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* MoralSociopathy: [[TheSoulless Soulless people]] losing their souls robs them of their capacity for empathy and certain emotional passions, all-round exhibiting most to all of the textbook symptoms of a sociopath, but most of them still retain ''some'' moral code. Soulless Sam, though far more heinous in his methods and callous about collateral (to a degree which disturbed even Samuel Campbell) still ultimately found purpose in hunting and killing monsters. In Season 11, more people become soulless due to [[TheAntiGod Amara]]'s feeding spree, providing more cases to compare. One troubled but caring girl who lost her soul became an ax-crazy murderer, but she was still committed to "caring for" her beloved babysitter charge in the long-term -- she just didn't have any compunctions against lethally venting her rage on his reportedly-deadbeat parents and kidnapping him to achieve those ends anymore. In the same episode, Len despite not being able to feel any compassion as an emotion anymore retained enough intellectual morality and self-awareness to stop himself from killing again via turning himself in to the police. Donatello Redfield remained an amiable and well-adjusted ally to the heroes after losing his soul via, in his own words, asking himself "What would Mr. Rogers do?"
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* MoreHateableMinorVillain: In Season 10, the closest thing to {{Big Bad}}s are the Mark of Cain -- an impersonal and non-anthropomorphic curse, which therefore can't be hated -- and Rowena, who is at her worst for her seasonal debut as a scheming, smug, power-hungry witch and an AbusiveMom. Metatron and the Styne family, however, are much more loathsome. As heinous as Rowena is during Season 10, she still has some slight humanizing moments and is somewhat successful. Metatron on the other hand is at this point a smug DirtyCoward who falls apart under the threat of violence. Meanwhile, the Stynes are heartless monsters who won't hesitate to vivisect their own just for not measuring up to their standards, they evidently don't know quite as much as they seem to think they do, [[spoiler:and they're responsible for ''gutting'' Charlie to death]] -- finding someone who doesn't cheer when Dean is slaughtering the Stynes would be an incredible achievement.
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* MoreHateableMinorVillain: In Season 10, the closest thing to {{Big Bad}}s are the Mark of Cain -- an impersonal and non-anthropomorphic curse, which therefore can't be hated -- and Rowena, who is at her worst for her seasonal debut as a scheming, smug, power-hungry witch and an AbusiveMom. Metatron and the Styne family, however, are much more loathsome. As heinous as Rowena is during Season 10, she still has some slight humanizing moments and is somewhat successful. Metatron on the other hand is at this point a sadistic, smug DirtyCoward who falls apart under the threat of violence. Meanwhile, the Stynes are heartless monsters who won't hesitate to vivisect their own just for not measuring up to their standards, they evidently don't know quite as much as they seem to think they do, [[spoiler:and they're responsible for ''gutting'' Charlie to death]] -- finding someone who doesn't cheer when Dean is slaughtering the Stynes would be an incredible achievement.
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* TheMultiverse: We have Earth, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, an alternate future, the Trickster's alternate realities, the universe where their lives are a TV show, the Fairy World (of which [[Literature/LandOfOz ''Oz'']] is a subset, as of Season 9), the Empty (afterlife for angels and demons) the Apocalypse World of Season 13, and several God-created alternate universes shown in Season 15, including one where Sam and Dean are stuck-up rich kids.
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* TheMultiverse: We have Earth, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, an alternate future, the Trickster's alternate realities, the universe where their lives are a TV show, the Fairy World (of which [[Literature/LandOfOz ''Oz'']] is a subset, as of Season 9), the Empty (afterlife for angels and demons) demons), the alternate world where the Apocalypse World of Season 13, never ended and the angels turned into even bigger psychopaths than they already were, and several God-created alternate universes shown in Season 15, including one where Sam and Dean are stuck-up rich kids.
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* TheMomVoice: In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E12TimeAfterTime Time After Time]]", Sam is on guard duty after Dean is teleported to the past. Jodie Mills visits him and tells him to get some sleep, threatening to use her "mom voice". However, he notices [[WriteBackToTheFuture a message left behind by Dean]] and rushes back down to tell Jodie. Sure, enough, she goes "Ok, young man, that's it!" before Sam tells her about Dean.
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* ManyFacedDivinity: Although angels' [[AngelicAbomination multi-dimensional truest forms]] are never shown to the audience, partly on account of the show working around its budget constraints, [[Characters/SupernaturalAngels the angel Zachariah]] comments at one point that his true form has four faces including a lion's face.
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* PredatoryBigPharma: Sort-of in Season 5. It's revealed during the last few episodes that demons in Lucifer and Pestilence's employ have infiltrated a pharmaceutical company called Niveus, and they're using the company to test out a new, hyper-virulent strain of the [[TheVirus Croatoan virus]], before they plan to cause a spontaneous U.S.-wide ZombieApocalypse via distributing the virus inside swine flu vaccines across the country all at once. That being said, the company's human staff aren't depicted as evil, but as victims whom have been infiltrated by inhuman monsters without realizing it, and several scenes show their staff from warehouse workers to lab scientists to a board member all being mercilessly cut down by the demons and the virus.
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** In "Sin City" a demon mentions that DickCheney has a "parking spot" in Hell reserved for him.
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* MurphysBullet: In [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E03BadDayAtBlackRock "Bad Day at Black Rock"]], Sam gets ahold of a rabbit's foot, a MacGuffin that gives you incredible luck as long as you hold it, but if you lose it, your luck gets progressively worse until it kills you. Sam has already lost it, and it is now in Dean's possession. Being GenreSavvy, the rival takes advantage of this trope, assured that any bullet she aims at Dean will instead hit Sam. [[RuleOfFunny It works.]]
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-->'''Crowley:''' There's a reason we don't call our chits in early: consumer confidence. This isn’t [[AcceptableTargets Wall Street]], this is Hell! [[TakeThat We have a little something called integrity]]. If this gets out, who'll deal with us? Nobody! Then, where are we?
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-->'''Crowley:''' There's a reason we don't call our chits in early: consumer confidence. This isn’t [[AcceptableTargets isn't Wall Street]], Street, this is Hell! [[TakeThat We have a little something called integrity]]. If this gets out, who'll deal with us? Nobody! Then, where are we?
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* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: {{Discussed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E11Playthings Playthings]]". Sam asks Dean, who wants to check whether Rose really had a stroke, "What do you want to do, poke her with a stick?" Dean half-nods, obviously thinking it's a good idea. Sam responds, "Dude, you're not gonna poke her with a stick!"
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* MisfitLabRat: In one episode, Dean visits a BackAlleyDoctor who specializes in FlatlinePlotline AstralProjection (played by Creator/RobertEnglund, no less). His assistant is a silent Goth girl who seems a bit too excited about the whole thing.
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** Star-and-circle "Devil's Traps" are frequently used to [[SupernaturalSealing confine demons who step into them]]. Their first appearance is as an elaborate heptagram design from the [[GeometricMagic Seal of Solomon]], but the main characters later make do with spray-painted pentagrams surrounded by a few symbols. One dormant {{Hellgate}} is sealed by a hundred-mile-wide trap [[MystialCityPlanning made from churches and railway lines]].
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** Star-and-circle "Devil's Traps" are frequently used to [[SupernaturalSealing confine demons who step into them]]. Their first appearance is as an elaborate heptagram design from the [[GeometricMagic Seal of Solomon]], but the main characters later make do with spray-painted pentagrams surrounded by a few symbols. One dormant {{Hellgate}} is sealed by a hundred-mile-wide trap [[MystialCityPlanning [[MysticalCityPlanning made from churches and railway lines]].
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** A pentagram-and-flame [[PowerTattoo tattoo]] protects the bearer from DemonicPossession.
** Star-and-circle "Devil's Traps" are frequently used to [[SupernaturalSealing confine demons who step into them]]. Their first appearance is as an elaborate heptagram design from the [[GeometricMagic Seal of Solomon]], but the main characters later make do with spray-painted pentagrams surrounded by a few symbols. One dormant {{Hellgate}} is sealed by a hundred-mile-wide trap [[MystialCityPlanning made from churches and railway lines]].
** A pentagram-and-flame [[PowerTattoo tattoo]] protects the bearer from DemonicPossession.
** Star-and-circle "Devil's Traps" are frequently used to [[SupernaturalSealing confine demons who step into them]]. Their first appearance is as an elaborate heptagram design from the [[GeometricMagic Seal of Solomon]], but the main characters later make do with spray-painted pentagrams surrounded by a few symbols. One dormant {{Hellgate}} is sealed by a hundred-mile-wide trap [[MystialCityPlanning made from churches and railway lines]].
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* MoreDespicableMinion: There's been a couple.
** In Seasons 4-5, Zachariah is ultimately a pompous and egotistical upper-mid ranking angel who is only really invested in retaining his own position by doing whatever the bigwigs above him tell him to do, regardless of any puny humans getting hurt; and during the latter season, Zach develops an increasing malicious streak as his ego gets bruised by defeat after defeat costing him his respect and high standing in Heaven. The archangel Michael whom Zachariah reports to, though he's just as much a part of the plan to engineer the Apocalypse's beginning as Zachariah is and though he's very prideful and dismissive of human life in his own right, seems to believe more seriously than Zachariah does that [[HolierThanThou he's in the right]], and he has a FreudianExcuse for being such a cosmically-destructive and self-focused WellDoneSonGuy.
** In Season 6, the vampire Boris who temporarily infects Dean is not only in on and is actively a part of the [[MonsterProgenitor Alpha Vampire]]'s plan to turn all humans into monsters, he's also a creep who's implied to be sexually abusive to the (teen/young adult) girls whom he lures in and turns as well as indirectly insulting the interests from their human lives that led them astray right in front of them. The Alpha Vampire, once he debuts later in the season, at least has some class as a Dracula expy by comparison and isn't needlessly belittling, and later appearances have further shown that the Alpha can even be paternal under the right circumstances (which Boris most certainly was not).
** In Seasons 4-5, Zachariah is ultimately a pompous and egotistical upper-mid ranking angel who is only really invested in retaining his own position by doing whatever the bigwigs above him tell him to do, regardless of any puny humans getting hurt; and during the latter season, Zach develops an increasing malicious streak as his ego gets bruised by defeat after defeat costing him his respect and high standing in Heaven. The archangel Michael whom Zachariah reports to, though he's just as much a part of the plan to engineer the Apocalypse's beginning as Zachariah is and though he's very prideful and dismissive of human life in his own right, seems to believe more seriously than Zachariah does that [[HolierThanThou he's in the right]], and he has a FreudianExcuse for being such a cosmically-destructive and self-focused WellDoneSonGuy.
** In Season 6, the vampire Boris who temporarily infects Dean is not only in on and is actively a part of the [[MonsterProgenitor Alpha Vampire]]'s plan to turn all humans into monsters, he's also a creep who's implied to be sexually abusive to the (teen/young adult) girls whom he lures in and turns as well as indirectly insulting the interests from their human lives that led them astray right in front of them. The Alpha Vampire, once he debuts later in the season, at least has some class as a Dracula expy by comparison and isn't needlessly belittling, and later appearances have further shown that the Alpha can even be paternal under the right circumstances (which Boris most certainly was not).
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* MoreHateableMinorVillain: In Season 10, the closest thing to {{Big Bad}}s are the Mark of Cain -- an impersonal and non-anthropomorphic curse, which therefore can't be hated -- and Rowena, who is at her worst for her seasonal debut as a scheming, smug, power-hungry witch and an AbusiveMom. Metatron and the Styne family, however, are much more loathsome. As heinous as Rowena is during Season 10, she still has some slight humanizing moments and is somewhat successful. Metatron on the other hand is at this point a smug DirtyCoward who falls apart under the threat of violence. Meanwhile, the Stynes are heartless monsters who won't hesitate to vivisect their own just for not measuring up to their standards, they evidently don't know quite as much as they seem to think they do, [[spoiler:and they're responsible for ''gutting'' Charlie to death]] -- finding someone who doesn't cheer when Dean is slaughtering the Stynes would be an incredible achievement.
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* MoralDisambiguation: The show's BlackAndWhiteMorality [[GrayingMorality turned gray]] as the main characters started to fight demons, which requires them to murder innocent human hosts, the supernatural creatures stopped always being evil due to their race, and they started to make deals with demons in order to survive. Eventually, the brothers wouldn't bat an eye when forced to kill a room full human hosts, make moral decisions which trod the line between dangerously irresponsible and willfully evil, and constantly trade away the safety and wellbeing of huge numbers of people. By the end of the series, it tilted back towards black and white with the Winchesters balking at dancing so close to VillainProtagonist status, the introduction of Jack Kline on their side, and the final three [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]] after Amara being more evil and powerful than anything the Winchesters have faced before them.
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* McLeaned: Many of the characters who were killed off because their actors got regular roles on other shows.
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* PostApocalypticDog: After [[spoiler: Chuck makes everyone disappear except the Winchester Brothers, Dean finds an adorable, shaggy dog and names him Miracle.]]
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* PhotoIdentificationDenial: In the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS15E07LastCall Last Call]], Dean is looking for a missing girl. He's at a bar run by his ex-hunter buddy Lee. He shows Lee her photograph, and Lee denies knowing her. He's lying. It turns out that Lee got tired of hunting and made a deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek where he provides it with victims in return for health and money. Dean does not take this well, and Lee doesn't live through the episode...
** In the first season episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E11Scarecrow Scarecrow]], Sam and Dean are investigating a small town where young couples routinely go missing at the same time every year. Dean is showing a picture of the most recent couple to vanish to the townspeople, all of whom deny seeing them. Except for one young girl who isn't aware that the townspeople made a deal with a pagan god to sacrifice a man and a woman once a year in return for good fortune for the town. She tells Dean the couple did stop there, and it doesn't take long for Dean to start throwing monkey wrenches into things.
** In the first season episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E11Scarecrow Scarecrow]], Sam and Dean are investigating a small town where young couples routinely go missing at the same time every year. Dean is showing a picture of the most recent couple to vanish to the townspeople, all of whom deny seeing them. Except for one young girl who isn't aware that the townspeople made a deal with a pagan god to sacrifice a man and a woman once a year in return for good fortune for the town. She tells Dean the couple did stop there, and it doesn't take long for Dean to start throwing monkey wrenches into things.
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* MainliningTheMonster: Sam did this a bunch of times with demon blood. Sam used it during the Season 4 arc to enhance his psychic capabilities to be able to remove a demon possessing a victim without harming the host. He then becomes somewhat addicted to the substance, even keeping a victim possessed so that he can "bulk up" for the final fight.
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans]]. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from his own black-and-white views, as after he is turned into a vampire, he intends to commit suicide because [[IAmAMonster he has become what he hates]] (but he would get killed by Sam first.)
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, Walker easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans]]. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his killed ''his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from his own black-and-white views, as after he is turned into a vampire, he not only intends to commit suicide because [[IAmAMonster he has become what he hates]] (but he would get killed by Sam first.)he'd rather die than live as a vampire, but considers doing so to be his "last good deed". ''Seriously''.
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from his own black-and-white views, as after he is turned into a vampire, he intends to commit suicide because [[IAmAMonster he has become what he hates]] (but he would get killed by Sam first.)
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, [[VanHelsingHateCrimes viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans.humans]]. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from his own black-and-white views, as after he is turned into a vampire, he intends to commit suicide because [[IAmAMonster he has become what he hates]] (but he would get killed by Sam first.)
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from this mindset, as after he is turned into a vampire himself, he intends to commit suicide after killing Sam.
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** Gordon Walker, a recurring character in Seasons 2 and 3, easily qualifies. Gordon has a black-and-white mentality when it comes to hunting, viewing ''all'' monsters as irredeemably evil no matter the circumstance, even if they aren't a danger to humans. This even extends to his own family, when he reveals that he ''killed his own sister'' without hesitation after she was turned into a vampire. Even Gordon himself was not spared from this mindset, his own black-and-white views, as after he is turned into a vampire himself, vampire, he intends to commit suicide after killing Sam.because [[IAmAMonster he has become what he hates]] (but he would get killed by Sam first.)
