Supernatural: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season One
They weren't there from the beginning, but the show wouldn't have been the same without them.
Over the course of its 15-year run, Supernatural grew into an expansive world of angels, demons and apocalypse after apocalypse. Not bad for a show that started out with a couple of brothers hunting ghosts and looking for their dad.
While Sam and Dean Winchester would remain the main characters for the entirety of the series, countless other characters would come and go. Be they friend, enemy or a little bit of both, the show introduced so many important and iconic characters over the years. Many of which not only became significant parts of the show's mythos, but also became dearly beloved by the fanbase. The fact that the vast majority of these characters were introduced after the show's first season just serves to illustrate how much the series continued to evolve. Whether they were there for a decade, or only a handful of episodes, the impact of these characters can't be understated.
But with so many characters coming and going after that first season, which ones are the best of the bunch? With witches, prophets, demons, angels and even gods filling out the show's supporting cast, picking out the best won't be easy.
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10. Chuck Shurley
Introduced in Season Four, Chuck Shurley was originally portrayed as a writer and prophet, who chronicled Sam and Dean's adventures through his Supernatural series of "fiction" books, under the pseudonym of Carver Edlund. He was every bit the vision of a shabby, unkempt author, who was thrown for a loop when he was confronted by Sam and Dean, whom he'd previously believed to be products of his imagination. Chuck would pop up several times in the build-up to the first Apocalypse at the end of Season Five, before literally vanishing into thin air and giving fans cause to believe there was more to the scribe than just being a prophet.
The Supernatural books would continue to pop up as a plot point sporadically and Chuck would make a cameo in Season Ten, but it wasn't until the tail end of Season Eleven that his true nature was revealed. It turned out that Chuck was actually God and he'd just been posing as a prophet so he could get front row seats to the stories he'd spun. At first seeming to be a benevolent force of creation, Chuck's darker nature was revealed at the end of Season Fourteen, setting him up as the ultimate Big Bad for the show's final season.
Not only did Chuck prove to be one of the most important characters in the show's mythos, but he was a genuinely fun and likeable character. You know, until he started wiping out universes and unleashing literal Hell on Earth.