Dean Winchester is a fictional character on The CW Television Network's Supernatural, portrayed by Jensen Ackles.

Background

Dean Winchester was born on January 24, 1979. He loves his car (a black four-door 1967 Chevrolet Impala), his family, and classic rock music. He always wears a brass amulet[1] on a long black cloth band necklace. While the significance of the necklace is unknown, it is clearly quite important to Dean (Ackles has claimed in an interview that it is an Egyptian protection amulet, but this has been yet to be proved in an episode).

From an early age, he was trained by his father John Winchester to hunt demons but unlike his brother he shows no resentment to his father for being "raised like a warrior", feeling that after his mother's violent death, his father raised him and his younger brother the only way that he could. He seems to prefer "the hunt" to the possibility of a normal life. Due to his father's training, he has several notable advantages for a human: he is an exceptional shot, has knowledge beyond the norm regarding the supernatural, is a skilled fighter, and appears to have some proficiency with melee weapons. He is also the only one allowed to call his brother "Sammy". When giving false names, he frequently gives the names of rock musicians. He also appears to be a fan of Jack Nicholson and possibly watches Oprah. He tends to make light of some of his and Sam's adventures and is known to use crude humor and make sexual innuendos. He is terrified of airplanes and claims that it is the reason why he drives everywhere. Dean values his family's safety over anything else, even going so far as to kill a demon and it's host in order to save Sam's life. Template:Spoiler

Season 1

When Dean was four years old, his mother Mary was killed in his younger brother Sam's bedroom. Twenty-two years later, The Demon responsible for their mother's death kills Sam's girlfriend, Jessica Moore. Together, Dean and Sam go on a road trip to fend off supernatural creatures and search for their father, John, who occasionally leaves new missions for them to complete.

Early in the season ("Skin"), Dean and Sam battle a shapeshifter responsible for a string of brutal murders in the St. Louis, MO area. During the course of the episode, the shapeshifter assumes Dean's form, causing police to believe that Dean is responsible for the murders. However, Dean kills the shapeshifter while it is still in his form, and the authorities officially declare him dead.

The season finale concluded with Sam, Dean, and John escaping from a clash with "The Demon" in Salvation, Iowa. While Sam was driving to a hospital after Dean and John were injured, a demoniacally possessed driver drove his truck into the Impala, causing massive damage to the car and the Winchesters inside.

Season 2

All three of the Winchesters survive the wreck, although Dean is more severely injured than his father or brother. In the first episode of Season 2 ("In My Time of Dying"), Dean is in a coma and a reaper, Tessa, tries to convince him to die. In order to save him, John makes a deal with The Demon, trading his life for Dean's. Before he dies, John whispers something in Dean's ear which the audience cannot hear.

Throughout the first half of the second season, Dean struggles with the death of his father, as well as with the knowledge that he was the one who was supposed to have died. Furthermore, he is haunted by his father's last words to him, and at the midpoint of the season, it is revealed that John told Dean that The Demon intends to turn Sam evil, and if Dean can not save Sam, Dean must kill his brother.

During an investigation in Baltimore, MD ("The Usual Suspects"), Dean is arrested in connection with another series of murders. It is revealed that Dean has a rather impressive police record, with charges over the years including credit card fraud, breaking and entering, and grave desecration. Although Sam and Dean are able to prove that the murders were actually committed by one of the detectives on the case, it is unclear whether or not the charges against Dean were ever officially dropped. However, the problem still remains that the authorities have realized that Dean is not dead, as they had previously believed. A team of FBI agents, led by Special Agent Victor Hendrickson catches up with Dean and Sam in Milwaukee, WI ("Nightshifter"), where attempted bank robbery and several more murders are added to Dean's list of supposed crimes. at the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose , part 1"Sam dies in his arms, so he is now on his own to grieve his brother's death and move on. Template:Endspoiler

Equipment

The Impala

Dean's trademark black 1967 Chevrolet Impala, bears a Sedgwick County, Kansas (even though they are from Lawrence, Kansas) license plate KAZ 2Y5, a reference to Kansas, the Winchesters' home state, and 2005, the year the show premiered, was passed down to him by his father. It has been prominently featured on the series, beginning with the teaser of the pilot which shows John Winchester holding his two sons as he sits on the car and watches his house burn. The car is Dean's most prized possession, and he protects it with nearly the same ferocity with which he protects his family. In the pilot episode, the trunk is revealed to hold various weaponry to fight the supernatural. Though it is damaged at the end of "Pilot," it is repaired and the car is featured throughout the first season until a tragic crash at the end of the season finale. The car is in repairs at the beginning of the second season, though Dean beats the trunk of the car with a tire iron in anger at the end of "Everybody Loves a Clown." It appears for the first time fully repaired in "Bloodlust" in an extended sequence to the soundtrack of AC/DC's "Back in Black". Mind-controlled, Dean cheerfully gives the car to Andy Gallagher in "Simon Said," but the brothers soon recover it. Dean tends to use a chromed Colt 1911 with pearl grips, which John is seen using in a flashback. He also uses a sawed off double barrel shotgun when he needs extra firepower. Dean has also been seen with a sniper rifle in the episode "Simon Said."

Notable episodes about Dean

• "Wendigo"
• "Dead in the Water"
• "Phantom Traveler"
• "Skin"
• "Faith"
• "Route 666"
• "The Benders"
• "Something Wicked"
• "Devil's Trap"
• "In My Time Of Dying"
• "Everybody Loves A Clown"
• "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"
• "Croatoan"
• "Nightshifter"
• "Houses of the Holy"
• "Born Under a Bad Sign"
• "What Is and What Should Never Be"

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