History Characters / SupernaturalAngels

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:His murder of Naomi by giving her a KarmicDeath in the Season 8 finale.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Minor example, but he chose an abusive husband for his vessel so that he could act without feeling guilty about taking away his vessel's freedom.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Even though most people don't like [[spoiler:Gadreel]], Thaddeus was enough of an asshole he's clearly better off dead.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Anna was pretty well-liked by most fans up until her abrupt return to kill Sam -- and then his and Dean's parents, to wipe both brothers from history -- which turned much of the fanbase firmly against her. When [[BigBadEnsemble Michael]] [[VillainousRescue arrived]] to administer her a CruelAndUnusualDeath, he was generally cheered, even though he then tried to manipulate Dean into saying yes. It helped fan appreciation that it was a really cool-looking death, even if it wasn't too pleasant for Anna to experience.

* SuperpowerLottery: Let's see--they have shown: SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, {{Flight}}, [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]], [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic voice]], the ability to [[TimeTravel travel through time]], {{Telepathy}}, [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], [[DreamWalker dream-walking]], {{Immortality}}, [[HolyHandGrenade destroy anything in their path with light]], [[PowerOfTheStorm the ability to manipulate weather]], an [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm eye-searing true form]], {{invisibility}}, [[RealityWarper reality-warping]], reverse a person's transformation into a monster, [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]], and the power to [[HealingHands heal]] and even bring dead humans back to life.

* CoolGun: '''The Colt'''. Castiel believed that the Colt was the only thing that could possibly kill Lucifer. Although a shot to the head failed to kill Lucifer, it's unknown if the Colt is capable of killing other regular angels, but Lucifer says there are only five beings immune to it (presumably he meant the other three archangels and God), so it's probable. Separately from the Colt, Crowley has used bullets made from melted-down angel blades to kill them using an ordinary gun.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Inverted. Notice how she starts putting the moves on Dean [[MustNotDieAVirgin when she thinks she's going to die]]?

* ShipTease: In addition to her canonical InterspeciesRomance with Dean, Anna and Castiel's interactions have romantic subtext and their actors even posited the possibility of a past -- or potential past -- romance between them. {{Yuri Fan}}s also interpret Anna's overt friendliness to Ruby as an [[AngelDevilShipping indicator of attraction]]. All three ships have been [[ShipSinking thoroughly sunk]] as of Ruby's death in "Lucifer Rising" and Anna's JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and death in "The Song Remains the Same".

* BadassBaritone: Some of the male angels, including Castiel, Uriel and Ezekiel, tend to have deeper voices.

* BadassBaritone: Like many of the other male angels.

* BadassBaritone: Much like a few of the other male angels.

* WideEyedIdealist: Still believes after all the damage Castiel caused that he was only trying to make things better.

* {{Envy}}: Though smug, Bartholomew reveals he is in fact envious of Castiel, due to when they fought together against Raphael, Castiel's strategy succeeded when his worries failed. It's implied it's partially because of envy that he is evil.

* BadassInCharge: She was the lieutenant to the Archangels.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: They are assigned as protectors of God's creations (i.e. humans) and are very powerful. The higher the angel is in the celestial hierarchy, the more powerful they are.

* AngelicAbomination: Despite looking human, their true forms are so powerful and alien they'd drive humans mad or straight up kill them.
* AngelicBeauty: Played with. Castiel, Michael, Anna, Rachel, Ezekiel, and Hael are quite attractive. They use [[WillingChanneler hosts]], so technically the fanbase is finding the human hosts pretty, not the actual angels. The only angel whose celestial form is explicitly described as "beautiful" in-story is [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]. The angels themselves are actually of the EldritchAbomination variety, but the show has [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm never shown their true forms]].

* EldritchAbomination: The true form or voice of an angel will kill (or at the least burn the eyes out of) whoever sees/hears it except the angels' true vessel. When Castiel tries to talk to Dean without a vessel, he breaks every window in a shop, fries the electronics and all Dean hears is a painful and loud white noise. Castiel later describes himself as being as tall as the Chrysler Building. This is actually similar to some [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament]] depictions of angels.
-->'''Zachariah:''' My real form has six wings and four faces. One of which is a ''lion''.

* BaldOfEvil: Dean even made fun of it. Zachariah's rather frightening retort points out it's just a vision that the Winchesters' minds can actually process. In Heaven, his true form is [[EldritchAbomination a gigantic, six-winged angel with four heads]]...one of which is ''a lion''.

* BrotherSisterIncest: She starts developing feelings for Castiel, who's essentially ''her brother''. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop her from torturing him.]]

* VillainousIncest: With Lucifer (given that as they're both angels, they're also siblings).

** The nice, angelic supernatural LoveInterest to Dean in "Heaven and Hell" compared to Ruby's pricklier, demonic supernatural LoveInterest to Sam. They are both unlike other members of their species and that makes them rebels against their respective kinds. Anna seems to pick up on this similarity and feel close to Ruby as a result, going out of her way to assure Ruby she won't hurt her with almost the same words she had used to validate Ruby as an ally ("Don't worry, I'm not like the others" v "Ruby's not like other demons"). Turned on its head with TheReveal that Ruby is actually a HeelFaceMole. Anna also ends up betraying the brothers for a cause that she believes in, though she intends to kill Sam for it while Ruby's cause hinged on his survival.

!!!Rank in Heaven: Unknown, but referred to as [[TheRedBaron "The Anarchist"]]

* TrueNeutral: {{Invoked}} by himself, when he intentionally cuts himself out from the whole world to avoid getting in the fight between Michael and Lucifer. He'd also rather listen to the stories as told by people and read up on mankind's greatest books. [[WhatTheHellHero Sam and Dean call him out for it]] and tell Metatron about Kevin, eplaining how much hell the kid has gone through. Metatron also sees what happened with Sam and how close he was getting to the last test. [[NeutralNoLonger When that was said and done, Metatron decides to do something about it]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they find out later that [[{{Revenge}} this was not a good thing]].]]

* ArchEnemy: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]].

* BadassBoast: Most angels get one, from Castiel and Zachariah describing what they really look like, to Anna or Uriel making simple statements about what they can do.
-->'''Dean:''' I thought you were supposed to be impressive. All you do is black out the room?
-->'''Raphael:''' And the Eastern Seaboard. It is a testament to my unending mercy that I don't smite you. Here and now.

-->'''Castiel:''' But today, you're my little bitch.
* BadassFamily: A very dysfunctional one, as well.

* CoolGun: '''The Colt'''. Castiel believed that the Colt was the only thing that could possibly kill Lucifer. Although a shot to the head failed to kill Lucifer, it's unknown if the Colt is capable of killing other regular angels, but Lucifer says there are only five beings immune to it (presumably he meant the other three archangels and God), so it's probable. Separately from the Colt, Crowley has used bullets made from melted-down angel blades (see below) to kill them using an ordinary gun.

* CouncilOfAngels: After God's departure, Heaven is ruled by the Host of Heaven, a fancy word for the entire assemblage of angels. This goes on a bit of a problem when they start fighting among themselves.

* DepopulationBomb: Since their introduction in Season 4, the angels have de facto replaced demons as {{Mooks}} for the heroes to kill and prove their badassery; in the recent seasons, angel casualties are somewhere around ''nine times'' the number of demon casualties (although this is made up in large part by the offscreen casualty list caused by [[spoiler: Metatron's banishment spell in Season 8]]). This comes despite the fact that it has been stated very early on that angels are not infinite, and unlike humans and demons, they cannot multiply or corrupt other beings to become themselves. Also, they guard Heaven. Most of them are jerkasses, yes, but unlike demons who screw around the world for fun, the angels actually have an important work to do. Those souls just won't organize by themselves. And yet, despite the facts, everyone never bothers to stop and think when they try to kill angels, the Winchesters included. All of these culminate with the grim but realistic truth by Season 13 that [[spoiler: angels have been reduced to less than a dozen, and without them keeping Heaven's peace, the universe would fall in chaos]].

* EvilAllAlong: Most of the high-ranking ones. The rest are mostly JustFollowingOrders.

* TheFatalist: All angels take this view; Castiel was the first to avert it.

* TheFettered: Well, they like to see themselves as this. But they're rather delusional like that.

* HolierThanThou: Angels have a reputation among those who've met them for being uptight dicks. Though not all angels have a high-and-mighty attitude, many of them to some degree or another tend to act like they're morally (and racially) superior to other sentient beings and species. For at least some of them, this is partly rooted in angelkind's more direct ties to God (despite the fact that practically ''none'' of them have ever even met their Father) and Michael's [[WellDoneSonGuy pro-God]] propaganda, whilst the ones who are under no illusions about the fact God is gone [[FantasticRacism still look down on all non-angels anyway]]. Unfortunately, the angels ''also'' tend to me {{Knight Templar}}s about as frequently as monsters are people-killers, being dogmatic to a murderous and sometimes even genocidal degree.

* AnIcePerson: Lucifer demonstrated the ability to freeze a pane of glass with his breath. His presence can cause an entire town to drop in temperature.

* KnightTemplar: What about 95% of the race really is. Around the 5% that are actually good have trouble getting it.

* LightIsGood: Only very few of them.
* LightIsNotGood: Applies to a majority of them. But see EvilAllAlong.

* NotSoAboveItAll: See the quote in ParentalAbandonment. Plus, they're all really ''petty''.

* TheStoic: Many of them.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: By Season 13 [[spoiler:due to their species being on the verge of collapse the remaining angels in heaven decide to ally with Lucifer when he promises to create more of their brethren and restore their wings. Unfortunately these all turn out to be lies and Lucifer has no idea how to do either.]]

* WeHaveReserves: Inverted. It's established as early as Season 4 by Castiel that angels are not unlimited in number. Indeed what gives the angels their strength is their pure power rather then their numbers. By Season 13, a combination of an aborted Apocalypse, a Civil War, the Fall, and various other incidents over the years has reduced the population of angels [[spoiler:to a measly dozen or so, leaving Heaven on the verge of collapse.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Almost all of them, to different extents.

* BadassBoast: Most of his threats towards the Winchesters probably count.

* FantasticRacism: Towards humans and demons alike. Uriel uses slurs like "mud monkeys" and "plumbing on two legs" to refer to humans, and derisively calls demons "a stain" or "pussing sore." He has an even lower opinion of angels like [Anna who've lost their grace -- he thinks that they're even worse than ''demons''.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Seems to have some good humor in him at first. But it's all a lie.
* KilledOffForReal: Anna stabs him in the throat with an angel blade in "On The Head of A Pin".

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: See his quote above. As a specialist, Uriel takes pride in smiting demons and humans alike in order to "purify" Earth.

* SixthRangerTraitor: As revealed in "On the Head of a Pin."
* SmugSmiler: Especially when he's smiting.

* BadassBoast: She gets two in "On the Head of a Pin":
-->'''Castiel:''' We still have orders to kill you.\\

-->'''Uriel:''' There is no will! No wrath! ... No ''God''.\\

-->'''Castiel:''' Anna, whatever they sent you here to do-\\

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] -- her regaining her grace destroyed her human body, but she liked the way she looked in it so she "called in some favors" to have it restored.

* HumansAreSpecial: Anna believes this to the extent that she genuinely considers her own kind inferior in comparison. She admires humans' capacity for emotions such as loyalty, forgiveness and love, [[TheHedonist as well as for funner things]] like [[SweetTooth chocolate cake]] and [[SexIsGood sex]].

* NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: Anna [[HearingVoices hears voices]] and is diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, the religious overtones of her delusions and hallucinations attributed to her being a PreachersKid. She is even diagnosed in her early 20's, which is around the same age real-life schizophrenia typically manifests. In her childhood, she also needed to be taken to a child psychiatrist due to {{Freak Out}}s that her "real" dad (later revealed to be God) was going to kill her. Sam and Dean realize everything she is saying is actually eerily accurate and she really is somehow hearing angels. It is soon explained that she is herself an angel who has turned human and whose remaining PsychicPowers make her appear mentally ill to {{Muggles}}.

* WorfHadTheFlu: The reason why she didn't just kill the Winchesters family immediately and ultimately had to recruit Uriel for help to do the deed was that her power was severely drained from TimeTravel and she was still suffering its side-effects. If Heaven was ''not'' helping her, she was also likely low on power even before that because fallen angels are cut off from Heaven's powers. If she had more juice, she likely would've finished them all off right there in the garage. Note that MemeticBadass Castiel pulled the same trick as Anna and was actually rendered ''unconscious'' as a result for almost the entire duration of the episode.[[note]]Though he also had to carry two passengers with him and he likely would've recovered to confront her himself if he hadn't had to take them.[[/note]]

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: See KickTheDog.

* OutGambitted: By Dean in "Point of No Return."

* SmugSmiler: Comes with the corporate ooze he admits.
* SmugSnake: The man's a SlimeBall. Through and through.

* DeusExMachina: In "Dark Side of the Moon."

* [[MouthOfSauron Mouth Of God]]: He states to the Winchesters that God talks directly to him, and he relays God's message for the boys to them.

* DeadpanSnarker: Going with his flamboyant personality.

* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Castiel kills him from behind with an angel sword in the Season 6 finale.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Turning to Sam and Dean's side, cause he's afraid of the damage the souls will do, not just to Cas but the world, leads to [[spoiler:Castiel murdering him.]]
* ScrewDestiny: Not just the present and future, either. [[TakeThat Just because he hated that movie with Leonardo Di Caprio]]. (Though it turns out that he really did it [[spoiler:on Castiel's orders]].)

* TheBrute: For Raphael.

* TheStoic: The only time he shows any emotion is when he finds out he's no longer an angel in the alternative world, his response? Engage in hand-to-hand.

* TheLancer: To Castiel during the civil war in Heaven.

-->'''Dean''': Look, I don't know who you think you are...\\

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Castiel kills her with an angel sword when she tries to kill him after discovering his plan to open Purgatory.]]

A angel who took over the garrison following the civil war. She leads a group of angels who seek to isolate and protect Kevin after he becomes a prophet.

* FantasticRacism: Towards humans and demons.
* HotBlooded: Hester is rather quick-tempered.

* RedOniBlueOni: Hester is the Red to Inias' Blue.

* SmugSmiler: It's even in the photo! Though she isn't on par with Zachariah. She surpasses him.

Metatron remained isolated from the events of Heaven, Hell, and the world, until Sam and Dean visit him, attempting to find out what the third Trial is to close the gates of Hell.As it turns out, going to him [[{{Revenge}} leads to something else entirely]].

* BadassBookworm: Metatron really just wanted to sit around and read the stories, and is also extremely smart. That won't stop him from using a double-barrel shotgun on a couple of people he believed to be intruders.

* DeadpanSnarker: He has got this gift.

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:To Chuck Shurley (a.k.a. God Himself). Metatron and Chuck are both writers. Chuck simply wrote everything he saw down, without any expectation of a reward; Metatron wrote his "story" with the expressly-stated intent to make himself not only the "hero" but a god.]]
** And then ''inverted'' later when [[spoiler: God reveals that His "without any expectation of a reward" means that He doesn't care what will happen to the everyone and everything, including humans. Which means that He doesn't care if the story ends with a HappyEnding, a BittersweetEnding, a DownerEnding, or a ShootTheShaggyDog kind. Meanwhile, Metatron, who at least wants something enjoyable to come out of this mess of a story, is understandably disappointed when he learns that everyone's, good or bad efforts will boil down to nothing at the end.]]

* ExpositionBeam: He forces a few millennium worth of stories into Castiel's head so he will [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure understand his (and everyone else's) references to human culture]].

* HannibalLecture: [[spoiler:In "Meta Fiction," when he's speaking to Castiel.]]

* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:In Season 8.]]
* HumansAreSpecial: Metatron is amazed by the inventiveness of humans and has presumably spent millennia listening to their stories and reading books.
** He actually says this almost word-for-word to [[spoiler: convince God to take His responsibility as the Creator and combat the Darkness. It ''works''!]]

* LaughablyEvil: He can be pretty hilarious sometimes in a nerdy sort of way. [[spoiler:But then the Evil side takes over...]]

* MoreHateableMinorVillain: During Season 10, he functions as one to the Mark of Cain and Rowena, the closest things this particular season had to {{big bad}}s. Whereas the Mark of Cain is a non-sentient, impersonal force and Rowena despite her evil has some humanizing moments, successes and a suave demeanor; Metatron during this season is mostly smug, spiteful and "all talk and no action", and he turns into a simpering, pathetic DirtyCoward the ''moment'' he's rendered mortal and finds himself at Team Free Will's mercy.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:After being apprehended by the angels in the Season 9 finale.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: Though a minor angel and not even a warrior, Metatron really has a big ego; he holds himself up as a successor to God and claims he is better cause he doesn't publish the first draft.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:Very smart and cunning, but not smart enough as the Season 9 finale showed us.]]

* TheThreeTrials: He, after all, was the one who created them to shut down Hell. [[spoiler:He also knows the ones that can shut down Heaven, too. In actuality, this was a lie since his real goal was to get into Heaven and not shut it down, but cast a spell that caused all angels to fall.]]
* TrueNeutral: {{Invoked}} by himself, when he intentionally cuts himself out from the whole world to avoid getting in the fight between Michael and Lucifer. He'd also rather listen to the stories as told by people and read up on mankind's greatest books. [[WhatTheHellHero Sam and Dean call him out for it]] and mention to Metatron about Kevin by telling him how much hell the kid has gone through. Metatron also sees what happened with Sam and how close he was getting to the last test. [[NeutralNoLonger When that was said and done, Metatron decides to do something about it]]. [[spoiler:Of course, they find out later that [[{{Revenge}} this was not a good thing]].]]

* WickedCultured: [[spoiler:Down to his love of reading he is very well read, able to casually quote Samuel Johnson. His office in Heaven certainly qualifies him.]]

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: He believes in having some honor, even against enemies.]]

* TheAtoner: Thoroughly deconstructed to the point of {{Narm}}. [[spoiler: Gadreel still feels the guilt for failing back in Eden and wants to do whatever he needs to for repentance, which Metatron happily manipulates by having him kill anyone who gets in Metatron's way from Kevin Tran to dozens of fellow angels under the guise of building a better Heaven. He comes off less like a heroic atoner and more like a self-absorbed puppet clamoring for a do-over while not owning up to any responsibility for current wrongdoings. Eventually he realized that since his imprisonment he had become obsessed with redeeming himself and regaining his good name to the point that he lost sight of the true mission of protecting others.]]

* NobleDemon: [[spoiler:Believes in having honor and doesn't like subterfuge even against sworn enemies. Castiel believes he can make Gadreel see Metatron for what he is due to this very trope.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Despite being a FallenAngel, he's still got some power left in him, although it takes a lot out of him.
* PostVictoryCollapse: Ezekiel suffers this, although Dean was the one responsible for the victory.
-->'''Ezekiel:''' I heard your prayer, and I am here to help. (''his eyes close and he thuds against the ground'')

* {{Envy}}: Though smug, Bartholomew reveals he is in fact envious of Castiel, due to when they fought together against Raphael, Castiel strategy succeeded when his worries failed. Its implied its partially down to Envy he is evil.
* EvilFormerFriend: He used to be Castiel's friend, and the two even fought together in heaven's civil war, however Bartholomew became envious at Cas's ability and success compared to his failure. Never the less, upon there first meeting since the fall Bartholomew tried to recruit Cas to his side, and restore there friendship with him in the dominant role.

* TheManBehindTheMan: To Reverend Boyle.
* ManipulativeBastard: Easily manipulates Reverend Boyle into providing his followers with Vessels and keeps him going after he see's that some people can't hold Angels and it kills them.

* CombatMedic: His specific job, as that what his class of angels are for.

* ColdBloodedTorture: He has no problem with this, either.

* {{Jerkass}}: Both in Heaven and on Earth.

* KilledOffForReal

A angel who fell to Earth after Metatron banished all angels from Heaven, she eventually met Castiel and worked with him to return the angels to Heaven and defeat Metatron.

* KnightTemplar: Will do anything to [[spoiler: lock Metatron.]] And when [[spoiler: the Winchesters and Castiel try (and manage) to free him, she will hunt them down.]]

** TheBusCameBack: She returns for two more episodes afterward, both of which show her in [[GenderBender a male vessel]].

->'''Ishim''': I'm gonna help you. [[LoveIsAWeakness I'm gonna cure you of your human weakness same way I cured my own]] –- [[AndYourLittleDogToo by cutting it out]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Had the angel Akobel killed for coupling with Lily against the rules of Heaven. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Lily who rejected his own advances beforehand]].

* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: In Season 14, she tries to control Jack and threatens Castiel which get her a swift impalement with the Angel blade.]]

* DrunkWithPower: [[spoiler: Takes control of Heaven towards the end of Season 14 and begins an oppressive rule, and also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Jack to solidify her power base before being killed by Castiel in "Jack In The Box" for her actions.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Stabbed by Castiel with an angel blade in "Jack In the Box"]].
* LeeroyJenkins: Though her chance to defeat Lucifer in a combat is slim, she says it is worth the try.

* PragmaticVillainy: She immediately loses her aggression and concedes to Lucifer when he claims to be able to create more angels. She is also willing to put aside her previous hostile encounter with Castiel and work with him when he breaks the news of [[spoiler: Gabriel's survival]]. In either cases, this is because all she wants is to fix Heaven; it doesn't matter who she is going to deal with and how.

* CrisisOfFaith: "Game Night" reveals that she's this since her first visit to Earth. She stopped believing that God really cared about his creations when she saw his so-called perfect creations, humans, dying in the thousands everyday and decided that she doesn't need God. She set up her faith healing business so she could try her hands at being God, or rather, God as she wants Him to be. Basically, she is a less genocidal version of Metatron.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The generally immoral Anael still thinks she has heaven's best interests in mind... but teams up with Lucifer because she wants to improve how things are run there. Nevertheless, she's disgusted when Lucifer reveals that all of his promises were lies, and that he only made them so he could use Heaven's resources to search for Jack and tells him as such.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: As she lampshades before the fall she was just a simple button pushier in Heaven whose ideas were constantly ignored after the fall she made a name, and a tidy profit, as renowned faith healer Sister Jo. And once she teams up with Lucifer she becomes his NumberTwo in Heaven.

* HiddenDepths: Before she was Heaven's button pushier, she worked under Joshua and was considered a candidate to succeed him as God's intermediate.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When she learns that Lucifer is not capable of creating angels, she accuses him that he is a loser, not because God told everyone so, but because of his own shortcomings, and that he might as well be back in the Cage.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Metatron's angel-banishing spell ended up freeing Gadreel from his prison, and he even brags to Gadreel in "Holy Terror" that he was the one who freed him from his dungeon. In the Season 9 finale, Metatron ends up imprisoned in the same dungeon he had freed Gadreel from with his spell.]]

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumour: Dean thinks he might have an even worse sense of humour than [[TheComicallySerious Castiel]], which is ''really'' saying something. According to Cas, he's still funnier than the rest of the garrison.