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===Vulnerabilities===
* Ancient beings – Certain beings that predate the angel's creation, such as [[Eve]], can inhibit an angel from using his or her thier powers. It is not known if this applies to higher tier tiered angels, such as the archangels. Eve existed before angels, and suggests that she has knowledge that angels lack. Leviathan's have been shown to be able to over power overpower and kill angels with little effort. * [[Angel banishing sigil]] – Drawn in human blood, when a hand is placed on the sigil, angels are temporarily banished from the area. It can be used by humans and angels, and the angel who uses it does not disappear with the others. Castiel uses an extreme form of this when he carves the sigil into his vessel's chest; on this occasion, he vanished with the other angels, and returned near mortal.<ref name="five18" /> It is powerful enough to banish an [[archangel]] as strong as [[Lucifer]] as well as regular angels.<ref name="eleven14">[[11.14 The Vessel]]</ref>
* [[Angel blade]] – A short blade carried around by angels, can be wielded by humans.
* [[Angel sword]] – A sword that is carried by the [[Grigori]] class of angels. Has the same effect as the angel blade.
* [[Angel Traptrap]] – Much like how a devil's trap works for demons, painting a special sigil can trap an angel within it's confines.
* [[Archangel]]s – Can easily overpower angels, often killing or banishing them by snapping their fingers.<ref name="five08" /><ref name="five13" /><ref name="five22" />
* [[Archangel blade]] – A short blade once carried by the [[archangel]]s that is capable of killing an archangel,<ref name="five19" /> but only when wielded by another archangel<ref name="thirteen13">[[13.13 Devil's Bargain]]</ref> or a [[vessel]] powered by an archangel.<ref name="thirteen23">[[13.23 Let the Good Times Roll]]</ref> The archangel blades were thought to be lost forever until one was unearthed by [[Asmodeus]].
* [[Cambion]] – [[Jesse Turner]] has the power to transform Castiel into a toy. Castiel says that Jesse could "destroy the Host of Heaven with a word."
* [[The Colt]] – The gun's power against angels is uncertain. It was ineffective against Lucifer, but he stated that only five things could not be killed with this weapon, so it is possible that the Colt may work on angels, but not archangels.
* [[Death's scythe]] – Crowley states that it will can kill an angel.<ref name="five21" />
* [[Demons]] – In certain situations, if there are a significant number of demons, an angel can be overpowered by a horde. Even at full strength, angels travelling into Hell was deemed a dangerous endeavor.
* [[Enochian]] [[Warding Sigils|warding]] – They can be used to disguise the location of those bearing the symbols. Castiel carved the symbols into Sam and Dean's and later Adam's ribs. Enochian sigils can also be used to keep angels from entering a building.<ref name="four16" /><ref name="five10">[[5.10 Abandon All Hope...]]</ref>
* Exorcism chant – There is an exorcism chant to expel angels from their human vessels. It seems that the chant is not well known as only one demon, Alastair, has ever used it.<ref name="four10" /><ref name="four16" />
* [[The Fall]] – After the angels fell from Heaven due to Metatron's spell, all angels have become more susceptible to physical damage as well as having lost the ability to teleport and time travel.
* [[Holy oil]] – This can be used to trap or kill an angel. Castiel uses used a Molotov cocktail of holy oil to temporarily banish Michael at [[Stull Cemetery]].<ref name="five22" />
* [[Naomi]]'s [[Mind Hacking|torture spike]] – Naomi's torture spike can be used to torture and possibly bend an angel to another angel's will.
* Pieces of [[Heaven]] – Any physical piece of Heaven itself can be used to kill an angel as shown when [[Gadreel]] uses a piece of rock from the wall of Heaven's dungeon to commit suicide.
* [[Staff of Moses]] – The staff has control over the 10 Plagues of Egypt, and appears to be effective even against angels.<ref name="six03" />
* Unsuitable [[vessel]]s – If an angel takes a vessel that cannot hold the angel's power, it will begin to burn out unless they find a more suitable one. In extreme cases the vessel will explode upon possession.
* [[Vessel]] expulsion – If an vessel does not want the angel in them anymore any longer and they are aware of the possession and have sufficient will power to exert control, they can expel the angel possessing them though it seems to cause no harm besides rendering the angel bodiless.
==The Winchesters' Beliefs==
