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* [[Abusive Parents]]:
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** Dean, oh so very much. Except, for the most part (it was revealed in "Skin" that he does feel resentful of Sam getting to leave), he's a dutiful brother as well.
** {{spoiler|The [[Archangel Michael]]}}, who is even more this than Dean.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: True form Angels. Physically, they (to each other) meet the descriptions of them in religious literature. People look at an angel in his true form have their EYES BURNED OUT. They inhabit human vessels to be able to interact with other humans safely however. It's notable that they're one of the few if not only creatures fitting the definition of an Eldritch Abomination in this series, as the other adversaries are almost all [[Humanoid Abomination|Humanoid Abominations]].
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Sam [[Unwitting Pawn|inadvertently]] started this [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|trying to stop it]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: The brothers team up with Crowley to stop Lucifer, who plans to wipe out humans and demons alike.
** Ironically, in a Season 6 episode, they would then team up with Lucifer-loyalist Meg against Crowley.
** Don't forget later in season 7, where Crowley promises to keep his people off the boy's backs while thy squash the Leviathans.
* [[Enfante Terrible]]: Lilith
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: During Castiel and Dean's first meeting, Misha Collins has stated he got much closer into Jensen's personal space and stared at him much more blatantly than in rehearsals, just to enforce how Castiel is unused to human interaction. Jensen's squirming and uncomfortable reaction is real. Later on in Season 6 when {{spoiler|Azazel is possessing Samuel Campbell}}, Mitch Pileggi apparently decided to sniff Jensen's neck just to get the squicked-out reaction seen on camera.
* [[Epiphany Therapy]]: Averted. Five minute self-esteem boosts/pep talks seem to have no effect in the Supernatural!Verse.
* [[Eternal Love]]: Don and Maggie Stark, powerful witches who have been together for centuries, feature in a season seven episode. They've been fighting, and ordinary people get caught in the crossfire.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Anderson in the ''Rising Son'' comics, who has a similar (very negative) opinion of Sam as Gordon in the main series (despite the fact that the comics take place several years before Sam's powers surface).
* [[Evil Elevator]]: In 4.17 "It's a Terrible Life", a security guard gets killed by a malfunctioning elevator in a haunted office building.
* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]: Demonic and ghostly activity often causes a sudden localized drop in temperature. [[Archangel Lucifer|Lucifer]] shows this trope by freezing a window with his breath, and states "Sorry if it's a bit chilly. Most people think I burn ''hot''. It's actually quite the opposite."
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: The tagline of the show is ''"Scary just got Sexy!"'' .
* [[Evil Mentor]]:
** {{spoiler|Ruby}}
** Alistair, for Dean.
** In season 5, {{spoiler|Zachariah for Adam}}.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Season Six ends up using this trope by the end: {{spoiler|In order to stop Raphael from restarting the Apocalypse, Castiel [[Enemy Mine|allies with Crowley]] to gain control of Purgatory and all its souls. But this causes Cas to eventually [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|jump off the slippery slope]] and decide to [[A God Am I|become the new God]], so he cuts Crowley out of the deal. Which causes Crowley to, in turn, ally with Raphael against him.}}
* [[Expy]]:
** Series One is full of bits which are lifted from [[The Ring]]. Examples include {{spoiler|the boy scrawling a black circle endlessly until it's a pitch black well in 01X03, the water flowing down the stairs when the mother killed the children by drowning in 01x01, the girl crawling out of the mirror - complete with jittery effect - in 01x05. The writers must really have loved that film. 01x04 also has the bath-tub water going black, just like The Grudge.}}
** [[Supernatural (Anime)/Recap/S06 E18 Frontierland|Frontierland]] borrows a lot from Back to the Future, Part III. Dean goes by Clint Eastwood. They get costumes which the locals make fun of. Sam gets a package from Samuel Colt over a hundred years later, and the guy who delivers it says everyone at the post office has been wondering if Sam would actually be there to receive it, etc.
** The angel Balthazar is an Expy of [[Archangel Gabriel|Gabriel]] who {{spoiler|was killed in season 5. Prior to season 6 the producers confirmed that he would return in one way or another, they just didn't know in what way yet. This is how}}.
** The demon Crowley is an Expy of, er, the demon Crowley, from Good Omens, himself named after occultist Aleister Crowley. Fanfiction writers have been known to make use of this.
** The Colt is an Expy of the Ace of Winchesters, an all-killing gun from ''[[Hellblazer]]''.
* [[Eye Scream]]:
** A Season 3 episode involved an immortal parts-stealing doctor, a mellon baller, and Jared Padalecki's pretty, pretty face.
** Most humans who look at the true form of an angel will have their eyes burned out. This also happens to the host when angels exorcise demons.
** In "Bloody Mary," the title ghost, in the coroners words, "essentially liquefied" her victim's eyeballs.
** In "Nightmare", the kid is shown killing his mom by {{spoiler|telepathically plunging a knife into her eye}}.
** In "The Benders," little pint-sized Missy Bender was told to keep watch on Dean. Which she did by ''holding the point of a knife about half an inch from Dean's eyeball.''
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