User blog comment:EmpyreanSmoke/Supernatural Q&A/@comment-95.112.225.227-20150909071814/@comment-95.112.133.60-20150912215257

Edan1522: Yes, I thought about this myself, an analogy: You can't fight fire with fire, but you can fight it with water. In this case the water would be the archangels as beings full of light. But still: Lucifer used the horsemen to implemend the apocalypse, considering that he wanted to wipe out humanity, i wonder why he needed them in the first place if he is that powerful. One may argue, that his power is greater on a metaphysical level and when the universe was created by god, he decided to limit their powers on objects of the physical universe or make the physical universe more resistant to them. I hope that the archangels in their true form can only be killed by God, Death, The Darkness and maybe Oberon. Would make sense, you can't just stab / shoot/ eat/ ... waves of light.