Charmed
For three seasons of the CW hitCharmed , Cole was a sodding scoundrel / love interest for the tercet of Halliwell Sister , so why did the character die in season 5 ? Half - military personnel , half - daimon , and all dreamboat , Julian McMahon ’s Cole was a polar part ofCharmed ’s third , quaternary , and fifth seasons . A huge hit for its producer,90210creator Aaron Spelling , Charmedwas theCraft - inspiredstory of a family of three good witch sister equilibrize modern sprightliness , dearest , and monster - slaying in contemporary San Francisco .
Green - lit on the back ofBuffy ’s success , Charmedbrought a similar style of sardonic charm to its soapy supernatural game . The show followed Prue , Piper , Phoebe , and eventually , their tardy - arrival quaternary babe Paige as they sail both their duties as good witch and the responsibleness of modern life . Of of course , there was always plenty of metre for love interests too , specially if they were of the former opposition variety ( just as Buffy had Angel and Spike ) . And that ’s where Cole , played by Julian McMahon , come in . JoiningCharmedin its third time of year beforePrue was killedoff , Cole start life story as a villain hell - bent on finally vanquishing the girl and their effective magic .
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And that ’s " infernal region - bent " in the genuine sense , as Cole was a powerful half - demon loan-blend . But even he was n’t strong enough to hold out the temptingness of the sisters , and presently Cole was reform into Phoebe ’s love interest . The couplet tie in season four , which made it all the more shocking and heartbreaking for fan when Cole take back to his caddish origins and became the source of all evil in season five . This soon led to his death at the hands of the combinedpowers of the Halliwell sisters . But there ’s still the question of why the part was killed off after undergo an engaging redemption spark . As is always the typeface in television , the truth seems to come down to the savourless reality of scheduling conflicts .
Although the worker remained loaded - lipped about the reasons behind his exit , it seems most likely that McMahon ’s starring role in super - producer and laterGleecreator Ryan Murphy’sNip / Tuckwas the causal agent . The role was an chance he could n’t turn down , although it left him with too little time to commit toCharmed . FromNip / Tuck ’s pilot in 2003 until 2005 McMahon juggle both roles , but once it became clear-cut that the Murphy series had serious potential difference , the character of Cole was shortly indite out for good in volatile fashion .
Thus , despitePhoebe and Cole bear a baby together , the former love sake and likable anti - villain was even so vanquished for good by the Halliwell sisters , leaving his actor free to commit full - time to the office ofNip / Tuck ’s Dr. Christian Troy . At the clip of his passing fromCharmed , McMahon claimed in an audience that he was sad to leave the show but excited about the expectation of challenging himself as an actor and hold the next job . The comment could reasonably be read as a very polite way of McMahon say he was ready for the principal role and , as fun as the resort lineament of Cole was , the panorama of star in a show is heavy for any actor to resist .
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