Archangels (Supernatural)

"Archangels are all-powerful cosmic beings who existed long before the creation of the universe. Their age is infinite, beyond comprehension. They are infinitely older than the universe and creation itself. Archangels are fierce, supreme, and indestructible. They are God's very first creation, and they are almost as old as God. He created them one year after he came into existence. They are among the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence. They're omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immortal, and absolute. They're strength is unrivaled. They possess infinite power and authority. Their powers are unimaginable, they can do anything they desire, together they are strong enough to easily destroy the entire universe in an instant. They are unstoppable, next to absolutely invincible. They rule the universe with an iron fist. Together, they are powerful enough to kill God himself. They are Heaven's most terrifying weapon. Their the most fearsome wrath of the universe"

- Castiel about the Archangels

Archangels are ancient primordial beings, nigh-omnipotent cosmic forces, higher beings, secondary supreme beings, celestial beings of the very highest type, and all-powerful angels of the very highest rank that existed infinitely long before the creation of the Universe, and are God's very first creation. They are among the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe, as well as among the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence. They predate everything and everyone else in all of creation, except God, The Darkness, Death, and The Empty. Archangels are centillions of years old. Gabriel noted they are over 500 centillion years old. being looked at as Heaven's most terrifying and fearsome wrath. They were the first, oldest and most powerful beings to be created, making them God's very first creation. They are infinitely more powerful than all angels and possess tremendously much more powers, strength and abilities than all angels. They were created in this order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel. Archangels possess near-infinite power and are virtually impossible to kill. Collectively, they are practically unstoppable, unbeatable and invincible., and they are Archangels are the most powerful, legendary and feared beings in all of existence, most beings such as demons, leviathans, angels, reapers, and even deities immensely fear them and their unimaginable powers. Archangels have proved how fearsome and terrifying they are by greatly harming, weakening and defeating The Darkness, God's older sister, the oldest and most powerful entity in all of existence, even more powerful than God himself. Together, without the assistance from God, they significantly weakened and defeated The Darkness, so God could permanently lock her away.

The creation order of the archangels is still disputed, after Amara suggests that Lucifer may actually be the first of the archangels.

The angel Metatron was also considered to be an archangel by other angels until he revealed that he was simply a regular angel who was chosen to be the Scribe of God.

Characteristics
According to Castiel, they are known in Heaven as absolute, all-powerful, infinite, supreme, fierce and wrathful creatures, as he has called them, "The most fearsome wrath of the universe". Like all angels, their true forms are very intense, but as archangel their true forms are immeasurably larger, deadlier, and more powerful than all angels, and have proven not only harmful but also fatal to humans. Monsters, and Demons, though Castiel also claimed that very few special humans can see their true forms. Their presence on Earth outside a vessel is often visualized as a blinding, deafening, unbelievably powerful pure white light and reach much higher than outer space, and their arrival can cause major tremors and highly destructive storms, as shown by Lucifer when the entire Chapel violently shook as he escaped the Cage and his true form reached as high as the moon (1.2 billion feet; 238,000 miles away) and caused thousands of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, traumatic windstorms, heavy rainstorms, tsunami's, typhoons, and apocalyptic thunderstorms all over Earth, and even all over the universe. Raphael while intervening to protect the prophet Chuck Shurley from Lilith caused a powerful earthquake, strong winds, and traumatic thunderstorms. Their true voice also emits an powerfully loud, hypersonic, piercing sound, which has proven to be excruciatingly painful to humans and cause them to be instantly deaf once they hear it. During a subsequent appearance, Raphael caused the entire Eastern Sea Board to experience a black out and generated strong winds, hurricanes, floods, massive lightening, full-fledged earthquakes, and heavy rainstorms. Shortly before his defeat, Lucifer's presence caused the temperature to drop drastically in Detroit. Archangels true height and size is billions of feet and and as large as an entire planet the size of Saturn according to Gabriel and their true voice can cause an entire planet to completely explode if they screamed.

It has been stated that Archangels are tethered to prophets. Raphael seemed to be the one who monitored and protected prophet Chuck Shurley. Before his fall, Lucifer was God's most beloved angel; he was considered beautiful, and was well respected in Heaven.

Archangels view themselves as the highest authority over all of creation since God's departure from Heaven. As leaders in Heaven, Michael and Raphael commanded the Host of Heaven, issuing orders to the "Senior Management" who were responsible for deploying angels to Earth. They did not share all their plans, especially their intention to allow Lucifer to be freed, to avoid rebellion in the lower ranks. Most of them showed little respect while interacting with humans, although Gabriel eventually confessed his appreciation of humanity even believing humans to be better than them.

The relationships between archangels and their true vessels can be complex. Holding an archangel is psychologically damaging to a human; Raphael's vessel Donnie Finnerman was left a drooling, catatonic mess after possession. Lucifer's continued presence in Nick, an alternate vessel, causes the human's body to breakdown, as evidenced by burn-like marks, scarring and tears on his skin. Lucifer's vessels can be strengthened with demon blood to better survive the ordeal; Castiel later commented that Lucifer was drinking gallons of blood to keep his body intact. However, when Lucifer transferred to Sam, Nick would die. Despite his contempt and hatred for humanity as a whole, Lucifer showed some sympathy towards Nick, and towards Sam Winchester, his true vessel. Michael, though condescendingly, was willing to explain his position to Dean Winchester while occupying his father, and promised not to leave Dean a "drooling mess" after his service and even promised to restore John Winchester, whom he was possessing, to "better than new", which he later did. This implies that, possibly because of their deep contempt for humanity, archangels leave their vessels in a dilapidated state not as a consequence of possession, but out of sheer spite.

Death revealed that it was the archangels that fought off and entrapped the Darkness that existed incalculably long before God created the Universe. God and Lucifer both later stated that it took the four archangels to harm and weaken the Darkness enough for God to lock her away. Lucifer always had an aura of invincibility when it came to weakening and defeating the Darkness, having the belief that he did it all on his own and his brothers were the "dead weight" it is noted that Lucifer had the final blow of weakening the Darkness with a massive and extremely powerful blast of holy white light which of the Darkness implied that the incredibly powerful blast severely harmed her which would explain Lucifer's belief of defeating the Darkness on his own. The Darkness stated of the massively powerful white blast, "it hurt and damaged me severely, it felt like it was going to kill me when it hit me... it knocked me back millions of feet. [...] Hell, if the Universe was already created while i fought against my brother and four my nephews then Lucifer's unbelievably powerful holy blast would of easily annihilated the entire Universe. I'll give it to my nephew Lucifer he weakened me enough for God to lock me away."

God tells the Winchesters that the archangels are cosmic beings of primordial creation and ancient primordial beings of pre-Universe creation. As a result, it is extremely difficult, almost impossible, for God to resurrect them from the dead, unlike regular angels such as Castiel. However, God states that resurrecting or creating new archangels would take a very long time, and would be very difficult to do. Despite this, at the end of Season 15, he does revive Lucifer.

All archangels are immeasurably more powerful than any existing demon. The very first demon Lilith fled when faced with Raphael coming after her. Michael later effortlessly obliterated Lilith with just a flash of his eyes when the demon annoyed him. At full power, Lucifer was greatly feared by the Prince of Hell Asmodeus and Dagon. Lucifer was able to cause Dagon immense agonizing pain by screaming telepathically. After Gabriel recovered from his torture by Asmodeus, the Prince of Hell even powered by Gabriel's grace gaining immense power and enormously more powerful than before proved to be no match for the weakest archangel who was at a weakened state with low grace and still effortlessly destroyed him by completely incinerating him to nothingness with a wave of his hand. Even while Asmodeus was powered by injecting himself with Gabriel's grace, gaining new rare and incredible powers and becoming the most powerful demon who ever existed, greatly feared Lucifer and Alternate Michael and noted that either one of them would effortlessly annihilate him and the entire demon race from existence in an instant.

According to Castiel, angels cannot heal the injuries of an archangel. Archangels can also completely nullify any angels powers. This extends to Seraphim such as Castiel as well as regular angels. However, this does not extend to some of his other powers as Castiel was able to forcefully place some of his memories in Michael's mind by grabbing the archangel's head and concentrating.

Known Archangels



 * -|Michael=

Michael is the first and oldest of the four Archangels created by God, making him the very first being ever created and the very first of Gods creations, as well as one of the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe, as well as one of the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence. He is the very first being God created who existed infinitely long before the Big Bang and time itself. Making him the fourth oldest being in all of existence. He predates everything in all of creation, except God, Death, the Darkness, and the Empty. During the War In Heaven, Michael defeated Lucifer, and banished Lucifer from Heaven on God's command, later restricting him to a Cage bound by 66 Seals. He was the Viceroy of Heaven in God's absence and commanded the Heavenly Host before he fell into the Cage with Lucifer. As the highest-ranking Archangel, he was the ruler of the universe, and issued the commands, which went to the higher-ranking angels to disperse the orders down across the angelic chain. His true vessel is Dean Winchester. After God opens every door in Hell, Michael escapes the Cage and is currently free upon the world in the body of Adam Milligan. After trying a final time to become God's Favorite once again, Michael was obliterated by God himself.
 * -|Lucifer=

Lucifer, was the second of the four Archangels created by God and was his favorite son and most valued lieutenant. He is also a fallen archangel, and the very first fallen angel. He is the original ruler of Hell and the creator of demons, seen by them as a father, savior and their god. As the second-born Archangel, he is one of the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence. He is the younger brother of Michael, and older brother of Raphael and Gabriel. His true vessel is Sam Winchester. Lucifer was eventually killed by Dean Winchester while the hunter was powered by the Alternate Michael. He was briefly resurrected by his father in order to obtain his Death book but was ultimately killed by Michael with the Archangel Blade.
 * -|Raphael=

Raphael was the third of the four archangels created by God. He was older than Gabriel but much younger than Michael and Lucifer. After Lucifer's rebellion and banishment, Raphael stood by Michael in taking over the Universe. He was second-in-command in the Host of Heaven. He was killed by Castiel using the power of over 40 million souls of Purgatory for trying to restart the Apocalypse.
 * -|Gabriel=

Gabriel was the fourth and youngest of the four archangels created by God. Despite the fact that he is the youngest of the archangels, he is still tremendously powerful. Gabriel was very compassionate towards his family. Seeing his brothers constantly fight each other became too much for him to bear, so, he voluntarily left Heaven and hid on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years. After helping the Winchesters in Apocalypse World, he was killed by the alternate version of his older brother Michael.
 * -|Alternate Michael=

Michael was an archangel that existed and ruled over the Apocalypse World. He is the most powerful archangel to date, except for Lucifer while supercharged from his sons grace. He is an alternate reality version of Michael, where Michael won the apocalypse instead of Lucifer. He eventually breached into the main reality where he aligned himself with various monsters in an effort to destroy the Earth. Michael was killed by the Nephilim Jack Kline using the power of his soul.
 * -|Future Lucifer=

Lucifer is the leader of the demons and bringer of the Apocalypse. He is a version of Lucifer from an alternate timeline where Sam said "yes" to the Archangel and allowed the Ruler of Hell to possess his body. With his true vessel, Lucifer's hordes drove mankind to near extinction and, by extension, won the Apocalypse. Dean met this Lucifer when placed into this timeline by Zachariah.
 * -|Alternate Lucifer=

In this alternate reality, Sam said "yes" to Lucifer who Dean tried to kill with the Colt. After Dean failed, Lucifer burned him to death. He was later killed by God when he wiped out all of the alternate universes.

Mentioned Archangels
Archangels that have been mentioned, but not seen.
 * Michael - Mentioned by Dean in an Alternate Timeline.
 * Lucifer - Mentioned by Michael in the Apocalypse World.
 * Gabriel - Referenced by Michael in the Apocalypse World.

Michael's

 * Dean Winchester - Michael's true vessel. Refused to be possessed by him and was indirectly the cause of him being sent to Lucifer's Cage.
 * John Winchester - Michael's temporary vessel, restored to normal once Michael was finished. Was killed in 2006 by Azazel.
 * Adam Milligan - Michael's replacement vessel. He, along with Michael possessing him, had been thrown into Hell by Sam where Adam had remained incapacitated and trapped for years. In 2019, God opened all the doors in Hell, including Lucifer's Cage, Michael and Adam were able to escape to Earth where Adam remains Michael's vessel, though he now shares control with the archangel. When God erased every living thing on Earth, Adam died with the rest of humanity, although Michael continued to use Adam's body as his vessel until the archangel was obliterated by God. Adam was subsequently resurrected without Michael when Jack reversed God's erasure of life on Earth.

Lucifer's

 * Nick - Lucifer's "Plan B" vessel. Resurrected, body repaired and improved in 2016 by Crowley to act as Lucifer's vessel once more. Remained Lucifer's vessel until Lucifer's death at the hands of Dean Winchester. Survived the death of Lucifer but was later killed by Lucifer's Nephilim son Jack Kline for trying to resurrect the archangel in 2019.
 * Sam Winchester - Lucifer's true vessel. Was once possessed by him to send Lucifer back to his Cage.
 * Jimmy Novak - Originally, Castiel's true vessel. Lucifer took over his body after Castiel agreed to possession. Lucifer was later expelled from Jimmy by the Darkness.
 * Multiple unknown - Lucifer's temporary vessels he went into after being ripped from Castiel by Amara. All destroyed because of their inability to contain him.
 * Lucifer's Teenage Vessel - A teenager briefly possessed by Lucifer who lasted longer than the rest of his family. However, Lucifer quickly burned him out as well.
 * Vince Vincente - After multiple other vessels, Lucifer was able to find a vessel that could contain him, a rock star. Vince lasted for about a month before deteriorating completely.
 * Jefferson Rooney - Lucifer possessed the President of the United States for a short time following the death of Vince Vincente. While possessing him conceived Nephilim with Kelly Kline. Lucifer was ultimately exorcised from Rooney by Sam Winchester with a hyperbolic pulse generator. Rooney survived his brief possession.

Raphael's

 * Donnie Finnerman - Raphael's first vessel. Killed when Balthazar used Lot's Stone on Raphael which only Raphael survived.
 * Unnamed female - Raphael's second vessel. Was killed along with Raphael by Castiel.

Gabriel's

 * Unnamed male - Gabriel's only known vessel. He was assumed to have been killed by Alternate Michael and if he survived, died when God destroyed Apocalypse World.

Alternate Michael's

 * Unnamed male - This man was used as the vessel of the Apocalypse World Michael. He is not Michael's true vessel as Dean was never born but rather some form of alternate vessel like Nick for Lucifer but one capable of holding Michael without degrading. Vacated by Michael in favor of Dean Winchester and presumably died of his injuries afterwards.
 * Dean Winchester - Michael's true vessel. Originally refused to consent to Michael, but consented to an alternate reality Michael to gain the power to kill Lucifer. He was possessed by the alternate Michael but was soon abandoned by him. Michael later repossessed Dean without gaining his permission again, having left the door in his mind 'open just a crack'. Dean took back control and locked Michael away in the form of a prison in his subconscious, so he couldn't continue his rampage. Michael later escaped Dean's mind and was killed by Jack after possessing Rowena.
 * Unnamed female - Used as a vessel by the Apocalypse World Michael following his leaving Dean Winchester's body. Abandoned by Michael when he once again possessed Dean. Its unknown if she survived the possession or not.
 * Rowena MacLeod - Used by Alternate Michael when he escaped from Dean's mind. Rowena was chosen due to her centuries of witchcraft and was intended to be used by him to conquer the world. Michael was exorcised from Rowena by Jack Kline, and survived the possession. When God opens Hell and unleashes all of the souls inside, Rowena chooses to sacrifice herself to send everything back. She draws all of the souls and demons into herself using a spell from the Book of the Damned and sacrifices herself to throw them back into Hell. After being sent to Hell, Rowena became the new Queen of Hell.

Future Lucifer's

 * Sam Winchester - This alternate timeline version of Sam consented to Lucifer and was used by him to win the Apocalypse.

Alternate Lucifer's

 * Sam Winchester - This alternate reality version of Sam consented to Lucifer who killed Dean after Dean failed to kill the archangel with the Colt.

Appearances

 * Season 1
 * Devil's Trap
 * Season 2
 * Houses of the Holy
 * Tall Tales
 * Season 3
 * Sin City
 * Malleus Maleficarum
 * Mystery Spot
 * Jus In Bello
 * Season 4
 * Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
 * Monster Movie
 * It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
 * I Know What You Did Last Summer
 * Death Takes A Holiday
 * On The Head Of A Pin
 * The Monster at the End of This Book
 * When the Levee Breaks
 * Lucifer Rising
 * Season 5
 * Sympathy for the Devil
 * Good God, Y'all
 * Free To Be You and Me
 * The End
 * Fallen Idols
 * I Believe the Children Are Our Future
 * Changing Channels
 * Abandon All Hope...
 * Sam, Interrupted
 * Swap Meat
 * The Song Remains the Same
 * My Bloody Valentine
 * Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
 * Dark Side of the Moon
 * 99 Problems
 * Point of No Return
 * Hammer of the Gods
 * The Devil You Know
 * Two Minutes to Midnight
 * Swan Song
 * Season 6
 * The Third Man
 * You Can't Handle The Truth
 * Caged Heat
 * Appointment In Samarra
 * Like A Virgin
 * The French Mistake
 * The Man Who Would Be King
 * The Man Who Knew Too Much
 * Season 7
 * Meet the New Boss
 * Hello, Cruel World
 * The Girl Next Door
 * Defending Your Life
 * Slash Fiction
 * Repo Man
 * Out With The Old
 * The Born-Again Identity
 * Reading Is Fundamental
 * There Will Be Blood
 * Season 8
 * As Time Goes By
 * Goodbye Stranger
 * The Great Escapist
 * Season 9
 * Road Trip
 * First Born
 * Meta Fiction
 * Do You Believe In Miracles?
 * Season 10
 * Fan Fiction
 * The Executioner's Song
 * Inside Man
 * Brother's Keeper
 * Season 11
 * Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
 * Baby
 * Our Little World
 * O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 * The Devil in the Details
 * Into the Mystic
 * The Vessel
 * Beyond the Mat
 * Hell's Angel
 * The Chitters
 * Don't Call Me Shurley
 * All in the Family
 * We Happy Few
 * Alpha and Omega
 * Season 12
 * Keep Calm and Carry On
 * Mamma Mia
 * The Foundry
 * American Nightmare
 * The One You've Been Waiting For
 * Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox
 * Rock Never Dies
 * LOTUS
 * First Blood
 * Stuck in the Middle (With You)
 * Family Feud
 * Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
 * The British Invasion
 * The Future
 * Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes
 * There's Something About Mary
 * Who We Are
 * All Along the Watchtower
 * Season 13
 * Lost & Found
 * The Rising Son
 * The Big Empty
 * Advanced Thanatology
 * War of the Worlds
 * The Bad Place
 * Various & Sundry Villains
 * Devil's Bargain
 * Good Intentions
 * A Most Holy Man
 * Scoobynatural
 * The Thing
 * Bring 'em Back Alive
 * Funeralia
 * Unfinished Business
 * Beat the Devil
 * Exodus
 * Let the Good Times Roll
 * Season 14
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * Gods and Monsters
 * The Scar
 * Mint Condition
 * Nightmare Logic
 * Optimism
 * Unhuman Nature
 * Byzantium
 * The Spear
 * Nihilism
 * Damaged Goods
 * Prophet and Loss
 * Lebanon
 * Ouroboros
 * Peace of Mind
 * Game Night
 * Absence
 * Jack in the Box
 * Moriah
 * Season 15
 * Back and to the Future
 * The Rupture
 * Proverbs 17:3
 * Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
 * The Trap
 * Galaxy Brain
 * Destiny's Child 
 * Unity
 * Despair
 * Inherit the Earth
 * Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting

Trivia

 * Even though in some religions there are many archangels and 7 of them are the favorites of God, only four have been confirmed in Supernatural - Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel - and a few fans have argued that the fact that Metatron (when asking if Sam and Dean worked for any of the archangels in The Great Escapist) only mentioned these four archangels would suggest that there aren't any other archangels in Supernatural. Though given Metatron's lowly position within Heaven, before leaving and cutting himself off from angel radio, there could be more that he was unaware of.
 * Metatron was described as an Archangel in one of The Word of God tablets, but he revealed that he was simply an angel that was chosen to be a scribe.
 * Michaelmas, also known as the Feast of Saint Michael, is a Christian festival observed on September 29, to honor the Archangels, specifically Michael, and sometimes Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel. This day is also coincidentally the birth date of Adam Milligan, Michael's second vessel.
 * Season 5 is the only season in which all four archangels from the main universe are active. In Season 12, only Lucifer is, as Raphael is deceased, Gabriel is in captivity of Asmodeus and Michael is in The Cage. Season 13 marked the return of Gabriel and the appearance of an alternate reality Michael alongside appearances by Lucifer. Season 15 has Michael escaping the Cage to find that he is the only archangel remaining.
 * It was originally believed by the Men of Letters that the Archangels were responsible for the extermination of the Knights of Hell except Abaddon, it was actually the Knights' founder, Cain. Whether or not this rumor was started by the angels or by Cain himself is currently unknown.
 * Gabriel, so far, is the only archangel for the main universe to only use one vessel.
 * He is also the only Archangel to never have been a ruler of Heaven or Hell.
 * Michael is the only archangel who wasn't introduced with a vessel specifically for him. For Lucifer, it was Nick; for Raphael, it was Donnie; and for Gabriel, it was his unnamed vessel.
 * This is not the case following the introduction of Michael from an alternate reality.
 * Lucifer is the only Archangel to impregnate a human in the series.
 * Raphael and Alternate Michael are the only Archangels to use both a male and female vessel.
 * Through dream walks, Lucifer has taken on the form of various women, such as Sarah and Jen. However, he prefers male vessels.
 * It has been implied that Cain and Abel, as their blood line contains the vessels of Michael and Lucifer, also could've been vessels for the latter.
 * Lucifer's eyes are shown to glow reddish orange in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, however, this is not the case for Gabriel, Michael, or Alternate Michael, as all their eye colors are blue like normal angels. It's unknown what color Raphael's eyes are. In Season 12 and Season 13, Lucifer's eyes often glow red when he is angry or as a form of intimidation. When resurrecting Maggie in Let the Good Times Roll, his eyes glowed like this as well. This eye glow is notable enough that Sam identified Lucifer as Maggie's killer simply because she saw her killer's glowing red eyes.
 * All four archangels have acted as antagonists towards the Winchesters; however, Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer have become at least temporary allies to them. This leaves Raphael as the only main universe archangel who has not allied with the Winchesters at least once.
 * Gabriel is the only archangel who remained on Sam and Dean's side at the time of his death.
 * The Archangels are the only creations of God confirmed to exist pre-Universe, and thus his only known primordial creation.
 * So far, only an alternate reality version of Michael and two alternate versions of Lucifer have appeared.
 * Curiously, all versions of Michael and Lucifer introduced so far tells a different story of how The Apocalypse could have ended, Michael and Lucifer from the Apocalypse World, tells what happens when Michael wins the Apocalypse, Michael and Lucifer from the Alternate Timeline of The End, tells what happens when Lucifer wins the Apocalypse, and Michael and Lucifer from the main universe tells what happens when both lose/draw the Apocalypse.
 * Season 9 is the only season where an Archangel appears and does not play some sort of antagonistic role.
 * Michael of the main reality is the only recurring Archangel to not show his wings. Lucifer, Gabriel, and Alt Michael showed theirs in shadow form on walls behind them and Raphael through lightning from his back.
 * Raphael is the only Archangel of the main reality to not share screen time with another Archangel.
 * Raphael is the only Archangel whose Apocalypse World counterpart is neither mentioned nor referenced.
 * Alternate Michael and the Lucifer from Proverbs 17:3 are the only Archangels to have their appearance be outside Season 5.
 * Of the four deceased Archangels from the Main Universe, two have been killed by members of Team Free Will with help from an outside power source.
 * Raphael was killed by Castiel while he was powered by all the souls of Purgatory.
 * Lucifer was killed by Dean Winchester while he was powered by the Apocalypse World Michael whom Dean was acting as a vessel to at the time. Although he gets resurrected and his second, final death comes at Michael's hands.
 * The Winchesters and Castiel have utilized holy oil against all of the archangels they have come across.
 * Dean and Castiel use a ring of holy fire to trap Raphael in Free To Be You and Me.
 * Sam and Dean use a ring of holy fire to trap Gabriel in Changing Channels.
 * Castiel uses a holy fire Molotov cocktail to temporarily banish Michael in Swan Song.
 * Holy fire is part of the warding around the cage in Limbo where Sam meets with Lucifer in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
 * Sam, Dean, Rowena and Crowley use a ring of holy fire as part of their warding to trap Lucifer while they try to expel him from Castiel in Hell's Angel.
 * Dean uses a holy fire Molotov cocktail to hold the Apocalypse World Michael at bay in Let the Good Times Roll.
 * Sam and Castiel use a holy fire Molotov to distract Alternate Michael in Nihilism so that they can capture him.
 * Castiel traps the Main Universe Michael in a ring of holy fire in Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven so that he can be taken captive.
 * In Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven, the Main Universe Michael reveals that he wasn't aware of the existence of archangels in other realities, believing himself to be the sole Michael.
 * In the non-canon book Supernatural: The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition, it is stated that all Special Children are suitable vessels for Lucifer.

Powers and Abilities
"No one gives us the right; we take it."

- Lucifer comments on his and his brothers' powers

"Whatever we want, we get!"

- Raphael describing his and his brothers' absolute authority

"No one makes us do anything!"

- Gabriel's description of his and his brother's powers

"And now, this world is mine!"

- Michael claiming his victory

"Archangels are not angels. One archangel is infinitely more powerful than every angel in all of creation combined, thats 3 billion angels. Archangels are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, just like their father God. And a single archangel is almost as powerful as God himself. Archangels are God's very first creations, they existed infinitely long before the creation of the Universe, they also existed infinitely long before creation of anything else. They are ancient primordial beings and all-powerful cosmic forces of infinite power, unlimited destruction, and absolute authority. They could easily take over the whole universe in an instant if they so desire. Angels are gnats, subatomic particles compared to archangels. They could effortlessly annihilate the entire angel race with a thought if they wanted to. One Archangel is nearly as powerful as God. But all four archangels together... are literally unstoppable, they can effortlessly annihilate God in an instant. God made a mistake making every archangel almost as strong as himself. Collectively, they are much, much more powerful than God. They are far beyond all-powerful and invincible. A single archangel could literally end all life in the whole universe, think about what all four of them could do. All four archangels together are powerful enough to utterly destroy the entire universe in an instant and remake it however they desire. They could literally annihilate the entirety of existence. Every planet, star, galaxy, universe they could completely destroy with great ease, not just this universe, but every universe in existence they could annihilate instantly. They could effortlessly obliterate the entire universe and multiverse into nothingness if they wanted to, and that is just a tip of the ice berg of their true power. Their powers are limitless. Absolutely nothing, absolutely no one could stand a chance against an archangel. You don't want to know what would happen to the poor soul that would piss off an archangel. Even God himself would regret pissing off the archangels."

- Zachariah about the Archangels supreme power and absolute authority

Archangels are among the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe, as well as among the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence, possessing near-absolute infinite power, their powers are nearly limitless, and they have an unlimited amount of unimaginable power. The Seraph Castiel have described the archangels power level as, "infinite beyond comprehension." The high-ranking angel Naomi has noted that the presence of one archangel in heaven can phenomenally strengthen heaven and can vastly augment all the angels powers and make them stronger than ever for as long as the archangel remains in heaven. Another high-ranking angel Zachariah has noted that any archangel is powerful enough to completely destroy heaven and hell. Zachariah also noted that the higher archangels Michael and Lucifer together is powerful enough to completely destroy the entire universe with great ease, and would only take them one day or less. Metatron noted that it would only take two archangels together to harm and weaken God, three archangels to kill God but would take some effort, but four archangels could effortlessly destroy God. Metatron also noted that if there was a fifth archangel then that would be enough power to destroy both God and The Darkness together. Archangels are immeasurably more powerful than nearly any beings and supernatural creatures in existence, except for God and the Darkness. All four Archangels together are powerful enough to harm and greatly weaken The Darkness, the oldest and most powerful entity in in all of existence, even much more powerful than God. They possess significantly much more powers and abilities than all angels, and due to being "Cosmic beings of primordial creation" they are infinitely more powerful than any other angel with their power just barely under that of God himself. God himself noted that Michael is close to being as powerful as he is, and Lucifer is also almost as powerful as God, however, Gabriel and Raphael, though, unbelievably powerful, they are considered lesser archangels and are nowhere near as powerful as Michael, Lucifer or God. The Archangels are held in extremely high esteem by angels, demons and even deities, being looked upon as "infinite", "unlimited", "supreme", "unrivaled", "terrifying", "unsurpassable", "godlike", "cosmic", "unimaginable", "fierce" and "absolute" in power, strength and capability. Archangels are even more powerful than Death and The Shadow. Archangels have a tremendously vast supply of unlimited powers and they can do practically anything they desire with only a couple exceptions, and can create absolutely anything out of thin air instantly. Archangels are shown to be immeasurably more powerful than the Princes of Hell and Knights of Hell. While at full power, Lucifer was greatly feared by Abaddon, Asmodeus, and Dagon and the weakest archangel, Gabriel, was more than a match for Asmodeus in combat and effortlessly killed him by completely incinerating him into nothingness with a wave of his hand. Lucifer was also greatly feared by the very first Knight of Hell Cain while bearing the Mark of Cain, and stated, "If anyone or anything could kill me with the Mark its God or the devil." The second Knight of Hell, Abaddon said of Lucifer, "Lucifer, my father, god and creator. He created us Knights, and could effortlessly destroy us in an instant. He is the only being i truly fear." Archangels are also infinitely more powerful than White-eyed Demons, as the first and strongest demon Lilith immediately fled in face of the Archangel Raphael's wrath and Michael effortlessly obliterated her with a single blast of holy white light with a gesture. The archangels were not at all affected by the Expelling Angels spell as Michael, Lucifer and Gabriel are known to have retained their wings.
 * Nigh-Omnipotence - Archangels; Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel are among the oldest and most powerful beings in the universe, as well as among the oldest and most powerful beings in all of existence, only surpassed by God and The Darkness. Collectively, they are stronger than God and The Darkness. They all possess near-infinite power, nearly completely omnipotent, and possess unlimited powers, and they can do practically anything they desire and accomplish virtually anything they desire with only some exceptions. God and The Darkness are the only beings in all of existence that can defeat them. A great display of their power is also everything from the ability to effortlessly kill or banish lesser beings with either finger snaps, hand waves, thoughts, or even just by unleashing their powers through their eyes to, collectively, being able to defeat the Darkness, the oldest and most powerful entity in all of existence, even more powerful than God himself. Archangels rank in age in this specific order: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Gabriel. As for the power line, the order is the same, with Michael being stronger to an unknown but no significant degree than Lucifer, as the Michael from the alternate reality killed his Lucifer as well as having easily beat the main reality Lucifer in a fight while the main Michael was able to defeat and cast Lucifer out of Heaven as well as imprison him in the Cage and was described as being inevitably capable of killing Lucifer had they fought in the Apocalypse, with their battle being able to completely destroy the entire Milky Way Galaxy, and even would destroy a large portion of the universe from their battle, as well as destroying Heaven and Hell. Archangels are powerful enough to easily annihilate entire planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, galaxy groups, and superclusters. They can very easily destroy even the mightiest of Pagan Gods and Deities with snaps of their fingers and even thoughts. They can create anything out of thin air instantly and can even create entire universes and add in anything they desire instantly with just a thought. They can instantly erase almost any being from existence with a snap of their fingers; create and uncreate alternate universes; make reality out of nothing; generate and create apocalyptic storms that could easily and utterly destroy entire planets, galaxies, and universes; put other beings in endless time loops; obliterate other powerful beings on a subatomic level with finger snaps or even thoughts; create rifts to other realities, dimensions, or universes with a snap of their fingers; create entire pocket universes with their own timeline and add in timelines to the universe with just a thought instantly. It is noted that the combined power of the four archangels could completely destroy the entire universe/multiverse instantly and even God himself without much effort.
 * Nigh-Omniscience - Being alive for trillions of years, the Archangels have near-infinite knowledge of the entire universe, tremendous knowledge, understanding and awareness of whats going on all over the entire universe, they can instantly detect events happening throughout the entirety of existence, and they know almost everything. Even when Lucifer was trapped in the cage, he had immense knowledge about what Sam has been through. Michael similarly was aware that his brothers have died while trapped in the cage. Gabriel was aware of Castiel searching for God despite not being told of Castiel's search. Lucifer claims to know how to create angels, as well as how to restore all angel's wings, though he later admitted to Anael that he lied, and Michael is the one that knows how not him. They were immensely aware that there are countless Alternate Universes, they were also aware that there are alternate versions of them in some of these universes. Raphael knew an unknown method of how to release Michael and Lucifer from the cage via powerful spell and knows a very powerful spell to resurrect angels from the Empty. Michael was immediately aware of Anna's plan to put an end to the Apocalypse despite her having traveled to a different time in the past and picked the right moment to throw if off the rails and destroy her and her plan. Even while locked in the Cage, he was aware that it was the Winchesters who released Lucifer and that his Archangel brothers have died and knew God returned. He also could easily detect Castiel's prayer. Michael even knew of the very first spell that was used to trap the Darkness and surmised that with God weak from the Equalizer, he could be trapped with that spell and had infinite knowledge of the workings of Purgatory, the Empty and Hell. Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel possesses complete knowledge of the Rings of the Horsemen that can be used to open the cage and Lucifer knew that Sam and Dean planned to send him back in to the cage using the Horsemen rings. Lucifer had limitless knowledge and understanding of countless spells, magic, curses, hexes, witchcraft, voodoo, and hoodoo. He also had immense knowledge of soul manipulation/absorption, souls, alternate realities, other supernatural creatures and species, powers and weaknesses of other supernatural beings, Earth's history of both past and present, and the workings of the universe/multiverse. Lucifer also knew the sigil-protected place that a group of chief deities were meeting to try to stop the Apocalypse and Lucifer picked the right moment to throw it off the rails and effortlessly annihilate the entire group of chief Pagan gods. Gabriel is also infinitely smart, having succeeded on faking his death more than once, even fooling God himself into thinking Gabriel was dead. On one occasion, he tricked a large group of high-level Deities into thinking he had been murdered by Kali, only to appear again in time to save the latter from Lucifer's unstoppable wrath.
 * Nigh-Omnificence - Archangels can create almost absolutely everything/anything almost without limits, including concepts, existence, reality, and even the totality itself. They can also create from nothing or even to create one thing from another e.g. manifesting an image from a comic book, creating life from the dead, and duplicating anything. They can create practically anything they choose on a near-unlimited scale.
 * Nigh-Omnipresence - Archangels can be almost everywhere in existence at the same time.
 * Angelic Possession - Even archangels require vessels to manifest physically on Earth and need their consent to do so. By leaving the door in their vessel's mind 'open just a crack', an Archangel can repossess a vessel without needing their permission once again.
 * Angelic Vessel Possession - Lucifer can possess an angelic vessel which is already in use, as he possessed Castiel in his vessel. To do that, he needed Castiel's permission. Castiel's vessel was able to hold the immeasurable power of an Archangel and the power of a seraph without any visible physical damage. However, the Seraph noted that Lucifer was burning through both him and his vessel over time and was going eventually disintegrate him.
 * Localization - Archangels are able to instantly track and locate beings anywhere in existence.
 * Astral Perception - They can sense and perceive beings and things that are naturally invisible, such as reapers, hellhounds, ghosts, and even Horsemen. Lucifer was able to casually look at Death's true form upon his release. Archangels can also see the true forms of an angel or demon thru their vessels and can instantly identify if a human is possessed.
 * Astral Projection - Archangels can display their wings to the astral world. They can cause humans and other beings to come out of their body as a spirit. They can accurately see the true form of any being thru their vessel.
 * Precognition - Archangels can see into the future, they can see extremely far into the future. They can even see years, centuries, even eons into the future, although they do not always see the full picture; as Michael has apparently been "wrong", and neither Lucifer nor Gabriel foresaw their defeats. They can see as far into the future as they want, no matter how far into the future it is, however, they cannot always see the full picture.
 * Chronokinesis - Archangels can travel and send themselves, and/or others, backwards or forwards through time at will, no matter how far into the future or far into the past, they could send themselves or any number of beings as far as trillions of years into the future or the very beginning of time. Gabriel was able to create a time loop. They can also slow, freeze, reverse, and speed-up the flow of time. They change the past and the future to an unlimited degree, age and de-age beings, and can trap people or entire universes in endless loops of time. They can manipulate time of any/all realities, dimensions and universes, whether they are physical locations, such as higher dimensions, heaven or hell, or metaphysical locations such as the dream world. Archangels can travel and/or send others not only to the future or past, but to past and future universes/timelines that were recreated/yet to be recreated before the universe/timeline the user resides in. This literally allows for traveling through a cycle of destroyed and recreated universes/timelines, even the moments between the creation and destruction of the universes.
 * Time Reversal - Archangels can rewind time to a few seconds, minutes, hours, days and years into the past and alter it.
 * Time Reduction - Archangels can slow time down to various degrees while being able to move normally, either slowing time for a certain target or affecting everything but the user. They can slow down opponents to avoid attacks and dampen movements.
 * Time Stopping - Archangels can stop time while being unaffected themselves, or may also allow others to be unaffected. If the user moves before this ability ceases, it would appear to everyone that the user teleported.
 * Time Acceleration - Archangels can accelerate/speed up time for themselves or others up to practically light speed while still moving normally.
 * Time Duplication - Archangels can bring past and/or future versions of themselves or others out of the timestream into the present time.
 * Time Looping - Archangels can trap anyone or anything into a reiterating time stream where everything inside the loop is restarted precisely every so often, even backwards. They can put any number of beings into a time loop, either endlessly or temporarily. Any archangel can put anyone in a time loop at will and are able to force someone to relive the same second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, etc. for as long as the user keeps them there. They can even put entire planets in time loops.
 * Event Recreation - Archangels can change a specific event from the past/present/future by recreating/reformatting them.
 * Clairsentience - Archangels can feel in a way that isn't connected to their physical senses, on distances beyond their normal ranges or being able to sense things that are beyond their normal tactile range. They can instantly detect power and weaknesses of any being. Lucifer was able to detect the power and life of his unborn son. Alternate Michael was able to identify the main universe Lucifer, stating he “could feel it” and could sense Castiel's presence. Gabriel could psychically detect Rowena's tracking spell despite her being unbound, although weakened to a noticeable level. Michael was able to immediately sense Lilith in her vessel when she approached him under God's orders. They can even instantly identify others such as beings who shapeshift or humans who are possessed. Archangels can sense the presence of anything/everything, including matter/energy, power, concepts, etc. and possibly gain detailed understanding about whatever they are sensing, including the amount/size of it and whether it is hidden and/or guarded.
 * Conversion - Archangels can cause things to change in form, character, or function, processing something to change from one form to another, permanently transform other beings into other kinds of creatures. Lucifer created the race of demons by twisting humans souls.
 * Deflection - Archangels are capable of deflecting attacks, normally projectiles or blunt force, away from themselves no matter the mass, speed or force of the object. Gabriel was able to effortlessly deflect an energy blast from Asmodeus, while Lucifer deflected a single energy blast from Alternate Michael with some effort.
 * Force-Field Generation - Archangels can create a shield, wall, barrier, dome, or a field formed from energy, elements, the environment to an unlimited degree, or by manipulating smaller items to form a greater whole. They can instantly create shields, barriers, or fields powerful enough to block, stop and/or nullify anything no matter the mass or force of the being or object. They can even create shields, fields, and barriers to whatever size they want to protect entire cities, states, countries, continents, planets, dimensions, galaxies, and even universes.
 * Force-Field Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, and manipulate force-fields to an unlimited degree, a field of energy without mass that acts as a matter/wall, so that objects affected by the particular force relating to the field are unable to pass through the field and reach the other side. Unlike Force-Field Generation, this includes manipulating another person’ force-field or force-field related weapons at will, turning their defensive force-field against them. This also include shaping the force-field into other objects.
 * Biokinesis - Archangels can manipulate the bodies of lesser beings, either to harm, weaken, or to transfigure. Lucifer was able to cause a man to die of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Archangels have complete control over the bodies and anatomies of oneself and others, including skin, nails, fat, muscles, blood, nerves, etc., allowing them to freely alter and manipulate them. User can creation or grow additional appendages and body-parts, remove them or otherwise manipulate bodies, in visible, chemical and cellular/sub-cellular levels. This can also allow the user to telekinetically move another human through their bodies. Any archangel can manipulate life on a cellular level, including but not limited to, genetic alterations and physical distortion and/or augmentations of biological functions. They can cause cells to augment to induce advanced or declined biological healing, induce and cure diseases like cancer, induce appearance alteration, manipulate pheromones, and even increase physiological maturity. They can even create, shape, and manipulate diseases, viruses, poisons, toxins, and illnesses. They even are powerful enough to create a global pandemic that could wipe out an entire planets.
 * Electrokinesis - Archangels can manipulate, control and generate electricity with such an intensity to an unlimited degree, that they can cause coastal blackouts and even global blackouts as seen when Raphael manifested before Dean and Castiel. With a snap of his fingers, Lucifer was able to disable a fire alarm and turn on music. an create, shape and manipulate electricity, a form of energy resulting from the movement of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), allowing control over electric fields, all charge carriers (Ions, Electrons, Protons, and Positrons), and electronics. One could eventually grow to manipulate the weather and create thunderstorms. Any archangel can electrocute almost any being to death by either touching them or from a distance by snapping their fingers, and can generate such extremely powerful and massive electricity that can cause all of Earth to blackout, and they can even shoot powerful bolts of electricity from their hands as a deadly weapon and can instantly create incredibly powerful electricity barriers to hold back absolutely anything and anyone to an unlimited degree.
 * Electromagnetic Interference - Archangels can control, manipulate and shape electromagnetic energy to an unlimited degree. Any archangel can control, modify or disrupt electronic signals, causing cell phones, televisions, radios, computers, and other electrical appliances to work erratically, or fail completely. Lucifer was able to cause the lights to flicker with his presence at the Elysian Fields Hotel. Michael Vs Lucifer.gif
 * Energy Blasts - Archangels can release extremely powerful energy over a specific target area causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force. Lucifer was able to launch powerful blue energy blasts at Alternate Michael, which only pushed him back and did no visible damage. Michael was then able to use the same attack to injure Lucifer. The Main Universe Michael also displayed this power during his fight with Lucifer. Any archangel can launch very powerful and large energy blasts at will to an unlimited degree, to either damage, kill or destroy almost anything and anyone.
 * Damaging Field Projection - Archangels generate a field that causes physical damage and wounds to anything inside of it.
 * Destructive Field Projection - Archangels can emit a field that destroys anything and everything around them. However, the user may be able to decide what is destroyed and what is not, or at least train to do so.
 * Air Blasts - Archangels can release air/wind over a specific target area causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
 * Elemental Creation - Archangels can create/generate various elements, such as electricity, fire, lava, earth, water, air, etc.
 * Razor Wind Generation - Archangels can project air/wind or sound in a way that allows them to cut through matter and almost anything from a distance. Although this attack does usually slashing damage, some users are able to focus it into single piercing stab like an immaterial bullet.
 * Exorcism - Archangels can forcefully remove demons, ghosts, and angels from their vessel with just a snap of their fingers or by verbally commanding it, Lucifer was able to effortlessly exorcise a demon back to Hell with a snap of his fingers.
 * Healing - Archangels can instantly cure absolutely any disease, wound, or injury by just snapping their fingers or touching them. Michael even said that after he used Dean, he would just simply undo all the damage done to his body. Lucifer was able to heal the angel Anael. and the paralysis of Wendy Vincente as part of a deal with his vessel.
 * Flight - Archangels can fly, hover and levitate at will. While battling a Michael-powered Dean Winchester, Lucifer was able to fight in mid-air as was Dean while using Michael's powers. In Apocalypse World, Michael would often arrive at a location by flying in in the form of a comet. can fly at absolute and limitless speeds, easily surpassing light speed infinitely, traveling infinite distances in a mere yoctosecond. With this ability, they can explore the entire multiverse and infinitely beyond in mere picoseconds, experiencing countless events, worlds and timelines.
 * Hyperspacfe Travel - Archangels can travel at speeds faster than speed of light, moving at such speed that it appears the traveler has moved from one spatial location to another instantly. This is achieved usually by moving along tachyons, particles faster than light or by bending two locations within space to temporarily join together, and "jumping" from point A to point B via that bend.
 * Holy White Light - Archangels can blast almost anything into oblivion with holy energy. This is one of their greatest defensive powers, because holy energy is infinitely powerful, and can destroy entire planets, stars, and even galaxies. This power can also be controlled and concentrated from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it. Michael and Lucifer's fight was prophesied to destroy the entire Milky Way Galaxy, as well as quintillions of entire planets and stars, millions of other entire galaxies, which would utterly destroy more than half of the entire universe. The Apocalypse World Michael was able to easily blast down the reinforced steel door with a powerful warding to protect it to the Men of Letters bunker with a concentrated blast of white light. Michael effortlessly destroyed Lilith with a blast of holy white light without even gesturing, just by lighting his eyes, easily obliterating her in an instant, leaving nothing but a small pile of ashes.
 * Existence Erasure - Archangels can remove the memories/knowledge of a target (person, object, etc.) from history, a timeline or existence entirely. No evidence of the person or object having ever existed will remain; the target exists physically afterwards, but nothing and no-one will know who or what they are. Archangels can also erase beings from existence with a snap of their fingers.
 * Molecular Combustion - Archangels have the unique power to instantly explode and obliterate humans, monsters, alphas, demons, reapers, angels, demigods, deities, pagan gods, and leviathans into their component molecules with snaps of their fingers, gestures, or even thoughts. They can also instantly explode numerous beings at the same time. The high-ranking angel Zachariah noted that Lucifer is powerful enough to snap of his fingers and instantly destroy the entire angel race at the same time on a subatomic level by snapping his fingers. Any archangel can instantly explode the entire any number of beings with a snap of their fingers.
 * Volatile Force Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape and manipulate explosive, combustive, rupturing, detonative force energy to an unlimited degree, which can easily and utterly destroy entire planets, stars, and galaxies.
 * Paralysis Inducement - Archangels can instantly immobilize any being completely, temporarily or partially, causing them to be left without movement and sensation. Making motor functions and muscle movement unavailable, the victim may freeze on the spot or crumple to the ground.
 * Destruction Inducement - Archangels can utterly destroy almost anything/everything to a near-unlimited degree. Any archangel could utterly destroy anything and everything from small objects to entire planets, stars, galaxies, dimensions, alternate realities, or entire universes and possibly even abstract concepts and/or natural forces/laws.
 * Death Inducement - Archangels can kill anyone and possibly even anything using varying means, either instantly, slowly over time, after certain conditions are met, or after a certain period of time has passed. May be induced by touch, at a distance, simply willing it to happen, or by performing a certain ritual.
 * Pain Inducement - Archangels can cause varying levels of pain, including physical, mental and/or emotional, to their targets with thoughts, gestures, or finger snaps.
 * Fire Generation - Archangels can create, control, alter, generate and project fire to a near-unlimited degree,and could cause entire planets and galaxies to be annihilated and burn to ashes completely. They can project fire from their hands akin to a flamethrower to an unlimited degree.
 * Incineration Touch - Archangels can utilize high temperatures to instantly incinerate almost anything and anyone, reducing it or them to ashes.
 * Disintegration - Archangels can instantly cause targets such as objects, places, and beings (whether organic or inorganic material) to lose cohesion in various means with finger snaps, hand waves, gestures, or thoughts. Some can make matter fall apart into dust, wipe away their target on a molecular/sub-molecular level or even revert matter into pure energy.
 * Smiting - Like all other angels, archangels are capable of smiting other beings but are immeasurably more powerful. Raphael would have effortlessly smote Lilith had she not fled and Lucifer noted he could effortlessly smite Crowley. While super-charged, Lucifer attempted to smite Dean Winchester and the alternate Michael, but he was killed before he could finish. The Alternate Michael could smite a monster from a distance by just lightning his eyes. Lucifer once threatened Crowley that he could effortlessly smite him in an instant. Archangels can easily smite humans, angels, demons, monsters, and deities in an instant with a mere thought. Unlike regular angels, archangels can effortlessly smite numerous beings at the same time. Lucifer noted that he could instantly smite the entire human race (7 billion humans) with a snap of his fingers. Alternate Michael was able to instantly smite a vampire from the distance with a thought.
 * Concussive Energy Blasts - Archangels can release concussive energy/force over a specific target area.
 * Concussive Force Generation - Archangels can deliver impact of concussive force, whether directly or remotely, which can knock the target back and cause internal and external damage. They can achieve this either by direct physical force, solid matter, pulse of energy or any other way that causes damage by collision.
 * Anger-Induced Empowerment - Archangels can become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. through anger/rage whether their own or others, possibly unlocking abilities related to the affinity and enhancing their existing powers and as a bonus the user can suppress pain to great lengths
 * Power Augmentation - Archangels can augment the powers of other beings, either temporarily or permanently. Lucifer's presence vastly enhanced the powers of Jesse Turner, making him more powerful than regular demons and angels and making him powerful enough to instantly destroy the Host of Heaven with a thought if he desired.
 * Power Transmutation - Archangels can actively alter/change the powers of oneself or others to whatever ability they desire.
 * Power Creation - Archangels can create/manifest/develop virtually any ability, be it existing or brand new, and bestow it to others or themselves.
 * Power Detection - Archangels can sense the presence of supernatural powers and possibly gain detailed understanding about them, including their type, quality and intensity.
 * Power Reduction - Archangels can weaken and/or defuse an ability users abilities be it gradually or instantly, dampening the effectiveness of the oppositions powers.
 * Power Restoration - Archangels is able to restore the powers of others. This allows them to restore the powers they lost due to abilities such as Power Erasure and/or Power Absorption.
 * Power Recharging - Archangels can completely recharge/refill anyone's abilities/powers after they have been used up, completely restoring them to the point that they first started using them.
 * Power Granting - Archangels can grant protection, abilities, or powers to other beings as shown when Raphael made Crowley immune to Castiel's angelic killing touch. Gabriel, when posing as The Trickster, granted superhuman strength, stamina and speed to the women he created for Dean and a few years later have Dean himself the temporary ability to speak Japanese. Lucifer gave the Princes of Hell their unique powers. Naomi also stated that the presence of a single archangel is enough to power heaven. While using Dean as his vessel, the alternate Michael was able to grant Dean the use of several of his powers even without Michael being in control.
 * Power Negation - Archangel can nullify the powers of almost any being in existence, Lucifer was able to prevent deities from teleporting, to stop them from escaping so he could kill them. Raphael was able to "shelter Crowley under his wing", making the demon immune to angels smiting. He also negated Castiel from teleporting away from him and his smiting. Archangel can also render angels, demons, monsters, ghosts, cosmic entities, and even Pagan gods completely mortal, and negate the entirety of their powers and abilities.
 * Power Erasure - Archangels can eliminate/remove the supernatural powers of others, so they won't have access to them.
 * Power Fluctuation - Archangels can make the powers and abilities of others fluctuate out of control, causing them problems with their powers, weakening them, increasing their powers when finesse is needed, etc.
 * Power Increasing - Archangels can manipulate the power levels of themselves and/or others, allowing such feats as increasing their attack power or suppressing their power to avoid being detected.
 * Power Evolution - Archangels can upgrade or evolve any kind of superpower, including enhancing one's physical and mental condition an unlimited number of times, to virtually any level of gaining new powers or form.
 * Power Manipulation - Archangels can create, manipulate, remove, change, etc, the supernatural energies/properties in all beings that give them their powers, including themselves, thus allowing every variation of superpowers and manipulative ability.
 * Immortality Granting - Archangels grant others the power of immortality of various levels, from simple agelessness to absolute.
 * Immortality Removal - Archangels can remove the immortal status from another, rendering them mortal and vulnerable to fatal damage.
 * Self-Power Augmentation - Archangels can empower their existing abilities to higher levels, and they can even augment their powers to their highest/absolute level.
 * Self-Power Granting - Archangels can give themselves any kind of power they desire to an immense degree, albeit not to a limitless degree.
 * Immunity Granting - Archangels can grant immunities to anything (powers, ideas, concepts, diseases, etc.) to others.
 * Immunity Removal - Archangels can completely and permanently remove any immunity the target has.
 * Pyrokinesis - Archangels can manipulate, control and generate fire to an unlimited degree. They can incinerate angels, demons, alphas, monsters, demigods, deities, and humans. Michael incinerated Anna, burning her from the inside out. Gabriel was able to effortlessly incinerate the last Prince of Hell Asmodeus with just a hand gesture despite Asmodeus' incredible power and his diminished grace. They can generate and prject fire from their hands akin to a flamethrower, albeit to an unlimited degree and can severely burn, incinerate and destroy almost anything and anyone, and can shape it where they can make the fire so vast capable of incinerating entire buildings, towns, cities, states, countries, and even entire planets. They can also generate and project limitless fireballs and create massive firestorms.
 * Shockwave Generation - Archangels can produce powerful shockwaves via various means, including mental or physical action such as clapping, stomping, flicking, snapping, etc.
 * Suicide Inducement - Archangels is able to cause suicide by various causes (physical, mental and/or emotional torment) to their targets using supernatural means.
 * Explosion Inducement - Archangels can cause an explosion in a variety of ways and of any scale, with varying effects ranging from stunning to total annihilation.
 * Implosion Inducement - Archangels can create implosions to any scale, causing an object to collapse into itself and into a singularity, until it reaches critical mass and releases an explosion, destroying everything in the vicinity.
 * Nuclear Explosion Inducement - Archangels can cause a nuclear explosion, either from themselves or splitting an atom to do so.
 * Dream Imprisonment - Archangels can create a false reality/illusion in dreams and trap people into either the users or the targets dreams/nightmares. The target's body may stay in waking while their mind/soul is trapped or it may disappear into dream as well.
 * Nightmare Imprisonment - Archangels can trap others in nightmares. They may be nightmares the victim is already having or the user may create a nightmare to trap them in. The nightmares in question can stem from the user or from the victims' own worst nightmares.
 * Transmutation - Archangels can transform, alter or transmute matter, energy, elements, objects, beings (animals, aliens, mythical beings, etc.), etc into anything else they desire, either completely or partially, permanently or temporarily.
 * Conjuration - Archangels can create absolutely anything out of thin air. They can instantly create anything they desire with a thought and make it vanish just as quick. They can create absolutely anything to an unlimited degree, such as, matter, energy, living beings, humans, creatures, objects, food, drinks, drugs, houses, cities, towns, vehicles, aircrafts, supernatural weapons, urban legends, fantasy lands, fantasy creatures, fiction, dimensions, spiritual realms, planets, galaxies, stars, entire universes, and absolutely anything else they desire with a snap of their fingers. Gabriel created a luxurious golden mansion, large buffet of fine food, drinks, champagne, liquor, and desserts, and multiple beautiful women for his own sexual pleasure. Archangels can instantly create absolutely anything they desire, make anything come true, and conjure anything from their imagination just by thinking it.
 * Reality Warping - Archangels can control, alter, bend, and manipulate reality to an unlimited degree. This ability is better demonstrated by the archangel Gabriel, who can create anything he wants out of thin air and can even put people in a TV universe, alternate universes, and time loops. Lucifer who taught Gabriel his tricks, was able to simply snap his fingers and make a song play in Limbo. Archangels can fulfill their or others wishes with a thought to a near-unlimited degree, even if the wish is in direct contradiction with scientific laws, and do things that would normally be impossible. Any archangel can alter reality on a universal scale and also create any type of alternate reality they desire. Archangels can achieve fundamentally impossible feats on a whim, and freely redefine what's possible and impossible. Any archangel can manipulate, shape, and control reality, metaphysics and causation with but a thought, and ignore all rules like they didn't exist at all. They make reality out of nothing and bend it however they desire to an unlimited ddegree
 * Recreation - Archangels can recreate anything that was destroyed in any way. In short, the user can undo the damage caused by powers such as Destruction, Explosion Inducement, etc should they destroy objects.
 * Reality Recreation - Archangels can recreate anything that was destroyed in any way. In short, the user can undo the damage caused by powers such as Destruction, Explosion Inducement, etc should they destroy objects.
 * Reality Creation - Archangels can create new realities within the current reality they are in rather than outside of their reality. They can create realities that encompass a whole area that has its own rules, physics, features, possibilities, etc. These realities can encompass whole towns, cities, continents, planets, galaxies, and even universes.
 * Imagination Manifestation - Archangels can bring any material, being or tool originating from their imagination into existence and literally bring their wildest ideas into reality.
 * Life Creation - Archangels create living beings or matter using several different ways, these beings can either be completely unique/original, modified/evolved versions of already existing ones or simply normal beings without any major modifications.
 * Wish Granting - Archangels can grant wishes of others or oneself, manifesting the desires of others and themselves into reality and make their wildest dreams come true.
 * Fantasy World Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape and manipulate the fantasy world and every aspect of that world from elements to mythical beasts.
 * Fantasy World Creation - Archangels can create world of fantasy, including creating logic defying phenomenons such as magic, floating islands, mythical creatures, etc. They can even forge their own fables and fairy tales.
 * Limitless World Creation - Archangels can create and/or manipulate a limitless reality/plane/world, one that is infinite/unlimited in scale and potential, allowing them to design a world with no boundaries or limitations on what can happen and where anything/everything is possible and anything can likely be found by traveling far enough.
 * Unlimited Wish Granting - Archangels can grant/receive any unrestricted and perfect wishes without any limitations: no resource needed, no condition required, no limited number, no delays for use/reuse, and no exception whatsoever. They can grant very vague or even inconceivable/impossible wishes that will always come true no matter what, as the power will automatically make up for the user's personal limitations when granting those wishes.
 * Alternate Reality Creation - Archangels can create a dimension, reality and/or reality-continuum. Everything in this creation depends of the user's choices, whether conscious or unconscious. As such, the user is able to both consciously and unconsciously create status, expertise and abilities for the occupants of the created universe if they deem it necessary.
 * Alternative Wishing Universe - Archangels can create and manipulate an alternate universe within their wishes and desires to an unlimited degree, an ideally created universe designed to be exactly anything the user so wishes it to be for either themselves or others. These kinds of worlds are generally places where anything the user can think of is theirs to have.
 * Creation Manifestation - Archangels can create organic or inorganic matter from nothing, either as finished objects or simply unfinished elements. Higher level users can create anything they can think of, whether conceptual or sentient. This includes the creation of energy, souls and life of any complexity, dimensions or realities, stars, etc.
 * Probability Creation - Archangels can create probable events to any situation/present event, adding the event to the range of possible events and outcomes of a situation.
 * Matter Creation - Archangels can create any type of artificial, organic and inorganic matter from nothing, as well as any object. They can shape created matter into any shape they wish and specify what type of material, or layers of materials (e.g., making layers of matter to form a hamburger), or quantity and subatomic structure.
 * Universal Restoration - Archangels user can repair and return any damaged or destroyed universes to their optimal state no matter how long it has been destroyed or how damaged they were.
 * Universe Creation - Archangels can create an entire universe and everything that occupies in it, including also its residents, environment and locations. They can create the residents with roles, powers and skills to inhabit their universe.
 * Multiverse Creation - Archangels create multiverse of infinite collection of realities and everything that occupies them, including it's residents, environment and locations.
 * Self-Duplication - Archangels can create limitless copies of themselves. Gabriel was able to create hundreds of copies of himself.
 * Duplication - Archangels can instantly and perfectly duplicate themselves and/or targets which can be objects or living beings as much as they want, even limitlessly, and are able to recombine their clones if they want.
 * Regeneration - Archangels normally do not need to regenerate due to them being invulnerable and immune to almost all conventional/supernatural means. However, if they are in some way harmed by some rare supernatural means, such as getting stabbed by an archangel blade they can instantly heal all non-fatal wounds. Lucifer was able to instantly heal a wound to the forehead from the Colt while Gabriel instantly healed all of the injuries he had received from Asmodeus' torture.
 * Resurrection - Archangels can instantly bring deceased individuals back to life with a snap of their fingers or thoughts. Michael was able to resurrect Sam after he was fatally stabbed by Anna Milton. After Sam's death in Apocalypse World, Lucifer was able to resurrect him after recharging his grace by feeding on some of Michael's angels. At the request of Jack, Lucifer resurrected Maggie following her murder by what turned out be Lucifer himself.
 * Shapeshifting - Archangels can limitlessly change form at will into anything and anyone they want, as Lucifer did when he appeared to Nick using Sarah's visage. He also did this to Sam while using Jessica's visage. Gabriel also demonstrated this ability several times, in conjunction with his reality warping abilities.
 * Soul Channeling - Archangels can draw power from humans souls, and can read if someone has a soul or not.
 * Spell Breaking - Archangels can easily break almost any spell in existence, no matter how potent it is. Lucifer was able to easily break Rowena's powerful binding spell.
 * Spell Casting - Archangels can limitlessly cast spells at will.
 * Omni-Magic - Archangels possess absolutely every type of magic that exists as well as other mystical and supernatural forces. They can bend, break, and even create natural laws, distort the fabric of reality on a cosmic scale, perform unbelievable miracles, and create things without limit, all by merely using their magical prowess.
 * Curse Creation - Archangels are capable of creating curses with various effects at will, however they want with a thought.
 * Magic Creation - Archangels create entirely new forms of magic or create magic it self, including crafting/designing their own rules, limitations, maximum potentials, taboos, and everything else necessary for the new form of magic they created, they can even remove the magic they crafted from others if they feel its being misused.
 * Spell Creation - Archangels are capable of instantly creating brand-new spells and using them, on the fly at will.
 * Curse Negation - Archangels can nullify the power of, or bypass curses to keep them or their victims safe from infliction.
 * Spell Negation - Archangels can negate any and all forms of spells ranging from the most powerful of spells to least and faint spells, possibly dispelling them completely.
 * Magic Negation - Archangels can negate superhuman powers and effects that originate from magic. Spells, curses, hexes, jinxes and charms may all be negated by the user. In addition, magical objects/items and potions are rendered useless, while the effect of ley lines is diminished, according to the user's level of power. Magical creations even weaken, and eventually crumble, disperse or dissolve in the user's presence.
 * Magic Immunity - Archangels is invulnerable to most, if not all, forms of magic and magical powers (magic absorption, incantation, etc.). Advanced users may be able to select which spells/curses or potions can affect them.
 * Supernatural Concealment - Archangels are able to hide themselves from any being, including God.
 * Super Agility Archangels possesses limitless agility, with their balance, bodily coordination, speed, reflexes and strength transcending virtually all other beings in the universe. Raphael easily caught an angel blade from behind without looking at it.
 * Super Reflexes - Archangels possess limitless reflexes, being able to react to everything there is, no matter how fast it comes, even light speed. They can react at any speed and change actions on the fly at faster-than-blinding speeds. Raphael was able to catch an angel blade thrown at him from behind, all without turning around.
 * Super Senses - Archangels all senses are enhanced to an infinite scale, allowing them to see, smell, hear and otherwise limitlessly sense everything in existence, including conceptual forces and even immaterial beings/entities. They can hear everything that goes on in the world, or the entire galaxy, or even the entire universe. They can do more than just hear everything that goes on, they can even hear, see, and smell the thoughts of anyone and everyone (not to be confused with Telepathy) as well as being able to bypass time itself and hear the past and future. Gabriel was able to hear things from many floors up and between walls. Raphael can instantly sense anything that poses a threat to a prophet, regardless of where he is. 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. Archangels have extraordinarily keen senses that far surpasses almost every being in the universe.
 * Super Speed - Archangels can fly at absolute and limitless speeds, easily surpassing light speed infinitely, traveling infinite distances in a finite amount of time. With this ability, they can explore the entire multiverse and infinitely beyond in mere picoseconds, experiencing countless events, worlds and timelines. They can run, move and fly at a level of speed at a maximum and limitless level, they can fly 93 billion light-years within a mere picosecond. They can move at speeds infinitely transcending the logical limits and boundaries of speed as a concept. Lucifer was able to use super speed to pin Rowena MacLeod to a wall instantly.
 * Super Stamina - Archangels have unlimited stamina, they do not ever need to eat, drink, breathe, rest, or sleep. They never tire and can exert their energy infinitely. Archangels' vessels need absolutely nothing to maintain their strength, to strive, or operate, as they are self-sufficient. "Falling", or being banished doesn't affect their powers at all, whereas it causes normal angels to lose the ability to smite and heal.
 * Super Strength - As the first and most powerful angels, Archangels can exert or apply extreme immense amounts of superhuman physical force to people, objects, creatures, and beings. Their super strength is virtually incalculable. At full strength, they can lift, exert, or carry trillions of tons of force and mass, such as, entire planets. Any level of weight any archangel needs to lift or move is irrelevant as their body can emit limitless amount of force that can repel an object of any mass. could travel massive distances in a single jump, unleash strikes of unparalleled might, obliterate massive life forms with one hit, cause destructive quakes by smashing the ground, shatter planetary systems with their fists, tear through/create space-time anomalies with their strength, etc. It should also be noted that they are virtually immune to all powers that could manipulate, affect or rob them of their strength. They are immeasurably stronger than all beings in existence.
 * Gravity Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate gravity, a natural phenomenon which all things with mass or energy — including planets, stars, galaxies, and light — attract (or gravitate toward) one another.
 * Size Manipulation - Archangels can manipulate the size of anything and everything, from tiny to absolutely gigantic while retaining their physical proportions, some may be able to alter targets density. Usually, strength and durability are proportional to the size assumed, but the target may gain increased abilities when growing or keep their normal ones when shrinking. Any archangel can shrink almost anything such as, other beings or objects below the size of subatomic particles and grow them beyond galactic size.
 * Thought Manipulation - Archangels can control and manipulate the thoughts of others; they can make others think what they want, control thinking processes, cause the loss of their line of thought inducing confusion, or completely shut off thinking processes.
 * Dream Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, enter, distort, and manipulate the dreams of oneself and others, including controlling, modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, and observing dreams as well as nightmares, daydreams, etc., possibly including past ones. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming, entrap people in REM, and promote spiritual/emotional healing within dreams.
 * Space-Time Manipulation - Archangels can manipulate, alter, distort or bend the space-time continuum, the fabrics of reality in which all exist in. Space-time serves as the boundary of existence, separating different realities and timelines and keeping them flowing properly; distorting this boundary can cause devastating effects, causing timelines to become fluid, even destroying any world.
 * Probability Manipulation - Archangels manipulate the probability, how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. They can decide how likely events happen, making unlikely things occur more often or instantly and preventing liable events from happening. They can cause and prevent both good and bad luck, sudden deaths, natural disasters, and even apocalyptic events.
 * Energy Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, and manipulate energy to an unlimited degree, the capacity or ability to cause change or do work, one of the most basic quantitative properties of a system, such as an object or a field of energy.
 * Energy Absorption - Archangels can absorb various forms of energy, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage. Either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.
 * Energy Transmutation - Archangels can transform matter and objects, including living beings, into energy.
 * Physics Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, and manipulate the Laws of Physics, everything dealing with matter and its motion and behavior through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force, including momentum, friction, vectors, inertia, etc. They could, for example, change the direction a ball moves and how fast it travels.
 * Physical Law Manipulation - Archangels can alter, create, manipulate, and rewrite physical laws, including physics, space-time, energy, matter, fundamental forces, chemistry, phenomena, vectors, particle behavior, etc. They can manipulate these laws to their will, allowing them to do nearly anything.
 * Soul Manipulation - Archangels create, shape and manipulate the soul, the incorporeal and immortal essence of a living thing, souls are usually most obviously present in sentient beings.
 * Soul Absorption - Archangels can absorb souls, while removing them from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as a power source, etc., either temporarily or permanently.
 * Matter Manipulation - Archangels can shape, alter and manipulate matter to an unlimited degree, i.e. anything in the universe that has substance and mass/physical form, starting from molecules and atoms, to planets and other astronomical features.
 * Energy Absorption - Archangels can absorb various forms of energy, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage. Either by enhancing themselves, gaining the drained power, using it as power source etc., either temporarily or permanently.
 * Cosmic Telekinesis - Archangels can manipulate matter to such a small degree, altering the basis of all matter and energy, control trillions of objects simultaneously as well to manipulate enormous objects such as entire planets, stars, solar systems, and even galaxies with great ease and coordination.
 * Telekinesis - Archangels can move and otherwise exert force on matter, objects, and beings with their mind to an unlimited degree. They can also create telekinetic barriers to an unlimited degree so powerful where it can hold back any number of beings, even an entire planet of beings.
 * Telepathy - Archangels can read and feel/sense the thoughts of humans and other beings. Lucifer was able to hold telepathic conversations with Dagon, and was able to cause her pain mentally by being enraged and screaming despite being restrained by Crowley's chains.
 * Technopathy - Archangels can control, manipulate, or alter technology.
 * Dream Walking - Archangels can appear in peoples' dreams, and they usually use this ability to communicate when they can't find the person they're looking for, or when they want to talk privately.
 * Empathy - Archangels can read, and feel/sense the emotions of humans and other beings.
 * Memory Manipulation - Archangels can control, alter, erase, fabricate and restore the memories of humans and other beings.
 * Mental Projection - Archangels can communicate with humans by projecting images into their minds. Lucifer used this to communicate with his vessels Nick and Vince Vincente to get a "yes" from them. Once his cage was damaged, Lucifer was able to use this power to communicate with Sam Winchester in the form of visions.
 * Pathokinesis - Archangels can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level. Lucifer was able to cause Sam to feel instantly calm and relaxed.
 * Illusion Casting - Archangels create, shape and manipulate illusions/hallucinations, causing targets to see, hear, touch, smell and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are. They can even create, shape and manipulate a whole reality, world, even universe for someone to see, smell, hear, and experience which is not actually there, but can make it seem so real.
 * Hallucination Inducement - Archangels can create, shape, and manipulate hallucinations/delusions, they can cause humans and other beings to go insane from the wild sensation or even causing the target’s mind to collapse permanently. They can cause very powerful hallucinations/delusions on almost any being, no matter how strong their minds are.
 * Perception Altering - Archangels can control, alter or induce effects up other being's perceptions. Lucifer tortured Sam's soul, tainting it with harsh recollection of the situation. Raphael says his torture vastly exceeds Zachariah's, stretching the boundaries of the imagination.
 * Mind Control - Archangels can control and influence the thoughts, emotions, behavior, actions, feelings, and memories of any being. They can easily make someone do anything involuntarily by thought or command.
 * Mental Manipulation - Archangels can manipulate the minds of humans and other beings, the mechanism of proceeding information and set of immaterial facilities that are linked to it. They can create, control, customise, negate and otherwise fashion parts and functions of mind as perception, desires, thoughts, beliefs, memories, attention, personality, behaviour and intelligence in verity of ways.
 * Dream Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, enter and manipulate the dreams of oneself and others, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, and observing dreams as well as nightmares, daydreams, etc., possibly including past ones. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming, entrap people in REM, and promote spiritual/emotional healing within dreams.
 * Command Inducement - Archangels can command other beings by giving them orders to do their bidding no matter what the being thinks or feels.
 * Hypnosis - Archangels can put others in a trance, making them highly suggestible and allowing the user to affect or directly influence their minds to their commands.
 * Sedation - Archangels can tranquilize organisms into a somnolent/hypnotized/sedated state, allowing them to subdue any being without lethal force. Michael used this to put Mary Winchester to sleep.
 * Teleportation - Archangels can instantly teleport anywhere in the whole universe and the multiverse. They disappear and reappear anywhere in existence, they can even appear in some places thats sigil-protected instantly. Even after Metatron's Spell, Lucifer and Michael was still able to teleport, as his wings are fully intact. Gabriel also retained this ability, having kept his wings like Lucifer did. After getting out of the Cage, Michael proved to have retained this ability, as his wings remained fully intact.
 * Apporting - Archangels can teleport people, objects, and any number of beings to wherever they want in existence.
 * Terrakinesis - Archangels can cause full-fledged earthquakes, regardless of whether they are in a vessel or not. They can even cause very powerful earthquakes at a universal scale. Any archangel can create, shape and manipulate earth and "earthen" elements including most solid objects, specifically all minerals and mineral compositions regardless of their state (mountain, boulder, sand or dust), dirt, soil, etc. More advanced users can manipulate metals such as iron, copper and titanium.
 * Thermokinesis - Archangels can alter the temperature of their surroundings. Lucifer's presence could cause a massive drop in temperature, and he could cause ice to form on a window just by breathing on it. He was also able to heat up a pair of Supernatural Handcuffs until they popped off of his wrist. He later melted a pair of the handcuffs. Michael was also able to cause a door knob to heat up drastically to prevent Adam from escaping. Any archangel can create, shape and manipulate temperature, a form of kinetic energy between particles at the atomic or molecular level. They can make almost anything as hot or as cold as they desire.
 * Lie Detection - Archangels can sense whether or not a human or another being is lying to them if they so wish.
 * Lie Inducement - Archangels can force/induce humans and other beings to lie.
 * Truth Detection - Archangels can sense when another being is telling the truth. This ability allows the user to constantly sense when information told to them is credibly given by another and whether a person speaking is telling the truth.
 * Truth Inducement - Archangels can force/induce humans and other beings to tell the truth.
 * Torture - Lucifer was highly skilled at torturing, being able to torture Lilith's spirit into a demon. Raphael also expressed confidence that he could break the tremendous will of Dean Winchester with torture beyond that Zachariah was capable of.
 * Voice Mimicry - Archangels can perfectly mimic voices of any being.
 * Sonic Scream - Archangels possesses such extremely powerful vocal cords that when they scream they can cause an entire buildings, areas, and even planets to violently shake and cause humans and other beings to be in excruciating pain. Lucifer, in a fit of rage, was capable of shouting so loud that it shook the entire Men of Letters' Bunker, made the Winchesters cover their ears in pain, and caused the Seraph Castiel to feel discomfort.
 * Ballistic Scream - Archangels can emit extremely powerful sound waves that can destroy objects, beings, buildings, and cities. If they scream at the top of their lungs they have such an incredibly powerful scream that they could destroy entire planets.
 * Concussive Roar - Archangels are able to shout and roar so loud that they can blow away, break, harm, shatter, and destroy objects, places, and beings with their powerfully ferocious vocal cords which can cause vibrations. They may also be able to emit such a powerful roar strong enough to damage hearing, cause fear and/or beings to be deaf, or paralyzation. The force caused by the roar may even cancel out opposing attacks. It can also be used to alert someone of the user's location.
 * Sound Wave Generation - Archangels can generate and project sound waves. They can generate and project sound waves so powerful where it can literally explode and destroy entire cities.
 * Elemental Control - Archangels can completely control the weather, temperature, oxygen, energy, electrical fields and the elements themselves to an near-unlimited degree, enough to cause natural disasters and catastrophic or apocalyptic storms, either willingly or simply due to their mere presence.
 * Telescopic Vision - Archangels can zoom their vision in on things, allowing them to see distant objects in magnified scale. They are even able to see vast distances, outside the atmosphere, solar-system or even galactic distances.
 * Infrared Vision - Archangels are able to perceive the infrared spectrum (i.e. temperature), allowing them to see temperature variations in objects and environment. They use this ability for observation purposes, as the user is able to see the heat presences of any living targets.
 * Microscopic Vision - Archangels are able to see items that are normally too small to be seen with the naked eye at normal clarity.
 * X-Ray Vision - Archangels can see x-rays, electromagnetic waves of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light. They use this ability for medical purposes such as the detection of cancers, tumors, blackened lungs, illnesses, viruses, diseases, internal damage, etc. The skill of perceiving a specific location (i.e. artery) is given by partial reflection of the ray from each specific surface surveyed.
 * Electromagnetic Vision - Archangels can perceive the world around themselves based solely on the patterns of magnetic and electrical energy.
 * Penetration Vision - Archangels The user can see through practically anything, including smoke, mist, clouds, stone, rock, wood, bone, metal, lead, skin, water, walls, etc.
 * Wind Breath - Even though, they do not ever require oxygen, archangels can exhale gale-force winds or inhale air in order to generate a vortex of wind, can range from exhalation on par with gale-force winds to inhalation on par the power of a gravitational vortex. They can even blow a being into orbit, and blow entire planets away.
 * Explosive Breath - Archangels are able to generate and manipulate extremely powerful explosions within them in a way that allows them to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, even a mist of it from the mouth. They can generate cataclysmic explosions by exhaling from their mouths.
 * Ice Breath - Archangels are able to generate and manipulate ice/cold within them in a way that allows them to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, even a mist of it from the mouth.
 * Heat Breath - Archangels are able to generate and manipulate heat within them in a way that allows them to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, lasers, and even a mist of it from the mouth.
 * Poison Breath - Archangels are able to generate and manipulate poison within them in a way that allows them to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, even a mist of it from the mouth.
 * Death Breath - Archangels can release a breath that kills anything near them instantly.
 * Electric Blasts - Archangels can release electricity over a specific target area causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
 * Weather Manipulation - Every Archangel astronomically changes the weather upon first emergence. The sheer presence can drastically alter the Earth's weather and surroundings, and they are capable of causing raging storms and generating strong air-currents Archangels can control, manipulate and alter weather to an unlimited degree. They can instantly control, manipulate, alter, generate, shape, or create earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunami's, tornado's, cyclones, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, downbursts, typhoons, volcano eruptions, droughts, natural disasters, wildfires, firestorms, blizzards, windstorms, hailstorms, thunderstorms, electrical storms, rainstorms, lightening strikes, monsoons, heat waves, cold waves, cloudbursts, storm surge's, temperature fluctuations, fog, mist, sleet, mudflows, landslides, vortex storms, flash floods, downbursts, mudslides, snow storms, dust storms, waterspouts, ice storms, and derecho storms. Any archangel can generate apocalyptic and cataclysmic types of storms that could cause entire planets, stars, galaxies, dimensions, spiritual realms, alternate realities, and even entire universes to be completely annihilated. Archangels have complete control over the weather and can generate, manipulate and alter the weather at will, and can use massive and powerful lightening strikes or gusts of wind as a weapon to kill, damage or destroy other beings, objects or places. Lucifer has struck humans, demons, monsters, deities, and angels with gigantic and powerful strikes of lightening from his hands causing them to be obliterated.
 * Cosmic Weather Manipulation - Archangels are capable of manipulating, generating and creating cosmic weather (also called space weather), ie. the changes in the ambient plasma, magnetic fields, radiation, and other matter in space. They can create cosmic storms, solar flares, geomagnetic storms, cosmic rays, coronal mass ejection, etc.
 * Cosmic Storm Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, and manipulate cosmic storms made from cosmic matter or energy capable of utterly destroying entire planets and galaxies and unleashing chaos on a cosmic level.
 * Cosmic Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape, absorb and manipulate cosmic forces and energies to produce nearly any effect they desire. Including the manipulation of matter and energy across space and time, the manipulation of the space-time continuum, altering the fabric of reality, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortexes, psionic's, energy projection and cosmic awareness. Any archangel can summon, create or manipulate comets, meteors, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, nebula, neutron stars, quasars, black holes, supermassive black holes, white holes, galaxies, antimatter, matter, and dark matter. They can generate stellar winds, solar flares, cosmic storms, and invoke meteor showers. They can also empower themselves and others by harnessing the power of cosmos. They use this power for combative purposes as well.
 * Cosmic Pyrokinesis - Archangels can create, shape, generate, and manipulate cosmic fire from the depths of deep space, from celestial objects such as from meteors, stars, constellations, planets/planetoids, etc. These flames can burn in space, and thus, have no need of the consumption of oxygen. Archangels can generate and manipulate cosmic fire to an unlimited degree which can cause entire planets to be utterly destroyed.
 * Cosmic Telepathy - Archangel can read/sense thoughts, communicate with them mentally, and/or affect the minds/thoughts of countless subjects at once on a planetary, galactic, or even universal scale.
 * Cosmic Teleportation - Archangels can transport themselves, other beings, and objects anywhere in the entire universe, and are even able to teleport massive objects such as planets, stars and even galaxies. Any archangel is capable of teleporting almost absolutely anywhere, including from illusion to reality, into one's mind, even conceptual things such as teleporting wounds and diseases off of a body. User can teleport effectively infinite mass.
 * Cosmic Creation - Archangels can create on a cosmic scale, including creation of planets, stars, comets, asteroids, meteors, moons, galaxies, etc.
 * Cosmic Destruction - Archangels can destroy on a cosmic level, that includes planets, galaxies, planetary systems, stars, etc.
 * Cosmic Space Manipulation - Archangels can create, shape and manipulate the elemental force of space, allowing them to control everything that space embodies; from aspects of celestial objects such as nebulas to natural cosmic energies, etc. They can also warp or rearrange space and alter anything in space to an unlimited degree.
 * Portal Creation - Through magic, Raphael, Lucifer, Gabriel and the alternate Michael could open portals to alternate realities while Michael could open rifts to Purgatory with just a snap of his fingers. Archangels can snap their fingers and create rifts to any universe they desire.
 * Eidetic Memory - Like all angels, the Archangels have the faces of every prophet who has existed or will exist etched into their memories. As seen when Lucifer identified Alternate Kevin, despite never seeing him and being aware of the main universe Kevin's fate. This ability also makes them aware of reality warping and timeline changes. Archangels have a photographic memory and never forget anything they have ever seen or heard.
 * Omnilingualism - Archangels can speak and understand all languages in the whole universe.
 * Immortality - Archangels have an infinite lifespan, and are among the oldest beings in all of existence. They aren't affected by time, viruses, illnesses, toxins, poisons, diseases, and don't need to ever breathe, eat, drink, rest, or sleep to sustain themselves. They predate creation and the universe itself making them far more than 13.8 billion years old. The only beings capable of killing them are God and the Darkness. It is noted that archangels are more than 800 trillion years old. Gabriel once stated that they are "infinite" in age, and can;t remember how old he is, but knows he is at least in the hundreds of trillions. Castiel said trying to kill an archangel is "impossible", and said it is "extremely stupid, insane and foolish". He once told the Winchesters about killing Lucifer or Michael, "It's impossible. It can't be done. Archangels cannot be killed. They are truly immortal, they are beyond invincible. The only being in all of creation that would even have a chance at killing an archangel such as Lucifer or Michael is God himself, thats it." Lucifer said of his age, "My brothers and i have existed for gazillions of years, We are infinitely old, literally. We can't even remember the right number. Hell, i stopped counting after i turned 800 trillion. The only beings in all of existence that are older than archangels are Death, The Darkness, and God. Only God and The Darkness are powerful enough to defeat and kill an archangel.
 * Invulnerability - Archangels are impervious to almost all supernatural means, and it is completely impossible for them to be harmed by conventional means. It is noted that not even every nuclear bomb combined could harm them or even faze them. Gabriel stated that he was present and an "an literally inch away" from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs as a "slight tickle" Gabriel also described a jumping into helicopter blades, getting shot billions of times by multiple .50 caliber machine guns and miniguns, millions of grenades, land mines, and missiles, jumping into helicopter blades, getting shot in the head point-blank trillions of times by hundreds of hand guns, and a getting hit full force by a wrecking ball feels equivalent to "A human flicking you with their pinky." He also described swimming in a volcano and walking around on the Sun as a, "nice hot bath or shower." Archangels can not bleed from conventional means, and there skin is absolutely indestructible and cannot be penetrated. Bullets and knives bounce harmlessly off of their skin.
 * Indestructibility - Archangels are nearly completely indestructible, next to invincible. They are nearly impossible to be defeated or killed. They are completely immune to absolutely all conventional means, and are immune to almost all supernatural means. They can withstand a limitless amount of physical damage from anything, such as, machine guns, bombs, grenades, flamethrowers, and nuclear bombs. The only thing that is capable of killing them is an archangel only if it is wielded and used by another archangel, and the only beings in existence capable of killing them is God and the Darkness.
 * Nigh-Invincibility - Archangels are close to being completely invincible and unbeatable, have almost no physical, spiritual or mental weaknesses, giving them immunity to everything that may harm them. The only beings that are capable of killing an archangel is God and Darkness, and an archangel blade (only effective if the archangel blade is wielded and used by another archangel). Raphael was only killed by Castiel because he was temporarily powered by 50 million souls, which no amount of souls are powerful enough to kill higher archangels such as, Lucifer or Michael.
 * Immunity - Archangels have almost total immunity to all supernatural means. Michael was not killed by holy fire as angels can easily be killed by Holy Fire. Lucifer could eventually overcome Holy Fire even if it was amplified by Enochian Sigils. Lucifer is also one of the five things in all creation that The Colt cannot kill, though it can still inflict slight pain upon him for a time but instantly healed his wound. The archangels were completely immune to the effects of Metatron's Expelling Angels spell as Michael Lucifer and Gabriel retained their wings and full power. They also appear immune to humans expelling them from their bodies, unlike regular angels as when Alternate Dean described Sam's possession, he declared "Satan was in him and not getting out" and when Dean demanded for the Alternate Michael to leave him nothing happened. Archangels are completely immune to Angel Blades, with thousands of angel-killing bullets barely fazing them and surviving being stabbed in the chest without much pain, although the giant angel blades that composed his cage, when impaled on him, caused Lucifer pain and both Michael and Castiel were able to remove his grace with a normal Angel Blade, but cannot harm him at all. Even when weakened, he was still able to withstand yet another stab to the chest from an angel blade, although it visibly pained him, and over time would not be killed by a stab to the heart. Michael also proved to be resilient to Supernatural Handcuffs, as he was still infinitely stronger than Castiel and could shake the ground and open a rift to Purgatory while they were on, although oddly the even more powerful Alternate Michael could not use his powers, though, it must be noted that the Supernatural handcuffs he was wearing was greatly upgraded, but he did seem confident that they won't hold him forever while Michael asked Dean to remove the handcuffs rather than just breaking it himself. Archangels are immune to almost all forms of magic and spells. They are also immune to the first blade, holy fire, supernatural handcuffs, the Colt, angel swords, angel saws, demon bombs, hands of god, heavens weapons, demon blades, and even Death's Scythe. It has been noted that archangels, the Darkness, and God are the only beings that cannot be harmed by Death's Scythe. They are completely immune to absolutely all forms of conventional means, not even thousands of nuclear bombs combined could faze them.

Weaknesses
Despite them being immeasurably powerful, the archangels possess a few weaknesses which are common to all angels, but have far less weaknesses that regular angels possess.

Harming and Trapping

 * Lucifer's Cage - This cell can hold any angel, therefore including archangels, without any internal means of escape.
 * Rare and Powerful Magic - Although archangels are immune to almost all magic, curses, and spells. Some extremely powerful and rare types of magic and spells can have limited effect on an Archangel. Rowena could immobilize, cast away and bind Lucifer briefly. Gabriel was temporarily bound by Kali's blood spell and the Nordic Supernatural Binding Spell.
 * Low Gracel -Unlike angels, archangels have near-unlimited grace and their grace can recharge after awhile, but their grace can be depleted if used a vast amount. Also unlike angels, their grace cannot be totally removed. However, if lost a vast amount of grace it can render them temporarily weakened and more much more vulnerable. As seen with Lucifer, when he had much of his grace removed the Alternate Michael. This rendered Lucifer almost human, and was unable to counter Asmodeus telekinetic attack. In this weakened state, Lucifer was more vulnerable to angel blades as well.
 * Very Weak Vessels  - While in a vessel that is not true vessel, Archangels are immeasurably powerful but not as strong as they could be if they were in their true vessel. Also any other vessel than the true vessel will soon burn out because it won't be able to contain the power of an archangel. As Lucifer said, a vessel besides Sam or a powerful vessel like Nick limits his powers. In a very weak vessel like Vince Vincente, Lucifer is still immensely powerful, but his endurance, durability, stamina, reflexes, speed, agility, immunity, invulnerability, self-healing, strength, and powers are extremely reduced, to the point that Crowley was able to telekinetically fling him across the room, Rowena was able to banish him to the very bottom of the ocean with a powerful spell, and Sam could counter his telekinetic pull for a considerable amount of time with just his raw strength, whereas in a very strong vessel such as Nick or his true vessel Sam Lucifer would be at full power and would of been able to effortlessly overpower or counteract any spell, telekinetic attack, and Sam would of been powerless against Lucifer's telekinesis.

Killing

 * Archangel Blades - The only weapon in all of existence that can harm and kill an archangel is an Archangel Blade. However, it must be wielded and used by another archangel to work, otherwise it would be ineffective and useless. An archangel blade wielded by a vessel with an archangel powering them from within is also capable of killing an archangel. Unlike with an angel blade, an archangel's vessel can survive the death of the archangel possessing them by this blade as it is designed to kill the archangel and not their vessel. When Michael killed a resurrected Lucifer with the archangel blade, he burst into ash instead of leaving remains behind.
 * 40 million Souls - (Temporarily) Imbued with 50,000 souls, Castiel could only banish Raphael. Consumption of over 40 millions souls along with the Leviathans gave Castiel so much power that he could snap his fingers and obliterate Raphael. Despite, killing the third-born archangel Raphael, Castiel still was not as powerful as Lucifer or Michael, and Castiel wouldn't of stood a chance against either one of them. Castiel even opted to keep both Lucifer and Michael in the cage, greatly fearing what they would do to him if they were released, he even said, "Lucifer and Michael are infinitely more powerful than Raphael. I'm still no match for either one of them one-on-one. They could still annihilate me. I need to make sure they stay in the cage forever."
 * Higher Primordial Entities - God and The Darkness are the only beings in all of existence that can kill an archangel. They can negate an archangel's powers completely and easily kill them. However, God stated that it would take some effort killing a higher archangel such as Lucifer or Michael, and it would not be easy. God was able to obliterate Michael with little effort, it must be noted that he became much more powerful after he consumed his sister The Darkness and her powers