Editing Raphael

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{{Quote|[[Archangels|We're]] tired. We just want it to be over. We just want... Paradise [...] And whatever we want, we get! |'''Raphael''' to Dean Winchester|''[[Free To Be You and Me]]''}}
'''Raphael''' was the third of the four [[archangels]] created by [[God]]. He was older than [[Gabriel]] but younger than [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]]. After Lucifer's rebellion and banishment, Raphael stood by Michael in taking over the Universe.

In [[Season 4]], Raphael protected [[God|Chuck]] from [[Lilith]]'s harm and then tried to stop [[Dean Winchester|Dean]] and [[Castiel]] from stopping [[Sam Winchester|Sam]] from breaking the last seal and killed Castiel. In [[Season 5]], he became a target of Castiel, who had been resurrected, and Dean to find God but he didn't have answers and they left him in a ring of holy fire as he vowed to kill the angel.  

In [[Season 6]], Raphael escaped and returned to [[Heaven]] with the intent of taking over and restarting the Apocalypse but was opposed by Castiel and a civil war began, forcing Castiel to team up with [[Crowley]] to obtain the souls of [[Purgatory]]. When Castiel betrayed him, Raphael allied himself with Crowley to obtain the power for himself, only to be [[Killed by Castiel|killed]] by the angel when he took the power. 

==History==
===Early Life===
The third [[archangel]], Raphael lived happily in [[Heaven]] with his father [[God]] and his [[angel]]ic brothers. With [[the Darkness]] existing alongside them, Raphael, his brothers, and God fought in a war against the Darkness, eventually winning the war by sealing her away.

When God [[Creation|created]] [[humans]] and asked all angels to bow down before them, Raphael was among those that did so. When [[Lucifer]] rebelled against God and [[Gabriel]] skipped out of Heaven and on to [[Earth]], Raphael chose to side with God and [[Michael]]. Eventually, Lucifer was exiled from Heaven by Michael and later imprisoned in the [[Lucifer's Cage|cage]] also by Michael. 

After this terrible war, God was gone, leaving Michael and Raphael the only ones in charge. "''They cried, and they wailed. They wanted their father back''". They decided that if they couldn't have their father back then they'd take over [[the Universe]] themselves, but in order to do this they needed [[the Word of God]] kept by Metatron. Unfortunately for them, Metatron escaped from Heaven, so as to protect the Word and to prevent the Archangels from claiming the tablets. To end it all, they made a decision to start [[the Apocalypse]] and bring Paradise to Earth. Michael believed that the Apocalypse was destined to happen. Michael also was certain of their father's return after his victory over Lucifer. However, Raphael, at some point, lost faith in God and became weary of his father's duties. He even believed that God was dead and that they were "''living in a God-less universe''".

===[[Season 2]]===
Raphael is referenced when [[Sam and Dean]] investigate a case where people claim [[angels]] are ordering them to kill. [[Father Reynolds]], while administering Last Rites to Father Gregory's spirit, says "I call upon the archangel Raphael, master of the air, to make open the way. Let the fire of the Holy Spirit now descend, that this being might be awakened to the world beyond." <ref name="House of Holy">''[[Houses of the Holy]]''</ref>

===[[Season 4]]===
[[File:SPN 1210.jpg|thumb|275px|Raphael begins his arrival.]]
When Dean went to [[Castiel]] for help about [[Lilith]], the angel couldn't help him but told Dean that a [[Prophet]] would have an [[Archangel]] tethered to them to protect them from danger. This gave Dean an idea and he retrieved [[Chuck Shurley]] and put him in the same room as the demon. Raphael prepares to attack when Lilith is in Chuck Shurley's presence, shaking the room until Lilith flees.<ref name="Monster Book">''[[The Monster at the End of This Book]]''</ref>

Raphael obliterates [[Castiel]] and [[Jimmy Novak|his vessel]] after he rebels against Heaven by banishing [[Zachariah]] and sending [[Dean Winchester|Dean]] to stop [[Sam Winchester|Sam]] from killing Lilith.<ref name="Lucifer Rising">''[[Lucifer Rising]]''</ref>

===[[Season 5]]===
[[File:Raphael manifesting.gif|left|thumb|275px|Raphael manifesting in his vessel on Earth.]]

Raphael possessed his vessel, [[Donnie Finnerman]], during a demon induced riot at a Pump 'n Go gas station in Maine. The damage caused by Raphael was attributed to an explosion, and the incident was witnessed by Deputy Framingham. Raphael abandoned Donnie, who was left in a catatonic state and returned to [[Heaven]].

Raphael returns to [[Earth]] and his vessel to confront [[Castiel]] and Dean, who attempted to summon him. He manifests in the abandoned building they are hiding in, shorting out the electricity and the entire Eastern Seaboard. He threatens to take Dean to Michael, and to torture him should he refuse, but Dean and Castiel trick him into a circle of holy oil, which they ignite and trap him.

[[File:SPN 0846.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Raphael talks to Castiel.]]

They interrogate him to learn [[God]]'s location. Raphael tells Dean and Castiel that God is dead, and that the Heavenly Hosts are tired of waiting with duties to fulfill and no guidelines. They want to bring forth paradise on Earth. Raphael brings about a storm that shatters the windows of the house. Castiel does not believe Raphael's assertion about God, and demands to know how he was resurrected, if not by God. Raphael suggests that it was [[Lucifer]], because he needs all the rebellious [[angels]] that he can find. Castiel and Dean then leave Raphael, who warns the other angel not to leave him there, because he will catch up with him one day. Castiel replies, "Maybe one day. But today, you're my little bitch!"<ref name="Free to Be">''[[Free To Be You and Me]]''</ref>

===Season 6===
[[File:SPN 0514.jpg|thumb|left|275px|Raphael in Heaven.]]
At some point, Raphael somehow escapes the Holy Fire that Dean and Castiel left him trapped in. He assumes control of Heaven after the [[Apocalypse]] is averted. Raphael is ensconced in a palatial house, apparently part of the [[Heaven]] of disgraced Enron executive Ken Lay. He summons [[Castiel]] for a meeting. Raphael informs Castiel he will call an assembly of the [[Host of Heaven]], at which he will ask Castiel to pledge his allegiance to Raphael. He announces that he will proceed to free [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]] from the Cage and resume their apocalyptic battle. When Castiel refuses, Raphael beats him up and threatens to destroy him unless he bows down.

After Castiel makes his deal with Crowley, he returns to Heaven, and with the power of an extra 50,000 souls obtained from Hell is able to make his first stand against Raphael.<ref name="The Man Who Would">''[[The Man Who Would Be King]]''</ref>

[[File:SPN 1185.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Raphael overpowers Castiel.]]
[[Sam Winchester|Sam]] and [[Dean Winchester|Dean]] investigate the deaths of three cops which mirror Egyptian plagues. Dean summons [[Castiel]], and they discover that a boy has been using part of the [[Staff of Moses]]. Castiel later tells Sam and Dean that [[Heaven]] has been thrown into chaos without [[Michael]], with [[angel]]s going rogue, celestial killings, and the theft of their weapons. He also warns them that Raphael is back and trying to gain all of Heaven's weapons so that he can win the civil war against Castiel, then release Lucifer and Michael, putting the apocalypse back on track. When asked why, Castiel simply calls Raphael a "traditionalist" who wants "to end the story the way it was written." A soldier of Raphael attacks Castiel, then returns to his leader.<ref name="The Third Man">''[[The Third Man]]''</ref>

[[File:Raphael S63.jpg|thumb|275px|left|Raphael's vessel is destroyed.]]

Raphael and his soldiers track down [[Balthazar]], the angel who stole the weapons and sold part of the [[Staff of Moses]]. Sam and Dean banish one of Raphael's soldiers with the Angel Banishing Sigil and Castiel kills another with an angel blade. Raphael [[Skirmish at Balthazar's Mansion|then appears]] behind Castiel and attacks him mercilessly. He voiced his doubt that God will bring him back a third time before readying to finish him off. Just as Raphael is about to kill Castiel, Balthazar appears and turns Raphael's vessel into a pillar of salt using [[Lot's Salt]], forcing Raphael to look for a new vessel.

[[File:Mistake19.jpg|thumb|275px|right|Raphael's new female vessel.]]

Sam and Dean are given a key by Balthazar that supposedly opens the repository containing Heaven's weapons and are transported to an alternate reality to protect them from Raphael, who has started hunting them down. Raphael sends [[Virgil]] after them. When the Winchesters are transported back to their universe, they are greeted by Raphael in a new female vessel. Balthazar then appears and tells Raphael that the key given to Sam and Dean was a decoy. Castiel, now in possession of Heaven's weapons, also appears and threatens Raphael, who disappears.<ref name="The French Mistake">''[[The French Mistake]]''</ref>

[[File:Toomuch14.jpg|thumb|275px|left|Crowley with Raphael.]]

Raphael forms an alliance with Crowley after Castiel betrays Crowley in their search for Purgatory. Castiel, who is outnumbered, is forced to give them the blood of a creature from Purgatory which is required to obtain all the souls from it. When the spell fails, Castiel returns revealing the blood was fake and that he has the souls and their power. Crowley beats a hasty retreat, but Raphael is unable to leave.

[[File:RaphaelDeath.gif|thumb|275px|Raphael, moments before his death.]]

Terrified, he asks Castiel why he would let a demon live but not one of his own brothers. Castiel replies that he has plans for Crowley, but not for Raphael, whom he [[Molecular Combustion|obliterates with a snap of his fingers]].

===[[Season 11]]===
In ''[[We Happy Few]]'', when discussing battling [[the Darkness]], [[God]] tells the Winchesters that it is beyond his power to resurrect Raphael and [[Gabriel]] in time to fight the Darkness so they can help them as [[archangels]] are different from regular angels due to their being entities of primordial creation.

===[[Season 15]]===
In ''[[Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven]]'', Raphael is mentioned by Michael, who sadly comments on how all of his archangel brothers have died. Although it remains unknown if Michael approved of Raphael's attempt to open a portal to Purgatory, risking unleashing all the monsters inside, it suggested that Michael still cared for Raphael, especially as he was the only archangel who stood by Michael and supported his desire to kill Lucifer and bring paradise on the Universe.

In ''[[Unity]]'', [[Amara]] reminds the Winchesters that it took the four archangels for Chuck to be able to lock her away the first time and wonders how they intend to do the same with her brother.

==Personality==
{{Quote|Castiel, did you really think I would let you open that door? Take in that much power? If anyone is going to be the new [[God (Title)|God]], it's me.|Raphael to [[Castiel]]|''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''}}Raphael is a stern, serious, and traditionally-minded [[angel]] who has lost faith in [[God]] and is weary of his duties. He believed that God was dead and that they are living in a godless universe, though he seems to have changed this view as he doubted God would bring Castiel back a third time while beating him. He supports [[Michael]]'s plan to bring about paradise on [[Earth]].

He has little patience with [[humans]], and virtually no respect or consideration for human life, as evidenced by the fact that he callously left his first [[vessel]] [[Donnie Finnerman]] in a broken state. Raphael also has little tolerance for disobedience among his fellow angels and will not hesitate to slaughter anyone or anything that challenges him. Raphael is also incredibly arrogant, and appointed himself as the distributor of God's will. When asked how he knew that the Apocalypse was what God wanted, he simply replied "because that's what I want."

He is also quite ruthless as evidenced when he threatened to torture Dean into saying [[Yes]] to Michael and when Castiel opposed Raphael's plan to restart the Apocalypse, he commanded Castiel to submit to him and coldly threatened to kill Castiel and anyone with him if he didn't.

Despite this, Raphael was not entirely without forgiveness or mercy, at least when dealing with his siblings. Upon their first meeting since [[Castiel]]'s [[resurrection]], although hostile, Raphael was willing to forgive Castiel. Similarly upon their first meeting after the Apocalypse, Raphael was again willing to offer him another chance, even after promising to destroy him on their next encounter, at the end of their last meeting.

He is also power hungry as after Crowley told him about Castiel's plans to increase his power by absorbing the souls of purgatory, he decided to take the souls for himself and formed an alliance with Crowley as a means to complete this. He was also very eager to do this as shown when he was smiling when the ritual to absorb the souls was almost done (unaware that one of the ingredients were wrong and Castiel had already absorbed the souls)

Castiel has also once called Raphael a traditionalist, as he said to the Winchesters. Castiel stated that this was the reason for Raphael's plan to restart the Apocalypse after Lucifer and Michael were imprisoned in the cage.

When backed into a corner or faced with a more powerful being, Raphael can behave cowardly and resort to begging as shown in his final moments when he resorted to pleading to Castiel (who was now stronger than him after absorbing many souls) after he allowed [[Crowley]] go. He was visibly frightened when Castiel made it clear he was going to kill him.

==Powers and Abilities==
{{Quote|Raphael was stronger than me. I wouldn't survive a straight fight.|[[Castiel]], a [[Seraph]] comparing his strength to '''Raphael'''|''[[The Man Who Would Be King]]''}}As an [[archangel]], Raphael was one of the oldest and most [[Omnipotence#Lower Tier Nigh-Omnipotence|powerful]] beings in all of existence, possessing an immeasurable amount of supernatural power that made him more powerful than any [[Ghosts|Ghost]], [[Demons|Demon]], [[Angels|Angel]] or nearly anything else in the universe for that matter. When [[Castiel]] as a [[Seraph]] was at full power, Raphael was still enormously more powerful than [[Castiel]]. Merely trying to summon and trap him is, according to Castiel, harder than capturing a hurricane in a butterfly net. Only a few beings are known to be more powerful than him such as, for example, his [[Michael|older]] [[Lucifer|brothers]], [[God|father]], [[The Darkness|aunt]], [[Jack Kline (Nephilim)|nephew]] and [[Death]]. Below are listed the powers he has demonstrated on the show.
*'''[[Omnipotence#Lower Tier Nigh-Omnipotence|Lower Tier Nigh-Omnipotence]]''' - Being an archangel, Raphael possessed a vast amount of incredible supernatural power, enough to cause a blackout on the entire eastern seaboard and could summon powerful storms even while trapped in a holy ring of fire. Being the third archangel, he stroke great fear into Lilith (the first and strongest Demon) and his mere reputation was enough for her to flee, he was superior to Gabriel, but weaker to Lucifer and Michael, the later who opened a portal to Purgatory with just a simple snap, while Raphael needed a powerful spell to achieve this feat. He beat Castiel, a Seraph imbued with 50,000 souls to a bloody pulp and Castiel was unable to mount any offense whatsoever.
*'''Angelic [[Possession]]''' - Raphael, like all celestial beings, required the use of a human vessel in order to physically interact with humans while on Earth, as it is a law that applies for all angelic beings. As an angel, he also needed the vessels consent. Despite needing the vessel's permission, his presence was so powerful that it permanently damaged his vessel. His true voice caused the sheriff to go deaf in one ear. 
*'''[[Biokinesis]]''' - Raphael was able to cause Sam and Dean internal pain when confronting them.
***'''[[Torture|Torturing]]''' - Raphael described the nature of his torture as being beyond that of Zachariah's "imagination".<ref name="Free to Be" />
*'''[[Electrokinesis]]''' - Raphael could generate and manipulate electricity as he did when manifesting before Dean and Castiel.<ref name="Free to Be" /> 
 [[File:White Light emission.jpg|thumb|275px|right|thumb|Raphael about to use Holy White Light]]
*'''[[Photokinesis|Holy White Light]]''' - Raphael, like all archangels, could generate immense amounts of energy and release a divine light from his vessel, capable of killing humans, demons, monsters and angels. He could use it as a powerful blast of light which seems to manifest as kinetic force, concussively throwing or repelling objects a considerable distance, as using the light against [[Castiel]] while talking in his office caused them both to suddenly appear in a grassy field, with Castiel vomiting blood on the floor. He had complete control of the intensity of the blast, being able to obliterate or damage any target.<ref name="Monster Book" /> He destroyed 40-50 demons in a fireball of pure white light.
*'''[[Molecular Combustion]]''' - Like [[Lucifer]], Raphael could render lower angels down to their component molecules as he did [[Castiel]].<ref name="Sympathy Devil">''[[Sympathy for the Devil]]''</ref>
*'''[[Portal Creation]]''' - Through some unexplained manner, Raphael was capable of generating a portal that yanked the Winchesters from the alternate universe to the main universe, where Raphael was expecting [[Virgil]].
*'''[[Power Granting]]''' - Raphael was able to grant Crowley immunity from Castiel's killing touch.<ref name="The Man Who" />
*'''[[Reality Warping]]''' - His mere arrival on Earth was enough to blackout everything from an entire room and the eastern US seaboard.<ref name="Lucifer Rising" /><ref name="Free to Be" />
*'''[[Soul Absorption]]''' - Raphael was going to absorb the souls of Purgatory but the spell to open the portal didn't work because Castiel gave them the wrong blood.
*'''[[Super Agility]]''' - Raphael had incredibly sharp reflexes, as seen when Dean threw an Angel Blade at Raphael, the latter caught it in his grasp before it could hit him. He also did so without even turning around.<ref name="The Man Who" />
*'''[[Super Senses]]''' - Raphael could instantly sense anything that posed a threat to a prophet, regardless of where he was. From heaven, he was able to sense Lilith's killing intent after Dean brought Chuck in to the same room with her, which provoked him to descend down to earth to protect him.
*'''[[Super Stamina]] '''- Owed much to his status as an archangel, Raphael could never tire and could remain endlessly engaged in a task for as long as he saw fit.
*'''[[Super Strength]]''' - Being an archangel, Raphael endowed his vessels with tremendous physical strength, as he could exert immense amounts of physical force. He was able to casually and easily overpower other beings with relative ease. He easily overpowered [[Castiel]] during a fight, nearly beating the seraph to a bloody pulp.<ref name="Free to Be" />
*'''[[Supernatural Perception]] '''- Raphael could see angels and demons through their vessels.
*'''[[Telekinesis]]''' - Raphael could exert force on objects and people with his mind.
*'''[[Terrakinesis]]''' - Raphael could manipulate the earth itself, causing tremors and earthquakes.
*'''[[Weather Manipulation]]''' - Raphael possessed total control over the weather, able to summon colossal storms easily. His mere arrival on Earth caused lightning storms across the entire East Coast.<ref name="Free to Be" /> He extinguished the holy fire, which was a testament to his astronomical power, given that even Gabriel feared being left behind until Dean released him.

* '''[[Omniscience#Nigh-Omniscience|Nigh-Omniscience]]''' - Raphael possessed an immense amount of knowledge of [[The Universe]]. He knew of an unknown method of releasing [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]] from [[the Cage]].<ref name="The Man Who Would" />
*'''[[Immortality]]''' - Raphael had an infinite lifespan, and couldn't be affected by diseases or toxins. He couldn't get tired and did not require food, sleep, water, or oxygen to survive. At the time of his death, he was over 13.8 billion years old, predating creation and the universe itself.
**'''[[Invulnerability]]''' - Raphael could not be killed by any conventional weapons, however certain weapons (such as an [[Archangel Blades|Archangel Blade]], [[Death's Scythe]], and possibly certain [[Heaven's Weapons|weapons of Heaven]]) could kill him. More powerful entities, such as [[Lucifer]], [[Michael]], [[God]], [[The Darkness]], [[Jack Kline (Nephilim)|Jack]], [[Death]], and [[Castiel]] (while empowered by millions of [[Purgatory]] souls) were able to kill him.<ref name="The Man Who">''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''</ref>
**'''[[Regeneration]]''' - Raphael's non-lethal wounds healed nearly instantly.<ref name="Free to Be" />
**'''[[Resurrection]]''' - Castiel stated Raphael would kill both him and Crowley and resurrect them over and over till the end of time, similar to Lucifer.

===Former Powers=== 

*'''[[Teleportation]]''' - Raphael could travel from one place to another virtually anywhere in the universe, instantly, without occupying the space in between. It was hypothesised he could fly from Heaven to Earth and intercept a bullet shot at Chuck. Futhermore, Castiel said he could fly at the speed of thought. The Leviathans inside Castiel were able to "clip" Raphael's wings and make it so he couldn't fly. 
**'''[[Apporting]]''' - He could teleport objects or people with or without him accompanying them.<ref name="The French Mistake" />


==Weaknesses==
Despite being one of the [[Archangels]], making him one of the most powerful beings in creation, Raphael had weaknesses inherited in all [[angels]], even archangels.
===Harming, Misleading and Trapping===
*'''[[Enochian sigil]]s''' - Raphael couldn't locate someone if they were warded by enochian sigils.
*'''[[Heaven's Weapons]]''' - Lot's Stone was able to transmute his vessel's body into salt beyond repair, and all the weapons unified could fatally wound if not kill the archangel. 
* '''[[Holy Oil]]''' - Raphael could be trapped in a ring of holy fire. However, he was eventually able to escape.
*'''[[Ma'lak Box]]''' - Capable of containing even the most powerful archangel.

===Banishing or Destroying===
*'''[[Primordial Entities]]''' - [[The Darkness]], [[God]], and [[Death]] could effortlessly kill Raphael.
*'''[[Soul]]s''' - With 50,000 souls, Castiel was able to banish Raphael. Consumption of millions of souls gave Castiel so much power that he could snap his fingers and [[Molecular Combustion|obliterate Raphael]].<ref name="The Man Who" /> 
*'''[[Archangel Blades|Archangel Blade]]''' - An archangel blade can kill an archangel in the hands of another archangel.<ref name="Bargain">''[[Devil's Bargain]]''</ref>
*'''[[Archangels]]''' - Lucifer and Michael were his older brothers and were more powerful than him.

==Death==
===Killed By===
*[[Castiel]]
After taking in all of the [[soul]]s of [[Purgatory]], Castiel [[Power Negation|rendered Raphael powerless]], preventing Raphael from escaping. As Raphael tried to convince Castiel to spare him, Castiel [[Molecular Combustion|exploded Raphael at the molecular level]] with a snap of his fingers, killing the [[archangel]].

== Appearances==
*[[Season 2]]
**''[[Houses of the Holy]]'' {{c|mentioned only in Last Rites}}
*[[Season 4]]
**''[[The Monster at the End of This Book]]'' {{c|presence only}}
**''[[Lucifer Rising]]'' {{c|presence only}} 
*[[Season 5]]
** ''[[Sympathy for the Devil]]'' {{c|mentioned only}} 
**''[[Free To Be You and Me]]''
**''[[Changing Channels]]'' {{c|referenced only}}
**''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' {{c|referenced only}}
*[[Season 6]] 
**''[[The Third Man]]''
**''[[Caged Heat]] ''{{C|mentioned only}}
**''[[The French Mistake]]''
**''[[The Man Who Would Be King]]''
**''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''
*[[Season 7]]
**''[[Meet the New Boss]]'' {{c|corpse and mentioned}}
**''[[Hello, Cruel World]]'' {{c|corpse}} 
*[[Season 8]]
**''[[Captives]]'' {{C|mentioned only}}
**''[[The Great Escapist]] ''{{C|mentioned only}} 
*[[Season 11]]
**''[[The Devil in the Details]]'' {{c|mentioned only}}
**''[[We Happy Few]]'' {{c|mentioned only}}
*[[Season 13]]
**''[[Devil's Bargain]]'' {{c|mentioned only}}
*[[Season 15]]
**''[[Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven]] ''{{c|referenced only}}
**''[[Unity]]'' {{c|referenced only}}
*[[A Very Special Supernatural Special|''A Very Special Supernatural Special'']] {{C|archive footage}}

==Lore==
[[File:Raphael in Lore.jpg|thumb|Saint Raphael the Archangel by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]]
His name means "God Heals". In multiple interpretations, including the Book of Enoch, Raphael was responsible for binding [[Azazel]] to a clear, deserted landscape. He was also mentioned in the Book of Tobit, although the Book isn't found in Protestant Holy Bibles. In the Book of Tobit, Raphael healed Tobit of his blindness and delivered Tobit's daughter, Sarah, from Asmodeus.

In Islam, Raphael, under the name Israfel, is the [[Archangel]] who sounds the start of Judgment Day. To Roman Catholics, Raphael (venerated as Saint Raphael) is the patron saint of doctors, medical workers and travelers.

He is also said to be the one to slay the [[Leviathan]].

==Trivia==
* Raphael is one of the three [[Big Bad|main antagonists]] of [[Season 6]]; the others are [[Crowley]] and [[Castiel]].
*He is the only Archangel who never interacted with [[Lucifer]] while on [[Earth]] in a [[vessel]]; although, as brothers, interactions between them did take place in [[Heaven]].
*Dean calls Raphael a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Angel" the first time he hears his name. This is a reference to the series ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', in which one of the heroes is named Raphael.
** Coincidentally, they are both rather hot-headed and care a lot about their three brothers, even though they rarely show this.
*It is never revealed how Raphael escaped the [[Holy Fire]] Dean and Castiel left Raphael in in ''[[Free To Be You and Me]]''. However, Holy Fire is only shown to have a limited effect on the two Michael's who appear in ''Supernatural'' and [[Lucifer]], suggesting that Raphael may have been able to break out on his own with enough time.
*In ''[[The Third Man]]'', Castiel mentions that Raphael likes to "follow traditions". This explains why he wants to summon back [[Lucifer]] and [[Michael]] in order to end the Apocalypse the way the traditions says so. An in-joke could be present here as the angels who followed [[Michael]] before Raphael seized power would be known as the [[wikipedia:Pre-Raphaelites|Pre-Raphaelites]].
*Raphael's [[Raphael's second vessel|new vessel]] bears many resemblances to [[Wikipedia:Semirhage|Semirhage]], one of the Forsaken from the [[Wikipedia:The Wheel of Time|Wheel of Time]] series, particularly in his/her healing archetype and earlier dismissive attitude of Zachariah's skill in torture. Raphael also physically resembles this character.
*Raphael is the only Archangel to only use African-American hosts.
*Raphael has been featured second-least out of the four archangels, having appeared in a total of 3 seasons and 5 episodes.
*He is the first [[Big Bad|main antagonist]] who has been killed by someone that isn't a Winchester. After him, [[Metatron]] was killed by The Darkness after he had switched sides and joined the Winchesters. He was a main antagonist of Season 9. [[Rowena]] was temporarily killed by Lucifer twice, [[Doctor Hess]] was killed by [[Jody Mills]], [[Crowley]] killed himself after officially siding with the Winchesters, and [[Asmodeus]] was killed by [[Gabriel]].
*He is also currently one of only three main antagonists to die who is also an [[angel]], the others being [[Metatron]] and [[Lucifer]] as [[Michael]], [[Naomi]] and [[Castiel]] all lived in the end.
*Raphael is one of three angels shown to possess a male and female vessel, alongside Castiel and [[Hannah]].
*Raphael was killed in the [[Molecular Combustion|same manner]] he had killed [[Castiel]] in ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'', by Castiel himself.
*Raphael is the first and only archangel shown to possess both a male and female vessel.
*His belief that God was dead was proven false as it turns out he was ironically watching him as Chuck Shurley.
**Also his belief was proven hazardous as it was shown if God dies the world will be destroyed.
*Raphael is the only Archangel to not show destructive wrath on screen. Michael showed it killing Anna, Lucifer when he slaughtered a group of pagan gods, and Gabriel when he smote Asmodeus. Raphael did kill 40 demons in one shot but off screen.
*Raphael is the first [[archangel]] to die in the series. Though [[Gabriel]] was apparently killed in ''[[Hammer of the Gods]]'', this was proven to be a trick. Gabriel was later killed by the [[Apocalypse World]] [[Michael (Apocalypse World)|Michael]] in ''[[Exodus]]'' while [[Lucifer]] was killed by [[Dean Winchester]] in ''[[Let the Good Times Roll]]''.
*He's the only Archangel that doesn't have a known counterpart in Apocalypse World. It was confirmed by the Alternate Michael that his world did have a [[Lucifer (Apocalypse World)|Lucifer]] and may still have a [[Gabriel (Apocalypse World)|Gabriel]], but he said nothing about Raphael. As the two worlds had the same history up until 1973, Raphael presumably exists and was never mentioned or died during [[The Apocalypse (Apocalypse World)|the Apocalypse]].
*Raphael is the only archangel not to have a counterpart either seen or mentioned from [[Apocalypse World]] or in [[Alternate Timeline (The End)|The End]].
*The power difference between Raphael and [[Michael]] can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Raphael required a spell to open a doorway to [[Purgatory]] in ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' while Michael could easily open a twelve-hour [[rift]] to Purgatory with just his innate archangel powers in ''[[Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven]]'', despite the fact that he was wearing [[Supernatural Handcuffs]] at the time and therefore weakened.
*Raphael is the only appearing Archangel to not be an ally of [[Team Free Will]] for at least a short period of time, though [[Lucifer]] and [[Michael (Apocalypse World)|Alternate Michael]] ultimately betrayed the alliances.
*Raphael is the only archangel to not appear in the series penultimate episode ''[[Inherit the Earth]]'' in some form: [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]] both appear in person while [[Gabriel]] is in the flashback sequence at the end.
*In Christian mythology, Raphael is known as the Healer, but in Supernatural he didn't show any exceptional healing abilities at least not higher than other Archangels.

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