Anton



Anton is a powerful, immortal warlock with superhuman strength and the power to Glamour. He would seduce a witch and give her false promises of world domination, however, all he truly wants is more power for himself. In 1924, Anton fell in love with a Warren witch, Pearl Russell, who also happened to be the past life of Phoebe Halliwell. He seduced her into turning evil, and convinced her to help him kill her cousins, Phoebe Bowen and P. Baxter--the past lives of Prue and Piper Halliwell-- to obtain their powers. He gave her a potion that tripled her power of pyrokinesis, and an amulet that rendered her immune to all witchcraft.

Bowen and Baxter feared that Anton and Russell were soulmates, and would be too much for their descendants to handle if they ever got back together again in the future. With this in mind, they not only killed Pearl by strangulation, but cursed her soul so that her future selves would also die during their 24th year. Meanwhile, Anton escaped with the amulet, which was ripped off Pearl's neck in the struggle. In 2000, he reappeared to reclaim his love in an attempt to gain access to the Charmed Ones' powers. He was inadvertently helped by Phoebe, who went back to her past self in order to find some way to keep from being killed by the curse Bowen and Baxter (her great-grandmother and great-aunt, respectively) spoke 76 years earlier. In the process, she switched bodies with Pearl, allowing Pearl to be reincarnated in the present. However, Prue deflected one of Pearl's fire blasts at him, which set him ablaze and destroyed him.

Anton's relationshp with Pearl can be seen as a precursor to Phoebe's later romance with Cole Turner, especially after Cole became the Source. The only difference is that Cole never turned Phoebe completely evil.

Appearances
Anton appears in a total of 2 episode throughout the course of the series.
 * Season 2
 * Pardon My Past


 * Season 8
 * Generation Hex - flashback