To say that Supernatural is supposed to make sense is a statement that doesn’t make sense. The show has been on air for 13 years and has been renewed for a fourteenth season. It has attained such a fan following that it will never be with the threat of cancellation and will only end when the actors want it to. So stay tuned because there’s a lot more of this show to come. Odds are we’ll get more stuff to write about over the coming years.
For the moment lets discuss those times that have never really made sense about the show. Good thing for Supernatural is that these things were never supposed to make sense in the first place. After all this is a universe where its creator is a guy called Chuck who goes on dates with both men and women. Thus, Supernatural has taken its fair lengths in order to present more fantastical plots for its viewers, who usually have no complaints as the images of Sam, Dean, and Castiel are more than enough to keep them happy.
So keeping all that in mind we can look into the memes on this list within a lighter context, with the understanding that Supernatural tends to be best when ridiculous. This is why it’s such an accomplishment that the show manages to lack sense even when it intends to.
Without further ado, here are 20 Supernatural logic memes that prove the show makes no sense.
20 That’s One Way In
As we are the audience and are privy to the happenings of an episode where the boys might not be present we are made known whether someone is in danger before they arrive. However, from the perspective of Sam and Dean they have no idea what’s going on inside the house they visit to either investigate or potentially save someone. Yet their normal course of action is always to kick the door down and go in guns blazing.
This usually takes place in the final moments of an episode so Sam and Dean turn out right in almost every case they barge in someone’s house but this has led to their logic of kicking down any door in their way commonplace.
19 May I Take Your Order?
When Castiel was first introduced he was a far cry from the Cas we know and love today. He had been introduced as a mysterious force of nature – back in Season 4 Angels were supposed to be a big thing – whose powers were still undefined. So when he threatened Dean in one of the episodes for the latter’s lack of respect he seemed intimidating.
A couple seasons later Castiel became something of a lackey.
He is millions of years old but takes orders from Sam and Dean at every turn. While he remains their best friend there’s no denying the fact he is far from their leader and more of a follower. The mystique of being an angel ran out by the time Season 5 began.
18 Bad Luck Sam
Back in Season 4 the apocalypse storyline was all the rage. This continued all the way till the end of Season 5 and the genesis of this story began when Dean’s life was ended by Lilith. Although Dean was resurrected, Sam held a vendetta against Lilith for all of Season 4 and vowed never to stop until he had ended her. His reasons were still noble, though, as he wanted to prevent the apocalypse.
However, turns out ending Lilith was the only way to start the apocalypse. Sam was manipulated by Ruby and was never downright evil. But the poor guy was given a real hard time by the likes of Dean, Bobby and just about every hunter out there despite having the best intentions.
17 Salt To The Wounds
This logic actually applies in the Supernatural universe as one of the ways to end a ghost’s lingering spirit in the world is to salt the bones of the deceased and burn them. However, as no one in their world knows that the supernatural is real the poor boys come across as two loonies with an absurd logic as their solution to solving a creak house.
Sometimes it turns out there is no ghost at all and they burned bones for no reason.
This is why Dean and Sam’s logic fails at times as their theory over the case turns out to be wrong and they salted someone’s bones mistakenly. Early in the show this practice was extremely common but now with bigger fish to fry this trope has seen a reduction.
16 Winchesters > Horsemen
In Season 5, the four horsemen of the apocalypse were seen in the series. In the show, these were supreme beings who were seemingly immortal as their attributes prevented them from truly ceasing to exist. Pestilence, War, and Famine only had one appearance, but their older brother was seen in Seasons 7, 9, and 10 as well. He was the strongest of all of them and had claimed he would reap the overlord himself one day.
Needless to say he was seemingly the most powerful being in the universe. However, it only took one Winchester to finish him off. When he was about to make Dean end Sam with his scythe the elder Winchester turn the weapon against its own master and caused the Big D himself to crumble out of existence. How that worked is anyone’s guess.
15 Irrational Sam
The picture says it all. Not only has Sam defeated Lucifer, he has finished a whole host of beings supremely powerful than him. Sam was even worthy of lifting Thor’s hammer! And yet every episode that features clowns in some shape or form you can be certain the younger Winchester will be wide-eyed with fear.
Sam has stood toe to toe with the Darkness as well.
While he did show visible apprehension toward her he was never as terrified as in the episodes we saw him confronting a clown. We all have our irrational fears but if we were to have faced the devil himself and been sealed with him for centuries, a clown would have seemed the least of our concerns.
14 Yup, That Sums It Up
The show has a tried and tested formula that it diverges away from only occasionally. There are some episodes that are more creative such as Baby, where the whole episode is from the point of view of the Impala, or ScoobyNatural, which we’ll discuss a little later.
But by and large the show sticks to the same theme.
This would be Dean crazed over Sam’s safety. Dean has been raised since Sam’s birth to look after his younger sibling and stops at nothing to ensure that remains safe. Sam on the other hand somehow always finds himself in situations of peril. There’s even a running gag of him being caught off-guard and hit in the back of the head by an antagonist in most episodes.
13 Modelling Because Reasons
The fact of the matter is every person on Supernatural is easy on the eyes. Dean, Sam and Castiel form a very attractive trio and girls tune in to watch these hunks every week. This is one of the secret recipes to Supernatural’s success.
In order to capitalize on this the show has these guys do their moves in all sorts of poses.
Every fight you see follows the same general idea and they all usually start with Sam and Dean heading in the line of danger with guns firmly loaded. It has gotten a bit better in more recent times as the actors have aged. Earlier on both Sam and Dean would be seen shirtless on numerous occasions where they would still be posing in some fashion.
12 Easy Trouble With The Law
In Season 12, Sam and Dean were both apprehended by the government for attempting to take the life of the US president (Lucifer had possessed him). This was the first time the law seemed to be effective against these two as they had been apprehended a number of times before. In fact they had trouble with the law all the way back in Season 1.
In Season 7 the Leviathans impersonated Sam and Dean and committed multiple crimes across the country to make them notorious. And yet still these two had no problems going out and about. They never even bothered to change their appearance either. Once the Leviathans were gone there was no more mention of their criminal status. Considering now that they have even evaded the government itself it would seem the justice system can never trouble the Winchesters.
11 Dean’s Repeated Angst
Dean always feels he carries the world’s weight on his shoulders. In Season 1 he would mask this by pretending to be nonchalant, but later on in the same season he would confess to Sam that he feels burdened by it. Starting from the next season there would be at least one occasion where Dean would complain of how tired he had gotten of fighting.
By Season 7 Dean had a major problem.
He would take to frequenting establishments all the time to drown out his sorrows. However, seeing that it has been 13 whole years since the show started you would think Dean would get used to this or see how many times he did do some good in the world. Yet he still feels as if he is some kind of a poison and remains pessimistic for the most part.
10 Technically, They Didn’t Lie
By Season 11 the role of Castiel became rather undefined. He was too liked by the fans to be done away with. The show experimented with this in Season 7 and 8 when Castiel was hardly ever there and suffered due to it. But by Season 10 Castiel was more or less just there to fill up the numbers so he wasn’t really needed as such. In Season 11, the writers figured out a way for fans to have their cake and eat it too.
Castiel would be possessed by Lucifer, which meant that the actor Misha Collins was still in almost every episode while the show’s storyline progressed as Lucifer made arrangements to fight the Darkness. Yet this can be seen as a bit of a scam from the writers as the character of Castiel still didn’t have much to do.
9 Lucifer Jokes Too Much
Tell a Supernatural fan that Lucifer will be seen in an upcoming episode and logic dictates they will squeal in delight because the episode is bound to be littered with jokes.
Lucifer doesn’t act like he’s billions of years old.
He was among the first of God’s creations yet behaves like a 6 year old kid. He literally throws temper tantrums as a child would and antagonized Sam in Season 7 by constantly annoying him with stupid jokes while refusing to disappear. In Season 4 the whole plot line revolved around Lucifer’s impending return and the race to prevent that from happening but come Season 5 it appeared the fear was unfounded as Lucifer wasn’t as much of a threat as he was a laugh riot.
8 Trusting Crowley Every Time
As the above picture relates, Crowley is pretty demented. He has no problem being put under the knife by his opponents as he is the king of the land downstairs. Crowley was the main antagonist of Season 6 and once more in Season 8. He has taken out many of the Winchester’s allies in the process like Meg the Demon, almost finishing Jody Mills and ending the life of Sam’s former love interest Sarah.
Yet for some reason he is still pals with the boys. This is the guy who kept their friend Kevin Tran locked up for ages to do his bidding but all that keeps getting forgotten and Crowley even has several bro moments with Dean in Season 10. He has no problem betraying them when the opportunity presents itself either.
7 Shrugging Off The Heat
All of Team Free Will, the name the have coined protagonists have coined for themselves, have spent time down in the pit. So have some of their loved ones. John Winchester spent about 120 years on the rack as Alastair the Demon tried to break him, although it didn’t take. Next it was Dean Winchester who spent 40 years down under before relenting, thus breaking the first seal of Lucifer’s cage. Finally, Sam spent 120 years in Lucifer’s cage as well.
Yet all the Winchesters shrug this off as if it were an easy thing to forget.
Sure, Sam and Dean do admit they are still shaken by the time they spent in the worst place of the universe, but considering they have retained their sanity it doesn’t make sense how they can remain so nonchalant about it all.
6 Easily Forgiving Their Foes
By season 13, it has become a normal practice for the Winchesters to team up with those they were once sworn enemies with. In the above picture, they confront two hunters who ended their lives back in season 5, but let water be under the bridge on that one. This example is nothing compared to all those the boys had extremely antagonistic relations with.
To name a few here are some who were once enemies but later became friends: Meg, Crowley, Metatron, Rowena, Arthur Ketch, Balthazar, Gadreel, and even the Darkness! Supernatural logic makes it a must that an antagonist will at some point team up with the heroes for a united effort. Once this happens, the previous atrocities committed by said antagonists become easily forgiven.
5 Scooby-Dooby-Doo
This meme is even more hilarious now that we just had an episode of the show called ScoobyNatural. To those who don’t know, this episode had an actual crossover with Scooby-Doo. The boys get sucked into a TV and end up in the animated world where they see just how similar their lives are to the Scooby gang.
They solve mysteries and uncover bad guys.
This is discounting all the bad stuff, but the general idea is still the same. At times the show tends to get so hammy that it becomes hard to believe these boys have been to the pit and back, and have also averted the apocalypse. This isn’t a complaint by any means, as the hammy aspect keeps the show fun and engaging. But it does distance itself away from more serious matters.
4 Unappreciative Dean
Dean is responsible for bringing the lives of angels to end more than perhaps any other human. So it’s a wonder to reflect that the elder Winchester was saved by these very beings after he had been hauled down under at the end of season 3. By season 4, Dean never showed appreciation for the efforts of the angels.
He belittled them at every turn and ganked a fair few.
Ultimately it turned out the angels weren’t very warm and fuzzy as people had imagined them to be, and a majority did deserve the fate that befell them. But it doesn’t change the fact that Dan’s logic is to drive an angel blade into any angel that might cross him.
3 Always A Bigger Problem
Every season has played its problem as if it is something unimaginable. At the beginning, the very idea of the Yellow Eyed Demon’s existence was impossible to fathom. Come season 13 its species has been identified and it is not even close to being the most powerful. The characters make it seem as if current events are always the worst situation they could find themselves in.
They even forget about previous problems.
A seen in the above dialogue, Sam casually mentions Gadreel to a blasé Dean as if talking about a minor character. However, Gadreel had possessed Sam for months and smote Kevin Tran in front of Dean. This repeated practice makes it seem as if the previous season’s conflicts weren’t that big a deal after all.
2 How’s The Weather Down There, Adam?
Honestly, this is one of the most infuriating plot holes on Supernatural. Why Sam and Dean have left their brother down in Lucifer’s cage for what has to be over a thousand years is a mind-boggling flaw. This also points to other logical oversights, namely the one where the Winchesters simply forget about their friends.
They have stopped caring about a number of allies.
There was Garth Flitzgerald who turned into a werewolf and the Winchesters stopped talking to him. There was Kevin Tran who was stuck as a ghost for years and the boys never checked up on how he was doing. Then there are those people the boys regularly finish off who are being possessed by Angels and Demons and are completely innocent. Turns out these heroes aren’t all that noble after all.
1 All My Children
God in Supernatural is just about as useful as seen here. He is known as Chuck in-universe and has a personality so human that he got away with pretending to be one for 7 years until his big reveal in Season 11. Chuck is absolutely useless to the story. He does nothing at all and claims he that Sam and Dean are enough to save the world.
That is the easiest swerve he has taken from responsibility. No wonder his children turned out so messed up. Chuck never gave them any attention and the one he did dote on, Lucifer, he threw in a cage for millennia without trying to address the real issue. It’s no wonder Sam and Dean have their hands full.
