Which Supernatural Character Are You?

The Supernatural cast, sorted

Supernatural started as a monster-of-the-week road show about two brothers and became one of television's longest arguments about family. Fifteen seasons later, the monsters are almost beside the point. What keeps fans arguing is who owes what to whom: whether love justifies any deal, whether a chosen family counts as much as a born one, and how many times a person can be forgiven before the question stops being fair.

The central fault line is Dean against Sam, and it is not as simple as the older brother who acts and the younger who thinks. Dean will do anything to keep his family together and does not believe he deserves to be kept. Sam wants a life outside the work and keeps being pulled back into it. Each makes the other's worst decisions possible. The quiz does not ask which brother you prefer. It asks which of them you are when it is your family on the line.

Around them, the show builds a cast of people who choose to belong. Bobby is the father figure who never says it. Jody is the sheriff who keeps adopting strays and, in the process, builds a household. Charlie is the person who found a place in a world she was never meant to see, and who treated the Winchesters as the family she had picked. Castiel is the outsider who stops following orders and starts following people.

The villains are just as human. Crowley is a negotiator whose cynicism never quite covers his need for company. Rowena is a witch who treats power as a love language, and a mother who learned that being feared is safer than being left. Both are the show's best case that redemption is not a straight line, and that a deal can be a form of intimacy. They also share a habit of announcing that they do not care at exactly the moment when it is clearest that they do, which is a trait the quiz recognizes in more people than will admit it.

Fans disagree about which of these people the show treated best, and which of its choices were mistakes. Few disagree about which of them they would want next to them in a motel at 3 a.m. with something outside the door, and that is a better test than a favorite-character poll. Answer the questions as you would act in that situation, not as you would like to be seen, and the quiz will do the rest.

All 8 possible results

Dean Winchester The Protector

You would go through hell for the people you love, and you do not believe they would do the same for you.

Sam Winchester The Researcher

You think your way through every problem, and you keep choosing the harder road for the people who need you.

Castiel The Outsider

You started out following orders, and learned that your conscience was the only authority you trusted.

Bobby Singer The Gruff Anchor

You say you do not do feelings, and every stray in town has your number.

Crowley The Dealmaker

You always know what everything costs, and you hate how often the answer is company.

Jody Mills The Open Door

You open your house to people nobody else will take in, and you hold the line when it counts.

Charlie Bradbury The Hacker

You built your own world where you are the hero, and then you stepped out into the real one anyway.

Rowena The Showstopper

You are powerful, theatrical and wounded, and you have spent a very long time hiding the last one.

How this quiz scores you

Each answer gives points to one to three characters, based on how they choose and behave on the show. At the end the points are added up, and the character with the highest total is your result. Your later answers break any tie.

Spoilers: Discusses major character deaths and returns across all 15 seasons. Skip it if you have not finished the series.

Sources

• Supernatural, Warner Bros. (official studio page)

An unofficial fan quiz. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of Supernatural.