Archangel

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Name	Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel, and Raphael
Actor	Matthew Cohen, Mark Pellegrino, Richard Speight Jr, Demore Barnes
Dates	?
Location	no fixed address
Occupation	Archangel
Episode(s)	4.18 The Monster At The End Of This Book, 4.22 Lucifer Rising, 5.01 Sympathy For The Devil, 5.03 Free To Be You And Me, 5.04 The End, 5.08 Changing Channels, 5.10 Abandon All Hope, 5.13 The Song Remains The Same, 5.19 Hammer Of The Gods

Archangels are the most powerful and high-ranking angels in the celestial hierarchy in Supernatural. Castiel describes them as "Heaven's most terrifying weapon".

Out of all the angels of heaven, only four of them (according to Anna Milton) have seen God's face. It is implied that these four are four archangels:

• Michael - Michael is the Commander of God's Army. He is the older brother of Lucifer.
• Lucifer - Lucifer is an angel who was banished and cast into Hell for his defiance and disobedience. He is the younger brother of Michael.
• Gabriel - Gabriel left Heaven due to Michael and Lucifer; these two brothers were constantly bickering and arguing amongst each other.
• Raphael - Raphael is speculated to be Chuck's guardian.

Raphael may be the archangel who protects Chuck Shurley the prophet - whoever this archangel is there angelic form appears as a thunderous sound and a blinding white light.

Castiel described archangels as being far more powerful than a Trickster, which makes them extremely powerful and very dangerous.

Archangels have incredible powers compared to other creatures. Raphael when he returned to heaven created a massive ball of pure white, holy energy that destroyed all the demons in the vicinity and destroyed the gas station. Gabriel showed the powers to create practically anything, even pocket universes! He can create time loops while singling out Sam as the only one aware of it and alter reality. Lucifer and Michael can reputedly destroy the entire earth if they chose to.

• Archangels can incinerate a lesser angel just by touching them, as seen when Michael destroys Anna.

• Archangels are far more powerful than Tricksters, at least according to Cass.

• Archangels seem to negatively affect the entire area around them when they land

• Both Michael and Lucifer emit a frequency burst when their angelic essence is present somewhere on Earth; Michael demonstrated this ability twice already, he first demonstrated this to get Zachariah's attention, he did this to announce that he is willing to give Zachariah another chance at his job. He demonstrated this again when he was summoned to Earth by Zachariah, after this angelic sound burst, Michael's angelic spirit engulfed the room in white light, this white light engulfed Adam, Adam and Michael disappeared on the spot, their current location is unknown. Lucifer fist demonstrated this ability in 4.22 Lucifer Rising. His angelic spirit emitted an angelic frequency burst with such magnitude that it brought Sam and Dean to their knees, this was after Sam had released him from Hell. Shortly after, Lucifer's angelic energy engulfed the entire Convent and exploded almost instantly.

When Castiel and Dean captured Raphael, Dean jokingly asked, "Is that the best you can do? Black out a house?" to which Raphael replied, "And all of the Eastern Seaboard!"

When Lucifer enters the world from Hell he brings massive earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, diseases (including swine flu) and probably more. When Lucifer appears in 5.04 The End a storm erupts and when he teleports behind Dean there is the sound of thunder.

• Archangels on Wikipedia