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Supernatural is an American television drama series created by writer and producer Eric Kripke. It was initially broadcast by The WB network from September 13, 2005, but after the first season, the WB and UPN networks merged to form The CW network, which was the final broadcaster for the show in the United States by the series' conclusion on November 19, 2020, with 327 episodes aired. The Winchesters, a spin-off prequel/sequel series to Supernatural developed by Robbie Thompson, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Ackles, aired on The CW for 13 episodes from October 11, 2022, to March 7, 2023.
Supernatural and The Winchesters each feature two main characters, Sam Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (played by Jensen Ackles), and Mary Campbell (played by Meg Donnelly) and John Winchester (played by Drake Rodger).
In Supernatural, the two Winchester brothers are hunters who travel across the United States, mainly to the Midwest, in a black 1967 Chevy Impala to hunt demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, witches, and other supernatural creatures. Supernatural chronicles the relationship between the brothers, their friends, and their father. Throughout the seasons, the brothers work to fight evil, keep each other alive, and avenge those they have lost. In The Winchesters, Dean Winchester narrates the story of how his parents John Winchester and Mary Campbell met, fell in love and fought monsters together while in search for their missing fathers.
Supernatural features many recurring guests that help Sam Winchester and Dean Winchester with their hunts and quests. Frequent returning characters include hunter Bobby Singer (who becomes a father figure to Sam and Dean after season two), Castiel (an angel), Crowley (a demon and the King of Hell), and Jack Kline (the Nephilim). The series also featured recurring appearances from other angels, demons, and hunters.
Cast
[edit]This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season.
- A green cell indicates the actor is a main cast member.
- A red cell indicates the actor is a recurring cast member.
- A light blue cell indicates the actor is a guest or special guest cast member.
Main
[edit]| Actor | Character | Supernatural | Win. | ||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | |||
| Jared Padalecki | Sam Winchester | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Jensen Ackles | Dean Winchester | ✓ | ✓[a] | ||||||||||||||
| ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Katie Cassidy | Ruby | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Genevieve Cortese/Padalecki | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Herself | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Lauren Cohan | Bela Talbot | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Misha Collins | Castiel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||
| Jimmy Novak | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Mark A. Sheppard | Crowley | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||
| Mark Pellegrino | Lucifer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓[b] | |||||||||||
| Nick | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Alexander Calvert | Jack Kline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓[b] | |||||||||||||
| Belphegor | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Samantha Smith[c] | Mary Winchester | ✓ | ✓ | ✓[d] | ✓ | ||||||||||||
| Meg Donnelly | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Jeffrey Dean Morgan[c] | John Winchester | ✓ | ✓ | ✓[e] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓[b] | |||||||||
| Drake Rodger | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||
| Nida Khurshid | Latika Desai | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Jojo Fleites | Carlos Cervantez | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Demetria McKinney | Ada Monroe | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
| Bianca Kajlich | Millie Winchester | ✓ | |||||||||||||||
Recurring
[edit]Notable guests
[edit]- Notes
Angels
[edit]Angels of God are extremely powerful spiritual beings. Merely perceiving their true form - even psychically - typically results in blindness, as the appearance of their natural "visage" is overwhelming. Only a select few can withstand their true appearances and voices, though no one is ever featured on the show that could do so. They often take human vessels to exist in and interact with the physical world; however, they can only enter with the hosts' consent. Angels need a particular vessel called the "chosen" one or "true vessels" to be their host if they want to reach their full potential.
Most angels are portrayed as emotionless authoritarian beings. Some angels show disdain for humanity, noting that humans are flawed and inferior creations. Lucifer was the only angel to refuse kneeling before humans at God's command. All angels, fallen or not, refer to each other as siblings and refer to God as their Father. However, most angels never actually meet or talk to God. God, their former leader, is noted as missing throughout the majority of the show, leaving the angels to protect humanity instead. There is a ranking among the angels, with the higher ranks commanding those at a lower rank.
Creator Eric Kripke originally did not want angels to be featured in the series, believing God worked through hunters rather than angels.[1] However, with so many demon villains, he and the writers changed their minds when they realized that the show needed angels to create a "cosmic battle" between the angels and demons. As Kripke put it, "We had the empire, but we didn't really have the rebellion."[2] They wanted to have a storyline with a few central characters, but with the massive battles in the background, comparable to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, the addition of angels allowed for this.[3] Kripke eventually found that it opened up new storylines to include in the show.[2]
Akobel
[edit]Akobel, portrayed by Nils Hognestad, is the Seraphim of the Sixth Choir who married a human, Lily Sunder, in the early twentieth century.
In "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets", the Winchesters and Castiel investigate a series of angel murders committed by Lily Sunder. Castiel and Ishim, the last two angels left, explain that in 1901, Ishim's garrison, then including Castiel, was ordered to kill Akobel for fathering a Nephilim with Lily Sunder and kill the child, May. When confronted by the angels, Akobel ordered Lily to run and attempted to attack Ishim, but was prevented by Castiel. Restrained by Benjamin and Mirabel, Akobel was executed by Mirabel with an angel blade for his crime and May was then killed by Ishim. In the present day, Lily is seeking revenge upon the angels who killed her family.
After tracking down Lily, the Winchesters learn the truth from her: Akobel was not May's father and she was in fact human. Akobel was protecting Lily's family from Ishim who had become obsessed with her. After she rejected him, Ishim murdered Lily's family in revenge and Lily spent the next century hunting down the angels responsible. During a battle, Ishim is killed by Castiel to save Lily, avenging the murders of Akobel and May. Despite Castiel saving her life, Lily is left unsure if she can forgive him for his role in the events and the remorseful Castiel promises that if she wants revenge again later, he will be waiting for her.
Anael
[edit]Anael, portrayed by Danneel Ackles, is described as a low-level functionary.
Anael first appears in "Devil's Bargain" in the guise of her vessel Sister Jo, working as a faith healer. Anael heals people of their various injuries and ailments in exchange for money. Anael is found by Lucifer who is seeking angels to drain their grace in order to recharge his own. Recognizing the rogue archangel, Anael instead convinces Lucifer to take bits of her grace, allow her to recharge and then take some more. In this way, Lucifer recharges his grace and forms a relationship with Anael who reveals that she has many plans to remake Heaven for the better, but has never been taken seriously by the other angels. The Winchesters and Castiel eventually track down Anael and Lucifer through Sister Jo's credit cards and Anael pretends to comply with them, claiming that Lucifer is extremely weak. In their motel room, Anael aids Lucifer in fighting the Winchesters and Castiel, flinging Sam into a wall. Before Lucifer can kill them, Arthur Ketch appears and throws a demon bomb, causing Lucifer to grab Anael and teleport away. At Anael's suggestion, Lucifer next visits the Heavenly Portal where he promises to restore the angels' wings and help make new angels if they will bow to him as their undisputed leader. Anael later stands by Lucifer's side as the angels all bow to him in Heaven's Throne Room.
Anael appears in "Bring 'em Back Alive" as Lucifer's second-in-command, growing increasingly frustrated with Lucifer's antics. Lucifer eventually admits to Anael that he had lied that he could restore angels' wings and make new angels and violently lashes out at her, but cannot bring himself to kill Anael. Fed up, Anael tells Lucifer that he now has nothing and has lost her too. Lucifer subsequently abandons Heaven and Anael who is revealed in "Funeralia" to be one of less than a dozen angels alive in all of creation.
In the Season 14 episode "Stranger in a Strange Land", Anael, working again as a faith healer, is approached by the alternate Michael in his search for answers. She later calls Sam to warn him that Michael was working with monsters.
In "Game Night", Castiel seeks Anael's help in finding a way to contact God as she was once the protégé of Joshua. Anael reveals a rumor that Joshua managed to contact God after the Fall and helps Castiel search for the method Joshua used. Anael recognizes that Castiel is really trying to find a way to restore Jack's lost soul before he has to tell Sam and Dean about it and explains her reasons for leaving Joshua for her role as a low-level functionary. Though the two angels succeed in finding the copy of Dean's amulet that Joshua constructed, they receive no reply from God and go their separate ways with Castiel planning to finally tell Sam and Dean the truth.
In the Season 15 episode "Destiny's Child", the Winchesters, Castiel and Jack are instructed by Billie to find a mystical object called the Occultum which they track to Anael. Anael reveals that she gave the Occultum to Ruby, supposedly so that the demon could sell it. However, Dean killed Ruby before she could sell the Occultum, which is hidden in Hell. When the Winchesters search Hell, they are ambushed by three demons, but defeat them. Before it is killed, the lead demon reveals that Anael hired them to kill Sam and Dean, promising to help the demons escape Hell in exchange. Abandoning her life as a faith healer, Anael flees, telling a man seeking her services to never help one's friends if they ask too much. Castiel subsequently enters the Empty to talk to Ruby who reveals that Anael approached her, suggesting that they ride out the Apocalypse inside of the Occultum, the safest place there is. Ruby never told Anael where she hid the Occultum on Earth as she did not trust the angel and reveals where to look in exchange for Castiel promising to try to get the demon out of the Empty.
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[edit]Balthazar
[edit]Balthazar, portrayed by Sebastian Roché, is an angel who had fought alongside Castiel during the last angelic war. Believed dead, this was merely a cover as he left Heaven, taking weapons with him. He has been on Earth enjoying a hedonistic lifestyle. In "The Third Man", the Winchesters discover that three corrupt cops were murdered by the young brother of one of their victims in possession of The Staff of Moses. Balthazar is revealed to have sold it to the boy in return for his soul. During a conflict with Raphael and his henchmen, Balthazar destroys the archangel's vessel with Lot's Salt. Dean then traps Balthazar in a ring of Holy Fire and forces him to give up the boy's soul. They want more from him, but Castiel releases him because he owes him his life. Sam uses an Enochian ritual to summon Balthazar, in "Appointment in Samarra". Sam asks him if there is any way to keep a soul out of its body. Balthazar informs him of a ritual that involves him defiling his vessel, helping Sam because he would find it useful to have Sam in his debt. He tells Sam that he would need the blood of his father (that need not come from the "father of your blood"), prompting Sam to try to kill Bobby before he is subdued, Dean and Death recover Sam's soul. In "The French Mistake" Balthazar transports Sam and Dean to an alternate universe to evade the angelic hit man Virgil and gives them a key that he claims gives access to the weapons he stole from Heaven. This is revealed to have been a ploy by Balthazar and Castiel to allow the latter to retrieve the weapons from their true location while Raphael was distracted. A suspicious alias used by Balthazar in 1912 leads to the brothers summoning Balthazar in "My Heart Will Go On". Balthazar claims he had saved the Titanic simply because he detested the movie and subsequent eponymous song. However, upon confrontation with Fate, Atropos reveals she knows Balthazar is working for Castiel; saving the Titanic was to provide additional souls to fund their side in the civil war. Castiel pulls out of the plan to kill Atropos once she threatens the Winchesters, stopping Balthazar from killing her. When the Winchesters reveal that Castiel is in league with Crowley in "Let It Bleed", Balthazar agrees to assist the brothers and act as a double agent. He then transports Sam and Dean to where Lisa and Ben are being held captive. In "The Man Who Knew too Much", Balthazar begins to have second thoughts about betraying Castiel, but ultimately continues to assist the brothers. He informs Dean and Bobby of where the ritual to open the gate to Purgatory will take place. Castiel summons Balthazar and reveals that he is aware of his actions, Balthazar is then killed by Castiel.
In the Season 13 episode "Unfinished Business", an alternate reality version of Balthazar is mentioned to have led one of the Apocalypse World Michael's armies. He was killed in battle by Lucifer's son Jack.
Bartholomew
[edit]An angel, portrayed by Adam J. Harrington, who after the fall began gathering other angels into a faction to retake and rule Heaven. Bartholomew is described as a protege of Naomi and in "I'm No Angel", uses Internet preacher Reverend Buddy Boyle to find vessels for other angels. Wanting revenge for the expulsion of the angels, Bartholomew sends his followers after Castiel and when he wards himself against angelic detection, rogue reapers. In "Holy Terror", Bartholomew has shifted to using Boyle to target select groups rather than the whole world so he can control who becomes a vessel, wanting only his followers to gain vessels. After some of Bartholomew's angels are slaughtered by angels under the command of anarchist Malachi, Bartholomew refuses a meeting with him and starts an angelic civil war between his and Malachi's factions. In "Captives", Bartholomew has begun destroying all other factions, including peaceful ones as he sees them threats to his power and his men capture Castiel. Bartholomew is pleased by this, having apparently put aside his previous resentment as he is Castiel's old friend and ally. Bartholomew invites Castiel to join him, having turned all of his human followers into vessels and using their resources to track Metatron when he appears on Earth. Bartholomew believes with Castiel on his side he can unite the angels under his command and retake Heaven, but Castiel refuses to help when he tortures an innocent angel. When Castiel refuses to kill the angel, Bartholomew attacks him, but Castiel overpowers him. Though Castiel has Bartholomew at his mercy, he refuses to kill him as he wants no more angel deaths and lets him go. Bartholomew refuses to stop and draws a second angel sword and attacks Castiel while his back is turned. With no other choice, Castiel kills Bartholomew in self-defense with his own sword. Afterwards, several of his followers decide to follow Castiel, having seen a different way in Castiel's refusal to kill him and desire for no more bloodshed.
Billie
[edit]Billie, portrayed by Lisa Berry, was introduced in Season 11. She is a reaper first appearing in "Form and Void". She meets Sam inside a hospital whose inhabitants are dying due to the Darkness' infection, with her acting as their reaper. Despite Dean having killed Death in the previous season, souls must still be collected. Billie tells Sam that she is tired of seeing him and Dean dying and coming back over and over again, promising them that the next time they die, she will put them into the Empty, where no soul can escape. Billie senses that Sam is "unclean in the Biblical sense" and believes that she will be reaping him soon. Though Sam comes close to succumbing to his Rabid infection, he remembers Billie's comment about being "unclean in the Biblical sense" and discovers a cure through holy fire after looking up Biblical purifications.
In "The Devil in the Details", Billie returns guarding a door into Hell for Crowley, stating that it is useful for her to have the King of Hell owe her in such troubled times. When Dean arrives, Billie lets him in before revealing her identity to him. Billie makes it clear that while she does not actually want to kill the Winchesters, she just intends to make sure they remain dead when they die. Billie gives a Dean a witchcatcher she has located for Crowley and later lets Castiel through the door when he is unexpectedly teleported into the room.
In "Red Meat", a desperate Dean decides to contact Billie to make a deal after Sam's apparent death. Dean commits suicide through a drug overdose of prescription pills. As a doctor desperately tries to revive Dean, Billie arrives and freezes time to "savor the moment". Though Dean tries to bargain with Billie, she refuses, intent on taking him to the Empty. Though Dean insists that Sam is the only one who can beat the Darkness, Billie disagrees and tells Dean that even if Sam could defeat the Darkness, she would not bring him back and that "the answer will always be no". Billie then tells the shocked Dean that Sam's not actually dead as she would have been told if Sam had died. Billie unfreezes time and prepares to take Dean to the Empty, but the doctor is able to revive Dean with a shot of adrenaline to the heart. Disappointed, Billie departs alone.
In "Alpha and Omega", Billie witnesses the Winchesters collecting ghosts at Waverly Hills Sanatorium and follows them to the Men of Letters bunker where she senses that God is dying. After the Winchesters, Castiel, Crowley and God explain their plan to her, Billie agrees to help, stating "little tip—you want souls, call a reaper". Billie is able to draw a couple of hundred thousand souls from the Veil into the crystal for the Winchesters' Soul Bomb, giving them the means to potentially kill the Darkness. Billie departs after saying goodbye to Crowley and tells Dean that while they will see her again, she hopes it is not today.
In the Season 12 episode "Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox", Billie returns to reap the souls of those killed by the demon Jael, warning Dean, who is trapped outside of the house, of the threat. Dean begs Billie to help him get back in, promising that he will owe her in exchange. Billie agrees and throws Dean straight through the door to the house. After Jael is exorcised, Billie reappears to claim what Dean owes her: the recently resurrected Mary Winchester. Billie recognizes that Mary is struggling to deal with her return and offers her peace. Mary confirms that Billie cannot kill Mary herself due to the rules and ultimately chooses to stay rather than leave her sons again. Billie leaves Mary be and tells the Winchesters that if they ever want peace, all they have to do is call for her.
In "First Blood", Billie reappears at midnight after the Winchesters escape Site 94. Sam and Dean reveal that they were going insane while in captivity so they summoned Billie and made a deal with her: in exchange for Billie temporarily killing and then later reviving them so that they could escape, one Winchester would die permanently at midnight. Billie made the Winchesters seal the deal in blood and warns that breaking such a deal could have cosmic consequences. As Mary is a Winchester, she decides to sacrifice herself rather than force one of her sons to die and Billie keeps Sam and Dean from interfering. Before Mary can commit suicide, Billie is killed from behind by Castiel with an angel blade, to the Winchesters' shock. Castiel expresses a belief that the world cannot afford to lose even one of the family and he was acting in their best interests by killing Billie to break the deal. As a result, Dean is pissed with Castiel through "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets", eventually admitting that he is worried about Billie's warning of cosmic consequences for breaking the deal.
In the Season 13 episode "Advanced Thanatology", Billie unexpectedly returns after Dean briefly commits suicide to learn the location of the remains of a group of ghosts. When Sam cannot revive Dean, Billie appears and stops time. Billie reveals to Dean that one of the rules of the Universe is that when one incarnation of Death is killed, the next reaper to die will take his place. As a result, Billie has been resurrected as the new Death with a new outfit and a ring and scythe like the old Death. Billie transports Dean to her office in the Veil and asks him about the rift that had opened briefly to another universe. Dean agrees to tell Billie what she wants to know if she will free the trapped ghosts, a deal Billie accepts and sends the reaper Jessica to complete. Dean explains the circumstances behind the rift and Billie shows him her library displaying all the possible methods of death for a person. With a new outlook on life and death, Billie soon recognizes how much Dean has changed from his selfless deal and that he actually wants to die. Rather than taking him to the Empty, an amused Billie tells Dean to keep living and personally resurrects Dean. After his return to life, Dean tells Sam about his encounter with Billie as Death.
In "Funeralia", the witch Rowena begins killing people and the reapers sent to collect their souls in order to attract Billie's attention and force her to resurrect Crowley. In response, Billie has the reaper Jessica, who she has had following the Winchesters around, alert them to the threat. However, Jessica is unable to intervene directly due to Billie's rules and cannot offer more than information. Jessica also passes along a message from Billie that all versions of Rowena's final death have her killed by Sam. After Rowena begins torturing Sam, Billie appears in person and refuses to bow to Rowena's blackmail. Billie easily withstands Rowena's magical barrage and offers sympathy to Rowena who she recognizes has changed, but continues to refuse to bring back Crowley. Before departing, Billie promises Dean to "see you soon" and Rowena's magical attack on Billie is revealed to have exhausted her enhanced powers, possibly to the point that they will never recover.
In the Season 14 episode "Nihilism", Sam attempts to get the reaper Violet to transport himself, Castiel, Jack, and Michael to safety. Violet refuses because of Billie's rules before they are unexpectedly teleported to the Bunker. After Michael is locked away in Dean's mind, he is visited by Billie who he realizes had saved them despite breaking the rules. Billie admits that she "took a gamble" by helping them and reminds Dean of the time he visited her reading room which showed the many ways he could die. Billie reveals that every single version of his fate but one now has Michael breaking free and using Dean's body to destroy the world. She chides Dean for his universe hopping. Billie hands Dean the book containing the one fate that has Michael losing, leaving Dean in shock over what it reveals. Billie tells Dean that he must decide what to do with the information and disappears. In "Damaged Goods", Dean tells Sam that Billie revealed to him that the only way to stop Michael is for Dean to build a Ma'lak Box and trap himself and Michael for eternity. To this end, Billie has provided Dean with the instructions to build the box.
In "Moriah", after God kills Jack and begins the end of the world, Billie appears in the Empty with Jack and the Shadow.
In the Season 15 episode "The Trap", Billie visits the still-awake Jack in the Empty after the Winchesters choose not to seal God away after learning of the consequences to the world. Billie tells the young Nephilim that "it's time".
In "The Gamblers", Billie is revealed to have resurrected Jack and is guiding him in targeting Grigori, fallen angels that feed on the souls of innocent people. Jack later explains that Billie had kept him hidden in the Empty until God left Earth making it safe for Jack to be resurrected. Billie has provided Jack with a plan that will allow Jack to become strong enough to kill God himself.
In "Galaxy Brain", Billie is revealed to have been unable to restore Jack's soul when she resurrected him. She ignores Jack's prayers, instead assigning a reaper named Merle to watch over and control Jack. After Jack opens a rift to the Bad Place against her explicit instructions, Billie kills Merle and explains that God has been destroying all of the alternate universes and states that even God has a book detailing his ultimate fate in her library. Billie states that Jack, Sam and Dean are in the book which God cannot access without her permission, but refuses to explain further other than Sam and Dean's destiny is to be the messengers of God's destruction.
In "Destiny's Child", Billie reveals that God is almost done destroying other universes and will soon turn his attention back to their world. Billie assigns Jack another quest, this time one of a more spiritual nature. Billie instructs the Winchesters, Jack, and Castiel to find the Occultum, though she refuses to explain what it will do and does not know where to find it. When Castiel later enters the Empty to talk to Ruby, the Occultum's last owner, it is revealed that Billie and the Shadow are working together and as a result, Billie can resurrect Jack. Billie has promised the entity that once everything is over, she will send it back to sleep, something that it desperately wants. However, while torturing Castiel, the Shadow comments that Billie never mentioned needing Castiel for her plan. Jack ultimately fulfills his quest, causing the Occultum to restore Jack's lost soul.
In "Gimme Shelter", Jack reveals that Billie's plan to kill both Chuck and Amara, which involves turning Jack into a bomb that will cause God and the Darkness to cease to exist, will kill him as well.
In "Drag Me Away (From You)", Billie visits Dean and reveals that Chuck is done destroying alternate universes and will soon return. She has given Jack his final quest to prepare and according to the book, her role is now over until the end. Billie insists that Dean tell Sam the truth and he assures her that he is ready to enact the plan even if he does not like it.
In "Unity", Dean and Jack follow Billie's instructions and track down Adam who reveals that Billie has kept him alive for 300,000 years as he has been coming up with a plan to kill God; Billie has simply been helping Adam enact his plan. At the same time, Sam locates the Key to Death and enters Billie's library in search of her, only to find the Shadow who is also searching for Billie. To Sam's shock, the Shadow reveals that Billie's true plan is to take power as the new God once God and Amara are dead and will ensure that anyone who has been resurrected will die and that everyone from alternate universes will be returned to their own world – a death sentence since the other worlds are gone. Chuck admits to Amara that this is all part of his plan to get the Winchesters to kill each other, having goaded Billie. However, Sam talks Dean out of going through with the plan and an enraged God departs as Jack begins to detonate.
In "Despair", as the Winchesters and Castiel attempt to figure out how to help Jack, Billie appears in the bunker, enraged by their failure to kill Chuck and Amara. Though she cannot stop the detonation, Billie is able to teleport Jack to the Empty where he detonates instead, explaining that with God and Amara gone, only the Shadow can handle that kind of impact. Billie then admits that it is possible that Jack survived, pointing out that she only said it would be fatal, not that it would kill him. Castiel realizes that Chuck and Amara's death would have triggered a chain reaction. The group confront Billie over her lies and exploitation of them to which she admits and demands Chuck's death book back in exchange for bringing Jack back from the Empty. Sam reluctantly hands the book over. Billie brings Jack back, but tries to take him with her. Grabbing Death's Scythe, Dean slashes Billie in the shoulder, forcing her to flee without Jack, the book or the scythe. After their friends start dying, Dean decides to hunt Billie down, believing her to be responsible. After a brief skirmish, Billie reveals that Chuck was actually responsible. Mortally wounded by Dean's earlier attack, Billie chases Castiel and Dean in order to kill Dean before she dies. Realizing that only the Shadow, who has a grudge against Billie, can stop her, Castiel experiences a moment of true happiness by expressing his love for Dean, thus fulfilling his deal with the Shadow. The Shadow opens a portal to the Empty and sends two tendrils of darkness, one of which absorbs Billie, before both Billie and Castiel are dragged into the Empty.
Castiel
[edit]Dumah
[edit]Dumah is an angel, portrayed by Erica Cerra, who is one of very few angels left alive by Season 13 and appears to hold a position of power amongst them.
Dumah first appears in "War of the Worlds" as Castiel's contact in Heaven with whom he meets about Jacks' disappearance. Dumah assures Castiel that Jack is not in the angels' custody and reveals that they want Jack because they see him as their only chance to make new angels. Dumah tells Castiel that angels are in danger of extinction and are willing to do anything to survive, including enslaving Jack. Dumah brings in two other angels to ambush Castiel, who fights back. The skirmish is interrupted by the surprise appearance of Lucifer, who scares off Dumah and the other two angels.
In "Devil's Bargain", Lucifer and Anael meet with Dumah and other angels outside the Heavenly Portal. Lucifer promises that if the angels bow to him as their leader, he can restore their wings and make new angels, claiming to know how as he witnessed God making angels. Dumah and the angels later bow to Lucifer in Heaven's Throne Room. Dumah subsequently appears in "Bring 'em Back Alive" and is ordered by Lucifer to dispatch angels to find his son. After a brief hesitation, she agrees.
In "Funeralia", Castiel returns to a Heaven experiencing power fluctuations. He is met by Dumah and a few other angels and requests their help, telling them that Gabriel is still alive, an alternate Michael is about to invade, Jack is trapped, and Lucifer is dangerous. As the power fluctuates around them, Dumah tells Castiel that they might be able to help each other, orders him to wait in the throne room and disappears. When she returns, Dumah tells Castiel that if he can find Gabriel and bring him back to Heaven, the angels can help him with everything else, such as finding Michael and defending Earth. When Castiel tells her that he needs her help to find them, Dumah admits that that is a problem. Castiel asks why Dumah cannot just send angels to search for Gabriel before Naomi appears and tells him that she and the other angels cannot. Naomi subsequently explains that fewer than a dozen angels are alive, including Castiel, Naomi, and Dumah. The low number of angels is causing power fluctuations in Heaven and if things do not change soon, the angels will burn out and Heaven will crumble. As a result, Naomi and Heaven's remaining angels cannot leave Heaven without risking it crumbling.
In "Byzantium", Castiel finds that Heaven has been invaded by the Cosmic Entity in search of Jack's soul. Castiel encounters an unconscious Dumah who wakes up and joins Castiel on his mission to find and resurrect Jack. After Castiel finds Jack, Dumah is revealed to be possessed by the Entity who uses her form to attack Castiel and make a deal with him. When the Entity departs Heaven, it leaves Dumah's body, leaving her with no apparent memory of her possession.
In "Absence", Castiel calls for Naomi after the death of Mary Winchester. Dumah will only tell him that Naomi is "indisposed", but confirms that Mary Winchester is dead and at peace in Heaven. To prove it, Dumah allows Castiel into Heaven where he witnesses Mary at peace in a Heaven shared with John Winchester.
In "Jack in the Box", Castiel returns to Heaven to seek Naomi's help in finding Jack. Dumah reveals that she has overthrown Naomi, pointing out that the Entity invaded Heaven under Naomi's watch and nearly killed all the angels. Though Dumah promises to help, she locates Jack and begins manipulating him for her own ends, creating a reign of terror wherein humans are beaten into submission, Heaven is stripped of all mercy and Jack acts to solidify Dumah's power. Dumah defends her actions as necessary to save Heaven, the angels and the world and states her intentions to guide Jack. When Castiel moves to take Jack and leave, Dumah stops him and threatens to use her new power over Heaven to end John and Mary's peaceful shared Heaven. Enraged, Castiel draws his angel blade and kills Dumah before she can react, leaving her body on the floor of Heaven as Castiel heads off after Jack. In "Moriah", Jack recognizes that Dumah had been using him when talking with Castiel.
Gabriel
[edit]Gabriel (also referred to as the Trickster or Loki) is an archangel portrayed by Richard Speight, Jr. Tiring of watching his brothers fight each other in Heaven, he fled to Earth thousands of years prior to the series[citation needed], assuming the role of a Pagan trickster. For his first appearance in the Season 2 episode "Tall Tales", the writers decided not to put their own spin on trickster lore— as is usually done with other villains—keeping the "deadly sense of humor" and decision to go after the "high and mighty to bring them down a notch",[4] with Gabriel causing violent urban legends to come to life on a college campus and punish the residents. Sam and Dean Winchester investigate and eventually figure out his identity, though the Trickster is waiting for them and offers a peaceful resolution so long as they let him leave to terrorize another town. Sam and Dean refuse, and attack him with the help of fellow hunter Bobby Singer, and the Trickster fakes his own death.
The Trickster reappears in the Season 3 episode "Mystery Spot", trapping Sam in a time loop where Dean ends up dying in many different ways. After over a hundred loops, Sam threatens the Trickster with a blood-covered stake, after which he agrees to break the loop. But when Sam considers killing him regardless, the Trickster sends the two to the next day where Dean once again dies, but is unable to be resurrected without the time loop. Months later, he calls Sam to him, where he tries to drive in a point: the two brothers continually sacrificing themselves for one another brings no good, and when people die, their survivors just have to cope. However, the Trickster gives Sam what he wants, lamenting that the whole situation had become boring months ago for him anyway.
In the Season 5 episode "Changing Channels", he lures the Winchesters to him with a case that makes it obvious he is involved. He traps Sam and Dean in an endless thread of television shows where they must play out their roles to survive, while ignoring their attempts at having him join them. Gabriel explains this is his way of getting them to accept their roles as vessels for Lucifer and Michael, respectively. In one of the scenarios, he banishes Castiel and is livid at a response about the Archangels. He is later stabbed with a stake, a move that kills other trickster spirits, however, he continues to put them in the shows. Dean and Sam trap him in a burning circle of holy oil, suspecting he is an angel because he survived staking, how he and Castiel interacted, and his anger at the insults of the Archangels. He then reveals that he is Gabriel, which does not surprise them. He explains he left Heaven because of conflict with his family. He even expresses his desire for the Winchesters to agree to become vessels since their lives mirror those of the angels. Dean forces him to bring Castiel back and frees Gabriel from his trap and accuses him of giving up because he is too afraid to stand up to his own family.
In "Hammer of the Gods", Gabriel attends the summit of pagan gods under the guise of Loki; however, he intends to rescue the brothers as their plan to lure Lucifer would easily fail, and Lucifer would slaughter them all. As he intends to prevent Kali, an old flame, from suffering a bloody fate, he tries to get them out; but he tells them rescuing the pagan's hostages would be too difficult. However, later he is forced to comply; the rescue attempt results in the brothers' recapture. Kali (who is keeping the brothers from leaving as their spilled blood binds them to her) reveals that she, along with the other gods, knew of his identity for a while. Kali takes his sword and stabs him with it, apparently killing him, but Gabriel appears to Dean and reveals the sword was a fake and suggests Dean should seduce Kali so they can escape. Lucifer shows up at the hotel, slaughtering most of the gods. Gabriel is forced to step in, allowing Kali and the brothers to leave. Gabriel confronts his brother about loyalties and their past, but ultimately fails and is killed by his own blade. He later reveals, through a modified porn movie, Lucifer can be reincarcerated in his previous prison, with the four rings of the Horsemen.
Gabriel returns in the Season 9 episode "Meta Fiction", where he reveals to Castiel that he has been in Heaven since he 'died'. However, when Heaven kicked all the angels out, Gabriel was forced to flee from Metatron. He tells Castiel that Metatron was using the Horn of Gabriel to trap and kill the angels and that he needs Castiel to help him fight. When the two are running, they stop at a gas station where they realize that some of Metatron's loyal subjects were following them. Gabriel offers to fight them off because he still has some of his Archangel powers left, but Castiel realizes that the whole situation is an illusion. Castiel then asks if Gabriel is really still alive, but all Gabriel does for an answer is raise his eyebrows before disappearing. Metatron says later that Gabriel played his part well.
In "We Happy Few", God confirms that Gabriel is dead when they discuss how the four archangels were required to help God defeat the Darkness the first time. God tells the Winchesters that while they have Lucifer fighting with them, Michael is in no shape to fight and Raphael and Gabriel are dead. When Dean reminds God that he has resurrected Castiel before, God tells him that he cannot resurrect the archangels so easily as they are beings of primordial creation. As a result, it will take far too much time to resurrect Gabriel and Raphael to help fight the Darkness.
In the Season 13 episode "Devil's Bargain", the Prince of Hell Asmodeus reveals to Arthur Ketch that he has gotten his hands on an Archangel Blade, the only known weapon that can kill an archangel. When Arthur reminds Asmodeus that the lore states that only an archangel can wield the blade, Asmodeus reveals that he has Gabriel, somehow still alive, as his prisoner. Gabriel is now in a beaten and bloody state with his mouth sewn shut.
In "The Thing", Arthur discovers that Asmodeus is injecting himself with Gabriel's grace to power up. Following a brutal beating by Asmodeus, Arthur rescues Gabriel and steals the archangel blade and Asmodeus' store of Gabriel's grace. Arthur brings the traumatized Gabriel to the Winchesters who are shocked to see the archangel whom they believed to be dead and learn of his captivity. Using Gabriel's extracted grace, the Winchesters are able to complete a ritual to open a door into an alternate reality that Dean passes through, leaving Sam and Gabriel behind.
In "Bring 'em Back Alive", Sam and Castiel attempt to treat the traumatized Gabriel who cringes away from all attempts to help him and appears unable to speak, even after the stitches holding his mouth shut are cut. Gabriel eventually writes his story on the wall in Enochian, revealing that he faked his death during the Apocalypse by tricking Lucifer into stabbing a duplicate of himself. Free of responsibility, Gabriel returned to a hedonistic lifestyle in Monte Carlo until he was captured and sold to Asmodeus. After a plea by Sam, Gabriel starts responding, but retreats into himself again after learning that Asmodeus knows where he is. When Asmodeus invades the bunker, Gabriel is recaptured, but snaps out of his traumatized state when Asmodeus starts torturing Sam and Castiel. Healing himself, Gabriel quickly kills Asmodeus. He is informed of the events that followed in his absence, but refuses to help further and departs the bunker. With the departure of Gabriel and the use of the last of his stored grace in an effort to heal him, the Winchesters are left without a way to reopen the door to Apocalypse World. They are also left without a powerful ally who could have helped them fight Michael.
During "Funeralia", Castiel visited Heaven and finds the other angels aware of Gabriel still being alive, to their surprise. Naomi tasked Castiel with retrieving Gabriel so that Heaven could properly fluctuate because of the low number of angels.
In "Unfinished Business", Gabriel seeks revenge on the pagan gods Loki, Fenrir, Narfi and Sleipnir. It Is revealed that millennia before, Gabriel rescued Loki and made a deal with him where Gabriel took on Loki's form and persona as The Trickster to go into "witness protection". Gabriel had sought Loki's help after faking his death only to have Loki betray him and sell Gabriel to Asmodeus. Low on grace and wounded, Gabriel arms himself with specially-crafted wooden swords and seeks the help of the Winchesters after he is wounded and sense they were following him. In exchange for Gabriel helping them, the Winchesters agree to help Gabriel get revenge. With the help of the Winchesters, Gabriel kills Fenrir, Narfi and Slepnir before facing off with Loki (also played by Speight) who blames Gabriel for his father Odin's murder by Lucifer and wants revenge. Gabriel kills Loki and keeps his promise to return to the bunker with the Winchesters and joins their quest to stop Michael.
In "Beat the Devil", Gabriel gives up some of his archangel grace to complete the spell to open up the rift to Apocalypse World, but the spell fails. Gabriel and Rowena banter about where the fault over the spell's failure lies and Rowena flirts with Gabriel, leading them to have sex, much to the horror of the Winchesters. He then assists the Winchesters in their plan to capture Lucifer and use his grace to complete the spell. The plan succeeds and Gabriel travels with the Winchesters and Castiel to Apocalypse World. While traveling to find Mary and Jack, Castiel informs Gabriel of the precarious situation in Heaven, but Gabriel is reluctant to intervene. Sam is killed during a battle with a nest of vampires. The group then finds the human camp where Mary and Jack are, and Gabriel and Castiel work together to break the warding against angels so they can enter. After informing Mary and Jack of Sam's demise, Jack asks why Gabriel or Castiel did not revive him, but Gabriel tells him that they are not strong enough. Lucifer then enters the camp with a resurrected Sam.
In "Exodus", Gabriel interacts with his nephew and brother before he angrily disagrees with Lucifer's characterization of his and his family's history, telling Lucifer and Jack that Lucifer only plays the victim to excuse his evil deeds. That night, as Gabriel guards Lucifer, they argue and Gabriel compares Lucifer to a cancer cell, saying that God was right to cast him into the cage, which causes Lucifer become emotional and shed tears. Later, he helps the Winchesters and their allies evacuate Apocalypse World. The alternate version of Michael then appears, which shocks Gabriel. He watches as Lucifer is tossed aside and Michael turns to him, as Gabriel tells the Winchesters he is not running and decides to confront Michael. They then battle, but Michael overpowers and kills Gabriel with an archangel blade, to the Winchester's horror. The Winchesters use this as a distraction and retreat to their world. They inform Castiel of Gabriel's demise, which saddens him but he takes comfort in being told that he died a noble death in helping them all escape.
Gadreel
[edit]Gadreel is an angel portrayed by Tahmoh Penikett and Jared Padalecki. Gadreel was assigned to guard the Garden of Eden but was disgraced when Lucifer got in, which God and angels regarded as his fault. Gadreel was locked up in Heaven's deepest dungeon and tortured for his failure, but was released when Metatron's spell made all angels fall to Earth. Wanting to make up for his past, Gadreel answers Dean's prayers for help, taking on the identity of an angel named Ezekiel, who died in the Fall. When Gadreel's powers cannot heal Sam. he proposes a solution: if he possesses Sam, he could heal him from the inside while recuperating from his own injuries from falling. Dean ultimately agrees and Gadreel invades Sam's mind, assuming Dean's form to manipulate Sam into consenting to angelic possession. Gadreel tells Dean that he will let Sam keep control of his body while he himself works in the background, but that it is best that Sam not know he is there. If Sam does not allow Gadreel to remain in his body, Sam could eject him and would die as a result. In the following episodes, Gadreel occasionally takes control of Sam's body in order to kill enemies when they get the better of Sam, to resurrect slain allies of Sam and Dean, and to heal injuries Sam gets on hunts. He regularly erases Sam's memory of these moments in attempt to keep Sam from getting suspicious. Gadreel is wary of Castiel's presence as he fears that the angels looking for Castiel might find him and force him to vacate Sam's body—and in doing so, consign Sam to die.
When Castiel turns up on a case in "Holy Terror", Gadreel once more forces Dean to send him away. In the same episode, he crosses paths with Metatron, who reveals his true identity and backstory and offers him a chance to "redeem" himself by becoming his second-in-command and helping him create a better Heaven. After discerning that Dean has learned from Castiel that he is not Ezekiel and has turned against him, now attempting to tell Sam the truth and get him to expel him, Gadreel murders Kevin and steals the tablets on Metatron's orders in a show of allegiance to the latter. In the following episode, "Road Trip", Metatron sends Gadreel to kill his former guard and torturer to please his new follower; when he finds out that Gadreel did not kill Dean, however, Gadreel is punished, forced to kill again, this time his friend Abner. He is then captured by Dean, Castiel, and Crowley, who learn his true identity when Crowley drives spikes through Gadreel's brain to revert him to his trance-like "factory settings" and an enraged Castiel reveals the cause of Gadreel's infamy to Dean. Gadreel then reverts to normal and tells them that he will not leave Sam's body, nor can they reach Sam, whom he has placed in a fantasy world unaware of what is really happening. With Crowley revealing the truth to Sam by possessing him to communicate with him, Gadreel and Sam fight briefly before Sam finally expels him. Gadreel continues working for Metatron, recruiting angels for their side in "Meta Fiction" and killing the ones who refuse. Gadreel is captured and interrogated by Sam and Dean, but refuses to provide any information and instead tries to push Dean into killing him, which fails as Dean knows they need Gadreel. Gadreel is saved when Metatron has them trade Gadreel for Castiel, whom he has captured.
In "King of the Damned", Gadreel meets with Castiel, who tries to persuade him that Metatron is using him and that he should work against Metatron, as Castiel's spy. Gadreel declines as he refuses to betray a cause he has dedicated himself to; Castiel is sympathetic and leaves his offer open. In the next episode, Gadreel discovers that Metatron is having his own angels—angels Gadreel himself had recruited—kill themselves and frame Castiel, causing him to lose his support, which proves to be the incentive he needed to turn on the cause. Gadreel offers his assistance to Castiel and the Winchesters; although Dean attacks him. Gadreel is saved by Sam and Castiel, who accept his help. In the finale, "Do You Believe in Miracles?", Gadreel and Castiel plot to sneak into Heaven using a Portal as the Gates are sealed and break Metatron's connection to the angel tablet, so that Metatron will revert to the powers and weaknesses of a normal angel and Dean can kill him with the First Blade. However, their scheme is already known to Metatron's angels, who trick them into Heaven's dungeon and imprison them. They cannot convince the angels to help them against Metatron, due to Gadreel's bad reputation. Hoping that he will be remembered as an angel who helped save Heaven instead of the one who let Lucifer into the Garden, Gadreel sacrifices himself by using the suicide bombers' sigil to destroy himself and the dungeon, thus freeing Castiel and in the process convincing Metatron's angel Hannah of his good intentions.
Hannah
[edit]Hannah, portrayed by Erica Carroll and Lee Majdoub in her female and male vessels, respectively, is one of the angels who fell from Heaven. She possesses a married woman named Caroline Johnson as her earth vessel. In the episode "Meta Fiction", Hannah and several other angels are lured by the Horn of Gabriel Sigil enchanted by Gadreel. She attempts to kill Castiel, who is also lured by the sigil, but fails and begs for her life. Joining Castiel, the two arrive at the sigil and meet Gadreel, who offers the two and other angels a chance to join Metatron. When Hannah and her friends refuse, Gadreel proceeds to kill nearly all angels in the area, but spares Hannah, who is healed by Castiel; it is later revealed that Metatron told Gadreel to spare Hannah so she could inform Castiel about what happened. Hannah becomes Castiel's second-in-command, helping him build an angel army in the war against Metatron. In "Stairway To Heaven", Hannah convinces Dean to civilly approach Tessa, who has been used by Metatron as a suicide bomber. She becomes furious when Dean apparently kills Tessa with the First Blade (though the latter actually committed suicide) and is further infuriated when she learns from Metatron's broadcast that Castiel had lied about his dwindling grace. Hannah and Castiel's other angel allies join Metatron's army when Castiel refuses to kill Dean in retribution for Tessa's death. During Castiel and Gadreel's arrival at Heaven to destroy Metatron's angel tablet in "Do You Believe In Miracles?", Hannah catches and locks them up in Heaven's prison. She refuses to believe that killing Metatron would restore the order, accusing Castiel and Gadreel of lying and selfishness, respectively. However, she becomes convinced when Gadreel kills himself to prove his fidelity to humans and joins Castiel in his insurgency against Metatron. Eventually, the two topple Metatron, who is imprisoned, though Hannah warns Castiel at the end that his dwindling grace would result in his death.
After Metatron's downfall, Hannah takes charge to return all the fallen angels back to Heaven. She contacts Castiel to help her in returning rogue angels Daniel and Adina, who have become content with life on Earth. Though Hannah fails to return the two with their death, Castiel decides to accompany her in her task. The two develop a romantic relationship, with Hannah becoming protective enough of Castiel that she suggests killing a rogue angel and feeding its grace to Castiel (he declines). However, when she encounters her vessel, Caroline's husband searching for his wife, Hannah realizes that Caroline deserves a chance to enjoy her mortal life. Deciding that she has enjoyed her time on Earth, Hannah releases Caroline of her grace, but not before kissing Castiel; inspired by her decision, Castiel contacts his vessel, Jimmy Novak's family.
After leaving her main vessel, Caroline, Hannah took a man as her new vessel. She blocks Sam and Castiel from entering Heaven to free Metatron, and when the two get around the plan with Bobby's help, she and several other angels corner Bobby to punish him. According to Metatron in "Book of the Damned", Hannah has been leading Heaven since his downfall and that it is the best it has been since the archangels' disappearances/deaths. In "Form and Void", Hannah saves Castiel from torture by two angels, but he soon realizes that it is a ruse so she can get information about the Winchesters from him. The two other angels attempt to "hack" Castiel's brain, discomforting Hannah. While the angels argue, Castiel falls under the influence of Rowena MacLeod's Attack Dog Spell again and breaks free. In the ensuing scuffle, Hannah is murdered by the angel Efram for her interference, but Castiel kills both Efram and his partner Jonah in turn.
Hester
[edit]Hester, portrayed by Emily Holmes, once served under the command of Castiel. In the Season 7 episode "Reading is Fundamental", Hester appears in a psychiatric hospital with Inias after Kevin Tran is chosen as a Prophet following the uncovering of the Leviathan Tablet. Hester is disgusted to see Sam with Meg and orders Meg and Sam killed and Kevin taken to the desert. The confrontation is interrupted by Castiel's appearance, shocking the angels who thought him dead. Hester is enraged by Castiel's appearance after everything he has done and further by his obvious insanity. Before the situation can further deteriorate, Dean banishes all three angels. Later, after Meg kills two demons, Hester returns with Inias and two other angels. Hester refuses to let Kevin translate the tablet for the Winchesters and, blaming Dean for Castiel's state, attacks him. When Castiel intervenes, Hester has a breakdown and beats Castiel, who refuses to fight back. Hester refuses to relent despite Inias' pleading. When Hester goes to kill Castiel, Meg stabs Hester through the back with an angel blade, killing her. Meg claims that "someone had to". Following Hester's death, Inias takes control and allows Kevin to finish the translation before sending two angels to protect him.
Ishim
[edit]Ishim, portrayed by Ian Tracey, is a powerful angel and garrison commander whom Castiel once served under appearing in Season 12.
After the murder of Benjamin in "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets", Ishim calls a meeting with Mirabel and Castiel, the remainder of his garrison and is displeased that the Winchesters accompany Castiel. Ishim reveals that in addition to Benjamin's murder, two other angels of their garrison were killed. After Mirabel leaves and does not return, Ishim is shocked to find Mirabel dead and Lily Sunder waiting for him. Lily proves immune to Ishim's smiting power and wounds him with an angel blade before Castiel and the Winchesters intervene, driving her off. Retreating to an old church, Castiel and Ishim recite a story from 1901 when their garrison was sent to execute Akobel for fathering a Nephilim. After Akobel's death, Ishim killed the young girl alone but left her mother, Lily Sunder, alive out. Ishim claims that Lily must have made a deal for demonic power and is left with Castiel as the Winchesters go after Lily. Castiel heals Ishim's injuries, leaving him feeling better than he has in a millennium, but leaving Castiel weakened.
When the Winchesters confront Lily, she reveals the truth: a professor of apocalyptic literature, Lily had been obsessed with angels and eventually discovered a spell to summon one. The spell summoned Ishim who became obsessed with her and told her many angel secrets. However, Lily recognized that Ishim was in fact a monster. She left him and married Akobel for protection. Her daughter was human and Ishim murdered Akobel and May for revenge. Lily's powers come from Enochian magic, something that burns away part of her soul every time she uses it. Dean returns to the church and reveals the truth to Castiel, leading to a fight with Ishim who defeats them and forces Dean not to banish him. Lily arrives with Sam and engages Ishim in combat, but is no match for the angel even with Sam and Dean's help. Ishim fights through Lily's telekinesis and attempts to kill her with an angel blade. At the last moment, Castiel stabs Ishim through the back with his own angel blade, killing him and saving Lily. Though Lily achieves her revenge with Ishim's death, she is left unsure of whether or not she can forgo vengeance upon Castiel.
Jack Kline
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Jack Kline, portrayed by Alexander Calvert, is a Nephilim and the son of Lucifer and Kelly Kline. He is the first and only known Nephilim to be sired by an Archangel. Jack was trained by Sam and Dean Winchester to master his powers. During this time, Jack played a crucial role in the resurrection of Castiel, whom he had chosen as his father figure.
Jack journeyed to Apocalypse World to rescue Mary Winchester and fought against Michael's angel army to protect a human colony. He helped Mary consolidate human survivor groups to form a resistance.
Jack's resistance fought in many conflicts. with Jack frequently turning the tide, gaining him the respect of many leaders. Later, he reunited with Sam, Dean, and Castiel, also meeting Lucifer and Gabriel. Lucifer tempted Jack to join him, playing the victim. Gabriel, Castiel, and the Winchesters reminded Jack of Lucifer's history, although Jack began to believe Lucifer and hoped they could defeat Michael. However, the Winchesters stranded Lucifer during the evacuation of the resistance.
Lucifer later offered to take Jack to the stars on a father-son journey. Jack at first accepted, but after discovering that Lucifer agreed with Michael to abandon the earth so that it could be destroyed, Jack disowned him. In retaliation, Lucifer attacked Jack and stole his grace to defeat Michael, then kidnapping Jack and Sam. Lucifer attempted to force Jack and Sam to kill each other, but the pair were rescued by Dean (empowered by Alternate Michael).
After Lucifer's death, Jack struggled with life as a human; taking lessons on hunting and magic from the humans and Castiel, secretly hiding an illness that stems from his lack of grace and his body attacking itself. Succumbing to his illness, he ascends to Heaven where he meets his mother for the first time. He is pursued by the Empty's ruler Shadow who attempts to bring him to his domain. Castiel intervenes and Jack is resurrected with Enochian magic. Confronting Michael, he taps into the power of his soul and kills Michael, absorbing the Archangel's grace to regain his Nephilim powers. However, he burned off much of his soul in the process. It Is eventually revealed that Jack had sacrificed his entire soul to kill Michael, becoming completely soulless.
In "Moriah", God provides the Winchesters with a gun that can kill Jack, though it will also kill the shooter—ostensibly due to the danger Jack poses. Enraged at the loss of his mother, Dean confronts Jack in a cemetery where he has been meeting Castiel. Rather than fight, Jack accepts that losing his soul had made him a monster and orders Dean to kill him. However, Dean cannot bring himself to act, enraging God, who appeared before them. God wanted Jack dead at Dean's hands because for Jack's father to kill Jack would make add to his story. Dean rejects God's offer to resurrect Mary, knowing that Mary would not object. The Winchesters and Castiel turn against God, leading God to smite Jack with a snap of his fingers and begin the end of the world. As the souls of Hell rise, Jack awakens in the Empty where he is greeted by Shadow and Billie. Jack's corpse was used as a vessel by the demon Belphegor to help the Winchesters after he escapes from Hell. However, Castiel smote Belphegor after learning that the demon intended to use the Winchesters to gain power for himself. This second smiting burnt Jack's corpse into a charred skeleton which was apparently left on the floor of Lilith's Chamber in Hell when Castiel had to climb out before the rupture between Earth and Hell closed.
In the Season 15 episode "The Trap", Jack is revealed to still be awake in the Empty. As he looks around the realm, Billie appears to tell Jack that "it's time".
In "The Gamblers", a resurrected Jack is discovered by Castiel to be hunting Grigori, fallen angels who feed on innocents' souls. After killing the Grigori, Jack eats their hearts to grow stronger, but refuses to use his powers as it will draw God's attention to him and reveal his resurrection. Castiel rescues Jack from the last of the Grigori and Jack reunites with his family. Jack explains that Billie had hidden him in the Empty until God left Earth, at which point it was safe for Billie to resurrect him. Billie provided Jack with a plan that will allow Jack to become strong enough to kill God.
In "Galaxy Brain", Jack is revealed to still be soulless, worrying the Winchesters. After learning that Kaia is alive and trapped in the Bad Place from Dark Kaia, the Winchesters attempt to find a way back without Jack's powers. Jack views Kaia through Dark Kaia's mind and decides to risk helping his friend. With the reluctant help of reaper Merle, assigned by Billie to watch over Jack, the Winchesters and Castiel temporarily hide Jack's use of powers from God, allowing him to open a rift to the Bad Place. After Kaia's rescue, Billie kills Merle for failing to keep Jack in line and explains that everyone has a book in Death's library detailing their fate, even God. The book describing God's ultimate destruction mentions Jack, Sam and Dean, though Billie refuses to elaborate further.
In "Destiny's Child", the Winchesters discuss the ramifications of Jack killing God and consider having him kill the Darkness as well to maintain the balance. After encountering an alternate Sam and Dean, Billie arrives to warn that God is almost done destroying alternate universes and will soon return to their world. Billie presents another quest for Jack, stating that the first was to strengthen his body, while the second is more spiritual. Billie instructs them to find the Occultum, though she does not know where it is and refuses to explain its purpose. While the Winchesters talk to Anael, Jack speaks with Castiel about his soul and how he cannot feel emotion, which bothers him. Jack questions whether Dean will ever forgive him. Castiel advises patience. Castiel has Jack drain most of his life force so that Castiel can travel into the Empty and question Ruby. Jack reluctantly complies, but brings Castiel back on Sam and Dean's orders. Having learned the Occultum's location, Castiel leads the others to a church guarded by hellhounds where they uncover a small orb. Swallowing the orb, Jack is transported to the Garden of Eden where he is confronted by a mysterious young girl and Snake. Snake asks who Jack is and who he is meant to be, leading Jack to experience flashes of his life and collapse in tears. Jack returns to the church and kills the hellhounds. Sam and Dean later find him in the bunker's kitchen, crying with remorse and horror over killing Mary. Castiel reveals that the Occultum restored Jack's lost soul.
During "Last Holiday" and "Gimme Shelter", Jack deals with the return of his soul and helps the Winchesters without using his powers. He also confided in Castiel that the plan to defeat God requires him to becomes a supernova that will destroy God and Amara.
In "Unity", team Free Will was able to recruit Amara and make a plan to defeat God, who has destroyed the multiverse. Jack meets Amara, his great aunt.
In "Inherit The Earth", Jack and Sam reunite with Dean who informs them that God had eradicated humanity and that both Castiel and Bobby were in the Empty. God allowed them to survive, so they could live out their lives, albeit alone. As they bemoan their fate, Jack is revealed to have suffered aftereffects of the explosion, as wither and die after he walked past them.[clarification needed] The group discovers Michael is alive and enlists his aid but he is unable to read God's death book. Jack is horrified to be reunited with his resurrected father who kidnaps a reaper to have her take Billie's place to find a way to defeat God, but this is revealed to be a ploy as Lucifer kills the reaper and is on God's side. He tries to recruit Jack but before he can answer, Michael kills Lucifer. The group soon hatch a plan and confront God, though Michael betrays them and is then killed by God. When God decided to personally end the Winchesters, they attack but are left bloodied. The Winchesters then reveal Jack, who is unaffected by God's attempt to smite him. Jack grabs his grandfather, stripping him of his powers. After they are healed, Sam and Dean explain that after Jack exploded in the Empty, he became a power vacuum. The brothers notice the flower's lifeforce being absorbed.[clarification needed] The battles between Lucifer and Michael restore Jack's powers and they hatch a plan to fool Michael into betraying them and allowing themselves to get beat on, so that God would expose Jack to his powers, explaining his immunity. Chuck applauds their efforts and expects death, though team Free Will decide that a more fitting punishment for him is to live a mortal life, eventually aging and dying whilst forgotten by humanity. Jack confirms that Chuck will never reacquire his divine powers, ending his threat. Once in town, Jack restores all who were erased by Chuck, while making sure they don't recall their deaths. Jack then leaves the Winchesters explaining that he and Amara are in sync and his powers allow him to be everywhere. He decides not to be hands-on like his grandfather and that as the new God he will live up to the examples that his family (the Winchesters, Castiel, and his mother) taught him.
During "Carry On", Bobby Singer reveals to Dean in Heaven that Jack had become the new Ruler of Heaven, released Bobby, and tore down its walls, allowing souls to freely interact without reliving past memories. It is also revealed that Jack has resurrected Castiel from the Empty in order to help reshape heaven. It is mentioned that Jack was not present at the moment, but Bobby remarks Jack made Heaven the way it should be.[5]
In the series finale, Jack appears in the Monster Club's universe with Singer to admonish Dean for breaking Jack's rule on direct interference. It is revealed that Jack had restored the Multiverse. However, Dean points out that the Akrida (Chuck's failsafe) were a threat to their world as well as Sam. With Bobby backing Dean, Jack acknowledges that another case always appears for hunters, even after death, and he allows Dean to finish his work by returning Dean's journal and Colt to him. This allows Dean to pass on the journal and weapon to John and Mary, so they can avoid the Apocalypse to live a peaceful life and better prepare for supernatural. After Dean says goodbye to his parents, Jack vanishes with Dean, Bobby and the Impala in a flash of light.
Jessica
[edit]Jessica is a reaper portrayed by Kayla Stanton who works under Billie. Unlike most reapers, Jessica has a friendly and bright attitude to make it easier for the deceased, but maintains a "hands off" policy in dealing with the living, according to Billie's rules.
Jessica first appears in "Advanced Thanatology" in Season 13. Jessica greets Dean who brushes her off. Jessica travels into the Veil and alerts Billie to Dean's death. After Dean makes a deal with Billie for her to free the ghosts trapped in the house, Billie sends Jessica to complete the deal. Jessica is able to get the ghosts to move onto the afterlife and watches with a smile as they ascend to Heaven.
Jessica returns in "Funeralia" where she reveals that Billie has her following the Winchesters. Jessica warns them that the witch Rowena is killing people ahead of their time, thus disrupting fate. Billie's rules prevent Jessica from directly intervening and instead warns them so they can deal with the problem. Jessica hovers around the Winchesters, offering information, but refusing to intervene even when they are in danger. After the situation is resolved, Jessica disappears again.
Joshua
[edit]Joshua is an angel who is described as Heaven's gardener and is portrayed by Roger Aaron Brown and Paul Barton. Following God's departure from Heaven, Joshua is the only angel that God still speaks to, though Joshua himself clarifies that it is more that God talks to him, not that they hold a conversation, and he suggests that it is because he can relate "gardener to gardener".
Joshua first appears in the Season 5 episode "Dark Side of the Moon" where the Winchesters are instructed to find him by Castiel after they are murdered and end up in Heaven. Castiel sees Joshua as the best chance of finding God or at least of learning what God is saying due to the widespread knowledge of Joshua and God talking. The Winchesters efforts to find Joshua are interrupted by Zachariah who intends to torture them so that Dean will say "yes" to possession by the archangel Michael. However, Joshua appears to intervene, having been sent by God. Joshua is able to force Zachariah to back off and transports the Winchesters to Heaven's Garden. There, Joshua reveals that while God saved them when Lucifer rose and resurrected Castiel, He has no intention of doing so again and wants them to back off. Joshua expresses sympathy for their cause, telling them that he wishes he could do more "but I just trim the hedges". Joshua resurrects Sam and Dean and leaves their memories of their trip to Heaven intact on God's orders.
In the Season 12 episode "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell", the angel Kelvin reveals to Castiel that Joshua has taken up a leadership role in the hunt for Lucifer's unborn Nephilim son. Kelvin proposes Castiel join the angels search, telling him that if he does, Joshua can get Castiel pardoned for his crimes. After warning the Winchesters about the Prince of Hell Dagon, Castiel travels to Heaven with Kelvin to meet with Joshua.
In "The Future", Castiel leads an attack to kill Dagon and Kelly Kline, the mother of Lucifer's child, with the Colt on Joshua's orders. The mission results in Kelvin's capture and the death of another angel, but Castiel cannot bring himself to outright kill Kelly and instead abducts her. Castiel is instructed by Joshua over "angel radio" to bring Kelly to the portal to Heaven as passage through it will kill both Kelly and her child. When the two arrive at the portal, Joshua himself emerges to greet them. However, he is combusted to dust moments later by Dagon. After killing Joshua, Dagon reveals that she had learned of their backup plan from Kelvin and laid in wait for hours to ambush the angels when they arrived at the portal.
Kelvin
[edit]Kelvin is an angel portrayed by Nathan Mitchell who was a major part of the hunt for Lucifer's unborn Nephilim child. Having met Castiel only once before, Kelvin first appears in the Season 12 episode "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" when Castiel is investigating the deaths of two angels at the hands of the Prince of Hell Dagon. Unlike many of his siblings, Kelvin holds no grudge against Castiel and proposes that Castiel join the angels hunt. In exchange, Kelvin promises Castiel that the angel Joshua, who is leading the effort, can get Castiel pardoned for his crimes. After warning the Winchesters about Dagon, Castiel joins Kelvin in going to Heaven to meet with Joshua.
In "The Future", Kelvin is part of Castiel's team to kill Dagon and the child's mother Kelly Kline with the Colt. During the fight, another angel named Hozai is killed by Dagon and Kelvin is captured while Castiel abducts Kelly and escapes. After communicating with Lucifer telepathically, Dagon extensively tortures Kelvin for information, figuring that despite the fact that Kelvin is unaware of any backup plans, he would be able to figure out what the angels would do next. After killing Joshua, Dagon reveals that she had succeeded in getting information from Kelvin and then killed him hours before.
Lucifer
[edit]| Lucifer | |
|---|---|
| Supernatural character | |
| First appearance | "Lucifer Rising" (2009) |
| Last appearance | "Inherit the Earth" (2020) |
| Created by | Eric Kripke |
| In-universe information | |
| Full name | Helel (Birth Name) Lucifer (Chose Name) |
| Species | Archangel |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | God (father/creator) Michael (twin brother) Raphael (brother) Gabriel (brother) Jack Kline (son) |
| Duration | 2009–2012, 2015–2020 |
Lucifer, portrayed primarily by Mark Pellegrino, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Rick Springfield and David Chisum, is the second oldest archangel, the first fallen angel, introduced as a recurring character in Season 5 of the series. From his prison in hell, he orchestrated events not only seen in Seasons 1 through 4, but decades prior, to eventually lead to his release by breaking the 66 seals. In the episode "Sin City", he was described as the 'father' and God of the demons, the one who gave them their form and purpose. Azazel reinforced this by referring to him as "My Father" while possessing a priest before slaughtering a convent of nuns. However, in "Abandon All Hope", Crowley remarks that Lucifer views demons with contempt and his cannon fodder and will destroy them once he has eliminated humanity.
In the episode "The End", Lucifer states his fall was the result of refusing God's decree to love humans more than him. As a result, God had Michael cast him into hell. Ruby also reveals in "When the Levee Breaks" in defiance to God, he turned Lilith into the first demon. Both Death and Gabriel have compared Lucifer's hatred of humans to "one big temper tantrum!" because God favored humans over him, his most beloved angel. Lucifer does not like how humans have changed the planet from its original state and hopes to purify it. He is also very critical of humans, mostly in how they blame him for their own mistakes, wrongdoings, flaws and failures. Creator Eric Kripke has jokingly compared him to a "raging psychotic" version of environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. with "unlimited power".[6]
Due to his angelic and spiritual nature, Lucifer needs a human vessel in order to interact directly with the physical world. Lucifer seeks out a man named Nick, whose wife and baby had recently been murdered. As revealed in the Season 14 episode "Damaged Goods", Lucifer himself arranged for the murders through the demon Abraxas so that he could manipulate Nick. Tormenting Nick about the tragedy, he casts illusions such as a baby crying and blood pouring from the crib, eventually appearing to Nick in the form of his late wife Sarah. Openly admitting his identity to Nick, he tries to gain sympathy by telling Nick he was punished for loving God too much. He then convinces Nick to be his vessel by promising to get vengeance against God for allowing his family to be murdered.[7] However, Lucifer later reveals to Sam that he is the true intended vessel.[8] By "Abandon All Hope", it is shown Nick's body, being a temporary vessel and not his "true" vessel, is incapable of containing Lucifer's immense power and is beginning to wear down; revealed in "Two Minutes to Midnight" he has to consume gallons of demon blood to keep his vessel from combusting. He forms a ritual to summon Death and when the Winchesters, Harville's and Castiel arrive, he traps Castiel in holy oil and sends Meg after the others. After being ambushed by the brothers he is shot with the Colt but survives; he then reveals his status as one of five things in creation immune to the Colt; while the brothers escape with Castiel's help, he manages to summon Death and bind him under his control.
During a convention of pagan gods in "Hammer of the Gods", Lucifer is made aware of the brothers' location by Mercury, who betrays the rest of them. Slaughtering all the gods, he approaches the brothers and is stalled by Kali until Gabriel arrives. Gabriel provides safe passage for Kali and the brothers, and confronts Lucifer about his ultimate reason for rebellion, claiming that he rebelled not because he recognized that humans were flawed, but because he was no longer their father's favorite son. Lucifer questions Gabriel's loyalties, but he replies that he believes — by virtue of his experiences with them — humans, despite their flaws, strive to do their best. Ultimately, Lucifer kills Gabriel with his own sword when Gabriel's attempt to catch Lucifer off-guard with a duplicate fail, but he is clearly distraught over this.
Having acquired all four rings of the Horseman (which can trap Lucifer back in his prison), Sam and Dean enter Lucifer's hideout, planning to trap him when Sam agrees to be his vessel; this completely fails, as Lucifer is too powerful to fight. Lucifer brings forward four demons, who had been part of Azazel's surveillance of Sam since his youth and kills them all in a way of "letting off steam" and acquiring Sam's trust. Following that, he confronts Michael in a graveyard, attempting to convince him not to fight, reasoning there was no real purpose, Michael refuses. Dean interrupts, while Castiel dissipates Michael, an act Lucifer took unkindly to, and kills him. He starts to pummel Dean and when Bobby attempts to use the Colt to stop him he is killed as well. However, Sam then sees a toy army man in an ashtray of the Impala, a remnant from his youth, and regains control. Sam reopens the hole, and jumps in, taking Michael with him.
Lucifer returns in Season 7 as part of Sam's hallucinations, caused by the memories of his time in the cage. Lucifer tells Sam that the world he has been in for the last year is not real and Sam is still in the cage, a new form of torture which Lucifer prides himself on as being his best yet. Sam confronts Lucifer and asks him why he does not end this dream world to which Lucifer responds by saying that he will only end it when Sam cannot take it anymore. Lucifer later changes into Dean and tricks Sam into leaving Bobby's house. Once at the destination, he reveals himself to prove he can control Sam's "dream", although Lucifer is proven to be a hallucination when Dean tells Sam how to figure out what is real. Despite being proven to be a hallucination, he informs Sam that he is not going anywhere. Lucifer tortures Sam by depriving him of sleep by repeatedly waking him up and later making food look like maggots in an attempt to kill him. Although Sam initially manages to ignore the hallucination, it becomes worse when Sam acknowledges Lucifer's advice when trying to get information about Dean's whereabouts, giving the hallucination additional strength. Castiel, found to be alive, tries to rebuild Sam's mental wall, but fails as it is completely gone. In order to save Sam and atone for what he has done, Castiel transfers the problem to himself, leaving him haunted by Lucifer and stuck in a mental hospital. In "Reading is Fundamental", when Castiel comes out of his catatonic state, Sam asks him about seeing Lucifer. Castiel explains that he did at first, but Lucifer eventually disappeared. Castiel believes that Lucifer was simply a projection of Sam's own torment from his time in Hell and that projection disappeared as the torment was no longer in Sam's mind.
In the Season 8 episode "Goodbye Stranger", it is revealed that Lucifer had a series of crypts around the United States and possibly the world containing his most precious artifacts. The locations were only known to Lucifer himself and his most trusted followers, such as Azazel. Among the items in his crypts, in an angel-proofed box, was the angel Word of God tablet. Eventually Sam, Dean and Castiel locate the right crypt with the help of Meg who knows from her time with Azazel and get the angel tablet.
In the Season 10 episode "Brother's Keeper", Death explains that Lucifer and the other archangels once fought a war with an ancient evil called the Darkness, eventually locking it away. Lucifer was given the Mark of Cain, the lock on the Darkness' prison and the Mark corrupted him into his jealousy towards humanity, leading to his fall into evil. The first mention of Lucifer (and Michael)'s activity since their imprisonment in Hell is mentioned in "Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire" when an aide of Crowley informs him that ever since the Darkness broke free of its prison, the two archangels are screaming, trying to tell others about the danger the Darkness will pose to the world.
In "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" and "The Devil in the Details", Sam travels into Hell to speak to Lucifer, directed by what he believes to be visions from God. Manifesting in the form of Nick, Lucifer is summoned into a smaller cage in Hell where he tells Sam he can defeat the Darkness, but needs Sam to be his vessel again. After the warding suddenly fails, Lucifer teleports Sam into the cage and reveals that he sent the visions to Sam after the Darkness' release damaged his cage and is working with Rowena. Lucifer shows Sam several memories, explaining that while Sam once had the strength to do what needed to be done, he lost that after Dean went to Purgatory. Sam accepts that Lucifer is telling the truth, but refuses to agree to possession again as he knows no matter who wins, Lucifer or the Darkness, humanity is doomed. Lucifer engages Sam, Dean and Castiel in battle, proving to be more than a match for all three together. After Lucifer confirms he can defeat the Darkness, Castiel agrees to possession by him. At that same moment, Rowena completes a spell that apparently banishes Lucifer back to his cage. After the Winchesters leave, Lucifer possessing Castiel reveals himself to Rowena and Crowley and kills Rowena so she cannot send him back to the cage.
In "Into the Mystic", Dean finds Lucifer looking through the bunker for a way to summon the Darkness and confides in him about his connection to Amara, believing Lucifer to be Castiel. Lucifer consoles Dean on the connection while secretly interested in this development.
In "The Vessel", Lucifer has regained control of Hell and keeps Crowley as his pet. After receiving a call from the Winchesters, he is shocked to discover that one of the Hands of God survived and agrees to transport Dean back to a submarine in 1943 to get it before the sub sinks. Special warding keeps Lucifer out of the sub and he and Sam attempt to find a way to remove the warding. Sam finds a spell, but does not believe it will work as it requires the power of an archangel. As Sam offers his soul to help give "Castiel" the power he needs, Lucifer reveals himself and attempts to destroy Sam. Castiel regains control temporarily, but is unable to eject Lucifer as it is taking all of his strength to keep Lucifer from killing Sam and only Lucifer has the power to rescue Dean. As Delphine Seydoux unleashes the power of the Hand of God, Lucifer pulls Dean back to the present and reveals himself to Dean. Lucifer throws Dean around the bunker and attempts to use the power of the Hand of God, but finds it expended. As Lucifer advances on Dean, Sam uses a blood sigil to banish him from the bunker.
Following his banishment, Lucifer attempts to find another Hand of God through Crowley in "Beyond the Mat". To this end, he sets Crowley up to be "freed" by Lucifer's loyal demon Simmonds so Crowley will lead him to another Hand of God. Crowley leads Lucifer to the Rod of Aaron but anticipates Lucifer's double-cross. Crowley attempts to kill Lucifer with the Rod's power, but Simmonds takes the brunt of the blast, saving Lucifer. Realizing the Rod's power is expended, Crowley quickly teleports away before Lucifer can kill him. In "Hell's Angel", Lucifer enters Heaven, killing an angel he finds there and intimidates the angels into following him to combat Amara. Amara unleashes a wave of darkness through Heaven, frightening the angels and pushing them closer to following Lucifer. However, the Winchesters, Crowley and the still-alive Rowena team up together to free Castiel and banish Lucifer back to his Cage. To this end, they summon him into warding in a church surrounded by Holy Fire. Once Lucifer is trapped, Dean attempts to use magic to suppress the archangel to restore Castiel, but Lucifer quickly overpowers it. In a desperate attempt, Crowley enters Castiel's vessel where he finds that Lucifer has "really gotten his hooks in good" to Castiel who is apathetic to everything around him even as Lucifer appears in the form of Nick and attacks Crowley. Sam exorcises Crowley to save his life and the warding breaks, releasing Lucifer. Lucifer is able to get the Horn of Joshua from the Winchesters, another Hand of God, just before Amara appears. Lucifer blasts Amara with both his own power and the Horn's to no avail. Amara then captures Lucifer and takes him to a grain silo she is using as her base. Believing Lucifer to be the one thing God still cares about, Amara begins torturing him in hopes of drawing God out.
Over the next few weeks, Amara tortures Lucifer mercilessly, trying and failing to draw out God. In "All in the Family", Amara notices that Lucifer is in bad shape along with Castiel and contacts Dean to pass on the message to God. Having learned that God intends to sacrifice Himself to Amara to save the universe, the Winchesters, Metatron and Prophet Donatello Redfern team up together to rescue Lucifer, hoping to convince God to use Lucifer in battle against Amara. As Dean distracts Amara, Sam, Metatron and Donatello find the heavily injured Lucifer who agrees to set aside his differences with God and fight Amara with them. They set him free, but he is too weakened to teleport them to safety. As Amara approaches, Metatron sacrifices himself to buy them time to get away, but Amara quickly catches up to them. Before she can kill the group, God teleports them and the Impala into the Bunker. There, for the first time in millennia, God and Lucifer are reunited. After commenting on how much each other has changed, God heals Lucifer's injuries to the fallen archangel's surprise.
In "We Happy Few", Lucifer sulks around the Bunker, displeased to be reunited with God who will not apologize to him. Fed up with the two's issues with each other, the Winchesters get God and Lucifer to have a sit-down in which things are tense at first but the two eventually reconcile. Now fully on their side, Lucifer joins God in explaining that the last time they defeated the Darkness, it had taken the four archangels and God to barely win and this time Michael is in no shape to battle and Gabriel and Raphael are dead and God cannot resurrect them. As a result, the Winchesters suggest pulling in the witches, angels and demons to help them. As God refuses to order the angels to help, Lucifer returns to Heaven where the angels refuse to hear him out. In response, Lucifer returns control to Castiel who tells the angels that Lucifer is burning both himself and his vessel out but he feels his role in the battle is to give Lucifer form on Earth to fight. Castiel and Lucifer are able to convince the angels to join them and Sam and Dean are able to convince the witches and demons respectively. After the witches, angels and demons strike Amara, she enters the warehouse where the Winchesters, God and Lucifer are waiting for her and Lucifer strikes Amara through the back with an angelic spear. Due to her weakened state, Lucifer's strike brings Amara down and she and God confront each other. However, God waits too long to transfer the Mark of Cain to Sam and Amara recovers and attacks God with all of her power. Lucifer attempts to save his father, but Amara flings him against a pillar and yanks him out of Castiel, while leaving Castiel unconscious. In "Alpha and Omega", Dean goes to check on Lucifer only to find Castiel alone. Castiel tells him that Lucifer is gone from his vessel, but he does not know what happened to the archangel after Amara pulled him out.
In "Keep Calm and Carry On", a weakened Lucifer searches for a suitable new vessel chased by Crowley but keeps burning out the people he is possessing. In "Mamma Mia", Lucifer settles on aging rock star Vince Vincente (Rick Springfield) and gains permission by posing as Vince's dead lover. With a new permanent vessel, Lucifer meets with Crowley who works with Rowena in an attempt to force Lucifer from Vince and back into the Cage. However, the effort fails, and Crowley flees while Lucifer captures Rowena. In The Foundry, Lucifer attempts to have Rowena make Vince a permanent vessel for him, but she betrays Lucifer and casts a spell that speeds up Vince's decay and banishes Lucifer to the bottom of the ocean. In "Rock Never Dies", a pair of amateur Satanists attempt to summon Lucifer who appears in the decaying body of Vince. Lucifer was actually summoned by one of his feathers they had and kills the Satanists then uses the feather to repair his vessel temporarily. Posing as Vince, Lucifer organizes a concert to murder a lot of people and is confronted by the Winchesters, Crowley and Castiel who are unable to defeat him. Lucifer explains to them that he feels that God only made up with him to defeat the Darkness and has abandoned him once more. Lucifer no longer has a plan except to destroy everything he wants and vacates Vince as his body burns out. In "LOTUS", Lucifer begins possessing people of influence, ultimately possessing President of the United States Jefferson Rooney. As the President, Lucifer sends the Secret Service after the Winchesters and engages in sex with Rooney's mistress Kelly, resulting in her becoming pregnant with his child. Crowley kidnaps Kelly who tricks Lucifer to a motel where the Winchesters, Castiel, Crowley and Rowena are waiting for him. After using a sigil to weaken Lucifer, Sam activates a device created by the British Men of Letters that can exorcise any angel or demon from their vessel. Despite Lucifer's attempts to resist, he is exorcised from Rooney and Rowena casts a spell that apparently returns Lucifer to his cage.
At SDCC 2016, it was affirmed that all Lucifer wants is a "vacation", being tired after ruling both Heaven and Hell, and happy that he finally reconciled with his father.
It is soon revealed that Lucifer was not banished back to the Cage but was actually transferred back into Nick; Crowley retrieved Nick's corpse and had a team of demons' 'repair' him, turning Nick into a new Cage where Lucifer cannot leave his vessel and can only use his powers on Crowley's orders. Lucifer is eventually able to turn the tables on Crowley and escape his captivity (although he is still apparently trapped in Nick), with the Winchesters' attempts to stop him banishing him to a parallel universe where the Apocalypse took place because Dean and Sam were never born, although Lucifer is confronted by Crowley who kills himself to trap him, he is able to kill Castiel and take Mary with him. While the Winchesters try to 'raise' Lucifer's son Jack- who grew to adulthood immediately after birth-, Jack is able to help Castiel come back to life, but Lucifer remains in the other world and alerts the alternate Michael to his existence, prompting him to fight alt-Michael but he is defeated. While imprisoned, Alt-Michael drains his powers and tells him of his plans to travel to the 'prime' universe to conquer it as well. Faced with this threat, Lucifer uses a ritual performed by Michael to return to his world to warn them about Michael, but Castiel initially disbelieves him before they are captured by Asmodeus though escape. Lucifer takes control of Heaven since there are too few angels to mount an effective resistance to Michael. Later, he abandons it to find his son and has no luck.
During "Beat the Devil", he drowns his sorrows before he is captured again but by Gabriel and Rowena who survived his attempts on their lives. His grace is used to power the rift and keep it open. Lucifer learns from a taunting Rowena his son is in that world and breaks free. Lucifer's attempt on her life ends up sending him to Apocalypse World where he resurrects Sam who was killed by vampires, having used the grace of Michael's soldiers to refuel himself. He forces Sam to help him form a bond with his son. Lucifer met his son for the first time.
During "Exodus", Lucifer bonds with Jack and is reluctantly allowed to join the team, revealing that they have thirty-one hours before the rift closes again and killing six attacking angels. During this time, Lucifer's efforts to paint himself in a better light are rebuffed by Gabriel who compares his older brother to a cancer that God had to cut out to protect humanity, but too late. Gabriel's words reduce Lucifer to silent tears. Lucifer later works with Dean to repair an old bus and then drives the bus full of refugees back to the rift. When Michael appears and attacks during the exodus through the rift, Lucifer attacks him, but is easily beaten. Following Gabriel's death at Michael's hands, an injured and weakened Lucifer tries to follow Sam through the rift but is thrown to the ground by the younger Winchester and abandoned to die. With the rift closed, Lucifer makes a deal with Michael to share the spell to reopen it in exchange for Lucifer getting to take Jack while Michael gets everything else.
In the Season 13 finale "Let the Good Times Roll", Lucifer reappears in the Winchesters' universe and entices Jack to leave for the stars with him. At the request of Jack, Lucifer resurrects his friend Maggie who subsequently identifies Lucifer as her killer. During a confrontation with Michael, Lucifer's deal with the other archangel is revealed as is his murder of Maggie. Lucifer is forced to admit the truth by Jack who rejects his father after seeing his true nature. Enraged, Lucifer absorbs his son's grace to become more powerful than ever. With Lucifer virtually unstoppable and poised to destroy everything, Dean agrees to become the vessel of the alternate Michael on the condition that Michael power him to battle Lucifer. Powered by Michael, Dean battles Lucifer who still proves to be more than a match for Dean. However, as Lucifer tries to smite Dean, Sam is able to toss Dean the Archangel Blade, the one weapon that can kill an archangel. Armed with the blade, Dean is able to finally kill Lucifer by stabbing him in the heart. However, in the aftermath of Lucifer's death, Michael betrays his deal with Dean, takes full control of him and disappears.
In the Season 14 episode "Stranger in a Strange Land", Lucifer's vessel Nick is revealed to have survived Lucifer's death. Nick has nightmares and flashbacks to his time as Lucifer's vessel and a slowly healing wound in his side where Lucifer was stabbed. Sam and Mary both have trouble looking at Nick due to his time under Lucifer's control, but he is able to tell Sam that Michael had told Lucifer that he wants to "do it right this time" when discussing his plans for the Winchesters' world. Nick subsequently shows Lucifer-like behaviors when angered in "Gods and Monsters", causing Castiel to suspect that Lucifer did more damage to Nick's psyche than was previously realized.
In "Unhuman Nature", Nick's bloody quest for revenge leads to him becoming a serial killer. After killing Frank Kellogg, the man who was possessed by the demon Abraxas when Abraxas murdered his family, Nick prays to Lucifer, having realized that he enjoyed being the archangel's vessel and the freedom that came with it. In response to Nick's prayer, a figure with glowing red eyes rises in the Empty, presumably Lucifer himself, somehow awakened from his eternal sleep by Nick's prayer.
In "Damaged Goods", Nick manages to track down the demon Abraxas who murdered his family. During a confrontation, Abraxas reveals to a shocked Nick that it was in fact Lucifer himself who ordered the death of Nick's family at Abraxas's hands. Abraxas tells Nick that while he was chosen, Nick was nothing special and that "we threw a dart at the phone book" to choose Nick. The enraged Nick then kills Abraxas with an angel blade in revenge for his family's murders. During the confrontation, despite previously being loyal to Lucifer, the demon shows no real care that Lucifer is dead, simply responding that it is "cool" when Nick tells Abraxas who is also amused that Nick is no longer under the control of Lucifer.
In "Prophet and Loss", Nick begins seeking out Lucifer to reunite with him. In "Game Night", Nick kidnaps prophet Donatello Redfield and boosting Donatello's abilities with angel grace, communicates with the awakened Lucifer in the Empty. Lucifer provides Nick with a way to resurrect him using his son's blood. Nick succeeds in getting the blood and performs the spell, opening a portal to the Empty from which Lucifer emerges in the form of a viscous black humanoid figure with wings. However, Jack arrives with Mary Winchester, kills Nick and banishes Lucifer back to the Empty.
In "Absence" and "Jack in the Box", Jack is haunted by a hallucination of Lucifer, the form that his subconscious takes after Jack accidentally kills Mary.
In the Season 15 episode "Proverbs 17:3", Sam experiences a vision, part of a series of nightmares he has been having, featuring Lucifer possessing him and wearing a white suit much as Lucifer did in "The End". Dean attempts to kill the archangel with the Colt, but Lucifer is unharmed by the shot and burns Dean to death after stating that they both always knew it had to end this way. Sam later comes to the conclusion that he is witnessing Chuck's possible endings for them. In "The Trap", this is revealed to be the Lucifer of an alternate reality with Chuck explaining that what Sam actually witnessed were Chuck's memories of alternate Sam's and Deans.
In the series' penultimate episode "Inherit Earth", a resurrected Lucifer appears at the bunker, claiming that the Shadow brought him back to help the Winchesters defeat God. As proof, Lucifer kills Betty, a reaper, so that she will become the new Death and can read Chuck's Death book. However, once Betty has the book open, Lucifer kills her and reveals that it was actually God who brought him back to get the book and that Lucifer is God's new favorite. Lucifer engages in a brief battle with Michael that ends when Michael manages to kill Lucifer with an Archangel Blade that Sam provides him. This time, Lucifer explodes into ash and leaves no remains behind. Sam and Dean later explain to Chuck that Jack absorbed the power from Michael and Lucifer's battle and Lucifer's second death and that Michael's reaction to Lucifer's claims allowed them to put their ultimate plan together.
A homage to John Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer will be portrayed as "gentle, almost sympathetic".[9] Kripke reasoned, "He was essentially betrayed, so in some ways he can be viewed sympathetically ... if we can make the angels dicks, Lucifer can be sympathetic".[10] Kripke further characterized him as a "Devil who has doubt" and "a lot of affection for God and the angels", and who "speaks really tenderly and gently and...doesn't lie".[9]
Pellegrino was the second choice to play the angel Castiel, losing the role to Misha Collins.[11]
Metatron
[edit]Metatron, portrayed by Curtis Armstrong, is the angel who wrote the Word of God tablets. According to the demon tablet, he is an Archangel, but Metatron claims to be an angel from the secretarial division who was enlisted by God to write the tablets before he left Heaven. God later claims that he had no special reason to choose Metatron and that Metatron was just the closest angel to the door when he walked in. When God left and the Archangels decided to take over, Metatron left Heaven and hid on Earth to protect himself and the tablets because he rightly assumed that the Archangels would need him to fulfil their plans. On Earth, Metatron lived among a Native American tribe known as The Two Rivers to whom he gave immortality in exchange for stories and books. Metatron became enamored by human stories and even though he read as much as an angel could, he was not been able to read every story written during his millennia on Earth.
Sam and Dean learn of Metatron when they uncover the Leviathan Word of God tablet and Castiel reveals that Metatron wrote them. Dean considers looking for him for help with the Leviathans. Later, Kevin Tran finds a personal note Metatron left on the demon tablet revealing the existence of a compendium of tablets. While trying to find the third trial to close Hell, Sam and Dean track down Metatron and confront him. Metatron initially refuses to help, but after they reveal the story of Kevin Tran, Metatron rescues him from Crowley and heals him. Metatron now knows what is going on in Heaven and the world and agrees to help. Along with Kevin, Metaton reveals the third trial: curing a demon. He suggests to Dean that he needs to consider the impact that closing Hell will have on the world. Metatron later approaches Castiel for help in dealing with the problems in Heaven. Heaven has degenerated into factional war and Metatron wants to isolate it. As the Scribe of God, he knows the three trials without the angel tablet, but wants Castiel to undertake them. The two attempt the first trial, which is to kill a Nephilim and cut out their heart. Though Castiel hesitates, when the Nephilim overpowers both them both, he kills her from behind while she is distracted with Metatron. In "Sacrifice", Metatron reveals that the second trial is to get the bow of a Cupid and as he works with Castiel on the task, Naomi captures him. Metatron recognizes Naomi as the angel who was supposed to "debrief" him for the Archangels after God left, although the real purpose was to lean his secrets. Suspicious of why Metatron has come out of hiding, Naomi tortures him and is shocked to learn that he actually intends to expel all angels from Heaven (except himself) as revenge for his own expulsion. Naomi warns Dean and Castiel, but while she is gone, Metatron breaks free and kills Naomi when she returns. He captures Castiel and takes his grace as the final component needed for his spell. He sends Castiel to Earth to live a human life after asking Castiel to find him and tell him about it when he one day dies. Metatron's plan works and all angels are expelled from Heaven. Sam and Dean learn in "Heaven Can't Wait" that Metatron designed the spell to be irreversible apparently leaving no way to return the angels to Heaven.
Metatron reappears on Earth in "Holy Terror" during the struggle of the angel factions to wrest control and decide the best course to retake and re-enter Heaven. He convinces Gadreel to join him in refashioning the angels' purpose in existence, resulting in Kevin Tran's death and Gadreel's controlling Sam's body.
In "Road Trip", he employs Gadreel as his assassin, sending him to kill angel guard Thaddeus and Gadreel's friend Abner, presumably as a further test of his loyalty. He is annoyed when Gadreel does not kill Dean and questions his orders. Metatron waits for Gadreel to return from killing Abner with Gadreel's former vessel and is surprised when Gadreel suddenly appears in his natural form and repossesses his old vessel. Realizing that Sam has expelled Gadreel, an amused Metatron asks if Gadreel had Winchester troubles. After getting the tablets, Metatron connects himself to the angel tablet, granting him God-like power. Continuing his efforts with Gadreel's help, Metatron recruits a following and begins writing his own "story". To this end he captures Castiel during "Meta Fiction" and asks him to be the villain in the story in exchange for an unlimited supply of grace as his stolen grace is burning out. Castiel refuses and Metatron is forced to trade Castiel for Gadreel after Sam and Dean capture the latter. With his new powers, Metatron proves immune to their efforts to trap him. He lets them go as he does not see them as a threat.
Following this, Castiel gathers his own following to battle Metatron. Metatron has Gadreel eliminate other angels who could threaten him. As Castiel's following grows stronger than his own, Metatron uses brainwashed suicide bombers in "Stairway to Heaven" to convince the other angels not to follow Castiel. Metatron offers the angels a return to Heaven through a moving portal he has created in return for their fealty. After Castiel refuses to kill Dean for supposedly killing the reaper Tessa, Castiel's followers abandon him for Metatron. However, this backfires on Metatron because his methods cause Gadreel to switch sides, too.
During "Do You Believe In Miracles?", after broadcasting to all angels over "angel radio", Metatron heads to Earth to convert humanity to follow him instead of God by performing miracles, including raising the dead. Dean, armed with the First Blade and powered by the Mark of Cain, confronts Metatron as Castiel and Gadreel try to break into Heaven and shatter Metatron's power. With his new power, Metatron mortally wounds Dean. However, before he can finish the job, Gadreel's sacrifice allows Castiel to shatter the angel tablet and obliterate Metatron's incredible power, forcing him to flee Sam's attack. In Heaven, Metatron binds Castiel and taunts him about how the angels are sheep who will follow him and how he cares nothing for them. However, Castiel had secretly activated the broadcasting equipment in Metatron's office, broadcast these comments to all angels. Metatron's followers turn on and overpower him, but Castiel locks him in Heaven's dungeon rather than kill him. His killing of Dean causes him to resurrect as a demon.
In "Reichenbach", Hannah approaches Metatron to see if he has any of Castiel's grace left in hopes of saving him from dying when his stolen grace burns out. Metatron claims there is some left and offers to hand it over in exchange for his freedom, claiming that he will leave the planet if set free. Castiel refuses and Metatron reveals that he really plans to get revenge once he escapes, though he claims there is some grace left. In "The Hunter Games", hoping that Metatron knows of a cure to the Mark, Castiel has him brought to Earth where he and the Winchesters question him for information. Metatron claims there is a cure to the Mark and that it requires the First Blade, but when Dean demands the rest, he reveals that there is a lot of steps and he wants something for each one. Dean tortures Metatron who continues to taunt him into giving in to the Mark's rage, but he is stopped by Castiel and Sam before he can kill him. Castiel returns Metatron to Heaven for safety with Metatron saying that he will choose death over helping again. However, he leaves a possible clue: "behold, the river shall end at the source". In "Inside Man", desperate to find a cure for Dean's deteriorating condition, Sam, Castiel and Bobby Singer plot to break Metatron out of prison when the angels refuse to release him to their custody for fear of what he will do if released. On Earth, Metatron taunts them with his leverage over them until Castiel removes his grace, leaving Metatron human and mortal. After Sam shoots him in the leg and Castiel threatens his life, Metatron quickly gives in and admits that he knows of no cure for the Mark, stating that it is God-level or Lucifer-level power and he knows nothing and that not even the tablets contain information on the Mark. Castiel is able to tell that Metatron is telling the truth, but before Sam can kill him, Metatron tells them that he was telling the truth about there being some of Castiel's grace left and offers to lead him to it in exchange for his life. Castiel reluctantly agrees and sets off in search of his grace with Metatron. In "Book of the Damned", Metatron and Castiel go on a road trip to find Castiel's grace. Metatron starts to embrace his new humanity, annoying Castiel with his antics and leading to Metatron getting punched. At a diner, they come under attack by an angry Cupid and Metatron kills him to save Castiel but fails to endear himself to Castiel with his actions. Finally, the two come to a library where Metatron reveals he had another angel hide the grace and leave him clues so no one else could find it or torture the information from him. Searching through the books for one with the title "what's the most insane thing a man can do?", Metatron engages Castiel in a conversation, asking him what he will do once he tracks down the remaining rogue angels as Hannah has restored order to Heaven. While Castiel is distracted, Metatron uses his blood to cast a spell that stuns Castiel and retrieves the demon tablet, what he had really come for. However, he discovers that Castiel has found his grace in a copy of Don Quixote and quickly leaves before he can recover. Castiel gets his grace back and is restored to full power, but he and Sam are left worried by what Metatron can do with the demon tablet despite now being human. They also lie to Dean about how Castiel got his grace back, telling him that Hannah got it out of Metatron and not mentioning his escape. It is later mentioned he got away by stealing Castiel's car.
In "Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire" and "Into the Void", the other angels search for Metatron to reimprison him, while in "The Bad Seed", the Winchesters and Castiel join the search hoping he has information on The Darkness. To their surprise, they can find no incidents with Castiel's car that indicate that Metatron was in a crash, surprising Castiel as he did not expect a former angel and shut-in to be a good driver. In "Our Little World", Castiel spots Metatron's reflection in a photo of a murder on the news, revealing that Metatron has become a videographer. Castiel tracks Metatron down at the scene of a shooting where Metatron steals the victim's money and bemoans his lack of power that he would not have used to help the man anyway. After healing the man and breaking Metatron's camera, Castiel drags him to an abandoned warehouse where Metatron tells him he has come to see reality as literature and himself as the "author of reality" as a videographer. Metatron lies about the location of the demon tablet, but Castiel has already found it by searching Metatron's apartment where he had hidden it under his mattress. Castiel demands information on the Darkness, but Metatron refuses to spill and taunts him into attacking Metatron. Castiel stops when he realizes that Metatron wants to die and Metatron explains that he cannot stand life as a human. He finally tells Castiel that the Darkness is God's sister who He had to give up to form creation. Castiel lets Metatron go, telling Sam and Dean that he is now just a pitiful human and is no threat. If Metatron draws any sort of attention to himself, the angels will descend on him and destroy him.
In "Don't Call Me Shurley", Metatron is living as a homeless vagrant, but has gained a more compassionate nature as demonstrated by his feeding a stray dog rather than eating it food he had scavenged himself. Metatron and his dog are transported to a bar where Metatron meets with Prophet Chuck Shurley who reveals himself to be God. God does not punish Metatron for his rogue actions, though He also refuses to reinstate him as an angel, something Metatron admits is probably for the best. Instead, God asks Metatron to help Him write His autobiography. Metatron helps God but is stunned by how apathetic God has become to the world and the situation with Amara. After learning that Amara has infected a town with insanity, Metatron pleads with God to help, now understanding that humanity is God's greatest creation and is better than God because although humans have many flaws, they still try. God apparently refuses to listen, but Metatron reads the end of his autobiography and is shocked by what he reads while God intervenes to stop Amara's infection and to save the Winchesters.
In "All in the Family", Metatron contacts the Winchesters and warns them that God intends to sacrifice himself to Amara in an attempt to save the universe. Wanting to do what he can to save God and humanity, Metatron offers to help the Winchesters and joins Sam and the Prophet Donatello in a rescue mission for Lucifer. As Sam and Lucifer discuss the situation, Metatron casts a spell to release Lucifer from his bindings, but Lucifer is incapable of teleporting them to safety. As Amara approaches, Sam, Lucifer and Donatello flee, but Metatron stays behind to buy them time. Metatron unsuccessfully uses an angel banishing sigil, amusing Amara. He asks her to spare the universe as God had only meant well. Telling Metatron "spare this", Amara surrounds Metatron in darkness and reduces him to nothingness. After he is informed of Metatron's death, Dean is surprised that Metatron sacrificed himself for them.
Michael
[edit]Michael is the oldest and most powerful Archangel, featured in Season 5. In the season premiere, Zachariah reveals the angels' plan for Michael to use Dean as his vessel and kill Lucifer. However, Dean needs to consent to be the vessel. Michael first appears when Sam, Dean, and Castiel have traveled back to 1977 to stop Anna from killing John and Mary in order to prevent Sam's birth, and thus his use as Lucifer's vessel. Michael refers to Lucifer as his younger brother. When Lucifer refused God's command to bow before humanity, he turned to Michael for support, but was rejected. On God's command, Michael cast Lucifer into Hell. When the angels develop a new plan to lure Dean into consenting in "Point of No Return", the angels bring back Adam, John Winchester's third son, under the pretense that he can be Michael's new vessel, but this is merely a ruse to get Dean to say yes. Zachariah tortures Sam and Adam until Dean consents. Zachariah then summons Michael from Heaven, but Dean changes his mind, kills Zachariah and attempts to escape. Adam is inadvertently locked inside while Michael descends, and the room and Adam disappear. In "Two Minutes to Midnight", Castiel confirmed that now Michael is taking Adam as his vessel. During the episode "Swan Song", Michael appears with Adam as his vessel in order to fight Lucifer, but gets interrupted by Dean, Bobby, and Castiel, who delay him by sending him away with holy fire. In a couple of minutes he returns to see Sam, who has taken control over Lucifer, ready to jump in the pit, and tries to stop him, claiming his destiny is to fight his brother. As Sam denies, Michael makes a final desperate effort to hold him, but is swept along by Sam and they fall into the abyss together. Castiel believes that he and Lucifer tortured Sam's soul in the cage until it was removed by Death, one of the horsemen. Michael's first mention of activity since his imprisonment in Hell is mentioned in "Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire", in which an aide of Crowley informs him that Michael is wailing, trying to tell others about the danger the Darkness, which recently broke free from its prison, will pose to the world. In "The Devil in the Details", Lucifer tells Sam that "prison life" has not agreed with Michael and indicates that Michael's time in the Cage has driven him insane. When talking about their coming battle with the Darkness, God echoes this, telling the Winchesters that Michael is in no shape to fight a battle.
In the Season 15 episode "Back and to the Future", the demon Belphegor tells Dean that every door in Hell was opened by God, including that of Lucifer's Cage. Dean asks about Michael and Belphegor tells Dean that last he heard, Michael was sitting in the Cage. However, Belphegor suggests that if Michael does get out, he will want revenge.
In "Our Father, Who Aren't In Heaven", the Winchesters and Castiel learn from the demon tablet that God has a secret weakness that he shared only with his favorite. Suspecting this to be Michael, they travel into Hell to speak with him. Dean suspects that God and Lucifer had lied about Michael's insanity. However, by this point, Michael has already escaped from both the Cage and Hell and returned to Earth where, in the body of Adam Milligan, he shares control with his vessel. With the other archangels dead and God gone, Michael decides to start life with Adam on Earth, dispatching Lilith when the demon arrives to take him to God. After Castiel prays to him, Michael agrees to meet with his brother, though he is not pleased to see the other angel given Castiel's role in his imprisonment. The Winchesters and Castiel take Michael captive and attempt to convince him that God is the threat and they need Michael's help to stop him. Adam reveals that he and Michael reached an understanding in the Cage. Michael refuses to listen as it would mean God's Favorite Son doubting him. In a final effort, Castiel shows Michael his memories of God's betrayals, including the battle with the Darkness, the murder of Jack and Apocalypse World Michael. Disillusioned, Michael provides Castiel and Dean with the spell to trap God but warns that it requires a flower that only grows in Purgatory. Michael opens a twelve-hour portal for them to Purgatory but refuses to stay and help. Dean releases the archangel, who allows Adam to take control again so that Dean can apologize to his brother before Adam and Michael leave.
In "Inherit Earth", the Winchesters and Jack find Michael on an otherwise empty Earth. Michael reveals that Adam was killed when God wiped out everyone else. He says he was shocked to learn many humans loved God. Michael then reveals this to be the result of him having angels and prophets describe his father as loving and caring. He then agrees to help them against God. However, not even Michael can open Chuck's Death book. Shortly afterwards, Michael is enraged by the presence of a resurrected Lucifer who eventually reveals that God brought him back to get the book and that Michael is no longer God's favorite. Michael and Lucifer engage in a brief battle that ends with Michael killing his brother with an Archangel Blade that Sam provided. Michael joins the Winchesters and Jack in their plan to use a spell from the Book of the Damned to kill God but betrays them in an effort to become his father's favorite once again. He reunites with his father for the first time in milienia and the latter thanks him for his warning. However, Chuck is enraged that Michael betrayed him earlier and effortlessly obliterates the protesting archangel, rendering Archangels extinct. Sam and Dean reveal that they had earlier anticipated Michael's betrayal and used Michael to lure Chuck into a trap for their real plan.
Apocalypse World Michael
[edit]In Season 13, an alternate reality version of Michael is depicted in Apocalypse World, portrayed by Christian Keyes, Ruth Connell and Jensen Ackles. This version of Michael won the Apocalypse when it occurred, killing that version of Lucifer. A twisted and corrupt version of what he once was, Michael rules Apocalypse World with an iron fist and is conducting genocide upon the human race. Lucifer calls this Michael "pure evil". More powerful than the Michael the Winchesters are used to, he captures Lucifer and Mary Winchester and tortures them. Learning of the Winchesters' world, Michael intends to lead an invasion to destroy the human population and take over that world. An attempt to open a door between the worlds with the help of the prophet Kevin Tran allows Lucifer to escape to his own world with his grace diminished after some of it was used by Michael as a power source for the portal. From Lucifer, Castiel learns of Michael's impending invasion and warns the Winchesters, while Asmodeus, the current ruler of Hell, learns of it as well and begins preparing by getting the Archangel Blade, the only weapon that can kill an archangel such as Michael or Lucifer. An attempt by the Winchesters to open another door between the worlds leads to Michael capturing the Nephilim Jack, who is powerful enough to open the door for him. Jack eventually escapes with Mary Winchester. Zachariah's attempt to recapture him leads to Zachariah's death. Seeing the state of Apocalypse World, Mary and Jack form a resistance against Michael with the intention of killing him to save both worlds. As the war continues, Michael compels the prophet Kevin Tran to try a suicide bombing against the resistance in a somewhat successful effort to break Jack's spirit by showing Jack that he cannot save everyone.
In the penultimate episode of Season 13 "Exodus", the Winchesters return to Apocalypse World with Lucifer and Gabriel in an effort to rescue Mary and Jack. With Mary unwilling to leave the people behind, the Winchesters lead an exodus through the rift back to their universe. However, Michael interrupts the exodus, hoping to preventing their escape and use the rift to reach their world. The Winchesters were shocked to finally meet him and Lucifer engages him in a rematch, in which Michael overpowers him. Though surprised to see Gabriel, Michael does not hesitate to engage his younger brother, quickly overpowering Gabriel and killing him with an Archangel Blade. Gabriel's sacrifice enables the Winchesters to escape, leaving Michael stuck in Apocalypse World with Lucifer when the rift closes moments before Michael can reach it. Lucifer subsequently offers Michael a deal where he will share the spell to reopen the rift and in exchange, he and Michael will travel to the Winchesters' world together where Lucifer will get his son and Michael will get the chance to conquer everything else.
In the Season 13 finale "Let the Good Times Roll", Michael unexpectedly attacks the Winchesters in a gas station near their bunker, having arrived in their world with Lucifer. Dean manages to hold Michael at bay long enough to escape with holy fire, but Michael soon breaks free and attacks the Winchesters' bunker, easily defeating all resistance while preparing to kill Dean. Sam is able to summon Jack for help through a prayer. Jack attacks Michael, seriously injuring him. Before Jack can kill Michael, Lucifer's evil deeds are revealed to his son. Lucifer steals Jack's grace and departs with Jack and Sam. In the aftermath, a weakened Michael warns Dean and Castiel that Lucifer is now "super-charged" and can destroy the universe if he wishes. While Michael once had the power to stop him, he is too weak to do so, particularly in his injured state, with a battered vessel. Desperate to stop Lucifer, Dean remembers that he is the Michael Sword, Michael's one true vessel with whom Michael will become more powerful than ever. With Michael acknowledging that by working together, he and Dean would have a chance against Lucifer, Dean offers Michael a deal where he becomes Michael's vessel, but Dean will remain in control while Michael powers him. Michael consents and gains Dean as his vessel. With Michael powering him from within, Dean gains access to the archangel's teleportation, strength, invulnerability and flight capabilities, allowing him to fight Lucifer on a more even level and ultimately kill him with Michael's Archangel Blade. With Lucifer dead, Michael breaks his deal with Dean, takes full control of his body and departs, loose upon the Winchesters' world in his true vessel.
In the Season 14 episode "Stranger in a Strange Land", three weeks after possessing Dean, Michael travels around asking "what do you want?" while trying to figure out the answer for himself. In the end, Michael forms an alliance with monsters, because he sees them as pure - all they want to do is feed.
In "Gods and Monsters", Michael performs experiments using angel grace to enhance the monsters' powers. After several misfires, Michael perfects his methods and begins building an army of enhanced monsters loyal to him by making a deal with a werewolf pack leader. Dean briefly surfaces in a mirror and unsuccessfully attempts to order Michael out of his body. Michael baits a trap for Sam, Mary and Bobby Singer using a vampire he had purposefully let escape. Michael's enhanced werewolves, who are immune to silver, attack the hunters, who are caught off-guard, but kill the monsters through decapitation. Moments later, Dean arrives with Michael mysteriously gone from his body. Dean tells the others that Michael left his body on his own and he has no idea why.
In "The Scar", Dean has Castiel go through his memory in hopes of learning what happened to Michael, after finding a scar upon his arm. Castiel is able to locate a memory of Michael getting stabbed in the arm with the spear of the Kaia Nieves from the Bad Place. Sam, Dean and Jody Mills track down Kaia who is being hunted by Michael's enhanced vampires. During a confrontation with Kaia, Dean remembers Michael attempting to make a deal with Kaia who refused and attacked him with the spear, which is capable of harming and possibly killing Michael. Following an attack by three of Michael's monsters, Kaia departs with the spear even though Michael will never stop hunting her as long as she has it. Dean tells Sam that possession by Michael was like drowning and he blames himself for Michael's rampage.
In "Nightmare Logic", the Winchesters and Bobby face a djinn whose powers have been enhanced by Michael. The djinn explains that Michael, while still in Dean's body, had ordered him to set himself up someplace quiet and act as a trap for hunters. Before Dean kills him. the djinn warns that Michael has dozens of similar traps all over for hunters.
In "Nihilism", Sam and Castiel trap Michael using a combination of a holy fire cocktail and angel cuffs. Michael summons monsters to rescue him. Trapped, Sam attempts to get help from the reaper Violet who refuses until the group is suddenly teleported to the Bunker. Michael is chained to a post but summons his army to rescue him and works to instill doubts in Jack and Castiel over Dean's relationship with them. Michael reveals that after learning about God from Dean's mind, he has come to believe that God considers both worlds "failed drafts" and has left to start again. Michael states that he intends to destroy all of the worlds he can until he finds God and kills him, too. In an attempt to stop Michael, Sam and Castiel use the British Men of Letters mind-link device to enter Dean's mind to try to get him to throw Michael out, locating Dean in a world that Michael has created for him where Dean is perfectly happy. After Dean is reminded of the truth, Michael appears in the bar and taunts Dean for seeing Sam and Castiel as burdens. However, they realize that Michael is stalling and is powerless. However, Michael retains his superior fighting skills and warns that Dean will be burnt out if he is kicked out of Dean's body. The three team up to trap Michael in the bar cooler, effectively trapping Michael in Dean's mind. Though Dean intends to be Michael's cage, he continues to work to break free while his army disbands. Billie later visits Dean and warns him that all versions of Dean's fate but one has Michael escaping and using Dean's body to destroy the world. Billie shows Dean the single fate where Michael loses, shocking him at what it reveals must be done. In "Damaged Goods", Dean reveals that he must lock himself in a magical box, a prison impenetrable even to an archangel, and imprison them both at the bottom of the ocean. However, Sam and Castiel talk him out of the plan in "Prophet and Loss".
In "Ouroboros", Dean is knocked unconscious by a Gorgon during a hunt, allowing Michael to escape from his prison. Rather than possess Dean again, Michael seeks revenge on him and his family. He leaves Dean's body and forces the witch Rowena MacLeod to say "yes" and slaughters several hunters. Michael gloats to the Winchesters and Castiel, whom he tortures, until Jack taps into the power of his soul to face off with Michael. Jack is able to exorcise Michael from Rowena and incinerates the swirling cloud of light that Michael had become, as he deems that he will not hurt anyone again. Jack absorbs Michael's grace. Jack announces to the others that Michael is dead, and his grace has fully restored Jack's powers. However, it is later revealed that killing Michael burned away Jack's soul, leaving him completely soulless.
In the Season 15 episode "Our Father, Who Aren't In Heaven", Castiel shows the Michael of the Winchesters' world some of his memories of this Michael amongst other things while trying to convince him of God's betrayal. Michael is completely disillusioned after this, particularly as he now knows that he is not the only Michael.
Naomi
[edit]Naomi, portrayed by Amanda Tapping, is a "cool", "mysterious", and "polished" villain who first appears at the end of the episode "A Little Slice of Kevin". She is affiliated with a previously unknown faction of angels,[12] eventually revealed to be "Heaven's intelligence division",[13] a group tasked with secretly brainwashing angels and altering their memories to keep them both in-line with Heaven's orders and oblivious to the truth of their actions and goals.[14]
While casting Naomi, the character was compared to The Good Shepherd's antihero Edward Wilson, Sr. (Matt Damon), in that she is "willing to sacrifice everything for the greater good".[12] In his 2014 revision of The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester, Nicholas Knight described her as "a powerful angel...ruthless in her quest to prevent the angel tablet from falling into the wrong hands". Despite her role as an antagonist, Knight noted that Naomi "quickly became one of the most enigmatic and popular new characters of the (eighth) season".[13]
In her debut she claims responsibility for Castiel's mysterious return from Purgatory though he cannot remember her and demonstrates her complete control over his actions.[15] Although she tells him off-screen that she is the current ruler of Heaven, Metatron later claims that she is only one of many faction leaders at war with each other.[16] In "Torn and Frayed", Naomi tasks Castiel with rescuing Samandriel after she gets his distress call while Crowley tortures him. Upon learning that Samandriel has revealed the existence of the angel Word of God tablet to Crowley, however, she forces Castiel to kill the other angel, which she justifies by emphasizing the tablet's importance, labeling Samandriel a traitor. Prior to his death, Samandriel had been trying to tell Castiel something about Naomi, triggering Castiel's memory in which Naomi was approaching his eye with a mysterious instrument resembling a drill while he was restrained and screaming. Noticing Castiel's strange actions and behavior, the Winchesters become suspicious that Castiel is being controlled.[17] "Goodbye Stranger" opens with the revelation that Naomi has been working on fully subduing Castiel to her control and determines him to be "ready" once he kills thousands of copies of Dean. She then sends him to get the angel tablet before Crowley can. After he finds the tablet and she orders him to kill Dean, Castiel manages to fight her control and eventually breaks it by touching the tablet. He tells Dean about her before going into hiding to protect the tablet. In an encounter with Crowley, Naomi says that Castiel is doing what he is meant to do: protect the tablet, even if it means protecting it from her. She is later shown to be searching for Castiel to find the tablet.[18]
In "Taxi Driver", Naomi meets with Dean to try to convince him that she is on his side, claiming that Castiel had misinformed him about her due to his mental instability, and that she wants to help Castiel; Dean does not believe her. Nonetheless, Naomi tips him off to the danger Sam is in and later saves Sam and Dean from Crowley, driving the demon off and helping the Winchesters complete the second trial to seal Hell by enabling a trapped Bobby's soul to ascend to Heaven. She reiterates that Dean can trust her and that they all share the goal of sealing Hell.[19] Naomi and her angels eventually slaughter the patrons of a restaurant they know Castiel is passing through and leave one alive, traumatized in order to make him stop long enough for them to capture him; Naomi kills the survivor afterward, rejecting Castiel's angry reminder that they (angels) are supposed to guard humans. She interrogates Castiel about the tablet's location and reveals that she has been altering and erasing his memories for longer than known, complaining that he has never functioned as he was supposed to. She flees when Crowley attacks her men and fires at her with a gun loaded with melted-down angel blades.[14] In the Season 8 finale, Naomi learns that Metatron is working with Castiel, prompting her to capture the rogue angel and use her drill-like instrument to access his thoughts and learn his plans; when she finds out what they are, she is horrified and immediately warns Dean and Castiel, revealing that Metatron is not trying to close the gates of Heaven, but rather trying to permanently expel all angels in revenge for himself having to flee to escape her and the archangels, who had ordered her to detain him and take the knowledge he had as the Scribe of God after God left Heaven. Naomi expresses remorse for her actions and that of the other angels, saying that angels are meant to protect humanity. To begin making amends, she warns Dean that if Sam completes the trials, he will die, and then offers to hear Castiel out if he truly wishes to return to Heaven. As they cannot confirm her claims, Castiel refuses to believe her, though Dean does and ultimately stops Sam from completing the trials. Naomi is later found collapsed on her desk in her "office" in Heaven. Metatron had gotten free and stabbed her in the head with her own drill off-screen. Metatron taunts Castiel that she had been telling the truth, and then completes his plan.[20] Naomi is confirmed dead through dialogue in the episode "I'm No Angel" in Season 9.[21]
In the Season 13 episode "Funeralia", Castiel returns to Heaven for the Angels' help on finding the still living Gabriel and fighting the invading Alternate Michael, only to find Naomi alive. Naomi explains that she survived Metatron's attack, but her injuries were such that she had the word spread that she was dead. Even after nearly five years to put her thoughts back together, Naomi is still only "mostly here". However, her presence is needed since less than a dozen angels are still alive, including Naomi and Castiel. Displaying a vastly different personality, Naomi explains to Castiel that the surviving angels will soon burn out and Heaven will crumble if something does not change. As a result, the angels cannot leave Heaven without risking this happening. The angels only chance is for Gabriel to return as his power can stabilize Heaven. If he cannot be found, when Heaven crumbles, all of the souls will be released upon Earth as ghosts. Now allies, Naomi accompanies Castiel to Earth and promises that the remaining angels will keep Heaven going for as long as they can if he cannot find Gabriel, but expresses a belief that maybe the situation cannot be fixed. As she returns to Heaven, Naomi seals the portal behind her until the situation is resolved.
During the Season 14 episode "Byzantium", she appears again where she meets Castiel and Dumah in Jack's Heaven after he dies and ascends. She explains to Castiel that Jack left and a threat is invading Heaven while defeating the angels. Naomi elaborates on it being The Shadow (the entity that rules The Empty) and reveals that she knows Castiel meeting it since he is the only angel to ever escape the realm. Naomi states The Shadow wants Jack because it believes he belongs in its domain. She had considered giving into its demands since Heaven would otherwise crumble. When Castiel refused, she tried to plead to her brother but The Shadow possessed her and she implored her siblings to run. Later on, Naomi meets Castiel again after he made a deal with The Shadow and left. She is seen unharmed from the attack and thanks him for his role even if he did not do it for Heaven. As a reward, she tells Castiel the location of Alternate Michael.
In "Absence", Castiel attempts to contact Naomi, but gets Dumah instead who claims that Naomi is unavailable. In "Jack in the Box", Castiel returns to Heaven where Dumah reveals that she overthrew Naomi following the Shadow's invasion of Heaven and has locked Naomi in a small cell. Dumah begins manipulating Jack to solidify her own power and establish a reign of terror but is killed by Castiel when she threatens the shared Heaven of John and Mary Winchester. Following Dumah's death and Jack becoming the God, it is unclear if Naomi was released from the dungeon.
Raphael
[edit]Raphael is the archangel assigned to protecting Chuck Shurley. Raphael appears to protect Chuck twice, in "The Monster at the End of the Book", when he is in the presence of Lilith, and in "Lucifer Rising", where he kills Castiel as he and Dean attempt to prevent Lucifer's rise. He is summoned and subsequently trapped by Dean and a resurrected Castiel in the Season 5 episode "Free to Be Me and You", but refuses to cooperate when they demand to know the location of God, only saying that he believes that God is dead. Dean and Castiel leave Raphael trapped despite his threat to hunt Castiel down when he escapes. In this episode, Raphael appears for the first time in a bodily vessel and is played by actor Demore Barnes, who reprises the role in "The Third Man" and "The Man Who Would Be King". Following the prevention of the Apocalypse, Raphael and his supporters are at war with Castiel and his followers over Castiel's opposition to Raphael's plan to free Lucifer and Michael to restart the Apocalypse. He makes his second on-screen appearance in the Season 6 episode "The Third Man", in which he and his soldiers are in close pursuit of Castiel. Raphael overpowers Castiel and is about to kill him when Balthazar intervenes and irrevocably destroys Raphael's vessel with one of Heaven's weapons, saving Castiel's life. Raphael is forced to search for a new vessel, eventually possessing a woman played by Lanette Ware. In "The French Mistake", he sends the angel hitman Virgil after Castiel's allies, including the Winchesters. Balthazar transports the brothers to an alternate universe with a key to where Heaven's weapons are stored and Virgil follows. This is revealed to have been a ploy by Balthazar and Castiel, allowing the latter time to retrieve the weapons. Now equipped with the weapons, Castiel forces Raphael to flee when the latter is poised to kill a returned Sam and Dean. Flashbacks in "The Man Who Would Be King" depicts the background to Raphael's war with Castiel; Raphael believed that the Apocalypse was destined to happen and informed Castiel of his intention to release Lucifer and Michael from the cage, giving Castiel the ultimatum to submit or die. Having forged a deal with the demon Crowley, Castiel attacked Raphael and declared war in Heaven. In the Season 6 finale, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Castiel reneges on his deal with Crowley, who turns to Raphael. Crowley agrees to open Purgatory for Raphael in exchange for his safety. However, their ritual fails whilst Castiel opens Purgatory for himself. Castiel appears, now more powerful than ever, and obliterates Raphael with a snap of his fingers. In "We Happy Few", when discussing how they will defeat the Darkness, God tells the Winchesters that he cannot resurrect Raphael or Gabriel as they are beings of primordial creation and will take too long to bring back.
Samandriel
[edit]Samandriel, called Alfie for short, portrayed by Tyler Johnston, is an angel who seems to hold humanity in higher regard than most angels and appears to hold Castiel in great regard as well. He appears at Plutus' auction in "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?" to bid for the demon Word of God tablet, taking the vessel of a young man named Alfie. He asks Dean about Castiel and is noticeably saddened that Castiel did not make it out of Purgatory. Samandriel indicates that he supports Castiel and tells Dean that he thinks Castiel's problem is he has too much heart. Samandriel bids for the Word of God, but loses. After Mrs. Tran wins by bidding her soul, Samandriel approaches her to offer angelic protection to Kevin, but she refuses which he respects. In "A Little Slice of Kevin", Samandriel has been captured by Crowley who tortures him for the names of all future Prophets with an angel sword. Samandriel breaks under the torture and tells him all the names, but Crowley is not satisfied until Samandriel reveals that the next generation of Prophets have not been born yet and thus there are no more. Crowley stops the torture without urgency and orders Samandriel put "on ice" for future torture, believing he can get more out of him. In "Torn and Frayed", Samandriel manages to push a spike out of his head that is blocking his connection to the other angels and sends a distress signal to Naomi. However, the demon Viggor discovers him and replaces the spike and starts torturing him again using headgear that puts a lot of spikes into Samandriel's head. The spikes cause Samandriel to revert to "factory settings" and he starts speaking in Enochian, in his distress speaking through a bush that catches fire. Viggor summons Crowley who tortures Samandriel personally to see what he can get from him when he is at "factory settings". As Sam, Dean and Castiel launch a rescue, Samandriel starts talking about the Word of God tablets and just before they break into the room, Samandriel reveals that there is an angel tablet. As Sam and Dean kill Viggor and another demon, Castiel removes the headgear from Samandriel, returning him to normal and takes him outside. Fearful of what he has revealed, Samandriel begs Castiel not to take him back to Heaven and warns Castiel that "they" are controlling them both. Before Samandriel can elaborate, Naomi orders Castiel to kill him for being a traitor. With no other choice, Castiel stabs Samandriel with his angel sword, killing him. Naomi has Castiel take Samandriel's body to Heaven so she can determine just how much he broke and explains that he is a traitor as he revealed the existence of the angel tablet which any angel would die to protect as it could cause great harm if it fell into demon hands.
Tessa
[edit]Tessa is a reaper who guides the souls of the deceased to the afterlife (see also Psychopomp). She is portrayed by Lindsey McKeon. Following the car accident in the first-season finale, Dean is critically wounded, and his soul leaves his body. Dean attempts to save other souls and defends himself from a reaper. The reaper then returns in the form of Tessa, posing as a coma patient. She attempts to convince Dean to move on but, as he considers this, Azazel intervenes as part of his deal with John Winchester and possesses Tessa to restore Dean to life, although Dean remembers none of this. In the Season 4 episode "Death Takes a Holiday", she continues the work of a local reaper who has gone missing. After restoring Dean's memories of her with a kiss, she assists the brothers and agrees not to reap the souls for the duration. She is kidnapped by Alastair as part of a ritual to unlock a seal, but Dean and Sam rescue her. After getting Dean to help her have a young boy named Cole move on from being a ghost, she warns Dean that the angels are not looking for his best interest and to trust his own instincts.[22] In "Appointment in Samarra", Dean summons Tessa during an out-of-body experience and asks her to call Death. Although she refuses, Death arrives on his own accord. Subsequently, Tessa guides Dean in his role as Death for 24 hours as part of a wager made with the Horseman in order to retrieve Sam's soul. Tessa returns in "Stairway to Heaven" where she is a part of Castiel's faction to retake Heaven. She has grown depressed over the fact that she can no longer ferry souls to Heaven due to it being closed and that she can hear their cries for help and is brainwashed by Metatron into acting as a suicide bomber for him, supposedly under Castiel's instruction in order to unite all the angels under his command. Tessa is found and captured by Dean before she can do this and her "bomb" is defused. Dean questions Tessa who, under her brainwashing, insists she is doing it for Castiel. When Dean pulls the First Blade on her, Tessa commits suicide by impaling herself on the Blade while Dean is holding it, thanking him at the same time. Her method of suicide makes it appear that Dean murdered her and helps turn Castiel's followers against him.
Uriel
[edit]Zachariah
[edit]Demons
[edit]Demons in the series are generally portrayed as cruel and sadistic, often taking pleasure in causing humans pain. They are also, as series creator Eric Kripke deemed them, "erudite and sophisticated".[23] While the demon "tyrant" Azazel commands them in the first two seasons,[24] demons were the sole antagonists of the third season.[25] At times, their culture is compared to normal humans, with the third-season episode "Sin City" introducing their religious side. Many believe Lucifer was their own higher power.[26] Though many demons came to lose faith,[27] they followed the fallen angel upon his release from Hell in the fifth season.
Inspirations for these types of demons came from numerous sources, such as the devil-on-your-shoulder concept used in the episode "Sin City". The writers often tried to base the demons on actual aspects of history, as was done in "Malleus Maleficarum" by having the demon Tammi turn a group of women into witches.[28] An encyclopedia on demons was used for research, with Binsfield's Classification of Demons inspiring "The Magnificent Seven's" storyline of seven demons being the physical embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins.[28]
The writers originally intended for demons to not rely on human hosts, but rather exist "halfway between spirits and corporeal creatures."[29] However, the demon in "Phantom Traveler" demonstrates the ability to possess people. This quality and its other characteristics were chosen without foresight solely to fit with the episode's storyline,[30] and the writers opted to maintain it as an element of all demons.[29] Kripke felt it added an interesting aspect to the storylines, as the viewers "never quite know who the bad guy is".[29] Another source of debate for the writers stemmed from the demons' eye color, which is based on a demon's place in the hierarchy. The writers preferred to limit unique colors to only the "big, big, bad guys". Writer Sera Gamble noted, "If every time we had a demon that was powerful we gave them a different eye color, pretty soon it'd be like, 'The Chartreuse-Eyed Demon is coming for us!'"[31] During the production of the second season, Kripke viewed the horror film I Walked with a Zombie, and found one of the creatures having all-white eyes to be "really disturbing".[31] The writers considered changing the eye color of regular demons to white, but eventually decided against it. However, Kripke later used the idea when Lilith and other high-level demons were introduced.[31]
The appearance of a demons' true form became more complex as the series progressed. Originally depicted as small, thin streams of black smoke, demons began to appear as large, thick smoke clouds.[30] When in large groups, the clouds have electricity pulsing throughout them. The visual effects department based the demons' shape on that of a snake, giving it a "predatorial" and "intelligent" look. Visual effects supervisor Ivan Hayden found demon smoke to be one of the hardest visual effects in the series.[30]
Abaddon
[edit]Primarily portrayed by actress Alaina Huffman, Abaddon is the last remaining Knight of Hell, a class of mighty demons who were among the first of their kind. Abaddon is too strong to be affected by exorcisms or killed by Ruby's knife. She is introduced in the eighth-season episode "As Time Goes By" in which she is sent to destroy the Men of Letters organization in 1958 and sets off in pursuit of Sam and Dean's grandfather, Henry Winchester, who escaped with the key to the Men of Letters' bunker. Wanting to break into the bunker to gain access to the powerful supernatural spells and artifacts inside, Abaddon follows Henry through time to the present and hunts him and his grandsons throughout the episode. As a result, she holds Sam hostage to force Dean to hand over Henry and the key, promising to let Sam and Dean go after the trade. Abaddon goes back on her agreement and ends up mortally wounding Henry, but not before he shoots her in the head with a bullet engraved with a devil's trap, binding her powers and her to her now-paralyzed host body. Sam and Dean then cut her up and bury her in cement to forever entomb her. In "Clip Show", Sam and Dean need a demon to cure for the third trial to close the gates of Hell, so they sew Abaddon back together to use her, without reattaching her hands or removing the bullet. Abaddon reveals that she had been sent to kill the priest who found a way to cure demons, and that while torturing him, she found out about the Men of Letters (including her host Josie Sands) from him. This ultimately resulted in her possessing Josie and attacking the Men of Letters. While Sam and Dean take a phone call from Crowley outside, Abaddon frees herself and escapes by controlling one of her severed hands and using it to remove the bullet from her skull. In the following episode, the season finale "Sacrifice", she arrives in response to Crowley's distress call but attacks him rather than help him. Abaddon declares her intention of taking over Hell, only to be driven away when Sam sets her ablaze in holy fire.
Abaddon returns in the ninth season, her objectives to kill Crowley, become the Queen of Hell, and "turn all of humankind into her demon army."[32] With Crowley being largely absent from Hell and having been deeply affected by the incomplete demon cure forced on him by the Winchesters, the intimidating Abaddon ends up winning the nearly unanimous support of the other demons. In "First Born", Crowley and Dean go to her maker, teacher, and former lover, Cain, to get his Mark. The Mark of Cain makes it possible to wield the First Blade, the only weapon capable of killing Abaddon. Cain reveals that Abaddon, after failing to persuade him to rejoin her, had tricked him into murdering his beloved human wife Colette. He made a promise to Colette, making him unable to seek revenge directly, so he gives Dean the Mark so that Dean can kill Abaddon once Crowley finds the Blade.
The episode "Mother's Little Helper" reveals that Abaddon's history with the Men of Letters goes back further than previously thought. Abaddon had been confronted by Henry and Josie when stealing people's souls at a convent before her slaughter of the Men of Letters. She intended to possess Henry to spy on the Men of Letters before destroying them, but accepted Josie's offer and possessed her instead, all without Henry's knowledge.
In the present, Abaddon gives the order for her minions to begin stealing souls again to build an army of demons loyal to her. In an attempt to eliminate all threats posed to her and her rule, Abaddon concocts a plan to kill Crowley and the Winchesters and destroy the First Blade. She brings Crowley's human son Gavin forward in time and tortures him until Crowley agrees to help her set up a trap for Sam and Dean. In an attempt to destroy them all at once, Abaddon sends Crowley to the Winchesters to retrieve the First Blade and then lead them to her. Crowley manages to double-cross Abaddon and warn Dean of the trap, but he is unable to restrain her. Abaddon ends up shooting Crowley with a devil's trap bullet, preventing him from interfering in the upcoming fight. Before she can enact the rest of her plan and kill Crowley, Gavin, and the Winchesters, she is slain by Dean wielding the First Blade. Following Abaddon's death, most demons go back to following Crowley. Those that remained loyal to Abaddon tried to ambush Dean following their leader's death in "Black" only to be easily killed themselves.
Executive producer and series writer Adam Glass revealed on Twitter that Abaddon was inspired by Lauren Bacall, an actress whom he admires.[33] Showrunner Jeremy Carver went into the character's motivation, explaining that Abaddon was "appalled" to find that Crowley ruled over Hell because she "loves Hell and what it represents." He believed that the contrasts in the two characters' views incited "a nice conflict to our demon world."[32]
Abraxas
[edit]Abraxas, portrayed by Nelson Leis in season 14, is the powerful and sadistic black-eyed demon who murdered the family of Lucifer's future vessel Nick.
Abraxas is briefly mentioned, though not by name, in season 5's "Sympathy for the Devil" when Lucifer mentions the brutal murders of Nick's family to manipulate him into consenting to possession.
In season 14's "Gods and Monsters", Nick learns that his family's murders are still unsolved after nine years and seeks revenge, starting with Arty Nielson, his neighbor who witnessed a man running out of Nick's house on the night of the murders. In "Unhuman Nature", Nick tracks down Frank Kellogg, the police officer Abraxas possessed on the night of the murders. Frank tells Nick that Nick's wife, Sarah, had called the police to report a prowler, and when Frank investigated, he found Abraxas outside. After introducing himself, Abraxas possessed Frank and brutally beat Sarah and Nick's son, Teddy, to death with a hammer. Nick remembers that Lucifer knew the name Abraxas and realizes that a demon killed his family, but still murders Frank regardless.
In "Damaged Goods", Nick captures, tortures, and murders demons in search of Abraxas. Nick finally captures a demon who worked with Abraxas to kill almost an entire Girl Scout troop. The demon reveals that Abraxas was captured by Sam and Dean Winchester's mother, Mary Winchester. After receiving the information, Nick kills the demon and goes to find Mary. Nick kidnaps Mary and forces her to admit that when she couldn't defeat Abraxas, she trapped him in an Enochian puzzle box. Nick forces Mary to lead him to the storage unit where the puzzle box is located and kidnaps a security guard named Jeff to act as Abraxas' vessel. While possessing Jeff, Abraxas is trapped by a devil's trap. Abraxas offers to tell Nick what he wants to know if Nick murders Mary. The Winchesters and Sheriff Donna Hanscum interrupt, causing Nick to break the devil's trap and free Abraxas. Abraxas reveals to Nick that Lucifer ordered him to commit the murders and Abraxas had chosen him by throwing a dart at the phone book. Dean attempts an exorcism, but Abraxas stops him. While Abraxas is distracted, Nick approaches from behind and kills Abraxas with an angel blade.
Alastair
[edit]Asmodeus
[edit]First mentioned in season 12's "Stuck in the Middle (With You)", Asmodeus is a demon and one of the four Princes of Hell alongside Azazel, Ramiel, and Dagon. Like Ramiel and Dagon, Asmodeus is stated to have left Hell a long time ago, having lost interest in Lucifer's plans in favor of his "hobbies." Both Lucifer and Gabriel describe him as the weakest of the Princes of Hell. Lucifer also implies that Asmodeus is the youngest of the Princes of Hell.
Asmodeus (portrayed primarily by Jeffrey Vincent Parise) first appears in season 13's "The Rising Son." Appearing in Crowley's former palace, Asmodeus announces himself as the new King of Hell to all of the gathered demons with a stated intention to rule until Lucifer or his Nephilim son Jack can be found to replace him. Displaying immense powers, Asmodeus quickly begins reshaping Hell to his standards, summarily executing several demons that fail to meet those standards. Asmodeus uses his shapeshifting abilities to get close to the Winchesters and Jack. Disguised as the Prophet Donatello Redfield, Asmodeus manipulates Jack into opening a portal to release the Shedim, creatures that even Lucifer fears. After Asmodeus is exposed, he is forced to retreat by an enraged Jack.
In "War of the Worlds", Asmodeus uses his powers to search for Jack while also interrogating those who have seen the Winchesters. Asmodeus senses Lucifer's return from the Apocalypse World and finds Lucifer and Castiel together in a bar. Recognizing his "father's" weakened state, Asmodeus announces an intention to keep power for himself in Hell and imprisons Lucifer and Castiel. He then hires Arthur Ketch, a former member of the British Men of Letters and a skilled assassin, to help him search for Jack. To keep the Winchesters from finding out that Castiel has been captured, Asmodeus impersonates Castiel on a phone call to trick them. Asmodeus contacts the Winchesters in this way for a few episodes to both keep them off of his trail and see if they have learned anything about Jack's location. Lucifer and Castiel later manage to escape in "Various & Sundry Villains" while Asmodeus is away.
In "The Scorpion and The Frog", Asmodeus learns of the Crossroads Demon Barthamus' plans to attack Luther Shrike's home and retrieve the trunk containing Barthamus' human bones. Wanting to get rid of the traitor, Asmodeus sends a demonic messenger to warn Luther and ask to tip him off if Barthamus arrives. Luther refuses to help Asmodeus and exorcises the messenger instead.
In "Devil's Bargain", Asmodeus attempts to have Arthur Ketch track down and kill the weakened Lucifer. At the same time, he interrogates the Prophet Donatello Redfield, learning of the Winchesters' plot to open the door to Apocalypse World. Asmodeus places Donatello under his control as an unwitting spy. After Arthur fails to kill Lucifer, Asmodeus unveils his newest acquisition: the Archangel Blade, the one weapon that can kill Lucifer. Arthur points out that only an archangel can wield it, causing Asmodeus to introduce the archangel Gabriel who has been believed dead for nearly eight years. Gabriel is shown to be Asmodeus' prisoner.
In "The Thing", Arthur discovers Asmodeus injecting himself with Gabriel's grace. Asmodeus dismisses Arthur until he is ready to see the man, and is less than pleased to learn that Arthur knew that Castiel was in Syria seeking out the Tree of Life. Enraged by Arthur's recent actions, Asmodeus beats the man brutally, claiming Arthur to be worse than any demon he knows and that he owns Arthur due to this nature, despite Arthur's desire for redemption. Asmodeus' beating causes Arthur to break Gabriel out and steal the Archangel Blade and Asmodeus' store of Gabriel's extracted grace, bringing all three to the Winchesters.
In "Bring 'em Back Alive", Gabriel tells Sam and Castiel that after faking his death, he was captured and sold to Asmodeus who tortured him for years and used his grace to gain powers. As Sam and Castiel try to treat the traumatized Gabriel, Asmodeus uses his powers to seek Gabriel out, eventually locating him in the Winchesters' bunker. Asmodeus calls Sam and threatens to destroy the bunker if Gabriel is not turned over to him in ten minutes. When Sam fails to comply, Asmodeus breaks through the wards and leads a demon incursion to kill Sam and Castiel and recapture Gabriel. Though the incursion is initially successful, when Asmodeus begins torturing Sam and Castiel, it causes Gabriel to snap out of his traumatized state and fight back. Asmodeus proves to be no match for the enraged archangel who incinerates Asmodeus in retaliation for all that the Prince of Hell did to him.
In "Unfinished Business", the Winchesters encounter Gabriel, who is seeking revenge against the Norse gods Loki, Fenrir, Sleipnir, and Narfi. Gabriel believes the gods betrayed him and sold him to Asmodeus to make a profit before Lucifer discovered he was still alive. Gabriel reveals that he was tortured by Asmodeus every day for years and remains weakened as Asmodeus drained much of his grace. Gabriel notes that his grace has not had a chance to recharge much after he used it to kill the Prince of Hell. Loki tells Dean later on that he sold Gabriel to Asmodeus because he blamed Gabriel for the death of his father Odin at Lucifer's hands.
Azazel
[edit]Belphegor
[edit]Belphegor, portrayed by Alexander Calvert, is a demon who is released from Hell when God begins the Apocalypse and allies himself with the Winchesters. While he is a low-tier demon, his actual eye color is unknown as his host's eyes are burned out while Belphegor is possessing him. Belphegor only states that he is not a regular black-eyed grunt nor is he a Crossroads Demon. He is also known to have worked as a torturer in Hell.
In "Back and to the Future", possessing the corpse of Lucifer's Nephilim son Jack, Belphegor presents himself as an ally to the Winchesters. He explains that in Hell he tortures souls and loves his job and as such, he wants to restore Hell back to normal. While reluctant, the Winchesters and Castiel agree to ally with Belphegor who promises to leave Jack's body as soon as he finds a suitable new vessel. Belphegor helps the three escape the horde of zombies that has them trapped and offers a spell to contain the escaped souls to a one-mile radius around the cemetery where they were released. Working with Dean, Belphegor successfully casts the spell and contains the ghosts. However, he reveals to Dean that every door in Hell was opened which means two to three billion ghosts are now loose and in addition, Lucifer's Cage was opened, potentially releasing Michael to wreak havoc. In "Raising Hell", Belphegor continues to aid the Winchesters, Castiel and Rowena in their efforts to contain the escaped ghosts and the failing barrier. At the same time, Arthur Ketch reveals that he has been hired by the demon Ardat to assassinate Belphegor, whom she calls "a monstrous threat to humanity."
In "The Rupture", after the Book of the Damned fails to fix the barrier, Belphegor offers up a solution: Lilith's Crook, a horn created by Lilith to draw the demons and souls of Hell back to her in case they ever fell out of her control. While Belphegor and Castiel travel into Hell to get the crook, Sam and Rowena will perform a spell to seal the rupture. Though Belphegor claims he only needs Castiel as backup, Castiel remains suspicious of his motives, especially upon discovering that the crook is in a chest sealed in Enochian which only Castiel can read. The two are attacked by Ardat who reveals that Belphegor's true motive has always been to take power in Hell for himself and is using the Winchesters and Castiel for that purpose. Belphegor kills Ardat and confirms that she was telling the truth, intending to use the crook to draw all of the demons and souls inside of himself to gain unlimited power. As Belphegor uses the horn, he is beaten to the ground by Castiel and tries to pretend to be Jack to get Castiel to stop. Seeing through the deception, Castiel smites Belphegor without hesitation, killing the demon and destroying the crook but at the cost of burning Jack's body into a charred skeleton. After learning of Belphegor's demise, Dean is angry with Castiel as he feels that the demon was a threat they could have dealt with at a later time and Belphegor's demise before they could finish the plan resulted in Rowena having to sacrifice herself to send the remaining souls back to Hell. Castiel's actions with Belphegor as well as his hiding Jack's soulless state create a rift between the two for some time.
Cain
[edit]Cain, (portrayed by Timothy Omundson) was the First Son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel. While everyone believed that Cain had killed Abel because he was talking to God, Cain actually killed him because he was talking to Lucifer. Loving his brother, Cain made a deal with Lucifer: Abel's soul in Heaven in exchange for Cain becoming the first Knight of Hell while wielding the Mark of Cain. However, as part of the deal, Cain had to kill Abel personally. Afterwards, feeling remorse for his actions, Cain took his own life, but the Mark resurrected him as a powerful demon. For thousands of years, Cain was the worst of the worst, gaining the title Father of Murder and training the rest of the Knights of Hell. Eventually, Cain fell in love with a human woman, Colette, and gave up his evil ways for her, suppressing the Mark's influence on him to slaughter people. In 1863, the other Knights kidnapped Colette to force Cain back to his old ways. Cain slaughtered all of the Knights, but when he got to Abaddon, she possessed Colette and tricked Cain into killing his wife. Due to Colette's dying request, Cain didn't go after Abaddon for revenge and threw the First Blade to the bottom of the Marianas Trench as it couldn't be destroyed, eventually settling in Missouri. In First Born, while looking for the First Blade to kill Abaddon, Dean and Crowley tracked down Cain and asked for the First Blade. Cain was uninterested in helping them, wanting to keep his promise to Colette, but watched as Dean fought and killed three demons single-handedly. Impressed, Cain told Dean and Crowley his story, but still refused to help at first. Eventually, after speaking to Colette's grave, Cain chose to help by giving Dean the Mark of Cain so that he could wield the First Blade himself and kill Abaddon. In return, he asked Dean to kill him afterwards before sending Dean and Crowley away and taking on Abaddon's army single-handedly. In The Executioner's Song, it is revealed that killing Abaddon's demons caused Cain to fall back under the influence of the Mark of Cain. Giving into its rage, Cain decided that as so many of his descendants were killers and other sorts of criminals, he'd wipe out his bloodline, despite it being "legion." Cain killed many people, eventually being discovered by Sam and Dean when he kidnapped serial killer Tommy Tolliver. Cain confronted Castiel at the site of his victims' graves, but let him go so that Castiel would tell Dean who would bring the First Blade to kill him. Going after Tommy's son, Austin, Cain was lured into a devil's trap by Dean, Sam, Castiel and Crowley, after which Dean confronted him alone. Cain claimed to Dean that there was no cure for the Mark of Cain and it was better to give into its rage. Dean and Cain fought, but Cain proved more powerful and easily beat Dean, eventually getting the First Blade for himself. Before he could kill Dean, Dean managed to get Cain's knife and cut off his hand. Cain refused to give up killing, forcing Dean to kill him. While Dean retained his humanity, Cain's descent into madness left both him and Sam deeply worried.
The Crossroads Demon
[edit]A specific crossroads demon recurred throughout the second and third seasons of the series, possessing only young, beautiful women as her host. Actresses Christie Laing and Jeannette Sousa first portray her in "Crossroad Blues". Laing plays the demon in flashbacks depicting musician Robert Johnson selling his soul to learn to play the guitar, while Sousa portrays the demon in the present. The latter is summoned by Dean in an attempt to rescue a man from a demonic pact previously made. She rejects Dean's plea, instead taunting him about his father's suffering in Hell. Dean tricks her into walking into a Devil's Trap, and frees her in exchange for releasing the man from his contract.[34] The demon returns again in the second-season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose", now in possession of a woman portrayed by Ona Grauer. She resurrects Sam in exchange for collecting Dean's soul in one year.[35]
She makes her final appearance in "Bedtime Stories", now portrayed by Sandra McCoy. At the end of the episode, Sam summons her and demands she break her deal with Dean in exchange for her life. She claims to not hold the contract, being just an employee with a boss to answer to. A frustrated Sam kills the demon with the mystical Colt gun.[36] McCoy was dating lead actor Jared Padalecki at that time after having worked with him on the 2005 film Cry Wolf. She previously auditioned for several love interests of the brothers, but believed that production had waited until the "perfect role" arrived before casting her due to their relationship.[37]
Crowley
[edit]Dagon
[edit]Dagon (portrayed by Ali Ahn) is one of the four Princes of Hell and one of the oldest and most powerful demons in existence. Despite being female (or in a female host), Dagon is still referred to as a Prince of Hell rather than a Princess. Like her brothers Ramiel and Asmodeus, Dagon long ago lost interest in Lucifer's plans and left Hell for a life on Earth. She is implied to have failed Lucifer in some way at some point.
She is first mentioned in a flashback in "Stuck in the Middle (With You)", when Ramiel tells Crowley that Dagon has her "toys" and is uninterested in ruling Hell. Later, Ramiel tells the Winchesters that Dagon has taken an interest in Lucifer's unborn Nephilim child, though Ramiel himself couldn't care less.
Dagon is first introduced in person in "Family Feud", when she kills two angels to save the life of Kelly Kline, the mother of Lucifer's unborn child. In "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell", Castiel learns of Dagon's involvement and warns the Winchesters about her, stating that all he knows of Dagon is rumors of her psychotic savagery.
Dagon continues her role as protector of Lucifer's child in "The British Invasion". She is revealed to secretly be working for Lucifer who has promised Dagon a place at his side if she succeeds and is often in telepathic communication with the Fallen archangel. To cover her tracks, Dagon has another demon murder everyone who meets Dagon and Kelly, including a doctor who did a fetal examination on Kelly's insistence. Dagon's activities are discovered by hunter Eileen Leahy, who helps lure Kelly out. Dagon shows up at the meeting and resists all attempts to kill her, including with the Colt. Dagon disappears with Kelly and reveals to the woman that the pregnancy will ultimately be fatal to her.
In "The Future", Dagon finds Kelly following her suicide and resurrection by Lucifer's child. While Kelly now believes the child to be good, Dagon believes that the child simply acted out of self-preservation. Dagon is later attacked by a team of angels led by Castiel who attempt to kill her with the Colt. Castiel escapes with Kelly, but Dagon kills one of the angels and tortures the other for information before killing him too. Dagon then intercepts Castiel at Heaven's portal, killing the angel Joshua and engaging Castiel in battle. Dagon proves to be stronger than the angel, easily beating him to a pulp. The intervention of the Winchesters leads only to Dagon breaking Dean's arm and effectively destroying the Colt. As Dagon goes to kill Castiel, Lucifer's child empowers the angel from the womb, enabling him to stop Dagon and render her powerless to Dagon's shock. With the help of Lucifer's child, Castiel incinerates Dagon, killing her as predicted in a premonition the child shared with Kelly. The child's aid against Dagon convinces Castiel of his goodness.
In the season 13 episode "Lost & Found", the newborn Jack, Lucifer's son, experiences a flashback to Dagon's death when asked what he remembers. Jack states that he remembers "when the bad woman burned."
Lilith
[edit]Meg Masters
[edit]Ramiel
[edit]Ramiel (portrayed by Jerry Trimble) is one of the four Princes of Hell in Supernatural alongside Azazel, Dagon and Asmodeus. As a Prince of Hell, Ramiel is one of the oldest and most powerful demons to ever live and a retired demonic general. Unlike Azazel, Ramiel has long-since lost interest in Lucifer's plans and separated himself from Hell, joined by Dagon and Asmodeus. During his time on Earth, Ramiel becomes a collector of rare supernatural artifacts and weapons.
In a flashback in "Stuck in the Middle (With You)", the demon Crowley meets with Ramiel in 2010 following the defeat of Lucifer and the end of the Apocalypse. With Lucifer locked up again and Lilith and Azazel dead, Ramiel is next in line to be the King of Hell. However, Ramiel is uninterested, continuing to have no interest in the affairs of Hell and calling Azazel a "fanatic." Instead, Ramiel suggests that Crowley take power, but warns that if anyone disturbs him, there will be severe consequences. Crowley accepts Ramiel's terms and presents him with two gifts: the Lance of Michael, a weapon designed by the archangel Michael to kill Lucifer slowly and the Colt, the legendary gun that had once been used to kill Ramiel's brother Azazel.
In the present day of the episode, hunter Mary Winchester is sent by the British Men of Letters to steal the Colt from Ramiel. The organization fails to inform Mary that Ramiel is a Prince of Hell, leaving the group of hunters she assembles woefully unprepared to fight the demon. Mary claims that Ramiel is simply a demon she is trying to eliminate that is doing evil actions while hiding her true purpose from the group. After a failed intervention by Crowley's demons, Mary succeeds in stealing the Colt before Ramiel returns from night fishing. Due to his sheer power as a Prince of Hell, Ramiel shrugs off all attempts to kill him and mortally wounds the angel Castiel with the Lance of Michael. Enraged by the theft of the Colt, Ramiel tracks the hunters to a barn and attacks Crowley when he attempts to intercede on the Winchesters' behalf. The Winchesters briefly trap Ramiel in Holy Fire and he demands the return of the Colt. When they fail to turn it over, Ramiel breaks free of the Holy Fire and attacks the hunters, once more shrugging off their attacks. After Ramiel nearly kills Dean, Sam steals the Lance of Michael from him with the help of a distraction by Mary and impales the Prince with the weapon. Designed to kill Lucifer, the Lance turns Ramiel to dust and is shortly thereafter destroyed by Crowley to save Castiel's life.
Ruby
[edit]Samhain
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Samhain is a powerful whitish-eyed demon and the Origin of Halloween in season 4. Before he was imprisoned in Hell centuries ago, he reigned over Earth on Halloween night. People kept their children inside, they left treats to appease him and they left carved pumpkins on their doorsteps to worship him. His power seems to be intermediate between that of black-eyed demons and white-eyed demons. He maintains all traits and powers of a normal black-eyed demon, and he also proved capable of emanating a demonic energy blast similar to Lilith's.
Wanting to summon Samhain, two witches named Tracy Davis and Don Harding start performing the sacrifices needed to summon Samhain. This draws the attention of the Winchesters and the angels as the raising of Samhain is one of the 66 Seals. Sam and Dean kill Don, but Tracy reveals herself and successfully summons Samhain, breaking the seal. Samhain possesses Don's body and recognizes Tracy before killing her. Samhain is unable to tell that Sam and Dean are alive due to a "mask" of blood they smeared on their faces so he leaves them alone.
Samhain travels to a mausoleum where a bunch of high school students are having a party, locks them in and summons zombies and at least one ghost that attack. Sam and Dean rescue most of the kids and Dean deals with the monsters while Sam faces Samhain. Sam proves immune to Samhain's power so they fight hand to hand, but even with the demon-killing knife, Sam is no match for the demon. Finally, in the end, Sam manages to exorcise Samhain with his powers and sends him back to Hell.
A drawing of Samhain can be seen in Anna Milton's journal. The description says "Samhain. The next seal is broken." In Anna's drawing, Samhain's eyes are completely whitish, showing that Samhain is classified as a whitish eyed demon.
Hunters
[edit]Hunters are men and women who spend their lives hunting supernatural creatures and attempting to save those affected by these creatures. Most appear to have had some kind of negative encounter with the supernatural, which prompts them to become hunters. While hunters, by their nature, operate 'off-the-grid, there are, nevertheless, hunter communities that meet and interact with each other to exchange information and stories; the Harvelle Roadhouse was one such location until it was burnt down. Typically, hunters find cases by consulting newspapers to track down information about suspicious deaths in certain areas. Some cases come about thanks to contact with people they knew before becoming hunters or contact with people they helped during previous hunts who turn to them for their expertise. Some hunters are shown to have particular targets, such as Sam and Dean's initial hunts in the show's first two seasons focusing on tracking the Yellow Eyed Demon who killed Dean and Sam's parents, or Gordon Walker 'specializing' in hunting vampires.
Asa Fox
[edit]Asa Fox, portrayed by Shaine Jones as an adult and Jack Moore as a child is a legendary Canadian hunter appearing in Supernatural.
As shown in flashbacks in season 12's "Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox", in 1980, a twelve-year old Asa was attacked by a werewolf, an attack that left a lasting scar upon his face. Asa was saved by hunter Mary Winchester who had come out of retirement briefly to tie up some loose ends, including killing the werewolf and stopping its killing spree. Asa became interested in what Mary was doing, especially when she told him that she intended to return to retirement. Inspired by the encounter, Asa went on to become a hunter himself despite his mother's objections and became legendary in the hunting community. Asa wrote postcards throughout his life to Mary detailing his discoveries and hunts, but never sent them as he never learned her whereabouts. During his hunting trips, Asa had many trysts with local women, one of which, with witch Tasha Banes, resulted in two children, Max and Alicia. In 2016, Asa met Sheriff Jody Mills while on a ghoul hunt and, unaware that the sheriff was also a hunter, claimed that he was FBI agent Fox Mulder while investigating the case. Jody saw through his obvious disguise, helped him complete the hunt, and began a casual relationship with Asa whenever he was around. While Asa was not aware of it, Jody held him in high regard and harbored hopes that their relationship could become more serious.
In 1997, Asa came up against the sadistic Crossroads Demon Jael. Asa managed to exorcise the demon, but not before the demon brutally murdered the young girl he was possessing. After escaping from Hell again, Jael began a personal vendetta against Asa, murdering a woman that Asa was seeing as well as other people he cared about and leaving their bodies in the forest for him to find. In 2016, Asa hunted Jael through a forest with his best friend Bucky Sims despite Asa not being armed with his angel blade, leading to an argument between the two men. During the argument, Bucky shoved Asa who fell and hit his head on a rock and died. Bucky then framed Asa's death as his having been murdered by Jael.
While on a visit to Jody, Mary's children Sam and Dean learned of Asa's death and decided to accompany Jody to his funeral. While never meeting personally, Sam and Dean recalled hearing stories about him in Ellen's roadhouse, and Asa's peer hunters were quick to share stories of him killing five wendigos in one night. Dean expressed skepticism initially (due to hearing the story in the midst of a drinking game inspired by the exploit) but he later confided to Sam that he believed Asa to be a 'legit' hunter, evidenced by his armory, complete with an angel blade. During the funeral, they encountered their mother Mary who had recently been resurrected following her death in 1983. Mary had received word of Asa's death and was distressed to learn that he had become a hunter. Jael took advantage of the funeral to target the other hunters one by one, finally possessing Jody. In Jody's body, Jael confessed to feeling cheated out of Asa's murder and forced Bucky to admit that he had killed Asa. Before carrying out a brutal revenge against the hunters, Sam, Dean, Max, Alicia and Mary, exorcised Jael from Jody in a sequential attack, with each subsequent hunter picking up the Latin incantation where the previous one left off. As a result of Jael's efforts, Bucky was disgraced for killing his best friend. Rather than exacting revenge upon Bucky themselves, the hunters chose to spread the true story of what happened. The next morning, Asa was given a Hunter's Funeral alongside the two hunters murdered by Jael at his wake.
Bobby Singer
[edit]Charlie Bradbury
[edit]Charlie Bradbury (born Celeste Middleton) (played by Felicia Day) first crosses paths with Sam and Dean when working as an I.T. expert at Richard Roman Enterprises. She is initially reluctant to get involved in the supernatural world by helping the Winchesters, but becomes a more reliable ally in her second episode and decides to become a hunter herself by her fourth episode. She quickly becomes a friend and even a surrogate little sister to the Winchesters. By the end of "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo", it is revealed that her real name is not Charlie Bradbury but merely one of her aliases, and that she has had to go into hiding before. "Pac-Man Fever" delves into her past and it is indicated that "Charlie's" true surname is Middleton. "There's No Place Like Home" reveals that Charlie's given name is in fact Celeste Middleton. She is the only prominent LGBT character on the show; in her first episode, she informs the brothers she is lesbian when she is asked to flirt with a male guard to gain access to a restricted area.
Charlie's first appearance is in the season seven episode "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo", where Dick Roman asks her to decrypt Frank Devereaux's hard drive. Once she succeeds, she starts reading files describing the Leviathans and their activities, including their connection to Dick Roman. Although she doesn't believe it at first, she realizes the truth when she witnesses a leviathan eat her supervisor and shapeshift to replace him—something Dick explains they cannot do to Charlie, as she possesses a rare "spark" that can't be perfectly replicated. Sam and Dean recruit a terrified Charlie to retrieve Frank's hard drive to protect the information there, as well as to break into Dick's office and hack his emails to gain information for their side. She does so, which alerts Sam and Dean to a secret package meant for Dick which they then steal; the package is later revealed to hold the secret to defeating the leviathan. She is nearly killed when Dick realizes her duplicity, but is saved by Bobby's ghost holding the leviathan off—breaking Charlie's arm in the process—whilst Sam and Dean arrive and rescue her. She leaves after telling Sam and Dean not to contact her again.
Charlie reappears in the season eight episode "LARP and the Real Girl". Now under a different alias, Carrie Heinlein, she is the queen of one of four kingdoms of the LARPing game of Moondoor. When two of her "subjects" are killed, it draws Sam and Dean's attention and they head to Moondoor. Charlie's initial reaction is to flee and start a new life again, fearing that she will once more become a target for monsters. After learning why Sam and Dean are there, she agrees to help them investigate the deaths and other mysterious injuries that have happened. Charlie is eventually captured by a good fairy named Gilda who has kidnapped her on her master's orders. Charlie is instantly smitten with Gilda. Dean, Sam and Gerry eventually find Charlie with help from the "prisoner", only to find that she is making out with Gilda. It is revealed that Gerry is Gilda's master; he has unrequited feelings for Charlie and has bought a spellbook with which to control Gilda and force her to kill other players as part of a scheme to make Charlie fall in love with him. Charlie eventually destroys the book to set Gilda free and render Gerry powerless. Afterward, she and Gilda share a goodbye kiss before Gilda returns to her world with Gerry to have Gerry punished. Charlie decides to stop running and changing her identity and to stay and make a life for once. She tells Sam and Dean to call her if they ever need her help again. The three of them participate in a mock battle between their group and the other LARPers, which Charlie's side wins. Charlie's backstory is explored when she returns in "Pac-Man Fever" to give Sam and Dean a case. After she proves to be an excellent shot, Dean takes her as his (temporary) partner instead of Sam, who has become increasingly ill from the trials. Charlie is eventually captured by the creature they are hunting, a type of djinn, who poisons Charlie and places her in a nightmare from which she won't wake up from. In her nightmare, she is trapped in a video game she stole as a kid, recreated, and gave out for free, and where she must endlessly protect her hospitalized mother from super-soldier vampires. It is revealed that her parents had been involved in a car accident when driving over to pick Charlie up from a sleepover, resulting in her father dying and her mother rendered brain-dead. Charlie has been paying for the care of her mother, whom she refuses to let go due to her feelings of guilt over the accident. When Dean takes a potion to enter her nightmare himself to save her, he convinces Charlie that she must let her mother go to move on. She then wakes up and in the episode's last scene, takes Dean's advice by having her mother taken off of life-support after reading The Hobbit aloud to her like her mother did to Charlie as a little girl.
Charlie is called in by the Winchesters for help in the ninth-season episode "Slumber Party" to reconfigure an ancient computer at the Men of Letters' bunker. A childhood fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Charlie is excited when the real Dorothy is found in the bunker. The group works together to try to find a way to defeat The Wicked Witch of the West. Charlie dies to protect Dean from the Witch, but he has Gadreel bring her back to life and tells her that she had only been knocked out, though she learns the truth anyway from Dorothy; Charlie later agrees to keep her death and subsequent resurrection a secret from Sam so long as Dean agrees to one day explain what had really happened. Charlie and Dorothy eventually devise a way to kill the Witch, but are attacked by Sam and Dean, who are both possessed by the Witch. While Dorothy holds the brothers off, Charlie finds and kills the Witch by stabbing in the head with Oz's famous ruby slippers before the Witch can let her army in through a portal to Oz. When Dorothy extends an offer to Charlie to come with her to Oz, Charlie jumps at the prospect of finally getting the kind of magic and adventure she wants. After bidding their goodbyes to the brothers, Charlie and Dorothy cross over to Oz, leaving Sam and Dean to speculate if and when they will come back.
In the season 10 episode "There's No Place Like Home", Sam and Dean find out that Charlie is back from Oz and is attacking people who helped cover up her parents deaths. To their surprise, they find there are two Charlie's, a good and a dark Charlie. The good Charlie explains that she and Dorothy fought a war in Oz to free it from evil and to win, Charlie made a deal with the Wizard of Oz to split herself into her good and dark sides. Charlie's dark side single-handedly won the war and Dorothy and the Wizard now lead Oz. Now, dark Charlie has come to Earth seeking revenge for her parents deaths, good Charlie following to stop her. As dark Charlie broke the Key to Oz so Charlie couldn't return, she and Sam investigate the Key in hopes of finding a way to fix it, and eventually track down a former Man of Letters named Clive Dylan who was trapped in Oz after discovering the Key. Dean meanwhile tries to protect Russell Wellington, the man who killed Charlie's parents, but Dark Charlie tricks Dean, kills Russell, and follows Dean to Clive's house where they fight and he brutally beats her, hurting Good Charlie who is still connected to her. At the same time, Sam and Charlie learn that the Wizard is in fact Clive's dark side, split from him as Charlie's was. Unable to fix the Key and to save Oz, Clive shoots himself to force the Wizard to Earth to heal Clive and save himself. Unable to defeat the Wizard, Clive signals Charlie to shoot him which she hesitantly does, killing Clive and the Wizard. Sam stops Dean from beating Dark Charlie to death and proceeds to reverse the Wizard's spell and reunite the two Charlies. Afterwards, Charlie, unable to return to Oz, decides to dedicate herself to finding a way to save Dean from the Mark of Cain and forgives his actions.
Charlie returns to the brothers several episodes later, having found an ancient book known as the Book of the Damned, which is said to document every curse as well as their cures. Upon acquiring the book, a group of unknown men, all with the same tattoo on their wrist, begin to pursue her. After a violent encounter with them, Charlie is shot but narrowly escapes, and calls the Winchesters from a telephone booth, informing them of her discovery and injury, mentioning she sewed it back together with dental floss, a testament to her resourcefulness. When reunited, Sam and Charlie begin their attempt to decipher the book's text, as it is written in an unknown ancient language, but Dean insists they stop, and destroy the book entirely, worrying that the Mark will cause him to use its information to do evil. Sam and Charlie decide not to destroy it but to put it away in a curse box, which will prevent anyone from tracking it down. Meanwhile, Dean goes to find Charlie's pursuers, who Sam had determined to be members of the historically prominent Styne family. When they attack the house Charlie and the Winchesters had been staying at, Dean instructs Sam to destroy the book before the men can take it. Sam throws the book in the fire, and the trio defeats and kills their attackers. However, it is later revealed he threw another book in, and hid the real book in hopes he could still cure Dean, despite his brother's wishes. When Charlie, Sam and Dean return to the bunker, they are greeted by Castiel, and Charlie is excited to meet him for the first time. Upon hugging him, she comments she had expected him to be shorter. At Charlie's joking request, Castiel heals her carpal tunnel and even her bullet wound without being asked, having gotten his full power back. The four then have a dinner, laughing and enjoying each other's company.
In "Dark Dynasty", Charlie is called in by Sam to work with Rowena on how to translate the Book of the Damned. Charlie is stunned that Sam lied about destroying the Book and reluctantly agrees to work on translating the Book behind Dean's back. However, Charlie is forced to work with Rowena who annoys her greatly with her disgust at Charlie being a nerd instead of a witch and her insistence that they are similar. Unable to take it anymore, Charlie asks Castiel to let her go cool off for a while and slips out while he ties up Rowena in another room. Going to a motel, Charlie continues her efforts to translate the Book of the Damned and finally manages to crack the code just before Eldon Styne arrives. Charlie contacts Sam and Dean, who tell her to give him the Book which she doesn't have, or her notes to save her life. However, unwilling to betray her friends or give the Styne Family the power of the Book, Charlie smashes her Surface and is killed by Eldon. A devastated Sam and Dean find her body soon afterwards. However, unknown to them, Charlie's last act was to email Sam her notes on how to translate the Book, giving them the chance to finish what she started.
In "The Prisoner", following her death, Sam and Dean cremate Charlie in hunter's tradition and Dean decides to slaughter the Stynes in revenge, telling Sam to stop the work on the Book. Sam initially does until he receives Charlie's email and decides to continue. Dean brutally slaughters the Styne family for what they did to Charlie and ultimately kills Eldon, avenging her.
Claire Novak
[edit]Claire Novak, portrayed as a child by Sydney Imbeau and later in the series as a young adult by Kathryn Newton, is the daughter of Jimmy and Amelia Novak. She is raised in Pontiac, Illinois, until roughly the age of eleven, when her mother disappears, overwhelmed by grief of her father's death. Claire is then left in the custody of her grandmother until her death, at which point she is moved between numerous foster homes and eventually placed in a juvenile center.
Eight-year-old Claire is first introduced, along with her mother, in the season four episode "The Rapture", where the story of Jimmy becoming Castiel's vessel is revealed. Her first appearance occurs after Castiel is shown taking possession of Jimmy. Claire runs outside frantically and asks "Daddy?" to which Castiel replies that he is not her father, and begins to walk away, as she watches him leave. A year later when Castiel is forced out of Jimmy's body, Jimmy is able to return and begins to try and rebuild his life with his family. This is short lived, as demons learn about Jimmy, and take his wife and daughter hostage.
Claire is possessed by Castiel when her parents, Dean, and Sam Winchester, are held captive by demons, her mother having been possessed so that the demons could watch Jimmy and determine his unique qualities as a vessel. Castiel, in Claire's body, expels two demons from their hosts during the fight. Castiel intends to let Jimmy die so that he will go to Heaven and be at peace as a reward for his service, but Jimmy begs Castiel to use him as a vessel and free his daughter. Castiel obliges.
Seven years later, Castiel is inspired to look into Jimmy Novak's old life after recent events with Hannah. He discovers that Claire is in solitary confinement in a juvenile center after attempting the latest of a series of escapes, prompting him to visit and get her out by posing as Jimmy. Claire reveals that her mother vanished after leaving her with her grandmother, and she has been in and out of homes since her grandmother's death, blaming Castiel for breaking her family apart by taking her father as a vessel. Castiel helps her escape the center, but Claire steals his wallet and runs away again to rejoin with Dustin and Randy, friends of hers who were expecting her to collect money to help settle Randy's gambling debts.
The Winchesters and Castiel arrive in time to prevent the robbery, but Claire leaves them in disgust, declaring that Dustin and Randy are her family while the three men are just the people who killed her father. However, when Randy's loan shark offers to take Claire to compensate for the debt, Randy agrees, forcing the Winchesters and Castiel to step in and save her. They arrive at the house and are surprised to not see her, but when they hear screams coming from upstairs, they know she is in fact in the house, and in danger. Castiel locates her and busts down the door of the room where the loan shark is attempting to rape her.
Despite the Winchesters and Castiel saving her, Claire makes it clear that she still doesn't trust them, and resists Castiel's efforts to help her. After being brought to the bunker, she runs away, and meets a couple who suggest that she kill Dean as the person responsible for her father's death, helping them arrange a trap for him. However, she tips Dean off at the last minute, finding herself unable to go through with the plan, and he manages to fight them off and spare their lives despite the corrupting influence of the Mark of Cain. Although Claire still intends to leave Castiel and find a new life on her own, she suggests that she would not be against him keeping in touch with her.
Months later, in "Angel Heart", Claire is now eighteen and has begun searching for her long-missing mother, tracking her to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Claire confronts Ronnie Cartwright, the last person to see her mother and is knocked unconscious. As Castiel is in the emergency contacts on her cell phone, the hospital calls him and he calls in Sam and Dean to help him deal with her. After learning what she is up to, the Winchesters and Castiel decide to help her but she escapes the hospital and returns to her motel room where she finds Sam waiting for her while Dean and Castiel have gone to interrogate Ronnie. Sam offers to help Claire hack her mother's credit card records which she is intrigued by and with what they learn from that combined with what Castiel and Dean learn from Ronnie, they track Amelia to a farm run by a faith healer named Peter Holloway. However, Dean and Claire are left behind as they don't want Claire getting hurt and the Mark of Cain's influence on Dean is getting worse. While initially awkward for Dean and Claire, they bond over mini-golf and Claire inadvertently gives Dean a clue that they aren't dealing with a normal angel. Searching through the lore, Claire discovers that Holloway is a Grigori, a class of angel that preys on humanity. When they are unable to reach Sam and Castiel, Dean allows Claire to join him in the rescue, even giving her a gun. Claire and Dean find Castiel who has rescued a weak Amelia. Claire and her mother are finally reunited and Claire tearfully embraces her rather than berating her like she'd planned. While Claire tries to help Amelia out of the barn, Holloway, revealed to be Tamiel, comes and tells her that Amelia is beyond saving. Claire attempts to kill him with the gun and when she fails, he tries to kill her. Amelia sacrifices herself to save her daughter, leaving Claire devastated. Sam, Dean and Castiel are unable to defeat Tamiel so Claire kills him herself with his own sword to save them and avenge her mother. The next day, the three decide to send her to Jody Mills until she can get on her feet and she forgives Dean and Castiel for their roles in Jimmy's death, taking with her a gift Castiel gave her for her birthday. Dean takes back the gun, but leaves her Caddyshack and a lore book as he noticed her take Tamiel's sword and realizes she intends to become a hunter. Claire hugs Castiel goodbye, finally accepting him as her new father figure.
She goes to live with Jody Mills and appears in season 11's "Don't You Forget About Me", she is trying to be a hunter but is mentioned to have caused trouble in town, due to her hunting but doesn't face jail because of her adoptive mother being sheriff. As seen in the Winchesters' visit, she is still rebellious and tends to cause trouble for her adoptive sister Alex. While she maintains a distancing attitude to them, Dean tells her that Jody is doing her best to care for her and she starts to see his point. When she and Jody are captured by vengeful vampires one of them being Alex's boyfriend, Claire breaks free and protects them as the Winchesters arrive to save them. Claire helps Alex in killing Henry. After the attack, she accepts them as family and even tries to make breakfast though the food was burnt. In subsequent episodes, Claire and Alex are shown to have a much better relationship despite still bickering with each other.
In season 12's "Ladies Drink Free", Claire has become a full-time hunter, but lies to Jody that she is checking out colleges as she feels Jody is holding her back too much when they hunt together as Jody is somewhat overprotective. While hunting a werewolf with Mick Davies of the British Men of Letters, the Winchesters learn that Claire is on the same hunt and they team up together. By posing as a high school student, Claire is able to learn from one of the victims best friend that the girl was dating someone who creeped her friend out. Shortly afterwards, the werewolf attacks Claire in broad daylight and bites her.
Frightened, Claire begs to be killed as she doesn't believe she can control herself when she inevitably transforms, but Sam suggests trying an experimental cure created by the British Men of Letters instead. Though it has never worked on a human, Claire agrees to try it and is left with Mick as the Winchesters go to find the werewolf. As the transformation begins, Claire begs Mick to kill her, but he refuses. The two are attacked by the werewolf who is revealed to be the friendly local bartender, Justin, who abducts Claire. Justin reveals to Claire that he was once part of a peaceful pack, but after it was wiped out by the British Men of Letters, he was driven insane with loneliness and is now seeking out a mate. As Claire struggles with both Justin and her instincts, the Winchesters and Mick arrive thanks to a tracking device Mick planted on Claire. In the fight that follows, a completely feral Claire attacks Dean, but he subdues her. Mick and Sam manage to extract Justin's live blood before killing him and Dean injects Claire with the werewolf cure. Claire experiences excruciating agony over a prolonged period of time before appearing to die. Moments later, Claire's transformation reverses itself and she wakes up completely human. The next morning, Claire calls Jody and leaves her a voicemail telling Jody the truth. Claire decides to keep hunting on her own for the time being, but assures Jody that she is ready now thanks to Jody being her mother.
In "There's Something About Mary" and "Who We Are", Claire appears as one of the British Men of Letters primary targets when they plan to wipe out all of the American hunters. However, the British operation is destroyed by a team of American hunters led by Sam and Jody before this can happen.
In season 13's "Wayward Sisters", a more experienced Claire hunts a small werewolf pack that has kidnapped a young girl. Disguised as a delivery person, Claire single-handedly kills all three werewolves, rescues the girl and returns her to her mother. Afterwards, Claire receives a call from Jody that the Winchesters have disappeared and Jody needs her help. Claire returns to Sioux Falls where she is skeptical of Patience Turner's claims that she has had a vision of Claire's death. With Alex's help, Claire locates dreamwalker Kaia Nieves, only to be attacked by a strange monster. With Jody's help, Claire kills the monster which Kaia reveals comes from an alternate reality known as The Bad Place. With Kaia having been trying to help the Winchesters open a door to another world, Claire realizes that a door to The Bad Place is still open.
Under attack by the creatures, the group flees and links up with Sheriff Donna Hanscum for backup. Due to Patience's vision, Jody convinces a reluctant Claire to stay behind. As Claire bonds with Kaia, she grows worried enough to lead the other girls after Jody and Donna. Claire arrives in time to kill one of the creatures with a flamethrower and save Jody and Donna's lives. Finding the rift on the verge of closing, Jody agrees to allow Claire to go through with Kaia and stop overprotecting her. Claire and Kaia manage to rescue the Winchesters in The Bad Place, but are ambushed by a cloaked figure who throws a spear at Claire, killing Kaia when she saves Claire's life. With a giant monster approaching and the rift about to close, the Winchesters drag a reluctant Claire back through the rift which closes moments later. A devastated Claire is comforted by Jody, the true ending to Patience's vision. Claire is left devastated by losing Kaia and later joins her family for dinner, vowing revenge upon Kaia's killer even if she has to find a way to open another rift to The Bad Place. Unknown to Claire, as she sits down to a dinner, a rift from The Bad Place opens and brings Kaia's killer to the Winchesters world. Kaia's killer is revealed to be the alternate reality version of Kaia from The Bad Place.
In season 14's "The Scar", Jody and the Winchesters track down Kaia's killer while searching for a way to defeat the alternate reality Michael. Having thought a string of recent murders was a human killer, Jody initially keeps Claire out of the case for that reason and then because Claire, who was in love with Kaia, is obsessed with revenge against her killer. After catching Kaia's killer, dubbed Dark Kaia, the three learn of her identity as Kaia's alternate counterpart who admits that Kaia's death was an accident as she was aiming for Claire. After a confrontation with some of Michael's monsters, Dark Kaia escapes after saving the group's life, leaving Jody to wonder how to explain what happened to Claire.
In season 15's "Galaxy Brain", the Winchesters and Jody encounter Dark Kaia yet again who reveals that The Bad Place is dying and that Kaia is in fact still alive, trapped in The Bad Place after surviving her wound. Jody attempts to call Claire to inform her of the development, but can't reach her and they are left with no time to wait for Claire to help them rescue Kaia. Jody tells Castiel that Claire has been obsessed with hunting Dark Kaia for revenge for two years and is ironically out of cellphone range in Yosemite chasing a woman in a black cloak when they finally get Dark Kaia. The two believe that Claire won't survive if she learns that they had a chance to save Kaia and failed to save her and Castiel convinces Jody to remain behind so that Claire doesn't lose her too. With the help of Dark Kaia and Jack, the Winchesters return to The Bad Place and rescue Kaia. Dark Kaia chooses to remain behind in The Bad Place as it is destroyed by God, dying with her homeworld. In the aftermath, Kaia accepts an invitation to return to Sioux Falls with Jody and asks after Claire who Jody promises will be home soon.
Dean Winchester
[edit]Donna Hanscum
[edit]Sheriff Donna Hanscum (portrayed by Briana Buckmaster) is the sheriff of Stillwater, Minnesota who, while at first oblivious to the supernatural, became a hunter after two encounters with it. She first appears in "The Purge" when Sam and Dean investigate mysterious deaths where overweight people are drained of most of their fat. Donna is portrayed as an overweight woman who has recently been granted a divorce from a man who dumped her for her weight. She helps Sam and Dean early in the investigation, but then goes to a health spa where the owner, a pishtaco, feeds on her fat, causing her to lose ten pounds, something she attributes to fire cupping. Donna, slightly stoned from the roofies she was given, inadvertently blows Sam and Dean's cover at the spa and explains her weight loss to them. After the case is over, Sam and Dean attribute it to a psychopathic serial killer, something Donna accepts.
Several months later, during "Hibbing 911", Donna goes to a sheriff's retreat in Hibbing, Minnesota, her hometown where she meets Sheriff Jody Mills. The two are partnered up during the retreat and Jody tries to keep Donna out of the case where people are completely consumed by an unknown monster except for their bones. In turn, Donna is annoyed when Jody defends her from her husband who is extremely rude to her and unknowingly makes a rude comment about Jody's own lost husband, something Donna immediately regrets when she realizes what she's done. Donna later sees Sam and Dean who Jody called in and is surprised to recognize them while Jody is shocked to realize Donna knows her friends. Donna eventually finds Sheriff Len Cues over another victim and sees that he is a monster, more specifically a vampire, shocking her. She tells Jody about it and they break into Len's room where Donna finds a clue about the location of the vampire's nest. When Sam and Dean arrive, they are forced to tell Donna the truth about what's going on in Hibbing and what happened in Stillwater. Donna insists on going with them and with the support of Jody, she successfully convinces them to let her go along, though she is a bit unsettled at the idea of having to decapitate the vampires to kill them. The group is captured by the vampires and their leader, Starr, explains that Len used to be their leader, having taught them to use all parts of their prey, before growing a conscience and leaving them. The vampires were trying to lure Len back and when he refuses, Starr kills him. Dean breaks free and kills two of the three vampires, but Starr goes after Jody. Donna, who broke one of the lenses of her glasses and used it to cut herself free, decapitates Starr, saving Jody and quipping "Hakuna Matata, lady." Later, Donna discusses the experience with Jody, saying that knowing monsters are out there makes the world seem bigger and darker. Jody, complimenting Donna's actions, offers to train her to be a hunter, something Donna accepts.
Donna later reappears in Plush, calling in the Winchesters after a man in a bunny mask murdered a local man and the mask won't come off. When her deputy, Doug, is forced to kill the young man, Donna is left horrified as the mask appears to be a cursed object, making the young man another innocent victim. Donna burns the mask and it appears to be over, but a young woman in a court jester's outfit attacks the local football coach and the Winchesters learn that they are dealing with an angry ghost, not a cursed object. Dean is able to break the ghost's possession of the young woman and Donna makes up a story and lets her go as she's innocent. As the Winchesters talk to Rita Johnson, the woman who donated all of the possessed costumes, Donna distracts her son Max. Afterwards, the Winchesters inform her it is the ghost of Chester Johnson, a children's performer who committed suicide a couple of months before. When told that they need to locate and burn the costumes, Donna offers to deal with that with Doug. She is later called by Sam after another possessed victim murders the coach who was in a coma. Donna and Doug locate all of the costumes and burn them, but when Donna calls Sam, he learns she never found a deer's head mask. After Chester's spirit is destroyed, Donna visits the Johnson house with Doug and the Winchesters tell her that as she now has three cases under her belt, she is an official hunter to her great joy. After they leave, Donna apologizes to Doug for her treatment of him due to her bad experience with her ex-husband Doug who was also a cop. Doug forgives her, telling Donna he has baggage too and the two are able to joke around with each other comfortably.
Two years later in "Wayward Sisters", Donna is called in by Jody Mills to act as backup to help rescue the Winchesters from the alternate reality known as The Bad Place. Now a full-fledged hunter, Donna is stated to have "killed a lot of vampires" and possesses an impressive arsenal in her truck. Donna helps figure out the location of the rift between worlds and battles creatures from The Bad Place alongside Jody, her daughter Alex, Claire Novak and Patience Turner. After the rescue is successful, Donna sits down to dinner with Jody's family.
A few weeks later in "Breakdown", Donna's niece Wendy goes missing. Even though all signs point to a human bad guy, Donna calls the Winchesters for help and they come to her aid alongside Doug who is now her boyfriend. The group determines that Wendy has been kidnapped by a serial abductor called the Butterfly and work together with FBI agent Terrance Clegg to try to solve the case. Along the way, Donna is forced to tell Doug the truth about monsters and her hunting lifestyle when they discover that the victims are being chopped up and sold as parts for monsters. After Doug gets turned into a vampire, Donna kneecaps his sire and forces him to divulge the location of the harvesting operation while Dean manages to cure Doug. Donna then rescues Wendy, killing the Butterfly's accomplice in the process while Dean rescues Sam and kills the Butterfly, who was Agent Clegg all along. In the aftermath, while Doug acknowledges the necessity of Donna's hunting, he becomes frightened by what he has seen and breaks up with Donna, leaving her heartbroken.
In season 14's "Nightmare Logic", Mary Winchester and the alternate Bobby Singer retreat to Donna's cabin for some down time following a hunt that brings up bad memories for Bobby.
In "Damaged Goods", Dean visits with Donna on his way to her cabin to see his mother. Donna tells him that her breakup with Doug has been hard on her with Doug leaving the police force and going into private security. Donna notices Dean's strange behavior and realizes that something is wrong. Later, a suspicious grocery store clerk calls Donna about Nick searching for Mary. Donna pulls Nick over in a stolen van and learns from Nick's fingerprints about Nick being wanted for his murder spree. Nick knocks Donna out with a stun gun and learns Mary's location from Donna's cell phone, but leaves her unconscious in the front seat of her police car rather than harming her further. Upon waking up, Donna calls Dean and warns him of the threat Nick poses. Donna's police department helps them track down Nick through his stolen van and Donna acts as a police escort to the storage unit where Nick is unleashing Abraxas. After Nick kills Abraxas, Donna shoots Nick in the leg to keep him from harming Mary and arrests Nick for his murder spree.
Eileen Leahy
[edit]Eileen Leahy, portrayed by Shoshannah Stern, is an Irish hunter and Men of Letters Legacy.
In 1985, when Eileen was a baby, a Banshee attacked her house and murdered her parents. Before dying, Eileen's mother managed to banish the Banshee with a spell, saving Eileen's life but leaving her deaf. Eileen was eventually found and raised by a hunter named Lillian O'Grady who died of cancer when Eileen was sixteen.
In "Into the Mystic", Eileen tracks the Banshee that killed her parents to a retirement home in Kansas where she encounters the Winchesters. Disguised as a maid, Eileen comes to the mistaken impression that the Winchesters are Banshees and attacks Sam before they can sort it all out. The Winchesters learn that Eileen's grandfather was a Man of Letters, making her a Legacy like them. With the help of the Winchesters and Mildred Barker, Eileen finally kills the Banshee and get her revenge. However, Eileen decided to remain a hunter rather than return to a normal life.
In "The British Invasion", Eileen's help was enlisted by the Winchesters in finding Kelly Kline. Eileen eventually tracked down a demon working for the Prince of Hell Dagon and got Kelly's phone number from him before killing the demon with an angel blade. Eileen took part in the mission to capture Kelly Kline and attempted to kill Dagon with the Colt. However, Eileen missed and accidentally killed British Men of Letters operative Renny Rawlings. The Winchesters stop Mick Davies from killing a distraught Eileen and she chose to return to Ireland for a while, but not before leaving the Winchesters the Colt.
In "There's Something About Mary", Eileen is killed by a hellhound loyal to British Men of Letters assassin Arthur Ketch in South Carolina. The Winchesters learn of Eileen's death from Jody Mills and are confused and suspicious as Eileen is supposed to be in Ireland. They later receive a letter sent by Eileen four days before her death stating she believed that the British Men of Letters were following her and tapping her computer and phone. Eileen's letter causes the Winchesters to check the bunker and find Arthur Ketch's monitoring equipment. After capturing Lady Toni Bevell, the Winchesters question whether the British operation is responsible for Eileen's death. While Toni doesn't know who Eileen is, she confirms the high likelihood that she was killed by the British Men of Letters, stating that if the organization is suspected of killing someone, they likely did.
In season 15's "Golden Time", Eileen returns as a ghost, revealing that the hellhound dragged her soul to Hell when she was killed. Having escaped from Hell when God released all of the souls of Hell upon the world, Eileen seeks Sam and Dean's help in getting into Heaven, knowing that she will eventually go insane as a ghost. However, the Winchesters have learned that once a soul has been condemned to Hell, it cannot enter Heaven. Instead, Dean sends Sam to seek out Rowena's journals so they can create a Soul Catcher to contain Eileen. At Rowena's apartment, Sam discovers a spell Rowena had created to resurrect Mary Winchester which he realizes will work on Eileen also. After witches attack, Eileen is banished, but gets Dean to help Sam. Eileen battles a witch's ghost until Dean puts the witch's soul to rest. Afterwards, Sam uses Rowena's spell to resurrect Eileen.
Ellen Harvelle
[edit]Garth Fitzgerald IV
[edit]Garth Fitzgerald IV, portrayed by DJ Qualls, is a hunter who generally works alone, although he has teamed up with the Winchester brothers on two occasions. Since Bobby's death and Sam and Dean's subsequent year-long absence, he has taken on Bobby's role as hunter coordinator, although he remains mobile where Bobby maintained a 'home base', carrying various cell phones around with him; he has even started wearing Bobby's hat and attempting to imitate Bobby's old phrases, although this has met with variable success. As part of this, he has started to track hunters via the GPS in their cell phones and assign them cases, something that creeps Sam out but Dean says is "very Bobby." Garth reveals that before he became a hunter, he was working to become a dentist and killed the Tooth Fairy on his first case.
Garth eventually disappears sometime after "Taxi Driver" and is found by Sam and Dean in "Sharp Teeth" where he reveals that he was turned into a werewolf on a hunt two months before his disappearance and hid it. Garth has joined a pack of werewolves that peacefully coexist with humans and married one named Bess. After Sam and Dean find him, he introduces them to the pack and tries to convince them that everything is fine, however, members of the pack worship Fenris and want to rule over humanity. To this end, they kidnap, Garth, Bess and Sam, planning to murder Garth and Bess and frame Sam and Dean to goad the pack into returning to their old beliefs and bring about Ragnarok. Before the plot can be carried out, Dean comes to their rescue and kills the three werewolves involved. In the aftermath, Garth, who is upset to learn of Kevin's death and blames himself as he wasn't there for him, offers to return to hunting using his new powers to help fight. However, Dean recognizes that not all of the werewolves are bad and tells Garth to stay with his new family where he has found happiness.
Needing help to discover Michael's plans, Garth returns in "The Spear", offering to go undercover and infiltrate the rogue Archangel's ranks as a werewolf seeking an enhancement. Having been briefed by Sam, he intended to fake taking the serum, but is later forced to consume it. Overwhelmed, he later attacks the approaching hunters, forcing Sam to subdue him and lock Garth in the Impala's trunk. Sam suggests that Michael was spying on them through his connection to Garth and they hope that killing Michael will free Garth from his control. Garth remains locked in the trunk throughout "Nihilism" with subsequent events preventing the original plan to retrieve Garth until after Michael is defeated and locked away in Dean's mind.
In season 15's "The Heroes' Journey", Garth calls the Winchesters in for help after Bess' cousin Brad is found badly wounded by a Wraith. Garth is shown to have three children and named the youngest two after Sam and Castiel. With Sam and Dean now experiencing normal people problems, Garth and Bess help treat Dean's seventeen cavities and Sam's illness, Garth having become a dentist since he retired. After learning of the war with God, Garth suggests that as Sam and Dean were the heroes of God's story, he had protected them from such mundane issues but has since downgraded them to normal people since the Winchesters have fallen out of favor with God. Though Garth guesses that he's only a special guest star in the story, he suggests that its better than being the hero. When the Winchesters go after the monster fight club, they leave Garth behind rather than risk his normal life. However, Garth later shows up to rescue them, infiltrating the fight club and using C4 to blow it all up. This and Garth saving them from the massive vampire Maul causes the Winchesters to suggest that Garth is the hero of the story this time. Garth directs the Winchesters to a place he has heard rumors of in Alaska where they might be able to regain their normal abilities and dances with Bess as they drive away.
Gordon Walker
[edit]Gordon Walker, portrayed by Sterling K. Brown, is a vampire hunter whose methods often put him at odds with the Winchester brothers. Gordon focuses on eliminating the supernatural simply because it isn't human, where the Winchesters are more willing to tolerate supernatural entities that are not actively killing humans. Gordon takes pleasure in considering himself a killer who freely resorts to torture, where Sam and Dean regard themselves as Hunters who only kill when they must and do nothing to their enemies that the situation doesn't force upon them.
When Gordon was 18 years old, a vampire broke into his house and abducted his sister. Gordon ran away from home, learned how to fight, hunt, and kill vampires, and tracked down the vampire who had taken his sister. He killed the vampire, and his sister, who had been turned, marking the beginning of his hatred for the undead. At some point during his career as a hunter, Gordon met John Winchester and Ellen Harvelle. Ellen described him as a skilled hunter in the sense that Hannibal Lecter is a good psychiatrist, being good at his job but dangerous to everyone else around him.
Gordon is introduced in the episode "Bloodlust", meeting up with Sam and Dean while hunting a nest of vampires. At first, Dean bonds with Gordon, but Gordon proves himself to be bloodthirsty and sadistic as he tortures one of the captured vampires, even though he knows these particular vampires feed off cattle blood and do not kill humans. After Gordon tries to force one of the vampires to drink Sam's blood while torturing her with dead man's blood, Dean, seeing the vampire resist the urge, ends up beating Gordon in a fight and leaves Gordon tied to a chair while the vampires escape. Later, while performing an exorcism, Gordon learns about the coming demonic war, Azazel's special children, and Sam's powers. In "Hunted", he kills Scott Carey- another of the 'special children'- and then tracks Sam down and tries to kill him, convinced that Sam and those like him are 'traitors' to humanity. However, Dean intervenes, and, after a scuffle, Gordon knocks Dean out, ties him up, and uses him as bait to catch Sam in a booby trap of grenades set with trip wires. Sam manages to evade the trap and knocks Gordon out. As the brothers leave the damaged house, Gordon regains consciousness and chases them, firing two pistols in their direction. The police arrive to subdue Gordon, based on an anonymous tip from Sam, and find his cache of weapons in his car.
In "Bad Day at Black Rock", Gordon is shown to be in prison, where he convinces a visiting fellow hunter to go after Sam Winchester, convinced that Sam was involved in the opening of the Devil's Trap regardless of Bobby's claims that Sam was actually trying to stop it. Gordon eventually escapes from prison and, once again, pursues the Winchester brothers in "Fresh Blood". However, he is captured and subsequently turned by a vampire. Gordon, however, turns on his sire, kills two other vampires, and then sets up a trap for the Winchester brothers, still convinced it is his duty as a hunter to rid the world of Sam Winchester. A fight ensues in a warehouse where Gordon holds a girl he has kidnapped—and turned—to use as bait, ending with Sam decapitating him with a garotte improvised out of razor wire.
According to series creator Eric Kripke, Gordon was originally going to learn about the hunter Sam killed while possessed and use it to convince more hunters to turn against Sam. This was intended to be a story arc stretching over multiple episodes. However, Sterling K. Brown was contracted for the Lifetime Television series Army Wives, and Lifetime would only allow him to return to Supernatural for two more episodes.[38]
Gwen Campbell
[edit]Gwen Campbell, portrayed by Jessica Heafey, is a hunter and third cousin related to Sam and Dean's mother's side of the family. When Sam re-enters Dean's life in "Exile on Main Street", he reveals that he has been back for a year and hunting with the Campbells, including Gwen. She and the others assist the brothers in defeating a Djinn. Gwen is present at the compound in "Two and a Half Men" when the brothers arrive with a baby Shapeshifter, and is overpowered, along with the others, when the Alpha Shapeshifter arrives. When hunting the Alpha Vampire in "Family Matters", she is ordered to stay behind and flush out any stragglers with Dean. She and Dean fight well together, and she covers for Dean when he disobeys orders. However, she sides with Samuel at the end of the episode when she holds the Winchesters at gunpoint, and follows him even when it is revealed that he has been working for Crowley. She is next seen in "...And Then There Were None", hunting with Samuel. While investigating a series of murders, they encounter Bobby, Rufus, Sam and Dean. Gwen tells Dean that she did not know that Samuel had betrayed them to Crowley. The creature responsible for the deaths—dubbed the Khan Worm—infects Dean, who kills Gwen.
Henry Winchester
[edit]Henry Winchester, played by Gil McKinney, is John Winchester's father, Sam and Dean's grandfather and a member of the secret society known as the Men of Letters. Vanishing in 1958, Henry was believed by his son to have run out on his family.
In Supernatural
[edit]In "As Time Goes By", on August 12, 1958, the night of Henry's official initiation into the Men of Letters, the order is attacked by the demon Abaddon who is possessing Henry's friend Josie Sands. As the demon slaughters everyone else, Henry is given a mysterious box by surviving Men of Letters Elder Larry Ganem and ordered to protect it from Abaddon. Escaping through time, Henry ends up coming out of his grandsons' motel room closet in the year 2013, having overshot his attempt to get help from John closer to his own time. Henry's arrival and search for John creates much confusion for the Winchesters who only knew of him as their grandfather who had supposedly run out on John when he was four. Henry reveals to Sam and Dean their family's history with the Men of Letters, a family legacy going back centuries that the Winchesters had been unaware of as Henry hadn't been around to pass it on to John and the order had been wiped out by Abaddon. However, Henry expresses disgust that his grandsons are hunters due to having a low view of hunters in general. Learning of his son's fate, Henry attempts to travel back in time and change things, but he is stopped by Dean. At the same time, Sam learns from Larry Ganem that the box contains a key that opens a veritable supernatural treasure trove that must never fall into Abaddon's hands. After the demon captures Sam, Dean agrees to trade Henry and the box for Sam, but the two men conspire together to defeat the demon. Henry is able to trap Abaddon in Josie's body with a devil's trap bullet to the head, but he is mortally wounded in the process. Unable to kill the powerful demon, Dean takes advantage of Henry trapping her to cut the demon up and bury the pieces to forever entomb her. Henry dies in his grandsons' arms, content with his own sacrifice, apologizing for his earlier disgust of them being hunters and proclaiming that as long as the Winchesters are still around, there's still hope. He also expresses his pride in John, confident that he was a good man based on what he saw in Sam and Dean. Sam and Dean bury Henry near his friends from the Men of Letters and decide to embrace the family legacy that Henry had introduced to them.
In "Everybody Hates Hitler", the Winchesters locate the Men of Letters bunker, the place that the key Henry was guarding opens and it becomes their new base of operations.
In "Blade Runners", Sam and Dean get the attention of expelled Man of Letters Cuthbert "Magnus" Sinclair by revealing that they are Henry's grandsons. Magnus reveals that before his expulsion from the Men of Letters in 1956, he was Henry's mentor in the order. Calling Henry something of a rebel, Magnus comments that Henry would continue to visit him even after he was kicked out.
In "Mother's Little Helper", shortly before their initiation into the Men of Letters, Henry and Josie are sent to investigate possible demonic possessions at a convent. This field mission is their final test before their official initiation, but Henry expresses doubts about joining the order and the dangers that come with it. It's also implied that Josie harbors unrequited romantic feelings for Henry. Unbeknownst to Henry and Josie, several of the nuns, including the Mother Superior, are possessed by Abaddon and her followers who are stealing souls for their own purposes. Henry and Josie manage to exorcise two of the demons, but prove to be no match for Abaddon who knocks Henry out. Josie manages to convince the Knight of Hell to possess her instead of Henry and the surviving demons fake a win by Henry and Josie. In reality, Abaddon plots to infiltrate and then destroy the Men of Letters. Unaware of the truth, Henry departs with Abaddon, his faith in his purpose renewed. In the present, Sam learns of these events from a nun who had witnessed what had happened and connects it to his grandfather. Confronting and killing the other remaining demon from 1958, Sam learns that the demons had been stealing souls to create their own demon army loyal only to Abaddon.
In "King of the Damned", Abaddon incapacities Crowley with a devil's trap bullet, something that she credits to learning from Henry. Abaddon also uses the time travel spell that Henry had used to escape to 2013 to kidnap Crowley's son Gavin from the past as leverage against him. In the fight that follows, Dean finally kills Abaddon with the First Blade, avenging Henry's death.
In "Family Feud", Sam mentions that Henry had previously used the spell when the Winchesters prepare to use it to return Gavin to his own time.
In "Lebanon", when a time displaced John from 2003 appears in the bunker, Sam and Dean tell him the truth about what had happened to his father and that Henry would likely be really happy to see John in the bunker.
In The Winchesters
[edit]In "Pilot", on March 23, 1972, John returns home from fighting in the Vietnam War, having managed to enlist underage by forging Henry's signature on a waiver. During his trip home, a man mysteriously appeared and then disappeared after giving John a letter from Henry telling John that if John has gotten this letter, then Henry is gone. However, there is a dangerous world out there and that the Winchester family has been involved in fighting that danger for centuries. Henry's letter provides John with an address that promises to hold the answers that John seeks and a key to it. The address turns out to be a Men of Letters clubhouse in Lawrence, Kansas where John recovers a number of his father's belongings from Henry's locker and finds himself drawn into the hunting life and the Men of Letters' fight against the Akrida. Henry's wife and John's mother Millie later admits that she knew the truth about Henry's work as a Man of Letters, but had kept it from John to protect him. Ada Monroe tells John that she knew Henry who had once come to her looking for a book about Wraiths. However, Ada doesn't know what happened to Henry or the other Men of Letters who had vanished in 1958.
In "Reflections," the Monster Club discovers notes on the Ostium and the Akrida in Henry's handwriting. In order to gain more information on the box, they summon Henry's ghost who finally gets to say goodbye to his family. Henry reveals how to recharge the Ostium using a piece of rock from the Akrida's home universe that Henry had hidden just in case the Akrida ever returned. However, their attempt to defeat the Akrida fails as they are unable to find the Akrida Queen.
In "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," John recognizes the man who gave him Henry's letter in one of Samuel Campbell's photographs. The man is revealed to be Dean Winchester, John's son and Henry's grandson.
In "Suspicious Minds," John and Mary, while dealing with former Man of Letters Jack Wilcox, discover that he was kicked out of the order because Henry had exposed him for illegal human experimentation.
In "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," in a flashback, Dean gives Henry's letter to John, much to the admonishment of Bobby Singer as they're not supposed to interfere. It remains unclear how Dean got the letter, but he simply tells Bobby that it was meant for John and he is just nudging things along. The Akrida Queen, Joan Hopkins, reveals that, after the Men of Letters defeated the Akrida in 1957, she had used the last of her power to kill them all, including Henry. After the destruction of the Akrida, Dean reveals to his parents that they are actually in an alternate universe and that they and Henry are not the John, Mary and Henry from Supernatural but their alternate counterparts.
Jo Harvelle
[edit]Jody Mills
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John Winchester
[edit]Lily Sunder
[edit]Lily Sunder, portrayed by Alicia Witt, is a professor of apocalyptic literature turned angel hunter appearing in season 12. She reappears in season 14 portrayed by Veronica Cartwright.
In the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, Lily worked as a professor of apocalyptic literature and was fascinated by angels. She eventually found a spell to summon one, Ishim, who taught her the secrets of the angels. However, Ishim grew dangerously obsessed with Lily. Recognizing that Ishim was a monster, Lily left him and married the Seraphim Akobel for protection. However, in 1901, Ishim came after her for revenge. Accompanied by the angels Benjamin, Mirabel, Castiel and two others, Ishim arrived under the pretense that Lily's daughter May was a Nephilim that had to be killed. Akobel ordered Lily to run while he confronted the angels and was killed. Ishim faced Lily alone and murdered May in front of her before leaving Lily alive. Desiring revenge, Lily began using Enochian magic to give herself immortality and various powers at the cost of parts of her soul burning away each time she used them. After the Fall of the Angels in 2013, Lily took advantage of the angels' weakened state to kill two of Ishim's garrison that had participated in murdering her family over the next few years.
In 2017, in "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets", Lily confronts Benjamin in an arcade and engages the angel in battle. After allowing Benjamin to put out a distress call, Lily kills him with an angel blade. Lily next confronts Mirabel outside of a diner where she is meeting with Ishim and Castiel, Lily's last targets. Lily quickly kills Mirabel and turns her attention to Ishim when he emerges. Lily's new powers grant her immunity to Ishim's smiting and she wounds him, but the fight is interrupted by the Winchesters and Castiel. After being wounded herself and not wanting to harm humans, Lily uses a blast of white light to blind everyone and flees in a rental car to her hotel where she heals her injuries.
After learning the story of what happened in 1901, the Winchesters track Lily down through her rental car to try to convince her not to go after Castiel. Learning that they believe May to have been a Nephilim, Lily tells them the truth about what happened. Sam and Dean believe her and Dean goes off to find Castiel while Lily stays with Sam and convinces him of the threat Ishim poses to Dean. Lily and Sam arrive as Ishim prepares to kill Dean and Lily engages Ishim in battle. Even aided by the Winchesters Lily proves to be no match for Ishim who fights through her telekinesis and prepares to kill her with his angel blade. To Lily's shock, she's saved by Castiel who kills Ishim from behind with his angel blade. Though Lily gets her revenge with Ishim's death, she is left unsure of whether or not she can let go of her vengeance against Castiel due to revenge being all she's had for over a century. Castiel apologizes to Lily and promises that if she finds she can't forgive him and wants to come after him for revenge again one day, he will be waiting for her. In tears, Lily thanks Castiel and departs, presumably off to start a new life.
In "Byzantium", Sam calls Lily for help in hopes that she can translate Kevin Tran's notes on the angel tablet and find a way to bring back the deceased Jack. Now elderly as she has stopped using the magic that prolonged her life, Lily can't read the tablet notes but offers a way to save Jack using her Enochian magic which will allow Jack's own soul to sustain him. In return, Lily asks that the Winchesters ensure her admittance into Heaven, explaining that she still has a sliver of her soul left and wishes to be reunited with her daughter when she dies. The Winchesters summon Anubis who weighs Lily's soul and determines that she will go to Hell. Anubis explains that only a person's choices determine their final destination and he can't change Lily's fate. Despite this setback, Dean convinces Lily to help them so that they won't have to experience the loss of a child as she did. Lily succeeds in helping to resurrect Jack and to cure his condition.
Moments after Jack's resurrection, Lily suffers a fatal heart attack and quietly dies. In the afterlife, Lily is greeted by Anubis who again weighs her soul and determines that Lily can now enter Heaven. Lily is implied to have known that helping Jack would be fatal to her and helped anyway and that this selfless action changed her fate. Anubis sends Lily's soul off to be reunited with her daughter at long last with Lily smiling in happiness and peace.
Mary Winchester
[edit]Mary Winchester (née Campbell), regularly portrayed by Samantha Smith but depicted by Amy Gumenick in the time travel episodes "In the Beginning" and "The Song Remains the Same" and by Meg Donnelly in the sequel series The Winchesters, is the wife of John Winchester and mother of Sam and Dean. The Season 4 episode "In the Beginning" revealed that Mary was a hunter herself and that her family had been hunters for generations. She was born in 1954 to Samuel and Deanna Campbell, both hunters, who would be her sons' namesakes.
In Supernatural
[edit]Dean, sent back in time by the angel Castiel, unknowingly brings Mary to Azazel's attention through his actions. Azazel kills her parents and then-boyfriend John Winchester, after which he bargains with Mary for John's life, offering to resurrect John if she allows him to enter her house ten years later. Not knowing Azazel's intentions, she agrees, eventually marrying John and leaving the life of a hunter. Sometime afterward, when she is pregnant with Dean, the adult Dean and Sam visit her again to warn her of Anna Milton, who intends to kill Mary before she could give birth to her sons and thus avert the Apocalypse. She is successfully protected when Michael possesses John to kill Anna, then erases Mary's memories so history remains the same. In 1980, Mary briefly returns to hunting to "tie up some loose ends." This includes traveling to Manitoba, Canada and killing a werewolf that she has some kind of history with. In the process, Mary saves the life of a young boy named Asa Fox, inspiring him to become a legendary hunter in the process.
In the pilot episode, six months after Sam's birth in 1983, Mary was awakened by sounds of him crying in his crib. She discovered Azazel there - later revealed to have been feeding Sam his demonic blood - and confronted him, but was pinned to the ceiling by him and slashed across her abdomen, eventually bursting into flames. According to "The Kids Are Alright", Azazel then killed all of her remaining friends and acquaintances, presumably so her children would not have any leads as to her death. It is revealed in "Home" that Mary has been acting as a guardian spirit of the Winchesters' old home in Lawrence, Kansas. She fights the poltergeist haunting the house and forces both spirits to leave.
As a thank-you gift for making her and God reconcile in "Alpha and Omega", the Darkness brings back Mary as she appeared at the time of her death. She is informed by Dean about the events that transpired in the 33 years since her death; to her dismay, she learns that John is dead and that her efforts to protect her family from the hunter world were futile.
In season 12, Mary struggles to adapt to the world that has changed greatly from what she once knew and the changes in her sons. Mary's struggle leads her to isolate herself from her children while her desire to create a world free of monsters leads to Mary allying with the British Men of Letters, particularly their top assassin Arthur Ketch. Mary is shown to be a hunter with formidable skills, described by Arthur as the best hunter he has ever seen. Mary herself states that she was good at hunting before she gave the life up. Mary's association with the British Men of Letters leads to her being brainwashed into a mindless assassin used to kill the American hunters. After being captured by Jody Mills, Mary's brainwashing is broken by Dean with the help of Lady Toni Bevell in time for Mary to kill Arthur Ketch and save Dean's life. Reunited with her children, Mary attends to Kelly Kline as she gives birth to Lucifer's Nephilim son Jack and sacrifices herself to trap Lucifer in the alternate reality known as Apocalypse World, trapping herself with him.
In season 13, Mary is trapped in Apocalypse World while her sons attempt to rescue her. Originally trapped with Lucifer, Mary is captured and tortured by the archangel Michael, the ruler of Apocalypse World. An attempt by her sons to rescue her leads to Lucifer's son Jack being trapped with Mary as well. Working together, Jack and Mary escape Michael's fortress and link up with some of the surviving human population led by Bobby Singer. While reminiscing with Bobby about her deceased counterpart, Mary learns that in Apocalypse World, her counterpart never made the deal with Azazel to bring back John as seen in season 4's "In The Beginning." Mary realizes that as a result, Sam and Dean never existed to stop the Apocalypse and receives comfort from Bobby that her own decision to make the deal was in fact the right one after all. Mary helps defend Bobby's colony against an angel attack led by Zachariah and together with Jack, forms a resistance against Michael as learned by Dean and a resurrected Arthur Ketch when they briefly visit Apocalypse World in "Bring 'em Back Alive".
Mary eventually returns to the original world with the refugees from 'Apocalypse World', forming a tentative relationship with the alternate Bobby as they attempt to fight the threat of the alternate Michael as he attempts to take Dean as his vessel. She is later reunited with John for a brief time when a magical wish brings John forward through time from 2003. Michael is eventually defeated when Jack banishes him, but Jack begins to damage his soul as he taps into his powers after a confrontation with Lucifer, which results in him killing Mary by accident. His attempt to bring Mary back to life only restores her body, and when Castiel goes to Heaven to retrieve her soul, he learns that she has been reunited with John Winchester in Heaven, prompting Castiel to let Mary stay dead so she can be with him.
According to series creator Eric Kripke, her relation to Azazel was supposed to be addressed in the third season, but was pushed back to the fourth season due to the 2007-08 writer's strike.[39]
In The Winchesters
[edit]In "Pilot", on March 23, 1972, a young Mary meets John Winchester as he returns home from fighting in the Vietnam War. Mary later rescues John from a demon and reluctantly introduces him to the world of the supernatural. Mary's father Samuel has recently gone missing while on a hunting trip and has sent Mary to recover a schematic from an old Men of Letters clubhouse of a mysterious box. Teaming up with John and her friends Carlos Cervantez and Latika Desai, Mary pursues both her missing father and the box. Mary reveals to John that she is consumed with guilt over the recent death of her cousin Maggie and seeks to leave the hunting life as a result. Although the group is unable to find Samuel, they do succeed in locating the box which is able to trap and kill demons. Ada Monroe reveals that Samuel was seeking the box as it is the only thing that can kill the Akrida, a malevolent force not of this world that seeks to invade and destroy all manner of life. While the Men of Letters had stopped them in the past, they are gone now, leaving the Akrida free to invade. Mary decides to continue Samuel's work as well as to continue her search for her father with John, Carlos, Latika and Ada joining her.
Rufus Turner
[edit]Rufus Turner, portrayed by Steven Williams, is a semi-retired hunter who helped Bobby Singer when his wife, Karen Singer, was possessed by a demon. Rufus exorcised the demon and helped cover up Karen's death. It is Rufus who introduced Bobby to the world of the supernatural, and they hunted together for many years until a hunt went wrong in Omaha, Nebraska, and someone important to Rufus died. They became estranged after this. Fifteen years later, Rufus responds to Bobby's request for information on Bela Talbot and helps Dean locate her in "Time Is On My Side." He returns to active hunting after Lucifer rises and the Apocalypse begins.
Rufus is introduced in the third-season episode "Time Is on My Side" when Bobby, who has not heard from Rufus in about 15 years, receives a phone call in which Rufus alerts him to the whereabouts of Bela Talbot. Dean visits Rufus, even though Sam opposes the idea of hunting for Bela, as they have only a couple of weeks until Dean's deal runs out. Rufus presents Dean with a manila folder on Bela, which gives Dean new and interesting details from her past.
Rufus appears off-screen in "When the Levee Breaks", when he calls Bobby with news of more of the 66 Seals being broken.
In "Good God Y'All", Rufus heads to a town he thinks is under attack from demons, based on omens of a polluted river and a falling star. He calls Ellen, Jo, and Bobby for help. When Sam and Dean arrive, he and Jo have been separated from Ellen. Jo and Rufus capture Sam, thinking he is possessed. Later, Ellen and Dean help break the spell War has over them. Bobby talks on the phone to Rufus about omens that may indicate the appearance of Death, in "The Devil You Know".
In "Weekend at Bobby's", Rufus arrives at Singer Salvage Yard to dispose of the body of an apparently dead Okami. Bobby assists him and helps him evade capture by the FBI. However, the Okami is revealed to still be alive and is subsequently dispatched by Bobby. Afterward, Rufus uses his contacts to uncover information on Crowley's life as a human and later steals a signet ring from a museum which once belonged to Crowley's son as part of Bobby's attempt to regain his soul from the demon. Rufus investigates the same case as the Winchesters and Bobby, in "...And Then There Were None". The group later encounters Samuel and Gwen Campbell, and discover that the monster is a new breed created by Eve, the "Khan Worm." After Gwen and Samuel are killed, Rufus is stabbed by a possessed Bobby. As cremation is not undertaken in the Jewish tradition, Rufus is buried in a Jewish cemetery rather than given a Hunter's funeral pyre. Bobby pours some of Rufus' favorite drink—Johnnie Walker Blue Label—on the grave before taking a drink himself.
After becoming comatose from being shot in the head by Dick Roman, Bobby relives various memories of Sam, Dean, Karen, his family, and Rufus. Remembering Rufus has a traumatic effect on Bobby, and he reveals to Rufus that he is just a memory appearing in Bobby's comatose mind. While initially disbelieving, Rufus accompanies Bobby in a quest through the past in which Bobby confronts his worst memories to momentarily recover from his gunshot wound.
In "Safe House", flashbacks show a case Bobby and Rufus worked together during the fourth season where Rufus called Bobby for help on an apparent haunted house. However, the two eventually realized they were dealing with a being known as a Soul Eater rather than a ghost. Unable to kill the Soul Eater, Rufus painted a sigil that would trap it, but the Soul Eater pulled Bobby's soul out of his body and into its "nest" outside of time and space, using Bobby to attack Rufus. Rufus subdued the possessed Bobby and finished the sigil, trapping the Soul Eater in its nest. He later leaves Bobby the bottle of Johnny Walker Blue found by Sam and Jody Mills in "Time After Time" since Bobby was right about what they were dealing with and brushes off Bobby's concerns about how he escaped the nest.
Sam Winchester
[edit]Samuel Campbell
[edit]Samuel Campbell, portrayed by Mitch Pileggi and Tom Welling, is the maternal grandfather of Sam and Dean Winchester, and Sam Winchester's namesake.
In Supernatural
[edit]He and his wife Deanna are revealed to be hunters in the fourth-season episode "In the Beginning", where Dean is transported back in time. Dean discovers that Samuel is being possessed by Azazel, and Samuel dies when Azazel leaves his body.
Samuel returns as a recurring character in the sixth season, where in the premiere, it is revealed that Samuel was brought down from Heaven at the same time Sam was resurrected from Hell. While he claims to have no idea why he was brought back, he, Sam and the other surviving members of the Campbell family are shown to be capturing dangerous supernatural creatures behind Dean's back, instead of killing them.
Samuel, who knows the cure to vampirism, returns during a string of vampire attacks in Limestone, Illinois, after Dean has been turned into a vampire. Knowing that Sam knew about the cure, as well, he concludes that Sam wanted Dean inside the nest to locate the Alpha Vampire, though Sam denies it.
It is later revealed that Samuel was resurrected by Crowley, and working with him in an attempt to find the location of Purgatory—the afterlife for monsters—in exchange for his daughter's resurrection. After Samuel betrayed the Winchesters when they attempted to kill Crowley, claiming that Mary was the only family that mattered to him, Dean vows to kill his grandfather the next time they meet.
A case he worked during his year spent hunting with Sam is seen in the episode, "Unforgiven", during which Samuel was shown to be disturbed at soulless-Sam's actions, using one of their current allies as bait to trap a monster.
In "...And Then There Were None", Samuel and Gwen encounter Sam, Dean, Rufus, and Bobby as they all investigate the same case. Sam prevents Dean from killing Samuel, feeling that he may be of some use yet. Samuel learns that Sam has regained his soul and has no memory of their time together. Gwen reveals that she was unaware of Samuel's betrayal but is killed by Dean, who is possessed by the Khan worm. Samuel is unapologetic when confronted by the brothers, though he did seem remorseful on it. It is subsequently revealed that he was possessed by the Khan worm and is shot dead by Sam. However, the Khan worm is not killed and uses his body to attack the group, but is driven out of Samuel when Bobby throws him against a live wire, electrocuting him and revealing the Khan worm's weakness.
In "Stuck In the Middle (With You)", a resurrected Mary reveals to Arthur Ketch that Samuel had used to tell her stories about the Colt. Unlike the legend that John Winchester knew about the gun, Samuel's version had the correct information that there were only five things that it couldn't kill rather than it being able to kill anything.
In "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," Dean and Bobby find it weird to see the Samuel from the Monster Club's world with a full head of hair, referencing their encounters with this version of Samuel.
In The Winchesters
[edit]In "Pilot", in March 1972, Samuel vanishes after opening a secret tomb hidden in a New Orleans cemetery. Before he disappears, Samuel directs Mary to retrieve a schematic from a mysterious box from a Men of Letters clubhouse, but he keeps the true purpose of his actions a secret, alarming her as this is something that Samuel never does. Mary teams up with John Winchester, Carlos Cervantez and Latika Dar to find her missing father and the box. The group uncovers that it is a weapon created by the Men of Letters that can trap and destroy monsters and locate it in the secret tomb that Samuel had opened. However, there is no sign of Samuel himself. Ada Monroe, who had been helping Samuel to search through various Men of Letters properties, reveals that Samuel had learned of the existence of the Akrida, monsters not of this world who want to invade, destroy all manner of life on Earth and take over the world for themselves. With the Men of Letters gone and no longer able to stop them, Samuel has been attempting to stop the Akrida by finding where they cross over into this world and using the box - the only thing that can kill them - to stop them. Mary and her friends decide to both continue the search for Samuel and to finish what he started. In the following episode, they find a number of dead zombies and a spent shell casing with Samuel's initials on it, but both Samuel and the information on the Akrida gone and a lead on a new case for them to follow.
In "Reflections," Samuel has been captured by the Akrida leader that is possessing Rockin' Roxy who offers to trade Samuel for the box, in reality something called the Ostium that can banish the Akrida back to their own world. They agree to make the trade, but use the Ostium to banish the Akrida leader instead after figuring out how to power it up again with the help of the ghost of Henry Winchester. However, this fails to kill all of the Akrida as expected as she was not the Akrida Queen. As several Akrida corner John and Mary, an injured Samuel appears to save them by using the Ostium to banish their attackers before collapsing from his injuries.
In "Hang On to Your Life," an injured Samuel is treated by Millie and explains that he'd found out about the Ostium and the Akrida while looking for a way to get rid of all monsters forever, feeling guilty for pushing his daughter into the hunting life. Samuel joins the Monster Club in fighting Loki and provides them with reconnaissance photos of several potential locations for the queen, although the pictures prove to have been light damaged. After Loki's defeat, Samuel leaves with Ada to search for magic capable of stopping the Akrida while leaving the broken Ostium in Millie's hands so that she can try to repair it, but Samuel promises to keep in touch this time. Amongst Samuel's pictures, John finds the man who gave him Henry's letter in the background of one, revealing him to be Dean Winchester, John's son and Samuel's grandson.
In "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," Samuel returns after receiving the news that Ada has found magic capable of stopping the Akrida Queen who intends to use a planetary alignment to open her portal and begin the invasion. Samuel is contacted by a former hunter named Joan Hopkins who turns out to be the Akrida Queen, having been driven insane, consumed monster essences and seeks to wipe out humanity as a result. While the others try to summon Dean back from where Joan has banished him to, John, Carlos and Samuel hold off Joan and several Akrida to buy them time, before Mary finally kills Joan by hitting her with the Impala which is capable of hurting her as the car is from another universe. The Akrida are destroyed with Joan's death and Dean explains to Samuel and the gathered hunters that they were a failsafe plan of Chuck's in the event of his defeat which Dean had discovered while traversing the Multiverse following his death. Dean reveals that John, Mary and Samuel are from an alternate universe that he'd come across during his travels while trying to find a world where his family got a chance at a happy ending. After Dean's departure back to Heaven, Samuel says goodbye to Mary and leaves, presumably on another hunting trip, while Mary leaves Lawrence with John to figure out what they want to do with their futures.
Samuel Colt
[edit]Based on the historical gun maker of the same name, Samuel Colt is a hunter who lived in the 19th century and the creator of the Colt—a gun that can kill almost any supernatural being; Lucifer revealed that he is one of five supernatural beings immune to its powers. Colt also designed the locked door that keeps the portal to Hell known as the Devil's Gate from opening. The Devil's Gate and the Colt gun are linked together—the gun serves as the key to the gate, allowing it to be opened by inserting the Colt's muzzle into the key hole. Colt also built a railroad of iron, in the shape of a pentagram with a church at each of the points, around the devil's gate to further ensure that it was demon-proof. Colt was portrayed by Sam Hennings in the season six episode "Frontierland". Sam and Dean, when looking for a method of destroying Eve, come across Colt's journal which reveals that the hunter had killed a phoenix in 1861. As the ashes of a phoenix are needed to kill Eve, Castiel sends Sam and Dean back in time to retrieve them. Although Samuel is initially reluctant to assist Sam, he eventually gives him the Colt which Dean kills the phoenix with. When Sam and Dean are pulled back to the present day without the ashes, it is revealed that Colt sent a courier package 150 years ago containing the ashes, which arrives at Bobby's door. He was able to figure out how to use Sam's cell phone, which he left behind (and which Colt sent back to him), and learned the date and Bobby's address from it.
Walt and Roy
[edit]Walt and Roy are two hunters first appearing in season 5's "Dark Side of the Moon." Having learned of Sam's role in starting the Apocalypse, the two hunters ambush the Winchesters in a motel room with the intention of killing Sam whom they see as a monster. After Dean recognizes both men, they decided to kill both Winchesters rather than risk Dean's wrath. Dean promises that when he inevitably returns, he will hunt them down and kill them for revenge. The Winchesters are sent to Heaven after the murder and are eventually resurrected by the angel Joshua on the orders of God.
Both Walt and Roy return in season 12's "Who We Are" as two of the hunters called in to help deal with the British Men of Letters situation by Jody Mills. Having not seen the Winchesters since murdering them in "Dark Side of the Moon", the reunion is somewhat awkward, but Dean assures both men that there are no lasting hard feelings over their actions. Walt and Roy join Sam's assault on the British Men of Letters base with Roy even saving Sam's life from a British operative that Sam misses. Roy is killed during the assault by another operative that Sam shoots moments later, but Walt survives. Walt, who acts as the team's explosives expert, joins Sam and Jody in confronting Doctor Hess and follows Sam's lead during the confrontation.
Walt is mentioned again in season 13's "Wayward Sisters" as one of the hunters contacted by Alex Jones when the Winchesters disappear. Like the other hunters, Walt has seen no sign of them but promises to keep looking.
Other humans
[edit]Adam Milligan
[edit]Adam Milligan, portrayed by Jake Abel is the illegitimate son of John Winchester and the half-brother of Sam and Dean Winchester. He was born from a relationship between John and a woman named Kate Milligan, while John was on a hunt. At age 12, he begged his mother to call his father and from then on they would have sporadic contact, but John never told Adam of his other sons, who had no idea about Adam's existence. Despite John's attempts at parenting, Adam never saw John as his father and viewed his mother as his only family, but still wished to have a closer relationship with his father.
His existence is revealed to Sam and Dean in Jump the Shark, in which he was murdered by ghouls along with his mother, as the ghouls wanted revenge on John for the murder of their father. One of the ghouls took on Adam's identity to lure John to them. However, as John was already dead, his other sons got the call and were shocked to learn of their half-brother. During their investigation, Adam's body was discovered by Dean, just as Sam was attacked by the ghouls, who settled for killing Sam and Dean. Dean killed the ghouls, avenging Adam's death and they subsequently gave a hunter's funeral for the brother they never knew.
In season 5's "Point of No Return", Adam is resurrected by Zachariah to serve as Michael's vessel after Dean's continuing refusal to say yes. However, Castiel senses Adam's resurrection and is able to get to him before the angels do and the Winchesters, Castiel and Bobby continually try to talk Adam out of his plan without any luck as Zachariah has promised to bring back his mother in exchange for Adam's help. Zachariah eventually appears to Adam in the form of a dream and convinces him to reveal where the Winchesters are keeping him. Zachariah takes Adam to the Green Room where he reveals that Adam's resurrection was actually a trap to get Dean to say yes, using Dean's weakness for his family against him. The Winchesters storm the Green Room to Adam's surprise and Zachariah tortures both Sam and Adam to finally get a yes out of Dean. However, at the last minute, Dean changes his mind and kills Zachariah with an angel blade. As the three humans try to flee, the descending Michael traps Adam in the Green Room with himself and Zachariah's body and the room disappears when the Winchesters try to get back inside. Both Sam and Dean acknowledge that neither Adam nor Castiel are likely alright and vow to get them back.
In "Two Minutes to Midnight", Castiel reveals to Sam that Adam has now become Michael's vessel for the rapidly-approaching final battle which Sam admits is a possibility that they didn't really want to consider.
In "Swan Song", Adam is Michael's vessel when he meets with Lucifer in Stull Cemetery for the final battle of the Apocalypse. When Dean arrives, he tries to apologize to Adam, but the archangel tells him that "Adam isn't home right now." After retaking control from Lucifer, Sam throws himself, Lucifer, Michael and Adam into Lucifer's Cage to stop the Apocalypse.
In season 6's "Appointment in Samarra", Dean is offered the choice of saving Adam or Sam from Hell by Death and he chooses Sam though he does ask Death to save Adam too without success.
In season 10's "Fan Fiction", the Winchesters are confused when, during a play based on the Supernatural books, a character they don't recognize comes on stage. Maeve tells them that it is Adam who is still stuck in Hell with Lucifer. Sam and Dean's reactions suggest that they have forgotten about Adam.
In season 15's "Our Father, Who Aren't In Heaven", Adam, still Michael's vessel, has escaped from Hell after God threw every door in Hell open, including the door to Lucifer's Cage. Now sharing control of his body with the archangel, Adam enjoys eating a variety of food for the first time in ten years and discusses with Michael, appearing as a duplicate of Adam himself, what they will both do now. The two have bonded during their time in the cage and Adam indirectly suggests that they stay together, which Michael does not seem opposed to. Adam's meal is interrupted by the arrival of Lilith seeking Michael on God's orders, ending with Michael killing the demon. Michael later returns control to Adam after he is captured by the Winchesters and Adam explains that he and Michael reached an agreement during their years in the Cage when they only had each other for company. To Michael's surprise, Adam sides with his brothers on the matter, pointing out that while he doesn't forgive them, he knows Sam and Dean always try to do the right thing. Adam eventually gets Michael to admit that he refuses to doubt God as he feels that is a betrayal of who he is. Michael isn't convinced to help until Castiel shows Michael his own memories of God's betrayals. As Michael prepares to leave, he returns control to Adam at Dean's request. Dean apologizes to his brother for what happened to him, stating that Adam is a good man and didn't deserve what happened to him. Adam quips "since when do we get what we deserve?" and wishes them luck before departing with Michael.
In "Inherit the Earth", Michael sadly reveals that Adam was killed along with the rest of humanity by Chuck, although the archangel continues to use Adam's body as his vessel. Chuck subsequently obliterates Michael for his betrayal, taking with him Adam's body. However, Jack restores everyone Chuck killed, meaning that Adam is restored as well.
Arthur Ketch
[edit]Arthur Ketch, portrayed by David Haydn-Jones, is a former British Man of Letters. Ketch is first mentioned while Lady Toni Bevell is torturing Sam for information. When all their methods prove fruitless, Ms. Watt suggests bringing in Ketch; however, Toni is vehemently against it. He's also shown in a flashback killing a vampire, identifiable by the tattoo on his hand. Later on, Mick Davies retrieves Toni and informs her that he has sent for Ketch, who is shown preparing to leave the UK. This leaves Toni visibly uncomfortable.
In "Season 12, American Nightmare", Ketch drives up to the Impala on a motorcycle and stares at it or a moment before driving away. He later tracks down and kills Magda Peterson, telling someone on the phone that he cleaned up the Winchesters mess and they were right about the Winchesters being unable to kill her.
In "LOTUS", Ketch rescues the Winchesters and Castiel from the Secret Service and orders Castiel to wipe their memory before introducing himself. That night, Arthur explains that his job is to "strongly encourage" the Winchesters cooperation with the British Men of Letters and was sent by Mick Davies after Sam called him and hung up. Ketch has Castiel confirm that he's not lying and shows them his arsenal of weapons, including a hyperbolic pulse generator capable of exorcising a demon from its vessel. Recognizing its potential, Sam asks to borrow it and for Ketch to trust them. Ketch eventually gives the Winchesters the generator, enabling them to force Lucifer from President Jefferson Rooney and send Lucifer back to his Cage.
Six weeks later, Castiel contacts Arthur Ketch and Mick to help him and Mary find Sam and Dean who have been taken prisoner by the Secret Service. The two men are impressed to learn that the brothers had in fact borrowed Arthur's gadget to deal with Lucifer himself. They agree to help in hopes that it will earn them the trust of the American hunters, and through their connections, Arthur and Mick locate Sam and Dean near Site 94.
Once the four encounter Sam and Dean, Arthur is unimpressed to learn that they left survivors. Sam insists the people pursuing them were just soldiers doing their job, though Arthur considers it "unprofessional". Sam, Dean and Castiel head to Mary's car while glaring at Arthur suspiciously. Arthur and Mick watch them drive off and share a knowing look at each other. It is later revealed that Arthur went back and killed all those involved in Sam and Dean's imprisonment, including Agent Rick, Agent Camp, the soldiers and the coroner. Mick reports this while noting that cleaning up loose ends is Arthur's job.
In "Stuck in the Middle (With You)", Mary visits Arthur after stealing the Colt and tells him the story of its theft from Ramiel. Mary is enraged that Arthur sent her after a Prince of Hell which got Wally killed and threatens to destroy the British Men of Letters if something happens to her sons. Arthur apologizes, claiming not to have known that she was going after a Prince of Hell. Arthur and Mary discuss the legend of the Colt as an excited Arthur unwraps it.
In "The Raid", Mary and Arthur take out a vampire nest together and Arthur expresses his dislike for them trying to recruit the Winchester brothers when they have Mary. Arthur later visits Dean at the Men of Letters bunker and sits down for a drink with him. Rather than trying the sales pitch of the other British Men of Letters, Arthur is frank with Dean about his motives, telling Dean that he is a killer and the British Men of Letters offer him the best chance to express his talents. Arthur sees Dean as the same as him and the two decide to take down a vampire nest together. At the nest, Arthur initially arms himself with a gun, but decides to use a machete instead like Dean. The two men find only one vampire hiding in the nest and Arthur beats upon her before Dean stops him to try things his way. When Dean promises to grant the vampire a quick end, she tells them that her nest is going after the British Men of Letters.
Alarmed, Dean and Arthur rush back to the British Men of Letters compound to find that Sam has killed the Alpha Vampire and the surviving vampires have fled. Mick berates Arthur who tells him he was trying to recruit Dean and would have succeeded if Mick's operation hadn't screwed things up. He then takes the rogue hunter Pierce Moncrieff for punishment.
In season 13, a resurrected Arthur returns as a mercenary hunter separated from the British Men of Letters who are unaware of his survival. In "War of the Worlds", he is going by the alias of Alexander Ketch, pretending to be Arthur's twin brother. However, Dean sees through the disguise and Arthur explains that he had made a deal with Rowena for a resurrection spell that he needs recharged which brought him back after Mary killed him. Arthur saves the Winchesters from a group of demons and insists that he is on their side and that his previous actions only came from being a soldier on the opposite side of a war from them. When Dean tries to kill Arthur again, he flees and is later seen being employed by the Prince of Hell Asmodeus who is preparing to procure Jack for the Alternate Michael's invasion.
In "Devil's Bargain", Asmodeus supplies Arthur with an angel blade and sends him to kill the weakened Lucifer, believing Lucifer to be vulnerable to an angel blade in his current state. Arthur once again encounters the Winchesters who have Castiel knock him unconscious and lock him in the Impala's trunk, intending to kill him and scatter his ashes to make his death permanent. Arthur once more escapes confinement, just in time to use a demon bomb to drive Lucifer and Anael away, saving the Winchesters and Castiel. Stating that Lucifer being loose upon the Earth is a line too far for him, Arthur reveals his alliance with Asmodeus and offers to work with the Winchesters as a double agent to stop Lucifer, Asmodeus and the threat of an alternate reality Michael. Recognizing that they need him, the Winchesters reluctantly agree to the alliance. Upon Arthur's return to Asmodeus' lair, Asmodeus reveals that he has acquired the Archangel Blade, the one weapon that can kill an archangel such as Lucifer or Michael. After Arthur points out that the blade can only be used to kill an archangel by another archangel, Asmodeus introduces him to the captive archangel Gabriel who has been believed dead for nearly eight years.
In "The Thing", Arthur discovers that Asmodeus has been injecting himself with Gabriel's grace to power up. Arthur's continuing impertinence and defiance enrage Asmodeus who brutally beats him. Asmodeus states that Arthur is more wicked than any demon he knows "and I know 'em all", but recognizes that Arthur seeks redemption for his past actions which he doesn't think that Arthur can get. Once Asmodeus leaves him alone, Arthur gets back at him by rescuing Gabriel and steals Asmodeus' store of Gabriel's extracted grace as well as the Archangel Blade. Arthur brings all three to the Winchesters, seeking sanctuary from Asmodeus in return which Dean agrees to. After the Winchesters open a rift to Apocalypse World, Arthur decides to join Dean on the mission, feeling that he is safer in another universe when Asmodeus will inevitably come looking for him.
In "Bring 'Em Back Alive", Arthur teams up with a reluctant Dean to find and rescue Mary and Jack. The two witness several angels executing resistance fighters and taking captive Charlie Bradbury, the alternate counterpart of an old friend of Dean's. Against Arthur's wishes, Dean sets out to rescue Charlie, the two men being forced to work together to survive. Along the way, Dean tells Arthur of his inability to save Charlie and Arthur admits his own regrets that he never even tried to save the lives of those he cares about. Together, Dean and Arthur raid a POW camp, killing several angels and liberating Charlie and several other human prisoners. With the rift closing, Arthur chooses to remain behind in Apocalypse World with Charlie to continue the mission to find Mary and Jack and to help coordinate for Dean's inevitable return with reinforcements. As angels attack the rift, Arthur engages in battle with them alongside Charlie.
In "Exodus", Arthur has become a full-fledged member of the Apocalypse World resistance and joins Charlie on a mission to ambush an angel death squad. However, it turns out to be a trap and both are captured. Arthur undergoes extensive torture for information on the resistance, but refuses to break, even taunting his captors. The angels call in an alternate reality Castiel to tear the information from Charlie's mind, but Sam, Dean, Mary, Jack and Castiel arrive to rescue them, killing all of the angels, including the alternate Castiel. As Dean helps him, Arthur comments on the irony of Dean saving his life for once. Arthur joins the later exodus through the rift and is one of the first through. In the bunker, he and Rowena express shock at the sight of each other before Arthur moves on. During the later party, Arthur enjoys a drink with Charlie. He is mentioned to be off doing his own thing in "Let the Good Times Roll".
In season 14's "Stranger in a Strange Land", Arthur is mentioned to be following up on a lead in London in the search for a way to save Dean from Michael's possession. Sam later gets a call from Arthur and tells Castiel that Arthur has been searching for the hyperbolic pulse generator, the device they used to exorcise Lucifer out of the President in the hopes that it can be used to eject Michael from Dean. However, Arthur has had no luck in his search. In "The Spear", Arthur has found the hyperbolic pulse generator, but is forced to mail it to the Winchesters who are less than pleased as they need it immediately. Somewhat stunned, Arthur apologizes for his inability to deliver it to them directly. Though the Winchesters find the package, the device is destroyed by Michael before they can use it. In "Jack in the Box", Arthur is unable to attend Mary's hunter's memorial. Instead, he sends a bottle of the same expensive scotch he'd brought Dean in "The Raid."
In season 15's "Raising Hell", Arthur arrives in Harlan, Kansas after God releases all of the souls in Hell upon the world. After meeting the demon Belphegor, Arthur reveals that he was hired to assassinate Belphegor by the demon Ardat who claims that Belphegor is "a monstrous threat to humanity." As this doesn't seem to be the case, Arthur refrains from harming the demon and assists the Winchesters and Rowena in finding a way to contain the souls, developing a mutual attraction with Rowena in the process. Arthur is later possessed by the ghost of Francis Tumblety, forcing Dean to shoot him with iron bullets to expel Francis. With Castiel unable to heal Arthur, he is taken to the hospital for treatment and takes Dean shooting him good-naturedly.
In "The Rupture", after awakening in the hospital, Arthur prepares to leave to help his friends, only to have Ardat arrive. Unable to defeat the demon, Arthur refuses to give up his friends for any price, something that Ardat recognizes. Ardat rips out Arthur's heart and after showing it to him for a minute, crushes Arthur's heart, killing him. Ardat later poses as Arthur using his phone to trick Dean into revealing where the Winchesters are and what they are up to. His death is subsequently avenged when Belphegor kills Ardat, but not before she reveals to Castiel that Belphegor truly is the threat she'd claimed to Arthur when she hired him to kill Belphegor. At the end of the episode, Dean reveals to Sam that the other hunters found Arthur and that he was probably killed by a demon. Having just lost Rowena as well, both Sam and Dean are devastated by the news.
Ash
[edit]Ash, portrayed by Chad Lindberg, is a mullet-wearing computer expert, who works and lives at Harvelle's Roadhouse with Jo and Ellen Harvelle. He attended MIT, but was kicked out for "fighting". He owns a homemade laptop, which he uses to track the paranormal, particularly Azazel, with the information John Winchester and his sons, Sam and Dean, have gathered. In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1", he calls Dean to tell him he has discovered something important, but by the time Dean arrives at the Roadhouse to talk, the Roadhouse has been burned to the ground, and Dean finds Ash's corpse in the rubble.
Series creator Eric Kripke stated that Ash's death "had to do with how much I hated the actual Roadhouse itself rather than anyone in it." As for the character's return, Kripke replied, "Ash is a possibility."[38] This comes to fruition in the fifth-season episode "Dark Side of the Moon", in which Sam and Dean meet Ash in Heaven, as well as Pamela. Enjoying the afterlife more than his actual life, and having discovered means to infiltrate other people's Heavens and tap into the angel's communications, Ash helps the brothers hide from Zachariah. Ash also revealed to them that they have died more times than they know and he has helped them before, with the angels erasing their memories upon resurrection.
Becky Rosen
[edit]Becky Rosen, portrayed by Emily Perkins, is a fan of the "Supernatural" series of books. Her online name is samlicker81, and she is the webmistress of morethanbrothers.net. She writes Wincest fanfiction. Carver Edlund aka Chuck Shurley contacts her to get a message to Sam and Dean in "Sympathy for the Devil". She initially believed it to be a joke but Chuck told her that his stories were real and she was excited as she thought so. It is obvious from her reaction to the boys that she is a Sam Girl, and fixates upon him much to his dismay.
Becky Rosen "borrows" Chuck Shurley's phone, pretending to be him, and texts Sam & Dean saying he's in a life or death situation in "The Real Ghostbusters". Sam and Dean rush over after driving all night only to find out that Becky has invited them to a Supernatural Convention for Chuck's books. When real ghosts start attacking people, Chuck has to step up and help keep everyone safe while Sam and Dean and two Supernatural fanboys, Demian and Barnes, fight the ghosts. His bravery impresses Becky who immediately abandons her pursuit of Sam for a relationship with Chuck. She also tells Sam that in the book which covers the events of "Time Is on My Side", Bela gave the Colt not to Lilith but to her right hand demon, and possibly lover, Crowley.
In "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" a Crossroads Demon named Guy gives her a love potion to make Sam marry her, she believed Guy was a Wiccan until the demon betrays her and shows her his eyes. Guy asks for her soul in exchange for making the effect permanent, he wanted to make a deal after seeing she was married to the skilled hunter even agreeing with her about Sam easily killing. Sam warned her not to go through with the deal. According to her, Chuck broke up with her, which is presumably her reason for fixating on Sam again. During the battle at the end, she helps trap the demon, but his minion breaks him free. As the demon and his minion Jackson are about to kill the hunters, Becky retrieves Ruby's Knife and kills Jackson with it, allowing the Winchesters to overpower the Crossroads Demon whose deals are revoked by Crowley who is bemused when she excitedly recognizes him. Later, she and Sam get an annulment.
In "Slumber Party", it is revealed by Charlie that Becky posted all of Chuck's unpublished manuscripts to the Internet, with the result that the public is now 'aware' of events in Sam and Dean's lives up to the confrontation between Lucifer/Sam and Michael/Adam. When asked if they know her, Sam quickly denies it.
In "Atomic Monsters", Chuck visits Becky for help though she is less than pleased to see him. Though still a fan of Supernatural, Becky is not quite so obsessed anymore and has married and had children. Becky agrees to edit Chuck's newest story and provides critique that essentially acts as meta references for both the episode and the show itself. Becky's words causes Chuck to write a much darker ending, much to Becky's horror. When her family comes home, Chuck causes them to vanish with just a snap of his fingers, though Chuck claims that he has simply sent them "away." Revealing his true identity as God himself to Becky, Chuck causes her to vanish into thin air also with a snap of his fingers.
Bela Talbot
[edit]Ben Braeden
[edit]Ben Braeden is the son of Lisa Braeden, a woman Dean once spent a weekend with in August 1999, portrayed by Nicholas Elia. Lisa and Ben live in Cicero, Indiana. Though Dean suspects he is Ben's biological father, Lisa claims that this is not so.
Dean drops in to visit Lisa in "The Kids Are Alright", while investigating a case, on what happens to be Ben's 8th birthday. Dean meets Ben and is struck by his familiar rock-music loving, girl ogling ways, but Lisa assures Dean that he is not Ben's father. Later Dean helps Ben out in an encounter with some bullies. Although his advice, to "kick the kid in the nuts", does not get Lisa's approval, Ben hugs Dean in thanks. Later Ben is one of the children taken by a mother Changeling, and one of her offspring imitates Ben and starts feeding on Lisa. Dean and Sam rescue all the children and kill the head Changeling, destroying the imitation Ben. Dean is impressed by Ben's cool headed behavior during the rescue, having put Ben in charge of helping the other children out a window.
When Dean returns to Lisa after the showdown in Stull Cemetery, in "Swan Song", Ben is seen at the dinner table.
Dean lives with Lisa and Ben for a year, but after an attack he insists they move and is conflicted by his desire to remain with his new family, his desire to hunt and the fear that he is raising Ben as his father raised him. Eventually, Lisa lets him go in "Two and a Half Men". Dean talks to Ben on the phone in "The Third Man". After believing he is about to die after having been turned into a vampire in "Live Free or Twi-Hard", Dean returns to say goodbye. However, he struggles to control his vampiric urges and shoves Ben and flees. Ben tricks Dean into returning once more in "Mannequin 3: The Reckoning"; however, he fails to reconcile with Lisa and Dean explains to Ben that he fears that if he stayed around, Ben would end up like him. Ben is still upset and accuses Dean of abandoning his family. Ben and Lisa are kidnapped by the demon Crowley, in "Let It Bleed", in an attempt to force Dean to stand down. After they are rescued, Dean asks Castiel to wipe Ben and his mother's memories of him, which he does.
Cole Trenton
[edit]Cole Trenton, portrayed by Travis Aaron Wade, is a military brat and an ex-Marine whose father, Edward, was killed by Dean Winchester in 2003, making him bent for revenge against his father's killer all his life. During his time in the military, he took part in the campaigns in Iraq, Darfur, and DR Congo and established many connections, including his longtime friend Kit Verson and a member of the Military Intelligence. Though Cole is not a hunter and leads an ordinary life with a wife and a son, he is an expert at martial arts and is fit due to his time as a soldier, and he also keeps a rifle that is associated with hunters. He tracks Dean upon the latter's sighted attack at a store captured by a surveillance camera and beats Sam, attempting to use him as a hostage. When Sam escapes, Cole follows him as the latter is about to meet Dean at a bar. However, though he finally confronts his father's killer, Dean easily defeats him with his demonic powers, but spares him as he wants Cole to live in humiliation for failing to avenge his father. Cole does not give up, however, and he begins studying about demons and starts to torture demons in hopes of tracking Dean once more. Cole holds Dean at gunpoint when the latter is cornering Rowena, forcing Dean to let her go, and sprays holy water against him, but as Dean is no longer a demon at that point, it does not work. He is defeated once again, but Dean offers to explain his motive of why he killed Edward: Edward was a monster who had killed many people and eaten their livers, and he would have killed Cole and his mother had Dean not killed him earlier. Convinced by Dean and Sam, Cole decides to drop his revenge and return to his family.
Later, Cole with Dean and Sam work together to help his friend, Kit, after the latter's wife, Jemma, reported his weird actions. Upon finding out that Kit is possessed by a Khan Worm, Cole is concerned that the Winchesters would try to kill him like they did with countless others, including his father. Cole is possessed by a Khan Worm, but Dean manages to save him by dehydrating the room and causing the monster to flee. However, the three are too late to stop Kit from succumbing to the parasite even further, and Sam has to kill him because of it. Cole thanks the brothers for saving him, but hopes that he will never see them again.
Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler
[edit]Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler, portrayed by A.J. Buckley and Travis Wester, are self-proclaimed professional paranormal investigators. They are introduced in the episode "Hell House" written by Trey Callaway as the Hell Hounds, operating a website called HellHoundsLair.com. They perceive Sam and Dean as amateurs, although the latter use the duo and their website to help them defeat the monster of the week. At the end of the episode Sam pulls a prank on them by posing as a Hollywood producer on the phone. In the episode "Ghostfacers", they produce a television pilot, which covers their investigation of a house that is haunted every leap day, where Sam and Dean make a guest appearance; however, Sam and Dean manage to magnetically wipe their footage. The episode was nominated for a GLAAD award for its portrayal of Ghostfacers intern Alan Corbett.[40] In "It's a Terrible Life", where the Winchesters are placed in an alternative life as office workers, Zeddmore and Spangler appear on the Ghostfacers website where they present instructional videos on how to find and to defeat ghosts, and refer to the Winchesters as rival "douchebags that we hate".[41] Ed, Harry and the rest of the team also star in the Ghostfacers web series,[42] a spoof advertisement which is seen in "Hammer of the Gods". They were also used as plot devices, in the season nine episode "Thinman" Ed and Harry face a conflict similar to one Sam and Dean face, creating a parallel between the characters, at the end of that episode we see an end to the Ghostfacers after Ed invents the monster Thinman to keep Harry from leaving for a normal life. Their names are homage to Winston Zeddemore and Egon Spengler, members of the Ghostbusters from the 1984 film.
Frank Devereaux
[edit]Frank Devereaux, portrayed by Kevin McNally, is an expert in counterfeit documents and in avoiding government intelligence. He was first introduced in the sixth episode of the seventh season, "Slash Fiction". It is revealed in the eleventh episode, "Adventures In Babysitting", that when he was 26, his wife and two children were killed. Sometime after that, he met Bobby Singer, who once saved his life in Port Huron. Frank lives in a run-down, electronics filled house on a little traveled street. He describes himself as 'bi-polar with delusional ideation'.
Bobby sends the Winchesters to see Frank when two Leviathans begin a series of killings throughout the country, masquerading as the brothers. When Sam and Dean enter Frank's house, he is waiting in the dark with a shotgun. He is prepared to shoot them, but because he owes Bobby he agrees to help them. At first, Frank believes that Leviathan Sam and Leviathan Dean are clones created by the government. Frank advises the boys to go into hiding, maybe even move to Cuba, but Dean says they need to go "further off the grid, but keep us on the board" so they can hunt down the Leviathans. He tells them that they need to keep a lower profile, avoid security cameras, and to get rid of their rockstar aliases, which are too easy to track. He smashes Sam's laptop, gives him a new one, and demands $5000 for it. He then takes their pictures for new IDs as Tom and John Smith and gives them a map of the towns their Leviathan doppelgängers have hit so far.
In "Adventures in Babysitting", Dean gives Frank the numbers "45489" which Bobby writes on Sam's hand before he dies, and also asks him to research Dick Roman. Having not heard from him over a month, Dean returns to Frank's house to find it deserted. Frank suddenly appears, confronts Dean, and they both have to shed some blood to prove to the other they are not a Leviathan. Frank states that he has moved all his equipment into an R.V., feeling he was being watched after he started investigating Dick Roman. Frank seems paranoid about Leviathans, even thinking that Gwyneth Paltrow is one of them. He tells Dean he has found nothing on Bobby's numbers, but when he tries combinations adding a sixth number, he discovers that they are coordinates to a field in Wisconsin, owned by Dick Roman. Frank and Dean travel to the area and disguise themselves as phone company workers. They discover surveillance covering the area and retreat to Frank's RV to monitor it. They discover Amanda Willer, an employee of Dick Roman, surveying the site for construction. As they began to spy the camp field, Frank challenges Dean about how he is dealing with himself on the whole situation, even telling Dean his dark past.
In the next episodes, Dean talks with Frank off-screen. In "Out with the Old", Frank talks with Dean by phone from his camper, updating Dean on the Leviathan activity worldwide. He has no record of their activity in Portland, Oregon, where Sam and Dean are currently working, but Leviathans are there all the same. Frank discovers this when Dean asks him to investigates a company behind an odd Realtor; and the company links back to Dick Roman. Sam and Dean set out to meet Frank at the end of the episode, but instead find his RV, filled with smashed electronics and blood. In "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo", it is revealed that Dick Roman took Frank's hard drive, which he gives to the IT expert Charlie to hack. When Charlie tries to hack it, the defense system uses Frank's voice. After finally hacking it, an automatic email sent to the brothers which states that if they are receiving it, it means that Frank is dead or worse. Frank has a GPS tracker on the drive and it hacks into Charlie's webcam so they know who's hacking it. While Charlie is successful, she finds out the truth about Dick Roman and the Leviathans from his files and later teams up with the Winchesters to erase the drive. Frank's final fate is still unknown.
Jessica Moore
[edit]Jessica Lee Moore, portrayed by Adrianne Palicki, is Sam's girlfriend for two years as of the start of the series. Despite this, she is unaware of his family's strange occupation. Sam planned to ask her to marry him, but she is killed by a demon on Azazel's orders; it was revealed the demon that killed her was the friend who introduced her to Sam, named Brady, to break Sam from his increasingly normal life. Her death then prompts Sam to join Dean on his quest to find their missing father and avenge her. In the days preceding her murder, Sam had had premonitions of her murder in dreams, but he ignored them as random nightmares. Afterwards, he feels guilt for dismissing them so easily. Sam eventually kills the demon that killed her and gets revenge. In an alternate timeline created by the disappearance of John Winchester in 2003, Sam mentions that he has no time for a family, suggesting that things didn't work out with Jess in that world.
Kaia Nieves
[edit]Kaia Nieves, portrayed by Yadira Guevara-Prip, is a dreamwalker, a human with the ability to view alternate realities in their dreams. In Kaia's case, she is stated to be the most powerful dreamwalker her friend and mentor Derek Swan ever saw. Unlike most dreamwalkers, Kaia has no control over this power and only sees a monster-filled world that she dubs The Bad Place. As is later revealed, this is because of a life-long connection to her alternate reality counterpart Dark Kaia who has in turn seen Kaia's world through their connection.
In season 13's "The Bad Place", Kaia is sought out for help by the Nephilim Jack on the suggestion of Derek Swan as Jack needs a dreamwalker to open a rift to the Apocalypse World alternate reality and rescue Mary Winchester. Jack breaks Kaia out of a drug treatment facility, but she refuses to help and runs off before being kidnapped by angels who are after Jack. Upon being rescued by the Winchesters, Kaia has to be forced at gunpoint to join them and explains that she won't help because of her fears of The Bad Place. After Jack shows Kaia Apocalypse World, she agrees to help. Cornered on an abandoned ship by angels, Kaia suggests opening the rift to escape. Combining his powers with Kaia's, Jack guides her into finding Apocalypse World instead of The Bad Place, but she begins flashing between the two worlds, ending with a vision of Dark Kaia. Jack and Kaia's efforts open a rift, destroying the attacking angels in the process, but sends the Winchesters to The Bad Place, Jack to Apocalypse World and an unconscious Kaia to a nearby roadside.
In "Wayward Sisters", Kaia is found by a passing motorist and transported to Sioux Falls General Hospital for treatment. Claire Novak, aware that the Winchesters were looking for Kaia, locates her in the hospital for help with finding her missing friends, but Kaia flees once again. However, she is attacked by a creature from The Bad Place outside and saved by Claire and Jody. Bonding with Claire over their experiences, Kaia reveals her knowledge of the creature and about the Winchesters' efforts to open a rift. The group realizes that the rift must still be open for the creature to be in their world and with Kaia's help, locates the abandoned ship where more of the creatures reside. With the rift closing, Claire chooses to crossover to The Bad Place to rescue Sam and Dean while the others stay behind to fight off the creatures. Despite her fears, Kaia crosses the rift with Claire and the two rescue Sam and Dean. As they lead the Winchesters to safety, the four are ambushed by Dark Kaia who throws her spear at Claire. Kaia saves Claire's life, but is hit with the spear in the process and apparently dies moments later. With the rift closing and a giant creature closing in on them, the Winchesters and Claire are forced to flee to their world, leaving Kaia's body behind in The Bad Place. Grief-stricken, Claire vows revenge upon Kaia's killer even if she has to find a way back to The Bad Place, unaware that Dark Kaia opened a rift of her own and crossed to their world.
In season 14's "The Scar", the Winchesters and Jody Mills hunt Kaia's killer in their world and are shocked to learn that she is Kaia's alternate counterpart. Dark Kaia admits that Kaia's death was an accident as she was aiming for Claire and displays knowledge of Kaia's interactions with the Winchesters, Dean in particular, from having seen through Kaia's eyes due to their connection. After Dark Kaia escapes again, Jody is left worried about how to explain the situation to Claire who was in love with Kaia and still seeks revenge upon her killer.
In season 15's "Galaxy Brain", Dark Kaia reveals that The Bad Place is dying and that Kaia is in fact still alive and trapped there. In a flashback, Dark Kaia is depicted treating Kaia's wound which had apparently caused her to pass out rather than die as was originally believed, before Dark Kaia abandoned her to cross to their world. With Dark Kaia having left Kaia the tools that she needed, Kaia survived two years stuck in The Bad Place, but Dark Kaia learned that her world is in trouble from the connection that still existed between the two. With the help of Jack and a Reaper named Merle, the Winchesters open another rift to The Bad Place and locate Kaia who has been living in Dark Kaia's old home. As The Bad Place is destroyed, Dark Kaia chooses to remain and die with her world as the Winchesters and Kaia escape through the rift. Reunited with Jody, Kaia accepts an invitation to return to Sioux Falls with her and is pleased to learn that Claire, out seeking Dark Kaia at the time, will be home soon.
Dark Kaia
[edit]Dark Kaia, also portrayed by Yadira Guevara-Prip, is the alternate reality counterpart of Kaia from The Bad Place. A dreamwalker like Kaia, Dark Kaia has shared a connection with Kaia for her whole life that has allowed them to see through each other's eyes, though Dark Kaia seems to be more aware of the nature of their connection than Kaia. Due to living in a monster-filled world, Dark Kaia is a tougher more ruthless individual who is implied to have fed others to a giant monster. She also possesses a powerful spear of unknown origin that can hurt and possibly kill an archangel.
In season 13's "The Bad Place", Dark Kaia is briefly seen as a dark hooded figure when Kaia and Jack attempt to open a rift to Apocalypse World to rescue Mary Winchester. Kaia's dreamwalking visions flash between the two alternate worlds before settling on an image of Dark Kaia that appears to be staring right at Kaia. The disruption causes Jack to be sent to Apocalypse World, the Winchesters to The Bad Place and Kaia to a roadside in her world.
In "Wayward Sisters", the Winchesters are stalked and captured by Dark Kaia who refuses to respond to their questions and attempts to feed them to the giant monster. However, Kaia and Claire Novak arrive through the rift and rescue the Winchesters. As they attempt to leave, Dark Kaia tries to kill Claire with her spear, but Kaia shoves Claire out of the way and takes the hit herself, apparently dying in the process. As the Winchesters and Claire turn on Dark Kaia, the giant creature appears which, combined with the closing rift, forces them to flee back to their world. Claire subsequently vows revenge upon Dark Kaia even if she has to find a way back to The Bad Place to get it. Unknown to Claire, another rift opens that night from which Dark Kaia emerges.
In season 14's "The Scar", the Winchesters and Jody hunt down Dark Kaia where she been living in the woods near Sioux Falls after Dean remembers that it was Dark Kaia who injured the alternate reality Michael while he was still possessing Dean. Having killed some of Michael's enhanced vampires that were hunting her, Dark Kaia is captured by the group who are shocked by her resemblance to their fallen friend. Dark Kaia refuses to cooperate, but their confrontation causes Dean to remember Michael attempting to forge an alliance with Dark Kaia that she rejected and fought back as a result of. With more enhanced vampires attacking, Dean frees Dark Kaia who flees. However, she returns with her spear and saves the Winchesters and Jody. Dark Kaia claims that she did it to help herself, not them and decides to hang onto the spear despite the fact that Michael's monsters will continue hunting her for it. The Winchesters subsequently hunt for Dark Kaia and her spear which is the only known weapon that can harm Michael.
In "The Spear", Garth, having infiltrated Michael's organization, overhears Dark Kaia's location and passes it onto the Winchesters. Dean and Castiel track her down and Dean convinces her to lend him the spear. In return, Dark Kaia requests that Jack help her return home where she has somebody that she wants to protect, the magic that allowed her to open the rift on that side not working in their world. Dean accepts, promising to find Dark Kaia when they are done. However, Michael destroys the spear after repossessing Dean.
In season 15's "Galaxy Brain", Dark Kaia kills a cow to draw Jody out and kidnaps her to force Sam and Dean back to Sioux Falls. Dark Kaia demands the return of her spear and that they keep their promise to send her home, but they inform her that the spear has be