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* GodIsFlawed: Chuck admits he was naive and stupid for creating whole worlds to inspire Amara into being better, but she always destroyed them every time he tried.

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* GodIsFlawed: Chuck admits he was naive and stupid for creating whole worlds to inspire Amara into being better, but because she always destroyed them every time he tried.



* MyGreatestFailure: Chuck tells Metatron that he's happy to let Amara do what she likes with creation because he's sick of seeing his experiments fail. Metatron retorts that it's really Chuck who has failed.

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* MyGreatestFailure: Chuck tells Metatron that he's happy to let Amara do what she likes with creation because he's sick of seeing the his experiments fail. Metatron retorts that it's really Chuck who has failed.

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* BerserkButton: Chuck has never ever been called a coward since the beginning of time. He loses his shit when Metatron dares to.

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Chuck has never ever been called a coward since the beginning of time. He loses his shit when Metatron dares to.to.
** He also doesn't take kindly to his memoir being called stupid.


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---> '''Chuck:''' The world would still be spinning with demon-Dean in it. And Sam could've have that though, could he? And so how is Amara being out on me?
---> '''Metatron:''' It's not, but you've helped the Winchesters before!
---> '''Chuck:''' Helped them? I've ''saved'' them! I've rebuilt Castiel more times than I can remember! Look where that got me!
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* HumansAreBastards: Chuck has come to see this about humanity, so he refuses to save humanity.
---> '''Chuck:''' Nature: Divine. Human nature: Toxic.
---> '''Metatron:''' They do like blowing stuff up.
---> '''Chuck:''' Yeah. And the worst part? They do it in my name. And then they come crying to me asking me to forgive, to fix things! Never taking any responsibility!
---> '''Metatron:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What about ''your'' responsibility?]]
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---> '''Chuck:''' We should take a stroll then, enjoy it all one last time.

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---> '''Chuck:''' We should take a stroll then, enjoy it all one last time.time before it's all gone.

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* GodIsFlawed: Chuck admits he was naive and stupid for creating whole worlds to inspire Amara into being better, but she always destroyed them every time he tried.



* JerkassGods: Chuck really shows why he's always been seen as a wrathful asshole God.

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* JerkassGods: Chuck really shows why he's always been seen as a wrathful asshole God. In fact, he has already written off creation as a total failure and has become completely indifferent to its destruction by Amara.
---> '''Metatron:''' If Amara wipes the slate, the slate's destroyed! Everything is destroyed. All your great work, lost forever.
---> '''Chuck:''' We should take a stroll then, enjoy it all one last time.
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* MusicalisInterruptus: Happens whenever Chuck's mood changes to from light-hearted to deeply serious.

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* MusicalisInterruptus: Happens whenever Chuck's mood changes to from light-hearted to deeply serious. The background song just disappears without even the punctuation of a RecordNeedleScratch as if Chuck was daydreaming the music into existence and suddenly stopped.
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* MusicalisInterruptus: Happens whenever Chuck's mood changes to from light-hearted to deeply serious.
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* DeathGlare: The mere mention of Amara by Metatron to Chuck earns him a look of ice-cold fury.

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* DeathGlare: The mere merest mention of Amara by Metatron to Chuck earns him Metatron a look glare of ice-cold fury.

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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and [[EverybodyLives saves everyone, even those who were killed]], including Dean and Sam.

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* DeathGlare: The mere mention of Amara by Metatron to Chuck earns him a look of ice-cold fury.
* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and [[EverybodyLives saves everyone, even those who were killed]], including Dean and Sam.
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* TranquilFury: Chuck's reaction every time Metatron implies or outright accuses him of having done a bad job or having made mistakes. It becomes a full-blown BerserkButton when Metatron calls him a coward.
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* PrayerIsALastResort: At the end when the black mist has turned everyone feral and Dean is left cradling Sam with no hope left, he shouts up at the heavens for God to make it all stop. It works.
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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and [[EverybodyLives saves everyone, even those who were killed, including Dean and Sam.

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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and [[EverybodyLives saves everyone, even those who were killed, killed]], including Dean and Sam.
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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and saves everyone, even those who were killed, including Dean and Sam.

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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and [[EverybodyLives saves everyone, even those who were killed, including Dean and Sam.
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* ReasoningWithGod: Metatron finally tries to do this on behalf of the universe to get Chuck to take a stand against Amara.
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* DeusExMachina: And it works. Chuck stops Amara from infecting an entire town with the black vein virus and saves everyone, even those who were killed, including Dean and Sam.


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* MundaneSolution: Metatron asks Chuck why Dean's amulet never glowed in his presence the way it should have. Chuck says he just turned it off. At the end of the episode, he switches it back on so Dean can see it as an announcement that God himself is finally coming down off his high horse and getting involved.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The reason Chuck created the angels and the Universe. He says Amara was terrible company because she is "nothingness" while he is "being" and thus they fundamentally didn't get along.


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* MyGreatestFailure: Chuck tells Metatron that he's happy to let Amara do what she likes with creation because he's sick of seeing his experiments fail. Metatron retorts that it's really Chuck who has failed.
* NeverMyFault: How Chuck sees the situation with the Universe since he created it:
** He thinks he took responsibility by walking out on the angels and humanity because "[[MeddlingParents nobody likes a helicopter parent]]".
** He also thinks his initial sealing away of Amara was him taking responsibility for her and that her recent release isn't his problem because humanity made it happen, not him.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Chuck refuses to think of Lucifer as ever having been a villain.
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---> Metatron: '''It wasn't just the saps on Earth who were praying to you. The Angels prayed too. And so did I! Every day!'''
---> Chuck: '''I know.'''
---> Metatron: '''You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to ''me'', tell me why you abandoned me! Us!'''
---> Chuck: '''Because [[DisappointedInYou you disappointed me. You all disappointed me.]]'''
---> Metatron: '''Look, I know I'm a disappointment, but you're wrong about humanity! They are your greatest creations because they're better than you are! Sure, they're weak and they cheat and steal and destroy and disappoint! But they also give and create, and they sing and dance and love! Above all they never give up... but you do.'''

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---> Metatron: '''It '''Metatron:''' It wasn't just the saps on Earth who were praying to you. The Angels prayed too. And so did I! Every day!'''
day!
---> Chuck: '''I know.'''
'''Chuck:''' I know.
---> Metatron: '''You '''Metatron:''' You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to ''me'', tell me why you abandoned me! Us!'''
Us!
---> Chuck: '''Because '''Chuck:''' Because [[DisappointedInYou you disappointed me. You all disappointed me.]]'''
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---> Metatron: '''Look, '''Metatron:''' Look, I know I'm a disappointment, but you're wrong about humanity! They are your greatest creations because they're better than you are! Sure, they're weak and they cheat and steal and destroy and disappoint! But they also give and create, and they sing and dance and love! Above all they never give up... but you do.'''
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---> Metatron: '''You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to ''me'', tell me why you abandoned me! Us!

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---> Metatron: '''You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to ''me'', tell me why you abandoned me! Us!Us!'''
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* BerserkButton: Chuck has never ever been called a coward since the beginning of time. He loses his shit when Metatron dares to.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Metatron still reveres Chuck for choosing him to be his scribe at the very beginning, but Chuck retorts that he was picked because he was the closest angel to the door at the time.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Of all people, ''Metatron'' speaks on behalf of the angels and humanity and calls Chuck out for his assholery.
---> Metatron: '''It wasn't just the saps on Earth who were praying to you. The Angels prayed too. And so did I! Every day!'''
---> Chuck: '''I know.'''
---> Metatron: '''You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to ''me'', tell me why you abandoned me! Us!
---> Chuck: '''Because [[DisappointedInYou you disappointed me. You all disappointed me.]]'''
---> Metatron: '''Look, I know I'm a disappointment, but you're wrong about humanity! They are your greatest creations because they're better than you are! Sure, they're weak and they cheat and steal and destroy and disappoint! But they also give and create, and they sing and dance and love! Above all they never give up... but you do.'''
* JerkassGods: Chuck really shows why he's always been seen as a wrathful asshole God.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Chuck honestly no longer gives a shit about his creation. He started it all to make something bigger and better than Amara and himself in order to inspire her to change into a better person, but she refused. Now he's so sick of it not living up to his original dream that he's happy to let it all come to nothingness again.



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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Let's see, a snarky and pop-culture-savvy angel didn't like the way Heaven was doing things and ran away and who's a former villain giving a speech to an extraordinary force in an effort to convince them to stop the end of the world because there's value in humanity despite their flaws and that they're actually sometimes better than the so-called higher beings because they try. Where have we seen that before?

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Let's see, a snarky and pop-culture-savvy angel didn't like the way Heaven was doing things and ran away and who's a former villain giving a speech to an extraordinary force in an effort to convince them to stop the end of the world because there's value in humanity despite their flaws and that they're actually sometimes better than the so-called higher beings because they try. [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E19HammerOfTheGods Where have we seen that before?before?]]

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TimeAbyss: Chuck, who is older than than literally everything, including time, and speaks quite casually about the days when it was just him and his sister in vast nothingness.

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* TimeAbyss: Chuck, who is older than than literally everything, including time, and speaks quite casually about the days when it was just him and his sister in vast nothingness.nothingness.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Let's see, a snarky and pop-culture-savvy angel didn't like the way Heaven was doing things and ran away and who's a former villain giving a speech to an extraordinary force in an effort to convince them to stop the end of the world because there's value in humanity despite their flaws and that they're actually sometimes better than the so-called higher beings because they try. Where have we seen that before?
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OlderThanTheyLook: Chuck, who is older than than literally everything, including time.

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OlderThanTheyLook: TimeAbyss: Chuck, who is older than than literally everything, including time.time, and speaks quite casually about the days when it was just him and his sister in vast nothingness.
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OlderThanTheyLook/Really700YearsOld: Chuck

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OlderThanTheyLook/Really700YearsOld: ChuckOlderThanTheyLook: Chuck, who is older than than literally everything, including time.

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For this episode: EverybodyLives

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For this episode: EverybodyLives
EverybodyLives (for once)



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OlderThanTheyLook/Really700YearsOld: Chuck
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For the series so far = At least 1269 humans (of which 15 were witches), 1125 angels, 184 demons, 71 vampires, 52 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 22 gods, 19 zombies, 17 werewolves, 10 hellhounds, 8 Bisaan, 7 shapeshifters, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 djinn, 5 reapers, 4 dogs, 4 ghouls, 4 Leviathan, 3 Khan Worms, 3 Thule 2 Amazons, 2 arachnes, 2 kitsunes, 2 rugarus, 2 vetalas, 2 zannas, 1 banshee, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, Death, 1 deer, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 familiar, 1 lamia, the Mother of All, 1 nachzehrer, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 pishtaco, 1 Purgatory creature, 1 qarin, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shojo, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 soul eater, 1 Titan, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, 1 wicked witch, and 1 wraith.

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For the series so far = At least 1269 humans (of which 15 were witches), 1125 angels, 184 demons, 71 vampires, 52 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 22 gods, 19 zombies, 17 werewolves, 10 hellhounds, 8 Bisaan, 7 shapeshifters, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 djinn, 5 reapers, 4 dogs, 4 ghouls, 4 Leviathan, 3 Khan Worms, 3 Thule Thule, 2 Amazons, 2 arachnes, 2 kitsunes, 2 rugarus, 2 vetalas, 2 zannas, 1 banshee, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, Death, 1 deer, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 familiar, 1 lamia, the The Mother of All, 1 nachzehrer, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 pishtaco, 1 Purgatory creature, 1 qarin, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shojo, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 soul eater, 1 Titan, 1 wendigo, 1 whore The Whore of Babylon, 1 wicked witch, and 1 wraith.

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Amara causes a small town to go mad when she places a dark fog upon it; Sam, Dean and the sheriff try to protect the town, but the old remedy fails.

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Amara causes a small town to go mad when she places unleashes a dark fog upon it; Sam, on a small town, causing everyone to go mad. Dean and Sam realize this is a stronger version of the original black vein virus Amara previously unleashed. They team up with the sheriff try to protect the town, town but the their old remedy fails.
no longer works. Meanwhile, Chuck returns with an interesting proposal.



For this episode: EverybodyLives.

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For this episode: EverybodyLives.
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* {{God}}: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Chuck]] is God.

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* {{God}}: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Chuck]] is God.
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* {God}: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Chuck]] is God.

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* {God}: {{God}}: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Chuck]] is God.
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Previous: Recap/SupernaturalS11E19TheChitters\\
Next: Recap/SupernaturalS11E21AllInTheFamily]

'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\\
'''Season 11, Episode 20''':
! Don't Call Me Shurley

Amara causes a small town to go mad when she places a dark fog upon it; Sam, Dean and the sheriff try to protect the town, but the old remedy fails.

Writer: Robbie Thompson

Director: Robert Singer

!!Body Count

For this episode: EverybodyLives.

For the series so far = At least 1269 humans (of which 15 were witches), 1125 angels, 184 demons, 71 vampires, 52 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 22 gods, 19 zombies, 17 werewolves, 10 hellhounds, 8 Bisaan, 7 shapeshifters, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 djinn, 5 reapers, 4 dogs, 4 ghouls, 4 Leviathan, 3 Khan Worms, 3 Thule 2 Amazons, 2 arachnes, 2 kitsunes, 2 rugarus, 2 vetalas, 2 zannas, 1 banshee, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, Death, 1 deer, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 familiar, 1 lamia, the Mother of All, 1 nachzehrer, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 pishtaco, 1 Purgatory creature, 1 qarin, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shojo, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 soul eater, 1 Titan, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, 1 wicked witch, and 1 wraith.

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* {God}: It's revealed that [[spoiler: Chuck]] is God.

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