Here we go with part 2 of the Top 22 Previously Unseen Supernatural Beings I Want In Season 6. These are the top 11, the cream of the creepy crop. If any of these show up in an episode, I will be one happy fan. On to the monsters!
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I was more than halfway through my own list of monsters I wanted to see in season 6 when I checked in to TWFB and saw that Elle2 had created an excellent list of monsters she wanted to see in season 6! Thankfully, I was writing about things we haven't seen yet, while she mostly chose things that she wanted to see again, and never the twain shall meet. Great minds think alike, sometimes. And since I didn't want to be influenced by anyone's comments, I did not read any comment posts. If there are things on here that anyone suggested in those posts, I promise I did not try to steal your idea and not credit you. There's only so many monsters to go around! But if you did post about the same monster after Elle2's list, tell me so in the comments and we can talk about how awesome we both are for thinking of the same thing!
Sam and Dean have tackled their fair share of monsters and spirits and other supernatural evils in five seasons. Amazingly, there are still some evils they haven't faced. And since season 6 is going to be more reminiscent of season 1 and is going to focus on monsters, I came up with a list of 22 supernatural things Sam and Dean haven't hunted yet that I want to see them take on in season 6. Why 22? Well, one for each episode!
Most of these are pretty familiar monsters, but I'll still put in a description for them anyway just in case there are things you haven't heard of. And I realize that some of these things would be silly to fight against, but Supernatural is great at taking lore and legend and making it fit within the parameters of the show without being too fantastical, unless they're being fantastical on purpose. Many thanks to Wikipedia, without which the research for this article would have been much more tedious. Without further ado, I present the "Top 22 Previously Unseen Supernatural Beings I Want In Season 6."
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Monsters I Hope to See in Season 6, by Elle2
I make no reference in this article to my being original, in fact, this article is completely inspired by Laurel’s recent, Top Eleven Characters she hopes to see back. That and the fact that one of the commenters stated that she would like more lists please, hopefully this partially fulfills that request. We do aim to please here at TWFB.
Now, if you avoid anything involving potential spoilers about Season 6 this is not the article for you, there are only minimal spoilers but since Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble and Ben Edlund have all made references to some of the monsters that will be returning in Season 6 there will be references to those here. If you don’t care that my listing of a monster or two that’s been seen before as well as my happy dance or whatever enthusiasm I enthuse over the upcoming reappearance of said monster, then read on without fear. I will be mentioning monsters that we have been spoiled about as to their return but since that’s all I know, there’s nothing else to worry about.
I’m only going to get into monsters, demons and angels do not tread here.
Now, what are the monsters that I’m hoping to see in Season 6?
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God, who?
‘If there is no God, everything is permitted.’ Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky once wrote. We have been wondering, watching our favourite show, where God has been. Castiel has looked all over for Him and we know that He doesn’t speak to everyone, well…
Michelangelo, Fresco at the Sistine’s Chapel
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Good Omens
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990) is a novel written by the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It’s a comedy, a quasi-parody of the Omen films (as well as other similar genre films), concerning the Anti-Christ, the coming of the apocalypse, an angel Aziraphale and a demon Crowley. As Supernatural is known for drawing ideas from multiple sources, the parallels between the two characters have cause many to speculate whether this novel was the basis for the character of Crowley. The similarities are there, and while Kripke & Co. weave their own tales, maybe comparing the two would give us a sort of sneak peek into what our Crowley might do.
In Good Omens, Anthony Crowley is a demon, but not your flaming eyed, demonic-trappings demon. He’s more a pesky nuisance, described online as ‘the kind of demon who would inflict mobile phone network outages’. He prefers to bring a large number of souls a little closer to Satan, than to consume one person completely. In the book, he was a representative of Satan on earth, and the serpent who tempted Eve in the Garden (Then he was known as Crawly, but changed his name shortly after that ’unfortunate incident’.)
Crowley is British upper crust. He is at least 6000 years old, and has been subverting history for millennia (or 4004BC, anyway) but is most prominent at the time of the ‘almost’ apocalypse. He dresses in expensive tailor-made black suits, and has yellow serpentine eyes behind sunglasses, which he wears most of the time. (Certainly he would be a character who would be very upset if someone ’ate his tailor’.) When Crowley finds it necessary to change form to a human, he states he "hates having to do that "because he's "afraid he'll forget how to change back". However he develops a fondness for his human body, and grows quite attached to his current state of being.
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Angels, Archangels, Michael himself and the Winchester Brothers ’ Heavenly Connection to Cain and Abel
The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni, Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome
Dean Winchester is Michael’s intended vessel, that much we know, in fact, he is Michael fabled sword, the ultimate weapon against evil, not to be taken literally, of course. Were he a blade, Michael would not need his body to ride, would he? Alas, Dean is not yet willing to accept this fate as Michael’s boef du jour, and how could he?
He has not exactly had enough reason to trust the angels in general (with Castiel being – so far – a glorious exception), and archangels in particular. The higher ranking angels the Winchesters encountered so far, as Zachariah, Anna, Uriel, Rafael, Gabriel – or Michael, albeit in YoungJohn’s body – have not proved to be the epitome of trustworthiness.
Furthermore, after an archangel disposes of his ‘angel condom’ he leaves an empty shell, as we have already noticed – hardly anyone has forgot the expression on Dean’s face as he saw what Rafael left? And, frankly, the archangels we’ve met have not been the kind of guys you’d like to sit down and have dinner with. Do we actually believe, Michael would treat Dean’s body differently, as he offered? It might well be, since he is, after all, the prince of the heavenly army – and perhaps capable of treating his host well.
What’s rotten in the state of Supernatural? Why are angels dicks in this particular universe?
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Winchester Gospel
Ever wonder where the writers of Supernatural get their ideas for the series episodes? Well most of the MOTW ideas are from urban legend, folklore, pagan festivals, and even fairy tales. However ideas for the myth arc, according to Kripke & Co, are taken from two main sources, John Milton's classic poem Paradise Lost (1667), and the last book of the bible The Book of Revelation (c.96 CE). Other books include the ancient Jewish apocalyptic The Book of Enoch (200B.C), and Paradise Regained (1671). So, what are these works and what stories do they tell? Let look at the two major pieces.
Paradise Lost
John Milton, a Puritan Englishman, wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. He was considered a ‘man of letters’ and a polemical writer. Milton is also believed to have been a Calvinist and the question of predestination and freedom was crucial to his intellectual orientation. He lived (1607-1774) during the 17th century which falls into the Early Modern period of Europe. It was characterized by Baroque culture, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, and the beginning of modern science and philosophy. Milton was well aware of the works of Copernicus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), and Galileo (The Starry Messenger), and these really influenced his poem. His descriptions of space and planets are very vivid and enjoyable.
This poem is actually two stories, both about a fall from Paradise. In the first story (introduced immediately), Adam and Eve are thrown out of the Garden of Eden after eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge. The second story (told in flashbacks) tells the tale of Lucifer’s fall, which apparently started when Christ was born to God. God set his son above the angels for them to worship, causing immediate jealousy in Lucifer.
“ … so waked Satan- so called now; his former name
Is heard no more in Heaven. He, of the first,
If not the first Archangel, great in power,
In favour, and pre?minenence, yet fraught
With Envy against the Son of God….”
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