Primordial Entities refer to a group of nigh-omnipotent beings who existed before the creation of the Universe.
Characteristics
All of them are older than the universe and possess immense power, ranging from at least destroying someone on a subatomic level (Raphael) and altering the very fabric of reality (Gabriel) up to fully removing all of existence (The Darkness) or creating whole universes (God). Despite their immense power and agelessness, none are unkillable since even Death, God, and Amara, being called the strongest beings can be killed under the right conditions. Death was destroyed, despite being an entity so powerful he saw humans no more powerful or important than how humans view bacterium. Like all things, even the Primordials are to certain degrees subject to the flow of the Natural Order.
Members
- Archangels - As beings created by God himself, archangels possess unimaginable levels of power.
- Gabriel - Created a TV universe to imprison the Winchesters. Made Sam relive a day over again countless times by reversing time and ensuring Dean died each day. He was assumed to have been killed by Lucifer during the Apocalypse, currently alive by unknown means.
- Raphael - On one occasion, he destroyed Castiel on a subatomic level. Killed by Castiel empowered by the souls of Purgatory.
- Lucifer - Creator of the demon species. Capable of bringing about the Apocalypse. Currently has his grace depleted, though it is recharging.
- Michael - The de facto Ruler of Heaven after God left. The oldest and most powerful Archangel. Imprisoned in Lucifer's Cage.
- Death - A nigh-omnipotent being, the eldest Horsemen, and the personification of death itself, he is able to kill any being, except the Darkness and whoever bears the Mark of Cain. He once realigned the orbit of the moon and is also capable of jail-breaking Lucifer's Cage. Killed by Dean Winchester with his own scythe.
- God - The creator of almost everything that exists in the universe and the Darkness' younger brother. Can transfer the Mark of Cain, and do, or create, virtually anything. Death and the Darkness are the only beings to pose any threat, or harm, to God.
- The Darkness - The only entity in existence at one point, and God's older sister. She is able to annihilate all of existence and is capable of undoing virtually anything in the universe her brother made. Stronger than God himself, she is also able to fatally wound her own brother and heal him fully without difficulty. No supernatural entity can survive her or overpower her without massive assistance such as all the archangels and God. Only God is capable of killing her and only with help.
Appearances
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Houses of the Holy (Michael, mentioned and stained glass image; Raphael and God, mentioned only)
- Tall Tales (first appearance, Gabriel, masquerading as Loki)
- Season 3
- Sin City (Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- Mystery Spot (Gabriel, masquerading as Loki)
- Season 4
- Lazarus Rising (God, mentioned only)
- Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester (God, Death and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Metamorphosis (God, mentioned only)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer (Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- Death Takes A Holiday (Death, mentioned only)
- On The Head Of A Pin (God and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The Monster at the End of This Book (Raphael, presence; God, masquerading as Chuck)
- Lucifer Rising (Raphael, presence; Lucifer, voice and incorporeal form; God, masquerading as Chuck; Michael, painting only)
- Season 5
- Sympathy for the Devil (Lucifer and God, masquerading as Chuck; Michael and Raphael, mentioned only)
- Good God, Y'all (Lucifer, Michael and God, mentioned only)
- Free To Be You and Me (Raphael and Lucifer; Michael and God, mentioned only)
- The End (God, masquerading as Chuck, alternative reality version; Lucifer, alternative reality version; Michael, mentioned only)
- Fallen Idols (Michael and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- I Believe the Children Are Our Future (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Changing Channels (Gabriel; Lucifer, Michael and God mentioned only; Raphael, referenced only)
- The Real Ghostbusters (God, masquerading as Chuck)
- Abandon All Hope... (Lucifer; Death, unseen; Michael and God, mentioned only)
- Sam, Interrupted (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The Song Remains the Same (Michael; Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- My Bloody Valentine (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Death, unseen; Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Dark Side of the Moon (God and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- 99 Problems (God, Michael and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Point of No Return (Michael, presence; Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Hammer of the Gods (Gabriel and Lucifer; Michael and God, mentioned only)
- The Devil You Know (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Two Minutes to Midnight (Death; Lucifer and Michael, mentioned only)
- Swan Song (Michael, Lucifer and God, masquerading as Chuck)
- Season 6
- Exile on Main Street (God, referenced only)
- The Third Man (Raphael; God, mentioned only)
- Caged Heat (Michael and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Appointment In Samarra (Death; Michael and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Like A Virgin (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The French Mistake (Raphael)
- The Man Who Would Be King (Raphael; Michael and Lucifer in flashbacks)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (Raphael; Michael and Lucifer in flashbacks; God, mentioned only)
- Season 7
- Meet the New Boss (Raphael, corpse; Lucifer, as a hallucination; Death; Michael and God, mentioned only)
- Hello, Cruel World (Raphael, corpse, Lucifer, as a hallucination)
- The Girl Next Door (Lucifer, voice and mentioned)
- Defending Your Life (Lucifer, voice only)
- Slash Fiction (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Death's Door (Death, mentioned only)
- Repo Man (Lucifer, as a hallucination)
- Out With The Old (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The Born-Again Identity (Lucifer, as a hallucination)
- Reading Is Fundamental (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- There Will Be Blood (Michael, painting only)
- Survival of the Fittest (God, mentioned only)
- Season 8
- As Time Goes By (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Trial and Error (God, mentioned only)
- Goodbye Stranger (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The Great Escapist (Michael and Gabriel, mentioned only)
- Sacrifice (God, mentioned only)
- Season 9
- I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here (Death; God, mentioned only)
- I'm No Angel (God, mentioned only)
- Holy Terror (God, mentioned only)
- Road Trip (Archangels and God, mentioned only)
- First Born (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Meta Fiction (Gabriel, as an illusion)
- Do You Believe In Miracles? (Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- Season 10
- Fan Fiction (God, masquerading as Chuck; Lucifer and Michael, mentioned only)
- The Executioner's Song (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Inside Man (Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- Brother's Keeper (Death and The Darkness; Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- Season 11
- Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire (The Darkness; Death, Michael and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Form and Void (The Darkness; Death and God, mentioned only)
- The Bad Seed (The Darkness; God, mentioned only)
- Baby (Lucifer, posing as young John Winchester in Sam's vision; The Darkness and God, mentioned only)
- Thin Lizzie (The Darkness)
- Our Little World (The Darkness; God and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Lucifer and The Darkness; God, mentioned only)
- The Devil in the Details (Lucifer and The Darkness; God, Raphael and Gabriel, mentioned only; Michael, flashbacks and mentioned)
- Into the Mystic (Lucifer; The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Don't You Forget About Me (God and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Love Hurts (The Darkness, mentioned and form taken by a Qareen)
- The Vessel (Lucifer; God and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Beyond the Mat (Lucifer)
- Red Meat (The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Hell's Angel (Lucifer and The Darkness; God, mentioned only)
- The Chitters (Lucifer, The Darkness and God, mentioned only)
- Don't Call Me Shurley (God; The Darkness and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- All in the Family (Lucifer, The Darkness and God)
- We Happy Few (Lucifer, The Darkness and God; Michael, Raphael and Gabriel, mentioned only)
- Alpha and Omega (God and The Darkness; Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Season 12
- Keep Calm and Carry On (Lucifer and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Mamma Mia (Lucifer; God and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- The Foundry (Lucifer)
- American Nightmare (Lucifer and God, mentioned only)
- The One You've Been Waiting For (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Rock Never Dies (Lucifer; God and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- LOTUS (Lucifer; God mentioned only)
- First Blood (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Stuck in the Middle (With You) (Lucifer; Michael, painting and mentioned)
- Family Feud (Lucifer)
- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (Lucifer)
- The British Invasion (Lucifer; Michael, mentioned only)
- The Future (Lucifer)
- Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- There's Something About Mary (Lucifer)
- Who We Are (Lucifer, photo and mentioned)
- All Along the Watchtower (Lucifer; God, mentioned only)
- Season 13
- Lost & Found (Lucifer; God, mentioned only)
- The Rising Son (Lucifer and Alternate Michael; God, The Darkness, Michael and Alternate Lucifer, mentioned only)
- The Big Empty (Lucifer, The Darkness and God, mentioned only)
- Advanced Thanatology (Death and Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Tombstone (God, mentioned only)
- War of the Worlds (Lucifer and Alternate Michael; God, mentioned only)
- The Bad Place (Lucifer, mentioned only)
- Breakdown (God, mentioned only)
- Various & Sundry Villains (Lucifer; Michael, Alternate Michael and The Darkness, mentioned only)
- Devil's Bargain (Lucifer and Gabriel; God, Michael, Raphael and Alternate Michael, mentioned only)
- Good Intentions (Lucifer and Alternate Michael)
- Bring 'em Back Alive (Lucifer and Gabriel)
- Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting (God, Death and the Archangels, non-canon, mentioned only)
Trivia
- Gabriel was the first primordial entity the Winchester brothers encountered. Notably, Gabriel is the youngest primordial entity, while the oldest and most powerful one, the Darkness, is the last one they met.
- Lucifer was the first primordial that the Winchesters knowingly encountered, since both Gabriel and God hid their identities from them.
- Due to the Winchesters traveling back in time, chronologically Michael was the first primordial and angel to meet the Winchesters, having met them before they were born in the timeline. [1]
- With the exception of Death, all the known Primordials are related. God and Amara are siblings and all the Archangels are God's children and Amara's nephews.
- The Darkness, also called Amara, is the only female primordial entity.
- Since the introduction of Gabriel, Season 8 is the only season to not feature a Primordial Entity.
- Season 5 featured the most Primordial Entities in a single season, with the appearances of all four Archangels, God, and Death.
- Aside from Death, all the Primordial Beings appear to be elemental. The Darkness is the primordial darkness, God is the primordial light, and the Archangels which God called the Stuff of Primordial Creation, are spiritual entities of light like the lesser angels.
- In Season 13, the Cosmic Entity is introduced and stated The Empty (its residence) has existed before everything. However, the age of the entity and whether it counts as a primordial entity is unknown.