Supernatural Retcons Amara & God’s Origin Story

Supernatural has reshuffled the history of the show’s resident primordial twins, God and Amara. For a long time in Supernatural, God was but a mystery, even to his angelic host. However, in Supernatural season 11, God was revealed as the true identity of a struggling author known as Chuck Shurley, who Sam and Dean had encountered several times during their adventures. God doesn’t sit alone at the top of the Supernatural hierarchy – his twin sister Amara, otherwise known as The Darkness, is an equally powerful entity who once threatened all of existence until the Winchester brothers stepped in to save the day.

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Since dropping her vendetta against creation, Amara has enjoyed a quiet life, relishing the various trappings of Earth, such as gambling and spa days. God, meanwhile, has been outed as the overarching villain of the Supernatural story, and Sam, Dean, Castiel and Jack are currently working to remove his holiness from the equation. Because of their symbiotic nature, Team Free Will must also defeat Amara to avoid upsetting the cosmic balance, and Supernatural season 15’s “Gimme Shelter” finds the Winchesters hunting for The Darkness, hoping to lure her into a trap. Although Amara proved a tougher sell than Sam and Dean assumed, they did learn a new origin story for two mythical twins, which directly contradicts Supernatural‘s established canon.

In Supernatural season 10, the Winchesters learned the history of creation from none other than Death – a reliable source, one would assume. According to OG Death, Amara was the first and most powerful being in all creation, while God came along some time later and defeated her with his army of angels. Chuck expands on this ancient tale when visiting the Bunker in Supernatural season 11, revealing that he repeatedly attempted to create life, but Amara kept snuffing out his worlds, necessitating her incarceration.

Meeting with Sam and Dean for lunch in Supernatural season 15, Amara completely rewrites this story, asserting that Death and Chuck merely told the Winchesters what they “needed to hear.” Remembering events quite differently, Amara claims that she and God were born simultaneously, not one after the other as previously thought. The Darkness also clarifies that the Big Bang was triggered when she and God ceased to be one, which is very different to the Genesis regaled by Chuck in Supernatural season 11.

One one hand, this Supernatural retcon feels a little convenient. Amara was presented as the eldest, strongest twin back when she was the main villain in Supernatural seasons 10 & 11, but now God is the big bad of the series, history is being rewritten in his favor. Moreover, the explanation that Death only told Dean what he needed to hear is incredibly vague, since there’s little reason for the Grim Reaper to lie.

However, Supernatural‘s updated origin for Amara and God fits more comfortably within the landscape of the final season. God was still posing as a misunderstood artist back in season 11, but has since been unveiled as a grand manipulator, lying to the Winchesters and controlling their lives since the very beginning. The image of a loving God prevented from creating life by his evil older sister is a typically dramatic tale from Chuck, and doesn’t fit with the character’s true villainous persona, whereas Amara’s story of the big bang reaffirms God as a bad guy who only ever thought of himself. With that said, the lore change begs the larger question of why God locked Amara away in the first place, if not because she kept destroying his creations. Was he simply jealous of his sister’s equal power, as seen previously with Chuck’s harsh treatment of the Old Gods after their popularity grew? Or did Amara know that God would ultimately get bored and betray his own creations?

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