WRITER POST: Canon History for Roleplay Game Purposes
Mari: Seasons 1-4, summarized. Yay...
Dean: Well, you know how to make that kind of shit entertaining, and less tedious. So let's just get it over with, alright? Besides, we can keep this for other RP places too.
Mari: True, true.
Prior to the Events of the Show Plot Stuff
Birthday: January 24th
Mother: Mary Winchester
Grandfather: Samuel Campbell (Sam being named after him)
Grandmother: Deanna Campbell (it's obvious that Dean was named after her)
Dean's Younger Days: In "A Very Supernatural Christmas," the necklace is revealed to have been a gift from Sam on Christmas Day, 1991. The amulet was originally meant for John, and obtained from Bobby Singer, but after their father failed to come home for Christmas (as often), Sam gave it to Dean instead, saying "Dad lied to me; I want you to have it," and because Dean had tried to give him a good Christmas.
In episode "Something Wicked," Dean had slipped up in watching over his kid brother. Instead of watching little Sammy, he was playing some arcade video game when a Shtriga (a type of witch that feeds off the life essences of young children) came for Sam. John Winchester came in time to save Sam from becoming very sick.
He killed his very first monster at the age of 16.
In "After School Special", in his teens, Dean didn't even want to be in that high school while Dad was away. (Dean was never really a school kid to begin with, ever.) He was a real young buck then, and scored on this chick there. He also got pissed once he found out that there was a bully picking on his brother. Dean also had a girlfriend, Amanda, although he gets uncomfortable when she wants him to meet her parents. When she catches him cheating on her with another girl, she challenges him, charging that his 'cool' persona is a cover for his loneliness.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON ONE
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff that Dean and Sam faced: Meg (demon), Azazel (AKA Mr. Yellow Eyes, a big boss demon), a shape shifter, a Wendigo, a band of vampires, and a ghost lady who killed guys who offered to take her to her house.
Allies?: John Winchester
-Season 1 begins with Dean (age 26) hunting down monsters, evil spirits, and the like with his father, John Winchester. Dad goes missing. Dean goes to look for Sammy at Stanford University. Sam was reluctant throughout the first episode...up until he sees his girlfriend Jessica bleeding and burning up on a ceiling. Sam abandons his dream of succeeding in law school to go on the road with Dean--to avenge Jessica's killer.
-In the "Wendigo" episode, Dean explained that their dad's notebook--filled with information on different monsters, spirits, and other supernatural stuff--was all that they had of him now. He got to believing this was because maybe Dad wanted to pick up from where he left off in saving people and hunting evil.
-Due to Sam's recklessness during hunts later on, Dean started to worry about his brother's health. The guilt over Sam's premonition dream of Jessica getting killed a few days before the event actually happens just messed him up real bad.
-In the episode "Skin", Dean and Sam go to St. Louis, Missouri (hey, that's where Sam went to college at) to find and kill a shape shifter who's been causing a string of murders in the area. The shape shifter at one point turns into Dean, and goes to hit it up with one of Sam's friends from his college. This particular shape shifter ahead would make police believe that Dean Winchester was responsible for the murders.
(Dean's comment: Thinking back on that gives me a headache... I'm sure as hell glad THAT son of a bitch is dead!)
-In the episode "Home", Dean was starting to get really freaked out by Sam's psychic abilities. Sam had a nightmare about a woman screaming for help in the old house they and their father used to live in. A violent poltergeist was endangering anyone in the house, and that's when both Winchester brothers saw the spirit of Mary, their mother. To protect both her sons, she sacrificed her spirit and both hers and the poltergeist's spirits canceled each other out in the end.
-At one point of the season, Sam goes off on his own after a personal and heated argument with Dean to go look for their father. (This episode introduces the demon Meg, by the way.) Dean meanwhile stays in this town to try and safe all the future couples of the world from being sacrificed to a "fugly" looking scarecrow.
(Dean's comment: *sighs* People, y'know? They'd do just about anything to live in their happy man made paradises.)
-John Winchester finally got to contacting his boys, and Dean at the time was so desperate to seek Dad's approval. Meanwhile Sam still has that resentfulness against him of getting kicked out of his own home, despite being John's favorite son. Dean of course couldn't bare to see them fight.
John reveals to Sam and Dean on why he was gone for a while; he had been tracking the demon that had killed their mother, AND Sam's girlfriend.
-Season 1 ends with the boys getting into a car accident in a collision with a big truck in the middle of a freeway. A demonically possessed driver was the one who rammed the truck into the 1967 Chevy Impala, loaned to Dean by John.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON TWO
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff Dean and Sam faced: a reaper, ANOTHER shape shifter, an illness that turned civilians into killers, a vampire slayer who was killing the wrong vampires, and a trickster (Hah, I almost forgot about that epsiode "Tall Tales"...for it is one of the funniest of the entire series!)
New Allies: Elle, Jo, and Ash at this roadhouse in the middle of nowhere who were a good source of information when it came to the Winchester brothers' line of work, Bobby Singer (I believe Bobby's introduced in season two) who's an old friend of the family
-Begins right from the aftermath of the car accident. They all end up surviving the car wreck and are transported to a hospital. In the episode "In My Time of Dying", Dean had an outer body experience while his body was in a comatose state, and met up with a reaper--in the disguise of a girl named Tessa who convinced him she was some chick who was having an outer body experience too. Before John Winchester died after making a risky deal with Azazel, he whispered something to Dean before telling Sam to go get him a cup of coffee.
-Dean for a while hides this information that was told on something about Sam as the death of his father caused him to struggle. Eventually, Sam made Dean confess that their dad told him that Azazel planned to turn Sam evil. Also, if that ever happened, Dean was supposed to kill Sam. Sam is "special" to that demon head hauncho.
(Dean's comment: So far, that hasn't happened. I hope it never does.)
-In the episode "The Usual Suspects", Dean was arrested for this supposed connection with another series of murders. It's found out that Dean's got quite a record that includes credit card fraud, breaking and entering, and grave desecration. It was actually one of the detectives who were committing the murders, showed by the ghost of a druggie who had unfinished business. The felon detective's partner eventually let Sam and Dean make a getaway out of that mess.
-The battle with a second shape shifter took place at a bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, adding more to Dean's on file record. Guess what? The police were after Dean again, and yet he and Sam managed to slip past them the second time.
-There was one episode in which Meg came back out of hell (she was put there by both Dean and Sam) and possessed Sam, turning him evil. Wearing Sam as her new meat suit, Meg terrorized Jo and with the help of Bobby Singer, Dean sent that demon bitch back to the hellfire again.
-There was one episode in which Dean had been held captive by a djinn and experienced something of a second life. This life involved Mom not dying, Dean having a sexy girlfriend, Sam having his Jessica, and Dean living like an average Joe. Sam had rescued him from a fate of getting all his blood slowly sucked out of him by the djinn.
-In "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1" Dean had to go look for his brother, with the help of Bobby Singer. Sam was captured by some demons and brought to a deserted town with the other special people like him. By the end of that episode, one of those said special ones stabbed Sam and died in Dean's arms. In between those two events, Elle's roadhouse had been burned to the ground.
-In part 2 of "All Hell Breaks Loose," Dean was unable to handle it like any normal person would, and summoned a Crossroads demon to give Sam his life back. The price? That gave him only one year to live. Bobby Singer got upset of course once he found out, and later Elle appears and tells the guys what happened at her roadhouse; demons attacked, and she was the only survivor. By the end of Season 2, Azazel is shot and killed by the one gun that can kill ANYTHING, known as the Colt. Then Sam finds out through the guy who stabbed him that he had died. From this moment on, Sam vowed to get Dean out of that Crossroads deal no matter what.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON THREE
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff Dean and Sam faced: the same trickster from Season 2, that vampire slayer from season 2 (only this time he's turned into what he kills), changelings, a hexing witch, a thieving woman of supernatural items named Bela, Lilith (new demon boss), and the demons of the seven deadly sins
New Allies: Ruby, a rogue demon who wanted to help Sam with his problem in trying to get Dean out of that irrational plan he made with the Crossroads demon... There were these two other demon hunters who appeared in one episode too. Too bad I can't remember their names.
-Seaon 3 began with "The Magnificent Seven", and Dean was starting to trying to make the best out of his final year; indulging in many pleasures and refusing to even think about saving himself as Sam was trying to find a loophole out of that deal he made.
-Later on throughout this season, the Winchesters learn that all the demons in Hell were once human. Ruby told them so, for she still remembered what it was like as a human.
-In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", Bobby fell into a coma, and Sam and Dean investigated the murder of a scientist. Dean had a dream in which he met his badder half, and that it is believed that John Winchester treated Sam as his favorite and Dean was only used as a tool. This dream in seeing his demonic version of himself changes Dean around to want to start believing he's not worthless. He started to want to fight his way out of the Crossroads deal he made. Damn Bela stole the Colt, so that left Dean and Sam not being able to fend off the hellhounds with it.
(Dean's comment: *mutters* Thanks a fucking lot for that, Bela. We owe it all to you...)
-In the episode "Mystery Spot", (in which the trickster appears again, wee) Sam had been forced to relive the same day over and over. What happened was that Dean supposedly died in many ways (car accident, dog attack, electrocution, etc). The trickster was trying to teach Sam a lesson that no matter what, Dean was going to die one way or the other.
-In "Jus In Bello" (Hey, I don't really remember this episode...must have been one I missed while watching Lost over Supernatural for a while, dammit) the FBI and Agent Henricksen captured Sam and Dean, thanks to a tip from Bela. While Sam and Dean were not having fun in jail, a host of demons came to kill them. Ruby came to save the day, but was furious to learn they have lost the Colt. She said that she knew of a spell that will destroy all the demons nearby, including herself, and that she is willing to die in order to help Sam. Dean of course refused to let the virgin die. His alternate plan to exorcise the demon worked, but one who escaped told Lilith (the new head hauncho demon) about what the Winchesters did. Lilith blew up the police station, killing everyone minus the Winchesters inside.
(Dean's comment: Again, THANKS A LOT BELA! God... I know Bela was killed by Lilith, but that woman was such a pain in the ass...)
-As Season 3 came to a close, Dean and Sam have both tried all they could to keep the hellhounds at bay, but Dean ended up in hell anyway. After Dean was killed, Lilith tried to get at Sam, but realized that her power had no effect on Sam. So, she fled.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON FOUR (in which is still airing as I write)
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff that Dean and Sam faced: Lilith, Alastair (Dean's torturer demon in Hell), the ghost that gave Dean ghost sickness, the ghost of a school bully Sam knew, more demons, an immortal who was a practitioner of black magic, a siren, and a wishing well that cursed the people in a town that made wishes from it
New Allies: Castiel (an angel), another angel who was temporarily with them, I forget the name of the psychic woman who's helped the brothers for a little while, and Tessa the reaper (in which Dean first met in season 2)
-Four months later, Dean is somehow taken out of Hell. ("Lazurus Rising") His savior was Castiel, who had earlier tried to communicate to Dean with his real voice (in which causes the radio to static and emits a high frequency that's very dangerous to human ears) in this episode. His true form can't be seen by humans either, as learned when the psychic had gone blind in trying to see him.
(Dean: I thought someone was trying to kill me after getting out of the hellfire. Turns out that the big man upstairs has other plans for me. Well, ain't that swell.)
-In the episode "In the Beginning," Dean goes back in time to Lawrence, Kansas (his hometown) in the year 1973 to learn some history about his family. It's a trick that Castiel did after saying that Dean ought to give him some respect. Dean learns as to how Azazel and his mother Mary as a young woman knew each other. Even though the past is the past and it already happened, he tried to save his mom from Azazel anyway. Who could blame him?
-Oh, and Castiel tells Dean that Lilith plans to break 66 seals on Earth to bring Lucifer up to Earth's surface--meaning basically the end of the world and all mankind as we know it.
-In following Castiel's instructions, Dean encounters Sam using his demonic powers and learned of Ruby's return. He certainly wasn't thrilled about any of that.
-In "Heaven and Hell", after conflict between the two brothers on them hiding stuff from each other, Dean tells Sam what Hell was like for him. Time flows differently in Hell, so four months was about 40 years in Hell time for Dean. For a time he was trussed up and tortured by Alastair, and then eventually started to act like a demon in torturing souls himself. Dean admitted that he enjoyed doing it, after the past thirty years of pain and torture he's been through.
-In the previous episode "Death Takes a Holiday," Dean met up with Tessa again, and he and Sam saved her from Alastair. Dean told her that there had been a hole ever since he was brought awake from that coma, and that hole was her. In metaphorical way, Dean relates to Tessa; other than the obvious on how they live is outside of the border of the normalcy of the average human being, they've seen all the shades of gray of the world on Earth's surface. They have similar beliefs as to how the world works, including that there are no such thing as miracles.
AND THAT'S ALL FOLKS! ...That is, until season 4 is over.
Dean: See, this wasn't as bad as you thought it was gonna be. Shit, you've got quite a long term memory...but it's a bit off. Half of the stuff you put down you didn't have to look at Wikipedia pages to remember. By the way; HOW DARE YOU try to type my dad "kicking the bucket"! That's MY DAD you were typing about, woman! I'm glad I was here when you were working on this history post.
Mari: I erased it though! And I was happy to let you comment on some things. Just to make it all less tedious.
Dean: Whatever. Just click the damn post button already.
Dean: Well, you know how to make that kind of shit entertaining, and less tedious. So let's just get it over with, alright? Besides, we can keep this for other RP places too.
Mari: True, true.
Prior to the Events of the Show Plot Stuff
Birthday: January 24th
Mother: Mary Winchester
Grandfather: Samuel Campbell (Sam being named after him)
Grandmother: Deanna Campbell (it's obvious that Dean was named after her)
Dean's Younger Days: In "A Very Supernatural Christmas," the necklace is revealed to have been a gift from Sam on Christmas Day, 1991. The amulet was originally meant for John, and obtained from Bobby Singer, but after their father failed to come home for Christmas (as often), Sam gave it to Dean instead, saying "Dad lied to me; I want you to have it," and because Dean had tried to give him a good Christmas.
In episode "Something Wicked," Dean had slipped up in watching over his kid brother. Instead of watching little Sammy, he was playing some arcade video game when a Shtriga (a type of witch that feeds off the life essences of young children) came for Sam. John Winchester came in time to save Sam from becoming very sick.
He killed his very first monster at the age of 16.
In "After School Special", in his teens, Dean didn't even want to be in that high school while Dad was away. (Dean was never really a school kid to begin with, ever.) He was a real young buck then, and scored on this chick there. He also got pissed once he found out that there was a bully picking on his brother. Dean also had a girlfriend, Amanda, although he gets uncomfortable when she wants him to meet her parents. When she catches him cheating on her with another girl, she challenges him, charging that his 'cool' persona is a cover for his loneliness.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON ONE
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff that Dean and Sam faced: Meg (demon), Azazel (AKA Mr. Yellow Eyes, a big boss demon), a shape shifter, a Wendigo, a band of vampires, and a ghost lady who killed guys who offered to take her to her house.
Allies?: John Winchester
-Season 1 begins with Dean (age 26) hunting down monsters, evil spirits, and the like with his father, John Winchester. Dad goes missing. Dean goes to look for Sammy at Stanford University. Sam was reluctant throughout the first episode...up until he sees his girlfriend Jessica bleeding and burning up on a ceiling. Sam abandons his dream of succeeding in law school to go on the road with Dean--to avenge Jessica's killer.
-In the "Wendigo" episode, Dean explained that their dad's notebook--filled with information on different monsters, spirits, and other supernatural stuff--was all that they had of him now. He got to believing this was because maybe Dad wanted to pick up from where he left off in saving people and hunting evil.
-Due to Sam's recklessness during hunts later on, Dean started to worry about his brother's health. The guilt over Sam's premonition dream of Jessica getting killed a few days before the event actually happens just messed him up real bad.
-In the episode "Skin", Dean and Sam go to St. Louis, Missouri (hey, that's where Sam went to college at) to find and kill a shape shifter who's been causing a string of murders in the area. The shape shifter at one point turns into Dean, and goes to hit it up with one of Sam's friends from his college. This particular shape shifter ahead would make police believe that Dean Winchester was responsible for the murders.
(Dean's comment: Thinking back on that gives me a headache... I'm sure as hell glad THAT son of a bitch is dead!)
-In the episode "Home", Dean was starting to get really freaked out by Sam's psychic abilities. Sam had a nightmare about a woman screaming for help in the old house they and their father used to live in. A violent poltergeist was endangering anyone in the house, and that's when both Winchester brothers saw the spirit of Mary, their mother. To protect both her sons, she sacrificed her spirit and both hers and the poltergeist's spirits canceled each other out in the end.
-At one point of the season, Sam goes off on his own after a personal and heated argument with Dean to go look for their father. (This episode introduces the demon Meg, by the way.) Dean meanwhile stays in this town to try and safe all the future couples of the world from being sacrificed to a "fugly" looking scarecrow.
(Dean's comment: *sighs* People, y'know? They'd do just about anything to live in their happy man made paradises.)
-John Winchester finally got to contacting his boys, and Dean at the time was so desperate to seek Dad's approval. Meanwhile Sam still has that resentfulness against him of getting kicked out of his own home, despite being John's favorite son. Dean of course couldn't bare to see them fight.
John reveals to Sam and Dean on why he was gone for a while; he had been tracking the demon that had killed their mother, AND Sam's girlfriend.
-Season 1 ends with the boys getting into a car accident in a collision with a big truck in the middle of a freeway. A demonically possessed driver was the one who rammed the truck into the 1967 Chevy Impala, loaned to Dean by John.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON TWO
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff Dean and Sam faced: a reaper, ANOTHER shape shifter, an illness that turned civilians into killers, a vampire slayer who was killing the wrong vampires, and a trickster (Hah, I almost forgot about that epsiode "Tall Tales"...for it is one of the funniest of the entire series!)
New Allies: Elle, Jo, and Ash at this roadhouse in the middle of nowhere who were a good source of information when it came to the Winchester brothers' line of work, Bobby Singer (I believe Bobby's introduced in season two) who's an old friend of the family
-Begins right from the aftermath of the car accident. They all end up surviving the car wreck and are transported to a hospital. In the episode "In My Time of Dying", Dean had an outer body experience while his body was in a comatose state, and met up with a reaper--in the disguise of a girl named Tessa who convinced him she was some chick who was having an outer body experience too. Before John Winchester died after making a risky deal with Azazel, he whispered something to Dean before telling Sam to go get him a cup of coffee.
-Dean for a while hides this information that was told on something about Sam as the death of his father caused him to struggle. Eventually, Sam made Dean confess that their dad told him that Azazel planned to turn Sam evil. Also, if that ever happened, Dean was supposed to kill Sam. Sam is "special" to that demon head hauncho.
(Dean's comment: So far, that hasn't happened. I hope it never does.)
-In the episode "The Usual Suspects", Dean was arrested for this supposed connection with another series of murders. It's found out that Dean's got quite a record that includes credit card fraud, breaking and entering, and grave desecration. It was actually one of the detectives who were committing the murders, showed by the ghost of a druggie who had unfinished business. The felon detective's partner eventually let Sam and Dean make a getaway out of that mess.
-The battle with a second shape shifter took place at a bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, adding more to Dean's on file record. Guess what? The police were after Dean again, and yet he and Sam managed to slip past them the second time.
-There was one episode in which Meg came back out of hell (she was put there by both Dean and Sam) and possessed Sam, turning him evil. Wearing Sam as her new meat suit, Meg terrorized Jo and with the help of Bobby Singer, Dean sent that demon bitch back to the hellfire again.
-There was one episode in which Dean had been held captive by a djinn and experienced something of a second life. This life involved Mom not dying, Dean having a sexy girlfriend, Sam having his Jessica, and Dean living like an average Joe. Sam had rescued him from a fate of getting all his blood slowly sucked out of him by the djinn.
-In "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1" Dean had to go look for his brother, with the help of Bobby Singer. Sam was captured by some demons and brought to a deserted town with the other special people like him. By the end of that episode, one of those said special ones stabbed Sam and died in Dean's arms. In between those two events, Elle's roadhouse had been burned to the ground.
-In part 2 of "All Hell Breaks Loose," Dean was unable to handle it like any normal person would, and summoned a Crossroads demon to give Sam his life back. The price? That gave him only one year to live. Bobby Singer got upset of course once he found out, and later Elle appears and tells the guys what happened at her roadhouse; demons attacked, and she was the only survivor. By the end of Season 2, Azazel is shot and killed by the one gun that can kill ANYTHING, known as the Colt. Then Sam finds out through the guy who stabbed him that he had died. From this moment on, Sam vowed to get Dean out of that Crossroads deal no matter what.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON THREE
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff Dean and Sam faced: the same trickster from Season 2, that vampire slayer from season 2 (only this time he's turned into what he kills), changelings, a hexing witch, a thieving woman of supernatural items named Bela, Lilith (new demon boss), and the demons of the seven deadly sins
New Allies: Ruby, a rogue demon who wanted to help Sam with his problem in trying to get Dean out of that irrational plan he made with the Crossroads demon... There were these two other demon hunters who appeared in one episode too. Too bad I can't remember their names.
-Seaon 3 began with "The Magnificent Seven", and Dean was starting to trying to make the best out of his final year; indulging in many pleasures and refusing to even think about saving himself as Sam was trying to find a loophole out of that deal he made.
-Later on throughout this season, the Winchesters learn that all the demons in Hell were once human. Ruby told them so, for she still remembered what it was like as a human.
-In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", Bobby fell into a coma, and Sam and Dean investigated the murder of a scientist. Dean had a dream in which he met his badder half, and that it is believed that John Winchester treated Sam as his favorite and Dean was only used as a tool. This dream in seeing his demonic version of himself changes Dean around to want to start believing he's not worthless. He started to want to fight his way out of the Crossroads deal he made. Damn Bela stole the Colt, so that left Dean and Sam not being able to fend off the hellhounds with it.
(Dean's comment: *mutters* Thanks a fucking lot for that, Bela. We owe it all to you...)
-In the episode "Mystery Spot", (in which the trickster appears again, wee) Sam had been forced to relive the same day over and over. What happened was that Dean supposedly died in many ways (car accident, dog attack, electrocution, etc). The trickster was trying to teach Sam a lesson that no matter what, Dean was going to die one way or the other.
-In "Jus In Bello" (Hey, I don't really remember this episode...must have been one I missed while watching Lost over Supernatural for a while, dammit) the FBI and Agent Henricksen captured Sam and Dean, thanks to a tip from Bela. While Sam and Dean were not having fun in jail, a host of demons came to kill them. Ruby came to save the day, but was furious to learn they have lost the Colt. She said that she knew of a spell that will destroy all the demons nearby, including herself, and that she is willing to die in order to help Sam. Dean of course refused to let the virgin die. His alternate plan to exorcise the demon worked, but one who escaped told Lilith (the new head hauncho demon) about what the Winchesters did. Lilith blew up the police station, killing everyone minus the Winchesters inside.
(Dean's comment: Again, THANKS A LOT BELA! God... I know Bela was killed by Lilith, but that woman was such a pain in the ass...)
-As Season 3 came to a close, Dean and Sam have both tried all they could to keep the hellhounds at bay, but Dean ended up in hell anyway. After Dean was killed, Lilith tried to get at Sam, but realized that her power had no effect on Sam. So, she fled.
Main Plot Stuffs About Dean in SEASON FOUR (in which is still airing as I write)
Some of the monsters/supernatural stuff that Dean and Sam faced: Lilith, Alastair (Dean's torturer demon in Hell), the ghost that gave Dean ghost sickness, the ghost of a school bully Sam knew, more demons, an immortal who was a practitioner of black magic, a siren, and a wishing well that cursed the people in a town that made wishes from it
New Allies: Castiel (an angel), another angel who was temporarily with them, I forget the name of the psychic woman who's helped the brothers for a little while, and Tessa the reaper (in which Dean first met in season 2)
-Four months later, Dean is somehow taken out of Hell. ("Lazurus Rising") His savior was Castiel, who had earlier tried to communicate to Dean with his real voice (in which causes the radio to static and emits a high frequency that's very dangerous to human ears) in this episode. His true form can't be seen by humans either, as learned when the psychic had gone blind in trying to see him.
(Dean: I thought someone was trying to kill me after getting out of the hellfire. Turns out that the big man upstairs has other plans for me. Well, ain't that swell.)
-In the episode "In the Beginning," Dean goes back in time to Lawrence, Kansas (his hometown) in the year 1973 to learn some history about his family. It's a trick that Castiel did after saying that Dean ought to give him some respect. Dean learns as to how Azazel and his mother Mary as a young woman knew each other. Even though the past is the past and it already happened, he tried to save his mom from Azazel anyway. Who could blame him?
-Oh, and Castiel tells Dean that Lilith plans to break 66 seals on Earth to bring Lucifer up to Earth's surface--meaning basically the end of the world and all mankind as we know it.
-In following Castiel's instructions, Dean encounters Sam using his demonic powers and learned of Ruby's return. He certainly wasn't thrilled about any of that.
-In "Heaven and Hell", after conflict between the two brothers on them hiding stuff from each other, Dean tells Sam what Hell was like for him. Time flows differently in Hell, so four months was about 40 years in Hell time for Dean. For a time he was trussed up and tortured by Alastair, and then eventually started to act like a demon in torturing souls himself. Dean admitted that he enjoyed doing it, after the past thirty years of pain and torture he's been through.
-In the previous episode "Death Takes a Holiday," Dean met up with Tessa again, and he and Sam saved her from Alastair. Dean told her that there had been a hole ever since he was brought awake from that coma, and that hole was her. In metaphorical way, Dean relates to Tessa; other than the obvious on how they live is outside of the border of the normalcy of the average human being, they've seen all the shades of gray of the world on Earth's surface. They have similar beliefs as to how the world works, including that there are no such thing as miracles.
AND THAT'S ALL FOLKS! ...That is, until season 4 is over.
Dean: See, this wasn't as bad as you thought it was gonna be. Shit, you've got quite a long term memory...but it's a bit off. Half of the stuff you put down you didn't have to look at Wikipedia pages to remember. By the way; HOW DARE YOU try to type my dad "kicking the bucket"! That's MY DAD you were typing about, woman! I'm glad I was here when you were working on this history post.
Mari: I erased it though! And I was happy to let you comment on some things. Just to make it all less tedious.
Dean: Whatever. Just click the damn post button already.