Minor characters from Supernatural

The following are minor fictional characters on The CW Television Network's Supernatural.

Angels

The following characters are angels of God, making them extremely powerful beings. Merely perceiving their form typically results in blindness, as the appearance of their natural "visage" is so overwhelming that it is capable of burning a individual's eyes from their sockets, although certain "special people" are able to withstand their true appearances and voices. Angels are apparently immortal, and are invulnerable to mortal harm, though they can be maimed or killed by powerful demons. Because their true appearances can't be safely perceived by humans, they often take possession of human hosts.

While in possession of human hosts, angels have shown a wide range of powers. They possess the ability to kill or exorcise most demons simply by touching their palm to the forehead of the hosts, and can cause instant unconsciousness in humans through a similar action. In addition to being able to seemingly vanish and materialize from thin air, they can also bend time, allowing for the teleportation of themselves and others through time.

Angels can assume human form, but doing so is most serious crime of Heaven. By separating removing his or her Grace, which is a very painful process, the angel falls to Earth from space and is then born to human parents. All memories of his or her angelic life are suppressed, although small amounts can be recalled instinctively in times of need, with full recovery requiring methods such as hypnosis. When the Grace is first removed, it also falls to Earth, and being "pure creation", can result in such. In Anna Milton's case, her Grace caused the formation of a giant oak tree. If the fallen angel retrieves his or her Grace, he or she will be restored to angelic form.

Anna Milton

Anna Milton, portrayed by Julie McNiven, is a fallen angel who was reborn on Earth. She gained the ability to hear the conversations of angels after Dean's resurrection, and because of the voices, she was involuntarily committed to a mental institution with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Demons have a great interest in her because of this, so Ruby alerts Sam and Dean Winchester, whom find and rescue her. However, Castiel and Uriel appear and explain that they have to kill her. The brothers try unsuccessfully to hold them off, but Anna creates a powerful magic spell that sends the angels "far away". Anna claims to have no knowledge of how she knew how to do it. Under hypnosis administered by Pamela Barnes, Anna remembers that she is a fallen angel, having become human because her existence as an angel was dismal due to a lack of free will. She implies that when she was an angel, she was somewhat the "boss" of Castiel and Uriel. After falling, she was born to human parents, with her angelic memories suppressed. Anna attempts, with the Winchesters and Ruby, to recover her Grace so that she will be safe from both sides. Unfortunately, her Grace had already been taken by Uriel. Later, she forgives Dean for his actions in Hell, and then they share an intimate night in the Impala. In the morning, Dean reveals to the angels their location, and Ruby does the same for the demons, as they hope to pit the two groups against each other. In the confusion of the fight between the angels and the demons, Anna is able to grab back her Grace from Uriel. It flows into her body, emitting a bright light, and she vanishes from the room.

Season 4 Appearances

"I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Heaven and Hell"

Uriel

Uriel, portrayed by Robert Wisdom, is a coworker of Castiel, though is lower in the angelic hierarchy. He is termed a "specialist" by Castiel, being brought in to smite an entire town in order to prevent one of the 66 seals from being broken. He is a much more militant angel than Castiel, and they often argue about their orders. Uriel seemingly has no patience with humans, placing no great value in human lives, and describing humans with disgust as "mud monkeys". As well, he refers to Ruby as a "stain". Uriel frequently clashes with Dean and Sam, and threatens to kill them on several occasions.

He goes with Castiel to kill Anna Milton, a fallen angel whom used to be the equivalent of their boss. It is revealed that he has Anna's grace, which would restore her to her angelic form. Much to his chagrin, she manages to get it back from him, and returns to her true form before he can follow through with his mission.

Season 4 Appearances

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Heaven and Hell"

Azazel's special children

The following characters were chosen by the demon Azazel to be imbued with special demonic powers for a purpose he has never fully revealed. At times, he has said it was to create an army of soldiers, and at another time, he said he only needed one soldier. There is evidence that he has created cohorts of these children at least three separate times. Needing permission from their parents to transform them, he made demonic deals with the parents in exchange for allowing him to enter their house ten years later. Once the ten years were up, Azazel would feed his blood to the infants on the six-month anniversary of their birth, granting them supernatural abilities beginning at age 23. Those still alive years later were all brought to an abandoned town by Azazel, who ordered that they fight to the death in order to determine who would be the leader of his army.

Scott Carey

Played by Richard DeKlerk, Scott Carey appears in the Season 2 episode "Hunted." He is introduced during a session with a psychiatrist; he is explaining how he has been dreaming of a demon who has plans for him. He also speaks of his ability to electrocute anything that he makes physical contact with. He is later stabbed to death by Gordon Walker, who views him and others like him as monsters.

Andrew Gallagher

Andrew "Andy" Gallagher, portrayed by Gabriel Tigerman, was given up for adoption as a baby, and thus never learned of the existence of a fraternal twin brother, Ansem Weems. His adoptive mother died in a house fire when he was six months old, just as Sam Winchester's mother did. When he turned 23, he developed the ability to control people by suggestion, using it to attain anything that he desired. However, he used it only for minor desires, never anything sinister. He is at first only able to use this ability vocally, but later is able to do so mentally. However, his ability is useless against others of Azazel's special children.

In "Simon Said", Sam and Dean learn of Andy after Sam has a vision of a doctor receiving a phone call and then killing a man, quickly followed by suicide. They have Ash cross-reference the town with house fires in 1983, leading them to Andy. As Sam tries to stop his vision from coming true, Dean goes to confront Andy, but instead, at Andy's request, gives him the Impala. Sam and Dean later track him down, but Andy forces Dean to tell him everything. Sam tells Andy that he believes they are connected, then quickly has another vision, this time of a woman getting a phone call and then killing herself by dousing her body in gasoline and lighting herself on fire. When it turns out that the events depicted in the vision occurred while they were talking with Andy, the brothers realize that Andy is innocent. They investigate the death, and learn that the woman is Andy's biological mother and that the dead doctor was her obstetrician. This leads them to the discovery of the existence of Ansem Weems, who has been working at the same diner that Andy works at, and has been going by the name Webber. Andy's sometime girlfriend Tracy is a manager at the restaurant, and Sam has a vision of her jumping off of a dam. They try to stop Ansem from forcing her to commit suicide, and when Ansem orders Dean to kill himself, Andy shoots and kills Ansem first.

Andy later returns in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", having been summoned to Cold Oak by Azazel. By this point, his powers have grown so that he is able to project images into people's heads, and he manages to help Dean find their location. However, when Sam later has him and Ava seal themselves up in a house in the town, Ava kills him.

Season 2 Appearances

"Simon Said", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1"

Lily

Lily, portrayed by Jessica Harmon, has a very dangerous and uncontrollable ability, which she very much hates. When she comes into physical contact with another being, she triggers a heart attack. This led to the accidental death of her girlfriend. Appearing in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", Lily is summoned to Cold Oak by Azazel to battle to the death with others like herself. However, she refuses to participate and tries to leave. Ava Wilson responds by secretly summoning a demon and sending it after her. Lily is later found dead, hanging from a windmill.

Max Miller

Max Miller, portrayed by Brendan Fletcher, had a very rough childhood. Like with Sam and Dean, his mother died in a nursery fire, pinned to the ceiling, although his father tells everyone that she died in a car accident. His father blamed him for his mother's death, and, as he grew up, Max was frequently beaten by his father and uncle, turning him into a very troubled youth. He eventually gained the ability of telekinesis, and, due to much practice, has gained great control over it.

Sam and Dean encounter Max in "Nightmare" when Sam receives a psychic vision of Max's father being locked in the garage by some force, and dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. They arrive too late to save him, and it appears to the public that Max's father committed suicide. The brothers, believing that the culprit is a spirit, investigate. Sam soon receives a vision of Max's uncle dying, but once again, they are unable to prevent his death. After Sam and Dean learn of the beatings Max received, Sam has yet another vision, this time of Max telekinetically killing his step-mother with a knife because she never prevented his father and uncle from abusing him. This time, the brothers arrive in time to stop the murder. They calm Max down. Sam talks to him, realizing that they are connected after learning the truth about Max's mother. However, Max once again gets out of control and locks Sam in a closet. Sam has a vision of Max confronting Dean and his step-mother, and killing Dean when he tries to stop him. Believing that Max is like him but has develooped his abilities further, Sam manages to telekinetically break out of the closet and stop his vision from coming true. Realizing that he has been thwarted, Max takes his own life by shooting himself in the head.

Jake Talley

US Army member Jake Talley, portrayed by Aldis Hodge, is plucked by Azazel from Afghanistan and placed in Cold Oak to compete with Azazel's other special children in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1". After Ava Wilson's true intentions are revealed, he kills her with his superhuman strength to protect Sam, though he later kills Sam to save himself. As the only surviving contestant, he is then congratulated by Azazel in "Part 2". The demon orders him to take the Colt to a cemetery that is inside a gigantic devil's trap—which prevents a demon from entering—in order to open the gate to Hell hidden within. Jake refuses at first, though he reluctantly gives in when Azazel threatens to kill his family.

Jake's personality then begins to become much darker as he gives in to his demonic side. Like Ava, this allows him to access other demonic abilities, and he enjoys using them against others. When he is later confronted by Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Ellen, he uses mind control to force Ellen to put a gun to her head and threatens to kill her if the others don't drop their weapons. They do so, allowing Jake to unlock the gate. However, after he completes the mission, he is shot dead by Sam.

Ansem Weems

Ansem Weems, portrayed by Elias Toufexis, has the psychic ability of mind control. Because he has had much practice, he no longer finds it necessary to make vocal commands. It is unknown if his ability had also grown in other aspects like that of his twin brother, Andrew "Andy" Gallagher, eventually does. As with Andy, his ability is useless against others like him. Upon finding out from Azazel that he was adopted as a baby and thus separated from his brother, Ansem uses his powers to seek revenge and to reunite with Andy. He gets a job at the diner that Andy works at and then befriends him, going by the name "Webber". In the meantime, he uses his ability to have his real mother and her doctor kill themselves.

These murders trigger visions for Sam, leading Sam and Dean to the town in "Simon Said". They at first think that Andy is responsible, but eventually learn of Ansem's identity. Ansem then kidnaps Tracy, Andy's sometime girlfriend, and plans to kill her so that she cannot get between him and his brother. He orders her to jump off of a dam, but Andy and Sam interfere. When Ansem regains control of the situation, he notices Dean, who had been watching from a distance with a rifle. Dean prepares to shoot Ansem, but Ansem discovers him and orders him to kill himself. However, Andy shoots and kills Ansem first.

Ava Wilson

Ava Wilson, portrayed by Katharine Isabelle, is a young woman who starts off with a regular life, working as a secretary. She is easily worried and is sarcastic about even the most dangerous of situations. She is also engaged and looking forward to a quiet married life. However, she is plagued with nightmares and visions of bad things happening to people, and, in one of those dreams, Ava sees Sam killed. She tracks him down and informs him of her dream in "Hunted". However, Sam tells her about his own abilities and the demon Azazel. Ava sticks with Sam and helps him out until they are shot at by Gordon Walker, a hunter pursuing Sam. She follows Sam's urgings and returns home. However, when Sam and Dean later go to her house, they discover her fiancé dead with a slit throat, demonic sulfur by the windows, and Ava's bloody engagement ring on the floor by her bed.

Ava reappears in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", when she, Sam, and three other special children find themselves in the abandoned town of Cold Oak, and are told that they must fight each other. Ava is seemingly all right, but tells Sam only two days have passed since she'd last seen him, even though she has been missing for five months. Ava later disappears, and as a worried Sam and Jake go to look for her, she returns to the building in which they were all hiding. To the surprise of Andy, she breaks the barrier of salt on the windowsill and summons a demon through the window, using the demon to violently tear him apart. Ava screams and brings Sam back into the room, but he does not buy her act, forcing her to reveal her deception. She abruptly shifts from her old innocent, damsel-in-distress personality, wipes away her tears, tells Sam about her change to the dark side, telling him to accept the power he has. He realizes that she is not a recent arrival like the others, but has been in the town since her disappearance and has killed all the others like themselves who had been summoned for previous rounds of combat. Declaring herself the winner, she uses a new ability that she gained when she gave in to her demonic side, and summons the demon to kill Sam. However, Jake appears behind her and breaks her neck.

Demons

As demons, the following characters come in varying forms due to their ability to switch host bodies. They were all once human, but their souls have been corrupted after spending hundreds of years in Hell, leaving them as large, black clouds that generate electromagnetic interference. However, they are able to enter the bodies of humans, either living or dead, and gain full control. If the host is alive during the possession, he or she can resist the control, though only temporarily.

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A demon being exorcised in "Jus in Bello"

While in possession of a host, a demon is able to exhibit a range of powers. They vary depending on their place in the demonic hierarchy. The episode "Jus In Bello" displays how a majority of demons are low leveled, possessing only superhuman strength, while a few exhibit the power of telekinesis. Demons that are on the upper end of the hierarchy possess much more power and abilities. A demon's host is able to endure any fatal injuries, though will die if the demon exits the body. When using these abilities, or for conscious reasons such as intimidation, the host's eyes will change color. Most demonic hosts are portrayed with black eyes, while the color varies with higher-level demons.

Holy water is effective in combating demons. As well, they cannot cross lines of salt or iron, and are unable to enter holy places such as churches. Furthermore, saying the latin name of God, Cristo, within the demon's hearing will cause demons to flinch and reveal themselves. However, these do not all apply against some higher-level demons. For example, Azazel is immune to the effects of holy water, and the demon possessing Meg Masters is shown being able to enter a church. The most effective way to contain a demon is by using a devil's trap. When within the mystical symbol, a demon is temporarily stripped of its usual abilities and cannot leave until the symbol is disturbed. Exorcisms, which expel the demon from its host and send it to Hell, usually coincide with the use of the trap.

Alastair

Alastair, portrayed by Mark Rolston, is a torturer of souls that come into Hell; he is described by Ruby as "Picasso with a knife". When Dean was sent to Hell, he was tortured by Alastair everyday. Alastair would then offer to take Dean off the torture rack in exchange for Dean agreeing to torture new souls. Dean refused for about three months (equivalent to thirty years in Hell), but gave in for the last month.

Alastair eventually leaves Hell, and attempts to capture Anna Milton, a fallen angel who can hear the conversations of other angels. He is tricked into capturing Ruby, whom he then tortures to get her to "reveal" where Anna is. When he goes to collect her, he is stopped by Castiel and Muriel. Alastair and his demon minions face off against the angels, and he proves to be more powerful. However, Alastair vanishes in the flash generated by Anna being restored to her angelic true form.

Not much is known yet about Alastair's abilities. He is resistant to the effects of Ruby's knife, and is immune to most of the angels' powers. He also appears to have knowledge of a spell that can kill or greatly harm angels. Like Lilith, Alastair's demonic eyes are white, suggesting that he is high in the demon hierarchy.

Season 4 Appearances

"I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Heaven and Hell"

Crossroads Demons

This particular type of demon has immense power, both physical and supernatural. A master manipulator, it loves to play on people's emotions, making them feel extreme guilt and/or fear. Its main purpose is to make bargains with desperate people in exchange for their souls. In order to summon a Crossroads Demon, one must find a crossroads and dig a hole in the dead center, putting in a box with their picture, graveyard dirt, and a bone from a black cat. The demon often featured in the series prefers to possess the bodies of strikingly attractive brunette women who appeal to the men making the deals. One is also shown in the body of an adolescent teenage girl making deal with a 14-year old Bela, and a man on one occasion, when talking with Sam Winchester. Unlike most demons, it has red eyes, placing it higher in the demonic hierarchy.

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Jeannette Sousa as a Crossroads Demon in "Crossroad Blues"

First met in "Crossroad Blues", the Crossroads Demon appears to Dean when he tries to save a condemned man's life. It appears as a beautiful young woman, portrayed by Jeannette Sousa, and taunts him with remarks about his father's last moments, and how he too made a deal with a demon. Dean manages to trick the demon into walking into a Devil's Trap, and offers to trade the demon its freedom if it lets the man go. When the demon hesitates, Dean begins an exorcism ritual, causing the demon to yield and break the contract. It kisses Dean to seal the deal, and departs from the woman's body.

The demon returns again in "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2", now in possession of a woman portrayed by Ona Grauer, having been summoned by Dean to resurrect Sam. The demon refuses at first, but finally bargains Dean down to restoring Sam's life in exchange for collecting Dean's soul in one year. It also adds stipulations, telling Dean that if he tries to do anything to get out of it, the deal will be off and Sam will die instantly. It makes another appearance in "Bedtime Stories", now portrayed by Sandra McCoy. Sam calls upon it and then threatens it with the Colt, demanding that it break its deal with Dean in exchange for its life. It claims it doesn't hold the contract, being just an employee with a boss - later revealed to be Lilith - to answer to. Out of frustration, Sam shoots and kills the demon.

After Dean is killed and sent to Hell, a drunk Sam summoned another Crossroads Demon. This one inhabited a male body, portrayed by Drew Nelson, and stated that he debated showing up due to Sam's killing of "one of [his] coworkers". He rebuffed Sam's offer to trade places with Dean, and it is implied that Sam killed him using Ruby's knife.

Season 2 Appearances

"Crossroad Blues", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2"

Season 3 Appearances

"Bedtime Stories", "Time Is On My Side" (flashback)

Season 4 Appearances

"I Know What You Did Last Summer"

Lilith

Although mentioned only briefly by Ruby as Sam's main "competition", Lilith is introduced in the final moments of "Jus in Belo", appearing as a little girl, portrayed by Rachel Pattee, with her mother. After asking Nancy Fitzgerald, Agent Henriksen, and the other survivors of the whereabouts of Sam and Dean, she reveals herself to be a demon by flashing her demonic white eyes. She then proceeds to torture everyone in the station for 45 minutes, eventually destroying the station in a massive explosion. Later on, Ruby informs the Winchesters that Lilith did so as a way to send a clear, brash message that she wants them dead.

After it is revealed by Bela Talbot that Lilith holds Dean's contract, Sam and Dean track her down to New Harmony, Indiana, where she is on "shore leave". For fun, she has taken over the body of another little girl, portrayed by Sierra McCormick, and is holding the family hostage, forcing them to act as if she is their daughter. Demons have also taken over the rest of the town, stationed there to protect her. After stealing Ruby's demon-killing knife, Sam and Dean head there and manage to get into the house. However, Lilith secretly expels Ruby, who followed Sam and Dean there, and takes over her host. Dean figures out the truth too late, and Lilith holds Sam at bay as a hellhound kills Dean. Lilith then tries to kill Sam, but finds that she is powerless against him. As Sam then goes to kill her with Ruby's knife, Lilith flees from the host and escapes.

It is later revealed to Dean by the angel Castiel that Lilith is trying to release Lucifer. To break one of the 66 seals to free him, she casts a powerful spell in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester", raising the Witnesses.

According to series creator Eric Kripke, she is "a combination of all myths concerning Lilith". Noting that the mythological Lilith's two main roles appear to be "destroyer of children and seducer of men", Kripke also stated that the show will explore those two roles, with the former already being displayed in the character's choice of hosts. In addition, Kripke stated that Lilith is higher in the demonic hierarchy than Azazel, and that "you don’t get much higher than her until you start digging into Lucifer territory."

Season 3 Appearances

"Jus In Bello", "No Rest For The Wicked"

Season 4 Appearances

"Yellow Fever" (as a hallucination)

Meg Masters demon

See also: § Meg Masters

The demon possessing Meg Masters, whom is portrayed by Nicki Aycox, first appears in "Scarecrow", meeting Sam on the roadside and claiming to be heading for California to get away from her family. The two later meet again at a bus station. After Sam leaves to help Dean, Meg kills a man in a van and "makes a call" to her father by slitting the man’s throat and draining his blood into a silver bowl.

Returning in the episode "Shadow", the demon meets Sam once again - this time in a bar in Chicago. They decide to meet up later. However, Sam follows her to a warehouse where he finds her talking with something, and he later tells Dean what he saw. They arrive at the conclusion that she was the one who summoned the Daeva (the evil of that episode) and that she might have been talking with Azazel. Meg captures the brothers and reveals that they had fallen for a trap that had been set for their father. However, the brothers manage to break free and destroy Meg's altar, thereby freeing the Daevas, which throw Meg out of a seven-story window to her apparent death. To the Winchesters' surprise, she quickly recovers and uses an amulet to regain control of the Daevas, which she sends after them. However, they manage to escape the attack.

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Meg is about to kill Pastor Jim in the episode "Salvation"

She later resurfaces once again at a church, being immune to hallowed ground since she is beyond the "minor leagues", and kills Pastor Jim Murphy. She later calls John, and, While on the phone, kills a friend of his. She threatens to kill more of his friends if he does not deliver the Colt to her. John agrees to the deal, but gives her and her demonic brother, Tom, a fake gun. Tom shoots Meg and reveals that it is a fake, so they take John hostage. Both furious and anxious to obtain the Colt, she later comes to Bobby Singer's auto shop, where she confronts Dean, Sam, and Bobby. After breaking in, however, she unknowingly walks right into the center of a Key of Solomon, a magical circle which incapacitates any demons who enter. They perform an exorcism on her, and she is sent to Hell.

However, the demon manages to escape, and reappears in "Born Under a Bad Sign" sporting Sam's body. Not caring any longer about the grand war, she is looking for revenge for the world of pain and suffering she was put through after Dean and Sam sent her to Hell. After locking herself to Sam's body with a "binding mark" carved into Sam's arm, she taunts Jo about her feelings for Dean, tries to kill Bobby, and successfully kills another hunter. However, the demon is once again trapped inside of the Key of Solomon symbol at Bobby's house, and Bobby and Dean attempt another exorcism. However, having "picked up a few tricks" in Hell, she begins chanting a spell during the exorcism, showing no signs of internal pain as she suffered before. The ground shakes violently, and the Key of Solomon is broken. The demon attacks Dean, but Bobby burns off the mark. She is expelled from Sam's body, and escapes through the fireplace.

Season 1 Appearances

"Scarecrow", "Shadow", "Salvation", "Devil's Trap"

Season 2 Appearances

"Born Under a Bad Sign"

Hunters

Ash

Ash attended MIT which according to Ash is "a school in Boston", before he was kicked out for fighting. He sports a haircut which is "all business in front, party in the back". It is unknown when he met Ellen and Jo Harvelle, but he lives in the Roadhouse Saloon, which Ellen owns. He has a room in the Roadhouse with a sign on the door reading, "Dr. Badass is" with the option of "in" or "out". He owns a homemade laptop, which he uses to track the paranormal, particularly Azazel, with the information that John Winchester and his sons, Sam and Dean, have gathered. Jo refers to him as a genius. In the episode "Everybody Loves a Clown", Ash is referred to as a Lynyrd Skynyrd roadie by Dean. He is told this because he is dressed like a typical rocker, and would perfectly fit in at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", he calls Dean to tell him something, but once Dean arrives at the Roadhouse he finds someone to be wearing the same watch as Ash, burned along with the Roadhouse. In "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2", Ellen informs Sam, Dean, and Bobby that Ash died in the explosion at the Roadhouse, after urging Ellen to go check the safe in the basement for a vital piece of information which ultimately helped them find and confront Azazel.

Series creator Eric Kripke stated that Ash's apparent death "had to do with how much I hated the actual Roadhouse itself rather than anyone in it." As for the character's return, Kripke replied, "Ash is a possibility."

Season 2 Appearances

"Everybody Loves a Clown", "Simon Said", "Hunted", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1"

Joanna Beth Harvelle

Joanna Beth "Jo" Harvelle is the daughter of Ellen Harvelle and William Anthony Harvelle, a deceased hunter who was killed during a hunt with John Winchester when Jo was still a child. She appears to be around the same age as Dean and Sam. Jo treasures her father's pure iron knife engraved with his initials. Her mother eventually reveals to her that John's recklessness was responsible for the death of her father, which strains her friendship with the Winchester brothers, and a possessed Sam later claims to her that John actually killed her father by way of gunshot, "to put him out of his misery" after incurring fatal wounds. Jo was once in college, but will not return because she "was just a freak with a knife collection". She lives with her mother at the Harvelle's Roadhouse, and while working at her mother's saloon has met many hunters, many of whom have "tried to get into [her] pants with Domino's pizza, a six-pack of Budweiser, and one side of Zeppelin IV". She has a bit of a rebellious streak, wanting to go out and hunt like her father. This urge is severely discouraged by her mother.

She first meets Sam and Dean when they come looking for Ellen after their father, John Winchester, dies. Throughout the second season, Jo appears to have romantic feelings for Dean, and, though he states that he too has feelings for her, he feels it is the wrong time due to the recent death of his father. After learning the truth about her father's death, she sends the brothers away. She wants to continue hunting, but her mother refuses to allow her to as long as she is living at the Roadhouse. Jo leaves soon after the ultimatum, and sends Ellen postcards every so often. When Dean is later shot in the arm by a possessed Sam, Jo finds him and patches him up. She then attempts to follow Dean in the search for Sam, but is told by Dean that she cannot follow him. Jo gives him some pain medication and does not argue with him, choosing to stay behind. Dean tells Jo he will call her, and as he leaves, Jo quietly whispers, "No, you won't".

According to Alona Tal, "The last thing I heard was that it hadn't worked out the way that the producers had expected, because I look apparently like their 14-year-old sister. I honestly don't know what's going to happen, but if I had the chance, I would love to go back to Supernatural." Series creator Eric Kripke stated that there are currently no plans for her return.

Season 2 Appearances

"Everybody Loves a Clown", "Simon Said", "No Exit", "Born Under a Bad Sign"

Gordon Walker

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Sterling K. Brown as Gordon Walker

Gordon Walker, portrayed by Sterling K. Brown, is a vampire hunter whose methods often put him at odds with the Winchester brothers. When he was 18 years old, a vampire broke into his house and abducted his sister. Gordon ran away from home, learning how to fight, hunt, and kill vampires. He eventually found the vampire that had taken his sister and killed it. He also killed his sister, whom had been turned, marking the beginning of his hatred for the undead. At some point during his career as a hunter, Gordon met John Winchester and Ellen Harvelle.

He is introduced in the episode "Bloodlust", meeting up with Dean and Sam Winchester while hunting some particularly vicious vampires. Sam calls Ellen and asks her about him, and while Ellen says Gordon is a very good hunter, she advises Sam to stay away from him, as he is dangerous to everyone and everything around him. Gordon later tries to attack a nest of vampires, even though Sam proves they only feed on cattle. Dean ends up beating Gordon in a fight, leaving him tied to a chair while the vampires escape.

While performing an exorcism, Gordon later learned about the coming demonic war, including the involvement of Azazel's special children. In "Hunted", he kills Scott Carey, and he later tracks Sam down and tries to shoot him. However, Dean intervenes. After a scuffle, Gordon knocks Dean out, ties him up, and tells him his plans to catch Sam in his booby trap: grenades set with trip wires. Sam manages to evade the trap and knocks Gordon out. As the brothers leave the damaged house, Gordon regains consciousness and chases them, firing two pistols in their direction. The police arrive to subdue Gordon, and then find the cache of weapons in his car.

In "Bad Day at Black Rock", Gordon is shown to be in prison, where he convinces a visiting fellow hunter to go after Sam Winchester. Gordon eventually escapes from prison, and once again pursues the Winchester brothers in "Fresh Blood". However, he is captured and subsequently turned by a vampire named Dixon as an ironic form of punishment, revenge for the slaughter of Dixon's vampire family by hunters. Gordon kills two other vampires turned by Dixon, and then sets up a trap for the Winchester brothers, still convinced that it is his duty as a hunter to rid the world of Sam Winchester. A fight ensues in a warehouse where Gordon holds a girl he has kidnapped - and turned - to use as bait, ending with Sam decapitating him with a garotte improvised out of barbed wire.

According to series creator Eric Kripke, Gordon was originally going to learn about the hunter that Sam killed while possessed and use it to convince more hunters to turn against Sam. This was intended to be a story arc stretching over multiple episodes. However, Sterling K. Brown was contracted for the Lifetime Television series Army Wives, and Lifetime would only allow him to return to Supernatural for two more episodes.

Season 2 Appearances

"Bloodlust", "Hunted"

Season 3 Appearances

"Bad Day at Black Rock", "Fresh Blood"

Mary Winchester

Mary Winchester, regularly portrayed by Samantha Smith but depicted by Amy Gumenick in the time-travel episode "In the Beginning", is the wife of John Winchester and mother of Dean and Sam. Her parents, Samuel and Deanna Campbell, were hunters, and she was raised into a life of hunting. Dean, who is sent back in time by the angel Castiel, unknowingly brings Mary to Azazel's attention through his actions. Azazel kills her parents and then-boyfriend John Winchester, after which he bargains with Mary for John's life. Eventually marrying John and leaving the life of a hunter, she gives birth to Dean on January 24, 1979, and Sam on May 2, 1983. In the pilot episode, it is revealed that, six months after Sam's birth, Mary was awakened by sounds of six-month-old son Sam crying in his crib. Discovering an intruder there, she confronted him. A sleeping John was awoken by her screams, and finds Mary pinned to the ceiling with a large gash across her abdomen. She then burst into flames, igniting the rest of the house in the process. It is eventually discovered that she was murdered by Azazel, who, in fulfillment of the contract he made with Mary 10 years earlier, put several droplets of his own demon blood into Sam's mouth, and killed Mary since she went against one of the terms of the original deal by interrupting him. According to series creator Eric Kripke, her relation to Azazel was supposed to be addressed in the third season, but was pushed back to the fourth season due to the writer's strike.

In 2005, her sons return to their childhood home to investigate a recurring dream Sam experiences in the episode "Home." Mary's spirit seems to haunt the house in Lawrence, Kansas, and a poltergeist is in the house with her. After the poltergeist pins Sam to the wall, Mary appears before Sam as a fiery figure and tells him that she is sorry. Her spirit then fights with and cancels out the poltergeist, forcing both spirits out of the home.

In "The Kids are Alright", it is revealed that all of Mary's friends and acquaintances have been killed off over the years since her death.

Season 1 Appearances

"Pilot", "Home"

Season 2 Appearances

"What Is and What Should Never Be", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1"

Season 4 Appearances

"In the Beginning"

Other

Pamela Barnes

Pamela Barnes, portrayed by Traci Dinwiddie, is a friend of Bobby Singer's. A skilled psychic, she is bold and aggressive. Bobby calls upon her assistance in discovering what pulled Dean Winchester out of Hell. She holds a seance and discovers it is a being named Castiel. In attempting to get a glimpse of Castiel, her eyes are burnt out and she becomes permanently blind. However, her psychic abilities appear to enable her to perceive her surroundings. The Winchesters meet up with her later when they seek her assistance in finding out why Anna Milton is able to hear angels speak. She expresses an interest in "dicking over" angels because one caused the loss of her sight. She places Anna under hypnosis, which causes Anna to retrieve her memories of being an angel.

Season 4 Appearances

"Lazarus Rising", "Heaven and Hell"

Meg Masters

See also: § Meg Masters demon

Meg Masters, portrayed by Nicki Aycox, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, and she attended a local high school. Walking alone one night, she was taken over by a demon. After it is exorcised from her, the true Meg reveals before she dies that the demon had possessed her for a year and that she was awake through some of it, referring to it as a nightmare. She then feels all of the pain that her body went through when the demon was possessing her, including the broken bones from her seven story fall and the gunshot wound to her abdomen. Slowly dying, she reveals to Sam and Dean where their father is in a cryptic message. Her last word is "sunrise", directing the brothers to the Sunrise apartments, where their father is held captive by demons.

The ghost of the real Meg appears in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" as one of the Witnesses raised by Lilith's spell to attack the hunters who failed to save them. She reveals to Dean that she had a younger sister who killed herself after her dead body was found, and denounces Sam for working with Ruby, a demon who possesses helpless victims just like Meg herself. The ghost is enraged that the brothers didn't figure out sooner that she was a host and exorcize the demon before her body had sustained lethal damage.

Season 1 Appearances

"Scarecrow", "Shadow", "Salvation", "Devil's Trap"

Season 4 Appearances

"Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester"

Jessica Lee Moore

Jessica Lee Moore, portrayed by Adrianne Palicki, is Sam's girlfriend for two years. Despite this, she is unaware of his family's strange occupation. Sam planned to ask her to marry him, but she is killed by the demon Azazel, prompting Sam to join Dean on his quest to find their missing father and avenge her death. In the days preceding her murder, Sam had received premonitions about it, which he ignored, believing them to be random nightmares. Afterward, he feels much guilt that he did nothing to prevent her murder.

Season 1 Appearances

"Pilot", "Bloody Mary"

Season 2 Appearances

"What Is and What Should Never Be"

Missouri Moseley

Missouri Moseley, portrayed by Loretta Devine, is a psychic friend of John Winchester’s who lives in Lawrence, Kansas. It was she who told John about the supernatural world, when he came to see her after the death of his wife Mary. When Sam Winchester and Dean Winchester return to Lawrence to investigate a psychic dream of Sam’s in "Home", they go to her for help. In addition to reading minds, she is usually able to use her psychic abilities to sense the presence of a spirit, but this fails her when she looks at the brothers' old home following the attempted expulsion of a poltergeist. She is later seen talking to John, who came to watch over his sons while they were in Lawrence.

Season 1 Appearances

"Home"

Comic Appearances

Supernatural: Origins #1

The Trickster

The Trickster is a member of a race of demigods well known for their ability to cause chaos and destruction, usually in the form of morbidly and often deadly humorous pranks designed to punish the more arrogant members of society. They are immensely powerful beings, and it is said that only stakes coated in goat's blood can kill them. Names like Loki and Anansi are associated with them, but the Trickster himself goes unnamed in the series.

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Richard Speight, Jr., as the Trickster in "Tall Tales"

Portrayed by Richard Speight, Jr., he makes his first appearance in the episode "Tall Tales", where he is the source of several violent urban legends coming to life and punishing those residing there. Sam and Dean investigate and eventually figure out his identity. However, the Trickster is waiting for them, and offers them a peaceful resolution so long as they let him leave to terrorize another town. Naturally, the Winchesters refuse and attack him, along with the help of Bobby. After fighting with various familiars conjured by the Trickster, Dean manages to stab the Trickster while he is distracted, causing his creations to disappear and the fight to end.

However, the Trickster that was killed was actually a copy meant to replace him during the fight, and he later reappears in "Mystery Spot". He traps Sam in a seemingly infinite time loop, where Dean continually dies in increasingly strange ways, with Sam continually failing to save him. After a countless number of repeats, Sam eventually realizes that a trickster must be at work, and manages to locate the culprit. He threatens their tormentor with a blood covered stake, causing the Trickster to reveal himself and agree to break the loop. However, when Sam then considers killing him anyways, the Trickster restarts the loop. Dean once again dies, but this time there is no loop to revive him. Throughout the next several months, Sam becomes a far colder and more calculated person as he attempts to track down the Trickster, killing whatever threat he can along the way. Eventually, it is the Trickster who calls the younger Winchester to him, where he tries to drive in a point: that the two brothers continually sacrificing themselves for one another would bring no good, and when people die, they just have to learn to accept it and live with it. Nonetheless, Sam pleads with him to turn back time so that he can save Dean. Reluctantly, the Trickster agrees, lamenting that the whole situation had become boring months ago for him anyway.

Season 2 Appearances

"Tall Tales"

Season 3 Appearances

"Mystery Spot"