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I believe Metafiction is the umbrella term that covers this specific technique, and related ones. Metafilm being the specific subset that are TV/film works. They essentially are catch-alls for works that have some sort of self-awareness to them. Self-reflexive works would be closer to your specific scenario. They're works where the work refers to its ...

Supernatural is inspired from several folk lore, legends, myths and a creative team. So most of it is born out of the existing myths out there. Of course, the team goes on to make some stuff of their own. The thing is, Supernatural borrows from myths all over the world. The salt thing and devil's trap are myths that exist. Though I wouldn't worry about the ...

Lucifer is still in the hole with Michael the Arch Angel. What you see of Lucifer in Season 7 are Sam's hallucinations due to the torture his soul took while being in the hole with Lucifer and Michael. Sam was cured of his madness because the reborn Castiel took it into himself, healing Sam but causing himself great harm.

Actually it's never stated that demons go back to hell when they die. They do go back to hell when they're exorcised, and since yellow eyes was killed we haven't seen him except for flashbacks and such. Vampires and pretty much all other monsters go to purgatory when they die. It's never stated if angels go anywhere when they die, I believe they simply ...

From Supernatural Wiki Lilith is able to make deals herself and is bound by the same rules as a Crossroads Demon in making them, however, she claims a deal with her will take a sexual act instead of a kiss, but this may simply be her preference. As far as I remember, she explicitly tells Sam that this deal needs to be consummated instead of the usual ...

Sam loses his powers whenever he stops drinking demon blood. Bobby and Dean made him go through a detox in order to get all of the demon blood out of him. It looks like this happened some time in season 4 after Dean came back. However in at least one episode Sam intentially drank demon blood for one reason or another and ends up going through detox again. ...

I think because during the time on tv the show was possibly on a break or hiatus. I was wondering the same thing so I think they posted the preview and the soon message so fans wouldn't think the show was over or something. Also possibly to just keep the viewers locked in because some people get bored of the same story line that lasts forever.

You're actually pretty spot on with your assessment of the beginnign of the series. However, a look at wikipedia's Supernatural entry gives us some insight: According to creator Eric Kripke, the show originally was intended to focus on the weekly monsters, with Sam and Dean Winchester merely being "an engine to get us in and out of different horror ...

Actually a demon did not burn the symbol off, it was Nike (or a god like Nike). Yes the symbol can be destroyed, but we're not certain if it can be done by a demon or if only certain people (like the old gods) can do it. If it CAN be burned off by anyone, it still would be somewhat hard to accomplish since the demon would have to get close to detroy the ...

I thinkt he intention was to highlight the purity of the angels. They won't/can't take a body without it willfully giving up it's body. Even Lucifer has to have his vessel say yes. In Castiel's case we are shown that he had his vessel go through several "trust buidling" exercises to get him to say yes. Lucifer, however, preyed on the vessel's ...

"The first seal shall be broken when a righteous man sheds blood in Hell." When John dies, he goes to hell where he is tortured everyday by Alastair so that he tortures other souls to get himself off the rack. Later Alastair, reveals to Dean that his father never broke, i.e. never accepted his deal. However, Dean succumbed and gave in to Alastair in ...

Although the Winchesters are never shown to use your novel idea, there are other ways to prevent a demon from escaping the body. From Supernatural Wiki A binding link is a symbol which keeps a demon trapped inside its Meatsuit i.e. the human it is possessing. The demon can neither escape voluntarily or be exorcised. A binding link may be related to ...