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1->''♫ Once I rose above the noise and confusion\
2Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion. ♫''
3-->-- '''Music/{{Kansas}}''', "Carry On Wayward Son"
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7* Dean's hatred of flying in season 1 makes sense as a simple phobia, but it's also directly tied to his love for the Impala. Flying means travelling without it, which means leaving it in a parking lot somewhere where anyone could get to it while Dean's miles away. Driving everywhere means always being with the car, or at least close enough to keep an eye on it.
8* Why did the Lucifer no sell the colt? Lucifer predates creation itself. No bullet, no matter how powerful, would be able to kill him, he is the origin of evil and Evil cannot kill Evil. At best, the gun might knock him down and cause a hell of a bruise. Besides, He IS the devil, A mere bullet is like a mosquito. As for why it kills demons, they are substantially weaker. a demon meeting a holy bullet=instant death. Holy bullet vs Father of Evil? no such luck.
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10* In "Bad Day At Black Rock", as soon as Sam loses his lucky rabbit foot -- he's supposed to be utterly out of luck, meaning -- Bela shooting him at the graveyard should have killed him, by the episode's (and rabbit's foot modus oprendi) logic. Yet, the bullet "barely grazes him". How come? Because the moment Dean picked up the foot -- he became "the lucky one", thus, Sam's death became an impossible variable. Since it was Dean's Lucky Day, Dean's "luck" overpowered Sam's Bad luck.
11** Dean took away Bela's luck, she couldn't have killed Sam even if she wanted to.
12*** Bela never had the luck. In fact, it is a key plot point that she didn't until after this occurs.
13* Why is it that a human hybrid such as the Antichrist or Sam with demon blood are a lot stronger than their pure counterpart? Because humans have souls and their extra boost of power come from the energy harnessed in their own soul.
14** Not true. In Season 13, [[spoiler: Jack is a Nephilim and the purest counter part of an anti-Christ since he's the son of an archangel. He is many times more powerful than any other hybrid as he is shown to have the ability to alter reality and puncture the veil of reality to migrate to other realities.]]
15*** Nephilim in the show are human hybrids. Not sure why Jack being powerful negates the above theory.
16* The symbol John uses in his summoning ritual for Yellow Eyes in "In My Time of Dying" is called the Sigil of Azazel. Guess what the YED's real name turned out to be, one season and three episodes later?
17* Another reason Chuck is God is that at the end of "The Real Ghostbusters" Chuck says that the first woman he had sex with went around saying "it didn't count". Immaculate conception, anyone?
18** I don't think immaculate conception means what you think it means....
19*** To explain the above, it's a common misconception (excuse the pun) that "Immaculate conception" refers to the moment when Mary conceived Jesus... but instead, it actually refers to Mary's conception, because Catholic dogma holds that, since Mary was chosen to be Jesus' mother, she was conceived without original sin.
20*** While that is true, I don't think it really changes the potential validity of the initial Fridge Brilliance. Even if it was mislabeled by the OP, there is still an incident that fits the bill.
21* Amusing note in "The Real Ghostbusters: "The revival of the books is due to a wealthy Scandinavian investor. Loki, anyone?
22** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9478835/1/A-Twist-Ending Actually,]] it was [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Sweden.]]
23*** Sweden is part of Scandinavia, along with Norway and Denmark. So...
24* The last fairy tale to be reenacted in "Bedtime Stories" is Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, in which Dean saves a little girl in a red hood from her psychotic, granny-killing kidnapper. Because who saved Red in the original tale? ''A hunter.''
25* "Lazarus Rising." Sam mentions that he tried to make a deal for Dean's soul, but the demons wouldn't do it. Why? Because a) it'd be suspicious for them to give him a better deal than Dean got, and b) it wouldn't do much good for Lucifer's true vessel to have hellhounds chasing him!
26** Additionally, we find out later into season four that [[spoiler:Dean taking up arms in Hell himself was the first seal that everyone down there seemed to be actively trying to break]], and so there's also no way they'd have traded for Sam if it took that opportunity out of their reach. Sam perhaps wasn't [[spoiler:viable as a 'Righteous man' himself, or if he could have been, Alastair was maybe just confident Dean was close to breaking and didn't want to start over]].
27* Why does [[spoiler: Jesse the Antichrist]] speak and act like such an adult when Sam and Dean first meet him? One would assume that it was due to the fact that his parents work all the time, and therefore he has to look after himself, but also because [[spoiler: anything the Antichrist believes becomes true]]. He thinks he is an adult, therefore he is one! Hence why his maturity level suddenly drops when he says to Sam "But I'm just a kid!" -- he realizes he's just a child, cue sudden maturity decrease.
28* Why is the boys' dialogue so [[ReferenceOverdosed saturated with references?]] Because they were left alone in hotel rooms nearly 24/7 and had nothing better to do than watch whatever came on television.
29* In "All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2," [[spoiler:Azazel, after telekinetically pinning Dean to the tombstone and mocking him, tries to shoot him with the last bullet in the Colt. Why would Azazel waste the last available usage (at that time) of such a powerful weapon on Dean, when he could easily have killed him any number of ways?]] It doesn't seem to make sense... until ''three seasons later'', when we find out that [[spoiler:Dean is the designated vessel for the ArchangelMichael, and the angels will keep resurrecting him as often as he dies to make sure he's available to use. And at that point, you realize what Azazel was doing: Trying to destroy Michael's vessel with the one weapon that could do so with such finality that even Heaven's power couldn't resurrect him, thus guaranteeing Lucifer's victory from the get-go.]]
30** Or Azazel could have been eliminating his biggest threat. [[spoiler: When Dean went back in time, he straight up told Azazel that he would be the one to kill him. That couldn't have made Azazel happy and it's no wonder he spends most of his time tormenting and trying to kill Dean.]]
31** Plus, by using the last bullet for the Colt, he was effectively eliminating a known threat to his existence. It's debatable whether Ruby's knife would have done him in, but as it stood at the time that bullet was just about the only thing that could straight-up kill him.
32* Ava's the villain? How did she survive that long without food and manage to hide all her victims....EWWWWWWWW!
33** Or the demons overseeing the whole thing brought her food and took the bodies away. If she was drinking their blood in order to strengthen her powers, then they would have to have had some contact with her.
34* In "Changing Channels", Sam and Dean are forced into the roles of Horatio Caine-style detectives in a CSI-style show by The Trickster. This leads to Dean going on a rant on how he ''hates'' cop shows; at one point he mockingly says "ooh, a plane crashed here..." while complaining how they're all the same. CSI: Miami's first episode involved the investigation of a plane crash.
35* Also in "Changing Channels", during the Knight Rider parody, Sam becomes the car while Dean is the driver. Seems pretty straightforward, given that Dean usually is the one to drive the Impala. But then you remember that KITT's driver also happens to be named ''Michael'' - same as the angel who is waiting for the permission to possess Dean's body. And considering the real identity of the Trickster, that whole part was completely intentional.
36* While Sam and Dean's relationship is outright stated by Gabriel to mirror that of the archangels, the dialogue between Lucifer and Michael in the fifth season mimics the many arguments between Sam and Dean in Seasons 1 and 4: Michael is the obedient soldier who faults his brother for rebelling against their [[DisappearedDad missing father]], while Lucifer believes he is doing the only thing he can, following a bad road to stop something he sees as horrible, with little regard for everyone else involved.
37** [[http://cocoalover1956.tumblr.com/post/52402601933/gaysealapproves-abouttimefortea Someone on tumblr]] also pointed out that there were a lot of similarities between Adam and Gabriel: "He was younger than both and he spent a great deal of time away from them, doing his own thing -- his father was, uh, not so great at the whole ‘caring’ thing. He was pretty removed from the whole ‘dysfunctional family clusterfuck’; he kind of did his own thing for a while. [[spoiler: When he eventually got dragged into his brothers' fights, he initially did whatever he was told and was pro-apocalypse, but it was only because he thought it would bring him and his family peace. He eventually changed his mind and tried to fight against the angels and the apocalypse, but it… it didn’t end well. He died trying to take down Lucifer.]]"
38* At first it seems odd that a [[spoiler:soulless]] Sam would be having sex at every opportunity, considering his detachment from anything else emotional...until you remember that sex is a ''biological'' imperative. [[spoiler:Without a soul]], he'd actually want it ''more''.
39** Don't forget that [[spoiler:without a soul]] he wouldn't care about that pesky CartwrightCurse.
40* Trickster/[[spoiler:Gabriel]] may have been killing Dean repeatedly so that Sam wouldn't be so easy for Ruby to manipulate, to stop the Apocalypse from even being put into motion as Sam wouldn't kill Lilith.
41* I thought that it was strange that no one had realized that a Trickster can fake their death, given how much Bobby knew about them... and then we find out that [[spoiler:the Trickster is Gabriel, and most Tricksters probably can't pull off that feat. And then there's the fact that what will kill a Trickster won't kill an Angel.]]
42* If [[spoiler:Chuck]] is God, it means that when he was apologizing for making them live bad writing, he was apologizing for their entire lives. And what was about to come.
43* Back in the Season 2 episode "Croatoan," it turns out the whole thing was a test to see if Sam was immune to the Croatoan virus. In Season 5, we find out Sam is Lucifer's vessel. A big part of Lucifer's endgame involves unleashing the Croatoan virus on the world. It sure would suck for Lucifer if his vessel got infected, wouldn't it?
44** One must wonder if Azazel's Children was all a big scam from the get-go -- specifically to train Sam for when he would become Lucifer's Vessel. Why did Azazel want Sam to win so badly anyway?
45*** I assume that neither he nor any of the demons ''knew'' that Sam was fated to be Lucifer's vessel--just the angels. All Azazel seemed to know was that he needed a "special child" as a vessel for Lucifer. He used Sam to test if the potential vessels in general were immune to Croatoan. As for why he favored Sam... the demon himself said it was because he had skills and knowledge, his actor said it was because he wanted to corrupt Sam's good nature, and I personally always kind of figured he wanted Sam evil to rub it in John and Dean's faces.
46*** My belief is that Azazel did know the entire Apocalypse scenario, and that his plan was a twofold Batman Gambit. Alastair mentioned in S4 that they needed a "righteous man" in Hell to break the first seal. Letting Sam get killed in the Boy-King Hunger Games (because let's face it, even with his hunter training, Sam wasn't much of a contender simply because his instinct is to rescue, not fight) was a good way to convince one of the elder Winchesters to make a crossroads deal to bring him back. This may even be why Azazel had a demon hit the Impala at the end of S1, which otherwise seems like a bad way to kill John and Dean without hurting Sam: Azazel was counting on John making the crossroads deal to save his son, which a) gets them a righteous man in Hell, and b) gives Dean an example to follow in case they couldn't break John -- which is exactly what happened. And Lucifer's vessel is never really at risk, because either the plan works and Sam gets restored via crossroads deal, or it fails and Lucifer or one of the angels raises him anyway.
47* In the Season 6 finale, [[spoiler:Castiel being one step ahead of Team Winchester is foreshadowing how he would manage to get one step in front of Crowley and Raphael.]]
48* At first, it seemed like a writer slip-up that Castiel wouldn't recognize that [[spoiler:Christian Campbell]] was possessed, given that angels were already proven to be able to see the true faces of demons. But since [[spoiler:both Castiel and Possessed!Christian were working for/with Crowley and Castiel most likely KNEW about the Campbell clan already]], maybe this wasn't a mistake after all.
49* Why does Death eat cheap, fatty foods? It's not good for him; that stuff kills peop--oh. ''Ohhh''.
50* Souls are a powerful energy source, and as of the Season 6 finale it appears that consuming enough souls [[spoiler:turns you into a god]]. Perhaps that finally explains why the pagan gods are all into human sacrifices, even if they shouldn't be: because if souls go to Christian-esque Heaven or Hell when they die, not any of the pagan afterlives, perhaps it's the only way for the gods to get at human souls.
51** Actually, if we go according to Osiris's appearance in Season 7 [[spoiler: where he has the power to summon the spirits of the deceased,or the conversation that the gods had before they were slaughtered by Lucifer, there has to have some afterlives for their respective Pagan gods.]]
52* Adam. His name? A reference to his eventual role as [[spoiler: Michael's (backup) vessel]], seeing as how the archangel Michael is the original Adam's "guardian angel" in Christian mythos. His birthdate? September 29th -- [[spoiler: a day celebrating all angels, but most importantly the archangel Michael!]] The writers had the [[spoiler: Adam-Michael connection]] planned out from his introduction!
53* Why didn't Mary remember [[spoiler:Dean's warnings about getting out of bed on November 2, 1983]] or [[spoiler: Azazel telling her he'd come to her house in ten years]] in time? After all, you'd think a hunter would remember warnings like that, especially as the big day approaches and her deal comes due. [[spoiler: Because Michael erases her memories in "The Song Remains the Same" -- of the warnings and maybe even making the deal in the first place. Otherwise, she'd remember what was said and wouldn't get killed on the ceiling, John wouldn't take his kids on a crazy revenge mission, and the Apocalypse would be a no-go.]] It was only when she was face-to-face with the YED that she was [[spoiler: allowed to remember.]]
54** Plus her not bringing calling the beefier John. [[spoiler: She was probably more qualified to take on anything she ran into up there.]]
55* The Trickster/[[spoiler: Gabriel]] has to be one of the ultimate examples. His lesson to Sam in "Mystery Spot" becomes a lot clearer after "Changing Channels" and "Hammer of the Gods". He knew that Sam would end up breaking the final seal and by killing Dean again and again, he forced Sam to accept that Dean is going to die and that there's nothing he can do about it, stopping Sam from going as axe crazy as he did in Mystery Spot and delaying Lucifer's release from the cage. All because he [[spoiler: didn't want to see his brothers fight, didn't want to have to choose a side...]]
56** Speaking of "Mystery Spot," I'd always wondered how the Trickster did all that when earlier his powers had seemed to consist only of creating figments. Then, later, after I'd gotten through Season 5, it became clear: after all, what powers were necessary to create Sam's GroundhogDayLoop? Time travel, memory erasure, and the ability to bring people back from the dead. All powers later established as belonging not to a trickster, but to an ''angel.''
57* I hated the first episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'s'' third season because Dean was acting like a {{Jerkass}}/pod!version of his former self. It wasn't until "Fresh Blood" and the beautiful brotherly love scenes that I realized he was supposed to be like that. Sam's getting frustrated beyond belief, we're supposed to sympathize with him and we couldn't do that if Dean was acting like his normal self. And it wasn't until the finale when I realized that Dean was being a lying liar that lies when he said he was feeling good about everything, his unbelievably messed up state was just coming out in a different way than what I was used to. --{{Tropers/Tinted}}
58** Rewatching that episode (and, to a lesser extent -- Bedtime Stories and Red Sky At Morning), Dean is much less jerkier and far more creepier than I remember. In the manic moments, he's all ducky-lipped and bambi-eyed but that's just surface. Look underneath and [[StepfordSmiler there's nothing there]]. He still doesn't think he deserves to live, he's trying to get Sam to hate him/move on/forget about saving him and when he makes that "I'll think I'll play craps" line in "Red Sky At Morning", he's got a big smile but completely dead eyes. And it's only when Sam plays the little brother/it's all about me card in "Fresh Blood" that he gets a tiny bit better and starts opening up more. I still don't like watching it all that much, but I can begrudgingly admit that was very clever of them. Bastards. --{{Tropers/VAD}}
59* So I'm watching "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and I'm getting annoyed with the "What's dead should stay dead" anvil, right? I'm like "I get it! Dean hates the supernatural, now stop it." Fast forward to "All Hell Breaks Loose" and suddenly it hits me: when Dean says "What's dead should stay dead", he really means "If I'm dead, I should stay dead". Stupid me. Clever show. Poor Dean. --{{Tropers/RampampG}}
60* Rewatching all the current seasons (1-4), I really have to wonder how much foreshadowing Kripke et al were doing. In "Faith", [=LeGrange=] tells Dean he stood out to him in the crowd, and calls him a "young man with an important purpose. A job to do. And it isn't finished." Cue me freaking out. Season 4 in itself was a masterwork of foreshadowing. -- {{Tropers/Lizimajig}}
61* I always did love the parallelism of Sam and Dean. How Sam in the first season was portrayed as emotional and Dean was more of the tougher guy. Then came Season 4 and their roles were switched around. Dean was the emotional one and Sam was the tough guy. In "Houses of the Holy", in the beginning, Sam was adamant about the existence of angels, while Dean was skeptical. By the end of the episode, Dean was beginning to believe, while Sam doubted. Also Dean was [[spoiler: the one to break the first seal]], while Sam was [[spoiler: the one to break the last seal]]. Not to mention that Dean [[spoiler: slept with an angel]] and Sam [[spoiler: slept with a demon]]. The last one interestingly played out their roles for the final battle. Dean [[spoiler: is Michael's vessel]] and Sam [[spoiler: is Lucifer's vessel]].
62* After [[spoiler: Anna]] became an angel again, I never really gave much thought about how cold and emotionless she became. It was a nice call-back how when she was human, she mentioned that angels don't have emotions, which was probably why she became human in the first place. And yet, contrasting that, we have Castiel, who had started out as emotionless, but slowly became more human, as opposite to [[spoiler: Anna]].
63** On that same thought, I was really annoyed at the end of Season 5 when [[spoiler: God brought Cas back and restored his angelic powers]] and he was so cold to Dean when he said goodbye. Two years of humanization and character development thrown out the window. Then I realized he was a [[spoiler: fully empowered angel]] again, so of course he wouldn't be as human.
64* In the very first episode, when Mary sees that her husband has fallen asleep in front of the TV, she realizes that someone else must be in the nursery and hurls herself upstairs to protect her baby. Now, you'd think even a MamaBear would take a second to alert her husband (especially one as beefy as John) before confronting an intruder. But in Season 4, [[spoiler: we learn she was actually a hunter before John was, so she may have been even more capable than him of taking on whatever was up there]].
65** This makes even more sense once you realize that [[spoiler: she knew the Yellow-Eyed Demon and was the one who invited him into their house in the first place. She knew who it was and she didn't want John involved (again).]]
66* Even though I love the character of Castiel, I was always a little bothered by how whenever he died he'd just magically come back to life with only the tiniest handwave of "God must like him". Given how apathetic we've been told God is, I just couldn't buy that reason. Then after watching the Season 5 finale, we find out that [[spoiler: God is Chuck! And then it all clicks: when Cas first met Chuck, he told him that he was a huge fan of the books, and then later Cas died trying to 'protect' Chuck. Cas is a fanboy of Chuck without knowing that makes him a fan of his own Father!]] Of course God's gonna bring Cas back to life every time he dies! --{{Tropers/WanderingRaccoon}}
67** Even better than that is Chuck's archangel is Raphael, who believes that God is dead. So the [[spoiler: Chuck is God revealed means that Raphael has actually been in the presence of God the entire time, but was too dense to realize it.]]
68*** Or, possibly, that Raphael was telling them that God was dead because [[spoiler: he knew that Chuck was God, and was in fact in on it all along.]]
69** The revelation that [[spoiler: Chuck is God]] also makes the scene where Zachariah, an angel, threatens to kill Chuck (and bring him back, naturally) amusing. [[spoiler: The idea that Chuck/God is helpless against Zachariah, who isn't even an archangel... and Chuck's taking it. It's funny.]]
70*** He must have been somewhat irritated by Zach's threats, since he [[spoiler: planned Zach's death]].
71** In the Season 4 finale, [[spoiler: Castiel has betrayed the Heavenly Host to throw his support with the brothers and thus the rest of humanity]]. After Chuck gives him and Dean Sam's location and Castiel teleports Dean there, Chuck puts his hand on Castiel's shoulder as they wait for Raphael to come a-smitin'. First viewing? SugarWiki/FunnyMoments. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Second viewing?]] [[spoiler: God-as-Chuck showing pride in his son for choosing his own path, using free will, and doing the right thing.]]
72** Chuck is the writer of the Supernatural books in its own universe, beginning the "meta" nature of the series. We later find out that [[spoiler:he is God. This could all symbolize the writers of the show being the creators of the Supernatural universe.]] In Season 14 we find out that [[spoiler:Chuck was manipulating events the whole time, and continues to do so throughout Season 15, and, while making sure Sam and Dean somehow win every time (until the final season), is also tormenting Sam and Dean all this time for his own entertainment -- just as the writers do on all counts.]]
73* I was a bit irritated by how Castiel just [[spoiler: disappeared on Dean in Swan Song until I realized that he seemed amused by Dean's question about him being God, and didn't seem as cold as he had originally. He seems to be a personification of how Heaven is going to become. Hopefully.]]
74* When Sam became soulless, he switched his sidearm to a MK-23 instead of his usual Taurus. At first, I thought that it was just cause Dean had it in the Impala, but then I noticed that I had seen the MK-23 twice before, first as Gordon's sidearm then as Future Dean's sidearm. Thus the MK-23 is only used by very dark characters. Brilliant!
75* It's a fairly small thing, but there is a moment like this in the first ten minutes of the series; we witness the flashback to Mary's death, skip twenty years, and rejoin an adult Sam disapprovingly telling his costumed girlfriend "...you know how I feel about Halloween". At the time, with no knowledge of the characters, it simply seems as if we're supposed to believe that Sam has developed into a studious nerd with no sense of fun; however, look back on that moment with the Winchester boys' miserable, joyless, monster-filled upbringing in mind, remembering that Sam had only escaped from the hunting life a few years before we see him in college, and that line becomes a lot more tragic.
76** Add on that Mary died on November 2. I can only imagine John wasn't too happy to celebrate Halloween 2 days before the anniversary of his wife's death.
77** Define "celebrate". Halloween must be the holiday where all the creeps come out and don't even need to disguise themselves, so innocent people could easily 'offer' themselves up as vampire food thinking it was a game or a trick. So "celebrating" Halloween for Hunters is probably something like going on open rampage killings in dark alleys. (Uh, that might be more Fridge Horror)
78* Remember how Castiel spent most of "Caged Heat" watching hotel porn and how easily Meg disarmed him? Or perhaps how he just happened across Crowley's bones? At the time, I dismissed Cas' behavior as behavior of a soldier on "leave" from a war zone and the bones with Cas just being awesome. [[spoiler: However, based on the Cas/Crowley unholy alliance and the revelation that Cas, not Crowley, brought Sam back from the pit, Cas's sudden interest in porn, ease with which Meg disarmed him, and the Cas/Crowley burning bones conversation takes on extra meaning: Cas was falling from grace and working with the forces of hell]]
79* Sam and Dean's Christmas mundane presents to one another in Season 3 both have deeper meanings. Dean gets Sam porn and shaving cream, just the sort of thing an older brother would get a younger brother as they reach puberty, a way of congratulating them on growing up and "becoming a man." Dean is recognizing that Sam's growing up and that he has to in order to survive once Dean is gone. Sam gets Dean a candy bar and car oil, as Dean puts it, "fuel for me and fuel for my baby." Sam's telling Dean to take care of himself and keep going, they'll find a way to save him.
80** Speaking of that Christmas special, being a troper who actually lives in the metro-Detroit area (where Ypsilanti is nearby), I cracked up upon the revelation that [[spoiler: the sacrifices commenced by the pagan gods]] resulted in mild weather -- in Michigan, the land of [[WeatherDissonance OCD weather.]] It made TOTAL sense afterward (never mind that the show is [[CaliforniaDoubling filmed in British Columbia]]), but just to bring this point home, the year that this episode aired, 2007, we had a freak thunderstorm that resulted in a mild 58-60 degree day ''on freaking Christmas Eve.'' No joke. Coincidence??? [[spoiler:At least my Christmas was a blast that year.]]
81* Why does everyone around Sam and Dean (including [[spoiler:Castiel]] and [[spoiler:Bobby]]) seem to die? Death has shown Dean that people who were supposed to die either coming back to life or not dying throws off the natural order and people around the person who should be dead will keep dying off until the original person is dead. And Sam and Dean have come back from the dead repeatedly.
82* When YED was taunting Dean about having killed his family he wasn't just talking about Mary, but also [[spoiler: her parents and the rest of the Campbell relatives]]. Actually, one could argue that YED's fixation on tormenting Dean stemmed from [[spoiler: Future!Dean telling Past!YED that he killed him]]. Methinks ol' Yellow Eyes might have been a tad irritated by that...
83* The covers for the [=DVDs=]. At first, the spot on the side where the season number is shown is a bright, colorful red. Then as the show progresses, it gets darker, and so do the season number spots. Right up to six, where it is completely black, reflecting the serious {{Downer Ending}}. --{{Tropers/UmLovely}}
84* When the demon Crowley (who has an English accent) meets Dean, he says something along the lines of "fancy a [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish fag]] and a chat".
85** Eh... Fag means cigarette in Scotland, as it does in England. Very few Scottish people ever use "fag" in reference to a gay person. We have our own slang words for that. Thus, this is probably not Getting Crap Past The Rader.
86** Speaking of Crowley, he is introduced as the demon Bela gave the Colt to. It seems a blatant {{Retcon}} to allow the Winchesters to get the kill-anything gun back to fight Lucifer... but consider it from Lilith's point of view. Here's a human who's already been established as untrustworthy and out for herself, one who's allied with the brothers before and might do it again. She has a weapon that can kill you and you hold the contract to her eternal damnation. Now, it's very possible that she'll want to just shoot you, kill you, and thus save both herself and El Deano. With that in mind, would ''you'' go out to meet her to gain said gun... or would you send a ''flunky''?
87*** And what makes the above ''true'' FridgeBrilliance is that it explains why Crowley shot the two demons with him when he meets Dean and Sam -- they were ''Lilith's minions'', watching over Crowley to make certain he turned over the Colt to ''her'' boss, Lucifer!
88** The crossroads demon Sam intimidates [[spoiler: and kills]] in "Bedtime Stories" mentions a "boss" and refers to said boss as a "he". This seems strange since Lilith is the big kahoona and is later said to hold deal contracts. Could this boss possibly be an early mention of Crowley, King of the Crossroads, later throwing his lot in with Lilith (giving her control of crossroad deals) when she gains sufficient power and influence?
89*** Alternatively, Lilith wasn't showing her face quite yet, acting through Crowley.
90* When Castiel [[spoiler: continues to work with Crowley and eventually absorbs the souls of Purgatory despite the Winchesters begging him not to, one motivation that is cited by fans is that they didn't give him enough support over the seasons and instead just used him whenever they needed Superman's help. But it's so much more than that, because in essence, he does it because that is how the hunters ''taught'' him to do it, time and again, with their attitude to ''personal power'', their treatment of it as ultimately a good thing. Their dad sacrifices his soul to save Dean, Dean does the same for Sam, Sam ''admits'' that he tried to do the same for Dean. Sam works with Ruby and goes crazy and drinks demon blood and unleashes Lucifer. Bobby sells his soul to Crowley -- not to save someone who is in ''immediate'' danger, but for a strategic ace, i.e. Death's location, and of course they all work with Crowley in that, as well. Dean all but gives in to Michael and likely would have if Cas hadn't physically stopped him. Sam gives in to Lucifer hoping to be able to control himself despite the literally apocalyptic level of consequences if he screws up. Sam tries to hold on to his soullessness partially for the reason that it makes him "a better hunter", i.e. more powerful. When Dean is turned into a vampire, he chooses to try and use his now superior powers against the vampires and go after them instead of staying put to minimize the chance of feeding and becoming a crazy monster. When Sam and Dean are in the past, trying to procure the phoenix ashes, Bobby lets Castiel power up from his soul, despite how dangerous it is. The point is that whenever there's a choice between crossing a line and ending up with no solution to the current crisis, the Winchesters & Co. have ''always'', without exception, been willing to hop straight across, no matter how great the consequences of failure and how much they have to go behind each other's backs to do it. And the worst part is that, by the end of Season 6, it really ''has'' worked out fine, in the grand scheme of things. Conversely, every time Castiel is depowered or drained either in Season 5 or 6, he is expected to try and get his mojo back as soon as possible, and mocked viciously for his powerlessness not just by the MonsterOfTheWeek (Lucifer, Meg, Famine, Eve, etc.) but by ''the Winchesters'' ("baby in a trenchcoat", anyone?), who also throw hissy fits whenever he's not there to help them when they need it, even at great personal cost (e.g. nearly dying by zapping them both back in time to stop Anna), and praise him for his merits as a monster-killing machine. ("Gotta take you on more monster hunts".) In short, they've taught him that ''his only worth lies in being powerful enough to help them'', and that ''any means is acceptable'' for the end of procuring power, and if anything goes wrong it will end up fine in the end and they'll forgive him because he's family. With that in mind, it's suddenly a lot clearer why their unthinking condemnation of his plan with Crowley and their subsequent turning against him bewilders him so much. It also proves, to him, that they really ''aren't'' family, otherwise they'd trust him and go along with him just as they've always done in such situations. ]]
91* "The righteous man who begins it is the only one who can finish it." Does it refer to [[spoiler:Dean]]... ''or'' [[spoiler:Sam breaking the last seal and later stopping the Apocalypse by jumping into Hell with Lucifer and Michael]]?
92* Why is Charlie, a [[ProudToBeAGeek proud Geek]] and lover of all Badass [[ActionGirl heroines]], so reluctant to join the Winchester brothers and at the end of the episode [[PutOnABus leaves it all behind to hide]]? She's GenreSavvy enough to know that she's not an ActionGirl or even a main character and will most likely be StuffedInAFridge if she stays with the heroes.
93** [[spoiler: And that's exactly what happened to her.]]
94* YMMV, but it just occurred to me. The Leviathans as characters might have seemed to come out of nowhere to some fans, but some biblical lore talks about some fallen angels/demons that are so terrible that they were locked away in a bottomless pit. What is Purgatory? A place that God created to keep the Leviathans from wreaking havoc on the world. Just substitute the fallen angels/demons for Leviathans, and give the bottomless pit the name "Purgatory".
95* Why did Crowley spend so much time going over his contract with Dick? He was giving the Winchester brothers more time to get everything they needed, since Dick's plans were quickly coming to fruition.
96* YMMV As I was reading the [[OddNameOut Odd Name Out]] examples, I came across this one: "The demons in ''Supernatural'' all have classical demonic names (Azazel, Lilith, even Alastair), with the exceptions of Ruby, Crowley and Meg, who all end up allying with the protagonists against their own kind." But Crowley can't be called a "normal" name. Meg isn't the demon's real name...And then there is Ruby. What if it isn't her name either? She just called herself Ruby so that she could connect better with Sam? Yeah, other demons call her that, but why wouldn't they? They may know her by her "old" name, but what is the point of calling someone by a name they no longer go by and probably won't respond to?
97** Crowley is a name associated with the occult via Aleister Crowley, but more specifically, Crowley was the name of the demon in Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett's ''Good Omens'' (coincidentally enough, it's about the demon Crowley and the angel Aziraphale teaming up to prevent the Apocalypse because they're both so used to life on Earth). And Rubicante is one of the demons mentioned in Dante's ''Inferno''.
98* It just now struck me that the Winchester brothers really ''do'' reflect the Biblical CainAndAbelAndSeth ridiculously well: Seth is born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for Abel after his big brother gets killed by Cain, Adam replaces Dean as [[spoiler:Michael's vessel]] after Sam talks their big brother out of it.
99** Even more so once [[spoiler: Cain actually appears and reveals how things really went down between him and Abel. Both Abel and Sam were idealistic and made the mistake of trusting something that appeared friendly yet was evil and did not have their best interests at heart (Lucifer for Abel and Ruby for Sam) and Dean and Cain were both willing to do whatever it took to prevent their brother from being corrupted by Hell (for Cain that meant making a deal with Lucifer and killing Abel, for Dean that meant preferring that Sam die human rather than live through demon blood.)]]
100* [[spoiler: Borax]] is revealed to be lethal to Leviathans. Interestingly, this might be one of the reasons why the Leviathans targeted America first, since in addition to being used [[spoiler: in some bleaches]], it's also commonly used as a food additive in every country ''except'' America. So in other words, the rest of the world is literally TooSpicyForYogSothoth!
101* It recently occurred to me that Castiel's "death" and the circumstances surrounding it at the beginning of Season 7 are very reminiscent of being born-again. Throughout Season 6, Castiel slowly built up to a FaceHeelTurn, which culminated in him declaring himself to be the new God, slaying hundreds of his brothers in Heaven, and falling under the influence of the Leviathans. After he sees the damage that his "sins" have caused, he wants to repent -- so he discharges the souls that he absorbed back into Purgatory. However, this does not complete the process, and he is not fully cleansed, because the Leviathans are still writhing inside of him. Only once Castiel [[RuleOfSymbolism submerges himself into a nearby reservoir]] is he purged of his inner evil, at which point the Leviathans disperse. After that, he loses his memory and essentially becomes a new man: Emmanuel, who is faithful and heals people in the name of God. The episode in which he finally returns is even called "The ''Born-Again'' Identity".
102** In support of this theory, from a literature standpoint, people being submerged in water generally means baptism, a religious rebirth. May signal the change in personality that [[spoiler:isn't totally fixed until the end of Season 8]] as baptisms are often tied to becoming a new person.
103** There's an extra layer of tragedy when you consider that Emmanuel!Cas is clearly content, empathetic, and wise and is doing genuine good in the world by healing people. He gives it all up for Dean, [[spoiler: the man he loves.]].
104* The Trickster spent his time punishing arrogant, prideful dicks. Maybe [[spoiler: Gabriel was projecting his problems with his big brother Lucifer onto his victims?]]
105* While there are some legitimate complaints about how the Leviathans really seem lacking in power, there's a very sensible explanation for why Dick can't detect [[spoiler: Bobby's]] ghost. Leviathans were invented before souls, and ghosts are essentially just a form of the soul. Since god hadn't thought up souls yet, he certainly wouldn't have imbued Leviathans with the ability to interact with them.
106** As an addendum to the above, Leviathans are strictly physical beings, just like humans. They can't interact with spectral entities unless said entity is occupying a physical vessel of some kind, which is why Edgar was able to slaughter the two angels in "Reading Is Fundamental".
107*** Well they're not ''strictly'' physical, seeing as how they have to possess a vessel just like angels and demons...
108*** Except they don't posses their vessels. They eat you and take on your physical form, physically taking your shape, nothing spiritual about that.
109* Sam becoming the one to complete the trials in order to close the gates of Hell. He was one of Azazel's chosen children who were needed to open the Gates of Hell in the first place. Granted, he was not the one who opened the gates himself, but he is also the one who brought about the Apocalypse by breaking the final seal. Closing the Gates of Hell is, in a sense, the ultimate atonement for Sam as an individual.
110** Plus he's always been the Hell-affiliated brother. Banged a demon, one of the Special Children, ex-demon blood junkie, Lucifer's vessel... In contrast, Dean shagged an angel, is close friends with another, and is Michael's vessel. [[spoiler:Which is why it came as such a surprise when Cass got the trials to close Heaven instead of Dean. But since it turns out that those weren't the real trials, [[WildMassGuessing perhaps Dean will get a new storyline sooner or later?]]]]
111* Given that we find out later that [[spoiler: Mary Winchester was a hunter]], why wasn't it mentioned in Dean's hallucination in "What Is and What Should Never Be"? Because everything in there was based off of what the Djinn found in Dean's mind, and he didn't know at the time.
112* Elsewhere in this wiki, the appearance of prophets and Fates is taken to mean that the Supernatural universe falls under the purview of YouCantFightFate. Actually, it's exactly the opposite -- if fate was an intrinsic law of the universe (the only situation where it cannot be fought) it wouldn't need sapient beings, i.e. the Fates, to enforce it. This is why Kevin's prophecies are limited to interpreting the word of God -- there is no set future to read. The reason Chuck could see the future is simply that [[spoiler: he is God, and was thus controlling the events.]] Fate isn't fate in the Supernatural universe -- it's orders. Thus, Team Free Will's choice to ScrewDestiny is the final step out from under the authority of their respective oppressive fathers.
113* In "My Bloody Valentine," Famine claims that Dean is immune to his power because he's supposedly dead inside. But Dean's behavior is erratic throughout the episode -- he's much clingier than usual, even going so far as to chase after Cas because he felt that ten or so seconds was "too long" for Cas to take to come back to him. Famine lied in order to push Dean closer to the DespairEventHorizon. Dean ''is'' hungry for something -- and, in keeping with his characterization, it's companionship.
114** Although with Cas's FlashStep powers, he could have zapped in, sliced off Famine's hand, and been back with the bloody stump in seconds.
115** Earlier, when Castiel asks Dean what his hunger is, Dean appears to give him the old [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_melzy9unfy1qc2fi0o4_500.gif elevator eyes]], a look of desire.
116* Early in Season 4 after the rising of the witnesses, Castiel mentions that two of his brothers have fallen in battle in defense of the seals. This doesn't seem like a big deal until later, when a) you find out that Alistair, who knows how to kill or torture just about anything, has no idea how to kill an angel and can only send them back to heaven, and b) the upper division angels want the seals to break. As Zachariah says, there's no way the seals would have broken without their quiet consent (and in this case, possible intervention to help break the seal).
117* In "The Great Escapist" we find out that [[spoiler: Castiel has ''never'' completely followed orders he didn't agree with, and he kept getting reset with his memory wiped whenever he rebelled.]] Suddenly Castiel's complete lack of knowledge of pop culture, especially when compared to the other angels, makes a lot more sense; [[spoiler: if he's always getting his memory wiped he'd keep forgetting all the cultural knowledge he'd learned, unless it was deemed relevant.]]
118* In "Hammer of the Gods" Lucifer buzzsaws his way through numerous pagan gods. Doesn't quite make sense if a deity's power comes from prayers, as some have theorized. Hinduism is still relatively popular in parts of the world, as opposed to Norse beliefs. Then one remembers that Lucifer was apparently consuming "gallons" of demon blood each day just to keep Nick (his vessel played by Mark Pellegrino) from exploding. He was able to bulldoze through them so easily because (aside from the regular archangel abilities) he was hopped up on enough demon blood to kill and preserve a whale.
119** It just occurred to me that this might be the reason why Meg used telekinesis to toss Dean and Bobby around in "[[spoiler:Born Under a Bad Sign]]", even though she never '''demon'''strated (heh, sorry) the power before or since -- she was [[spoiler:possessing the body of demon-blood-infected Sam, who shows telekinetic powers in Season 1 and Season 4]]. Imagine what she (or any demon, or Lucifer) could do with his powers post-Season 4...
120** Christians and Muslims collectively make up 55% of the world's population while Hindus are a measly 15%. It isn't that hard to believe that even a high-ranking subordinate of the Abrahamic god could curb stomp a Hindu one, especially considering Christian worship is centred around one deity exclusively whereas not all Hindu worship is directed towards Kali specifically.
121* A few people criticized the special effects in the show, such as dragons looking pretty much the same as humans. Then you realize that the basic monsters in the show only exist because of Eve, and she doesn't create from nothing, she simply corrupts other things. The Alphas? People she corrupted, some of the earliest humans.
122* Bobby is often critical of John, and they seem to have fought almost as much as Sam and John. Since [[spoiler:Bobby had an abusive father and a mother who didn't do anything to stop it]], he ''would'' be very sensitive about bad parenting, wouldn't he? He might have even seen himself in Sam and Dean.
123* The Men of Letters' bunker is said to be warded against pretty much every supernatural creature out there, so at first it seems funny that Castiel is able to come in. But then you realize that the bunker looks like it was built in the 30s, and, prior to Sam and Dean and the Apocalypse, angels hadn't walked on Earth in 2000 years. Even if the Men of Letters knew about angels, it would've been unnecessary to ward against them since at the time, they never left Heaven.
124* When Dean is complaining that Sam took a year off to live with a girl at the start of Season 8, why does Sam not mention that Dean did the exact same thing with Lisa a few years earlier? Because in 6x21 Dean told Sam never to mention Lisa or Ben again. Sam is keeping his word, even though it would actually help his own case to bring it up.
125** Or there's the fact that Dean settling down with Lisa and Ben was '''Sam's''' dying wish and that Dean would rather have died finding a way to save Sam but decided to keep his promise to him...
126** And that at the end of Season 5, there were (ostensibly) no real enemies left that Dean needed to handle himself. Leave Crowley and co. to the angels. Go retire. At the end of Season 7, Crowley's at the height of his power and Sam is virtually all there is against them, and Kevin was depending on him -- and only him, nobody else that was still alive and not in Crowley's custody knew about Kevin -- for rescue.
127* The snafu with Sam's soul in Season 6 makes a little more sense when you think about the exact circumstances. Sure, Sam was in the Cage as opposed to Hell, but more importantly, he had a frigging archangel clinging to his soul. [[spoiler: Death]] was probably the only entity that could yank Lucifer off and pull Sam's glowy bits out of the Cage.
128** speaking of which, how the hell did Castiel pull Sam's body out of the Cage? It's a Cage that's meant to lock up angels, and while Death can get in, and maybe fairies too, an angel like Castiel can't just 'waltz in' — any method he could have used to get in and out could leave a breach for Lucifer (and Michael) to get out too (like horsemen rings and breaking seals, so he didn't do that). I understand how he managed save only half of Sam, but how did he get inside in the first place? Sam was inside the Cage body and soul, so Castiel had to get IN somehow to get him out, not just linger outside and go circles around it or something. I thought at first he was powered up by Souls he loaned from Crowley, but after some time-line research I realized Castiel saved Sam before he declared a war on Raphael and started working with Crowley, so..
129* The three trials to close the gates of Hell are, in order: [[spoiler:bathe in the blood of a hellhound, rescue an innocent soul from hell, and cure a demon]]. The three trials to close the gates of Heaven are different: [[spoiler: the heart of a Nephilim, a cupid's bow, and the grace of an angel who has completed the first two]]. Notice the difference? The trials for the gates of Hell are actually trials. The trials for the gates of Heaven are [[spoiler: ingredients. Ingredients for the spell to make all angels in Heaven fall]].
130* Anna's bizarre [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]] makes a bit more sense once you factor in Naomi mucking around in the heads of all the angels. Presumably Naomi was taking matters into her own hands, acting through Anna without orders from the archangels, in an attempt to stop the apocalypse, which also neatly explains how Anna "got out" of Heaven when Castiel flat-out said it was impossible unless they'd sent her.
131* People say Michael was talking out his ass about how it was Destiny that Dean would eventually say yes, but remember in "Point of No Return" Dean did technically agree to be his vessel.
132* "My Heart Will Go On" suggests that Balthazar preventing the sinking of the ''Titanic'' would have prevented Celine Dion from ever having a career in music. However, she'd already had several hit singles and sold millions of albums in both French and English. Yes, it was her biggest hit but that doesn't mean that she wouldn't have had others, or that the song wouldn't have become a hit perhaps due to being used in some other context.
133* Meg's death and Castiel becoming human in Season 8 were a bit of a shocker to some, but it makes sense. Shutting the gates of Hell apparently would banish every demon from the face of the Earth back to Hell, which would send the vaguely-good Meg back to an almost certain eternity of torture. Shutting Heaven up tight would lock Castiel in with a whole lot of angels who want to kill him. Removing them from the chessboard avoids sending them to their deaths.
134** People might've gotten over Meg being tortured in hell for eternity (I mean, what's Adam up to these days?), but here's the thing: If Meg had stayed alive, her attraction to Castiel and EnemyMine with the Winchesters would've kept her close to Team Free Will, in which case, it's not at all a stretch to suppose she would *volunteer* to be the demon cured, and that would just be too easy.
135* Probably a WMG but it's hilarious if true: At the end of "The Real Ghostbusters", Dean finds out that the Sam and Dean cosplayers were a gay couple which makes him rather uncomfortable. He's not weirded out because they were gay, he's weirded out because he remembered that Sam-Dean slash fiction is a real thing (mentioned in the prequel episode).
136* In "Heaven Can't Wait", Crowley refuses to use Sam's blood to contact Abaddon or to [[spoiler:inject himself]], instead making Kevin... erm, "donate." What's the big deal? He's already [[spoiler:got some of Sam's blood inside him]] and it's not like it makes a difference whether it's Sam or Kevin. [[spoiler:Except it ''does'', because Sam is currently possessed by an angel and thus has angel blood. We don't know if angel blood will work for the goblet of blood demons use to communicate, but Crowley ''definitely'' wouldn't want to inject angel blood into him or else he'd be one sorry little demon.]] Verges into WildMassGuessing territory but might this mean that Crowley knows somehow about Ezekiel, or at least suspects something's wrong with Sam?
137** He must have at least suspected -- last he saw, Sam looked to be falling apart at the seams, so him suddenly being back in apparently good health meant that ''something'' was up.
138* Lucifer's first vessel was named Nick. Traditionally in Scotland, Lucifer or Satan is also known as Auld Nick.
139* At first Sam's inability to fully use his demon powers seems like a plot hole to keep him becoming all powerful and kicking off his addiction to demon blood. He tries so hard yet only gets visions and some shaky telekinesis while others like Jake and Ava get the whole spectrum barely trying. Until Season 4 where we learn that demons were originally humans tortured in Hell for so long that they enjoyed the pain and inflicting it on others. Ava and Jake got all their powers because they gave into the demon blood and started enjoying hurting people while Sam always used his powers to help people so had to struggle against the nature of his abilities to get them to work.
140* In the early seasons, it seems like the boys are heading straight for a case of DentedIron if they even survive that long. With the broken bones, gunshot wounds, concussions, and numerous other injuries, the scar tissue has to be piling up...but then, the angels enter the picture, and upon his first angel-based resurrection Dean notes that his scars and other injuries have been wiped clean, which is why a) the makeup crew doesn't have to worry about making sure all the scars are in the right place if they're healed up every so often and b) Sam and Dean don't have to worry as much about keeping themselves from getting injured.
141* Some fans of scratched their heads as to how pagan deities from polytheistic religions can contradictorily co-exist with the Abrahamic God, especially when the writers have made it clear that the pagan gods are not simply angels and demons masquerading as gods (with the exception of [[spoiler:Gabriel going by the alias of Loki]]). It begins to make sense when one considers the concept of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolatrism Monolatrism]]. For added Fridge Brilliance, when watching the Season 5 episode "Hammer of the Gods", keep this verse (Jeremiah 10:11) in mind: "Tell them this: 'These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.'" -- JesseMB27
142* Gabriel didn't believe that the boys could stop the Apocalypse because he refused to see past the parallels between Michael and Lucifer and Dean and Sam. The angels are parallels, yeah, but only to the earlier versions of the boys. Once Dean manages to move past his father's orders and step out from under his authority, the comparison breaks down, which is why Gabriel and every other angel or archangel that thinks that the Apocalypse has to happen is dead wrong. Sam accepts responsibility for what he's done, Dean is determined to TakeAThirdOption rather than just kill Sam like Michael is willing to do to Lucifer, who steadfastly refuses to believe that he's at fault. The angels were right, the boys were born to their roles, but they were wrong about whether they still fit the part.
143* The way Dean pulls his war buddy Benny out of Purgatory, by absorbing his soul into his forearm. They're ''[[{{Pun}} brothers-in-arms]]''.
144* In "The Mentalists", at least one of the psychics ([[spoiler:not the villain]]) is real. After all, what better place to both hide and embrace your talent than in a [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles town full of]] {{Phony Psychic}}s?
145* When Dean questions why God doesn't intervene in the Apocalypse and stop the Angels, he never considers whether or not God is doing exactly what Dean wants him to do. Protect free will. While they are trying to take away free will from others, the Angels themselves are using their own free will to do so rather than following orders to do so, they want the world to end and so they have decided to end it. If God steps in and tells them to stop, that's just God commanding the universe again and is the exact opposite of what Team Free Will is fighting for. So if Dean truly believes in free will, he has to accept that while he doesn't like what the Angels are doing, he can't expect God to step in and solve everything, he has to use his own free will to oppose them. Free will has to be for everyone, angels and demons included, or it's worthless.
146* In "Two And A Half Men", Sam and Dean have to take care of a baby. When a woman asks what the boy's name is, the brothers hesitate before Dean says "Bobby" and Sam says "John". Dean used the name of their surrogate father, while Sam [[spoiler:who was soulless at the time and lacking emotional attachment to others]] went for their biological father.
147* Crowley's breakdown when injected with human blood in "Sacrifice" about how he "just wants to be loved" starts to make a lot more sense when his relationship with his abusive mother, Rowena, is revealed in Season 10. He wants love so badly because his mother never gave it to him, which is true in Real Life for a lot of people who are denied affection by their parents.
148* On first glance Dean's behavior in the second half of Season 9 does not make a great deal of sense. In "Sharp Teeth", he is instantly distrustful of Garth and seems very reluctant to admit that werewolves could be good, yet in the past he has shown understanding towards hunters-turned-monsters and has accepted the idea that creatures can be good at heart. In "The Purge", he is willing to murder an innocent creature because her brother went bad and he doesn't trust her, but all his arguments about family not ending or beginning with blood imply that he wouldn't blame her for her brother's actions. In "THINMAN", he kills Roger, admittedly a psychopath but still a pure human being, with almost no hesitation, whereas in the past Dean has only ever killed a human under the direst of circumstances or in order to protect someone else, such as "Repo Man" when he only actually killed the psychopath Jeffrey when an innocent kid was at stake. But when you remember the events of "First Born" it makes more sense, the Mark of Cain is influencing Dean right from the start and making him more suspicious and distrustful, subtly amplifying his already existing dislike of monsters which had been cooled a bit by his friendship with Benny and making him more willing to deal with monsters of the human variety in a final manner. It isn't until "Alex, Annie, Alexis, Anne" that the physical effects of the Mark, greatly increased strength, are shown when Dean overpowers and brutally decapitates a vampire, but its influence on his mind was present long before that.
149* The Bunker is supposed to be "warded against any evil ever created," and yet in [=S10E22=] "The Prisoner" the Styne Family simply waltz into the place, albeit by blowing up the doors, yet why is the supposedly impenetrable Bunker so easy to get into for them? Because despite all the enhancements and dark magic they've filled themselves with, the Stynes are still human beings and there's nothing like a Devil's Trap or Angel Warding for human beings. So long as the threat is a monster/demon/angel, the Bunker is the safest place to be, but against humans? It's just another safehouse, one that can be found and attacked.
150* Fans take issue with reapers being retconned as reapers and have legitimate complaints about it, but there is some canon to work with it. The deaths of reapers and angels are strikingly similar even when angels were introduced in Season 4, and it is revealed in Season 6 that Atropos, who sets up people's deaths, is working for Heaven; if Fate herself is arranging deaths and she's working for Heaven, it would follow that the reapers who cause those deaths and reap those souls would be working with her and in turn, would be connected to Heaven. Moreover, Death is called "The Angel of Death" in "Abandon All Hope...", connecting the two species -- Death may not be an angel, but he does command a type of them and they are angels ''of Death''.
151** Actually, when considering how Reapers and Angels seem to have become separate 'species' since then, another justification for it occurs; Metatron did a subtle 'retcon' to give himself more 'expendable forces' to help make his point as he set up Castiel as the villain, with the result that the Reapers were only 'technically' Angels while he had the tablet and that detail was erased when the tablet was destroyed.
152* Ruby informing Sam and Dean about Anna in "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Like the other demons, she knew beforehand that Anna was an angel and she wanted her for the same reasons they did -- not to protect her, but to find out what she was hearing on angel radio. Ruby enlisted Sam and Dean to track Anna down for her, and once they did, she came in to start building Anna's trust in her and using manipulation to get close enough to Anna to find out what she knew, ''without'' risking Anna dying under torture or refusing to give up information under interrogation and thus losing the high potential value she holds.
153* For ten seasons, I wonder why the demons look like living black smoke. At first I thought that was because they are a parody of angels since they look like living light outside their vessels in Season 9, but then I saw the finale of Season 10 and it hit me hard.[[spoiler:The Darkness was The Corrupter of Lucifer, the Father of Demons, so it's possible that it's influence inspired him to create creatures like it]]. This guess is maybe more truly because anyone who dies bearing the Mark becomes a demon.
154** Follow-up Brilliance on that -- anyone who dies bearing the Mark becomes a demon. A demon is a human soul that's been corrupted and twisted until it becomes something else entirely. The Mark ''is'' corruption itself, and it will turn the soul of any human who bears it to a demon, doing what it would take hundreds of years in Hell to do. It was even working on Dean before he died, affecting his behavior. It wasn't just working on his mind, it was working on his ''soul''.
155* In the episode "The End" where Dean is sent back to the future to a Croatoan-ruled world, Fut!Castiel is a hippy-human with no Mojo who is constantly high on or drunk. His drink of choice? Absinthe. Not only it's green in color (like Dean's eyes, mind you), it was also banned in the US until 2007 (I think), and is generally nicknamed the "Green fairy"... or "Green Devil". ''Devil''.
156* Way back in Season 4 when Sam kills Lilith, he's drunk a huge amount of demon blood (although not nearly as much as he did at the end of Season 5, mind you, but still) and we see -- and Chuck mentions in the next episode -- that his eyes go demon black briefly. It just seems odd at first and doesn't really get any sort of resolution or explanation, ''but'' several seasons later, we find that doses of human blood can make a demon more human. The reverse clearly works too, since demon blood made Sam prideful, aggressive, and physically stronger.
157* The Darkness being interested in Dean makes sense once it's revealed that like him, [[spoiler: she also has family issues.]]
158* In the Season 6 episode, "The Man Who Would Be King", Crowley tells [[spoiler: Castiel]] that he doesn't underestimate the Winchesters, which is why he hasn't been beaten/killed by them yet. Then in the Season 8 finale, he was successfully captured by them to be used for [[spoiler: the Third Trial]]. What led to this? He started to underestimate the Winchesters.
159* TheReveal of [[spoiler:the Darkness]] makes some things about the Leviathans make more sense. They were created before the Angels, which means [[spoiler:they were created while Amara was still loose]]. Given [[spoiler:Amara kept destroying the worlds God tried to make]], how freakishly hard they are to kill makes a lot more sense [[spoiler:given how hard it would be to survive back then.]]
160* The bond between [[spoiler: Dean and Amara]] makes a lot more sense after the Season 11 finale. They spent the entire season confused as to why they were so attracted to each other. Originally, we believed it was because of the effects of the [[spoiler: Mark of Cain]], but after the finale, it was because they realized that they were not so different in regards to how much they love their [[spoiler: little brothers]].
161* The angels needing vessels becomes even more brilliant after it's given some thought. Apart from the show's budget constraints and the InUniverse explanation of "People's eyes burn out if they see an angel", there is yet another reason why an angel would need a vessel to do anything on Earth. Angels are massive. Case in point, Castiel states at one point that he's about the same size as the Chrysler Building. That's about 1,046 feet (or about 318.82 meters) tall. Even if humans could see him as he really is, he couldn't do much to aid them. His size would make him unruly, and he'd likely cause a lot of collateral damage. Likewise, him speaking would still be an issue since he'd be incredibly (if unintentionally) loud.
162** There's also the fact that, if humans (apart from their true vessel) could see them without their eyes burning (or dying), angels would still have the issue of humans being terrified of them. It's already been established that Zachariah has four heads (one being a lion). But, what about the other angels? Well, according to Judeo-Christian folklore, Castiel looks like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Sieben_planetarische_geister_francis_barrett_the_magus.jpg/300px-Sieben_planetarische_geister_francis_barrett_the_magus.jpg this (Though it's not clear if the man riding the dragon is Castiel or if the dragon itself is Castiel)]]. He's not exactly what most people think of when they hear the word "Angel". It's no wonder he needs a vessel while on Earth.
163*** Lucifer takes this even further. According to Judeo-Christian folklore, his true form is that of a massive seven-headed dragon. How massive? Well, said folklore states that he knocks several stars out of orbit by accident and that entire rivers flow from his mouths. In other words, he makes Castiel seem like an ant in comparison. It's no wonder most other angels regard Lucifer with such fear. Even if he wasn't evil, he'd still be a major threat to them on sheer size advantage alone.
164* At first, the [[spoiler:return of God]] seems like the ultimate DeusExMachina, as the writers had basically created the ultimate antagonist in Amara and then needed a sudden twist to explain how the heroes could possibly hope to defeat her if they worked together. The Hands of God appeared to be the ultimate RedHerring, serving as plot points repeatedly only to be dismissed when the final battle came. However, after re-watching "We Happy Few" it becomes clear the writers actually demonstrated that [[spoiler:God]] wasn't necessary for the fight at all and neither were Hands of God. Actually, our regular characters WERE strong enough to defeat her. [[spoiler: God]] only gave them something to rally behind. When the actual fight came, [[spoiler: God]] didn't lift a finger and our existing characters were able to bring her to her knees. [[spoiler: In fact, Lucifer was about to stab her again, delivering a presumably fatal blow, when God asked him to stop (God wanted her weakened but didn't want her to die because it would destroy reality) and that was the only reason she was able to survive their attack.]] So the writers did actually manage to show that no DeusExMachina was needed. [[spoiler: An aside from this, since Amara was powerful enough to fight God as an equal, presumably even God himself could be taken out by enough regular characters joining forces.]]
165** Which also doubles as fridge brilliance for the final season, if team free will can take down Amara, then the possibility of defeating god does indeed also exist.
166* Episode 16, Season 11, Safehouse. It took me watching the episode a few times to realize: [[spoiler: The reason why the souls of Bobby and Rufus' case were returned to their bodies, is that Sam and Dean managed to kill the soul eater in time. As Dean said the nest exists outside of space and time. Between the sigil trap Bobby and Rufus used and the sigil to kill that Sam and Dean used. It meant that every one managed to get back into their bodies before they would have died]]
167* The middle of Season 12 has Lucifer ranting about having no plan that comes off as whining. However, it makes sense: he has basically lost his role as the villain. The Darkness kicked his ass twice and tortured him, his father took off after reconciling with him, he got outwitted several times by a simple witch, and hell is being ruled by Crowley. What is left for him?
168* The FightSceneFailure at the end of Season 13 notably let down lots of fans -- with obvious usage of wires and the fact that the long awaited fight between [[spoiler: Michael and Lucifer]] was nothing more than a slap fight instead of world-ending. However, it wasn't just [[spoiler: Michael vs Lucifer, as Dean was the one in control of Michael's powers. While Michael would be fine with letting everything burn, Dean most certainly isn't, and one gets the feeling that Dean was really holding back in order to prevent the fight from getting out of hand and causing too much collateral damage.]]
169* The rant that the Winchesters give to [[spoiler: Chuck]] at the end of Season 14 is basically what every fictional character would give to their writers if they were able to meet them in real life.
170%%* Chuck's [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn at the end of Season 14]] is foreshadowed by his actions in the episode "Don't Call Me Shurley":
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172* The late-season reveals that John and Mary were soulmates, as well as Jimmy and Amelia Novak, explains a lot about, well, a lot of things about a lot of characters. It was already established in Season 5 that John and Mary were deliberately paired up by Heaven and made to fall in love with each other, and it was strongly implied in Season 5 that Sam and Dean themselves are soulmates (which in itself is a case of FridgeBrilliance in later seasons, [[spoiler: as Sam and Dean were created literally to kill each other -- while their fates are grim, they are also intertwined, and in a perverse way, they were literally made for one another. Thus, their souls are connected]]). It also explains the general all-around insanity of the various "pairings": Mary making a demon deal to save John's life, John going on a decades-long revenge tear after Mary died, Mary coming back from the dead but being notably disconnected and out of place in her surroundings - and only shown to be particularly happy in "Lebanon", when John was temporarily resurrected. Turning to the Novaks, we don't get to see much of what Jimmy thinks of all this, but after he died, Amelia apparently fell apart to the point of abandoning their child to social services. And Sam and Dean, of course, infamously sell their souls and kill people and risk the entire planet for one another on a regular basis. While soulmates themselves are rarely discussed in the show (and don't seem to be common in SPN-verse in general), it's established that souls themselves are extremely powerful. It stands to reason that if a person is forcibly separated from their soulmate, they'll limp along in some kind of sad half-existence until they're eventually reunited.
173* [[spoiler: In late Season 15, Chuck has confirmed that Cas "has a crack in his chassis" and wasn't supposed to be part of the story after the Apocalypse arc. Earlier in the season, when Chuck showed a draft of his story ending to Becky, she observed that "he didn't even mention Cas." If Cas truly isn't supposed to be part of the story, if he's some kind of GlitchInTheMatrix who is one of very, very few entities outside of Chuck's control (bearing in mind Chuck's been shown manipulating extremely powerful entities such as Lucifer and Death), that has a slew of interesting implications for Cas' character and how he's impacted the show the past ten seasons.]]
174** To start with, Cas has often been derided, by other characters in the show and in the fandom, for screwing things up and making things worse. If Cas really has no fate at all though, that makes sense. He's in the middle of all these cosmic events and just thrashes around and does things.
175** At the same time, Cas has often impacted the story in major ways that are somewhat underplayed -- and this is a big deal, as apparently this is the only universe where Sam and Dean have been able to continually defy Chuck, and Chuck hasn't been able to achieve the ending he's wanted. The most obvious instances are Seasons 6, 8, and 10, when Cas pulled Sam out of the Cage (albeit without his soul), facilitated Dean finding out the Trials would kill Sam, and restrained Deanmon from killing Sam. All three incidents either occur completely offscreen, when Cas isn't present, or are just brief moments before the plot moves on. But considering Chuck's been gunning for a "Sam and Dean kill each other/end up dead" ending this whole time, Cas intervening at those times is... actually pretty major.
176** The fact in itself that Cas's actions are often underplayed, either things done offscreen that are mentioned later, or quickly moved on from in the story, also makes sense in this light. [[spoiler: Cas is a side character -- not just in the show we're watching, but in Chuck's story. Based on Chuck's narrative, Cas isn't even supposed to be there, and nothing he does should be particularly meaningful.]] Cas often doesn't even appear in the story for long stretches of time, but then, as mentioned, things he does offscreen do end up impacting the story in significant ways.
177** [[spoiler: The entire revelation is pretty meta, as in real life, Cas's character was only intended to last for the Apocalypse arc before returning to Heaven, but was kept on due to his popularity. While he is indeed a popular character in the fandom, quite a few fans also outright dislike him, and many others are more or less indifferent to him. Fans have often speculated that the writers have wanted to keep Cas around, but haven't known what to do with him, thus constantly depowering him or sending him on off screen missions and having him pop up occasionally.]]
178** To add another layer of fridge brilliance to all of this. A lot of people complain that most other angels get little to no character development compared to Castiel. With this revelation, it makes sense. Angels were created to obey god, they have an incredibly hard time breaking out of not only that programming, but they easily end up falling back into stereotypical roles because of that programming. However, with Cas being an outlier and essentially a wild card, it explains why he could grow and eventually practice free will, where as other angels could not.
179* After the events of the season 14 finale and all of season 15, [[spoiler: during which Sam and Dean had to fight Chuck/God]], Chuck's declaration in the eleventh season that Lucifer wasn't a villain makes more sense.
180* In a world where ghosts, monsters, and demons are common and regularly killing people, why aren't any humans other than hunters and people who survived an encounter with them aware of their existence (to the point that Sam and Dean tell a true story about demon battles in order to get admitted to an insane asylum to hunt a wraith)? To compare, in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' the mayor, a supernatural being himself, has the cops, also fully aware of the existence of vampires and demons, cover it up, and many others [[WeirdnessCensor try to forget or deny it]], and in ''Charmed'', both good and evil magical beings make a point of keeping a low profile among mortals to avoid unwanted attention, erasing memories if need be. But no clear explanation is given in ''Supernatural'' as to why most non-hunter humans are ignorant to the existence of the supernatural. Well, as of the Season 14 finale, [[spoiler: we find out God was manipulating events as a seemingly neverending story for his own entertainment, so perhaps the above was his doing as well, to make the "story" more interesting.]] In Season 15 we also find out that [[spoiler:God created multiple realities with their own Sam and Dean killing each other in different ways, so he could have made at least one of his other worlds with the general public aware of the supernatural but finding the alternative more entertaining.]]
181* [[spoiler:Dean's death being random and anticlimactic makes complete sense. All of the rest of the show Chuck was controlling Dean and Sam's story. They survived or were brought back from so many insane encounters because Chuck gave them plot armor. Now that Dean has no plot armor the odds finally caught up to him in a fight where he and Sam were outnumbered. Both Sam and Dean die in ways Chuck never would have written, Dean to random chance, and Sam peacefully in his sleep.]]
182* You would think that Chuck would have more compassion for his creations (especially humans) due to having lived among them in disguise for so long. But if you remember the episode when he revealed himself to Metatron, he said that he learned how to play the guitar, only to later state that he just ''gave'' himself the ability. Chuck cheated; even at his lowest points, there was never a point where he was completely powerless, as he had said himself: ''[[spoiler:"I could never write an ending where I lose.]]" Since he wasn't humbled, he always looked upon his creations as lower than him. It makes his ultimate fate ironic, since now, [[spoiler:after being depowered, he is now forced to live and die a a human without all his powers to make his existence easier]].
183** Now compare Chuck with Jack, [[spoiler:who dethrones him as God after stealing his powers]]. Jack's life is basically that of Jesus' life. He was born from Lucifer impregnating his human mother (Jesus was born from God making his mother Mary pregnant via immaculate conception), which he got a lot of shit for throughout his life (Jesus was accused of being a bastard due to the complicated circumstances of his birth), he preformed miracles, there were moments where Jack got depowered (Jesus didn't do anything but pray when he was arrested and crucified), and both have died only to come back (Jesus died once, but Jack died like ''three'' times). Unlike Chuck, Jack has lived a more or less human life, so he's genuinely become close to these "lesser beings" and has compassion towards them. As a final point, in Revelations, it was said that [[spoiler:Jesus would take over for God at the end of everything, so it was kind of destined from the beginning]].
184* Chuck enforcing RuleOfCool and preventing realism that would derail his story explains why someone as sexually active as Dean has been throughout his life doesn't have ''multiple'' illegitimate children out there. In real life, you couldn't get away with that without consequences if you didn't always use protection, which, given that Dean thought it was possible Ben was his son, he apparently didn't.
185* Anytime Dean has been dead (or Sam has believed him to be so), the colouring and camera angles tend to change - claustrophobic and dark with lots of dutch angles in Seasons 3 and 4, then bright, blurry, and dreamlike in Season 8 and in the second half of the finale. This is possibly meant to reflect that Sam views the world differently when separated from Dean - either darker and scarier, or hazy and not-really-real. As Sam also has multiple canon incidents of hallucinations and psychosis, one can go so far as to speculate his perception of reality changes when Dean is gone.
186* Jack's behavior near the end of Season 14, after accidentally killing Mary Winchester, might seem odd at first since soulless people are supposed to be incapable of feeling guilt. But Jack seems to feel guilty and goes to extreme lengths to try to undo his mistake and bring Mary back. Sure, the fact that he's half-Archangel might explain this, since angels have been shown to be capable of feeling guilt, but if you listen closely to what Jack actually says in the three episodes after he kills Mary, it becomes clear that he isn't feeling bad about ''what he did'', he feels bad about the fact that things between him and the brothers won't be the same anymore once they find out. He admits this later on in Season 15, saying that he knows Dean is upset at him and he knows he should feel guilt for what he did, but he doesn't.
187* Alllll the way back in Season 1, "Phantom Traveler", the first appearance of a demon, the boys could smoke out a possessed person by saying "Christo" to make them flinch and reveal their demon eyes. It never appeared again, which has irritated fans, since that's much easier and more practical than tossing holy water and salt onto people. But from a meta perspective, that's probably the exact reason why the writers ignored its existence afterwards.
188* In "The Man Who Would Be King", Raphael tells Castiel that [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Kenneth Lay]] was allowed into Heaven despite his numerous wrongdoings because his [[ChurchgoingVillain devoutness]] outweighed his sins. But after learning [[spoiler:Chuck/God's [[GodIsEvil true]] [[PyschopathicManchild nature]], it's more likely that he lets seemingly undeserving people into Heaven because [[ItAmusedMe he thinks it's funny]].]]
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193* Sam and Dean lead Lilith straight to a group of innocent people. Who's to say that Dean's stay in hell wasn't made worse by their presence. Hooked to chains, beaten to shit by pissed off victims, no wonder he broke in 30 years.
194** If they were innocent, they wouldn't be in Hell. Images of them, maybe.
195* Sam and Jess had a lot of friends at Stanford. Think about them along with Jess's parents after her death. Yes, it was an accidental fire. But Sam went off with a mysterious brother that weekend, and a few years later, he was put on the FBI's most wanted list. They thought that a person they cared for deeply, a person they believed to be quiet and normal, was a murderer.
196** He is. He just hasn't killed the people they think he has (see the below point).
197* Possibly one of the worst bits of fridge horror is the fact that Sam and Dean don't even bother to exorcise demons anymore. Ever since acquiring the Ruby knife in "No Rest for the Wicked", they've begun simply stabbing every demon they see. This means that they've been consistently killing the innocent people that were possessed since late Season 3. This fact is never really mentioned and they seem to show no remorse; unlike when Dean first killed an innocent person possessed by a demon in Season 1 with the Colt, in which he reacted as being horrified at what he was willing to do to protect Sam and his dad. The innocent person death toll can be 10 or higher in a demon-heavy episode.
198** Possibly because the demons usually come two or three at a time now, and they lack the time to stick each one under a devil's trap and exorcise them.
199** "Devil's Trap" shows that the damage a body receives while possessed remains even after the demon is gone. As the Winchesters were considered hunter elite, it stands to reason that most of the demons they go up against are fairly violent and so their meatsuits are well battered. The possessed might not survive long anyway after the demon leaves their body.
200*** Though it should be noted that the girl who's used as an example of this, Meg, later returns as a ghost and tells Dean that she ''would'' have survived had he and Sam figured out she was possessed and exorcised the demon ''before'' throwing her out the seven-story window. Nowadays, the demons make themselves known as demons right away, so Sam and Dean are aware that there are hosts in there they should try to save -- they just prefer killing them and the hosts, who might have been able to survive -- like Meg would've -- if the demons were just exorcised instead, because apparently it's too much of a hassle for the guys -- who once exorcised ''over thirty demons at once'' -- to even try to save the hosts' lives. Can be seen as a depressing type of CharacterDevelopment, with the brothers just getting much colder, darker, and Gordon-esque over the years as the crap piles on and their concern for unnamed innocents' lives decrease.
201*** Recent episodes -- Season 11 -- have acknowledged this, although when it's come up, the meatsuits in question were already too damaged to survive (one had a stab wound, the other had a gunshot wound to the upper chest). Handwave by the writers?
202*** Exorcism worked perfectly well in Seasons 1 and 2, and 3 as a solution to the immediate problem, but the problem was the gates of hell were open. As we saw with Meg, it was now way too easy for a demon to just come back topside after. At the end of the day the Winchesters are still pragmatic enough to realize that if they didn't kill this demon (and by extension, its host) now, it would just come back and kill someone else later.
203*** The real reason is that the writers got lazy and didn't want to spend time on exorcisms, or keep demons as hard to kill for that matter.
204* "Simon Said" deals with a nice guy who can [[CharmPerson persuade people to do anything]]. The first time the brothers see him, he's walking out of a building and a barely-dressed, beautiful young woman waves out of the window at him. Rape by brainwashing, anyone?
205* "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1". The idea that the demon(s) may have ''gone in'' the Roadhouse and tortured the hunters inside for kicks before burning it to the ground, since we don't really know how it happened...
206** Not necessarily. Ellen escaped because she was out getting pretzels. She said she couldn't have been gone for more than fifteen minutes, so the good news is the people inside probably weren't tortured. Just brutally murdered.
207* All of those innocent people who took the fall for the various murders carried out by demons and skinwalkers and other supernatural monsters? Yeah, you can bet your ass that they went straight to prison. Or, depending on capital punishment laws in the state they live in...
208** The Winchesters have killed a lot of innocents themselves. Who's taking the fall for ''those'' deaths? Not Sam and Dean, that's for sure...
209* Several characters try to dissuade Dean from getting Sam's soul back by pointing out that Sam will suffer horribly when his soul and body are re-united. However, Dean never bothers to counter that his brother will suffer either way, regardless of whether he is down in the cage or up on Earth reliving the memories. If anything, more traumatic memories would pile up the longer they leave him in Hell, whereas up here Dean could help him recover. But what if Dean did make that argument? ''No one would actually care'', making those warnings seem less like concern for Sam's wellbeing and much more like attempts at manipulating Dean:
210** The SoullessShell is literally [[LackOfEmpathy unable to empathize]] with the missing component.
211** [[BigBad Crowley]] won't give a damn about the true Sammy suffering, whereas Soulless!Sam is useful to him.
212** Death is completely above the concerns of those [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet insignificant humans]].
213** Castiel ''might'' understand, but he has a track record of failing to grasp [[LackOfEmpathy similar]] [[NoSocialSkills concepts]]. Plus, the fact that he mostly answers the Winchesters' calls when heavenly artifacts are concerned makes you wonder if he, too, may be more interested in keeping a [[TheUnfettered ruthlessly efficient]] hunter around to send after those.
214* Adam doesn't seem to have been revived from Hell with Sam. So one can assume he will be in Hell with two archangels until the end of time, which, coincidentally, will take 120 times longer than it would if he were in Heaven or Earth.
215** But since we don't know who or what pulled Sam out, we can assume he might have gotten out too. If not can you imagine the family reunion if he were to get out?
216*** As of recent revelations we know who pulled Sam out. And it seems that Adam is still in the cage.
217*** And so is [[spoiler: Sam's soul]]. With a bored and frustrated Michael and Lucifer.
218*** [[spoiler:Sam's soul]]'s out, but Adam's still down there. [[spoiler: Even after Dean was offered the chance to get him out. Although he had to choose between Adam and Sam.]]
219*** Though considering Adam didn't really have anything to do with the Apocalypse being averted, he may be spared the same torture Sam went through, at least on Michael's part.
220*** Except Michael has shown total apathy and implied disdain for pretty much everyone else on the show. He ''vaporized'' [[spoiler:Anna]] without a second thought, and actually appeared to enjoy it. He might not partake in torturing Adam himself, but he's most likely not going to try to stop Lucifer.
221*** Worse, even if both Lucifer and Michael leave Adam alone, the kid is stuck in the Cage with two archangels who have a deathmatch that may or may not have been postponed. Even if he's not being actively tortured by them, he's still stuck in the crossfire.
222*** It's possible Adam was dead long before the Season 5 finale. Considering he wasn't Michael's actual vessel, and considering what Raphael did to his vessel, it's entirely possible that Adam's soul was pushed out of his body. Michael did say something along the lines of "Adam's not in here anymore".
223*** Considering recent revelations that the human body can't retain a soul if it's disintegrated, maybe Adam's soul passed on when Castiel hit Michael with that holy fire Molotov cocktail; keep in mind that Death never confirms that Adam's soul is in the Cage...
224** Season 15 mid-season finale renders this speculation moot, as both Adam and Michael are revealed to be healthy and sane.
225* In "Caged Heat" Sam tries to find Cas by telling him he's found a [[{{Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk}} magic gold box that melted the faces off a bunch of Nazis that he thinks is the Ark of the Covenant.]] Cas, being Cas, doesn't get the reference, but appears anyway and asks to see the box. Which means that the real Ark of the Covenant ''does'' melt the faces off anyone who looks inside and ''is still somewhere on earth''.
226** In Season 11, it's confirmed that the Ark [[spoiler:''did'' exist, and although the characters only had a piece of it, it had been touched by God Himself and contained awesome power.]] No wonder Castiel showed up so quick!
227* In "Sam, Interrupted" the committed hunter friend is now believed to be the one who killed the monster disguised as a patient. His fate is never mentioned again. Could the doctors do something to him before the cops are called?
228** As of Season 8, he's been mentioned again. [[spoiler:Turns out he was discharged but wasn't too stable, and Benny killed him in self-defense.]]
229* See RapeAsDrama [[Supernatural/TropesQToZ here]].
230* Dean compares Heaven to the Matrix because it's a constructed reality run by the angels. In Season 6, with the revelation that [[spoiler:souls are an energy source]], it becomes even ''more'' like the Matrix.
231* The existence of Purgatory, and the fact that every monster without fail arrives there when they die. People like Madison who were turned into monsters against their will and then mercy-killed by the brothers, instead of going to Heaven, are immediately plopped down into a monochrome wasteland where they have to fight for their very survival. Not only do they get turned into killers against their will, they spend the rest of eternity fighting against others of their own kind just to avoid whatever it is that happens when a monster dies in Purgatory.
232* The "happy" ending of the episode about the haunted hotel shows the ghost girl and recently deceased elderly sister together in each other's company. The unhappiness comes out of the fact that unless they're put to rest, they're gonna go crazy and start killing people in a few decades, as pointed out in the Season 2 opening episode. And some for Fridge Horror: remember the victims of the week whom they save from the monsters? Not everyone's gonna go along with the world being populated with evil monsters. More than likely every one either went insane, killed themselves or is terrified of ever leaving the house. And the fact that they'll never know for sure how to kill a monster without the help of other hunters means they'll make a mistake and end up being killed among other problems they'll have.
233** Considering how violent the demons were, that nearly everybody who had been possessed by a demon is likely to be implicated in various violent criminal acts, including lots of murder. Their fingerprints and DNA would be over all sorts of crime scenes, and there would be witnesses. The choice would often be to go into hiding, or face life imprisonment or death by execution, and either way your life and the lives of your family would be utterly destroyed. Dying of demon-related injuries might be seen as the easier option.
234*** Angelic possession could be almost as bad since angels are freer from human concerns like covering up after themselves. At the best, angelic vessels and prophets would most likely populate mental wards for years after their last interaction.
235*** Pretty much stated to be the case in "Free to Be You and Me" -- [[spoiler:Raphael's vessel is catatonic after being initially possessed by him. And then he is possessed by him again so that Raphael can jump-start the apocalypse.]]
236*** Plus, it's usually pretty horrifying when the angels and demons engage in sexual activity. The humans whose bodies they are wearing are effectively paralyzed, at least partially conscious and most likely have little to no say in what is happening to their bodies. Maybe [[TooKinkyToTorture some of them]] don't mind it overly, but the whole thing seems a lot closer to rape than consensual sex.
237*** Well, we've only seen or heard about three angels engaging in sexual activity -- Anna, who explicitly was not angelfied at the time she got it on with Dean (and she was a special case, since her body was created when she fell, not possessed); Balthazar, whose vessel presumably didn't expect... [[TheHedonist that]] when he agreed to be his vessel; and Cas, whom we thankfully now know to have been all alone in that body when he slept with that Reaper. So, onscreen evidence is less horrifying than it would initially seem, but still somewhat disturbing.
238** That last point is unlikely and trite; if the victims of the week were going to go insane or become suicidal, there would be some indication of it when they they say goodbye to the Winchesters.
239* The people who were turned into fairytale monsters by the comatose girl. Especially the old lady in the woods, who was as far as we know a genuinely nice person before she got whammied into being a murderous "witch". And what about her family, who will never know the truth?
240* In "I Believe the Children Are Our Future," we get to see what happens to a woman after a demon took over her body and gave birth to its spawn.
241* When Lilith was about to make a deal with Sam, she said that it, "takes more than a kiss to make a deal with her", and pats the bed seductively. Didn't a rather young Bela make a deal with Lilith? ...Oh.
242** Actually, no. Lilith was sealed in Hell until the events of the show. Lilith, however, held her contract. Think of the average crossroads demon as a salesperson, trying to sell you talent/fame/success/whatever for the cost of your soul. So a minion of Lilith made a deal with the young Bela, not Lilith herself.
243* The fate of [[spoiler:Adam. He and his mother were murdered by monsters just because of their connection to John Winchester. Then he was resurrected and introduced to his long lost half-brothers for the briefest of moments before being possessed by an archangel, firebombed by another angel, and thrown into hell by his own brothers. Now, he's trapped for all eternity in a cage in Hell with two supremely pissed off archangels. We've heard about all the terrible things that happened to Sam and Dean during their stints in Hell, but Adam has now been there longer than both of them and is ''still being tortured'', with no hope of ever being rescued. And nobody, not even his own brothers, seem to care that he's still there, he's barely been mentioned since. All because he wanted to see his mother again.]] Easily the worst bit of fridge horror in the series.
244** Actually, with the recent revelation that the human body can't retain a soul if it's disintegrated, it may be that Adam's soul was released from his body when Cas hit him with that Molotov cocktail.
245** Let's not forget Bela, who sold her soul to stop her father from raping her -- only to have both her parents killed. She'd have gone through life an orphan, knowing it was her fault with an eternity in hell looming over her -- from the age of 14 to 24.
246** There's Lilith, the first woman, who was presumably kidnapped, tortured, mutilated by Lucifer into becoming a demon, locked in hell for millions of years, and released only to be killed (and wiped out of existence) to free the man who destroyed her life and soul in what looked to be a very painful way.
247*** Although in the original mythology, Lilith was the first woman (even before Eve), and got kicked out of Eden because she didn't want to, well, be the bottom in her relationship with Adam. She then freely decided to join Samael (aka Satan) and become his wife. So a human may actually choose to become a demon instead of being tortured into one.
248** Jimmy Novak's been strapped to a comet, killed, resurrected (twice) and kept from his family just because he wanted to do the right thing.
249*** And his family had to watch Godstiel go on a months-long world wide killing spree while wearing their loved one.
250*** Considering how many times Jimmy/Cas has been exploded, reconstituted, possessed by EldritchAbomination(s), and reprogrammed, can we all agree (and dearly hope) that Jimmy's soul has passed on and it's just Cas in there now?
251*** Thankfully confirmed in the most recent episode: Jimmy's soul went to Heaven after Cas was vaporized by Raphael. However, it introduces a new fridge horror in the fates of Jimmy's family (namely his daughter, Claire) after Jimmy/Cas left for a second time.
252** This is why there's a list of Supernatural characters titled "Team Screwed Over By Team Free Will."
253* Sam and Dean singing together in "No Rest for the Wicked" gets a lot less heartwarming when a few seconds after Sam starts to lighten up, Dean goes quiet and contemplative and you wonder if maybe he just wanted to cheer Sam up. Then you remember that in "Born under a Bad Sign", Dean complained about Sam being a fan of Bon Jovi. The very band to whose song Dean started singing along.
254* Chuck was writing stories based off the Winchester's real lives, right? And there's a small but dedicated fandom following those books in cannon, right? Can you imagine if you were one such fan, who suddenly saw a headline one day -- maybe on the sidebar of your homepage as you checked your e-mail -- and saw that oh, no, there’s been some sort of bizarre accident, but hey, wait a minute, this guy has the same name as the character in the book I just read… and he looks like he might have died the same way…? And then googling a bit and realizing all of the people who’ve ever died in the books correspond to real people who actually died in genuinely horrific ways in real life?
255** Made far worse when you realize that any fans who ''do'' notice will [[AllPartOfTheShow most likely think it's an ARG.]]
256* Dr. Gaines (the Leviathan) was "bibbed" and forced to eat himself by his boss, Richard Roman. But remember, before Levi!Gaines took that form in "Hello, Cruel World", he had originally possessed a little girl by the name of Annie. Also keep in mind that the Leviathans don't just transfer hosts, they shapeshift. Wait a second....that means that that Leviathan basically forced a little girl to unwillingly run away from her family and EAT HERSELF. I guess we can only hope that the Leviathans don't keep their hosts conscious like demons do..
257** Well, when the Leviathans first took over Cas, they said he was "dead." Hopefully(?) that means their hosts' minds are totally gone and the little girl wasn't around to feel a thing.
258* While it's possible it was simply because Whitman was possibly draining them, the implication that some ghosts go crazy because they have both begun to physically and mentally ''decay'' is totally chilling. "Ghost Alzheimer's" as Bobby puts it, simply doesn't do the horror of this justice.
259* As of "Survival of the Fittest," [[spoiler: Sam is more alone and at rock bottom than any character has ever been in the history of the show. When Dean went to Hell, Sam had Ruby. When Sam jumped into the Pit, Dean had Lisa and Ben. Right now, though Sam is completely and utterly alone. His brother and one of his best friends are stuck in Purgatory. Bobby is dead. He literally has nobody left. His family is gone. And I believe it was confirmed at one of the cons recently that [[NightmareFuel Lucifer isn't fully gone from Sam's head...]] ]] What fun we're going to have next season.
260* Amy Pond's son belongs to a species that ''need'' human pituitary glands to survive. His mother was keeping them both alive mostly by working as a mortician and harvesting the glands from the corpses that crossed her table, only killing people when he got sick and needed fresher food. And then Dean kills her. How's a boy who's barely in double figures, who will die without those glands, supposed to get them ''without'' killing anyone?
261* Crowley kidnaps a bunch of shape-shifter babies and threatens to gut them in front of their daddy, the Alpha shape-shifter. Later, when attempting to deal with the Leviathan leader, Dick Roman, he brings a basket of muffins made with baby uvulas. Where did he get... OH DEAR.
262* The [[spoiler:Hallucifer]] storyline in particular is very disturbing when you think about it. Sam is being tormented by [[spoiler:a hallucination of the person who horrifically tortured him for [[YearInsideHourOutside God knows how long]] so badly that he ends up going insane and almost dies from the fallout. How awful must it have been for Sam to have your torturer (and, it's heavily implied, rapist) living inside your head and actively trying to ''kill you'' or else push you to ''kill yourself''? Especially when his trick for banishing Hallucifer stopped working at the end of "Repo Man", so he had to deal with that without any escape]]. One wonders how bad Sam's mental state really was since [[spoiler:Hallucifer ''is'' just a hallucination, AKA a fragment of Sam's damaged psyche, so on some level, Sam just wanted to die but wouldn't admit it to himself]].
263* Lilith. She's said to be the first demon. She's female. We know that. But...she seems to prefer to take young girls as meatsuits and acts childish. Lucifer kidnapped her, tortured her, and corrupted her to make a point. Does anyone else think that unlike Crowley (a Scottish tailor) or Ruby (a witch) Lilith was just a little girl that got snatched by Lucifer?
264* So, when Dean finds Emmanuel!Cas, he is clearly content, empathetic, and doing good in the world, not to mention having a devoted wife in Daphne. By the end of the episode, he has become first guilt-ridden and then after absorbing Sam's memories, insane. By the end, he has given up a good life in which he is atoning for his past actions in favor of insanity. He's done it all to help Dean, who doesn't exactly have a history of appreciating him. On top of that, his wife probably never learns his fate.
265* 8x14 (Trial and Error) raises some Fridge Horror for 2x8 (Crossroad Blues). In the former, we see that a person who falls in love because of a crossroads deal loses those feelings when the person who makes the deal dies, implying that the deal only goes through for the ten years until the soul of the pact holder is collected. The husband in Crossroad Blues, however, made the deal in order to cure his wife's cancer. If Sam and Dean hadn't intervened and released him from his deal, would his wife's cancer have come back? Not to mention Ellie's deal was to cure her mother's Parkinson's.
266** Speaking of Ellie, [[spoiler:at the end of Season 8, Sam and Dean decide not to close the gates of hell, meaning that when Ellie dies, at latest of old age, she will inevitably go to hell, and they forget about her entirely to keep Sam from dying in the process of closing the gates of hell.]] Although, at the end of the series [[spoiler:Jack is God, changing Heaven for the better and releasing Bobby from its jail, and Rowena is queen of hell, forbidding any more demon deals, so perhaps she was spared after all]].
267* In 8x17 (Goodbye Stranger) when the brothers find [[spoiler:Meg]] the first thing Dean does is make a crack about her hair (which is now blonde) and she says Crowley did it. And we're all laughing at Dean's line of thought and the idea of Crowley giving his victims makeovers. But her hair used to be dark brown and to go from brown to blonde means bleaching the hair. Who thinks Crowley would do that properly? Or does a bucket full of the nastiest bleach on the planet repeatedly sloshed over her head seem more likely?
268** Probably with lacerations all over her head just to maximize the pain; her hair was kinda bloodstained, after all.
269* Partway through Season 6 we find out that Christian had been possessed the entire time he had been onscreen [[spoiler: on Crowley's orders to keep an eye on Samuel.]] But in "Two and A Half Men," [[spoiler: Samuel]] asks Christian whether he and his wife had had any luck in getting pregnant. Are they trying to make another Antichrist?
270** Unlikely. What Samuel said implies that there are two human bodies involved, while the process that conceived Jesse involved only one human and a demon who possessed that human.
271** It's also possible that the wife is possessed as well, or even dead.
272* Naomi is in charge of bringing rebellious angels to heel, by brainwashing them using some kind of drill, reading their thoughts the whole time they're under her control, and making them follow her orders, ''without them realizing it''. We know that she has done this to Cass over and over again. Now consider all those seemingly emotionless {{Mook}}s that show up all the time. Consider [[spoiler:Anna]]. How many angels on the show have been brainwashed by Naomi, and ''how many times''?
273-->'''Castiel:''' You've been in ''all'' our heads! That's the problem!
274* In "Man's Best Friend with Benefits" James Frampton's familiar Portia's alternate form is that of a Doberman Pinscher. Traditionally, Dobermans have their ears cropped to make them stand and tails docked short, like the dog used in filming. Does that mean that sometime in her life the familiar had her ears partially cut off?
275** Seeing as they are witch and warlock companions its' more likely that they can choose to look like that, possibly due to how "refined" a cropped and docked Doberman looks.
276* Lilith possessing little girls gets more and more evil and cruel the more you think about it. Not only is she terrorizing and killing entire families while making them think their daughter/sister/granddaughter has become a monster, ''the little girls she possesses are still in there'' -- being forced to murder their pets and their loved ones (and having said loved ones ''plotting to kill them''), being forced to torture half a dozen people to death (the police station people), unable to control their own bodies, all the while probably having Lilith verbally and mentally torture them in their minds. This probably happens to most hosts (if not all of them), but it's especially appalling here because these are ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''.
277** Adding to that, Becky reads the book versions of the third season, and thinks that Lilith and Crowley were lovers. Lilith exclusively possessed little girls in that season. Christ, if any of her hosts survived, they'll need a lifetime of therapy.
278* "The French Mistake" is chockfull of [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]], but when you consider that most of that reality's version of the ''Supernatural'' cast and crew were murdered and that Creator/JensenAckles and Creator/JaredPadalecki vanished without a trace, leaving [[Creator/GenevievePadalecki Genevieve]] (and presumably [[Creator/DanneelAckles Danneel]], though she doesn't appear) without any idea of what happened to them... it gets pretty freaking tragic.
279** While I'm sure Genevieve and Danneel would be going out of their minds, we don't actually know whether J and J actually disappeared, or if they came back once Sam and Dean left...to discover their coworkers brutally murdered, their jobs destroyed, and their lives in shambles. And they don't even have each other to talk to, since there's no "J2" in that universe.
280** Misha on the other hand was definitely murdered in cold blood, leaving Vicki a widowed mother bringing up a West who'd never know his father. Now THAT is a serious TearJerker.
281*** Just West, mind you. Maison Collins will never exist in that universe.
282** The fact that there is no "J2" in that universe. Considering how close Jared, Jensen, and their families are in real life, a universe where Jared and Jensen don't even ''speak'' to each other outside of work is downright depressing.
283* The conclusion to [[spoiler:Bela Talbot]]'s story is that she goes to {{Hell}} as part of her DealWithTheDevil. That's an extremely dark and horrific fate for any character, but it gets ''even worse'' when you consider ''why'' she made her deal -- her father was raping her and she wanted to stop him from hurting her anymore. Demons prey on traumatic psychological issues while dishing out physical pain, and this is only compounded in Hell, where the torment never stops, ever, and as a "bonus," demons can shapeshift into people you know when tormenting you. Demons would ''absolutely'' rape [[spoiler:Bela]], probably in the form of her father, as a form of torture. And given her preexisting trauma, that's probably their favorite way of torturing her. [[ShootTheShaggyDog The thing she tried so desperately to escape as a child will be visited on her for the rest of eternity.]]
284** [[spoiler:Well, the brightside is that she'll probably break eventually and become a demon, so the torture will stop. That's good, right?]]
285** It could instead be that she gets to torture her abusive father (who presumably went to Hell for abusing her)as a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, which she would [[AHellOfATime probably regard as a reward rather than a punishment.]]
286* Dean eats a lot, to the point that it's a running joke, right? But knowing what the boys' childhood was like, Dean got in the habit of 'eat when there's food because I don't know when I can get it again'. Sam, however, doesn't eat whenever he can, like Dean. Why? Dean gave Sam his food, so Sam wouldn't go hungry.
287* In "Phantom Traveler", Sam tells a panicked Dean that he has to calm down to avoid getting possessed by the MonsterOfTheWeek, alluding to the real-world belief that demons possess people by exploiting their emotional and/or psychological weak spots. Go back to the case of Karen Singer, who was distraught after she learned Bobby didn't want to have children with her and who was possessed only a few days later. Karen's despair may well have attracted the demon and gave it the power to possess her, which would only add to Bobby's guilt if he realized it (which he probably did, since he was the big demonology expert in the show). Poor Singers.
288* Season 5 reveals that God and the archangels were aware of how the Apocalypse would begin and end ever since God created the universe, and Season 6 implies that there was a "script" that everybody was supposed to follow. It is meant to frame the story of the Winchesters and Team Free Will, but when you consider that this would mean that God and the archangels ''knew from the beginning'' what would happen, it gets a little unsettling; they would all have known ''before God even created humans'' that Lucifer would abhor humanity and defy God's command to bow to them, that he would go to Michael and all their other angel brethren for support and they would all reject him, that he would take some humans and torture them into inhuman monsters, that Michael would be commanded by God to lock Lucifer away in the darkest pit of Hell for thousands of years, and that Lucifer would be unleashed with the Apocalypse just for Michael to kill him and bring Paradise. God would have known all this, and so would Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer, even before any of them did anything, and all the archangels were 100% convinced that none of it could be averted. Yeah, that's... a [[{{Understatement}} little]] unsettling. And what may be the worst part? Team Free Will proved that "Destiny" is more a suggestion than anything else! Lucifer could have averted everything by not giving in to his hatred and to the idea of Destiny, but he didn't.[[note]]Well, he did start trying to rebel against the Grand Plan, but too late: when faced with the reality of his death at the hands of Michael, he did try to buck Destiny by trying to convince Michael to not fight him, and even when Michael refused -- because ''he'' still fully believed in Destiny -- Lucifer remained determined to fight tooth-and-nail for his life.[[/note]]
289* "Dog Dean Afternoon" ends with the Winchesters dropping the dog they had in the episode to a couple of vegans who feed it with vegan products, much to the dog's disgust. Funny! Except that [[http://raw-fed-pets.tumblr.com/post/90406730386/faofox-raw-fed-pets-all-dogs-share-the-same dogs cannot subsist on a vegan diet]]. That dog will ''survive'', but may also suffer from such things as renal failure, heart failure, urinary problems, pancreatic problems, diabetes, periodontal disease, or cancer. Good job Dean!
290** Though they may want to lean toward veggies with the dog's treats, it's unlikely that the couple are going to feed the dog a strictly vegan diet. Unless they're complete idiots, which they didn't come off as (although they ''did'' vandalise a door using their own logo!), they'll know that a dog can't be vegan and give it a proper diet, probably consisting of free range, grass-fed beef or something.
291* This is more Fridge Heartbreaking than Fridge Horror, I suppose -- but remember what Dean told Sam when they impersonated fire fighters to evacuate an apartment complex so they could exsorcize the demon-possessed people living there? He'd always wanted to be a fireman. One wonders if on some level he wanted to prevent other people losing their mothers the way he lost his.....
292* First upon watching episode 10.14 (The Executioner's Song) I always concluded that the "tainted bloodline" (Can't remember the exact quote, sorry) was because of Cain and the deal he made with Lucifer. Shortly afterwards, I remember watching a documentary about psychopaths and murderers. In there, they talked (amongst other things) about genes as an factor. Apparently, if people grow up with this genes which produces a certain enzyme. Those who have a mutation of this gene have a lower level of this specific enzyme. Those who have the mutation (and are neglected), are more likely to develop antisocial personality disorder, commit crimes and grow up to have a violent disposition. Guess he got a point. Here's the article I found: [[http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-genes-make-people-evil/]]
293* So the Mark of Cain was created by God and was given to his favorite angel, Lucifer. It then proceeded to corrupt him, before being passed to Cain (whom it also corrupted), and then finally Dean. Lucifer and Cain both clearly remained corrupted, even after the Mark had been removed (with Cain even "relapsing" after he passed it on to Dean). Sounds like the elder Winchester won't be getting off too easy, even with the Mark gone.
294** Although you have to bear in mind that Cain still had the Mark even after sharing it with Dean, and in Lucifer's case, he was already banished from Heaven, so maybe he just shrugged and stuck to the evil path. Dean has had the Mark magically removed, so I took it to be implied that the effects disappeared along with it.
295** Further, Dean didn't just get rid of the mark. The mark ceased to exist. There are no proofs that Lucifer got it removed, just that it "passed" it to Cain, just as Cain passed it to Dean. FWIW, Lucifer seems a lot more willing to make peace with his Father afterwards.
296* In Season 5's "The End", future!Dean is planning to sacrifice his friends so that he can sneak into Lucifer's compound and shoot him with the Colt. Except six episodes later, in "Abandon All Hope", we learn that Lucifer is one of the few things the Colt won't kill. Assuming the whole thing wasn't a ruse created by Zachariah, then future!Dean got Cas and his friends killed for nothing, and was probably walking into a suicide mission.
297* Death's speech in the Season 10 finale can be interpreted as God creating the Earth by beating up and then molding the PrimordialChaos known as the Darkness. It means that, deep down, all matter is hostile to God and his creatures, the EverythingTryingToKillYou way. This doubles as fridge brilliance regarding why, when a soul is separated from a living and thinking body, a soulless being rapidly turns to evil. Even our own flesh conspires against us.
298* Just how messed up is the Supernatural universe? There's as many hunters as we see running around and ostensibly a whole lot more from what we've seen, and yet the Winchesters can be working more or less constantly for their entire lives, hunting down monsters constantly. Most of these creatures seem to stay in the same general areas, and besides demons, most of them are actually pretty easy to kill if you can get your hands on some silver, some salt, and a machete. Maybe some of them aren't as mobile as the Winchesters were, but if these two can go ten seasons and kill that many monsters, just ''how many more are there''?
299* We got a peek inside the cage in Season 11. Lucifer's the only one in there. Guess we know who won that fight.
300** [[spoiler:That was ''a'' cage made by Rowena to hold Lucifer temporarily, not ''the'' Cage. However, if you believe Lucifer, Michael has had a complete mental breakdown from his time with Lucifer in the Cage.]]
301* Castiel taking a liking to Meg. There was a ship-tease about it before, but I'd like to think it started when Meg took care of Cas while he was in the psychiatric ward after shifting Sam's Hallucifer (Or Hellucinations?) into himself. Meg's a ''demon''. How bad did the hallucinations had to be for a demon to be an angel's only comfort, so much that he'll get so attached to her?
302* Season 11, Episode 10: the Devil in the details. Lucifer's words about Michael: "singing show tunes and touching himself." Now, let's not take it at face value. We know Lucifer likes to put on a show and talk big. Michael and Lucifer used to be close brothers, like Sam and Dean. What the hell did Lucifer do to Michael to make him like this?
303** And if taken at face value after all, let's assume "touching himself" actually means you-know-what. They are still brothers. What. THE HELL. Did Lucifer do to him!?
304* Season 13 ep 2 When the angles in heaven [[spoiler:hit near Mary and Lucifer]] it only takes Lucifer a few seconds longer to back up (for what ever reason)Yet Lucifer doesn't step in and kill the guy [[spoiler:holding Mary at gun point when he is harassing her. He steps in when the man decides kill her.]] It doesn't take a lot to work out what the man was going to do before Mary pissed him off. He only needs her alive.
305* [[spoiler:Nick managed to use a ritual]] to summon [[spoiler:Lucifer from The Empty]]. Thing is, [[spoiler:Nick already managed to wake him up]] and if it hadn't been for [[spoiler:Nick's death, Lucifer]] would be back. But [[spoiler:Nick's dead now]] and as we've seen with Castiel [[spoiler:The Shadow in the Empty]] can return beings back with a new body. [[spoiler:Now that Nick's dead]] the [[spoiler:could remake Nick's body minus the soul]] like what God did for Castiel using Jimmy Novac's body. Also, Castiel managed to annoy [[spoiler:The Shadow]] enough that he was sent back to earth. Now how long before [[spoiler:Lucifer]] manages the same thing?
306* Probably the biggest instance of the series, but [[spoiler:in the season finale of Season 14, it's revealed that Chuck(God) views the Winchester's as his favorite characters and the whole of creation as his personal entertainment. This is absolutely horrifying because it means that God didn't intervene to help not because he felt it was for the best, but because he wanted to keep things interesting and entertaining. Think back on all of the hints dropped in the earlier seasons and the picture becomes absolutely stark. Chuck wasn't writing what would happen, he was writing about events he was personally shaping. Sam and Dean, along with all of those around them, personally have been at the mercy of an omnipotent puppet-master. Everyone they've ever cared about lost their lives to bring the spice of drama to a cosmic voyeur and even their enemies gain a hint of tragedy as God meant for the Winchesters to win and only influenced things just enough so he wouldn't know exactly what would happen. Every monster and villain they killed was essentially fed into the wood chipper so Chuck could watch his favorite characters triumph over them regardless of the pain, loss, and horror inflicted on Sam and Dean or anyone in close proximity to them. It was in fact even worse than what alternate Michael claimed. The other universes weren't failed drafts, they were discarded toys that Chuck got bored playing with. The lord of all creation was in fact even worse than Lucifer -- the freaking [[{{Satan}} Devil]] -- was. For as evil and monstrous as Lucifer was, Lucifer had goals, cared for his brothers, loved the earth and nature while trying to bring about (his version of) a better world. Chuck on the other hand causes conflict, treats everyone as disposable, and creates universes only to discard them because they are only entertainment for him. Think about how old Chuck must be and how many universes he's done this to. At one point, he may have actually cared about existence and his creation but after so long, he simply see everything as dolls and dollhouses. God is a twisted ManChild who messes with everything ForTheLuls. Not even ForTheEvuls because he doesn't care if things turn out good or bad for his creations so long as it was amusing to him.]]
307* Word of Ackles is that Dean whored himself out to get them the cash they need. And while I'm sure most were fine, can't imagine there weren't a few guys who wouldn't want to rough up a shortass loudmouth PrettyBoy who was offering.
308* [[spoiler: As of the final stretch of episodes of Season 15, it suddenly becomes so much more apparent why Sam and Dean are as insanely attached to each other as they are, and just how deep that runs for both of them -- and that it's not just Flanderization over the course of the series. Dean honestly doesn't care who he has to kill as long as he and Sam are safe, Sam honestly doesn't trust his reality beyond knowing Dean exists and will always protect him. And it hits home that thanks to Chuck, these two have essentially spent their lives in a series of simulations, and that for them, nothing else about their lives is ''real''. Sure, their friends, family, girlfriends have all been real people, but largely put in their paths by Chuck. By this point in the series, Dean's reality is Sam, Sam's reality is Dean, and it's hard for either of them to really care at all about anyone else anymore, because anyone who isn't the two of them will likely be a Chuck-plant or a monster or will just plain die off at some point.]]
309** [[spoiler: Adding into this, there are implications throughout the series that soulmates - as Sam and Dean are implied to be - are rare and extremely attached to one another. So take a set of soulmates, then manipulate everything around them for their entire lives so that they only really trust each other.]]
310* [[spoiler: Now that we've seen the more... evil side of Chuck in Season 15, the personalities of his two sons the viewers know best, Gabriel and Lucifer, suddenly take on a different significance.]]
311** [[spoiler: Gabriel rebelled against Heaven and his father and lived a hedonistic life on Earth, but also styled himself as a Trickster, trapping humans in scenarios he'd create for KarmicPayback. While Gabriel seemed to mostly just like messing with people, and didn't seem to be particularly cruel or violent most of the time, given what we know about Chuck now, Gabriel essentially creating little worlds and manipulating events for certain people takes on a different tone.]]
312** [[spoiler: Lucifer is now practically GenerationXerox for Chuck, another manipulative narcissist who takes a derisive view of humanity apart from what he expects certain humans to do for him. Lucifer even created demons, which could be compared to Chuck creating angels to do his bidding. For most part, we don't see Lucifer outright altering events to get what he wants, but he'll use manipulative arguing on people to convince them to do things for him -- which is another thing we've seen Chuck do.]]
313** [[spoiler: If the viewer thinks in term of Chuck being a "narcissist" (which is admittedly a bit strange in light of Chuck being Actual God) and abusive parent, this is also incredibly tragic, as in real life, people raised by manipulative, abusive, and narcissistic parents often grow up showing similar personality traits, just because, well, we all learn from our parents how to live in the world and relate to people. Gabriel and Lucifer rebelling from Chuck in different ways and cutting themselves off from him, but still being similar to him, is just sad in this light.]]
314* In the early seasons, Sam going away to Stanford was explained as IJustWantToBeNormal combined with not getting along with John. But other bits and pieces of info suggest that even beyond what Sam and Dean usually discuss, Sam was probably really miserable as a teenager.
315** There are a few moments in Season 1 when Dean or John does an ExpositionDump about what happened to Mary, and it's apparent in those moments that Sam, into young adulthood, actually knew very little about what happened that night. He wasn't aware that it was Dean who carried him out of the house, and he apparently didn't even know the exact date she died. Flashbacks to their childhood show Dean getting upset and yelling at Sam when he asked about their mother, and apparently John refused to discuss it. This is understandable -- it was a traumatic night for both Dean and John, and neither were ever keen to relive it. But it meant Sam was dragged all over the country during his childhood and pushed into hunting at a young age to avenge a mother he couldn't remember, over her death that he knew almost nothing about.
316** Something Sam and Dean have talked about was Dean being Sam's main caretaker growing up because John was often away, and also being each other's only friends and playmates a lot of the time because they moved around so much. It's never spelled out explicitly in the show, but once Dean finished high school (the canon is inconsistent as to whether he graduated or dropped out), he naturally would have started hunting with John far more often, meaning that not only was Sam being dragged around the country and expected to hunt around his school schedule to avenge a mother he couldn't remember, whose death he barely knew about -- but he would have actually been left alone quite a lot of the time while John and Dean took their own hunts. There were probably a lot of instances of Sam being parked at a motel or run-down rental in a new town, and John and Dean immediately leaving potentially for weeks. No wonder Sam wanted out.
317* In the season 12 episode "First Blood", Sam and Dean are taken to a government prison/black site for allegedly attempting to assassinate President Jefferson Rooney (in truth he was possessed by Lucifer and the latter was exorcised from him by Sam and Dean). At the end, when the brothers obtain freedom, British Man of Letters Mick Davies narration plays at the end and he reveals that Arthur Ketch tied up "loose ends" left by the brothers, killing everyone who knew about the Winchester brothers' "little adventure in assassination". Since the president was also informed of the brothers' activities, is it then possible that they also assassinated him, thus why Donald Trump is the president by season 13, possibly having been the VP beforehand?
318* [[spoiler:Chuck going full OmnicidalManiac and deciding to destroy the multiverse was bad enough, but remember [[Recap/SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural ScoobyNatural]]. Chuck killed Scooby!]]
319* Gabriel at one point states "What [humans] call the Apocalypse, I used to call Sunday dinner!" and Zachariah has stated Earth's apocalypse "isn't the first planetary enema we've delivered". How many alien civilizations have been wiped out in Heaven's family fight, not even having the relative luck of having a Sam and Dean because [[spoiler:Chuck]] cares even less about them?
320* In "Don't Call Me Shurley", Metatron states God is using a meat-suit like the angels and demons, and Chuck saying "this gift is super cute" implies He really is using someone else's body. Given that Jimmy stated being Castiel's vessel felt like "being chained to a comet", what must it have felt like to be possessed by the creator of the universe? [[spoiler:And given the reveal of Chuck's true nature, how does the original human, if he's still in there, feel?]]
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324* Not so much fridge logic as just fridge weirdness, but in Season 6 Cas absorbed all the souls in purgatory. Which means that for a while Benny was in Cas. That kinda puts a whole new weird twist on their relationship.
325** Exactly how ''did'' the souls return to Purgatory after Cas absorbed them anyway? Granted the Leviathans are the oldest, strongest, meanest sons-of-bitches in that place, but how come they remained behind when everything else got sent back? Presumably when they infected the water they had something to anchor themselves to our world, but it still seems somewhat vague?
326** The souls couldn't survive on their own on earth, so they died. Thus went to Purgatory, same as whenever any of these creatures would've died.
327*** Wait, what? The souls didn't die; they got shot back into Purgatory by Cas. Since the leviathans are purely physical beings without souls, they were able to physically hold on inside Cas' vessel and thus, managed to avoid being forced out.
328*** It could be seen as Castiel absorbing the whole of Purgatory. Perhaps souls are like in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series: They can be materialized as an individual or as a location. You can visit the mind of Pelagius the mad as an arena/outdoor picnic area, and it is speculated that the Oblivion Realms of the Daedric Princes are actually manifestations of their spirits.
329* In "Afterschool Special," there's a flashback to Dean being caught cheating on his high school girlfriend. The very first episode was about a Woman in White, who went after men who were or had been unfaithful. But for some reason she chose Sam over him on the basis that he "will be" unfaithful ([[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale when she makes him]]).
330** Also, how did anyone fall for the accident spiel? Her children looked ''way'' too old to need monitoring in the bathtub.
331** She thought Sam was hotter. But seriously, that plot point wasn't written yet. Ghosts don't have to make sense.
332** Not to mention which she actually tried to kill BOTH brothers by running them over with the Impala. Sam just happened to be the more convenient target at that precise moment in time given that he was alone in a manner that fit her standard attack method.
333** It's possible she recognized that Dean sleeps around but doesn't get his feelings too attached. Sam on the other hand is ''deeply in love'' with Jessica, while the guy in the beginning also seems to have been in love with his girlfriend. This is why such a ''betrayal'' and why it incurs her wrath.
334* In "Swap Meat" one of the friends of the kids who swapped minds with Sam got killed. No one mentioned it after at the end. How are the kids gonna explain that?
335** There's a ''lot'' of loose ends in this show. Like all the other people that were framed by the shapeshifter in Season 1, Episode 6, or the two dead bodies (the werewolves) in Season 2, Episode 17. Dean even says that they avoid hitting the same town twice because "Hunters tend to leave messes behind."
336* So, the angels use human bodies as vessels when they visit earth. But what happens when they leave? We know that Jimmy Novak didn't have control for the entire time he was a vessel, but where was he while Castiel was going around as a multi-dimensional wave of celestial intent?
337** Perhaps they're left like Raphael's vessel -- drooling and catatonic until the angel in question returns to Earth to reclaim them? ... [[FridgeHorror Oh, never mind, I don't like that theory]]...
338*** I thought that only happened to people possessed by really powerful angels. Jimmy seemed fine in "The Rapture", when he was forcibly de-possessed.
339** As of Season 10, we now know that Jimmy was dead by Season 6, so presumably Castiel was able to just store his vessel in the ether or something (like his wings) and hop back into it anytime he needed to see the Winchesters.
340* In "Of Grave Importance", everyone seems to be under the impression that ghosts only have one way out, having their bones burned... except in "Roadkill" a ghost is clearly shown going into the light. Exactly why was this never brought up?
341** It could very well be that this is only possible in very specific circumstances. Both the ghost in "Roadkill" and the one in "Houses of the Holy" only went into the light after an important realization (usually to do with them coming to terms with what they had become), in both cases with outside assistance. Since the ghosts in the mansion were already aware of their spectral nature, it may be that this was simply not an option anymore. Further, even if this was not the case, those that had become vengeful spirits were already probably too far gone and Whitman Van Ness would have used his own power to keep the others from escaping him in this way. We can assume that the Winchesters and Bobby, being the experienced hunters they are, knew this and simply chose not to discuss it.
342*** It's mentioned that vengeful spirits are like wounded animals, irrational and territorial. Going into the light took someone else talking them through it logically, and if you've ever tried to take care of an injured animal you know that's not happening.
343*** Sam and Dean specifically state in "Ghostfacers" that Death Echoes are specific types of ghosts that don't know they're dead, and are stuck in a loop repeating their death until someone can convince them that they're ghosts. Sounds like the plot of "Roadkill" to me.
344* In ''The Great Escapist'', if Naomi can select and wipe very specific portions of Castiel's memory, why can't she just extract the information she wants from his head without needing to ask him? It's not stated that he gained some sort of immunity.
345** Remember though, Castiel has hid the angel tablet inside his vessel. Even if Naomi tried to "extract the information" the tablet provides immunity from her tampering.
346** Point taken. It does have some powers since he can break her mental control with it and use it to hide from her, so it sort of explains the immunity even if not stated outright. But Naomi doesn't know he hid it there, which still leaves the question why she didn't at least try to probe his mind when she knows that's the simplest solution.
347*** It could be that she can only compel him to speak when his mind has already been tampered with. Since the tablet reset him, she no longer has any power over him.
348*** Just pointing out that we have no idea what the tablet actually does. The characters all act like the tablet changed Cas, but upon rewatching "Goodbye Stranger", Cas touches the tablet after he breaks control. We have no idea whether the tablet actually helps or whether characters incapable of understanding the Profound Bond said that to explain it all.
349*** I think I get it: Cas had two main tasks from Naomi he had to complete: one was to kill Dean and the other was to take the tablet. But this is Dean, so he couldn't kill him, so instead he shifted his attention to the next most important task in his mind (courtesy of Naomi, of course): take the tablet. And when he touched it, it 'cleared' his mind. Maybe this 'mind-clearing' thing was actually just boosting Castiel's mind-power to do what he really wanted: NOT kill Dean and resist Naomi? Maybe that's what the tablet does: helps people (or angels?) achieve things they want (in Castiel's case, Naomi out of his head or in Metatron's, God-like power)
350* Metatron, the Scribe of God, is a compulsive reader and loves stories. Chuck, [[spoiler: who may actually ''be'' {{God}}]], is a prophet who constantly writes stories. Despite all of the books that Chuck has written about the Winchesters, and the great piles of books Metatron owns and is constantly acquiring, the latter is not familiar with the Winchesters or their exploits. As if someone did not want him to read those particular books...
351** Or Metatron isn't being 100% honest with our boys. I'm getting a majorly sketchy vibe from the guy...
352*** Oh boy was THIS guy right.
353* "Dark Side of the Moon". Sam's memory of his time alone in Flagstaff when he was living off "Funions and Mr. Pibb." Ostensibly he was still young. And there are beer bottles on the table next to the box of pizza. [[FlatWhat What.]]
354** Well, in "Hunteri Heroici" Dean says that Fred Jones gave him his first beer before he was in his double digits. I guess the boys just started young.
355*** I meant more of "how on Earth did Sam get his hands on beer." I guess he stole them?
356*** Or maybe there are unscrupulous cashiers who sell beer to clearly underage kids? Not like that ever happens in real life or anything...
357* To be able to act as a vessel for Lucifer, Sam had to drink tons of demon blood. It seems to be a matter of containing that level of power, as the previous vessel (Nick) was falling apart by the end of Season 5 and [[spoiler: Castiel]] had a similar issue going on early in Season 7 when [[spoiler: he was carrying all the souls of Purgatory]]. So was Michael just in Adam for too brief a time for him to start burning up from in the inside, or was he partaking in some of the go-juice too? The former makes sense, as it took a while for Nick to start deteriorating (although he presumably was drinking demon blood to slow the process) and [[spoiler: when Michael possessed John when the boys went back in time]] he didn't immediately blow up.
358** Nick was not in the Winchester blood line. Adam would be similar to Claire, in that he's a part of Michael's vessel's blood line, just as John was. Nick would have been left like Raphael's vessel had it not been for the demon blood destroying his body. Adding to that, Dean would have been fine after giving his consent, just as I can assume Adam would have been. At least that's my theory
359** My theory is that Nick is a Campbell, and that it's the Campbell bloodline that are Lucifer's vessel.
360** So, probably his wife and kid were murdered by supernatural creatures since he was a hunter, which would make his rage against God even more understandable. "I fight for your side, and you don't protect my family!"
361* In "Sacrifice", Metatron reveals he is a giant dick and [[spoiler: all the angels fall.]] Wouldn't that mean that ''Metatron himself'' would, too, since he is an angel? What, just because he's the one doing the deed, he gets a get-out-of-[[spoiler:falling]] free card?
362** He most likely wasn't affected since he was the one performing it, or at least set off a protective spell for himself in advance.
363*** Angels don't get banished when they set off the banishing sigil -- see Castiel using it on Zachariah in "Lucifer Rising". So the kick-out-of-Heaven spell is just a bigger version, and Metatron's immune because he's the one doing it.
364** Or maybe he fell, too, and he'll be running around Earth in Season 9 along with the rest of the angels, as a recurring villain.
365** Seems like the latter, since he's apparently been ''really bored'' up there alone. Also seems like he has a way to let angels back in.
366* At the end of Season 3, did Sam and Bobby change Dean's hellhound-shredded body into new clothing, or did Castiel just fix his clothes up when he was brought back? For that matter, why didn't they leave him above-ground instead of having him wake up in the coffin (where he could easily have died again, mind you)?
367** Above ground where? Would you want to stick a decaying corpse in a box in the corner of your yard? Bobby and Sam weren't expecting any outside help resurrecting Dean. Burying him was a convenient way to store his body somewhere it wouldn't get messed with, since most humans would leave a grave alone out of respect.
368*** "They" meaning the angels. Sorry, should have specified.
369*** Could just be the angels being dicks. This was pre-character development for Castiel; he wasn't used to taking humans' physical needs into account. Plus, that's where Dean's corpse was originally. They had to rebuild it, and they started with what was left.
370*** ...Would have been pretty awkward if instead of getting out of the buried coffin Dean would have choked back to death because he was stuck down there. Though I'm sure Castiel would have checked on him eventually, but, well, most people don't have the muscle to push a coffin lid aside with piles of ground on it (trust me, it can get quite heavy). Than again, Bobby and Sam buried Dean, not burnt him on a pyre, so maybe they expected this much and the lid was super-light or something.
371* Early in Season 4, Castiel mentions that the angels are at more or less open war with the demons, and that "many of his brothers have fallen in battle" (paraphrased). Except that Alistair, who was apparently Hell's finest torturer, said himself that neither he nor Lilith had any idea how to kill angels. This is well before "On The Head Of A Pin" so it probably wasn't Uriel. So who was killing them?
372** Alastair only said that he didn't know how to kill angels. What he said about Lilith was that she would kill thousands of angels, not seven, meaning that the murders were too small-scale to be her doing. Presumably, Lilith did have some means of killing angels (perhaps something like that theoretical book with "the right spells" that Castiel mentioned in "Goodbye Stranger"), but was not using it to its full capacity for whatever reason.
373** Alastair probably didn't know because he's never had an interest in killing angels. By his own admission he doesn't like being pulled away from his personal heaven down in Hell torturing whatever poor sap he gets his hands on. It's likely that he knows how to torture an angel, but not kill one because why on earth would Alastair kill an angel when he can torture and twist it? There's the possibility that Lilith CAN kill angels, but since she is the final seal and only her and Ruby know that that she's keeping out of the fight leading the other demons to think she can't do anything about them either. There's also the possibility that in the demon ranks there are angels who sided with Lucifer when the original fight went down and they are the ones killing the angels on Michael's side.
374* When Dean shoots Lucifer with the Colt, we all know it doesn't kill him. However, what he did do was drop to the ground, presumably knocked out/disorientated. Why didn't Sam and Dean at least try this same tactic at the end of the season? Shoot Lucifer, open the cage and shove him in before he comes round.
375** Yeah, why ''didn't'' Dean just shoot his own brother? Oh, right, because Sammy is his brother and that's a pretty difficult thing to actually do.
376** Also, we don't know how much of that was just Lucifer's acting. It might not have really affected him for as long as we see. He could've been taking his time standing up and revealing that he was alive, just to screw with them.
377** They lost the Colt in "Abandon All Hope"; the last time we saw it in the "main" timeline was when Dean dropped it after Lucifer got back up from being shot. It didn't get used in "Swan Song" because the brothers no longer had it.
378** Even if they still had it, it might not have done them any good -- when Dean shot Lucifer, he was wearing Nick, and that only stunned him. Lucifer in his true vessel and thus at full power might not have even been slowed down by a shot from the Colt.
379*** He wasn't. Pretty sure the Colt was what Bobby shot him with, and it did jack all.
380* After Castiel shifts Sam's Crazy into himself, he goes into coma but wakes up later... in crazy-mode. When Sam asks about him seeing Lucifer Cas replies that at first he did see Lucifer, and then saw everything. He also says that he doesn't like conflicts and doesn't want to fight anymore. And his new interest? bees. As he said in [=S7E21=]:"I followed a honeybee. I saw the route of flowers. It's all right there, the whole plan." The 'plan' may refer to bees supporting the world as we know it. They pollinate about 90 percent of the world's food. Without bees humanity will be left without most fruits, vegetation, nuts and crops. And remember who else is obsessed with bees? That's right: Cain, our very own Father of Murder, who was also, like Cas at the time, trying to have a peaceful, fight-free life and even had his own bee-hive. In other words: first sign of Insanity/withdrawal? Bees.
381** Not true. Bees may contribute to our environment since there's over a thousand, but there are many other methods of pollination as well. Like pollen clinging to the fur and feathers of animals that brush by. Exploding their seeds into the air. Having gusts of wind swipe away their pollen and many other methods. If Bees did somehow go extinct, it wouldn't affect plants that much. Maybe it would affect the animals that eat them or thrive in a symbiotic relationship, maybe then it will affect the environment.
382** Well, it could be seen as an attempt to watch life instead of creating death, as both characters did that, and bees are nothing if not builders and creators. They could be seen as a life-giving creature, which would be appealing to people who are trying to get away from death, like the angel who by his own admission killed thousands of his own kind and the freakin' Father of Murder.
383* So if Death is dead then shouldn't there have been some major consequences that resulted from that? Imagine a nightmarish scenario where the worst criminals or even supernatural beings can't die because Dean killing Death disrupted the natural order that is mortality. Which begs to question why are people still dying despite that Death got killed?
384** Keep in mind that Death was locked underground for years upon years by God before Lucifer freed him (and bound him by a spell so Death would obey him). People obviously still died while Death was locked away, so it made me wonder if Death had some sort of a ''remote control'' to killing people without actually having to touch them or even be in vicinity. But the Reapers seem to go on with their work just fine without Death, so... maybe, while Death was by levels stronger than the other Horsemen (''way'' stronger), like the other Horsemen, he doesn't actually has to be in a humanoid "alive" shape for the idea of death to, uh, exist? I mean, just because the other Horsemen lost their powers (did any of them actually die?), doesn't mean that people don't get sick, hungry or that there's suddenly peace on Earth (wish there was, though).
385** Death is the personification of death itself, he's not the actual cause of things dying. Technically, he is everywhere that anything is dying, all at once. If he's 'dead' at all (which actually is foreshadowed to not be the case, he's mentioned that eventually he'll get sick of the Winchesters and stop coming when they call, and stabbing him seems like a good way to provoke that), that probably just fragmented him into smaller entities... maybe fragmented him _back_ into smaller entities, as the Darkness appears to be essentially a subset of what Death was.
386*** Possibly this is how Amara was locked away to begin with? Used to construct a larger, less aggressive entity with no particular motivation to re-fragment himself?* It seems odd that Nick, whom Lucifer uses as a "Plan B" vessel, is not one of the Special Children. Although it is possible that Nick was part of an older generation of potential vessels created by Azazel, and this generation never received the training and testing of those born in 1983 as the time was not right to release Lucifer and start the Apocalypse.
387* For someone who died in 1992, Molly (2x16, Roadkill) sure has a modern haircut and sense of fashion.
388* At first it annoyed me that in "The Devil in the Details" Cas practically whispered the word "Yes" to Lucifer in order to justify neither Sam nor Dean, both of whom were shown conscious and nearby, hearing it. You would expect he would have shouted it to at least give his friends a warning that Lucifer had taken him over and avoid several episodes of Sam and Dean not knowing what was going on. Then it hit me that Cas would have expected them to see Lucifer taking him over. In fact, the only reason they didn't was the freak timing that Lucifer took him over at the very second that Rowena used her spell making it look like that was why he disappeared.
389 * People would wonder why Michael and Lucifer were having their fight on Earth then they would come to a realization: competition. Due to how humans are able to create supernatural entities like Pagan Gods, it'd be simple logic to wipe out the Pagans along with the source of their ability to contest the lower ranked angels thus closing the gaps between the Heavenly and the Demonic Armies, And to have more room to strategize their attacks on the enemy flanks.
390** Plus that meant Christians, too; on the off chance they waver in their faith, angels would no longer have to worry about demons corrupting them or turning them against the Angels, This also has the unfortunate cost of crossing into FridgeHorror when you think about it
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