- "A universe destined to maintain balance. Light and dark, yin and yang, good and evil. For good to prevail in this world, then an equally evil world must also exist."
- —Gideon to Paige Matthews[src]
This Parallel World is an inverse to the 'other world' created by the Grand Design to maintain the cosmic balance of the universe.
Overview
The Evil Charmed Ones
In the world where moralities are reversed, the Charmed Ones are powerful evil witches and the terrors of San Francisco, feared by all. The Book of Shadows is also an evil counterpart. Prescott Street has been reduced to a slum while only the Halliwell Manor remains intact and unchanged.
Leo Wyatt and Sam Wilder are Darklighters instead of Whitelighters, resulting in Paige, Wyatt, and Chris being born as Half-Darklighters. Additionally, in this world, Chris came back from the future to save his brother from turning good instead of evil.
Gideon is a dark Elder in this world, though it is unknown whether there still is a council of Elders.
The San Francisco Police Department is corrupt and a rogue Darryl is shown hanging out in P3, which is a strip club where Inspector Sheridan moonlights as a pole dancer.
The Underworld in this world is a peaceful paradise, since demons are good. This was proven by Barbas, who presents himself as the Demon of Hope rather than the Demon of Fear.
Communicating
The only way known to communicate with this world was the usage of a certain mirror or creating a portal to physically travel to a parallel world.
One such mirror was in Gideon's office in the Magic School, and had a chessboard underneath that could be used for playing with counterparts by magically moving a chess pieces of their counterparts and it can also be used to heal each other as if they were in the same world. After good Leo killed his Gideon (which also killed his evil counterpart in one fell square without evil Leo killing him) in order to offset the balance, both Leos destroyed their respective mirrors.
Consequences
A venture to a parallel world can result in a cosmic imbalance that can only be reversed if a great act of evil was committed in the good world to restore the balance.
When the balance was disturbed, the good world became a very bright world with eternal sunshine. However, morality was so disturbed that even mild swearing was considered a capital offense. Phoebe was shot point blank for parking in the wrong spot and talking on a cell phone loudly resulted in a man getting his hand removed. Meanwhile, the evil world was covered in eternal night and even minor good deeds, such as saying 'bonjour', were punished with limbs being cut off.
History
As part of his plan to kill Wyatt Halliwell for the greater good, Gideon worked with his evil counterpart by communicating through a mirror between the worlds. When the Charmed Ones planned on sending Chris back to the future, Gideon intervened and instead exchanged the good Leo and Chris with the evil ones as a distraction.
Evil Leo and Evil Chris go to the Good World
Phoebe and Paige quickly trapped the evil versions after they escaped into the city and then traveled to the parallel world to retrieve the good versions. The evil Gideon then sent them to the Underworld, where Leo and Chris had found a good version of Barbas. The evil versions of the sisters then appeared, resulting in a battle between counterparts. However, they ultimately stopped fighting when they realized they had common goals. Barbas then revealed to them that Gideon was behind it all.[1]
The Power of Four
When the sisters returned to their world, they found that the balance had been upset, resulting in their world becoming too good and the parallel world becoming too evil. When Gideon kidnapped Wyatt, both sets of sisters found the mirror between worlds and decided to work together. By using a spell invoking the Power of Four, they were able to prevent Gideon from killing Wyatt. However, Gideon then asked for Barbas's help, who manipulated Piper into casting a spell to distract the sisters.
Gideon then fatally stabbed Chris and took Wyatt to the Underworld. Leo eventually tracked him down and worked with his evil counterpart through the mirror. However, to correct the disturbance in the worlds, good Leo then vanquished Gideon on his own as a great act of evil was needed to restore the balance. Leo then destroyed the mirror, breaking all contact.[2]
Notable Residents
Gallery
Notes and Trivia
- Since the events of both parallel worlds mirror each other, it can be assumed that when the Vera-Danso Charmed Ones from an alternate reality appeared in the good Halliwells' universe, their evil counterparts must have had also appeared in this parallel world.
References
- ↑ Season 6 episode, "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 1"
- ↑ Season 6 episode, "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World, Part 2"