In Popular Culture
- The Archangel Raphael serves as the antagonist in the fifth and sixth seasons on the CW Television Network horror/drama series Supernatural, Raphael serving as a traditionalist archangel who seeks to restart the apocalypse after protagonists Dean and Sam Winchester and 'renegade' angel Castiel averted the Apocalypse by trapping Lucifer and other archangel Michael in Lucifer's Cage. He is finally killed in the finale when Castiel absorbs the souls of Purgatory to increase his power to a level where he can defeat Raphael.
- The upcoming Nicholas Sparks drama The Watchers focuses on the life of Raphael as an angel who has given up immortality, for the love of a human woman.
- In season 2, episode 14 of the show Criminal Minds, the unsub refers to himself as Raphael as he goes on a religious mission to kill sinners. It is eventually revealed that he has dissociative identity disorder and one of his personalities believes itself to be the archangel Raphael.
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