History Characters / SupernaturalGods

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: According to Chuck she is nothingness itself.

* AllergicToRoutine: 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".
* AlwaysABiggerFish: It probably is the biggest fish as it's older than either God or Amara and controls (and [[GeniusLoci maybe is]]) the void that universe(s) reside in. Billie claims that not even God or Amara have power over it or what goes on in the Empty, but 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. Billie also claims that the Shadow is not as powerful as either Chuck or Amara, but far more vast.

* KarmaHoudini: 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 GeniusLoci.

* AdaptationalSexuality: In just about every version of Myth/ClassicalMythology Artemis is, depending on one's interpretation, either asexual or gay and therefore not likely to fall in love with a man.

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[[folder: God (The Light)]]

[[folder: Amara (The Darkness)]]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: It's implied that back when he and Amera 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 TheMultiverse just because Sam and Dean won't follow the plan he has for them.

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* {{Expy}}: Of the [[{{Death}} thing]] that kills people elaborately in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: It's implied that back when he and Amera 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 personality in Season 11 and claims to truly care about humanity, he decides to start destroying all the worlds in TheMultiverse just because Sam and Dean won't follow the plan he has for them.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wavers between the two. While He does care deeply for his creations, both wanting them to be good and wanting good things for them, he's become incredibly disillusioned by Amara repeatedly destroying his creations and his creations (ex. angels, humans) tending towards evil rather than good despite his efforts. This causes him to withdraw from Creation altogether until circumstances force him back into things.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After TheReveal 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.

* StopWorshippingMe: Despite his egotism and ControlFreak 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 him see people more real and not like dolls he can just manipulate.

* HeManWomanHater: Metatron describes God as a sexist, which [[MythologyGag 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.

* BadassBaritone: [[spoiler: In comparison to Gabriel, the ''actual'' Loki speaks much more like this.]]

* ComicalCoffeeCup: 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 stife.

* BadBlackBarf: The Empty as a whole is made up of this. When the Shadow invades Heaven in "Byzantium", it takes the form of the same black barf, which visually makes it similar to the Leviathans.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the AuthorAvatar and AudienceSurrogate. 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.

!!Oliver, Demi-God

** 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. Given that he's omniscient, he might be watching and experiencing multiple worlds at the same time.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: It's implied that back when He and Amera 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 personality in Season 11 and claims to truly care about humanity, He decides to start destroying all the worlds in TheMultiverse just because Sam and Dean won't follow the plan He has for them.

* BecomeTheirOwnAntithesis: It's implied that back when He and Amera 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 personality in Season 11 and claims to truly care about humanity, He decides to start destroying all the worlds in TheMultiverse just because Sam and Dean won't follow the plan He has for them.

* KarmaMeter: 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.

* WriterOnBoard: 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 PlotArmor (yes, it's mentioned as actually existing) and not their companions, which is why AnyoneCanDie in droves. And the actual [[SeasonalRot troubles]] [[IdiotPlot 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.

* DeconstructionCharacterArchetype: Of the AuthorAvatar and AudienceSurrogate. 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.

* AllPowerfulBystander: God is [[TheOmnipotent 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.

* AudienceSurrogate: A villainous example, with some shades of AuthorAvatar. 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 "ItAmusedMe" mentality. [[YouBastard Sound familiar?]]
* ArchnemesisDad: Towards his grandson Jack, whom he personally murders after Dean refuses to pull the trigger.

* BigBadEnsemble: 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 FinalBoss of the series.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: {{Averted|Trope}}. God follows a good/evil morality, but is disappointed when His creations tend to choose evil. Of course, later it is revealed that everyone and the universe itself is nothing more than his entertainment. Which means that, while he defined his creation along the lines of good and evil, he himself is actually AboveGoodAndEvil.

* CainAndAbel: 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.

* ControlFreak: 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.

* DivineIntervention: It's revealed in "Dark Side of the Moon" that He was the one who rescued Sam and Dean, sped Sam through [[PsychoSerum demon blood]] withdrawal, and resurrected Castiel in "Sympathy for the Devil." After TheReveal in Season 14, it can be said ''every'' twists and turns in this series is His intervention after all.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the AuthorAvatar and AudienceSurrogate. 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.

* EvilAllAlong: "Moriah" reveals He isn't quite as benevolent as He originally seemed and is a bit of a {{Jerkass God|s}} who views all of Creation as His entertainment, and when the Winchesters defy Him, He ends up triggering the ApocalypseWow in retaliation. [[FromBadToWorse He goes even further off the deep end after that]], and starts to personally terrorize and murder his creations for his amusement.
* EvilIsPetty: 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.

** 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.

* GodIsDead: 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.

* GodIsEvil: 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, [[TheExtremistWasRight they were right:]] God is a selfish, petty, spiteful, vindictive little man who created a whole [[CrapsackWorld 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 [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ wiping the entire slate clean]] by the series finale.
* GodIsFlawed: 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.

* GrandpaGod: In [[Recap/SupernaturalS08E23TheSacrifice "Sacrifice" (S08, Ep23)]], Metatron describes God as "pretty much like you'd expect. Larger-than-life, gruff, bit of a sexist. But fair--eminently fair."
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's revealed to be the chief architect of the Winchesters' (and rest 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 BigBad of the final season.

* {{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 [[RageBreakingPoint loses his shit]] and decides to wipe out all life on Earth except for the Winchesters and Jack out of spite.

* InvincibleHero: He is considered the most omnipotent being in the universe. He's also a CosmicKeystone that is keeping Creation in check.
* InvincibleVillain: He also treats reality and all the suffering that occurs as his entertainment, but he can't ever be killed and even sealing him will doom all the Alternate Timelines permanently.

** 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.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: 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 [[{{Sadist}} take enjoyment in tormenting his creations]] and [[OmnicidalManiac 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.

* LackOfEmpathy: 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 {{Sadist}} exactly because it's not pain that amuses him, he still only sees everyone and everything he's made as his CosmicPlaything 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.
* LightIsNotGood: 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.

* MadGod: 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 and while he is not {{Sadist}}, in that he enjoys pain, he does create 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 LoonyFan.

* NeglectfulPrecursors: He created the universe, but is partly responsible for it being a mess. Metatron convinces Him to at least get involved again, though.

** 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.

* NotQuiteTheAlmighty: ZigZagged; He is {{God}}, however Amara is the StrongerSibling. 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.

* ThePowerOfCreation: 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.

* TheProblemWithFightingDeath: As the BigBad of the fifteenth and final season, it seemed like a difficult to impossible battle considering: God is NighInvulnerable 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 CosmicKeystone nature of his existence.

* RealityWarper: He's ''freaking God''; He ''made'' reality.

** Subverted, as he wasn't definitely slacking around, he was ''actively'' making the world hell to make his story more interesting.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: Chuck acts this way to the Sam and Dean of the prime universe. As he explains to a hapless clerk during his MotiveRant 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.
* StopWorshippingMe: Despite his egotism and ControlFreak tendencies, God actually dislikes being worshipped or fawned over. He has stated that worship and people grovelling 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 him see people more real and not like dolls he can just manipulate.

* TheSoulless: He created souls, but does not have a soul Himself. He also claims that inventing/creating souls made Him feel nauseous.
* StoryBreakerPower: 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.
* ThouShaltNotKill: 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 ''massively'' 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.
* TimeAbyss: 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. [[TheGrimReaper 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.

* VillainOverride: Chuck can take over a Prophet at any time and use them as unwitting spies, calling it his own personal bluetooth.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has several in Season 15, but his worst is when he realizes that the Winchesters and Jack intend to [[FateWorseThanDeath 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.
* WideEyedIdealist: God revealed that He used to be like this. Even when He was with his sister, [[EldritchAbomination 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 FaceHeelTurn as he grew apathetic for his creations slowly.

* WriterOnBoard: 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 PlotArmor (yes, it's mentioned as actually existing) and not their companions, which is why AnyoneCanDie in droves. And the ''actual'' [[SeasonalRot troubles]] [[IdiotPlot 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.

%%* NiceHat

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the AuthorAvatar and AudienceSurrogate. 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.