History Characters / SupernaturalTheWinchesters

* BrokenPedestal: Starting in Season 2, Dean goes from thinking his dad is a superhero to showing open resentment over how John treated him. Dean still loves, admires and respects his father, he just is no longer blinded to John's short comings.

* BrokenPedestal: Upon being resurrected, this is Dean's general impression of her, all the perfect memories he had of her are gradually stripped away, it is slightly justified by the fact that she was brought back ''33 years'' after her death, and with it she has to deal with the fact that: The world has changed so much, her husband is dead, and her boys, Dean and Sam, who were a four year old and a six month old respectively, are now 30 something year olds, and not only that, but after her own death, John brought them up as Hunters, something she never wanted for them, it turns out in a conversation with Amara, that causing this in Dean was one of Amaras intentions for bringing her back.

* ForWantOfANail: As the Winchester brothers are the main protagonists, the world and its plot would have gone to an ''extremely'' different direction if Mary did not accept Azazel's offer in 1973. [[spoiler: A big part of Season 13 in fact dedicates its time exploring what would happen if that option was taken by Mary]].

* ParentsAsPeople: [[spoiler: In Season 12. She tries to take care of her children, but she's still dealing with the painful loss of John, her guilt of letting her family becoming screwed up, not to mention the fact that Sam and Dean are now adults. Eventually, she goes to drastic measures when she makes a deal with the British Men of Letters, which just makes things worse for everybody involved.]]

* WomenAreWiser: [[spoiler: When Lucifer starts going too much touchy feely with Jack, everyone -- even Gabriel -- disagrees and tries to convince Jack not to listen to him, which only makes him that more curious of his father. That is, everyone except Mary, who prefers leaving them on their own, noting that Jack will learn about Lou's true nature on his own. Sure enough, he learns the ugly truth an episode later and -- through his angelic lie detector -- on his own.]]

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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Like all of the Campbells, she is cold and dismissive of Dean. She get's a little better though.

* CainAndAbel: John's bloodline are descendants of Cain and Abel. This means that all of their descendants are able to be vessels for [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] and [[ArchangelLucifer Lucifer]]. 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.

* WidowWoman: She is of the wonderful widow type in the fantasy world the djinn constructed for Dean in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20)]], in which John passed away peacefully in his sleep. [[spoiler: Post-resurrection, see HerHeartWillGoOn above.]]

* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler: She takes news of John's death hard following her resurrection and takes the wrong help from the wrong people, shunning her sons in favor of the BigBad. Her role in Season 12 is to show her attempts to properly move on and thus become a DeterminedWidow.]]

-->'''Played By''': Gil [=McKinney=]

* {{Jerkass}}: Even several of his close friends had fallings out (one occasion with Bobby led to Bobby threatening to shoot him if he ever came back, though he had forgiven him by 2005) and disliked at least parts of him.

* PlayingGertrude: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966) as John with Jensen Ackles (born 1978) as his son. It was often joked about during Season 1, when Morgan was also starring in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', that his fiancée in that series and his son in ''Supernatural'' are the same age.

* PlayingGertrude: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].
** Samantha Smith and Jensen Ackles are only eight years apart (and with Jared Padalecki, thirteen years apart), but Mary was killed when Dean was four, so it makes sense that their ages are not too far apart. In fact, they should be even closer; Mary was killed when she was 29, but Smith was 35 when she first appeared, while Dean was 26 in 2005 played by 27-year-old Ackles.
** The only time this is played straight is in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E20WhatIsAndWhatShouldNeverBe What Is and What Should Never Be]]", since the Mary of that time should be 53, not 36-year-old Smith (then again, this ''is'' Dean's ideal future).
** [[spoiler: It is also justified when she is resurrected in Season 11, since Mary was essentially frozen in time during the duration of her death from 1983 to 2016.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Boy howdy. [[spoiler:Taken to the extreme when it's revealed that he made a deal with Crowley to kill Sam and Dean in order to bring Mary BackFromTheDead.]]

* 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, [[PlayingGertrude were the latter is portrayed by an actor of the right age]].]]

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Apparently, Sam doesn't raise him to be a badass like he or Dean were, but instead he is shown to live a normal life, studying and playing with his Dad. Then again, he does have an anti-possession tattoo on his arm.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Apparently, Sam doesn't raise him to be a badass like him or Dean were, but instead he is shown to live a normal life, studying and playing with his Dad. Then again, he does have an anti-possession tattoo on his arm.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: John's last name is WINCHESTER, like the rifle.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Henry's last name is ''Winchester'', like the rifle.

* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much like his son John and his grandson Sam. In fact there is a StrongFamilyResemblance between Henry and Sam which is a dead giveaway that they are related.

* AdultFear: She walks in on her husband describing how he’d like to ''breed with their daughter.'' However, this quickly turns into a completely different fear when she realises he’s possessed by a demon.

* BaldOfAwesome: Becomes a BaldOfEvil when he's possessed [[spoiler:and also when he pulls a FaceHeelTurn in Season 6]].

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Inverted; her dad is human and her mom is an Amazon.

* ActionSurvivor: Before John fully embraced the world of hunting. Although, his then-girlfriend Mary was more of an ActionGirl and GirlyBruiser was who was very experienced in fighting and hunting supernatural beings for a living, because it was part of the family business. Despite John not having any experience in regards to the hunting world, John seemed like he was still capable of defending himself. John was in the military, which suggests that he is capable of fighting when he has to since he has been a part of battle during the earlier parts of his life. Later on, after Mary had died, John becomes more of an ActionHero and ActionDad, and he becomes one of the strongest and most experienced hunters. John become so strong, experienced and knowledgable about the world of hunting, that he even trains Sam and Dean to be hunters as children. He eventually makes sure that his sons become ActionSurvivor's as children so that they can always be prepared to protect themselves when it is necessary.

* TheAlcoholic: It has been implied in the show that John had a drinking problem, although his heavy drinking is never really seen on-screen and is only strongly implied. However, his inclination to alcohlism could be believable considering Dean seems to pick up the same trait or habit as John. It could be assumed that John used alcohol or drinking as a coping mechanism for his long-term grief over losing Mary and for all of the constant family issues that he had to deal with. Dean, on the other hand, is actually seen on-screen using alcohol to cope with his problems.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Post-Mary's death, John became the Brooding Boy to the boys's image of her as a motherly Gentle Girl. When the couple's time together is actually shown, however, John is revealed to have been closer to a Gentle Boy.

* PlayingGertrude: Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966) as John with Jensen Ackles (born 1978) as his son. It was often joked about during Season 1, when Morgan was also starring in ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', that his fiancee in that series and his son in ''Supernatural'' are the same age.

* DealWithTheDevil: Azazel manipulated her into making one to save John, as revealed in "In the Beginning". Her deal, though, didn't cost her her soul-it allowed Azazel to feed his blood to Sam ten years later. Obviously, he didn't tell [[MamaBear Mary]] that part.

* DeathGlare: When time-traveling Dean and Sam come knocking on former hunter Mary's door, she gives them quite a deadly glare.It is very obvious where Sam gets his annoyed expression from.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Mary was a nice girl but she could kick ass and was not to be underestimated.

* 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 millenia, killed again when Chuck erased all humankind save for Sam, Dean and Jack.]] Dean even lampshaded this.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:He's suposed to still be physically in his late teens in season fifteen because he's spent the past ten seasons as Michael's vessel, but his actor is human. However, he's also mentally thousands of years old at that point, so it goes both ways.]]

This page is a listing of characters in the Winchester family in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.

Sam and Dean's individual character folders are '''so''' large that they ''each'' had to be given their own subpage.
* Characters/SupernaturalDeanWinchester
* Characters/SupernaturalSamWinchester

The main character page for this series is [[Characters/{{Supernatural}} here]].

* BadassBeard and BadassMustache: Only when John gets older. As young!John, he is clean shaven.

Sam Winchester's [[spoiler: son]]. He appeared in the last episode of Supernatural.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: He holds his father's hand in his deathbed until his last breath.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Averted. In fact, Dean assured his father that it is okay and he can finally rest.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Apparently, Sam doesn't raise him to be a badass like him or Dean were, but instead he is shown to live a normal life, studying and playing with his Dad.

--> ''Dean'': Poor bastard, never caught a break.

* TheDeterminator: She is forced to watch as her husband is made to fatally stab himself, is thrown across a room, hits a table and chair along the way, crashes to the floor, is implied to have broken several bones and ''still'' finds the strength to crawl away from Azazel in the hopes of stopping him. Unfortunately, RealityEnsues and the mentally distressed, physically injured Deanna can only get so far before Azazel catches up and snaps her neck.

* FamousLastWords : "Since when do we get what we deserve" [[labelnote:Explanation]] Since in his next appearance, It was Michael using his body, and he outright stated Adam is dead.[[/labelnote]]

* FamousLastWords : "Since when do we get what we deserve" [[labelnote: Explanation]] Since in his next appearance, It was Michael using his body, and he outright stated Adam is dead. [[\labelnote]]

* FamousLastWords : "Since when do we get what we deserve" [[labelnote: Explanation]] Since in his next appearance, It was Michael using his body, and he outright stated Adam is dead.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: You might think that he is not that much younger than Sam and Dean, especially with his deep voice and mannerism, not to mention his older brothers don't look older themselves. In reality his much much older than the Winchesters duo, to put it simply, he is 7 years younger than Sam and 11 years younger than Dean.

* 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. Gets a little less sympathetic when it's revealed that 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''). It's left unclear whether John would also occasionally beat Dean. For example, 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...

* ItsAllAboutMe: His detractors accuse him of ruining his sons' lives for his own vendetta.
* {{Jerkass}}: So very much. Even several of his close friends had fallings out (one occasion with Bobby led to Bobby threatening to shoot him if he ever came back, though he had forgiven him by 2005) and disliked at least parts of him.