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|image=[[File:OG JohnWinchester.jpg|350px]]<br>[[File:YoungJohnWinchester.jpg|350px]]
|name= John Eric Winchester
|actor= [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]]<br>[[Matthew Cohen]] (Young John)<br>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5495146/ Nels Gulofen] (Child John)
|dates= 1954 - July 19, 2006 (killed by [[Azazel]])
|location= [[Heaven]] (currently)<br>[[Lawrence, Kansas]] (formerly)
|occupation= Marine<br>Mechanic<br>[[Hunter]]<br>[[Vessel]] for [[Michael]] ([[5.13 The Song Remains the Same|5.13]])
|episodes= [[1.01 Pilot]]<br>[[1.04 Phantom Traveler]] (voice only)<br>[[1.09 Home]]<br>[[1.10 Asylum]] (not seen)<br>[[1.11 Scarecrow]]<br>[[1.16 Shadow]]<br>[[1.18 Something Wicked]]<br>[[1.20 Dead Man's Blood]]<br>[[1.21 Salvation]]<br>[[1.22 Devil's Trap]]<br>[[2.01 In My Time of Dying]]<br> [[2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two]]<br>[[4.03 In the Beginning]]<br>[[4.13 After School Special]] (not seen)<br>[[5.13 The Song Remains the Same]]<br>[[8.12 As Time Goes By]]<br>[[9.07 Bad Boys]] (not seen)<br>[[11.04 Baby]] (vision)<br>[[14.13 Lebanon]]
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|text= You gotta understand somethin'. After your mother passed, all I saw was evil. Everywhere. And all I cared about was, was keepin' you boys alive. I wanted you prepared. Ready. So somewhere along the line I uh, I stopped being your father, and I, I became your, your drill-sergeant. So when you said that you wanted to go away to school, all I could think about, my only thought was, that you were gonna be alone. Vulnerable. Sammy it just, it never occurred to me what you wanted. I just couldn't accept the fact that you and me... we're just different.
|author= John Winchesterto [[Sam]]
|source= [[1.20 Dead Man's Blood]]
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|text= You know, when you were a kid, I'd come home from a hunt, and after what I'd seen, I'd be, I'd be wrecked. And you, you'd come up to me and you, you'd put your hand on my shoulder and you'd look me in the eye and you'd... You'd say 'It's okay, Dad' [...] You shouldn't have had to say that to me, I should have been saying that to you. You know, I put, I put too much on your shoulders, I made you grow up too fast. You took care of Sammy, you took care of me. You did that, and you didn't complain, not once. I just want you to know that I am so proud of you.
|author= John Winchesterto [[Dean]]
|source= [[2.01 In My Time of Dying]]
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John Winchester was [[Sam]] and [[Dean]]'s father , and the son of husband to [[Henry Mary Winchester]], a member of the [[Men of Letters]], making John a legacy. Born in Normal, Illinois, he was four when his father disappeared. John thought Henry had simply left, not knowing that his father had fled through time to escape the grasp of the [[Knight of Hell]], [[Abaddon]]. Had Henry not left, John most likely would've been initiated into the Men of Letters.<ref>[[8.12 As Time Goes By]]</ref>
[[File:John&Henry.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A photo of a young John and [[Henry Winchester]].]]
Nothing is known John was born in Normal, Illinois, to [[Millie]] and [[Henry Winchester]]. Henry was a member of the [[Men of Letters]], who intended to induct John's motherinto the order when he was old enough. However, other than she when John was named Milliefour, his father disappeared. At some point he moved John thought Henry had simply left, never knowing that his father had fled through time to escape the grasp of the [[LawrenceKnight of Hell]], Kansas[[Abaddon]], who later killed him in the 21st century. After returning from the Vietnam War where he served as a marine, This left John worked as with a mechanic and was eventually codeep resentment --owner (with in Dean's words "he hated the man."<ref>[[Mike Guenther8.12 As Time Goes By]]) </ref> Nothing is known of a garageJohn's mother Millie. He John described himself as "a mechanic from a family of mechanics," and when he is an adult there is someone in his life who an acquaintance refers to as "his old man."<ref name="four03">[[4.03 In the Beginning]]</ref> so it There may be assumed that either his mother remarried, or that there were have been mechanics on his mother's side. Alternatively he may have gone to live with relatives , and possibly Millie re-partnered or the "old man" was fostered or adoptedJohn's maternal grandfather.
After returning to [[Lawrence, Kansas]], from the Vietnam War where he served as a marine, John worked as a mechanic and was eventually co-owner (with [[Mike Guenther]]) of a garage. On March 23, 1972 after seeing the film Slaughterhouse-Five, Mary Campbell bumped into John Winchester, knocking him down. While Mary was embarrassed, John simply laughed it off, and told her she could get him a cup coffee to make it up to him. The two would go to Mulroney's Diner and talk. When John asked for Mary's number, she gave it to him, despite knowing her father wouldn't approve. [[Heaven]] was also interested in bringing together the lines of [[hunter]]s and [[Men of Letters]], and so a [[cherub]] intervened, causing the two to fall in love.<ref>[[5.14 My Bloody Valentine]]</ref> John and Mary's marriage was not always happy, and at least once he moved out of the family home.<ref name="five16">[[5.16 Dark Side of the Moon]]</ref>
John and [[Mary Campbell]] did not initially get along when they met. However [[Heaven]] was interested in bringing together the lines of [[hunter]]s and [[Men of Letters]]In 1973, and so a [[cherub]] intervened and they fell in love.<ref>[[5.14 My Bloody Valentine]]</ref> At one point as John went to a car yard to purchase a beige VW van but was persuaded by [[Dean]], who had come from the future to save him, to get the [[Impala]] instead.<ref>[[4.03 In the Beginning]]</ref> In 1973, Soon after John was about to propose to Mary when [[Azazel]] killed him. Mary made a deal with Azazel for John's life, in exchange for a promise to allow Azazel into her home in ten years' time.<ref name="four03" /> They After John's resurrection, the two married in Reno on August 19, 1975, at Mary's instigation. <ref>[[12.01 Keep Calm and Carry On]]</ref>
John was unaware of Mary's life as a hunter. He , but did learn of this when Sam and Dean return to 1978 protect their parents from the [[angel]] [[Anna]],who had gone back in time to prevent Sam from being born by killing John and Mary.<ref>[[5.13 The Song Remains the Same]]</ref> but his memory is wiped of this information John consented to being possessed by [[Michael]], following thinking it would help save Mary, allowing Michaelto kill Anna. Afterwards, John and Mary's possession memories are wiped of John in order to kill the encounter with the angels and Sam and Dean by [[AnnaMichael]].
When Mary was murdered by Azazel in 1983, John raised their two sons, Sam and Dean, alone. Mary's marriage mysterious death became an obsession for John, who sought to learn what happened that night and kill the thing that pinned Mary to the ceiling. His quest for revenge led him [[Missouri Mosely]], who revealed to John the world of the supernatural. After taking to the hunter life, John moved his family from town to town following leads on supernatural creatures (telling Sam that he was not always happya traveling salesman). In the early days, and he would often leave the boys with other hunters like [[Pastor Jim]] or with babysitters he'd find at least once motels, but sometimes he moved out of left them to fend for themselves for days or even weeks<ref name="four19">[[4.19 Jump the family homeShark]]</ref>.<ref name="three08">[[3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas]]</ref><ref name="five16four13">[[54.16 Dark Side 13 After School Special]]</ref> Though he never settled anywhere for very long, John did establish a [[John's lock-up|lock-up]] where he stored weapons (including landmines and grenades), [[curse boxes]], and mementos from Sam and Dean's childhood. When Dean was six or seven, John began training him to use a shotgun, while keeping Sam unaware of the Moonhunting. Sam believed John was a salesman until he read [[John's Journal]] when he was eight.<ref name="three08">[[3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas]]</ref>
When John met [[Mary Winchester|MaryBobby Singer]] was murdered who advised him about hunting and also, at least by Azazel in 1983, John raised their two sons1989, looked after Sam and Dean, alone. Due to the nature of her death, while John sought revenge, taking up was on the occupation and lifestyle of a hunter, which created a unique childhood for his two young sonsroad. John moved his family from town to town following leads on supernatural creatures (telling Sam that he was a traveling salesman), often leaving the boys for days or even weeks<ref name="four19">[[47.19 Jump the Shark10 Death's Door]]</ref> In 1991, he gave an 8-year-old Sam an amulet as a Christmas present to give to John, which he eventually gave to fend for themselvesDean.<ref name="three08">[[3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas]]</ref><ref name="four13">[[4.13 After School Special]]</ref> Though he never settled anywhere for very long, John did establish a [[John's lock-up|lock-up]] where he stored weapons (including landmines and grenades), [[curse boxes]], and mementos from Sam and Dean's childhood.
In 1990, unbeknownst to Sam and Dean, John fathered was injured on a child with nurse hunt in Windom, Minnesota, and went to the hospital where he met [[Kate Milligan]]. Though During a brief fling, he got her pregnant, although he didn't meet his son -- [[Adam Milligan]] didn't meet John -- until he was 12 years old, . John had sporadic contact with Adam from 2002 until John's death in 2006. While John raised Sam and Dean in a very militant and non-conventional environment, it seemed he used his time with Adam to do more traditional father-son activities such as going to baseball games that he either couldn't or wouldn't do with his older two sons.<ref name="four19">[[4.19 Jump the Shark]]</ref>
John cut off contact with Sam after After Sam chose to leave the family and hunting and attend Stanford, John cut off contact with him, although he regularly visited Palo Alto to check up on him.<ref>[[1.08 Bugs]]</ref> In 2005John and Dean continued hunting together, with Dean also going on hunts on his own as he got older. Around this time John got and Bobby had a lead on falling out -- Dean comments that the last time Bobby saw John he nearly "filled him with buckshot."<ref name="one22">[[demon1.22 Devil's Trap]] that was responsible for Mary's death, and he left Dean in order to pursue it. </ref>
He eventually reunited with Sam and In 2003, John ends up in 2019 after Dean in order to obtain uses a [[the ColtBaozhu]]. As they got closer to grant "what his heart desires," hoping it will remove [[the Yellow-Eyed DemonMichael]], who is trapped in his mind. John was kidnapped by the [[demon]] [[Meg]]gets a chance to reunite with Mary, and possessed by [[Azazel]]reconcile with Sam and Dean. However Sam wasn't able to kill his father John being in 2019 is tampering with the Colt in order timeline, so they destroy the pearl and send John back to kill the demon2003, where he wakes with no memory of what has happened.<ref>[[114.22 Devil's Trap13 Lebanon]]</ref>
Following a car crash caused by In 2005, John got a lead on the [[Trucker|demon]]that was responsible for Mary's death, John offered his own life and the Colt he left Dean in order to [[Azazel]] pursue it. He tried to save keep both Sam and Dean. John revealed that he has known the "truth" about Sam all along. Before he diedat a distance in order to protect them, John warned even refusing to respond when Dean that called him when he may have and Sam returned to Lawrence in response to kill Sam if he couldn't save s visions<ref>[[1.09 Home]]</ref> or when Sam called to tell himDean was dying.<ref>[[21.01 In My Time of Dying12 Faith]]</ref>
Following a car crash caused by a [[Trucker|demon]], John Winchester died offered his own life and went to [[Hellthe Colt]], where over the next ten months (equivalent of a hundred years) he was tortured by to [[AlastairAzazel]]to save Dean. Alastair later told Dean John revealed that John never he had known the "broketruth" -- iabout Sam all along.e. never gave in Before he died, John warned Dean that he may have to Alastairkill Sam if he couldn's temptation to protect himself by torturing others. Dean, by contrast, gave in after three months (equivalent of thirty years) of torture, thus breaking the first of [[the 66 Seals]] to free [[Lucifer]]: a righteous man shedding blood in Hellt save him.<ref>[[42.16 On the Head 01 In My Time of a Pin Dying]]</ref>
In 2007Due to his deal with Azazel, when John Winchester died he was sent to [[Hell]], where over the next ten months (equivalent of a hundred years) he was tortured by [[Alastair]]. Alastair later told Dean that John never "broke" -- that is, he never gave in to Alastair's temptation to protect himself by torturing others. Dean, by contrast, gave in after three months (equivalent of thirty years) of torture, thus breaking the first of [[the 66 Seals]] to free [[Lucifer]] that required that a righteous man shedding blood in Hell.<ref>[[4.16 On the Head of a Pin ]]</ref> When the [[Devil's Gate in Wyoming|Gate to Hell]] was opened , he was one of the spirits who managed to escape and helped Dean kill Azazel by [[Jake Talley]] ripping him out of his meatsuit, distracting him long enough for his son to reclaim the Colt and shoot Azazel in his heart after he returns to his meatsuit. After sharing one last tearful moment with his sons, John's spirit escaped, helping Dean passes on to kill [[AzazelHeaven]].<ref>[[2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two]]</ref> John had a quiet moment with his sons after Dean killed Azazel before his spirit passed on to the afterlife.
===Middle name===
* Full name given on the tombstone in the alternative reality of episode [[2.20]]: John E. Winchester* At [[Comic-Con 2008]], Eric Kripke [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxFxhSrrTQ confirmed] that John's middle name was Eric.* In [[11.23 Alpha and Omega]], [[Lady Antonia Bevell]] has cork board with information on the family. John's full name is written as John Edward Winchester. However as other information such as Sam's birth date are incorrect, the veracity of any of the information there is in doubt.
==Episodes==
===[[1.21 Salvation]]===
As hunters they know start being killed, the Winchester begin to hunt for the [[demon]] in earnest, following signs that John has learned are associated with its appearance to Salvation, Iowa. [[Sam]] has a vision concerning a young woman and her baby, suggesting she is a target of the demon. John is angry that the boys hadn't told him about Sam's visions, but Dean stands up to him, berating him for almost never picking up the phone whenever they called.
When [[Meg]] calls she demands [[the Colt]], killing his friend [[Caleb]] as John listens. John plans a ruse to give her a fake Colt, as Sam and Dean take the real Colt to kill the demon. Both plans go wrong when John is captured by Meg and [[Tom]] and the demon eludes the boys.
===[[1.22 Devil's Trap]]===
[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] turn to [[Bobby]] for help. When [[Meg]] turns up, they capture her, and manage to find out John's location. The boys rescue John and take him to a remote cabin. It is while he is telling Dean he is proud of him that Dean gets suspicious and realizes that John is possessed by [[the Yellow-Eyed Demon]]. He taunts Dean and Sam and is killing Dean when John manages to wrest control for a moment and allow Sam to get control of the Colt. Sam, however, can't shoot to kill and the demon escapes after Sam only shoots John in the leg. As they escape in the [[Impala]], a demon-possessed [[Trucker|truck driver]] totals the car.
[[File:John-Azazel-Deal.jpg|thumb|right|350px|John makes a [[deal]] with [[Azazel]] to save [[Dean]]'s life.]]
===[[2.01 In My Time of Dying]]===
All the Winchesters are in the hospital, with [[Dean]] near death. When [[Sam]] discovers John is planning on pursuing the [[Yellow-Eyed Demon]], they argue. John promises to hold off until Dean recovers, but actually summons the Yellow-Eyed Demon and makes a deal - his life for Dean's.
===[[10.09 The Things We Left Behind]]===
While at a barsulking, Castiel asks Sam and Dean if they love their father. Despite not having had an easy childhood, they both say they do. Sam and Dean tell [[Castiel]] a story about a time when they and John were investigating a haunting on Long Island, New York. They begged him to take them to New York City, despite John's distaste for New York (and the Yankees) he was eventually talked into taking them into the city for sightseeing and pizza. Later that night , as John and Sam were asleep, Dean snuck off to visit CBGBs despite being underage. There, a woman invited him to drink with her and her friends. He got drunk for the first time, so much that according to Dean, "the room starts to spin, and I feel like I'm going to puke forever." John found Dean and rescued him from the situation, intimidating everyone in the bar with his militaristic appearance and tone of voice. Dean recalls telling John that he embarrassed him, and that he hated John, to which John replies, "Son, if you don't like me, that's fine. It's not my job to be liked. It's my job to raise you right." Dean tells Castiel asks Sam and Dean if they love their father, and they both say they dothat John succeeded in that.
===[[11.04 Baby]]===
While driving to Quaker Valley, Oregon, to check out a possible case, believing [[Sam]] to be exhausted, [[Dean]] tells him to get in the back and get some rest. Suddenly Sam is awakened by Judy Collins's "Someday Soon" playing on the radio. He asks Dean what he's listening to, only to find the younger version of John Winchester in the driver's seat. Sam believes he's having another vision. John says he is only here to deliver a message -- that [[the Darkness]] is coming and only the boys can stop it. Sam insists that there should be a way to stop the Darkness and that John needs to tell him, but John only answers, “[[God]] helps those who help themselves.” Sam asks John one last question before he wakes up: “Who are you?”
[[File:After waking up, Sam tells Dean about the dream and his belief that it was someone masquerading as John to deliver a message. When Sam points out that Johntold him everything he wanted to hear, Dean agrees that that didn't sound like their father at all, but brushes off Sam's-Batclaims that it could be [[God]] responding to his [[prayer]].png|thumb|right|350px|Dean admits that he dreams about their father all the time, usually a dream where Johnis teaching Dean how to drive when he's barbed wire wrapped baseball batsixteen, not a young boy as when John actually taught him, with Sam in the back seat and John telling him "perfect landing son" when they get home. The dream, which Dean has every couple of months, is something that he finds comforting.]]Sam says he usually has the same type of dream about their mother - a dream of a normal life with their parents. 
===[[11.15 Beyond the Mat]]===
When [[Dean]] finds the obituary of a wrestler John was a fan of, he and Sam reminisce that watching wrestling was one of the few moments they could remember seeing him actually happy. Dean considered their time at wrestling shows as the nicest thing John ever did for them.
===[[12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell]]===
As they are returning from cases involving [[ghouls]], [[wraiths]], and [[sirens]], Dean comments on how John used to love the weapon he was carrying, a bat wrapped with barbed wire which was covered in raw pieces of the [[monsters]] they were hunting, as is Dean.
 
===[[14.13 Lebanon]]===
[[File:John&MaryReunited.jpg|thumb|right|350px|John and [[Mary]] share a moment together.]]
When Dean uses the [[Baozhu]] and wishes for his heart's desire, he inadvertently summons John Winchester from 2003. After attacking and overpowering his sons, they talk about everything that's happened since his death: how they saved the world multiple times, discovered the truth about the Men of Letters from [[Henry Winchester|their grandfather]], and live in the Bunker with [[Castiel]] and [[Jack]]. John also sees [[Mary]] for the first time since her death in 1983.
 
While he looks through the lore books, John also talks with Sam about their fight the night Sam left for Stanford. Sam tells John that while he thinks about him a lot, he never thinks about their fights. Sam felt bad about how he never got to say goodbye before finding John on the floor in the hospital. However, Sam acknowledges that John did the best he could for them.
 
Later, they discover that they tampered with time by pulling John from the past. The consequences include Sam never getting back into the hunting life, Dean being wanted for $100,000 on multiple charges, Mary never being brought back to life by [[Amara]], presumably Jack never being born, and Castiel never meeting the Winchesters. They realize that they need to send John back to 2003 to correct the past. Sam, Dean, and Mary are hesitant, but John accepts that he has to go back. John also tells Dean that he never meant for his sons to have to live the hunter life as it was supposed to end between Yellow Eyes and him. He wanted Dean to have a normal life and have a family of his own, but Dean acknowledges that he already has a family. After sharing their first meal as a family, they gather around for one last tearful goodbye. As John holds Mary's hand, Sam smashes the Baozhu, sending John back to 2003.
 
As John wakes up in the Impala back in 2003, he gets a call from Dean. He tells Dean that he had "one hell of a dream" and that he will see Dean soon.
 
===[[14.18 Absence]]===
After Mary is accidentally killed by Jack, [[Dumah]] allows [[Castiel]] to see her special [[Heaven]], where Mary is at peace and reunited with John.
 
During Mary's hunter's funeral, John appears in a flashback to [[14.13 Lebanon]].
 
===[[14.19 Jack in the Box]]===
After [[Castiel]] tries to get to [[Jack Kline]], [[Dumah]] threatens to end John and Mary's shared Heaven with a snap of her fingers if Castiel doesn't do as she says. In retaliation and to protect John and Mary, Castiel instantly kills Dumah with his [[angel blade]], ensuring their safety.
 
===[[15.20 Carry On]]===
After [[Dean]] dies and arrives in Heaven, he is met by [[Bobby]], who tells him that all the walls have been taken down by Jack and Heaven is everyone happy and together. He notes that John and [[Mary]] have a place "over yonder."
==Age Speculation==
==John's Military History==
[[ImageFile:DogtagsJohn's_Dog_Tags.jpgpng|right|thumb|John's dog tags.]]
In [[2.09 Croatoan]], Dean says that John was a Corporal in the Marine Corps, with company 'Echo 2/1' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Battalion_1st_Marines 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, Echo company]). Sam reiterates this to [[Stan Thompson]] in [[8.08 Hunteri Heroici]].
==Trivia==
* Full name given on the tombstone in the alternative reality of episode [[2.20]]File: John E. Winchester* At [[Comic's-Con 2008]], Eric Kripke [http://wwwBat.youtube.com/watch?v=lxxFxhSrrTQ confirmed] that png|thumb|right|350px|John's middle name was Ericbarbed wire wrapped baseball bat.]]* In one version of the pilot script, [[Sam ]] and [[Dean ]] found John dead on the ceiling.<sup>[[S1Com]],p.11</sup>* After having given the [[Impala ]] to Dean, John drives a GMC Sierra Grande with the Kansas license plate CSG 8R3.* John appears in a flashback in the spin-off novel ''[[Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon]]'', where he hunts a fire demon in San Francisco in 1989 (the Campbells, unknown to John, having defeated and banished the same demon in 1969), with [[Dean]], [[Sam]], and [[Castiel]] permanently defeating the demon in 2009. His presence is also hinted at in the 1969 flashback, when [[Deanna Campbell]] reflects on a mechanic that Mary is acquainted with back home.* [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]], who plays [http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Negan_(TV_Series) Negan] on ''The Walking Dead'', has joked about [http://storify.com/superwiki/supernatural-walking-dead-real-life-crossover a crossover between ''Supernatural '' and ''The Walking Dead''] along with [[Jensen Ackles]] and fellow Walking Dead actor Michael Cudlitz . Negan's signature weapon [http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Lucille_(TV_Series) Lucille], a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, appears in [[12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell]].* John Winchester's age at the time of [[2.01 In My Time of Dying]] would have been 52 years old. With Jeffery Dean Morgan's return to ''Supernatural'' in [[14.13 Lebanon]], he would have been the same age as John Winchester was in his last appearance. However, in "Lebanon" he was playing John Winchester three years younger.
==See also==
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