In compare to Phoebe? I think so.
COLE TURNER'S "HUMANITY"When his character was first introduced in Season Three of "CHARMED", Cole Turner had been revealed in the episode, (3.08) "Sleuthing With the Enemy", as a human-daemon hybrid. In order to explain his love for the witch Phoebe Halliwell, the writers attributed his evil nature to his demonic side and his ability for love and compassion to his human side. After seven years, I have come to the conclusion that this explanation for Cole's complex personality seems like a load of bull.
Recalling the years in which Julian McMahon - the actor who had portrayed Cole - had spent on "CHARMED", it seemed to me that Cole had loved Phoebe whether he was evil, good, demonic or human. He had loved her due to who he was and nothing else. If "humanity" guaranteed goodness, how would one explain certain humans that the Charmed Ones had faced that turned out to be not only morally questionable, but out-and-out evil:
*Tony Wong - a local gangster who murdered a young man named Mark Chao in order to steal the latter's identity and avoid the police. ("Dead Man Dating")
*Whitaker Berman - a handicapped man with an ability to infiltrate the dreams of others, using a machines, uses his ability to kill women he is rejected by. ("Dream Sorcerer")
*Harry and Danny - two thugs who kidnapped a psychokinetic named Max in order to rob a bank. They also shot his dad, when the latter proved to be difficult. ("Secrets and Guys")
*Phoebe Halliwell (2009) - Future version of Phoebe who used her powers to murder a man who had assaulted a friend of hers. ("Mortality Bites")
*Ms. Hellfire - A female assassin who attempted to murder the Charmed Ones with an assault weapon. ("Ms. Hellfire)
*Bane Jessup - A ganster hired by Barbas to murder the Charmed Ones. He, in turn, handed over the assignment to Ms. Hellfire. ("Ms. Hellfire")
*Martha van Lewen - A San Franciscan socialite whose murder of her lover and family chauffeur led to the men in her family being murdered by his spirit. ("Reckless Abandon")
*Piper Halliwell - She had broken Federal law by purchasing an illegal South American fruit that had not been examined by U.S. Customs called Kiwano, which causes Oroya fever. ("Awakened")
*Aunt Gail, Amanda and Helen - Three elderly witches (one of them an old friend of Grams') who stole the Charmed Ones' powers for a demon who could restore their youth. ("How to Make a Quilt Out of an American")
*Dr. Curtis Williamson - The doctor who had treated Piper of Oroyo Fever, accidentally acquired their powers and became a murderous vigilante. ("Astral Monkey")
*Emilio - A street thug who had allowed his body to be used as a host for one of the demonic spirits called the Guardians. ("The Honeymoon's Over")
*Abbey - A bartender at P3, who developed an obssession over Prue. She kidnapped Prue and nearly killed her. ("Sight Unseen")
*Tom Peters - Prue's ex-classmate who had joined an academy to ascend to demonhood. ("Wrestling With Demons")
*Sutter - A ruthless political boss from an 1873 town who terrorized a Native American citizen and intimidated other citizens. ("The Good, the Bad and the Cursed")
*Ray - A bar customer who had murdered another customer in cold-blood and framed Prue. ("Just Harried")
*Alice Hicks - A local San Franciscan who shot Piper in cold blood after asking the two older Charmed Ones to allow her to become a witch and being rejected. ("All Hell Breaks Loose")
*Carol Grisanti - An abusive mother who allowed her husband to take the blame for their son's abuse. ("Charmed Again, Part 2")
*FBI Special Agent Jackson - A Federal agent who turned out to be a witch hunter that burns witches alive. ("Witch Way Now?")
*Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews - Two of the Charmed Ones who ripped Lieutenant Darryl Morris' soul from his body without his permission. ("Vahalley of the Dolls")
*Rick Gittridge - An old classmate of Phoebe and convict who managed to escape from jail with her help. He kidnapped a few other classmates and blackmailed her into using her powers to commit crimes. ("Hyde School Reunion")
*Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews - Two of the Charmed Ones who had deliberately set up Rick Gittridge to be murdered by Scabbars Demons, who were after Chris Halliwell. They changed Rick's face into Chris'. ("Hyde School Reunion")
*The Charmed Ones - The Halliwells turned into murdeorus werewolves when all three of them are on their menstrual cycle during a Blue Moon. ("Once in a Blue Moon")
*The Charmed Ones - The Halliwells helped the Avatars cast a spell on the citizens of Earth against their wills and turn the planet into Utopia. ("Extreme Makeover: World Edition")My knowledge of the villains that appeared on the show between Seasons Five and Eight are very sketchy. But I have noticed that there have been a great deal of evil humans or humans who have committed questionable or evil acts between Seasons One and Four. Many or nearly all of these humans have never displayed any sign of remorse for their actions. Even more disturbing is the fact that the Charmed Ones - especially Phoebe and Paige have committed some very questionable acts.
And the series also proved - without acknowledging - that demonic or other supernatural beings are capable of love. Beings such as:
*Alec - A darklighter who had fallen in love with a human and future whitelighter named Daisy. He eventually turned to evil again, when she had rejected his love. ("Love Hurts")
*Paul Rowe - A warlock and one-third of the powerful Rowe Coven, who had sacrificed himself to save half-brother Brendan from being killed by the eldest brother, Greg. ("When Bad Warlocks Go Good")
*Elias Lundy - The chauffeur of the van Lewen family who had been Martha van Lewen's lover. He had been genuinely in love with her, when she murdered him in cold-blood. His love eventually turned to hatred of her family when he became a ghost. ("Reckless Abandon")
*The Sorcerer - Also a businessman who was evil . . . yes, but was also in love with his mortal secretary. ("Magic Hour")
*Rick and Nathan Lang - Army friends of Leo who had died on Guadacanal. They blamed Leo for their deaths and came back as ghosts to kill Piper. ("Saving Private Leo")
*Orin and Cree - A demonic father and son pair who seemed willing to do anything for each other. It is clear that they loved each other as father and son. ("The Eyes Have It")
*Cole Turner/Belthazor - Phoebe's demonic ex-husband whose inability to deal with her permanent rejection of him, leads him to a path of depression, suicide attempts, insanity and evil. ("Sam I Am" to "Centennial Charmed")
*Armand - The ghost of a necromancing demon who had once been Grams' lover when she was young. Although he wanted to use Wyatt's powers to become corporeal, he was genuinely in love with her. ("Necromancing the Stone")In the Season 3 episode, "Bride and Gloom", Cole once told Phoebe that evil could not love:
Phoebe: Love is love.
Cole: There's no such thing as evil love. It's just gratification, lust.The lame-brain person who had put those words into his mouth was a screenwriter named William Schmidt. Now, I do not know if Mr. Schmidt actually believed this crap, or else he was instructed by Brad Kern to write it. Nevertheless, Cole ended up being proven wrong on many occasions, judging by the adversaries listed above. And the sad thing is that many fans and possibly Kern himself, refuse to accept this. They would refer to cling to the belief that evil cannot love. Period.
Some people would say that the above adversaries had human blood or ancestry in them . . . like Cole. I would say . . . bull. Unlike Constance Burge, Brad Kern and their writers, I am not stupid enough to believe that individuals can be easily described as good or evil, based upon what they are. I do not believe in recognizing a being's moral state in such a simplified manner. Life is simply too complex and ambiguous for such immature thinking.
A good example of CHARMED's talent for contradiction is the saga of the Rowe brothers in the Season 1 episode, "When Bad Warlocks Go Good". In this episode, Prue met a seminarian (someone training to become a priest) named Brendan Rowe. It turned out that he and his two half-brothers were part of a powerful family of warlocks called the Rowe Coven. Although his half brothers, two "so-called full-blooded warlocks" named Greg and Paul, tried to convince his brother to choose a path of evil, Brendan - whose mother was a non-magical mortal - resisted with Prue's help.
The oldest Rowe, Greg, turned out to be one evil bastard willing to do anything to convince Brendan to help form the Rowe Coven. Surprisingly, the middle brother, Paul, turned out to be a different kettle of fish. One, he had earlier tried to convince brother Greg to allow Brendan to lead his own life. From the beginning, Paul had never struck me as someone as being inherently evil. He merely seemed like someone who had been dominated first by a strong-willed and evil father, and later by his older brother Greg. The only reason Greg wanted Brendan alive was to maintain the powerful Rowe Coven. And when he threatened to kill Brendan for rejecting this path, the Charmed Ones did not come to the latter's aide. Ironically, it was Paul Rowe who saved Brendan's life out of brotherly love . . . and sacrified his own. And Brendan reacted in this manner:
Greg: Then you will die. (He throws the knife and it hits Paul in the chest.) Damn you, Brendan.
Paul: Greg. (He pulls the knife out of his chest.) Damn you!
(He throws the knife and hits Greg in the chest. They both turn into dust.)
Prue: I'm sorry.
Brendan: I'm not. Ungrateful bastard. His half-brother sacrificed himself to save his ass and the shitheel could not even acknowledge this. Why? Because the moronic writers - along with Constance Burge - lacked the guts to admit that their theory of evil being unable to love was worth sh!t in the wind.
Brad Kern and his writers saved the worst for one Coleridge Benjamin Turner, aka the demon Belthazor. After Phoebe had faked his death in Season 3's "Sleuthing With the Enemy", Cole returned in the episode, "Bride and Gloom", in the hopes of continuing his relationship with her. Phoebe responded in the following manner:
Phoebe: "Maybe not on the surface and maybe not even in your heart. But somewhere inside of you, you'll always be. And you can't ever change that. Goodbye."How ironic that this would come from a woman who was shown in Season 2's "Morality Bites", murdering a man in cold-blood out of revenge for a friend's death in an alternate future timeline. In the same timeline, her older sister Prue nearly murdered the District Attorney in order to stop the execution of a very guilty Phoebe. Phoebe was right that Cole would always have evil within him. But she believed this was the case due to him being a half-demon. She never considered the possibility that Cole would always have evil or darkness within him, because he was a sentient being. Or that she, her sisters and Leo would also have evil within them as long as they existed. After all, if mortals like Ms. Hellfire and Piper's bartender, Abbey, were capable of acts of extreme evil, what on earth made Phoebe believe that one has to be a demon or even half-demon to possess the potential of evil? Exactly how stupid was she? Or should I say . . . Brad Kern and his cabal of writers?
Well, here is an example of how stupid they were when Cole first lost his powers in early Season Four:
Leo: You don't think they should?
Paige: I don't know, I guess it's not my business. Probably just really the fact that Cole killed people.
Piper: Yeah, but that wasn't Cole, it was Belthazor.
Paige: Splitting hairs if you ask me.
Leo: It's not though. He's human half had absolutely nothing to do with any of that, it was totally substicated. Phoebe's right, he's an innocent.Personally, I believe that the writers of "Black as Cole" amongst them, Brad Kern) are f**k**g morons. What on earth made them portray Cole's demonic half as some kind of supernatural entity that had controlled his human half? Was Kern really that stupid or simply unable to allow the series fans to accept that Cole had been a hybrid since birth? And why on earth did Kern and his writers believe it was necessary to strip Cole of his powers in order to make him "safe" for Phoebe? After all, she had the potential to be dangerous to him. Phoebe and her sisters will definitely prove just how dangerous they could be in the post-Season 4 years. And considering the number of dangerous mortals they had encountered between Seasons One through Four, it amazes me that they still believed that a completely human Cole was the only safe Cole . . . despite the fact that Leo had witnessed a mortal Cole kill a former demonic colleague in cold blood in order to prevent them from being discovered in the Source's Realm in "Muse to My Ears".
By early Season Five, it all went to sh!t for poor Cole. In late Season Four, the Halliwells managed to kill the Old Source in "Charmed and Dangerous". Unfortunately, the old bastard's spirit took the opportunity to take possession of Cole's body - which was lacking his demonic side. Despite some struggling on Cole's part, the Source was able to take full possession of him. Instead of allowing the Charmed Ones to find out what had really happened to Cole, Kern and his writers allowed the sisters to assume the worst and kill Cole and the Source's spirit in "Long Live the Queen". Later, Cole managed to acquire new and stronger powers in something called the Wasteland and returned from the dead. I had hoped that the sisters would eventually learn of their mistake and discover what had really happened between him and the Source in early Season Five. Alas, Brad Kern had something else in mind.
Cole returned to San Francisco at the beginning of Season Five to win back Phoebe's love. After all, when she had visited him in the Wasteland, she had refused to help him escape using the Grimoire in the Season Four finale, "Witch Way Is Now?". But he found himself facing a new Phoebe who feared his new powers and wanted nothing to do with him. Phoebe finally claimed that she still loved him, but something about him stood in the way:
Phoebe: Right. So once again our love was nearly fatal.
Cole: I never would've hurt you if I wasn't under her spell.
Phoebe: Most men don't try to kill their wives when they're under the Siren's spell. Most men just kiss and die. But because you're a demon...
Cole: I'm not...
Phoebe: Okay, well, because you have demonic powers and a lot of them, you became a bigger threat than the Siren. And that's only one way out of a thousand that your powers can turn against me.It is understandable that Phoebe would fear Cole's new powers. But I wonder if she ever understood that as the powerful Charmed Ones, she and her sisters could be just as dangerous to society . . . as they would eventually prove in mid-Season Seven. Yet, she had never expressed such reservations toward her very powerful nephew Wyatt, who had been born in mid-Season Five in "The Day The Magic Died". Even when the Halliwells learned that Wyatt might proved to be a very powerful force of evil in future in Season Six and had an encounter with an evil Wyatt in Season Seven's "Imaginary Friends". It seemed that morality had nothing to do with Phoebe's reservations about Cole. Apparently, blood seemed to be thicker than an ex-husband. Or perhaps Wyatt's status as the son of a witch and a whitelighter made Phoebe more tolerant of him than the son of a mortal and a demon. Even Leo's murder of an Elder who had been plotting against Wyatt was tolerated . . . despite the fact that it had been an act of evil.
Am I accusing the Halliwells of possible bigotry toward Cole, because of what he was? Who knows? When Piper had succumbed to depression and anger over Prue's death in Season Four's "Hell Hath No Fury", and Leo's promotion to being an Elder in Season Five's "Oh Goddess!", Phoebe, Paige and Leo did not hesitate to give emotional support to her. Yet, when Cole had suffered depression and anger over Phoebe's final rejection of him, the sisters reacted in this manner:
Phoebe: No, you said it yourself. It wasn't a smart plan. Unless you didn't really wanted to kill us. You wanted us to be so blinded by hate that we couldn't see what you were really up to.
Cole: Well, it's the only way out for me. And you want it too, so...
Phoebe: Yeah, but on our terms, not yours. We won't help you commit suicide.According to Phoebe, not only would they refuse to help Cole commit suicide, they were only prepared to kill him on "their terms". Nor were they willing to help him deal with his loss of Phoebe. Period. And all because of his demonic heritage.
In the end, Paige tried to kill Cole on her own in "Centennial Charmed". This led to Cole becoming an Avatar and changing the timeline in which Paige had been killed before becoming a Charmed One. But this also led to Cole returning to his old status as Belthazor. And the sisters killed him using a potion they had first created back in early Season Three:
Paige: I think you should feel good about it, you know? We don't have to look over our shoulders anymore. It's over.
(Phoebe picks up a photo of her and Cole.)
Phoebe: I guess it just wasn't meant to be.
Piper: Let's go.
(They head for the door. Phoebe places the photo on a side table and looks back into the apartment. She smiles slightly and walks into the elevator.)
Paige: Happy birthday, Cole.Personally, I found Paige's birthday greeting too little and too late for me to take her words seriously. I found it empty and shallow. And I have not harbored a kind thought about the Halliwells and Leo ever since.
I am so sorry for him.. I always wished Phoebe would end up with him.....
i mean the r soooooooo cute to gether sometimes i wish i were alyissa 
oh well
