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Piper discovers she is a Charmed One in the first episode of the series, "Something Wicca This Way Comes," when her younger sister Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) reads a spell in a magical Book of Shadows in their attic, awakening the powers the three sisters were born with. Piper's main magical ability is the power to freeze things. From this point on, Piper and her sisters become the target of various evil beings wishing to kill them and/or acquire their powers. Piper soon discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy (Eric Scott Woods), is a Warlock, when he seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, forcing her and her sisters to vanquish him. Piper later discovers that the handyman at their family home, Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), with whom she has fallen in love, is her Whitelighter (a witch's guardian angel), and that their love is forbidden. In the second season (1999–2000), Piper glimpses her future in "Morality Bites" and discovers she is mother to a little girl and has been married to Leo. In "P3 H20," she confronts the demon who killed her mother and learns of her mother's affair with Whitelighter Sam (Scott Jaeck), paralleling her own with Leo. Leo breaks the rules to use his powers to heal Piper from a deadly virus in "Awakened." Giving up on Leo because they cannot find time to be a normal couple, Piper begins a romantic relationship with her neighbor, Dan (Gregory Vaughan). By the season's end, she has chosen Leo over Dan in spite of the rules of his superiors, The Elders, and ascends with him to the Heavens to see his world in the season finale.
Piper returns after a month away in the season three (2000–2001) premiere with little memory of the events, due to the Elders' interference. In "Magic Hour", she and Leo attempt to secretly marry, but the Elders punish them by removing Leo from Piper's life. They later successfully marry, however, in "Just Harried." The ceremony is presided over by the spirit of her deceased grandmother (Rhodes), and her mother's spirit (Hughes) attends. Seeing the love Piper and Leo share allows Patty to make peace with the girls' mortal father, Victor (James Read). Piper acquires her second active ability, the power to cause explosions, after arguing with Leo during the episode "Exit Strategy". The season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose" ends with Piper and Prue both heavily bleeding following an attack by the Source's assassin, Shax. Season four (2001–2) begins with only Piper having survived Shax's attack, leaving her the most devastated by Prue's death. She tries many spells to resurrect Prue, but her mother and grandmother insist that she cannot even communicate with Prue's spirit due to her need to grieve. Piper and Phoebe discover their younger half-sister, Paige (McGowan), and become Charmed Ones once more. With Paige's help, they get revenge on Shax. In "Hell Hath No Fury", Piper's transformation into one of the demonic Furies is prolonged by her inability to gain closure over Prue's death. With Paige's help, the sisters are able to properly avenge Prue by killing the Source (Peter Woodward) himself. Piper is betrayed when Phoebe leaves the fold to become Queen of the Underworld, after Cole is made the new Source, but eventually wins Phoebe back so the sisters can defeat Cole together. In the season finale, "Witch Way Now?", Piper contemplates an offer from the Angel of Destiny (Dakin Matthews) to live a normal life without her powers. After she declines, he informs her she is pregnant.
In season five (2002–3), Piper's pregnancy makes her indestructible. Initially, the baby makes her self-healing, and later protects her with a force field. The child is born, to everyone's surprise a boy - in premonitions, she had only seen a daughter - and named Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. He is discovered to be the most powerful magical being of all time, which attracts even more demons to the sisters' lives. In the season finale, a Whitelighter from the future named Chris (Drew Fuller) arrives to assist the sisters against the ancient Titans of mythology. After the Elders are forced into hiding by the Titans, Chris manipulates events so that Leo has to become an Elder, causing him to separate from Piper. Piper is so angry that she initially refuses to give up her temporary powers (those of Demeter, Goddess of Earth), though Leo uses his newfound powers to artificially alleviate her pain. In season six (2003–4), Piper again clings to goddess powers when she finds temporarily becoming a valkyrie a better alternative than living with pain. Her sisters use a spell to bring back Piper's feelings of loss. She begins to recover from her separation from Leo and date again, though Chris (in reality, Piper's second son from the future) tries to stop this from happening. Chris is able to temporarily reunite Piper and Leo in "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father" in order to ensure his conception. Chris informs the sisters that his true mission is to prevent Wyatt from growing up to be the evil dictator he becomes in the future. Unlike her pregnancy with Wyatt, the pregnancy with Chris offers Piper no protection and she is forced to relocate to Magic School, with Wyatt, for her own protection. The Elder Gideon (Gildart Jackson), also headmaster of Magic School, attempts to kill baby Wyatt in order to prevent this future but is killed by Leo in the season finale, the same episode in which future Chris dies and present-day Chris is born.
Season seven (2004–5) starts with Piper mourning Chris. She and Leo attend two Indian friends' wedding, where they are possessed by the spirits of two passing Hindu deities, Shakti and Shiva. Piper uses these powers to defend herself from demons dispatched to kill her by old enemy Barbas (Billy Drago). In "Someone to Witch Over Me", Leo concedes to the offer of membership extended by the Avatars (powerful neutral beings who seek to create a Utopian reality). He informs Piper of his decision in "There's Something About Leo" so that they can lend their powers to create Utopia in "Extreme Makeover: World Edition" and "Charmageddon." Realising the Utopia robs people of their free will, Leo sacrifices himself. Piper realises her children's pain over their father's loss and allies with the underworld's new leader, Zankou (Oded Fehr), to force the Avatars to rewind time to before the change took place. Leo chooses to return to Piper in "The Seven Year Witch" at the expense of his magical abilities, becoming mortal. She and Leo encounter evil Future Wyatt (Wes Ramsey) for themselves in "Imaginary Fiends" but are able to stop the last impediment to his becoming a power for good. In "Something Wicca This Way Goes?", the sisters are forced to fake their deaths after they destroy Zankou. Season eight (2005–6) begins with the sisters assuming new identities (those of their fictitious cousins), and hiring neophyte witch Billie Jenkins (Kaley Cuoco) to do some of their legwork for them when she discovers who they really are. They later resume their real identities in "Rewitched". The Angel of Destiny ([Denise Dowse) seizes Leo in "Vaya Con Leos" to motivate Piper against their final threat as Charmed Ones. This turns out to be Billie and her sister, Christy (Marnette Patterson), who believe the sisters have come to use their powers for good. In "Kill Billie, Vol. 2", the two sets of sisters undertake an all-out battle, which destroys Halliwell Manor, and only Piper and Billie survive. In the series finale, "Forever Charmed", Piper uses Coop's (Victor Webster) time-traveling ring to call upon her mother and grandmother and save the lives of her sisters. After Christy is defeated, Piper returns to the Book of Shadows to write about their lives. An epilogue depicts Piper living to old age (played by Ellen Geer) and being surrounded by children and grandchildren.
Powers and Abilities
Piper possesses the power of molecular immobilization (sometimes incorrectly called temporal stasis); i.e., the ability to slow down molecular motion so that objects, people, and even energy discharges freeze in place. This ability is activated by fear, and at first Piper would freeze everything in the immediate area whenever startled. Gradually, Piper learned to control this ability and freeze everything in the immediate area by a conscious act of will and gesturing. She must be able to gesture to activate her freezing power and cannot do so without using her hands. Piper has also learned to selectively freeze specific objects of her choosing, rather than everything in the entire area. When Piper was new to her powers, objects she froze would eventually regain their mobility on their own, usually after several seconds. She later learned to unfreeze at will, even freezing an entire object, then unfreeze only part of it. She has, for instance, frozen a demon in midair, then unfrozen its head in order to interrogate it. She can also specify objects to be frozen without actually knowing which objects will meet the criteria. She once specified that all the innocents in a courtroom be frozen in order to locate the demons, without actually knowing who were the innocents and who were the demons.
The mass of an object seemed to be no restriction to her ability. Instead, the limitation of her freezing power appeared to be determined by the size of the area, and she could freeze anything (except those entities immune to her powers) in the area of effect. The exact limitation has never been determined. However, in a magical trip to the future, when her powers were apparently at their peak, she once froze an entire city block. Indoors, however, Piper is limited by the room she is in. She can freeze objects in the same room and cannot freeze anything outside the room, unless she has an unobstructed path to those objects, such as through an open door or window.
Certain entities have proven resistant or immune to her freezing ability, such as ghosts, good witches, furies, certain demons and warlocks.
After two years of regaining her freezing powers in adulthood, Piper gained the ability to cause objects to spontaneously explode. Unlike her freezing power, this new ability was triggered by anger but was also controllable by conscious act of will and gestures. She also proved able to cause magical energy discharges and even living entities to explode. However, the limitations on her explosive power are even less clear than those of her freezing ability, but appear to be determined by an object's size and durability. The largest object she ever caused to explode was a truck door entrance to a warehouse. It once took her several tries to break down a much smaller gate, although this object was magically reinforced. Also, in the future months after the final battle season nine comics, Piper gained the ability mollecollur acceleration, the power to mess with molecules in which they turn to a liquid or melt.
Like her sisters, Piper can also create potions and cast spells, even originate her own.
Piper is also a skilled chef, a talent which lends itself to potion-making.
While Piper has shown some gymnastic and athletic ability, unlike Phoebe and Prue, she is not particularly adept at conventional means of fighting.
- 1 Appearances
- 2 Powers and Abilities
Piper discovers she is a Charmed One in the first episode of the series, "Something Wicca This Way Comes," when her younger sister Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) reads a spell in a magical Book of Shadows in their attic, awakening the powers the three sisters were born with. Piper's main magical ability is the power to freeze things. From this point on, Piper and her sisters become the target of various evil beings wishing to kill them and/or acquire their powers. Piper soon discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy (Eric Scott Woods), is a Warlock, when he seizes upon the opportunity to kill her, forcing her and her sisters to vanquish him. Piper later discovers that the handyman at their family home, Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause), with whom she has fallen in love, is her Whitelighter (a witch's guardian angel), and that their love is forbidden. In the second season (1999–2000), Piper glimpses her future in "Morality Bites" and discovers she is mother to a little girl and has been married to Leo. In "P3 H20," she confronts the demon who killed her mother and learns of her mother's affair with Whitelighter Sam (Scott Jaeck), paralleling her own with Leo. Leo breaks the rules to use his powers to heal Piper from a deadly virus in "Awakened." Giving up on Leo because they cannot find time to be a normal couple, Piper begins a romantic relationship with her neighbor, Dan (Gregory Vaughan). By the season's end, she has chosen Leo over Dan in spite of the rules of his superiors, The Elders, and ascends with him to the Heavens to see his world in the season finale.
Piper returns after a month away in the season three (2000–2001) premiere with little memory of the events, due to the Elders' interference. In "Magic Hour", she and Leo attempt to secretly marry, but the Elders punish them by removing Leo from Piper's life. They later successfully marry, however, in "Just Harried." The ceremony is presided over by the spirit of her deceased grandmother (Rhodes), and her mother's spirit (Hughes) attends. Seeing the love Piper and Leo share allows Patty to make peace with the girls' mortal father, Victor (James Read). Piper acquires her second active ability, the power to cause explosions, after arguing with Leo during the episode "Exit Strategy". The season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose" ends with Piper and Prue both heavily bleeding following an attack by the Source's assassin, Shax. Season four (2001–2) begins with only Piper having survived Shax's attack, leaving her the most devastated by Prue's death. She tries many spells to resurrect Prue, but her mother and grandmother insist that she cannot even communicate with Prue's spirit due to her need to grieve. Piper and Phoebe discover their younger half-sister, Paige (McGowan), and become Charmed Ones once more. With Paige's help, they get revenge on Shax. In "Hell Hath No Fury", Piper's transformation into one of the demonic Furies is prolonged by her inability to gain closure over Prue's death. With Paige's help, the sisters are able to properly avenge Prue by killing the Source (Peter Woodward) himself. Piper is betrayed when Phoebe leaves the fold to become Queen of the Underworld, after Cole is made the new Source, but eventually wins Phoebe back so the sisters can defeat Cole together. In the season finale, "Witch Way Now?", Piper contemplates an offer from the Angel of Destiny (Dakin Matthews) to live a normal life without her powers. After she declines, he informs her she is pregnant.
In season five (2002–3), Piper's pregnancy makes her indestructible. Initially, the baby makes her self-healing, and later protects her with a force field. The child is born, to everyone's surprise a boy - in premonitions, she had only seen a daughter - and named Wyatt Matthew Halliwell. He is discovered to be the most powerful magical being of all time, which attracts even more demons to the sisters' lives. In the season finale, a Whitelighter from the future named Chris (Drew Fuller) arrives to assist the sisters against the ancient Titans of mythology. After the Elders are forced into hiding by the Titans, Chris manipulates events so that Leo has to become an Elder, causing him to separate from Piper. Piper is so angry that she initially refuses to give up her temporary powers (those of Demeter, Goddess of Earth), though Leo uses his newfound powers to artificially alleviate her pain. In season six (2003–4), Piper again clings to goddess powers when she finds temporarily becoming a valkyrie a better alternative than living with pain. Her sisters use a spell to bring back Piper's feelings of loss. She begins to recover from her separation from Leo and date again, though Chris (in reality, Piper's second son from the future) tries to stop this from happening. Chris is able to temporarily reunite Piper and Leo in "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father" in order to ensure his conception. Chris informs the sisters that his true mission is to prevent Wyatt from growing up to be the evil dictator he becomes in the future. Unlike her pregnancy with Wyatt, the pregnancy with Chris offers Piper no protection and she is forced to relocate to Magic School, with Wyatt, for her own protection. The Elder Gideon (Gildart Jackson), also headmaster of Magic School, attempts to kill baby Wyatt in order to prevent this future but is killed by Leo in the season finale, the same episode in which future Chris dies and present-day Chris is born.
Season seven (2004–5) starts with Piper mourning Chris. She and Leo attend two Indian friends' wedding, where they are possessed by the spirits of two passing Hindu deities, Shakti and Shiva. Piper uses these powers to defend herself from demons dispatched to kill her by old enemy Barbas (Billy Drago). In "Someone to Witch Over Me", Leo concedes to the offer of membership extended by the Avatars (powerful neutral beings who seek to create a Utopian reality). He informs Piper of his decision in "There's Something About Leo" so that they can lend their powers to create Utopia in "Extreme Makeover: World Edition" and "Charmageddon." Realising the Utopia robs people of their free will, Leo sacrifices himself. Piper realises her children's pain over their father's loss and allies with the underworld's new leader, Zankou (Oded Fehr), to force the Avatars to rewind time to before the change took place. Leo chooses to return to Piper in "The Seven Year Witch" at the expense of his magical abilities, becoming mortal. She and Leo encounter evil Future Wyatt (Wes Ramsey) for themselves in "Imaginary Fiends" but are able to stop the last impediment to his becoming a power for good. In "Something Wicca This Way Goes?", the sisters are forced to fake their deaths after they destroy Zankou. Season eight (2005–6) begins with the sisters assuming new identities (those of their fictitious cousins), and hiring neophyte witch Billie Jenkins (Kaley Cuoco) to do some of their legwork for them when she discovers who they really are. They later resume their real identities in "Rewitched". The Angel of Destiny ([Denise Dowse) seizes Leo in "Vaya Con Leos" to motivate Piper against their final threat as Charmed Ones. This turns out to be Billie and her sister, Christy (Marnette Patterson), who believe the sisters have come to use their powers for good. In "Kill Billie, Vol. 2", the two sets of sisters undertake an all-out battle, which destroys Halliwell Manor, and only Piper and Billie survive. In the series finale, "Forever Charmed", Piper uses Coop's (Victor Webster) time-traveling ring to call upon her mother and grandmother and save the lives of her sisters. After Christy is defeated, Piper returns to the Book of Shadows to write about their lives. An epilogue depicts Piper living to old age (played by Ellen Geer) and being surrounded by children and grandchildren.
Powers and Abilities
Piper possesses the power of molecular immobilization (sometimes incorrectly called temporal stasis); i.e., the ability to slow down molecular motion so that objects, people, and even energy discharges freeze in place. This ability is activated by fear, and at first Piper would freeze everything in the immediate area whenever startled. Gradually, Piper learned to control this ability and freeze everything in the immediate area by a conscious act of will and gesturing. She must be able to gesture to activate her freezing power and cannot do so without using her hands. Piper has also learned to selectively freeze specific objects of her choosing, rather than everything in the entire area. When Piper was new to her powers, objects she froze would eventually regain their mobility on their own, usually after several seconds. She later learned to unfreeze at will, even freezing an entire object, then unfreeze only part of it. She has, for instance, frozen a demon in midair, then unfrozen its head in order to interrogate it. She can also specify objects to be frozen without actually knowing which objects will meet the criteria. She once specified that all the innocents in a courtroom be frozen in order to locate the demons, without actually knowing who were the innocents and who were the demons.
The mass of an object seemed to be no restriction to her ability. Instead, the limitation of her freezing power appeared to be determined by the size of the area, and she could freeze anything (except those entities immune to her powers) in the area of effect. The exact limitation has never been determined. However, in a magical trip to the future, when her powers were apparently at their peak, she once froze an entire city block. Indoors, however, Piper is limited by the room she is in. She can freeze objects in the same room and cannot freeze anything outside the room, unless she has an unobstructed path to those objects, such as through an open door or window.
Certain entities have proven resistant or immune to her freezing ability, such as ghosts, good witches, furies, certain demons and warlocks.
After two years of regaining her freezing powers in adulthood, Piper gained the ability to cause objects to spontaneously explode. Unlike her freezing power, this new ability was triggered by anger but was also controllable by conscious act of will and gestures. She also proved able to cause magical energy discharges and even living entities to explode. However, the limitations on her explosive power are even less clear than those of her freezing ability, but appear to be determined by an object's size and durability. The largest object she ever caused to explode was a truck door entrance to a warehouse. It once took her several tries to break down a much smaller gate, although this object was magically reinforced. Also, in the future months after the final battle season nine comics, Piper gained the ability mollecollur acceleration, the power to mess with molecules in which they turn to a liquid or melt.
Like her sisters, Piper can also create potions and cast spells, even originate her own.
Piper is also a skilled chef, a talent which lends itself to potion-making.
While Piper has shown some gymnastic and athletic ability, unlike Phoebe and Prue, she is not particularly adept at conventional means of fighting.
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