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The Forces of Hell
The Infernal Aristocracy
The Dark Lord
Lucifer Morningstar, The Dark Lord
Played by: Luke Cook
Click here to see him as Lucifer
The Dark Lord of Hell who is worshiped as a deity by the witches and has a particular interest in Sabrina.
- Adaptational Wimp: Goes from being the most feared entity to pretty much just an evil dude the Spellman's must deal with, and plucky comedic relief in later seasons. He is also apparently less powerful than that of the Eldritch Terrors and even fears them.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the show his epithet of "Morning Star", becomes the surname Morningstar used to described the royal family of Hell.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Sabrina.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Madam Satan advises the Spellman family to target the wing wounds at his back, which are where he is weak. It turns out to really be damaging, but it is still not enough to bring him down.
- Badass Boast: "I AM THE GREAT SATAN, THAT NO PRISON MAY CONTAIN!"
- Baphomet: Whenever he appears in the flesh on the show, he assumes the shape of the Baphomet goat. There’s also a Baphomet statue at the foyer of the Academy of Unseen Arts. Part 2 reveals that he can't appear in any other form outside of Hell. One of the goals of his plan for Sabrina is to be able to manifest his original angelic form again outside of Hell.
- Big Bad: Takes over the role from Madame Satan in Part 2, where he begins his plan to have Sabrina become the Queen of Hell, which would open the Gates and allow the Dark Lord to bring about Hell on Earth.
- Child Eater: According to Zelda, a cooked child is his favorite dish.
- The Corrupter: He's Satan so this is part of his persona. Some key moments are when he manipulates Harvey into a rage, causing him, Billy and some other jocks to attack the Carnival Phantasmagoria, resulting in Billy and said jocks becoming pigs thanks to Circe. He also corrupts Mary Wardwell, a devout Christian, into attacking the Spellman family.
- Deal with the Devil: Do not enter into one of these with him or you will regret it.
- Droit du Seigneur: He reserves the right to visit any witch the night before her wedding.
- Exact Words: Enter a deal with him and he will follow his end of the bargain to the letter, but he will twist it around every which way he can to screw you over and get what he wanted from you in the end.
- Expy: Starting around the end of Part 2, his behavior toward and dynamic with his daughter Sabrina are extremely similar to those of Hiram Lodge toward his daughter Veronica in Riverdale, another project of series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In season 4, he grows fond of Sabrina Morningstar and gets genuinely sad and upset when she dies.
- Fallen Angel: Lucifer was once an Archangel who was cast out of Heaven. Flashbacks show the immediate aftermath of his Fall, and as a result of it his wings were ripped out and the wounds never healed.
- Fatal Flaw: His Pride, as noted below. He is always totally willing to buy just about any flattery, and repeatedly fails to take any threats against him seriously. He finds them either funny, inconsequential, or both. In fact, he's so confident in his plans that he completely misses that things have gone wrong for him and the aristocracy of Hell, whom he invited to Sabrina's coronation, have been replaced by Sabrina's allies wearing the demons' masks, because he's so sure he has Sabrina and Lilith under his thumb.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Rarely appears in the show, for a total of about three appearances in Part 1, and has few direct influences on the plot, but is the main force of evil in the setting and the direct superior of Madam Satan and Father Blackwood. He takes a considerably more active role in Part 2.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: In Part 3 and the beginning of Part 4, he's slightly less antagonistic than he was in Parts 1 and 2. However, that's only because he got Sabrina Morningstar to agree to become the Queen of Hell, and once she disappears through the Magic Mirror he's back to being evil.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: His endgame by having Sabrina sign the book is unknown beyond the implication that she would be a witch of unprecedented power. Part 2 reveals that he intends to make Sabrina Queen of Hell, have her open the Gates of Hell and remake the Earth into another Hell.
- Hidden Depths: The Dark Lord, Fallen Archangel and Father of Lies... apparently likes musical theater and bal masques.
- Hollywood Satanism: Played with. While he fits on the usual term of this trope, some nods about him are done in a more realistic Satanism fashion, which includes descriptions of him as the personification of free will, rather than evil — though how much of this is just smoke and mirrors to get his followers to stay in line is unknown (he is the Lord of Lies, after all). He was apparently okay with Sabrina's freedom to not sign the Book of the Beast being taken away from her, had her soul not been "legally" bound to the Catholic Church (due to her secret baptism by her mother prior to her father writing her name in the book).
- I Have Many Names: Although he is most commonly referred as “the Dark Lord” by the witches, he also goes by Satan, Lucifer Morningstar, The Devil and the Son of Dawn at various points.
- Incest Subtext: It's never made overtly clear whether he intends Sabrina to rule alongside him as his bride or as his daughter. Zelda directly raises the possibility that he wants her as his child bride, and there is typically an obvious sexual or romantic tone to the way that he speaks to and interacts with her (e.g. taunting her by asking her to call him "daddy," acting jealous when she's expressing affection for Nick, sending her clothes, waltzing with her). He also evidently wanted her to replace Lilith as his "consort," in his own exact words.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He turns out to be Sabrina's father. He possessed Edward's body to impregnate Diana and cause Sabrina to be born by the union of a fallen angel, a warlock and a human.
- Mr. Fanservice: Once he's regained his original form, he spends about a third of his screen time wearing nothing but a skimpy loincloth with no back, and the rest of the time in shirts/jackets that are often open to his waist. All in all, it's a good view.
- Not So Invincible After All: Madam Satan remarks in a moment of anger that he is not omniscient nor omnipotent. He has weaknesses and can be kept at bay using iron spikes, onions and horseshoes. He also has a weak spot in his back where his wings used to be. And like any demon, he can be trapped in a sufficiently good configuration, though in this case, it needs to be a human body.
- Pride: As Lucifer himself, he is extremely prideful and can even be manipulated to an extent via his ego.
- Psychic Link: Implied to have one with Sabrina, presumably due to her being his daughter, as he's able to telepathically call her into Nick's mind to speak with him and later uses telepathy to tell her where to find Judas for the last regalia challenge so that the court of Pandemonium won't know he's giving her outside help.
- Red Right Hand: Even after regaining his angelic form, his left leg below the knee remains a hoof of his Baphomet form.
- Satan: The fallen one himself in all his demonic glory.
- Screw Yourself: Played with. It's implied that his fixation on Sabrina is an extension of his narcissism, as he seems to view her as a reflection of himself due to her being his daughter. He is very firm on the point that he considers no one else worthy of becoming his consort.
- Took a Level in Kindness: A very minor example. While Sabrina is in Hell trying to obtain the Unholy Regalia, he actively helps her. He still wants her to be Queen of Hell after all.
- In seasons 3 and 4, he is shown to treat Morningstar significantly nicer than others. He is even much more cordial with the Greendale witches. However, he is still Satan, and is still a Jerkass.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Entirely unbothered by Nick showing up to beat him bloody while he's trapped in Blackwood's body, stating that he "likes it when things get rough."
- Villain Decay: He starts of as a creepy demonic corruptor in the first season and plans to bring Hell on Earth in season 2. After his deafeat, he's reduced to a minor nuisance in season 3 and becomes a borderline comic relief by season 4.
- Walking the Earth: In the finale, Lilith stabs him with the Spear of Longinus, taking his powers away and cursing him to walk the Earth forever.
- Would Hurt a Child : According to Zelda his favorite food is cooked child, and he has no problem with receiving child sacrifices as extensions on his contracts with mortals.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: In his true form, he has two large wounds in his back where his wings were ripped out. These wounds are permanently open.
- Yandere: Downplayed example. Lucifer rarely goes after a rival directly, but is consistently characterized as egomaniacal, jealous, and controlling. Nick mentions in season 1 that love, as opposed to simple lust, is uncommon among witches and warlocks because the Dark Lord likes to be the sole object of their adoration.
- His invocation of Droit du Seigneur on some witches and his murder of Mary Wardwell's fiancé, Adam, when Lilith began to grow too close to him are both examples.
- This tendency also translates to his relationship with Sabrina specifically, in that Lucifer's plan for her involves methodically disrupting and breaking up her two main romantic connections and wearing her down emotionally so that she's left by herself and is more open to becoming his queen (though this doesn't work as well as he believes).
Madam Satan
Madam Satan / Lilith
Played by: Michelle Gomez | Jenna Berman
The Devil's Handmaiden, she is one of the Dark Lord's closest minions. She is sent to ensure that Sabrina signs her name on the Book of the Beast.
- Adaptational Name Change: In the comics, her actual name is Lola. In this adaptation, her name is Lilith, the first wife of Adam.
- Bad Boss: She kills her familiar Stolas for merely pointing out the obvious fact that Satan is probably grooming Sabrina and not her to be Queen of Hell.
- Bait the Dog: Though by the end of the first season it is clear that Madam Satan is manipulative and has no real goodness in her, you at least think that she has genuine affection for her familiar Stolas. However, when he points out that it is very likely that Satan is grooming Sabrina to be Queen of Hell, not Madam Satan, she casually breaks his neck.
- Bed Trick: Although not done maliciously, she sleeps with Mary Wardwell's fiancé without letting on to the fact that she's not actually Mary.
- Biblical Bad Guy: After a fashion, as she is eventually revealed to be Lilith herself.
- Big Bad: While Satan himself is the Greater-Scope Villain, and she is The Dragon to him, Madam Satan ultimately takes the role of main villain due to her successes compared to Father Blackwood's comparative incompetence, right down to eventually succeeding.
- Big Bad Friend: To Sabrina. She pretends to be a helpful mentor and advisor while truly working for the Dark Lord.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She does such a good job of putting a friendly and helpful facade that none of the main characters even suspect her true agenda.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Intentionally invokes this on Lucifer. She has sex with Father Blackwood, while he was still possessed by Lucifer, in order to get pregnant. After separating Blackwood and Lucifer, Lucifer attempts to kill her only to reveal she is pregnant with his son. What this means to Sabrina as Queen of Hell is still unknown.
- The Chessmaster: Make move Sabrina in her chessboard easily with several schemes.
- Cold Ham: A somewhat subdued example, but Michelle Gomez is clearly having a lot of fun with Madam Satan's demeanor and mannerisms, especially when she's alone and can drop the facade of being a good person.
- Consummate Liar: Expertly spins lie after lie, deception after deception, and is the total victor of the first season.
- Could Say It, But...: Ms. Wardwell tells Sabrina she couldn't possibly let her know the details of a dangerous and ungodly ritual she has in one of her books, or mention its terrible price which she immediately outlines. Sabrina doesn't notice the transparent manipulation, as she's emotionally compromised at the time.
- Evil Chancellor: Becomes this when Sabrina accepts the Throne of Hell and appoints Lilith as her regent. She's already evil, and is now the royal advisor.
- Evil Mentor: She urges Sabrina along the path of night with subtle manipulations and the occasional bout of earnest assistance, eventually becoming the one person, above even family and friends, who Sabrina will first turn to for advice. She continues to mentor Sabrina when Sabrina becomes the Queen of Hell.
- Evil Redhead: In-Universe the witches seem to under the impression that she was a redhead, as in the play seen in "The Passion of Sabrina Spellman" redheaded Dorcas was cast to play Lilith despite being an atrocious actress, and when Sabrina steps up to play the role, she wears a red wig. A flashback later shows that they're wrong. She was a brunette.
- Foil: To Zelda. Both women are devoted followers of the Dark Lord, elegant Ladies of Black Magic, and mentors to Sabrina. However, Madam Satan adopts a friendly and helpful facade while secretly corrupting Sabrina for her own ends. Zelda, on the other hand, comes across as brusque and uncaring, but honestly cares about Sabrina's welfare and, when push comes to shove, will defy the Church of Night to keep her family safe.
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Fake American: Is played by a Scot. - Game Face: Madam Satan has a particularly grotesque one when she peels off the face she is using prior to devouring the principal.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: At the conclusion of Season 2, she returns to Hell as its sole ruler. Zelda indicates her intention to reform the coven as the Church of Lilith, and it's uncertain whether Lilith will be a better or worse Dark Lord for Witchkind.
- Happens again in season 4. She stabs Lucifer with the Spear of Longinus and curses him to walk the Earth. With Morningstar dead and Caliban trapped in the Void, it is implied she becomes Queen of Hell again.
- Good Feels Good: Subverted. After helping Sabrina with an exorcism, when Sabrina thanks her she looks touched and a tad uncomfortable for a moment. Then she goes and kills the man they just saved in cold blood, mocking him the while and lying to Sabrina's face about it afterwards, showing there is no goodness in her heart after all.
- Howl of Sorrow: She was devastated after the Dark Lord killed Adam Masters, vomiting and crying in the bathroom.
- Icy Blue Eyes: Though they're originally Mary Wardwell's eyes, their bright blue color gives Madam Satan's glare a mysterious, menacing appearance.
- I Have Many Names: She has quite the list of monikers, including Madam Satan, Devil's Handmaiden, Mother of Demons, Dawn of Doom, and Satan's Concubine. Her real name is Lilith, First Wife of Adam.
- I'm a Humanitarian: With a few unfortunate victims scattered across the series.
- Just Between You and Me: She infrequently converses with her raven familiar about the finer points and implications of her evil plots.
- Kill and Replace: She murders Ms. Wardwell in the first episode and assumes her shape for the rest of the series.
- Lady of Black Magic: A malevolently elegant demon with many different hellish spells and supernatural powers at her disposal.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She is completely in the dark about the specifics of the Dark Lord's plans for Sabrina, merely implementing its component elements without any knowledge of how they fit together. It is only when Nick reads to her the prophecy that she is able to figure out exactly what is going on.
- Love Redeems: In season 2, she meets Adam, the fiancé of Ms. Wardwell and an infinitely kind and sweet man. She eventually starts to fall for him and love him and even considers dropping the entire scheming with the Dark Lord to live with him. When he is killed by the Dark Lord to keep her in line, she goes off the rails and decides she'll take her revenge on him.
- Manipulative Bitch: She prides herself in her ability to manipulate people and subtly bending them to her will, as opposed to Father Blackwood's more confrontational approach.Madam Satan: It's always brute force with you men, isn't it? But real corruption is a thin, subtle blade.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Ultimately helps Sabrina defeat the Dark Lord, after eons of being strung along and denied her reward for loyal service. She in turn was betrayed by Stolas after killing him and him being resurrected by the Dark Lord.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: She is known as The Mother of Demons.
- Ms. Fanservice: Prances around in tight dresses and, in two episodes, a robe that shows off her a Navel-Deep Neckline.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She kills and cooks her baby all to keep Lucifer from him. After realizing what she did, she does this.
- Mystical Pregnancy: Courtesy of Caliban and the Plague Kings casting a spell on her. The intent was for her to expolode, killing her and the baby. Instead, it backfires and she gives birth to a healthy baby, thanks to the Greendale witches.
- Nightmare Face: And how.
- The Starscream: By season 2, she is sick of the Dark Lord's favoritism towards Sabrina and how she might be falling down in the hierarchy of Hell, to the point of wondering about leaving the plan altogether. When her new love dies, she decides to throw a wrench in the plan by at least making sure that he won't have Sabrina around.
- The Unfought: In season one, she prides herself in subtle manipulation against her foes and ends up never being confronted by anybody. In fact, nobody even knows what she is up to at that point.
- Villain Has a Point: Often. Although playing her own game and not at all the supportive mentor she presents herself as, a lot of her commentary to Sabrina, from the dos and don'ts of witch lore to human relationships, is sound. She also provides genuinely apt warning visions to Roz and Theo in her Tarot-reader disguise in "Dr. Cerberus' House of Horrors," in between thoroughly manipulating pretty much everyone else.
- Villainous Rescue: The classic: she comes to the Spellmans' aid against a lesser, independent demon because she has her own evil plans in motion and allowing Sabrina to die pointlessly would be an error.
- Villains Out Shopping: As a higher demon lord masquerading as a human teacher, she's forced by circumstance to uphold the veneer of human mundanity, from run-ins at school to a drink with the heroes at the coffee shop.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can change her shape at will, spending most of her time on screen in the form of Mary Wardwell.
- Wicked Witch: The first in the history of creation.
The Three Plague Kings
The Three Plague Kings
Played by: Nelson Leis (Beelzebub), John Murphy (Asmodeus), Donald Sales (Purson)
Three high demons (Asmodeus, Beelzebub and Purson) who oppose the Dark Lord's plans for Sabrina.
- Bat Out of Hell: Purson can command bats and turn himself into a cloud of them.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: The three of them are extremely high raking demons, being considered Kings in Hell and defying even Satan himself.
- Evil Versus Evil: They are not at all on board with the Dark Lord's plans for the upcoming apocalypse and Sabrina's ascension. They go as far as trying to kill her in order to thwart the prophecy.
- Fantastic Racism: As far as they are concerned being part witch and part mortal automatically makes you inferior and unworthy of the Throne of Hell.
- Horned Humanoid: Their crowns are formed by horns that grow out of their heads.
- Killed Off for Real: Purson, by Lucifer via neck snap, and Asmodeus, killed by the Greendale witches when defending Lilith and her newly born baby.
- The Man Behind the Man: They are the main force behind Caliban's bid for the throne.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: One of their main objections to Sabrina becoming Queen of Hell is that she's a girl.
- The Swarm: Each of them can command a swarm of animals to attack their victims: rats, bats and flies.
Caliban
Caliban, Prince of Hell
Played by: Sam Corlett
A Prince of Hell, created from the clay of Pandemonium by the Kings of Hell.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He comes across like this, being Affably Evil. He says he changed his ways, after marrying Sabrina Morningstar, but still wants absolute rule in Hell. He tries to kill Lilith and her baby when it is still in her womb.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He challenges Sabrina's claim to the throne, and intends to transform Earth into the 10th circle of Hell. In the Bad Future, he proves incapable of realizing his grand ambitions and his reign as King lasts mere days. His invasion of the Mortal realm is repelled by the Pagans, and the forces of Heaven take advantage of his defeat to finish off Hell once and for all.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's never seen with a shirt on and is very good looking.
- General Failure: In the Bad Future his invasion of the Mortal realm was repulsed so thoroughly that Michael and his armies are able to make short work of Hell afterwards.
- Golem: He was created from the clay of the city of Pandemonium and as such is considered a native son of Hell by the Plague Kings.
- Happily Married: With Sabrina Morningstar.
- Heel–Face Turn: According to Sabrina Morningstar, Caliban became a much nicer person after being released from the stone he was trapped in. So much nicer that they marry each other. He's still a bastard and tries to kill Lilith's child behind Sabrina's back to remove a threat to them.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He attempts to trap Sabrina in stone after tricking her into giving him the 3rd Unholy Regalia. However, Sabrina already came from a future where he succeeded and knew better now. She ends up trapping him in stone forever.
- Karma Houdini: Despite trying to kill Lilith and her baby, and in the previous season trying to trap Sabrina in stone, he suffers no punishment for his actions. He even becomes a ruler of Hell. Though in the finale, Sabrina sucks him into the Void, and when her friends rescue everyone else trapped there they just leave Caliban behind.
- Rules Lawyer: He knows the laws of the infernal court backwards and forwards, and uses this knowledge to legally challenge Sabrina's right to the Throne of Hell. However, Sabrina also knows the laws and challenges his claim.
- Smug Super: He is very powerful but in the Bad Future he proves no match for the Pagan gods or the forces of Heaven.
- The Slow Path: After Sabrina traps him in 30 AD, he simply waits for 2000 years buried in the sand.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: The concept of shirts seems alien to him. At most he wears a vest.
SPOILER CHARACTER
Sabrina Morningstar
Played By: Kiernan Shipka
An earlier version of Sabrina as a result of Temporal Paradox. They work together to benefit each other.
- Body Backup Drive: Her corpse serves as one in "At the Mountains of Madness", with the other witches pulling Spellman's soul out of her original body when she traps herself in the Void and implanting it in Morningstar's body.
- Harbinger of Impending Doom: She dies at the beginning of "At the Mountains of Madness", surviving barely long enough to warn Sabrina Spellman about the coming of the Void.
- Happily Married: With Caliban, though she's unaware of his continued villainous activities.
- Hell Has New Management: She becomes the Queen of Hell.
- The High Queen: As Queen of Hell, she is well-liked. Its fitting, since she is still Sabrina.
- Lonely at the Top: If her fears the Dark whispered are true, Morningstar secretly believes the residents of Hell only love her for being Queen of Hell.
- Temporal Duplication: A positive example. When Sabrina traveled back in time, she stopped her past self from being tricked by Caliban. This resulted in two Sabrinas existing at the same time. The earlier one takes the name Sabrina Morningstar and becomes the Queen of Hell.
- Trapped in Another World: At the end of "Deus ex Machina", she's trapped in the Endless — one of the eldritch terrors, manifested as a parallel universe resembling a sitcom. She escapes it at the end of the episode, but dies at the beginning of the next.
Adam
Adam
Lilith's newly born baby.
- Dead Guy Junior: Presumably named for Lilith's dead human lover, Adam.
- Familial Cannibalism Surprise: In Season Four, Lilith cooks and serves him to Lucifer in revenge for what he did to her lover, but is wracked with guilt over it.
Demons
Batibat
The Batibat
Played by: Megan Leitch
A sleep demon who was imprisoned by Edward Spellman decades ago.
- The Bus Came Back: In the Bad Future Sabrina makes a deal with Batibat. She uses her powers to incapacitate Father Blackwood, who can't be killed because of his Mark of Cain, in exchange for leaving the Spellman family alone.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Dream Weaver: She has the power to visit people's dream and control them at will, meaning that she can trap people in their worst nightmares.
- Leitmotif: The nightmares she creates for the Spellmans are punctuated by various versions of "Dream A Little Dream of Me."
- Revenge by Proxy: She wishes to get revenge on the whole Spellman family for what Edward did to her.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: She spent decades trapped in the Acheron Configuration after Edward Spellman captured her. Sabrina and her aunts put her in a mason jar after defeating her.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The episode after she's defeated, she's referred to as "The Batibat"
Apophis
Apophis, the Devouring Worm
Played by: Jason Beaudoin
An ancient Egyptian demon who possesses Susie's Uncle Jesse.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: His physical form is that of a gigantic worm.
- Demonic Possession: Its modus operandi. It takes over a host and consumes it from the inside until it dies and then jumps to another.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: When questioned by Sabrina, he gives his name as "Maerceci", which is an anagram for "Ice Cream". Ambrose claims this kind of humor is typical of demons.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Makes various nasty comments about Jesse's sexuality and Susie's gender.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: It was kept prisoner in the Greendale coal mine by a stone seal, until Jesse Putnam accidentally broke it. Sabrina, her aunts, and Madam Satan seal it in the well on the Putnam farm.
Mr. Bartel
Mr. Bartel / Krampus
A demon that plays the Mall Santa in Greendale and turns children into wax statues.- Bad Boss: Is a Jerkass when Susie's working for him and this is before he tries to turn her into a statue.
- Bad Santa: In "A Midwinter's Tale", Mr. Bartel is a Yule demon who dresses up as Santa and abducts children to turn them into wax figures.
- Bag of Kidnapping: How he gets Susie.
- Big Red Devil: His true form, though it's not that big.
- Living Doll Collector: Bartell's MO is to kidnap 'pretty' children out of a desire to create artwork, dib them in hot magic wax and freeze them as living statues.
- Mall Santa: His day job that helps him procure children.
- Would Hurt a Child: He only targets children, in fact. Every Christmas he finds a kid and turns them into a wax statue to add to his collection. In the year he is introduced, he has chosen Susie.
King Herod
King Herod
He guards his crown, one piece of the Unholy Regalia.
- Back from the Dead: Despite exploding, he appears in Hell in the Bad Future and helps Sabrina.
- Enemy Mine: He joins Sabrina to go back in time and stop the Pagan gods.
- Guardian Entity: He is one for his part of the Unholy Regalia.
- Historical Domain Character: He's the biblical and historical Herod the Great.
- Ludicrous Gibs: When Ambrose casts a spell to stop him, Herod explodes this way.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Sabrina and Ambrose take his crown, he emerges from the tree the crown was kept in. He initially targets Ambrose, and later Sabrina, bent on revenge for taking his crown and waking him up.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Sort of. Not so much "sealed" as dead until Sabrina finds his crown. He emerges from the tree the crown was hidden in, pissed off he was woken up.
De Sade and Salo
De Sade and Salo
A pair of demons employed by Dorian in his gentleman's club.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: They tie up their visitors, such as Nick, in bondage gear.
- Meaningful Name: One is named after the Marquis de Sade and the other after a notoriously gruesome film adaptation of one of Sade's books. Like their namesake, they are employed for their kinky sexual acts.
The Forces of Heaven
The 'False' God
The 'False' God
The Abrahamic God
, who serves as chief antagonist in the Church of Night's theology.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Two distinct instances are mentioned or shown in the show:
- Normal exorcism is said to work by an exorcist calling upon His power to cast out the demon possessing a person.
- The angels of the Order of the Innocents can only access divine power while on Earth by directly calling on Him to grant it for a specific task.
- The Ghost: He is constantly mentioned in the show, but as of Part 3, He has never made an appearance.
- God Is Evil: The witches consider Him to be an utter tyrant who cast Lucifer out for daring to question His authority.
- Gold and White Are Divine: When playing the False God in a school play, Ambrose's costume is entirely white and gold.
- Nay-Theist: The witches' apparent relationship to Him. From what is seen of their theology, the witches acknowledge that the False God created the world and had the power to cast Lucifer out of Heaven, but they refuse to recognize him as truly divine.
The Archangel Michael
The Archangel Michael
The Archangel in charge of the Celestial Armies.
- The Ghost: He is mentioned in Part 3, but doesn't make an appearance in the flesh.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: In a Bad Future he took advantage of the sorry state of Hell after their failed invasion of Earth to led a celestial army to wipe out all the demons.
- Public Domain Character: One of the three named angels in the biblical tradition.
The Order of the Innocents
The Order of the Innocents
Played By: Spencer Treat Clark (Jerathmiel), Bayley Corman (Mehitable), Graeme McComb (Gideon)
A group of extremely dangerous witch-hunters.
- Artistic License – Religion: Jerathmiel compares Sabrina to Saint Sebastian when he shoots her full of arrows, declaring that she'll die for refusing to convert. Except the whole legend of Saint Sebastian is that he didn't die when shot and clung to life long enough for Saint Irene of Rome to heal him as a reward for his faith. This is probably intentional to show his hypocrisy, as, unlike Sebastian, Jerathmiel does not martyr himself and dies for it.
- Ax-Crazy: They simply go from friendly talking with someone to trying to kill them in the span of a second.
- Dirty Coward: When confronted with Sabrina's newly acquired powers, they're quick to forsake Heaven to save their own skins. Jerathmiel more enthusiastically than his female cohort.
- Faux Affably Evil: They act nice and lovely to the witches they're about to kill, but are quick to drop the act when said witches refuse to convert they are killed without mercy. Even the ones who they try but fail, sometimes due to physical limitations, don't get any reprieve. Even given how openly malevolent some of the witches and warlocks are, the actions of the witch hunters are fully in Knight Templar territory.
- Hypocrite: Jerathmiel, in particular, was very vocal about getting witches to convert, but when faced with a super-empowered Sabrina he folds like a cheap suit and renounces his allegiance to Heaven.
- Knight Templar: They believe wholeheartedly in saving the souls of witches... their bodies are another matter entirely.
- Knocking on Heathens' Door: They look like run-of-the-mill Mormon missionaries, right down to the name tags. They also use the evangelizing door-to-door shtick as a means to access their targets homes.
- No Name Given: The female witch hunter, as her name tag is obscured by her long hair in all her scenes. She is credited as Mehitable.
- Our Angels Are Different: They appear human in appearance, and can only use their angelic powers by calling upon the blessing of Heaven.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Sabrina offers them mercy if they renounce Heaven and say the Dark Lord's prayer. They do, and she burns them anyway, disgusted at how easily they renounced their god when faced with the prospect of being defeated.
- Winged Humanoid: As they are being consumed by hellfire, they sprout wings just before being completely consumed.
- The Witch Hunter: Their main goal is to rid the world of witches, and they're frighteningly effective at it.
The Archangel Metatron
The Archangel Metatron
Played by: Pollyanna McIntosh
A self-declared angel of order.
- Celestial Paragons and Archangels: They do not say they are an archangel, but Lucifer implies it. As such, it takes the combined strength of the Greendale witches and the Infernal forces to kill them.
- Light Is Not Good: They intentionally abstain from telling everyone about the Cosmic and not presenting more than one solution to the reality merger.
- Public Domain Character: Metatron, and their former name Enoch, is commonly used.
Old Gods
Pagan witches/Professor Carcosa Carnival
Pan
Carcosa/Pan
Played by: Will Swenson
The leader of the pagan witches, and the "god" Pan.
- Brown Note: Looking upon his true form can inflict madness on the victim.
- Evil Is Hammy: He is a showman through and through, always hamming it up for the audience.
- Fauns and Satyrs: His true form, as first glimpsed by Roz.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is impaled by Prudence with her sword, from behind.
- Mind Rape: He does this to his victims, showing them his true form and leaving their minds a chaotic mess.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His end goal is to create a Garden of Evil that would exterminate all humans and witches on Earth.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: The leader of the Carnival, and by extension the Pagan tribe.
- Shout-Out: He is referred to as The Great God Pan, and "Carcosa" is a location in The King in Yellow. Both were books that inspired H. P. Lovecraft and are considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Ungrateful Bastard: The Church of Night welcomes the Pagans to share a picnic with them, and tries to make peace. Pan and his followers intentionally create conflict with the Coven, then act as the offended party and conspire to kill them all.
Nagaina
Nagaina
Played by: Vanessa Rubio
A Gorgon, serving as Pan's lover and right-hand woman.
- Co-Dragons: To Carcosa/Pan, alongside Circe.
- Expy: Of Medusa.
- Feather Boa Constrictor: She wears one as part of her carnival act.
- Femme Fatale: She's introduced as an exotic dancer, and seduces Harvey's father.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: A beautiful, seductive Gorgon.
- Meaningful Name: The naga in "Nagaina" refers to monstrous snakes in Hindu myths.
- The Nose Knows: She repeatedly brags of her ability to track a virgin by their scent. Though, being a snake-woman, she's using her tongue to scent the air and track her victims.
- Off with Her Head!: She is killed by Roz with decapitation.
- Snakes Are Sexy: Extremely sexual and sensual, both in her stage persona and true self.
- Sssssnake Talk: She talks this way when she's about to turn someone into stone.
- Snake People: Her true form is a humanoid snake creature, with snakes for hair.
- Taken for Granite: Her signature ability, just like in the legends.
Circe
Circe
Played by: Lucie Guest
A pagan witch in Carcosa's service.
- Co-Dragons: Alongside Nagaina, she serves in this role to Pan/Carcosa
- Evil Is Petty: Hilda is nothing but kind to her, and ends up Cursed by Circe simply because she said she kept spiders as her pets.
- Forced Transformation: As implied by her name, she specializes in turning people into animals.
- Fortune Teller: Her role in the Carnival, which she uses to scout potential victims.
- Gypsy Curse: Like her namesake, she enjoys turning her victims into animals. She curses Hilda, slowly turning her into a spider creature.
- Hot Gypsy Woman: She cultivates the look of one, with heavy makeup and false lashes to enhance her natural looks.
- Magical Romani: She styles herself as one, though she's a Witch of unknown (but presumably Greek, based on the name) origins.
- Neck Snap: How Hilda ultimately kills her, via voodoo doll.
Robin
Robin Goodfellow
Played by: Jonathan Whitesell
- The Fair Folk: Like the other prominent Pagans, he's a creature of myth — a Hobgoblin, a fae trickster.
- Fragile Speedster: He's not particularly strong compared to some supernatural beings, but has Super-Speed to make up for it.
- In Love with the Mark: He poses as a new student, getting close to Theo as a potential Virgin Sacrifice. In the process, he ends up developing genuine feelings and confesses to his true nature.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a Hobgoblin and ends up with Theo, a human.
- Never Bareheaded: Robin constantly wears a battered old baseball cap, and having it taken from him is the first glimpse of his more dangerous nature. He eventually shows Theo that it's part of the glamour that hides his true form from humans.
- Pointed Ears: His true form is relatively humanoid, other than his unnatural hair and pointed ears.
- Shout-Out: "Robin Goodfellow" is one of the alternate names of Puck, the trickster from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Super-Speed: He can move extremely fast.
- Token Good Teammate: To the Pagan tribe, which eventually leads him to side with Sabrina.
The Green Man
The Green Man
A deity worshiped by the Pagan gods as their savior.- Gaia's Vengeance: The Green Man's spores enact this, leading to a Garden of Evil.
- Human Sacrifice: In addition to the Virgin Sacrifice, blood is used to continually water the Green Man.
- Kryptonite Factor: Pesta is one for it, as her power of decay and rot is perfect for killing a plant deity.
- Non-Action Big Bad: After being awakened, the Green Man releases its spores, creating a mist that wipes out most mortal life. The Green Man itself is immobile.
- Virgin Sacrifice: A virgin is needed to awaken it and allow its fruit to bloom. The Pagans initially use Harvey who dies leading to the Bad Future with an alternate being Mary Wardwell who is actually Pesta in disguise, who kills the Green Man.
Ghosts
The Ghost Children
A group of ghost children that live in the Academy of Unseen Arts.
- Barred from the Afterlife: Sabrina suspects that the fact they were killed on Academy grounds and buried there has bound them to the place and not able to move onto whatever is next in life.
- Bully Hunter: They grow into this role as they take up the mantle to stop the harrowing of students at the Academy.
- Creepy Child: The children at the Academy of Unseen Arts are capable of being deeply creepy. Although they're ghost children, their creepier behavior is intentional as part of an attempt to frighten and punish the Weird Sisters. They're mostly interested in protecting vulnerable new students and preventing the hazing rituals that killed them.
- Dead All Along: Quentin, the young boy who acts as Sabrina's guide during her first time at the Academy of Unseen Arts, turns out to be the ghost of a student who was harrowed to death.
- Due to the Dead: They were buried by a kindly groundskeeper who tended their graves afterwards. Once he died, no one bothers for them anymore.
Dorothea Putnam
Dorothea Putnam
The ghost of an ancient member of the Putnam family and one of the founding members of Greendale.
- Badass Normal: Back in her time, she was doing a lot of things on her own. She led expeditions, helped both witches and humans, and her history is apparently taught in the Academy of Unseen Arts out of respect for her and her deeds.
- Butch Lesbian: Implied. Back in her time, Dorothea used male clothes and lived with another woman. Although Theo's father says that it was likely a safety measure for her, it's never confirmed what their relation was.
- Spirit Advisor: Shows up to Theo in many moments, pushing him to be braver and stronger, and sometimes giving him crucial information, such as about the Mandrake or about the Greendale Thirteen.
The Yule Lads
The Yule Lads
A group of ghost children raised by Gryla who show up during holiday season.
- The Prankster: They keep to playing pranks on witch families who don't burn their Yule log constantly. These pranks range from moving objects when no one is looking, to moving dead bodies to scare people, to floating knives about one's head, to placing babies in a preheating oven.
- Undead Child: Invisible ghostly children. Only their footprints can be noticed when they walk through something like cooking flour.
The Greendale Thirteen
The Greendale Thirteen
Thirteen witches that were famously killed during less known trials held in Greendale.- Canon Foreigner: They were created for the series.
- Final Boss: Of the first half of season one. They are the final threat released against Sabrina and her friends.
- Kill It with Fire: Sabrina burns them with Hellfire, which eliminates their ghosts and sends them away.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite the fact that Dorothea Putnam was the one who helped them escape prosecution in Europe and was the only one who dared cut down their bodies and give them a proper burial, the Greendale Thirteen were still going to let the Red Angel of Death take Susie and the Walkers.
- Vengeful Ghost: When they come back in "The Witching Hour", they release a curse to kill the firstborn of all families in Greendale, witches and humans alike, as both are to blame for their deaths.
- Villain Has a Point: While their methods are bad news for Greendale, most characters concede that they have every right to be angry.
Eldritch Terrors
A group of eight cosmic primordial beings. The Dark
The Darkeness
The being of primordial darkness. It can also manipulate a person's feelings of despair and loneliness.- Dark Is Evil: As an eldritch abomination of pure darkness that can bring despair, it is definitely evil.
- Mind Rape: The Darkness can also bring up a person's darkest thoughts and manipulate them into feeling nothing but despair.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: It is trapped in a magical globe, strong enough it can contain its essence.
- The Sacred Darkness: In this case, the pure absence of light.
The Uninvited
A primordial being of those without a home or place to go. It takes the form of an unwashed vagrant.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: It takes the form of an unwashed, hungry vagrant, fitting its theme of not having place to live.
- And Show It to You: It rips the still beating heart out of anyone who doesn't invite it in.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: In an ironic twist, the Uninvited is trapped in a toy house, after being invited into it by Sabrina.
The Weird
- Animal Motifs: It appears as an aquatic invertebrate, most similar to a cuttlefish or octopus.
- Hive Mind: Implied to be it's goal of absorbing all beings into it. It also refers to itself as "We", implying it consists of multiple consciousnesses itself.
- Kill It with Ice: It is not killed, but is trapped in a block of ice thanks to Ambrose.
- Make Them Rot: After the Weird's consciousness attaches itself to Sabrina's mind, Pesta has to rot Sabrina's brain for the Weird to release her.
- Mars Needs Water: It needs water to survive. They remove it from Sabrina by dehydrating it but this only kills the physical body.
- Puppeteer Parasite: It is a small octopus like creature that can control bodies, both living and dead. It prefers ones that are powerful, which makes Sabrina a target.
- Red Herring: Just as the Weird arrives, a new student named Lucas Hunt also arrives at Baxter High. He and Sabrina hit it off. He also talks a lot about swimming and enjoying being underwater. However, it turns out he is a normal teenage boy, who happens to enjoy swimming, and Sabrina herself was possessed by the Weird.
The Perverse
- Jackass Genie: Of a sort. Blackwood wishes on it to be Emperor and to change reality so he was always emperor. However, the wish only seems to affect the immediate town of Greendale. When Ambrose and Robin leave the town line, their memories return.
- Make a Wish: Anyone who holds the Perverse and makes a wish will have it comes true.
- Reality Warper: Anyone who wishes on the Perverse can alter reality however they want, as Blackwood does. It seems depending on the wish, the user can also alter reality with or without the Perverse.
The Cosmic
- Alternate Universe: The Cosmic itself can create parallel universes. It sends 3 parallel realms — one of them being the Endless — crashing down on the original one.
- Odd Name Out: It and the Void are the only Eldritch Terrors without an episode named after them, with the Cosmic's being "Deus Ex Machina".
- Time Crash: It attempts to cause one by exploiting the two Sabrinas' existences to send three parallel universes crashing in on each other.
The Returned
- Back from the Dead: Its main theme is bringing the dead back to life.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Any Returned Soul can't be told they are dead, or they go Ax-Crazy and try to kill the person physically closest to them. They can be placated if they start going crazy.
The Endless
- Animal Motif: What animal has many lives and likes to toy with its prey? A cat, specifically the Endless version of Salem.
- Deadpan Snarker: The Endless is always ready with a witty one-liner, giving itself all the best lines.
- Enemy Mine: The Endless believes the Void will leave it alone, as they have always existed. Morningstar points out the Void is after her and will take the Endless to get her, leading to the Endless helping her escape.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Played with. Sabrina Morningstar repeats the same date, but new scenes are filmed each day.
- Mind Screw: In the Endless reality, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a show the Endless actors watch to get their lines for. In the Endless universe, they film their own TV show based on the original Sabrina series.
- Oh, Crap!: When it realizes that the Void is going to devour it and that the doubles are all servants of the Void, it's horrified.
- Reality Warper: Anything the Endless says will happen to anyone in its domain.
- To Serve Man: It has the people sent to the Green Room turned into cat food, which it and the cast members eat.
- Trapped in TV Land: The Endless is portrayed as a long-running television sitcom, specifically portrayed as close to the original Sabrina series.
The Void
- A Storm Is Coming: In the Endless universe, it is represented as a hurricane.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Due to its nature, it takes out the Cosmic and ostensibly the Endless in its chase of Sabrina.
- Light Is Not Good: The Void is represented by white and light. Sabrina confronts it in a large, white room.
- Mind Rape: Similar to the Darkness, the Void also plays mind games.
- Odd Name Out: It and the Cosmic are the only Eldritch Terrors without an episode named after them.
- The Power of the Void: Anything the Void touches is erased.
Other Entities
Eostre
Eostre
Eostre, also known as Lady of the Lake, was a minor goddess who was worshiped by witches before they devoted themselves exclusively to the Dark Lord.- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After She provided Sabrina with what she needs to save Nick, Eostre left Greendale because she knew that the old gods are coming.
The Red Angel of Death
The Red Angel of Death
The Angel of Death himself, summoned by the Greendale Thirteen to carry out their vengeance.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- The Dreaded: Everyone is terrified of facing him.
- The Grim Reaper: He appears as a far more powerful entity than the regular psychopomps that also appear in the show.
- I Have Many Names: The Red Angel of Death, The Crimson Rider, The Messenger of Crimson Death, or the Red Death.
- Shout-Out:
- His appearance draws inspiration from the usual depiction of The Masque of the Red Death.
- The punishment he intends to bring over Greendale (the death of every firstborn) mirrors the final of the 10 plagues of Egypt, which was also carried out by "The Angel of Death".
"Adam"
"Adam"
A creature created by Madam Satan with the blood of a man and her own rib.- Attack Its Weak Point: It is strong, but can be defeated by removing the rib from his body, since that's what gave it life.
- Dead Guy Junior: At least partially, Lilith named him after the man, Adam, that she fell in love with before Satan killed him.
- Meaningful Name: References both the Biblical character, and possibly Frankenstein's Monster, given his appearance.
- The Voiceless: It is apparently incapable of speech.
The Mandrake
The Mandrake
Played By: Kiernan Shipka
An evil clone Sabrina made of herself.
- Affably Evil: Despite her intention to kill, she believed that to be for the better of others and was trying to be nice about it.
- Alas, Poor Villain: On the grounds that she is essentially a kid, when Sabrina has to kill her, Sabrina rushes to her side to try to ease her passing and apologizing for cheating on their duel while they both cry.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Several Order of Judas members sent to assassinate Sabrina encounter her instead. She solves the problem quickly.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: She clearly thinks "fixing" her friends is the right thing to do, even if it means killing them and replacing them with other Mandrakes.
- Color Motif: She wears blue and brown, in order to differ her from the real Sabrina, whose color palette is composed mostly of red and black.
- Kill and Replace: What she planned to do with the real Sabrina, as well as her friends and anyone who showed any sort of meanness towards her.
- Plant Person: Technically she is a root made to look like a person by absorbing Sabrina's powers.
- Power Parasite: Unusually, a voluntary one, since Sabrina wanted to lose her powers, but she absorbs Sabrina's powers and is able to use them.
- Psychopathic Manchild: She's essentially a little kid given Sabrina's immense power. With that she wreaks havoc on everyone who doesn't give her what she wants or so much as disagrees with her.
Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate
The Pontius Pilate, who as Roman governor of Judaea presided over the trial of Jesus and ordered his crucifixion.- "Groundhog Day" Loop: He, his centurion and prisoner Barabbas are all stuck in one. Anyone who enters the loop, such as Sabrina and Caliban, always end up killed by him.
- Historical Domain Character: He is the same Roman governor who oversaw Jesus's crucifixion.
- Kangaroo Court: Pontius oversees a past, spectral one. He asks them who he should pardon and they always choose the thief Barabbas.
- Spanner in the Works: Sabrina becomes one for him. She wears a glamour and pretends to be Barabbas in order to be pardoned and steal the bowl. This ends up breaking the loop.
Pontius Pilate's Centurion
Pontius Pilate's Centurion
An undead Roman Centurion who carries out Pilate's will. He guards Pilate's bowl.- Enemy Mine: He joins Sabrina to go back in time and stop the Pagan gods.
- Guardian Entity: He is one for his part of the Unholy Regalia.
- No Name Given: He is only called "Centurion".
- The Voiceless: Of the 3 Unholy Regalia guardians, he does not speak except with grunts.
Barabbas
Barabbas
A so-called "thief" Pontius has prisoner and is stuck in the same time loop as Pilate.- Five-Second Foreshadowing: He is called a thief by Pontius Pilate and moments after being pardoned steals Pilate's bowl. Really it is Sabrina using a glamour to appear to be Barabbas, but the intent is the same.
- Historical Domain Character: He is the same prisoner who was pardoned instead of Jesus.
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot
The Judas Iscariot, one of the original Twelve Disciples of Jesus Christ, and the one who betrayed him to the Romans.- And I Must Scream: He was entombed in granite by Lucifer, with only has barely head exposed.
- Historical Domain Character: He is the same Judas who betrayed Jesus.
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler
The Vlad the Impaler, and the first vampire. He guards Judas's 30 pieces of silver.- Compelling Voice: He is able to hypnotize others using his voice.
- Enemy Mine: He joins Sabrina to go back in time and stop the Pagan gods.
- Guardian Entity: He is one for his part of the Unholy Regalia.
- Historical Domain Character: Based on Vlad the Impaler, the Wallachian prince known as Dracula.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: He attempts to drink Sabrina's blood, but it is poison for him because she is half-angel on her father's side.
Hecate
Hecate
Also known as the Triple Goddess and is the Goddess of the Moon. She becomes the new deity of the Church of Night, as they rebrand themselves as the "Order of Hecate".- The Ghost: She is not seen and the Greendale witches only pray to her. She responds by granting their power back and resurrecting Hilda.
- The Three Faces of Eve: She is the Goddess of this, specifically the mother, maiden and crone.
The Trinket Man
The Trinket man
A salesman who appears and sells Father Blackwood the Perverse statue.- Ambiguously Human: He appears relatively normal and does not portray any magical ability. He does have an uncanny ability to appear as people need him.
- Insistent Terminology: He calls himself the "Trinket Man, seller of fine trinkets" to everyone who meets him.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Despite having a briefcase full of magical objects, the salesman himself does not show any magical ability.
- Spanner in the Works: He is one for Blackwood. After Blackwood stole the Perverse statue, he also gives Ambrose the stone of Omphalos, which helps undo Blackwood's wish.
- He later appears and trades Sabrina Pandora's box for the Perverse, which helps her with stopping the Void.
