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Aliases Hector Aframian Ted Nugent Samuel Cole Agent Ford Jerry Wanek Dr. James Hetfield Nigel Tufnel John Bonham Father Simmons Officer Gregory Washington Kris Warren Alan Stanwick Deputy Marshal Billy Gibbons Dean J. Mahogoff Detective Landis Christopher Johnson, Jr. Dan Hermansen D. Hasselhoff Agent Plant Sigfried Houdini |
Gender Male Age 28 Date of birth January 24, 1979 Occupation Hunter Con Artist |
Family Sam Winchester (brother) John Winchester (father) (deceased) Mary Winchester (mother) (deceased) |
Portrayed by Jensen Ackles Created by Eric Kripke |
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Dean drives a black four-door 1967 Chevrolet Impala (given to him by his father) and is a fan of classic rock music. He always wears a brass amulet[1] on a long black cloth band necklace. In the episode "A Very Supernatural Christmas", the necklace is revealed to be a gift from Sam on Christmas Day, 1991. The amulet was originally meant for John, but after their father yet again failed to come home for Christmas, Sam gave it to Dean instead, saying "Dad lied to me, I want you to have it." In addition to the amulet, Dean always wears a silver ring. From an early age, Dean was trained by his father to hunt down and kill supernatural beings, but unlike his brother, he shows no resentment toward his father for being "raised like a warrior", feeling that after his mother's violent death, his father raised him and his younger brother the only way he knew how. He seems to prefer "the hunt" to the possibility of a normal life. Due to his father's training, Dean has several notable advantages for a human: he is an exceptional shot, has knowledge beyond the norm regarding the supernatural, is a skilled fighter, and appears to have some proficiency with melee weapons. Dean also seems emotionally hardened, trying not to show too much care for anything when in fact he is emotionally vulnerable in many ways. He is often inclined to shut down when approached emotionally, giving the impression of not caring even when the opposite tends to be true. Dean is also the only one allowed to call his brother "Sammy." When giving false names, he frequently gives the names of rock musicians. |
Dean also appears to be a fan of Jack Nicholson, and possibly watches Oprah. He tends to make light of some of his and Sam's adventures, and is known to use crude humor and make sexual innuendos. Dean is terrified of flying, and claims that it is the reason why he drives everywhere. He values his family's safety over anything else, even going so far as to kill a demon and its human host in order to save Sam's life, as well as sell his own soul to save Sam's life. Season 1 When Dean was four years-old, his mother was killed in his younger brother Sam's nursery. Twenty-two years later, Azazel, the demon responsible for their mother's death, kills Sam's girlfriend, Jessica Moore. Together, Dean and Sam go on a road trip to fend off supernatural creatures and search for their father, who occasionally leaves new missions for them to complete. Early in the season ("Skin"), Dean and Sam battle a shapeshifter responsible for a string of brutal murders in the St. Louis, Missouri area. During the course of the episode, the shapeshifter assumes Dean's form, causing police to believe that Dean is responsible for the murders. However, Dean kills the shapeshifter while it is still in his form, and the authorities officially declare him dead. In the last episode of the season, Azazel possessed Dean and Sam's father in an attempt to get The Colt for his own. After Dean realizes this, Azazel pins him and Sam to a wall and reveals that John favors Sam over Dean. Azazel also tells Dean that he was responsible for sending his children back to Hell. After Dean makes a sarcastic remark about the situation, the demon tortures him, and Dean pleads for his father's help before losing consciousness. Sam manages to get free and shoots Azazel/John in the leg, releasing the demon from John's body. |
Dean was born on January
24, 1979 to John and Mary Winchester. He was the couple's first-born
child and oldest son, four years older than his younger brother,
Sam.The season
finale concluded with Sam, Dean, and John escaping from their
clash
with Azazel. While Sam was driving an injured Dean and John to
a hospital, a
demonically possessed driver drove his truck into the Impala,
causing massive
damage to the car and the Winchesters inside.
Season 2
All three of
the Winchesters survive the wreck, although Dean is more severely
injured than his father or brother. In the season premiere, "In
My Time of Dying",
Dean is in a coma, and a reaper, Tessa, tries to convince him
to die. In order to s
ave him, John makes a deal with Azazel, trading his life for
Dean's. Before he dies,
John whispers something in Dean's ear which the audience cannot
hear.
Throughout
the first half of the second season, Dean struggles with the
death of his
father, as well as with the knowledge that he was the one who
was supposed to have
died. Furthermore, he is haunted by his father's last words to
him. At the midpoint of
the season, it is revealed that John told Dean that Azazel intends
to turn Sam evil,
and if Dean can not save Sam, Dean must kill his brother.
During an investigation
in Baltimore, Maryland in "The Usual Suspects", Dean
is
arrested in connection with another series of murders. It is
revealed that Dean has
a rather impressive police record, with charges over the years
including credit card
fraud, breaking and entering, and grave desecration. Although
Sam and Dean are
able to prove that the murders were actually committed by one
of the detectives on
the case, it is unclear whether or not the charges against Dean
were ever officially
dropped. However, the problem still remains that the authorities
have realized that
Dean is not dead, as they had previously believed. In "Nightshifter",
a team of FBI
agents, led by Special Agent Victor Hendrickson, catches up with
Dean and Sam in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where attempted bank robbery and several
more murders are
added to Dean's list of supposed crimes.
At the end
of "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", just as Dean arrives
to rescue his
younger brother, Sam is stabbed and collapses into Dean's arms.
Amidst his brother's
pleas to stay with him, Sam dies, leaving Dean alone as the last
living Winchester. Dean,
believing he failed Sam, is too upset to deal with the crushing
blow delivered when Sam
died, and in a last ditch effort, travels to a crossroads to
make a deal with the Crossroads
Demon for Sam's life in exchange for his soul. In the end, Dean
is allowed one year to
live and Sam is then resurrected. At first, Bobby Singer is the
only one to know of what
Dean did, because Sam can't remember anything past when Jake
stabbed him, and
Dean makes up a lie about Bobby patching him up. Bobby yells
at Dean for what he
did, and Dean pleads with him not to tell Sam what he did, as
he knows it will destroy
Sam knowing Dean sold his soul.
However, Azazel
questions Dean if he is sure what he brought back in Sam is "pure"
after Sam unhesitatingly kills Jake without any sign of remorse.
Sam figures out what
Dean did by the end, and Dean tells him not to be mad, that he
couldn't let Sam die,
not like that. Sam vows to get him out of this, no matter what.
At the end of the second
season, Dean kills Azazel with the Colt, freeing his father's
soul, but during the battle,
hundreds of other demons escaped their prison and now Dean and
Sam must kill all of
them, as well as find a way to save Dean from dying in a year's
time.
Season 3
In the third
season premiere "The Magnificent Seven", Dean makes
the best of his
last year, not worrying about his safety, while Sam tries desperately
to find a loophole
in the Crossroad Demon's deal. While investigating a case with
a family who apparently
dehydrated in minutes, Dean, Sam, and Bobby team up with a pair
of hunters, Tamara
and Isaac. They soon realize they are fighting the "Seven
Deadly Sins" when Isaac is
killed by Gluttony, leaving the Winchesters, Bobby, and Tamara
to fight the centuries-old
demons. When one of the demons, Wrath, takes over Isaac's corpse
and tortures
Tamara with old memories, we learn that the couple had begun
hunting when their
daughter was killed by something supernatural. Tamara, unable
to listen any more,
rushes out the door, wiping away the salt. As Tamara beats the
possessed Isaac, the
waiting demons rush in to begin battle with the brothers and
Bobby.
Bobby is able
to exorcise Sloth while he is stuck in a devil's trap. Dean,
who is fighting
with Lust, manages to submerge her in a tub of holy water. Sam,
on the other hand,
must deal with Pride, Envy, and Greed. When it seems Sam is outnumbered,
he receives
help from a mysterious blonde woman who kills the three demons
with a mysterious
dagger. Dean, Sam, and Bobby salt and burn the remaining dead
demons (Sloth and
Lust were exorcised) and say their goodbyes to Tamara. Bobby
returns to his car and
leaves as well, leaving the Winchesters alone. When Sam tells
Dean about an idea
Ellen gave him about the deal with the Crossroad Demon, Dean
refuses and finally tells
Sam there is no way out of the deal, that if they try to get
out of it, Sam drops dead.
Sam asks how he could have made that deal and Dean tells him
that he couldn't live
with his brother dead, that he was tired of hunting and that
this felt like a way out. Sam
tells him he's selfish, to which Dean agrees happily, and that
he is "unbelievable" which
Dean states is "very true." The episode ends with the
Winchester brothers driving off in
the Impala.
In "The
Kids Are Alright", Dean meets up with Lisa, an old "acquaintance"
from almost
eight years prior, and finds out she has an eight year-old son,
Ben, who seems to
possess many of Dean's characteristics, from his love of classic
rock to his speech and
love of the ladies. While Dean is questioning whether this is
his son or not, Sam meets
the mysterious blonde, Ruby, again who gives him the hint to
search for the people his
mother used to know. The brother's figure out the kids are Changlings
and defeat the "mother-of-all-changlings." Dean is
put at ease by Lisa when she assures Dean that
Ben isn't his son, while Sam finds out Ruby is a demon.
Equipment
The Impala Dean's
trademark black 1967 Chevrolet Impala bears a Sedgwick
County, Kansas (even though they are from Lawrence, Kansas) license
plate
KAZ 2Y5, a reference to Kansas, the Winchesters' home state,
and 2005, the year
the show premiered, was passed down to him by his father. It
has been prominently
featured on the series, beginning with the teaser of the pilot
which shows John holding
his two sons as he sits on the car and watches his house burn.
The car is
Dean's most prized possession, and he protects it with nearly
the same
ferocity with which he protects his family. In the pilot episode,
the trunk is revealed to
hold various weaponry to fight the supernatural. Though it is
damaged at the end of
the pilot episode, it is repaired and the car is featured throughout
the first season
until a tragic crash at the end of the season finale. The car
is in repairs at the
beginning of the second season, though Dean beats the trunk of
the car with a tire
iron in grief at the end of "Everybody Loves a Clown."
It appears for the first time fully
repaired in "Bloodlust" in an extended sequence to
the soundtrack of AC/DC's "Back
in Black." Mind-controlled, Dean cheerfully gives the car
to Andy Gallagher in "Simon
Said," but the brothers soon recover it.
Due to the
Winchesters' constant battle with avoiding the authorities toward
the end
of the second season, the plates on the Impala changed. The famous
KAZ 2Y5 was
taken off and replaced with Ohio plates: CNK 80Q3.
In the Supernatural:
Origins prequel comics, John drives Dean and Sam around in a
station wagon until the second issue. The Impala is owned by
Mary's uncle Jacob,
whom John takes along on his first hunt, where Jacob is mortally
wounded by a Black
Shuck hellhound. An unknown hunter helps John dispose of the
body by putting it in
the station wagon and rolling it off a cliff into a river, and
John then takes the Impala
as his own car. However, this is in contradiction to the Impala
appearing at the
beginning of the pilot episode, but it's more than likely just
a mistake by the writers.
Weaponry
Dean tends
to use a chromed Colt 1911 with pearl grips, which John is seen
using in
a flashback. He also uses a sawed-off double barrel shotgun when
he needs extra
firepower. Dean has also been seen with a sniper rifle in "Simon
Said." He is shown
to possess a large Machete in " Fresh Blood."
Notable
episodes about Dean
* "Wendigo"
* "Dead in the Water"
* "Phantom Traveler"
* "Skin"
* "Faith"
* "Route 666"
* "The Benders"
* "Something Wicked"
* "Devil's Trap"
* "In My Time Of Dying"
* "Everybody Loves A Clown"
* "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
* "The Usual Suspects"
* "Crossroad Blues"
* "Croatoan"
* "Nightshifter"
* "What Is and What Should Never Be"
* "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2"
* "The Kids Are Alright"
* "A Very Supernatural Christmas"