He's also shown in a flashback killing a vampire, identifiable by the tattoo on his hand. Tore down all the walls up here. The Winchesters rescue one of the shapeshifter children whom they dub Bobby John and kill his father, but come under attack by the Alpha Shapeshifter, the first shapeshifter and father of the entire species. As Dean helps him, Arthur comments on the irony of Dean saving his life for once. That is to say, a Jew from Poland, whose family has been in Poland for centuries, is still genetically more similar to a Moroccan Jew, a Sicilian, or a Lebanese Christian than they are an ethnically Polish person." I hope that my perspective on Judaism in Supernatural as a whole is helpful to you all. They are considered to be the first generation of demons created by Lucifer. She's searching for the Black Grimoire because it contains a ritual that will allow her to remove the magical binding placed upon her by the Grand Coven and regain her full powers. Lily is implied to have known that helping Jack would be fatal to her and helped anyway and that this selfless action changed her fate. In "The Spear," Garth, having infiltrated Michael's organization, overhears Dark Kaia's location and passes it onto the Winchesters. Rufus knocks on Bobby's door he has the police on his tail and needs Bobby's help disposing the body of an okami that he found in Billings, Montana. Nick finally learns that Abraxas was captured by Mary Winchester while he was slaughtering a Girl Scout troop and sets out to Hibbing, Minnesota to find Mary. He later tracks down and kills Magda Peterson, telling someone on the phone that he cleaned up the Winchesters mess and they were right about the Winchesters being unable to kill her. Dean eventually discovers that the true wraith is the nurse who admitted them to the mental hospital, having taken the chance to infect them at the time. Crowley, who is in a dungeon in the next room, taunts Kevin, causing Kevin to beat him with a sledgehammer. Ash, portrayed by Chad Lindberg, is a mullet-wearing computer expert, who works and lives at Harvelle's Roadhouse with Jo and Ellen Harvelle. As a Prince of Hell, Ramiel is one of the oldest and most powerful demons to ever live and a retired demonic general. In another memory, after Rufus was discharged from the hospital, Bobby enlisted the help of his late-partner to find a way out of his coma in order to warn Sam and Dean of the leviathan's plans. Benjamin "Benny" Lafitte (Ty Olsson) is a vampire who was a vampire pirate during his first lifetime until he met Andrea Kormos and fell in love with her, leaving his nest and stopping feeding on humans. Bobby tells Sam and Dean about how when Rufus helped Bobby cover up his wife's death, they started hunting together much like Sam and Dean until the case in Omaha went awry when Rufus never forgave Bobby for what happened. Rufus helps him with the ritual. She is first mentioned in a flashback in "Stuck in the Middle (With You)," when Ramiel tells Crowley that Dagon has her "toys" and is uninterested in ruling Hell. In season 11's "Red Meat," the Winchesters take on a werewolf case in a national park to take a break from their conflict with the Darkness. With Lucifer locked up again and Lilith and Azazel dead, Ramiel is next in line to be the King of Hell. Rick Stevens, the former lead singer of Tower of Power, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. The police arrive to subdue Gordon, based on an anonymous tip from Sam, and find his cache of weapons in his car. The next seal is broken." Castiel, Kelvin, and Hozai come to the hideout to kill Kelly, but when Castiel reaches the basement he is unable to kill her. Djinn are a race of monsters appearing in Supernatural. The address turns out to be a Men of Letters clubhouse in Lawrence, Kansas where John recovers a number of his father's belongings from Henry's locker and finds himself drawn into the hunting life and the Men of Letters' fight against the Akrida. Back at their hideout, Dagon handcuffs Kelly to the bed, no longer trusting her, and reveals that giving birth to a nephilim is always fatal to the mother. Jack then ambushes Chuck and drains him of all his power. Rufus stops her momentarily, but she knocks him unconscious, until Bobby burns her bones. However, Garth later shows up to rescue them, infiltrating the fight club and using C4 to blow it all up. In "Jack in the Box," Arthur is unable to attend Mary's hunter's memorial. The few surviving vampires subsequently flee. Loki tells Dean later on that he sold Gabriel to Asmodeus because he blamed Gabriel for the death of his father Odin at Lucifer's hands. As the Winchesters try to find Claire's sire, Justin attacks and abducts Claire, but the Winchesters and Mick follow him using a tracker implanted on Claire by Mick. The Darkness admits she was jealous of no longer being everything to God and asks to have her brother back. Edgar (played by Benito Martinez) is the first Leviathan introduced in the series, taking the form of a demolitions expert and working under orders from "the Leader" - which will be later revealed to be Dick Roman - sent to lead in those feeding indiscriminately and to kill Sam, Dean and Bobby when they interfered on his plans. A shapeshifter first appears in season 1's "Skin," Sam and Dean's first encounter with one over their entire hunting career. In season 13's "Unfinished Business," the Apocalypse World version of Kevin reveals that his version of Linda died in front of him during the Apocalypse. While it was initially unknown where ghosts go after they are destroyed, hunters generally believed it to be oblivion. In "Captives," the ghost of Kevin returns to ask Sam and Dean to rescue Linda who he has learned is still alive from another ghost named Candy. She hides her son and promises to stay by his side before Castiel arrives, having deduced Jack would be there. He is often characterized as laughing at a situation even if it is inappropriate, a result of when he previously possessed a fourteen-year-old girl. Missouri Moseley, portrayed by Loretta Devine, is a very talented psychic residing in Lawrence, Kansas. I was wrong. Dark Kaia admits that Kaia's death was an accident as she was aiming for Claire and displays knowledge of Kaia's interactions with the Winchesters, Dean in particular, from having seen through Kaia's eyes due to their connection. Sleep well, my Femme Fatale Goddess. Charlie is stunned that Sam lied about destroying the Book and reluctantly agrees to work on translating the Book behind Dean's back. When the hotel manager leaves and breaks the salt line, he dissipates the ghost with an iron post, unintentionally gaining the affections of Becky. Gerald offers to do it for Crowley if Crowley can't bring himself to do it, mentioning how he once killed his own mother. Dark Kaia explains that she had envied her counterpart's world and how peaceful it seemed, but found herself unable to fit in or enjoy it and instead lived in hiding. It airs on the FOX Television The Alpha is held with all the other captured monsters in Crowley's prison, but escapes before Castiel can kill him like he does the other Alphas and monsters in the prison. In "Bring 'em Back Alive," Gabriel tells Sam and Castiel that after faking his death, he was captured and sold to Asmodeus who tortured him for years and used his grace to gain powers. Though Dean suspects he is Ben's biological father, Lisa claims that this is not so. She is described as the darkness that existed before Creation. In "The Scar," Castiel tells Sam and the returned Dean that Nick took off claiming that he had personal matters to attend to and hasn't been returning Castiel's phone calls since. Dagon then intercepts Castiel at Heaven's portal, killing the angel Joshua and engaging Castiel in battle. As they are human, witches can die with the weaker witches being able to be killed through simple mortal injuries though stronger witches tend to be invulnerable to normal methods of harm. In "Various & Sundry Villains," Dipper, armed with an angel blade, acts as a guard to the captive Lucifer and Castiel. In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1", he calls Dean to tell him he has discovered something important, but by the time Dean arrives at the Roadhouse to talk, the Roadhouse has been burned to the ground, and Dean finds Ash's corpse in the rubble. With that half of the tablet, Kevin has learned the third trial: cure a demon. Unsure whether to believe Crowley or not, Kevin doesn't free him, but decides to look for himself before being stopped by Dean who tells him that even if Linda is still alive, she is as good as dead. While some shapeshifters simply cycle through different forms and never seem to settle on one particular look, others have been shown to have a preferred appearance that they use as their base form for when they are not impersonating someone. In "Time Is On My Side", Bobby received a call from Rufus saying that he had information on Bela Talbot. In a bid of desperation, they contact him, and offer to kill each other in exchange for Chuck bringing back everything else. [4] While the demon "tyrant" Azazel commands them in the first two seasons,[5] demons were the sole antagonists of the third season. During this time, its revealed that the Shadow can't come to Earth unless it is directly summoned there due to precautions put into place by Chuck. Standing over Mick's body, Doctor Hess announces that the experiment with the American hunters is a failure and they are going to kill the Winchesters now. Abraxas, portrayed by Nelson Leis in season 14, is the powerful and sadistic black-eyed demon who murdered the family of Lucifer's future vessel Nick. In 1863, the other Knights kidnapped Colette to force Cain back to his old ways. The Leviathans are portrayed as virtually indestructible, voracious, and stronger than demons and low-level angels. Kevin is driven to drive his mother's car to the mental institution where Castiel is and where Sam and Dean have taken the Word. However, the British operation is destroyed by a team of American hunters led by Sam and Jody before this can happen. Subsequently, in "Breakdown," a werewolf is shown to be part of Terrance Clegg's online auction and wins the bid for Sam Winchester's heart. Dean Winchester: You know what I think Mom would say? The writers often tried to base the demons on actual aspects of history, as was done in "Malleus Maleficarum" by having the demon Tammi turn a group of women into witches. A bastard offshoot exists as well, feeding on fear instead of desire and instead of putting people into states where they imagine their greatest desire, they are put into a nightmare where they experience their worst fear. Instead, Dean kills her by burning her in her own oven. At the same time, Sam discovers that the most recent murders were committed by Jennifer's teenage son. I am just reminiscing S1-2 maybe. As Dipper turns around, he is confronted by an escaped Castiel who mocks that "someone got mad and broke his warding." Dr. J. Gaines (played by Cameron Bancroft) is a Leviathan using the surgeon's form, although his original form was taken from a young girl named Annie. As the brothers leave the damaged house, Gordon regains consciousness and chases them, firing two pistols in their direction. As Michael hoped, the suicide bombing devastates Jack from his inability to protect the people he cares about. He later sadistically kills a dog the Winchesters found. He is also known to have worked as a torturer in Hell. A year later in "What's Up, Tiger Mommy?" After learning what she is up to, the Winchesters and Castiel decide to help her but she escapes the hospital and returns to her motel room where she finds Sam waiting for her while Dean and Castiel have gone to interrogate Ronnie. In retaliation for Asa's murder at hands other than his own, Jael began targeting the hunters at Asa's wake, magically trapping them in Asa's home and possessing Alicia Banes to kill one. Rufus presents Dean with a manila folder on Bela, which gives Dean new and interesting details from her past. Gabriel is shown to be Asmodeus' prisoner. Bobby comments that he thought that Aretha had better taste. Dean meanwhile tries to protect Russell Wellington, the man who killed Charlie's parents, but Dark Charlie tricks Dean, kills Russell, and follows Dean to Clive's house where they fight and he brutally beats her, hurting Good Charlie who is still connected to her. In Supernatural, werewolves can be created both through being bitten and through sexual reproduction. Sam and Dean rescue most of the kids and Dean deals with the monsters while Sam faces Samhain. Mick then removes the vial of blood from Justin's back and uses it to cure Claire. It is never made clear if this chosen base form is simply a preference for the shapeshifter or is in fact what they originally looked like. Who knew the vampmimes would be the end of Dean Winchester, and more importantly, the end of Sam and Dean as we knew them? Later Dean helps Ben out in an encounter with some bullies. Afterwards, having learned from Belphegor that being cast into Hell means he can never get into Heaven, Kevin requests to be released from the barrier so that he can wander the Earth as a ghost. John uses The Colt to kill the vampire leader Luther, proving the legendary gun's power while two vampires manage to escape. Jervis is ambushed by Sam and quickly subdued, but Sam chooses to restrain Jervis rather than kill him due to his new policy of focusing more on saving people. Claire is then left in the custody of her grandmother until her death, at which point she is moved between numerous foster homes and eventually placed in a juvenile center. Though Grab is killed, the Winchesters and Alice succeed in stealing the trunk and confront Luther. Doug is quickly subdued by Dean while Marlon is kneecapped by Donna who forces him to reveal where Wendy and Sam have been taken before killing him. Killing Roman, the only Leviathan leader that there has ever been, severely weakens the Leviathans, as they are now directionless. In season 13's "Patience," the Winchesters are called by psychic Missouri Moseley after a monster starts targeting psychics. Receiving a prayer from Dean that they are ready to resurrect Jack, Castiel offers to trade himself for Jack to the Shadow, pointing out that it could be waiting eons for him otherwise. Though the vampires almost succeed in killing Alex, Jody and Claire, the Winchesters come to the rescue. She fights the poltergeist haunting the house and forces both spirits to leave. The Winchesters track them down and explain that they can extract the grace from the fetus so it will be born as a normal human being. Despite appearing mainly in female vessels, Jael is specifically referred to as male by characters. The fourth Prince of Hell, Asmodeus was the weakest of Lucifer's creations and was hinted to be the youngest of the yellow-eyed demons. God revealed that he chose not to kill her in her weakened state as they both needed to be alive because light cannot exist without darkness, and killing Amara would disrupt the balance that reality is founded upon, destroying it. Sam, who Dean was unaware was still alive, explains that he was targeted by the djinn too and was saved by the Campbell family. Later, Ellen and Dean are able to help break the spell War has over them. In the Season 11 episode "Don't Call Me Shurley", Metatron is transported to a bar that he recognizes as one of God's constructs where he meets with Chuck. However, Kaia and Claire Novak arrive through the rift and rescue the Winchesters. While initially awkward for Dean and Claire, they bond over mini-golf and Claire inadvertently gives Dean a clue that they aren't dealing with a normal angel. However, Benny is reunited with Andrea who he learns was turned into a vampire instead of being killed. Gerald spurs Crowley to action against Rowena who is captured by a backup team led by Gerald after the main team is killed by the Winchesters. Grab uses a spell to turn Dean into a sort of dousing rod, using the attraction between Dean's blood and the vault to find it. Chuck then reveals that the Winchesters intend to kill Amara as well, causing her to give in and let him absorb her and her powers. He was eventually tracked down and killed by his nest mates and went to Purgatory where he spent around fifty years before Dean ended up there after killing Dick Roman. While never meeting personally, Sam and Dean recalled hearing stories about him in Ellen's roadhouse, and Asa's peer hunters were quick to share stories of him killing five wendigos in one night. In the hallucination, Benny saves Dean from a Leviathan and encourages Dean to end his own life as part of the box's magical manipulations. In 2014, while investigating similar murders in town, Sam meets Julia who tells him about what she witnessed in 1958. I'm so proud of you, Sam. In season 12, a "nest" of eight shapeshifters are mentioned to have been hunted down and killed by Mary Winchester and British Men of Letters operative Arthur Ketch. Benny promises to see Dean on the other side before dying of his injuries, Dean being killed a short time later by Sam for trying to stop him. "[2] They wanted to have a storyline with a few central characters, but with the massive battles in the background, comparable to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, the addition of angels allowed for this. Castiel helps her escape the center, but Claire steals his wallet and runs away again to rejoin with Dustin and Randy, friends of hers who were expecting her to collect money to help settle Randy's gambling debts. In Kaia's case, she is stated to be the most powerful dreamwalker her friend and mentor Derek Swan ever saw. In "Beat the Devil", Rowena attempts to open up a rift to Apocalypse World, but the spell fails because the archangel grace provided by Gabriel is insufficient. Every day you're out there, and you're livin', and you're fighting -- because you always keep fighting, you hear me? In the fight that follows, Dean finally kills Abaddon with the First Blade, avenging Henry's death. After Sam and Dean pretend to make a deal with Crowley to stop him killing people they have saved, Kevin digs up the first half of the demon tablet and reunites the two halves, giving the tablet to Sam and Dean who send him to the Men of Letters bunker for safety. Nick finally captures a demon who worked with Abraxas to kill almost an entire Girl Scout troop. Regular djinn poison can be cured using an antidote developed by the Campbell family, but the antidote does not work on the bastard offshoot's poison. During the argument, Bucky shoved Asa who fell and hit his head on a rock and died. In season 13's "The Big Empty," the Shadow is awoken when Castiel unexpectedly wakes up in the Empty. However, he is vulnerable to consecrated wrought-iron rounds when he is feeding. In tears, Lily thanks Castiel and departs, presumably off to start a new life. When Sam and Dean return they find the boat deserted. Donna notices Dean's strange behavior and realizes that something is wrong. Sam offers the Alpha Vampire a deal where he can have the British if he will leave the Winchesters alone to resume the old way of hunting. However, it is revealed in season 8's "Taxi Driver" that Reapers take the spirit to where they belong once the ghost has been forced from this plane of existence. At least one of there was even capable of summoning ghosts and other undead, and said to be able to summon monsters. As Charlie is to be executed, Dean and Arthur attack the POW camp, killing several angels and liberating the prisoners. Though the incursion is initially successful, when Asmodeus begins torturing Sam and Castiel, it causes Gabriel to snap out of his traumatized state and fight back. The demon performs a ritual that restores Josie's body to perfect condition and it is repossessed by Abaddon. While most of the werewolves, who prefer to be called lycanthropes, are harmless, a small part of the pack turns out be part of a cult worshipping the Norse god Fenrir who they believe will bring about werewolf domination of the Earth when Ragnarok comes. Some cases come about thanks to contact with people they knew before becoming hunters or contact with people they helped during previous hunts who turn to them for their expertise. When Rufus then directly challenged the thing inside Bobby, he pulled a knife and stabbed Rufus in the chest, killing him. Charlie reappears in season 14's "Optimism" where she goes on a hunt with Sam. With Candy's help, Sam and Dean track down Linda in a storage unit in Wichita, Kansas where she and Sam end up trapped together due to the demon Del who has been holding Linda captive and torturing her. To his shock, Crowley realizes that Rowena is his own mother. Neil puts a home owner named Patrick Rawling into a coma, apparently as the result of a stroke and poses as Patrick's live-in nurse. She was an aide to and lover of President Jefferson Rooney after the death of his wife. In 2017, in "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets," Lily confronts Benjamin in an arcade and engages the angel in battle. Amy was a Kitsune who grew up traveling around with her mother. Bobby argued that it must be a ghost. In season 14's "Gods and Monsters," Michael approaches a werewolf pack to get their help in forming an army of monsters to destroy humanity. Mary Winchester (ne Campbell) regularly portrayed by Samantha Smith but depicted by Amy Gumenick in the time-travel episodes "In the Beginning" and "The Song Remains the Same" while a younger version played by Meg Donnelly appeared in the prequel series The Winchesters, is the wife of John Winchester and mother of Sam and Dean. He created the Archangels to fight a terrible war against her. They eventually discovered that Magnus had designed the box so that only all of the blood of a Man of Letters could disarm the spell and open it, but by combining their blood, the Winchesters were able to safely open it. The song also lifts lyrics from Little Sally Walker, an R&B stormer by Rufus Thomas which fuses religion and rock'n'roll to incredible effect. Rufus Turner was a semi-retired hunter who helped Bobby Singer when the latter's wife was possessed by a demon. Unknown to them, the helpful bartender is the pack leader and she directs them right into a trap. Sam tracked her down after she committed a series of murders. In 2006, Hydeker resurfaced again in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. When a flagged alias that was registered by the Winchesters was used, Chet begins to hunt the Winchesters down, tracking them to their hotel room in Prosperity, Indiana. [3] Rufus dies when Bobby, possessed by the Khan worm, stabs him. Owing to the nature of the source of their powers, Borrowers are condemned to Hell as they have sold their souls for power. He finds her in a cabin - one of her 'safe houses' - and tells her he knows who she really is. The demon reveals that Abraxas was captured by Sam and Dean Winchester's mother, Mary Winchester. Eventually, Lisa lets him go in "Two and a Half Men". Rowena wonders if she can be redeemed but agrees to help the Winchesters. When Dorothy extends an offer to Charlie to come with her to Oz, Charlie jumps at the prospect of finally getting the kind of magic and adventure she wants. In "There's Something About Mary" and "Who We Are", Doctor Hess personally coordinates an operation to wipe out the American hunters. He calls Ellen, Jo, and Bobby for help. In "Mother's Little Helper," shortly before their initiation into the Men of Letters, Henry and Josie are sent to investigate possible demonic possessions at a convent. After Claire Novak was adopted by Jody, the two girls were not close until Claire saves her from vampires who returned to take revenge on Alex. Despite John's attempts at parenting, Adam never saw John as his father and viewed his mother as his only family, but still wished to have a closer relationship with his father. Frank's final fate is still unknown. Nick knocks Donna out with a stun gun and learns Mary's location from Donna's cell phone, but leaves her unconscious in the front seat of her police car rather than harming her further. After seeing Kaia's situation through Dark Kaia's mind, Jack agrees to help and gets a Reaper named Merle to help him hide his use of powers so that he can open the rift. In "Lebanon," when a time displaced John from 2003 appears in the bunker, Sam and Dean tell him the truth about what had happened to his father and that Henry would likely be really happy to see John in the bunker. He poses as Mick again later in a text message to check that they are in fact gone. Werewolves are people who can change their appearance to gain claws, fangs, fur and superhuman abilities. She was first introduced in season 9's "Alex Annie Alexis Ann". Though the Shadow has located Chuck's book in the library, only Billie can read it. She is then confronted at gunpoint by Sam, Jody Mills and another hunter named Walt. Twelve years later, Missouri returns in season 13's "Patience." She rejects Dean's plea, instead taunting him about his father's suffering in Hell. When they question what Mick thinks about it, Toni reveals that Mick is dead, much to their obvious shock and grief as the Winchesters had genuinely liked Mick. When Sam, Dean and Bobby run into Rufus, and the Campbells all hunting the cause of an upsurge in supernatural activity, tensions erupt into violence. Rowena and the demon Trish later claim that Gerald is the one who is smuggling other demons out of Hell, enraging Gerald into strangling Rowena. In an alternate timeline created by the disappearance of John Winchester in 2003, Sam mentions that he has no time for a family, suggesting that things didn't work out with Jess in that world. In the end, Dean manages to kill the shapeshifter with a silver letter opener and the Winchesters escape, but with the FBI now after them. To this end, she demands information on all of the hunters in America, their leadership and how to contact them.