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* ButtMonkey: The guy had literally the worst luck ever. [[spoiler:Killed by a ghoul, resurrected just to end being possessed by Michael, trapped in the Cage for over a millennia, killed again when Chuck erased all humankind save for Sam, Dean and Jack.]] Dean even lampshaded this.

* GoodParents: Henry took John to see ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' and it scared the boy enough that his father bought him a music box that plays, "As Time Goes By" to calm him down. John loved it so much that he would sometimes whistle the tune as an adult. Henry even kept a picture they took together in his wallet. Unfortunately, John grew up believing Henry abandoned him, rendering their relationship moot.

* NeckSnap: After throwing her with telekinesis, Azazel stalks up to her and breaks her neck with his own hands. Excuse us, with ''her husband''s own hands.

* CainAndAbel: John's bloodline are descendants of the {{Trope Namer}}s Cain and Abel themselves. This means that all of their descendants are able to be vessels for [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] and [[ArchangelLucifer Lucifer]], who are prophesied to battle one another during the Apocalypse, during which one will kill the other. Although when it comes to the Winchester's being vessels for Michael and Lucifer, it seems that Henry, John, Dean and Adam can all be vessels for Michael (although Dean is the [[TheChosenOne one true vessel for Michael aka The Michael Sword]]) and only Sam can be the one true vessel for Lucifer, not the other members of the Winchester bloodline.

* MortonsFork:
** The deal with Azazel to resurrect John. As Season 12 reveals, no matter her decision, tragedy ensues.

* DirtyCoward: Downplayed; as while John himself never backed down from facing any Demons, he never bothered to even try to confront Sam when the latter wanted to have a normal life. Instead, he just practically disowned him and never bothered to reach out to him for years in spite of the face ''he knew'' all along where Sam was and pushed him away rather than reach out to him. [[ParentalSupstitute Bobby Singer]] even calls him one, pointing out that for all of John's actions, he never bothered to try to reconnect to Sam or answer either his or Dean's messages whenever they reached out to him, basically running away from his problems rather than face them head on.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Thanks to her still unstable state, she decides to cooperate with the British Men of Letters, which has been shown thus far as a KnightTemplar who can't tolerate a single breach of law and has absolutely no mercy. She's even charmed into sleeping with Ketch for the sake of it. By the time she's questioning her involvement, it's already too late, and Ketch orders Toni to turn her into his puppet.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: John has his moments. Particularly with Sam, who he knew had been affected by the demon that had killed Mary. He passed this particular neurosis to Dean.

* OverprotectiveDad[=/=]PapaWolf: Despite his issues with ParentalNeglect and ParentalAbandonment in regards to John it is still evident that he was very protective of John and loved him. Besides, him abandoning John was something that was not his fault and was out of his control due to time travel. John seemed to have picked up the overprotective father trait from Henry (not to mention the ParentalAbandonment trait as well).

* OverprotectiveDad: He sure didn't approve of his daughter's taste in men (i.e. John).
* ThePatriarch: Of the Campbell family.

* AbusiveParents: Though much more sympathetic than most, John is still responsible for much of Dean's plethora of emotional issues, most notably his devastatingly low self-esteem and tendency to blame himself for everything that goes wrong. And John pretty much disowned Sam because Sam hated hunting and wanted to live a normal life. They were soldiers first and John never ever let them forget it. John once told an officer to "let Dean rot in prison" and left Dean simply because Dean had been caught stealing what was most likely food for his brother at 16 (and although Dean did also lose the money that John had given him for food for him and Sam while gambling, he was still ''a kid''). In "Dark Side of the Moon" when Dean tells Sam what happened when John found out that Dean hadn't taken proper care of his brother, he doesn't finish the sentence ("And when Dad came home...") but he has an absolutely terrified face from the recollection.

* ControlFreak: John was very controlling and domineering by nature, especially towards his own sons. This initially stemmed from wanting to keep them safe, but eventually got out of control. Years later he admits to Sam that somewhere along the lines he stopped being their father and started being there drill sergeant.

* DadTheVeteran: He served in the Vietnam War.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: John has nothing but an angst ridden past. It wasn't too pleasant before (such as parental abandonment and having to severe in Vietnam), but it got much worse when John was killed by Azazel and Mary had traded their future son's life (Sam) in order to have John come back alive in return.

* ParentsAsPeople: While he clearly loved his sons, and was very protective of them, John wasn't the best father; he made mistakes, had trouble dealing with own problems and brought a lot of it on his sons. As an older man he reveals he regrets many of the bad choices he's made, but then still repeats several of his mistakes.

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* TheVietnamVet: He served in the Vietnam War, giving him a considerable advantage when he started hunting demons.

* SupernaturallyYoungParent: [[spoiler: Grandfather in this case. Samuel's age is not actually known, but he seems to be in his fifties at death. When he is resurrected by Crowley, he is the same age as when he died. His actor was born in 1952, which would put him just two years older than his son-in-law John, were the latter is portrayed by an actor of the right age.]]
* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:To Samuel, not so much. When he tries to pull this excuse on Sam and Dean, they tell him exactly how full of crap he is. And yet, [[JerkassHasAPoint he does have a point]], having met Dean once before [[JerkassWoobie he died (the first time), got possessed by Azazel, and forced to kill himself and his wife]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero all because of Dean's attempt to intervene and change the past]]. Samuel spent a year hunting with a soulless, amoral version of Sam whose cold-blooded actions apparently disturbed Samuel, if "Live Free or Twihard" and the flashbacks in "Unforgiven" are an indication. Even so, Samuel apparently did care about his grandsons since he did make attempts to help them in Season 6 as long as it didn't interfere with his deal with Crowley like when he gave Dean the cure for vampirism. When it came down to it, though, he loved Mary, his daughter, more than he was willing to help Dean and Sam, grandsons he barely knew and were admittedly kind of dickish themselves at that point.]]

* KillTheOnesYouLove: Is forced to snap his wife, Deanna's neck while possessed by Azazel.

* DeadpanSnarker: John is capable of dry sarcasm and wit.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: [[TheCutie Young John]] is an [[AvertedTrope aversion]]. His older self not so much.

* BadassBaritone: John has a rather deep voice.

* BadassInCharge: John is ThePatriarch of the Winchester family.

* GeniusBruiser: John is both smart and a capable hunter. John also comes from a legacy called the Men Of Letters, which was a GeniusBookClub that his father, Henry, was a member of.

* LineageComesFromTheFather: John's father Henry was a part of the Men of Letters legacy. Because he was a Winchester, the legacy was passed down to John from Henry. John's sons are also a part of the Men Of Letters legacy, since Sam and Dean are parental descendants on the Winchester side.

* {{Bookworm}}: Comes with being a BadassBookworm and a Man Of Letters. His grandson Sam seems to share the same trait or quality.

* CulturedBadass: Well, Henry ''is'' a Man Of Letters.

* GeniusBookClub: Part of the Men Of Letters club.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Henry was a Man Of Letters, which means that he was a bookworm and intelligent.

* SecretLegacy: Henry was a member of a secret book club called the Men Of Letters.

* TheSmartGuy: Highly intelligent, scholarly, a bookworm and a Man Of Letters. His grandson Sam seems to share the same quality as him.