For today’s post, I would like to take a look at my favorite television show of all time. In this case, I will be examining the relationship of my favorite couple. I know that this will be an unpopular opinion, but I just felt the need to share my thoughts on this couple! Now I want to preface this by stating that I agree that Piper and Leo are the most functional and well-adjusted of the couples on the show. No one did not want to see that pair end up together. However, in truth, the most passionate, loving, and sexy couple on the show was always Phoebe and Cole. Not even death, or turning evil, could ever really part them completely!
So, Cole and Phoebe met at a time when Phoebe was finishing college and Cole was a half-demon working as an assistant district attorney. Cole had been assigned by the Triad to kill the Charmed Ones, nothing new there, and he made the choice of getting close to Phoebe to get close enough to the sisters to be able to complete his task. Now where he went wrong, on the part of being evil at least, was that he actually fell madly in love with Phoebe! This would lead him to sabotage all the plans he had made to bring about the sisters demise.
When Phoebe found out the truth, she could not vanquish him. She lied to Prue and Piper for weeks about it, with only Leo knowing the truth. Eventually, Cole came back and won the trust of not only Phoebe but all the Charmed Ones. They would have more bumps on the road, as Cole went undercover with his old compatriots, but after the Banshee incident and Prue’s death, their relationship was stronger than ever!
It was Cole’s support that helped Phoebe deal with the truth of her having a new sister. He would go on to propose in a hail of demon slime, and she would eventually accept as Cole was bleeding to death (after he had been stripped of his demonic abilities and was just a human). Not long after the sisters succeeded in vanquishing the Source of All Evil, Cole found out the Source’s powers had entered him. He tried to fight this off as Phoebe and he planned their wedding. Cole could not resist the allure of evil and conspired to get Phoebe to marry him in a Dark Ceremony. Not long after, with the help of the Seer’s potion, Cole was able to impregnate Phoebe with his demonic spawn. It was under this influence that Phoebe made the choice to be crowned jointly with him as his Queen of the Underworld!
That would not last long, as Phoebe could not help her desire to help innocents or be with her family. Phoebe finally was able to make the hardest choice of her life, and vanquish the love of her life! She would also lose the baby, as the Seer used her magic to make that conception possible. This is when she found out Cole was not dead but in the Demonic Wasteland.
Over the next couple of months, she focused only on work, and on pushing a divorce through the system as quickly as possible. All this was for naught, as Cole was able to come back from the Demonic Wasteland! Her undying love for Cole is what made her desire to escape into the ocean when a spell gone awry turned her into a mermaid!
Cole would spend months trying to prove to Phoebe that he could be truly good. He saved many innocents during this period, before going insane and realizing he could not kill himself. It was at this point he joined the Avatars, that is right Leo was not the first Charmed husband to become an Avatar! It was this choice, and his insistence on creating an alternate reality where he was still Belthazor, that led to his ultimate demise in the show’s 100th episode!
However, in season seven we learned that he was not dead really, but trapped in a Netherworld. He helped Piper and Leo stay together, as he knew they would be the only ones to be able to help keep Phoebe’s faith in love alive. We also learned that he was the one that sent the ex-demon Drake to Phoebe, in order to help her open up her heart to love again! He helped Drake get to live a human life for a year, in exchange for Drake helping Phoebe. Of course, he is unsurprised when Drake confessed to having fallen in love with Phoebe for real as he was dying.
It is this final act that truly proves how great of a couple they were, and could have been! He wanted nothing more than for Phoebe to have love in her life so that she would not one day end up trapped in the Netherworld he was in. Both Cole and Phoebe made sacrifices, and many poor choices, for one another, but it is the sacrifices that proved their devotion! Even after Phoebe tried to convince others she no longer loved Cole, she still proved it to be true, by calling him the love of her life.
I hope that you have enjoyed my overview of Cole and Phoebe’s love story, and my opinion on them being the best Charmed couple. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Note on Image: The image at the top of the post is one of my favorite of Phoebe and Cole. I found the image on https://www.pinterest.com/pin/458733912051127585/.
Further Watching
- Charmed (1998-2006)
8 responses to “Proof That Cole and Phoebe Were the Best Couple on Charmed”
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Leo and Piper were the best
We are all entitled to our own opinions. I do not dislike Piper and Leo, I just think that Cole and Phoebe are much better, and I went over that in detail in multiple posts here on my blog!
They were great! It was sad that Cole couldn’t resist his demonic powers which led him to loose Phoebe. Do you know what was written on Cole’s letter on the episode “Sam, I am”? He put the envelope next to his and Phoebe’s photo just before Charmed Ones tried to vanquish Cole. In which episode did Phoebe call Cole the love of her life? Was it before or after they had finally been able to vanquish Cole? Did anyone mention Cole after 100th episode? I know that he was in one episode of seventh season and Piper was able to see him but was it the only time he was mentioned and did Phoebe ever remember him?
I didn’t like when Phoebe was smiling after Charmed Ones had vanquished Cole the last time. Just like she had been happy for his death and Cole hadn’t meant anything to her! I think it’s strange that so strong love could die so fast even she earlier had cried when thought that Cole is dead.
I can answer some of your questions, first, Phoebe calls Cole the love of her life when talking to Elise in season five (after he got back from the demonic wasteland and she was in the process of divorcing him). Cole is mentioned in several episodes of the series post the 100th, especially right after with Phoebe believing he is the one ‘haunting her’ before they call the witch doctor (which is later in season five, post 100th). He is also mentioned at times when referring to Phoebe’s past relationships, and even references to her having ‘lived that nightmare’ or to her first pregnancy, but they are sparse as the series goes on. However, he is never forgotten! He appears in season seven’s 150th episode, and yes only Piper sees him, but it shows that he’s been in a Netherworld after being vanquished in that alternate reality in the 100th, and he’s been watching over Phoebe and even sent Drake her way to make sure she would never give up on love! I don’t think Phoebe’s love for Cole just died as you said, quite the opposite, I view how Phoebe treated him in early season five as being her own pain and fear over everything that had transpired in season four being processed by lashing out at Cole (as she just distracted herself with work instead of processing)! Oh, and the Phoebe in the 100th who smiled when Cole died was not the same Phoebe, that was the alternate reality Phoebe (who had been in an unhappy marriage to Cole for a long time). I hope this helped clear things up! Thanks for reading and commenting!
Thanks for your reply! Wasn’t it the same Phoebe even in the end of 100th episode when Charmed Ones visited Cole’s appartment after Cole’s death and Phoebe picked up photo of Phoebe and Cole smiling? If not then that means that Phoebe must have kept memories of alternate reality thinking that she had been unhappy in her marridge to Cole for a long time.
That was the normal reality Phoebe, they were going to check the apartment after Paige returned and told them what had happened. She would not have had any memories of the alternate reality, as she was never there. The photo is a memento of the happy times in their relationship before Cole became
The Source, and a reminder of how their relationship may have been different had that never happened.
Thank you, that made sense. I had never thought it like that and it gives some joy that she smiled because remembered happy times she had with Cole.
I think Phoebe and Cole had good times but it was little bit scary that no one could protect Phoebe when she didn’t know that Cole was Belthazor and she was nearly killed when visited him after arguing with her sisters. Also I think Cole’s story is little bit based for real life because he had some kind of addiction to evil side which he sadly couldn’t eventually resist. It’s sad reminder that there are real couples who are fighting for addictions and even they love each others they break up if one of them can’t change bad habits.