- That Sam/Claire's rarely-seen brother has a different face on the two shows is because he's the ghost of a person with abilities. In life, he had illusion powers, and was the younger brother of a more powerful/important/popular elder brother. Eventually he did an unspeakable crime... but since this wiki is read rather than spoken, it can be written here! (He tortured his elder sibling with a continuous playback loop of Gigli and Glitter back to back) He didn't develop a split personality in Hell though, but got a power that allows him to do some Clark Kenting, biding his time to strike again!
- Sam's younger brother is named Kyle. Claire's younger brother is named Lyle. QED.
- We know how all the references to Sam's father were removed—we saw Mr. Oliver removing them when Sam gave him the contract. This just puts a different spin on why he did it.
- Alternatively, Sam's father is a demon, explaining how Sam has been able to manifest paranormal powers. He's been assuming they were granted by the Devil to help with his job, but if the Devil could give those powers to just anyone, he wouldn't have needed Sam specifically. And that's another reason to suspect that something is up with Sam's father—if the original story Sam's parents told him was true, the logical thing for the Devil to do would be to ask for Sam's father or mother's soul, not that of their firstborn child. Why would he want their child unless he knew there was something special about the bloodline?
- Technically, Dead!Steve is an angel, so we could easily see a few more next season.
- Wouldn't that mean she's going around secretly reviving things? She'd have to be, for all the other stuff to be dying. Ned can only kill things by reviving something else in the vicinity. Also, it wouldn't explain the mirror cracking. Speaking of her, though, am I the only one to have realized that first the possibility of her being the Devil's daughter was brought up, then the possibility of Sam being the Devil's son was brought up...which, if both true, would make their relationship not just incest, but SATANIC INCEST? Which is probably the worst kind of incest.
- Cady manually dug up a colony of ants and killed them all. She keeps a few handfuls in her pockets at all times just so she can have the supercool effect of things dying all around her. Because she's evil, that's why.
- Another possibility is that Cady isn't the Devil's daughter, but Sam is the Devil's son, so he's the one doing the flower killing and mirror cracking.
- I think that's what we're supposed to assume. The Devil's daughter idea was just a red herring, even though technicall it can still happen.
- Wouldn't that mean she's going around secretly reviving things? She'd have to be, for all the other stuff to be dying. Ned can only kill things by reviving something else in the vicinity. Also, it wouldn't explain the mirror cracking. Speaking of her, though, am I the only one to have realized that first the possibility of her being the Devil's daughter was brought up, then the possibility of Sam being the Devil's son was brought up...which, if both true, would make their relationship not just incest, but SATANIC INCEST? Which is probably the worst kind of incest.
- Actually, not the Devil, but Mephisto. What happened was, Sam sold his soul to Mephisto to make sure his aunt May didn't die. But, on of the conditions of the contract is that he would forget selling his soul, and were he to remember, aunt May would die. That's why Mephisto interacts so much with him, to make sure he doesn't remember. Alternatively, he sold his soul to save his dad, that's why dad tore off some pages of the contract and didn't die when he got buried.
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- Let's review: The devil gets to torment Sam, despite the fact the Sam didn't make the deal. Not to mention that he goes around directly interacting with people with no retribution. Demons aren't completely evil, removing the dichotomy that usually exists. I have to acknowledge there's a hole in the theory, namely that the biblical God considers children pieces of property.
- We did see one angel who mentioned reunion with God, and most demons remember Heaven. Might be a gap in the theory.
Of course, just about any sort of Devil would be consistent with serving the Old Testament God, who could be pretty nasty, but there are some signs that the Devil is good even by modern standards. While he's tempted people, he's never tempted anyone into badly hurting an innocent third party. Except for the baby story, his jobs for Sam are about catching bad guys who really do need to be caught; Sam is never in a position where he has to refuse an order because it's wrong. And the baby story is interesting—because Sam didn't want to condemn the innocent baby to Hell and the Devil, for some reason, gave in, even though he didn't believe Sam's rationalization of why letting the baby free is evil. It's as if it was a test that Sam passed—if the Devil really wanted the baby, he would have taken it.
- A recent episode has Sam ordered to catch a soul whose only crime was to covet a married woman, the first time he was directly told to catch someone who's not evil in any non-Biblical way. Sam lets him go but his brother, who we're not supposed to sympathize with, does it instead. This may or may not fit the theory; on one hand it could very well be a test which Sam passed and his brother failed, but on the other hand, it shows that the Devil is willing to do things that are seriously evil by our standards (unless the whole thing was a setup just to test Sam).
- The biggest hole in this theory is the rebellion that the Devil brutally quashes in season 1, though that could be justified as catching escaped prisoners.
- In a newer episode, Sam gets asked to make a guy sign over his soul. Sam eventually refuses. Punishment: nothing. This could support the "test" idea.
Another possibility may be that the Devil doesn't choose who goes to Hell. You go to Hell if your own beliefs say you do, and the Devil must follow that. This explains why the Devil had to catch the rebels and the guy who coveted, but was able to release the baby—a baby has no beliefs.
- Did you see him running the alcoholics anonymous meeting? Guy is, at minimum, a total dickweed.
- This theory continues to be supported by the events of the Season 2 finale: Steve dooms both Sam and Andi to Hell forever because God told him to.
- Though YMMV on that one. I think we were supposed to interpret it...if they'd been renewed... as a sign of a deeper plan and mystery. Reaper has been fairly traditional with the larger set up- God is good, the devil is bad. I think Steve's actions were supposed to be a shocking twist followed by a hopeful ending that deepened the mystery. If they were really going the God Is Evil route, the end is very....out of place.
- The Devil wants Sam to take over the running of Hell some day. Sam is a good person who would use whatever power given to him by the Devil in order to accomplish good and help people. God, knowing this, sends Steve to make sure that Sam can't get out of his deal, so that will have to keep serving the Devil and eventually take over Hell.