| The Source of All Evil | |
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| Peter Woodward as the Source | |
| First appearance: "All Hell Breaks Loose (Season 3, but see text on earlier influences in plotlines and dialog)" |
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| Last appearance: "Desperate Housewitches (season 8)" |
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| Created by: | Constance M. Burge, Brad Kern |
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| Full name: | The Source of All Evil |
| Species: | Upper Level Demon |
| Affiliation: | Demons, Evil beings, Shax, the Seer, the Oracle, |
| Notable family: |
Evil Spawn conceived by Cole Turner & Phoebe Halliwell |
| Notable powers: |
As the Source, he has numerous demonic powers, some of them are:
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The Source of All Evil is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed, a demon who is the ruler of the underworld for the show's first 4 seasons. He is portrayed by Michael Bailey Smith, Bennet Guillory and Peter Woodward over the course of the series and had a brief resurrection in one episode during the show's eighth season.
His first on screen appearance is in the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose", but his lurking backroom presence was a regular theme in the backplot creation of many prior episodes during the show's first four seasons--especially so in seasons three and four—- where he occurred regularly in exposition dialog as "a name" behind or of having sent or being connected with other evil entities mentioned. He is depicted very differently in appearance than in the later episodes (picture above, and right), having an appearance in early depictions of an unseen face-in-the-shadows in a heavily cowled dark colored robe, the first being a robe of blood-red velvet, the next few appearances, just ones in less exotic materials colored black.
The unhooded Source has a tattooed face, that when finally revealed, is partially mutilated from battles with other demons when he seized power.[1] It is said that the damage done to his face is the result of battles with the upper level demon Zankou[2], who appears as a major villain in the seventh season.
Among his many demonic powers are throwing fireballs, teleportation (with flames), manipulating flame, shape-shifting, summoning demons and evil beings, mind control, and possession. He sends numerous demons after the Halliwell sisters during the development of various plots in the series' eight seasons, including the Triad and so indirectly the half-human/half-demon love interest of Phoebe Halliwell, Belthazor/Cole Turner. He later puts a bounty on Cole's head when he turns to the good.
His greatest victory comes when Prue is killed by his assassin Shax[3] in "All Hell Breaks Loose".
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Season 1
The show’s first season sees two warlocks, under the aliases Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster, stalking and attempting to murder the three Charmed Ones. In the episode The Witch Is Back, Buckland mentions having failed a mysterious “He”, after the 17th century warlock Matthew Tate, is unsuccessful in killing the sisters. The two agree that by outing the Halliwells as descendants of Melinda Warren (and thus, as the Charmed Ones) that it is not a complete failure, a feat which will buy them time to vanquish the sisters themselves. Following this, Buckland and Webster expose themselves as warlocks to the Charmed Ones, when they attempt to steal their powers, but fail in killing them. This leads to Hannah being seen spontaneously combusting, screaming out in pain “wait, it wasn’t my fault. I didn’t fail”, whilst being vanquished by an off-screen and unknown force. It is likely, that these two warlocks were hired by the Source to kill the Charmed Ones, the mysterious “He” who vanquished them when they failed in their mission.[4].
Season 2
In "Give Me a Sign", Litvack refers to the Source as his boss. After the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse fail to end the world, the Source vanquishes them, though as in "Wicca Envy," he is not actually shown on screen. It is known that it is him because it is mentioned throughout the episode that only the Source could kill them and also at the end of the episode it is the Source keeping the vortex open, thus killing them.[5]
Season 3
The Source is talked about all through the season mainly by demons who he sends to kill the Charmed Ones. The first time he is seen, is during the third season finale, after his assassin Shax tries to kill a good doctor the Source wants dead. When the saving of the doctor reveals the existence of magic to the world, he uses the demon Tempest to restart time to the point when the doctor was saved. In the end Shax kills the Charmed One, Prue Halliwell and the doctor, destroying the original Power of Three[3]
Season 4
The Source renews his war against the Charmed Ones after they are reconstituted.[6] He makes several attempts on the Charmed Ones' lives and their powers, including putting Piper into a coma in order to force her to give up her powers,[7] and taking in The Hollow,[8] an ancient formless being that has the power to absorb all magic, and, if not contained, destroy the entire world. He is successful in stealing their powers, but Cole Turner takes in The Hollow, and absorbs the Source's power when he throws a fireball at him.[8] The Charmed Ones then vanquish the Source the only way possible: calling all of the magic from their entire family line.[8]
However, after his death, his powers and his spirit are absorbed by Cole, who is a mortal human at the time and he possesses Cole, who eventually becomes the new Source.[9] Cole attains the full powers of the Source in a ceremony that involves the evil Grimoire, the dark counterpart to the Book of Shadows.[9] The possessed Cole is killed by the Charmed Ones shortly after his official reign begins.
After Cole's first physical death, his widow, Phoebe, is carrying the child of The Source, whose powers are intensified by a "tonic" potion created by The Seer and given to Phoebe (who was prevented from having the child be a powerful being of good that was of her and of Cole, via her unknowingly being bound in her "dark" wedding ceremony to the Source) grows powerful enough that he can control his mother from the womb. The unborn child is stolen by The Seer in her bid to become the new Source, but in the end both are vanquished for good.[10]
Season 8
Four years later, an unnamed possessor demon invades the body of a woman named Mandi, in order to manipulate Wyatt.[11] She then uses Wyatt's incredible powers to bring the previous half-faced Source back from the dead. This also, again, makes the point that Cole Turner was not the Source in and of himself, but was possessed by the Source (or Cole would have returned instead of the half-faced Source, when Wyatt's powers are used to bring back the Source). However, Leo and Billie, trapped in Magic School with no way to get home, realize the school has been taken over by evil, and discover the demon's plan.[11] Shortly after, they find a spell to return Billie, who warns the Charmed Ones, who in return go to Magic School to rescue Leo. Meanwhile, Leo stays in the school to watch over Wyatt. Although he is disguised from the world, the Source senses that he is in fact the Charmed Ones' former Whitelighter. The Charmed Ones arrive just in time, and Piper vanquishes the unnamed demon, and with it the resurrected Source, as their magic is interconnected.[11]
Spells
- To Vanquish the Source:
Prudence, Patricia, Penelope, Melinda,
Astrid, Helena, Laura and Grace;
Halliwell witches stand strong beside us;
vanquish this evil from time and space.
Trivia (on the half-faced Source)
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- The actor Peter Woodward who plays the half-faced source, also appears as another demon in the season seven episodes "Someone to witch over me" and "Ordinary witches". This demon is Aku, the Sarpedon's mentor who the Sarpedon eventually kills.
- He was responsible for incarcerating the powerful demon Zankou[12] & The Tall Man.
- He is also responsible for banishing numerous beings from the underworld, such as: The vampires, wizards, Kurzon and even possibly, Hecate.
- On Charmed, when Hecate appeared, it was said that she was the Queen of the Underworld - meaning that it is possible that she was with the Source during that time. After the Charmed Ones defeated her, she fled back to the Underworld, and never appeared later on in the series.
- When he first appeared (In season 3), he was dressed in a red robe with a red hood covering his face.[8] He had large wings attached to his back, and was holding a sword. In season 4, he was only dressed in a black robe with a black hood covering his face.[6] He was also considerably less stout.
- His face remained covered until one of the guardians (the evil one) of The Hollow zapped him with a lightning strike. The Source then rose with his face finally showing. Since then, he didn't put the hood back on.
- Only upper level demons (and the Charmed Ones) have seen his face.
References
- ^ "Desperate Housewitches". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2005-10-16.
- ^ "Witchness Protection". Charmed. The WB Television Network.
- ^ a b "All Hell Breaks Loose". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2001-05-17.
- ^ "Wicca Envy". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 1999-01-13.
- ^ "Apocalypse Not". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2000-05-11.
- ^ a b "Charmed Again (Part 1)". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2001-10-04.
- ^ "Brain Drain". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2001-11-08.
- ^ a b c d "Charmed and Dangerous". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-02-07.
- ^ a b "Long Live the Queen". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-05-02.
- ^ "Womb Raider". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-05-09.
- ^ a b c "Imaginary Fiends". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2005-05-08.
- ^ "Witchness Protection". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2004-11-28.
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