Supernatural’s Winchesters and the Heroic Archetype
Human history, as well as our current culture, abounds with stories about heroes. The Winchesters are undoubtedly heroes, constantly putting their lives in jeopardy for others. We first learned of the Winchesters in Supernatural‘s season 1, where we saw them stepping in between blood-thirsty monsters and vengeful ghosts to save individual people.