145 Fun Facts About Supernatural

Supernatural's vampires survive stakes and sunlight, so what is the hunters' standard way to kill one?

Beheading is the hunters' answer: in 'Dead Man's Blood', John tells his sons that most vampire lore is useless, and the family uses a dead man's blood, which poisons vampires, to capture one alive.

What car do the Winchester brothers primarily drive?

The 1967 Chevrolet Impala is in the family thanks to Dean himself: sent back to 1973, he talks a young John Winchester into buying it instead of an old VW van.

What does the angel Castiel do for Dean before the two ever meet?

Pulls him out of Hell: Castiel introduces himself in season four as 'the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition', and the rescue leaves a handprint burned into Dean's shoulder.

Which demon maneuvers into becoming the King of Hell on Supernatural?

Crowley, once a mere crossroads dealer, takes Hell's throne in season six, then spends years flipping between enemy and reluctant ally of the Winchesters.

In which Canadian city was Supernatural primarily filmed?

Vancouver and the countryside around it stood in for small-town America for fifteen seasons, so the brothers' cross-country travels rarely left British Columbia.

On Supernatural, which weapon can kill almost any supernatural being, Lucifer being one of only five exceptions?

The Colt was made in 1835 by gunsmith Samuel Colt, yet when Dean shoots Lucifer in the head with it in season five, the Devil simply recovers and heals.

Which character is known as a surrogate father figure to Sam and Dean?

Bobby Singer, a gruff hunter, steps in as a father after John's death, and in season five he even pawns his own soul to help the brothers track down Death.

On Supernatural, what must happen to free the Devil from his Cage?

The breaking of the 66 Seals ends with a twist: the final seal is the death of the very demon breaking them, so Sam killing her is what frees the Devil.

Before being cast as Dean, which character did Jensen Ackles originally audition to play?

Jensen Ackles originally read for Sam; the producers asked him to try Dean instead, and he preferred the older brother once he had seen the script.

On Supernatural, the yellow-eyed demon of the first two seasons is later revealed as which rank of demon?

Prince of Hell: season twelve reveals four of them, and while Ramiel, Asmodeus and Dagon lost interest and left Hell for quiet lives on Earth, he alone stayed loyal to their maker.

What is the name of Sam's girlfriend who dies in the pilot episode of Supernatural?

Jessica Moore dies pinned to the ceiling in flames, exactly the way the brothers' mother died, and her death sends Sam back to hunting with Dean.

What is the primary weakness of a Wendigo in Supernatural?

Fire is the wendigo's weakness: in the season-one episode 'Wendigo', Dean finishes the creature with a flare gun deep inside an abandoned mine.

Who is the creator of the television series Supernatural?

Eric Kripke created Supernatural and served as its showrunner for the first five seasons, which he initially intended to be the complete series arc.

What is the name of the powerful primordial entity that is God's sister?

Amara, also known as The Darkness, is God's sister, a primal force of destruction he locked away with the Mark of Cain so that creation could exist.

Dean got only one year from his crossroads deal on Supernatural, so how many years is the customary term?

Ten years is the customary Faustian term; when it runs out, hellhounds come to drag the signer to Hell, which is how Dean's own bargain ends in the season-three finale.

Which character is a prophet of God who writes the 'Supernatural' books?

Chuck Shurley, initially introduced as a prophet, is later revealed to be God himself, writing the events of the Winchester brothers' lives.

Which Supernatural angel hides on Earth for ages as the Trickster, a candy-loving pagan demigod?

Gabriel walked out on his family long ago, tired of watching his brothers fight, and hid among the pagan gods; trapping Sam and Dean inside TV shows is what finally gives him away.

On Supernatural, which ordinary household cleaning chemical burns the Leviathans like acid?

Borax, found in everyday cleaning products, burns a Leviathan like acid but cannot kill one, so the brothers splash it on to stop the creature in its tracks.

Which Nephilim, the archangel Lucifer's son, do the Winchesters take in from season thirteen?

Jack Kline is born in the season-twelve finale and raised by the Winchesters, and by the series finale he has absorbed God's power and taken over as the new God.

What word does the Winchesters' salvage-yard mentor famously call the brothers?

'Idjits' is his gruff term of endearment, and it is also the last word he says to the brothers before he dies in season seven.

Which hacker, played by Felicia Day, becomes an ally of Supernatural's Winchester brothers?

Charlie Bradbury is working IT at Richard Roman Enterprises when she is told to crack the hard drive of the brothers' hacker ally, learns what her boss really is, and switches sides to help the brothers.

On Supernatural, what must a human do before an angel can take them as a vessel?

Say yes: an angel needs its vessel's consent, which is why season five turns on angels pressuring Dean and Sam, by threats, tricks and torture, into agreeing.

On Supernatural, what frees a demon caught in a devil's trap?

A broken line is all it takes: in 'Born Under a Bad Sign', a trapped demon shakes the house with a spell until a crack runs through the trap, then walks free.

On Supernatural, what happens to most humans who look upon an angel's true form?

Their eyes burn out: the psychic Pamela Barnes learns it in season four when she ignores a warning and peeks at the being that saved Dean, and she is blind from then on.

On Supernatural, which creature of Hindu legend poses as a clown so children invite it in, then eats their parents?

Rakshasa cannot enter a home uninvited, which is the reason for the clown act: it charms a child at a travelling carnival and waits to be let in.

Which recurring Supernatural demon is known by the name of a college student it possessed in season one?

Meg Masters is the demon's borrowed name, taken from the young woman it possessed in season one; it keeps the name in later hosts and by season seven is an uneasy ally of the brothers.

On Supernatural, what do the brothers load into shotgun shells to drive off ghosts?

Rock salt fired from a shotgun cannot destroy a ghost, only scatter it for a while, which buys the brothers time to dig up the bones and burn them.

On Supernatural, which realm do monsters go to after they die?

Purgatory is where monster souls go when they die, and Dean is blown there himself at the end of season seven, spending a year fighting his way back out.

Which actor plays the younger Winchester brother?

Jared Padalecki plays Sam, though the creator and the network were deadlocked for a while over whether he or Jensen Ackles should get the part, until Ackles chose Dean.

What is the name of the demon who possessed John Winchester at the end of Season 1?

Azazel, the yellow-eyed demon who killed the brothers' mother, rides John into the season-one finale, where John begs Sam to shoot him while the demon is still inside.

On Supernatural, what type of being are the Leviathans?

God's earliest creations, the Leviathans were sealed away because they threatened to devour everything else he made, and they slip out when their prison is opened at the end of season six.

The brothers sum up their work as 'saving people, hunting things' — and what?

'Saving people, hunting things, the family business' is how Dean talks Sam out of quitting the hunt in season one's 'Wendigo', and the line became the show's motto.

Which Supernatural demon was the very first one made, a human soul twisted by the fallen archangel?

Lilith was twisted into a demon as an act of defiance against God, and she spends season four working to free the fallen archangel who made her.

On Supernatural, which creature feeds on victims while trapping them in a dream where their wish has come true?

The Djinn, unlike the wish-granting genies of folklore, grants nothing real; it poisons its victim into a dream of a perfect life and drinks their blood while they sleep.

Which town is home to the salvage yard where Supernatural's Winchesters so often take shelter?

The salvage yard sits in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and the town's dead rise from their graves in season five's 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid', the owner's late wife Karen among them.

On Supernatural, which powerful witch is the mother of the King of Hell?

Rowena MacLeod abandoned her son Fergus as a boy in 17th-century Scotland; he grew up to run Hell, and the two loathe each other for most of the series.

Which secret society do Sam and Dean discover they are legacies of?

The Men of Letters recorded and guarded supernatural secrets; the brothers learn they are heirs when their grandfather Henry time-travels into their motel room, and they inherit the order's bunker.

What special power does the amulet Sam gave Dean as a boy turn out to have?

Detecting God's presence is its one trick, yet it stays cold for years while he hides; in season eleven it finally glows in Sam's pocket and leads the brothers straight to him.

On Supernatural, whose rings combine to open the Cage where the Devil is imprisoned?

The Four Horsemen, War, Famine, Pestilence and Death, each wear one, and the brothers spend season five collecting all four before Sam uses them to reopen the Cage in the finale.

Which Supernatural demon, once a human witch, spends two seasons helping Sam while hiding her real agenda?

Ruby's real goal is to steer Sam, one dose of demon blood at a time, toward freeing her master.

What kind of creature does the hunter Garth Fitzgerald IV become on Supernatural?

Werewolf: bitten on a hunt, Garth joins a pack that lives peacefully alongside humans and marries one of its members, so the brothers let the hunter-turned-monster be.

Who is the mother of Sam and Dean on Supernatural?

Mary Winchester's death on the nursery ceiling in the pilot is what turns John into a hunter and puts his two sons on the same path.

In 2011, Supernatural's first two seasons were retold in Japan in what form?

An anime series: studio Madhouse retold the first two seasons in 22 episodes and wrote new stories about the brothers' childhood that the live-action show never filmed.

On Supernatural, what can hold an angel trapped inside a ring it cannot cross?

Holy Fire, lit from a ring of holy oil, holds an angel inside, and a bottle of it thrown like a Molotov briefly banishes even the archangel Michael in the season-five finale.

Which Supernatural artifact tells how to close the Gates of Hell?

The Demon Tablet, God's word on demons, lays out three trials for closing the Gates of Hell; the prophet Kevin translates it and Sam very nearly dies attempting them.

Which reaper takes over as Death after Dean kills the original on Supernatural?

Billie is stabbed in the back by Castiel in season twelve and returns promoted: when Death is killed, the next reaper to die inherits the job.

On Supernatural, which being created the Alphas, the first monsters of their species?

Eve, known as the Mother of All, made the first of every monster species; when she resurfaces in season six, Dean kills her by tricking her into biting him with phoenix ash in his blood.

Which half-brother of Sam and Dean ends up serving as the Archangel Michael's vessel?

Adam Milligan, the son John fathered in secret with Kate Milligan, is Michael's vessel for the final showdown and is dragged into the Cage with him, staying there until season fifteen.

Which city is the Winchester brothers' hometown on Supernatural?

Lawrence is where both brothers were born, and Sam's nightmares draw them back in season one's 'Home' to save the family now living in their childhood house.

Supernatural's Sam and Dean were named after Sal and Dean, the travelling friends of which novel?

On the Road supplied more than names: the creator pitched the show as a road trip through small-town America, and Kerouac's Sal simply became Sam.

Which surname, a nod to a Star Wars actor, did Supernatural's brothers nearly carry?

Harrison was a tribute to Harrison Ford, but a real Sam Harrison lived in the brothers' home state, so the name was dropped for legal reasons and Winchester took its place.

Which network aired Supernatural's first season before it moved to The CW?

The WB aired Supernatural's first season in 2005–06; the network then merged with UPN to form The CW, which carried the show from season two until its 2020 finale.

In Supernatural's 'Swan Song', where do Lucifer and Michael meet for their final showdown?

Stull Cemetery is a real graveyard whose local legends call it a gateway to Hell, and the creator gave the brothers a nearby hometown because of it.

Who was creator Eric Kripke's first choice to play John Winchester on Supernatural?

Bruce Campbell, the Evil Dead star, was Kripke's first choice for John but was unavailable; the part went to an actor only twelve years older than the man playing his elder son.

Who played Constance Welch, the Woman in White of Supernatural's pilot?

Sarah Shahi's ghost is the first thing the brothers hunt together in the series: a woman who drowned her children, killed herself and now preys on men along a California highway.

Unlike the rest of the series, Supernatural's pilot was shot in which city?

Los Angeles hosted only the pilot; once the series was picked up, production moved to Canada, which went on to stand in for the whole United States.

What cut Supernatural's third season to just 16 episodes?

A writers' strike: the 2007-08 Writers Guild walkout left the show with its shortest season and pushed some planned storylines back to the following year.

Roughly how many episodes did Supernatural air in all?

327 episodes, and the run ended by choice: the network had said the show could go on as long as its two leads wanted, and in 2019 the cast announced that the next season would be the last.

Which cinematographer gave Supernatural its dark look across all fifteen seasons?

Serge Ladouceur was Supernatural's cinematographer from the first season through the last, reworking The X-Files' expressionist lighting into a grungy chiaroscuro of blacks, browns and dark blues.

Kripke named Castiel after googling the angel of which day of the week?

Thursday was the night the show aired when the character was created, which is why Kripke typed 'angel of Thursday' into a search engine to find him a name.

Castiel's rumpled trench-coat look was modelled on which comic-book character?

John Constantine, DC's trench-coated occult detective, was the model, and the coat became the angel's signature: when he seems to die in season seven, it is all that is left floating on the water.

To keep the arrival of angels secret, Misha Collins auditioned believing Castiel was what?

A demon is how the casting call described him; Collins was hired for a six-episode arc in season four, the part was extended, and he ended up staying for twelve seasons.

What is the name of the man whose body Castiel takes as a vessel on Supernatural?

Jimmy Novak, a devout family man, gets his body back for a day in 'The Rapture', then begs the angel to take him again so his daughter Claire is spared the same fate.

Who took over from Eric Kripke as Supernatural's showrunner for seasons six and seven?

Sera Gamble, a writer on the show since its first season, took the reins when Kripke stepped back after finishing his five-season story; Jeremy Carver succeeded her in season eight.

Which season-six Supernatural episode was Jensen Ackles's debut as a director?

'Weekend at Bobby's' turns the camera around: Ackles's first episode as director follows Bobby through the research, phone calls and favours that keep other hunters alive.

Which Supernatural hunter's parting words to the brothers, 'Kick it in the ass', saluted a late director?

Ellen Harvelle says it as she stays behind with her dying daughter; the line was added on set as a salute to a producer-director, lost to cancer that year, who used the phrase himself.

In which season-five Supernatural episode do a mother and daughter hunter team make their last stand?

'Abandon All Hope...' ends with the mother staying beside her dying daughter to blow up a pack of hellhounds, buying the brothers a shot at the Devil that fails anyway.

In Supernatural's 'Baby', which Bob Seger song do Sam and Dean sing along to on the drive?

'Night Moves' comes on the tape deck and both brothers belt it out; the whole episode is seen from inside their car, which is the 'Baby' of the title.

In Supernatural's 'Mystery Spot', which day of the week does Sam relive more than a hundred times?

Tuesday keeps restarting to Asia's 'Heat of the Moment' on the clock radio, and Dean dies a different way each time until Sam works out who is behind the loop.

In Supernatural's 'Swan Song', what childhood object in the brothers' car jolts Sam into retaking control of his body?

A plastic army man Sam jammed into the ashtray as a boy catches his eye, the memories flood back, and he holds control long enough to throw himself into the Cage.

In Supernatural's 'Swan Song', which Def Leppard song blasts from Dean's car as he interrupts Michael and Lucifer?

'Rock of Ages' was the creator's way of lightening the scene: he wanted a 'certain kind of quirk' so the archangels' stand-off would not feel too heavy.

Which rogue angel sends Sam and Dean into the world of Supernatural's 'The French Mistake'?

Balthazar sends the brothers into a world where they are actors called Jensen and Jared on a TV show named Supernatural, and where magic does not exist at all.

Which band's 'Carry On Wayward Son' became Supernatural's unofficial theme, played over its season-finale recaps?

Kansas's 1976 hit opened nearly every season finale, and the series bowed out on it too: the last episode is titled 'Carry On' and ends with a cover of the song.

Within Supernatural's story, Sam and Dean are named after which relatives?

Grandparents: in the show's own story the brothers are named for their mother's parents, Samuel and Deanna, hunters themselves, whom a time-travelling Dean meets in 1973 but cannot save.

Which university was Sam attending when Dean came for him in Supernatural's pilot?

Stanford was Sam's escape: he left for college after a blowout argument with John, and by the pilot he and Dean had not spoken in years.

In Supernatural's pilot, Sam is celebrating a high score on which exam?

The LSAT score has earned Sam a law-school interview on Monday, which is why he agrees to help Dean look for their father only for the weekend.

Who played the thief Bela Talbot in season three of Supernatural?

Lauren Cohan, later Maggie on The Walking Dead, joined as a regular for season three, but fans took against the thief Bela and the character was written out within the year.

Jared Padalecki married which Supernatural co-star?

Genevieve Cortese joined the cast in season four, married Padalecki in 2010, and came back to play a version of herself, as his wife, in 'The French Mistake'.

Which actor was the main face of the yellow-eyed demon?

Fredric Lehne was the yellow-eyed demon's main face, from the season-one finale through the season-two finale, where Dean finally shoots him with the Colt.

On Supernatural, what colour are Lilith's eyes when her demon side shows?

White eyes mark Hell's highest ranks, above the black-eyed rank and file; Lilith first flashes hers from the face of a little girl she has possessed.

Which of the yellow-eyed demon's psychic children stabs Sam to death at the end of Supernatural's second season?

Jake Talley, a soldier, stabs Sam in the back in 'All Hell Breaks Loose', the death that drives Dean to sell his soul; a revived Sam later shoots him down at the Devil's Gate.

The Ghostfacers, Supernatural's amateur ghost hunters, are led by Harry Spangler and which partner?

Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spangler debut in season one's 'Hell House' as self-proclaimed professional investigators, and later starred in a spin-off web series of their own.

On Supernatural, which company does Dick Roman buy in order to dose the nation's food supply?

Sucrocorp, one of the world's biggest corn-syrup makers, gives the Leviathans a way to lace everyday food with an additive that turns people into docile, fattened cattle.

Supernatural's 'Bloodlines' backdoor pilot was set among rival monster families in which city?

Chicago is secretly run by mafia-style monster families in 'Bloodlines', a season-nine episode built to launch a spin-off that the network then declined to order.

In a 2018 animated episode, Supernatural's heroes are pulled into which classic cartoon?

Scooby-Doo's gang gets a rude shock in 'Scoobynatural': the brothers land in the 1970 episode 'A Night of Fright Is No Delight', where for once the ghost turns out to be real.

Which actor joined Supernatural's main cast as Lucifer's Nephilim son?

Alexander Calvert first appears in the closing moments of season twelve, as a newborn who is already fully grown, and was a series regular from the next season to the finale.

Which actor played Lucifer on Supernatural?

Mark Pellegrino's Lucifer kept returning in later seasons, and once the Devil was finally killed the actor stayed on as Nick, the widower whose body Lucifer had worn.

In season twelve of Supernatural, Lucifer briefly possesses the holder of which office?

The US President, the fictional Jefferson Rooney, is the Devil's host until the brothers drive him out, and the Secret Service then locks them in a secret prison as would-be assassins.

On Supernatural, what is the first of the three trials for closing the Gates of Hell?

Kill a hellhound and bathe in its blood is only step one, and Dean means to take the trials himself until Sam makes the kill, is drenched in the blood and insists on finishing them.

Supernatural's 300th episode, which brought John Winchester back, is named after which town?

Lebanon, a tiny town beside the geographic centre of the contiguous United States, is where the brothers' bunker stands, so the family-reunion episode took its name.

Which two other fandoms merged with Supernatural's in a famous Tumblr mega-fandom?

Doctor Who and Sherlock joined Supernatural in 'SuperWhoLock', a crossover fans built on Tumblr in the early 2010s by mashing the three shows together in GIF sets, fan art, fan fiction and fake trailers.

Supernatural's fourth season was dedicated to which executive producer and director, who died in January 2009?

Kim Manners had come over from The X-Files, and his on-set catchphrase, 'Kick it in the ass', was later slipped into a hunter's farewell as a salute.

Which season-four Supernatural episode was filmed entirely in black and white?

'Monster Movie' was shot in black and white as a homage to 1930s horror films, with a shapeshifter killing in the guises of Dracula, a mummy and a wolf man.

In which season-three Supernatural episode are the brothers besieged in a sheriff's station by a horde of demons?

'Jus in Bello' locks the brothers in a jail with the FBI agent who has hunted them for two seasons, and its sound editors earned the show an Emmy nomination.

In Supernatural's 'Bad Day at Black Rock', which cursed charm brings luck and then doom?

A rabbit's foot, cursed so that losing it means death within a week, brings Sam a run of luck in 'Bad Day at Black Rock' before Bela Talbot steals it.

In Supernatural's time-loop episode 'Mystery Spot', which song wakes Sam on the radio every Tuesday morning?

Heat of the Moment by Asia greets Sam each time the day resets, because the Trickster has trapped the brothers in a loop where Dean is killed in a different way across 100 Tuesdays.

Which celebrity guest-starred as herself, the chosen disguise of a pagan god, in Supernatural's 'Fallen Idols'?

Paris Hilton played a Leshi, a god that also appears as Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi. She had already acted with Jared Padalecki in the 2005 horror film House of Wax.

In which branch of the US military did Supernatural's John Winchester serve in Vietnam before he became a hunter?

The Marines shaped how John raised his sons as soldiers, and the prequel series The Winchesters opens with him coming home from the war in 1972.

Supernatural's episode 'Fan Fiction' finds a school's students retelling Sam and Dean's adventures on stage as what?

A musical based on the in-universe Supernatural books is the school's show, and the goddess Calliope protects it so that she can eat its writer, Marie, once it is finished.

Which biblical brand does Dean take on in Supernatural's ninth season so that he can wield the First Blade?

The Mark of Cain lets Dean kill Abaddon, a Knight of Hell, but it feeds a bloodlust that ends with him dying and waking up as a demon.

On Supernatural, what name is given to the alliance of Sam, Dean and the rebel angel Castiel?

Team Free Will takes its name from the brothers' refusal to follow the script that angels and demons had written for them in the Apocalypse.

Jensen Ackles came to Supernatural straight from playing football coach Jason Teague on which other series?

Smallville cast Ackles as a love interest for Lana Lang, though he had first auditioned to play the young Clark Kent, a part that went to Tom Welling.

In which Amazon superhero satire, run by Supernatural's creator, did Jensen Ackles join the cast in season three?

The Boys cast Ackles as Soldier Boy, its legendary first superhero, and he sang a Robert Mitchum cover in character for the season's soundtrack.

After Supernatural ended, Jared Padalecki took the title role in a reboot of which 1990s action series?

Walker, Texas Ranger returned as Walker, which ran on The CW from 2021 to 2024 with Padalecki as Cordell Walker, a lawman back home after a long undercover job.

Which substance does Sam secretly drink in Supernatural's fourth season to fuel his growing psychic powers?

Demon blood was first fed to Sam as a baby, and his later addiction to it is so strong that Dean has Bobby lock him in a panic room to dry out.

Supernatural's 'Changing Channels' ends its run of television parodies by dropping Sam into a spoof of which series?

Knight Rider is the final parody, with Sam turned into the Impala and made to talk like K.I.T.T. Before it the brothers survive a medical drama, a Japanese game show and a sitcom.

Which Supernatural angel, the Scribe of God, tricks Castiel into a spell that casts every other angel out of Heaven?

Metatron was played by Curtis Armstrong, still best known as Booger in Revenge of the Nerds. The spell leaves Castiel human and struggling to survive through the first part of season nine.

Before Supernatural, Jared Padalecki spent five years playing a boyfriend named Dean Forester on which comedy-drama?

Gilmore Girls almost cost him his Supernatural audition: he was nearly turned down for having played a boy with no college plans, until his manager noted he was a National Merit Scholar.

Which later Emmy-winning actor played Gordon Walker, the vampire hunter who decides that Supernatural's Sam must die?

Sterling K. Brown played Gordon years before This Is Us, as a man who kills anything inhuman and even tortures vampires that feed only on cattle.

Which actor played Supernatural's salvage-yard mentor, a role he expected to last only for the first-season finale?

Jim Beaver became a recurring favourite yet turned down offers to become a series regular, and his character shares a name with executive producer Robert Singer.

Which actor played the Winchesters' father on Supernatural while appearing as Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan filmed both roles in 2005 and 2006, then found his biggest audience a decade later as Negan in The Walking Dead.

Which Texas city, home to both of Supernatural's lead actors, proclaimed a 'Supernatural Day' in June 2018?

Austin's mayor, Steve Adler, made the proclamation to honour Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, and the ceremony drew fans and crew members from across the United States.

Which Supernatural prophet is an advanced placement student until lightning strikes and he can read the Word of God?

Kevin Tran, played by Osric Chau, is preparing for college when he is chosen, and the first tablet he reads explains how to fight the Leviathans.

On Supernatural, what is the name of the place where angels and demons go when they die?

The Empty takes Castiel in the final season, when he gives himself up to save Dean from Death.

Which Supernatural angel, disgraced for letting Lucifer into Eden, secretly possesses Sam under the name Ezekiel?

Gadreel answers Dean's prayer to heal a dying Sam, and the deception splits the brothers once it comes out.

Which rock anthem does Jensen Ackles lip-sync atop the Impala in the outtake ending Supernatural's 'Yellow Fever'?

Eye of the Tiger, Survivor's 1982 hit, makes a fitting send-off for an episode in which ghost sickness leaves Dean frightened of everything.

Which 1980s pop star played Vince Vincente, the faded rocker Lucifer takes as a vessel in Supernatural's twelfth season?

Rick Springfield, the singer of 'Jessie's Girl', plays a rocker who lets Lucifer in after the archangel poses as his dead lover.

Which storybook heroine turns up alive in the brothers' bunker, as a hunter, in Supernatural's 'Slumber Party'?

Dorothy trapped herself in a jar with the Wicked Witch of the West in 1935, and Dean frees them both by accident decades later.

Which future Arrow star joined Supernatural's main cast for the third season only, playing a knife-wielding demon?

Katie Cassidy, the daughter of singer David Cassidy, went on to play Laurel Lance, the Black Canary, across the Arrowverse shows.

Which actor plays Garth, the Supernatural hunter who trained as a dentist and killed the Tooth Fairy on his first case?

DJ Qualls plays Garth as an eccentric who takes over Bobby's old job of coordinating hunters, and even starts wearing his hat.

Which actor played the young John Winchester in Supernatural's time-travel episodes and later directed for the show?

Matt Cohen first appeared in 'In the Beginning', and in a later trip to the past his John agrees to serve as a temporary vessel for the archangel Michael.

Which Stargate actress played Naomi, the angel who secretly controls Castiel in Supernatural's eighth season?

Amanda Tapping, Stargate SG-1's Samantha Carter, appeared in seven episodes as Naomi and later came back to Supernatural as a director.

Which Supernatural demon, an infamous torturer in Hell, breaks Dean by teaching him to torture others in turn?

Alastair made the same offer to John Winchester, who refused it for close to a century, while Dean held out for thirty years before giving in.

What was the first name of Supernatural's Crowley when he lived as a human in 17th-century Scotland?

Fergus had a son, Gavin, and the two hated each other. Gavin's ghost reveals where his father's bones are buried, which gives the hunters leverage over the demon.

Which sheriff, played by Kim Rhodes, was meant to lead Supernatural's proposed spin-off Wayward Sisters?

Jody Mills fronted the backdoor pilot in January 2018, but the network declined to order it, just as it had passed on Supernatural: Bloodlines four years earlier.

Which Jersey Shore star appears as herself, the host of a crossroads demon, in Supernatural's ninth season?

Snooki, whose real name is Nicole Polizzi, cameos in 'Blade Runners', the episode in which the brothers and Crowley hunt for the First Blade.

What is the name of the dog that Dean finds and later adopts in Supernatural's final episodes?

Miracle turns up on the emptied Earth only for Chuck to make the dog vanish too, and Dean adopts Miracle once the world is put right.

In Supernatural's finale 'Carry On', Dean dies during a barn fight with vampires after being impaled on what?

A metal spike catches Dean in the back mid-fight, and he asks Sam to stay for a last goodbye instead of going for medical supplies.

Supernatural's 'Clap Your Hands If You Believe' opens with a title sequence remade in tribute to which series?

The X-Files gets the nod because the case begins as a string of alien abductions, though fairies, elves and a leprechaun turn out to be behind it.

What kind of event did Supernatural's Misha Collins create in 2011 to steer fan creativity toward good causes?

A scavenger hunt named GISHWHES, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, followed the charity Random Acts, which Collins co-founded in 2010.

Which English actor, Badger in Firefly, played the crossroads demon who rises to rule Hell on Supernatural?

Mark Sheppard is a fixture of cult television, also playing lawyer Romo Lampkin in Battlestar Galactica and Interpol's James Sterling in Leverage.

Before settling on two brothers, Supernatural's creator pitched an anthology series built around which kind of hero?

A tabloid reporter chasing strange stories was the idea, modelled on the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, but the network turned it down.

Which slogan did Supernatural's Jared Padalecki put on T-shirts in 2015 to raise money for mental health causes?

Always Keep Fighting launched as Padalecki spoke publicly about his own depression and anxiety, and a second shirt showed his face beside Jensen Ackles's.

In Supernatural's 'The End', Dean wakes five years in the future to a world devastated by which virus?

Croatoan is the virus that Pestilence hides in a swine flu vaccine, a scheme that Castiel and Crowley help to stop before it spreads.

After Bobby dies in Supernatural's seventh season, his ghost lingers beside the brothers by tying itself to what?

A hip flask that Dean kept as a memento anchors him, and Bobby finally asks the brothers to burn it once his anger starts turning him vengeful.

Which obsessive fan of Supernatural's in-universe novels wins Sam over in season seven with a demon's love potion?

Becky Rosen, played by Emily Perkins, marries Sam in Las Vegas, then helps the brothers and the hunter Garth trap the demon who supplied the potion.

Under which pen name, built from two of the show's writers' surnames, are Supernatural's in-universe novels published?

Carver Edlund joins the surnames of Jeremy Carver and Ben Edlund, the latter better known as the creator of the comic-book hero the Tick.

Which director, whose first sixteen pilots all went to series, directed Supernatural's opening episode?

David Nutter's signing was what got the pilot approved for filming, and he later won an Emmy for directing Game of Thrones.

Which composer, a friend of Supernatural's creator, earned an Emmy nomination for scoring the show's pilot?

Christopher Lennertz, a student of film composer Elmer Bernstein, went on to score Supernatural through all fifteen of its seasons.

Which family in Supernatural's tenth season harvests organs to transplant into its own members and make them superhuman?

The Stynes turn out to be the house of Frankenstein under a new name, and in the show Mary Shelley wrote her novel after discovering the family's secrets.

Which spellbook, said to record every curse and its cure, does Charlie track down in Supernatural's tenth season?

The Book of the Damned is written in code and takes a separate codex to read, and the spell the witch Rowena finally casts from it sets the Darkness loose.

Which childhood imaginary friend of Sam's turns out to be real in Supernatural's 'Just My Imagination'?

Sully is a Zanna, a creature that comforts lonely children, and he once urged a young Sam to run away from the hunting life.

Which English-born character actor played the Horseman Death across five years of guest appearances on Supernatural?

Julian Richings is a horror regular whose films include Cube, Wrong Turn and The Witch, and he played Death again in a 2011 short film.

Which actor, who played God on Supernatural, fronts Louden Swain, the band that performs at the show's fan conventions?

Rob Benedict suffered a stroke at a Supernatural convention in Toronto in 2013 and later raised money for stroke charities with a T-shirt campaign.

Supernatural's creator first developed a 2003 series that moved which pulp hero to modern New York City?

Tarzan was cancelled after eight episodes, and Kripke later said that the pilot was the only part of it he would stand behind.