List of angels in Supernatural

As Kripke put it, "We had the empire, but we didn't really have the rebellion.”[2] They had always wanted to have a storyline with a few central characters keeping massive battles in the background, comparable to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, and the addition of angels allowed for this.

Anael recognizes that Castiel is really trying to find a way to restore Jack's lost soul before he has to tell Sam and Dean about it and explains her reasons for leaving Joshua for her role as a low-level functionary.

Castiel subsequently enters the Empty to talk to Ruby who reveals that Anael approached her, suggesting that they ride out the Apocalypse inside of the Occultum, the safest place there is.

However, upon confrontation with Fate, Atropos reveals she knows Balthazar is working for Castiel; saving the Titanic was to provide additional souls to fund their side in the civil war.

In "Alpha and Omega", Billie witnesses the Winchesters collecting ghosts at Waverly Hills Sanatorium and follows them to the Men of Letters bunker where she senses that God is dying.

In the Season 12 episode "Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox", Billie returns to reap the souls of those killed by the demon Jael, warning Dean, who is trapped outside of the house, of the threat.

Tiring of watching his brothers fight each other in Heaven, he fled to Earth thousands of years prior to the series[citation needed], assuming the role of a Pagan trickster.

For his first appearance in the Season 2 episode "Tall Tales", the writers decided not to put their own spin on trickster lore— as is usually done with other villains—keeping the "deadly sense of humor" and decision to go after the "high and mighty to bring them down a notch",[4] with Gabriel causing violent urban legends to come to life on a college campus and punish the residents.

Sam and Dean Winchester investigate and eventually figure out his identity, though the Trickster is waiting for them and offers a peaceful resolution so long as they let him leave to terrorize another town.

After discerning that Dean has learned from Castiel that he is not Ezekiel and has turned against him, now attempting to tell Sam the truth and get him to expel him, Gadreel murders Kevin and steals the tablets on Metatron's orders in a show of allegiance to the latter.

In the Season 7 episode "Reading is Fundamental", Hester appears in a psychiatric hospital with Inias after Kevin Tran is chosen as a Prophet following the uncovering of the Leviathan Tablet.

Chuck applauds their efforts and expects death, though team Free Will decide that a more fitting punishment for him is to live a mortal life, eventually aging and dying whilst forgotten by humanity.

Unlike most reapers, Jessica has a friendly and bright attitude to make it easier for the deceased, but maintains a "hands off" policy in dealing with the living, according to Billie's rules.

In the Season 12 episode "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell", the angel Kelvin reveals to Castiel that Joshua has taken up a leadership role in the hunt for Lucifer's unborn Nephilim son.

Lucifer, portrayed primarily by Mark Pellegrino, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Rick Springfield and David Chisum, is the second oldest archangel, the first fallen angel, introduced as a recurring character in Season 5 of the series.

Gabriel provides safe passage for Kali and the brothers, and confronts Lucifer about his ultimate reason for rebellion, claiming that he rebelled not because he recognized that humans were flawed, but because he was no longer their father's favorite son.

In the Season 10 episode "Brother's Keeper", Death explains that Lucifer and the other archangels once fought a war with an ancient evil called the Darkness, eventually locking it away.

During "Exodus", Lucifer bonds with Jack and is reluctantly allowed to join the team, revealing that they have thirty-one hours before the rift closes again and killing six attacking angels.

During this time, Lucifer's efforts to paint himself in a better light are rebuffed by Gabriel who compares his older brother to a cancer that God had to cut out to protect humanity, but too late.

Nick succeeds in getting the blood and performs the spell, opening a portal to the Empty from which Lucifer emerges in the form of a viscous black humanoid figure with wings.

In the series' penultimate episode "Inherit Earth", a resurrected Lucifer appears at the bunker, claiming that the Shadow brought him back to help the Winchesters defeat God.

However, before he can finish the job, Gadreel's sacrifice allows Castiel to shatter the angel tablet and obliterate Metatron's incredible power, forcing him to flee Sam's attack.

In "Don't Call Me Shurley", Metatron is living as a homeless vagrant, but has gained a more compassionate nature as demonstrated by his feeding a stray dog rather than eating it food he had scavenged himself.

During the episode "Swan Song", Michael appears with Adam as his vessel in order to fight Lucifer, but gets interrupted by Dean, Bobby, and Castiel, who delay him by sending him away with holy fire.

[16] "Goodbye Stranger" opens with the revelation that Naomi has been working on fully subduing Castiel to her control and determines him to be "ready" once he kills thousands of copies of Dean.

[13] In the Season 8 finale, Naomi learns that Metatron is working with Castiel, prompting her to capture the rogue angel and use her drill-like instrument to access his thoughts and learn his plans; when she finds out what they are, she is horrified and immediately warns Dean and Castiel, revealing that Metatron is not trying to close the gates of Heaven, but rather trying to permanently expel all angels in revenge for himself having to flee to escape her and the archangels, who had ordered her to detain him and take the knowledge he had as the Scribe of God after God left Heaven.

Now allies, Naomi accompanies Castiel to Earth and promises that the remaining angels will keep Heaven going for as long as they can if he cannot find Gabriel, but expresses a belief that maybe the situation cannot be fixed.

Dumah begins manipulating Jack to solidify her own power and establish a reign of terror but is killed by Castiel when she threatens the shared Heaven of John and Mary Winchester.

In "We Happy Few", when discussing how they will defeat the Darkness, God tells the Winchesters that he cannot resurrect Raphael or Gabriel as they are beings of primordial creation and will take too long to bring back.

She has grown depressed over the fact that she can no longer ferry souls to Heaven due to it being closed and that she can hear their cries for help and is brainwashed by Metatron into acting as a suicide bomber for him, supposedly under Castiel's instruction in order to unite all the angels under his command.