Team Free Will

"Two salty hunters, one half-angel kid, and a dude that just came back from the dead, again. Team Free Will 2.0"

- Dean Winchester

Team Free Will is a nickname made up by Dean after time traveling back from 1978 to 2010.

At the time, the team consisted only of "one ex-blood junkie, one drop-out with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose", which were Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, and Castiel, respectively.

The nicknames were based on Sam's former demon blood addiction, Dean's intentional lack of education, and Castiel's state of unconsciousness, as a result from time traveling.

Dean did not use the name of this team for a number of years, though he continued to fight for free will and object any outside force that tried to control him or his teammates.

In 2017, when Castiel began to doubt his own importance, Dean reminded him that he, Sam and Dean were members of Team Free Will.

After Castiel's resurrection, Dean declared Team Free Will 2.0 to be "two salty hunters, one half-angel kid and a dude who just came back from the dead, again." Following the rescue of Mary Winchester and Jack from Apocalypse World, Team Free Will 2.0 are seen hunting werewolves together, indicating that they became a full-time hunting team following their reunion. Months later, they worked together on a regular gorgon hunt with the help of Rowena MacLeod.

Team Free Will 2.0 (Season 13)

 * Sam Winchester
 * Dean Winchester
 * Castiel
 * Jack

Team Free Will 2.0 allies/non-official members

 * Arthur Ketch
 * Rowena MacLeod
 * Mary Winchester
 * Alternate Bobby Singer
 * Alternate Charlie
 * Lucifer
 * Gabriel
 * Jody Mills
 * Donna Hanscum
 * Claire Novak
 * Kaia Nieves
 * Annie Jones
 * Patience Turner

Original Team Free Will (Seasons 5-12)

 * Sam Winchester
 * Dean Winchester
 * Castiel

Original Team Free Will allies/non-official members

 * Jody Mills
 * Donna Hanscum
 * Bobby Singer
 * Crowley
 * Rufus Turner
 * Kevin Tran
 * Charlie Bradbury
 * Benny Lafitte
 * Balthazar

Appearances

 * Season 4
 * Lazarus Rising
 * Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
 * In The Beginning
 * It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
 * I Know What You Did Last Summer
 * Heaven and Hell
 * Death Takes A Holiday
 * On The Head Of A Pin
 * The Monster at the End of This Book
 * The Rapture
 * When the Levee Breaks
 * Lucifer Rising
 * Season 5
 * Sympathy for the Devil
 * Good God, Y'all
 * Free To Be You and Me
 * The End
 * I Believe the Children Are Our Future
 * Changing Channels
 * Abandon All Hope...
 * The Song Remains the Same
 * My Bloody Valentine
 * Dark Side of the Moon
 * 99 Problems
 * Point of No Return
 * Two Minutes to Midnight
 * Swan Song
 * Season 6
 * The Third Man
 * You Can't Handle The Truth
 * Family Matters
 * Caged Heat
 * Like A Virgin
 * The French Mistake
 * My Heart Will Go On
 * Frontierland
 * Mommy Dearest
 * The Man Who Would Be King
 * Let It Bleed
 * Season 7
 * The Born-Again Identity
 * Reading Is Fundamental
 * Survival of the Fittest
 * Season 8
 * A Little Slice of Kevin
 * Hunteri Heroici
 * Torn and Frayed
 * Goodbye Stranger
 * The Great Escapist
 * Clip Show
 * Sacrifice
 * Season 9
 * I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
 * I'm No Angel
 * Heaven Can't Wait
 * Holy Terror
 * Road Trip
 * First Born
 * Captives
 * Meta Fiction
 * King of the Damned
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * Do You Believe In Miracles?
 * Season 10
 * Black
 * Reichenbach
 * Soul Survivor
 * Girls, Girls, Girls
 * The Things We Left Behind
 * The Hunter Games
 * The Executioner's Song
 * Inside Man
 * Book of the Damned
 * Angel Heart
 * Dark Dynasty
 * The Prisoner
 * Brother's Keeper
 * Season 11
 * Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire
 * Form and Void
 * The Bad Seed
 * Our Little World
 * Alpha and Omega
 * Season 12
 * Keep Calm and Carry On
 * Mamma Mia
 * The Foundry
 * Rock Never Dies
 * LOTUS
 * First Blood
 * Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets
 * Stuck in the Middle (With You)
 * Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
 * The Future
 * All Along the Watchtower
 * Season 13
 * Advanced Thanatology
 * Tombstone
 * War of the Worlds
 * Various & Sundry Villains
 * Devil's Bargain
 * Good Intentions
 * Scoobynatural
 * Bring 'em Back Alive
 * Funeralia
 * Beat the Devil
 * Exodus
 * Let the Good Times Roll
 * Season 14
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * Gods and Monsters
 * The Scar
 * Unhuman Nature
 * Byzantium
 * The Spear
 * Nihilism
 * Prophet and Loss
 * Lebanon
 * Ouroboros
 * Peace of Mind
 * Don't Go in the Woods
 * Game Night
 * Absence
 * Jack in the Box

Trivia

 * The reason for the name may be because Michael, the team's enemy, opposed free will as he told Dean prior to sending him back to the present.
 * Two of Team Free Will's original three members have been possessed by Lucifer. However, Lucifer has appeared as all members at least once.
 * Two of Team Free Will's original members have been possessed by Crowley.
 * Two of Team Free Will's original members have been possessed by an angel and a demon at the same time.
 * Sam was possessed by Gadreel and Crowley at the same time in Road Trip.
 * Castiel was possessed by Lucifer and Crowley at the same time in Hell's Angel.
 * Two of Team Free Will's original three members have killed a primordial entity.
 * Dean killed Death and Lucifer.
 * Castiel killed Raphael.
 * Two of Team Free Will's original three members have killed an archangel with the help of an outside source of power.
 * Castiel killed Raphael while powered by the souls of Purgatory.
 * Dean killed Lucifer while powered by Alternate Michael whom he was acting as a vessel to.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have died and come back to life.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members has time traveled.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have been sent to Purgatory.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have used The Colt but only Sam and Dean have killed beings with it.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have met God.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members has killed a main antagonist.
 * Dean killed Azazel, Dick Roman, Abaddon and Lucifer.
 * Sam killed Lilith.
 * Castiel killed Raphael and helped kill Dick Roman.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have been possessed by an archangel.
 * Sam was possessed by Lucifer in Swan Song in order to lock Lucifer back in his Cage.
 * Castiel was possessed by Lucifer from The Devil in the Details to We Happy Few in order to battle The Darkness.
 * Dean consented to possession by Alternate Michael in Let the Good Times Roll in order to gain the power to finally kill Lucifer.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have held control of themselves while possessed by an archangel.
 * Sam seized control back from Lucifer to send Lucifer back into Lucifer's Cage.
 * Castiel seized control from Lucifer when Lucifer tried to kill Sam, but could barely hold Lucifer back from killing Sam and did not have the strength to expel him.
 * As part of his deal with Alternate Michael, Dean held control of his body after consenting to possession by Michael. In this state, Dean was powered by Michael and used several of the archangel's powers to fight and kill Lucifer. Michael then betrayed his deal with Dean and took full control of his body. Dean later seized back control again and kept Michael imprisoned within his own mind for months.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members was responsible for the death of a Prince of Hell:
 * Dean killed Azazel in Season 2.
 * Sam killed Ramiel in Season 12.
 * Castiel killed Dagon in Season 12.
 * Jack, a member of Team Free Will 2.0 helped to kill Dagon in Season 12.
 * Each of Team Free Will's original members have served as a major antagonist, with Soulless Sam and Demon Dean serving as secondary antagonists for Season 6 and Season 10 respectively, and Castiel serving as a main antagonist for Season 6.
 * In the Season 13 finale Let the Good Times Roll, Team Free Will 2.0, minus Castiel, accomplished the original team's goal when Dean killed Lucifer with the help of the Alternate Michael.
 * Two versions of Zachariah have been killed by a member of Team Free Will. The Main Universe Zachariah was killed by Dean Winchester in Point of No Return and the Apocalypse World Zachariah was killed by Jack in Good Intentions. In Lebanon, an alternate timeline Zachariah was killed by Sam.
 * Two versions of Balthazar have been killed by a member of Team Free Will. The Main Universe Balthazar was killed by Castiel in The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Apocalypse World Balthazar was killed by Jack in Unfinished Business.
 * Two members have died at least once in a season finale.
 * Dean was killed by a hellhound in No Rest for the Wicked. He also died after being killed by Metatron in Do You Believe In Miracles? and subsequently came back to life as a demon.
 * Castiel died for the first time when Raphael used Molecular Combustion on him off-screen in Lucifer Rising and again in Swan Song by Lucifer, but was later resurrected both times by God. He died again in All Along the Watchtower when Lucifer stabbed him with an angel blade but was resurrected in The Big Empty by the Cosmic Entity.
 * As of the Season 13 episode The Big Empty, each of Team Free Will's original members has faced another version of their character.
 * Dean faced a demon version of himself in Dream A Little Dream Of Me and a future version in the apocalyptic universe in The End.
 * Sam faced two versions of himself in The Man Who Knew Too Much, his Soulless self and a version who retained his memories of Hell.
 * Castiel faced and killed his alternate counterpart in Exodus.
 * As of the Season 13 episode Tombstone, Jack is officially a member of the team.
 * Also, through his induction two of the four members are related: Sam and Dean are brothers while Castiel and Jack are uncle and nephew.
 * As of the Season 13 episode The Bad Place, all members of the Team Free Will 2.0 have visited the Apocalypse World.
 * Sam, Dean and Castiel first visited it in All Along the Watchtower.
 * Jack visited it in The Bad Place.
 * As of the Season 13 episode The Bad Place, all members of the Team Free Will 2.0 have killed an angel.
 * By this point, Dean has killed Zachariah and the Rogue Angel.
 * Sam killed Miriam.
 * Castiel has killed countless angels, particularly during his rebellion and stint as "God."
 * Jack kills one of Kaia's Abductors by himself and the other and the Shipyard Attackers in conjunction with Kaia Nieves.
 * As of Byzantium, all members of the Team Free Will 2.0 have died and come back to life.
 * As of Ouroboros, three of Team Free Will 2.0's members have killed an archangel.
 * Castiel killed Raphael in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
 * Dean killed Lucifer in Let the Good Times Roll.
 * Jack killed Alternate Michael in Ouroboros.