Although the idea of a Bad Future had been played with in Season 5, and The French Mistake the following season, it wasn't until seasons 12 and 13 where Sam, Dean and Castiel began hopping across alternate universes and dimensions, where worlds are filled with nightmarish creatures, a parallel timeline where the Apocalypse happened, or where everyone is animated and the creatures are evil real estate developers in costumes. Below are characters from alternate universes, terrible futures and parallel timelines.
Universes with their own pages
"The French Mistake" Universe
See here.
The Apocalypse World
See here.
The Bad Place
The Bad Place in Supernatural
First seen in the 2017 episode The Bad Place, this universe is home to creatures beyond the Winchester's imaginations. Dinosaur-like creatures and giants roam these lands. The skulls of deceased monsters litter the ground, and they are often the first thing dreamwalker Kaia Nieves sees when she has visions of this universe. It appears to be a forested area with a very small human population - only one is ever identified. This universe was to appear prominently in the aborted spin-off Wayward Sisters.
Kaia Nieves
Kaia Nieves
Portrayed by Yadira Guevara-Prip
First Appeared in "The Bad Place" (S13, E09)
A hooded figure that menaces and kidnaps Sam and Dean. She is The Bad Place counterpart of Kaia Nieves. At the end of "Wayward Sisters", she escapes to the primary universe.
- Accidental Murder: Dark Kaia accidentally killed her mainline counterpart at the end of Wayward Sisters as she explains when she turns up again in season 14. Or not as it turns out that Kaia survived the wound and Dark Kaia patched her up and gave her the tools to survive before booking it to the main universe.
- Commonality Connection: Averted. She immediately rejects Alternate Michael's offer to join his army by virtue of both being from alternate universes.
- Decapitation Presentation: The Winchesters and Jody find the bodies of vampires sent to take Kaia's spear brutally mutilated, with their heads impaled on spikes.
- Dream Walker: Like her counterpart, she is a dreamwalker and had shared visions with her their whole life.
- Enemy Mine: Briefly cooperates with the Winchesters and Jody to fight off monsters sent by Alternate Michael to take her spear in "The Scar".
- Evil Doppelgänger: To her main counterpart.
- I Choose to Stay: After saving her main universe counterpart in Galaxy Brain Dark Kaia chooses to stay in her collapsing world and embraces her death.
- Killing Your Alternate Self: Done at the very end of the episode Wayward Sisters. This turns out to be subverted in the episode Galaxy Brain when it turns out that Kaia survived and has been living in the Bad Place for the last two years.
- Lady of War: Her fighting style is very graceful, accentuated by her wielding a spear.
- Villainous Rescue: As Jody points out, she doesn't have a reason to save her and the Winchesters from the vampires sent by Alternate Michael after freeing herself from their captivity, and yet she does.
The Scooby Doo World
- For more tropes on these characters, see here.
The Scooby Doo World in Supernatural
No, this isn't slang like how the team in Buffy are called the "Scoobies". This is actually Mystery Incorporated themselves, back when they were first starting out and Scooby-Doo was invited to spend the night
in the castle of a certain Beauregard Sanders...
in the castle of a certain Beauregard Sanders...- Alternate Tooniverse: Though it starts gaining realistic physics the longer the Winchesters hang out with the gang.
- Bloodier and Gorier: When compared to one of the gang's more ordinary mysteries.
- I Am Not Shazam: Mystery Inc. is repeatedly and incorrectly called "The Scooby Gang" by Dean.
- Off the Rails: Due to the influence of a real ghost disguised as the Green Ghost and the Winchesters hunting it, the events of "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" take a much darker turn.
- Scooby-Dooby Doors: Characters are known to participate in these, including the Trope Namer.
- Trapped in TV Land: How the Winchesters and Castiel are able to access this universe.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When the gang spots something utterly foreign to their kid-friendly world (such as Cosgood Creep's dismembered body) they cheerfully move on and search for clues.
Mystery Inc.
Fred Jones
Fred Jones
Voiced by Frank Welker
The leader of Mystery Inc.
- Adaptational Badass: Outright tries to tackle the killer Green Ghost repeatedly, something he didn't do in the original episode.
- Badass Driver: Won a drag race driving the Mystery Machine against Dean's Baby. He's one of the only drivers to achieve this.
- Catchphrase: Uses "looks like we've got another mystery on our hands!" when the gang investigates Cousin Simple's death. Uses "Let's Split Up, Gang!" when they search Sander's estate.
- Freak Out: When told this version of the Green Ghost is an actual ghost, Fred begins banging his head against a tree, complaining they could have been hunting actual monsters like Dracula.
- Iconic Item: His ascot is brought up repeatedly, and by the end of the crossover episode Dean has started wearing one too.
- Punched Across the Room: Courtesy of the killer Green Ghost.
- Rube Goldberg Machine: Comes up with a slightly more elaborate version of the one from the original episode to trap the Green Ghost.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Acts casually when faced with the dead body of Cousin Simple, earning Sam's ire.
Daphne Blake
Voiced by Grey Delisle
Member of Mystery Inc. and Fred's girlfriend.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: She's outright stated to be Fred's girlfriend in the episode, which was only alluded to in the original series, and expanded on in later episodes.
- Brick Joke: Dean expressed interest in Daphne in a season 2 episode, and it isn't brought up again until the events of the crossover, over 10 years later.
- Catchphrase: Says hers ("Jeepers!") when faced with the dead body of Cousin Simple.
- Freak Out: When the Winchesters reveal the Phantom Shadow is actually a real ghost, Daphne finds religion, and immediately shows concern that she's going to Hell.
- Hotter and Sexier: Exaggerated and Played for Laughs due to Dean's crush on her.
- Kill It with Fire: Says this verbatim, directed at the Green Ghost.
- Ms. Fanservice: Was drawn as such during a Male Gaze gag with Dean.
Velma Dinkley
Voiced by Kate Micucci
Member of Mystery Inc.
- Agent Scully: She strongly disbelieves in ghosts, and shoots down Sam's initial insistence that the gang is facing a real ghost until Dean and Cass convinces her.
- Blind Without Them: Averted, just like in the original episode. Her glasses frost over due to a cold spot, but she rubs the lenses.
- Catchphrase: Uses hers ("Jinkies!") when faced with Cousin Simple's dead body. Dean also uses it the following episode to tease Sam and his kiss with Velma.
- Crossover Ship: An In-Universe example. Velma almost immediately begins crushing on Sam, but it's one-sided.
- Freak Out: Downplayed. When everyone has one over the revelation that the ghost they are facing is real, Velma's only reaction is quiet confusion.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Mentioned by her when she tells Sam this is the kind of monsters Mystery Inc faces: unscrupulous real estate developers in rubber masks.
- The Smart Guy: As usual.
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
Voiced by Matthew Lillard
Member of Mystery Inc and Scooby Doo's best friend.
- Amusing Injuries: Subverted, as Shaggy actually breaks his arm after falling off a drainage pipe.
- Big Eater: One of the most infamous big eaters in animation eats a Dagwood Sandwich with Scooby Doo (and Dean) in the malt shop.
- Call-Back: When he breaks his arm from falling off the drain pipe, he angrily points out he survived a fall from a bi-plane with no injuries (back in "What a Night for a Knight").
- Cassandra Truth: When the gang are told they are facing a real ghost and they promptly have a Freak Out, Shaggy and Scooby tell the others they were right all along and real monsters exist.
- Cowardly Lion: Despite being terrified of the Green Ghost, he goes back to rescue Castiel from it, who still thinks it was a person in a costume.
- Lovable Coward: Although he's usually scared of humans in monster costumes, he's justified here since he's faced with an actual ghost.
- Precision F-Strike: During the gang's mass Freak Out, Shaggy uses "freaking" as a substitute for the F word.
- Valley Girl: Like, a male example of Hippie Speak. Still doing it fifty years later, man.
Earth 2
Earth 2 in Supernatural
First seen in the 2020 episode "Galaxy Brain", Earth 2 is one of God's "other toys", with several differences. God used a Radio Shed on this Earth as a base of operations while he destroyed the rest of the multiverse, with him wiping Earth 2 out afterwards.
- Alien Sky: The most obvious distinguishing feature from Earth 1 is the presence of two moons.
- Alternate History: Radio Shack is now Radio Shed, there are two moons, the UN is more serious about climate change, and Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.
- Colony Drop: How Chuck disposed of this Earth, sending a meteor shower.
- Expendable Alternate Universe: After he's done, Chuck shows it the same amount of mercy he did the other Earths: none.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Chuck is done, he destroys it with meteors.
Radio Shed Clerk
Radio Shed Clerk
Portrayed by Nicco del Rio
First appeared in "Galaxy Brain" (S15, E12)
- An Odd Place to Sleep: As a result of being made God's servant, he can be seen sleeping on pizza boxes and fast food containers.
- Oh, Crap!: When he sees that his remote isn't turning off the TV screens God has turned on to show alternate universes.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Chuck is done, the Clerk is killed along with the rest of Earth 2 by meteors.
