History Anime / Supernatural

* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Yellow-Eyed Demon still retains his destructive goals and his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor, he is actually much more ruthless and sadistic here, willing to hurt or kill anyone to get his way. And he doesn’t even have his infamous DirtyOldMan tendencies from the original series! [[spoiler:His very first appearance involves him mentally torturing a religious woman into sacrificing her soul to save her daughter, who he warps the deal with her by having her possessed by a demon and using her as a disposable puppet. Later, when he possesses John and confronts Sam, he [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied openly brags about killing Jessica]] and [[KickTheDog sadistically mocks her plans to marry Sam right before he killed her.]] Also, he [[IHaveYourWife threatened to horribly kill Jake’s family immediately]] if he does not agree to participate in his plans to unleash HellOnEarth, and later when Jake planned to use the Colt to kill him, as it is the only thing that can finish him off, the Demon snidely goaded him into pulling the trigger, but warns him that once he does so and misses, he reiterates his previous threat that he will quickly find his family and kill them all, solely out of petty spite and sadism. Jake ends up agreeing to help him. [[LackOfEmpathy He didn’t even seem to notice or care at all]] that his own “daughter” Meg ended up killed in the midst of his plans, very much unlike his [[PapaWolf original counterpart]], who was definitely not pleased when his own “family” were suddenly killed. Even his sending John to Hell was just a huge KickTheDog moment, as he only did so to silence John and hurt the brothers further.]]

** [[spoiler:The Yellow-Eyed Demon, definitely. He deserved his [[DoomedByCanon canon fate]] ten times over for all the hurt he caused due to his genocidal ambitions.]]

* BigBad: The Yellow-Eyed Demon, exactly as he was from the original series’ first two seasons. The entire anime’s plot is driven solely by his machinations. He even kept most of his canon crimes and overall impact on the whole Winchester family.

* DoomedByCanon: Even in this animated continuity, [[spoiler: the Yellow-Eyed Demon is still doomed to die at the hands of Dean Winchester. Same with John.]] After all, this is essentially a recreation of the events of the first 2 seasons.

** The Yellow-Eyed Demon loves doing this with a [[SlasherSmile smile on his face.]] [[spoiler:From his very first appearance, he tried to manipulate a grieving religious woman by telling her that God doesn’t care about mortals and that he can help save her terminally sick daughter. Then, when that fails, he sadistically mocked her for not noticing that she was getting sicker by the day, leading to her desperately selling her own soul to Hell so that he could save her, but he only did so by having her corpse possessed by another demon. Then, he manipulated events so that one of his designated “children,” who had the power to kill people by touch, would become isolated and suicidal. Then, upon meeting the Winchesters, he slowly started killing Dean, goaded Sam into using the Colt to kill both him and John, who he possessed, and then later forced John to sacrifice his own soul to Hell to save Dean, which unlike in the original continuity, he only did so to both force the brothers to keep doing as he wanted and so that he could use this to hurt them severely by making them orphans. Finally, after staging a fight to the death amongst all of his “children,” including Sam, the Demon forced Jake to participate in his plans by threatening to immediately brutally kill his family if he defied his orders or refused to obey, and when Jake threatened to use the Colt on him, he simply reminded him that he will kill his family the moment he missed his shot.]] Here, he is definitely not as FauxAffablyEvil as he thinks he is, that’s for sure.

** The Yellow-Eyed Demon loves doing this with a [[SlasherSmile smile on his face.]] [[spoiler:From his very first appearance, he tried to manipulate a grieving religious woman by telling her that God doesn’t care about mortals and that he can help save her terminally sick daughter. Then, when that fails, he sadistically mocked her for not noticing that she was getting sicker by the day, leading to her desperately selling her own soul to Hell so that he could save her, but he only did so by having her corpse possessed by another demon. Then, he manipulated events so that one of his “children,” who had the power to kill people by touch, would become isolated and suicidal. Then, upon meeting the Winchesters, he slowly started killing Dean, goaded Sam into using the Colt to kill both him and John, who he possessed, and then later forced John to sacrifice his own soul to Hell to save Dean, which unlike in the original continuity, he only did so to both force the brothers to keep doing as he wanted and so that he could use this to hurt them severely by making them orphans. Finally, after staging a fight to the death amongst all of his “children,” including Sam, the Demon forced Jake to participate in his plans by threatening to immediately brutally kill his family if he defied his orders or refused to obey, and when Jake threatened to use the Colt on him, he simply reminded him that he will kill his family the moment he missed his shot.]] Here, he is definitely not as FauxAffablyEvil as he thinks he is, that’s for sure.