John is a real man’s man, who-when he was around-raised his kids “like warriors” and ruled with an iron fist. If Dean was consciously modelling himself on anyone, it would be John Winchester: a marine turned mechanic turned hunter. He followed his father’s orders without comment and chided Sam for questioning them or for outright rebelling against them. He had his dad’s car, his dad’s leather jacket-even his dad’s music taste. In the earlier seasons, Dean idolized his father. This is probably because he had a weird relationship with his father. You don’t have to look very hard or very deep to see that Dean has weird relationships with other men. In Chuck’s narration, he says that the first owner of the Impala was a man called Sal Moriarty.)Īrguably, that proves nothing. (Fun fact: the naming of Sam and Dean and On The Road’s influence on Kripke is revisited in Swan Song. Yup. Dean Winchester is based on and named after a character who was based on (and almost named after) a bisexual man. Thompson and Ken Kesey-was married twice, and had an on-again off-again sexual relationship with beat poet Allen Ginsberg that spanned two decades. Neal-beat generation hero, inspiration for characters in novels by Kerouac, Hunter S. In the original scroll of On The Road, Dean Moriarty’s name is Neal Cassidy.
But what many people (who aren’t in the fandom, at least) don’t realise-what, in fact, Dean may not have fully embraced himself-is that Dean Winchester is bisexual.īack in the halcyon days of the pre-apocalypse seasons, creator Eric Kripke acknowledged that Sam and Dean were named after Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, the road-tripping friends of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. Moriarty, Dean Winchester’s namesake, has given him more than just his forename: both are witty, charming, fast-talking con men and notorious womanisers. Cassie, Carmen, Anna, his Amazonian baby mama Dean has wooed a myriad of women on- and off-screen. It’s as much a part of him as his green eyes and his freckles and his astounding lack of self-worth. It’s no secret that Dean Winchester-hunter, brother to Sam, the archangel Michael’s vessel for the apocalypse on earth-is a ladies’ man.