Gideon

Gideon
Charmed character
First appearance	The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell
Last appearance	It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World (Part Two)
Created by	Brad Kern
Portrayed by	Gildart Jackson
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Species	Elder

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Gideon is a fictional character on the television show Charmed.

Character's background

Gideon is one of the most powerful Elders and is the headmaster of Magic School, an institution where young magical beings learn magic. He is also Leo Wyatt's mentor.

He originally pushed for the Elders to allow Leo to marry Piper Halliwell, and even served as the Charmed Ones' lawyer when Barbas tried to have the Charmed Ones' powers stripped from them. However, at some point between the events in "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" and "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father", Gideon's attitude toward the couple and their one-year-old son Wyatt Halliwell changed drastically. He feared that Wyatt's vast powers would turn him evil and allow him to become an unstoppable threat. His belief was only strengthened by the arrival of Wyatt's younger brother, Chris from a future where Wyatt was the king of evil and ruthlessly ruled over the entire world.

Having gained the sisters' confidence, Gideon used his position as a friend of the family to get close to Wyatt as he plotted to destroy Wyatt. He even hired a team of darklighters to get Leo out of the way. However, his efforts were often slowed by the very thing that seemed to confirm his fears about Wyatt: Chris. The young half-witch/whitelighter was determined to find and stop the person or persons responsible for his brother turning evil, causing Gideon to tread lightly around him.

When the Charmed Ones nearly caught on to his plans, his desperation led him to conspire with demons who ran a game show where demons killed witches and stole their powers for their own gain. He had the hosts and their henchmen attack the sisters, Leo, and Chris in hopes of leading them off his trail, which worked temporarily. Though he threatened the hosts so they would not harm innocents or the Charmed Ones, his reckless and ill-thought-out scheme led to the death of an innocent witch.

Through a magic mirror, Gideon communicated with his evil counterpart in a parallel dimension to distract both the good and evil Charmed Ones so that they might kill their Wyatts. Realizing Gideon was the one after Wyatt, the sisters, Leo, and Chris were able to stop him by joining forces with their evil counterparts. Gideon realised that killing Wyatt would be the act of "great evil" necessary to restore the balance between the good and evil worlds. However, the sisters, Leo, and Chris soon discovered that in Chris' timeline, Gideon had taken Wyatt away for several weeks in his attempt to kill the boy. While Wyatt was able to fend him off, the trauma of having to constantly defend himself was too much for his young psyche to handle, and turned him evil—thus making Gideon's concerns a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Gideon conspired with Barbas, who used his powers to distract the sisters and Leo while Gideon kidnapped Wyatt, killing Chris in the process. Grief-stricken by his son's death, Leo tracked Gideon down in the Underworld just as the Elder was about to kill Wyatt. Gideon claimed that Wyatt's death was necessary to protect the future. Leo immediately countered that killing a child was never for the greater good, and that Gideon was the real reason the future was threatened. He then savagely electrocuted Gideon—a "great evil" that restored the balance between the good and evil worlds.

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