History Series / SuperNatural

It originally aired on TheWB, but moved to TheCW after TheWB folded.

# How it raised torturing its two leads (emotionally and [[{{Gorn}} physically]]) to a [[FetishFuel fetishistic art-form]].

-->'''Castiel:''' [[YouAreWhatYouHate Why don't you tell these people where your genitals have been recently, Reverend]]?

* RealityWarper: The Trickster. It can be reasonably assumed that all archangels have similar powers. Also, Jesse, who before even being aware of his abilities caused reality to change around him according to his beliefs about it (see TheAntiChrist).

* SlidingScaleofFreeWillVsFate: Destiny exists because powerful beings have exerted significant effort to maneuver their game pieces into position, but Free Will exists, and even with limited resources, the Winchesters manage to ScrewDestiny.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Switches between the two so often that you start to think this show is manic-depressive.

* YourVampiresSuck: The sixth season episode "Live Free or Twihard" has this exchange when Sam and Dean enter a teenage girl's room heavily decorated with [[Twilight Twilight-esque]] vampires:

* YourVampiresSuck: And how...

* RealitySubtext: The Ghostfacers episode references the writers' strike that had caused season 3 to be shortened to sixteen episodes.

* NiceGuy: Sam Winchester in the first few seasons.

** Type 4: [[StoryBreakerPower Jesse Turner]], [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI Castiel]]]]

* NiceGuy: Sam Whinchester in the first few seasons.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sam Whinchester in later seasons.

* TheMultiverse: As of season 6 we have Earth, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, an alternate future, the Trickster's alternate realities, and of course, [[FairlyOddParents Fairy World]]. TheMasquerade for normal humans has gone beyond just covering up for things that go bump in the night (oh, and the apocalypse). And, of course, heaven itself is a mess of alternate realities strung together.

* TheMultiverse: As of season 6 we have Earth, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, an alternate future, the Trickster's alternate realities, and of course, [[FairlyOddParents Fairy World]]. TheMasquerade for normal humans has gone beyond just covering up for things that go bump in the night (oh, and the apocalypse). And, of course, heaven itself is a mess of alternate realities strung together. And that's not even getting into what Crowley wants to do with purgatory.

* [[spoiler:AGodAmI: Castiel at the end of the Season 6 finale and in the Season 7 premier.]]

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Castiel in the Season 6 finale and the Season 7 premier.]]

* [[spoiler:AGodAmI: Castiel refers to himself as humanity's new god at the end of season six not long after making Raphael explode simply by snapping his fingers (not unlike what ''freaking [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]'', a powerful fallen angel himself, did to the far less powerful (at that point) Castiel (who wasn't even at full power at the time) at the end of season five).]]

* NoSenseOfHumor[=/=]TheUnfunny: Castiel.

** Dr. Sexy, M.D.

** Sam and Dean playing Rock, Paper, Scissors (and Dean losing because he always picks Scissors) to determine who will carry out unpleasant tasks. Dean eventually wins in season 6. With Scissors.

** Almost every season, in episodes such as Hollywood Babylon and The Real Ghostbusters.

** John's sacrifice for Dean and Dean's for Sam fall under this trope.

** Angel-hitman Vergil.

* BeingGoodSucks: Sam and Dean's job as hunters is dangerous, completely un-remunerative and, aside from individual thanks from the people they have saved, the good they do is largely overlooked. The law is after them for a good portion of the series, both their parents and the great majority of their friends and allies have died in the fight, Dean's [[spoiler:been sent to Hell and back for his efforts]], SAM [[spoiler:goes through Hell and back, and now has two branches of memories (one from his brain, and the other from his soul) that he has to avoid remembering or else risk being reduced into an eternal vegetable]], and all without a roof over their heads. It is a wonder these guys can even get out of bed.

** Heavily implied/outright stated for [[spoiler: Sam and Dean after Seasons Two and Three, respectively]].

** One would think that this can easily be justified. The Apocalypse is taking place in America because that's where Sam and Dean are. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for Lucifer to be doing his thing in the Middle East or Europe or anywhere else when his [[spoiler: intended vessel]] lives in America. Now, the fact that Sam and Dean are American in the first place is all on the writers, but they can hardly be blamed for that.

** In S7, this seems to be where Sam's hallucinations are trying to push him - in ''Hello, Cruel World'' Lucifer suggests it three times.

** The standard Winchester coping mechanism.

* EvilIsSexy: The tagline of the show is ''"Scary just got Sexy!"'' [[invoked]]

** {{Inverted}} in a previous episode when the forced feeding wasn't the torture, but the cure to torture: Dean is writhing in agony on the floor [[{{BloodFromTheMouth}} coughing up blood]] due to a hex when [[spoiler:Ruby]] busts down the door and bodily hurls him onto the bed before forcing a black liquid down his throat, breaking the hex and saving his life.

** Dean suffers from a pretty crippling inferiority complex. As of Season 5 though, he's shown as starting to [[IGotBetter get better]].

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