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-{{For|otheruses|Triad}}
-{{Infobox Charmed group|
- Title=The Triad|
- Image=[[Image:8x20-063-triad.jpg|250px|alt=Head to knees body shot of three men in shimmering dark robes, pentagrams on their chest, facing a man whose back is to camera]]|
- Caption=Steven J. Oliver, Leland Crooke & Søren Oliver as The Triad|
- First=[[Magic Hour (Charmed episode)|Magic Hour]]|
- Last=[[Forever Charmed]]|
- Creator=Brad Kern|
- Name=The Triad|
- Purpose=Attaining ultimate power, attaining rulership of the Underworld, commanding upper level demons in The Source's stead|
- Powers=<br>As demons of the highest level, comparable to [[The Source (Charmed)|The Source]], they are highly resistant to most manners of attack, and all their abilities are extremely powerful. In addition to this, their power works as a collective, much like the Charmed Ones, stronger with all three alive.
-* [[Fireball (Charmed)|Fireballs]]
-* [[Pyrokinesis]]
-* [[Teleportation]]
-* [[Psychokinesis|Telekinesis]]
-* [[Summoning]]
-* [[Conjuration]]
-* [[List of comic book superpowers#Time manipulation|Freezing time]]<ref name="Last Temptation">{{cite episode|episodelink=The Last Temptation of Christy|title=The Last Temptation of Christy|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-02-19|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}''When time was "frozen", the Triad made no attempt to murder the Charmed Ones, implying their power may be a communication tool only.''</ref>
-* [[Telepathy]]
-* [[Exile|Banishing]] demons
-* [[Manifestation]]
-The Triad can also be seen generating vast amounts of bright energy to hone their powers, are very resistant to freezes|
- Membership=<br>
-'''Current Members'''<br>
-none<br>
-'''Deceased Members'''<br>
-Asmodeus<br>
-Baliel<br>
-Candor<br>
-'''Expelled Members'''<br>
-Xar<br>
-'''Allies'''<br>
-[[The Source (Charmed)|The Source]]<br>
-The Brotherhood of the Thorn<br>
-Dumain<br>
-[[Belthazor]]<br>
-[[Christy Jenkins]]|}}
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-'''The Triad''' is a fictional group of powerful demons on the [[television series]] ''[[Charmed]]''. They ranked very high in the hierarchy of evil during the series. They exist in the spiritual realm as eternal evil spirits, and they are referred to by upper-level demons as evil incarnate whenever they can find a host of three demons. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Charmed_episodes#Kill Billie Vol. 2</ref>
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-==First appearance==
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-The Triad first appear in Season 3,<ref name="Magic Hour">{{cite episode|episodelink=Magic Hour (Charmed episode)|title=Magic Hour|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2000-10-12|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> and are played by [[Amir Aboulela]], [[Rick Overton]] and [[Shaun Toub]]. At this time, they work for The Source. The Triad demon-hosts in Season 3 are males, and have black eyes. They wear long dark red-like robes, with an upside down [[pentagram]] behind it. Each of them possesses multiple powers (including fireballs, teleportation, summoning demons, manifesting objects, etc.) When they become aware of the existence of the Charmed Ones, they begin sending demons after them. They were the nemesis of the Charmed Ones for the first three years of the series, while they were still being commanded by the Source.  When all of their previous demons fail, they order upper-level demon [[Belthazor]], [[Cole Turner]]'s demon half, to go after the Charmed Ones, Belthazor comes very close, but falls in love with [[Phoebe Halliwell|Phoebe]], which leads to him killing the Triad.  The Triad plans to kill him, but Belthazor, as his human half Cole, vanquishes them by throwing an athame into one member, snapping the neck of another and hitting the third with an energy ball.<ref name="Power outage">{{cite episode|episodelink=Power Outage|title=Power Outage|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2000-11-16|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
-==Second coming==
-The Triad reappear in Season 8, composed of three new upper-level demons as their new hosts: Asmodeus, Baliel and Candor. They have been rulers of the Underworld since the Charmed Ones took the Grimoire and hid it away five years earlier to prevent any new Sources from being crowned.  This time, they wear long black robes with an upside-down pentagram on the front. They are revealed to be the ones responsible for witch/firestarter [[Christy Jenkins]]'s kidnapping fifteen years earlier.  The kidnapping occurred even before their discovery of the Charmed Ones' existence at the start of the series.<ref name="Billie">{{cite episode|episodelink=Kill Billie Vol. 1|title=Kill Billie Vol.1|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-10-30|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> They hired demons to guard Christy and keep her hidden.  They also turned her evil by severely warping her sense of good and evil. Those demons later get vanquished by Christy and by The Triad.<ref name="Billie"/>
-A demon named Xar, a former member of The Triad, orders a demon to tell the Charmed Ones that The Triad is back, thus exposing them. Xar tricks the Halliwell sisters into going after The Triad, because he doesn't want them to take over the Underworld. The Triad become aware of this, and kill Xar. The Charmed Ones go after them using an insidious plan because they alone don't have the power to vanquish them.  Knowing that The Triad probably has the same weakness that they do, where their power is in the group and killing one weakens the other, they attack with the purpose of taking out one for sure.  Getting an idea from Cole, Piper freezes Asmodeus and Baliel after Baliel throws a fireball and has Paige orb Asmodeus in front of the fireball, vanquishing him when Piper unfreezes the demons.  Killing Asmodeus weakens the other two and Piper is able to vanquish Baliel with three blasts from her molecular combustion power in his weakened state.  Afterward, there is only one member alive, Candor, who escaped without getting vanquished as he ran when he saw Piper and Paige vanquished the other two. Candor later appears, when he freezes the Charmed Ones and Billie, but not Christy, as he tells her that they taught her everything she knows, and now that The Triad is weakened, she must go forward alone, to reunite with the Ultimate Power, her sister Billie. Candor then leaves, and unfreezes the others.
-Later on, Candor gets killed by Christy, for being responsible for the death of Christy's parents.  She rams her arm through his chest, fatally wounding him.<ref name="GenHex">{{cite episode|episodelink=Generation Hex|title=Generation Hex|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-04-16|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
-It is later discovered that The Triad cannot be destroyed as easily as previously thought. Their physical bodies can be vanquished but they continue to exist in spirit form until they are strong enough to constitute new bodies for themselves.
-Therefore, The Triad still exist, but as spirits, they continued to progress their plan to kill the Charmed Ones, with Dumain, who serves them. Their spirits later get vanquished by The Charmed Ones, using the power of The [[Hollow (Charmed)|Hollow]].<ref name="Kill Billie">{{cite episode|episodelink=Kill Billie Vol. 2|title=Kill Billie Vol. 2|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-05-14|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
-However, Dumain with Christy, went back in the past, to warn the Triad of their death, but as he was warning them, the Charmed Ones and Billie arrived from the future as well, and vanquished the Triad, once and for all with potions. Piper proceeded to vanquish future and past Dumain with her molecular combustion power and Billie vanquished her sister Christy by telekineticly deflecting her own fireball back at her.<ref name="Forever">{{cite episode|episodelink=Forever Charmed|title=Forever Charmed|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-05-21|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
-==Trivia==
-* As the Triad exist in the spiritual realm, their physical bodies can be vanquished but they continue to exist as spirits until they are strong enough to find new hosts for themselves. This means that the Triad (from Season 8) is the same Triad that appeared in Season 3. After Cole vanquished them,<ref name="Power outage"/> their essence continued to exist as spirits until they composed new bodies for themselves, therefore resulting in their return in Season 8.  It is for the same reason that there are "former members" of the Triad.
-*Leland Crooke who plays a Triad member previously played [[List of minor Angel characters#Archduke Sebassis|Archduke Sebassis]] on the [[TV series]] ''[[Angel (TV series)|Angel]]'', who was also part of a demonic council of enormous power called the [[Circle of the Black Thorn]], also in its final season.
-*The Triad's main weakness is that like the Charmed Ones, their power is in their collective.  Vanquish one and the other two are weakened.  Even the Triad admit this.  They are apparently so powerful Power of Three spells may not work on them as the Charmed Ones never tried one and Piper doubted her molecular combustion power would either, which makes sense as extremely powerful demons are shown to be immune to that.  However, they are not immune to Piper's freezes in season 8, but she may have grown powerful enough at that time to temporarily freeze them and they did seem to be breaking free slightly before she unfroze them herself.  They were so powerful in physical form that it was speculated that the only reason that Cole could vanquish them the first time is because of his being an extremely powerful demon, possibly as powerful as they were although this is speculation and he likely only eliminated them as he caught them by surprise and vanquished one, weakening the others.  Eliminating one noticeably weakens them as the Triad was mostly immune to the Charmed Ones powers before Asmodeus' vanquish, but afterward were vulnerable, although noticeably still powerful as although Baliel was vulnerable to Piper's molecular combustion, it noticeably took three hits to vanquish him, a first for that power.
-*The Triad's spirit form seems to be that of their most recent hosts as they appeared as the hosts they were vanquished in when in spirit form in season 8.
-==References==
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