Chris Halliwell

From Charmed

Christopher Perry Halliwell, introduced as Chris Perry to the Charmed Ones, better known as "Chris", was the second son of Piper Halliwell and Leo Wyatt, the younger brother of Wyatt Halliwell, and the older brother to Melinda Halliwell. Chris was named after Leo's father Christopher.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Dark Future 2.1 Revelations to His Identity 2.2 Family Connections 2.3 Gideon's Agenda Revealed 2.4 Sacrifice and Rebirth 3 Future Appearances 3.1 Leo's Vision Quest 3.2 New Future 4 Powers & Abilities 4.1 Baby Chris' Powers 4.2 Basic Wiccan Powers 4.3 Additional Whitelighter Powers 4.4 Additional Powers 4.4.1 Evil Powers 4.4.2 Charmed Novel 5 Charges 6 Trivia 7 Appearances

Personality

Chris was kind, humorous, although somewhat neurotic; he notes that Wyatt's multitude of powers has left him with an "inferiority complex", and believes that family should always come first.

Over the series, Chris makes good character growth. He begins as an obviously manipulative, shady guy; shifts into a hard working, overprotective whitelighter as his secrets are revealed; and finally transitions over into the lovable son just looking for a way to help and save his family.

Dark Future

Chris first appeared on Charmed as he travelled from a possible dark future back to 2003 to warn the Charmed Ones of the impending danger of the Titans. He claimed to be a Whitelighter from the future, but could not answer all their questions, as they might affect the future in ways they could not foresee. He was helpful in the defeat of the Titans, and orchestrated the promotion of Leo as an Elder.

When Leo left to stay in the Heavens, Chris was appointed the Charmed Ones' new Whitelighter as reward for helping them defeat the Titans. Leo was suspicious of him because he would not reveal his full history. As Leo departed Chris altered Leo's course mid-orb to send him to Valhalla. Later, Chris uses his telekinesis to kill a Valkyrie by crushing her heart. Chris began sending the Charmed Ones after numerous demons with little to no explanation. He also had several side agendas which were not revealed for some time. He was forced to take a potion to block Phoebe's newly emerged empath powers to block her from reading him. Leo later uncovered evidence that he had killed two Valkyries but opted not to use it because Chris had finally earned the Charmed Ones' trust.

Chris, in this timeline, had also been engaged to an assassin witch from the future named Bianca.

Chris died from wounds suffered in a fight with Gideon just after becoming close with Leo and solving the mystery of who was after his "baby" older brother. His body disappeared as he passed away, however, proving that he had changed the future and that perhaps an alternate Chris with different memories would survive, not knowing an evil future. Hours after the future Chris's death, the present Chris was born. (It's A Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World)

Revelations to His Identity

In the episode Chris Crossed, when Chris is kidnapped by his fiance from the future, Bianca, the sister's learn of his witch abilities. The viewer is also privileged to the new shocking truth that the evil that Chris is trying to save the future from is none other than our sweet baby Wyatt. Wyatt in the future tells Chris that if he were anyone else, he'd have killed him. It's not yet stated why Chris is so different from 'anyone else'.

Not long after this discovery is made by the viewers, it's made by the sister's and Leo, who then begin to distrust everything Chris says or has said. In an attempt to save himself in their graces, Chris rescues Wyatt when nobody else can because of his shield. Although it's a little more strained, Chris is back as the charmed one's whitelighter.

In the episode Legend of Sleepy Halliwell, the sisters travel to Magic School where the Headless Horseman is wreaking havoc. Phoebe journeys off to have a spiritual vision quest in a side quest of her own. In Phoebe's vision of the far future, we learn Wyatt has a baby brother. When Phoebe wakes from her vision, Chris is standing right where the "little brother" was and Phoebe confronts him at the end about being Wyatt's brother. Chris admits it, thus is revealed why Chris is different from 'everyone else' to the evil Wyatt.

In the next episode, I Dream of Phoebe, Chris returns to San Francisco one week later to ask Phoebe to make Piper and Leo conceive him. When Phoebe was turned into a genie against her will, he tried to use one of his three wishes to make Piper and Leo 'sleep' together. But she takes his wish too literally. He later tells Paige of his true identity and they all begin to work together for his conception.

In The Courtship of Wyatt's Father, Piper and Leo are taken to an astral plane and Chris begins to fade from existence. Because he broke up his parents, they won't be having sex anytime soon to conceive him. As Chris begins to become transparent and less solid, he meets an Angel of Death. However, Chris refuses to go with him and helps send his parents messages in an attempt to get them back in time. The plan was to explain the situation to Leo and Piper when they got back.

Before Piper and Leo can be rescued, however, Chris completely fades from existence. All fear he's gone for good until Leo and Piper are returned to the physical plane. Chris randomly reappears, cheering for his own solidity. Leo returns to being an Elder while Paige and Phoebe give Piper the news that she is pregnant with Chris. Although doubtful at first, Piper finally accepts the fact that Chris is her son when he walks in the room just before the episode ends.

Family Connections

The next major issue in Chris's life begins in the very next episode, Hyde School Reunion. Chris has become distant from Piper, hardly speaking to her at all. Piper brings in her father to help and Chris joyfully greets him. Apparently, in the future, he and his grandfather are really close, but he wont tell anyone why. Chris and Gramps go out to dinner and after talking a bit, Chris finally admits that he's ignoring Piper because in his future, Piper is dead.

When Chris turned 14, his mother was killed - although it's never explained how. Grandpa convinces Chris that, while he's here, he should get close to her so that he can have more memories of her when he returns to the future. When Piper next sees Chris, he calls her 'mom' and has become overly protective of her. A complete switch of personality.

Chris continues to call her 'mom' until the end of the season. In the episode Spin City, Chris is infected by a spider demon and quickly transforms into a spider demon himself. He attacks Piper on the orders of his queen. We learn that Chris hates his father, Leo, to a deadly extent. Phoebe calls Leo from 'up there' to help with Piper and Chris and finally lets him know he has a second son. For the first 6 months of pregnancy, he didn't know. After beating his father till he bled and then running to the Golden Gate Bridge, Chris reveals to Leo that, in the future, Leo had been there for everybody else, but him.

"You were never there for me... You were there for everybody else,... for Mom,... Wyatt,... half the world. But you were never there for me. You didn't have the time."

Leo seems to dedicate most of his time thereafter to making amends with Chris, most of the time just annoying him by trying so hard. Within two episodes, a car-jacking, two jail sentences, and several misunderstandings, Leo finally wins Chris's favor.

Chris and Leo make a good team solving problems, especially when they're actually getting along. Although Chris is good in near-death battles, when it comes to fighting in general, Chris is pretty bad at it. He's constantly getting kicked in the head, stabbed, or flung to the side like a stupid side-character. This poses ill for him in the season finale.

In the episode before the finale, Witch Wars, Baby Chris's birthday is coming up soon so Big Chris is trying to quickly find the person who turns Wyatt evil and a way to return to the future. When the sister's are used on a new demon game show - 'Witch Wars' - Gideon convinces them that the demons in charge of it are the ones who turn Wyatt evil. However, the viewer has learned by this point that Gideon is the one trying to kidnap and kill Wyatt.

The group believes Gideon, however, and go off to stop the game masters. Once they're dead, everyone congratulated Chris on saving Wyatt and now the view turns to getting Chris back home.

Gideon's Agenda Revealed

In the season finale, the group has devised two ways to get Chris home. One is a potion and the other is a spell, written by Paige and Phoebe, tweaked by Gideon. Leo and Chris try the potion but it bursts just before hitting Chris's portal home. They think it's cause it didn't work, in truth, Gideon was invisible and smashed it just in time.

The girls gather in Magic School to send Chris off with the spell, each saying their goodbyes. Chris hugs Piper tightly and tells her he loves her, almost certain that she'll be dead in the future. However, the portal that Leo and Chris walk through leads them to an alternate world instead of the future. Phoebe and Paige go to find them when they realize the mistake and thus the shift of good and evil is unset. While in the evil world, they discover that Gideon is actually the one who turns Wyatt evil by trying to kill him. When the girls finally return with Chris and Leo, their world is ultimately too good. Phoebe and Paige are put under a spell to act just like the "too-good world" wants them to and Leo and Chris are the only ones left to protect Wyatt.

Sacrifice and Rebirth

Chris stays with Wyatt while Leo goes to try and get the girls back on their side. While Leo is gone, Gideon makes a move on Chris and Wyatt. Chris tries to protect Wyatt from Gideon using telekinesis, but Gideon calls an athamé to his hand and cloaks himself from sight. Chris makes a dash for Wyatt and is stabbed in the gut by the weapon. Leo, at the hospital, hears Chris's cry for help, and orbs home immediately. He finds Chris bleeding on the floor and Gideon holding Wyatt. Gideon shimmers away and leaves Leo to help Chris.

Leo's magic can't heal Chris's wound due to Gideon's magic, and Leo is forced to leave Chris on the bed while he goes to try and get the sisters' to help again. He manages to break the spell on them and Paige orbs home to watch Chris. However, in this 'too good' world, Chris is still wanted for stealing a car so the police show up to arrest him. Paige refuses to hand him over but the police inevitably find Chris laying on the bed. Paige calls desperately for Leo and when he finally shows up, the police are leaving.

Darryl says he's 'sorry' before they all leave. The police didn't have to do anything to Chris and that could only mean bad news. Leo rushes to Chris's side and pets his hair, telling him to hang on and not to give us, Chris mutters a 'you too' with a pained look on his face before letting out his last breath. Leo begins to plead in whispers for him not to die... and vanishes, right in Leo's arms. Leo kills Gideon saying it's all because 'you murdered my son.' At the end of the episode, baby Chris is born and Leo holds him in his arms as he goes in to see Piper. This indicates that although future Chris is dead, he can still be saved.

Future Appearances

Leo's Vision Quest

Chris makes a few more appearances in the show, besides just as a baby. He returns as his 22 year-old self as a spirit guide to Leo during his vision quest and again returns from the future, this time with a Wyatt who has lost all his powers, to help in the finale battle of the entire series.

New Future

In 2006, Chris once again arrives from the future, this time with a good, older Wyatt in tow, because young Wyatt's powers were taken from him by the Hollow, rendering future Wyatt powerless. They cast a spell to find out when they were lost, and were automatically taken 20 years back into the past. To find out more about what happened to little Wyatt, the future brothers went to talk to their grandfather, Victor. In the end, Wyatt's powers were returned. (Forever Charmed)

Powers & Abilities

As an adult he has the powers of telekinesis and orbing. Unlike Paige, he normally uses the conventional form of telekinesis (the same as Prue Halliwell) which he seems to be at ease with. However, he has been observed to use telekinetic orbing at certain times. This could be due to the possibility that witch/whitelighter hybrids are born with the ability to telekinetically orb, but with discipline and practice can eventually learn to exert an "orbless" version of telekinesis over time. Since Chris was in his early-twenties when he time-traveled in Oh My Goddess! Part 1, he had presumably had two decades to refine his telekinetic abilities; whereas Paige had been a witch for less than two years by the end of Season 5. Also shown at the end of the episode Oh My Goddess! Part 2, he used some form of magic to teleport Leo away (presumably to Valhalla as shown in the next episode Valhalley of the Dolls, Part 1). (Chris-Crossed)

Baby Chris' Powers

Present-day baby Chris came into his powers at the end of Season 8 by the time he turns two. When Wyatt and their grandfather, Victor, were playing Candy Land, he changed the blue card to a double red to help his brother win.  This surprised Victor, who thought Chris was far too young to have powers.  He later orbed Wyatt away from Billie and Christy. (Kill Billie Vol. 2)

Basic Wiccan Powers

Like all witches, Chris has the magical aptitude to scry, brew potions, and create spells. He is not as powerful as Wyatt, who is said to be one of the most powerful witches to ever walk the Earth. However, he is far more powerful than the average witch due to having both Charmed and Whitelighter blood (though Leo was an Elder at Chris' conception). He was easily able to crush a Valkyrie's heart in mere seconds. Future Chris alluded to insecurities concerning his brother's powers, seeming to be outraged when he is told that his big brother had powers even from the womb.

Additional Whitelighter Powers

He was shown to have a variety of Whitelighter-specific powers, such as the ability to orb up to the Elder realm or hear the call of his charges, which in one episode he commented on having "put on mute". He later told Paige that he has yet to develop the power to heal. (Valhalley Of The Dolls Part 1) This implies that though he hasn't displayed such powers, he might be capable of using or developing various other Whitelighter powers such as Cloaking, Thermokinesis and Glamouring.It is also possible that since he was conceived when Leo was an Elder, he might have some or all of the elders abilities. Chris is more powerful than the average witch because of his Charmed ancestry. (I Dream Of Phoebe)

Additional Powers

Evil Powers

Infected by a Spider Demon
Chris was infected with spider poison by a spider demon. While his infection worsened, he developed powers of shooting webs and transforming into a spider. He also gained enhanced strength. These powers were removed after Piper drank the antidote to affect Chris via his fetus self. (Spin City)

Charmed Novel

In the second-to-last novel, Leo Rising, Chris generated electricity from his fingers in attempt to blow open a barred door.

Charges

Throughout the course of the series, Chris has had charges who were witches:

• The Charmed Ones (Piper, Phoebe and Paige) - his mother and aunts
• Wyatt Halliwell - his brother
• Nathalie - a witch

Trivia

• With his dark hair, green eyes and telekinetic powers, Chris bears a striking resemblance to his deceased aunt, Prue. Even their personalities are stated to be similar, like being extremely serious to somewhat obsessed about demon hunting as well as their devotion to family. They have both encountered the Angel of Death and even have the same birthsign too.
• Though Chris' birthday is stated to be May 16, 2004, it is actually supposed to be November 16, 2004, since he was conceived on Wyatt's birthday, which occurred in February.
• The "dark-future" Chris had a close relationship with his grandfather, Victor Bennett (Hyde School Reunion). He later confided in him and told him that in the future he came from, Piper dies when he's 14.
• Though Chris originally comes to the past claiming to prevent Paige's death at the hands of the Titans, he later mentions going to her for money (Spin City). This, however, could be the result of the changed timeline
• Finley Donoho, Holly Marie Combs's real life son played baby Chris in one episode, Cheaper by the Coven and also rumored  that he played as baby Chris in other episodes.
• Chris' role in season 6 (specifically, his traveling to the past from the future) was originally intended for Wyatt. When the writers decided that Wyatt traveling back in time would be too obvious to the audience, Chris was created and introduced instead. Coincidentally, Holly Marie Combs got pregnant at that time this made it easier for the writers to explain Chris' character in later episodes.

Appearances

Chris Halliwell appeared in a total of 25 episodes throughout the course of the series.

Season 5

Oh My Goddess! Part 1

Oh My Goddess! Part 2

Season 6

Main Cast (with exception of Sword and the City & Used Karma)

Season 7

Someone To Witch Over Me

Season 8

Forever Charmed