User blog comment:TB93/The Prince of Hell/@comment-26067572-20150330123237

Gavin ? He's still human (well, last time we saw him at least), I don't think demons would be pleased to have a simple human as king. If Crowley dies, then there will be a fight amongst demons, some kind of a war, because the most powerful demons (if there are still some.. because Lilith, Azazel, Alastair and Abaddon are dead, and Samhain can only be released with a ritual, and not before 600 years or something like that) will fight to become the new "king".

You know, hierarchies and background like that in Supernatural are almost never exploited or really explained. It's just here, and you know nothing about it. That's a big flaw. I don't think that the title of "Prince of Hell" grants anything special to Gavin.. especially that Gavin live at a time where Crowley is NOT the King of Hell, he live at a time where Crowley is just a simple crossroad demon and where upper level demons like Azazel and Alastair are still alive. The title of "King of Hell" is just something that Crowley has created, yes he's the "king" because he rules over demons, because he reign in Hell, but when you see him, he's not that powerful. He's, at best, a "mid-level demon".. not really impressive for a demon who is supposed to reign over thousands (maybe more) demons and over a entire spiritual realm.

For example, he gave 50,000 souls from Hell to Castiel, to help him in his war (and to have his help for searching the Purgatory), we can presume that being the "king of Hell", he is able to take souls in Hell in order to reinforce himself, but apparently that's not the case.. when he became the King of Hell, I was thinking that now, he was at least as powerful as Alastair, or at least as a upper-level demon, but nope. That's a big fucking flaw.