Talk:Alastair

Alastair died from immolation by Holy Light. 74.12.10.107 21:06, 6 December 2008 (UTC) Joe

Quote Change?
I was wondering if we could change the opening quote from:

"You know... I haven't been up here since Poland '43. Truth is, I loathe it. It's chilly. No stink of blood or sizzle of flesh or the wet flap of flayed skin. I don't know how you stand it." -Alastair

to:

"Forget the angels—it's Alastair I'm scared of! ... Practically the Grand Inquisitor Downstairs. Picasso—with a razor." -Ruby

Although the current quote offers insight to the creepy, psychotic inner-workings of his mind, the one I'm suggesting better defines him and what he represents from an outside perspective. It really says something when Ruby couldn't care less about Angels if Alastair's in the picture. Damaijin (talk) 23:39, September 27, 2012 (UTC)

Knight-of-Hell?
Immune to the knife, could go toe-to-toe with angels...what do you guys think? FTWinchester (talk) 13:03, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

I seriously think he could have been I mean he was powerful. Even Lilith if I'm not mistaken was afraid of that knife but he pulled it out. The only thing that confuses me is the eye color.MrAnonymous (talk) 18:35, January 31, 2013 (UTC)MrAnonymous

Blame the eye color difference on the writer's lack of continuity. Abbadon should've had white eyes like Lilith and Alistair. L4D2 Ellis (talk) 18:38, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

@L4D2 Ellis Yeah I remember in Bobby Singers Hunting Guide he mentioned that from what he had heard there were four demons with white eyes and Alastair and Lilith were two of them. So I guess they forgot to make Abaddon a white eyed demon. Unless eye color doesn't actually hold the significance we think it does.MrAnonymous (talk) 18:51, January 31, 2013 (UTC)MrAnonymous

Would that be Bobby Singer the character or the writer? I'll have to admit that I'm not that into the fandom. We were led to believe that eye color held significance to a demon's rank. Seeing as two of Hell's most powerful demons had white eyes. I really think that the producers ignored continuity on that one. L4D2 Ellis (talk) 19:05, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

It's the character. I bought the book along with John Winchester's Guide to Hunting surprisingly there is a lot information in them that ties up loose ends and explains plot holes. I hope we learn more about these knights and Men of Letters to be honest.MrAnonymous (talk) 19:26, January 31, 2013 (UTC)MrAnonymous

It's entirely possible that the writers didn't forget and that it simply doesn't matter what eye color a Knight of Hell has; they're hand-picked by Lucifer and given some new powers regardless. Eye color can still hold significance, it would just be irrelevant when considering a demon's capacity to become a Knight of Hell. It's like how you can pick both boys and girls to play on your kickball team. 70.245.30.130 21:41, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

Eye color became more confusing as we progressed into the story. Somebody from tumblr also kindly reminded me that Sam Winchester had black-eyes, and he snuffed two of the White-Eyed demons out.

The book Bobby Singer's Guide, I don't trust too much to be canon. It said Samhain was a 'blue-eyed' demon. I took that as a grain of salt. Eye colors still generally provide us much insight on how powerful a demon could be, but we are getting so many exceptions now that it didn't seem as structured as we once thought. FTWinchester (talk) 22:52, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

Well the thing is, Sam was not a real demon so I just chalked that up to that being a side effect. And I don't trust Bobby's book to be canon either. L4D2 Ellis (talk) 22:57, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

Alastair statement?
In "death takes a holiday" Dean tries to get back to his body but Alastair catches him and states "i'm inside that angsty little noggin of yours" and then he is captured by the angels on castiel's orders. What does Alastair mean? does he mean he's actually inside dean's head so he can track him or is he just messing with him? i suspect its the latter but its a bit of an odd thing to say. but if its literal then how does that work if deans in his astral form? any thoughts?


 * No, definitely not "just" messing with him, Dean. He could've been reading Dean's soul--mind--, when Dean's in astral form. Well, not actually inside Dean's head, but he can read what's inside. -- ImperiexSeed, 5:00 PM, February 13th 2013


 * Ah that would make more sense. i wasnt sure if it was something similar to dream walking but no reading his mind would have made more sense.


 * The terms, Dream Walking and Telepathy, they don't mean the same thing. Dream Walking infers to portray or to insert one's will inside someone's subconscious. Telepathy is to read someone's thoughts. -- ImperiexSeed, 5:27 PM, February 13th 2013

Angels touch
Ok, I know castiel was pre-seraph when he tried it, but he sure was suprised when his Hand on head thing angels use to kill thing totally failed on alastair, diddn't even make him show his eyes, though all other demons have died easily from it.

That is with the exception of Crowley as king of Hell, but that was clearly due to the Archangel Raphael's protection, negating castiels powers, and judging from crowley's statement 'Have you met my new partner' suggests that only Raphael's protection prevented castiels touch from killing him, but whether castiel was at this point a seraph is not clear, as he could have become one after he had contained the purgatory souls, so I believe that seraph or not, Alastair would have survived.

Is he the only demon to directly survive this not counting crowley???

Princepurple (talk) 21:28, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

94.0.33.212 21:28, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Yes he is the only shown demon upto date, now Castiel was a Seraph when he tried it on Crowley, and it was down to the archangel he survived. Wether or not alastair would have survived if Seraph level Castiel tried it on him is another matter. Its possible, as Seraphs are very powerful angels, and can do quite alot of impressive feats of power, that seem beyond Alastair, on the other hand these no way to know, as seraph Castiel never fought a white eyed demon. Regardless he probably wouldn't be able to beat him up so easy. General MGD 109 (talk) 21:38, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Well Alastair defeated Castiel on both occasions that they faced off and almost sent him back to heaven, another trait no other demon, not even crowley has attempted, suggesting seraph level castiel may have fought harder but ended up fairly equal, as Crowley, despite his mouth, has never fought castiel, cas throwing him physically into a wall very hard with ease in season 6, crowley's fear of the knife and the way he ran directly from cas this season, highly suggest he is no match for cas, and ha never shown knowledge of Alastairs spell, this I think, Shows that to some extent, Alastair was far more bad-ass, and likely would have held his own against a seraph.

Princepurple (talk) 22:02, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Definetly and its possible, however I wouldn't compare them to much, Alastairs a lot more powerful than Crowley (evidenced by there reactions to holy water, and several other displays) sure its possible Alastair was on Seraph level, but we won't know unless another White eyed demon is introduced (hopefully Asmodeus, Mammon or Baal) General MGD 109 (talk) 22:05, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

I forgot about Asmodeus to be honest, Abaddon was on my list, others along with those you mentioned are Asteroth, Belphagor, Mephastophiles, Beelzebub, Jezabel and Belial.

Princepurple (talk) 22:13, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah they would be great, I like to see all them, but seeing as there a three series left, I desided to limit myself to three choices. General MGD 109 (talk) 22:16, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Though Crowley's probably weaker than alastair that doesnt mean he cant fight low level angels. the fact he was willing to fight castiel in his weaker state backs this up, so we cant really say crowley wouldnt be immune to a normal angels touch but seraphs can kill just about any demon anyway including the king of hell.

Probably nothing, he is a lot weaker, also I question your example, sure Castiel is a Seraph, but to be fair at the time he was having trouble doing things that even low level angels find easy, he was working at practically 10% power, so Crowley assumed he would be easy pickings, expecially as he had a angel killing blade in his posession. When he realised he was wrong he quickly ran. The only other angel that has confronted him so far is Samadriel and he's the weakest angel ever to appear, personally I'm beting he's a Cherub, not a angel, explaing his emotional personallity, lack of powers and friendly disposition. (and don't say he can't be because he was possessing someone, it was never confirmed that was the cherubs own body) General MGD 109 (talk) 18:15, February 26, 2013 (UTC)

crowleys displayed far more abilities than any demon and alastair had all crowleys vunerabilities (both show pain from holy water and recover quickly)  he just doesnt underestimate his opponents. Samandriel being a cherub is speculation and he was sent to protect the word of god so hes presumably a soldier. being captured by demons isnt new as castiels guards were defeated by a large number of demons so clearly they can win if they outnumber the angel.

Maybe, but he never showed them to Alastairs level, plus he's a lot more vunrable, Alastair found the pain a buzz, Crowely was litteraly crippled for about half a minute, Crowleys also scared of the knife, Alastair's immune, Crowley never demonstrated the feats of power Alastair did. He's mearly quick witted, and very bright, and knows how to manipulate what he has, he is powerful, but he's still the weakest higher demon. That bit about samandriel being a cherub  was my personaly speculation, it wasn't ment to be taken as fact. And Castiel effortless slaugtered several demons, before he became a seraph. So Samdriels definatly weak. General MGD 109 (talk) 20:20, February 26, 2013 (UTC)

Firstly, Crowley was hit with far more holy water than Alastair and Alastair being a masochist doesn't prove strength. Lilith was also fidgity with the knife and was Alastair's superior. Crowley has displays great skill with telekinesis and biokinesis bith on far greater levels than Alastair. Plus he was Lilith's right hand man, not Alastair. Castiel defeated four angels, but imagine if he had been faced with 30. And Samandriel may be weak but he's probably just of low rank in the garrison/

No, but Alistair was immune to the smiting touch of an angel. Which do you thiink it's stronger, holy water or an actual smiting touch of an angel? I vote for the smiting. And the only reason Crowley seemed to have displayed greater telekinesis and biokinesis is because he has appeared in far more episodes than both Lilith and Alistair combined. We never saw the potential of the powers Lilith and Alistair could've had. Crowley could've become Lilith's right hand man in ways other than power. Crowley has a lot of brains. Alistair, not as much. Not only that, Alistair was much more interested in torturing human souls and didn't have much care in anything besides that. L4D2 Ellis (talk) 18:16, February 27, 2013 (UTC)

Exactly, Alastairs displayed so many feats of power, the most Crowley has done is imitate those that have come before him, he is harldy that powerful, in fact he is probably the weakest higher demon of them all. General MGD 109 (talk) 18:59, February 27, 2013 (UTC)

Well, Crowley does deserve some credit, I think. For one thing, he's witty, clever, crafty, and pre-cautious. He's the only one to verbally, and socially, recognize that, the Winchesters, are not to underestimated. Despite the fact that they, their opponents--Azazel (Demon), Lilith (White-Eyed demon), Alastair (White-Eyed demon), Lucifer (Archangel), and Michael (Archangel)--were both smarter and stronger than them, but they failed to recognize this sheer fact. Out of them all, Crowley was the only one to recognize this fact. -- ImperiexSeed, 5:!8 PM, February 27th 2013

Oh, I would never deinie that, he by that reason the cleverest big bad yet, and I'm not saying he's not powerful, he is, its just in comparison to all the big bads he is the weakest. General MGD 109 (talk) 22:22, February 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, good. Now, you're playing a different kind of ball. To say he's the weakest of ALL the Big Bads of Supernatural, is wrong. Well, at least concerning the secondaries of Big Bads. He's stronger than Meg (Season 1), he's stronger than Jack, a human (Season 2), he's stronger than Bela, a human (Season 3), and he's stronger than Ruby (Season 4). -- ImperiexSeed, 5:32 PM, February 27th 2013


 * I have to agree with that sentiment, ImperiexSeed. I have always viewed Crowley as having the most common sense among the Big Bads in Supernatural as he knows well enough not to underestimate Sam and Dean whereas as he pointed out in "The Man Who Would Be King" Lucifer, Michael, Lilth, Alastair and Azazel had. 108.247.158.170 22:40, February 27, 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay weakest of all the main big bads. General MGD 109 (talk) 22:45, February 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * I just don't think Crowley should be completely thrown aside. I mean Alastair showed great power but Ruby also appeared in far more episodes than Lilith and Azazel and showed no unique abilities. And Crowley has shown to be far more proficent with biokinesis and telekinesis ( causing a girl to explode by snapping his fingers and blowing up a lampost by pointing at it). And yes he's the weakest big bad but when the other big bads are Azazel (powerful demon), Lilith (luicfer's first), Lucifer (archangel), Michael (archangel), Eve ( mother of all) and Dick Roman (Leviathan) its understandable. No other demon could face those enemies and to be honest I think Azazel and Crowley have a lot in common. Both are high rank due to their intelligence but both are undoubtably strong. Crowley may not be that far behind Azazel in hell's power level ( the couching up blood thing was especially similar). So i think Crowley could potentially be stronger than Alastair and at the very most as strong as Azazel ( though maybe not that strong).