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** [[Badass Normal]]

** {{spoiler|[[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]}}: After Season 3.

* [[Better Than Sex]]: The burgers they serve at his favorite St. Louis diner. Pity that Dean's [[Persona Non Grata]].

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Yeah, just try to hurt Sam and let see how well it goes for you.

* [[Hates Being Touched]]

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Has ''real'' issues with self-worth and frequently takes this to [[Death Seeker|suicidal lengths]].

* [[It's All My Fault]]: If anything can be slightly linked to him in any way, expect him to shoulder the burden and expect that burden to break him. Just see how the whole {{spoiler|back-from-Hell}} thing worked out for him in Season 4.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[The Reliable One]]: As close as you can get to it in this show, anyway.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: His handgun of choice is a Colt Peacemaker. He may just have a fondness for "Cowboy" guns, as he also uses a lever-action rifle.

* {{spoiler|[[Spirit Advisor]]: Complete with Yoda reference.}}

* [[Team Dad]]

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]}}

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: In Season 2. She became better in Season 5.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Carries [[Tragic Keepsake|her dad's knife]] with her because she wants to feel close to him, and says she was known as the "freak with the knife collection" at school.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: YMMV, but this it how her interactions with the Winchesters came off to some people, with Jo in the role of a mouthy little sister.

* [[Action Girl]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Samuel may have [[Sarcasm Mode|forgotten to mention a few details to her]]...

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Good Powers, Bad People]]: Once he starts {{spoiler|working with Crowley}}, he seems to stop resurrecting people and start [[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] them.

* [[Have You Seen My God?]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic RROD]]: The stress of containing the souls of Purgatory (and the Leviathans) causes his vessel to start decaying and nearly kills him.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]:}} Subverted. {{spoiler|At the end of the Season 7 premiere, Castiel tries to fix everything he's screwed up as well as trying to make amends with the Winchesters before he dies. However, he's unable to stop the Leviathans and [[Not Quite Dead|it later turns out that he survived the encounter]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Good in A Can]]: Since he had absorbed Sam's insanity, he was residing in an asylum, waiting to be brought out.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Slasher Smile]]: Oh boy. Happens twice in the premiere of Season 7, once before he starts a massacre, then again to show that, yes, Castiel is pretty much gone.}}

** {{spoiler|Though it's implied in that first case -- and outright stated in the second -- that it was the Leviathans doing the smiling.}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: If you've read all the spoilers so far in his character sheet, you'll know why he's here.

** And, {{spoiler|"I am your new God."}}

* {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes]]: She saves Castiel from a royal beat-down by Uriel in "On the Head of a Pin."}}

* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]}}

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: She was one, before she remembered she was an angel and she regained her powers, which led to:

** [[Took a Level In Badass]]

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: After she ripped out her grace and was reborn a human, she still apparently remembered who and what she really was, to some extent, since she said that her human father wasn't really her dad and believed that her real father (God) was going to kill her when she was a little girl. Therapy helped her repress her memories of being an angel until Pamela used hypnosis to make her remember.

** There's also an angel named Haniel/Anael in Jewish mythology. Said angel is powerful and high-ranking enough to be considered an archangel and is associated with the planet Venus (which is supposed to represent love and beauty). Hmm. Which angel do we know who is [[Badass]], Castiel and Uriel's boss, [[Angelic Beauty|pretty in human form]], and Dean's [[Love Interest]]?

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Does quite a few of them, including one while Dean is driving:

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Gives one to Mercury in "Hammer of the Gods":

{{quote| "You know, I never understood you pagans. You're all such...petty little things. Always fighting, always happy to sell out your own kind. No wonder you forfeited this planet to us. ''You'' are worse than humans. You're worse than demons. And yet you claim to be ''gods''! ( {{spoiler|''kills Mercury''}}) And they call ''me'' "prideful.}}

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]

* [[It's All About Me]]: How dare God show any attention to the [[Humans Are Bastards|hairless, murderous apes]] than to someone [[Sarcasm Mode|perfect and wonderful]] like Lucifer.

* {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]: In "The French Mistake." Or as close as gender-less being as come to this.}}

* [[A God Am I]]: A shade of it; in Season 6, when Castiel asks Raphael how the angels can justify trying to re-start the Apocalypse, he says it's what [[God]] wants. When Castiel asks how he knows that, he says it's because it's what ''he'' wants. At the very least, he's appointed himself as the ultimate interpreter of the absent God's will, which is much the same thing, and seems to think he can boss Castiel around purely due to both his [[Authority Equals Asskicking|higher rank]] and [[Asskicking Equals Authority|superior power]]. Worst case scenario, he [[Alternate Character Interpretation|may even have been]] [[The Man Behind the Man|the one who talked]] [[Archangel Michael|Michael]] and some other angels into going along with the Doomsday scheme.

* [[God Is Dead]]: He was of the belief that his "Father" is dead. When asked why by Castiel, Raphael simply answered: If God was really alive, why wouldn't He stop the horrors of the 20th and the 21st centuries, including the coming [[The End of the World As We Know It|Apocalypse]]?

* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: With Sam and Castiel. Also with Dean, to a lesser extent.

* {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]: She once possessed Sam to torment the brothers and made him kill other hunters.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Seven seasons in, and Meg is still alive. Somehow.}}

** {{spoiler|Meg has now been taken by Crowley to Hell, so karma eventually gets her in a way.}}

* [[Little Black Dress]]

** [[The Men in Black]]: The (male) crossroads demon from one of Sam's flashbacks in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was dressed like this.

== Ruby (Katie Cassidy, Genevieve Cortese, various) ==

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In "I Know What You Did Last Summer", Sam calls her out on the fact that for a self-proclaimed [[Noble Demon]] she's still possessing people against their will (which led to the death of her Season 3 host). She apparently listens to him, and chooses to possess a comatose girl just after she dies.

* [[Wicked Witch]]

== Lilith (various) ==

* [[Prophet Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]: Pretty much the entire demon storyline, including her death, is her attempt to release Lucifer from Hell.}}

* [[Woman in White]]: In "Lucifer Rising."

== Samhain (Don [[Mc Manus]]) ==

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Gets summoned and sent back to hell to never be seen again within the same episode.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Most demons are quite chatty. After saying a few lines when he is first summoned, he doesn't say another word for the rest of the series.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: When {{spoiler|Castiel}} tells him not to worry about the Winchesters, he's almost outraged and spits out a list of super-powered heavyweights that said the same thing about them, all of whom are either dead or locked away at the Winchesters' hands. All by two human boys who "shouldn't have been any trouble for them."

{{quote| '''Crowley''': Am I the only game piece on the board who '''''doesn't underestimate those denim-wrapped nightmares'''''?!}}

* [[Ho Yay]]: Not only is he [[Ambiguously Gay]], he {{spoiler|also kisses every guy who makes a deal with him. And he [[Crowning Moment of Funny|has pictures to prove it]]}}.

** He also ''loves'' to drop double entendres and situational puns. All the time.

* [[Only Sane Employee]]: He seems to think of himself as this, as far as [[Hell]] is concerned. {{spoiler|Especially since getting promoted and finding out that trying to show demons a new way of having things work...doesn't work.}}

** Well, now he's the Only Sane Employer. And, considering what his industry is, this is probably true.

* [[Playing Both Sides]]: Does this to the Winchesters and the Leviathans in the Season 7 finale.

* [[Sarcastic Clapping]]

* [[Four Is Death]]: And you can add War, Famine and Pestilence.

* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: The Horsemen's [[Ring of Power|rings]] are {{spoiler|the keys to trap Lucifer again}}.

** He may be Death now, [[Slings and Arrows|but Julian Richings used to be a gravedigger]].

** Don't forget [[Eureka|Jim Taggart]] as Pestilence.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Most of them tend to come across as this.

* [[Fight Off the Kryptonite]]: Dick Roman pulls a villainous version of this trope by enduring a sustained barrage of {{spoiler|borax-based cleaning products}} by the Winchesters long enough for him to catch up to them and fire the shot that {{spoiler|ultimately killed Bobby Singer}}.

** As of {{spoiler|"Death's Door"}}, [[Big Bad|Dick Roman]] has successfully killed {{spoiler|Bobby Singer}}.

** In "Reading is Fundamental", a lone leviathan is revealed to be able to slaughter {{spoiler|angels}} with disturbing ease.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: They're immune to every monster-slaying technique and implement that's ever appeared on the show (including ''[[Off With His Head|decapitation]]''), but are damaged by {{spoiler|borox, a common ingredient in cleaning supplies, that burns them like acid}}. Oddly enough, they were just as surprised at the revelation of this weakness as everyone else.

** It's safe to assume there wasn't any {{spoiler|borax}} in Purgatory, making it impossible to them to learn of this [[Weaksauce Weakness]].

** Also, {{spoiler|"Cas is gone. He's dead. We run the show now."}}

** And from "Reading is Fundamental", "Rock beats scissors...{{spoiler|leviathan beats angel}}."

* [[Hot Mom]]: Lisa

* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Ex-Girlfriend and Not-Kid]]: {{spoiler|Crowley}} kidnaps them in "Let It Bleed."

* {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Castiel does this to them on Dean's request to protect them from his enemies after they are kidnapped to use as leverage against him and Lisa nearly dies as a result.}}

* [[New Old Flame]]: Lisa to Dean in her debut.

* {{spoiler|[[Rape As Backstory]]}}: Implied in a flashback.

* [[Rich Bitch]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]: She tells Dean about Lilith holding their contracts just before she gets killed so he will kill the bitch.}}

* [[Audience Surrogate]]: She's a Winchester fangirl with little respect for boundaries, such as the ones between the fictional characters in the "Supernatural" novels and the actual people she meets. For some reason, she's not very popular in the fanbase.

* {{spoiler|[[Cute and Psycho]]}}: In "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!"

* {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Crazy]]}}

* [[This Loser Is You]]: She is basically a [[Take That]] to the more rabid [[Fan Girl|fangirls]].