User blog comment:Jyggalag Daedric Prince of Order/Season 9 A Bust?/@comment-81.152.91.109-20130530222126/@comment-5619706-20130928021112

I'm only playing as the devil's advocate here, and just for the fun of theorizing/discussion.

Actually, Chaos has been mentioned previously. Tiamat, the deity who powered the coin in Wishful Thinking, was a deity of chaos. So we have an antecedent in the show.

Additionally, the writers could make a leeway of Chaos being released not just because of the angels being expelled out of Heaven, but because of the cumulative destruction that has occurred in the series. How many times has the Natural Order been upset? Humans keep on being resurrected? The natural relationships between hunters and monsters? Eve crossing over and dying? Heaven severely and continuously losing power since the ushering of the apocalypse, eventually ending in the expulsion of all angels? Rogue Reapers? With so much destruction that has happened, one has to wonder wether derailing the Apocalypse was worth it. Sure, humans generally are still safe, but what more nightmares do they have to go through to pay for their freedom?

Ultimately, Chaos may not even be painted as naturally evil. It could be that he is a power that simply has to happen because of all the strife and entropy that has happened recently. Without God on stage, its power could not be contained.

Chaos did not actively cause him/her/itself to be freed, rather it was allowed to be released. Each disruption in the natural order weakened its bind and chains. Which would explain why Death is so worked up to maintain the Natural Order of things. Literally to prevent chaos. Now, Dean's selfish behavior following the attempt to close the gates of hell could be a good moral dilemma that the show could explore. Why attempt a complex and elaborate ritual only to cut it short? Was the life of one worth the millions (if not billions) of people that could be saved from demonic possession and attack? This would explain why Death is now actively trying to reap Sam himself, and not relying on any other reaper, to prevent further damage to the Natrual Order. After all, Sam was supposed to die several times before.