History Characters / SupernaturalSpecialChildren

* TheWarOnTerror: He appears in Cold Oak wearing his [=ACUs=] and says he "went to sleep last night in Afghanistan".

* [[GayGuyDiesFirst Gay Gal Dies First]]: The first on-screen causality of Azazel's contest. To add insult to injury, Lily is offed so quickly that she never gets any real characterisation outside being lesbian and she never get a chance to demonstrate what her powers on-screen, ''and'' she is KilledOffscreen.

* BuryYourGays: The first on-screen causality of Azazel's contest.

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* {{Expy}}: Lily, with her black leather jacket, long hair, and brooding attitude, has many similarities with [[Film/XMen Rogue]], which go beyond their power to kill with a touch.

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* [[YMMV/SupernaturalSpecialChildren Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) Items.]]

Even before their births these children were chosen by [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Azazel (The Yellow-Eyed Demon)]] to serve as his soldiers during the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalypse]]. '''Special Children''' refers to chosen individuals to whom Azazel fed his blood on their 6 month birthdays, having snuck into their homes after making a deal with their parents. The result was that the blood awoke/created psychic abilities in them so they could (apparently) lead an army of demons in a war against humanity and God. [[spoiler:In [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Azazel tests these children to find who will be the strongest by putting them in an abandoned town called Cold Oak, South Dakota, and manipulating them to fight each other. Azazel led everyone to believe that he wanted a leader for his demon army. However, as it was later revealed, the endgame was bigger, and Azazel chose the children because they were all potential vessels for Lucifer. The strongest one would be chosen to contain Lucifer throughout the apocalypse.]]

* PsychicPowers:
** DreamingOfThingsToCome: Ava and Sam.
** MindControl: Andy, Ansem, and later on [[spoiler:Jake]] can utilize CompellingVoice.
** MindManipulation: Andy gains the ability to implant images in another person's mind.
** MindOverMatter: Max and Sam can move objects with telekinesis.
** SummonMagic: [[spoiler:Ava learns a very specific form of mind control which she uses on an Acheri demon to help her kill the others at Cold Oak.]]

* SuperhumanTransfusion[=/=][[SuperEmpowering Super Empowerment]]: They received Azazel's blood to prepare them as infants. Drinking demon blood, as Sam does, also has the ability to increase their powers and is required for [[spoiler:Lucifer's vessel.]]
* {{Transhuman}}: A variation of the trope.

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* NighInvulnerability: Cannot be killed by fire, decapitation, or holy water.
* NighInvulnerability: Cannot be killed by fire, decapitation, or holy water.

!!Ansem Weems aka [[spoiler:Weber]] (Elias Toufexis)

* CreepyShadowedUndereyes
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette

* BadassArmy[=/=]BadassCrew: Their powers, the pattern of nursery fires, and the manipulation by [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Azazel (The Yellow-Eyed Demon)]], lead the Special Children to find each other, even before they start arriving in Cold Oak. A demon told [[Characters/SupernaturalHunters Gordon Walker]] that they were intended to fight on Hell's side in the upcoming war.

* BioAugmentation[=/=]BizarreHumanBiology: All of the Special Children possess demon blood within their blood, courtesy of Azazel bleeding in their mouths at 6 months of age.

* TheChosenMany[=/=]TheChosenOne: They were chosen by [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Azazel (The Yellow-Eyed Demon)]] based on their pedigree, and [[spoiler:he then has them battle to find the one true vessel for Lucifer.]]

* TheDarkSide[=/=]FaceHeelTurn: Unfortunately, most of the Special Children succumb to evil.

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide[=/=]DrunkWithPower: Max and Ansem revel in their new powers and use them to exact revenge.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne[=/=]PowerAtAPrice: The children are manipulated by Azazel, who eventually [[spoiler:forces them to fight to the death.]]

** DreamingOfThingsToCome[=/=]{{Seers}}: Ava and Sam.

** MindManipulation[=/=]{{Telepathy}}: Andy gains the ability to implant images in another person's mind.

** BadassBookworm: Andy has had his badass moments, his defeat of his brother and his telepathic warning to Dean just before his death come to mind.

* [[PimpedOutCar Pimped Out Van]]: Andy drives a van with a barbarian queen riding a polar bear on the side and a disco ball, beaded curtain, and tiger painted on velvet in the back.

* AntiVillain: Type III. By the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", he regretfully [[spoiler:kills Sam so that he knows at least one of them will survive to kill Azazel, but Azazel then strong-arms Jake into working for him.]]

Sam Winchester has [[Supernatural/CharactersSamWinchester his own page.]]

Even before their births these children were chosen by [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Azazel (The Yellow-Eyed Demon)]] to serve as his soldiers during the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalypse]]. '''Special Children''' refers to chosen individuals to whom Azazel fed his blood on their 6 month birthdays, having snuck into their homes after making a deal with their parents. The result was that the blood awoke/created psychic abilities in them so they could (apparently) lead an army of demons in a war against humanity and God. In [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Azazel tests these children to find who will be the strongest by putting them in an abandoned town called Cold Oak, South Dakota, and manipulating them to fight each other. Azazel led everyone to believe that he wanted a leader for his demon army. However, as it was later revealed, the endgame was bigger, and Azazel chose the children because they were all potential vessels for Lucifer. The strongest one would be chosen to contain Lucifer throughout the apocalypse.

* AntiAntiChrist: While they are all potential vessels for Lucifer who have been fed demon blood, most of the Special Children are just young adults trying to fit in and deal with their powers.

* BadPowersBadPeople: Ansem and Max.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Sam and Andy.

* TheChosenMany[=/=]TheChosenOne: They were chosen by [[Characters/SupernaturalDemons Azazel (The Yellow-Eyed Demon)]] based on their pedigree, and he then has them battle to find the one true vessel for Lucifer.

* CreatorProvincialism: Unless Azazel is performing separate trials in other nations, it seems that all of Lucifer's potential vessels are Americans.

* DealWithTheDevil: The parents of the children made this 9.5 years prior to their birth.

* GhostTown: Cold Oak, where Azazel gathers the children.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne[=/=]PowerAtAPrice: The children are manipulated by Azazel, who eventually forces them to fight to the death.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: All except Sam, who came back from the dead thanks to Dean's deal with the crossroads demon.]]

* SuperhumanTransfusion[=/=][[SuperEmpowering Super Empowerment]]: They received Azazel's blood to prepare them as infants. Drinking demon blood, as Sam does, also has the ability to increase their powers and is required for Lucifer's vessel.

* TykeBomb: Engineered by Azazel to serve in the Apocalypse
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Max, Ansem, Ava, Jake, and eventually Sam]]. The only exception seems to be [[spoiler:Andy, who got stronger (on his own) but not crazier]].

[[folder: Sam Winchester]]

!![[Characters/SupernaturalSamWinchester Sam Winchester]] (Creator/JaredPadalecki)
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--->''"It started a little over a year ago? You found you could do things? Things you didn’t think were possible? I have visions. I see things before they happen."''

[[spoiler:After John Winchester is killed in 1973, his girlfriend Mary Campbell]] agrees to a deal with the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Ten years after that date, the Yellow-Eyed Demon enters the Winchester home on November 2, 1983, to feed his blood to 6 month old Sam, and the demon kills Mary when she interrupts him. The demon blood was used to prepare Sam as a possible vessel for Lucifer. The Yellow-Eyed Demon engineers other tests to determine if Sam is a suitable vessel.

* BloodLust[=/=]FantasticDrug: Sam starts drinking demon blood to increase his powers and becomes addicted to demon blood.
* TheChosenOne: Although what he was chosen for seems to vary as the Seasons progress.
** OfferedTheCrown: To lead Azazel's armies.
** OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: [[spoiler: To cross the railroad line devil's trap and open the HellGate.]]
** ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler:Who releases [[SealedEvilInACan Lucifer]] by breaking the last seal and killing [[BarrierMaiden Lillith]].]]
** [[spoiler:MeatPuppet: Lucifer's one true destined vessel.]]
* DarkMessiah: Sam starts to believe that he can use his powers to stop Lilith and the Apocalypse, causing him to drink more demon blood and give into his dark side.
* DemonSlaying: When Sam's powers are strengthened by drinking demon blood he learns to exorcise a demon under the the tutelage of Ruby. He later becomes able to kill demons with his powers and is resistant to many demon attacks.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome:
** 6 months before Jessica's death in the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot Pilot]], Sam started having visions of her death, which he thought were nightmares.
** Sam knows the occupants of [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home their old home]] are in danger.
** He has visions of the murders committed and planned by [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E14Nightmare Max]] and [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E05SimonSaid Ansem]].
** He has vision of the Yellow-Eyed Demon entering the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E21Salvation Holt family's home and killing Monica Holt on Rosie's 6 month birthday]].
** He has a vision of Dean killing Duane in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E09Croatoan "Croatoan" (S02, Ep09)]].
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Sam, according to Azazel.
* TheImmune: He is immune to the Croatoan virus, and the Yellow-Eyed Demon engineered an experiment in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E09Croatoan Rivergrove, Oregon]], to prove this.
* LastOfHisKind: Even though [[spoiler:Jake initially won the competition.]]
* MindOverMatter: Discovered in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E14Nightmare "Nightmare" (S01, Ep14)]].
* PsychicNosebleed: Happens to Sam when he tries to exorcise demons with his mind.
* {{Seers}}: Like Ava, he has visions of the future, often related to death and other Special Children.

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* AssholeVictim: Killed his own aforementioned AbusiveParents.

* ApocalypseMaiden: She has the potential to be Lucifer's vessel in another 23 years.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Winchesters are never shown checking back in with the Holts to see how Rosie is doing, and they never make an effort to track down the other Special Children who may be part of Rosie's generation. These children should start manifesting psychic powers around 2028.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Sam.
* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: Andy kills Ansem to stop him from killing Dean and Tracey shortly after he finds out he and Ansem are twins.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: He is killed by an Acheri demon that was summoned by Ava Wilson.]]
* MindRape: Andy admits to beaming sexually explicit images into another guy's brain at all hours of the day because he thought the guy was a dick. This is [[BlackComedyRape played for comedy]] as the images consist of [[Main/DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale gay porn]].

* TheStoner: Andy has a large bong in his van, and was doing his 4th bong load when he was abducted by the Yellow-Eyed Demon and brought to Cold Oak.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Andy is the only out of the Special Children not to succumb to WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity

He is Andy Gallagher's twin and was born to 18 year old Holly Beckett on June 30, 1983, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, but was adopted by the Weems family from upstate while Andy was adopted by a family in Guthrie. There was no house fire when he was 6 month's alone as the Yellow-Eyed Demon was not interrupted, which leads the Winchesters to realize that they could not find all the Special Children by tracking this pattern of house fires. The Yellow-Eyed Demon tells him he has plans for him and also tells him that he has a brother. This leads Ansem to use the fake last name of Weber and take a job in the coffee house where Andy used to work. Appears in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E05SimonSaid "Simon Said" (S02, Ep05)]].

* EvilTwin

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler:Stabbed and killed by the hunter Gordon Walker because he sees him as a monster and threat to humanity.]]

* {{Adorkable}}

* HystericalWoman

* WoundedGazelleGambit

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime, he doesn't grow to accept Azazel's influence and instead continues to only reluctantly follow him. He also doesn't realize that [[spoiler: Sam was brought back to life thanks to a Crossroads Demon]] and instead believes that the wound wasn't fatal, genuinely relived to see he's alive.
* AntiVillain: Type III. By the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", he regretfully [[spoiler:kills Sam so that he knows at least one of them will survive to kill Azazel]], but Azazel then strong-arms Jake into working for him.
* ApologeticAttacker

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Azazel manipulates Jake's love for his family to get him to cooperate: first, he threatens to force-feed Jake's mom and little sister their own intestines [[ForcedIntoEvil if Jake doesn't do as he's told]]. After that, he tempts Jake into opening the devil's gate by promising that his family will be rich and safe forever in return.

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the end of "Loser".
* SuperStrength
* TeachHimAnger: "Loser" revolved around Azazel's attempts to make Jake crack under pressure and turn evil. He originally intended to slaughter Jake's family like he promised to do in the original series, so that Jake would come home from leave to find them StuffedInTheFridge a la Jessica, but then the Winchesters intervened. [[spoiler:Instead Jake's little brother gets shot and killed in front of him by the fellow soldier whose respect he finally earned. It still doesn't work, as Jake remains a decent human being.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: In the anime, her touch based ability includes the power to exercise demons with a touch. She's demonstrated this ability on Azazel, and its effectiveness may extend to demons like Samhaen and Lilith.

* BrokenBird: Very much so.

* {{Goth}}

* OnlyOneName
** The anime gives her the surname "Baker".

* TouchOfDeath

* VampireInvitation: Azazel needed this to enter the homes of the children.

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!!Ava Wilson (Katharine Isabelle)

[[folder: Jake Talley]]

* GeniusBookClub: The books in Andy's van include: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegel Hegel,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant Kant,]] and [[LudwigWittgenstein Wittgenstein]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], a bunch of psychics who were mysteriously kidnapped and brought to a ghost town over night don't believe that demons might exist.

* AlliterativeName

* [[spoiler:LastOfHisKind: Even though Jake initially won the competition.]]

* [[spoiler:AbusiveParents: Max's father and uncle.]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* [[spoiler:EyeScream]]: Attempts this on his stepmother.
* [[spoiler:FromNobodyToNightmare]]
* MindOverMatter

* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan]]

* PinkMeansFeminine

* WiseBeyondTheirYears:

* [[spoiler:CainAndAbel: Andy kills Ansem to stop him from killing Dean and Tracey.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]

* [[spoiler:BloodFromTheMouth: After being stabbed in the stomach.]]

* [[spoiler:WeHardlyKnewYe: Killed 4 minutes into the episode he is introduced in. ]]

* [[spoiler:EvilFeelsGood: She is forced to start killing to survive Azazel's twisted contest. Eventually, Ava starts to enjoy it.]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]]

* [[spoiler:NeckSnap: Killed this way by Jake to save Sam]].

* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays: The first on-screen causality of Azazel's contest.]]

* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: Anime-only.]]

* [[spoiler:AntiVillain: Type III. By the end of "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", he regretfully kills Sam so that he knows at least one of them will survive to kill Azazel, but Azazel then strong-arms Jake into working for him.]]

* [[spoiler:LaserGuidedKarma: While Sam's distracted, a seemingly unconscious Jake takes the opportunity to sneak up behind him with a knife and stab him InTheBack. Later on, Sam comes back to life and repeatedly shoots Jake in the back.]]
* [[spoiler:LoveMakesYouEvil: Azazel manipulates Jake's love for his family to get him to cooperate: first, he threatens to force-feed Jake's mom and little sister their own intestines [[ForcedIntoEvil if Jake doesn't do as he's told]]. After that, he tempts Jake into opening the devil's gate by promising that his family will be rich and safe forever in return.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]]] at the end of "Loser".

* [[spoiler:TheUnchosenOne]]
* [[spoiler:VillainsWantMercy]]: But Sam does not give it.

* GoodLookingPrivates: He is wearing an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_combat_uniform Army Combat Uniform (ACU)]] with the rank insignia of a private.

* WhatHappenedtothemouse: The Winchesters are never shown checking back in with the Holts to see how Rosie is doing, and they never make an effort to track down the other Special Children who may be part of Rosie's generation. These children should start manifesting psychic powers around 2028.

** MindManipulation[=/=]/{{Telepathy}}: Andy gains the ability to implant images in another person's mind.