John Winchester

It's good stuff.

How many times are they going to refer to John Winchester as daddy?

I mean,

it keeps happening.

Oh.

John oh Mr. John Winchester so out of nowhere with John

that's our new segment that's slowly it's totally I thought the same

goddamn thing out of nowhere Sam who must have been looking

as they do yeah no there's no way they haven't read that thing from cover to fucking cover every day flipping through he has a he it occurs to him that their father once said

he's got the journal in his hand in the

immortal words of john winchester yeah i had a thought once and he he's like well because dean immediately was like we just have to kill her i think and sam is like nay we turned to our our father the man of wisdom the man who had plenty of ideas looking at you fucking roanoke

his idea he just said you know what let me get that pen reached over from the counter sam your rest of thoughts like dip dip into the ink yes with the four score As I sit here

But Dean saw through the illusion from the start.

Dean's instincts, honed by a lifetime of John Winchester's rigged teachings, Tell him that a demon is always a demon.

Dean viewed Ruby with absolute suspicion, constantly warning Sam that she was playing him, that her claims of humanity were a lie, and that trusting a creature from the pit would lead to disaster.

Despite Dean's relentless hostility, Ruby slowly embedded herself into the brothers' routine during Season 3.

But that's where it comes from, I guess.

John, he's sitting nearby watching the kids play and suddenly a comet shoots by overhead.

Right on time, John remarks.

So he was waiting for this.

He clearly wasn't just chilling watching his sons play and have fun.

This was all part of something for John Winchester.

And then Dean, you know, him and Sam have been playing.

They look up at the sky.

It was the pivot round which the entire Earth mythology tuned.

It shifted the Winchesters from prey to apex hunters, drove off the tragic deal that took John Winchester's soul, broke open the gates of Hell, and ultimately forced the brothers to confront the humbling limits of their own universe.

To trace the story of the cult from its origins, you have to go back to 1835, long before Sam and Dean were ever born.

As established within the show's canon, the legendary gunmaker Samuel Colt far as a custom Cap'n Ball Patterson revolver under extraordinary circumstances.

After Colt's era passed, the gun would vanish into the underground hunter network, moving quietly from hand to hand until it landed in the possession of Daniel Elkins, the very hunter who had helped create it.

When the cult finally entered the main narrative in Season 1's Dead Man's Blood, its arrival completely re-centered the Winchester family's mission.

Up until that point, John Winchester had spent 22 years filling his leather-bound journal with lore, frantically searching for a way to destroy the yellow-eyed demon that had burned his wife, Mary, and the nursery ceiling in 1983.

John knew that ordinary weapons were useless against a high-ranking demon.

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John Winchester inspired drink.

But it was like, you know, like Kevin Trang AP student was like Red Bull and cranberry juice.

[laughs]

Sam Rochester stepped into the role of tactical commander for this new generation, organizing hunts assigning regional squads and running briefing sessions in the bunker's war room.

It was the realization of a dream that John Winchester and Bobby Singer could never have imagined.

A fully organized, highly trained and well-equipped army of hunters working in unison.

Yet even with advanced technology and tactical coordination, the fundamental reality of the job remained unchanged.

Long before the audience heard the names Lucifer, Castiel, or Crowley, there was only one monster that mattered.

He was the phantom in the shadows that drove John Winchester into a lifelong obsession.

The entity that turned Sam and Dean into soldiers and the mastermind behind those calculations set off the entire 15-season saga.

That monster was Azazel.

Known throughout the show's early years simply as the yellow-eyed demon, Azazel was not just another monster of the week for the brothers to hunt and salt and burn into oblivion.

He was the absolute catalyst for everything the Winchesters ever became.

Without Azazel, John Winchester remains a peaceful mechanic in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dean grew up fixing cars alongside his dad.