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The shapeshifter in [[4.05 Monster Movie]] finds comfort and inspiration in the great Hollywood classic monsters. He attacks several victims during the 2008 Oktoberfest celebrations in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, first as a Dracula-style vampire (his preferred form), then as a Wolf Man and again as a mummy. He is in love with [[Jamie]], who ends up shooting him with [[silver]] bullets after he lures her, [[Dean]], and [[Sam]] into his basement lair, completely furnished with props and set dressings. | The shapeshifter in [[4.05 Monster Movie]] finds comfort and inspiration in the great Hollywood classic monsters. He attacks several victims during the 2008 Oktoberfest celebrations in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, first as a Dracula-style vampire (his preferred form), then as a Wolf Man and again as a mummy. He is in love with [[Jamie]], who ends up shooting him with [[silver]] bullets after he lures her, [[Dean]], and [[Sam]] into his basement lair, completely furnished with props and set dressings. | ||
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Shapeshifters
Shapeshifting , also known as transformation or transmogrification, is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially a change from human form to animal form or a change in appearance form one person to another.
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Shapeshifters in "Supernatural"
The shapeshifters in both 1.06 Skin and 2.12 Nightshifter can take on a living person’s physical appearance and access the thoughts of the person they are mimicking. The one in Monster Movie can copy deceased people from pictures and film as well.
When they change from one form to another they literally shed their skin, teeth, and nails.
They can be identified by a retinal flare that shows up when they are filmed.
They can be killed by silver to the heart – either a bullet, as in 1.06 Skin and 4.05 Monster Movie, or a blade, as in 2.12 Nightshifter.
It's not clear if all of the shapeshifters have had the exact same abilities; Dean says that the one in the bank shifts faster than the one in St. Louis. It's also not clear if the shapeshifters are human in some sense. In each case to date, a shifter uses its abilities to better commit a normal, human crime like serial murder, theft, or stalking.
in 6.02 Two And A Half Men, the progenitor or Alpha, of all shapeshifters appears
1.06 Skin
A shapeshifter takes on people’s forms to get close to and kill their loved ones. The shapeshifter hints at his own origins: “Maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else.”
The shapeshifter takes on Dean’s form, and reveals to Sam some of Dean’s feelings:
- Shapeshifter!Dean: See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me.
- See also Transcript of Skin
Dean is blamed by the police for the killings committed by the shapeshifter, and even though he is “killed”, this eventually brings him to the attention of Special Agent Victor Henriksen and the FBI.
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2.12 Nightshifter
A shapeshifter in is killing people and taking on their appearances in order to commit robberies. Bank employee Ronald Resnick works out that something not human is behind the crimes. He incorrectly identifies it as a Mandroid, a part-man, part-machine creature that can take on people’s forms.
At a bank it intends to rob, the shapeshifter is identified by Sam and Dean based on retinal flare in security footage. They are unable to kill it because Ronald takes the people in the bank hostage, searching for the Mandroid. Sam and Dean take control of the hostage situation, and the creature shifts more than once in an attempt to escape them. It is in the form of Sherri when Dean finally stabs it with a silver letter opener. The real Sherri survives.
4.05 Monster Movie
The shapeshifter in 4.05 Monster Movie finds comfort and inspiration in the great Hollywood classic monsters. He attacks several victims during the 2008 Oktoberfest celebrations in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, first as a Dracula-style vampire (his preferred form), then as a Wolf Man and again as a mummy. He is in love with Jamie, who ends up shooting him with silver bullets after he lures her, Dean, and Sam into his basement lair, completely furnished with props and set dressings.
6.02 Two And A Half Men
A shapeshifter is imitating men, impregnating their partners and then returning when the child is six months old to steal it. Sam and Dean manage to rescue one child, only to find out it is a shapeshifter. They take it to the Campbell (family) hunter hideout, whre Samuel decides they should raise it themselves. They are then attacked by the Alpha Shapeshifter, who is immune to gunshot and tranquilisers and takes the child.