Post by Sam Winchester on Jun 6, 2010 11:44:17 GMT -7
First Name: Sam
Last Name: Winchester
Middle Name:
Age: 27
Height/Weight: 6'4”
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Character description/personality: Protective, Focused, Optimistic, Serious, Sense of Humor that is rarely seen.
Persuasion: (good evil neutral) Neutral
Type of Creature: Human/ Hunter
Powers: Psychic powers grants him:
Telekinesis
Precognition
Immunity to demonic powers
Exorcism
Killing demons
Immune to Croatoan Virus
Weaknesses: Bullets, stabbings, Dean Winchester
History:
Background
Sam was born on May 2, 1983 to John and Mary Winchester in Lawrence, Kansas. He was the couple's second child, four years younger than his older brother Dean. Sam is 6'4" tall. He is named after his maternal grandfather, Samuel Campbell.[1]
In the first episode, the viewers are introduced to Sam, a senior at Stanford University who is applying to law school. He rebelled against the family business of hunting supernatural evil and hasn't spoken to his father in years. Dean goes to see Sam to ask for his help in finding John, who went missing while on a hunting trip. Sam lived with his girlfriend, Jessica Moore, whom he had plans to marry before her demise.
Sam and Dean spent their childhood moving from town to town every few weeks as their father "hunted." In 1997, they had been enrolled in four different high schools by the end of November. Sam was a quite capable fighter, easily dispatching a bully, and carried a butterfly knife in his book bag. Sam also caught the attention of a teacher for his "fictional" story of how he and his family had killed a werewolf the previous year; the teacher encouraged Sam to consider carving out his own life instead of getting into the "family business."
Sam has a love for technology, which Dean does not share; this is revealed in Season 1 when he comments on Dean's use of cassette tapes. Sam does not share Dean's love for the particular rock music he listens to and instead prefers bands such as Bon Jovi, as shown when he signs into a hotel under the alias "Richie Sambora" (the lead guitarist of Bon Jovi).
[edit] Season 1
When Sam was only six months old (November 2, 1983), his mother Mary was killed in his nursery by the demon Azazel, whom his mother walked in on while he was standing by Sam's crib, doing something mysterious (it was later revealed that he was feeding Sam his demon blood). Infant Sam is saved from the ensuing fire when Dean carries him outside while their father unsuccessfully tries to rescue their mother.
Twenty-two years later to the day, Azazel kills Sam's girlfriend Jessica in front of Sam in the same manner in which he killed his mother, spurring him to embark on a journey with his brother to find their father and kill the demon. While off on his own mission, John occasionally contacts the boys to give them hunting assignments. The boys deal with dangerous mythical creatures and urban legends such as the Woman in White, the wendigo, Bloody Mary, and shapeshifters. During this time, Sam begins experiencing episodes of precognitive dreams and once displays telekinesis. Eventually, Sam starts to move beyond Jessica's death and falls for Sarah, a woman who helps the Winchesters in "Provenance."
In "Scarecrow", Sam argues with Dean—Dean obeys his father's orders without question, while Sam questions them and resents his father's treatment of them as loyal little soldiers. The brothers split up, with Dean going to investigate a mystery his father has assigned him, while Sam decides to search for their father elsewhere, though he eventually reunites with his brother.
John is later captured by demons, and the brothers manage to rescue him. However, they soon learn that Azazel is in possession of their father's body. They manage to subdue him, but killing Azazel would also mean the death of their father. Though John begs Sam to kill the demon, he can't bring himself to do it, and the demon escapes. As Sam drives his father and a badly wounded Dean to a hospital, a truck driven by a demon-possessed man crashes into them, totaling Dean's Impala and gravely injuring the Winchesters.
[edit] Season 2
At the beginning of the second season, the Winchesters are at the Nashville hospital, with Sam and John escaping with minor injuries, while Dean is on the brink of death. In a deal with Azazel, John sacrifices his soul in exchange for Dean's life. The boys mourn their father and start to take a more active role in hunting.
In the season finale, Sam is transported to an abandoned town along with Azazel's other chosen children, and they must fight to the death so Azazel can find the best one. Though Sam tries to protect them, they are killed off one by one. Sam himself is eventually killed by Jake Talley, but a distraught Dean sells his soul to a Crossroads Demon in exchange for Sam's resurrection.
With the help of fellow hunters Bobby Singer and Ellen Harvelle, Sam and Dean track down Jake, but are unable to stop him from opening a gateway to Hell on Azazel's orders. However, Sam subdues Jake and kills him in cold blood. After the gateway is closed and Azazel is finally killed by Dean, with assistance from John (who escaped from Hell), Sam promises to Dean that he will find a way to get him out of his deal.
[edit] Season 3
The character of Sam has been growing colder and grimmer throughout the series, which is especially notable after he is brought back from the dead as a result of Dean selling his soul, and continuing throughout the third season. Of particular note is his cold-blooded killing of a Crossroads Demon and its human host when the demon refuses to release Dean from his contract—the demon explains that another demon holds the contract, so it has no authority to end it.
In "Mystery Spot," Sam is forced by a Trickster to relive the same day over and over again, with each day seeing the death of Dean despite all of Sam's attempts to save him. The Trickster eventually explains to Sam that he did this so that Sam will learn that no matter what he does, he can't save Dean, and that the Winchesters must stop sacrificing for each other. Sam does not learn the lesson, and the Trickster disgustedly restores the status quo.
Sam continues to do whatever he can to save Dean from going to Hell. In the episode "Fresh Blood," Gordon Walker, a hunter who was turned into a vampire, tries to kill Sam (as he had already tried to do in Season 2's "Hunted"), but Sam gruesomely decapitates Gordon using only a long piece of barbed wire, while staring him straight in the eyes.
During the season, Sam has shown no remorse for killing people possessed by demons or other "human" enemies, unlike in past seasons. In "Jus in Bello," he is willing to have an innocent young woman be killed in order to save a group of people from an army of demons.
Beginning in the first episode of the season, Sam encounters a sexy young demon named Ruby, who claims to want to help him. She had been a follower of Azazel, and when Dean killed Azazel, she was, according to plan, willing to follow Sam. But with Sam not wanting that position, another demon, named Lilith, has filled the power vacuum and is gathering an army of demons. Ruby is afraid of Lilith and says that she believes that victory by her will be horrific for humanity. She fixes The Colt for the boys so it can again kill anything, as well as adding a demon-killing knife to their arsenal.
In the season finale, Dean and Sam, armed with Ruby's demon-killing knife, confront Lilith in a last-ditch effort to protect Sam and save Dean's soul. Lilith, having stolen Ruby's host body, ultimately incapacitates Sam and has her hellhounds attack Dean, forcing Sam to watch as his brother is torn apart. She then tries to kill Sam; however, her power has no effect on Sam and she flees, leaving Sam with Dean's mutilated corpse and we see Dean in Hell calling out Sam's name and for his help.
[edit] Season 4
Colin Ford portrayed the young Sam Winchester in 4 episodes.
Season 4 begins with Dean waking up back in his own body, in his coffin, alive. Four months have passed, and he does not know why he is alive again. He first experiences suspicion and then joy at reuniting with Bobby and Sam (and the Impala). He and Bobby try to summon the force that brought him back from Hell, and discover that it was the angel Castiel on orders from God.
Throughout the course of Season 4, Sam's activities while Dean was in Hell are slowly revealed. Sam is in despair after Dean's death, and tries to make a deal with a Crossroads Demon to switch places with Dean, but they all refuse to deal with him. He drinks to excess and acts recklessly as though he has a death wish, until Ruby makes contact with him and begins to teach him how to use his powers. Upon Sam's objections to possessing a human being, Ruby possesses the body of a comatose woman whose soul has already fled. In a short time, Sam and Ruby become lovers, and Ruby is able to shake Sam out of his depression to some extent. Together, they hunt demons and Sam exorcises them and sends them back to Hell using his powers.
Sam is overwhelmed when Dean returns from Hell, but the two quickly begin fighting. Castiel informs Dean of Sam's use of his powers, leading up to a minor fallout between the brothers, as Dean tries to get him to stop using them and stop hanging out with Ruby. Sam, who is religious, is delighted to find that angels are helping Dean and himself, but is severely disillusioned in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester", when he finally meets Castiel and another angel named Uriel, and the angels attempt to destroy an entire town. Also a shock is that Uriel treats Sam with complete disgust, threatening to kill him as soon as Sam is no longer useful. Sam promises Dean to stop using his abilities, but quickly breaks that promise.
Meanwhile, Dean lies to Sam, claiming he remembers nothing of Hell. But in "Wishful Thinking," he reveals that he does remember, but does not want to tell Sam. Finally, in "Heaven and Hell," Dean reveals the awful truth about Hell to Sam—the four months he was there, according to him, were literally forty years as time moves differently down there., and Dean was tortured for three-quarters of that time under the ministrations of the demon Alastair until he finally agreed to become a torturer himself. He confesses he wished he couldn't feel at all, because thinking of his past actions in Hell is tormenting him.
In "Criss Angel's a Douche Bag," Sam had a short-lived fight with Ruby about his powers. She argued that he shouldn't be going on these meaningless hunts and go "cut the head off the snake." He says "It's not the psychic stuff I have a problem with," which may mean he hasn't revealed everything to Dean about what is going on and why the angels want him to stop. Eventually he relents and is seen leaving with Ruby, telling her that he didn't want to be hunting when he is old.
Season 4 shows a Sam much changed. He is a colder, less emotional person. He blatantly lies to Dean and to the spirit of a young boy, promising him that he can be saved from the Reaper who is there to take him. Whether it's living without Dean for four months or his demonic powers that have caused the change is uncertain.
In "On the Head of a Pin," the secret to Sam's increase in power is finally revealed: He is drinking Ruby's blood. After their latest session, Sam can now restrain demons with his mind, as well as outright kill them rather than just send them back to Hell as other spells and weapons do. Sam recognizes that developing his powers as such is wrong, yet wants it anyway. After using his powers to torture Alastair into revealing who is killing the angels (or, who isn't), he kills him.
In "The Rapture," it is discovered Sam is addicted to the demon blood, and that without it, his powers are not as strong. During the episode, he is shown drinking from a stashed flask full of the demon blood, and then trying to contact Ruby numerous times when he runs out. As he gets more desperate and hears no word from Ruby, he drinks the blood of another demon he is about to kill as Dean is watching. At the end of the episode, Bobby and Dean trick Sam and lock him inside Bobby's panic room.
In the next episode "As the Levee Breaks," Sam goes through painful withdrawal symptoms and begins experiencing hallucinations. After Sam is telekinetically thrown around the room, Bobby and Dean restrain him to the bed to stop him from hurting himself. Castiel releases the restraints and breaks the seals, allowing Sam to escape. He finds Ruby and drinks her blood again. Ruby explains that if he kills Lilith, that will stop the apocalypse, but he must consume more blood to be powerful enough to do so. Dean, who has tracked Sam down despite Sam's efforts to trick him, enters the room and attempts to attack Ruby, but Sam stops him. Sam and Dean argue about how to stop the apocalypse, whereupon Dean tells Sam that he is changing into a monster, leading to a vicious fight between the brothers. After Sam defeats Dean, he leaves despite Dean's warning that if he leaves now, "don't you ever come back."
In the Season 4 finale "Lucifer Rising," Sam begins to feel the hurt of having abandoned his brother, much to Ruby's annoyance. He captures a demon that is tasked with stealing babies for Lilith and tortures her for Lilith's location and the place of the final seal. After the torture, Sam has every intention of killing the demon with his powers, but Ruby reminds him that he will need more blood to defeat Lilith than she can give and persuades him to take the demon along for her blood. At this point, the demon "goes to sleep" and leaves behind a scared human who fearfully pleads to be let go, inciting immense guilt in Sam. A message from Dean, altered by the angel Zachariah, manipulates Sam, pushing him to continue his original mission to kill Lilith; thus he drains the woman for her blood.
Based on the demon's information, Ruby and Sam go to St. Mary's Convent in Ilchester, Maryland, where they find Lilith. As Sam attempts to kill Lilith, Ruby holds the doors shut to keep Dean, who has just arrived, from interfering. Sam hesitates when he hears his brother yelling for him, but when Lilith mocks him for his inability to do the job after becoming a monster to get to this point, he finishes her off, fulfilling his true destiny as the "special child." Lilith's death breaks the final seal and begins forming a portal for Lucifer. At this point, Ruby reveals that she was leading Sam along the entire time so he would break the seal. Dean finally enters the room and kills Ruby with her own knife, while Sam holds her in place. Sam apologizes to his brother as a white light shows a portal beginning to open.
[edit] Season 5
As the portal for Lucifer opens, Sam and Dean are teleported onto an airplane by an unknown force. Sam loses his demon powers, claiming that the force that transported him and Dean onto the plane cleaned him up. Later, when he is attacked by Meg, she makes fun of him for having to fight her without them. Sam feels tremendous guilt for starting the Apocalypse and is told by Dean that he can no longer have the relationship and unconditional trust because he chose a demon over his brother and no amount of apologies could make things okay between them.
After the brothers fight War (one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in "Good God, Y'All!," Sam and Dean decide to go their separate ways, with Sam worried that he is still a dangerous liability. While apart, Sam has a dream of his dead girlfriend Jessica asking what he is planning to do with the rest of his life. Jessica then morphs into Lucifer, who tells Sam that his current vessel is temporary and that Sam is his true vessel. Lucifer then tells Sam that in due time, without trickery or lies, he will agree to be his vessel.
In the episode "The End," which takes place in an alternate future in 2014, Sam has said yes to Lucifer, implied throughout the episode because Dean was not in his life. Future Dean, becoming a highly vicious and utilitarian hunter without Sam, goes hunting for Lucifer with The Colt, but ultimately dies. Present Dean, watching all these events transpire, goes back to his own time and tells Sam to come back and hunt again, as they "keep each other human."
In "Changing Channels," it is revealed to Dean and Sam by The Trickster (who the brothers find out is the Archangel Gabriel), that Dean and Sam's relationship (Dean the older brother loyal to a distant father, Sam the younger brother who separates himself from his brother and father) mirrors the relationship between Lucifer and Michael, and has been foretold to the angels to bring about Judgment Day.
After the confrontation with Lucifer during "Abandon All Hope" and the hunting of the Wraith in "Sam, Interrupted", he admits to his perpetual, inexplicable rage at everything; Dean insists for Sam to bury his problems in order to continue their hunt.
With a newfound way to defeat Lucifer, Sam and Dean hunt for the Horsemen rings, which appear to have the power to trap him in his prison. In "The Devil You Know" it is revealed that Pestilence's demon "Handler" is Brady, a former friend of Sam's at Stanford who introduced Sam to Jessica. Brady was in fact a minion of Azazel who executed the hit and murder of Jessica, and now controls a pharmaceutical company that would be the vehicle to distribute the Croatoan virus. While kept on base while Crowley and Dean capture Brady, Sam proposes he says yes, to get Lucifer to return to the right position, and with whatever control he can retain, take Lucifer back to his cage. Bobby, and later Dean, both heartily disagree with this plan of action, but as time goes on, they feel that there is no other option. With the help of the demon Crowley, the brother's learn Pestilence's location, and Dean allows Sam to kill Brady.
In "Two Minutes to Midnight" the brothers enter Pestilence's domain, which proves extremely foolish, as he infects them with a swath of pathogens before they could even get to his room; Castiel defeats him and they recover. When Niveus begins distribution of the Croatoan viruses, Castiel and Bobby, along with Sam, travel to intercept them, having to attack prematurely when a shipment is already leaving. Sam insists on saving all surviving civilians from the infected.
In "Swan Song" Dean reluctantly agrees to Sam's plan to yes to Lucifer, saying that Sam is his own man now and beyond his looking out for. Lucifer is tracked to Detroit, exactly where the future version of Lucifer in "The End" said Sam would say yes. Gallons of demon blood are collected to fortify Sam to be able to take in Lucifer. As they journey to Detroit, Sam makes Dean promise not to go after him once he takes Lucifer into the pit, telling Dean to instead go to Lisa Braeden (Dean's former girlfriend) and try to live a normal life. Dean solemnly makes the promise.
Upon arriving and saying goodbye to Castiel and Bobby, Sam and Dean barge into Lucifer's hideout. Though Lucifer does indeed know the boys' plan, Sam says yes anyway thinking they are out of options. After a bright light and piercing noise, Sam is knocked unconscious while Dean opens the portal to Lucifer's prison. Sam awakens and claims to have control over Lucifer. He walks toward the portal, but at the last moment stops, turning around and saying "Sammy is long gone". Now in control, Lucifer closes the portal, takes the rings, taunts Dean one last time about being right about getting Sam to say yes, and disappears.
At an unknown location, Sam continues to fight internally with Lucifer for control of his body. In a mirror with Sam as his reflection, Lucifer attempts to persuade Sam to fully give in. Claiming he only wants the best for Sam and is his real family, he brings several childhood acquaintances (a prom date, a teacher) who were in fact demons under Azazel's control, proceeding to slaughter them for Sam's pleasure.
During Lucifer's confrontation, he beats Dean, slamming him against the door of the Impala. As Lucifer is about to deliver a fatal blow, he catches a glimpse of a toy soldier stuck in the car's ashtrey that a young Sam Winchester left there as a boy. It begins to trigger Sam's memories and his bond of brotherhood with Dean, allowing Sam to overpower Lucifer and regain control of his body. Sam takes out the rings and reopens the portal to the pit. Michael returns and attempts to stop Sam, citing his destiny to kill Lucifer. Sam jumps in, pulling Michael with him, trapping both Lucifer and Michael in Hell. The ground closes up with a stunned and devastated Dean watching.
Dean fulfils his promise to Sam and sits down with Lisa and Ben for dinner, a street light outside goes out, and underneath it inexplicably is Sam, secretly watching the three with a blank look on his face.
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Laptops
In Season 1, Sam owns what appears to be a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, which he uses to gather information for hunts. The first time Sam uses the laptop is in the second episode "Wendigo", where he plays a video message.
[edit] Cellphones
In Season 1, Sam uses a Palm Treo cellphone. By Season 2, he appears to own a Verizon-branded Motorola Q which has on at least one occasion (in "Hollywood Babylon") been used to visually track unseen ghosts. This phone, however, was destroyed in the third season episode "Fresh Blood." In the fourth season, namely "Sex and Violence", Sam is seen using the BlackBerry 8800. Sam has since changed models and is currently using the Blackberry Bold 9000, as first seen in the Season 4 finale "Lucifer Rising."
[edit] Powers, skills, and abilities
Sam exhibits both telekinetic and precognitive abilities at various times throughout the series. His telekinesis first manifested when he was locked in a closet by another "special child" and had a vision that Dean would be killed, the stress of which allowed him to escape. His precognitive abilities, manifesting first as dreams and visions of others' deaths, started prior to the first episode with dreams of Jessica's death, and continued throughout the first two seasons. In the first season episode "Home", Sam demonstrated the ability to sense the presence of the poltergeist even after Missouri Mosely couldn't. Also, in "In My Time of Dying", Sam was able to sense Dean's spirit during a time of great stress. Sam stated that visions stopped with the death of Azazel at the end of Season 2; however, according to Ruby, his powers were simply dormant.
Sam's powers are implied to be a result of being fed demon blood by Azazel, which he did to a number of children. At the start of the fourth season, Sam has developed more abilities with the help from Ruby. First he learned to use his power to exorcise demons. In "Death Takes a Holiday", Sam is shown to have grown more powerful, being immune to Alastair's attempt to telekinetically fling him when he had previously been unable to. He then uses his power of telekinesis to pin Alastair to a tree, another feat he had been unable to accomplish before. In "On the Head of a Pin", it is believed that these boosts in his abilities are a result of drinking Ruby's demon blood. After the latest drink, Sam's powers have increased to the point where he can kill demons outright, as opposed to simply exorcising them. The same light flickers under their skin as if killed with the Colt or the knife. Also now when he uses his powers his eyes turn pitch black (though Sam did not learn this until Chuck Shirley revealed it to him and Dean in "Sympathy for the Devil").
In "Lucifer Rising," it is revealed that his powers are not actually given to him through the drinking of demon blood, rather they were always fully his and that his own dark choices were their source. According to Ruby, it seems he burned out a lot of his power killing Lilith. In the Season 5 premiere, Sam states that his addiction to demon blood vanished, but later episodes suggest he still craves it. He is later infected with an insane craving for it by the Horsemen Famine, and his powers return when he drinks it.
Sam is immune to the demon-spawned Croatoan virus, which turns humans violent and drives them to infect others.
When Sam and Dean confront Lucifer in the Season 5's finale, he has just drunk gallons of demon blood, and he is shown to be able to kill demons without having to use his hands as he had to before, instead hs just closes his eyes, and all the demons in the room die instantly.
In addition, with the training given to him by his father, Sam is a skilled fighter, proficient with firearms, shotguns and melee weapons. Like his brother Dean, he possesses many abilities that are frowned upon by law, including, but not limited to: lock picking, computer hacking, disguised conning, and car jacking. In the first two seasons, he is often hesitant about using these skills because of his desire to be a 'normal' citizen. However, this lessens as the series progresses.
Sam commands vast knowledge of the supernatural and is considered an "encyclopedia of weirdness." He is proficient in reading and recalling spells written in Latin, which can be used to exorcise, summon or vanquish demons. He also learned from Ruby how to make hex bags to cloak themselves from demons and angels. More often than Dean, Sam is stuck with the job of researching the supernatural for their hunts. He has a great sense of direction and time, at one point being able to find a vampire's nest while blindfolded by keeping track of the time and the turns of the car.
[edit] Weaponry
Sam uses a chromed Taurus PT99 loaded with silver rounds and uses a sawed-off Ithaca model 37 shotgun loaded with rock salt.[2]
Though Sam is usually more concerned about not hurting the hosts and others possessed by demons, he has actually used The Colt on more occasions than any other known person, including the original hunter. However, as of the end of the third season, he has only killed three demons with the weapon, and Dean has killed two demons and a vampire.
At the end of the third season, Sam loses possession of The Colt, but he gains possession of Ruby's Dagger upon Dean's death and Ruby's absence.
In his youth, it is revealed that Sam carried a Jaguar Classic balisong knife in the episode "After School Special."
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Supernatural
Last Name: Winchester
Middle Name:
Age: 27
Height/Weight: 6'4”
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Character description/personality: Protective, Focused, Optimistic, Serious, Sense of Humor that is rarely seen.
Persuasion: (good evil neutral) Neutral
Type of Creature: Human/ Hunter
Powers: Psychic powers grants him:
Telekinesis
Precognition
Immunity to demonic powers
Exorcism
Killing demons
Immune to Croatoan Virus
Weaknesses: Bullets, stabbings, Dean Winchester
History:
Background
Sam was born on May 2, 1983 to John and Mary Winchester in Lawrence, Kansas. He was the couple's second child, four years younger than his older brother Dean. Sam is 6'4" tall. He is named after his maternal grandfather, Samuel Campbell.[1]
In the first episode, the viewers are introduced to Sam, a senior at Stanford University who is applying to law school. He rebelled against the family business of hunting supernatural evil and hasn't spoken to his father in years. Dean goes to see Sam to ask for his help in finding John, who went missing while on a hunting trip. Sam lived with his girlfriend, Jessica Moore, whom he had plans to marry before her demise.
Sam and Dean spent their childhood moving from town to town every few weeks as their father "hunted." In 1997, they had been enrolled in four different high schools by the end of November. Sam was a quite capable fighter, easily dispatching a bully, and carried a butterfly knife in his book bag. Sam also caught the attention of a teacher for his "fictional" story of how he and his family had killed a werewolf the previous year; the teacher encouraged Sam to consider carving out his own life instead of getting into the "family business."
Sam has a love for technology, which Dean does not share; this is revealed in Season 1 when he comments on Dean's use of cassette tapes. Sam does not share Dean's love for the particular rock music he listens to and instead prefers bands such as Bon Jovi, as shown when he signs into a hotel under the alias "Richie Sambora" (the lead guitarist of Bon Jovi).
[edit] Season 1
When Sam was only six months old (November 2, 1983), his mother Mary was killed in his nursery by the demon Azazel, whom his mother walked in on while he was standing by Sam's crib, doing something mysterious (it was later revealed that he was feeding Sam his demon blood). Infant Sam is saved from the ensuing fire when Dean carries him outside while their father unsuccessfully tries to rescue their mother.
Twenty-two years later to the day, Azazel kills Sam's girlfriend Jessica in front of Sam in the same manner in which he killed his mother, spurring him to embark on a journey with his brother to find their father and kill the demon. While off on his own mission, John occasionally contacts the boys to give them hunting assignments. The boys deal with dangerous mythical creatures and urban legends such as the Woman in White, the wendigo, Bloody Mary, and shapeshifters. During this time, Sam begins experiencing episodes of precognitive dreams and once displays telekinesis. Eventually, Sam starts to move beyond Jessica's death and falls for Sarah, a woman who helps the Winchesters in "Provenance."
In "Scarecrow", Sam argues with Dean—Dean obeys his father's orders without question, while Sam questions them and resents his father's treatment of them as loyal little soldiers. The brothers split up, with Dean going to investigate a mystery his father has assigned him, while Sam decides to search for their father elsewhere, though he eventually reunites with his brother.
John is later captured by demons, and the brothers manage to rescue him. However, they soon learn that Azazel is in possession of their father's body. They manage to subdue him, but killing Azazel would also mean the death of their father. Though John begs Sam to kill the demon, he can't bring himself to do it, and the demon escapes. As Sam drives his father and a badly wounded Dean to a hospital, a truck driven by a demon-possessed man crashes into them, totaling Dean's Impala and gravely injuring the Winchesters.
[edit] Season 2
At the beginning of the second season, the Winchesters are at the Nashville hospital, with Sam and John escaping with minor injuries, while Dean is on the brink of death. In a deal with Azazel, John sacrifices his soul in exchange for Dean's life. The boys mourn their father and start to take a more active role in hunting.
In the season finale, Sam is transported to an abandoned town along with Azazel's other chosen children, and they must fight to the death so Azazel can find the best one. Though Sam tries to protect them, they are killed off one by one. Sam himself is eventually killed by Jake Talley, but a distraught Dean sells his soul to a Crossroads Demon in exchange for Sam's resurrection.
With the help of fellow hunters Bobby Singer and Ellen Harvelle, Sam and Dean track down Jake, but are unable to stop him from opening a gateway to Hell on Azazel's orders. However, Sam subdues Jake and kills him in cold blood. After the gateway is closed and Azazel is finally killed by Dean, with assistance from John (who escaped from Hell), Sam promises to Dean that he will find a way to get him out of his deal.
[edit] Season 3
The character of Sam has been growing colder and grimmer throughout the series, which is especially notable after he is brought back from the dead as a result of Dean selling his soul, and continuing throughout the third season. Of particular note is his cold-blooded killing of a Crossroads Demon and its human host when the demon refuses to release Dean from his contract—the demon explains that another demon holds the contract, so it has no authority to end it.
In "Mystery Spot," Sam is forced by a Trickster to relive the same day over and over again, with each day seeing the death of Dean despite all of Sam's attempts to save him. The Trickster eventually explains to Sam that he did this so that Sam will learn that no matter what he does, he can't save Dean, and that the Winchesters must stop sacrificing for each other. Sam does not learn the lesson, and the Trickster disgustedly restores the status quo.
Sam continues to do whatever he can to save Dean from going to Hell. In the episode "Fresh Blood," Gordon Walker, a hunter who was turned into a vampire, tries to kill Sam (as he had already tried to do in Season 2's "Hunted"), but Sam gruesomely decapitates Gordon using only a long piece of barbed wire, while staring him straight in the eyes.
During the season, Sam has shown no remorse for killing people possessed by demons or other "human" enemies, unlike in past seasons. In "Jus in Bello," he is willing to have an innocent young woman be killed in order to save a group of people from an army of demons.
Beginning in the first episode of the season, Sam encounters a sexy young demon named Ruby, who claims to want to help him. She had been a follower of Azazel, and when Dean killed Azazel, she was, according to plan, willing to follow Sam. But with Sam not wanting that position, another demon, named Lilith, has filled the power vacuum and is gathering an army of demons. Ruby is afraid of Lilith and says that she believes that victory by her will be horrific for humanity. She fixes The Colt for the boys so it can again kill anything, as well as adding a demon-killing knife to their arsenal.
In the season finale, Dean and Sam, armed with Ruby's demon-killing knife, confront Lilith in a last-ditch effort to protect Sam and save Dean's soul. Lilith, having stolen Ruby's host body, ultimately incapacitates Sam and has her hellhounds attack Dean, forcing Sam to watch as his brother is torn apart. She then tries to kill Sam; however, her power has no effect on Sam and she flees, leaving Sam with Dean's mutilated corpse and we see Dean in Hell calling out Sam's name and for his help.
[edit] Season 4
Colin Ford portrayed the young Sam Winchester in 4 episodes.
Season 4 begins with Dean waking up back in his own body, in his coffin, alive. Four months have passed, and he does not know why he is alive again. He first experiences suspicion and then joy at reuniting with Bobby and Sam (and the Impala). He and Bobby try to summon the force that brought him back from Hell, and discover that it was the angel Castiel on orders from God.
Throughout the course of Season 4, Sam's activities while Dean was in Hell are slowly revealed. Sam is in despair after Dean's death, and tries to make a deal with a Crossroads Demon to switch places with Dean, but they all refuse to deal with him. He drinks to excess and acts recklessly as though he has a death wish, until Ruby makes contact with him and begins to teach him how to use his powers. Upon Sam's objections to possessing a human being, Ruby possesses the body of a comatose woman whose soul has already fled. In a short time, Sam and Ruby become lovers, and Ruby is able to shake Sam out of his depression to some extent. Together, they hunt demons and Sam exorcises them and sends them back to Hell using his powers.
Sam is overwhelmed when Dean returns from Hell, but the two quickly begin fighting. Castiel informs Dean of Sam's use of his powers, leading up to a minor fallout between the brothers, as Dean tries to get him to stop using them and stop hanging out with Ruby. Sam, who is religious, is delighted to find that angels are helping Dean and himself, but is severely disillusioned in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester", when he finally meets Castiel and another angel named Uriel, and the angels attempt to destroy an entire town. Also a shock is that Uriel treats Sam with complete disgust, threatening to kill him as soon as Sam is no longer useful. Sam promises Dean to stop using his abilities, but quickly breaks that promise.
Meanwhile, Dean lies to Sam, claiming he remembers nothing of Hell. But in "Wishful Thinking," he reveals that he does remember, but does not want to tell Sam. Finally, in "Heaven and Hell," Dean reveals the awful truth about Hell to Sam—the four months he was there, according to him, were literally forty years as time moves differently down there., and Dean was tortured for three-quarters of that time under the ministrations of the demon Alastair until he finally agreed to become a torturer himself. He confesses he wished he couldn't feel at all, because thinking of his past actions in Hell is tormenting him.
In "Criss Angel's a Douche Bag," Sam had a short-lived fight with Ruby about his powers. She argued that he shouldn't be going on these meaningless hunts and go "cut the head off the snake." He says "It's not the psychic stuff I have a problem with," which may mean he hasn't revealed everything to Dean about what is going on and why the angels want him to stop. Eventually he relents and is seen leaving with Ruby, telling her that he didn't want to be hunting when he is old.
Season 4 shows a Sam much changed. He is a colder, less emotional person. He blatantly lies to Dean and to the spirit of a young boy, promising him that he can be saved from the Reaper who is there to take him. Whether it's living without Dean for four months or his demonic powers that have caused the change is uncertain.
In "On the Head of a Pin," the secret to Sam's increase in power is finally revealed: He is drinking Ruby's blood. After their latest session, Sam can now restrain demons with his mind, as well as outright kill them rather than just send them back to Hell as other spells and weapons do. Sam recognizes that developing his powers as such is wrong, yet wants it anyway. After using his powers to torture Alastair into revealing who is killing the angels (or, who isn't), he kills him.
In "The Rapture," it is discovered Sam is addicted to the demon blood, and that without it, his powers are not as strong. During the episode, he is shown drinking from a stashed flask full of the demon blood, and then trying to contact Ruby numerous times when he runs out. As he gets more desperate and hears no word from Ruby, he drinks the blood of another demon he is about to kill as Dean is watching. At the end of the episode, Bobby and Dean trick Sam and lock him inside Bobby's panic room.
In the next episode "As the Levee Breaks," Sam goes through painful withdrawal symptoms and begins experiencing hallucinations. After Sam is telekinetically thrown around the room, Bobby and Dean restrain him to the bed to stop him from hurting himself. Castiel releases the restraints and breaks the seals, allowing Sam to escape. He finds Ruby and drinks her blood again. Ruby explains that if he kills Lilith, that will stop the apocalypse, but he must consume more blood to be powerful enough to do so. Dean, who has tracked Sam down despite Sam's efforts to trick him, enters the room and attempts to attack Ruby, but Sam stops him. Sam and Dean argue about how to stop the apocalypse, whereupon Dean tells Sam that he is changing into a monster, leading to a vicious fight between the brothers. After Sam defeats Dean, he leaves despite Dean's warning that if he leaves now, "don't you ever come back."
In the Season 4 finale "Lucifer Rising," Sam begins to feel the hurt of having abandoned his brother, much to Ruby's annoyance. He captures a demon that is tasked with stealing babies for Lilith and tortures her for Lilith's location and the place of the final seal. After the torture, Sam has every intention of killing the demon with his powers, but Ruby reminds him that he will need more blood to defeat Lilith than she can give and persuades him to take the demon along for her blood. At this point, the demon "goes to sleep" and leaves behind a scared human who fearfully pleads to be let go, inciting immense guilt in Sam. A message from Dean, altered by the angel Zachariah, manipulates Sam, pushing him to continue his original mission to kill Lilith; thus he drains the woman for her blood.
Based on the demon's information, Ruby and Sam go to St. Mary's Convent in Ilchester, Maryland, where they find Lilith. As Sam attempts to kill Lilith, Ruby holds the doors shut to keep Dean, who has just arrived, from interfering. Sam hesitates when he hears his brother yelling for him, but when Lilith mocks him for his inability to do the job after becoming a monster to get to this point, he finishes her off, fulfilling his true destiny as the "special child." Lilith's death breaks the final seal and begins forming a portal for Lucifer. At this point, Ruby reveals that she was leading Sam along the entire time so he would break the seal. Dean finally enters the room and kills Ruby with her own knife, while Sam holds her in place. Sam apologizes to his brother as a white light shows a portal beginning to open.
[edit] Season 5
As the portal for Lucifer opens, Sam and Dean are teleported onto an airplane by an unknown force. Sam loses his demon powers, claiming that the force that transported him and Dean onto the plane cleaned him up. Later, when he is attacked by Meg, she makes fun of him for having to fight her without them. Sam feels tremendous guilt for starting the Apocalypse and is told by Dean that he can no longer have the relationship and unconditional trust because he chose a demon over his brother and no amount of apologies could make things okay between them.
After the brothers fight War (one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in "Good God, Y'All!," Sam and Dean decide to go their separate ways, with Sam worried that he is still a dangerous liability. While apart, Sam has a dream of his dead girlfriend Jessica asking what he is planning to do with the rest of his life. Jessica then morphs into Lucifer, who tells Sam that his current vessel is temporary and that Sam is his true vessel. Lucifer then tells Sam that in due time, without trickery or lies, he will agree to be his vessel.
In the episode "The End," which takes place in an alternate future in 2014, Sam has said yes to Lucifer, implied throughout the episode because Dean was not in his life. Future Dean, becoming a highly vicious and utilitarian hunter without Sam, goes hunting for Lucifer with The Colt, but ultimately dies. Present Dean, watching all these events transpire, goes back to his own time and tells Sam to come back and hunt again, as they "keep each other human."
In "Changing Channels," it is revealed to Dean and Sam by The Trickster (who the brothers find out is the Archangel Gabriel), that Dean and Sam's relationship (Dean the older brother loyal to a distant father, Sam the younger brother who separates himself from his brother and father) mirrors the relationship between Lucifer and Michael, and has been foretold to the angels to bring about Judgment Day.
After the confrontation with Lucifer during "Abandon All Hope" and the hunting of the Wraith in "Sam, Interrupted", he admits to his perpetual, inexplicable rage at everything; Dean insists for Sam to bury his problems in order to continue their hunt.
With a newfound way to defeat Lucifer, Sam and Dean hunt for the Horsemen rings, which appear to have the power to trap him in his prison. In "The Devil You Know" it is revealed that Pestilence's demon "Handler" is Brady, a former friend of Sam's at Stanford who introduced Sam to Jessica. Brady was in fact a minion of Azazel who executed the hit and murder of Jessica, and now controls a pharmaceutical company that would be the vehicle to distribute the Croatoan virus. While kept on base while Crowley and Dean capture Brady, Sam proposes he says yes, to get Lucifer to return to the right position, and with whatever control he can retain, take Lucifer back to his cage. Bobby, and later Dean, both heartily disagree with this plan of action, but as time goes on, they feel that there is no other option. With the help of the demon Crowley, the brother's learn Pestilence's location, and Dean allows Sam to kill Brady.
In "Two Minutes to Midnight" the brothers enter Pestilence's domain, which proves extremely foolish, as he infects them with a swath of pathogens before they could even get to his room; Castiel defeats him and they recover. When Niveus begins distribution of the Croatoan viruses, Castiel and Bobby, along with Sam, travel to intercept them, having to attack prematurely when a shipment is already leaving. Sam insists on saving all surviving civilians from the infected.
In "Swan Song" Dean reluctantly agrees to Sam's plan to yes to Lucifer, saying that Sam is his own man now and beyond his looking out for. Lucifer is tracked to Detroit, exactly where the future version of Lucifer in "The End" said Sam would say yes. Gallons of demon blood are collected to fortify Sam to be able to take in Lucifer. As they journey to Detroit, Sam makes Dean promise not to go after him once he takes Lucifer into the pit, telling Dean to instead go to Lisa Braeden (Dean's former girlfriend) and try to live a normal life. Dean solemnly makes the promise.
Upon arriving and saying goodbye to Castiel and Bobby, Sam and Dean barge into Lucifer's hideout. Though Lucifer does indeed know the boys' plan, Sam says yes anyway thinking they are out of options. After a bright light and piercing noise, Sam is knocked unconscious while Dean opens the portal to Lucifer's prison. Sam awakens and claims to have control over Lucifer. He walks toward the portal, but at the last moment stops, turning around and saying "Sammy is long gone". Now in control, Lucifer closes the portal, takes the rings, taunts Dean one last time about being right about getting Sam to say yes, and disappears.
At an unknown location, Sam continues to fight internally with Lucifer for control of his body. In a mirror with Sam as his reflection, Lucifer attempts to persuade Sam to fully give in. Claiming he only wants the best for Sam and is his real family, he brings several childhood acquaintances (a prom date, a teacher) who were in fact demons under Azazel's control, proceeding to slaughter them for Sam's pleasure.
During Lucifer's confrontation, he beats Dean, slamming him against the door of the Impala. As Lucifer is about to deliver a fatal blow, he catches a glimpse of a toy soldier stuck in the car's ashtrey that a young Sam Winchester left there as a boy. It begins to trigger Sam's memories and his bond of brotherhood with Dean, allowing Sam to overpower Lucifer and regain control of his body. Sam takes out the rings and reopens the portal to the pit. Michael returns and attempts to stop Sam, citing his destiny to kill Lucifer. Sam jumps in, pulling Michael with him, trapping both Lucifer and Michael in Hell. The ground closes up with a stunned and devastated Dean watching.
Dean fulfils his promise to Sam and sits down with Lisa and Ben for dinner, a street light outside goes out, and underneath it inexplicably is Sam, secretly watching the three with a blank look on his face.
[edit] Equipment
[edit] Laptops
In Season 1, Sam owns what appears to be a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, which he uses to gather information for hunts. The first time Sam uses the laptop is in the second episode "Wendigo", where he plays a video message.
[edit] Cellphones
In Season 1, Sam uses a Palm Treo cellphone. By Season 2, he appears to own a Verizon-branded Motorola Q which has on at least one occasion (in "Hollywood Babylon") been used to visually track unseen ghosts. This phone, however, was destroyed in the third season episode "Fresh Blood." In the fourth season, namely "Sex and Violence", Sam is seen using the BlackBerry 8800. Sam has since changed models and is currently using the Blackberry Bold 9000, as first seen in the Season 4 finale "Lucifer Rising."
[edit] Powers, skills, and abilities
Sam exhibits both telekinetic and precognitive abilities at various times throughout the series. His telekinesis first manifested when he was locked in a closet by another "special child" and had a vision that Dean would be killed, the stress of which allowed him to escape. His precognitive abilities, manifesting first as dreams and visions of others' deaths, started prior to the first episode with dreams of Jessica's death, and continued throughout the first two seasons. In the first season episode "Home", Sam demonstrated the ability to sense the presence of the poltergeist even after Missouri Mosely couldn't. Also, in "In My Time of Dying", Sam was able to sense Dean's spirit during a time of great stress. Sam stated that visions stopped with the death of Azazel at the end of Season 2; however, according to Ruby, his powers were simply dormant.
Sam's powers are implied to be a result of being fed demon blood by Azazel, which he did to a number of children. At the start of the fourth season, Sam has developed more abilities with the help from Ruby. First he learned to use his power to exorcise demons. In "Death Takes a Holiday", Sam is shown to have grown more powerful, being immune to Alastair's attempt to telekinetically fling him when he had previously been unable to. He then uses his power of telekinesis to pin Alastair to a tree, another feat he had been unable to accomplish before. In "On the Head of a Pin", it is believed that these boosts in his abilities are a result of drinking Ruby's demon blood. After the latest drink, Sam's powers have increased to the point where he can kill demons outright, as opposed to simply exorcising them. The same light flickers under their skin as if killed with the Colt or the knife. Also now when he uses his powers his eyes turn pitch black (though Sam did not learn this until Chuck Shirley revealed it to him and Dean in "Sympathy for the Devil").
In "Lucifer Rising," it is revealed that his powers are not actually given to him through the drinking of demon blood, rather they were always fully his and that his own dark choices were their source. According to Ruby, it seems he burned out a lot of his power killing Lilith. In the Season 5 premiere, Sam states that his addiction to demon blood vanished, but later episodes suggest he still craves it. He is later infected with an insane craving for it by the Horsemen Famine, and his powers return when he drinks it.
Sam is immune to the demon-spawned Croatoan virus, which turns humans violent and drives them to infect others.
When Sam and Dean confront Lucifer in the Season 5's finale, he has just drunk gallons of demon blood, and he is shown to be able to kill demons without having to use his hands as he had to before, instead hs just closes his eyes, and all the demons in the room die instantly.
In addition, with the training given to him by his father, Sam is a skilled fighter, proficient with firearms, shotguns and melee weapons. Like his brother Dean, he possesses many abilities that are frowned upon by law, including, but not limited to: lock picking, computer hacking, disguised conning, and car jacking. In the first two seasons, he is often hesitant about using these skills because of his desire to be a 'normal' citizen. However, this lessens as the series progresses.
Sam commands vast knowledge of the supernatural and is considered an "encyclopedia of weirdness." He is proficient in reading and recalling spells written in Latin, which can be used to exorcise, summon or vanquish demons. He also learned from Ruby how to make hex bags to cloak themselves from demons and angels. More often than Dean, Sam is stuck with the job of researching the supernatural for their hunts. He has a great sense of direction and time, at one point being able to find a vampire's nest while blindfolded by keeping track of the time and the turns of the car.
[edit] Weaponry
Sam uses a chromed Taurus PT99 loaded with silver rounds and uses a sawed-off Ithaca model 37 shotgun loaded with rock salt.[2]
Though Sam is usually more concerned about not hurting the hosts and others possessed by demons, he has actually used The Colt on more occasions than any other known person, including the original hunter. However, as of the end of the third season, he has only killed three demons with the weapon, and Dean has killed two demons and a vampire.
At the end of the third season, Sam loses possession of The Colt, but he gains possession of Ruby's Dagger upon Dean's death and Ruby's absence.
In his youth, it is revealed that Sam carried a Jaguar Classic balisong knife in the episode "After School Special."
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Supernatural