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* Dean's first reaping as Death. During an attempted armed robbery, the cashier takes out a gun and shoots the robber. Dean takes his life (but not without taking the time to watch him writhe in agony for a bit), and when his spirit asks "Why?", he immediately replies "Mostly because you're a dick. [[HaveANiceDeath Enjoy the ride down, pal]]." Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* Dean's first reaping as Death. During an attempted armed robbery, the cashier takes out a gun and shoots the robber. Dean takes his life (but not without taking the time to watch him writhe in agony for a bit), and when his spirit asks "Why?", he immediately replies "Because you're a dick. Enjoy the ride down." Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* Instead of giving a monologue at the captured heroes like [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Azazel]] did, Lilith simply says "I don't have to answer to puppy chow" and, giggling, [[spoiler:lets the Hellhound rip Dean apart while forcing Sam to watch helplessly, practically orgasming over Dean's pain and Sam's anguish]].

* Cole actually [[spoiler:managing to get the better of Sam, a hunter who has taken on demons, gods, and monsters of all kinds]].

* Cas saving Hannah [[spoiler:by ganking one of the two renegade angels, and he's still dying from his stolen grace at the moment]].

* Sam [[spoiler:escaping Cole by snaking his keys, and doing it with a broken arm]].
* Deanmon [[spoiler:proving that he may be a demon now, but he isn't a monster, by not killing Mindy and instead killing her douchebag husband]].
* Deanmon telling Crowley [[spoiler:to shove it and calling him on his threats by asking him what exactly will he do if Dean doesn't pick a side]].
* A {{meta}} one here but [[spoiler:Cole's flashback to 2003 and seeing not only young Dean Winchester, before the series began, but John's leather jacket last seen in Season 6. Like seeing an old friend you haven't seen in years]].
* Deanmon and Cole [[spoiler:finally meeting, and Deanmon not only kicking the guy's ass while giving him a BreakingSpeech about how foolish Cole has been to devote his life to hunting Dean down, but also showing him the BlackEyesOfEvil and proving to Cole he really did have no idea what he was getting himself into]].
* Hannah [[spoiler:being ready to kick Metatron's ass for his sexist remarks to her]].
* Castiel [[spoiler:telling Metatron that his HappyPlace is thinking about the former Scribe of God rotting in Heaven's dungeon until the end of time. And both refusing to even consider letting Metatron go free in exchange for getting his own grace back, and seeing through Metatron's repentant act]].

* Crowley [[spoiler:killing the rogue angel Adina and giving her grace to Castiel]].

* Deanmon calling Sam out for [[spoiler:pushing Lester into summoning a Crossroads Demon and selling his soul just so Sam could nab a hostage to interrogate. Sam found a guy who could have used a friend and instead used him and put him in a position where he lost his life and his soul. MoralEventHorizon crossed??]]
* Castiel [[spoiler:proving that Seraph beats Knight of Hell by taking down Deanmon]].

* All the Destiel subtext throughout the entire episode, and Sam [[spoiler:critiquing the pronunciation]].
* The return of [[spoiler:the Samulet. Even if it's just a wooden copy of it, it shows that Sam and Dean's relationship is on the mend]].
* Dean and Marie [[spoiler:taking on the Scarecrow together, and the fact that it was Marie who killed it]].
* The fact that, for the first time since Season 4, [[spoiler:nobody died on the case. Sam and Dean came, saw, kicked ass, and saved everybody]]. That's a great day for them.
* [[spoiler:"Carry On Wayward Son" being sung by the cast and Sam and Dean's sorrowful looks as they listen to it.]]
* Best of all, [[spoiler:God Himself COMES BACK after five years and calls the musical "Not bad." You know you've got it made when God likes your creativity]].

* Rowena [[spoiler:elevating witches from MonsterOfTheWeek to badasses by killing a demon with one magic spell]].

* Dean vs [[spoiler:Cole, Round 2. Dean doesn't dominate Cole like he did in their first fight, but he still comes out on top[[note]]Without succumbing to the Mark of Cain[[/note]]. Best moment had to be when he slams Cole through the front windshield of a parked car.]] And then afterwards [[spoiler:Dean manages to talk Cole out of his vengeance and the hunter's life and sends him back home to his wife and children]].
* Caitlin [[spoiler:proving that she really is strong and smart by decking Rowena and refusing to become a monster like her]]. And [[spoiler:Dean saving her from Rowena's spell just in time]].
* The fact that Rowena is actually [[spoiler:Crowley's mother.]] An awesome plot twist.

* Castiel [[spoiler:breaking Claire out of the group home she is in. Throughout the entire episode, he refuses to abandon her, despite Sam and Dean advising him it may be for the best]].

* Dean's story about an incident with John. [[spoiler:Dean and Sam begged John to take them to New York and sightsee, John relented and they had a great day. But at night Dean snuck out and got into a sleazy rock club, filled with booze, drugs and sex. A few people then invite Dean to drink with them, a minor at this time, and get him very very drunk. But before anything bad could happen: "Dean Winchester!" John comes to the rescue, just standing there, his sheer presence making an entire club go quiet. The best part being when Dean says "I look around, everyone else is freaking out, too; in fact, no one is looking him in the eye. Then finally, this one guy with like a safety pin in his nose and a 'kill everything' tattoo looks up and he says 'Sorry, sir.'"]] John frickin' Winchester indeed.
* Castiel, Dean and Sam [[spoiler:coming to Claire's rescue, Dean and Sam holding off the loan shark's men while Castiel keeps Claire from being raped]].

* The return of [[spoiler:the Mark of Cain in full force as Dean savages three to four men with guns armed with only a knife]].

* Dean [[spoiler:resisting the Mark of Cain and allowing the couple that try to kill him to flee.]]
* Pretty much every part of Dean [[spoiler:kicking and slicing the crap out of Metatron. And the fact that Metatron made it clear he'll choose death rather than risk Dean getting anywhere near him again. SmugSnake no more.]] And Dean recounting his grievances before going medieval on [[spoiler:Metatron's ass]]:
-->'''Dean''': I mean, where do I begin? [[spoiler:Stealing Cas' grace, casting out the angels, making Gadreel kill Kevin using my brother's hands, starting an angel war, and oh yeah...you killed me.]]
* A villainous one but [[spoiler:Metatron makes some good points when Dean tortures him, and the fact that he nearly made Dean go 100% Dark Side by [[HannibalLecture just talking at him]].]]

* Dean vs [[spoiler:Dark!Charlie. She put up a good fight, but no way she was going to beat Dean and the Mark.]]

* Clive Dillon's [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice to stop the Wizard of Oz]].

* Dean [[spoiler:"pulling a Dean" by killing Hansel and throwing the Wicked Witch Katja into her own oven, on his own]].
* Dean [[spoiler:breaking out of Hansel's dungeon after only being there for what felt like a few minutes]].

* Dean vs Cain, [[spoiler:an epic fight from start to finish. Cain lecturing Dean on how doomed he really is while schooling him on fighting, only for Dean to one-up him by severing his hand and reclaiming the First Blade, then executing the oldest demon still alive with it.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler:Cole]] of all people teams up with the Winchesters for a hunt. [[spoiler:He's come a long way from trying to kill Dean to recognizing him as a hero]].

* Just seeing [[spoiler:Bobby Singer]] again was a CMOA in-of-itself. Seeing him [[spoiler:lead an army of Bobby Singers against the angels took it up to one-hundred]].
-->'''Angel''': The [[spoiler:Bobbies]] are fighting back. All hands, we need all hands. They're surly. I repeat, the [[spoiler:Bobbies]] are surly.

* Castiel [[spoiler:shutting Metatron up by taking his grace, then Sam shooting the smug fraggle in the leg]].

* Dean [[spoiler:rejecting ''The Book of the Damned'' as a solution to the Mark. Using the book to cure the Mark was using one evil to cure another evil, and nothing good would have come of it]].
* Castiel [[spoiler:getting his grace back and going full-on Seraph of the Lord for a moment. Seeing the holy light and his shadow wings again was like being back in S4 for a moment, even if they are ragged and skeletal now]].
* Sam, Dean, Charlie and Cas [[spoiler:having an impromptu pizza dinner at the end of the episode was both awesome and heartwarming because, for once, they are just enjoying themselves, having fun like they deserve to]].

* Dean [[spoiler:rejecting suicide as an option and killing Fake!Benny, breaking out of the Werther Box by sheer willpower alone, a feat that its creator believed impossible]].
* The fact that [[spoiler:Cuthbert Sinclair, a mortal with no magic of his own, created the Werther Box, a spell that even Rowena, one of the most powerful witches to ever live, calls impressively sadistic]].

* Sam [[spoiler:imprisoning Rowena in an abandoned warehouse with some anti-magic handcuffs, making her his prisoner until she decodes ''The Book of the Damned'']].

* TheReveal of the [[spoiler:Angel Sword. Not a blade, a knife, or a dagger; but an honest-to-God sword. The kind you should wield two-handed]].
* Dean, Castiel and Sam vs. [[spoiler:the Grigori Tamiel. All three do a pretty good job, and Dean even lets the Mark of Cain loose a little, but Tamiel still schools all three.]] Which makes it all the more awesome when [[spoiler:Claire backstabs and kills him with his own sword]].

* Just the very fact that the Stynes are actually [[spoiler:the [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankensteins]] is a massive CMOA. Yep, those Frankensteins, they are real and they are in the show. And apparently, Mary Shelley's book barely scratched the surface of the dark stuff they were up to]].

* Dean finding out that Sam has lied to him, and dragged Charlie into it, took long enough but when it happens Dean wastes no time in making it clear to Sam that the lies end now, in a tone of voice that suggests that unless Sam does exactly what he says there will be a repeat of the final scene in Season 6's "You Can't Handle The Truth"[[note]]where he [[spoiler:beat the ''crap'' out of Sam]][[/note]]:

* Charlie's [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice. Decoding ''The Book of the Damned'', uploading her notes to Sam and Dean and then destroying her laptop so that Eldon won't be able to get her notes, despite knowing that he will kill her if she can't give him something, even as Dean and Sam are telling her to just give the notes to the Stynes. And when cornered by a one-armed bio-engineered psychopath, what does she do?? [[DefiantToTheEnd She pulls a knife on him.]] Farewell Charlie, you will always be missed.]]
* The episode also resulted in a real-world one for actress Kim Rhodes, who was so outraged at the decision to [[spoiler:kill off Charlie]] that she publicly stated if Jody Mills is ever killed off, she will refuse to participate in it and they'll just have to find another actress for the episode, and she doesn't care how hard this will make finding future work.

* Dean calling Sam out for his behavior in the latter half of this season by first telling him that he doesn't have the right to apologize to Charlie and second by coldly stating that it should be Sam who is dead and not [[spoiler:Charlie]]. And then promising that the Stynes are going to bleed for what they've done:

* Dean's confrontation with Eldon is epic. The first sign that he has arrived is Roscoe Styne stumbling into the room with an angel blade nearly hilt deep in his back, and dying with a look of fear on his face. Dean, almost serene, walks into the ransacked Bunker, doesn't even blink as Styne claims [[spoiler:Charlie got what she deserved]], and coldly tells Eldon that his entire family has been killed, and then gives him one HELL of a BreakingSpeech:

* Dean vs [[spoiler:Castiel at the end of the episode is an awesome scene for both characters. Not the actual fight itself but Castiel's unwillingness to abandon Dean to an eternity as a monster, an eternity that he as the only other immortal in their group will be forced to watch, and Dean responding by kicking the angel's ass across the room and then almost killing him. Also a TearJerker.]]
** [[spoiler:Castiel's unwillingness to actually hurt Dean despite what he did, as noted by the fact that he mainly kept trying to defend himself throughout the fight.]]

* [[spoiler:Death]] revealing the truth about the Mark of Cain and in doing so [[spoiler:revealing the identity of the Ultimate BigBad in ''Supernatural'': The Darkness, responsible for corrupting Lucifer, and through that everything evil that Lucifer ever did, and itself being a force so powerful that even GOD himself couldn't defeat it on his own]]:
-->[[spoiler:'''Death''': Before there was light, before there was God and the Archangels, there wasn't nothing; there was the Darkness, a horribly destructive, amoral force that was beaten back by God and His Archangels in a terrible war.]] God locked [[spoiler:the Darkness]] away where it could do no harm, and He created a Mark that would serve as both lock and key, which He entrusted to His most valued lieutenant, Lucifer. [[spoiler:But the Mark began to assert its own will, revealed itself as a curse and began to corrupt. Lucifer became jealous of man]], God banished Lucifer to Hell, Lucifer passed the Mark to Cain, who passed the Mark to you, the proverbial finger in the dyke.

* Sam refusing to believe that Dean is evil, that the world would be better off without him in it, and even as Dean is preparing to [[spoiler:kill him on Death's orders]], he gives Dean the only two pictures of Mary that they have, and tells Dean that the memory of his family will guide him back to the light. His faith in his big brother is perhaps one of the most awesome moments of the episode.

* Dean, about to [[spoiler:kill Sam with Death's Scythe]], tells his brother to close his eyes, and then swings the Scythe and [[spoiler:puts it right into Death's heart!!! IS there anybody who by this point does not think that Dean Winchester is one of the most badass characters in the entirety of fiction?? It's even more poignant when you remember that, in all Creation, Death was the one being Dean truly feared; feared to the degree that in Death's presence, he's stammering and respectful. But as soon as little Sammy was threatened by the Horseman, [[BigBrotherInstinct all bets were off]]. Angel, demon, god, devil, or death, it doesn't matter who you are or what kind of power you possess; if you threaten Sam, ''Dean will kill you, period''.]]

-->'''Dean''': Fantastic, I think I just [[spoiler: killed Death]].
** [[spoiler:Killing Death]] also makes Dean's claim in Season 5 that [[spoiler:he would kill God if he ever saw Him]] quite a bit less futile and more threatening. [[spoiler:Chuck may not want to pop in for a visit now.]]
* Rowena [[spoiler:curing the Mark of Cain, and then revealing the real level of her power by freezing both Castiel and Crowley, and using her Attack Dog Spell to force Castiel to attack, and possibly, kill Crowley after she steals the transcribed ''Book of the Damned'']].
* [[spoiler:The Darkness unleashed, the sheer scope of its entrance is one of the finest shots in all of ''Supernatural'', perhaps even topping the fall of the angels in the Season 8 finale.]] Things really have gone from bad to worse for the Winchesters this time.
* [[spoiler:The Darkness]] gets one before it even appears. In previous seasons, Death described [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] as "a bratty child throwing a temper tantrum," compared [[EldritchAbomination the Leviathans]] to bacteria in a petri dish, and generally seemed unimpressed by anything. How does he describe [[spoiler:The Darkness]]? "[[spoiler:Greater evil than any of us have ever known.]]" It's ''that'' [[TheDreaded dreaded]].
** More subtly, Death states that [[spoiler:God ''and the Archangels'' sealed the Darkness away]]. Yes, that's right, [[spoiler:''God Himself'' couldn't beat the Darkness on His own]].

** Dean [[spoiler:defying The Darkness when he mind-melds with it and promising to send it back where it came from. The Darkness gets one here by saying '''"I don't know this Death. And he doesn't know me.'''"]]

** And to top that, Sam's plan [[spoiler:is to use himself as bait to lure the Darkness Zombies away from Dean, Jenna, and Amara so that Dean can get the girl and baby out. And Dean lets him do it. Repeat: Dean "KnightTemplarBigBrother" Winchester lets his precious Sammy almost certainly risk his life for a stranger. And when he finds out Sam did get infected, he takes Sam's promise to find a cure at face value and doesn't descend into self-loathing or anger at Sam]].
** Crowley [[spoiler:sneakily de-possessing his meat-suit a split-second before Beast!Castiel can shank him with an Angel Blade. And his cojones later for calling The Darkness nothing but a scary story that demon daddies tell to demon kids to get them to behave, and even if it is real; '''"King of Hell. The Darkness. Natural allies."''']]

** [[spoiler:Sam finds a cure for the Darkness-infected. The answer: holy oil, the ingredient for Biblical purification. From just a hint given by a Reaper, Sam discovers the cure for himself on the brink of his own death, and then he cures others with it as well. Even better, he figured all this out in a matter of a few hours.]] "Saving People, Hunting Things, Family Business" is officially back.

** Castiel [[spoiler: breaking out of his restraints through sheer rage as Efram beats Hannah, killing both Jonah and Efram (avenging Hannah in the process) in two quick but epic sword fights that he wins despite being in cuffs the entire time.]]
** Crowley [[spoiler: slamming Dean into a closet and telling him that he is not a "bloody sidekick" and that he wants the Darkness and will get her.]]
*** Which is followed by Dean [[spoiler: getting up and stabbing Crowley through the palm with an Angel Blade before going off to find Amara, but not without pausing just long enough to let Crowley know that he only survived that because Dean allowed it.]]

** Dean [[spoiler: being jumped by Deputy Donelly the Nachzeher and kicking his ass.]] Then Sam calls and we find out [[spoiler: that he got jumped by two of them and kicked both of their asses.]]
** Without a doubt the reappearance by [[spoiler: John Freakin' Winchester! Granted it wasn't Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but still seeing John return (even if it was just something, possibly God, that took his form) was awesome.]]
** Dean [[spoiler: killing Donelly by jamming a handful of pennies in his mouth, booting him out of the Impala and then using her rearside door to sever his head.]]
** The fact that once again this season [[spoiler: Dean and Sam save more people than they kill. Apart from the murder that brought them there and the [[MonsterOfTheWeek MotW]], nobody died in this episode!]]

** When Dean finally comes face to face with [[spoiler: Amara he becomes entranced and is incapable of stopping her from leaving, until Sam walks into the room and Amara flings him across it. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother All bets go off and Dean lunges at Amara with a knife]], she flings him away too but she was shocked by the fact that he could even make the attempt.]]

** Donna [[spoiler: helping Kylie get away and pretending that the killer was a drifter so that Kylie won't have to go to jail for what a Ghost made her do. Given how many times innocents have suffered for what they were made to do by monsters, it's a pretty awesome moment when Donna doesn't let that happen here.]]

** Dean [[spoiler: standing up for Sully and telling Reese that despite Sully not being human and what happened to her sister, which he admits was a mistake on Sully's part, he doesn't have a monstrous bone in his body.]]
** [[spoiler: A first for Supernatural in that the Monster of the Week is not killed but rather forgiven.]]

** The shots of Limbo are a CMOA for the set design team. The utter empty darkness that surrounds Sam, [[spoiler: Rowena and Crowley]] as they prepare the ritual is just stunning.
** [[spoiler: Lucifer]] emerging from the darkness with his very very unsettling eyes the only thing you can see at first, then he steps out where we can see [[spoiler: him again after four seasons]] and you just know; things are about to get even more awesome.
** Amara [[spoiler: wasting three Angels in less than three moves.]] Followed up by [[spoiler: every single Angel in heaven blasting her with the Holy Light at the same time, a cinematic shot that stands up to the Angelfall in Season 8 and Amara's own release in Season 10.]]
** Dean [[spoiler: once again trying to knife Amara and this time actually succeeding. It failed, but Dean just knifed God's sister and the Primordial Darkness in the gut, and lived afterwards.]]
** Definitely a [[spoiler: villainous]] one. The reveal that [[spoiler: all of Sam's visions have just been Lucifer screwing with his head once again, and that it was all designed to lure Sam right to this point; trapped in the cage. With Lucifer.]]

** This line from Sam to [[spoiler: Lucifer]] oozes awesomeness;

** Team Free Will vs. [[spoiler: Lucifer himself in the Cage]]. Even more so since [[spoiler: Lucifer makes "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" by Tavares play throughout the fight "for ambiance."]]
** [[spoiler:TheReveal at the end: Lucifer is now possessing Castiel's vessel. Bonus points for Creator/MishaCollins doing a '''glorious''' take on Creator/MarkPellegrino's Lucifer. Seriously, why is there no Crowning Moment of Acting?]]
*** This scene really is an incredible twist. [[spoiler: Castiel appears in Hell before Crowley and Rowena with no warning. Crowley is confused and just asks "Castiel?" to which Castiel suddenly puts his hands on his hips, dips his head and with a very amused (and 100% Unlike-Castiel) smile says [[WhamLine "Guess again."]] And then it hits you, at the same time as Crowley who is suitably horrifed, that LUCIFER IS FREE!]]
** Another villainous example would be the revelation that [[spoiler:The Darkness survived being simultaneously smited by ''the entire forces of Heaven''.]]
** [[spoiler:Lucifer's]] TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Sam, in which he calls Sam out on [[spoiler:abandoning Dean in Purgatory, passing up the chance to end the threat of demons forever in order to save his own skin, and using the Book of the Damned to cure the Mark of Cain despite being told outright that using the Book to remove a curse creates one just as bad or worse]], and just generally [[JerkassHasAPoint says what most of the fandom has been thinking for the past few seasons.]]
** Sam also gets one for seeing right through [[spoiler:Lucifer's]] attempt to convince him that he's Earth's only hope by pointing out that, even if [[spoiler:Lucifer]] ''does'' somehow kill [[spoiler:The Darkness]], the results for everyone else will be just as bad as the other way around.
** OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:If Lucifer was telling the truth, then Lucifer single-handedly reduced the most powerful of the Archangels to a madman who spends his time curled up in a ball in the corner of the Cage "singing show tunes and touching himself".]]

** Dean showing he's ''finally'' learned his lesson about [[spoiler:keeping secrets by telling Sam about his feelings for Amara.]] That, and the fact that [[spoiler:Sam knew the whole time and only didn't bring it up because he didn't want to make Dean uncomfortable.]] With all the AesopAmnesia the brothers have had about this issue ever since [[spoiler:Dean sold his soul]] 8 years ago, this is ''hugely'' refreshing.

** [[spoiler:Cass manages to briefly overpower Lucifer and prevent him from killing Sam.]]
*** [[spoiler:Sam gets one too at the end, when he banishes Lucifer by angel-banishing sigil. Which he draws very quickly and without seeing the sigil.]]

** [[spoiler:Crowley manages to outsmart Lucifer and his demon flunkey and uses Staff of Aaron to destroy them. Granted, it only managed to destroy a demon, but Lucifer was wounded, and if not for her sacrifice, might have been killed.]]

** This entire episode was a damn CMOA for Sam who after [[spoiler:getting shot, was choked to near death by the AssholeVictim, survived, then proceeded to kill the last two werewolves, stole their truck, made it to the Impala, DROVE HIMSELF to the hospital where Dean was, and finally, killed said asshole and saved Dean's life. And he did all of this while practically bleeding to death. Sam Fucking Winchester indeed.]]

** It's kind of a bad thing but [[spoiler:seeing Lucifer finally get [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped himself]] by Amara after being an insufferable SmugSuper for so long is kinda satisfying.]]

** A continuous meta-moment of awesome acting for [[spoiler: Creator/RobBenedict as he portrays the happy-go-lucky and slightly-nerdy Chuck while still conveying the gravity of his really being God. And the moments when he goes still and you realize this is the being that annihilated Sodom and Gommorrah, that flooded the world and all that other frightening stuff from the King James.]]
** Everything about the ending. Sam and Dean are trapped in the middle of Amara's fog, Sam and most of the town is infected, people are beating down the doors, Dean refuses to leave Sam and angrily [[RageAgainstTheHeavens yells for someone to stop all this]]...and it does. [[spoiler:Cue the Samulet. HesBack.]]
*** Plus the fact that for once in Supernatural: [[spoiler:EverybodyLives]]

** [[spoiler: Metatron]], of all people, pulls a [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]] in order to give Sam, [[spoiler:Donatello, and Lucifer]] a chance to escape from [[spoiler:Amara]].
** Sam [[spoiler: rescuing Lucifer, the angel who had tortured him for centuries in the Cage, from Amara]].
** [[spoiler:Lucifer [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu taunting Amara]] by pointing out that, for all her power, she's still inferior to God because, as the embodiment of nothingness, [[EvilIsSterile she could never really create a world of her own]].]]

** The entire epically coordinated attack on Amara. First, Rowena hits her with the combined power of an entire coven channeled through her. Then, the angels drop another BoltOfDivineRetribution on her. Then, a swarm of demon smokes swoop in and begin pummeling her, with Crowley stepping up to deliver the final blow. And when she still manages to stumble into the warehouse after all that, [[spoiler: Lucifer runs her through from behind with what appears to be the Spear of Destiny]].
*** Probably the most awesome part of the entire attack is actually a bit of fridge logic. [[spoiler: God actually has to tell Lucifer to stop when he's about to deliver another blow to Amara with the Spear while she was on the ground, presumably a fatal one (God wanted her weakened as much as possible but didn't want her dead). God hadn't actually done a thing in the fight and if Lucifer had been allowed to follow through on that last hit then even without God's help it shows that that the angels, witches, demons and Lucifer could have actually taken Amara out on their own.]]
*** And to give Amara herself credit, [[spoiler: she immediately realizes Rowena's lured her into a trap, turns the coven's power back on them (knocking out Rowena and killing the others), manages to keep going after everything else (including the above mentioned stabbing), and when she realizes that God's trying to reseal her, manages to find the strength to banish Lucifer and mortally wound God.]]
** For a more mundane kind of awesome, [[spoiler: Sam and Dean convincing God and Lucifer to sit down and talk out their issues.]]

** Dean manages to save [[spoiler:''all of reality'' by convincing Amara to reconcile with God without either having to die.]]
** The TwistEnding [[spoiler: resurrection of Mary Winchester, showing that even in a show where DeathIsCheap, someone coming back from the dead can still be surprising.]]

* After spending the last season seemingly trying to come up with all kinds of plans and being informed that God already knows what they're doing just because ''he's God'', Dean and Sam manage to pull an elaborate BatmanGambit against Michael, Lucifer ''and'' God that sees the two archangels dead and Jack drain off God's power to become the ''new'' God in his place.

Even before this, Sam is grasping the [[SmartBall]] by initialy resisting the Demon blood, telling Dean and having himself handcuffed and sealed up. He only succumbs when [[SpannerInTheWorks two demons]] attack.

Even before this, Sam is grasping the [[SmartBall]] by initialy resisting the Demon blood, telling Dean and having himself handcuffed and sealed up. He only succumbs when [[SpannerInTheWorkstwo demons]] attack.

** And then '''BANG!!''' [[RealityEnsues Headshot]].

** The Reaper Billie delivering an absolutely terrifying and epic speech to Sam about the universe's new rule; [[FinalDeath What Lives, Dies]]. [[AllDeathsFinal No more coming back, no more resurrections.]] DeathIsCheap no longer.

** A continuous meta-moment of awesome acting for [[spoiler:Rob Benedict as he portrays the happy-go-lucky and slightly-nerdy Chuck while still conveying the gravity of his really being God. And the moments when he goes still and you realize this is the being that annihilated Sodom and Gommorrah, that flooded the world and all that other frightening stuff from the King James.]]

** Even better, with the now-terrified and mortal God expecting that Dean and Sam will kill him in a final dramatic twist, which he accepts for the 'honor' of dying at the hands of the two greatest hunters, the Winchesters and Jack deliver the ultimate punishment to him; after millennia of omnipotence, God will live as an unremarkable human being and die a normal death at some distant future date, unmourned and unacknowledged by anyone else.

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-->--'''Kansas''', "Carry On Wayward Son"

* Sam's "I'm taking you home!"

->''Carry on, you will always remember''
->''Carry on, nothing equals the splendor''
->''Now your life's no longer empty''
->''Surely heaven waits for you''
-->--'''Kansas''', "'''Wayward Son'''"

** This episode also reminds the audience how fruitless fights against angels would have been if not for angel blades. Mary sinks the aforementioned crowbar diagonally through Anna chest and heart enough for it to cone out through Anna's back, but she pulls it out aa if dealing with a pinprick.

*** Ceasar shows why its always good to keep a spare by finishing off the creature with his spare knife when it knocks away his weapon. To top it off, he was injured from a previous fight, and yet he ended his fight ''faster than Dean''. BadassGay indeed.

* [[NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay John]] ''[[LikeABadassOutOfHell walking out of Hell]]'' and [[YourSoulIsMine ripping Azazel out of his vessel]] long enough for Dean to finish the fight. Complete with no dialogue, an "[[SoProudOfYou I'm-proud-of-you-boys]]" look, and an [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascent]] to {{Heaven}}.

* Dean, about to [[spoiler:kill Sam with Death's Scythe]], tells his brother to close his eyes, and then swings the Scythe and [[spoiler:puts it right into Death's heart!!! IS there anybody who by this point does not think that Dean Winchester is one of the most badass characters in the entirety of fiction?? It's even more poignant when you remember that, in all Creation, Death was the one being Dean truly feared; feared to the degree that in Death's presence, he's stammering and respectful. But as soon as little Sammy was threatened by the Horseman, [[BigBrotherInstinct all bets were off]]. Angel, demon, god, devil, or death, it doesn't matter who you are or what kind of power you possess; you threaten Sam, ''Dean kills you''.]]

* One for the writers wrangling [[ArcWelding 10+ years of episodes and hints into a compelling and shocking twist]] with the reveal of the BigBad for [[GrandFinale the final series]]. [[spoiler: God.]] NothingIsTheSameAnymore.

* One for the writers wrangling[[ArcWelding 10+ years of episodes and hints into a compelling and shocking twist]] with the reveal of the BigBad for [[GrandFinale the final series]]. [[spoiler: God.]]

* One for the writers [[ArcWelding 10+ years of episodes and hints into a compelling and shocking twist]] with the reveal of the BigBad for [[GrandFinale the final series]]. [[spoiler: God.]]