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{{short description|Fictional character from the American television supernatural drama Charmed}}
{{Infobox Charmed Character|
{{Infobox character
Image= ]|
Title=Paige Matthews| | name = Paige Matthews
| portrayer = ]
First=]|
Last=]| | series = ]
| image = Rose McGowan as Paige.jpg
Creator=Brad Kern|
| first = "Charmed Again (Part 1)" (2001)
Name=Paige Matthews|
| last = "]" (2006)
Status=Alive|
| creator = ]
Kind=Witch; ]; Charmed One|
| alias = Jo Bennett
Affiliation=The Charmed Ones, South Bay Social Services, Magic School, The Elders|
| species = Charmed One<br>]<br>]
Family=] (husband), ], ] (son), ], ], ] (half sisters), ], ] (nephews), ], ] (nieces), ] (father), ] (mother), ] (stepfather) ] (grandmother), Allen Halliwell (grandfather) P. Baxter (great-grandmother) ], ] (brother-in-laws)|
| spouse = ] (2006–present)
Powers= Asides from the basic powers of a magical witch, such as spellcasting and scrying, Paige possesses the ] of:
| children = Tamora Mitchell (])<br>Kat Mitchell (comic book series)<br>Henry Mitchell Jr. (comic book series)
* ]
| lbl22 = Notable powers
* ]
| data22 = ]<br>]<br>]
* ]
| extra-hdr = Extended Family
* ]
| lbl32 = Grandparents
* ]
| data32 = unknown names (adoptive grandparents)<br>Penny Halliwell (biological maternal grandmother; deceased)<br>Allen Halliwell (biological maternal grandfather; deceased)
* ] connection with charges
| lbl31 = Parents
* Enhanced power due to Charmed status|
| data31 = Mr. and Mrs. Matthews (adoptive parents; deceased) <br>Patty Halliwell (biological mother; deceased) <br>Sam Wilder (biological father; deceased)
Actor=], ]<ref name="Charrrmed!">{{cite episode|episodelink=Charrrmed!|title=Charrrmed!|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2004-10-03|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>|
| lbl33 = Siblings
| data33 = ] (oldest maternal half-sister; deceased) <br>] (second maternal half-sister)<br>] (third maternal half-sister)
| lbl34 = Nieces and Nephews
| data34 = 6
| lbl35 = Other Relatives
| data35 = Melinda Warren (ancestor)<br>Charlotte Warren (ancestor)
}} }}
'''Paige Matthews''' is a fictional ] from the American television series '']'', played by ] from October 4, 2001, until May 21, 2006. The character was created by executive producer ] as a replacement for lead character ], following the departure of actress ]. Paige is introduced into ] as the fiercely independent younger half-sister of the female leads, ] (]), ] (]) and ] (]). Like her sisters, Paige is a ] and more specifically, a Charmed One&mdash;one of the most powerful witches of all time. Paige is introduced as the secret love child of the Halliwell sisters' mother Patty (]) and her whitelighter (]) Sam Wilder (]), making Paige both a witch and whitelighter. She was given up at birth and raised by her adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews.


At the beginning of season four, Paige goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking Prue's place in the "]", following her death in the ]. Like Prue, Paige possesses ] abilities, but due to her mixed whitelighter heritage, this manifests as the ability to ] ("teleport") objects from one location to another through a vocal command. As the series progresses, Paige also receives whitelighter abilities such as the power to orb herself and others, as well as sensing, glamouring and healing also the power of photokinesis. Paige's storylines have often revolved around her protecting innocents and defeating the forces of evil in ] with her sisters. In the later seasons, she eventually receives her own whitelighter charges to train and protect as they learn witchcraft. Paige also has romantic relationships with fellow-witch ] (]) in season six and FBI agent ] (]) in season seven. In the eighth and final season, Paige marries a human parole officer named ] (]).
'''Paige Matthews''' is a ], and one of three female leads, on the ] ] '']''. She is played by ].


The character was mostly well received by television critics, who complimented Paige's personality and felt that McGowan was the right choice for the role. McGowan won the Family Television Award for Favorite Sister in 2005 for her portrayal of Paige. In 2007, ] ranked Paige at number 13 on their list of the Top TV Witches, the lowest of the four sisters. In addition to the television series, the character has also appeared in numerous ] material, such as the ''Charmed'' ] and its ].
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==Casting and development==
Paige enters the ''Charmed'' storyline at the beginning of season four,<ref name="Charmed">{{cite episode|episodelink=Charmed Again (Part 1)|title=Charmed Again (Part 1)|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-10-04|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> after the death of her elder half-sister ].<ref name="All Hell">{{cite episode|episodelink=All Hell Breaks Loose|title=All Hell Breaks Loose|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-05-17|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> As the youngest sister, Paige tends to be adventurous, independent, and strong-willed.
The character of Paige Matthews was conceived by executive producer ] as a replacement character for ] (]). In May 2001, it was officially announced that Doherty would be departing ''Charmed''. The producers originally considered recasting the role of Prue with a different actress. Executive producer ] even approached actresses ], who replaced Doherty on his previous series '']'' and ] to take on the role as Doherty's replacement.<ref name="Theissen Says No">{{cite web|title=Theissen Said "No" To Charmed|url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/litefoot/news/in_brief_2.htm#10|publisher=Piper's World (fansite)|access-date=16 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025124001/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/litefoot/news/in_brief_2.htm#10|archive-date=25 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Spelling revealed to '']'', "Tiffani was our first choice to take over for Shannen - even before we asked Jennifer , but Tiffani told us she wants to do a half-hour comedy."<ref name="Theissen Says No"/> Hewitt also declined the role. Producers then decided to kill off the character of Prue and replace her with a long-lost younger sister in favor of having "a fresh face" join the series.<ref name="Theissen Says No"/> Spelling stated, " going to be the long-lost sister Alyssa and Holly never knew had. And wait until you see what we came up with to explain why she's been lost: Nobody ever knew she even existed."<ref name="Theissen Says No"/>


Film actress ] was later revealed to be cast in the role of Paige Matthews, her first role as a series regular on a television series. Kern stated, "From Paige's point of view, you go to bed one night and you think you're a single child and no one understands you. Then you wake up the next morning and you find out you've got sisters who are witches, who've got supernatural powers, who have a destiny that you must now share and embrace and you must learn your new powers."<ref name="Kern Interview">{{cite web|title=Charmed turns a new Paige|url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/litefoot/news/season_4.htm#01|work=zap2it|publisher=Piper's World (fansite).|access-date=23 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107032207/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/litefoot/news/season_4.htm#01|archive-date=7 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> He later elaborated saying, "When we meet her, she will have been searching for many years, both for her birth parents, but also for an answer to that feeling that she's had inside of her that there's something special, there's something else that nobody has yet been able to understand and explain."<ref name="Kern Interview"/> On casting McGowan in the role of Paige, Kern admitted, "Our personal hope was to find somebody that would be of Shannen's calibre, that would have the sexiness, the edge and the range. That, for the age range we were looking for, is hard to find. We said, 'We don't want somebody conventional. We don't want a shrinking violet. We don't want just another pretty face that smiles and has great teeth. We want somebody who has an attitude.' I think Rose definitely has an attitude and that's an energy that we can take advantage of for the betterment of the show."<ref name="Kern Interview"/>
==Background==
Paige Matthews is the 4th child of ], a good witch who lived in San Francisco. Unlike the first three daughters Patty had with her husband Victor Bennett, Paige was fathered by Patty's guardian angel, a ] named ].<ref name="Charmed"/> Victor had left Patty and their children and never knew of Paige. On ], ] Patty and Sam left the newborn baby to a nun, Sister Agnes, at a local church, fearing repercussions if the forbidden affair between a witch and a Whitelighter was ever discovered. They left the baby with a blanket and asked that her name start with a ''P'', like all women of her immediate family.<ref name="Charmed"/>


==Appearances==
The baby was named Paige, and adopted by the Matthews family. In her teen years, Paige was rebellious; staying out all night, partying with friends, skipping classes, talking back to her parents.<ref name="Paige past">{{cite episode|episodelink=A Paige from the Past|title=A Paige from the Past|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2002-01-17|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> ]" with ]]] One day, the three of them were in the car driving home, when they were involved in a car crash. Her adopted parents died, but she unknowingly saved herself from that accident by ] out of the car. Not knowing what happened or how she survived, Paige took it hard and did a huge turn around. She stopped drinking and started to do well in school.<ref name="Paige past"/>
===Television===
{{Main|List of Charmed episodes}}
Paige appears as the secret half-sister in the final five seasons of ''Charmed'', portrayed by ] within ] from 2001 to 2006.<ref name="Episode 67">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charmed Again (Part 1)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-again-1-73474/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=10 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810161811/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-again-1-73474/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the episode "Charmed Again", it is revealed that after Paige's adoptive parents (played by ] and M. Scott Wilkinson) died, she went searching for her birth parents and suspected that she might be related to the Halliwell sisters.<ref name="Episode 67"/> With Patty Halliwell (]) long since deceased, Paige relented on pursuing the matter further.<ref name="Episode 67"/> After the Source of All Evil learns of Paige's existence, he orders her killed.<ref name="Episode 67"/> Paige is eventually saved by ] (]) and her boyfriend Cole Turner (]) and then subsequently introduced to ] (]) and her husband Leo Wyatt (]).<ref name="Episode 67"/> Paige then goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking ]'s (]) place in "The Power of Three".<ref name="Episode 67"/> This is made possible after it is revealed that she is the daughter of Patty and the Whitelighter Sam Wilder (]), making her a "sister-witch" to Phoebe and Piper.<ref name="Episode 67"/> The episode reveals that Paige was given up at birth to protect her from the wrath of The Elders if they were to discover her Whitelighter heritage.<ref name="Episode 67"/>


Like her sister Prue, Paige was born with "]". Since she possessed the missing power, she was able to take her place in the Power of Three, thus reforming the Charmed Ones.<ref name="Episode 68">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charmed Again (Part 2)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-again-2-73475/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=10 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810172743/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-again-2-73475/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Due to her Whitelighter heritage, however, her magical method of movement causes "]".<ref name="Episode 68"/> Paige has also shown the ability to impart ] on these orbing objects.<ref name="Episode 68"/> Throughout ], Paige shows that she has inherited a variety of Whitelighter powers such as orbing,<ref name="Episode 67"/> and sensing.<ref name="Episode 83">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Saving Private Leo|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/saving-private-leo-117141/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=20 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420010548/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/saving-private-leo-117141/|url-status=dead}}</ref> While Paige finds it easier to develop a friendship with Phoebe, she initially butts heads with Piper,<ref name="Episode 69">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Hell Hath No Furies|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/hell-hath-no-fury-73476/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024021/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/hell-hath-no-fury-73476/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Episode 70">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Enter the Demon|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/enter-the-demon-73968/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024044/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/enter-the-demon-73968/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Episode 71">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Size Matters|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/size-matters-73477/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024059/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/size-matters-73477/|url-status=dead}}</ref> but eventually the two sisters develop a mutual respect.<ref name="Episode 86">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Long Live the Queen|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/long-live-the-queen-128071/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024114/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/long-live-the-queen-128071/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
After graduating high school, she got into Berkley due to a really strong essay on the death of her parents.<ref name="Paige past"/> When she finished college, she started working for South Bay Social Services; helping the poor, the disabled, and the elderly.<ref name="Charmed"/> A few years later, Paige attempted to track down her real family. She went to the police and learned of the church at which she was left. She checked around and suspected she was related to the Halliwell sisters, but somehow never approached them about it, being that their mother had died.<ref name="Charmed"/>


Later in the season, Paige reveals her identity as a witch to her childhood friend and "sometimes" boyfriend, Glen Belland (Jesse Woodrow).<ref name="Episode 77">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Trail By Magic|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/trial-by-magic-93079/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111035509/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/trial-by-magic-93079/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Once she develops more control over her witchcraft Paige is able to help her sisters' avenge Prue's death and vanquish the Source twice – both in his original incarnation<ref name="Episode 79">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charmed and Dangerous|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-and-dangerous-98892/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024140/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-and-dangerous-98892/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and that of his next incarnation, Cole Turner.<ref name="Episode 86"/> During the finale of season four, Paige and her sisters are visited by the Angel of Destiny (]), who offers them the chance to live normal lives without magical powers or the threat of demons.<ref name="Episode 88">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Witch Way Now?|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/witch-way-now-128074/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024156/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/witch-way-now-128074/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Over the course of the episode, Paige eventually convinces her sisters to decline the offer and remain Charmed to continue doing good in the world.<ref name="Episode 88"/>
In 2000 Paige started to go to the club called P3, on and off again, because it was owned by ], and because she felt like she belonged with the Halliwell sisters.<ref name="Charmed"/> One year later, when Prue died, she felt "magically" drawn to the funeral. While giving respect for Prue, Paige spoke to Phoebe and shook her hand, giving Phoebe a premonition of Shax (the demon that killed Prue) killing Paige.<ref name="Charmed"/>


At the start of ] (2002–2003), Paige is officially promoted to social worker in the episode, "A Witch's Tail (Part 1)",<ref name="Episode 89">{{cite web|title=Charmed: A Witch's Tail (Part 1)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-witchs-tail-1-176177/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=26 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826121942/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-witchs-tail-1-176177/|url-status=dead}}</ref> but by the end of the second episode, "A Witch's Tail (Part 2)", Paige quits her job to pursue being a witch full-time.<ref name="Episode 90">{{cite web|title=Charmed: A Witch's Tail (Part 2)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-witchs-tail-2-176178/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=12 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112210840/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-witchs-tail-2-176178/|url-status=dead}}</ref> During this season Paige meets Sam Wilder (her birth-father) and slowly comes to terms with letting him into her life. Meanwhile, she struggles with living up to the legend of her deceased half-sister Prue and her title of "Superwitch".<ref name="Episode 95">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Sympathy For the Demon|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sympathy-for-the-demon-184357/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=18 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918114930/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sympathy-for-the-demon-184357/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When Paige masters a difficult spell created by Prue, she appears to come at peace with her ].<ref name="Episode 95"/> Later in the season, Paige, alongside Phoebe, trains to be a ] in order to deliver Piper's baby.<ref name="Episode 94">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Eyes Have It|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-eyes-have-it-184353/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=27 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427174754/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-eyes-have-it-184353/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When Piper gives birth to a boy she names Wyatt, she also gives him the middle name Matthew in honor of his aunt Paige.<ref name="Episode 104">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Baby's First Demon|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/babys-first-demon-223935/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111035654/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/babys-first-demon-223935/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Revelation as a Charmed One==
]"]]After the funeral, Paige and her boyfriend Shane went to a rooftop to make out and were attacked by Shax. Phoebe and ] observed the fight and that Paige unknowingly orbed out to avoid an attack by Shax.<ref name="Charmed"/> Her magical powers had been reawakened after Prue's death. Sadly Shane was not as lucky and was injured. Phoebe and Cole attacked Shax, but he and Paige both escaped. After checking on her boyfriend at the hospital and speaking to police, Paige went to the ]. She was together with her sisters and the Book of Shadows for the first time, thus reconstituting the Charmed Ones.<ref name="Charmed"/> This reunion was interrupted by Shax, but Piper and Phoebe were able to get Paige to assist them in saying the spell which would vanquish him. Freaked out by what she saw, Paige ran off. Hoping he could turn Paige evil before she cemented any bonds with her sisters, ] possessed Shane in hopes of getting her to use her powers to hurt a man accused of abusing his child. Paige then went to meet the nun who she was given to as a baby, who told her angels left her at the church.<ref name="Charmed"/>


In the ] (2003–2004), Paige grows tired of unemployment and obtains a job at a temp agency.<ref name="Episode 112">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Valhalley of the Dolls (Part 1)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/valhalley-of-the-dolls-1-256614/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111030954/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/valhalley-of-the-dolls-1-256614/|url-status=dead}}</ref> While employed on the various jobs via the agency, Paige finds herself drawn into various magical endeavors concerning members of the magical community. Through one of these magical journeys she meets and later dates a witch named Richard Montana (]),<ref name="Episode 116">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Love's a Witch|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/loves-a-witch-263442/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032430/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/loves-a-witch-263442/|url-status=dead}}</ref> a relationship which mirrors the love affair Phoebe had with Cole as Richard attempts to avoid the temptations of dark magic.<ref name="Episode 119">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Sword and the City|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sword-and-the-city-272563/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111035710/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sword-and-the-city-272563/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The couple eventually break up, but not before Paige binds Richard's powers so that he doesn't feel the temptation to misuse his powers.<ref name="Episode 126">{{cite web|title=Charmed: I Dream of Phoebe|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/i-dream-of-phoebe-278666/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=26 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326183810/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/i-dream-of-phoebe-278666/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
]"]]Paige was approached by Piper and Phoebe, who told her that, like Prue, she had the power to move objects with her mind: ]. Skeptically, Paige tried to move a candle by waving her hand at it, and failed. While saying that she must not be one of them if she could not make a candle move, she gestured at it again, and the candle disappeared from its stand and reappeared in her hand. Paige soon learned she could orb objects by calling for them verbally.<ref name="Charmed"/> She was then approached by a Source-possessed Shane, claiming someone was hunting him. She left with him, fleeing the sisters. The Source of All Evil then took Paige back to Shane's place where he tempted her to use her powers to kill the man who she thought was abusing his child. Later at work Paige was killing him by calling out his heart, but Phoebe and Piper were able to stop her and Leo orbed her to the Halliwell home. It was discovered that the man was innocent and it was his wife who was abusing the child. The Source of All Evil then dealt a mortal blow to Cole, leaving him to die slowly.<ref name="Charmed"/> Back at the manor Paige threw a fit, and The Source of All Evil attacked them. The Source of All Evil tried to tempt her into evil, but she chose to be with her sisters when The Source attacked Phoebe. The Source then boasted of killing Cole and tried to kill a police inspector who was spying on the sisters, but the inspector was saved by the healing powers of ]. The sisters and Leo then found Cole and were able to use the combined powers of Leo and Paige to heal him. Paige then reconciled with her sisters, but Shane, having jumbled memories of his possession, left Paige. Phoebe and Piper then took her back to their home and used a spell to summon the spirit of Patricia Halliwell to reunite the long separated mother and daughter.<ref name="Charmed"/>


Also in this season, Paige becomes the second person to discover that the sisters' new time-traveling Whitelighter Chris Perry (]) is actually Chris Halliwell and the second child of Piper and Leo.<ref name="Episode 127">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Courtship of Wyatt's Father|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-courtship-of-wyatts-father-297175/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705062913/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-courtship-of-wyatts-father-297175/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has come back in time to prevent Wyatt from becoming evil in the future.<ref name="Episode 121">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Chris-Crossed|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/chris-crossed-272565/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=12 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812074040/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/chris-crossed-272565/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Together, Chris helps Paige and her sisters discover that a powerful Elder named Gideon (Gildart Jackson) wishes to destroy the Twice-Blessed Wyatt, an act which causes Wyatt to turn his back on good in the future.<ref name="Episode 134">{{cite web|title=Charmed: It's a, Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/its-a-bad-bad-bad-bad-world-2-319735/|website=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=6 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706084242/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/its-a-bad-bad-bad-bad-world-2-319735/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Like Prue, Paige has the power of telekinesis. However, it works differently due to her ] side: when she calls the name of an object it will ] to her. For instance if a Demon threw a fireball at her, she would hold out her hand toward it, yell "Fireball!" and be able to orb it away from herself, or even right back at the demon who threw it. She does not have to be terribly accurate with the words she uses, being able to orb away some acidic demon spit with the words "Icky stuff". She also orbs a ] away from Phoebe Halliwell with the words "Weapon..Thingy!" She can also orb someone to herself; she once orbed a leprachaun to her by yelling "leprachaun!".<ref name="Lucky Charmed">{{cite episode|episodelink=Lucky Charmed|title=Lucky Charmed|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-04-06|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> She is the first person ever known in good magic to have this power, as she was the first whitelighter/witch. This is called Telekinetic Orbing. She has shown signs of power advancement like when she orbed Excalibur to the attic without calling for it in a season six episode.<ref name="Sword">{{cite episode|episodelink=Sword and the City|title=Sword and the City|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-11-09|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> However, this was one of only a few times she did this. When unable to speak, Paige was able to telekinetically orb Wyatt to herself as Piper and Phoebe interlocked arms with her and called out, "Wyatt".<ref name="Sense Ability">{{cite episode|episodelink=Sense and Sense Ability|title=Sense and Sense Ability|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-04-27|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Also, in season eight, she could orb the dollhouse to the attic without saying anything. In addition, Paige was able to conjur a fairy by orbing its picture out of the Book of Shadows, and she was able to make lights move around her and Henry's heads without orbs when she told him that she was a witch.<ref name="Repo">{{cite episode|episodelink=Repo Manor|title=Repo Manor|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-01-22|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> It is also evident that Paige can now orb people and demons to any location by saying the location, for example, she orbed Phoebe back to the manor by saying, "Home!". Also, in season 8 episode, she orbed the demon Krychek to ] by saying "Magic School!".<ref name="Hulkus Pocus">{{cite episode|episodelink=Hulkus Pocus|title=Hulkus Pocus|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-11-20|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Another orbing advancement through the years came in her ability to orb things away and seemingly making them disappear. Towards the end of season eight, Paige finally orbed demons and people with her powers. The most prominent example is when she orbed a member of the triad directly into a fireball thrown by a different member.


During the start of the ] (2004–2005), Paige fights to keep Magic School from closing after the death of its headmaster, Gideon.<ref name="Episode 136">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Bare Witch Project|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-bare-witch-project-346877/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=20 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020172312/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-bare-witch-project-346877/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Elders then place Paige in charge of Magic School as the new headmistress once they realize how deep her dedication runs.<ref name="Episode 136"/> Also this season, Paige befriends federal agent Kyle Brody (]),<ref name="Episode 138">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charrrmed!|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charrrmed-346879/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105045926/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charrrmed-346879/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the two eventually grow close over their mutual investigation of The Avatars, powerful beings who are neither good nor evil. After initial hesitation, Paige and her sisters join sides with The Avatars in their plan to turn the world into a utopia against the warnings of both Kyle and The Elders.<ref name="Episode 146">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Extreme Makeover: World Edition|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/extreme-makeover-world-edition-376391/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=4 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104195556/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/extreme-makeover-world-edition-376391/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When The Charmed Ones discover that the new utopia robs the world of their free will, they join sides with Kyle and the demon Zankou (]) and force The Avatars to restore the world to normal.<ref name="Episode 147">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charmageddon|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmageddon-376392/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105233641/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmageddon-376392/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Kyle, however, is killed in the process, but is resurrected as a Whitelighter as a reward from The Elders for helping to defeat The Avatars.<ref name="Episode 146"/> He says his goodbyes to Paige, before leaving to start his new life.<ref name="Episode 146"/>
Her Whitelighter side allows her to use Whitelighter powers such as ], glamouring (changing one's appearance), sensing her charges and sisters, healing, and hovering. This is a major advancement because for a long time the show explained her inability to heal with being a "half-whitelighter." But due to the fact that she has started to work for the Elders as a whitelighter, it is likely that that is the reason for the advancement, and sensing people. Due to her being a Charmed One, Paige can write and cast powerful spells as well as make potions.


In late season seven, in episode seventeen "Scry Hard", Paige grows tired of being cooped up in Magic School and desires a reprieve from her duties as headmistress.<ref name="Episode 151">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Scry Hard|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/scry-hard-398489/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=6 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106111807/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/scry-hard-398489/|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the suggestion of Piper and Phoebe, Paige instates the now human Leo as the new headmaster of Magic School in her place so that she can take a break while Leo can work in a place safe from the harm of demon attacks.<ref name="Episode 151"/> The following episode, "Little Box of Horrors", The Elders manage to convince Paige that her continued quest for a life outside her role as a Charmed One stems from her destiny as a future Whitelighter.<ref name="Episode 152">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Little Box of Horrors|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/little-box-of-horrors-399936/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103021222/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/little-box-of-horrors-399936/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the episode "Freaky Phoebe", Paige takes on official Whitelighter duties and gains her first charge in a witch named Mitchell Haines (]) who has the power of superhuman speed.<ref name="Episode 153">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Freaky Phoebe|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/freaky-phoebe-403834/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105090042/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/freaky-phoebe-403834/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the season seven finale, during a suicide mission to vanquish Zankou, Paige and her sisters fake their deaths in order to escape the constant threat of demon attacks as well as police and government investigations.<ref name="Episode 156">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Something Wicca This Way Goes...?|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/something-wicca-this-way-goes-403837/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105035637/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/something-wicca-this-way-goes-403837/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Charmed Life==
===Early Training===
Paige was working as a ]er at the time.<ref name="Charmed"/> Having to deal with harassing co-workers, Paige tried to turn to magic to make things better.<ref name="Fury">{{cite episode|episodelink=Hell Hath No Fury (Charmed episode)|title=Hell Hath No Fury|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-10-11|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> She borrowed the Book of Shadows, but found it difficult to control. She cured a co-worker of his acne and did other minor spells, which worked okay. When she cursed a harassing co-worker with unwanted attention from women, the spell backfired and made her breasts grow to enormous size, giving her the same unwanted attention. Phoebe was able to reverse the effects in time for the two of them to confront Piper, who was being turned into a Fury.<ref name="Fury"/>


In the ] (2005–2006), Paige takes on the false identity of Jo Bennett (Christina Ulloa) and attempts to live a normal life free of magic.<ref name="Episode 157">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Still Charmed & Kicking|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/still-charmed-and-kicking-425939/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=4 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804012718/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/still-charmed-and-kicking-425939/|url-status=dead}}</ref> This proves to be impossible, as Paige hears the continual call of a new charge, a telekinetic witch named ] (]).<ref name="Episode 157"/> In the fifth episode of season eight, "Rewitched", Paige and her sisters reclaim their true identities with the help of federal agent Murphy (]) in exchange for helping the FBI handle supernatural investigations.<ref name="Episode 161">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Rewitched|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/rewitched-463216/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803234915/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/rewitched-463216/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Paige then started her witch training. She learned potion basics under Piper, but when practicing a potion she accidentally created a spell that swapped her soul with Phoebe's.<ref name="Enter the demon">{{cite episode|episodelink=Enter the Demon|title=Enter the Demon|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-10-18|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Although they tried to keep it a secret while they swapped souls back again, they had to confront the evil Zen student Yenlo trying to kill his former master. They traveled to limbo and defeated Yenlo after swapping souls back.<ref name="Enter the demon"/>


Episode eight, "Battle of the Hexes", introduces Paige to parole officer ] (]).<ref name="Episode 164">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Battle of the Hexes|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/battle-of-the-hexes-474345/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231639/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/battle-of-the-hexes-474345/|url-status=dead}}</ref> After a courtship, which involves Henry discovering Paige's secret identity as a witch and whitelighter, the couple get married in the episode "Engaged and Confused".<ref name="Episode 172">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Engaged and Confused|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/engaged-and-confused-626507/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803204505/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/engaged-and-confused-626507/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later in the season, Paige discovers that her charge Billie and her sister, ] (]) are the ultimate power The Charmed Ones must defeat to save Leo from the Angel of Death (]), but she has reservations because the women are human and not demons.<ref name="Episode 174">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Torn Identity|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-torn-identity-628024/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803204514/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-torn-identity-628024/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the end, Paige willingly participates in the ultimate battle between The Charmed Ones and the Jenkins sisters.<ref name="Episode 177">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Kill Billie: Vol. 2|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/kill-billie-vol-2-673309/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=20 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220230535/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/kill-billie-vol-2-673309|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the series end, it is shown in flashforwards that Paige accepts her role as a Whitelighter, aiding many witches and future Whitelighters that include her nieces and nephews.<ref name="Episode 178">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Forever Charmed|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/forever-charmed-673310/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=19 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019202413/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/forever-charmed-673310/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is also revealed that Paige and Henry's marriage will produce three children, twin daughters and a son.<ref name="Episode 178"/>
Having learned that magic and supernatural evil were real, Paige decided to investigate an old house that had always creeped her out.<ref name="Size Matters">{{cite episode|episodelink=Size Matters (Charmed episode)|title=Size Matters|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-10-25|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> In doing so she learned it was really the home of the demon Gammill and that her friend Finn was Gammill's ] creation. She tried to protect Finn, but Gammill killed his creation for helping Paige. The demon was a collector of ceramic figurines made of shrunken women. He shrunk Phoebe and later got Piper and Paige too, but the three sisters were able to defeat and vanquish him, which returned them to their original size.<ref name="Size Matters"/>


===Literature===
Paige then rekindled an on-again, off-again relationship with Glen, who she has known her whole life. She told him a story she thought she remembered from her childhood about an Evil Enchantress who stole the love of a prince with magic.<ref name="Knight">{{cite episode|episodelink=A Knight to Remember|title=A Knight to Remember|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2001-11-01|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Meanwhile, a Shocker demon started hunting the Charmed Ones. When Paige looked the Evil Enchantress up in the Book of Shadows, she discovered an entry on her and the spell used to control the prince. Upon speaking the spell, the prince was called forward in time to be with Paige, who he thought was the Enchantress, and he loved dearly because of the spell. Phoebe and Piper then reasoned that Paige was the Enchantress reincarnated.<ref name="Knight"/> The Evil Enchantress then went forward in time, following her prince. She attacked the Charmed Ones and took the prince back to her time, but was followed by Phoebe and Piper. Phoebe and Piper were captured because they lacked powers in the past. Paige was able to craft a spell to bring herself and Leo back to their time. Leo freed Piper and Phoebe as Paige used the Enchantresses powers against her. The sisters then bound the Enchantress' powers and returned to their own time. Paige later moved into the Halliwell Manor.<ref name="Knight"/>
{{Main|List of Charmed books|Charmed (comic book)}}
As one of the central characters of the series, Paige appears in a number of ''Charmed'' literature. These appearances first began in the eleventh book of the ]. The novels follow no strict ] with the series or each other and are often considered to be non-]. However, the television series producers have final approval of everything in the novels,<ref>Haag, Andrea V., " {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211104905/http://www.thecharmedones.com/dianagallagher.htm |date=2003-02-11 }}", ''CharmedOnes.com'' (fansite), February 2002</ref> which could indicate the literature fitting into the established canon of the series and the so-called "''Charmed'' universe".<ref>The name of the ''Charmed'' ], "''Charmed'' universe", is used by both fans and in published material, such as '']'' and its {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422161413/http://titanmagazines.co.uk/app?service=external%2FProduct&sp=l78 |date=2009-04-22 }}</ref> Paige's first appearance in ''Charmed'' literature takes place within the novel ''Charmed Again'' by Elizabeth Lenhard in 2002, which acts as a novelised version of the fourth season premiere episode. Her last appearance in a ''Charmed'' novel takes place within ''Trickery Treat'' by ] on January 1, 2008.


In 2010, ''Charmed'' gained an officially licensed continuation in the form of a ], which is often billed as '']''. The series is published monthly by Zenescope Entertainment. Set eighteen-months after ], the sisters are seen living happy demon free lives and have each entered into motherhood. Paige has had twin girls with Henry Mitchell named Kat and Tamora Mitchell. In the comic series, Paige is working as a full-time Whitelighter and can also be seen helping Leo at Magic School with his students.<ref name="Issue 1 Review">{{cite web|last=Reisinger|first=Adam|title=Charmed Comic Review, Issue #1|url=http://www.adamreisinger.com/2010/07/charmed-comic-review-issue-1.html|website=www.adamreisinger.com/|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402114637/http://www.adamreisinger.com/2010/07/charmed-comic-review-issue-1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In Issue #3, ''Innocents Lost'', Paige develops a new power in the form of a reinforced forcefield made up of orbs.<ref name="Issue 3 Review">{{cite web|last=Reisinger|first=Adam|title=Charmed Comic Review, Issue #3|url=http://www.adamreisinger.com/2010/10/charmed-comic-review-issue-3.html|website=www.adamreisinger.com/|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402114803/http://www.adamreisinger.com/2010/10/charmed-comic-review-issue-3.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later in Issue #8, ''Oh, Henry'', Paige rescues a baby from the womb of his dying mother.<ref name="Issue 8 Review">{{cite web|last=Reisinger|first=Adam|title=Charmed Comic Review, Issue #8: Oh, Henry|url=http://www.adamreisinger.com/2011/03/charmed-comic-review-issue-8-oh-henry.html|website=www.adamreisinger.com/|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=15 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415140857/http://www.adamreisinger.com/2011/03/charmed-comic-review-issue-8-oh-henry.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She and Henry later adopt the infant boy and name him Henry, Jr.<ref name="Issue 8 Review"/> In the seventeenth issue of the comics, Paige looks for a witch named Sarah at a Salem house; however, she meets Cole who won't let her in. Despite his pleas, she orbs into the house where she meets Prudence (Prue) and the two touch causing their powers to send them away. After recovering, Patience tells Paige that she is Prue. At first, Paige doesn't believe her, but they go to the manor where after six years, Prue, Piper and Phoebe are finally reunited with a hug.
Paige was helping a woman named Carolyn regain custody of her child after getting out of an abusive relationship. Paige used magic to help Carolyn. Paige got promoted for her work with Carolyn, but had to turn it down for fear of using her magic for personal gain. Paige shortly after this started practicing orbing herself over distances, a task she would master in a few months time.


==Powers and abilities==
===Full-Time Witch===
===Witch abilities===
During the series Paige naturalizes somewhat to being a witch, quits her full time career as a ] and turns her attentions to full time ], determined to play catch-up on her more experienced sisters. Paige was briefly transformed into a super hero by a teenager with the power to make his drawings come to life.<ref name="Witches In Tights">{{cite episode|episodelink=Witches in Tights|title=Witches in Tights|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2002-10-13|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> In this form she had super speed, strength, was able to stop bullets and had superior hearing. At one point in time Paige felt sympathy for Cole as he was getting delusional and couldn't tell if everyone was a demon.
In ''Charmed'' it is revealed that magical witches can develop and master a variety of magical skills and powers which include; scrying,<ref name="Episode 28">{{cite web|title=Charmed: That Old Black Magic|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/that-old-black-magic-1071/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805012947/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/that-old-black-magic-1071/|url-status=dead}}</ref> spell casting,<ref name="Episode 1">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Something Wicca This Way Comes|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/something-wicca-this-way-comes-1044/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=24 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224222353/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/something-wicca-this-way-comes-1044/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and brewing potent potions.<ref name="Episode 9">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Witch Is Back|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-witch-is-back-1052/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=31 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131143058/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-witch-is-back-1052/|url-status=dead}}</ref> As a magical witch Paige can utilize scrying, a divination art form that allows one to locate a missing object or person. Paige can also cast spells, often written in iambic pentameter or as a rhyming couplet, to influence others or the world around her. She can also brew potions, most often used to vanquish foes or to achieve other magical feats similar to the effects of a spell. As a witch and Charmed One, Paige has also developed a number of magical powers which include Telekinetic Orbing and Force Field (sometimes called Orb Shield).


====Telekinetic Orbing====
While Piper brews potions and Phoebe writes spells, Paige is most adept at using crystals. Using telekinetic orbing, Paige can simply say, "Crystals, circle," instantly setting up a forcefield around a demon. She can also easily remove a forcefield, by orbing one of the crystals to her.<ref name="Charmed and Dangerous">{{cite episode|episodelink=Charmed and Dangerous|title=Charmed and Dangerous|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2002-02-07|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
In the second half of the two-part season four premiere, "Charmed Again (Part 2)", Paige displays her method of moving objects with her mind by teleporting objects from one location to another through a vocal command.<ref name="Episode 68"/> When she vocally calls the name of an object or living being it will orb to her, appearing in hand or within close range to her body.<ref name="Episode 68"/> This power is sometimes labeled Telekinetic Orbing. Due to her Whitelighter side, Paige's telekinetic power carries aspects of teleportation, although she still showcases the ability to impart ] on the objects she orbs allowing her to throw them across distances.<ref name="Episode 68"/><ref name="Episode 75">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Muse to My Ears|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/muse-to-my-ears-80015/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=30 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430041229/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/muse-to-my-ears-80015/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Telekinetic Orbing does not require a great deal of accuracy in calling an object. For instance, in the season six episode "Hyde School Reunion", Paige orbs demonic acid by using the vocal call, "Icky stuff".<ref name="Episode 128">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Hyde School Reunion|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/hyde-school-reunion-301446/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111040130/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/hyde-school-reunion-301446/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She also displays the lack of need for accuracy in the episode "A Wrong Day's Journey into Right" when she redirects a shuriken by calling out, "Weapon...thingy."<ref name="Episode 131">{{cite web|title=Charmed: A Wrong Day's Journey into Right|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-wrong-days-journey-into-right-309967/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=17 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417022232/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-wrong-days-journey-into-right-309967/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


Over the course of her time on the series, Paige's powers grow in strength allowing her to move things without verbally calling for them. This can be seen in the episode, "Sword and the City" when she orbs the stoned encased ] into the attic of the Manor without a vocal command.<ref name="Episode 119"/> She shows this skill again in the season eight episode "Repo Manor" when she orbs the replica dollhouse of the Manor into the attic without saying anything as well.<ref name="Episode 169">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Repo Manor|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/repo-manor-547794/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=5 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805153802/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/repo-manor-547794/|url-status=dead}}</ref> By late season seven, it becomes evident that Paige can now orb people and demons to any location by saying the name of the desired location. For example, she orbs Phoebe back to the Manor by stating, "Home!" in the episode "Charmed Noir".<ref name="Episode 142">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Charmed Noir|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-noir-367389/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111040248/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/charmed-noir-367389/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Towards the end of season eight, Paige displays the advanced skill of being able to orb and throw adult sized demons and people across distances in a similar fashion to Prue's telekinetic lift and throw method. The most prominent example of this occurs when she orbs the demon Asmodeus (Steven J. Oliver), a member of The Triad, directly into a fireball thrown by fellow Triad member Baliel (Sören Oliver).<ref name="Episode 172"/> Paige also simultaneously orbs and throws two demons into a dumpster in the episode "Gone with the Witches".<ref name="Episode 176">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Gone with the Witches|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/gone-with-the-witches-667997/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=3 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803211758/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/gone-with-the-witches-667997/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The Elders decided to assign Paige her first "Charge", who was actually Sam Wilder, her biological father.<ref name="Sam I am">{{cite episode|episodelink=Sam I Am (Charmed episode)|title=Sam I Am|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2002-11-17|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Sam was again made into a whitelighter after sacrificing himself to save Prue, Piper, and Phoebe from the demon which killed Patty, but he had lost another charge and had stopped using his powers. The Elders were using Paige because Sam had fallen off their radar, and the only way to find him was through a blood relative.<ref name="Sam I am"/> Paige did not know of Sam's connection to her when she meets him, until Phoebe tells her. When a darklighter attacks Paige, nearly killing her, Sam must once again embrace his whitelighter destiny to use his powers to save Paige, which he does. Though Paige resents Sam for abandoning her, she still loves him and hopes to see him again.<ref name="Sam I am"/>


====Orb Shield====
When Paige tried to vanquish Cole to give Phoebe peace, Paige had wound up in the river with a cold. Whenever she sneezes, she orbs. When Cole managed to change reality, Paige was caught in the warp, and was transported to the alternate reality. Paige was able to reunite her sisters to vanquish Cole, for good, and Paige was returned to her reality, and informed her sisters that Cole was gone forever.<ref name="Centennial">{{cite episode|episodelink=Centennial Charmed|title=Centennial Chamred|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-01-19|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
In the ''Charmed'' comics, specifically Issue #3, ''Innocents Lost'', Paige develops a new power in the form of a reinforced force field made up of orbs.<ref name="Issue 3 Review"/> Paige displays the ability to encase others inside of her force fields, without being within them herself, when she uses her new power to contain the explosion caused by the resurrected Source's destruction in the tenth issue of the comic series, ''Three Little Wiccans''.<ref name="Issue 10 Review">{{cite web|last=Reisinger|first=Adam|title=Charmed Comic Review, Issue #10: Three Little Wiccans|url=http://www.adamreisinger.com/2011/06/charmed-comic-review-issue-10-three.html|website=www.adamreisinger.com/|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402114856/http://www.adamreisinger.com/2011/06/charmed-comic-review-issue-10-three.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In this same issue, Paige also uses her force field power offensively to push back demons.<ref name="Issue 10 Review"/>


===Whitelighter powers===
When the Halliwell home started to suffer from hauntings due to all the past evil killed there, Piper summoned a witch doctor to cleanse the home.<ref name="House call">{{cite episode|episodelink=House Call (Charmed episode)|title=House Call|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-02-02|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Although the witch doctor did his job, he was worried about the power the sisters commanded and their susceptibility to all that is evil. The council of witch doctors decided it was best for the world if they got rid of the sisters, so they cast a voodoo spell on them, hoping their obsessions would destroy them. Paige became obsessed with marrying her old boyfriend Glen, going so far as to kidnap his bride-to-be and impersonating her.<ref name="House call"/>
In ''Charmed'' a ] is a human soul that has been made a "]" for good witches and other future Whitelighters (also known as a Whitelighter's "charge").<ref name="Episode 14">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Secrets and Guys|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/secrets-and-guys-1057/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201070425/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/secrets-and-guys-1057/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A Whitelighter acts in the service of ] who bestow these souls with their new angelic powers.<ref name="Episode 14"/> Because Paige's father, Sam Wilder, is a Whitelighter, she has inherited a number of powers associated with this race of guardian angels which include Orbing, Sensing, Glamouring and Healing. Of important note is that her Whitelighter powers exist independently from her witch powers, which has proven handy in situations where her witch powers were stolen or rendered null.


====Orbing====
She also helps Piper deliver her nephew ],<ref name="Magic died">{{cite episode|episodelink=The Day the Magic Died|title=The Day the Magic Died|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-02-16|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> with his middle name being taken from Paige after she went to great lengths to save him from a demonic attack.<ref name="Baby">{{cite episode|episodelink=Baby's First Demon|title=Baby's First Demon|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-03-30|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
Paige enters the series with the ability to orb, a teleporting ability unique to Whitelighters that allows them to travel anywhere in the world as well as between various supernatural worlds, including the magically guarded realm of The Elders (often called "Up There" in the show).<ref name="Episode 67"/><ref name="Episode 55">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Blinded by the Whitelighter|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/blinded-by-the-whitelighter-8964/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=12 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212012019/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/blinded-by-the-whitelighter-8964/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the season four episode "A Paige from the Past", it is revealed that Paige has always had access to her power to orb, as the ability saves her from dying in the car crash that killed her adoptive parents.<ref name="Episode 76">{{cite web|title=Charmed: A Paige from the Past|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-paige-from-the-past-98889/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111024728/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/a-paige-from-the-past-98889/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When we are introduced to Paige, her orbing power can only be channeled in panic induced situations as a fear response.<ref name="Episode 69"/> She is also only able to orb in and out within the same place, which makes her unable to travel across distances with the power.<ref name="Episode 71"/> In the season four episode "The Three Faces of Phoebe", Paige displays growth with her orbing powers by transporting herself across town for the first time.<ref name="Episode 80">{{cite web|title=Charmed: The Three Faces of Phoebe|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-three-faces-of-phoebe-104253/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111040414/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/the-three-faces-of-phoebe-104253/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the same episode, she also displays the advanced ability of orbing with passengers.<ref name="Episode 80"/> Despite taking on the full duties of a Whitelighter by the eighth and final season of the series, Paige never shows the ability to orb "Up There". Instead, whenever she congregates with an Elder, she orbs to the top of the suspension tower of the ] to hold a meeting (though since she has successfully orbed to the Underworld on several occasions, this may have more to do with her personal attitude towards them than a lack of ability).<ref name="Episode 152"/>


====Sensing====
Leo turned Paige into the Goddess of War, like ] and ], to battle the ].<ref name="Goddess">{{cite episode|episodelink=Oh My Goddess (Part 1)|title=Oh My Goddess (Part 1)|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-05-11|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> When she was a war goddess she displayed enhanced physical abilities, the ability to teleport, a trident that shot out lightning, near-invulnerability and a comprehensive knowledge of combat tactics. She also formed a strong bond with ], her nephew who had travelled back from the future to prevent his older brother Wyatt from being turned to evil.
In late season four, it is revealed that Paige has acquired the ability of sensing, a supernatural power which grants a Whitelighter a magical awareness of a charge's location and physical well-being. Paige's first instance of full on sensing is seen in the episode "Saving Private Leo".<ref name="Episode 75"/> Paige's sensing power enables her to hear the "call" of her charges whenever they are in need, allowing her to go to them when they need her most. Before becoming a full-fledged Whitelighter, Paige displays the ability to hear her sisters' "call" when she is far away from them.<ref name="Episode 112"/> As a Whitelighter, her charges must not always vocally call out to her when they are in need. The sensing power allows the Whitelighter to instantly hear a charge's inner call whenever the charge is in immediate danger, which is, more often than not, life-threatening.<ref name="Episode 157"/>


====Healing====
She and her sisters hid out in the Underworld; the magical community had turned their backs on them because of a spell cast by ] and ].<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> Paige was made to meditate on personal enlightenment, hovering on the ]. A ] begged for help, but she orbed him into the bay. Afterwards, everything turned back the way it should be.
Paige first shows a talent for healing in the season four premiere, "Charmed Again (Part 2)", when she uses her Whitelighter powers to enhance the healing abilities of her own Whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, to fully heal the half-demon Cole Turner.<ref name="Episode 68"/> Later in that season, Paige is able to channel Leo's healing powers to heal him of his wounds after he has been poisoned by a Darklighter's arrow.<ref name="Episode 79"/> However, it is not until the season eight episode "Payback's a Witch" that Paige develops the trigger to be able to heal on her own.<ref name="Episode 168">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Payback's a Witch|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/paybacks-a-witch-547793/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=4 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904035924/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/paybacks-a-witch-547793/|url-status=dead}}</ref> After expressing her love discreetly for wounded parole officer Henry Mitchell, Paige unlocks the emotional trigger of love to access her healing powers, which she later uses to heal Henry of his gunshot wound.<ref name="Episode 168"/> Like all Whitelighters before her, Paige can only use her healing powers on humans and not animals or demons.<ref name="Episode 46">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Magic Hour|url=http://www.tv.com/charmed/magic-hour/episode/2802/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Episode 53">{{cite web|title=Charmed: Sleuthing With the Enemy|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sleuthing-with-the-enemy-8319/|publisher=TV.com|access-date=14 September 2011|archive-date=11 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211174924/http://www.tv.com/shows/charmed/sleuthing-with-the-enemy-8319/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


===Natural abilities===
Paige has been turned into a vampire,<ref name="Bite me">{{cite episode|episodelink=Bite Me|title=Bite Me|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2002-04-18|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> a superhero,<ref name="Witches In Tights"/> a mummy,<ref name="Mummy tambien">{{cite episode|episodelink=Y Tu Mummy Tambien|title=Y Tu Mummy Tambien|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-01-05|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> a wood nymph,<ref name="Nymphs">{{cite episode|episodelink=Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun|title=Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-04-20|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> a Greek goddess (of War),<ref name="Goddess"/> a ghost and a witch beast that came out during a blue moon (along with Piper and Phoebe).<ref name="Blue moon">{{cite episode|episodelink=Once in a Blue Moon|title=Once in a Blue Moon|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2004-10-17|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
Paige has proven to be a skilled painter and sketch artist, first introduced in the season four episode, "Muse to My Ears". Paige also showcases her singing talents in the season five episode, "Sense and Sense Ability". While she has limited training in physical combat, her fighting skills are proficient enough to best Billie in hand-to-hand combat in the season eight episode, "Malice in Wonderland".


==Reception and cultural impact==
==Professional Life==
Galen Adair of Wordandfilm.com described Paige as a "kindhearted, goofy witch,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wordandfilm.com/2015/06/the-remaking-rose-mcgowan-a-review-dawn/|title=The Remaking of Rose McGowan: A Review of 'Dawn'|last=Adair|first=Galen|publisher=Wordandfilm.com|date=June 25, 2015|access-date=October 29, 2015|archive-date=December 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228193803/http://www.wordandfilm.com/2015/06/the-remaking-rose-mcgowan-a-review-dawn/|url-status=dead}}</ref> while a writer for ] called her "voluptuous."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://au.ign.com/articles/2007/04/03/movie-babe-of-the-day-rose-mcgowan|title=Movie Babe of the Day: Rose McGowan|work=]|date=April 3, 2007|access-date=October 29, 2015}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> ]'s Joshua Levs characterised Paige as "the lovable, secret, younger half-sister."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/06/review.charmed/index.html?iref=newssearch|title=Commentary: The guilty pleasure of 'Charmed'|last=Levs|first=Joshua|work=]|date=April 8, 2005|access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> In his review of the fourth season, Jeffrey Robinson of ] felt that Paige fits right in with the sisters and noted that her addition changed the character dynamics of Piper and Phoebe "in a good way."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/20382/charmed-the-complete-fourth-season/|title=Charmed - The Complete Fourth Season|last=Robinson|first=Jeffrey|work=]|date=February 26, 2006|access-date=October 29, 2015}}</ref> In another review of the fourth season, Leigh H. Edwards of '']'' added that the addition of Paige was "contrived and clunky", but welcomed the idea of McGowan joining the show as a witch "since she has major goth cred as Marilyn Manson's former flame."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/charmed-season-4-dvd/|title=Charmed: The Complete Fourth Season|last=Edwards|first=Leigh H.|work=PopMatters|access-date=October 26, 2013}}</ref> ]'s Cynthia Boris wrote that McGowan brought "a youthfulness" and "a fresh viewer perspective" to ''Charmed'', further noting that "fans have come to enjoy her presence on the show."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/charmedseason4.php|title=DVD Verdict Review - Charmed: The Complete Fourth Season|last=Boris|first=Cynthia|work=]|date=March 15, 2006|access-date=October 29, 2015}}</ref> Sara Paige and Rachel Hyland of ''Geek Speak'' magazine described Paige as "snarky, compassionate and whimsical," and believed that "McGowan was well-suited for the role."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue5/features/charmed_2.htm|title=After the Fall: Charmed|last1=Paige|first1=Sara|last2=Hyland|first2=Rachel|work=Geek Speak magazine|access-date=October 29, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065207/http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue5/features/charmed_2.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Professional wrestler ] named herself after McGowan's character.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://toofab.com/2019/02/15/wwe-star-paige-tells-mind-blowing-story-about-the-first-time-she-met-the-rock-fighting-with-my-family/|title=WWE Star Paige Tells Mind-Blowing Story About the First Time She Met 'The Rock'|publisher=TooFab| date=February 15, 2019 |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref>
===Social Worker===
Paige earns a degree in social work and begins a career at the South Bay Social Service as an assistant. She is not an official social worker, but she worked hard in the hope that one day she would become one. However, on the day she was finally promoted, she decided to quit in order to focus more on witchcraft.


A writer for ] praised McGowan's performance for delivering a "great and relatable character", noting that "She gets all of Paige's own quirks and emotions and the feel of adjusting to things down really well." The writer also felt that McGowan was a "great casting choice" for ''Charmed''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movieweb.com/tv/charmed/season-4/review-REfYAmgfGddyik/|title=Charmed Review|work=]|date=September 3, 2008|access-date=October 21, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190156/http://movieweb.com/tv/charmed/season-4/review-REfYAmgfGddyik/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rob Lineberger of DVD Verdict commented on McGowan's acting in the fifth season, noting that she "clips off the end of every sentence, often growling more than annunciating her lines." Lineberger also added that "McGowan's impressive snarl" was one of the reasons he enjoyed that season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/charmedseason5.php|title=Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season|last=Lineberger|first=Rob|work=DVD Verdict|date=November 8, 2006|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Season 6 Review">{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/charmedseason6.php|title=Charmed: The Complete Sixth Season|last=Lineberger|first=Rob|work=DVD Verdict|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref> In his review of the sixth season, Lineberger wrote that McGowan was "still smoking hot."<ref name="Season 6 Review"/> ]'s Jarett Wieselman commented on Paige's outfits, noting that many of the episodes featured her, along with Phoebe, wearing "a series of progressively revealing and ridiculous costumes in the name of vanquishing."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/7-reasons-charmed-fans-should-watch-witches-of-east-end#.gum3xJD6W|title=7 Reasons 'Charmed' Fans Should Be Watching 'Witches Of East End'|last=Wieselman|first=Jarett|work=]|date=August 15, 2014|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref> Tariq Kyle of Hypable.com wrote that the funniest moment of ''Charmed'' was in the season four episode "Hell Hath No Fury", when Paige's breast size increased "by a ridiculous amount."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hypable.com/hypable-charmed-recap/2/|title=Introducing: Fandom Flashbacks, a Hypable weekly feature|last=Kyle|first=Tariq|page=2|publisher=Hypable.com|date=March 7, 2014|access-date=October 22, 2015}}</ref>
===Temp Worker===
Paige eventually decided to stop being a full time witch and started taking on ] work. In this capacity she comes across innocents to help in most of her positions.


At the 2001 Wand Awards, McGowan was nominated for Best New Cast Member for her portrayal of Paige.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvtango.com/asc/charmed/awards/sort/awardName?filters%5Byearaward%5D=&filters%5Bnomorwin%5D=&filters%5Bperson%5D=&filters%5Bawardname%5D=&commit.x=20&commit.y=11|title=Charmed – Series – Awards|work=TV Tango|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030055207/http://www.tvtango.com/asc/charmed/awards/sort/awardName?filters%5Byearaward%5D=&filters%5Bnomorwin%5D=&filters%5Bperson%5D=&filters%5Bawardname%5D=&commit.x=20&commit.y=11|archive-date=October 30, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2005, she won Favorite Sister at the Family Television Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/rose-mcgowan/10/|title=Rose McGowan – Photo 5|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162952/http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/rose-mcgowan/10/|archive-date=September 24, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2007, ] ranked Paige at number 12 on their list of Top TV Witches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://television.aol.com/photos/tv-witches|title=Best TV Witches|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623105247/http://television.aol.com/photos/tv-witches|archive-date=June 23, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2007/10/22/top-tv-witches/|title=Top TV Witches|last=Sample|first=Kristin|work=AOL TV|date=October 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907032349/http://www.aoltv.com/2007/10/22/top-tv-witches/|archive-date=September 7, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The following year, she was ranked at number 13 on the same list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicmix.com/2008/10/31/aol-picks-tvs-best-witches/|title=AOL Picks TV's Best Witches|last=Greenberger|first=Robert|work=Comic Mix|date=October 31, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150353/http://www.comicmix.com/2008/10/31/aol-picks-tvs-best-witches/|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In his review of the television series '']'' being too similar to ''Charmed'', Christian Cintron of ] noted that ]'s "snarky, sarcastic" character ] "channels Rose McGowan's Paige Matthews."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywood.com/tv/witches-east-end-channels-charmed-57262115/|title='Witches of East End' Is Just Way Too Much Like 'Charmed'|last=Cintron|first=Christian|work=]|date=24 October 2013|access-date=28 October 2015}}</ref>
In one of her temp jobs, Paige is traumatized when her boss, Larry, is killed by demons.<ref name="Soul survivor">{{cite episode|episodelink=Soul Survivor (Charmed episode)|title=Soul Survivor|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2003-11-02|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Her sisters try to assure her that they cannot save every innocent, but Paige is convinced that she failed to save someone she was meant to help. At Richard's suggestion, Paige summons Larry's soul. Larry reveals that he made a ] Deal with a demon named Zahn – Larry sold his soul to Zahn in exchange for Zahn giving him financial success. Larry insts that Paige return his soul to Zahn so that the demon does not harm his wife, but Paige is determined to save Larry. Because of lack of support from her sisters, Paige turns to Richard who encourages her to follow her instincts. Paige summons Zahn and offers him a deal: in exchange for Paige selling her soul, Zahn will release Larry into his afterlife. Before Zahn can sell Paige's soul, Richard tells Piper and Phoebe what Paige has done and they storm Zahn's auction. Piper manages to destroy Zahn's Faustian contracts which sets all of the souls he had acquired, including Paige's, free, and the sisters vanquish Zahn.<ref name="Soul survivor"/>


== See also ==
===Headmistress of Magic School===
* ]
Realizing that there is not much excitement in her life and that Magic School was about to be closed, Paige decided to dedicate her time to saving it, as well as teaching the students the values and responsibility of magic. In doing that, the Elders had made her the headmistress of Magic School. During this time Paige had a romantic interest in Agent Kyle Brody. She had allowed him to know much about the magical world as they would exchange information about what they know so far about the ].


==References==
Agent Brody was killed,<ref name="Makeover">{{cite episode|episodelink=Extreme Makeover: World Edition|title=Extreme Makeover: World Edition|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-01-23|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> but Paige learned that he was okay and had become a Whitelighter when he travelled back to see her briefly.<ref name="Charmageddon">{{cite episode|episodelink=Charmageddon|title=Charmageddon|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-01-30|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Since Paige was getting tired of being cooped up in Magic School and Leo was turned human Piper and Phoebe though it was a good idea that Leo took over Magic School they then told Paige and she orbed out feeling great.
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===Whitelighter===
Since season 7, Paige began doing regular Whitelighter duties. Paige and her sisters destroyed Zankou and the Nexus.<ref name="Wicca goes">{{cite episode|episodelink=Something Wicca This Way Goes?|title=Something Wicca This Way Goes?|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-05-22|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> The sisters "glamoured," changing their appearances, names, and lives. Normal people and demons think they are dead. Paige's alias was Josephine "Jo" Bennet and everyone but her loved ones can see her "new look." After several episodes, the Charmed Ones, as well as Leo, reverted back to their former names and lifestyles.<ref name="rewitched">{{cite episode|episodelink=Rewitched|title=Rewitched|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-10-23|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>

Paige has a charge named ] who is a witch with the power of ] and ] (which came later). It was due to her love of Henry that she was able to access her Whitelighter healing power. After the series end, it is shown in flashforwards that Paige accepts her role as a Whitelighter, aiding many witches and future Whitelighters.<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>

==Romantic Life==
Briefly Paige had a romantic interest in Richard Montana, a male witch who is related to the feuding family, the Montanas. It ended before their relationship lasted a full year.

Paige had once created her own Mr. Right to help her relax. Unbeknownst to her, by summoning Mr. Right, an evil duplicate of Mr. Right, Vincent, emerged.<ref name="Wrong">{{cite episode|episodelink=A Wrong Day's Journey into Right|title=A Wrong Day's Journey into Right|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2004-05-02|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> He used female demonic warriors to do his bidding, using the Charmed Ones' potions. After Mr. Right was made real and Vincent was vanquished, Mr. Right and Paige said goodbye and he left to live in the real world.

Paige also had a serious relationship with FBI Agent Kyle Brody (]), so much so she turned her back on her sisters for him. The relationship ended when Kyle was killed by the Avatar Beta.<ref name="Makeover"/> The Elders made Kyle a Whitelighter for his courage against the Avatars, and allowed him to say goodbye to Paige.<ref name="Charmageddon"/> After that, the pair could not see each other again. If Kyle had stayed in San Francisco mortals would know he was resurrected after his death.

A year later when Paige was trying to protect a future Whitelighter, she met ], a charge's parole officer.<ref name="Hexes">{{cite episode|episodelink=Battle of the Hexes|title=Battle of the Hexes|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2005-11-13|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Paige used her Whitelighter healing powers, for the first time by herself, to save Henry from a gunshot wound. Paige finally told Henry that she is a witch.<ref name="Repo"/> Henry seems to have accepted it, as he asked Paige to marry him and Paige accepted. A witch named Sir Simon Marks says that Paige is destined to marry him. Paige refuses and says that she is in love with Henry.<ref name="Christy">{{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}}</ref> Simon and Henry fought for Paige and Henry wins. Soon after, Paige and Henry were married.<ref name="Engaged">{{cite episode|episodelink=Engaged and Confused|title=Engaged and Confused|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2006-02-26|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref> Their marriage will bring them twin daughters and a son named Henry Jr.<ref name="Forever"/>

==Deaths Count==
During the run of the series and her life as a Charmed One, Paige died '''7''' times.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Episode
!Episode Name
!Cause Of Death
!Revival
|-
|5x03
|]
|Takes a bite of the poisoned apple as Snow White
|Piper vanquishes the evil witch as Little Red Riding Hood using the vanquishing potion made by Grams
|-
|5x08
|]
|Killed by a fire ball thrown by the warlock Bacarra
|Piper, with the help of Leo, went back in time to save her.
|-
|6x07
|]
|She let a demon, legally, take her soul instead of an innocent's.
|After Piper and Phoebe killed the demon and destroyed the contract, her soul was restored.
|-
|6x08
|]
|Killed being struck down by a lighting bolt thrown by a Demon.
|Leo healed her before her spirit could move on.
|-
|6x15
|]
|An evil genie wished for her death.
|Richard wished for The Charmed Ones to be alive.
|-
|7x05
|]
|In a change of events, she was killed by a demon.
|Phoebe made a deal with the Angel of Death to exchange Paige's soul for a half demon's soul.
|-
|8x21
|]
|Killed after the manor exploded.
|Piper, with the help of Coop's ring, went back in time to save her.
|}

==Notable Occurrences==

*Paige shared Prue's distrust of Cole, after she learned of his identity of a horrifying demon. And late again, when he became the Source.
*Paige was turned into a ] during a struggle for power between Cole and the Queen of the vampires.<ref name="Bite me"/>
*Paige was transported to the ] by the ] of her maternal grandmother ]. She got to meet Penelope's younger self and her maternal grandfather.<ref name="Witchstock">{{cite episode|episodelink=Witchstock|title=Witchstock|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2004-01-11|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>
*Paige was turned into a ] by two wood nymphs.<ref name="Nymphs"/>
*Paige and Phoebe traveled to the parallel universe to retrieve their Chris and Leo, until they meet their evil duplicates.<ref name="Bad World">{{cite episode|episodelink=It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)|title=It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part 2)|series=Charmed|serieslink=Charmed|airdate=2004-05-16|network=The WB Television Network|The WB}}</ref>

== References ==
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Fictional character from the American television supernatural drama Charmed Fictional character
Paige Matthews
Charmed character
First appearance"Charmed Again (Part 1)" (2001)
Last appearance"Forever Charmed" (2006)
Created byBrad Kern
Portrayed byRose McGowan
In-universe information
AliasJo Bennett
SpeciesCharmed One
Witch
Whitelighter
SpouseHenry Mitchell (2006–present)
ChildrenTamora Mitchell (comic book series)
Kat Mitchell (comic book series)
Henry Mitchell Jr. (comic book series)
Notable powersTelekinetic Orbing
Orb Shield
Whitelighter powers
Extended Family
ParentsMr. and Mrs. Matthews (adoptive parents; deceased)
Patty Halliwell (biological mother; deceased)
Sam Wilder (biological father; deceased)
Grandparentsunknown names (adoptive grandparents)
Penny Halliwell (biological maternal grandmother; deceased)
Allen Halliwell (biological maternal grandfather; deceased)
SiblingsPrue Halliwell (oldest maternal half-sister; deceased)
Piper Halliwell (second maternal half-sister)
Phoebe Halliwell (third maternal half-sister)
Nieces and Nephews6
Other RelativesMelinda Warren (ancestor)
Charlotte Warren (ancestor)

Paige Matthews is a fictional character from the American television series Charmed, played by Rose McGowan from October 4, 2001, until May 21, 2006. The character was created by executive producer Brad Kern as a replacement for lead character Prue Halliwell, following the departure of actress Shannen Doherty. Paige is introduced into season four as the fiercely independent younger half-sister of the female leads, Prue (Shannen Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano). Like her sisters, Paige is a witch and more specifically, a Charmed One—one of the most powerful witches of all time. Paige is introduced as the secret love child of the Halliwell sisters' mother Patty (Finola Hughes) and her whitelighter (guardian angel) Sam Wilder (Scott Jaeck), making Paige both a witch and whitelighter. She was given up at birth and raised by her adoptive parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews.

At the beginning of season four, Paige goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking Prue's place in the "Power of Three", following her death in the season three finale. Like Prue, Paige possesses telekinetic abilities, but due to her mixed whitelighter heritage, this manifests as the ability to orb ("teleport") objects from one location to another through a vocal command. As the series progresses, Paige also receives whitelighter abilities such as the power to orb herself and others, as well as sensing, glamouring and healing also the power of photokinesis. Paige's storylines have often revolved around her protecting innocents and defeating the forces of evil in San Francisco with her sisters. In the later seasons, she eventually receives her own whitelighter charges to train and protect as they learn witchcraft. Paige also has romantic relationships with fellow-witch Richard Montana (Balthazar Getty) in season six and FBI agent Kyle Brody (Kerr Smith) in season seven. In the eighth and final season, Paige marries a human parole officer named Henry Mitchell (Ivan Sergei).

The character was mostly well received by television critics, who complimented Paige's personality and felt that McGowan was the right choice for the role. McGowan won the Family Television Award for Favorite Sister in 2005 for her portrayal of Paige. In 2007, AOL TV ranked Paige at number 13 on their list of the Top TV Witches, the lowest of the four sisters. In addition to the television series, the character has also appeared in numerous expanded universe material, such as the Charmed novels and its comic book adaptation.

Casting and development

The character of Paige Matthews was conceived by executive producer Brad Kern as a replacement character for Prue Halliwell (Shannen Doherty). In May 2001, it was officially announced that Doherty would be departing Charmed. The producers originally considered recasting the role of Prue with a different actress. Executive producer Aaron Spelling even approached actresses Tiffani Thiessen, who replaced Doherty on his previous series Beverly Hills, 90210 and Jennifer Love Hewitt to take on the role as Doherty's replacement. Spelling revealed to Entertainment Weekly, "Tiffani was our first choice to take over for Shannen - even before we asked Jennifer , but Tiffani told us she wants to do a half-hour comedy." Hewitt also declined the role. Producers then decided to kill off the character of Prue and replace her with a long-lost younger sister in favor of having "a fresh face" join the series. Spelling stated, " going to be the long-lost sister Alyssa and Holly never knew had. And wait until you see what we came up with to explain why she's been lost: Nobody ever knew she even existed."

Film actress Rose McGowan was later revealed to be cast in the role of Paige Matthews, her first role as a series regular on a television series. Kern stated, "From Paige's point of view, you go to bed one night and you think you're a single child and no one understands you. Then you wake up the next morning and you find out you've got sisters who are witches, who've got supernatural powers, who have a destiny that you must now share and embrace and you must learn your new powers." He later elaborated saying, "When we meet her, she will have been searching for many years, both for her birth parents, but also for an answer to that feeling that she's had inside of her that there's something special, there's something else that nobody has yet been able to understand and explain." On casting McGowan in the role of Paige, Kern admitted, "Our personal hope was to find somebody that would be of Shannen's calibre, that would have the sexiness, the edge and the range. That, for the age range we were looking for, is hard to find. We said, 'We don't want somebody conventional. We don't want a shrinking violet. We don't want just another pretty face that smiles and has great teeth. We want somebody who has an attitude.' I think Rose definitely has an attitude and that's an energy that we can take advantage of for the betterment of the show."

Appearances

Television

Main article: List of Charmed episodes

Paige appears as the secret half-sister in the final five seasons of Charmed, portrayed by Rose McGowan within 112 episodes from 2001 to 2006. In the episode "Charmed Again", it is revealed that after Paige's adoptive parents (played by Lisa Darr and M. Scott Wilkinson) died, she went searching for her birth parents and suspected that she might be related to the Halliwell sisters. With Patty Halliwell (Finola Hughes) long since deceased, Paige relented on pursuing the matter further. After the Source of All Evil learns of Paige's existence, he orders her killed. Paige is eventually saved by Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) and her boyfriend Cole Turner (Julian McMahon) and then subsequently introduced to Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) and her husband Leo Wyatt (Brian Krause). Paige then goes on to help reconstitute The Charmed Ones by taking Prue Halliwell's (Shannen Doherty) place in "The Power of Three". This is made possible after it is revealed that she is the daughter of Patty and the Whitelighter Sam Wilder (Scott Jaeck), making her a "sister-witch" to Phoebe and Piper. The episode reveals that Paige was given up at birth to protect her from the wrath of The Elders if they were to discover her Whitelighter heritage.

Like her sister Prue, Paige was born with "the ability to move things with her mind". Since she possessed the missing power, she was able to take her place in the Power of Three, thus reforming the Charmed Ones. Due to her Whitelighter heritage, however, her magical method of movement causes "objects to orb from a location to another". Paige has also shown the ability to impart momentum on these orbing objects. Throughout season four, Paige shows that she has inherited a variety of Whitelighter powers such as orbing, and sensing. While Paige finds it easier to develop a friendship with Phoebe, she initially butts heads with Piper, but eventually the two sisters develop a mutual respect.

Later in the season, Paige reveals her identity as a witch to her childhood friend and "sometimes" boyfriend, Glen Belland (Jesse Woodrow). Once she develops more control over her witchcraft Paige is able to help her sisters' avenge Prue's death and vanquish the Source twice – both in his original incarnation and that of his next incarnation, Cole Turner. During the finale of season four, Paige and her sisters are visited by the Angel of Destiny (Dakin Matthews), who offers them the chance to live normal lives without magical powers or the threat of demons. Over the course of the episode, Paige eventually convinces her sisters to decline the offer and remain Charmed to continue doing good in the world.

At the start of season five (2002–2003), Paige is officially promoted to social worker in the episode, "A Witch's Tail (Part 1)", but by the end of the second episode, "A Witch's Tail (Part 2)", Paige quits her job to pursue being a witch full-time. During this season Paige meets Sam Wilder (her birth-father) and slowly comes to terms with letting him into her life. Meanwhile, she struggles with living up to the legend of her deceased half-sister Prue and her title of "Superwitch". When Paige masters a difficult spell created by Prue, she appears to come at peace with her sibling rivalry. Later in the season, Paige, alongside Phoebe, trains to be a midwife in order to deliver Piper's baby. When Piper gives birth to a boy she names Wyatt, she also gives him the middle name Matthew in honor of his aunt Paige.

In the sixth season (2003–2004), Paige grows tired of unemployment and obtains a job at a temp agency. While employed on the various jobs via the agency, Paige finds herself drawn into various magical endeavors concerning members of the magical community. Through one of these magical journeys she meets and later dates a witch named Richard Montana (Balthazar Getty), a relationship which mirrors the love affair Phoebe had with Cole as Richard attempts to avoid the temptations of dark magic. The couple eventually break up, but not before Paige binds Richard's powers so that he doesn't feel the temptation to misuse his powers.

Also in this season, Paige becomes the second person to discover that the sisters' new time-traveling Whitelighter Chris Perry (Drew Fuller) is actually Chris Halliwell and the second child of Piper and Leo. He has come back in time to prevent Wyatt from becoming evil in the future. Together, Chris helps Paige and her sisters discover that a powerful Elder named Gideon (Gildart Jackson) wishes to destroy the Twice-Blessed Wyatt, an act which causes Wyatt to turn his back on good in the future.

During the start of the seventh season (2004–2005), Paige fights to keep Magic School from closing after the death of its headmaster, Gideon. The Elders then place Paige in charge of Magic School as the new headmistress once they realize how deep her dedication runs. Also this season, Paige befriends federal agent Kyle Brody (Kerr Smith), and the two eventually grow close over their mutual investigation of The Avatars, powerful beings who are neither good nor evil. After initial hesitation, Paige and her sisters join sides with The Avatars in their plan to turn the world into a utopia against the warnings of both Kyle and The Elders. When The Charmed Ones discover that the new utopia robs the world of their free will, they join sides with Kyle and the demon Zankou (Oded Fehr) and force The Avatars to restore the world to normal. Kyle, however, is killed in the process, but is resurrected as a Whitelighter as a reward from The Elders for helping to defeat The Avatars. He says his goodbyes to Paige, before leaving to start his new life.

In late season seven, in episode seventeen "Scry Hard", Paige grows tired of being cooped up in Magic School and desires a reprieve from her duties as headmistress. At the suggestion of Piper and Phoebe, Paige instates the now human Leo as the new headmaster of Magic School in her place so that she can take a break while Leo can work in a place safe from the harm of demon attacks. The following episode, "Little Box of Horrors", The Elders manage to convince Paige that her continued quest for a life outside her role as a Charmed One stems from her destiny as a future Whitelighter. In the episode "Freaky Phoebe", Paige takes on official Whitelighter duties and gains her first charge in a witch named Mitchell Haines (Seamus Dever) who has the power of superhuman speed. In the season seven finale, during a suicide mission to vanquish Zankou, Paige and her sisters fake their deaths in order to escape the constant threat of demon attacks as well as police and government investigations.

In the eighth and final season (2005–2006), Paige takes on the false identity of Jo Bennett (Christina Ulloa) and attempts to live a normal life free of magic. This proves to be impossible, as Paige hears the continual call of a new charge, a telekinetic witch named Billie Jenkins (Kaley Cuoco). In the fifth episode of season eight, "Rewitched", Paige and her sisters reclaim their true identities with the help of federal agent Murphy (Brandon Quinn) in exchange for helping the FBI handle supernatural investigations.

Episode eight, "Battle of the Hexes", introduces Paige to parole officer Henry Mitchell (Ivan Sergei). After a courtship, which involves Henry discovering Paige's secret identity as a witch and whitelighter, the couple get married in the episode "Engaged and Confused". Later in the season, Paige discovers that her charge Billie and her sister, Christy Jenkins (Marnette Patterson) are the ultimate power The Charmed Ones must defeat to save Leo from the Angel of Death (Simon Templeman), but she has reservations because the women are human and not demons. In the end, Paige willingly participates in the ultimate battle between The Charmed Ones and the Jenkins sisters. After the series end, it is shown in flashforwards that Paige accepts her role as a Whitelighter, aiding many witches and future Whitelighters that include her nieces and nephews. It is also revealed that Paige and Henry's marriage will produce three children, twin daughters and a son.

Literature

Main articles: List of Charmed books and Charmed (comic book)

As one of the central characters of the series, Paige appears in a number of Charmed literature. These appearances first began in the eleventh book of the series of novels. The novels follow no strict continuity with the series or each other and are often considered to be non-canon. However, the television series producers have final approval of everything in the novels, which could indicate the literature fitting into the established canon of the series and the so-called "Charmed universe". Paige's first appearance in Charmed literature takes place within the novel Charmed Again by Elizabeth Lenhard in 2002, which acts as a novelised version of the fourth season premiere episode. Her last appearance in a Charmed novel takes place within Trickery Treat by Diana G. Gallagher on January 1, 2008.

In 2010, Charmed gained an officially licensed continuation in the form of a comic book, which is often billed as Charmed: Season 9. The series is published monthly by Zenescope Entertainment. Set eighteen-months after the series finale, the sisters are seen living happy demon free lives and have each entered into motherhood. Paige has had twin girls with Henry Mitchell named Kat and Tamora Mitchell. In the comic series, Paige is working as a full-time Whitelighter and can also be seen helping Leo at Magic School with his students. In Issue #3, Innocents Lost, Paige develops a new power in the form of a reinforced forcefield made up of orbs. Later in Issue #8, Oh, Henry, Paige rescues a baby from the womb of his dying mother. She and Henry later adopt the infant boy and name him Henry, Jr. In the seventeenth issue of the comics, Paige looks for a witch named Sarah at a Salem house; however, she meets Cole who won't let her in. Despite his pleas, she orbs into the house where she meets Prudence (Prue) and the two touch causing their powers to send them away. After recovering, Patience tells Paige that she is Prue. At first, Paige doesn't believe her, but they go to the manor where after six years, Prue, Piper and Phoebe are finally reunited with a hug.

Powers and abilities

Witch abilities

In Charmed it is revealed that magical witches can develop and master a variety of magical skills and powers which include; scrying, spell casting, and brewing potent potions. As a magical witch Paige can utilize scrying, a divination art form that allows one to locate a missing object or person. Paige can also cast spells, often written in iambic pentameter or as a rhyming couplet, to influence others or the world around her. She can also brew potions, most often used to vanquish foes or to achieve other magical feats similar to the effects of a spell. As a witch and Charmed One, Paige has also developed a number of magical powers which include Telekinetic Orbing and Force Field (sometimes called Orb Shield).

Telekinetic Orbing

In the second half of the two-part season four premiere, "Charmed Again (Part 2)", Paige displays her method of moving objects with her mind by teleporting objects from one location to another through a vocal command. When she vocally calls the name of an object or living being it will orb to her, appearing in hand or within close range to her body. This power is sometimes labeled Telekinetic Orbing. Due to her Whitelighter side, Paige's telekinetic power carries aspects of teleportation, although she still showcases the ability to impart momentum on the objects she orbs allowing her to throw them across distances. Telekinetic Orbing does not require a great deal of accuracy in calling an object. For instance, in the season six episode "Hyde School Reunion", Paige orbs demonic acid by using the vocal call, "Icky stuff". She also displays the lack of need for accuracy in the episode "A Wrong Day's Journey into Right" when she redirects a shuriken by calling out, "Weapon...thingy."

Over the course of her time on the series, Paige's powers grow in strength allowing her to move things without verbally calling for them. This can be seen in the episode, "Sword and the City" when she orbs the stoned encased Excalibur into the attic of the Manor without a vocal command. She shows this skill again in the season eight episode "Repo Manor" when she orbs the replica dollhouse of the Manor into the attic without saying anything as well. By late season seven, it becomes evident that Paige can now orb people and demons to any location by saying the name of the desired location. For example, she orbs Phoebe back to the Manor by stating, "Home!" in the episode "Charmed Noir". Towards the end of season eight, Paige displays the advanced skill of being able to orb and throw adult sized demons and people across distances in a similar fashion to Prue's telekinetic lift and throw method. The most prominent example of this occurs when she orbs the demon Asmodeus (Steven J. Oliver), a member of The Triad, directly into a fireball thrown by fellow Triad member Baliel (Sören Oliver). Paige also simultaneously orbs and throws two demons into a dumpster in the episode "Gone with the Witches".

Orb Shield

In the Charmed comics, specifically Issue #3, Innocents Lost, Paige develops a new power in the form of a reinforced force field made up of orbs. Paige displays the ability to encase others inside of her force fields, without being within them herself, when she uses her new power to contain the explosion caused by the resurrected Source's destruction in the tenth issue of the comic series, Three Little Wiccans. In this same issue, Paige also uses her force field power offensively to push back demons.

Whitelighter powers

In Charmed a Whitelighter is a human soul that has been made a "guardian angel" for good witches and other future Whitelighters (also known as a Whitelighter's "charge"). A Whitelighter acts in the service of The Elders who bestow these souls with their new angelic powers. Because Paige's father, Sam Wilder, is a Whitelighter, she has inherited a number of powers associated with this race of guardian angels which include Orbing, Sensing, Glamouring and Healing. Of important note is that her Whitelighter powers exist independently from her witch powers, which has proven handy in situations where her witch powers were stolen or rendered null.

Orbing

Paige enters the series with the ability to orb, a teleporting ability unique to Whitelighters that allows them to travel anywhere in the world as well as between various supernatural worlds, including the magically guarded realm of The Elders (often called "Up There" in the show). In the season four episode "A Paige from the Past", it is revealed that Paige has always had access to her power to orb, as the ability saves her from dying in the car crash that killed her adoptive parents. When we are introduced to Paige, her orbing power can only be channeled in panic induced situations as a fear response. She is also only able to orb in and out within the same place, which makes her unable to travel across distances with the power. In the season four episode "The Three Faces of Phoebe", Paige displays growth with her orbing powers by transporting herself across town for the first time. In the same episode, she also displays the advanced ability of orbing with passengers. Despite taking on the full duties of a Whitelighter by the eighth and final season of the series, Paige never shows the ability to orb "Up There". Instead, whenever she congregates with an Elder, she orbs to the top of the suspension tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to hold a meeting (though since she has successfully orbed to the Underworld on several occasions, this may have more to do with her personal attitude towards them than a lack of ability).

Sensing

In late season four, it is revealed that Paige has acquired the ability of sensing, a supernatural power which grants a Whitelighter a magical awareness of a charge's location and physical well-being. Paige's first instance of full on sensing is seen in the episode "Saving Private Leo". Paige's sensing power enables her to hear the "call" of her charges whenever they are in need, allowing her to go to them when they need her most. Before becoming a full-fledged Whitelighter, Paige displays the ability to hear her sisters' "call" when she is far away from them. As a Whitelighter, her charges must not always vocally call out to her when they are in need. The sensing power allows the Whitelighter to instantly hear a charge's inner call whenever the charge is in immediate danger, which is, more often than not, life-threatening.

Healing

Paige first shows a talent for healing in the season four premiere, "Charmed Again (Part 2)", when she uses her Whitelighter powers to enhance the healing abilities of her own Whitelighter, Leo Wyatt, to fully heal the half-demon Cole Turner. Later in that season, Paige is able to channel Leo's healing powers to heal him of his wounds after he has been poisoned by a Darklighter's arrow. However, it is not until the season eight episode "Payback's a Witch" that Paige develops the trigger to be able to heal on her own. After expressing her love discreetly for wounded parole officer Henry Mitchell, Paige unlocks the emotional trigger of love to access her healing powers, which she later uses to heal Henry of his gunshot wound. Like all Whitelighters before her, Paige can only use her healing powers on humans and not animals or demons.

Natural abilities

Paige has proven to be a skilled painter and sketch artist, first introduced in the season four episode, "Muse to My Ears". Paige also showcases her singing talents in the season five episode, "Sense and Sense Ability". While she has limited training in physical combat, her fighting skills are proficient enough to best Billie in hand-to-hand combat in the season eight episode, "Malice in Wonderland".

Reception and cultural impact

Galen Adair of Wordandfilm.com described Paige as a "kindhearted, goofy witch," while a writer for IGN called her "voluptuous." CNN's Joshua Levs characterised Paige as "the lovable, secret, younger half-sister." In his review of the fourth season, Jeffrey Robinson of DVD Talk felt that Paige fits right in with the sisters and noted that her addition changed the character dynamics of Piper and Phoebe "in a good way." In another review of the fourth season, Leigh H. Edwards of PopMatters added that the addition of Paige was "contrived and clunky", but welcomed the idea of McGowan joining the show as a witch "since she has major goth cred as Marilyn Manson's former flame." DVD Verdict's Cynthia Boris wrote that McGowan brought "a youthfulness" and "a fresh viewer perspective" to Charmed, further noting that "fans have come to enjoy her presence on the show." Sara Paige and Rachel Hyland of Geek Speak magazine described Paige as "snarky, compassionate and whimsical," and believed that "McGowan was well-suited for the role." Professional wrestler Paige named herself after McGowan's character.

A writer for MovieWeb praised McGowan's performance for delivering a "great and relatable character", noting that "She gets all of Paige's own quirks and emotions and the feel of adjusting to things down really well." The writer also felt that McGowan was a "great casting choice" for Charmed. Rob Lineberger of DVD Verdict commented on McGowan's acting in the fifth season, noting that she "clips off the end of every sentence, often growling more than annunciating her lines." Lineberger also added that "McGowan's impressive snarl" was one of the reasons he enjoyed that season. In his review of the sixth season, Lineberger wrote that McGowan was "still smoking hot." BuzzFeed's Jarett Wieselman commented on Paige's outfits, noting that many of the episodes featured her, along with Phoebe, wearing "a series of progressively revealing and ridiculous costumes in the name of vanquishing." Tariq Kyle of Hypable.com wrote that the funniest moment of Charmed was in the season four episode "Hell Hath No Fury", when Paige's breast size increased "by a ridiculous amount."

At the 2001 Wand Awards, McGowan was nominated for Best New Cast Member for her portrayal of Paige. In 2005, she won Favorite Sister at the Family Television Awards. In 2007, AOL TV ranked Paige at number 12 on their list of Top TV Witches. The following year, she was ranked at number 13 on the same list. In his review of the television series Witches of East End being too similar to Charmed, Christian Cintron of Hollywood.com noted that Mädchen Amick's "snarky, sarcastic" character Wendy Beauchamp "channels Rose McGowan's Paige Matthews."

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