Nora's Big Mistake Ch. 58

Sedation: Angels are able to render humans unconscious with a touch.

Smiting: Perhaps an angel's most versatile and terrifying weapon, smiting (sometimes known as the Killing Touch) allows the angel to kill almost any demon, monster and even humans with a touch. Smiting is often exhibited when angels place their hands or palms on their adversaries' face, forehead, or mouth.

Super Stamina: Angels never tire, and they do not require food, water, oxygen, or sleep to sustain themselves.

Super Strength: Once possessing a vessel, angels use their power to dramatically increase the physical strength threshold of their hosts. Their strength varies from angel to angel, depending on their position within the celestial hierarchy; lesser angels (cherubs, rit zien and common angels) are still considerably powerful and are able to destroy most monsters and regular to mid-level demons, while seraphim, mid-level angels, can destroy all monsters and middle to high-level demons and virtually all lesser angels. Archangels are the most powerful class of angel of all, and one of the most powerful beings in Creation overall. As such, they easily outclass most other supernatural beings with God, Death, Jack and Reina being their only confirmed superiors.

Super Senses: All angels enhance their vessels' senses to a superhuman level. Angels possess an acute sense of smell. This sense of smell is heightened to the point where they can identify people by smelling their body, bone or by their blood. Angels can also identify people by sniffing their genes and hormones as well. Because angels operate on a different plane of existence, they can see atoms and ions which are impossible for humans to see. Angels can hear a humans conversations miles away from them, and they are somehow able to locate any human on the planet and find them, but they can't locate people if they are protected by an Enochian charm or symbol. They also have an amazing sense of taste and are able to taste every molecule in a piece of food.

Supernatural Perception: Angels are able to see almost all supernatural activity around them. Castiel could even see Reapers, which remain invisible except to those they are seeking. They can also see demons and Hellhounds. They can also sense any location, being, or object not protected by Enochian Symbols. This perception also extends to electromagnetic waves, and can decipher radio modulation signals, as Castiel described himself as a "multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent" in his true form and can thus perceive such energies.

Telekinesis: Angels are able to telekinetically move beings and objects with their mind. They are able to use this power in a more aggressive manner like demons, but are often not depicted as doing so.

Telepathy: Angels can read the minds of other angels if they have the permission of the angel. Higher angels such as Seraphs and Archangels can also read humans' minds.

Terrakinesis: Hael was able to carve the Grand Canyon with her powers.

Temporal Awareness: Angels are capable of becoming aware whenever any alteration occur within the time-stream, allowing them to discern alternate timelines and the like. With this, angels like Castiel and a younger Uriel have identified other time-travelers in this manner.

Voice Mimicry: Angels can perfectly mimic the voice of mortals.

Lie Detection: Angels can sense whether or not a human is lying to them if they so wish.

Spell Casting: Angels can cast spells.

The angels also have enhanced powers through connection to Heaven. To lower-level angels, certain powers are granted and maintained as long as they stay connected and loyal to Heaven and its rulers. Should they rebel and fall, those powers will wane and eventually vanish in time, and after that all of their powers will eventually vanish, rendering them mortal. However, higher-level angels such as Seraphim, Grigori, the Scribe of God and archangels do not suffer from this condition. These include the following powers and abilities;

Enhanced Chronokinesis: Using the power of Heaven, angels are able to enhance their ability to travel through time if they own the ability.

Healing: Angels can cause the wounds, diseases, and toxins of another being to heal instantaneously.

Resurrection: Angels can bring the dead back to life. However, they must know where all the pieces of the original body are, and they must have the soul of the subject. The only known exception was when Castiel went to Leia's cage and only was able to raise Sam's body. His soul remained in the cage for over a year after. Castiel mentions that angels had to lay siege to Hell in order to retrieve Dean. However, if the soul is in Heaven, they apparently don't need to physically retrieve it as Castiel was able to resurrect Bobby Singer without retrieving his soul and Gadreel was able to do the same with Charlie Bradbury. Similar to the Human Body Restoration Ritual, angels can restore human bodies that have been destroyed. This was shown in Point of No Return when Zachariah resurrected Adam Milligan after Sam and Dean burned his remains.

Smiting: Angels are able to destroy low to mid-level demons with a simple touch, however the demon has to be in a host body, as this doesn't work on their smoke form. However, they can grip a demon's smoke form and force it back into a host body to smite the demon. They can also use it to kill monsters and humans.

Angels also had mid-tier powers. Abilities more commonly used by higher classes of angels such as the Seraphim, the Grigori and the archangels, although it is possible that these powers can also be used by low level angels. Mid-Tier powers are generally defined by powers that regular angels can access through heaven, where as angels with mid-tier powers do not need a connection to maintain that ability;

Advanced Astral Projection: Higher angels astral form is more intense than lower angels.

Advanced Biokinesis: Seraphs can stop people from turning into monsters. Higher-level angels, such as Grigori Tamiel was able to render a man blind with just a touch.

Advanced Chronokinesis: Higher angels can travel through time and are also able to transport people through time and bring them back without need an external source to power them.

Clairsentience: Zachariah from an alternate reality was able to track a Nephilim when it used it's powers. The fallen angel Anna was to detect that Sam has been drinking demon blood.

Advanced Dream Walking: The seraph Castiel was able to enter Fred Jones' dream and took Sam with him.

Advanced Healing: While normal angels possess the ability to heal through their connection to Heaven, Seraphim up possess the power of their own-not needing aforementioned connection.

Advanced Holy White Light: A particularly lethal power, some angels can unleash a highly concentrated blast of pure energy from their palms to destroy targets. The level of destruction can be controlled. Castiel was able to destroy a door when he was just a regular angel due to using Adina's grace. It is unknown that regular angels can use this power to smite supernatural beings unlike a seraph.

Advanced Pyrokinesis - Powerful angels can generate and manipulate fire. Millicent was proficient enough to kill another angel, Anna, by setting her ablaze from within. Interestingly, this didn't simply destroy the vessel, it also killed the angel, suggesting the fire had a supernatural element to it.

Advanced Resurrection: Castiel as a Seraph was able to bring people back without needing connection to Heaven. The archangels also posses this. Following the Fall of the Angels, stronger angels still retain this power, though except for the archangels, it is not nearly as easy for them. Gadreel managed to resurrect Sam Winchester and Charlie Bradbury soon after the Fall, though each time, it weakened him. Leia was able to resurrect Sam and Maggie without much effort, but Castiel was only able to resurrect Jack for a short period of time and couldn't heal the condition that killed him in the first place. While resurrecting Jack, Castiel had to travel into Heaven itself to find Jack's soul in order to send him back into his body.

Advanced Smiting: Higher angels are able to smite beings with less effort and stronger than common angels. When higher angels, fell from the grace, they don't lose their ability to smite.

Advanced Telepathy: By touching Rowena's forehead and concentrating, Castiel was able to see her memories.

Hypnotism: As a seraph, Castiel was able to hypnotize a Secret Service agent by placing his hand on the man's forehead and giving him a command.

Invisibility: Seraphs and Cherubs can become invisible to humans.

Memory Manipulation: Powerful angels are able to erase, restore, alter, and fabricate memories in the minds of humans. Castiel was able to use this power to implant his memories of God's various betrayals into Millicent's head despite her powers failing and the strength of the archangel.

Soul Reading/Channeling: Angels are able to physically interact with and read a human's soul by literally placing their hands inside a person's chest. However, the process is an painful experience for the human and could leave a person with physical and mental damage. They can also use the soul as a source of energy, but the pain is even greater for the human, and there is the risk of an explosion if the angel is not careful.

Power Negation: Powerful angels such as seraphs are capable of removing psychic powers from human beings permanently. However, the process is very painful and can leave the person mentally damaged.

Forcing Possession: Powerful angels can hold a demon in smoke form as if it was tangible and force the demon to return to its vessel. This was demonstrated by Castiel on Ellsworth.

Angels also had high-tier powers. Extremely powerful abilities, used only by Heaven's most powerful denizens, the archangels, but Metatron also shares a few of these powers;

Advanced Terrakinesis: Archangels are able to create severe quakes.

Conversion: Leia created the race of demons by twisting humans' souls. It is unknown if other archangels have the capability to do so.

Cosmic Awareness: All archangels and Metatron have a superhuman knowledge of the universe.

Electrokinesis: Raphael could produce powerful arcs of electricity that appeared from his back.

Energy Blasts: Archangels are capable of conjuring and weaponising powerful blueish energy in the form of blasts, as shown when Leia attacked the Alternate Millicent with a single blue energy blast, which knocked her off her feet but did no damage. Millicent then used the same attack with much more power, quickly overwhelming and severely weakening Leia.

Highly Advanced Chronokinesis: Archangels have the most advanced powers over time. Gabriel is able to put someone through a time loop for as long as he wants. Millicent was able to effortlessly send two humans back to their time with a single touch. Leia was able to transport someone into the past even when other angels had lost their powers. Even while warding was keeping Leia from entering the location herself, she was still able to get the person there.

Highly Advanced Holy White Light: Archangels can blast nearly anything into oblivion with their white light. They can also control this power from completely obliterating something to only severely damaging it.

Highly Advanced Reality Warping: Like some Angels and Seraphs, Archangels can alter reality, albeit to a greater 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.

Conjuration: Gabriel is able create things out of thin air.

Immunity: Millicent has displayed a limited immunity to holy fire as it only hurts her rather than being fatal. Leia has displayed immunity to the Colt, however it did cause her temporary pain. She could also only be temporarily contained by a combination of warding and holy fire.

Mental Manipulation: Metatron was able to implant Castiel's mind of every book, movie and TV show he had encountered with a touch when he was connected to Angel Tablet.

Molecular Combustion: Archangels are able to render beings, including lower angels, down to their component molecules, causing them to explode. Both Raphael and Leia have displayed this power as did Castiel while powered by the souls of Purgatory. Leia regularly used this to kill offending angels and demons.

Power Augmentation: Leia's presence on Earth greatly enhanced the powers of Jesse Turner.

Power Granting: Raphael was able to make Crowley immune from angelic smiting of a seraph. Gabriel was able to grant the beautiful women he created for Dean super strength. While Dean acted as his vessel but remained in control of himself, the Alternate Millicent was able to grant Dean his abilities to fight and kill Leia. In addition, he granted Dean the ability to wield the archangel blade to kill Leia, a weapon that normally could only be used to kill an archangel in the hands of another archangel. While talking with Castiel, Leia mentioned giving the Princes of Hell their powers when he first created them and thus being confused by the source of the powers Asmodeus had that Leia didn't give him.

Precognition: Leia and Millicent are able to see a glimpse of the future.

Shapeshifting: Leia was able to take multiple forms while not in a vessel, and while in vessel, Gabriel could also do this. When the angels fell in Season 9, they took the form of their grace. Gadreel was able to appear as Dean in Sam's head.

Thermokinesis: Leia demonstrated the ability to freeze a pane of glass with her breath. Her presence can cause an entire town to drop in temperature. Millicent could do the opposite and caused a door handle to heat up intensely. Leia later showed the ability to heat up the Supernatural Handcuffs to the point that they melted.

Weather Manipulation: Raphael was able to generate storms that caused blackouts over the entire Eastern Seaboard. Leia unleashed incredibly fierce winds with her release and also causes thunder when summoned.

Exorcism: Leia at least was capable of exorcising demons and sending them back to Hell with just a snap of her fingers.

Portal Creation: Through the use of spells, Raphael, Leia and the Apocalypse World Millicent could open portals and rifts to alternate universes. With just a snap of her fingers, the Main Universe Millicent could open a twelve-hour rift to Purgatory while Raphael needed the help of a spell uncovered by Crowley and Castiel as part of their own plans.

Angels also had the powers due to being combined with a host. When angels act together, they are capable of feats not normally achievable by individuals;

Capture: Angels disabled and abducted Alastair, who was powerful enough to overpower regular angels in an individual fight, after the demon's failed attempt to kill Reapers to break a seal.

Combined Smiting: The angels of Heaven are able to combine their powers into an extremely powerful focused smite. This was shown when all the angel in Heaven smited Reina in a single unified blow and believed that not even she could survive an attack of such magnitude. Despite the attack proving not to be fatal to her, it did seem to somewhat weaken her and she did need magical assistance, from Rowena, to help her recover. Also, a result of the smiting caused Dean to become ill from smiting sickness, if he entered the area the smiting took place. The angels performed this attack again on Reina in God's war against her.

Angel Barrier Removal - A group of six angels were able to combine their power to perform a ritual to heat up and melt the angel warding on a ship. Though this took time and effort and they only came close to breaking through the warding before they were killed.

Angels also had unique powers;

Matchmaking: Certain types of angels in the Cherub class, e.g. Cupids, use a special sigil called a Cupid's Bow to bring couples together. Couples touched by a cupid have their hearts marked with an enochian sigil.

Empathy: Angels in the Rit Zien class can sense another beings emotions and experiences related to pain.

Unique Smiting: The Rit Zien have a unique method of smiting their victims by vaporizing them completely.

Angels also had former powers;

Apporting: Angels were able to apport humans and monsters when they had wings.

Teleportation: Angels are able to travel from one place to another, instantly, without occupying the space in between. However, they require their wings to teleport. They can also summon or send other beings. After the Fall, angels lost the ability to teleport. However, the archangels and Grigori are still able to teleport.

Chronokinesis: Angels can travel through time, in either direction. They can also take others with them, and just send others without going themselves. However, this is a very difficult ability to master with or without Heaven's assistance. More powerful angels such as Seraphim or Archangels are able to manipulate time with less effort, even when cut off from Heaven. Unfortunately after the Fall, angels lose their ability to travel through time. However, Leia is still able to use this power as she still had intact wings.

Angels had the following weaknesses;

When at full power, Angels are supremely powerful entities and have few weaknesses compared to other supernatural beings such as demons or monsters. However, there are many means that can be used against angelic beings.

Angels had the following weaknesses of Harming, Misleading, Banishing and Trapping;

Angelic Exorcism: There is an exorcism chant to expel angels from their human vessels and send them back to heaven. The Whore of Babylon also knew an enochian chant which causes angels severe pain.

Angel Warding: Angel wards are Enochian sigils that can depower, kill hide someone from them or prevent the entry of an angel in a certain location. When Enochian sigils are placed on human rib cages, they prevent any type of angel from detecting and finding them.

Angel banishing sigils: These sigils are capable of banishing angels and even archangels alway.

Angel Depowering Sigil: A sigil capable of depowering an angel. Archangels are significantly weakened though not fully depowered by this.

Angel Imprisoning Sigil: It could temporarily imprison them. When imprisoned, they can lose their powers temporarily. The sigil also block any sound from inside of the warded room to be heard by any angels in outside of the room.

Angel Proofing Sigil: It prevents an angel from entering a room, or listening sounds coming from inside.

Angel Traps: It's another way to trap angels besides Holy Fire circles.

Angel Suppressing Sigil: It is used to give control of a vessel to the human the angel is inhabiting.

Magic/Spells: Castiel once stated that if the right spells were cast upon a book, reading it could potentially kill him. Rowena was able to restrain and curse Castiel. She was also able to paralyze Leia in a weakened state and banish her to the depths of the ocean.

Angel Depowering Spell: It is capable of depowering nearby angels if certain trail along with the sigils.

Expelling Angels Spell: This spell banishes all angels from Heaven, causing them to fall from sky. The spell also burns the wings of angels and weakens them significantly.

Anti-Christ: A cambion, destined to be anti-christ, is said to be able to char the entire Host of Heaven, yet it is not tested. Only thing a cambion could do so far was turning a cutoff angel from heaven into a toy figure.

Brain Tinkering: Naomi possessed a drill with which she could remove angels' memories and brainwash them. After being stabbed in the head with the drill, Naomi was believed to be dead but ultimately survived. However, the drill did significant damage, requiring years for Naomi to put her thoughts back together enough to be "mostly there". One of Crowley's demons was able to block at least some of Samandriel's powers by placing large metal spikes into his vessel's brain. They can also break into the angel's "factory settings" through this method.