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The Source of All Evil is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed, a demon who is the ruler of the underworld for the show's first 4 seasons. He is portrayed by Michael Bailey Smith, Bennet Guillory and Peter Woodward over the course of the series and had a brief resurrection in one episode during the show's eighth season.

His first on screen appearance is in the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose", but his lurking backroom presence was a regular theme in the backplot creation of many prior episodes during the show's first four seasons—especially so in seasons three and four—- where he occurred regularly in exposition dialog as "a name" behind or of having sent or being connected with other evil entities mentioned. He is depicted very differently in appearance than in the later episodes (picture above, and right), having an appearance in early depictions of an unseen face-in-the-shadows in a heavily cowled dark colored robe, the first being a robe of blood-red velvet, the next few appearances, just ones in less exotic materials colored black.

The unhooded Source has a tattoo face, that when finally revealed, is partially mutilated from battles with other demons when he seized power. It is said that the damage done to his face is the result of battles with the upper level demon Zankou, who appears as a major villain in the seventh season.

Among his many demonic powers are throwing fireballs, teleportation (with flames), manipulating flame, shape-shifting, summoning demon and evil beings, mind control, and possession. He sends numerous demons after the Halliwell sisters during the development of various plots in the series' eight seasons, including the Triad and so indirectly the half-human/half-demon love interest of Phoebe Halliwell, Belthazor/Cole Turner. He later puts a bounty on Cole's head when he turns good.

The Source has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.