column, which culminates in her realising that she can't prioritise her own wellbeing over an innocent's, and puts herself in harm's way to try and stop a demon. She's rewarded for this selflessness by the return of her premonitions. She also becomes a surrogate big sister to Billie.
• Touch Telepathy: Phoebe needed to touch things to get a vision. Her empath powers, however, didn't require touch, just proximity.
• Unabashed B-Movie Fan: Phoebe's favorite movie is a B-horror movie called "Kill It Before It Dies"; in the episode "Chick Flick", a demon's powers cause the characters to become real, then the sisters to be trapped in the movie. The film gets a mention in Cole's research on her and he uses it to get closer to her when they first meet.
• Weak, but Skilled: Ms. Hellfire describes Phoebe as "negligible" because of her lack of active powers compared to Prue and Piper. However, she's trained in martial arts and is the best at coming up with spells; in fact being the first sister to write an original spell, which she does by herself.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Phoebe had something of an inferiority complex during the early season due to her lacking an active power. The Charmed Ones' enemies also occasionally state how undesirable her powers are for them to steal.
• Yo Yo Plot Point: Phoebe going through a string of boyfriends/one-night-stands, giving up on love and deciding to concentrate on work, meeting someone who makes her rediscover love, then going through a string of boyfriends and one-night-stands again... It finally ended with her marriage to Coop, along with the show itself.
• Youngest Child Wins: Phoebe is the youngest. She is the one that discovers the sisters' powers and gets the ability to sense evil. It's also inverted in that Phoebe is the easiest sister to tempt towards evil because she was born in the manor. Of course since Paige is revealed to be the youngest, it ultimately counts as a subversion.

Paige Matthews

Paige Matthews

Played by: Rose McGowan, Donna Hardy (elderly Paige)

Born on August 2nd, 1977 Paige Matthews is the youngest of the Charmed Ones. She's the wife of Henry Mitchell and mother to their children; Tamora, Kat and their adopted son, Henry Jr. Paige was adopted by Mr and Mrs Matthews after being left at a church shortly after birth. She met her half-sisters, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell after the death of the eldest sister, Prue in 2001.

As the daughter of a witch and a Whitelighter, Paige has the most powers out of the sisters despire being the youngest and last to join the Charmed legacy. Her powers include telekinetic orbing, orbing, healing and generating orb shields.

Paige is a full-time Whitelighter as well as a recruiter for the Magic School.

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• Action Mom: She becomes a mother in the Distant Finale, and the comics show her kicking ass while also raising her children.
• Arc Welding: The affair between Patty and Sam wasn't originally supposed to have produced a child, but it made for a very convenient excuse when the show needed to introduce another sister.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: When the story moved from television to comics the sisters' different witch powers evolved and became much more showy thanks to not having to pay for special effects. Notably, Paige gained the power to make orb forcefields.
• Babies Ever After: She eventually ends up having three children, including one adopted child.
• Blah, Blah, Blah: She once had a date that was so immensely boring that all she heard was blah blah blah; when something more interesting came up she heartily answered "blah!" and happily ran off.
• Blood Knight: Paige is the most vocal about killing Cole in Series 5 and often the first one to suggest resorting to violence to solve a problem. Fittingly, she wound up becoming the Goddess of War in the Titans two-parter.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: In Season 5, she was the redhead.
• Buffy Speak: Paige's orb-telekinesis is triggered verbally (she has to call out the name of the object she wants to orb), which has led to her calling for "Icky stuff!" and "Weapon thingy!" In her defense, it works.
• Cassandra Truth: During the Source-Cole fiasco, Paige is the first to realize that Cole is going bad again, but her sisters and Leo dismiss her concerns as jealousy. However, after she is briefly turned into a vampire, Piper also becomes suspicious of Cole since he was initially unwilling to let Phoebe help them. They finally realize that Paige was right all along when Phoebe has a premonition of Cole using demonic powers.
• Character Development: Began as an outsider constantly comparing herself to Prue, eventually establishing an identity in her own right and learning to balance witch duties with her personal life.
• Characterization Marches On: Season 4 shows that Paige is a painter in her spare time, but by Season 5 this has disappeared.
• Child of Forbidden Love: Paige's existence had to be kept secret at first because she is the child of a witch and a whitelighter, which at that time was strictly forbidden.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: To Prue. Whereas Prue was the oldest child and frequently meddled in Piper and especially Phoebe's lives, Paige was raised as an only child and strives to maintain her own identity, keeping her suspicions about Cole to herself. Prue witnessed her mother's death, which left her with a fear of the water, and blames her father for abandoning the family afterward, until Character Development kicks in. Paige witnessed her adopted parents' deaths, which didn't leave her with any phobias, but she blamed herself.
• Cool Aunt: Shares this role with Phoebe in their nephews' lives with Phoebe being the one who spoils her nephews. So much so that she's the one who taught adult Wyatt on being a Whitelighter. She also steps in to help Piper when she's recovering from Chris' birth as Phoebe is working and Leo is in the middle of a Heroic BSoD.
• Deadpan Snarker: She is almost as snarky as Piper, it is actually one of the few things she has in common with her oldest living sister.
• Destination Defenestration: Phoebe's unborn baby shoved her out of the attic window, and then Cole does it again in "Centennial Charmed". It's a good thing she can Orb and save herself from hitting the ground.
• Deus ex Machina: Her existence was only revealed in Season 4 after Prue dies, in order to Complete the Power of Three.
• Die or Fly: Happens to her twice:
  • The first time she orbed was during the car accident that killed her parents. At the time she thought she'd just been thrown out of the vehicle. She only learns the truth after she and Leo go back in time to witness the accident.
  • Her healing powers only activate fully when Henry is mortally wounded and she either has to heal him in front of mortals or let him die. The Power of Love kicks in and she's able to save him.
• Disappeared Dad: Sam couldn't have been less involved in Paige's life; he wasn't allowed to be. After they reunite in season five he drifts away again, which she calls him out on when he finally shows up again in season eight.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Was differentiated from Prue by being treated like an outsider by Piper and struggling to live up to Prue's reputation. And as the new youngest sister, she was differentiated from Phoebe by being a full-time intern and initially living on her own. And when she started living in the Manor, she had to adjust to compromising with other people.
• Emotional Powers: Her orbing is triggered by fear.
• Ethical Slut: It's a Running Gag in Season 5 how she's seen with a different guy every other week, including doing it on the couch at the start of "A Witch in Time". This stops in Season 6 after her actress protested, but it's noticeable with her strong morals.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Season 6.
• Evil Costume Switch:
  • When she becomes a vampire, she gets red lips and a revealing red dress.
  • In the season 6 finale Evil Paige has thick bangs.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She actually went through the whole spectrum of hair colours in her five seasons.
  • Her dark, almost black hair in Season 4 becomes bright red in Season 5. Behind the scenes, this was just her actress impulsively dyeing it, but the shows explains that a potion blew up on her and turned it that colour. The red hair corresponds to Paige being far more confident and throwing herself into growing her powers; indeed, she leaves her job at the start of the season to prioritise helping innocents.
  • In Season 6, her hair has turned strawberry blonde to correspond to her going to various temp jobs in an attempt to reconnect with the non-magical world. Towards the end of the season, when she's stopped going to the jobs and has found her feet more, her hair is brown.
  • In Season 7, after the death of Kyle Brody and the end of the Avatars storyline, she's given herself bangs.
• Fiery Redhead: In Season 5, her hair turns red when a potion blows up on her, and it coincides with her throwing herself into witch duties and becoming more aggressive.
• First Law of Resurrection: Over the course of the show, she dies 9 times.
• Flashy Teleportation: One of her powers due to being part Whitelighter. She can also teleport objects.
• Former Teen Rebel: Similar to Phoebe, teen Paige was quite a brat, smoking, misbehaving and frequently pulling "You are not my parents" on her parents. It took the shock of seeing her parents dying in a car crash to make her try and change for better.
• Friend to All Children: She worked for Child Services and was shown to be very affected by the plight of some of her cases.
• Friends with Benefits: She has this arrangement with her childhood friend Glen. When she finally realises she wants to make their relationship serious, he turns up engaged to another woman.
• The "Fun" in "Funeral": The season 8 premiere has the sisters holding a funeral for themselves. Paige is annoyed at the lack of people mourning her - so she Glamours into Janice Dickinson and gives a big dramatic speech about how Paige was Janice's best friend.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In Season 6, she's dyed her hair strawberry blonde as she attempts to reconnect with the non-magical world. She finds that, in each temp job she goes to, there's a different innocent who needs help and she continues going to them for this reason.
• Half-Sibling Angst: Throughout season 4, and occasionally popping up in season 5, Paige struggles with integrating with her sisters after growing up as an only child and while they're still grieving Prue.
• Happily Adopted: By two perfectly normal people, but it didn't stop Paige from being a pain to them in her teenage years. She regretted her behaviour to them when they were alive.
• Heroic Bastard: Her parents (Patty and Sam) obviously weren't married, seeing as they were forbidden from even having feelings for each other. Nobody ever really makes a big deal about this, though.
• Hot Witch: Paige might only be half-Halliwell, but the didn't stop her from getting their good looks.
• How Dare You Die on Me!: She tells Piper that she when her adoptive parents died she went through a period of hating them for leaving her alone in life. She's moved past it by the time she joins the show, but she uses her experience to help Piper deal with her own grief over Prue.
• Hybrid Power: A common witch power is telekinesis and a common power for Whitelighters is orbing. She happens to be half-witch/half-whitelighter, and can combine these powers into orb-telekinesis.
• Iconic Sequel Character: She does not appear in the series until the Season 4 premiere, replacing the recently deceased Prue who was killed off in the previous Season Finale.
• Identical Grandson: We never see her, but Paige is apparently the spitting image of Grams's first husband's sister Janice. He repeatedly comments on it when she winds up meeting him back in the '60s.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: When she interacts with her past life, who looks just like her, the Evil Enchantress is distinguished by waist-length hair and speaking with a deeper voice.
• Improbable Age: Averted. Paige is an intern who's still paying student loans back and when she gets promoted to social worker, she has to leave the job because she can't handle it. It also takes her until Season 7 to even begin having multiple charges as a whitelighter.
• Irony
  • Leo states shortly after Paige joins the cast that her Whitelighter half should make her a pacifist. Paige ends up being the most bloodthirsty of the four sisters.
  • Paige's marriage to Henry most closely mirrors Patty's marriage to Victor, despite Paige being the only sister not to be Victor's daughter. Victor and Henry are shown bonding over this in the comics at one point.
• It's All My Fault: She carried an enormous amount of guilt over her parents' deaths. Part of it was due to Survivor's Guilt, as she survived by instinctively Orbing out of the car, but also because she believes that the argument they were having caused her father to not notice the vehicle that hit them. It's only after she goes back in time, and discovers that the car would have been hit even if she resolved the argument, that she's able to let go of her guilt.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: Her hair is a different color each season. Black in S4, Red in S5, Blonde in S6 and Brown in the last two seasons.
• The Kirk: Is usually the most practical and heroic-hearted of the sisters in her seasons, though is prone to taking the Idiot Ball at times.
• Long Lost Sibling: Justified because her existence as a witch-Whitelighter hybrid had to be kept secret.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Subverted. Her magical love interest was not only not the guy she ended up with, he wasn't even the next best thing she had.
• Mind over Matter: Fills the "ability to move objects" part of the Charmed Ones power set. Where Prue had traditional Telekinesis, Paige's power is based on her Whitelighter side so she teleports objects to her via orbing.
• Muggle and Magical Love Triangle: Has one briefly in the last season, between Henry (muggle) and Simon (magical). Subverted in that she only had interest in Henry, and Simon was an Abhorrent Admirer.
• Muggle Foster Parents: Was given to normal parents after her birth and didn't know her true heritage until her powers started manifesting thanks to a spell Piper had cast to bring Prue back.
• One-Hour Work Week: Paige is frequently shown at her social worker job in season 4 but quits to focus on her witch duties. She does temp jobs in Season 6 and a lot of magical problems seem to revolve around the jobs themselves. In season 7 she's working at Magic School - so no one there will question a Charmed One rushing out to fight demons. By early Season 8, it's a plot point that she's spent so much time in the magical world that she doesn't know what to do when she steps away from it.
• Only-Child Syndrome: She was raised an only child, so unlike the sisters, she did not take well early on to moving in with the others and dedicating herself to becoming a Charmed One. Got used to it after her past life destroyed her loft.
• Parental Abandonment: As the Elders forbid witch/Whitelighter relationships, Paige had to be given up after she was born. Patty and Sam both express regret over having to do it, but Paige assures them that she had a good life with her adoptive parents.
• Parting-Words Regret: Paige was fighting with her Muggle Foster Parents and threw in their face that they weren't her real parents while they were driving, and it may have been what distracted her father and helped cause the accident that killed them. She's able to go back in time and inadvertently change the circumstances of their death (she was trying to outright prevent it), assuring them that she loves them and that she'll grow out of this rebellious phase, and learn that her own miraculous survival was thanks to orbing (which she didn't understand yet and thus didn't remember), and she's still plagued with guilt that they never got to see her grow up. Until Leo brings their spirits from the afterlife to assure her that they're proud of the woman and the witch that she's become.
• Personality Powers: Paige grew up as an only child, never knowing who her family was and not knowing her place in the world. Much of her arc concern her trying to find herself and coincidently she has the power to teleport from place to place.
• Power Incontinence: Has struggled with this in her orbing ever since she was a high-schooler.
• Properly Paranoid: Granted, she absolutely hated his guts, but that didn't mean she was (entirely) wrong about Cole having returned to The Dark Side.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: In Seasons 4, 6, 7 and 8.
• Replacement Goldfish: After Prue's death, she becomes this to Piper and Phoebe, becoming their new third wing.
• Sixth Ranger: Or, more accurately, fourth sister. But if one counts up the remaining cast members after Prue's death - Piper, Phoebe, Leo, Cole and Darryl - she is the sixth.
• Sleuth Dates Cop: She has Federal Agent Kyle Brody in season seven, an unnamed cop in season eight, and Henry in the same season, who she then goes on to marry. For Paige, at least, she meets all of them in the course of her Charmed duties - Agent Brody is investigating the Avatar threat and needs the sisters' help, who then offers to clear them of suspicion with his influence, and one of Henry's parolees is an innocent Paige is supposed to save..
• Stripperific: Her clothing was never as skimpy as Phoebe's, but she also wasn't as modest as Piper. Several of her outfits bordered on inappropriate for her work environment.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: In Season 8, Paige showed that she knows martial arts despite the fact that we never saw her train in hand-to-hand combat.
• Super Power Lottery: Due to being a Whitelighter-Witch who is also a Charmed One, Paige develops the most powers out of all the sisters. That is before Prue became the Caretaker of the Nexus of the All and becomes a reality warper.
  • Wiccan powers
    • Telekinetic orbing: Paige inherited the Warren wiccan power of telekinesis but her Whitelighter heritage caused it to hybridise with orbing to create telekinetic orbing. Paige's ability grew to such finesse that she was able to remotely orb people away from her to other locations. On a few rare occasions, Paige demonstrated the potential for pure telekinesis such as when she orbed a dirty diaper into a trash can, the lid of which flipped up on its own without the presence of orbs.
    • Orb shield: In the comics, Paige developed the power to project an orb shield. Essentially the same kind Wyatt used when he was a child.
  • Whitelighter powers
    • Orbing: Like Whitelighters, Paige could teleport by disappearing in a cloud of white-blue orbs. Notably, Paige possessed this power before she met her sisters. It being how she survived the car crash that killed her parents.
    • Healing Hands: At first, being half-Whitelighter meant this was the only power she did not inherit, but by the final season, she was finally getting the hang of it.
    • Light 'em Up: To tell Henry she was a witch, Paige summoned several balls of light. This was the first time she ever used the power and it never came up again.
    • Glamour: Paige could change her appearance, during which she would be surrounded by orbs. Although all the sister could glamour themselves, they required a spell where Paige's ability to do so was an innate power.
  • It's even implied that Paige's whitelighter half made the Power of Three even stronger, since with her they were able to vanquish the Source, and do things like summon spirits who could become corporeal.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Prue's powers:
  • She inherits her telekinesis, although with an orbing spin. This is justified by the fact that the Charmed Ones are prophesied to have a very specific set of powers.
  • While Prue's power of astral projection wasn't passed down to her, her whitelighter side gave her a more strightforward and convenient power of orbing (i.e. teleportation) .
• The Teetotaler: She used to have "problems with certain liquids" and, as a result, she no longer drinks alcohol.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Sometimes she'll orb a demon's athame and throw it back at the demon always landing pointy end first as if it's a war dart.
• Took a Level in Badass: She starts out very meek and an Apologetic Attacker. But she soon masters the craft and becomes a formidable fighter. In episodes like "The Power of Three Blondes" and "Something Wicca This Way Goes?", where her sisters are disempowered, she retains hers and helps lead them to victory.
• Took a Level in Dumbass:
  • ORB THE GUN, PAIGE!
  • After gaining the ability to remote orb people in Season 7, she never considers orbing out innocents.
  • Combined with Took a Level in Jerkass in the beginning of "Centennial Charmed," with her strategy to invisibly sneak up behind Cole and blow him up from the inside to try and kill him. First, she calls Leo to practice this on him, blowing up and risking the existence of her already-kinda-dead-and-decidedly-good brother-in-law/spiritual guide for no justifiable reason and without a second thought. Despite the dead guy reconstituting and telling her that it's not gonna work, she thinks this proves that her plan is utterly brilliant for killing a past-nigh-invincible conglomerate of Wasteland powers who she's already seen try and fail to kill himself with the sisters' strongest potion. Note that this is on the eve of Cole's birthday, at his lowest and most lonesome point, where he's resorting to telling himself "Happy Birthday" because no one else will.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening:
  • The first known instance of her orbing was during the car crash that killed her parents. The second was when Shax tried to kill her. Cole quickly realizes and proves that her orbing power is triggered by fear.
  • Her healing power was triggered by her love for the first person she had to heal, Henry.
• Tragic Time Traveler: "A Paige From the Past" is about Paige using Mental Time Travel to meet her adoptive parents again, and eventually decide to save them. Unfortunately, despite doing everything in her power to undo their deaths, they still end up dying because, as Leo puts it, it was their time.
• Weaponized Teleportation: In her second episode, Paige tries to orb a man's heart out of his body but is fortunately stopped before she succeeds. This never comes up again for the rest of the series but sees much more use in the comics, where it turns out to be one of the most effective weapons against the hosts of the old ones. Paige also finds a benevolent use for this technique when she orbs her future adopted son directly out of his mother's womb after she was murdered.

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