Piper Halliwell is one of the main protagonists of the supernatural drama television series, Charmed.
She is the daughter of Patty Halliwell and Victor Bennett, granddaughter of Penny and Allen Halliwell, younger sister of Prue Halliwell and the older sister of Phoebe Halliwell and half-sister of Paige Matthews. In season 3, Piper is married to her Whitelighter Leo Wyatt and mother of their children, Wyatt, Chris and Melinda Halliwell. In the comics and later in the series, Piper is the maternal aunt of PJ, Parker and Peyton Halliwell, Kat, Tamora and Henry Mitchell, and sister-in-law of Coop Halliwell and Henry Mitchell.
She is portrayed by Holly Marie Combs, who also portrays Ella Montgomery in Pretty Little Liars.
Background[]
Personality[]
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Powers[]
- Magic: Being a descendant of Melinda Warren and a Charmed Ones, Piper is one of the most powerful witches in the magical community.
- The Power of Three - Being the collective power of the Charmed Ones, Piper can access the Power of Three with her other sisters, making them more powerful together by combining their powers of telekinesis, molecular immobilization, and power of premonitions. It is used to enhance spells, potions and active powers.
- Spell Casting: The ability to cast spells and perform rituals.
- Potion Making: The ability to brew potions. This is considered Piper's specialty, due to her love and skill for cooking.
- Scrying: The ability to locate a person or object by the use of a scrying crystal, a map, and sometimes other tools.
- High Resistance: Piper is able to resist any attacks by magic, weapon, or power of other beings by surviving any attacks that would prove lethal. She also has a high resistance to injury
- Molecular Immobilization: The ability to slow down molecules to the point that they freeze. This power works on almost all objects and beings, except certain upper-level demons such as The Triad, and other good witches. This is Piper's primary power which she channels through her hands.
- Molecular Combustion: The ability to speed up molecules to the point that they explode. This power advanced so much that she is able to destroy Upper-Level Demons. It is considered Piper's strongest and most frequently used power.
- Deviation: The ability to manipulate your current magical power to deflect energies back in the direction it came from that are thrown in the targeted direction of the deviator. Piper is capable of this through the use of her Molecular Combustion power.
- Molecular Acceleration: The ability to reverberate molecules at a speed which causes them to rapidly heat up and sometimes become disordered
this can often result in either melting or ignition. Piper gained this ability in 2008 when she wanted to blow up the Source of All Evil in the form of a Golem.
Former Powers[]
- Wendigo Physiology - When Piper was transformed as a Wendigo, she gained all the physiology of one thanks to Agent Fallon. However, it was soon undone when Agent Fallon was defeated.
- Shapeshifting - As a Wendigo, she could shape shift between her animal form and her humanf orm.
- Power Granting: Should Piper ever scratch another, she could transform her victim into a Wendigo as well.
- Super Strength: Piper was stronger than the average human.
- Sensing: As a wendigo, Piper could sense other beings, determining their location and status.
- Immortality: As long as she was a Wendigo, Piper was immortal, meaning she coudl live for centuries.
- Telepathy: Piper gained the abiility to read the minds of others when she and Prue cast a spell to hear secret thoughts. However, they reversed the spell.
- Hyper Speed: Prue and Phoebe cast a hyper speed awakening spell on Piper, causing her t ogo incredibly fast.
- Possession of a Demon: Piper was temporarily possessed by Terra, but she lost these powers when Prue was forced to kill her by stabbing Piper in the heart. However, she was revived.
- Energy Beam: While being possessed by Terra, a Life Essence, she had the ability to beam energy.
- Resurrection: Piper was able to bring people back from the dead when she was possessed.
- Warlock Physiology: When temporarily under the influence of Prue being married to Zile, a demon, Piper gained the abilities of a warlock.
- Blinking - Piper could blink and transport herself wherever she pleased.
- Molecular Inhibition - When her powers were altered, instead of freezing time, Piper's power was manipulated to stop the movement of molecules and encase a being or object in ice.
- Transformation: Piper gained this power as a warlock. She used it to transform a wedding-planner into a pig and Leo literally into a stick-in-the-mud. They later used it again to reverse those transformations
- Fury Physiology: Piper gained the powers of Smoking, Smoke Secretion, Power Granting, Super Strength, Audible Inundation, Immunity and High Resistance when she was transformed into a Fury. However, as soon as she was brought to Prue's grave to confornt her anger, the transformation on Piper was gone.
- Self Healing: When Piper was pregnant with Wyatt, she was able to self heal herself because of the baby's abilities. However, it vanished as soon as he was born.
Abilities[]
- Cooking: Piper has a a passion for food and cooking. According to Penny, nothing else compares to Piper's cooking. Her culinary skills even help with her brewing potions, which are very effective. As such, she is a skilled in culinary arts, eventually starting her own restaurant, Halliwell's, which became a very successful business after she shut down P-3.
- Businesswoman: As the owner of P3 and Halliwell's, Piper has excelled in business dealings. In 1999, she started P3 on her own and lifted the night club off the ground by booking Dishwalla and other famous singers for her restaurant. However, at first, she faced difficulty in conducting business, enough to hire Dan Gordon so he could assess the damages. She was able to determine which place was the perfect place to start her restaurant, turning down multiple locations that shared her tastes. She finally found a building that needs renovations. Unlike her time buying the nightclub, Piper had more luck in securing the building for herself.
- Driving
- Leadership/Tactician: After Prue's death, Piper was the one who picked up the leadership as the oldest of the three daughters now a days. She managed to plan for a wedding of her own. However, Piper admitted to An Ling that she found difficulty in taking on Prue's role, feeling she could never be what her oldest sister was. According to Leo, Piper is the reason why the family kept going and Patty once mentioned that Piper is the "heart and soul" of the family.
- Tacticians: As time progressed, Piper became a master tactician, coming up with a plan to save Tyler from the demon hunter Ludlow and saving the half-Manticore baby from the Manticores. Later, she, Phoebe, and Paige all came together to trick a warlock into undoing the terms of his contract with Drake de Mon's powers in order to restore Drake and his powers, vanquish the wizard and rescue Ms. Donovan. They took advantage of Mrs. Donovan's astral projection by glamoring themselves to look like her.
History[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
During the season, Piper and Leo drift apart, so she begins dating her nextdoor neighbor Dan Gordon, which causes tension between her, Dan and Leo when Dan begins growing suspicious of how much time Piper always sneaks off during their dates wherever it involves Leo or her sisters. They break up when Piper and Leo reconcile
however, Dan does a background check on Leo thinking he may be a threat to Piper out of jealousy.
Relationships[]
Leo Wyatt[]
The relationship between Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt is the longest relationship of a Charmed One. Leo was first introduced as the handyman. Piper and Leo's relationship has been the source of both extreme happiness, and extreme heartbreak for both of them.
- Comic: Leo becomes Piper and her sisters white later when he defeats an evil Darklighter, Rennek.
- A Witch's Tale: Before they met Leo was watching over Piper and her sister since they were children.
- Prewitched: Piper and Leo bump into each other and exchange a few words. The two apologize to one another before she and Prue walked away from him.
- Thank You For Not Morphing: Piper and Leo meet each other for the very first time. She immediately developed feelings for him.
- The Truth Is Out There ...And It Hurts: Piper and Leo first kiss each other
In the series Leo and Piper have three children: two sons Wyatt and Chris and a daughter named Melinda.
By 2050, they were the proud grandparents of 9 children, which included Matthew and Prudence
Chris Wyatt[]
The mother-son relationship between Piper Halliwell and Chris Halliwell is one of the main pairings in the television series Charmed.
- Oh My Goddess:Chris conceals his identity from his mother as her son and poses as their Whitelighter. This relationship is immediately strained and it's implied that Chris acts professional because he does not want to get close with his mother again.
- The Courtship of Wyatt's Father: Piper concieves her second child with Leo. In this episode, Piper learns that Chris is her son from the future, which immediately shocks her.
- Hyde School Reunion: After Chris revealed himself to be hers and Leo's son, he kept his distance from her and Piper begins wondering if she is a bad mother in the future and calls her father so he can talk to Chris. He reveals over dinner to his grandfather that Piper dies when Chris is fourteen and that he is going back into a world where she will not be.However, Victor tells Chris that maybe he should let his mother in because he may have already changed the future where Piper is presumably still alive.