User blog:Bas-Makes-Games/About the Purgatory portal thing...

Hello fellow Supernatural fans on this wikia!

As we saw in S8, it was possible for Dean to get out of Purgatory through the portal because he was human, and not "monster", and he stored Benny's soul in his body (the arm, in this case) to give Benny a "ride" out of the place, which is cool and I really loved the arc but I'm scratching my head over a few things...

(to begin, I am watching the series from the beginning, I'm halfway S9 now, before "Zeke" reveals his identity. if I miss something, then correct me. the only things beyond S9 i have seen are the "Thin Lizzie" S11 episode and some cutscenes)

First, it's clear Benny couldn't get out himself, cause he's not human, but a "monster"... and he had to latch on a human (in this case, Dean Winchester) to get out. Thus, it's established that if a "monster" latches on a human, then they can take a ride along because they're in a human being. The fridge logic here (at least for me) is this; what defines a "monster"? Is a monster anything non-human? (like, demons, angels, shapeshifters, skinwalkers, vampires, sirens, leviathans, changeling kids, but also just animals like dogs and cats, or whatever) Is a monster anything that's leviathan, comes from Eve or is in any way imprisoned there by God or the angels? And do angels, demons, Pagan deities, etc. count as monsters?



Second headscratcher; in the part where Bobby Singer's soul is rescued from heaven... Sam needs him to "latch on" (for lack of a better term) too, but Bobby's a human soul, right?

If the fact he became a vengeful Spirit before his heroic sacrifice and farewell to Sam & Dean classifies him as "monster", then I get it. Are human ghosts/Spirits also technically "monster"/non-human by virtue of being dead people? And what about Soulless humans? like Soulless Sam, Len (a kickass character of the week btw), the other humans Amara de-souled, etc.?



Third (last one); if a demon possesses a human vessel in Purgatory, then can the demon get out of the portal?



Btw, I'm not complaining. i love the series and lore, and it's fun to analyze things like this :-)