Gabriel

Gabriel
Seasons	2, 3, 5
Species	Archangel
Status	Deceased
Occupation	Messenger of God
Affiliation	God's Family
Portrayed by	Richard Speight Jr.

Gabriel is the Last Archangel mentioned in the show. When Lucifer and others began to turn on each other and fight he couldn't bear it, and so unable to take sides he "took off" to Earth, posing as the Trickster, a Pagan God. Throughout the show he appears creating Mischief for the Winchester Brothers. According to Gabriel, "The Apocalypse" as humans call it was what he used to call "Sunday Dinner" between his family and says that The Apocalypse isn't even about the End of the World, but some massive feud between Michael and Lucifer who once loved each other but betrayed each other.

Season 2

He makes his first appearance in the episode "Tall Tales" as the Trickster, where he is the source of several violent urban legends coming to life and punishing those residing there. Sam and Dean investigate and eventually figure out his assumed identity. However, the trickster is waiting for them, and offers them a peaceful resolution so long as they let him leave to terrorize another town. Naturally, the Winchesters refuse and attack him, along with the help of Bobby. After fighting with various familiars conjured by the trickster, Dean manages to stab the latter while he is distracted, causing his creations to disappear and the fight to end. The Brothers assume the vanquished trickster was a copy, not knowing Angels are immortal nor knowing that he was Gabriel.

Season 3

Later reappears in "Mystery Spot". He traps Sam in a seemingly infinite time loop, where Dean continually dies in increasingly strange ways (once by Sam's own hand), with Sam continually failing to save him. After a countless number of repeats, Sam eventually realizes that a trickster must be at work, and manages to locate the culprit. He threatens their tormentor with a blood covered stake, causing the trickster to reveal himself and agree to break the loop. However, when Sam then considers killing him anyway, the trickster restarts the loop. Dean once again dies, but this time there is no loop to revive him. Throughout the next several months, Sam becomes a far colder and more calculating person as he attempts to track down the trickster, killing whatever threat he can along the way. Eventually, it is the trickster who calls the younger Winchester to him, where he tries to drive in a point: that the two brothers continually sacrificing themselves for one another would bring no good, and when people die, they just have to learn to accept it and live with it. Nonetheless, Sam pleads with him to turn back time so that he can save Dean. Reluctantly, the trickster agrees, lamenting that the whole situation had become boring months ago for him anyway.

Season 5

In "Changing Channels" his real identity is revealed to the Winchesters after they have him trapped, following his zapping them through a number of situations in his typical trickster fashion (and foiling any attempt at rescue or revelation by the comparatively powerless Castiel), where the 'moral of the story' he tries to drive in is to Play Out One's Roles.

He claims to Dean and Sam that for angels, the Apocalypse has been foretold and is unavoidable, with Sam's and Dean's roles predetermined since Creation, even comparing Sam and Dean's personalities and family life to that of Michael and Lucifer. (It is a little ironic how this is exactly what gave Gabriel's true nature away: it is his enraged outburst at Dean's asking if he sided with Heaven or Hell that leads to the brothers' deduction that this trickster is really an angel, as the knee-jerk intensity of that reaction in Dean's experience suggested that [the trickster's] Family was involved, despite the vehement verbal denial.) Gabriel is sick of the feud between his two prominent brothers and wants the Apocalypse under way to 'get it done and over with', for his family to return to being the way they used to be. (Dean later tells him off on his way out for not standing up to his family.)

Powers

As an Archangel of the Lord, Gabriel has many supernatural abilities. He appears to be able to teleport himself and others. He is immune to almost every known way of killing the supernatural. Each Archangel's powers would be unique to them as all archangels are patrons of certain things (e.g Raphael: doctors, Michael: soldiers, etc), and the higher ranking archangels like Michael would be more powerful. Also like demons, angels appear to have telekinetic capabilities. Angels are immune to all human diseases.

• Alternating reality

• Super Strength - (Dean was thrown against the wall when he suggested to (Gabriel/The Trickster) that he was someone's bitch)

• Invulnerability

• Telekinesis

• Teleportation

• Time Manipulation

• Magical (Eldritch, Arcane, Occult)

• Knowledge (Spell, Symbols, Rituals)

• Holy White Light (Similar to demon white light, it is believed this is how Castiel was blown apart by Raphael, so therefore it is unbelievably more powerful)

• Voice Piercing

Relationships

• God (Father)

• Raphael, Michael, & Lucifer (Archangel Brethren)

• Other Angels (Brothers and Sisters)

Appearances

Season 2

• "Tall Tales"

Season 3

• "Mystery Spot"

Season 5

• "Changing Channels"
• "Hammer of the Gods"