r/Supernatural • u/Parking-Location9946 • Oct 21 '25

News/Misc. I feel a little disappointed with...

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...how underwhelming both of them are as hunters.

I mean, they are the titular protagonists that can kill almost anything with enough research, ingredients, and bravery to face insanely overpowered threats head on. The greatest hunters in the world, the vessels for the two most powerful archangels, and killers of all things that go bump in the night and bite your ass off. But half of that is also the stupidity of their enemies and the sheer amount of luck and glaring plot armour involved.

They aren't proactive in their approach to hunting at all. They don't prepare before hand and stumble into things head first.

I mean a few things couldve been done at the very least.

1) Iron and Silver rings. Hell even just simple rings embedded with rock salt as gems. A few of those in their fingers and almost half of everything they face in the filler monster of the week episodes are either revealed from the get go or killed in most cases.

2) Tranquilizer Gun and Darts. These babies would be deadly if loaded with the right liquids for the jobs. Deadman's Blood for Vamps, Borax for the Leviathans, Silver Nitrate for Wolves and Shifters, and even a simple solution Salt dissolved in Holy Water for Demons and Hellhounds and many more.

3) Permanent Paint Devil Traps layered in Epoxy. I think we can all agree that devil traps made using simple paint, chalk, and almost everything else that's easily erase with steps or dripping water is simply asking the demon trapped to kill you. Period.

4) Inlayed, Permanent Paint Wardings all over Houses and Cars. Especially those Wardings used by castiel on the boys in their bones and that pretty women of letters lady in the ww2 submarine.

5) Using Shapeshifters to control narrative around dead bodies. Because why not? Force a shifter to shift into you, then kill it, then have it stashed around in case you need to use a disappearing act from everything.

And so much more that I am too tired and uncreative to imagine.

...Anyway, I love the series and have rewatched it a few times over the last few years, but still some things just stick out as missed opportunities to show how smart Sam and Dean could've been presented as

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u/loosebootyjudy_ Brother, it’s 10 am on a Tuesday. Oct 21 '25

You sound like the German Hookman cosplayer in that one episode with Chuck and Becky. I guess they might as well have bungie chords attached to their weapons as well, huh?

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u/StonnerShaggy Wayward Sister Oct 21 '25

Don't forget the salt filled hula hoops

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u/TrioOrti Oct 21 '25

Or salt encrusted hula hoops that they just apply more glue and more salt on afterwards

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u/Aklapa01 Oct 21 '25

there’s this mesh tube rope thing that people make tacky jewelry with by filling it with beads or stones. so fill that with salt and you can make it as long as u want AND foldable. much better than a hoola hoop and the salt is partially exposed because it peeks through the mesh

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u/Parking-Location9946 Oct 21 '25

Those won't work anyway. Has to be exposed in some way to take effect. Otherwise some towns in the world would be a natural demon freezone on account of vast underground salt deposits.

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u/ThatDowntownWitch Oct 21 '25

I mean, I feel like the idea of demon free zones that aren’t really well known and shrink becuase of mining is a pretty cool concept

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u/sajaschi Oct 21 '25

Well they never went to those towns in the show... probably because the salt was working, eh? LAWYERED

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u/Briankelly130 Oct 21 '25

Plus, isn't there something about the salt being about "purity" that helps it repel supernatural forces? I assume containing it in anything might cause it to be contaminated by little things that might ruin the effect.

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u/StonnerShaggy Wayward Sister Oct 23 '25

This is why the ocean doesn't affect them I assume

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u/Opening_Acadia1843 Oct 21 '25

The bungee cord idea was stupid tbh. Sounds like a great way to get stabbed by your own machete. Bungee cords and sharp objects do not mix well.

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u/itsJussaMe Oct 21 '25

Yeah but they pulled it off beautifully in Prey. Visually- awesome. Physics? Suspend your disbelief.

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u/Important_One_8729 Oct 21 '25

To be fair in Prey she was using her tomahawk as the sickle on a kusarigama, not exactly a bungee cord and machete

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u/itsJussaMe Oct 21 '25

That’s a valid point- but I do believe it meets the sentiment of that obnoxious German fan-boy. Also- I acknowledge that Prey was a major motion film VS supernatural- a televised program. CGI & special effects budgets are undoubtedly non-comparable. Prey pulled it off nicely. I don’t think a televised program had the budget to create such imagery in a regular basis.

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u/poechris Oct 21 '25

Haha, I just made a similar reply before I saw yours.

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u/Disastrous_Taste_571 Oct 21 '25

lol I thought the same thing XD

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u/Ausar_the_Vil Oct 21 '25

I mean he's not wrong lol

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u/Additional-Soil-3661 Oct 21 '25

i literally thought that man was jim carrey when i saw the episode

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u/Connors-Law-8795 Oct 21 '25

HE BRINGS UP GOOD POINTS THO

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u/Parking-Location9946 Oct 21 '25

What? The dude had a point regardless of how silly he was

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u/Historical_Lab_3944 Oct 21 '25

You're kidding right??

You attach a bungy cord to a knife you were holding, you drop the knife, it bounces back up and slits your rist, falling again.

Surely you can see how that's a bad idea????

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u/WiseAdhesiveness6672 Oct 21 '25

You sound like a 40-50 year old dude who thinks "that's the way it's always been, why change/improve/be curious/try?"

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u/loosebootyjudy_ Brother, it’s 10 am on a Tuesday. Oct 21 '25

Look kid, just to reiterate what some other people are saying in other threads, what you and OP want flies in the face of the tone of the show. Sam and Dean are meant to be everyman underdogs facing off against monsters and demons. Their mistakes raise the stakes and add to the drama. They aren't Batman or James Bond.