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{{RecurringCharacters
|image= [[File:10-a-trickster-in-the-rain.jpg|300px400px]]
|name= Gabriel
|actor= [[Richard Speight Jr.]]
==Episodes==
[[File:TheTrickster.jpg|400px350px|right|thumb|Gabriel as The Trickster]]
===[[2.15 Tall Tales]]===
[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] investigate a series of strange deaths based on urban legends, but have no success figuring out who is responsible. They unknowingly encounter Gabriel in disguise as the school's night janitor during the course of the investigation. It isn't until [[Bobby]] suggests that they are dealing with a [[Trickster]], based on the number of tricks that have been played on the brothers, that they track him down. However, the "Trickster" is waiting for them, and he offers them a peaceful resolution so long as they let him leave to terrorize another town. Naturally, the Winchesters refuse and attack him, with the help of [[Bobby]]. However, the Trickster easily rebuffs them by conjuring beings (scantily clad women, chainsaw wielding psychopaths) to fight for him, while he sits back and enjoys the show that is put on before him. Nonetheless, [[Dean]] manages to stab him (a bloodied stake will kill a Trickster) while he is distracted, causing his creations to disappear and the fight to end. Although the hunters believe they bested him, the Trickster survives the ordeal, having created a copy of himself for Dean to kill.
===[[5.08 Changing Channels]]===
The [[Trickster]] traps [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] in a series of TV shows in an attempt to drive home the lesson that they must play their roles' as [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]]'s [[vessel]]s. When [[Castiel]] tries to rescue them, the Trickster easily imprisons him. Sam and Dean finally work out that he is an [[angel]] and trap him in a ring of [[Holy fire]]. He confirms that he is indeed the [[archangel]] known as Gabriel. A long time ago, he left [[Heaven]] to live on Earth, as he could no longer bear the sight of his brothers fighting each other. He then tells the Winchesters that they are destined to be the vessels of his brothers, as they mirror the relationship between [[Michael]] and [[Lucifer]]. He says he's sorry they couldn't have a happy TV show-like ending, but it's a destiny they must face. The brothers refuse to accept this, and begin to leave. Gabriel calls after them and asks if they really plan to leave him there forever. Dean replies that they wouldn't, since they don't "mess with people" like he does. Dean then extinguishes the fire by turning on the fire sprinklers, and leaves Gabriel with a final thought: in the end, this wasn't about his brothers' fight or about the Winchesters' destiny, but how the archangel was too much of a coward to stand up to his family.
[[File:GabrielDead.jpg|400px350px|right|thumb|Gabriel's death.]]
===[[5.19 Hammer of the Gods]]===
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[[File:GabrielCasaErotica14.png|thumb|right|350px|Gabriel returns in ''[[Casa Erotica]] 14''.]]
===[[6.06 You Can't Handle the Truth]]===
It is suggested that [[Gabriel's Horn of Truth]] compelled people to speak the truth during one of the Winchesters' investigations, but it is not responsible.<ref name="six06>[[6.06 You Can't Handle the Truth]]</ref>