“ | I'm Adam. [...] Yea, you know—God's first. First dude off the assembly line. | ” |
Adam was one of the first humans in existence. He is the father of Cain and Abel, and the husband of Eve.
Biography[]
Adam was the very first human and resided in the Garden of Eden with the rest of mankind. The Garden of Eden was being guarded by Gadreel from the archangel Lucifer, but Lucifer managed to trick Gadreel into letting him in. Lucifer then manipulated Adam and Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, and as a result they were expelled from the Garden. Though he tells Jack he understands why God kicked them out, Adam, in fact, grew to hate him, still voicing feelings of abandonment 300,000 years later. Adam and Eve would later have several children, most notably their two first sons, named Cain and Abel, whose descendants would populate the whole Earth.
At some point, he either separated from or lost Eve. Adam, himself, never died, as he later met the angel Serafina, who fell in love with him, entering in a romantic relationship that lasted for millennia, and kept him alive, joining in his conspiracy to kill God.
In 2020, Adam met Dean Winchester and Jack, who was impressed to hear that he was the very first human. The plan Billie guided Jack through, which established that Jack should absorb one of Adam's ribs to turn himself into a "bomb", was Adam's idea. Adam subjects Jack to a test before introducing him to the last ritual to enable him to defeat Chuck. After Jack passes the test, Serafina stabs Adam's stomach, extracts one of his ribs, and heals the wound in front of a shocked Dean and Jack. His rib, Adam explains, is imbued with enough of the "spark of the divine" to both create life and kill God. The couple then cheerfully send the heroes off to complete their mission.
Powers and Abilities[]
While traditionally depicted as an ordinary human being with no special abilities, Adam does indeed possess several special abilities due to being among the earliest true humans. His ribs contain a unique property that makes it so especially capable of holding the divine spark that it is able to create life itself. Such a property makes his ribs a potent ingredient that could trigger the fusion of the archangel grace and the human soul of a Nephilim, which would cause a chain reaction that would collapse into a cosmic singularity resulting in a cosmic supernova and a black hole for divine energy that could potentially kill God.
Human Abilities[]
- Indomitable Will - Adam's force of will is unrelenting. For over 300,000 years he kept his determination to enact a plan to kill God. Even under extreme pain from being stabbed and having his rib removed without any anesthetics, he was able to calmly and clearly speak to Dean.
Angelically Blessed Abilities[]
- Immortality - Adam mentioned in Unity that he is 300,000 years old which makes him the oldest human alive. Adam also does not seem to have aged 300,000 years and looks like a normal human in his prime. According to Adam, this is because Serafina kept him alive so he could devise a plan to kill God. However, he is still as susceptible to injury as ordinary humans, evident with him clearly being in pain from having been stabbed and having one of his ribs extracted. Serafina also healed him afterwards, indicating that such damage would eventually prove fatal for him had she not healed him.
Appearances[]
- Season 7
- Meet the New Boss (referenced only)
- Reading Is Fundamental (referenced only)
- Season 9
- Road Trip (mentioned only)
- Season 10
- The Executioner's Song (mentioned only)
- Season 11
- Alpha and Omega (mentioned only)
- Season 15
- Destiny's Child (mentioned only)
- Unity
Trivia[]
- This is the second character named Adam in the series, the first being Adam Milligan who is one of his direct descendants (as apparently are all humans).
- Adam implies that he is no longer with his wife.
- His relationship with Serafina is the chronologically first union between a human and an angel.
- Chronologically, the second was Akobel and Lily Sunder and the third was Dean Winchester and Anna Milton, though the latter may not count as Anna was human at the time.
- Adam and a member of the Tribe of the Two Rivers are the only known humans that were blessed by angels with immortality.
- Either through production error or intended (but unexplained) design, Adam has a navel – despite not being born from a mother and having had no need for an umbilical cord. His full upper torso is shown when his shirt is hanging open in Unity, and he has a belly button just like anyone else, although perhaps it was artificially created by Serafina to help him blend in with the rest of mankind when necessary. Might be explained as Adam was not directly created by God, but as hinted by Castiel was a product of natural evolution (thus born) but was just given a soul at the appropriate time