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| Julian McMahon as Cole Turner | |
| First appearance: "The Honeymoon's Over" |
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| Last appearance: "The Seven Year Witch" |
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| Created by: | Brad Kern |
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| Full name: | Cole Turner |
| Species: | Born human/demon hybrid, later changes |
| Affiliation: | Drake Dèmon, The Charmed Ones, The Source, The Triad, The Brotherhood of the Thorn |
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Parents Benjamin Coleridge Turner and Elizabeth Turner Ex-wife Phoebe Halliwell ' |
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Julian McMahon |
Cole Turner is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed, played by Julian McMahon for three seasons (3-5), and for a guest appearance in season 7.
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[edit] Character's background
[edit] Early History
Cole Turner was born on January 19, 1885 to Benjamin Coleridge Turner, a human member of the California State Assembly, and a demon mother named Elizabeth. Benjamin was murdered in 1888 by Elizabeth, who then took Cole from Earth and raised him in a demon dimension. Cole's demonic side grew up despising his human side for its "weakness", and he became a powerful demon with a reputation as a killer under the name Belthazor.[1] In marked contrast to Belthazor, his human half is an incredibly caring and good person. Although his human side would later become dominant, it would be almost completely repressed and corrupted again when he was possessed by the Source.
Cole became a member of the Brotherhood of the Thorn, an elite society of upper-level demons who served the Source of All Evil.[2] He made a reputation for himself as an assassin who could kill any witch, an athame being his weapon of choice. Cole was hired by the Triad to get close to and kill the Charmed Ones. To do so, Cole returned to Earth in his human guise and was set up as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco.[3]
[edit] Agent of the Triad
Cole first meets the Halliwells in the season premiere of Season 3, in which he investigates the attack on the sisters' friend Darryl Morris. Because the sisters witnessed the attack and foiled the assailant, Cole calls the sisters in as witnesses for the man's trial. His demonic nature is not revealed until the end of this episode, when Piper freezes the innocents in a courtroom and Cole is immune. When the sisters are not present, he shimmers away and kills the demonic judge who has been assigning guardian demons to criminals.[3] Within the next few months, Cole becomes very close to Phoebe and they begin dating. After his first few attempts to assassinate Phoebe and her sisters, he starts protecting them so that his assignment can continue. Eventually he stands up for the sisters and protects them, even though they do not know that Cole and Belthazor are the same person. Cole and Phoebe fall in love.
After much pressure by the Triad to finish the job, Belthazor finally employs the spirit of Rage, Andras, to assist him. Andras infects the sisters with rage, causing them to turn on each other and temporarily severing the Power of Three. Phoebe heads to Cole's apartment in tears. However, Cole's human side has fallen deeply in love with Phoebe and he can't bring himself to kill her. Andras possesses Cole, and he is forced to try to destroy the sisters. The sisters manage to regain their powers just in time and successfully fend off Belthazor. Belthazor vanquishes Andras, but Piper manages to gash off some of his flesh in order to help make a vanquishing potion. At this point, the Triad attempts to execute Cole for treason. Cole turns on them, killing them in the process before fleeing back to his apartment to recuperate.[4]
When Phoebe goes to see Cole at his apartment, she finds that Cole is wounded and calls Leo to heal him.[5] Leo tries to heal him but realizes that something is terribly wrong when he finds that he can't heal Cole completely. He warns Phoebe that Cole is at least half-demon, and might very well be Belthazor.
When Prue and Piper, who are working with a demonic bounty hunter to vanquish Belthazor, break in to Cole's apartment, Cole grabs Phoebe and shimmers to the mausoleum, proclaiming his love for her. He says that her love reawakened his human half. She initially does not believe him, but when a wounded Cole saves her with an energy ball, Phoebe believes him and the pair fake his death.
[edit] Demon Outlaw
Cole goes on the run for over a month, but returns when Prue is put under a spell and married to a warlock. The goal of the marriage is to contaminate all the sisters, and the Book of Shadows, with evil. Cole claims that he is no longer going to be evil and that he can repress his demonic half in order to be with Phoebe. Phoebe goes to Cole for help in finding Prue, all the while telling him that she doesn't want anything else to do with him, because he is still a demon. However, Cole tells Phoebe that he knows the love he feels is real because evil can't love.[6]
Phoebe and Cole once again grew close as he helps free her from a psychic link with a Native American who was cursed into a time loop.[7] Cole returns and becomes a very close ally of the Charmed Ones. He even witnesses Piper and Leo's marriage, and helps clear Prue's name when she is framed for murder.[8]
When Cole got word that his former colleagues in the Brotherhood of the Thorn were planning to take over nearly all of the world's Internet traffic, he went undercover to thwart their plan. The Charmed Ones and Leo didn't like this idea at all, fearing Cole wouldn't be strong enough to resist the pull back to evil. While Cole managed to help thwart the takeover, he was kidnapped by Raynor, the Brotherhood's leader and his old mentor. Raynor suspected the only thing keeping Cole good was his love for Phoebe. He cast a spell on Cole that stirred up his demon side and made him kill a witch the Charmed Ones were protecting. This temporarily destroyed Cole and Phoebe's relationship. When Phoebe was turned into a Banshee due to the emotional toll, Cole helped turn her human again by telling her that he still loved her. In the season 3 finale the existence of magic is revealed to the world, and Phoebe and Leo find Cole in the underworld. They persuade Cole to get The Source to have Tempus rewind time so the revelation never happened. The Source agrees, but only if Phoebe stays in the underworld while the change happens, planning to kill her afterwards. She agrees after she finds out that Piper had died. Off screen the three escape and save Piper, but lose Prue. Cole and Phoebe continue their relationship.
While at Prue's funeral, Cole is attacked by two demon bounty hunters, but quickly kills them.[9] He is also mortally wounded by the Source but Paige and Leo are able to heal him. Later on, he discovers that the Source has sent a Chameleon demon to spy on the Charmed Ones.[10] Once uncovered, he is attacked by the sisters and flees. The Source kills the demon and takes his place as the sisters hunt him down. The Source then kidnaps Piper and takes her to the Underworld, where he uses his mental powers to create a fantasy world wherein Piper is a mental patient, hoping to trick her into giving up her powers to him. Cole and Leo travel to the Underworld to track down Piper while Phoebe and Paige use a spell to project themselves into Piper's mind. As Piper is nearly ready to relinquish her powers, Cole bombards the Source with energy balls, but the Source's Oracle sacrifices herself so the Source can escape.[10]
Some time later, the sisters become aware of a demon who is killing witches. After Piper scries for the demon from slime they find, Phoebe and Cole attempt to track the demon down. They are attacked by a Scavenger demon, which is feeding on the remains left by the killer. It is at this time that Cole asks Phoebe to marry him in a spur of the moment. When Cole has to embrace his demon side in order to defeat another demon, a potion is used on him to vanquish his demonic half, leaving only his human half alive.[11]
[edit] Cole becomes Human
Shortly after Cole becomes human, Cole and Phoebe are possessed by the spirits of Frankie and Lulu, a criminal couple from the 1950s who find their way to the present through a time portal. They go on a crime spree, stealing a diamond ring and a wedding dress, all so they can get married. At the church, Cole is shot and Frankie's spirit escapes, only to be captured by a demon named Clyde who owns the portal and sent back in time through the time portal. Then Phoebe accepts Cole's marriage proposal.[12]
Later, the Seer, one of the Source's top advisers, gets in touch with Cole and persuades him to take in the Hollow to defeat the Source. Earlier, the Source unleashed the Hollow so he could get enough power to destroy the Charmed Ones. However, the Seer feared that the Source would end up destroying all magic, and convinced Cole that taking in the Hollow is the only way to save Phoebe's life. When The Source throws a fireball at Phoebe, Cole dives in front of it and absorbs the Source's power. The sisters vanquish him in his powerless state, then the Seer and Phoebe place the Hollow back in its containment. [13]
[edit] Cole as the Source
However, neither Cole nor the Charmed Ones knew that the Seer intended for Cole to become the new Source. When the Charmed Ones asked the Seer what happened to the Source, the Seer replied that the Source's power went "into the void."[13] She was referring to the void in Cole's soul where Belthazor had been. She believed the Source and his powers would enter that void and completely take over Cole.
He tries to fight becoming the Source and remain good, but finds it difficult as the Source starts taking control. However, Phoebe senses something is wrong with Cole, so she casts a spell to hear her heart's desire to help her decide if she should marry Cole, which summons her future and past selves to the present. Old Phoebe initially refuses to tell anyone about the events of the future for fear of changing things for the worse. Little Phoebe reminded Present Phoebe of her favorite fairy tale, Cinderella, and her dreams of finding her prince. Later, old Phoebe admits to Cole privately that she broke off their engagement which she believes led the Source to completely consume him. She then sacrifices herself to save Cole from a demon attack.[14] The spell reversed itself, and Phoebe decided to go through with the wedding.
Now completely controlled by the Source, Cole orchestrates a number of events to get Phoebe to marry him in a dark wedding (which is disguised as a private ceremony). This is done after The Seer tells him he'll never be crowned if he marries Phoebe in a holy, white wedding. She also tells that she has foreseen Phoebe giving birth to the most powerful magical child in history. Had Phoebe married Cole in a white wedding, the child would have been been Cole and Phoebe's child and thus a powerful force of good. As a result of the dark wedding, however, the child was the Source's demonic spawn, and contained nothing of Phoebe or Cole. [15] Shortly after, Paige begins to distrust Cole after seeing him use his demonic powers on an innocent she and the sisters were protecting. Cole/the Source hires a power broker to imbue Paige with a demonic power in order to distract her and her sisters so he can impregnate Phoebe. Once alone with Paige in the manor, Cole/the Source plays mind games with her, nearly driving her insane, save for her sisters' intervention. At the last moment Cole gains enough control to save Paige by having other power brokers take the power out of her.[16]
Soon afterward, Cole/the Source began efforts to unite the numerous demon and warlock factions. The vampires wanted to join the new alliance, even though vampires had been exiled from the Underworld by the Source centuries earlier. Although Cole had worked with vampires before as Belthazor, he rejected their request for amnesty. In revenge, the Vampire Queen sends a group of vampires to bite Paige and make her a vampire under her thrall. She hoped to turn all three Charmed Ones into vampires, and thus gain enough power to take over the underworld. An enraged Cole/the Source declares war on the vampires, and secretly hopes Paige ends up dying as a result. He is able to hunt down and kill the Queen himself--but before Paige could seal her conversion by drinking someone's blood. During this time, Piper grows more suspicious of Cole, and begins to suspect that he is at the very least working with demons again.[17]
Phoebe indeed becomes pregnant and she begins throwing fire because of her baby's demonic influence. When Cole tries to convince Phoebe she is not turning evil, she finally gets a premonition revealing Cole is a demon, and she immediately leaves him.
Cole was on the verge of giving up the Source's powers in order to get Phoebe back. Cole's love had already been strongly affecting the Source; earlier, the Source had told the Seer that without Phoebe, Cole's soul would die and the Source would cease to exist. Although the Seer had initially opposed Cole's desire to make Phoebe his queen (she'd even engineered two attempts on Phoebe's life, and then tried to get his demonic personal assistant to seduce him away from Phoebe), she then goes to try to convince Phoebe to go back to Cole. When Cole is attacked by an evil wizard who schemes to seize the Source's powers, Cole offers to give up his position as the Source, and to transfer the Source voluntarily into the wizard.[18]
However, during the transfer ceremony, the Seer makes Phoebe believe that the wizard is in fact killing Cole. With the Seer's coaching, Phoebe uses her new fire-throwing powers to kill the wizard before the power transfer can be completed. Phoebe then joins Cole/the Source as his Queen, and the couple become the new rulers of the Underworld. Shortly after his coronation, Cole/the Source and the Seer tricked Phoebe into drinking a tonic of pure evil to strengthen her child and destroy the remaining good in her. Even under the influences of her baby and the tonic, Phoebe tried to play both sides of good and evil; she even helped her sisters protect an innocent Cole wanted killed. She also killed several upper-level demons, thinking they were taking up too much of her husband's time. Paige, Piper and Leo attack Cole/the Source, banking on Phoebe choosing the right side. After finding out about the tonic and that Cole/the Source killed the innocent himself, Phoebe sides with her sisters and vanquishes Cole/the Source.[19]
After being vanquished, Cole and the Source finally end up as separate beings in the astral plane of the demonic wasteland (where demons usually go after being vanquished). As Cole was born a half-human Cole has a human soul, whereas pure blood demons have no souls.
[edit] Cole's Return
Cole tries to get Phoebe to help bring him back to life, using a resurrection spell in the Grimoire, but Phoebe refuses to use dark magic ever again and asks him to move on. Cole, now without hope, initially decides to meet his fate, but in the last minute learns how to absorb the remnant energies of vanquished demons, and defend himself against the serpent-like beast of the demonic wasteland.
Cole quickly gains massive demonic powers and seeks redemption again. He comes back briefly to save Phoebe from a bullet, by switching her position with that of the witch hunter, who had just fired a bullet at Phoebe's heart.[20] He tells her that he isn't giving up on them.
However, Phoebe and her sisters aren't about to accept him any more. He comes back just as Phoebe is about to get a divorce, and she tells him it is over.[21]
Later, Cole talks to Darryl who convinces him that if he loves Phoebe, he should go away, and he finally agrees. However, Paige intervenes thinking Cole might be able to save Phoebe, who was heartbroken and wanted to become a mermaid in order to free herself of the pain; mermaids don't feel any emotions. He disagrees with Paige but she casts a spell to show him how much Phoebe loves him. He goes to save her, and is able to well up the love she still has for him, helping her turn human again. However, Phoebe tells him that though she still loves him, their relationship is over.[21]
Cole tries to prove that he is still good so that Phoebe will take him back. He saves a future Whitelighter from a fire started by a siren. He is hailed as a hero by everyone but the Charmed Ones. Despite her attempts to save him, Phoebe now believes the evil in him is too strong, and is afraid that his new powers will make him give in to that evil again. Although Phoebe starts to wonder if she was being too hard on him, her fears are justified when the siren seduces him. Phoebe had arrived at the scene and was about to vanquish the siren when Cole destroys the vanquishing potion. He kisses the siren and nearly strangles Phoebe to death. After the Siren is vanquished by Leo with Piper's blasting power and Piper heals Phoebe with Leo's powers, Cole realizes she was right.[22]
After being alone for many months, Cole gradually goes insane, due to the countless demonic powers he has picked up and his despair over Phoebe's continued rejection of his love. He doesn't want to give in to evil, but feels Phoebe will never accept him as good, no matter how many good deeds he does. Feeling he has no reason to live, he decides to end his life by provoking the sisters into attacking him. However, even the Power of Three proved unable to kill him, much to his chagrin. Cole is now invincible, but this does not stop him from trying to kill himself several times.
Having gone completely mad, Cole's obsession for Phoebe consumes him and turns him completely evil. He vows to get Phoebe back, no matter what it takes. He even goes as far as to stir up legal difficulties for the Charmed Ones in hopes of tricking them into giving up the manor. In his twisted mind, Cole believes that Phoebe will turn back to him in desperation. He has another plan in mind--getting the Nexus. He planned to use the Nexus' power to not only turn Phoebe evil, but reorganize the underworld under his leadership and take control of the city. All this accomplishes is to make Phoebe hate him with a passion.
[edit] Cole as an Avatar
Cole was approached by the Avatars, powerful beings that are neither good nor evil, about joining them. He refused at first, but later accepted their offer, believing their ability to warp the fabric of reality offered him one final chance to win back Phoebe. He then uses his newly-minted powers to alter reality so that Paige was killed before Piper and Phoebe ever realized she existed. Paige was the first to see the evil building in Cole, so Cole believes Paige was responsible for turning Phoebe against him. Alpha, the leader of the Avatars, warns him this spell is foolish, but Cole refuses to join with the Avatars until he sees this through.
While this is all happening, Paige catches a cold, and every time she sneezes, she orbs into a void outside of space and time where beings like the Avatars live. At the exact moment that Cole changes reality, Paige sneezes and thus survives the change. In this new reality, the Power of Three was never restored, and Piper has gone rogue in an effort to hunt down Shax. Cole is married to Phoebe, and they rule the underworld together from the manor. At first, Cole is content, even after the Avatar leader tells him he doesn't have Avatar powers or any of the powers he picked up from the Demonic Wasteland. Instead, he is Belthazor. Cole realizes this leaves him vulnerable, but considers this an acceptable risk; he now believes that he and Phoebe were at their best when he was still Belthazor. However, he realizes Phoebe has long since fallen out of love with him in this reality too. She only married Cole to protect Piper. He also learns that in this reality, he and Phoebe openly cheat on each other. When Paige realizes what's going on, she tracks down this reality's Piper, Phoebe and Leo, and convinces them who she is and what Cole has done. Paige, Piper and Leo make the original vanquishing potion for Belthazor, which falls into Phoebe's hands. Cole is convinced she would never throw it, but Phoebe does. When Cole dies, the spell reverses, and everything goes back to normal. He was killed on his 117th birthday.[23]
[edit] Cole's Afterlife
Instead of going back to the Wasteland, this time Cole ends up in a "cosmic void between life and death." It is here that Piper bumps into him years later, after being attacked by a Thorn Demon and is hovering on the brink of death. Cole explains that he is there to help Piper get Leo back together after he is sent away with his memory erased to find his way to his destiny. Although Piper is wary of him at first, she soon realizes that Cole is right and takes his advice. In the end, Piper and Leo are reunited.[24]
Cole also says that he wants Phoebe not to give up on love and wants her to move on. It is revealed that Cole was the one who arranged for Drake to become human and meet Phoebe, and arranged Piper's attack from the Thorn Demons, as her death would cause Leo to save her and restore Phoebe's faith in love.[24] How Cole managed to accomplish this remains a mystery. Nor is it clear just what kind of being Cole is now. When Piper asks if he is a Demon, ghost, poltergeist, or spirit, Cole said he is none of those things, but did not specify further. He did, however, say that he is trapped in the cosmic void for all eternity as punishment for his many crimes. He is last seen thanking Drake for helping Phoebe, and Drake expressing remorse about being unable to help Cole too. Cole replies that he has accepted his fate, and didn't want his fate to be Phoebe's. Drake then dies, his last words being "Goodbye, my friend." and rising up towards heaven. Cole then smiles and fades away.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
As Belthazor, Cole is a demonic soldier of fortune. He is an upper level demon which means that it requires a potion made from a piece of his own flesh to vanquish him. He can shimmer, throw energy balls, has the power of telekinesis and possesses super strength and endurance.
Cole eventually becomes The Source of All Evil. He possessed all of the powers of The Source, including teleportation, fireballs, force fields, lightning bolts, pyrokinesis, glamouring, telekinesis, summoning, mind control, and possession.[13]
During his time in the Demonic Wasteland, Cole learns that the serpent of the Wasteland feeds on the essence and powers of vanquished demons. He eventually defeats the serpent by taking the powers before the serpent can feed on them, making him able to obtain whatever powers are available. It is not known how many powers he picked up, though Phoebe told him that he had more powers than any demon she'd ever faced up to that point. However, only ten powers were used on screen. Cole is seen using shimmering, telekinesis, throwing energy balls, conjuring, regeneration, sensing, portal creation, force fields, summoning, mind control, shape-shifting, pyrokinesis, lightning bolts, and molecular manipulation. He is also invincible and can grant that ability to other demons for a time.[25] He also has the ability to control time to some extent. As a result of him obtaining so many demonic powers, his blood turned acidic.
As an Avatar, Cole possessed the ability to change reality.[23] Given the nature of Avatar powers, however, Cole's powers were virtually unlimited, and included, but not limited to, energy waves, lightning bolts, power binding, time control, the ability to create illusions, to remove people from existence, resurrection, and teleportation.
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- ^ "Sleuthing with the Enemy". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2000-12-14.
- ^ "Bride and Gloom". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2001-02-08.
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- ^ "Black As Cole". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2001-11-15.
- ^ "A Paige from the Past". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-01-17.
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- ^ "The Three Faces of Phoebe". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-02-14.
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- ^ "Sam I Am". Charmed. The WB Television Network. 2002-11-17.
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