Sam Winchester

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## Biographical Information

### Occupation

* Hunter (Currently)
* Men of Letters (Currently)

### Species

* Human (Special Child) (Currently)
* Ghost (Formerly)
* Rabid (Cured)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Adam (Ancestor)
* Eve † (Ancestor)
* Cain † (Ancestor)
* Abel † (Ancestor)
* Lilith † (Mother-In-Law)
* Fiona Stuart (Adoptive Mother-In-Law)
* Crowley † (Father-In-Law)
* Gavin MacLeod † (Brother-In-Law)
* Natalie Hendrix (Adoptive Sister-In-Law)
* 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)
* Dean Winchester † (Older Brother)
* Athena Stuart (Wife)
* Adam Milligan (Paternal Younger Brother)
* Emma Stuart † (Adoptive Sister-In-Law)
* Emma † (Niece)
* Hope Winchester (Niece/Step-Daughter)
* Ethan Winchester (Nephew/Step-Son)
* Ares Winchester (Son)
* Amelia Winchester (Daughter)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'4" (Feet)
* 1.93 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Jared Padalecki

**Samuel "Sam" William Winchester** is a hunter as well as a Man of Letters, along with his older brother Dean. He is one of the main protagonists of *Supernatural*. Both Sam and Dean are related to the Winchester and Campbell families - a Letters family and a Hunting family respectively. The pair also shares a bloodline with Cain and Abel. Because of this, Sam was predestined to be the true vessel of the fallen archangel Lucifer (whilst Dean was Michael's). Sam is friends with angel Castiel, Prophet Kevin Tran, the demon Meg, and former lover-turned-enemy of demon Ruby. He is also the occasional reluctant ally of demon Crowley and for a time was forced to be an unknowing and unwilling vessel for the angel Gadreel (before expelling him).

After the demon Azazel killed their mother, Mary, both Sam and Dean were raised in the hunting life by their father John. Sam left the hunting life to pursue a career in law, and most likely would have married his college sweetheart Jessica Moore. At the series' start, Sam was reluctant to start hunting again. When Jessica was killed, he was pushed back into the hunting life. However, he has been repeatedly known to try and back out of hunting in the hope of finally having a normal life as he wanted.

After Sam's quest to remove the Mark of Cain unleashed the Darkness upon the world, Sam was forced to confront the consequences of his actions. For Sam, the situation worsened when Lucifer manipulated the situation to escape in the vessel of Castiel. Sam was left torn between using Lucifer to help battle the Darkness as Castiel wished and his own traumas and the resulting desire to be rid of the rogue archangel as a result.

Following the reconciliation of the Darkness and God, Sam was abducted by agents of the British Men of Letters and tortured. During this time, Sam faced a surprise reunion with his resurrected mother, the return of Lucifer to evil and the draw of the promises of the British Men of Letters to rid the world of monsters. The situation was further exasperated when Lucifer conceived a Nephilim child before his apparent defeat and return to the Cage. With the British Men of Letters threat growing, Sam was forced into a leadership role to end the threat, but suffered losses while battling Lucifer for control of his child.

With the losses of Crowley and Castiel and with Mary Winchester trapped in the Apocalypse World with Lucifer, Sam struggled to find a way to rescue his mother while dealing with Lucifer's son Jack and Dean's growing depression, aided by Castiel's subsequent resurrection. With Athena giving birth to his niece, Hope he's trying to be their for his family. He was also forced to contend with the threat from the last Prince of Hell Asmodeus. However, after Jack and Hope got trapped in Apocalypse World as well, Sam fell into a depression of his own, only lightened when a way was found to rescue Mary, Jack, and Hope.

With the growing threat of the Apocalypse World Michael, the return of Gabriel and the death of Asmodeus, Sam's focus shifted completely to saving his family and ending the threat of Michael and Lucifer once and for all. After being killed by vampires in Apocalypse World, Sam was resurrected once more by Lucifer and reluctantly forged an alliance with his old enemy in light of the situation. Sam's subsequent decision to purposefully strand Lucifer in Apocalypse World again led to severe consequences when Michael and Lucifer worked together to reach the Main Universe. Though Lucifer was finally killed by Dean with the help of Michael, the victory was short-lived for Sam after he was forced to watch his brother taken over by Michael who was let loose upon the Main Universe in the body of his one true vessel.

After Dean's final death, Sam goes on to live a life with Athena, have a family resulting in their son and daughter Ares and Amelia Winchester. He reverts back to a younger form. With the help of Hope he's able to go to Heaven whenever he wanted to see Dean. Sam is very mentally strong, evidenced by his ability to overpower possession by Lucifer. It has been argued that he is the smarter or more intelligent of the Winchester brothers, although Sam himself would disagree. Over time, Sam has resigned himself to the hunting lifestyle and has repeatedly sacrificed himself for the greater good, highlighting his selfless nature.

**Sam** is a member of the **Winchester Family** and **Campbell Family** and by his marriage to Athena he's the member of the **MacLeod Family**, **Hendrix Family**, and **Stuart Family**.

## Physical Appearance

Sam has shaggy brown hair that grows longer and smoother in later seasons; he had a fringe as a child as well as in the first two seasons. Over the course of the show, he grew the fringe out. His eye color seems to change; sometimes they appear light green, sometimes they appear brown, etc. He is noted by other characters to be handsome. Sam is very tall, 6′ 4**″** (193.04 cm) having a muscular build with broad shoulders and a muscular chest. This is especially ironic considering that he used to be teased for being short and wiry as a teenager. Like Dean, Sam often wears multiple layers of clothing (namely plaid shirts) as well as jeans and boots. In Season 8 of the series, Sam, who is known for always having a clean shaved face, has been sporting some facial stubble similar to Dean. In season 14, Sam grew a beard in the three weeks that Dean was possessed by Michael, mainly due to running himself ragged while hunting for leads. He later shaves it off in *Mint Condition*, after Dean made fun of him.

Sometime before *Jus In Bello*, Sam got a tattoo on his chest of the anti-possession symbol to protect himself from demons. He kept it until *Road Trip* when Castiel removed it so Crowley could go inside Sam and help him expel Gadreel. He got it restored at some point off-screen as it is seen again in later seasons.

A cut on the palm of his left hand was sustained during the episode *Meet the New Boss*. He was taught by Dean to use it as a way to discern hallucination from reality. Although the scar has healed by now, Sam still presses upon his left palm whenever things get too difficult to believe.

In *The Benders*, a police file on Sam states his eyes are brown; however, his FBI file in later seasons lists them as blue.

## Personality

Sam is usually kind, empathetic, intelligent and independent. In the 200th episode, he is described as 'sweet, brave, selfless Sam'. He is often the exasperated voice of reason in his relationship with Dean, who in turn sees him as a geek or prude, and teasingly calls him "bitch," to which Sam usually responds with "jerk". Dean has respect for Sam as a hunter and trusts Sam to "have his six". Sam is repeatedly telling Dean that killing humans is wrong and he does not enjoy the job as much as Dean. However, in later seasons he has not hesitated to kill humans when necessary and even led an assault to wipe out the British Men of Letters American operation despite them all being human due to the threat they posed. He was even poised to shoot the unarmed Doctor Hess due to the threat she represented before she was killed by Jody Mills instead. He does not seem to drink alcohol as much as Dean does and has a much healthier diet than his brother (Dean scoffs at Sam's diet and calls it "rabbit food"). According to Dean, Sam's blood type is O negative as said in the episode *Red Meat*. Sam also has a phobia of clowns, due to his brother often leaving him at Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie when they were children. This is not helped by the fact that every time they have encountered a clown in the show, it has tried to kill them. Sam can become a very different person when Dean is dead, as evidenced by his change in *Mystery Spot* and what is shown in *I Know What You Did Last Summer*, becoming almost psychotically angry.