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Gods In Supernatural

Gods In Supernatural

"Your story. Not ours. Westerners, I swear—the sheer arrogance. You think you're the only ones on Earth? You pillage and you butcher in your God's name. But you're not the only religion, and he's not the only God. And now you think you can just rip the planet apart? You're wrong."

- Kali in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

Before we get down to brass tacks, some ground rules. No slaughtering each other. Curb your wrath. Oh, and uh, keep your hands off the local virgins. We're trying to keep a low profile here.

The Gods of Supernatural come from a variety of religions all over the world. Most of them share certain characteristics, such as feeding on humans to survive and do not go to Purgatory upon death like monsters nor do they go to Heaven or Hell. It has not yet been explained where they come from or how they fit in with the larger world. The God of the Abrahamic religions is an entirely different being. He is far more powerful without relying on worship, the father of the angels, and the major deity in Supernatural, which is heavily influenced by Judeo-Christian tradition.

However, there are many other gods who appear through the series. Some may be referred to as pagan gods from the polytheistic traditions of Europe and North Africa, who no longer have the same amount of tribute and sacrifices they once had, causing them to turn to alternative methods of finding sustenance and worship. Others are gods of religions which are not of the Abrahamic tradition, and still have many worshipers today, including Indian and traditional folk religions.

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Tropes about Supernatural gods in general:

• All Myths Are True: In the photo above, Mercury sits between Baron Samedi and Baldur.
• Anthropomorphic Representation: The Primordials appear to be literal embodiments of their concepts, as opposed to the lowercase gods who just have God Jobs. The ones we meet are the Light (i.e. God), the Darkness, the Shadow, and Death.
• Break the Haughty: Happens whenever they appear in the show. Being gods, even in weakened in the current modern era, makes them very arrogant. Then, by the end of the show they usually wind up dead and often, with at least a few seconds to realize their screwed before the end.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Most gods need human sacrifices for power. While some accept praise and tributes, many prefer flesh and blood. They aren't very happy if they've fallen out of style and have had to turn to other methods to maintain themselves. Averted with the Abrahamic God, Who does not need worship and is portrayed as something completely different from the others. What sets them apart from most other versions of this trope is that all of the worship is the world in of itself is worthless to them. Same with consuming humans. They require both a human to be ritualistically murdered specifically devoted to them and then to eat said human to maintain or increase their power.
• Homage: Many of the gods and their thirst for blood are reminiscent of Neil Gaiman's works, especially American Gods.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: At their height with massive levels of worshipers and sacrifices, Dean said they were nigh-invincible. Nowadays they have to go out to personally get their sacrifices, are forced to blend in with humans, and even mortals(hunters) can kill them with enough preparation. It's something of a sore spot for them.
• I'm a Humanitarian: One of the unsettling traits of many of the gods, although there are exceptions.
• Jerkass Gods: Most, but not all, of them look down on humans.
• Kill the God: What most hunters attempt to do, due to the tendency of gods to cause human death and suffering.
• The Old Gods: The Primordials are even older than the normal gods and precede the creation of the universe itself.
• Our Gods Are Different: As revealed in "The Gamblers", the pagan gods are inferior creations of the "Abrahamic" God as a source of entertainment and to take the blame whenever something bad happened to the world, until he had enough fun and hid behind Judeo-Christianity.
• Physical God: Although they have remarkable powers, they still can be killed.
• We Are Everywhere: Kali claims there are billions of them and we have seen them pose as news reporters, kind old octogenarians, hotel concierges, and cooks.

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Primordials

The primordial entities are beings that have existed since before the universe even began. Generally, they are the most powerful beings in existence (or nonexistence in the case of the cosmic entity that presides over The Empty). As such, they tend to be virtually omnipotent and omniscient.

Note that because there are so many spoiler-y things associated with the primordial beings, all spoilers are unmarked. There is simply no way to discuss them without revealing much of the plot, especially in the later seasons.

God (The Light)

God (The Light)

Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously, I'm a god... I'm definitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god...

Portrayed by Rob Benedict and Keith Szarabajka

Dean: If there's a God, what the hell is He waiting for, huh? Genocide? Monsters roaming the earth? The freaking Apocalypse? At what point does He lift a damn finger and help the poor bastards that are stuck down here?

Castiel: The Lord—

Dean: If you say "works in mysterious ways," so help me, I will kick your ass!

- From "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester." (S04, Ep02).

The creator of the universe Himself. He's absent for most of the series and actively avoids the numerous potential world-ending conflicts caused by His Angels and other forces, until He reveals that He's been disguising Himself as the prophet Chuck Shurley. He is the younger brother of Amara as well.

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• Above Good and Evil: While Chuck doesn't state this as being his belief, he definitely seems to have this viewpoint. All of existence is nothing more than his entertainment. While he may have started out creation for purely altruistic reasons, it has since become clear that he doesn't value anyone or anything beyond how much they can amuse him. While he isn't actively malicious by making the universe a living hell, he does start most of the conflicts for his own amusement. This is most likely because he can always create more universes and people and ultimately everyone and everything is expendable to him.
• Above the Gods: It’s confirmed that he created the other gods after some humans assumed they were responsible for his miracles, and used them as a way so that they will get the blame for when things go wrong instead of him.
• Abusive Parents: To Lucifer and Michael. The former He caged and abandoned in solitary confinement in Hell to avoid facing His own role in Lucifer's fall, while the latter was left mentally traumatized due to the Apocalypse and trapped in the same cage along with Lucifer.
• All-Powerful Bystander: God is more powerful than everything else in the series except perhaps Amara. He was well aware of the Apocalypse, monsters on Earth, the danger posed by Lucifer, the civil wars in Heaven, the threat of the Leviathans, screwed-up afterlife, etc. Except for saving the Winchesters and resurrecting Castiel, He mostly stayed on the sidelines. He justifies it by saying He was very hands-on in the early days of Creation, and it turned out badly and implies that regular intervention from Him would make things a lot worse. This turns out to be a lie. All of creation is nothing more than God's entertainment. All of the conflicts make watching more interesting. It may well be that every action God ever took was simply to further his own amusement.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: From Amara's perspective. She found His naivety and idealistic nature rather irritating to deal with. Though the two of them claim to be of equal age.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • How much control of Sam and Dean's story he actually had is unclear. While he certainly created situations and villains for them to face as well as keeping them from staying dead or living normal lives, he also expresses disappointment at Season 12's storyline with the British Men of Letters and Amara is surprised to learn that her Ship Tease with Dean wasn't because of him "writing". The fact they are able to rebel against his plan, which both infuriates and excites him due to their determination being one of the things he loves about them, shows that they and everyone else certainly have free will, but God might have just been manipulating events from behind the scenes and enjoying whatever the outcome might be.
  • It's unclear what universe he created was the original. While he refers to Sam and Dean as "the real Sam and Dean" and Lucifer recalls helping him defeat the Darkness, Apocalypse World Michael claims that God creates and discards worlds as if they were drafts for a book before moving onto another suggesting that the main universe is younger than Apocalypse World while God also mentions that he has seen other versions of Sam and Dean follow his plan. Given that he's omniscient, he might be watching and experiencing multiple worlds at the same time.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: He’s essentially existence itself, in contrast to his sister who he describes as nothingness. The introduction of the Shadow in Season 13 however would clarify that he would be more accurately described as creation while his sister is destruction.
• Audience Surrogate: A villainous example, with some shades of Author Avatar. It is revealed that everyone and the universe itself is nothing more than his entertainment like a TV show, and he follows the character's suffering for his "It Amused Me" mentality. Sound familiar?.
• Author Avatar: He's always been this back when he was introduced as a prophet, being the writer of a book series called Supernatural based on the adventures that the Winchesters have. However Season 14 and 15 take it a step further with the reveal that as the creator of the entire universe, he's always watching Sam and Dean since they're his favourite show. He becomes a dark deconstruction of this trope, since it means that he's literally responsible for all the pain they experience, but justifies it by saying that the "fans" will love it while defending his bad writing.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: It's implied that back when he and Amara first came into existence, he genuinely wanted to create life for understandable and even noble reasons which was why he imprisoned Amara. But after an eternity of creating literally thousands of worlds and becoming obsessed with the story of the Winchesters, the thing he cared about so much ultimately became meaningless to him outside of being entertainment. In sharp contrast to his apparent personality in Season 11 and claims to truly care about humanity, he decides to start destroying all the worlds in The Multiverse just because Sam and Dean won't follow the plan he has for them.
• Badass Finger Snap: Is quite fond of doing these to pull off his reality warping.
• Berserk Button: Call God a "coward" and He will show you why everyone fears His wrath. Metatron learned this the hard way in "Don't Call Me Shurley." Also, despite creating and allowing free will, hates it when people defy him.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Billie in Season 15. God is unhappy that He can no longer get the Winchesters to dance to His tune and is preparing to destroy them once and for all. Meanwhile Billie, who had previously pretended to be an ally to the Winchesters, wants to use Jack to destroy God and take His place so that she can impose her totalitarian rule over creation. Billie is killed in the third-to-last episode of the series, leaving God as the Final Boss of the series.
• Big Good: On the rare occasions He does appear, it's as this... until He shows Himself to be the overall Greater-Scope Villain in "Moriah" and the Big Bad of Season 15.
• Black Eyes of Evil: He gains a partial one near the end of the series in only his left eye, when he absorbs Amara.
• Brought Down to Normal: His final fate is to have his powers removed by Jack, left as a mortal man and incapable of so much as boiling water.
• Cain and Abel: It's revealed in Season 11's "Our Little World" that God is the brother of Amara. He is the Abel (the good sibling) to Amara's Cain (the bad sibling). God betrayed His sister so that He could create the universe and also because Amara proved to be highly dangerous and amoral. Also, because she had already destroyed several universes He had previously created. Topping it all of is that, according to Death (who was not around at the time according to anyone other than himself and is contradicted on the matter by both God and Amara), Amara is the older sibling.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Amara points out that Chuck's megalomaniacal quest for total control makes him the villain of his own story, which he embraces.
  Chuck: Villains get all the best lines!
• Comical Coffee Cup: Had one labeled "World's Greatest Dad" until Amara destroyed it. Ironic, considering he left his angelic children when they disappointed him, leading to a lot of pain and strife. It becomes much harsher in hindsight after his portrayal as a complete monster in Season 15.
• Control Freak: In spite of giving his creations free will, Chuck claims that he was very hands-on in the early days though these days he seems to have taken a very hands-off approach but Chuck has never stopped influencing the universe, and only does it more subtly now. He claims that all of existence is his entertainment like a TV show. It's likely that all of the conflicts from the Leviathans rising to Jack being born were down to his subtle manipulations. Tellingly, it's when Sam and Dean not only defy him but also attack him that he decides to end the world.
• Cosmic Keystone: He and His sister Amara are both this. If one dies, the other and all of Creation goes with them.
• Cruel Mercy: Rather than kill him, the Winchesters and Jack decide to let him live as a mortal man, where he will get old, sick, and die alone, unloved, and forgotten.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Author Avatar and Audience Surrogate. For us out of universe, the heavy angst, trauma, and deaths make for some good pathos and entertainment because the Winchesters and all the characters they interact with really are just fictional characters. But if someone who is a stand-in for the writers and/or the audience actually existed in this universe? They would have to be a sadistic, sociopathic monster if they share our enjoyment of inflicting angst and watching the results on sentient people, which Chuck reveals himself as in the Season 14 finale.
• Demiurge Archetype: While he is the Abrahamic God and the creator of the physical universe, he's only one member of the group of primordial deities that includes himself, Amara, Death, and the Shadow of the Empty. He goes out of his way to make sure the faiths of the world neglect the other three gods, and is generally an obtuse, fickle sort of being who views all of existence as his entertainment.
• Dimensional Traveler: God can freely travel between different universes, since he created all of them. One side-effect of being shot by Sam with the Equalizer means that he's trapped in this dimension so long as his essence is linked to Sam through their shared wound.
• Disappeared Dad: To the angels, also known to be His "children." To twist the knife further, he never really left Creation to begin with, he's just observing them all while masking his true nature.
• Divine–Infernal Family: Lucifer used to be his favorite kid before he rebelled, though his parenting skills were always questionable. His big sister Amara is The Anti-God.
• Divine Intervention: It's revealed in "Dark Side of the Moon" that He was the one who rescued Sam and Dean, sped Sam through demon blood withdrawal, and resurrected Castiel in "Sympathy for the Devil." After The Reveal in Season 14, it can be said every twist and turn in this series is His intervention after all.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Pissing off God (or trying to kill Him) is a very bad idea, as the Winchesters find out in "Moriah" and decides to cause an Apocalypse Wow in retaliation.
• Eldritch Abomination: He's older than time itself and created the universe and the angels who are this trope themselves. His true form, as revealed in the Season 11 finale, is a living mass of light, just like His sister is a living mass of darkness.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Lucifer is His favorite above all angels, but that wasn't what drove Him to leave Heaven; it was a disappointment with Creation in general.
• Evil All Along: "Moriah" reveals He isn't quite as benevolent as He originally seemed and is a bit of a Jerkass God who views all of Creation as His entertainment, and when the Winchesters defy Him, He ends up triggering the Apocalypse Wow in retaliation. He goes even further off the deep end after that and starts to personally terrorize and murder his creations for his amusement.
• Evil Is Petty: He's shown hurting and killing people for just being minor annoyances to him. And he's so petty and vindictive that he kills his own son, Michael, for having defied him earlier, even though he regretted it and was ready to rejoin his father's side. After Sam and Dean keep defying him, he grows to hate them so much that even when they volunteer to let him kill them in exchange for bringing everyone else back, he refuses in favor of leaving them alone in a dead world.
• Face–Heel Turn: Decides to unleash Hell and destroy the world at the end of "Moriah" after the Winchester brothers attempt to kill him.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Only humans get a chance at Heaven. A member of any other species, regardless of how good they are or try to be (e.g., Madison, Lenore), winds up in Purgatory after death to hunt or be hunted for all eternity.
  • By the final season, he's come to hate humans now, seeing them as disappointing failures. It's unclear if he realizes (or admits) that Lucifer was right about them being flawed.
• Fate Worse than Death: Turned human and has his powers drained by Jack. The Winchesters refuse to kill him and leave him to age, grow sick and die of natural causes with nobody caring for or remembering him.
• Final Boss: After being part of a Big Bad Ensemble with Billie throughout the season, Billie is killed by The Shadow in the third-to-last episode of the series, leaving God as the final villain that the Winchesters must face.
• Foil: To Becky Rosen, though how they differ changes overtime. When Becky first appeared in Season 5, she was a Loony Fan and Audience Surrogate, having little respect to personal boundaries and being a Take That! to the worst aspects of Supernatural fans, in contrast to Chuck, an Author Avatar who occasionally criticises his own bad writing and tries to treat his fans with kindness even when they embarrass him like Becky. Their interactions with Sam and Dean were also wildly different, with Chuck being initially horrified by the possibility that he forced them to experience a number of horrors and uncomfortable by how he profits from their lives while Becky is a Stalker with a Crush towards Sam and doesn't really treat him or Dean with real respect. However come Season 15, Chuck has been revealed to be God and the writer behind all the suffering Sam and Dean have gone through, and enjoying watching them because they're his "favourite show". This makes them both a stand in for the fans, but at this point Becky has changed since her last appearance. Not only has she gotten married and had kids, she's realised how unhealthy and wrong her actions were, meaning she has actually become one of the positive examples of fans. This means that when they reunite, Chuck is an obvious metaphor for fans who are too obsessed with the show and define their identity by being fans, while Becky represents the kind of fan who was like this but has grown up and realised why that attitude is wrong. It's also shown that they're both fans of Sam and Dean for vastly different reasons: Chuck believes that True Art Is Angsty and enjoys the pain they go through, while Becky likes it better when they're just hanging out doing laundry and are happy.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Even after being revealed to be God, He maintains His Chuck form. Considering His true form seems to be a mass of living light, it's understandable.
• The Ghost: Subverted. Though He doesn't appear as a presence of divine might (that might kill everyone present), it has been confirmed, after much teasing in and out of universe, that He actually came to Earth in the form of Chuck Shurley, indicating why He can be alive in Season 10 even though a new prophet had come in the form of Kevin Tran.
• God and Satan Are Both Jerks: God Himself is clearly disinterested in the genocidal plans of the angels or pretty much anything that has occurred in the last few thousand years if not before that; Metatron confirmed He has a tendency to be wrathful and somewhat sexist. Lucifer, of course, is evil and wants to destroy humanity. Then in Season 14 finale, God is revealed to be just as bad as Lucifer, as He revealed all of the troubles were of His making for an entertaining story, all but implying He let Lucifer become evil to become a compelling villain to the Winchesters, and instantly causes the Apocalypse with far more worse results than Lucifer's goals.
• God in Human Form: In the Season 5 finale, Chuck is implied to be the much-mentioned missing God. This would later be confirmed. God likes to walk among his creations and observe them closely, even being shielded from being recognized in his human form by angels. At the end, it even becomes his downfall: this allows Jack to absorb his powers, leaving God in Shapeshifter Mode Lock, doomed to die of old age someday as any ordinary human.
• God Is Dead: In Season 5, Raphael informs Castiel that the reason the latter cannot find God is because He is dead. However, Death telling Dean that God will eventually die at the end of time by his hand, reveals that God isn't dead yet. However, that doesn't mean that this incarnation of Death will be the one to do it. In fact, all of the incarnations of Death are killed off before they can reap Him.
• God Is Displeased: One of the reasons God has chosen to withdraw and be more passive in the greater scheme of things is because, in the past, many of His creations turned out to be evil. He was far more proactive in the olden days, but that didn't tend to go well.
• God Is Evil: Many of the characters in the show have voiced having a low opinion of the Almighty, ranging from humans who see him as a deadbeat dad who won't do anything to help his creations, to supernatural creatures like demons who actually believe that God is actively making the universe a terrible place. Turns out, they were right: God is a selfish, petty, spiteful, vindictive little man who created a whole awful universe just to torture its inhabitants to keep himself amused. He has a particular love of creating a template of two brothers to torture and set against each other for his approval, with Dean and Sam being the ultimate iteration after Michael and Lucifer. In fact, God got so angry that the Winchesters both fought back and defied him that he was in the process of wiping the entire slate clean by the series finale.
• God Is Flawed: A big part of His character is that, for all of His power and knowledge, God has His flaws. He apparently didn't intend the fall of either Lucifer or mankind, and His failure to prevent them led Him to abandon Heaven. He previously created the Leviathans only to realize He made a mistake in making them too powerful and dangerous before locking them up in Purgatory to protect the rest of Creation.
• God Is Good: Zigzagged. God's actions or inaction cause most beings to have a negative opinion of Him. When we finally meet God, it's confirmed that, while He tends towards benevolent, He is deeply flawed, defaulting towards passive after eons of failure to "do things right" and being willing to abandon Creation to Amara rather than defend it. However, as of the end of Season 14, he proves that the idea of him being "good" is dead wrong.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: The reason Joshua gives for why God won't stop the Apocalypse. Later confirmed that He hardly intervened at all, no matter the circumstances.
• God Was My Co-Pilot: The prophet Chuck is strongly implied, and later confirmed, to be God, supported by Word of God. He helps the Winchesters several times and resurrects Castiel multiple times.
• Grandpa God: In "Sacrifice", Metatron describes God as "pretty much like you'd expect. Larger-than-life, gruff, bit of a sexist. But fair—eminently fair."
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's revealed to be the chief architect of the world's misery for more than 14 years in the making. Every villain in this series is just a character in God's storyline, and the random plots are revealed to be God messing around his story to get his next lead. He finally drops the act in the Season 14 finale as the Winchesters defy his setting by refusing to kill Jack, at which point he just sighs and actively becomes the Big Bad of the final season.
• Groin Attack: He kicked Sam in the groin in their final fight. Ouch!
• Gruesome Grandparent: Revealed as Evil All Along when he goes after his grandson Jack, eventually killing him due to seeing him as a threat (Jack is revived later due to other means).
• Hates Being Alone: One of the reasons He created the universe. He and Amara were the only beings in all of existence and they were too different to be good company, resulting in Him being lonely.
• Hate Sink: Becomes this in Season 15, after he showed his true colors in the last episode of the previous season. He's shown to be an incredibly petty and vindictive god who only cares about himself, doesn't take any responsibility for any of his Kick the Dog moments and acts like he's the victim.
• Have You Seen My God?: God left Heaven a long time ago to the point that the angels have started to despair. His absence is the cause for many of the events in the series.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Metatron describes God as a sexist, which may explain why so few women live through a Supernatural episode. His statements about having had girlfriends and treating Rowena fairly well implies He grew out of it, though this was before The Reveal and he needed Rowena's help to defeat his sister at the time, so whether or not he was being sincere is left up in the air.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Aside from Amara, his equal and opposite, anything that can be used to hurt him was created through God's own hand. The Equalizer is the most direct example, but Leviathan Blossom can be used to trap him, and he also had to make himself mortal to create the world, because he had to write himself into the code of a finite universe.
• Horrible Judge of Character: God gave the secrets of the universe to Metatron, who later used them to try and become the new God. Though their interactions imply Metatron wasn't like that when God gave them to him. And to be fair, God only chose Metatron at random; he was the closest angel to the door.
• Humans Are Special: Believed this so much that He commanded the angels to bow to humanity. He briefly loses this belief thanks to Sam and Dean selfishly releasing Amara, but Metatron argues strongly for it and the boys convince Him through their actions. It later turns out that he was lying to begin with.
• Hypocrite: He gave humans the ability to exercise free will and specifically considers Sam and Dean of the prime universe special because they always challenge and surprise him. However, he hates when said humans exercise that pesky free will to not do what he wants them to and, when Dean refuses to kill Sam thus depriving Chuck of his perfect ending, Chuck loses his shit and decides to wipe out all life on Earth except for the Winchesters and Jack out of spite.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Chuck shows shades of this when confessing to Metatron, saying He created everything because He was lonely. He has spent the past several seasons away from Heaven on Earth as Chuck, posing as a human and living a normal human life.
• In Their Own Image: In the final season, he intends to remake the whole of reality from scratch after he's finished dismantling The Multiverse and then the main universe. Unlike most examples, he's actually the original creator of the already-existing version of reality.
• Invincible Villain: He treats reality and all the suffering that occurs as his entertainment, but he's omnipotent and can never be killed due to being a Cosmic Keystone and even sealing him will doom all the Alternate Timelines permanently.
• It Amused Me: He ends up revealing that everything that went wrong in the Winchesters' life is for His own amusement and that they are merely playing roles in His epic story.
• Jerkass Gods:
  • Played with, as it's repeatedly pointed out that, despite being all-powerful and all-knowing, God allows so many horrors to occur to innocent people. It turns out that He abandoned His children, the angels, in Heaven shortly after Lucifer's rebellion, which probably explains why His three other eldest children have so many problems: Gabriel ran off and pretended to be a pagan; Raphael became tired of his responsibilities and wanted it all to end; and Michael was a fanatic obsessed with pleasing his absent father. When God finally shows up in person, He has no interest in taking any responsibility for the failings of His creations or saving them from Amara, believing that there's no point in postponing what He sees as inevitable.
  • And then Dean and Sam find out that He let so many horrors happen for His own entertainment. While He tries to reason with the boys at first, when Sam goes so far as to try and kill Him, this pisses Him off enough to cause an Apocalypse Wow.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Though he puts on a facade of a god who, despite his flaws, cares deeply about his creations and both wants them to be good and wants good things for them but has become disillusioned by Amara repeatedly destroying his creations and his creations (ex. angels, humans) tending towards evil rather than good despite his efforts, the truth is that he couldn't care less. After The Reveal that he was the one pulling all the strings behind the lives of the Winchesters for simple entertainment value, he shows himself to be capricious, cruel, childish and sociopathic at his heart.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: It's implied that this has been going on with God for some time now. It started after he left the universe when he locked Lucifer away in his cage. He decided to make more universes through direct action or allowing parallel timelines to come into existence. Over the eons he grew bored with one creation and started on the next. By the time of the present setting, he created so many universes that he's completely lost any attachment to any of them beyond entertainment value. This is compounded when the Winchesters defy him, and he decides to end things. While at first, he was only apathetic to the suffering of others he begins to take enjoyment in tormenting his creations and starts to destroy the other universes apart from the prime universe while watching the deaths of untold billions with popcorn on a sofa. It's clear that in modern times, God has lost most if not all of the good intentions and idealism he once had.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Despite the problems caused by His favoritism, neglect, and ego, including the general mess the universe is in, God never receives any real comeuppance or has to address any of His mistakes. By the end of Season 11, He reconciles with his sister who admits Creation is beautiful and can go back to ignoring the rest of the universe. The only time He came close was when He had to apologize to Lucifer for locking him away due to being unable to admit His role in Lucifer's fall, but He still avoided having to address His problems with the other Archangels, the rest of the angelic host, etc. Finally expires in "Inherit the Earth," when he is given a Fate Worse than Death for everything he had done.
• Kick the Dog: He does this a lot after he's revealed to be Evil All Along.
• Lack of Empathy: No matter how serious things get or how many people die, God rarely intervenes with Joshua's statement about Him not thinking it's his problem implying profound indifference to everything. It's actually much, much worse. All of creation is merely his entertainment and all the conflict amuses him, like watching a TV show. While Chuck isn't sadistic exactly because it's not pain that amuses him, he still only sees everyone and everything he's made as his Cosmic Plaything and the most he actually cares about anything he has made goes no further than how much a fan of a TV show likes the TV show. He has no problems at all ending a universe if it's not entertaining to him or no longer goes the way he wants it to go.
• Light Is Not Good: His true form is a mass of light of celestial intent, and he's definitely not good, if not totally evil. Guess whom the Angels got their example from.
• Lonely at the Top: Joshua thinks so. In Season 11, God reveals that this was the reason why He created life: His sister, Amara, wasn't exactly the best company, and for all their power, they were the only two beings in existence at that time.
• Mad God: Many have expressed the opinion that given all of the supernatural horror and evil going on, God might not be all there. Their reasoning being that if God loved the universe and His creations so much, why allow monsters to run around killing people and supernatural evil to move freely through the world. The answer is because it's more entertaining that way. Chuck does love his creations...the way you love a favorite TV show. The universe exists only for his amusement, creating all of the problems that lead to conflict because it amuses him. Turns out, God is less of a father figure and more of a Loony Fan.
• The Man Behind the Man: Literally every Big Bad before him was in some way a puppet for him to craft his story.
• The Man in Front of the Man: He initially poses as a Prophet of the Lord, basically just masquerading as Heaven's designated spokesperson on Earth. One of his own Archangels, Raphael, is even assigned to "protect" him from any danger.
• Meta Guy: Whenever he appears he often makes comments or jokes which reflects the real life fanbase's opinion on certain aspects of the show. In Season 15 this is taken further with him referring to Sam and Dean as his favourite show, being a stand in for the writers and audience by being the one writing Sam's and Dean's story while also enjoying the suffering they go for. In the penultimate episode he even tells Sam and Dean that he's "cancelling your show".
• Neglectful Precursors: He created the universe but is partly responsible for it being a mess. Metatron convinces Him to at least get involved again, though.
• Never My Fault:
  • He refuses to take an active hand in Creation after earlier attempts either failed or made things worse; He tends to hold Creation itself, specifically living beings such as angels or humans, responsible when things went downhill.
  • He admits one reason He locked Lucifer away instead of trying to rehabilitate him was His ego; He could not stand the truth of His role in Lucifer's fall. He gave Lucifer the mark which eventually corrupted Lucifer but could not admit it to Himself.
  • After it's revealed that he was Evil All Along, he takes no responsibility for any of his actions and actually seems to think that he's the victim.
• Not Quite the Almighty: Zig-Zagged; He is God, however Amara is the Stronger Sibling. At least initially, as they eventually proven to be equal in power. However, He still doesn't have any claim over the Shadow, who's older than either of them.
• Offing the Offspring: When Michael tries to please him one final time, God reveals he can't forgive Michael even thinking of betraying him. When Michael protests, God just snarls "Save it!" and murders him.
• Omnicidal Maniac: He proceeds to destroy the entire Multiverse aside from the "prime universe" (so far) when he reasons that they're distractions from his main goal to make the Winchesters play along with his perfect ending.
• Parental Abandonment: Sometime after Lucifer rebelled against Him, God left Heaven. Michael blames Lucifer for God leaving.
• Parental Favoritism:
  • Towards Lucifer and then humanity, which made the former murderously jealous of the latter under the toxic influence of the Mark of Cain. Near the end of the series, he even resurrects Lucifer one final time to steal his Death Book, with Lucifer even gloating to Michael that he's daddy's favorite.
  • He reveals over the course of the series that he feels this way about the prime Winchesters. He thoroughly enjoys chronicling the story, admits to Metatron that he "loves those guys", and tells Sam that he and Dean are his favorite show because he finds them both so interesting. He becomes completely obsessed with them giving him the ending he wants in the final season and, after they defeat him, he tells them that their tenacity is why they are his favorites.
• Parental Neglect: He views his role to Creation as that of a father and abandons His creations when things get difficult. He claims staying around and doing more would be enabling. But He barely did anything or interacted with His creations even when He was around. He walked out on the Archangels and the rest of the angels without a word after things fell apart with Lucifer. He walked out on humanity after The Great Flood failed to fix things and preferred to blame everything on His creations.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: After He is revealed to be the ultimate villain of the series and the Big Bad of Season 15, he serves as the polite villain to this to the Winchesters and Castiel's rude heroes.
• The Power of Creation: He created the universe and everything in it. Turns out to be His biggest advantage against Amara; Amara is nothingness and destruction, so she can't create while He can.
• Pride: He confirms Amara's claims that one reason He created lesser beings was to feel powerful, locked away Lucifer to not have to admit His role in Lucifer's fall, and refused to acknowledge His role in the failure of Creation due to His own ego.
• The Problem with Fighting Death: As the Big Bad of the fifteenth and final season, it seemed like a difficult to impossible battle considering: God is Nigh-Invulnerable and can never die, even if you somehow do manage to kill Him then all of creation goes along with him. So, no matter what the outcome, humanity is screwed either way. Worked around by his powers being stolen away by a far more benevolent being, sidestepping the Cosmic Keystone nature of his existence.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Revealed to be this in "Moriah". He views all of creation the same way a child views a TV series, and everything the Winchesters have gone through is a result of Him taking interest in them as His "favorite show". When they decide to stop playing along, He resorts to increasingly extreme measures to punish them. For all his power, he's basically a big child who throws temper tantrums when things don't go his way.
• Reality Warper: He's God; He made reality.
• Sarcastic Confession: 'Oh I'm God all right, a cruel, cruel, capricious God...'
• Self-Deprecation: Once he becomes the final Big Bad of the series, the Author Avatar aspect of his character becomes this for the writers. He's revealed to be a sadistic sociopath who enjoys putting his creations through hell (sometimes literally) for his own amusement, and is a pretty bad writer to boot. Supernatural is well-known for the heavy angst and trauma the characters go through, and hasn't exactly had writing of consistent quality over its 15-year run.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Doesn't get much more this trope than literally being the antithesis of each other. He's light and being while Amara is darkness and nothingness. Where He wants to create, Amara simply destroys everything in her path.
• The Slacker: On both a cosmic and a mundane level.
  • When He was around and ruling Heaven, it has been noted He barely did anything. He only really talked with the Archangels, it took several generations of Lucifer terrorizing mankind before God had Michael imprison him, and while He claims He was deeply involved with humanity in the beginning, the only confirmed action was the Great Flood. He made the claim when trying to make Himself look good with several angels noting how passive He has always been. Metatron, one of the few angels to meet God, claimed God could barely get pushed into dealing with humanity and given the circumstances does not appear to be lying.
  • God neglected humanity for millennia, reasoning that He thought it would help humanity mature after they failed to make much progress with His frequent intervention. Even with the threat of His sister Amara on the horizon, He's passive.
  • When He assumes the form of Chuck, He spends much of His time slacking off and mooching off of the Winchesters. In one scene, Dean finds Him lounging around in His underwear, eating carryout Chinese food, and snarking about how much porn He watched that day.
  • Subverted, as he wasn't definitely slacking around, he was actively making the world hell to make his story more interesting.
• The Sociopath: While he might have started out with good intentions and was idealistic at the beginning of things when he first made the prime universe, cut to modern times and a big jump off the slippery slope later, God sees everyone and everything as nothing more than entertainment or tools for his amusement. His view has become so solipsistic that he only sees his sister Amara as real and everyone else may as well be a doll or inanimate object. Even his sons the Archangels mean nothing to him at all anymore.
• Stalker without a Crush: Chuck acts this way to the Sam and Dean of the prime universe. As he explains to a hapless clerk during his Motive Rant he has successfully manipulated every other version of Sam and Dean across the universe to kill themselves, but he doesn't feel satisfaction with them compared to how it feels manipulating the prime Winchesters. He even states that they are "the ones" for him.
• Stop Worshipping Me: Despite his egotism and Control Freak tendencies, God actually dislikes being worshipped or fawned over. He has stated that worship and people groveling before him has always made him deeply uncomfortable. It might be because he doesn't want to take the burden of faith on himself or that having people actively believe in him and look to him makes them more real to him, which makes it more difficult for him to treat them as dolls he can just manipulate.
• Soul Jar: It's revealed that the entire world is actually Chuck's. When he created the universe, he had to pour his essence into its make-up so it would continue functioning in his absence. However, in the process he made himself mortal as everything dies someday, even the universe.
• The Soulless: He created souls but does not have a soul Himself. He also claims that creating souls made Him feel nauseous.
• Story-Breaker Power: If He was more involved, there would be no plot, as the few times He has been involved makes it clear He could've completely solved any issue if He felt like it, which Dean points out. The only time He actually actively takes a role is when His sister Amara is the Big Bad and He won't be this. Subverted as of the final season, where it's revealed He has been involved and has been subtly manipulating the events of the whole series, as all of it simply serves as His entertainment value.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Chuck/God has never killed anyone in the series' run, although He did cause things like the Great Flood in the distant past. Instead of killing the worst threats like Amara or Lucifer, He opted to seal them away where they could do no harm. He is very much in contrast to Amara in that she casually kills and destroys, but all He does is create. Subverted when he reveals his true motives, tears open Hell out of spite so that every damned soul escapes and wreaks havoc, then goes on a murder spree across creation.
• Time Abyss: He's older than the Earth itself, making Him billions of years old. Most likely older than the universe, since He created it in the first place. Death was the only being around God's age, and neither of them can remember who is older (according to Death, anyway, who has been revealed to be bit unreliable on the subject). His sister, Amara, is the only being confirmed to be as old as Him. According to Death, she's even older, but both Amara and God contradict this, claiming to be of equal age, and while Death says that he's at least almost as old as God, Amara (who is at least as old as God) has no idea who he is.
• Top God: In a series full of Physical Gods, He is THE GOD, Jehovah Himself. However he's challenged for this title by his sister the Darkness, who is The Anti-God, and the Shadow, who while not as powerful is the oldest Cosmic Entity seen.
• True Art Is Angsty: Is a firm believer in this, as he personally loves all the violent monster attacks and emotional pain that Sam and Dean must deal with, disagreeing with Becky that fans actually like it when they're happy and spending time together. He's also obsessed with the story of Cain and Abel and making every version of the Winchesters go through with it, and after killing everyone but them and Jack in the penultimate episode says that an ending where they are doomed to live on a dead world knowing it's their fault is "sophisticated".
• Villain Override: Chuck can take over a Prophet at any time and use them as unwitting spies, calling it his own personal Bluetooth.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has several in Season 15, but his worst is when he realizes that the Winchesters and Jack intend to leave him alive as a mortal man to die alone, at which point he is left begging them not to leave him alone, a plea that falls on deaf ears.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: God revealed that He used to be like this. Even when He was with his sister, Amara, He chose to create life because He wanted to show her something beautiful, something that could make her believe in something besides destruction. It didn't work. God even called Himself stupid and naive for even trying. It probably was the root cause for His Face–Heel Turn as he grew apathetic for his creations slowly.
• Walking Spoiler: His true role as the Greater-Scope Villain of the series and the Big Bad of the Final Season makes him this.
• Writer on Board: Chuck is literally revealed to be the architect of the show, as He didn't end the Winchesters' story for his own amusement, as well as not making it boring. It's also revealed each villain and monster was handpicked by God to prove a challenge for them to grow, the fall of Castiel, the rise of Leviathans, the Mark of Cain issues, and even Jack's birth was planned by Him. He even gives the boys literal Plot Armor (yes, it's mentioned as actually existing) and not their companions, which is why Anyone Can Die in droves. And the actual troubles in the show is chalked up to God being a hack as a writer and struggling to maximize the entertainment value. God quits being this as the Winchesters deviated from His original plan to let Dean kill Jack for sentimental value, which Dean refused to. Then at the very end he gets depowered and made a mortal, and the series ends.
• You Bastard!: Once he becomes the final Big Bad, the Audience Surrogate aspect of his character becomes one towards the audience. These characters and all the angst and horror they go through are all toys for his own sadistic amusement. We the audience enjoy watching these characters as they go through what no person should go through and oftentimes the creative deaths the victims of the week go through simply. But since they're not real and made for our entertainment, what's the harm? That's basically Chuck's mindset.

Amara (The Darkness)

Amara (The Darkness)

I was the beginning, and I will be the end. I will be all that there is.

Portrayed by Emily Swallow, Gracyn Shinyei, Yasmine Lily Elle Ball, Samantha Isler

The Darkness, also known in human form as Amara, is the embodiment of destruction and the one who existed before Creation. She is the older twin sister of God and is the oldest supernatural being in the series universe as she even precedes God and Death.

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• Above Good and Evil: She finds both concepts unimportant, as well as everything else. This changes when she returns in Season 15, having come to recognise that her brother's creations are real people just like herself and that Chuck destroying worlds is an evil act that must be stopped.
• Above the Gods: Her brother created the other gods long after she was imprisoned, so while she’s never met any she’s definitely more powerful. She's also shown to be more powerful than her brother, who needed help to imprison her.
• Affably Evil: She is grateful to Dean for freeing her and does him no harm, as they are connected by the Mark of Cain. She eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Aloof Big Sister:
  • Subverted. Amara is God's sister and is the elder according to Death (though she and God both claim to be of equal age) and even though it appears that she doesn't care about Him and wants to destroy Him, she actually does love Him and only did what she did because she wanted her younger brother back.
  • A justified reason in season 15: she refuses Chuck's plea to help him restore himself after he got struck by the Equalizer, telling him that he will have to fix the mess that he was responsible for causing by himself.
• Ancient Evil: The Darkness predates Creation itself, and is so powerful that it took God and His Archangels to seal her away.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: According to Chuck she is nothingness itself. Though later Amara seems to simply be destruction, while nothingness is actually the Shadow.
• The Anti-God: As it turns out, Amara is the opposite of God in power and basic nature, but not in morality. He is light and creation while she is darkness and destruction, but she is not pure evil, nor is he pure goodness. God's moral code is as a parent to his children while Amara is really just discovering her own, as there's now more than just her brother for her to see herself in relation to. Bonus points for God being (a rather average) male (or at least choosing to look male) while the Darkness chooses an attractive female form.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Towards the final season, she takes up the position that her brother used to uphold and which she opposed: championing creation as something beautiful that should be preserved, whereas he starts to show a destructive and self-centred side that she used to project herself.
• Berserk Button: Her expression when Lucifer tells her that she'll never be God because she can't create makes it clear she doesn't like being told her brother is better than she is.
• Big Bad: Of Season 11. The Darkness is the most deadly and dangerous villain that the show has ever had up until then. Upon being freed from the Mark of Cain, The Darkness feeds on human souls to grow stronger and plans on destroying the universe to get revenge on God for imprisoning her. Interestingly, she's the only Big Bad to make a Heel–Face Turn by the end of the season she was the main villain of.
• Cain and Abel: She's the Cain to God's Abel, being his older sister, according to Death.
• Casting a Shadow: One of the few people in all of live-action media to have this power. Her name is The Darkness and her true form is a mass of darkness. Oddly enough, she only ever uses this power a few times in her appearances.
• Character Development: Goes from her revenge-driven goal to eliminate the entire universe(including herself!) to abandoning her revenge and instead leave the world for good, reconciling with her brother.
• The Corruption: The Mark of Cain, which she was sealed by, corrupted Dean, Cain, and Lucifer.
• Cosmic Keystone: She and God are this. If one dies, the other and all creation goes with them.
• Dark Is Evil: Certainly seems that way. Ultimately subverted.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She's not so much inherently evil, she's just furious with her brother. Once Dean talks her down, she makes a Heel–Face Turn and departs happily with God to reconcile.
• Demonization: Since she eventually makes a Heel–Face Turn and God is revealed to be evil, her status as a monstrous, irredeemable evil who must be sealed away has shades of this. After all, the only witnesses to the supposedly horrible things Amara did that led to her imprisonment are God (who is an Unreliable Narrator and something of a sexist) and Amara herself (who has no one to back her side of the story, since she was Unpersoned). It calls into question whether her who-knows-how-long imprisonment was really that necessary, as Dean manages to redeem her.
• Destroyer Deity: She contrasts God's nature as the source of all creation by being the embodiment of destruction. She's not really evil, just envious of the attention that God lavishes on the universe and its inhabitants.
• Divine–Infernal Family: Amara isn't just The Anti-God to Chuck, but his big sister and far more of a threat than her nephew Lucifer.
• The Dreaded: It seems that even Michael and Lucifer are afraid of her!
• Driven by Envy: The reason she destroyed all of God's previous worlds and is trying to destroy the current one is because she was jealous that God wanted something other than her. She ultimately admits this and decides creation is beautiful, so she reconciles with God.
• Eldritch Abomination: Debuts as a formless mass of darkness.
• Et Tu, Brute?: In "Unity", she feels betrayed upon learning that Dean intends to sacrifice her to destroy Chuck, despite claiming otherwise. As a result, she willingly gives up her essence to Chuck.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Deep down, the Darkness still loves her brother, God. She realizes how utterly meaningless her revenge is at the end, something that Dean manages to make her admit.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Can't seem to comprehend the idea God created existence and imprisoned her for any benevolent reason, believing he did both out of fear she'd create a more perfect creation than him. In actuality, he wanted to create the universe to convince her to be better and try to make something better than themselves, but she just kept destroying everything he tried to make.
  • She also can't understand why Dean doesn't want to join her and sees God's creation as worth saving.
  • Subverted, however, after she realizes that she will enjoy her revenge for maybe 5 minutes before regretting it, and admits that God's intention to make creations so they wouldn't be alone isn't as selfish as she thought.
• Evil Counterpart: To God. Interestingly enough, Dean is linked or tied to the Darkness while Sam seems to be tied or linked to God. The Darkness seems to be helping Dean while God is helping Sam, in a complete reversal of their respective "sides" in Season 5. It might be worth noting that while Sam was linked to Lucifer, his name does mean "Light Bringer", and God isn't exactly the most moral being, so Sam is still linked to a godlike, light-based, amoral(ish) being.
• Eviler than Thou: Is such a massive threat that Lucifer ultimately forms an Enemy Mine with God and the Winchesters to combat her after she tortures him, and ultimately everyone, Angel, Demon, Witch, Reaper, and others are against her.
• Evil Is Not a Toy:
  • At first, Crowley tried to make an alliance with her. Then he became afraid of her constant hunger for souls.
  • Rowena also allies herself briefly with her to take revenge against Lucifer. That alliance lasts for maybe several hours before Rowena backs down.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: She's the Oblivion, more or less every other living villain in the series is the Evil.
• Ex-Big Bad: After serving as the Big Bad of Season 11 and one of the single most powerful threats the Winchesters have ever faced, Amara doesn't reappear until the final season, where she's shown to be enjoying keno and massages, until in her last appearance, Chuck as the Final Boss breaks her and absorbs her.
• Fantastic Racism: She hates all of creation and everything that goes with it. It is revealed that when God first tried to create worlds, she always destroys. God hoped that she would change her mind, but seeing that it'll never happen he's forced to seal her in the Mark. Ultimately subverted, as she admits she's come to see it as beautiful and was angry that God needed more than just her to be happy. She eventually grows out of this.
• Fusion Dance: In "Unity", she merges her essence with Chuck, causing him to sport one each pure white and pitch black eye.
• God of Darkness: Amara is the sister of God and the embodiment of darkness and destruction.
• God of Evil: She's the true embodiment of chaos, evil, nihilism, and pretty much everything bad. Subverted though in that she turns out to be Not Evil, Just Misunderstood.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Mark of Cain, by which the Darkness was sealed, corrupted Lucifer. In other words, she is responsible for almost all of the major strife (Lucifer creating demons, God leaving angels to "guard" Earth, demons doing as demons do, the Apocalypse, etc.) in the series.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Her rage when Lucifer suggests she's inferior to God because she can't create while he can (and gave her many chances to do so during which she only destroyed everything he tried to make) implies, despite her attempts to convince others God was jealous of what she could create, she actually envies HIM for his ability to create. She ultimately admits that the thing she's most jealous of, however, was creation itself, as she hated the idea her brother needed something other than her to be happy.
• Heel–Face Turn: Realizes that revenge against God and His creations just isn't worth it at the last minute. She decides to leave the world alongside her brother for good, and even leaves a surprise for Dean in return for his contribution.
• Hot-Blooded: Lucifer notes that she's "prone to tantrums", and indeed, she's a bit more impulsive than her brother.
• Humanoid Abomination: She appears to Dean as a beautiful human woman. Or girl, or teenager.
• In Their Own Image: Subverted. She indicates to Dean early on that her plan is to remake the world into a better world, but it's later revealed that she can only destroy and can't create, and she really just intends to destroy all of her brother's creation.
• Invincible Villain: It IS possible to kill her, but all the reality will be destroyed.
• It's All About Me: Seems completely incapable of thinking about anyone but herself. She constantly tries to blame God for everything despite his own attempts to get through to her BEFORE sealing her away, passing off his loneliness as 'wanting a fan club' and accusing him of being jealous of her when all indications point to it being the other way around.
• Karma Houdini: She gets reformed at the end of season 11 and is not punished for a year worth of deaths and misery she inflicted on the world.
• Leaking Can of Evil: The Mark of Cain tends to exert a poisonous, corrupting influence on those who bear it, something which Lucifer, Cain, and Dean suffer the brunt of.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Tends to just march into any situation she feels the need to enter and tank whatever's thrown at her. As Lucifer said, she's powerful but immature and reckless. This backfires on her when she's finally confronted with the army of witches, angels, and demons God and the Winchesters had assembled.
• Living Shadow: Her default form is a giant terrifying cloud of shade.
• Morality Pet: Dean. In the entire eleventh season, never once does she have any evil thoughts about him, and at the end, she is convinced to abandon her revenge thanks to Dean's words.
• Moral Myopia: Is furious with her brother for betraying and sealing her away...despite the fact he'd tried to convince her they didn't need to be alone and could make something more than just the two of them, but she just kept destroying every world he tried to make. She constantly blames God for the people she keeps killing trying to draw Him out so she could kill him.
• Never My Fault: Acts like God betrayed and wronged her because he feared she'd make something better than he could. Turns out that's exactly the problem: God would've LIKED that, as he WANTED for her to become better. But all she ever did was destroy the worlds he created until he realized she was a lost cause and had to seal her away.
• No Cure for Evil: It is explicitly stated that Amara has no ability to create, only to destroy. When she critically wounds God, everything begins to die because he is no longer serving as a power source and Amara is powerless to stop the decay. Her attempts only speed up the rotting destruction, which we see when she touches flowers that instantly turn black and die. This jars her out of her villainous tunnel vision and she takes God off to recover so the world can get better.
• No-Sell: Might as well be the reigning champion of this trope in the series. She resists the smite of the entire Host of Heaven (essentially being stabbed with hundreds of thousands of angel blades) with only the destruction of her vessel as a consequence. Eventually, however, a combined force of angels, demons, and witches manage to weaken her to a certain extent, though she is still able to mortally wound God.
• Not So Invincible After All: It takes a lot to do it, but she can be weakened and hurt. First time around it took all four Archangels to weaken her, the second time it took Lucifer and an army of witches, demons, and Angels attacking her in mass. However, even in her weakened state she is still able to deal a massive injury to God.

• Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to destroy all Creation, including God, which would kill her too. Bonus points for the fact that she has destroyed an unspecified number of previous universes. Grows out of this with Character Development.
• Overnight Age-Up: Amara ages from newborn to adult woman over the course of a few episodes.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: She's the Affably Evil to the Winchesters Good Is Not Nice.
• The Power of the Void: Being the Anthropomorphic Personification of Nothingness, she has this power. Which means while she's extremely powerful, God can create while she can only destroy, meaning unlike him she can't create anything to help her. At the end of season 11, though, she is able to heal God and bring back Mary Winchester, hinting that she might have power over life other than destroying them, after all.
• Primordial Chaos: What it seems to be made of, as the force that existed before Creation. It later turns out that she's more God's Evil Counterpart, as she must destroy everything he creates.

• Reality-Breaking Paradox: God implies that the Darkness can be killed, but doing so would tear reality apart, taking Him and His creations along with it. And vice versa.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Raising Hell", she sees through Chuck's BS when he invites her for a "vacation" and leaves without helping him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: A meta-physical can to which the lock and seal was the Mark of Cain. Once the seal is gone, the Darkness wastes no time in breaking out of her prison.
• Sentient Cosmic Force: Appears as a mass of black that sweeps across the landscape once her seal is broken.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Doesn't get much further apart than being complete opposite concepts. She's darkness and nothingness while her brother God is light and being. She destroys everything while he wants to CREATE everything.
• Skilled, but Naive:
  • The Darkness may have power on par with God, but she is prone to being Literal-Minded and childish.
  • She grows out of this eventually, however. In Season 15, Amara correctly deduces that Chuck is trying to get into her good books by inviting her to a vacation, when all he wants is for her to heal him. She promptly leaves after saying "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Snowballing Threat: When she's first released from her can, her disembodied essence causes a Rabid outbreak, but things otherwise settle down once she incarnates into a human baby. At first, Amara as a baby is only shown to be capable of telekinesis and devouring people's souls, but once her vessel fully matures, she can overpower and obliterate multiple demons and angels with ease. After she's been set back by the angels mass-smiting her and has only just recovered, Amara is powerful enough to literally make Heaven and Earth tremble with a shout, and she no-sells a blast from a Hand of God-empowered Lucifer before easily overpowering the second-eldest archangel. In the last several episodes of Season 11, Amara begins unleashing a deadly Rabid-creating mist which eradicates entire towns, and she's so powerful by the season's end that she overpowers and fatally wounds her brother despite being severely injured by a combined assault from witches, demons and the whole of Heaven.
• Soul Eating: Amara literally feeds on human souls for sustenance, denying the victim an afterlife, gaining all their knowledge and storing them within her being. She first manifests as a helpless baby until she consumes her first human soul, rendering the victim like Sam was when his soul was still trapped in Lucifer's cage, while Amara ages rapidly into a young girl.
• Spell My Name with a "The": The Darkness.

• Stronger Sibling: Zigzagged, eventually played straight. God needs help to overpower her, and she seems to have more sheer power, but Lucifer concludes that this isn't the case because Amara, being Nothingness and Darkness, is incapable of creating anything while God can. However, this is Lucifer we're talking about, it's not the first time we see him lie. Also, at the end of season 11, Amara manages to bring back a person who has been dead for 33 years (and one who didn't leave a body behind), so she must have at least some control over creation.
• Taking You with Me: This is the only way she can possibly kill her brother: God and Amara are two sides of the same coin and if one dies the other does too.
• Time Abyss: This thing was existence before the Archangels came along, meaning it predates Creation. She even wonders who Death is when Dean mentions him, meaning she has no concept of Death or dying AT ALL! According the Death, she actually predates God.
• Time-Shifted Actor: While Emily Swallow is the Darkness' primary actor, since she spends the first half of season 11 still in developing phase, her actor shifts many times. As a young girl, she is portrayed by Gracyn Shinyei. Yasmine Lily-Elle Ball portrays her adolescent phase. Finally, Samantha Isler portrays her teenage phase.
• Touched by Vorlons: As a divine being on par with God, her Fog of Doom doesn't harm potential prophets, but activates them, giving them a connection to her.
• Unperson: Unlike the case with Lucifer, after he locked Amara away, God erased all evidences that his sister ever existed. Other than God, the only beings who know about her are the Archangels (who helped God seal her away and were sworn to secrecy), Death (either because his knowledge is that vast, or God told him to ensure he never reaped the bearer of the Mark) and Metatron (after He let it slip "between cups").
• Unskilled, but Strong: Stated almost word-to-word by Lucifer. She holds a raw power as great and possibly even more than God, but she's so confident of herself that she usually doesn't have time to plan, instead working her things Leeroy Jenkins-style. In addition, she doesn't really understand the inner workings of God's Creation, and doesn't know enough to predict it, which blindsides her a bit. The fact that her power activates potential prophets is unknown to her, originally.
• Villainous Glutton: Just as ravenous as the Leviathans, thought not as reckless as them. She eats people's souls in an etiquette manner.
• Yandere: For her younger brother, God. She reacted violently and angrily when God created other worlds and the Universe. She was jealous of God's creations because she had felt that God wanted something more than she could offer as His sister. In other words, she wanted to destroy God's creations because she felt like they were destroying her relationship with her brother. She just wanted her brother back more than anything else and she was willing to destroy anything that stood her way of it. Interestingly enough, Amara's obsession with being with her brother mirrors Dean's obsessive love for Sam and that they would both do anything for their younger siblings.

Death

Death

"This is one little planet in one tiny solar system in a galaxy that's barely out of its diapers. I'm old, Dean. Very old. So I invite you to contemplate how insignificant I find you."

Portrayed by Julian Richings

Death is the one and only "Grim" Reaper, and leads the other Reapers.

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• Aliens Love Human Food: Death has a particularly strong craving for human food, especially junk food. This is quite remarkable considering how Death is so dismissive of Earth as an Insignificant Little Blue Planet, yet is so overly fond of something the tiny mortals whipped up in the kitchen. Dean and the boys typically prepare an offering of Food as Bribe to appease him if they are ever forced to summon him. He also gives his reasons for sparing Chicago due to liking their pizza.
• All-Powerful Bystander: Downplayed. He frequently provides Sam and Dean with the means to save the world, but, as a rule, Death refuses to involve himself personally. His only concern is maintaining the natural order until time comes to an end.
• Alternate Self: Apocalypse World Michael mentions that they locked their version of Death away and turned the reapers into a Slave Race.
• Ambiguous Situation: Death's origin and whether he's a true primordial like God, the Darkness and the Shadow is unclear. The revelations in Season 10 and 11 about the Darkness and his own death disprove his own Badass Boast that he's The Anti-God who will one day reap God, with it being made clear that Amara and Chuck are much older than him. The fact that Amara is aware of the Archangels would even suggest that Lucifer is older than Death. Its also worth noting that Chuck did have Death imprisoned and only releases him he has something major planned, such as the Great Flood, suggesting that Death isn't more powerful than God. A major revelation to consider is that Apocalypse World Michael confirms that his world had its own version of Death that's distinct from the version in the main universe, unlike the other primordials who don't have an Alternate Self which would suggest that he isn't one himself despite his claims. However there's no firm evidence that he was created by God like the Archangels and it's entirely plausible that while younger than Chuck and Amara, he simply didn't get involved in their fight which is why Amara never met him and Chuck had to create the Archangels. And while Chuck might be more powerful, that does not mean anything since the Shadow, which is older than God and the Darkness, is also weaker in comparison which suggests that age isn't a factor when it comes to actual power. Further muddying the waters is that Death is a Legacy Character and that God does have a Death Book that proves he will one day die at Death's hands—which may not necessarily apply to Chuck personally either since Jack becomes the new God at the end of the series.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of death itself.
• The Anti-God: He claims to be as old as God and is an antithesis of Him when it comes to creations, reaping instead of creating them. However, unlike other examples of this trope, he is neither evil, particularly destructive (aside from his reaping), and is, in fact, one of the more benign entities in the show and possesses a dislike of the natural order being thrown into chaos. This is averted in Season 10, when we learn that Death is actually younger than than not just God, but the archangels. The actual Anti-God is the Darkness, which debuts in the same episode Death is killed off.
• Badass Boast: Death gives one to Dean, in which he claims that he will reap God at the end of time. Dean is fairly taken aback by this. Seemingly subverted when it turns out to false when Dean kills him and God's still around. However reaffirmed in Season 15, where it's revealed that even though Death never got to reap God, he did know how to and has a book with instructions on how to do so, and it was technically Metaphorically True since Chuck's fate is to suffer a mortal death.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Death wears a black suit and longcoat.
• Badass Longcoat: On top of his suit.
• Big Good: Interestingly, despite his neutral disposition, Death has taken up this role quite a few times. Being one of the more benevolent of the higher powers, he has frequently provided aid to the Winchesters from the sidelines against major threats. Most notably during the battles against Lucifer and Castiel.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Seems to operate this way.
• Captured Super-Entity: In Season 5, he is magically bound to do Lucifer's bidding, and later in Season 7, Dean and Sam bind him to their will.

• Complete Immortality: Death claims he is the one thing in existence that will last forever, though Dean disproves this in Season 10.
• Cool Car: Death drives a pale 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille with plates reading "BUH*BYE".
• Cosmic Entity: His cosmic perspective and lack of interest in Earthly matters becomes clear in the very first conversation he has with Dean. When Dean protests his relative lack of help to prevent the Earth from being destroyed in a later episode, he outright threatens to leave Earth for a better planet.
• Covert Pervert: In "Moriah", Chuck states that Death was "all about fried pickles and tickle porn," and that's why he prefers him over his successor Billie. Granted, since this is the episode where Chuck's true colors come to light, he may have just been needlessly insulting Death. During his admittedly limited screen-time, Death never expresses any interest in sex.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Very, very grumpy and very, very scary, but generally a benevolent force.
• Deadpan Snarker
  Dean: You're not serious?
  Death: No, I'm being incredibly sarcastic.
• The Death of Death: In Season 10, to everyone's shock, Dean manages to kill Death after being handed the one thing in existence capable of killing him.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: In the first three of his appearances.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?:
  • Death reveals that Lucifer managed to trap him into his servitude. Death, who is very annoyed that he's being leashed by a petulant child with daddy issues (yes, that is how Death describes the Devil), proves that it's not a good idea to piss off an eternal and infinite force of nature by actually helping Sam and Dean imprison Lucifer again.
  • The Winchesters try to bind Death in a last-ditch effort to stop the newly-godlike Castiel. Death warns them that it won't end well for them, but he doesn't follow through on his threat after Castiel removes his restraints because the "mutated angel" is a bigger concern for him at the moment.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Thought to be impossible, Dean manages to kill Death after being handed his scythe (revealed to be the one thing in existence capable of killing him).
• The Dreaded: To Dean, with Death being one of the few beings in existence who is able to scare him, which is really saying something. Given Dean is usually unfettered by anything, from monsters, to gods, and even unafraid to curse at the Lucifer, the Devil himself, this just goes to show just how utterly terrifying Death is.
• Dull Surprise: Even as Dean kills him he barely changes his expression, only showing moderate at best surprise as he crumbles to dust.
• Eldritch Abomination: For starters, he considers Satan as a naughty child who throws temper tantrum. There's also his claim about his extremely ancient age, although Season 10 disproves that. Then there is his scythe, whose extent of power is, even today, still unknown.
• Enemies with Death: Death gets into a very heated argument with Castiel, in which Castiel outright threatens to kill Death. Death isn't impressed by the "mutated angel".
• Establishing Character Moment: Death gets one as he enters Chicago. He parks his Horseman car, a white 1959 Cadillac, and goes on foot. When a rude guy bumps into him, Death doesn't even look at him, instead casually brushing off his sleeve where he touched him, causing the guy to drop dead.
• Expy: To the Death seen in Good Omens, not surprising, since that book is cited as a major influence on the show. Both Deaths are easily the most powerful members of their respective Horsemen, being fundamental forces of nature rather than humanity's ills given form. They're also both the least malicious of their Horsemen, being Punch-Clock Villains who are just doing their job of reaping and their role in the Apocalypse, which they are relatively easily swayed out of.
• The Fog of Ages: In his debut episode, Death says that both he and God can't remember which one is older, so there is a potential that Death is the oldest being in the universe. He later turns out to be lying about his age and wrong about reaping God. He may be lying about being unable to remember that far back. Besides, even if he is older than God, there is still the Darkness to compare to.
• Food as Bribe: Whenever the need arises to summon him, Dean has found it advisable to present Death with a deep-fried offering.
• The Grim Reaper: The original, oldest of all the Reapers, and their boss.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Dean kills him with his own scythe.
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The fourth.
• Humanoid Abomination: He presents himself in human form, but see Eldritch Abomination above.
• Idiot Ball: Giving Dean, who everybody knows will burn the world down for his little brother, the one thing in existence that could kill you and expecting him to kill Sam wasn't very bright, Death.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Death considers Earth to be an incredibly young planet that barely registers on the cosmic radar.
• Irony: He compares Lucifer to a bratty child throwing a temper tantrum (which is a pretty accurate representation), and boasts that he may be as old as or even older than God himself, Lucifer's father. Then the Darkness, who God and the Archangels personally fought, doesn't know about Death, suggesting Death is in fact younger than Lucifer.
• It Amused Me: Billie reveals that the reason Death Is Cheap for the Winchesters is he finds it funny.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being extremely callous, dismissive of humanity, and unconcerned with the suffering of the protagonists, he is still fairly benevolent for such a powerful entity, and far more than the various gods and angels shown in the series. He gives important aid to the Winchesters multiple times. He also hints to Dean in "Appointment in Samarra" (S06, E11) that he finds his job of causing all death hard to do, empathizing with Dean's turmoil over having to reap a child, and noting that even he sometimes wishes he did not have to do this job. He also always makes sure to share his junk food with Dean. This is shown and emphasized at the beginning of Season 9 even more in his interactions with Sam, where he reveals he genuinely admires Sam for the good he has done.
• Legacy Character: Turns out whenever the embodiment of death dies, the next Reaper to die will become the new Death. However, they don't seem to be as powerful as him, since Betty, the second Death after him, is easily killed by Lucifer, who OG Death had dissed as an unimportant brat.
• Killed Off for Real: Dean kills him in "Brother's Keeper". Yes, Death is dead.
• Leitmotif: "O Death" is used as one the first time viewers see him.
• Mister Exposition: Gives info on how to trap Lucifer again in Season 5 and Leviathans in Season 7. In Season 10, he gives lecture about the Darkness.
• Mood Whiplash: Death very seriously threatens Sam and Dean, and coldly instructs them how to get the souls back to Purgatory. Then as he leaves, he suddenly turns and says, in a very jovial tone, that the pickle chips were really good.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He is immortal and eternal being who virtually cannot be killed by anything except his own scythe.
• No Body Left Behind: When Dean slashes him, he crumbles into dust.
• No Ontological Inertia: Averted and lampshaded. The nature whom the Horsemen personify cannot cease to exist, so regardless of Death being killed off in Season 10, humans still die as usual and the reapers have to collect their souls. The only difference is that they have no leader to report to until Billie's promotion in Season 12.
• Not So Above It All: Billie reveals that the Winchester brothers' Death Is Cheap status was because Death found it amusing. Considering his usual demeanor, that's a pretty drastic shift.
• Nutritional Nightmare: Death is so fond of the fattiest and sweetest treats and fast foods to be found that he almost always appears eating something gloriously unhealthy. A possible justification is that this food is what ends up causing early deaths in many victims, much like one man that Dean reaps who dies eating pizza, so it's not unreasonable to assume this led to Death developing an interest for this food after seeing the many, many people who literally died eating it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Brother's Keeper", he drops all of his snarky demeanor while explaining the origins of the Mark of Cain and its connection to the Darkness, unlike the condescending tone he uses while explaining Lucifer's Cage and the Leviathans. Afterwards, he urges Dean to kill Sam so the mark can be renewed. Urges, not taunts, which is very unlike his previous behavior. As the next season reveals, Death came into being after the Darkness was trapped in the mark, so Death doesn't have first-hand accounts of her. She is the only being who escapes his attention, so he is genuinely afraid of her, especially as right up to the time of Death's death, God and the archangels (the ones who sort of defeated her) are MIA.
• The Omniscient: Death is functionally omniscient. Every time Dean tries to tell him something, the bored-looking Grim Reaper notes that he's already aware. He does show surprise when the Winchesters summon him and ask him to kill an evil god for them, so it seems he needs to focus his all-knowing powers for it to be effective.
• Pet the Dog: Despite his neutral disposition and uncaring demeanor, he's actually done a lot of really big favors for Dean, with the big one being restoring Sam's soul from Hell, although Death himself claims he isn't doing it for Dean.
• Pretender Diss: Death gives one to Castiel, who deems himself a god.
  Death: Please, Cass. I know God, and you, sir, are no God.
• The Problem with Fighting Death: Dean tries to kill Death, unaware that he could've gotten what he wanted without killing him, as they both had a common interest in stopping the "bratty child" (Lucifer). Dean assumes that Death would be angry at this, but it turns out the problem with a human fighting Death is that the human just doesn't matter.
  Dean: Is this the part where you kill me?
  Death: [after staring at him incredulously] You have an inflated sense of your importance. To a thing like me, a thing like you...well. Think how you'd feel if a bacterium sat at your table and started to get snarky.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Death is much more level-headed and temperate than his fellow Horsemen "brothers," even though that doesn't stop him from being sarcastic. In the first episode of Season 7, he even gives the Winchesters advice on what to do after they bound him, which is what he was so angry at Lucifer about that he told them how to defeat him. He also brings an eclipse to aid in the spell to open Purgatory a second time. He's arguably the most reasonable super-powered being on the show.
• Relieving the Reaper: In "Appointment in Samarra", Death agrees to retrieve Sam's soul if Dean will act as him for one day.
• Retcon: He has stated that he's at least as old as God, maybe even older. Season 10 and 11 reveal that the real entity older than God is the Darkness (who herself was retconned in Season 15 to be His twin). In addition, the Darkness has apparently never heard of Death while she personally fought God and the Archangels, suggesting Death is not only younger than God, he's younger than Lucifer, who Death outright called "a bratty child throwing a tantrum". However he is still one of the oldest characters on the show and there's no evidence that Chuck created him like he did with the Archangels, suggesting that he is still a primordial.
• Sealed Badass in a Can: Death was imprisoned by God for unknown reasons (though his role and influence in existence were not halted by this) and then released by Lucifer. Considering that this is Death and that only God or the Darkness could take him in a slugfest as far as we know, his status as a badass is pretty much a given.
• Secret Test of Character: Gives Dean one, where he has Dean wear his ring in order to pull a Relieving the Reaper for a day, in exchange for Sam's soul being returned from Hell. Dean has a lot of difficulty being Death, where he inadvertently causes a chain of events that mucks up the Natural Order and leads him to quit early. But in the end, Death is satisfied that Dean learned his lesson on the Natural Order and the consequences of breaking it.
• Sinister Scythe: Averted, as it's a rusty hand tool like you'd use for gardening. But it soon becomes obvious that Death does not need props to be scary.
• The Starscream: He is all too willing to stab Lucifer in the back. However, he is a slight subversion in that he never agreed to help him in the first place (what with Lucifer trapping him and all), and could arguably count as an inversion in that he's far, far more powerful and important than Lucifer, whom he regards as a spoiled child.
• The Stoic: He's very nonchalant about everything, since everyone else is too far beneath him for him to care what they do.
• Summon Bigger Fish: In "Meet the New Boss" (S07, E01), after Castiel declares himself the new God, the Winchesters — with an assist from Crowley — bind Death to their bidding so they can have him kill Castiel. It doesn't do much good, as Castiel frees Death from the Winchesters' control.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Death doesn't care about humanity, Earth or helping Dean. He's very specific about that, while giving Dean advice on saving Earth and humanity.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Castiel at the beginning of Season 7.
• Time Abyss: He boasts that he is the only being who will persist through eternity. The Reveal in Season 10 shows that he is not and is younger than he claims to be. Nevertheless, he is still pretty old (he predates humans, demons, Leviathans, and all of the angels except for the four archangels).
• Token Good Teammate: Death is more benevolent than War, Famine and Pestilence by a country mile.
• Too Dumb to Live: Seems to think it was a good idea to hand Dean the one thing in existence that could kill him, and then order him to kill his own brother, who is just a normal human who could be killed by relatively mundane weapons. Thanks to this unprecedented stupidity, Dean kills him.
• Touch of Death: Obviously. An interesting example: in his first appearance, Death kills a man who rudely bumps into him by brushing off the part of his shoulder the man touched.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Devouring junk food of any kind seems to be Death's main hobby aside from, well, death. So much so that a large bag of fried pickle chips form the Winchesters' "please don't kill us for summoning you" bribe.
• Vanity License Plate: His is registered in California and says "BUH*BYE" as he brings death.
• Villain Cred / Terror Hero: Death is the only supernatural creature that Dean will show nothing less than genuine respect for. Even when Dean starts to get a little bitchy toward death, Death only has to calmly but firmly use a simple line like "Dean, it's impolite to roll your eyes." and Dean will pause and go right back to being respectful. Considering Dean does nothing but mock and disrespect beings like LUCIFER, this says a lot about how powerful Death is.
• Walking Wasteland: Death goes to get some food at a diner. When Dean enters he finds that everyone in the room died in Death's presence.

Archangels

The first beings God ever created and the most powerful of all angels. Older than the universe, they helped God lock away The Darkness so the universe could be made. While not explicitly primordials (all of the primordials spontaneously came into existence as the need for them arose) they are primordial beings and stated by God as being made of "The stuff of primordial creation". Essentially, they are constructed to be like primordials and posses low-level (compared to being like God or Amara) Reality Warping power. For more information, check the character section on archangels linked here.

The Shadow

The Shadow

Portrayed By: Misha Collins, Erica Cerra, Rachel Miner

I'm just your friendly neighborhood Cosmic Entity.

The Shadow: Before God and Amara, creation, destruction, Heaven, Hell, your precious little Earth, what was there?
Castiel: Nothing.
The Shadow: Yes. That's right. Nothing. Nothing but empty and you are soaking in it. Angels and demons, you all come here when you die (...) sleeping an endless, peaceful sleep.

The mysterious ruler of the Empty.

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• Allergic to Routine: A metaphysical play on this with the Shadow. Where routine is routine for creatures living in a structured universe (i.e. being awake, thinking, having a definite form with mass and dimensions) it is an anathema to the Shadow. It's a creature of primordial chaos normally having no shape, form or substance and because it always sleeps, it is almost never aware or even self-aware. It's implied that the reason the Shadow/Empty needs to sleep is because it is meant to be "nothing" but taking a form, creating a presence, and being aware of both self and surroundings make it "something".
• Above the Gods: While not as powerful as God or the Darkness, it is far older than either of them and larger, being the ruler of the Empty which is seemingly the void that everything resides in.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Zig-Zagged. On the one hand it's definitely older than either God or Amara and controls (and maybe is) the void that universe(s) reside in. But while Billie claims that not even God or Amara have power over it or what goes on in the Empty, the Shadow itself tells Sam that Billie was lying; Chuck still has some control over beings in the Empty, hence why he was able to resurrect Castiel and Lilith. And while it can interact with the worlds created by Chuck, it's only in limited circumstances such as when claiming the soul of a Nephilim or through a specific deal. Eventually Billie states that the Shadow is not as powerful as either Chuck or Amara, but far more vast.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Claims to be nothingness itself, existing long before God and the Darkness. This is despite Chuck claiming in Season 11 that his sister was nothingness, with the Shadow instead calling Amara destruction.
• Cosmic Entity: It even introduces itself as "your friendly neighborhood cosmic entity". Indeed, it seems to be the embodiment of the cosmos itself. Or rather non-cosmos, since it is actually pure nothingness.
• Deadpan Snarker: Despite having been asleep for uncountable aeons, when it's awake, it's just as prone to quippy remarks like every other character.
• Don't Wake the Sleeper: It makes it pretty clear that it can't handle and doesn't like being awake. In this instance it probably refers to being aware of its surroundings and what's going on. Suffice it to way, Castiel learned the hard way that waking this guy is not a good idea.
• Eldritch Abomination: The Shadow tells Castiel that its true form would drive him insane. To highlight this: keep in mind Castiel is an angel and thus a lower tier Eldritch Abomination himself by human standards.
• Evil Gloating: When Jack is killed and wakes up in the Empty, the Shadow appears just to mock him.
• Evil Takes a Nap: The Shadow, the embodiment of Primordial Chaos and the personification of the Empty, has only one desire: to sleep peacefully. It develops a deep antipathy for Castiel after the angel wakes up in the Empty, something no entity has ever done before.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: When interacting with other beings, it takes the form of someone else, as it claims that seeing its true form would drive people insane. When it first encounters Castiel, it becomes his doppelganger. In "Byzantium", it briefly possesses Dumah's vessel. Finally, from "Destiny's Child" onward, it takes the form of Meg's second vessel.
• Genius Loci:
  • Possibly. At the very least it's the personification of The Empty and may simply be The Empty's way of communicating with lesser beings. It has been asleep forever until now when Cas wakes up, inadvertently waking the Empty up too. It claims to be a cosmic force like God and Amara, and is extremely unhappy about being woken up.
  • Naomi explicitly mentions that the Shadow is "the ruler of the Empty", which likely means that the two are separate things.
  • Castiel still sees the entity and the place as one. When he returns to the Empty and recognizes the Shadow, Castiel says "You are the Empty".
• Heavy Sleeper: Apparently, it's been asleep since forever before there even was anything else that could be awake. It's a bad idea to wake it because it doesn't like it at all. In Season 15, it forms an alliance with Billie so she can kill God. In return, Billie will ensure that the Shadow can sleep soundly again.
• Humble Goal: In a weird way. In Season 15, it is revealed that the Shadow agreed to work together with Billie to resurrect Jack in return for it to be able to sleep sound, never to be disturbed by anyone again.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: While God is a "he" and the Darkness is a "she", no character has referred to the Shadow with gendered pronouns, instead always resorting to "it".
• Karma Houdini: Barring the implication that Jack's divine detonation woke up many of the Empty's souls, it suffers no real punishment for its actions. Granted, it would be hard to do so given its status as a Genius Loci. It's worth acknowledging that the Shadow is an Eldritch Abomination who simply wants to be left alone to sleep for all eternity, so while antagonistic to characters like Castiel and Jack that's only because their actions keep it awake. And despite the fact that it's not really its fight, it still chooses to ally with Billie to fight Chuck meaning that overall it was actually pretty helpful.
• The Nothing After Death:
  • The Empty is this: it is where angels, demons and anything else without a soul goes when it dies. Once there, the dead creature simply sleeps a dreamless sleep for eternity. The Shadow also claims that anything that comes to it after death like angels and demons can never leave or be brought back to life, even by God or Amara. It turns out the Empty itself can send creatures back to the world of the living if they wake up from their eternal slumber and annoy it enough. It never had to do it before though, since nothing could wake a dead angel or demon while in its domain... until Jack was born.
  • In "Unity", however, the Shadow tells Sam that Chuck does have a say in the Empty and is capable of waking up and resurrecting angels and demons. Hence him resurrecting Castiel multiple times, or bringing Lilith back.
• Outside-Context Problem: From its perspective, Castiel is this as no one since the beginning of forever has ever woken up in The Empty.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The Shadow's true form is a pitch-black mass of tarry gunk.
• Power of the Void: It is the ruler and perhaps personification of the empty darkness that God and Amara came from.
• Primordial Chaos: The Empty was the nothing before all Creation, and the Shadow is a very chaotic entity.
• Reality Warper: While it most likely has strength levels that match or exceed beings like God or Amara, it's unclear what the breadth of its capabilities are. At the least is can breach dimensions, reading minds, possession, overwhelming others through sheer force, and construct bodies while bringing things back from the dead like Castiel.
• Spell My Name with a "The": Like the Darkness, the ruler of the Empty is the Shadow.
• Time Abyss: The Shadow and the Empty explicitly predate God and the Darkness, who in turn predate Creation.
• Top God: A variation. While not necessarily the most powerful Cosmic Entity in the series, it's definitely the oldest and predates God and the Darkness. Since the Shadow is nothingness itself, there is presumably nothing that existed before it or rules above it, leaving it as the closest example of this trope.
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • Subverted regarding its scope of authority. At first, it seems that the Empty only has absolute rule within the Empty and cannot influence how things are run in God's domains (Earth, Heaven, Hell). "Byzantium" shoots this down hard when it attacks Heaven and causes considerable chaos. However, while that's certainly an inter-dimensional threat it's unclear how much it can affect physical reality beyond using sheer force and power. Aside from breaching dimensions, possessing people, and overwhelming most anyone, it's never shown explicitly warping reality or affecting things like time or matter.
  • The Shadow cannot force someone who is awake inside the Empty to sleep. This is how Castiel beats it and forces it to send him back to earth. Basically it was like the ending of Doctor Strange with Castiel acting the part of Strange and the Shadow being Dormammu.
  • "Unity" confirms that the Shadow can influence everything but Earth.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Whenever it is awake and taking on an anthropomorphic shape, the Shadow exhibits all sorts of nervous tics and a disorganized manner of speaking that betray its origins in Primordial Chaos.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form:
  • The Shadow appears to Castiel as a mirror of himself, verbally invoking this.
  • The black goo might have been its true form, however. It appears that way when it is traveling across Heaven without a vessel in "Byzantium".

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Norse Mythology

Vanir

Vanir (Norse God)

Appears in "Scarecrow" (S01, Ep11).

In Norse Mythology, the Vanir are a group of gods associated with fertility, prophecy, and wisdom. In Supernatural, an unnamed Vanir is brought by immigrants to Burkittsville, Indiana, by planting a tree that the town terms the "First Tree" in an apple orchard. Every year, the townspeople sacrifice a man and a woman, usually people passing through the town, to the Vanir in order to ensure the prosperity of the town.

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• Electromagnetic Ghosts: Cars and cell phones stop working, and Dean's EMF detector starts beeping as you approach the orchard where the Vanir lives.
• Garden of Evil: The apple orchard where the Vanir lives.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: The Vanir protects the town in return for sacrifices.
• Homage: The portrayal of an old god transplanted to America and still requiring bloody sacrifices recalls Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
• Human Sacrifice: A man and woman must be sacrificed each year to the Vanir.
• Kill It with Fire: Burning the First Tree kills it.
• Scary Scarecrows: The body of one of the previous victims is displayed like a scarecrow and the Vanir inhabits the body.

The Trickster / Loki

The Trickster / Loki (Norse God)

Portrayed by Richard Speight Jr.

Appears in "Tall Tales" (S02, Ep15), "Mystery Spot" (S03, Ep11), "Changing Channels" (S05, Ep08), "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19), and "Unfinished Business" (S13, Ep20).

"That was a trick? Hm, not bad. But you want to see a real trick?"

In myth and folklore, The Trickster God who breaks conventions or defies the rules of the gods, usually in a non-malicious and humorous manner. An example from Norse Mythology is Loki, a Shapeshifter who often seems to work against the other gods, and was eventually bound by the entrails of his own son. In Norse Mythology, Loki had many children, and was father to Hel, Fenrir, and the Midgard Serpent, and mother to his steed, Sleipnir. In Supernatural, the Trickster is able to warp reality and uses this to knock down the high and mighty in amusing ways, as well as to create a hedonistic lifestyle for himself. He enjoys antagonizing Sam and Dean, but usually is also trying to teach them a lesson.In "Changing Channels" (S05, Ep08), we find that he is truly Gabriel, who apparently killed the original Trickster/Loki and assumed his identity when he abandoned Heaven. Or so we are led to believe. Gabriel actually made a deal with the real Loki to assume his identity, who is still around after the Apocalypse.

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• Ax-Crazy: The original Loki.
• Badass Boast: "They call me Gabriel." It's the way he says it, almost as if saying, "You have no idea who you're messing with." His cold, steely smile really helps the badass factor.
• Black Comedy: Makes his living on this trope. He finds killing people in gruesome ways to be absolutely hilarious.

• The Dandy: The original Loki dresses in much flashier clothing than Gabriel, who impersonated him.
• Deal with the Devil: Gabriel with the original Loki. Gabriel promised Loki to masquerade as him as an escape from the conflicts within Heaven, and had to promise Loki that he wouldn't get involved in it at all.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He delivers horrific and violent judgment on Asshole Victims. Then, in "Mystery Spot," he hurls a man into a wormhole for denying that they exist. And, you know, kills Dean a bajillionty times over in unique and dementedly amusing ways for that one time Dean tried and failed to kill him. (It has the added bonus of making Sam suffer.) The original Loki does this to Gabriel, by selling him to Asmodeus and causing him to undergo years of torture because he blames Gabriel for Odin's death. Even though it was Lucifer's fault.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The actual Loki loves his father Odin, even if Odin was an asshole, and is livid that Gabriel killed his sons in vengeance for selling him to Asmodeus.
• Faking the Dead: He stages his death at the end of "Tall Tales" by letting the Winchesters kill a projection of him and escapes unharmed. He does a similar thing in "Changing Channels" halfway through to mess with them by letting them think they escaped his pocket universe.
• Great Gazoo: He comes off as a very dark example. The Trickster's one of the funniest characters on the show, responsible for the "Groundhog Day" Loop and Trapped in TV Land incidents, so it's kind of easy to forget that he started as a Monster of the Week who murdered and traumatized his victims in ironically amusing ways, mainly for shits and giggles.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He likes to think that he does this, but he goes way too far. Ironically, this is also how he dies—his usual trick of creating an illusionary copy of himself to fool his would-be killer fails because, in this case, his killer is the one who taught him how to do that; then, in a double-whammy, he gets his own sword rammed through his chest (after he finally decides to take action against his brother). The Trickster himself might've been impressed if it hadn't happened to him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: On average slightly more than once per episode. He appears in four episodes.
• Incoming Ham: While entering the sitcom in "Changing Channels" and his introduction in "Hammer of the Gods."

• Jerkass Has a Point: Yes, the time loop was cruel. Sam and Dean constantly sacrificing themselves for the other is terrible. Sam did need to accept that he couldn't save Dean. This guy wears no gentle gloves when class is in session.
• Karma Houdini: He's an unrepentant murderer in his first two appearances and gets away clean both times. He then Heel Face Turns and all is forgiven before he's killed by Lucifer, making him one in the sense that, while he dies, he never receives any comeuppance for his previous behavior. Subverted, as Gabriel is later sold by real Loki's sons to Asmodeus shortly after faking his death, and endures years of torture in the process. Gabriel later extracts his revenge on the original Loki much later.
• Karmic Trickster: How he likes to think of himself. It's cranked up to obnoxious levels.
• Large Ham: Most every time he talks. Special mention to "Changing Channels."
• Laughably Evil: If you like Black Comedy.
• Reality Warper: Can create any object he likes and erase it from existence just as easily. If the Victim of the Week seems to have been killed by something that even Sam and Dean think is impossible, there's a good chance he's behind it.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The real Loki gives one of these to Gabriel at the end of "Unfinished Business", which is what influences Gabriel to join forces with Team Free Will against Alternate!Michael.
• Redemption Equals Death: Killed by Lucifer after he sides with humanity instead of trying to bring about the destined Apocalypse.
• The Reveal:
  • His identity as an angel (in particular, the Archangel Gabriel) in "Changing Channels."
  • Gabriel was actually masquerading as Loki, and the real one is still alive.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Tricksters can appear as many things, but tend to take a human form.
• Stealth Mentor: To Dean and Sam.
• Sweet Tooth: A Trickster trait.

• Trickster God: The Norse one and others.
• Trickster Mentor: To Sam and Dean. To everyone else (and to Sam and Dean), he's just a Jerkass.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Subverted. He claims in his second episode that he is trying to teach Sam an important lesson about being able to live without his brother. While more than one other character has pointed out a potentially unhealthy codependency between Sam and Dean, the Trickster's cruel and extremely traumatic way of doing so makes it more than clear that he's mostly doing it out of spite for that time the Winchester Brothers tried to kill him (for murdering people). Averted with the actual Loki.
• Wooden Stake: A Trickster can be killed if impaled with a wooden stake. An angel, however, cannot. This later happens to the original Loki.

Odin (Chief Norse God and Ruler of Asgard)

Odin, Chief Norse God and Ruler of Asgard (Duncan Fraser)

"I don't know what everybody's getting so worked up about! 'Cause it's just a couple of angels having a slap fight! There's no Armageddon. Everybody knows, when the world comes to an end, the Great Serpent Jormungandr rises up, and I myself will be eaten by a big wolf!"

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• Beard of Evil: Odin has a beard to go along with his evilness.
• Eye Patch Of Power: Averted, being Odin he should be missing one eye, but both his eyes are perfectly functional.
• Large Ham: Despite appearing in only one episode, he apparently wants to be the Largest Ham in the series. He probably succeeded in that.
• Top God: He thinks he is this and dismisses the Apocalypse as a "slap fight between a couple of angels" since the world cannot end until the Midgard Serpent Jörmungandr rises up and he gets eaten by a giant wolf. Lucifer proves him wrong.
  • Though a later episode has a cult of werewolves who fervently hope for the Norse Mythology apocalypse. Dean even mentions Odin when explaining the lore, but Sam and Dean never think to mention that they have seen Odin killed and that might conceivably be a flaw in the werewolves' beliefs.

Baldur (God of Light, Beauty, Love & Happiness)

Baldur, Norse God of Light, Beauty, Love and Happiness (Adam Croasdell)

"Now we all know why we're here. The Judeo-Christian Apocalypse looms over us. I know we've all had our little disagreements in the past. The time has come to put those aside and look toward the future. Because if we don't, we won't have one."

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• God Couple: With Kali.
• Hot God: Baldur was handsome.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Lucifer kills him by impaling him on his arms.

Mr. Vili

Mr. Vili, Norse God (Alex Diakun)

• Karmic Death: Sam kills him with Mjölnir to avenge his murder of a virgin he killed to pay for it.

Hindu Mythology

Kali (Goddess of Eternal Energy and Death)

Kali, Hindu Goddess of Eternal Energy and Death (Rekha Sharma)

"If anyone gets to end this world, it's me. I'm sorry."

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• Adaptational Wimp: In Hindu Mythology, Kali is the Death Incarnate, Berserker Persona of the Demon Slaying, Warrior Goddess Durga, who in turn was the martial incarnation of the Goddess Shakti, the feminine aspect of the Supreme Being. In here, she's barely stronger than her Pagan brethren and only lasts marginally longer in a fight against Lucifer before getting knocked on her ass, and getting saved by Gabriel.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Hindu Myth, Kali, despite being the goddess of death was just the berserker mode of Durga, a benevolent warrior goddess, who is charged with protecting creation and maintaining peace. In Supernatural, Kali's only concern gears towards maintaining her position of being on the upper end the supernatural food chain along with the other Pagan Gods, who see humans as no more than a food.
• Celibate Hero: Inverted.
• God Couple: With Baldur and formerly Loki, aka the Archangel Gabriel.
• Hot God: Kali was very beautiful.
• Ice Queen: Ironic considering what she can do.
• New Old Flame: To Gabriel.
• Playing with Fire: Demonstrated the ability to generate fire.
• The Power of Blood: Can bind even Archangels once she has some of their blood.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Kali wears a red dress and black skirt.
• Sole Survivor: The only deity who survives the massacre by Lucifer in "Hammer of the Gods."
• Weak, but Skilled
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The sole god to survive her episode, she is last seen escaping with the Winchesters, but is never so much as referenced afterward.
  • She probably got as far from Earth as possible, due to the events of "Hammer of the Gods" making her realize the apocalypse was alot more destructive than simply a "slap fight between angels"

Ganesh (God of Education and Learning)

Ganesh, Hindu God of Education and Learning (Keith Dallas)

"Kill 'em? What, so the angels can bring them back again?"

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

• Adaptational Villainy: The original Ganesh is one of the most benevolent and beloved deities of the Hindu pantheon. Here, he is an antagonistic being who likes to devour humans.
• Berserk Button: Really hates being called an elephant.

• Voluntary Shapeshifting: His real form is an elephant.

Classical Mythology

Mercury (Roman Messenger God and a God of Sex)

Mercury, Roman Messenger God, and a God of Sex (John Emmet Tracy)

"Pantry's full."

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• Faux Affably Evil: Pretends to be kind and is quite genial to the customers he intends to eat later. However, he sells out his own kind on a whim.
• The Mole: For Lucifer.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Sells out his fellow gods to Lucifer who promptly give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech before killing him.
• Super-Speed: Part of his power set, which he uses to take blood samples of Dean and Sam before they even notice the cuts.

Veritas (Roman God of Truth)

Veritas/Ashley Frank, Roman Godess of Truth

Portrayed by Serinda Swan

Appears in "You Can't Handle The Truth" (S06, E06).

"The tongue... is the tastiest part. It's where the lies roll off."

In Classical Mythology, Veritas, the daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue, wore white and was so elusive that she hid in the bottom of a holy well. While in Roman Mythology Veritas is the embodiment of one of the principle virtues, in Supernatural she is an evil goddess who uses brutal honesty to kill those who ask aloud for the truth and then consumes their bodies as her tribute. She especially enjoys eating the tongues of her victims. Her desire for worship has lead her to assume the role of a broadcast journalist in Calumet City, Illinois, named Ashley Frank.

• Brutal Honesty: Once one invokes Veritas they received the unvarnished truth.
• Coincidental Broadcast: When Dean is in the bar where he asks for the "freaking truth", the TV is playing Frank Talk with Ashley Frank discussing the truth about your layaway living room in the background.
• Driven to Suicide: Her victims. Once someone summons her to compel someone to tell the truth, they get nothing but the blunt, unadulterated truth from everyone around them, like an inverse of Liar Liar. Eventually they commit suicide.
• Eye of Newt: Veritas can be summoned with a cat skull, grains of paradise seed, and devil's shoestring.
• Faux Affably Evil
• I'm a Humanitarian: Apparently takes the bodies of the people who commit suicide as a result of hearing nothing but the ugly truth from the people around them and snacks on them. Supposedly the tongue is the best part.
• Living Lie Detector: She can tell when someone is lying to her, which should be impossible for a human. She is rather shocked when Sam manages to do it, thanks to his lack of a soul.
• Secret Identity: Veritas poses as a not so mild mannered reporter, Ashley Frank.
• Summon Magic: Corey summoned Veritas in order to find out if her boyfriend was having an affair.
• Truth Serums: Those around someone who has invoked Veritas not only cannot lie but seem intent on confessing their darkest and most embarrassing secrets. After the confession, they often wonder aloud why they said what they just said.
• You Look Familiar: Serinda Swan, who plays Veritas, previously played a hospital receptionist in "Salvation" (S01, E21).

Atropos (One of the Three Fates)

Atropos, One of the Three Fates (Katie Walder)

• Anti-Villain: She's just trying to do her job, which Sam, Dean and Castiel have made considerably harder. Everyone in Heaven also considers her a joke despite the gravity of her position, which can also be attributed to Sam, Dean and Castiel's shenanigans.
• Celestial Bureaucracy: Unlike the other Pagan Gods seen in the series, Atropos and her sisters work for God and Heaven to keep the world going.

• Expy: Of the thing that kills people elaborately in the Final Destination series.
• Good Is Not Nice: Even though she is on the side of good and strictly following the natural orders, she is still brash and condescendingly rude to those she speaks to.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She has a pretty formidable temper that should not be tangled with.
• Hot Librarian: After catching a glimpse of her, Sam describes Atropos as "like a librarian."
  Dean: Your kind of librarian or my kind of librarian?
  Sam: Well, she was wearing clothes, if that's what you mean.
• Jerkass: Takes undue pleasure in killing the people on her list. Notice the smug smile on her face after each successful kill.
  • It's possible that the smugness comes from knowing who she's killing, specifically the fifty-thousand or so souls that Castiel produced by having Balthazar save the Titanic. It was basically Castiel's fault that she was laughed out of Heaven following the halting of the Apocalypse and, as a result, the discrediting of "fate" as a whole concept.

• Nerd Glasses: Wears a pair.

• Stronger Sibling: Invoked: she reminds Castiel that her two older sisters are much stronger than she is, and if she were killed they'd be very mad.
• You Can't Fight Fate / Screw Destiny: On a literal level you can technically, you can kill her (stab her in the heart with a special stabbing implement, same drill as with most of the gods), but as she tells Castiel that she's easily the weakest of the three Fates and if they kill her, her sisters will kill Sam and Dean. Moreover she can decide when your existence is over (unless you've got a powerful entity watching out for you). On the other hand she and her sisters aren't omnipotent or absolute as in Atropos's own words, "Then came the day of the big prize fight and you and your idiots decided to throw out the book!" basically leaving Atropos in the dark about what to do next. This implies that the sisters only have power so long as everyone is following the "plan", but this can apparently be derailed when free will in introduced. Ultimately, it seems that they can only influence events on a general level but the details are beyond their grasp.

Chronos (Greek God of Time)

Chronos, Greek God of Time (Jason Dohring)

• Alas, Poor Villain: While many gods are shown to practice human sacrifice, Chronos needs to in order to counteract his Power Incontinence and his sole motivation for doing so is to remain with the woman he loves.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Worse off than any of the other old gods seen by his episode. The others grow weaker with time, and while Chronos seems to share that, he gets one additional problem: the below-mentioned Power Incontinence. He doesn't lose the ability to travel through time, or need to kill people just so he can do it. He doesn't want to travel through time anymore, but his powers kick in periodically despite his wishes. Killing people gives him the one-shot ability to control where in time he lands.
• Morality Pet: Lila Taylor, the girl for whom he steals time and go back to in 1940s.
• Power Incontinence: He can't control his time travel ability unless he kills three people to focus it.

Plutus (Greek God of Greed and Wealth)

Plutus, Greek God of Greed and Wealth (Gerard Plunkett)

Prometheus/Shane (Greek Titan)

Prometheus/Shane, Greek Titan

Portrayed by John Reardon

Appears in "Remember The Titans" (S08, Ep16).

"All I know is all I do is die, so if you want to shoot me, shoot me. Just promise me you finish the job, 'cause I can't take this anymore."

Prometheus is a proto-god, a Titan. In Classical Mythology, he was a son of the Titan Iapetus by Clymene, one of the Oceanids. He was brother to Menoetius, Atlas and Epimetheus. He is credited with shaping man from clay and stealing fire from the gods for humans to use, which allowed humans to create civilization and technology. Zeus punishes him for this theft by chaining him to a rock on the side of a mountain and sending Zeus's eagle to eat Prometheus' liver everyday.

The Prometheus in Supernatural is freed from from the mountain during an avalanche around 2005, but continues to die everyday for a few hours and have his liver eaten by an eagle only to be resurrected and have the same events occur the next day. He met a woman, Hayley, whom he helped rescue from the avalanche, and they had a son, Oliver. Due to his repeated deaths and resurrections, Prometheus does not remember who or what he is and is called "Shane." Zeus blames Prometheus for the Greek gods losing power and continues to hunt him, while the Winchester brothers try to break the curse of dying everyday, which afflicts Prometheus as well as his son Oliver.

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• Amnesiac God: He forgot his name and the fact that he is a Titan.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: Avalanche, sexual intercourse, pot dealers, drunk driver, grizzly bear, Artemis and Zeus.
• Fate Worse than Death: Watching his son die everyday.
• Forgot About His Powers: He is surprised to find he has fighting skills when Artemis attacks him.
• God of Good: Prometheus is a champion of humanity, one of the few in Supernatural.
• Healing Factor: Recovers from all his injuries upon resurrecting.
• Heroic Suicide: When Prometheus gets impaled by one of Artemis's god-killing arrows, he drives it further into him (thus killing himself) so it will impale Zeus too, who is standing behind him.
• Naked First Impression: When Hayley found Shane, his clothes were torn off. When the Winchester brothers first meet him, he is only covered by a sheet in the morgue.
• Nice Guy: Probably the only nicest one in the whole series.
• Token Good Teammate: Among all the Greek Gods, he was the only one who sided with the humans.

Artemis (Greek Goddess of Hunters)

Artemis, Greek Goddess of Hunters

Portrayed by Anna Von Hooft

Appears in "Remember The Titans" (S08, Ep16).

"You were once my father. Now you're someone else."

In Classical Mythology, she is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo. She is the goddess of wildlife and the hunt. The Artemis in Supernatural was tasked with hunting down Prometheus after he escaped from the mountain by her father Zeus, but Artemis was secretly in love with Prometheus and did not pursue him until a newspaper article describing him as a zombie forced her hand.

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• Adaptational Sexuality: In just about every version of Classical Mythology Artemis is interpreted as Asexual due to being a virgin goddess, and therefore is unlikely to fall in love with a man. That said, at least one version of the Orion myth paints him as the only man she ever loved, making her falling in love here a plausible idea if based on that.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Artemis stands up to Zeus and insists he lets Prometheus and Oliver go.
• Dark Action Girl: With her black leather jacket.
  • Pants, too. Either vinyl or leather. Must not be easy to move in that.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Zeus would not approve of her relationship with Prometheus.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: She does not take it well when Sam says she lost a step.
  Dean: Really, Sam? Trash-talking a god? Seriously?
• Even Evil Has Standards: Like most gods, has little concern for humanity, presumably eats them to maintain her power, and has served Zeus loyalty for thousands of years. Yet even she despises Zeus's torture of both Prometheus and an innocent child which turns her against him.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: She is initially Daddy's Little Villain, but betrays Zeus because of her love for Prometheus.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Artemis' silver blade and arrows are able to kill immortals.
• Kill the Ones You Love: Artemis accidentally shoots Prometheus.
• Mind over Matter: Artemis throws Sam and Dean against a wall with her telekinetic powers. Twice.
• Odd Job Gods: Sam says they pray to her for courage when hunting the Gorgon or the Minotaur.
• Villain Teleportation: Sometimes she vanishes in black smoke and sometimes she just vanishes.

Oliver (Demi-God)

Oliver, Demi-God

Portrayed by Callum Seagram Airlie

Appears in "Remember The Titans" (S08, Ep16).

"No. I'd like to stay."

Oliver is the son of Prometheus/Shane, a Greek Titan, and a human woman, Hayley. He was born around 2006 and raised by his mother who tried to find his father for assistance when Oliver started dying everyday only to be resurrected after a few hours. It is unclear if he has any of his father's superhuman abilities or only inherited the curse.

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• Divine Parentage: Oliver is the son of a Titan.
• Dumb Struck: Oliver stopped talking after he started repeatedly dying when he turned 7. However, he does answer Sam when Sam asks Oliver if he wants to get ice cream. Oliver says he wants to stay and watch his father's body burn on the funeral pyre.
• Healing Factor: Like his father, he recovers from all his injuries upon resurrecting.
• Rescue Sex: How he was conceived.
• Resurrective Immortality: Part of the curse he inherited from his father.
• Revenge by Proxy: Zeus is delighted to find out that his curse also affects Oliver, and that Prometheus will suffer while he watches his son's deaths.
• Rite of Passage: Sam concludes that Oliver starts dying after his 7th birthday as this age marks one of the first Greek rites of manhood.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Oliver is punished because his father gave fire to humanity.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Oliver has the blonde hair and big blue eyes of his father.

Zeus (King of the Greek Gods)

Zeus, King of the Greek Gods

Portrayed by John Novak

Appears in "Remember The Titans" (S08, Ep16).

"I must admit, I could never have conceived such a horrible fate for such a beautiful child. Just goes to show, we must all leave room for happy accidents."

In Classical Mythology, Zeus is the King or the Father of the Olympian gods. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, and in most traditions, he is married to Hera. He had many heroic and godly offspring, including Artemis. He is the god of the sky and thunder. The Zeus in Supernatural blames Prometheus and his theft of fire for the downfall of the Greek gods. He is determined to punish Prometheus and Prometheus's son Oliver for all that the Olympian gods lost.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: Zeus wore a very nice suit.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Prometheus is punished by death, fulfilling Zeus' wish. But then Prometheus pushes Artemis' arrow all the way through himself and into Zeus, who was right behind him.
• Faux Affably Evil: Very charming and brutal at the same time.

• Shock and Awe: Being Zeus, it kind of comes with the territory.

• The Sociopath
• Would Hurt a Child: Would kill a particular child everyday for fun.

Egyptian Mythology

Osiris (King of the Afterlife)

Osiris, Egyptian King of the Afterlife (Faran Tahir)

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• Affably Evil
  • Faux Affably Evil: Compliments Sam for being a good lawyer. Then threatens to kill him if he doesn't shut up.

• Drowning My Sorrows: Don't do this around him. It's how he finds his victims.
• Guilt Complex: He targets those who have one.

• Humanity on Trial: His hobby.
• Necromancer: Can summon the spirits of people you've wronged to kill you.
• Weaksauce Weakness: He is one of the easiest gods to beat. All you have to do is not feel guilty.
  • Then again, he chooses his victims very, very well. If he drags you to his courtroom, it's because he knows you've got a skeleton in your closet that you can't let go.
  • And while he's easy enough to dispatch with a stab to the heart from a certain sort of thing (a running trend among the gods), it's stated that there's no known way to actually kill him. Putting him down for a few hundred years is literally the best that anyone has ever managed.

Anubis (Guardian of the Dead)

Anubis, Egyptian Guardian of the Dead (Sean Amsing)

The Egyptian God of the Dead and Osiris's son. After God left Heaven, Anubis is given the job to judge which afterlife humans will go after they die.

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• Don't Fear the Reaper: Like the reapers and mirroring the mythology, Anubis is very polite when he is face-to-face with the humans he is about to judge. He congratulates those who enter Heaven and offers condolences for those who enter Hell.
• Judgement of the Dead: He's tasked with measuring the deceased's karma to decide if their soul goes to Heaven or Hell.
• Karma Meter: His abacus can measure a person's deeds. If the white beads outnumber the black ones, they enter Heaven. If it's the opposite, they enter Hell.
• Sadly Mythtaken: In-universe, he amusedly notes that humans tend to think he judges with a scale and a feather, rather than an abacus.
• Token Good Teammate: Compared to other deities seen in the show, Anubis is more humble and mellow than them, while also working with Heaven and the reapers in maintaining the natural order.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Zigzagged. Anubis states that not even God can alter the destined afterlife of a person when the time comes. It all boils down to the people themselves who have to Screw Destiny and make a difference.

Other

Madge & Edward Carrigan (Hold Nickar Gods of The Winter Solstice)

Madge and Edward Carrigan, Hold Nickar Gods of the Winter Solstice (Merrilyn Gann & Spencer Garrett)

• Evil Old Folks: They appear to be two elderly people and are evil.
• Faux Affably Evil: They're very pleasant and cheerful, will gently but firmly admonish you for swearing, and come off as thoughtful hosts, all while carving you up for a ritual sacrifice.
• The Sociopath

Leshii (The Master of the Forest)

Leshii, the Master of the Forest (Paris Hilton and others)

• Off with His Head!: How Sam kills her.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: While using Paris Hilton's form, she easily overpowered Dean, who's twice her size, pretty damn quickly.

• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Attempted to do this with Dean, but was stopped when Dean broke free and began attacking her.

Zao Shen (Chinese Folk Kitchen God)

Zao Shen, Chinese Folk Kitchen God (King Lau)

"Don't mock my world turtle."

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• Berserk Button: Do not mock the world turtle.

Baron Samedi (Haitian God of Death)

Baron Samedi, Haitian God of Death

Portrayed by Precious Silburne

Appears in "Hammer Of The Gods" (S05, Ep19).

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a nice suit and is one of the most badass of the gods.

Yokoth

Yokoth

Portrayed by Magda Apanowicz

Appears in "The Thing" (S13, Ep17).

A Lovecraftian-esque deity who rules over an alternate dimension with her mate, Glythur.

• Big Eater: Human food energizes her. Diego's descendants are able to bind her down by starving her since 1925, but the moment she eats even a little piece of food, her power comes back.
• Combat Tentacles
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: All the time when Sam and Dean are interacting with "Sandy Porter". It turns out that the latter is appropriately long dead, while something else is using her body.
• Eldritch Abomination: She has tentacles, enough said. It's implied that her true form is far bigger than her current vessel, as well.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She wants to find a male vessel for her mate to inhabit.
• Gone Horribly Right: Diego's cadre got their wish for a cleansed Earth, alright. They weren't informed of the gory details, though.
• Humanoid Abomination: After she possessed Sandy Porter.
• Killed Offscreen: When Chuck wipes out every universe but the main one, that by implication would include Yokoth's home universe and her with it.
• Lovecraft Lite: She and her mate are very Cthulhu-like with Combat Tentacles and all, and they have the capacity to cause Galactic Scale Physical Annihilation, but she does have some humorous moments and a relatively human-like mind. Fortunately, her plot to summon her mate to the main universe fails and she gets dragged back into their native universe.
• Mother of a Thousand Young: She is mother of the "Faceless Hordes". We know nothing about them as the portal to their world is closed before any of them can appear, but presumably they are of the same (tentacled) stock.
• Omnicidal Maniac: She and her mate have devoured most of an entire universe, and with little left there for them to feed on, she wants them to do the same to the main universe.
• Red Baron: The Star of Madness, Ravager of Galaxies, Mother of Faceless Hordes.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Her own native universe effectively acts as this for her and Glythur. When she's summoned to the main universe and possesses a human host, the Men of Letters chain her up and starve her to keep her from posing a threat, but as soon as she gets a bite of anything, her power starts coming back.
• Time Abyss: Considering that her dimension is opened by chanting a spell while wearing the Seal of Solomon, Yokoth and her family should have existed since at least the time of Solomon himself.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Glythur.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Begs Dean and Sam to free her from her confinement in the MoL's bunker in Portsmouth, using Sandy Porter's body to her advantage.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Devours Diego and his followers after bringing her over the dimensional fence and providing a suitable host body.

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