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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 11, Episode 15''':
7	! Beyond The Mat
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9	Writer: John Bring and Andrew Dabb
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11	Directed by Jerry Wanek
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13	After attending a wrestling show in honor of a recently deceased wrestler, Sam and Dean find themselves with a case when more dead bodies begin popping up.
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15	!!Body Count:
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17	For this episode: 4 humans and 4 demons.
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19	For the series so far = At least 1258 humans (of which 15 were witches), 1124 angels, 186 demons, 71 vampires, 52 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 22 gods, 19 zombies, 12 werewolves, 10 hellhounds, 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 Titan, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, 1 wicked witch, and 1 wraith.
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21	!!Tropes
22	* CrushBlush: Sam is excited to meet Rio, the attractive, female wrestling manager. He stammers through a confession that Rio was his first childhood crush.
23	* DealWithTheDevil: Gunner Lawless sold his soul for a shot at the title. The fact that he only had it for a week is par for the course for this trope.
24	* DentedIron: It's obvious many of the wrestlers are dealing with the effects of accumulated injuries...and one of the ways they deal is with alcohol.
25	* TheDogBitesBack: As Lucifer previously mentioned, Crowley is still defiant and simply biding his time until an opportunity presents itself to strike back at Lucifer who has literally been treating the former King of Hell like a disobedient puppy. Sure enough, at the first viable opportunity, Crowley attempts to kill Lucifer. It was unsuccessful, but Crowley still escapes, presumably to head for the Winchesters, which will likely spell Lucifer's eventual doom.
26	* MeaningfulEcho:
27	** Simmons uses Crowley's catchphrase to knock him out of his VillainousBSOD
28	-->'''Simmons''': You're Crowley. The devil should be afraid of you."
29	** This echoes Crowley, himself, from [[Recap/SupernaturalS09E11FirstBorn "First Born"]].
30	-->'''Crowley''': You're good, but I'm Crowley.
31	** Echoed later by Crowley himself.
32	--> '''Simmons''': How did you...?
33	--> '''Crowley''': I'm Crowley
34	** And Crowley gets one on ''Lucifer'', after he mocks Crowley for believing he could double-cross the one who literally invented double-crossing. Crowley can and does it.
35	--> '''Crowley''': You thought you could double-cross me? ''Me''? I ''perfected'' double-crossing. And I mean literally.
36	* MistakenForJunkie: Shawn Harley thinks he sees Gunner in a meeting with his dealer, instead of the crossroads demon who owns his soul.
37	* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Dean expresses surprise that the wrestlers would come to town and fight for little money and no glory. Sam points out that that is literally what they do all the time.
38	* OhCrap: Crowley when he realizes that the power of the rod of Aaron was only good for one use and he accidentally wasted it icing a minor demon rather than taking out Lucifer.
39	** Although, in Crowley's defense, he was '''trying''' to kill Lucifer, but the demon jumped in the way.
40	*** At least he gets to show the other demons that there are consequences for traitors.
41	* SpecialGuest / RealPersonCameo: Rather fitting for an episode centred around an independent wrestling promotion, Shawn Harley is played by Mike Mizanin, better known as WWE superstar ''The Miz''[[note]]Even more fittingly, the filming for this episode (due to its original airdate of Feburary 2016) would have coincided with the early phases of his "movie star" gimmick; just after he ditched Damien Sandow but a few months ''before'' he had his wife Maryse as his manager.[[/note]]
42	* ScarSurvey: Dean and Gunner Lawless compare scars in a bar.
43	* ShoutOut: Lucifer gives his demon minions the "Always Be Closing" speech from ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss'' and the "every farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse" speech from ''Film/TheFugitive''.
44	* ShutUpHannibal: A demon has Sam and Dean pinned to a wall. After expressing his disdain that catching the Winchesters proved so easy, he attempts to launch into a villainous monologue.
45	--->'''Demon''': The name's...
46	--->'''Sam''': We don't care.
47	--->'''Demon''': ...Ok. Small talk over.
48	* WrongGenreSavvy: Lucifer. He is correct in seeing that Crowley's still defiant and is hiding something that could be useful to him. So he plans to stage his escape, so that Crowley himself would lead him to what he's hiding. When it seems to have worked, he mocks Crowley for his arrogance. He forgot two things Crowley's [[GenreSavvy genre-savvyness]], that lead him through many double-crossing, and the fact that pride is notoriously ''Lucifer's'' FatalFlaw. That leads the whole plan to spectacularly backfire on him.

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