| “ | Hello boys! | „ |
| ~ Crowley's iconic quote when meeting with the Winchesters. |
| “ | I've sold sin to saints for centuries. Think I can't close one little demon? | „ |
| ~ Crowley boasting of his deal-making experience. |
| “ | Even when I lose, I win. | „ |
| ~ Crowley's cut last words to Lucifer before sealing him in Apocalypse World. |
Crowley is a major antagonist in the TV series Supernatural.
The son of Rowena, Crowley was an exceptionally cunning and powerful Crossroads Demon, considered their leader, and would eventually rise to the position of King of Hell. While predominantly an enemy of the Winchesters at first, of increasing scope, Crowley nonetheless would remain a major ally to them in a pinch or when his own operations and agendas are disrupted by a greater threat.
He was portrayed by Mark Sheppard, who also played Cecil L'Ively in The X-Files, Jim Sterling in Leverage, Lauren Tom while possessing Linda Tran, Marco Soriano while possessing Andre Devlin, and Kirsten Robek while possessing Marnie.
What Makes Crowley Magnificent?[]
In General[]
- Crowley is overall very intelligent, opportunistic, charismatic, and suave, using his charm and personality to negotiate others into allying with him. He even uses his wits to manipulate others, being able to orchestrate the fall of the Leviathans and capture Kevin Tran in order to pave way for his further plans.
- Despite whatever his circumstances may be, Crowley always manages to come out on top of his enemies in one way or another. Good examples of this are tricking the Winchesters into killing Roman, rising to be the King of Hell, convincing a demon to tell him Pestilence's location, or tricking Castiel to open Purgatory. As Dean says, "The thing about Crowley is that he will always find a way to bone you.
Season 5[]
- Although starting as a low-level sales demon, Crowley rose through the ranks and became the King of the Crossroads, as well as the trusted Lieutenant of Lilith.
- After deducing Lucifer's real intentions on demons, Crowley cleverly allies with the Winchester to lock Lucifer up.
- He is able to convince a demon to hand over the location of the horseman, Pestilence.
- He then manages to rise up the ranks and become the King of Hell.
Season 6[]
- He manages to convince Castiel to go against the Winchesters in order to defeat Raphael, only wanting the souls to keep his position in Hell.
- Unlike other villains from the show, Crowley makes a point not to underestimate the Winchesters, which is one of the reasons he is able to survive against them for so long.
Season 7[]
- When the Leviathans are released into the world from Castiel's body, Crowley cleverly attempts to strike an alliance with their leader, Dick Roman.
- When the deal with Roman fails, Crowley orders his demons to refrain from attacking Sam and Dean, to allow the Winchesters to wipe out the Leviathans.
- When Roman attempts to prevent the Winchesters from getting Crowley's blood for a weapon, Crowley manipulates Roman by pretending to make a deal to give the Winchester the wrong blood, as he secretly gives Sam and Dean his real blood, so they kill Roman.
- It is revealed that Crowley manipulated the rivalry between the Winchesters and the Leviathans for his own benefit, so he could get rid of most of those he held a grudge against and also captured a prophet, Kevin Tran.
Season 8[]
- Upon breaking off his alliance with the Winchesters, Crowley attempts to have Kevin Tran open a Hell gate to unleash many demons upon Earth to further advance his own goals, despite Kevin escaping.
- Crowley is able to suspect that the Winchesters are planning against him. As such, he attempts to to sabotage the second trial Sam and Dean are trying to finish, by dragging the deceased Bobby's soul back to Hell where he had it trapped earlier through use of a reaper working for him. While this fails, he is able to successfully recapture Kevin Tran.
- Crowley is able to obtain the angel tablet by manipulating both Castiel and Naomi, via secretly having an angel on his payroll, and is able to cleverly deduce where Castiel was hiding the angel tablet, which was in his stomach.
- Crowley then attempts to corner Sam and Dean into surrendering by killing people they saved earlier in their years as hunters.
- Even when Crowley is captured, he bites Sam to use his blood to send a distress call to demons, showing his ability to think on the fly.
Season 9[]
- He is able to negotiate his release from the Men of Letters bunker in exchange for freeing Sam of Gadreel's control.
- In order to defeat Abaddon, Crowley starts off by manipulating Dean into taking on the Mark of Cain, which enables Dean to wield the First Blade, the only weapon that can kill Abaddon.
- Upon helping find the First Blade, Crowley bitterly concedes that Sam and Dean will try to kill him now that he has gotten them the Blade, and takes off with it to prevent that, planning to give it to Dean only once they have found Abaddon.
- Upon being captured by Abaddon, Crowley is able to give Dean the location of the First Blade, while discreetly tipping him off to her trap for him and Sam, leading to Abaddon's death by Dean.
- In the season finale, Crowley manipulates Dean into transforming into a demon, a Knight of Hell to be specific, from the mark, in order to invite him to rule Hell by his side.
Season 10[]
- In order to manipulate Dean, Crowley feeds the mark by sending Abaddon supporters to Dean to kill and has him fulfill a crossroads deal for him by killing a man's wife.
- In order to stop Dean, who has gone out of control, Crowley lets Sam know Dean's location in exchange for the First Blade back, as well as giving Castiel rogue angel grace so he can stop Dean however.
- Upon learning of Rowena's plans and lies against him, Crowley kicks her out.
Season 11[]
- When Amara is released, Crowley attempts to 'raise' her by feeding her humans with souls for her to drain, so he can use her for his own ends.
- Crowley is able to help severely weaken Amara, by planning the sequence of fighters, opting for the first being the most disposable force.
Season 12[]
- Crowley is able to ingeniously trap Lucifer back in his old vessel. While Lucifer is arrogant at first, Lucifer then brutally learns that Crowley cleverly warded not only Lucifer's chains, but his vessel itself with runes and spell work from The Cage. He even killed the demons who designed it to safeguard its secrets. As such, Crowley was able to briefly use Lucifer as his servant and 'attack dog'.
- Crowley is able to narrowly escape death by possessing a rat before Lucifer "killed" him.
- By killing himself, Crowley is able to lock Lucifer in an apocalypse-like alternate reality with Mary Winchester.
What Makes Crowley A Baddie?[]
- Even though he previously agreed to returning Bobby Singer's soul, Crowley chose to keep it anyway. Eventually, Sam and Dean Winchester force Crowley to return Bobby's soul, on the threat that they'd kill him if he didn't.
- When he was human he was abusive to his son Gavin. When he believed his son was being used as leverage against him he was utterly uncaring and told Bobby torture him as much as he wanted.
- Manipulated Castiel into teaming up with him, by using Castiel's desperation due to the ongoing civil war in heaven against him. Falsely promising to aid Castiel in defeating the archangel Raphael, as well as convincing the former to lie to the Winchesters about what's going on. This would lead to Castiel jumping off the slippery slope during the season 6 finale, and absorbing the souls of purgatory himself in order to become the new god.
- After the defeat of Dick Roman and the Leviathans, Crowley captured the teenage prophet, Kevin Tran, and forced him to transcribe the demon tablet. Fortunately, Kevin outsmarted Crowley and transcribed a spell that killed the demons guarding him, allowing him to escape.
- Pursued Kevin for a year, even going so far as to have a demon possess Kevin's girlfriend to lure him out. When that doesn't work, Crowley snaps her neck in front of Kevin.
- Taunts Kevin by taunting him over his girlfriend's death, leading to Linda slapping him. Though Crowley didn't retaliate, it was only because he wasn't allowed to use his powers at the time, he even promises to defile Linda Tran's corpse later.
- After losing the demon tablet in an auction due to Linda Tran offering up her own soul (something Crowley couldn't match), he opts to possess Linda in order to get to the tablet first, making off with the tablet.
- Tells Kevin that Linda had an affair and her husband isn't his real father. Whether this is true or not is unknown, though it's certainly a low blow.
- Tortures the angel, Samandriel, to get the names of future prophets. He then goes on to kill a few of them when they fail to transcribe the demon tablet.
- Kills the reformed Demon, Meg, after she stays behind to give the Winchesters a chance to escape.
- Traps Bobby Singer's soul in hell to spite the Winchesters. Fortunately, Sam manages to free his soul while completing the second trial to close the gates of hell forever.
- Having grown tired of the Winchesters, Crowley decides to kill every human they've ever saved out of spite. While he claims he would stop once given the demon tablet, there's no telling if this was sincere or not.
- In season 11, Crowley offers Amara (The Darkness) the souls of dozens of humans, including several children, in order to progress her growing power.
Trivia[]
- Crowley's actor Mark Sheppard came up with the final line of "even when I lose, I win", which essentially encapsulates his status as a Magnificent Baddie, but it was cut by the writers.
External Links[]
- Crowley on the Villains Wiki
- Crowley on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
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