Your father made you and then abandoned you, so you pray. You see signs where there's nothing. But truth is, your Apocalypse came and went, and you didn't even notice. A mother would never abandon her children like he did. You'll see.
Eve was a primordial creature who existed before the angels were created. Known as the Mother of All Monsters, Eve created the alphas, the original creatures from which all other monster breeds are descended.[2][7] She had been residing in Purgatory for the last 10,000 years, so there weren't any new monsters popping up during that time, but recently she returned[8] and started mixing things up, most notably with the unnamed parasitic worms[9] and the hybrid vampire-wraiths dubbed Jefferson Starships[5] by Dean.[1] Ultimately, Eve was killed when Dean tricked her into biting him after he had ingested phoenix ashes.[5] Her essence and what ever comprised her non-corporeal form returned to Purgatory after her physical death. There, she later sought revenge upon Dean and Castiel for their actions when they returned to Purgatory in search of the Leviathan Blossom.[6]
A creature from Purgatory. She calls herself Eve. [...] Yep. They call her mother. She was here about 10,000 years ago. Every freak that walks the face of the earth can be traced back to her. And she's back.
Eve is a primordial entity, born into Purgatory at the beginning of the universe. Every monster (e.g., vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, djinn, etc.) that walks the Earth can be traced back to the Mother of All Monsters.[1][2] Eve herself stated she is older than angels like Castiel,[5] and her age seemed to overlap with the Leviathans, the first beasts God created, long before he created angel or man.[10] One of her firstborns, the Alpha Vampire, claimed in a hostile conversation with Edgar, a high-ranking Leviathan, that monsters came from the Leviathan. Edgar did not explicitly contradict the statement, albeit responding with a condescending "barely," implying Eve was somehow related to the Leviathans. Edgar also claimed to have known Eve, referring to her as a "whore."[3]
Ten thousand years ago, Eve was killed — the lore is unclear who slew her and why — and her spirit was condemned to Purgatory.[2][9]
Non-canon Material
*The following text may or may or not be canonical to the series.
Professor Eleanor Visyak claims that after dragons became dissatisfied with being confined to the darkest and dankest parts of the planet, they grew in strength and numbers and planned to move out of caves and dank places that humans rarely inhabited. One dragon, Hypolyes, saw this threatened the natural order of things. Hypolyes went to purgatory, where Eve resided, and told her of the pernicious plans of the other dragons. Eve realized that she had instilled too much power into her beloved dragons; if no one could kill them, nothing could stop them from destroying her other children: for she had also created vampires and werewolves, rougarous, and wendigos, and she loved all of her children equally. She knew once the dragons left the darkness, it was only a matter of time before they obliterated all creatures, including themselves. So Hypolyes sacrificed himself and Eve used his blood to forge five swords powerful enough to slay the dragons, and scattered them across the earth.[4]
Crowley and Castiel began working together in order to find Purgatory and use the souls within as celestial ammunition; to this end, they needed to interrogate Eve for information. Crowley tortured and slaughtered various species of Alphas and monsters in an attempt to lure her to Earth. Eve was alluded to by the Alpha Vampire, who told the Winchesters that even creatures such as him have mothers.[7]
Eve rising from Purgatory.
Eventually, Crowley's gambit worked; an angered Eve ordered the Alphas to amass an army and arranged for her release from Purgatory. After finding an appropriate virgin girl to sacrifice, a pair of dragons used a book bound in human flesh to raise the Mother of All Monsters from Purgatory.[8] Increasing monster activity along the I-80, Eve implanted a "worm-thing" inside a trucker for the Starlight Cannery, causing him to bash in his family's heads. This nameless monster, after causing the deaths of Samuel, Gwen, and Rufus, gets into Bobby and says Eve created it specifically to kill hunters. Sam and Dean electrocute Bobby until the worm dies, nearly killing their friend in the process.[9]
Eve's death.
Eventually, Eve made her way to Grants Pass, Oregon. While there, she began experimenting in the hopes of creating the "perfect beast." Several of her initial creations die prematurely from a monster-flu. However, she managed to succeed in turning Ryan Silver, an orphan boy whom the Winchesters "rescue;" Ryan later converted his brother and both attacked their uncle. After Lenore revealed Eve's location, Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Castiel attempt to hunt her. However, they are unable to locate her initially because Eve blocked Castiel's powers. After investing the town and saving Ryan and his brother, Castiel tortures a Starship for Eve's location. Returning to the diner, Eve, already expecting them, has her minions take away their weapons. She shapeshifts into Mary Winchester, telling them she's just a mother avenging her children, who Crowley is wiping out in his quest to find Purgatory. She offers to let them live if they bring her Crowely, but they refuse. She bites Dean, but then she dies, because Dean ingested phoenix ash. The brothers race to find the "perfect beast" Eve said she created, and are shocked that demons beat them to it. Unbeknownst to them, Castiel returns to the diner, where he is berated for letting Eve die by the very-much-alive Crowley.[5]
Eve's spirit was sent back to Purgatory upon her death.[6]
In There Will Be Blood, the Alpha Vampire identifies himself as "a son of Eve." Edgar tells him that he knew Eve "and honestly, your mommy's a whore." This enrages the Alpha Vampire who attacks Edgar.
In The Trap, aLeviathan in Purgatory reveals that Eve is seeking revenge against Dean and Castiel for killing the Alphas and absorbing all the souls of Purgatory, Eve's "children." Several Leviathans capture Castiel and attempt to bring him to Eve, but Castiel manages to escape while carrying a Leviathan Blossom.
Physical Appearance
Eve's true appearance was not known; however, a glimpse of it on a video camera revealed a gray, withered, somewhat shadowed face. In her introduction, her eyes glowed a fiery yellow-orange, but in the said recording they were milky-white. Upon her death, her veins darkened and she bled watery black blood like Leviathans.
When Eve manifested on Earth, she possessed the body of a young brunette girl wearing a white dress whom two dragons offered up to her as tribute.[8] She briefly took on the form of Mary Winchester.[5] After death her body was collected by Crowley who began an autopsy. Crowley found that her vessel's interior body cavity was highly altered with the addition of an egg sac containing hundreds if not thousands of eggs.[11]
Like Death, Eve was normally happy to uphold what she called "the natural order" - her children turned a few humans, while humans hunted a few of them. However, after Crowley began kidnapping and torturing her children, including her first borns, en masse, she responded by orchestrating her return to Earth to defend them. In response for Crowley trying to siphon off her soul supply, and torturing her children to do so, Eve decided to turn every human on Earth into monsters so that every soul would belong to her and come to Purgatory, thus essentially depriving Hell of new souls.[5] When explaining what she had done to someone she had turned, Eve simply called her infection "a gift." Eve seemed to view herself as "mother of the year," and looked down upon God for making and abandoning his children, something she claims she would never do.[9]
Eve turns the townspeople.
Furthermore, Eve didn't seem very interested in humans, beyond them being potential test subjects to help her create the perfect beast. She began compelling even her benevolent children, such as Lenore, to kill or turn as many as possible against their will once she arrived on Earth, presumably to build her army. At one point, she went about trapping a bar filled with people, infecting some, and allowing the others to be killed while she watched on and casually sipped at a drink. However, she was initially willing to negotiate with hunters like the Winchesters, if they agreed to help her capture Crowley.[5] Eve also showed a morbid sense of humor and a mocking side, taking the form of Mary Winchester to taunt Dean and Sam Winchester.
Powers and Abilities
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And you, wondering why so flaccid? I'm older than you, Castiel. I know what makes angels tick. Long as I'm around, consider yourself unplugged.
Eve's ability to create monsters — especially new hybrids — made her exceptionally dangerous and one of the most powerful entities the Winchesters ever faced. Eve was also supposedly stronger than any angel or demon, and maybe even stronger than the Leviathan, who she was related to somehow and whom she was capable of reigning over after returning to Purgatory.[2][6] Eve has referred to the souls in Purgatory as her "supply," implying she could draw on souls for power, similar to angels and demons.[5]Crowley was also confident that Eve could open the door to Purgatory.[11]
Immortality - Eve was immortal and lore claims she was born at the beginning of the universe.[1] She herself claimed to be older than even the angel Castiel[5] and was last seen on Earth about 10,000 years ago.[9] Although she was eventually killed on Earth due to ingesting phoenix ash, her spirit continued to survive in Purgatory.[6]
Regeneration - When she rose from Purgatory, Eve's arms and legs were covered in severe burns, however she later reappeared completely restored.[9]
Enhanced Strength - Eve had an undisclosed level of inhuman strength. Eve ripped the door handles off the door of the bar where she's about to infect the customers.[5]
Enhanced Speed - Eve could move faster than a human's eyes could follow. She displayed this when she went from one side of a bar to the other in less than a second, hovering menacingly over Dean's neck.[5]
Heightened Senses - Eve possessed heightened senses, seeing as she managed to realize that Dean and Sam had imbued their shotguns with ammunition laced with phoenix ash by simply smelling the barrels of their weapons.[5]
Levitation - Once she took her vessel, Eve literally rose from Purgatory.[8]
Possession - Eve required a vessel to exist in physical reality — specifically, the body of a virgin female.[2][8] Sam has compared how Eve possessed people to how the Leviathans possessed people.[13]
Eve created many monsters simply by touch.
MonsterBiokinesis - Eve possessed the power to turn humans into any type of monster she wished. She could even create new or hybrid monsters by means of experimentation. However, she apparently needed to perfect this ability when attempting to produce a new kind of monster, seeing as how a number of her creations died prematurely before she eventually succeeded in building what she deemed "the perfect beast" and she dismissed these failures as "Beta testing."[5] Eve seemed to require, if not prefer, physical contact (e.g., a bite, a kiss, or even a gentle touch) in order to induce such changes in individuals herself. Her possession also drastically altered her host's body - for example, the corpse she left behind was still psychically connected to her children and kept laying eggs, despite Eve's vessel being brain-dead.[11]
Conversion - As a side effect of her monster transformations, the souls of Eve's victims were permanently altered and when they die their soul goes to neither Heaven nor Hell, but instead is redirected straight to Purgatory.
The eggs inside Eve.
Monster Birthing - As the Mother of All Monsters, Eve could also give birth to her creations — for example, she "cooked up" an entirely new monster known as "Khan worms".[9] This was seen during Crowley's autopsy of her corpse, in which he found hundreds, if not thousands, of monster eggs in her dead vessel's womb.[11]
Psychic Connection to Monsters - Eve was telepathically linked to her children and could influence them when she desired,[2] even while imprisoned in Purgatory. Eve herself stated that she could see through the eyes of her children.[5] The good vampire Lenore also said the Mother of All Monsters' voice is in every monster's head, and compared it to being like a video camera for Eve.[5][1] Eve also claimed that by turning the Winchester brothers they would do what she said regardless of their initial defiance.[5] She could also influence her creations to act uncharacteristically — for example, having nocturnal monsters attacking in broad daylight and werewolves out on the half-moon.[14] Even after Eve was sent back to Purgatory,[5] her former vessel, despite being brain-dead, still maintained a telepathic link with her children.[11]
Eve impersonating Mary Winchester.
Advanced Shapeshifting - Eve had the ability to instantaneously shapeshift, similar to the Alpha Shapeshifter.[5] Unlike the Leviathan, Eve didn't seem to require any DNA in order to take a person's form.
Telepathy - Eve may have possessed telepathy. She could apparently read a human's mind, as she was capable of shapeshifting into Sam and Dean's mother despite never having seen her, and knew that she died to protect them.[5] It is also possible that like the Alpha Vampire, who recognized Dean as briefly being one his “children,”[7] Eve too could have gleaned information of Dean’s life while he was in the transition process of vampirism.[15]
AngelicPower Negation - Eve was older than angels such as Castiel and claimed to know what made them tick. As long as she was around, she could block angels from accessing their powers, rendering them powerless or "flaccid" as she put it.[5] Although her ability to block an angel's powers was similar to Edgar's[16] and presumably other high-ranking Leviathan, Eve was also capable of negating angels' physical abilities as well, rendering them as weak and vulnerable as ordinary humans.
Supernatural Concealment - Eve was able to hide her presence from Castiel and all angels.[5] Because of this, her enemies relied on the willing testimony of a friendly monster, Lenore, to discern Eve's whereabouts.
Weaknesses
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It says here "That the ashes of a phoenix can burn the mother."
Purgatory - Eve couldn't leave Purgatory without a portal.[8]
Footage - Despite taking a vessel, Eve's true face could be seen through the use of cameras, where it appeared quite decrepit and rotted. Cameras may have difficulty recording her and the screen may be disrupted by static.[9]
Eve dies by ingesting phoenix ash.
Phoenix ash - Although harmless to humans, the substance of a phoenix was one of the few things in existence that could destroy Eve.[12] Dean managed to kill her using the ash of a phoenix. While the phoenix came from Eve's body, its substance was poisonous to her, and for that reason, it was hated and hunted by all other monsters.[1][2]
Having earlier ingested a shotgun shell's worth of phoenix ash, Dean tricked Eve into biting him ostensibly so that she could transform the defiant hunter into a Jefferson Starship. Upon biting Dean, Eve ingested the phoenix ash in his system and her earthly manifestation was quickly poisoned to death by it. However, this only killed her physical aspect on Earth, with her spirit returning to Purgatory.
Eve is the secondary antagonist for Season 6, having been a part of a Big Bad Ensemble for most of the season.
Her name references the biblical Eve, who is regarded as the mother of the human race in Abrahamic religions, but is a separate character. According to executive producer and writer Ben Edlund, "Eve is the mother of a bloodline, the birthing entity at the moment of genesis for all the lines of monsterdom. So, the Eve of monsters. And even being a pun – like the "eve of monsters" because there's a monster world she's moving towards."[17]
The episode Road Trip confirms that the biblical Adam and Eve did exist in the Supernatural Universe. Furthermore, Adam himself would later appear in the episode Unity.
Her character borrows the title "The Mother of All Monsters" from Echidna of Greek mythology.
In addition to the Greek Echidna, as mentioned above, Eve also strongly resembles the Babylonian Tiamat, though she claims to have visited Earth more than 6,000 years before the founding of the first Babylonian dynasties (1894 BCE), and the Semitic Lilith, not to be confused with the character of the same name.
In There Will Be Blood, Eve, though clearly different from them, was heavily implied to somehow be related to the Leviathans. After the Alpha Vampire claimed that monsters like him come from the Leviathan, Edgar, a high-ranking Leviathan who allegedly knew Eve, rebuked his statements by saying "barely." After the Alpha Vampire exclaimed to be the son of Eve, Edgar responded by calling the Alpha Vampire, or perhaps Eve herself, "a pathetic mutt" and "hardly one of [the Leviathan]." In The Trap, however, Eve had some Leviathans under her command in Purgatory, and they now referred to her as "mother."
In Supernatural: Night Terror,Sam theorized that Eve used Night Hags or similar creatures to generate some of the monsters that hunters have been hunting for thousands of years.
