When a show is in its thirteenth season, you can confidently assume that it’s been anything but unlucky. The success of Supernatural has hinged on the life and heartaches of two brothers Sam (Ja🌊red Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles). If this were a comi🎃c, we might have seen these two as legit superheroes, what with their death-defying experiences, highly occult dealings, and face-offs in the show (2005–current).

In our top-20 list, we mainly aim to cover dark instances that happened off-screen concerning the cast and crew of Supernatural. Any sane reader will agree that this entire show (rife with de♏mons, angels, demi-gods, fights-to-the-death, demon possessions, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, reapers, the end-times, and a slew of other chaotic elements) is dark in a ridiculously strict sense.

To cover similar secrets from the show itself will be like going on a lore-by-lore tour through ancient history. That said, we have dug up a few interesting factoids that dwell around specific themes used in the show that we feel might have😼 been overlooked, despite bein꧅g dark in nature. So here are a handful of unnerving real-life incidents and instances that some fans might not have heard about... yet.

20 The Fal♔len Racist 🐟

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Mark Pellegrino’s portrayal of Lucifer left us frightened to our cores. He brought that certain ‘pizzazz’ to the role, veering slightly away from tradition (if those jeans and wacky attitude are anything to go by) but staying true to the vague historical personality that is the biblical Lightbringer. In a strange twist of fate, Lucifer has been known, scholarly speaking, to look down on God’s creations. Perhaps Pellegrino dove too deep into his role? His racist tweets seem rather on point with his character in Supernatural (since he debuted in Season 5).

He’s upset fans of the show with his tweets, an🃏d many have asked that he be taken off the show. His tweets on gender-bias and white people did not sit well, in fact, he’s even maꦕde rude anti-Muslim remarks. Spoiler alert... Rowena and Crowley have even been ‘taken out’ of the storyline while a bigoted Mark Pellegrino lingers on.

19 ෴ The King Has Been Dethroned

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Also a Season 5 debutant, Mark Sheppard’s rendition of Crowley, the King of the Underworld, practically carried the plotline along unforgettable channels. He’s  put the ‘S’ in Scheming. In other words, few can say they did not love what this man brought to Supernatural. Where his ambiguous character and Brit accent endeared him to fans, he seemingly had a falling out with the show’s developers. The writers have (warning: spoiler ahead) killed him off in Season 12, but as with all things Supernatural, fans held tꦯheir breath awaiting news of the Second Coming of Croꦕwley.

Unfortunately, tweets poured in from the actor himself where he’s stated quite clearly that he won’♉t be interested in returning. There’s trouble in paradise, and we are yet toꦍ gather the full picture.

18 Super-Unnatural 🌱

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In every instance of life, women have proven to be as good as men, if not better. And in a show as infused with magical elements as Supernatural, we do indeed see a fair share of splendid female characters, starting from Sam and Dean🐠’s mom, the beloved Mary Winchester (Samantha Smith) and Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) to the wickedly brill🐽iant Rowena McLeod (Ruth Connell) and the geeky-but-cute Ellen Harvelle (Samantha Ferris).

And don’t get us started on the bombshells whose performances have been quite as jaw-droppingly good. Why then are the writers/creators killing them off or not using them as prominently as they do the men-folk? In a show as heavily supported by female fandoms as Supernatural, this is quite the ironic faux-pas. It’s easy to declare Misogyny, but will the storyline ever change to reflect a longer-lasting fem♕ale-driven script in the seasons to come?

17 🐟 🍰 Minority Report

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It seems ‘impossible’ for the creators to want to hold on to any other character other than Sam and Dean. Not that fans are complaining, but the show IS in its thirteenth season, which means there has been enough room to play with some of the big-hitter characters introdu🌊ced so far. But the write꧑rs simply keep killing them all off prematurely.

Taking inclusive measures could have meant that Raphael and Uriel (played by Demore Barnes and Robert Wisdom respectively) would have had more screen-time in the show. Dean really cared about Cassie (also an actor of color), and we mean bonded-for-life cared, but then she disappears off the Supernatural map. Except for Kevin Tran, non-white actors seem to have it bad where character lifespan is concerned with the show𓆏.

16 Becky Slips𓆉 One 🐻

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Comic episodes are all well and good until the script says something genuinely inappropriate. Like the time they made fun of date substances, a topic that has received renewed attention, with plenty of serious measures being taken to understand and defeat the problem among teens and adults alike. The Time For A Wedding episode iඣn Season 7 was clever enough not to overly depict abuse but came close enough to make the fact too obvious to refute. Shocker, the victim, in this case, was Sam (played by Jared Padalecki) who was slipped a substance🍸 by Fangirl Becky (whom fans actually love and adore) and made to marry her.

See, it’s this sort of open-ended (as opposed to open-minded) comedy that leaves room for viewers to take things lightly, and try out their own ‘love potions’ during dates. You’ll be surprised how impressionab♎le ꦯsuch scenes can be.

15 The Mischievo⛦us Mr. Wade

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Cole Trenton (played by Travis Aaron Wade) has made for interesti🐎ng viewing. But it’s the actor’s behavior off-screen that has off-put a lot of people. Though he played a former Marine in the show’s well-paced Season 10, none of his character’s ‘character’ seems to have rubbed off on Wade, who has been accused of inappropriate advances and harassment at conventions and online. This is precisely where you need to be at your best, and not upset or traumatize your fans, but Wade seems uninterested in all that.

Fans rose up with these accusations only to be called liars by Wade, who has also gone on to promptly block several such online contacts. Twitter witnessed dramatic instances of Wade purportedly stating that he was hacked and that someone else was carrying out ill-conceived flirtations via his account. The Supernatural cast a♏nd crew have given no reliable comments on Travis Aaron Wade’s penchant for troubl💫e.

14 Wܫe Want To... But We Don't ꧋

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It’s not a bad idea to offer fan-suggestions, which is exactly what happened when droves of online Supernatural crazies demanded to see a little diversity in the show, by which they meant a bi-relationship between Dean and Castiel (aka Destiel). Not only did this meet with severe backlash from the cast and crew, i🦄t went on to affect a lot of fans who didn’t quite realize that they were touching a rather sensitive nerve with🍌 the request. Just goes to show that you can’t really speak your mind these days.

The underlying premise behind fans’ need to see a change is that the show is ‘white’ enough, ‘straight’ enough, and ‘male-led’ enough, so why not stir things up a bit. A Warner Bros. executive, Chad Kennedy, was a bit rude to convention-goers when faced with this question (events led to his deleting his Twitter account). It’s not like the writers are innocent either because ever since Castiel debuted in Season 4 there has been an almost-tangible bromanceღ tension between Dean and him.

13 To Slur Is Human,𒀰 To Retaliate... Fan⭕dom-ine

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It will truly take the Hand of God to prevent a show that’s no🧜w in its thirteenth season from meeting the controversy train. Just as Go✨d has shown to do in the show, he’s abandoned the Winchesters to yet another backlash, from fans no less. We call your attention to Season 11 Episode 15 where a transphobic misuse of words resulted in a series of fan-initiated demands for an apology from the writers (John Bring and Andrew Dabb).

What’s interesting is that a dialogue came up with a really witty and welcome addition to the gender-identification lexicon, “...every demon for him/her/shimself.” It even received nods on Twitter, for whatever that’s worth. Unfortunately, the word ‘shimself’ is a🌺 trans-based slur, not a 🎃curious play on words.

12 Are We Men!? 🦂

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The show is essentially Catholic School with an occult twist, to use a loose definition. Every ‘pa🐠gan’ religion mentioned in Supernatural has been shown in an evil light while holy water and all things Christian helped save the day. Hell, they even have angels and God Himself in the show. In a series known for an average (at best) tolerance of diversity and inclusivity (as this article has proven so far), we also see a strong Catholic/Christian message encoded in almost every episode.

Relying on Bible lore is all well and good, but much seems to have been lost in translation, similar to what happened over the centuries with the Good Book itself. Like when the Fallen Angel Lucifer goes on to defeat Kali and Odin, two supreme full-fledged deities in their♓ own right (one Norse, the other Hindu).

11 ﷺ Shirtlessly Irre🍸levant

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Shirtless scenesꦍ involving attractive men are obviously targeted at fans, and their frenzy to see their favorite characters in a lusty light. We found no basis in truth, fa𝔉ct, or necessity for Sam to bare his abs and pecs for the world to see. Something supernatural happened right there; those abs look outlined at times.

The show’s creator, Eric Kripke, made it quite clear that these scenes are intended to entice fans. Episodes like Hellhouse and Skins seem to be portraying his statement to best effect. Misha Collins came on the show as Castiel and before long the writers had him in a laundr𓆏omat. Anyway, if anything’s heating up in our kitchen, it’s an overwhelming sense of awkwardness telling us to move on.