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[[File:TheCage.png|500pxthumb|right|500px|Lucifer's Cage.]]
==History==
After [[Lucifer ]] was banished from [[Heaven]] for defying [[God]] due to his corruption from the [[Mark of Cain]], he twisted a human [[soul]] into the [[Lilith|first demon]]. After this, God sent [[Michael]] to imprison [[Lucifer]] in the cage Cage which was locked was locked with 600 mystical seals.
In 1972, [[Azazel]] possessed a [[The PriestFather Lehne|priest]] at [[St. Mary's Convent]], and killed eight nuns in the chapel. This enabled him to speak to the imprisoned Lucifer, who used the [[LuciferThe Nun|head nun]]as a conduit. [[Lucifer]] tells [[Azazel]] that [[Lilith]] is needed to break [[the 66 Seals]] that hold him captive in the Cage and that he needs to find a very "special child."<ref name="four22">[[4.22 Lucifer Rising]]</ref>This leads Azazel to recruit [[:Category:Special Children|select children]], including [[Sam Winchester]] and to set in motion events that subsequently lead to the breaking of the 66 Seals.
==Characteristics==
[[Michael ]] locked [[Lucifer ]] in the Cage with 600 Seals but , of which only [[The 66 Seals|66 seals]] of the 600 had to be broken in order for Lucifer to be released.The Cage, according to [[Castiel]], is heavily guarded.<ref name="six07">[[6.07 Family Matters]]</ref> Each of the [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] own individual rings that together form a key-like device that can reopen a portal to the Cage. [[Death]]'s describes it as a "fiery pit" and during his time in the Cage, [[Sam]] is seen surrounded by eternal flames<ref name="six13">[[6.13 Unforgiven]]</ref> <ref name="five21">[[5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight]]</ref>
==Where Is the Cage?==The exact location of the Cage was originally quite vague. It seemed to be of the same realm of [[Hell]], though obviously separate from the part of Hell where [[demon]]s are produced, as it took great effort for even [[Azazel]] to establish communication with [[Lucifer]]. [[Dean]] is able to open the Cage via the Horseman's rings in a deserted building and [[Sam ]] uses them to open the Cage in [[Stull Cemetery]]. It was conjectured by fans that, since the Cage could be entered from multiple locations, it may exist on a different dimensional plane.
However, [[Sera Gamble ]] later confirmed that the Cage is, "[http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2010/08/supernatural-season-6.html at At the bottom of the lowest depths of the ninth circle of the worst bit of Hell.]" And in Season In season 11, Crowley revealed that the Cage is within the furthest reaches of Perdition: Limbofinally shown to be a box hanging by multiple chains surrounded by black storm clouds.
==Episodes==
===[[4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester]]===
[[Castiel]] reveals to [[Dean Winchester]] that an [[angel]] by the name of [[Lucifer]] who is confined to a Cagecage, which will open when all of the 66 Seals break.
{{Quotation
|text=
'''Dean:''': Why break the seal anyway?<br>'''Castiel:''': You think of the seals as locks on a door.<br>'''Dean:''': Okay, last one opens, and?<br>'''Castiel:''': Lucifer walks free.|author= [[Dean]], and [[Castiel]]
|source= [[4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester]]
}}
===[[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]===
===[[4.16 On the Head of a Pin]]===
{{Quotation
|text=And it is written that the first seal shall be broken when a righteous man sheds blood in Hell. As he breaks, so shall it break.
|author= [[Alastair]]
|source= [[4.16 On the Head of a Pin]]
}}
[[File:Lucifer's Cage Opening.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The mouth of [[Lucifer]]'s Cage begins to open.]]
===[[4.22 Lucifer Rising]]===
{{Quotation
|text=And it is written that the first demon shall be the last seal.
|author= [[Ruby]]
|source= [[4.22 Lucifer Rising]]
}}
[[Ruby]] helps [[Sam]] find a [[demon]] who can reveal [[Lilith]]'s location. In preparation for confronting Lilith, Ruby encourages Sam to drink the [[demon's blood ]] (killing the woman it is possessing in the process). At [[St. Mary's Convent]], Sam uses his powers to kill Lilith, only to have Ruby reveal that Lilith is actually the final Seal holding the Cage secure. Lilith’s blood forms a spiral circle in the middle of the chapel at [[St. Mary's Convent]] and the gates of Lucifer’s prison open and Lucifer is released into the world.
===[[5.01 Sympathy for the Devil]]===
Following [[Sam Winchester]]'s actions of killing [[Lilith]] the first [[demon]], a direct portal to Lucifer's Cage opens, which releases [[Lucifer]] where he ascends from its bowels, soon arriving on Earth. While Lucifer rises from the Cage, his mere essence launches a bright white column of light from the shaft of the Cage.
===[[5.19 Hammer of the Gods]]===
{{Quotation
|title=
|text=Without me, you got zero shot at killing Lucifer. Sorry. But... you can trap him. The cage you sprung Lucifer from, it's still down there, and maybe, just maybe, you can shove his ass back in. Not that it'll be easy. You got to get the cage open, trick my bro back into it, and oh yeah, avoid Michael and the God Squad. But hey - details, right? And here's the big secret, Lucifer himself doesn't even know. But the key to the cage, it's out there. Actually it's keys, plural, four keys. Well, four rings from the Horsemen. You get 'em all, you got the cage.|author=[[Gabriel]]|source=[[5.19 Hammer of the Gods]]
}}
Sam and [[Dean ]] try to kill [[Lucifer]] with the [[the Colt]] but fail, and are desperate for a solution.<ref name="five10">[[5.10 Abandon All Hope...]]</ref> In a hidden message recorded on a ''[[Casa Erotica]] '' DVD, [[Gabriel]] reveals posthumously how Sam and Dean can trap [[Lucifer]] back in his cage. The keys to the cage are Cage, by using the rings worn by the [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]], which act as keys to the Cage.
===[[5.20 The Devil You Know]]===
[[Crowley]] reveals he is aware of Sam and Dean's plan to get the [[Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse#The_Rings|Horsemen's rings]] to trap [[Lucifer]] back in his cage the Cage thanks to his [[magical coin]]. He also tells them he wants to help them do it. Sam comes up with a plan -- he could consent to Lucifer's [[possession]], and with much determination he could resist Satan’s Lucifer for a brief moment; which would give him time to jump into Lucifer's cage the Cage with Lucifer inside of him. [[Bobby ]] and Dean are both against the idea.
===[[5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight]]===
Sam and Dean get the final two rings after [[Castiel]] cuts off [[Pestilence]]'s finger using [[Ruby's knife]] and [[Death]] gives his ring to Dean in exchange for his promise to do whatever it took to free him from Lucifer's control, ensuring that Sam would jump into the cage Cage as soon as he consented to possession by Lucifer. Death also instructs Dean on how the rings work to open the cage, although the explanation is not shown in this episode. Dean is later shown working with all four rings on a table. They join together to form a triangular shape with [[War]]'s ring in the center and the other three rings surrounding it. When [[Bobby]] asks him about Death teaching him how the rings work, Dean responds , "Yeah, it's nuts."
[[Image:Luciferscage.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Sam/Lucifer and Michael/Adam fall into the Cage.]]
===[[5.22 Swan Song]]===
{{Quotation
|text=Bvtmon Tabges Babalon.|author= [[DeanWinchester]]
|source= [[5.22 Swan Song]]
}}
Dean finally agrees to support Sam's plan though he has deep misgivings telling him, "Your hell Hell is gonna make my tour look like Graceland."Sam primes himself by drinking [[demon blood]] and then they confront Lucifer. Lucifer knows of their plan, but Sam says "yes" anyway. As Lucifer takes him over, Dean uses the ring and an incantation to open the "door" to the cage. However Lucifer is in control, and he easily closes it.
===[[6.01 Exile on Main St.]]===
{{Quotation
|text=I don't want to talk about it. I get to breathe fresh air, have a beer, hunt with my family, see you again. So why exactly would I want to think about Hell?|author= [[SamWinchester]]
|source= [[6.01 Exile on Main St.]]
}}
[[Sam ]] reveals that he escaped the Cage soon after tumbling into it. He tells [[Dean]] he remembers his time there, but when Dean asks, he doesn't want to talk about it. Dean speculates that [[God ]] may have brought him back.
===[[6.03 The Third Man]]===
[[Raphael]] intends to release [[Lucifer]] and [[Michael]] from the cage Cage through unspecified means to complete the apocalyptic showdown. Prompting [[Castiel]] to make a stand, a start a civil war in [[Heaven]].
===[[6.06 You Can't Handle the Truth]]===
===[[6.07 Family Matters]]===
Castiel determines that Sam has no [[soul]], and speculates that it was left behind in the Cage with [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]]. He tells Dean the Cage is more well-guarded than Dean was when he was in [[Hell]].
===[[6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...]]===
[[The Leprechaun]] is able to make deals with humans so that they may fulfill their wishes. He also seems Appearing to be very powerful, employing he employs what he calls "real magic." He claims to be able to lift Sam's soul from Lucifer's Cage, and scoffs when Sam mentions that not even [[angels ]] could accomplish that saying that [[fairies ]], "Got a way of gettin' in back doors.".
===[[6.10 Caged Heat]]===
===[[6.11 Appointment in Samarra]]===
Dean has himself purposefully '"killed' " under medical supervision, so he can plead with [[Death]] to rescue [[Sam]] and [[Adam]] from the Cage. [[Death]] agrees to rescue only one of them - and - Dean chooses [[Sam]]. [[Death]] makes a wager with [[Dean]], that if he will wear Death's ring for one day, and perform his duties, then [[Death]] will rescue Sam's soul. he He tells Dean that he will be able to contain the part of Sam that will be damaged from his time trapped with Michael and Lucifer behind a '"wall' " in Sam's mind, although he can't guarantee how long this will maintain. Although Dean fails to wear the ring for a day, Death agrees to retrieve Sam's soul, which he returns to Sam.
===[[6.13 Unforgiven]]===
===[[6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning]]===
===[[6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much]]===
After [[Dean]], [[Sam]] and [[Bobby]] learn from [[Eleanor Visyak]] that [[Castiel]] has enough information to crack open a door inside doorway to [[Purgatory]] wide open, Castiel appears, and asks them to leave, but when Dean refuses, he touches Sam's forehead, cracking the wall that Death planted there in the process.
Immediately after the incident, Sam lies [[unconscious ]] on a bed in [[Bobby's Panic Room]]. Although unbeknownst to him at the time, as he thinks it is all real, Sam is actually going through mental experiences, where he first fights a soulless version of himself, he kills it and absorbs its memories, a while later, he confronts a version of himself that recalls all of what happened to him the cageCage, andthis version doesn't fight Sam, he kills it and takes in its memories, as he but warns him about the cost of remembering before allowing Sam to kill him. As Sam gets flooded with those experiences. By doing thisfrom the Cage, he is able to wake up. Once he wakes up awake, he goes to assist Dean and Bobby, and on the way, he has mental visions of Hell, but somehow manages to overcome them.
===[[11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire]]===
After [[the Darkness]] was released, an animalistic scream was said to have been heard originating from the Cage. As was reported to [[Crowley]], at least half of [[Hell ]] shows concern that either [[Michael]] or [[Lucifer]] were trying to warn everyone of the coming of the Darkness.
===[[11.02 Form and Void]]===
[[Sam ]] has a vision of when he was tortured in the Cage, with hooks in his flesh being pulled apart by chains.
===[[11.06 Our Little World]]===
Sam has a another vision or flashback of Lucifer's Cage.
===[[11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?]]===
Sam has yet another vision of being in the Cage, this time he is face to face with Lucifer who simply places his hand on Sam's cheek. Sam and [[Dean ]] summon Crowley about gaining access to the Cage, when he says he is incapable of opening it, as the Cage is of "divine manufacture," he does tell them of a possible way speak with Lucifer without opening the Cage, which involves the information being recorded in one place: the ''[[Book of the Damned]]''. Having captured [[Rowena]]; Sam, Dean and Crowley make a deal with her -- she figures out a way to communicate with Lucifer without opening the Cage, and Crowley will call off his assassins. Having studied the ''Book of the Damned'', Rowena finds a [[spell]] that will work for what they need. Sam, Rowena and Crowley gather the ingredients needed and descend to the furthest reaches of Hell -- Limbo, where they will perform the spell to allowing communication with Lucifer in relative safety. ===[[11.10 The Devil in the Details]]=== ===[[11.11 Into the Mystic]]=== ===[[11.14 The Vessel]]===Sam and Dean still believed that Lucifer is still in the cage until he reveals himself to be possessing Castiel. ===[[11.18 Hell's Angel]]===Crowley offers to give Sam and Dean the [[Horn of Joshua]] in exchange for exorcising Lucifer from Castiel's vessel and sending him back to the cage, but Sam says that the cage is damn near impenetrable as it took Rowena and a spell from the ''Book of the Damned'' to summon him and inadvertently release him. Even though he tells the Winchesters that Rowena was killed and that she hid the book, Crowley is adamant in sending him back to the cage. They say that Lucifer may be their only hope in killing the Darkness if he has the Horn of Joshua. ===[[11.21 All in the Family]]===Chuck tells Sam and Dean that he doesn't trust that Lucifer would help them against [[Amara]] because of his time imprisoned in the cage. Later, when Lucifer and Chuck agree to talk, Lucifer accuses him of throwing him into the cage because of what the Mark did to him, but Chuck says that he did what he had to do to keep mankind safe. When Chuck asks him what he would have done, Lucifer says it doesn't matter as he still forsook him, despite being his son. ===[[12.08 LOTUS]]===After getting a [[Hyperbolic Pulse Generator]] from [[Arthur Ketch]] of the [[British Men of Letters]], the Winchesters, [[Castiel]], [[Crowley]] and [[Rowena]] team up together to return [[Lucifer]] to his cage. Using [[President Jefferson Rooney]]/Lucifer's mistress [[Kelly Kline]], the group lures Lucifer to a motel where Sam uses the Hyperbolic Pulse Generator, a device capable of expelling a [[demon]] from their [[vessel]]. The powerful pulse beats Lucifer back, as Rowena casts a spell to send Lucifer's essence back to the Cage. After exchanging words with Sam, Lucifer vacates the president's body, his essence swirls below the ceiling before going through a heating vent in the floor. ===[[12.13 Family Feud]]===Crowley reveals that he perverted Rowena's spell to send his essence back to his discarded vessel [[Nick]] rather than being sent back to the cage. Crowley had a dozen of his most loyal demons study the cage at the molecular level and replicate the material used in creating the chains that bind him. ===[[12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell]]===When Lucifer escapes his chains and tries to kill Crowley, he reveals that he also had the runes and spellwork from the cage carved into every molecule of his vessel, allowing him to negate Lucifer's powers and effectively torture him. ===[[13.02 The Rising Son]]===[[Drexel]] says that he and the demons have been searching for Lucifer, even checking the cage, and yielding no results. ===[[14.20 Moriah]]===Castiel meets with a demon to visit the cage and study it, but she is uncooperative. When [[Chuck]] gives Sam and Dean [[The Equalizer]] to kill [[Jack]], Castiel suggests throwing him in the cage until they find a way to save Jack, but Dean, who is too stubborn to care, shoots down the idea. ===[[15.01 Back and to the Future]]===[[Belphegor]] tells Dean that every door in Hell sprang open all at once when [[God]] started the end of the world. Dean realizes that this means Lucifer's Cage as well and asks about [[Michael]]. Belphegor tells Dean that the last he heard, Michael was still just sitting in the Cage, but suggests that if Michael got out he might hold a grudge against the Winchesters. ===[[15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven]]===After realizing that [[Michael]] might know something that could help them beat [[God]], the Winchesters and [[Castiel]] use one of [[Rowena]]'s spells to travel into Hell to talk to the [[archangel]] in the Cage. After interrupting a brawl between the three and several demons, Rowena, now the Queen of Hell, reminds them that the Cage is open and Michael could be anywhere in Hell or on Earth. However, Rowena has her demons search Hell for Michael when they impress upon her the urgency of the situation. The demons subsequently report back that Michael is gone, having escaped from both the Cage and Hell.
==See also==