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Dean is a hypermasculine, stereotypical “bad boy.” He is a ladies’ man, slightly misogynistic, and really, really likes beer and pie. Shortly after Charlie's character arc led her into what seemed like a promising lesbian relationship, she died, and was later brought back to life in the show only for her and her partner to die again.

"I'll never fault someone for being hopeful and optimistic, but for me, when I look at what they did to Charlie in season 10, I'll never look to this show as an example of queer representation.

Then, during the Nov. 5, 2020 episode — the series’ third to very last episode — the angel Castiel (Misha Collins) finally confessed his longstanding love to Dean.

“Knowing you has changed me,” Castiel explains in the tearful scene. Now, Collins confirms Castiel's feelings were romantic. As just one example, a lesbian character named Charlie Bradbury, played by Felicia Day, was murdered in Season 10, which had repercussions for Sam and Dean.

But perhaps the team behind Supernatural has learned from their mistakes.

We've been willing to read into teeny tiny amounts of subtext for decades, because that's all we got."

"Supernatural" fans shipped its main male characters in large part because the show was all about the deep emotional connection that the men shared. Unwilling to discuss the subtext of his character at fan conventions and opposed to slash fiction that puts his characters in homo love, his stance against the Destiel ship has been so adamant that literary journal articles have been written about it.

There are moments of intense queer pining followed by GUNS, BEER, AND SEX!!! It is both frustrating and laughable, but at its core, it is campy, playing with gender and sexuality without really talking about it.

“In naive, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails” (Sontag, 7).

With likely heavy influence from fan spaces, the directors, after baiting a relationship for years, finally allowed Dean and Castiel to have a moment.

We rarely see our stories told, and very rarely told well," Murray, 42, said. The writing itself even played into it, with gay jokes and circumstances that would lead anyone to raise an eyebrow. One cannot understand Supernatural without understanding the space it has (and continues) to take up online, in queer media, and in its own campiness.