Does Dean Die in the ‘Supernatural’ Series Finale? Here’s What Happens

Yup, Dean dies in the finale of Supernatural. Dean’s death is oddly not very epic. Sam and Dean are just doing their thing, hunting a vampire, finding a nest — you know, same old-same old. But then Dean runs into a nail, and it kills him. “It’s always been you and me,” Dean tells Sam before he dies. But before that happens, Dean asks Sam to tell him it’s OK to let go, which he does. Sam lives the rest of his life, has a son named Dean (aw), and then is reunited with Dean in heaven.

Sam and Dean looking for a hunt, finding a vampire nest, and working together to save the day. Only, the hunt didn’t end the way they typically do for the brothers. They saved the day, but thanks to a poorly placed nail, Dean Winchester … died.

Although it’s heartwarming to see Dean and Sam once again reunited once Sam dies, most fans are beyond pissed that Dean died because of a nail. Many felt like the writing was sloppy and that the death was pretty unsatisfying given how iconic of a character Dean Winchester is. “ARE YOU TELLING ME DEAN WINCHESTER IS GOING TO DIE LIKE THIS?” one person exclaimed on Twitter. Yup, that is definitely how Dean dies. We are sorry.

And then there’s the whole thing with Cas sacrificing himself for Dean and admitting he loved him, only to have Dean die almost immediately after Cas dies. “cas admitted his love for dean and then killed himself in order to save dean’s life and dean rewarded him by dying A WEEK LATER,” one person tweeted. When you put it that way…yeah, that’s not cool. 

And what about Eileen? Come on. (We had to make that joke.)

Maybe fans should have just written the finale, because this ending sounds good to us:

There are some viewers out there who thought Dean’s fate was fitting. “Dean spent his whole life since he was FOUR taking care of sam and putting his wants & needs above his own protecting him from john and spn really had only sam get to live a full happy life wtf kinda way of honoring a main character’s story is that after 15 seasons,” one fan argued.

Jared Padalecki himself admitted that the finale script made him incredibly emotional. “I think I cried every time I read the script,” he said, and stood by how Supernatural ended, per Entertainment Weekly.

However you feel about the ending, it’s all over now. Goodbye, Supernatural. We were with you until the very end.