Major Villains in Charmed - Season 6

Season 6

Gideon (portrayed by Gildart Jackson), Sigmund (portrayed by Christopher Neiman) and Barbas (portrayed by Billy Drago). Gideon was an Elder and the headmaster of Magic secretly plotting across many episodes stealthily against toddler Wyatt Halliwell, while Sigmund was his assistant.

Gideon initially asks the Halliwells for help when some of his teachers and students are decapitated by a headless horseman. He immediately gains their trust as the headmaster of the school, taken together with Piper's daycare concerns for a very magical toddler. His motives are not truly evil, as he believes he is acting for the Greater Good. In his opinion, Piper and Leo's first son, Wyatt, is too powerful to be kept alive, and the arrival of Whitelighter Chris Perry (later revealed to be Piper and Leo's second son, Christopher Halliwell), from a future where Wyatt Halliwell is a powerful evil tyrant, seems to confirm his fears.

But Gideon's plans to destroy the boy, using demons and warlocks as surrogates, are complicated by the very thing that seemed to prove his suspicions - Chris - who is bent on protecting his older sibling from the influences that turned him evil. The young half-witch/whitelighter vows to find the culprit who turns his brother evil in the future and stop him. Gideon's multi-episode plots are also foiled, nearly as often, by Wyatt's innately strong, if immature magical talents, and Gideon grows increasingly desperate to succeed, gradually exposing himself to discovery. In the end, he risks direct involvement and becomes unmasked to Wyatt's protective parents and family.

Barbas, the Demon of Fear who was previously vanquished by the Charmed Ones, is reconjured by the Tribunal; he later partners with Gideon in the finale. Once the parents become alerted to and begin looking for the influence threatening the future, Gideon manages (by improvising) to make the Halliwells believe Wyatt is going to be made evil by the hosts of a demonic reality TV show, which involves killing witches. After those threats are vanquished, Gideon kills his henchman, Sigmund, who has assisted him in deceiving everyone but is about to tell everything to the Charmed Ones. Gideon sends Leo and Chris, followed by Paige and Phoebe, into a mirror dimension where Evil rules, to get them out of his way. In the evil world, the good Barbas advises that Gideon has been behind this all along. As Gideon's evil counterpart is caught trying to kill Wyatt, the Phoebes and Paiges of both worlds try to vanquish him, and the balance between Good and Evil shifts. The Good world becomes too good, which affects Piper and then, via a spell she writes while under Barbas' influence, Phoebe and Paige. Leo manages to turn them back to normal and, after Chris dies by Gideon's hands, Leo avenges his death, killing Gideon and restoring the balance in the process. Barbas is vanquished again, for good, in the seventh season's premiere.