The Winchesters Shows How Mary's Death Changed John

Viewers get a taste of the underlying anger that John is capable of in episode 4 when he fights the god Neto and doesn’t hold back in killing him. His quickness to want to kill Tony in episode 5 is also indicative of John wanting to lose himself in violence to forget his trauma and PTSD.

As John was that ruthless and full of rage when faced with the deaths of a war veteran he didn’t know and a politician, one can only imagine how he was following . With that context, it’s easy to see how this trait was passed on to Dean. It wasn’t necessarily an inherited gene, but more of a learned trait Dean picked up after spending years hunting with his father.

The Winchesters Draws Another Parallel Between Dean & John

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One of Dean’s favorite pastimes was working on his 1967 Chevy Impala, Baby, to relieve stress. Dean even rebuilt Baby multiple times, most notably at the beginning of season 2 and after season 11, episode 4 “Baby.” It was refreshing to see not only John but also Mary working on Henry Winchester’s motorcycle, especially knowing that Dean learned how to

from his father. John was seen working on the bike by himself at the end of episode 5 and it seemed to relieve some stress for him. While Mary seemed to know about fixing vehicles as more of a necessity that her parents taught her, John clearly just enjoys occupying himself.

While Dean and his father John seem to share the same weakness in letting their rage out by relentlessly killing monsters, they also seem to have many of the same coping mechanisms.

Because John’s rage was so palpable it was something Dean, even as a young child, could pick up on, Dean was often the brother who succumbed to his rage in . It’s fun to see the subtle connections between John and Dean, and there will surely be more for audiences to catch as more episodes of air.