Matthew Tate
From Charmed
- Mimicry
- Blinking
- Immortality
- Levitation
- Telekinesis (copied from Melinda and later Prue)
- Molecular immobilization (copied from Melinda)
- Premonition (copied from Melinda and later Phoebe)
Matthew Tate is a powerful seventeenth-century warlock with the power of mimicry, which allows him to copy any magical ability when it is used against him. He copied the power of blinking from a witch, and is reportedly the first warlock to manifest that power; it eventually started manifesting in warlocks rather than witches. He also possesses the power of levitation, enabling him to rise into the air and also land unharmed when he made a jump that would have killed an ordinary mortal.
During the time of the Salem witch trials, he seduced Melinda Warren, and copied her powers. He then exposed her as a witch to keep up his own cover. As a result, Melinda was arrested and sentenced to be burned at the stake.
Matthew visited her while she was imprisoned in order to mock her, but it turned out to be a mistake. Melinda managed to strip him of all the powers he stole from her, and used a powerful curse to imprison him a locket that he had given to her as a gift. While she herself was inevitably doomed, his sentence was even worse than hers - he had to spend all eternity in oblivion, knowing the sting of betrayal. Only Melinda herself or a witch of blood kin could open the locket and set him free. Legend states that Matthew must never be freed, or he would destroy the Warren line. Indeed, the oldest Charmed One, Prue, stated that they had (at that point in time) "never been up against anyone like him before."
Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster deliberately gave the locket to Prue in an attempt to steal the Charmed Ones powers and kill them. Rex and Hannah intended to banish him again once they got the Charmed Ones' powers. However, the Charmed Ones summoned Melinda Warren for help, and they were able to curse him back into the locket. When the Charmed Ones released Melinda back into the realm of the dead, Melinda took the locket with her--likely keeping Matthew trapped for eternity.
[edit] Spells
[edit] Warlock Curse
(To Curse Matthew Tate into Melinda's locket)
- Ingredients needed:
- assorted herbs,
- a spotted owl feather,
- a leather bag
- and a locket.
- Combine the herbs and make it into a fine powder.
- Put the powder into the leather bag and add the owl feather.
- Put the bag into fire and let it burn while chanting the spell
- and holding the locket open, pointed to the to-be-cursed warlock
- Outside of Time!
- Outside of Gain!
- Know only Sorrow!
- Know only Pain!
[edit] Appearances
Matthew Tate appears in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.
- Season 1 -
- The Witch Is Back
