Which Episode Does Dean Die Over and Over Again

Epitomize of Supernatural
Season 3, Episode 11:

Mystery Spot

Sam and Dean: Correct, yous're a mind reader. Cut it out Sam. Sam! You lot think you're being funny just you're being really, actually kittenish. Sam Winchester wears make-up. Sam Winchester cries his way through sex. Sam Winchester keeps a ruler past the bed and every morning when he wakes upwardly ... okay, enough!

Written by Jeremy Carver and Emily McLaughlin.

Directed by Kim Manners.

Air Date: February 14, 2008.

One Tuesday, Dean suddenly dies earlier his year is up in Broward County, Florida. Once more, and once more, and again. Sam is the only one who is aware of the fourth dimension loop, but no thing what he does, he can't save his brother from dying.

Torso count

For this episode = Dean dies at least 102 times, but only in the Trickster's reality.

For the series and then far = At least 236 humans (of which 3 were witches), 17 ghosts, nine demons, ten vampires, half dozen changelings, 3 gods, 2 shapeshifters, two werewolves, ane djinn, one rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, ane wendigo, and ane zombie.

Tropes

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• And I Must Scream: The Trickster, when confronted, explains that while killing off Dean over and over again is fun, it's meant to target Sam get-go and foremost and not his brother. Specifically, being stuck in an infinite loop, forced to watch his brother die without being able to stop it.
• Bittersweet Ending: Dean survives without any memory of his many deaths, but Sam is inverse past the experience and information technology shows.
• Black Comedy: While the first 2, and the last, of Dean'due south deaths are genuinely sad and traumatic the various deaths in between are pretty hilarious especially once the Death Montage starts.
• Suspension the Cutie: Poor, poor Sam.
• Continuity Nod: To describe more parallels between Sam and John. Later on Dean dies on Wednesday, Sam outfits the trunk of the Impala with the aforementioned weapons example John had in "Dead Homo'southward Blood" (S01, E20).
• Savage to Be Kind: The lesson the Trickster is trying to impart to Sam is that his obsession with trying to save Dean is going to get him killed and that, like it or not, Dean is going to die, whether by the Trickster or past his deal, and Sam volition take to acquire to live without his brother.
• Death Montage: Of Dean'southward deaths, naturally.
• Despair Event Horizon: Being forced to watch his big blood brother dice over and over again was bad enough, but Sam snaps when the loop ends, Dean dies, and stays dead. For six months.
• Everybody Lives: I of the very rare instances in the evidence.
• Everything Trying to Kill Yous: And that really does mean everything.
• Fate Worse than Decease: The Trickster admits that while killing Dean over and over again is a lot of fun, he has a much worse fate in mind for Sam. He'll submit Sam to seeing Dean die every day, unable to ever save him. Forever.
• The Nutrient Poisoning Incident: "Practise these tacos taste funny to you?" "Heeeeaat of the moment!"
• Foreshadowing: There are a few hints that the Monster of the Calendar week is the aforementioned one as in "Tall Tales". For example, Dean describes Daniel Hackard'southward disappearance in the Mystery Spot equally "well-nigh poetic" (he made a living debunking places like the Mystery Spot), which is the same manner he described the punishments the Trickster inflicted in "Alpine Tales". Also, when Sam tells Dean he's trapped in a time loop, Dean says that it's crazy fifty-fifty for them, which is the same thing he said about the alien abduction in "Tall Tales".
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Sam gets trapped in one. Even gets a Shout-Out. A lot.
• High-Voltage Death: One of the means Dean dies is getting electrocuted by a faulty plug when he puts an electric razor in it.
• Promise Spot: After confronting the Trickster at pale betoken he transports Sam and Dean to Wednesday seemingly breaking Dean'south expiry loop. Then Dean is shot in a stickup gone wrong and Sam isn't sent dorsum to his time loop. Sam then spends the next half-dozen months without Dean.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Dean'south first expiry, and his last 1.
• Irony: Daniel Hackard disappears into a mystery spot, the very thing he debunks.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Gradient: Sam narrowly averts this. He stabs Bobby on the small suspicion that he might secretly be the Trickster. Sam turns out to exist right, but for the few seconds Bobby is dead, we see that Sam was just acting on a hunch.
• Killed Off for Real: Dean is killed hundreds of times in the episode only always returns when the loop resets. Subsequently the Winchesters discover that the Trickster is behind it and they notice themselves in a new day, Dean is abruptly killed in a carjacking gone wrong and doesn't return despite Sam'southward protests. Ultimately subverted months later when the Trickster resets the timeline more often than not out of colorlessness...or then he says.
• Impale It with Fire: Apparently Sam tried to finish the time loop past burning the Mystery Spot down, but it didn't work.
• Look Both Means: The second time Dean is killed, a guy accidentally runs him over with his speeding auto. Third time, he gets hit by a desk. From above.
• Mood Racket
• Mood Whiplash: And how. The kickoff 2 times Dean dies it's genuinely gut wrenching specially for poor Sam. Then Dean gets a pretty hilarious Death Montage showcasing all of Dean's less then dignified deaths. Then the episode goes right back to tragic when Dean gets shot later the skip to Midweek and he stays expressionless for half-dozen months and the toll it takes on Sam once he'south forced to live without his blood brother.
• Necro Non Sequitur: Some of the ways Dean dies get rather silly and improbable.
• No Dead Body Poops: One of the ways Dean dies is existence hit by a car. Apparently, he peed himself before he died.

  Dean: Did it expect absurd similar in the movies?
  Sam: You peed yourself.
  Dean: [defensively] Of grade I peed myself. Homo gets hit past a car, y'all think he has full control over his bladder? Come on!

• Noodle Incident: Alongside some of the deaths, in that location was one scene when Sam was trying to convince Dean what was going on. As Sam is repeating the random nonsense Dean is saying before he says information technology, we become to hear, "Sam Winchester wears makeup. Sam Winchester cries his fashion through sex. Sam Winchester keeps a ruler past the bed and every morn when he wakes upwardly...okay! Enough!" We never do hear what Sam does.
  • How exactly did Sam find out that the waitress is a terrible shot with a bow and that ane of the customers wears a bunny adjust at nighttime?
  • We never learn how Dean dies after Sam discovers the Out-of-Character Alert below. Sam only notes that the guy at the diner is having strawberry syrup instead of maple, then Sam wakes up to "Oestrus of the Moment" once again.
    • Perhaps he doesn't die. If we see zippo, that might mean that the Trickster simply reset the day immediately, without Dean dying as usual.
• Non So Invincible After All: Dean Winchester, a guy who routinely kills monsters, demons, ghosts, and even gods, dies in a number of rather unimpressive means, such equally choking to decease on a sausage and dying from slipping in the shower.
• Out-of-Graphic symbol Alert: The first clue Sam has that the human eating breakfast at the diner is more than he appears is when he sees him eating a unlike syrup on his pancakes for the start time in over 100 Tuesdays.
• Pianoforte Drop: One of the means Dean dies.
• Reality Warper: The Trickster.
• Seen It All: Afterward at to the lowest degree 102 Tuesdays, Sam's seen nigh everything to know about the diner and the surrounding surface area. This becomes a plot point.
• Shout-Out: To The X-Files, Groundhog Day, and "Dingoes ate my baby."
• Squashed Flat: How Dean dies in one of the scenarios, courtesy of a hutch dropped by a pair of handymen.
• The Stoic: Sam becomes this after Dean dies.
• Suspiciously Apropos Music: On the second Wednesday, Sam wakes up to Huey Lewis and the News' "Back in Fourth dimension".
• They Killed Kenny Again: Taken Up to Eleven.
• Time Loop Fatigue: Sam suffers this after the loop forces him to spotter his brother die over and over over again in increasingly strange means. What's worse is that Sam is never able to end his brother'due south death.
• Time Skip: One-half a year forward after the offset Midweek.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In his previous appearance, The Trickster punishes the high and mighty in a mode that can be cruel but in this episode, his torture of Sam is exceptionally vicious from a psychological perspective.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Trickster intends to teach Sam that his codependent relationship with Dean is not skilful for him, peculiarly considering that Dean's going to die soon.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Later Sam notices the Out-of-Character Warning, nosotros but cut to the adjacent Tuesday.
• What the Hell, Hero?: "Bobby" attempts to give one to Sam later he starts Jumping Off the Slippery Slope afterward Dean dies.
• X-Ray Sparks: When Dean dies from plugging an electric razor into a faulty outlet.

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