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In [[8.19 Taxi Driver]], it is shown that an angel blade can kill a [[reaper]], as demonstrated when [[Crowley]] kills the rogue reaper [[Ajay]] with one of his angel blades. In [[8.21 The Great Escapist]], Crowley has a blade melted-down into [[Angel-Killing Bullets|bullets]] for [[Crowley's Gun|a gun]]. As long as the wound is fatal, the bullets work just as well as the blade itself.
In [[12.23 All Along the Watchtower]], Castiel's attempt to kill Lucifer with a standard angel blade proved that archangels can only be killed with archangel blades. In [[13.01 Lost and Found]], [[Miriam]]'s attempt to kill [[Jack]] shows that [[nephilim]] sired by archangels are also immune to angel blades.
The power of each angel blade appears to vary upon the rank of the angel who owns it. When an [[angel]] is killed by this weapon, they explode with an intense white light and their wings and halo are burned like ash onto the area where their body lies. Archangels may only be vulnerable to archangel blades, and are immune to regular angel blades. However, [[Dean]] and [[Bobby]] attempt to kill [[Raphael]] with an [[angel]] blade in [[6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much]], which fails when he grabs it before it hits anything. [[Kali]] refers to [[Gabriel]]'s blade as "[[Archangel Blade|an archangel's blade]]." Gabriel's blade was capable of killing [[archangels]], including himself. After [[6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much]] the angelic blade is ineffective against [[Castiel]] after he becomes the new [[God]].
