Dean Winchester

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Hunter (Formerly)
* Men of Letters (Formerly)

### Species

* Human
* Knight of Hell (Cured)
* Vampire (Cured)
* Ghost (Formerly)
* Jefferson Starship (Cured)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Adam (Ancestor)
* Eve † (Ancestor)
* Cain † (Ancestor)
* Abel † (Ancestor)
* Henry Winchester † (Paternal Grandfather)
* Millie Winchester † (Paternal Grandmother)
* Samuel Campbell † (Maternal Grandfather)
* Deanna Campbell † (Maternal Grandmother)
* John Winchester † (Father)
* Henry Stuart † (Adoptive Father-In-Law)
* Mary Winchester † (Mother)
* Sam Winchester (Younger Brother)
* Athena Stuart (Sister-In-Law)
* Adam Milligan (Paternal Younger Brother)
* Emma † (Daughter)
* Hope Winchester (Daughter)
* Ethan Winchester (Son)
* Ares Winchester (Nephew)
* Amelia Winchester (Niece)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'1" (Feet)
* 1.85 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Jensen Ackles

**Dean Winchester** was a human and hunter as well as a member of the Men of Letters with his younger brother Sam. He and his brother are members of the Winchester and Campbell families. Through his father, Dean is the older half-brother of Adam Milligan. He is one of the main protagonists of *Supernatural*.

Dean is also the destined vessel of the Archangel Michael. He and Sam are also the surrogate sons of the late Bobby Singer. Dean is close with the tribrid, Athena Stuart, best friends with the angel Castiel, close friend to the late prophet Kevin Tran, and reluctant ally of Crowley. Dean has an ex-girlfriend, Lisa Braeden, who he lived with for a year when he thought Sam and Athena was in Hell. She has a child named Ben, who Dean acted as a father for during that year. Dean's first biological child was an amazon named Emma. He is also the former apprentice of Alastair.

Both Dean and Sam were raised in the hunting life by their father, after the demon Azazel killed their mother. Dean's main role in the series is being the self-appointed guardian of Sam and often going to extreme lengths to protect him regardless of personal cost. Often in these occurrences Dean finds himself the center of a much larger picture.

When he was killed by Metatron whilst using the Mark of Cain, Dean returned as a demon and a Knight of Hell loyal only to himself. He was then cured by his brother using purified blood. Eventually, the Mark was removed, but the price was that the Darkness has now been released into the world, something Dean tried to avoid. Dean, his brother, and Athena soon met God who returned to help put an end to the danger to the world. During this time, Dean got through to God about not sacrificing himself and The Darkness about not destroying all of reality and helped them reconcile. As a reward, Dean was given back his mother and was able to return to his usual style of hunting with his family.

With his mother trapped in an alternate reality, Dean set out with Sam, Athena, Castiel, his newly daughter HopeRachel, Scarlet, Isabela, and the Nephilim Jack to rescue Mary and reunite his family, a situation made more urgent by the upcoming invasion of an alternate reality Michael. Following the reunion of his family, Dean agreed to become the vessel for the alternate Michael in order to finish Lucifer once and for all. Aided by Michael, Dean faced Lucifer in battle and ultimately killed the rogue archangel and ended his long reign of terror. This victory was short-lived as Dean was to be betrayed by Michael who took full control of Dean and became loose upon the Main Universe in Dean's body, his one true vessel. Michael would use him for weeks before he left Dean's body on his own for unknown reasons.

In the days after, Dean struggled with re-adjusting to being himself again as he tried to help Sam on hunts. However, he regain his will and did better in hunting, as he and his family decided to go after Michael and defeat him. Dean also bonded with Jack after learning his declining health. During a confrontation with Michael, the Archangel retook control of Dean after revealing that he left to break his spirits and locked the hunter away in his subconscious. However, Dean manages to trap Michael within his own subconscious shortly thereafter, but is left worried for what will occur if the archangel escapes.

Following a hunt, Dean lost concentration over keeping Michael imprisoned but the latter instead escaped Dean's mind and took Rowena for an alternative vessel while inflicting revenge on Dean. However, Michael was then killed by Jack, saving the world from his influence and freeing Dean of his grasp.

Almost five years after defeating God himself, Dean is killed for a final time during the Masked Vampires hunt. Dean accepts his fate and his soul goes to Heaven where he is reunited with Bobby Singer.

**Dean** is a member of the **Winchester Family** and **Campbell Family**.

## Physical Appearance

Dean has green eyes, light freckles on his face and short-cropped Ivy-league hair that is dark blonde. He is 6'1"-- making him shorter than his younger brother Sam—and muscular. Dean is noted to be "handsome" or even "pretty" by other characters constantly.

He usually wears a plaid shirt over a T-shirt, jeans, and boots, unless he has to wear a disguise in order to impersonate someone. Until Season 6, Dean often wore his father's leather jacket. He also used to wear a watch and a silver ring. As of Season 4, Dean has a hand-shaped burn scar on his left shoulder from where Castiel pulled him out of Hell. This mark has since disappeared from his body.

For the first four seasons, Dean also wore an amulet around his neck that resembled the head of a bull made of brass, attached to a black cord. This amulet was given to him by Sam as a Christmas gift when they were children. Throughout the first half of Season 5, Castiel attempts to use this amulet to find God, as its claimed power is to burn hot in God's presence. When Castiel is unsuccessful, he declares the amulet "useless," and Dean throws it away.

Sometime before *Jus In Bello*, Dean got a tattoo on his chest of the anti-possession symbol to protect himself from demons.

Dean mentions to Haley Collins in season 1 that he doesn't wear shorts. However, he is actually wearing shorts while cleaning The Impala in *Baby* and as the substitute gym teacher in *After School Special*.

Dean recently received the Mark of Cain, manifesting just below his elbow. The Mark was removed in *Brother's Keeper*. Dean later briefly possessed a pair of Black Eyes while he was a Demon. Since separating from Sam, his appearance has become more scruffy and unshaven; his hair has also grown out a bit.

In *Let the Good Times Roll*, Dean gains a pair of Angel's Wings due to his status as Apocalypse World Michael's current vessel. During the brief period of time Dean was in control while Michael powered him from within, Dean was able to display the wings and use them in battle against Lucifer. Once Michael took full control of Dean and teleported away from Sam and Jack, he changed from Dean's usual attire to that of a 1920's era suit and hat.

When Dean meets John in the Monster Club's universe, he has a much more scruffy appearance, although he is more clean shaven by the time that he meets with the Monster Club after the Akrida's defeat.

## Personality

Dean Winchester, from the moment of his debut, was shown to be an understanding, funny, mischievous, and, in contrast to his younger brother, a little immature. Dean's shown countless times to be good with kids and the ladies. At an early age, Dean was trained by his father, John Winchester, to hunt and kill creatures of the supernatural. However, unlike his brother Sam, he did not resent his father for having him "raised like a warrior". He seemed to prefer hunting the supernatural over any normal "apple pie" life, though it was revealed that when he was sixteen, he did in fact desire (or at least hope for) a normal life: he just couldn't leave Sam. This however did not last long, as later on - while still sixteen - following a werewolf hunt, he realized just how unique his life was. However, by Season 7, following all that he has seen and done, Dean admits to Eliot Ness that he no longer wants to be a hunter and would give it up if he could. Dean is an avid fan of classic rock music. Many of his aliases have included the names of famous rock musicians. He is known to use crude humor, use pop culture references, make sexual innuendos, and indulge in pornography (especially about Busty Asian Beauties). He has even stated once that he does enjoy anime and Japanese animated porn (Hentai).