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John Winchester was [[Sam]] and [[Dean]]'s father, and husband to [[Mary Winchester]].
[[File:John&Henry.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A photo of a young John and [[Henry Winchester]].]]
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 into the order when he was old enough. However, when John was four, his father disappeared. John thought Henry had simply left, never knowing that his father had fled through time to escape the grasp of the [[Knight of Hell]], [[Abaddon]], who later killed him in the 21st century. This left John with a deep resentment -- in Dean's words "he hated the man."<ref>[[8.12 As Time Goes By]]</ref> Nothing is known of John's mother Millie. 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> There may have been mechanics on his mother's side, and possibly Millie re-partnered or the "old man" was John'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>
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> John and Dean continued hunting together, with Dean also going on hunts on his own as he got older. Around this time John and Bobby had a falling out -- Dean comments that the last time Bobby saw John he nearly "filled him with buckshot."<ref name="one22">[[1.22 Devil's Trap]]</ref>
In 2003, John ends up in 2019 after Dean uses a [[Baozhu]] to grant "what his heart desires," hoping it will remove [[Michael]], who is trapped in his mind. John gets a chance to reunite with Mary, and reconcile with Sam and Dean. However John being in 2019 is tampering with the timeline, so they destroy the pearl and send John back to 2003, where he wakes with no memory of what has happened. <ref>[[14.13 Lebanon]]</ref>
In 2005, John got a lead on the [[demon]] that was responsible for Mary's death, and he left Dean in order to pursue it. He tried to keep both Sam and Dean at a distance in order to protect them, even refusing to respond when Dean called him when he and Sam returned to Lawrence in response to Sam's visions<ref>[[1.09 Home]]</ref> or when Sam called to tell him Dean was dying.<ref>[[1.12 Faith]]</ref>
===[[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 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 is now 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==