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This article is about Sabrina Spellman. You may be looking for her Rivervale counterpart Sabrina Spellman (Rivervale) or the time paradox Sabrina Morningstar.

Goodbye, Aunt Zee. Goodbye, Aunt Hilda. Goodbye, Harvey... and Roz, and Theo, and Robin, and Ambrose... and Prudence, and Agatha, and Baxter High, and the coven... and Greendale... and Salem... and Nick. Goodbye, Nick. Goodbye, Nicholas.
— Sabrina's final words[src]


Sabrina Spellman was the main character on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She is portrayed by Kiernan Shipka, who reprised her role during the sixth season of The CW's Riverdale.[1]

She was initially believed to be the daughter of Edward and Diana Spellman, making her half-mortal and half-witch. However, it was later revealed that her actual father was the Dark Lord.

Despite not being a full witch, Madam Satan noted that Sabrina had the potential to become the most powerful witch of her generation. After completing her Dark Baptism, Sabrina's powers were magnified to far greater levels than ever before. Most notably, she summoned hellfire to burn the Greendale Thirteen, a feat only three other witches have ever been able to do.

Due to Sabrina time traveling to the past in order to save her friends and family from the pagans, there were two Sabrinas. Sabrina Spellman opted to remain on Earth with her family, while Sabrina Morningstar chose to remain in Hell and become its queen. However, the existence of two Sabrinas brought about a three duplicate realms, which resulted in Morningstar fleeing to the parallel cosmos. Unfortunately, in her attempt to escape the Cosmic, she was killed by the Void, which Sabrina Spellman attempted to bring an end to by trapping the terror inside Pandora's Box. However, this ultimately resulted in Sabrina's death via bloodletting in an attempt to free her friends from within the Void and trap the Eldritch Terrors. However, not long after her death, Sabrina was resurrected by Nick and her aunts, with the former remaining in the Sweet Hereafter. This led Sabrina to specialize in necromancy.

Character Description[]

Sabrina is an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, struggling to reconcile her dual natures. She is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain some semblance of a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Sabrina’s intelligent, compassionate, and brave to the point of recklessness. She challenges witch-doctrine at every turn. She is fiercely loyal to her family and friends; wickedly funny; and in the middle of a star-crossed romance with her classmate Harvey Kinkle. Sabrina is all that stands between us and the Forces of Darkness that threaten our world.[2]

Sabrina Spellman, an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, who is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world.[3]

Early Life[]

Sabrina was born to the fallen angel, Lucifer Morningstar, High Priest witch, Edward Spellman, and mortal, Diana Spellman. Edward and Diana had trouble conceiving a child and went to the Dark Lord for help. Diana soon became pregnant through the Dark Lord's intervention. Three days after her birth, Diana had Sabrina given a Holy Baptism with her aunt, Hilda Spellman, as a witness. A day later, Edward had signed Sabrina's name into the Book of the Beast with her other aunt, Zelda Spellman, as a witness.

Not long after, Sabrina's parents would die in a plane crash. Sabrina was the only survivor because she was transported to her aunts, leaving her in the care of Hilda and Zelda, though Diana's remaining family apparently tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain custody of Sabrina. Sabrina grew up with her aunts and her cousin Ambrose Spellman.

On her first day of school, she met and befriended Harvey Kinkle, Rosalind Walker, and Susie Putnam. A few years before her dark baptism, she was sought out by the Weird Sisters. Sabrina hoped that they would become her friends, but they only wanted to torment her as they felt she didn't belong at the Academy of Unseen Arts given that she was only a half-witch.

Throughout Chilling Adventures of Sabrina[]

Throughout Riverdale[]

Season 6[]

Resurrecting the dead[]

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Sabrina makes Betty, Veronica, and Tabitha witches

Sabrina arrives in Riverdale at Heather's behest to help resurrect her friends who died from a supernatural plague. After she died a few years ago, her boyfriend, Nick, sacrificed himself to bring her back from the dead as a way to rebalance the scales. That experience of being resurrected is what made Sabrina specialize in necromancy. Unfortunately, Nick had to stay behind in the Sweet Hereafter, where Sabrina suspects that everyone else is, as well. The resurrection ritual requires a coven of at least six witches. Herself, Heather, and Cheryl make three. And while Betty, Veronica, and Tabitha may not be witches, they have developed powers, and according to Sabrina, all powerful, destructive women have the potential to become witches. So she seeks to make it official.

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Sabrina asks Jughead to come back

After completing all three steps and officially becoming witches, Sabrina decides to do a trial run and focus on a single resurrection. So, after she and Betty retrieve Jughead from the morgue, they return to Thornhill, where they recite the ritual and Sabrina crosses over into the Sweet Hereafter to coax Jughead back into his body. However, Jughead doesn't wish to return to the mortal realm, reasoning that he's currently in his ideal version of Riverdale. Sabrina has no choice but to accept Jughead wishes, but before leaving, she asks Jughead for a favor, if Nick could temporarily inhabit his body, to which he agrees. And so, Sabrina returns to the mortal realm with Nick in Jughead's body, hopeful that they can spend some time together and that he can help bring everyone back. However, this time around, they will go into the Sweet Hereafter with help from the Ferryman to retrieve their loved ones.

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Sabrina says goodbye to Nick

After the witches summon the Ferryman, who escorts Veronica, Cheryl, and Tabitha to the Sweet Hereafter, Sabrina and Nick sneak off for a quick date, during which Sabrina proposes that they run away together, leaving everything behind, including Greendale, the coven, and her aunts. However, Nick knows that they have no true future together, as death would come for them, and they'd both get dragged away. Sabrina still hasn't forgiven Nick or her aunties for tricking her into this situation, but Nick explains that the realms needed Sabrina, who says goodbye to Nick as the Psychopomps begin to gather, telling him that she loves him forever and always. After the ladies fail to bring their friends back, Sabrina has no choice but to forcefully bring them back before it's too late. Fortunately, she has a plan, one that heavily relies on Cheryl, who possesses the power of the Phoenix and the gift of resurrection, which allows them to bring everyone back. However, Sabrina hopes that Cheryl doesn't get in trouble for what she did, warning her that death doesn't like to be cheated.[4]

Physical Appearance[]

Sabrina is of medium height with a petite physique. She has wavy, short blonde hair, clear skin, and sparkling green eyes. She mostly forgoes makeup and typically dresses somewhat conservatively but comfortably so; she is not however above wearing eye-catching and/or alluring attire if the occasion calls for it. Since writing her name in the Book of the Beast and being empowered by the Dark Lord, Sabrina's look sported a similar appearance to her comic book counterpart, where her hair had become pure white, and her wardrobe and makeup preferences had also changed to reflect the more provocative look of the Weird Sisters. She did, however, go back to wearing her conservative clothes. Underneath her human appearance, Sabrina has a slightly more ghoulish appearance, consisting of grey skin, messy hair, and a noose around her neck.

Personality[]

Sabrina possesses an incredible sense of self and strong willpower, enabling her to resist psychological torture effectively. This was seen during her Harrowing by the Weird Sisters when she repeatedly withstood their attempts to break her. Similarly, Sabrina has a fierce sense of independence. An ardent feminist who believed in the advancement of women in society. She had no qualms over confronting anyone who demeans any female student. Sabrina is an uncommonly compassionate, caring, intelligent, thoughtful, rebellious, and spirited person, as well as an unwaveringly loyal friend and a loving girlfriend. She was quite popular in her mortal school but generally slighted in magic school. She lived daily with guilt over not being able to tell her friends about her true nature but learned to cope with it.

Having grown up in the world of mortals, Sabrina is the polar opposite of pure-blood witches in numerous ways. She has a very strong moral compass and doesn't look down on mortals or familiars as inferior. Her loved ones and belief in freedom of choice are by far the most important to her, traits which led her to reject the teachings of the Church of Night. She was quick to question witch traditions and would work tirelessly to find ways around the more barbaric practices. Talented, resourceful, brave and supported, Sabrina eventually developed a mild form of arrogance. This trait, paired with her dedication to her friends, led her to make reckless and sometimes bad decisions that had unfortunately cost her greatly.

Powers and Abilities[]

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Sabrina summons Hellfire

Given her nature, being part witch, Sabrina is capable of using magic. Prior to her Dark Baptism, Sabrina showed skill in witchcraft but was still somewhat of a novice. After signing her name in the Book of the Beast, Sabrina gained an enormous amount of power, capable of summoning hellfire and burning the Greendale Thirteen. According to the Greendale Thirteen, only three witches in known history have been able to accomplish this, making Sabrina the fourth and marking her as an extremely powerful witch.

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Sabrina ascends

After her ascension as the Herald of Hell, where she died and self-resurrected as Dark Lord's sword, Sabrina became the most powerful witch in Greendale. She gained the power to resurrect the dead without the use of a spell or sacrifice. Sabrina resurrected both Elspeth and Melvin, and was able to kill two angels without a cost. She also resurrected Leviathan to have him testify against Faustus Blackwood. She later cured Ambrose's enchanted wound and restored Roz' eyesight using merely water. Sabrina was also able to control the weather and transport an inanimate object through space and time without any incantation. After siphoning her magic in a mandrake, she became powerless, with Lilith later restoring her witch abilities.

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Lilith, Sabrina, and Hilda exorcise a demon

After she was released from her imprisonment, Sabrina effortlessly immobilized the guardians of the Unholy Regalia. Additionally, she has displayed the capacity to manipulate memories, as seen when she made Harvey forget that she was a witch, as well as time travel, which she used to go back in time and save her loved ones from getting killed and prevent herself getting trapped in the ninth circle of hell by Caliban. Sabrina has experimented with numerous spells, such as necromancy. Through an extremely dangerous rite given to her by Madam Satan, Sabrina gained the power to resurrect the deceased Tommy Kinkle, along with the assistance of the Weird Sisters and Nicholas Scratch and the use of the Cain Pit. She also assisted in demonic exorcism. Through an incantation created by her father, Sabrina, Lilith, and Hilda.

Sabrina has also displayed power to control the weather. By pooling together her powers with her cousin and aunts, Sabrina was able to summon a tornado.

Relationships[]

Edward Spellman and Diana Spellman[]

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Diana and Edward holding Sabrina

Initially, Edward and Diana struggled to have a child as he was a witch and she was a human. So they sought the Dark Lord's help. With him, Sabrina was conceived, making her part-witch, part-human, and part-angel. Sabrina was a baby when her parents died in a plane crash, in fact, she was on the plane when it was going down, but Edward teleported her to her aunts for safety, so she doesn't remember much of them, having been raised by Zelda and Hilda. Although, she has had interactions with them both since their deaths, both Edward and Diana appearing to Sabrina as ghosts and tell her how much they love her.

Lucifer Morningstar[]

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Sabrina and Lucifer

Lucifer, or as he's known to his followers, Dark Lord, is Sabrina's biological father. She wouldn't come to know this until well after her 16th birthday. Sabrina's mortal mother, Diana, and witch father, Edward, couldn't conceive on their own, so they went to the Dark Lord for help, and nine months later, Sabrina was born. However, the Dark Lord agreeing to help them was simply a part of his plan to instigate the apocalypse. He wished to pervert the Holy Trinity by siring a babe of witch, mortal, and infernal blood. Because of this, Sabrina is described as being the "Herald of Hell." She hates her father and wishes to be rid of him, viewing him as pure evil.

Zelda Spellman[]

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Sabrina and Zelda

Though she loves her aunt dearly, Sabrina and Zelda often collide over differences of opinions of witch matters, specifically regarding what Sabrina perceives to be mostly sexist and barbaric laws and traditions. Moreover, for many years, Zelda had an unwavering love and loyalty for the Dark Lord, an entity that Sabrina would often question. However, they are similar is less notable ways; Sabrina and Zelda are both natural born leaders — Zelda the head of the Spellman clan and Sabrina with her friends, both mortals and witches. Despite Zelda's devout faith the Dark Lord, which no longer remains true, she has proven many times over that she will choose Sabrina above all.

Hilda Spellman[]

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Sabrina and Hilda

Sabrina has a very close relationship with her aunt Hilda, with whom she is similar with in many ways. Sabrina and Hilda share many of the same views in regards to witch laws and tradition and the barbaric and/or sexist manner in which they're celebrated. However, unlike her aunt Hilda, who remains quiet about her feelings, Sabrina often denounces the ways of her coven and strives for better. It's Sabrina's caring nature that Hilda's wishes to protect and has even attempted to secretly guide Sabrina down the Path of Light against Zelda's wishes.

Ambrose Spellman[]

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Sabrina and Ambrose

Sabrina has developed a very close relationship with her cousin, Ambrose, who often tries to steer her down the right path and give her useful advice. And when she finds herself in trouble or need of assistance, she often relies on Ambrose and his vast knowledge of witch laws and traditions. And while Ambrose may enjoy taking part in Sabrina's schemes and hectic endeavors, he is very much aware of the price to pay for breaking witch law and how merciless one's sentence can be. It's due to his past experience that he tries to keep Sabrina out of trouble, protecting her at the cost of his own life.

Harvey Kinkle[]

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Sabrina and Harvey

Sabrina and Harvey were high school sweethearts, deeply in love with one another. In fact, he was the first mortal to learn that Sabrina was a witch, but she quickly made him forget it with a memory-erasing spell after realizing that he wasn't ready to know the truth. Their relationship began to slowly collapse because of Sabrina's secrets, which became more and more apparent after her 16th birthday. Their relationship was severed when Sabrina performed an unsuccessful resurrection ritual on his brother, which resulted in Harvey learning the truth about Sabrina and him having to kill his brother. While the two remained attracted to each other after the breakup, they decided to move on with other partners. For some time after Sabrina's absence and Rosalind's blindness, Harvey blamed Sabrina, but they eventually reconciled and became friends again. Unbeknownst to Harvey, Sabrina performed a cord-cutting spell to sever all romantic ties between the two of them.

Rosalind Walker and Theo Putnam[]

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Sabrina, Roz, and Theo

Roz and Theo are Sabrina's closest friends and confidants. They are her childhood friends, who Sabrina cares for deeply and would do anything to protect. The three of them formed WICCA at Baxter High to ensure the safety of their fellow classmates as well as themselves from their intolerable male classmates. Upon realizing her true potential and resurrecting from the dead, one of Sabrina's first acts were restoring Roz' vision after she had gone completely blind. Usually, such a spell would come at a cost, but Sabrina did so with ease. Just as important as restoring Roz' vision, Sabrina accepted Theo with open arms when he transitioned from Susie and even helped him claim a spot on the boys' basketball team.

Nicholas Scratch[]

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Sabrina and Nick

Sabrina and Nick quickly became friends and then lovers. Initially, Sabrina declined Nick's advances, often reminding him of her mortal boyfriend Harvey Kinkle. Nevertheless, they remained friends. After Sabrina officially enrolled into the Academy of Unseen Arts, she and Nick grew closer as they spent more time together. They eventually became partners in crime, with him often coming to her aid at her times of need. After starring in a play where Sabrina and Nick shared their first kiss and participating in Lupercalia together, the two eventually started dating. However, their relationship was short-lived after Nick revealed to Sabrina that he had been ordered by the Dark Lord to guide her down the Path of Night. Sabrina would later come to forgive Nick after he sacrificed himself to be Lucifer's prison. With help from her friends, Sabrina would reclaim Nick and rescue him from Hell. However, his time trapped with the Dark Lord left him mentally scared and unable to maintain a relationship with Sabrina.

Prudence Blackwood[]

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Sabrina and Prudence

Sabrina was initially despised by Prudence and her sisters for being half-mortal. They'd refer to her as "half-breed." However, their relationship has grown to become less antagonistic over time. When Prudence was selected as the Queen of the Feast of Feasts, Sabrina tried to convince her to decline the opportunity as she didn't wish to see Prudence die. However, Sabrina's efforts were hindered by Prudence's stubborn faith in the Dark Lord, though Prudence backed out after learning the truth about Constance Blackwood and how she was trying to get rid of Prudence. Sabrina and Prudence have also teamed up on several other occasions, for instance to punish Agatha for killing Tommy Kinkle. Since then, the two have developed a mutual respect for one another, though they aren't above confrontation should a disagreement arise. While they may come together in times of need, Prudence insists that they aren't friends, reasoning that Sabrina only talks to her and her sisters when she needs something from them.

Appearances[]

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina[]

Part 1[]

Part 2[]

Part 3[]

Part 4[]

Riverdale[]

Season 6[]

Trivia[]

  • She is based on the main character of the same name from the Sabrina the Teenage Witch series, which is published by the same company as the Archie comics.
  • Even though several cast and crew members previously stated that Sabrina would make her debut in the season one finale, in her recent interview with AfterBuzz TV, Marisol Nichols denied those rumors and instead said that if Sabrina is going to be introduced, it would be 'seasons down the line'.
  • Initially, Sabrina was said to be an upcoming character that was set to appear at some point in the future on Riverdale.[5]
    • Before Riverdale had found its footing as sort of a noir, crime, pulp show, there were potential plans of a genre switch to horror and the introduction of Sabrina as an antagonist in the second season, with season 1's cliffhanger being her arrival. Ultimately, Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and his team decided against it for various reasons.[6]
  • Sabrina didn’t learn about witch terms and traditions until the year of her dark baptism.[7] This would explain her lack of knowledge about the Feast of Feasts.
  • Sabrina learned Latin and calligraphy from Zelda when she was 5 years old.
  • Before her dark baptism, Father Blackwood and the Church of Night forbade Sabrina from attending unholy service.[8]
  • In "Chapter Fifteen: Doctor Cerberus's House of Horror", Sabrina had a tarot vision of herself levitating into space and freezing to death. This foreshadowed the events of "Chapter Thirty-Six: At the Mountains of Madness", where her original body froze to death trying to contain the Void in Pandora's Box.
  • In Archie Comics, Sabrina Spellman is one of the most famous and beloved characters.
    • Sabrina Spellman debuted in Archie's Mad House #22, in October 1962.
    • She received so much appreciation from Archie's readers that she earned her own series, titled Sabrina the Teenage Witch, published since 1971, with numerous relaunches over the years.
    • In 2015, New Riverdale rebooted the entire original Archie lineup. Sabrina debuted in Jughead #9.
    • She later appeared in the Afterlife with Archie series, with Lovecraftian tones.
    • Due to the success of the series, Archie Comics produced Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a horror retelling set in the 60s, featuring a much darker and sinister version of Sabrina.
      • In the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic series, Sabrina's full name is "Sabrina Victoria Spellman".[9]
  • In the 1971 animated series produced by Filmation, Sabrina was created by a potion brewed by witches Hilda and Zelda. This character also appeared in the sister animated series, The Archie Show.
  • In 2012, Hub Network produced a 3D-animated series, Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch.
  • Sabrina Spellman is best known to younger generations thanks to Melissa Joan Hart portraying her in the 90s sitcom, loosely based on the characters from Archie Comics. In fact, the sitcom has much more in common with the 60s sitcom Bewitched.
    • The sitcom was launched by a 1996 made-for-TV movie, where Sabrina lives in the town of Riverdale and her surname has been changed to Sawyer.
    • Melissa Joan Hart resumed her role as Sabrina Spellman in two other made-for-TV movies, titled Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998) and Sabrina Down Under (1999).
    • In 1999, a spin-off titled Sabrina: The Animated Series was produced by DIC Entertainment, where Melissa Joan Hart voiced Hilda and Zelda.
  • Along with Archie and Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina is the character with more TV adaptations.

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