History Recap / SupernaturalS01E01Pilot

* HeyItsThatGuy
** Creator/JensenAckles who plays Dean Winchester, also played Jason Teague on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [=CJ=] on ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', Alec and X5-494 on ''Series/DarkAngel'', and Eric Brady on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives''.
** Creator/JaredPadalecki who plays Sam Winchester, also played Dean Forrester in ''Series/GilmoreGirls''.
** Samantha Smith who plays Mary Winchester, also played Daphne in ''Series/DarkAngel''.
** Sarah Shahi who plays Constance Welch, also plays Jenny in ''Series/{{Alias}}'', and Sadia Shaw in ''Series/DawsonsCreek''.
** Jamil Walker Smith who plays Sam's friend Luis, will go on to play Master Sergeant Ronald Greer in ''Series/StargateUniverse''.
** Adrianne Palicki who plays Jessica will go on to play Tyra Collette on ''Series/FridayNightLights''.

!Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) items:

* [[YMMV/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot Other YMMV Items.]]

* ThemedAliases: Dean claims to be TedNugent, when questioned by the police, starting his list of guitarist aliases.

--> '''Jessica:''' [[HarsherInHindsight Mm, crash and burn.]]

** Creator/JensenAckles who plays Dean Winchester, also played Jason Teague on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [=CJ=] on ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', Alec and X5-494 on ''Series/DarkAngel'', and Eric Brady on ''Main/DaysOfOurLives''.

** Sam asks Deans what he was thinking when he shot [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]] in the face.

!Your Mileage May Vary items (YMMV):

!Your Mileage May Vary items:

!!Your Mileage May Vary items:

* [[Fridge/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot Fridge Items.]])

!!Tropes ([[Fridge/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot See Your Mileage May Vary items here]]).

* FridgeLogic: Even though Dean takes the {{Metallica}} tape from Sam, "Back in Black" by Music/{{ACDC}} starts playing.

!!Tropes ([[YMMV/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot See Your Mileage May Vary items here]]).

Written by Eric Kripke.

For this episode = [[spoiler: 3 humans and 3 ghosts, starting the Supernatural tradition off with the death of a LoveInterest and a Parent.]]

* TheSpartanWay:

* SpeakInUnison

* InsistentTerminology

* IJustWantToBeNormal:

* HomicidalMachine: The ghost sends the Impala after the Winchesters, who have to jump off a bridge to avoid getting crushed.

-->'''Sam:''' Music/BlackSabbath? Music/{{Motorhead}}? Music/{{Metallica}}? It's the greatest hits of mullet rock.

** Creator/JensenAckles who plays Dean Winchester, also played Jason Teague on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [=CJ=] on ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', Alec and X5-494 on ''Series/DarkAngel'', and Eric Brady on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives''.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In retrospective, Dean looks more immature in his first appearance than portrated later. For instance he breaks into Sam's apartment, assault him in the dark to test his practice, flirt briefly with Jessica, then only reveals he came because their father went missing. Later Dean takes those things seriously and would directly tell Sam what is going on.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[The episode starts with the death of the heroes' mother and ends with the death of one of the hero's LoveInterest.]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:You can pretend all you want, Sammy. But sooner or later you're going to have to face up to who you really are. One of us.]]

On November 2, 1983, Mary Winchester was killed in the family home in Lawrence, Kansas, by an unknown supernatural creature, in front of her husband John and her sons, Dean and Sam. In the present day, Sam is a law student at Standford University with a loving girlfriend named Jessica and a promising career--until Dean arrives, asking for help in tracking down their father. John has been on one of his frequent "hunting" trips, where he tracks down and kills supernatural creatures: John and the boys have been doing this since their mother's death, but Sam left the hunting life after a falling out with his father. John hasn't returned from his latest trip, and Dean is worried. Sam agrees to help Dean look for their father.

The brothers track down the last creature John was hunting, a WomanInWhite named Constance Welch, who had killed her childen and then herself after learning her husband was cheating on her. Constance's ghost kills unfaithful men who drive across the bridge she jumped off of. Sam and Dean force her to return home to confront the waiting spirits of her children, and she vanishes, screaming. They also find John's journal, full of all his information on various creatures as well as the record of his hunt for the creature that killed Mary, but they can't find John.

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!!Tropes:

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Body count at 3 humans and 3 ghosts, starting the Supernatural tradition off with the death of a LoveInterest and a Parent.]]