Supernatural (TV series)/Recap/S06/E20 The Man Who Would Be King

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Season 6, Episode 20:

The Man Who Would Be King

As Castiel contemplates the details of the civil war in Heaven, and his history with Raphael, Bobby and the Winchesters begin to realize the angel is being less than truthful with them.

Tropes

  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: In "The Man Who Would Be King," it is shown that after Crowley took over Hell, he made an endless line consisting of millions of people the standard punishment. No agonizing torture like what Dean experienced during his time there, and instead of Fire and Brimstone Hell we get what looks like a long hallway that contains a line that requires people who reach the front to go all the way to the back of the line again.
  • A Day in the Limelight
  • Deal with the Devil
  • Evil Counterpart: In The Man Who Would Be King, we briefly meet the demon Ellsworth, who Castiel describes as being Bobby's counterpart. Not only does he sort of look like Bobby, complete with trucker cap, but we see him handling multiple calls with his minions in much the same way Bobby is seen handling calls with hunters (he even pretends to be an FBI agent to back up one's cover story, just like Bobby does all the time). And he calls one of his under-demons a "frickin' yeti", when Bobby and Dean refer to Sam as "sasquatch".
  • Ironic Hell
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall -- Castiel starts the episode by looking straight into the camera and saying, "Let me tell you my story." Yes, yes, he was talking to God...
  • Our Angels Are Different -- they don't have souls
  • Whole-Episode Flashback
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