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|name= Alpha Shapeshifter

|actor= [[Mitch Pileggi]]<br>[[Jared Padalecki]]<br>[[Jensen Ackles]]<br>[[Mark Sheppard]]

|location= [[Purgatory]]

|occupation= [[Shapeshifters|Shapeshifter]]

==Characteristics==

===Powers and Abilities===

* Its strength greatly exceeds the strength of normal shapeshifters.

This [[shapeshifter]] starts gathering a following of its "offspring" and is apparently reproducing with women by morphing into their husbands. When [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] rescue [[Bobby John|one of its children]], the Alpha Shapeshifter storms the Campbell's compound and kills [[Mark Campbell]], overcoming several gunshot wounds and tranquilizer darts, as well as a [[silver]] knife to the heart. It then reclaims the baby from [[Dean]] and leaves. This shapeshifter is able to transform in just a few seconds without shedding its skin.

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|[[File:AlphaShifterDean.jpg|360px|left|thumb|The Alpha Shapeshifter reunites with its child.]]

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[[Crowley]] interrogates the Alpha Shapeshifter on [[Purgatory]]'s location. Crowley then reveals that iridium, although expensive and rare, is capable of damaging and killing the Alpha Shapeshifter. He threatens to kill the [[shapeshifter]]'s offspring that he currently has captured, but the Alpha Shapeshifter still refuses and tells Crowley that more shapeshifters would be produced if he killed the others. Crowley beheads the [[Alpha]].