Mary Winchester

Mary Sandra Winchester (née Campbell) (born December 5, 1954) is a retired hunter, the daughter of Samuel and Deanna Campbell, the wife of John Winchester, and the mother of Dean and Sam Winchester. After retiring from hunting to be with her family, Mary was killed by the demon Azazel exactly six months after Sam was born, which spurred John into becoming a hunter to kill Azazel in revenge and raising their sons as hunters as well. 33 years later, after Dean reunited God and the Darkness, she was resurrected by the latter as a thank-you gift for Dean.

Background
Mary was born December 5, 1954 to a hunter couple Samuel and Deanna, who had not planned for her birth but regarded her as a "blessing" regardless. Mary had a brother, but he is never named. His last known location was Greenville, Illinois, but his status is unknown. The family lived in Lawrence, Kansas.

Mary hated hunting; she sought to have a normal life so that she could be safe and raise a family. This caused tension between her and her father. When she fell in love with John Winchester, Samuel did not approve of their relationship because he believed John to be a naive civilian. Though Mary loved John, she did not tell him about the hunting life.

1973
Unbeknownst to her, Mary met the future version of her firstborn son, Dean, in "In The Beginning". She noticed him following her and John on a date, and violently confronted him before he revealed that he was also a hunter. She then took him back to her house, where he had dinner with her family despite Samuel's distrust of him.

A reluctant Mary worked a case with her father and Dean. They learned that Charlie Whitshire had unwittingly made a deal with a demon in order to protect his father from abusing his mother. From Charlie's description, Dean realized that the demon in question was Azazel, who had killed Mary in the future. Dean made her promise not to leave her bed on November 2, 1983, the night she was supposed to die. However, when she learned that Azazel was targeting a friend of hers named Liddy Walsh, Mary and Samuel intervened, in the process inadvertently drawing Azazel's attention to Mary due to her skills and courage.

Mary was terrified by the demon's interest in her. She spent time with John to try to clear her head. While he was in the middle of proposing to her, her father Samuel, who was possessed by Azazel, interrupted. He killed John then revealed that he had also killed her parents, devastating Mary. He then pressured her into making a deal for John's resurrection and her having a normal life; in exchange, she granted permission for him to enter her house in ten years. Dean arrived too late to stop her, and was returned to his own time by the angel Castiel.

Mary later married John and retired from hunting. The couple lived together at 485 Robintree.

1978
Mary became pregnant with Dean.

In "The Song Remains the Same", Mary's future sons arrived to prevent Anna Milton from killing John, thus preventing the birth of her youngest child, Sam, and the onset of the Apocalypse. Mary was vehemently against their presence because the last time she'd seen Dean, her parents were murdered. She also didn't want them getting her involved with hunting again.

Mary fended Anna off to protect John and distract Anna while Sam banished the angel with a sigil. During this fight, Mary exposed her hunting background to John, and was forced to reveal the truth about herself to him. John was upset that she hadn't told him earlier as well as being angry at her parents for endangering her life by raising her like that.

Mary led the rest of the Winchesters to a house her family had owned and kept stocked with weapons and measures against the for years. Sam taught her how to use holy oil to trap angels.

While preparing to fight Anna, Mary demanded an explanation as to why an angel wanted to kill her from Dean, who eventually revealed that the truth about himself and Sam to her. She was stricken with guilt and horror at the thought of raising them as hunters, but Dean revealed that she had been killed by Azazel and John trained them as hunters instead while seeking vengeance. Dean suggested that she try to flee with Sam before the demon came for them, but Sam himself stated that she should just leave John. While shocked by her sons' words, Mary remained steadfast that she could not leave John because she was pregnant with Dean.

Anna and fellow angel Uriel attacked after removing all the defenses the Winchesters had set up against them. Mary witnessed Sam's death at Anna's hands; however, when Anna turned to her, Michael possessed John, killed Anna, and sent Uriel back to Heaven. Michael also modified Mary's memories to remove her memory of meeting her sons as well as of the warning they gave her to ensure she would die as intended.

A family of her own
Mary gave birth to Dean on January 24, 1979.

A memory of Dean's from "Dark Side of the Moon" revealed that Mary and John's marriage was not as perfect as John later portrayed it as; at one point, they fought until John had to temporarily move out. She was upset by this, but a toddler Dean comforted her.

In 1980, Mary resumed hunting briefly to "tie up some loose ends." While in Emerson, Manitoba, Canada, Mary killed a werewolf she had history with and saved the life of a young boy named Asa Fox. As a result of the encounter with Mary, Asa was inspired to become a hunter himself.

Mary gave birth to Sam on May 2, 1983.

Death
As seen in the teaser of "Pilot", Mary awoke on November 2, 1983 due to the sounds of Sam crying over the baby monitor. She entered his nursery to find Azazel leaning over the infant's crib. She mistook him for John and decided to let him soothe Sam so she could return to bed.

However, Mary noticed a light flickering in the hallway and a television still on downstairs. She discovered John asleep in the living room. Much to her horror, she realized that the person upstairs was an intruder and rushed back to Sam's nursery, interrupting Azazel as he fed her son his blood--this is what Mary had given him permission for in 1973 without realizing it.



Azazel used telekinesis to drag Mary up the wall and pin her to the ceiling, at which point he slit her stomach. She screamed briefly, alerting John, who ran into the nursery. She could not speak to warn him and stared helplessly at her husband and her youngest son before John noticed her blood dripping onto Sam and looked up; Azazel then set her aflame, burning her alive.

Legacy
In lieu of her body, Mary's uncle put up a headstone to commemorate her in Greenville, Illinois, where he presumably lived. Sam and Dean never met her uncle. They visited her headstone in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things".

After Mary's death, Azazel killed all of her remaining family, friends, and even acquaintances, such as her doctor, to hide his deal with her. Because her family and anyone associated with them died, Sam and Dean did not learn that their mother used to be a hunter until early in Season 4.

The memory of Mary and her death drove the remaining Winchester family to become hunters in order to track down and kill Azazel to avenge her. John continued to grieve for her even decades later, confessing in "Salvation" that he wanted her back. Dean's wish in "What Is And What Should Never Be" is for Mary to have never died, but he chooses to wake himself up from his dream when he realizes that a djinn has poisoned him in order to feed off of him until he dies. Dean avenged her at the end of the second season when he killed Azazel with the Colt. When undergoing demon blood detox in "When the Levee Breaks", a feverish Sam hallucinates her reassuring him that he is doing the right thing in drinking blood to kill Lilith.

Enemies of the Winchesters have been known to use the family's love and grief for Mary against them: besides the example of the djinn above, Zachariah used an illusion of Mary to make her sons suffer by manipulating their emotions in "Dark Side of the Moon", and in "Mommy Dearest" Eve assumed her shape to make a point about her love for her monstrous children.

For years after Mary's death, her ghost haunted the house she'd died in. Her death and Azazel's temporary presence drew a powerful, violent poltergeist to the house.

Mary's last chronological appearance as herself was in the Season 1 episode "Home", in which Sam's premonition led her sons back to their childhood home to hunt the poltergeist terrorizing the family currently living in the home. When the poltergeist tried to kill Sam, her ghost manifested, first as a flaming humanoid figure that walked out of the closet of the room that used to be Sam's nursery. She apologized to him for allowing Azazel to feed him blood. She confronted the poltergeist, telling it to leave her house and let go of her son, before she sacrificed herself to banish the poltergeist from the house. What became of her soul afterward is unknown: the psychic Missouri Moseley believed that she ceased to exist and Ash later tells Sam and Dean that he had not found her in Heaven. However it has been revealed that destroyed ghosts do in fact still move on to their destined resting places and perhaps Mary and John simply do not want to be found.

Resurrection
In Alpha and Omega, Sam and Dean visit Mary's grave before Dean goes to sacrifice himself to destroy the Darkness. After Dean helps the Darkness reconcile with God, the Darkness tells him that he gave her what she truly wanted so she will do the same for him. Shortly afterwards, Dean finds a resurrected and confused Mary in a nearby park.

In Keep Calm and Carry On, Dean is shocked by Mary's resurrection. Mary, not remembering her death or anything that came after it, is confused by Dean's presence and claim that he is her son. Dean tells Mary that he's not four anymore since she has been dead. Mary suddenly remembers her death at the hands of Azazel and lets up Dean who tells her that she has been dead for 33 years. Dean convinces Mary of his identity by reciting her family history and her history with John. Convinced, Mary hugs Dean and they sit on a bench in the park and Dean fills her in on all that she's missed over the last 33 years. Mary is stunned by the news that she met Dean through time travel twice and was resurrected by God's sister and met Dean while she was a ghost which she is unable to remember either.

After catching Mary up, Dean takes her to the Men of Letters bunker to meet Sam. Mary is shocked to find out that the Men of Letters are real as she'd only known them as a hunter's myth. Noticing blood on the ground, Dean hands Mary a gun and tells her to stay behind as he searches the bunker. Instead, Mary explores and hides when she hears someone enter. Emerging from hiding, Mary threatens Castiel at gunpoint until Dean defuses the situation. Dean explains to a shocked Castiel who Mary is and to the shocked Mary that Castiel is in fact an angel. After Castiel explains what happened before Lady Toni Bevell banished him, Dean searches through traffic cameras on the Winchester's laptop for the kidnapper's car. Mary is confused by the size of the computer before Dean locates the vehicle. Joining Dean and Castiel in the hunt for Sam, Mary goes with them to the bunker's garage where she recognizes the Impala as John's car and comments on how beautiful the car still is, treating the car in a similar manner to how Dean does.

Tracking the kidnapper's vehicle to the airport, the three question a man there about the kidnappers and Mary is surprised by Castiel acting violent when he's an angel. The man gives up the tail number of Toni's plane and Mary sits in a café and watches the changed world as Dean searches for information on the plane. When Castiel joins her, Mary tells him about how strange everything is to her, from the fact that she was resurrected at all to the world around her. Dean rejoins them and explains that the plane has a diplomatic registry, meaning that they can't access the flight plan. After Castiel spots a nearby veterinary clinic, the three realize Sam could've been treated there and kidnap the doctor for answers. After the man admits he treated Sam's leg wound for $100,000 but clearly holds something back, Mary orders Castiel to beat the answers out of him. The doctor finally tells them that he has Toni's phone number as she called to ask about the sedative he used on Sam and Mary watches with Castiel as Dean calls Toni.

Having failed to get anything from the phone call, the three make their way back to the bunker when the Impala is rammed by Ms. Watt in an SUV, knocking Mary unconscious. Castiel is able to determine that Mary is not seriously hurt before he and Dean are forced to fight Ms. Watt who has the upper hand due to a set of enchanted brass knuckles. As Ms. Watt prepares to kill Dean with his own gun, Mary regains consciousness and stabs Ms. Watt through the back with Castiel's dropped angel blade, killing her and saving Dean. As Dean and Castiel push Ms. Watt's SUV off the road, Mary sits inside the Impala door and stares at her hands before Dean tells her that they have a lead from Ms. Watt's cellphone. Mary tells him that she's not alright as she never wanted her children to become hunters, but Dean tells her that he and Sam have done a lot of good and the world is a better place with them in it as hunters. The three then set out for Aldrich, Missouri where Ms. Watt's cellphone points to Sam being.

In Mamma Mia, Mary arrives at the location Sam is being held, and finds both her sons being held captive by Lady Toni Bevell. Mary surprises Sam by her appearance before she gets into a fight with Toni. They are interrupted by the arrival of Toni's colleague, Mick Davies, who accuses Toni of misbehaving and apologizes to the gang for her behavior. Mick takes Toni away, allowing the trio, plus Castiel, to return to the Bunker.

In The Foundry, Mary begins to struggle with life 33 years after her death. Her sons, who had been raised with false memories of her, struggle as well with re-learning who their mother truly is. Mary decides to bury herself in hunting, and with her sons' help, she manages to solve a ghost problem. However, it is after the case if solve does she finally admit that she needs time alone. Sam and Dean are unhappy about this, but Mary leaves them regardless in order to find herself.

In Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox, Mary travels to Canada after learning of the death of Asa Fox, a hunter whom she had saved as a boy from a werewolf in 1980. Mary learns that she was the inspiration for Asa's hunting, Asa having become a legendary hunter after meeting her. Mary continues to experience awkwardness with her sons as the Crossroad Demon Jael attacks the funeral. After Jael possesses Jody Mills he attempts to convince the Winchesters that Mary is possessed, but fails. Mary attempts to kill Jael with Asa's angel blade, only to be stopped by Sam as he's possessing Jody. Mary helps exorcise Jael, finishing the exorcism started by her sons and later talks with Jody about being a mother. Though Billie offers Mary the peace of Heaven, she refuses and while not ready to return home with her sons yet, agrees to get breakfast with them.

In First Blood, Mary learns from Castiel that he had lost her sons and she heavily blames him for this. Six weeks go by with no sign of Sam nor Dean. Mary helps deal with a werewolf hunt that Castiel failed. Later on, she and Castiel agree to work with the British Men of Letters in order to find Sam and Dean. With the help of Mick and Arthur Ketch, Mary and Castiel manage to locate Sam and Dean and travel to their location. The brothers reunite with them tearfully. On their way back, Billie confronts them over a deal Dean made about sacrificing one of them in order to escape the prison he and Sam had been kept in. Mary decides to offer herself in Sam and Dean's stead, only for Castiel to kill Billie to prevent either Winchester from doing so. He explains that the world, as well as himself, cannot risk losing them ever again. Sometime later, Mick Davies approaches Mary with an offer to work for him, by promising her a world without monsters.

In Stuck in the Middle (With You), the British Men of Letters gives Mary an assignment: retrieve The Colt from Ramiel's house. Mary enlists a huner named Wally to join her, as part of a trick to convince Sam and Dean and Castiel to help them. Mary does not explain the full story, lying that she wishes to simply kill a dangerous demon. The trio buy her story and they infiltrate Ramiel's house. While there, two demons ambush them and one of them kills Wally, while Sam and Dean manage to kill one demon each. Ramiel however, also attacks and stuns Mary with his yellow-eyes, which remind her of Azazel. When Ramiel goes after Castiel, Mary knocks him out by ramming him with a jeep. She then takes her sons and Castiel and flees. The four arrive at a barn, and set a trap for Ramiel. Unfortunately, his weapon, the Lance of Michael, enables him to break free and he proceeds to brutally attack each Winchester. When Mary stabs him with an angel blade, Ramiel is distracted long enough for Sam to kill him with the Lance. However, the Lance's effects are slowly killing Castiel, much to Mary's horror. Fortunately, Crowley arrives in time and destroys the Lance, which restores Castiel to full health. Later on, Mary complains to Arthur Ketch what the mission nearly cost her, but she hands him The Colt anyway, which she stole from Ramiel.

In Family Feud, Mary demonstrates her skills to Arthur who is thoroughly impressed. By the time she returns home, she is forced to confess that she is working for the British Men of Letters. Sam and Dean are not happy.

In The Raid, Dean dismisses Mary due to her choosing the British Men of Letters over her sons and Sam follows suit. Mary begins working with Arthur as part of the operation to kill all of the vampires in America and convinces Sam to tour the British Men of Letters compound. As Mick and Mary attempt to get Sam to sign on, the compound comes under attack by vampires and they learn from one that they capture that the Alpha Vampire is coming.

After Mary executes the captured vampire, the surviving hunters and Mick attempt to come up with a plan with only Sam, Mary and Pierce Moncrieff having actually killed something before. Mary suggests using the AVD as a bug bomb in the ventilation system, but Sam is aware that it won't work against the Alpha Vampire and asks for something stronger. Mary has Mick unveil the Colt, the strongest weapon they have and Mary finally admits to stealing it from Ramiel. While the British Men of Letters have no bullets for the gun, Sam knows how to make more thanks to Bobby Singer and gives Mick the ritual while Mary and Pierce go to get the AVD and Sam fights off attacking vampires.

Mary is betrayed by Pierce who is working for the Alpha Vampire and he knocks her unconscious and destroys the AVD before alerting the Alpha Vampire that its safe. Mary is found by Sam and they race to the control room where they discover the Alpha Vampire threatening Mick. Mary knocks out Pierce and as Sam arms himself with the Colt, is shown by Mick that he is holding one of the new bullets. Mary watches the confrontation between Sam and the Alpha Vampire and after Mick attacks Sam to slip him the bullet, Mary attacks the Alpha Vampire from behind as a further distraction so Sam can load the gun. Thanks to Mick and Mary's efforts, Sam is able to kill the Alpha Vampire with the Colt, causing the remaining vampires to retreat.

Afterwards, Dean, having learned of the situation from a vampire he and Arthur captured, reconciles with Mary. Pierce is taken for punishment by Arthur to the pleasure of both Mary and Sam while the death of the Alpha Vampire convinces Sam to sign on with the British operation.

In The British Invasion, Mary and Arthur take out eight shapeshifters and share a toast which leads to unexpected love making. Mary expresses a desire to bond with Arthur further but Arthur disapproves, though he is genuinely intrigued by Mary's desire to have both a family and a job. Mary learns from Arthur that when they first met, Arthur had been expecting to kill her. When Arthur returns to his headquarters, he realizes he is going to have to when Doctor Hess makes the order.

In The Memory Remains, Arthur tells Sam and Dean that Mary is busy hunting a chupacabra.

In Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes, Mary begins discovering secrets kept by the British Men of Letters. When Mick fails to answer any of her calls, Mary goes in search of him and to her discomfort, she finds his body inside a black coffin inside the weapons storage room. She also discovers that the Brits have been monitoring many American hunters, including Dean. When she confronts Arthur about Mick, Arthur claims a werewolf killed him, but Mary is unconvinced since Mick has a bullet wound in his head.

The two get into a fight and start beating on each other. When Mary tries to flee to warn her sons, Arthur knocks her out using a stunt gun. Mary finds herself tied up to a chair and faced with a familiar face, Lady Toni Bevell.

In There's Something About Mary, Mary is interrogated and tortured by Toni, who uses her past against her to try and convince Mary that what she thinks she wants is nothing but a fairy tale. Mary is initially defiant, but eventually succumbs to the manipulation. When Sam and Dean Winchester successfully capture Toni and bring her back to their bunker, Mary joins Arthur Ketch to the location and obediently points her gun at her sons, treating them as enemies and any American hunter as such too. Mary escapes the bunker with Arthur when Arthur turns it into a death trap for the Winchesters and Toni. Sam and Dean are horrified by this turn of events.

In Who We Are, a brainwashed Mary continues to kill hunters and is eventually directed by Arthur to kill Jody Mills. However, while Mary is able to ambush Jody, Alex returns home in time to help Jody subdue her. Jody alerts Mary's sons who have managed to escape the bunker and they arrive with Toni who had claimed that she could reverse Mary's brainwashing. Mary and Toni reveal this to be a lie and Toni tells Sam and Dean that their real mother is hidden behind impenetrable psychic walls Toni can't break. When Arthur calls, Mary gleefully offers to take the call before Sam ignores it. Dean ultimately decides to take Mary back to the bunker with Toni in an effort to break her brainwashing while Sam leads the American hunters in an attack on the British Men of Letters compound. At the bunker, Toni cobbles together a rig that allows Dean to enter Mary's mind where he finds her in a memory from 1983 with a four-year old Dean and a six month old Sam. As Mary ignores his presence but Dean can grab onto her, Dean realizes that Mary is willingly allowing herself to remain trapped there. Enraged, Dean tells Mary he hates her and fills her in on everything that happened due to her deal with Azazel and how it ruined their lives. Dean then tells Mary he hates and loves her and that he forgives her, understanding what she did due to his own deal. Dean is finally able to get Mary's attention, but is pulled from her mind by Arthur before he can do more.

Mary awakens, free of her brainwashing in time to find Arthur about to kill Dean. Mary shoots Arthur in the arm, saving Dean's life. Arthur is shocked to find that the real Mary has returned and tells mother and son he knew they were both killers. After Dean agrees, Mary executes Arthur with a shot to the head. She and Dean cover up his and Toni's bodies and Mary expresses her fear that Sam will hate her. Sam, having returned from destroying the British operation in time to hear her fears, assures his mother he doesn't hate her. The Winchesters then share a group hug, finally united as a family.

"All right then. I kinda always wanted to punch the Devil in the face."

- Mary, about confronting Lucifer

In All Along the Watchtower, Mary joins Sam and Dean in defeating Lucifer. She tags along when the brothers journey to a lakeside house currently being occupied by Castiel and Kelly Kline, the latter who is about to give birth. The trio arrive to find Kelly already in labor and Mary offers to be there for Kelly during the process.

As Sam, Dean, Castiel and Crowley face off against Lucifer outside, Mary holds Kelly's hands as she attempts to deliver her child, but Kelly suddenly begins glowing a golden hue and in her final words, she tells her son she loves him. The baby's born in a burst of light that knocks both women back, with Mary unconscious on the floor.

When Mary wakes up, she immediately heads outside and finds Sam and Dean alone, confronting Lucifer. Armed with the Enochian brass knuckles, she punches Lucifer in the face. She keeps going, until both of them tumble into a portal directly behind Lucifer. The portal closes once they've passed through, trapping them inside a wasteland. Lucifer screams in anger, and directs his attention towards Mary, who is to blame.

In Lost & Found, Dean believes Mary to be dead and lists her as one of the people he wants Chuck to bring back. In the alternate universe, Mary is still alive and is trying to escape from Lucifer. Lucifer easily catches up to her by flying to her location. Seeing as she can't escape, Mary challenges Lucifer to kill her. Lucifer considers it and tosses Mary over to a sword sticking out of the ground. Lucifer changes his mind at the last minute and Mary is held up an inch from the blade. Lucifer declares that he may need her alive after all.

In The Rising Son, Mary follows Lucifer as he searches for a way back home. They take a break for a while and discuss Mary's disbelief that Lucifer even cares about his own son. Their conversation is disrupted by an energy blast that lands nearby and causes a massive smoke. Mary uses this as an opportunity to flee again. A hunter sees her and holds her at gun point. Confirming that she is human, the hunter decides to rape Mary for his own amusement. Mary tries to fight back but the hunter knocks her down and prepares to shoot her. Mary is saved when Lucifer arrives and punches a hole through the hunter's chest, killing him.

Lucifer complains that Mary is still running from him despite the two needing to work together to get out of this reality and go save their sons. Mary doesn't want to help Lucifer so Lucifer causes her internal agony until she falls over. Realizing she can't resist his demands, Mary continues to follow Lucifer around until she grows tired. Lucifer calls her "wimpy" and refuses to give her a chance to rest. A group of angels led by an Angel Commander arrive at their location, claiming to be searching for a creature from Hell and believe Lucifer is this creature, whom they intend to smite. Mary ducks down until she realizes Lucifer had killed the angels first.

Another angel arrives at the scene and Lucifer identifies him as "Michael". Surprised to see Lucifer alive, Michael asks how is it possible. Lucifer blames Mary for their presence in a universe not their own. Michael then talks about the fate of his own Lucifer and threatens to do the same to this Lucifer. Lucifer retaliates by punching Michael, but he is soon overwhelmed with his arm twisted violently. Mary watches the entire scene in shock, and appears tempted to make another run for it.

As a Human
Mary has been shown to have the general skills possessed by hunters. She was a very good observer, and immediately recognized when she and John were being followed by Dean. She has shown capabilities in hand-to-hand combat, even holding her own temporarily against an angel. She also appeared to be a fast learner, being able to create angel banishing sigils and setting them up on the same day she learned about the existence of angels and their weaknesses. When asked by Dean about her being good at hunting, she tells him that she is "very good" at it but didn't enjoy it. After her resurrection, Mary is shown to be a skilled fighter and extremely good at noticing little clues such as the fact that Lucas Kellinger, while leaving a frostbite handprint on her arm similar to other victims of a malevolent spirit, meant her no harm and was instead scared and trying to warn her. However, some of Mary's skills are behind the times as she lacks the ability to use a computer or a modern day cell phone and expects to have to physically go door to door and search through archives for information. While possessed by the ghost of Hugo Moriarty, Mary displayed a strong enough will to briefly overpower the possession, similar to what her husband and son have been able to do in the past. However, Mary could only hold the spirit back for a couple of minutes and quickly lost control.

As a Spirit
Mary's Spirit lingered in their house in Kansas, where she cancelled out a particularly nasty poltergeist that not only proved difficult to purge, but also attempted to kill Sam. Her spirit appeared to be able to summon flames, reminiscent of her manner of death.

Killed By
After Mary interrupted him feeding Sam demon blood, Azazel telekintically pinned Mary to the celling, sliced open her stomach and burned Mary to ash. She was later resurrected by the Darkness as a thank you gift to Dean for reuniting her and God.
 * Azazel

Personality
Mary was originally depicted as a loving, gentle mother. Her spirit showed great devotion to her children and was willing to sacrifice herself to save them. She was also playful and took pride in her sons' successes, as shown in "What Is And What Should Never Be". Mary also deeply cared about her husband, John, and visa versa. Mary was a fan of The Beatles, and believed that angels were watching over Dean.

In her younger years, Mary was a brave woman who fought monsters without hesitation. She fought against Anna Milton despite not being strong enough. She was also very protective of her friends, as despite wanting to leave the hunting world and be with John, she chose to rescue a friend under demon attack. Mary's devotion to the people she cared about would lead her to make a deal with Azazel for John's life, thus inadvertently sealing her own fate, John's, and that of her sons; a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Born and raised as a hunter, Mary was proficient in dealing with ghosts, demons and other monsters. She did not take pride in her abilities to defend herself and used her skills solely to protect others. She had long dreamed of a peaceful life surrounded by a happy family, going so far as to argue with her father, who wanted her to continue hunting. Mary indeed loved her children, and died trying to protect Sam from Azazel.

Upon resurrection, Mary was horrified to learn that her sons, now adults, had been raised as hunters by John because of her death, and that John himself was dead. Despite being in an unfamiliar world surrounded by people she did not know, Mary was quick to adapt if not simply to deal with more confronting situations. She acknowledged Castiel was an angel and accepted Dean's story that he was her son. Mary also fought against Toni Bevell to rescue Sam, showing that she still cared deeply for her sons.

However, Mary began to struggle with living in a world 33 years after her death. Many things had changed, but most prominently her sons, who were no longer the little boys she remembered. She opted to bury these problems through hunting, and focused more on saving lives on her own than with a team. Eventually, Mary was forced to confess about her discomfort, how out-of-place she felt despite the warm welcoming. Much to Sam and Dean's misery, Mary left the bunker to try and figure things out.

As with every hunter, Mary continued hunting, but stayed in contact with Dean through phone calls. As shown recently, Mary enjoyed eating bacon and shared a lot in common with Dean. Mary's love for her children was so strong, that when Billie's deal with Sam and Dean required a Winchester to die permanently, Mary was willing to kill herself so her sons could live, though Castiel's intervention meant she didn't need to.

Unfortunately, Mary's love for her sons was somewhat contorted, as she still wanted to give them a hunter-free life and rid them of the burden of being hunters. Mary assumed this was the correct course of action and the best way to prove her motherly affection without even consulting the boys. When offered a chance to rid the world of monsters, Mary accepted and joined the British Men of Letters, her dedication to this new mission drove her to keep secrets from her children in a very unapologetic manner, preferring instead that they believed in her without her doing the same.

Mary's love for her children was further contorted by her desire to bring in a father figure through Arthur Ketch, her new lover, even though both her sons expressed distaste in this particular operative. Mary's behavior could easily have been a product of having lost the unthinkable, three decades of life and everyone she once knew, and in her desperate attempt to make a life for herself, Mary became the hunter Samuel raised her to be; cold and calculating, while simultaneously choosing to ignore the changes around her, decide for herself what her sons need and ignore the dangers of working with Ketch.

Mary's alliance with the British Men of Letters backfired when she realized they had begun hunting her sons, and opposed to what she originally believed, they were not a means to achieve a monster-free world that she was hoping to give to her sons. Mary was angered by this betrayal of trust but was captured before she could warn anyone. During interrogation, Mary experienced the loss of her free will. After being convinced that her own desire for a family had been nothing more than a fairy tale, Mary reverted back to a truly cold-hearted hunter and left her sons for dead, highly reminiscent of her own father, who had done the same years ago.

In order to rescue her, Dean entered Mary's psych and found that she was living in an actual fairy tale that consisted of younger versions of Sam and Dean and herself as a simple housewife. Dean brought her out of this state by letting her know just how hard life was for him, blaming her as well as forgiving her for his and Sam's hardships that resulted from Mary's deal with Azazel. Mary finally acknowledged her adult son, and in time she rescued him from Arthur Ketch, whom she shot twice.

No longer in denial about her current life and no longer left in the dark about her sons' pasts, Mary chose to stick with them and confront their old enemy Lucifer. She assisted Kelly in delivering her son before beating up Lucifer personally to protect Sam and Dean. Just as her love had misguided her into working with the Brits, Mary's protectiveness caused her to fall through a rift that sealed shut behind her, trapping her with Lucifer.

Physical Appearance
Mary has blonde hair, often kept in slight curls and undone. In her youth, she wore short-sleeved shirts topped with a jacket, and jeans. During most of her adult appearances, Mary is shown wearing her white nightgown, the dress she died in. In The Foundry, after her resurrection, Mary cuts her hair short for hunting so that monsters can't use it against her. She also wears John's wedding ring around her neck. All

Relationships

 * Mary and John: Mary and John were married.
 * Mary and Dean: Dean is Mary's first-born son.
 * Mary and Sam: Sam is Mary's second son.

Quotes

 * "Get away from my boys."
 * "You think I want you to win?"

Appearances

 * Season 1
 * Pilot
 * Home
 * Season 2
 * Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (gravestone seen)
 * What Is And What Should Never Be (illusion)
 * All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 1
 * Season 4
 * In The Beginning
 * When the Levee Breaks (as hallucination)
 * Season 5
 * The Song Remains the Same
 * Dark Side of the Moon (Illusion)
 * Season 6
 * Caged Heat (photo)
 * Mommy Dearest (Eve in disguise)
 * Season 8
 * Trial and Error (photo)
 * Man's Best Friend With Benefits (flashbacks only)
 * Season 10
 * The Prisoner (photo)
 * Season 11
 * We Happy Few (photo)
 * Alpha and Omega  (resurrected)
 * Season 12
 * Keep Calm and Carry On
 * Mamma Mia
 * The Foundry
 * Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox
 * First Blood
 * Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets (mentioned only)
 * Stuck in the Middle (With You)
 * Family Feud
 * The Raid
 * The British Invasion
 * The Memory Remains (mentioned only)
 * Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes
 * There's Something About Mary
 * Who We Are
 * All Along the Watchtower
 * Season 13
 * Lost & Found
 * The Rising Son
 * The Big Empty (mentioned only)

Trivia

 * Her actress, Samantha Smith, shares her name with fellow actress Samantha Ferris as well as with her character Mary's youngest son.
 * In the earliest drafts of the episode script for "Pilot", her and John's last name is Harrison. They both were first written as being in a car crash caused by a demon, where she doesn't survive, but John does.
 * She shared her year of birth with John.
 * When she got sick, her mother used to make her tomato-rice soup. Mary later made the same soup for Dean when he would get sick.
 * She was a fan of the Beatles. Her favorite song was "Hey Jude", which she sang instead of a lullaby.
 * She and John initially hated one another, requiring a cupid to intervene and manipulate their emotions in order to get them together and give birth to Michael and Lucifer's vessels.
 * Her desire to lead a normal life was later inherited by Sam, who also fought with his father concerning the matter, though Mary's relationship with her father appeared more amicable. Mother and son also shared the same style of wielding and fighting using blades.
 * Her biggest fear was for her children to be forced to become hunters like she was. Ironically, it happened as a direct result of her death.
 * She did not believe angels existed until "The Song Remains the Same"; afterward, although Michael had wiped her memory, she bought an angel figurine to place in Dean's nursery and told him "angels are watching over you" every night when she put him to sleep--these were in fact her last words to Dean. Upon meeting Castiel in Keep Calm and Carry On, Mary is shocked to learn that he is an angel and to learn what angels are really like.
 * Dean's fondness for pie might stem from her; in one of his memories in "Dark Side of the Moon", she offered him pie.
 * In Keep Calm and Carry On, Mary reveals that she has heard of the Men of Letters but always believed them to be a hunter's myth.
 * She loved the song 'Someday Soon, by Judy Collins'. Her husband John, would play it to her.
 * With Mary's resurrection in Alpha and Omega, all members of the immediate Winchester family have been resurrected: Dean was resurrected after going to hell by Castiel and by the Mark of Cain, Sam was resurrected by a crossroads demon and Michael, and John was resurrected by Azazel.
 * Mary is the first of the Winchesters to wield an angel blade, doing so against Anna Milton in The Song Remains the Same. However, Mary is unsuccessful in the attempt. She later wields Castiel's angel blade successfully against Ms. Watt in Keep Calm and Carry On, killing her with it.
 * Dean implies that she likes (or liked, back in her youth) Led Zeppelin, as her interest towards John grew when she found out that he was a big fan of the British legendary band.
 * Mary is shown to have similar taste in music to Dean: in the Foundry, when the song Born To Be Wild comes on the radio, Mary turns up the volume rather than changing the channel.
 * As noted by both Sam and Mary herself in the Foundry, Mary has the same tendency to bury herself in hunting to avoid dealing with things she's struggling with as her sons. Sam puts it as "like mother, like sons."
 * In Mamma Mia, Dean got a pie he was actually able to eat for one of the few times in the show from Mary.
 * In Family Feud, Arthur Ketch calls Mary one of the best hunters he's ever seen.