Dean Winchester is a
fictional character of
The CW Television Network's
Supernatural,
portrayed by
Jensen Ackles. He hunts
demons,
spirits and
other supernatural creatures with his brother,
Sam.
Background
Dean was born on January 24, 1979 to
John and
Mary Winchester. He is the couple's older
child, and has one sibling from the couple,
Sam, who is four years younger and was born
on May 2, 1983. In the fourth season, Dean discovers that he has
another brother, Adam, John's son with another woman. Dean was
named after his
maternal
grandmother Deanna Campbell (and possibly himself, as seen in
episode "
In the
Beginning"), while his brother was named after his
maternal grandfather, Samuel
Campbell.
Dean drives a black four-door 1967
Chevy
Impala (given to him by his father), and is a fan of classic
rock music and
heavy metal. He says his favorite song is
a tie between
Led Zeppelin's
Ramble On and
Traveling Riverside Blues. He
always wears a metal
amulet, given to him as
a gift by his brother, on a long black cloth band necklace. In "A
Very Supernatural Christmas," the necklace is revealed to have been
a gift from Sam on
Christmas Day,
1991. The amulet was originally meant for John, and obtained from
Bobby Singer, but after their father
failed to come home for Christmas (as always), Sam gave it to Dean
instead, saying "Dad lied to me; I want you to have it," and
because Dean had tried to give him a good Christmas. Recently it
was revealed that the amulet works as sort of an EMF detector for
the presence of God, as Castiel borrowed it from Dean to track God
on Earth. In addition to the amulet, Dean always wears a silver
ring on his right ring finger. Dean sports a MTM-Special Ops Watch
(The Black Patriot Model) and wears it in the fourth season with a
Velcro band. He also has a small black tattoo
on the upper left side of his chest; it is a protective plated
pentagram with rays of the
sun surrounding it. The symbol is said to ward off
demonic possession.
Dean 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. Despite his working knowledge of the
afterlife, he is skeptical towards
religion.
Dean values his family and their safety more than anything else,
even going so far as to kill the human host of a demon in order to
save Sam's life, as well as selling his own
soul to save Sam's life.
Season 1
As the season begins, Dean, at the age of 26, is a hunter; he hunts
and kills supernatural monsters. Usually he is with his father
John, but sometimes
goes by himself. When his father goes missing, Dean asks for his
brother Sam's help to find him. They go in search of their father,
saving people from the supernatural along the way, but at the end
of episode one, Sam's girlfriend, Jessica Lee Moore dies the same
way as their mother did.
In the episode ("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, and pin the murders on him.
John finally contacts the boys, revealing that he has been away
from them because he is tracking the demon that killed their
mother, and for the first time has some really good leads. His
affection for his sons could be used against him, so he wants them
away from him. However, the family unites as they come into
possession of a special Colt revolver, which John says can kill
anything, including demons. The
season
finale concludes with Sam, Dean, and John escaping from their
clash with
Azazel, the
yellow-eyed demon. While Sam is driving an injured Dean and John to
a hospital, a demonically-possessed driver drives his Semi 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. A
reaper, Tessa, tries to convince him to move on
and accept his death as it is his time to die and warns him that if
he refuses, he will most likely become one of the vengeful spirits
he and his family have so often fought. In order to save him, John
makes a deal with
Azazel,
trading his life for Dean's. When Dean wakes from his coma,
virtually injury-free, he has no memory of his time with the
reaper; he does, however, comment later that, when he woke up, it
felt wrong. John whispers something in Dean's ear which the
audience cannot hear, then walks into another room and dies.
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, and the belief that his
father is now in
Hell. 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 cannot 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 are
ever officially dropped. However, since the authorities now know
that Dean is not dead, as they had previously believed, he is again
wanted for the murders committed by the shapeshifter.
In "Nightshifter", a team of
FBI
agents, led by Special Agent Victor Henrickson,
catches up with Dean and Sam in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
, where an attempted bank robbery and several more
murders are added to Dean's list of supposed crimes, thanks to
another shapeshifter.
At the end of "
All Hell
Breaks Loose, Part 1", Sam is stabbed by Jake, another of
Azazel's 'psychic children, and dies in Dean's arms. Crushed by
Sam's death, Dean summons a
Crossroads
demon and trades his soul for Sam's life, the bill to come due
in one year. Dean wants to keep the knowledge of his deal from Sam,
but Sam quickly figures it out and vows to get Dean out of the
deal, no matter what. As the second season ends, Dean kills Azazel
with the Colt, but not before Azazel has a Hell's gate opened,
allowing hundreds of demons to escape from Hell as well as a number
of non-demonic souls, including that of their father, with whom
they share an emotional moment before he disappears in a glow of
light. Dean and Sam must now hunt down all of the escaped demons,
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 decides
to make the best of his final year, indulging in many pleasures and
refusing to even think about saving himself, while Sam tries
desperately to find a loophole in the
Crossroads demon's deal. While searching
for escaped demons to send back to
Hell, Sam
encounters
Ruby, a mysterious
blonde who assists him but who also informs him that, for some
reason, demons are killing
all of his mother's old
acquaintances. Sam learns that Ruby is a
demon, and she promises him help in freeing Dean from
his contract. She "fixes" the Colt so that it can again kill
"anything," and also shows them a knife in her possession that can
kill anything. Later, they learn from her that all demons used to
be human, but had their humanity burned away slowly in the fires of
Hell. Dean begins to train Sam to fight demons alone once he is
gone.
During the course of the season, the brothers meet up with another
beautiful woman,
Bela Talbot, numerous
times. Bela acquires magical objects and sells them for a large
profit, and is unscrupulous and seemingly
amoral. In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", Bobby
falls into a coma, and Sam and Dean investigate the murder of a
scientist. In the course of viewing Dean's dreams, it becomes clear
that Dean believes that Sam was their father's favorite, but only
thought of Dean as a tool. Dean encounters a future, demonic
version of himself in a nightmare, which shocks him into starting
to fight for his life and to realize he is not worthless. After
waking up, Dean admits to Sam that he doesn't want to die.
Meanwhile, Bela steals the Colt, meaning they won't have it to
fight with when the
Hellhounds come for
Dean.
In "Mystery Spot", Sam is forced to relive the same day, a Tuesday,
repeatedly. On each new day, Dean dies a different way despite
Sam's frantic efforts to save him. Sam realizes that the culprit is
the Trickster, a villain from Season 2. It finally becomes
Wednesday, but this time, Dean dies and doesn't come back. Sam
spends months trying to hunt down the Trickster, who reveals that
he's been trying to get Sam to understand that he and Dean can't
keep making sacrifices for each other, and that Dean is going to
die no matter what Sam does. The Trickster then sends Sam back to
Wednesday, despite Sam failing to learn the Trickster's lesson. He
is warned by Ruby that he might not make it back from hell.
In "Jus In Bello", the FBI and Agent Henrickson capture Sam and
Dean, thanks to a tip from Bela. While Sam and Dean are in jail, a
host of demons come to kill them. Ruby comes to help them, but is
furious to learn they have lost the Colt. She says that she knows
of a spell that will destroy all the demons nearby, including
herself, and that she is willing to die in order to help Sam.
However, they will need the
heart of a
virgin. Sam and the virgin, Nancy, agree to
the plan, but Dean refuses to let her die. Dean's plan to exorcise
the demons works, but one demon manages to escape and tells
Lilith who—taking the form of
a little girl—blows the police station up, killing everyone inside.
Lilith, it turns out, wants to kill Sam, as she sees him as a
rival. According to Azazel's plan, Sam was supposed to lead the
demon army, and Ruby was ready to follow Sam. Now, Lilith has
become their main enemy.
Dean continues to search for a means to save himself from his fate,
but ultimately is told by Ruby that there is no way to get him out
of his deal. Shortly before Dean's contract comes due, he learns
from Bela that Lilith, the demon pursuing Sam, holds his contract;
Bela had also made a deal with a demon, and she has been taken to
Hell. As the brothers search for Lilith with Bobby's help, Dean
begins suffering nightmares and hallucinations of his hellish fate.
When
Lilith is located, the three head to New Harmony,
Indiana
, and Dean discovers that he now has the ability to
see the faces of demons underneath their human hosts.
As Dean and Sam confront Lilith and her demon forces in a
last-ditch effort to protect Sam and save Dean's soul, Ruby appears
and the three are chased into a room by a hellhound that has come
for Dean. Dean quickly recognizes that Ruby's human host is now
possessed by Lilith, not Ruby, but it's too late. She puts the
hellhound on Dean, killing him, before trying to kill Sam, only to
discover that her demonic power has no effect on Sam. Lilith flees,
leaving Sam alone with Dean's mutilated corpse. In the last scene
of the season, Dean is shown in Hell, suspended in a void by
seemingly endless chains and hooks through his flesh, crying out in
agony for Sam's help and yelling Sam's name.
Season 4
The fourth season premiere, "Lazarus Rising", begins four months
after the third season finale. Dean awakes to find himself in a
coffin. He manages to dig himself out and breaks into a nearby gas
station where he gets some water, food and cash. Before leaving the
store, Dean sees the television and radio flicker on, with static,
and a powerful whine that shatters all of the glass and hurts
Dean's ears. Dean calls Sam, but finds his number disconnected. He
calls Bobby, who hangs up on him, so he
hot-wires a parked car and goes to Bobby's house. A
fight ensues until Dean is able to prove it is really him. Dean and
Bobby track down Sam in a town right near where Dean was
buried—he's in a hotel with a girl, but he claims he did nothing to
bring Dean back; he's in town because he is searching for a demon.
The girl acts puzzled by all of this and leaves, while Dean tells
Sam he remembers nothing from
Hell. The
Winchesters track down whatever force ripped Dean from Hell. By the
end of the episode, it is revealed that an
angel named
Castiel pulled Dean from Hell on
God's command; Castiel tells Dean that God has
work for him. The girl in Sam's room, it turns out, is Ruby, in a
new body, and Sam had lied to Dean when he told him that he didn't
know where Ruby was and that he wasn't using his demonic powers.
Dean, in turn, was lying to Sam about Hell; in the episode "Wishful
Thinking," Dean confesses that he does remember every second of
Hell.
In the course of fighting off ghosts, Dean is told by Castiel of
Lilith's plan to break the 66 seals and free
Lucifer.
Later, in
"In the Beginning," Dean is transported back
in time to Lawrence,
Kansas
in 1973. There, he meets his father and
mother, as well as his grandparents, and learns of a connection
between
Azazel and
Mary. A
causal
loop is revealed in that the time-traveling Dean, by trying to
stop Azazel in the past and change his future, actually made the
demon aware of his family in the first place, setting in motion the
events leading to the death of his parents, the corruption of his
brother, and the life he tried to change, therefore setting up a
predestination paradox.
(However, it is implied by Castiel that the events would have
happened anyway without him being there as they were already
destined.) Upon returning to the present, Dean is informed by
Castiel that Sam is "going down a very dark road," and that if Dean
doesn't stop him, the angels will.
Dean follows Castiel's directions and encounters Sam using his
powers to
exorcise a demon, also learning
of Ruby's return. He conveys the warning of the angels.
After he
and Sam stop a rugaru in Missouri
, Sam decides
to stop using his powers, which seems to satisfy Dean.
In "Heaven and Hell," Dean reveals to Sam what happened to him in
Hell: time flows differently there, so four months on
Earth was forty years in Hell. During that time, he
was put on the rack and "cut, carved, and torn" apart until there
was nothing left of him, only to be made whole again just so the
demons could start over on him. Dean reveals that, at the end of
every day, the demon Alastair would offer to take him off the rack
if Dean would put souls on it and torture them. Dean resisted for
thirty years, then gave in and spent ten years torturing people in
Hell to escape being tortured himself.
In "Family Remains", Dean confesses to Sam that he enjoyed
torturing souls, as he finally had the chance to dish out the same
pain that he'd endured for the past thirty years.
Later on in the season, an episode aired with flashbacks of a
teenage Dean and a pre-teen Sam while they are going to a high
school. In this episode, we learned that Dean was as promiscuous as
ever when he was younger. The girl he was then dating told him that
he acted cool when, in reality, he was a little boy who played with
people's feelings to make himself feel better. Dean, clearly stung,
from then on hated the school.
In "Death Takes a Holiday", Dean meets up again with the reaper
Tessa. She wakens his memories of their previous encounter with a
kiss. Dean confesses that there has been a "hole" in him since that
time, and realizes that it is related to her. Soon after she is
taken by Alaster in his quest to break another seal, that involved
killing reapers. The boys ask Pamela Barns to help them spirit walk
and leave their bodies so that they may find the kidnapped reapers.
Once they have, they are captured, but Sam is able to break them
out and Tessa is able to continue on reaping souls. However before
Dean is able to return to his body, Alastair corners him, but he is
captured by the angels and Castiel informs Dean that they have won
this seal. As he awakes in his body, Pamela is dying from her
injuries she obtained during a fight with a demon, while the boys
were "out".
In the next episode "On the Head of a Pin", Dean is pressed into
service by the angels, who need him to torture Alastair for
information on who is killing angels, since Dean was his "student"
in Hell. Dean refuses at first but eventually agrees. However, he
only succeeds in getting Alastair to reveal that Dean was the first
seal to break, by virtue of giving in and torturing souls in Hell.
("The first seal shall be broken when a righteous man sheds blood
in Hell. As he breaks, so shall it break.") The distraction is
enough for Alastair to free himself, the Devil's Trap set up by
Castiel having been eroded by a leaking pipe. Alastair nearly kills
Dean and then comes close to sending Castiel back to Heaven, but
Sam, having grown stronger, arrives, and uses his powers to torture
Alastair in to revealing he did not know who was killing the
angels. Sam killed him shortly after. As Dean recovers in the
hospital, Castiel informs him about Uriel's betrayal. Uriel had
been killing angels who did not join his cause: to free the angels'
"brother" Lucifer from hell, which would start the end of days and
destroy humanity whom they despise for being forced to "bow down"
to and they believe is the reason God no longer seems to be
concerned with them. He also confirms Alastair's claim that Dean
was the first seal, but adds that because of this Dean is the only
man capable of averting the Apocalypse. However, Dean does not
believe he is up to such a task, telling Castiel to find someone
else as tears run down his face.
To put Dean back on the right path, Zachariah, Castiel's superior,
rewrites Dean and Sam's memories to remove their knowledge of
supernatural creatures, making them believe they're average people
working regular jobs. He then drops them in a haunted building. The
brothers proceed to defeat the ghost. Dean's boss, Zachariah
restores Dean's memories to show him that hunting is in his blood,
not simply something he was brought into by his father, and that he
has an opportunity to affect the world in ways most humans will
never be able to. This renews Dean's resolve.
In the episode "The Monster At The End of This Book", it is
revealed that Dean is aware that Sam used his demonic powers to
kill Alastair, but both Castiel and Dean don't know how Sam is
getting stronger.
In the episode "The Rapture," Dean witnesses as Sam drinks the
blood of a demon he is about to kill. Later in the Impala, Sam is
waiting for Dean's rebuke. Sam tells him to get it over and yell at
him for drinking demon blood, before Sam gets a request from Bobby
to head to his house. Once there, Dean and Bobby trick Sam and lock
him in the demon-proof panic room for his own safety as he
de-toxes.
While Sam is going through painful withdraw symptoms from the demon
blood, Dean asks Castiel for help. He takes an oath to serve God
and the angels if it would mean that Sam wouldn't have to kill
Lilith, to which Castiel says "if that gives you comfort". Sam
escapes the panic room after Castiel releases him, and Dean tracks
him down to a hotel, despite Sam's efforts to shake him. They argue
whether or not Ruby is corrupting him, if he is supposed to stop
the apocalypse, and if Sam is turning into a monster. The argument
leads to a fight that Sam wins. Dean yells at Sam by saying, "If
you walk out that door, don't you ever come back," after which Sam
leaves the room.
The angels take Dean to a "safe" room and Zachariah explains that
they are preparing for the apocalypse and will allow the final seal
to be broken. They want Sam to kill Lilith and her death will break
the seal holding Lucifer, after which Dean will kill Lucifer and
bring a paradise. Dean is shocked and horrified that they would
allow the apocalypse. He asks Castiel for help, together they
escape and meet Chuck to see where the final seal will be broken.
As Castiel holds back the Archangels, he sends Dean to stop Sam
from killing Lilith. Ruby secretly prevents him from interfering,
and after the final seal is broken, she reveals that she has been
working to free Lucifer the entire time. Dean manages to get to the
two and then stabs Ruby to death with Sam's help. The season ends
with a portal opening for Lucifer while Dean and Sam can only
watch.
Season 5
The fifth season begins right where season 4 ends with the portal
opening. As Lucifer escapes the brothers are teleported into an
airplane by an unknown force. Dean is told by Zachariah that he is
the "Sword of Michael", which means the Archangel Michael will use
his body as a vessel to lead the forces of heaven, but Dean must
consent to this. Dean refuses and Castiel saves him when Zachariah
tries to force Dean to agree by harming him and Sam.
Dean and Sam fight the Horseman War in a town where the people
think that their neighbors are demons. Dean worries that Sam cannot
control his urge to drink demon blood and the brothers agree to go
their separate ways because Sam is a liability with his demon blood
lust. Castiel finds Dean and they capture the archangel Raphael to
ask the location of God.
In the fourth episode of the season Dean is transported forward in
time, this time by Zachariah to see what the future will be like.
He finds himself in 2014, eventually meeting up with his future
self, as well as the survivors, and victims of the Croatoan virus
from season 2. Dean finds out that Sam let Lucifer into his body,
and this was the reason the world was in such disarray. Later, the
future Dean is killed by Lucifer, while in Sam's body. After being
told by his future self to accept Michael into his body. Dean is
transported back to his own time, where he comes face to face with
Zachariah. He refuses to become Michael's vessel. In the end of the
episode the brothers meet back up again, and decide that they
should stay together, to "Keep each other human." In the episode
Changing Channels, it is revealed to Dean and Sam by The Trickster,
that their relationship (Dean the obedient older brother to a
distant father, and Sam the younger brother who betrays his brother
and father) mirrors the relationship between Lucifer and Michael,
and has been told to the angels since the beginning to bring about
Judgment Day.
Attributes
Personality
Dean is typically ruthless and aggressive when he is hunting, a
task which he approaches euphorically. He passionately despises
what he hunts, especially
demons, and is
prepared to kill without question more often than not, unlike his
brother. However, despite these traits, Dean is very laid-back and
well-disposed when not on the hunt, and he values the safety of his
family and innocent civilians above all else, even his own life.
Though on occasion he can be somewhat impulsive and/or arrogant,
Dean is both extremely intelligent and competent, and most
situations in which he exhibits irrational behavior is when his
family is threatened.
Dean enjoys the uncomplicated things in life, such as good food and
television. He almost constantly displays some level of humorous
behavior, and frequently makes light of tense situations, often
making inappropriate jokes or using sexual innuendo. He sometimes
appears foolish due to this habit, but it has been entailed that
this is merely his means of dealing with the stress of
hunting.
Dean attempts to be something of a
womanizer, but has been in love with at least one
woman. He has the capacity to become close with a woman, however,
and it has been suggested on occasion throughout the series that
this is what Dean truly desires, a normal life, with a wife,
children and a regular job.
After he was extracted from
Hell by
Castiel, Dean began to exhibit
noticeable anxiety and experience chronic, abominable nightmares of
his experience there, apparently every time he closes his eyes. He
also seemed to have some form of flashback after seeing a
collection of masks in the episode "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam
Winchester", and repeatedly several times when blood is seen around
eyes, such as Alistair's First appearance, when a statues eyes bled
and Dean appeared to recognize this. He at first denied remembering
anything of his time in Hell, but eventually he confessed to Sam
that he did in fact remember every detail, but rejected any
discussion about it not wanting to live over the details of the
"indescribable things" he saw. It is later revealed he not only saw
terrible things, but spent forty years in Hell, (3 or 4 months on
Earth's time). However, he also states, despite his strength to
last thirty years without torturing other souls so as to escape the
torment himself, he finally broke down and tortured for ten years.
Dean's experience in Hell left a profound mark on him. He exhibits
extreme grief and guilt, both for his actions and for the fact that
he eventually gave in. Due to this, he believes he was unworthy of
rescue. He has also explained to his brother that he wishes he
couldn't feel anything, as the sorrow he feels is so overwhelming.
He has also become obsessed with saving people, almost not sleeping
in order to save as many as he can. In the episode "Family
Remains", however, Dean states it is not just the fact he tortured,
but the fact he enjoyed it which causes his guilt and shame,
relishing the opportunity to put his pain on other unfortunate
souls. It was this act, of a righteous man turning on others that
broke the first seal.
Another side of Dean shown recently is his utter disgust at Sam for
his actions such as blood drinking. However, almost immediately
after some threatening and cajoling by Bobby, Dean realizes the
error in his ways and, although remaining angry at Sam, he vows to
save his brother. Dean also realizes family isn't perfect and there
will always be times when they hurt him. In the final episode of
season 4 after the argument with Bobby when he was in the "safe
house", he forgave his brother during the final few moments when
Lucifer was rising.
As of season 5 Dean does not trust Sam, and feels as if he is
holding himself back and putting the world in jeopardy just to keep
Sam safe. He tells Sam that Lucifer will use the fact that they are
family and have love for each other against them until he was sent
to the future by Zachariah. Once there, he realized that he and Sam
kept each other grounded, and when he got back, he immediately
called his brother. They were a team again, even though it took
Dean awhile to completely trust his brother again.
Abilities and skills
Dean possesses excellent combat and hunting prowess;
comprehensively trained by his father from early childhood as a
paranormal investigator and hunter of the supernatural, he is
established throughout the series as an extremely dangerous
individual, and he is more than capable of taking a stand against
even the most formidable of opponents, such as
demons and
vampires.
Dean is well-versed with multiple types of
firearms; he prefers his
Colt
1911 and sawed-off
shotgun, but is
proficient with most other weapons he might acquire. An expert
marksman, he seldom misses his intended target and can efficiently
put down anything vulnerable to bullets.
Dean is adept with
martial arts and
knife fighting as well; he has
subdued several human assailants with ease in multiple episodes and
bested physically more powerful creatures, often unarmed or
equipped with only a blade. In "Nightshifter", he killed a
shapeshifter armed with a simple silver
letter opener. In "Fresh Blood," he
managed to subdue a vampire long enough to inject her with a shot
of 'dead man's blood.' In "The Magnificent Seven", he fought and
held off several demons by himself, armed only with a flask of
holy water.
Dean is also a proficient tracker and possesses prudent tactical
skills and an instinctive ability to 'read' behavioral
characteristics and manipulate people. Highly resourceful, he
frequently utilizes
improvised
weapons and explosive devices; in "Croatoan," he demonstrated
knowledge in
chemistry, constructing
Molotov cocktails and improvised
explosive devices, and in "Phantom Traveler", he revealed knowledge
of
electronics and
reverse engineering, having built an
electromagnetic field detector
from an old
Walkman radio.
Dean also possesses extensive knowledge of the
supernatural and
mythology.
He is versed with how police, fire
departments and various government agencies (FBI
, CDC) typically operate and
conduct investigations, and knows how to both impersonate and evade
them effectively. An accomplished mechanic, he maintains his
Impala in tip top condition and has maintained an intimate
knowledge of automobiles and engines since childhood.
Dean is a virtuoso of escape, evasion and silent movement, when the
situation requires subtlety and stealth. Lastly, he is also
alarmingly skillful in many areas frowned upon by the law: lock
picking, breaking into security systems (not so much computers,
which often falls to Sam), car jacking and gaining an 'advantageous
purchase' comes naturally to him.
Due to his time spent in Hell as Alistair's "student", Dean has an
in-depth knowledge of torture, able to inflict the maximum amount
of pain and agony on a victim while keeping them alive as long as
possible. In the season 5 premiere, Dean revealed he had learned
the banishing spell from Castiel that sends angels back to
heaven.
Weaponry
Dean tends to use a chromed
Colt 1911 with
ivory grips, which
John is seen using in a
flashback, and also uses a
sawed-off double barrel
shotgun when he needs extra firepower. He has also
been seen with an
MSG3 sniper rifle in "
Simon Said". Dean is shown to
possess a large
machete in "Dead Man's
Blood", and has used a knife in several episodes. He is shown to
possess a Desert Eagle loaded with wrought iron in the episode
"Something Wicked" and
tasers which he and Sam
used in the start of "Faith", when he electrocuted himself. When
weapons are scarce and Dean is in a dangerous situation, he uses
hand-to-hand combat or whatever
is available as a weapon. During "On The Head Of A Pin", Dean is
shown with a number of torture implements, including syringes of
holy water.
References
- http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018166/bio
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