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Piper Halliwell is a fictional character from the American television program Charmed, and one of the four leading characters featured during the series' run. The character is primarily portrayed by actress Holly Marie Combs, as well as a few other notable actresses during different stages of the character's life. Piper at first could only freeze everything in her immediate location (within the room she was in) and the freeze would only last for a few seconds. She later learned to freeze and unfreeze on command, and selectively choose parts of objects to freeze or unfreeze. She could also freeze and unfreeze certain objects and subjects (like every innocent in the room). This power would keep growing stronger so that Piper can freeze for longer, and in a larger range of area around her. The phrase temporal stasis has been confused as a misused word for this ability but it actually states what the ability does (temporal means over a period of time and or denoting time and stasis is a state of balance between forces (equilibrium), and inactivity). Early in the series it was established that Piper was unable to freeze "good" witches, however, this was contradicted occasionally in later seasons, such as when Piper froze Billie in "Hulkus Pocus". It is worth noting, however, that Billie was transforming into a demon at that time.
   Later, she developed the more offensive power of Molecular Combustion, or blowing things up. This power works by speeding up the molecules of the desired object to the point where they separate with an explosive action. It uses a similar hand motion as she does for freezing and thus, she was hesitant to use either power initially, not knowing whether her targets will freeze in place or explode into bits. As with freezing, Piper learned to master this power and can attack with precision.
   Occasionally, in times of great stress, fear, or desperation, Piper's Molecular Combustion power would be heightened to a more powerful degree. When she preformed such empowered blasts, her abilities were similar to that of Molecular Dispersion. This power is also seen with Gideon the Elder. Molecular Dispersion doesn't merely cause the target to explode/implode, but rather have the atoms disperse and fall apart at the seams; in short, they'd be vaporized. One example of this would be the incident in which the Source of All Evil used the Hollow to attack the Charmed Ones, and Piper desperetly lashed out with her power, and vaporized him; unfortunatly, as the Source was a being of immense power, he was able to reconstruct himself moments later.
   Unlike Prue's telekinetic abilities, the limits on Piper's power are not determined by an object's mass. Even relatively new to her powers, she once froze a moving truck to prevent it from hitting a baby's pram. Rather, Piper's power of freezing seems to be limited by the area, regardless of how many objects are in it or their weight. When indoors, Piper's powers appear to be limited by the room she's in. Outdoors, it's unclear what her limits are, but in a magical trip to the future, she once froze an entire city block, with every object in it. She was obviously very surprised by this, as if she'd never demonstrated influence over such a large area before. Since this was an accident, it's unclear if that was actually her limit, or if she could freeze an even larger area through effort. She can freeze objects and people that are technically outside the room she's in, if she's a clear shot. In Wicca Envy, when Prue was framed for murder and put in jail, she freezes everything inside the jail from outside; when Phoebe was possessed by the Woogyman, Piper was able to freeze her while outdoors and Phoebe was still inside the manor because the door was open, giving Piper an unobstructed path to her. She also once froze someone who was outside in front of the manor and she was inside, just by thrusting her hands through an open window.
   Originally, both powers were reliant on both her hands (to do the blasting/freezing motion), and quite a few creatures (including good witches, ghosts and certain demons) are resistant or immune to her powers (For example, when she attempted to use her power on Cole Turner/Belthazor, all that she managed to do was send him flying back a few feet rather than actually destroy him). Piper has, however, learned to perform these feats with one hand (and on one occasion, she used a costume prop wand). For example, she once froze a roomful of jurors by only thrusting one hand into the room and gesturing, without actually seeing them (she was hidden behind a door). She later unfroze them in the same way. She also once blew up a demon in P3, after freezing all the patrons, with just one hand. While Piper does usually need to see an object in order to blow it up (or at least have a fix on its location; she once blew off ropes, restraining her arms behind her back), her freezing power has never depended on a direct line of sight. She often freezes an entire area, including objects that she can't see, or even know are present.
   The immunity to her freezing powers may not apply to her exploding power. Prue theorized that since good witches were immune to her freezing power, they'd be immune to her exploding power. That theory has never been fully tested. In "The Torn Identity", Piper is able to badly scar Christy Jenkins's arm using an application of her power, although it's uncertain whether Christy's morality played a part in her vulnerability to Piper's power. In "Brain Drain" Phoebe has a premonition of the Source using Piper's explosion power to kill her and Paige. This too may be due to the circumstance in which the power is used.
   Although Piper usually has to use hand gestures to activate her power, in one episode, Piper's anger at Phoebe and Paige caused her molecular combustion power to blow off the ceiling chandelier without a gesture. Since her powers are based on emotions, it's believed that Piper's combustion powers came around when she started getting more aggressive and confident.
   Like the other Charmed Ones, Piper can also brew magical potions and recite/write spells. She is best at making potions, as predicted by Grams in 1997 before she died from a heart attack, because Piper is a natural-born and university-trained chef.
   In contrast with Phoebe and Prue, Piper has never been interested in learning conventional means of fighting, such as martial arts kicks and punches, preferring to rely on her powers. As the use of either of Piper's powers would bring most physical confrontations to an immediate conclusion in her favor, there's little need for her to be adept at hand-to-hand combat, though she's been shown using some of her combat skills in some episodes. She has also been seen using some martial arts skills, and also gymnastics in the show.

Romantic life

She has fallen in love with a ghost, Eventually the pair ended their relationship. Piper went on to reunite with Leo, while Dan moved away to pursue his career. In a past life, as P. Baxter (cousin of Prue's past life P. Bowen and Phoebe's past life P. Russell), Piper had already had to choose between Leo and Dan, and eventually married Dan's past life Gordon Johnson (and eventually bore Penelope Halliwell).
   Piper and Leo still had to deal with the consequences of their forbidden romance after getting back together. When the Elders issued an ultimatum about Piper and Leo's relationship, Leo proposed to Piper, who, after some hesitation, accepted. They tried to marry in secret, but the Elders were told of their plans after Cole exposed them to the magical community and they took Leo away. When the Elders forbade Piper from ever seeing Leo again, Piper decided to go on strike from being a witch. But once she realized that she still had a job to do and she still had to save innocents despite her anger over Leo, the Elders sent him back, giving them a chance to prove that their relationship wouldn't interfere with their jobs.
   Leo and Piper were finally married by the ghost of her grandmother Penny in a special ceremony. The sisters' father Victor, Phoebe's half-demon boyfriend Cole Turner and Detective Darryl Morris attended the wedding, and the Elders sent Patty back to Earth for the day to attend the wedding as a gift. Their marriage has produced three children; Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Christopher Perry Halliwell and Melinda Halliwell.
   But this wasn't to be the end of their struggles to have a relationship and have a magical life as well. Leo had to leave Piper and his son for a short time to be an Elder, but worked around it. After Leo had killed an Elder who was trying to capture his son Wyatt Matthew Halliwell, Leo ended up seeing floating green heads and then, unfortunatly for him, ended up killing another innocent Elder called Zola.
   Leo tried to get over this but was ultimatly turned into an avatar who corrupted the girls to create Utopia but this went wrong. After this is Season 8 (Veya Con Leo's) Piper learns that the Angel of Death was after Leo and so in an atempt to stop Death taking him a spell was cast and every man in the world was turned into Leo. But this back fired and Piper had to call down the Angel Of Destiny who said that she'd take Leo and when the Ultimate Battle had been fought Leo would be returned to them. So with the help of a demon Leo was frozen and taken from Piper but he's later returned to her after the final battle.

Professional life

Piper originally worked as an accountant for a small bank in San Francisco before quitting her job to pursue her dream of being a professional chef. A few months later, Piper landed a job as a new chef under the tutelage of Chef Moore at a high quality restaurant Quake. Only a week or two pass before Piper's boss leaves Quake and she's promptly promoted to restaurant manager, a job that has her constantly working double shifts and makes her unhappy.
After quitting Quake, Piper opens P3, a nightclub named as a tribute to the Power of Three and Prue, Piper, and Phoebe. P3 is made popular by the appearance of Dishwalla, a hit group whose manager is in league with Masselin, a demon who feeds off of souls he keeps trapped inside of him. The Charmed Ones defeat Masselin and the manager is arrested on kidnapping charges, but P3 is established as a successful club. P3 closes briefly after Prue's death, though it reopens when Piper moves on and accepts Paige as her sister. P3 is open for at least 7 years, though in the series finale we learn that Piper finally becomes a chef in her own restaurant, as she'd always dreamed. Not much is said about what happened to P3 after Piper becomes a chef again.

Death count

During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Piper is shown to have clinically "died" 9 times.

Episode	Episode Name	Cause Of Death	Revival
1x22	Deja Vu All Over Again	Killed by an energy ball thrown by demon Rodriguez.	After time was reset.
2x12	Awakened	A terminal disease.	Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
3x09	Coyote Piper	Killed by Prue in order to get a spirit out of her body.	An alchemist revived her.
3x22	All Hell Breaks Loose	Killed by a crazy Wiccan practitioner, because she thought Piper was evil.	After time was reset.
4x17	Saving Private Leo	Piper was stabbed by ghosts from Leo's war days, then the ghosts squeezed her heart	Leo healed her before her spirit could move on.
6x15	I Dream of Phoebe	A demon wished on a genie for her to die.	Leo healed her when she was about to cross over.
7x05	Styx Feet Under	The Angel Of Death killed her and gave her the job of collecting souls.	The Angel Of Death returned to doing his job.
7x07	Someone to Witch Over Me	Killed by the demon Sarpedon.	Leo revived her after he became an Avatar.
7x16	The Seven Year Witch	After being fatally wounded by a demon's poison dart, she's to allow herself to die to reach out to Leo.	Wyatt healed her at Drake's request before she could cross over.

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