Sam Winchester is iconic in the world of Supernatural has, there are bound to be some questions.
Fans that have been along for the ride from the very beginning are just as relevant and engrossed as those that came late to the scene. For a main character that undergoes so much tragedy, it’s easy for fans to wonder about his motives. Read on for ten things that make no sense about Sam Winchester.
Leaving College To Hunt With Dean
In the pilot episode, Dean shows up to tell Sam that their father went on a hunting trip and hasn’t been back yet. Sam leaves to go help but this makes no sense. He is gearing up to apply for law school which means he’s been in college for at least two to three years and out of the hunting life.
From what becomes known about Dean’s life with his father, this is not the first time he’s gone missing and Sam says that too. Somehow, though, Dean still persuades him to go.
Continuing To Hunt After Losing His Life (The First Time)
In the first season, Sam loses his fiancé Jessica, and then his father dies. Monsters are the reason they’re dead so it makes sense that he’d want to get what killed them. But at the end of Season 2, Sam himself dies and Dean kills the Demon Azazel.
The Demon that killed both his parents and was responsible for so much hurt, including his own death, was dead. He was willing to give up “the family business” to go to college, but not after it kills him. It didn’t make sense for him to keep going after all that.
Trusting Ruby
Ruby shows up in Season 3, crashing into the lives of the Winchester brothers with a hefty promise of being able to get Dean out of his demon deal. She has a knife that can kill demons (while also killing the host they’re possessing), gives the brothers hex bags to hide them from Lilith, and teaches Sam to hone his telekinesis powers.
In the end, it turns out that she was working for Lucifer all along, hoping to bring him back and take her place of glory as the most loyal demon of all. It makes no sense that Sam trusted Ruby in the first place. He was desperate to save Dean before the year was up but it still doesn’t justify him working with a demon. Dean never trusts Ruby and he turns out to be right.
The Vanishing Telekinetic Powers
Sam has visions before he begins drinking Ruby’s demon blood and he shows some power in telekinesis in Season 2 episodes when the brothers are searching for other “special” children.
Then, after he stops drinking the demon blood, his visions stop completely and he has no telekinetic powers. In Season 11, he receives visions that he believes are from Chuck/God but they turn out to be from Lucifer. Other than that, his powers just vanish completely.
He Chooses To Remain Clueless About His Soulless Time
In Season 6, Sam hunted with his resurrected grandfather Samuel and several long lost cousins for an entire year without a soul. When his soul is first restored, he doesn’t know about this time, but he finds out and when he does he just keeps on hunting like everything is as it always was.
He finds out bits and pieces along the way but he never really learns about the entire year and he seems okay with remaining clueless.
He Doesn’t Question Samuel Or His Ways
Samuel Campbell appears on the scene in Season 6 and Sam works with him for a year before Dean finds out that he’s been resurrected. Sam knows that resurrection is serious magic and, since he came back without his soul, he knows that it may not really be his grandfather in the body he sees.
Even without a soul, there are practical questions that Sam doesn’t seem to have asked, judging by Dean’s reaction to meeting his long-dead grandfather. It makes no sense, soulless or not, for Sam to have just accepted a resurrection without asking the important questions.
Didn’t Burn The Flask When Bobby Showed Up
In Season 7, Bobby dies and Sam and Dean are devastated. Dean keeps Bobby’s flask and the item is feathered to Bobby’s spirit. Sam finds out that the flask is keeping Bobby’s ghost on their plane and he tries to get Dean to leave it behind, at the very least.
When Dean keeps bringing it along, the logical decision would have been to burn the flask as soon as Dean wasn’t looking. But he let Bobby’s ghost stay and that made no sense. Sam knew what could happen, and what almost did, if Bobby’s spirit went vengeful but he still didn’t burn the flask when he should have.
He Wants To Stay Dead
There are several instances throughout the show where Sam dies, some implied that viewers don’t even know about. In Season 2, he is angry that Dean brings him back, and not just because Dean made a demon deal. He expresses that Dean chose for him about whether or not he should stay dead. When he is soulless and Dean has a plan to get his soul back, he wants nothing to do with it.
He appears grateful later on but then almost dies when the wall between his soul and his trauma comes crumbling down and he wants to let go. When the trials almost kill him in Season 8, he tells Death that he wants to stay dead and he is angry that dean once again makes a deal (with an angel this time) to save his life. He keeps wanting to save the world but he also wants to be done with it. Nothing about this makes sense.
He Marries Becky Rosen
While it’s true that Sam is under the influence of a love potion when this happens, it makes no sense at all that he ran into super fan Becky Rosen and happened to be in a situation where his drink was spiked with a love potion.
Becky isn’t that smart, a concept that is reinforced when it is revealed that she is using a love potion that she gets from a “Wiccan” in the first place. She isn’t strong enough to overpower Sam. Yet somehow Sam and Becky end up married. None of it makes any sense.
He Treats Jack Like A Son Right Away
Jack is the spawn of Lucifer and an extremely powerful Nephilim, the child of an archangel and a human woman. They know nothing about his power aside from the tiny spark that escaped while he was coming into the world ripping a hole in reality.
Dean’s reaction goes to one extreme, to hate the boy outright for who is father is, and that’s understandable even if it’s unjustified. Sam goes to the other extreme, to love him like a son before they even know him. He is portrayed as an innocent boy but he’s also shown to be dangerous from the start. It makes no sense for Sam to just accept him into their family without any caution.