“ | Fine! That's the way you want it? Story's over. Welcome to the end. | „ |
~ Chuck at the end of Season 14, before bringing the end of reality. |
“ | Villains get all the best lines. | „ |
~ Chuck accepting who he truly is. |
“ | SAVE IT!! | „ |
~ Chuck lashing out at his son Michael before killing him. |
The Light, also known as God and by his alias Chuck Shurley, is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside the Shadow) of the Supernatural franchise. He is the arch-nemesis of Sam and Dean Winchester.
Unlike the original version who is more of a stern but well-meaning father, this version is nothing but a narcissistic psychopath, creating humans, angels, archangels, Earth, the universe and the multiverse solely to boost his ego or to be playthings in his sadistic hobby.
He is portrayed by Rob Benedict.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
Background[]
- He imprisoned his sister, Amara, for billions of years and was going to do it again even after she told him how it was a fate worse than death for her.
- In the present day he only came to her when he needed something, emotionally hurt her to accomplish his goals and even expressed contempt for her by saying she "singed backup" for him and angrily expressed to Becky Rosen that Amara "sucked". There's in general no evidence to say he truly cared for Amara especially after his reveal.
- While he seemed sad (only ever in that moment though) about imprisoning Amara a second time, given how he treated her it's extremely unlikely he's still "remorseful" for this. It's also unclear if he was ever remorseful for it to begin with or was merely putting on an act as he usually did.
- He created the multiverse and manipulated it to create the "perfect" stories using the Winchester brothers, i.e., he will have them and those around them endlessly suffer, for his own amusement.
- It's indicated that everything the audience saw prior to season 15 Chuck saw, as he's the audience stand in, so he knew the full extent of his actions.
- Since he's the one making the stories, this also made him responsible for the "Wincest" shipping by Supernatural fans in-universe due to subtext. Keep in mind Wincest is the shipping of Sam and Dean, both of which are brothers.
- If the stories didn't, please him, he would abandon them and no matter how bad things got he wouldn't intervene e.g. Apocalypse Michael's world.
- He banished Lucifer to a cage in Hell where he is strung up and tied to a wall because he refused to bow to humans, and while it may seem like a good act, it isn't anymore as he showed no remorse for it when he himself grew disdainful to humans and sought to cause the same mass extermination Lucifer wanted to do in the first place.
- He killed the Nephilim race as he thought they will grow more powerful than him and kill him eventually, it's important to note their all his grandchildren.
- He caused the Great biblical Flood that killed all life on Earth.
- He wiped out most of the Hellhounds but one as he believed that they grew savage when creating them out of "benevolence".
- He turned the cities Sodom and Gomora into salt, killing everyone who inhabited them.
- He created the Pagan deities, gods of the elements, to be scapegoats for any unfortunate events that occurred or to serve as "epic" stories.
- He then forgot about them due to his ego when he favored monotheistic religions, where only he alone is worshiped, to boost his ego.
- He had people who are devoted to him be ascended to Heaven, no matter what crimes they did, or the sins they did, out of his ego.
- So, if a vile Catholic that committed all the 7 sins worshipped him, they are able to ascend into Heaven, but when a good atheist died, they won't.
- It's unclear whether he stopped caring about the Angels or never cared about them to begin with but in the present day he couldn't care less about the state of heaven not to mention what happens to his children letting them kill each other or not doing his best to try and bring them back.
- He abandoned everyone and everything he created after Lucifer snuck into Eden and corrupted humanity out of sheer disappointment.
- This left Angelkind particularly despaired and devastated for years to come.
- This will eventually lead to various celestial beings becoming villainous, including Amara, Michael (both Main and Apocalypse versions), Zachariah and Raphael, who committed various atrocities just to get him to show up, or in Main Universe Michael's case, trying to fulfill what he believed to be his father's wishes.
- While he saved Sam, Dean and personally resurrected Castiel multiple times, it is only so that the characters in his story continue to entertain him, not out of any genuine care.
- Despite clearly knowing that The Shadow tortures the deceased angels and demons with their nightmares, he only revived Castiel multiple times and Lucifer and Lilith only once, leaving them to rot due to having no use in his story.
Season 14[]
- Gives Dean a powerful gun called the Equalizer and orders him to use it to kill Jack Kline, Sam tells him to stop this and is disgusted when he notices that God is gleefully watching the scenario.
- When Dean refuses to kill Jack, God confronts him and tells him to play his role, revealing his true nature. The Winchesters begin to realize that he has been toying with their whole lives and has manipulated most events in the series for his own amusement. Angered by this, the two brothers openly defy him, God responds by saying "Have it your way" and smites Jack himself.
- Enraged by the Winchesters' defiance, God spitefully plunges the world into chaos, and opens a rupture to Hell, unleashing all kinds of evil spirits into the world.
Season 15[]
- It's revealed he had Kevin Tran, a Prophet and friend of the Winchesters, sent to Hell instead of Heaven as he promised him.
- He killed an unnamed masseuse to show Amara that he's behind her.
- He refused to leave his ex-girlfriend Becky Rosen's house and erased her and her family out of existence while making her watch.
- He made the Winchester brothers in different universes kill each other.
- He resurrected Lilith to retrieve the Equalizer.
- It's implied he threatened Lilith at some point as a fearful Lilith told Michael she couldn't go back to God without the Equalizer.
- He murdered everyone in a casino except a waitress who he threatened to serve him drinks.
- He trapped Sam and Eileen in the casino, tied Sam to a chair and forced Eileen to prod the bullet on Sam's shoulder against her will causing them both great pain.
- While he is disgusted about having to stab Sam, it's not for moral reasons but because he didn't like getting his hands dirty.
- He made the Winchester brothers normal to make them suffer.
- He visited a Radio Shed in Earth-2, where he ranted and decided to wipe the slate clean by destroying the multiverse, sparing the main universe for the last.
- The way he destroyed these worlds was pretty brutal, wiping them out with various natural disasters, one world he destroyed by incinerating it.
- When he got bored of watching the destruction of the multiverse and decided to leave Earth 2, the Radio Shed employee who had served him food and drinks for weeks asked if he would spare them, he lied to the man that everything will be ''fine'' before leaving and calling down a rain of meteors to destroy Earth 2.
- He orchestrated his sister Amara's heartbreak over Dean's betrayal then manipulated her at her most vulnerable by promising "balance" but actually consuming her all to get even more power.
- What worse about this is that it's implied that she's trapped inside him because he said she's "in here somewhere" which isn't what she wanted as the balance she wanted was for them to be a part of each other not to be inside him.
- He wiped out all humans and animals on Earth, except Sam, Dean, and Jack, intending for them to suffer on a lifeless planet with their failure forever.
- The Winchesters even agreed to all his demands, but he still denied them and the world peace for not obeying him sooner.
- While he abandoned the plan after a while it's only because he got bored and so he could finally kill them, the fact he would even try to condemn people to a fate worse than death is still bad though.
- He spared one dog just to give Dean false hope before erasing it too.
- He resurrected Lucifer from the Empty to get his Dead Book for him.
- When Lucifer didn't come back he didn't even bother to ask about him indicating just how loveless he is.
- One of his pettier actions, when God met Michael, who betrayed the Winchesters to become his favorite again, he told him that while he appreciated the "heads up", he couldn't forgive him for even daring to side with the Winchesters and when Michael pleaded, God killed him with nothing but cold indifference on his face.
- When he finally confronted the Winchesters, he told them that eternal suffering sounded good on paper, but as a viewing experience, is kind of boring, and that he's canceling their show. He's about to smite the two before he decided to get his hands dirty and with a smile, brutally beat them, breaking their bones.
- He then turned his attention to Jack and once again tried to kill his grandson before realizing that Jack had been absorbing all of his powers, which turned out to be the Winchesters' real plan to defeat him.
- While he always called the Winchesters his favorites this was only because they were the most entertaining not out of true care plus the way he treated them it doesn't matter.
- When Chuck was told he would be living a human life and was promptly left by the Winchesters and Jack to a life of normalcy he began commanding and screaming that they wait and during this he didn't utter a single sorry for everything he did to them showing how for Chuck even torture isn't a good enough reason to apologize to someone, proving how shameless he is.
- Despite having comedic moments, he is responsible for the most serious moments in Supernatural and is in turn portrayed seriously. While he did have comedic moments in the earlier seasons those were all before his reveal. In fact during his screentime in season 15 most of his comedic moments didn’t detract from his heinousness and instead enhanced his villainy.
- They didn’t make him less evil but only showed how two-faced and cruel he could be to the Winchesters and all Creation in fact making him one of the worst versions of God.
Trivia[]
- Initially God was nowhere as evil in the early run of the show, being seen as more of an overarching hero, while many interpretations of His morality was aligned with being in the grey zone being his likely category. That all changed when Dean and Sam became defiant to his orders which in return, He responded in fury that caused destruction to everyone who had nothing to do with the Winchester brothers' defiance. So had Supernatural ended with Season 5, like initially planned, God would not have been considered a villain, let alone a Pure Evil.
- There's a theory that the reason Chuck likes the Winchester brothers killing each ending (and why so many other siblings end up killing each other throughout the show's run) is because he wants to kill Amara but is unable to without ending his story, so these endings are his way of fulfilling his dark fantasy. If this was ever confirmed it would make him even worse.
External Links[]
- God on the Villains Wiki
- God on the Supernatural Wiki
- God on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- God on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
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Pure Evils | ||
God | Lilith | Alastair | Dick Roman | Abaddon | Michael (Apocalypse World) | Terrance Clegg | Whitman Van Ness | The Shadow |