God (Supernatural)

"Those other toys, they don't spark joy. But Sam and Dean, the real Sam and Dean, they do. They challenge me... they disappoint me... they surprise me. They're the ones."

- God to Radio Shed Clerk

God, initially known as Chuck Shurley, is an ancient primordial being who created the entire universe and nearly everything it contains, including the human soul. Amara, his twin sister, is the only entity surpassing his power and collectively, the archangels surpass God in power. Together, God and The Darkness serve as the balance in the Universe, as the dark cannot exist without the light and vice versa. If either one of them is lost or destroyed, existence itself would cease. His sister couldn't resist destroying whatever God created, so God created four Archangels and, with them by his side, waged war against her and eventually locked her away with a mark which he entrusted to his most loved and valued son and lieutenant, Lucifer. However, over time, after God created the Universe, the mark corrupted Lucifer and drew him to rebel when God created humankind. After Lucifer was bound in Hell and Gadreel was locked away in Heaven's dungeon, God left Heaven and went into seclusion on Earth.

After thousands of years, God eventually reappeared and partially aided in The Apocalypse. After The Apocalypse was averted, he disappeared again. Six years later, when his twin sister Amara was released, God was originally willing to let his creations be wiped from existence and let Amara take over. But after being convinced by both Metatron and the Winchesters, God eventually decided to help stop Amara. After being fatally injured by his sister in a failed attempt to stop her, God was then healed by her and they both departed the Earth together.

God later returned to Earth once he received Castiel's prayer, God revealed that he had no method in helping with Jack and opted to have them kill him instead. However, Team Free Will saw through his ploy and accused him of manipulating events, resulting in him personally killing Jack and plunging the world into chaos to punish humanity for their defiance. However, during the confrontation, he was shot by Sam with The Equalizer, leaving God in a weakened and diminished state. He has since recovered and is at full power. Unknown to God, Billie has taken the opportunity to resurrect Jack and help the young Nephilim become powerful enough to kill God which is revealed to be a plan developed by Adam over the course of 300,000 years. Using Jack to kill Chuck and Amara turns out to be another one of God's plans to get the Winchesters to kill each other, although it ultimately fails.

Following his final attempt at getting the Winchesters to kill each other, God merges with Amara and begins wiping everyone from existence, planning resetting the universe. The Winchesters are left with Jack powerless and most of their allies gone, including Billie who was planning to kill God in order to take power for herself. However, they are left with Chuck's Death Book which reveals how God can be killed after the first attempt failed. God is later stripped of his power by Jack, rendering him mortal and making Jack the new God. The Winchesters and Jack choose to leave Chuck to live out a mortal life, eventually to age, sicken and die, alone and forgotten.

Personality
"You think you made the Archangels to bring light? No. You made them to create lesser beings; to make you large - to make you lord! It was ego! You wanted to be big!"

- The Darkness Amara describes her brother as being prideful and egocentric, saying he created other things because he wanted to "be big" - although God admits this is true, he had also hoped to change her nature by showing her there could be things other than themselves, but he later deemed this as stupidity and naïveté on his part. When faced with the opportunity to reconcile with Lucifer, if he'd simply apologize for locking him away, Chuck opted to put all the blame on Lucifer in front of the Winchesters to save face. However, shortly after apporting the Winchesters away, he revealed that he'd only punished Lucifer because he hated himself for what his actions had done to his favorite son and apologized. After billions of years of observing his creations and living among them, his disappointment caused God to become somewhat cynical. He considered human nature to be toxic and was willing to let Amara destroy everything seemingly out of spite against humans, for fighting wars in his name and then begging him to fix everything, and generally not taking responsibility for their failures, as well as Angels out of disappointment of their actions. He also considers his creations to be experiments and also revealed that he abandoned the angels and humanity because they'd disappointed him. He later admits to Dean that it's more than disappointment: while he'd once taken an active role in his creations' lives, he realized that he was hindering them more than anything and he needed to let them find their own way like a parent with their child. Despite everything that's happened since he did so, God believes he made the right decision. However, following the revelation that Chuck views Sam and Dean, and seemingly his creations generally, as story characters for him to manipulate and observe for his own entertainment, much of this has been implied to be a façade masking his true colors. Lucifer suggested that Chuck's apology to him was merely because Chuck needed his help against the Darkness which, given what has subsequently been seen of his personality, is likely true. However, there are some ideas that even Chuck finds too disgusting to include for his characters, as shown by his genuine disgust at the idea of him being responsible for the relationship between Dean and Amara.

Alternate Michael suggests God creates other worlds and abandons them once they fail him in a way. While it has not been confirmed whether this is true, his dismissive reaction to Sam questioning him on it may suggest there is some truth to it, though at the same time he did seem offended when Sam appeared to believe Michael, but whether it was a faked reaction to keep his true intentions concealed remains unknown.

Despite his sister's claims that he encouraged religion, which she called "monuments to his ego", God often asks people not to refer to him as "God", and to use the moniker "Chuck" instead. He also stated that people bowing before him had always made him feel "deeply, deeply uncomfortable". When Metatron did this upon seeing his true form, God pulled him up and asked him not to do it again since it made him uncomfortable. However, God is fully aware of his nigh-omnipotence and does not hesitate to point out that he could do things most beings could not, as he simply said that he is God when Sam questioned on how he simply snapped his fingers to cancel Jack's influence and insisted that the Equalizer could kill anything. The deity Fortuna states God created her kind, as while he was angry humanity didn't honor him, he saw a purpose for the deities to serve as the fall guys for natural disasters. Despite his immense power, however, God is shown to be rather capable of taking potential threats seriously, as he not only indicated with apparent concern when Sam stated he feared what Jack could become that it was true but even though he could have continued manipulating Sam and Dean by just letting Dean spare Jack, he insisted on Jack being killed and even did it himself. Jack himself admitted the reason why his grandfather chose to kill him was because he was scared he could be able to kill God.

At first, despite his disappointment and cynicism, God apparently still maintained a level of compassion and care for his creations deep down and it was just buried by the resentment he felt over how both humans and angels had failed him. This was proven by how he appeared to be worried about Castiel as he was about to be killed by Raphael and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him in his rebellion, resurrected Castiel on three occasions, despite what he had done, secretly helped Dean in averting the Apocalypse, and being pleased at how Marie put his books in a play. Even at his worst with everything that had happened caused by the angels, with particular disappointment towards the archangels, as evidenced when Chuck strummed faster in an irritated manner just from hearing Metatron ask him to write more on them, and humans, where he at first allowed Amara to destroy them, he appeared to show some feelings of genuine regret and sadness when Metatron confronted him for leaving even despite bitterly stating that they had disappointed him and was ultimately moved when Metatron revealed the flaws of God's approach with a moving speech of humanity's better traits into finally taking action in order to save an infected town from his sister. He was even willing to surrender himself to Amara so that his creations would be safe, showing a lack of concern of what would happen to him that baffled even Dean. He also comforted Dean on his background with his father but told him not to compare him to John. Even though he had bitterly resented Lucifer for his rebellion, even lashing out when Sam and Dean asked for his rescue, he still showed a level of guilt and remorse for his fall, as he sadly said Lucifer wasn't a villain despite having been earlier irritated by Metatron's reminder of Lucifer's rebellion, and even appeared to have been willing to forgive him after he decided to fight alongside him, healing him of his injuries in their reunion and doing everything to talk him out of the spite he felt towards him, even eventually apologizing.

Like Death, God seems to have a taste for what Dean calls "cheap food". He also likes taking long showers. God was described by Metatron in Sacrifice as "Larger than life, gruff, a bit of a sexist. But fair, eminently fair". This fairness seems to be shown by how God, while willing to forgive Metatron for his offences, refused to give back Metatron's powers. Despite mainly writing all that Sam and Dean experienced, including their thoughts even when they were thinking of negative things, God did seem to have limits to what he wanted to let know on in his books, as he chose to not let Sam's addiction be known to prevent him from appearing unsympathetic.

He has a humorous side as when asked by Metatron as to why he hid himself, he explained that he wanted to see everything while being in plain sight and admitted he enjoyed acting as a human to fool those around him.

"You can fire me if you want, but sooner or later he's gonna come back home. And you know how he is with that whole wrath thing."

- Joshua to Zachariah

While not easy to anger, once enraged, his anger is considerably large as he can easily be cold, violent, insulting, and even somewhat sadistic, as shown by how after being outraged when Metatron called him a coward, God swiftly responded with fury, throwing him out of the bar and coldly telling him that while Metatron and the rest of the angels may consider Metatron's position as the Scribe of God to be special, to God, Metatron was never anything special, just the closest angel to the door, and took time to show Metatron of how a town is going to be destroyed by the fog unleashed by Amara, relishing in his devastated expression. Later on, this rage is shown when Dean and Sam asked Chuck to rescue Lucifer. At which, Chuck, frustrated by their insistence, immediately expresses his bitterness of Lucifer's disappointment. Although Metatron was actually gleeful on how he managed to make God angry and Lucifer showed no qualms in angering God; Sam and Dean, having never seen God in a rage, were visibly shocked and intimidated enough to be put to place swiftly and not talk on it anymore. His rage is well-known even though he has only been seen by a few angels, to the point that the usual petty and arrogant Zachariah was terrified enough at the prospect of God unleashing his wrath upon him to immediately back down from pursuing Sam and Dean. At first, when Sam, Dean, and Castiel called him out on manipulating their lives and defied his will, God, although clearly angry at their defiance, tried to reason with them to make them do it and offered to bring back Mary for Sam and Dean in exchange and when they persisted, God merely responded by giving them a cold smile and personally killing Jack (his own grandson) painfully, appearing to not find them worthy of unleashing his anger fully, but upon being shot by Sam with his own created gun, God lost control of his anger and mercilessly declared the end for them, punishing them and the world by starting The Apocalypse again. Notably, despite their defiance of him, all three of them expressed genuine fear when God raged at them. Later on, when Sam and Dean once again managed to stop themselves from killing each other, Chuck displayed great rage at them for continuously defying him, even physically slamming his hands together as he raged on how his best efforts were for naught and coldly telling Dean screw you when Dean told him to screw off. God also did not hesitate to destroy Michael for his brief betrayal but this was only after he thanked him for giving him a warning about the Winchesters.

In the time since Sam and Dean have turned on him, Chuck has shown himself to be in actuality incapable of viewing anything besides himself and his sister as anything more or less than toys, which exist to entertain him and for him to manipulate as he wishes; a trait consistent with sociopaths and psychopaths. He's shown a callous side to humanity since opening the Rupture to Hell; when he smote Amara's masseuse for no reason, and massacred an entire casino and forced the sole surviving staff-member to continue pleasing him and serving drinks under the subtle threat of doing the same to her. It also turned out that Chuck sent the soul of Kevin Tran to Hell instead of Heaven despite the latter doing nothing to deserve that, and only let the souls of John Winchester and Bobby Singer into Heaven because he favored Sam and Dean at the time. He also bestowed good luck on Sam and Dean, preventing them from suffering normal things but took it away after they fell out of favor. One of the most apparent examples of Chuck's lack of empathy was when he decided to wipe out every alternate universe he'd created except the Main Universe, committing the most evil and terrible act any Supernatural villain has ever successfully enacted (though Amara and Alternate Michael previously threatened to do the same or similar). He even walked out of the RadioShed with a smile on his face before destroying Earth 2. Chuck later reveals that the main reason that he decided to destroy his creations was because he had lost all hope and expectations in them: He had tried his best to find contentedness and happiness in his creations and the Winchesters, but in his eyes, no matter how hard he tried, they only continued to disappoint and defy him. Later on, he decided to exterminate humanity just to punish the Winchesters and Jack by forcing the trio to live on an empty planet and ruthlessly killed Michael despite him having turned to his side for his early betrayal. This lead to his deserved ending at the hands of Jack and the Winchesters, which is in irony what he had tried to inflict on the Winchesters and even worse: He is left as a powerless mortal who can get sick and eventually die, with no hope of ever regaining any sort of power, and will live the rest of his human life forgotten and alone with no one caring about him.

Chuck asked his sister to go with him to another universe where they can start over. However, his actions were a ploy for her to heal his injury and restore his power. He was disappointed at her refusal and criticism of his treatment to the world though his attempt to get her to leave with him might've been genuine. After being severely weakened and diminished by Sam's shot with The Equalizer, Amara realizes that God's now terrified. However, she sees that he is still the petulant and narcissistic being he always was while Amara has changed, she wants nothing to do with her brother, accepting coexistence with him but not wanting to be anywhere near him while doing it. After a talk with Becky Rosen, he appears to have overcome his fear and put in writing an ending to Sam and Dean. He showed a sadistic side and thought of ways of getting to the ending. This is further seen when he banished Becky and her family not too long after revealing his status as God to her and taking pleasure in her grief, though he did say he hadn't just killed them (possibly planning to create a story using them, or showing genuine mercy). He appears to express some genuine sympathy towards his sister when she breaks down, having believed Dean really cared for her, and reveals that he still hasn't given up on creating, wishing to create something new together and establish a new balance.

According to Metatron's annotated notes on the Demon Tablet, God has a secret fear that is always there and which he only shared with his favorite. Though this is believed to be Michael as Lucifer was locked away at the time the tablet was written, it may also not be given God's numerous worlds and multiple variations of Michael.

When God attempts to cut into Sam's shoulder and remove the thing that is tying them together, he hesitates and visibly grimaces. Sam realizes that despite his great power, God actually doesn't like to get his hands dirty and prefers watching others do his work for him. While God dislikes getting his hands dirty, when he was confronting Sam and Dean after killing Michael and everyone else on Earth, he decided to get his hands dirty to make them suffer, and showed no hesitation in beating the two to a pulp.

God later reveals to a RadioShed clerk on Earth 2 that none of his other worlds bring him the joy of the Universe, his original creation. This is primarily due to Sam and Dean who God is shown to respect the fact that they challenge, disappoint and surprise him constantly. God calls them "the ones" before deciding to destroy every other universe to get rid of all of his distractions.

True to Amara's claim that Chuck created things because he wanted something else to be bigger than, it's indicated Chuck enjoys lording over and feeling superior to others. Chuck expressed frustration at Sam's persistent defiance in particular, when he unsuccessfully tried forcing Eileen to remove the Equalizer bullet. He later showed a similar attitude when Sam and Dean once again foiled his plans for them to kill each other over Jack's sacrifice, frustratingly commenting on how stubborn and broken they were and likewise showing irritation when he commented on how Castiel of the main universe was the only one who defied him. Before destroying Earth 2, Chuck visibly reveled in the RadioShed clerk's desperate groveling, petting him on the face in a master-to-dog like manner and assuring the clerk everything would be fine. He also shows extreme arrogance, laughing at the idea of Jack killing him and believing that he cannot be beaten even while not able to read his Death Book and opting to beat the Winchesters hand-to-hand, continuing to do this despite being able to effortlessly kill them in order to truly break them, which ultimately lead to his complete defeat as the power released by both his brutal attack on Sam and Dean and his murder of Michael made Jack impervious to God's previous ability to smite him easily and he was subsequently effortlessly overpowered and drained of all his powers in moments. The deity Fortuna stated God was initially outraged that humanity refused to acknowledge his benevolence and created the Deities to serve as fall guys for when things go wrong.

After being defeated and having his powers drained by Jack, Chuck was speechless to see that he had been outsmarted by the Winchesters. Chuck showed no ill will to being defeated, complementing the Winchesters for their ingenuity, stating that's why they are his favorites. He even asked that they be the ones to kill him now that he was mortal, since it would be an honor to die by their hands. However, it turns out that Chuck is actually afraid of having to live as a mortal and be forgotten and alone, as he was visibly horrified when Dean and Sam reveals that their revenge will be Chuck having to live a mundane existence as a human and when he dies, no one will care or remember him and was swiftly reduced to groveling and begging them not to leave him to live a mundane existence as a mortal, to no avail, showing how Chuck is so desperate to have his way with things that even if he loses, he still wants to go out in a way he wants and completely breaks down when he is refused it. Furthermore, during his fruitless begging, he never said even one word of apology, indicating his lack of shame or remorse for any of his misdeeds, only pleading for them to help him, showing how Chuck is so unashamed of his crimes that he still has the gall to ask for the help of those who he had earlier tortured and revealing he can be reduced to being a total coward while still not feeling any remorse and only concern for himself, showing his egomania. In turn, the Winchesters are shown to no longer consider him worthy of their time or any kind of a threat as they simply ignore Chuck and drive away.

Characteristics
While his twin sister Amara is darkness and nothingness, God represents light and being. He is one of the two fundamental components of reality itself, while the other one is his sister. If one of them dies, reality itself would cease to exist.

Physical Appearance
"Dean: Little guy, squirrelly as hell? Fortuna: Yeah, that's him."

- Dean describing God to Fortuna God's true visage has only been seen by a few beings, but it appears to be similar to the appearance of an angel's grace - a blinding white light - though unlike an angel's true form, God's real visage has no ill-effects on humans. As seen in Alpha and Omega, he takes the appearance of a smoke of light. Only his twin sister, Amara has seen God, as well as the Horseman Death, since they have existed alongside God from nearly the beginning of time. Anna Milton once mentioned that, out of all the Host of Heaven, only four of them have seen God (most likely the four archangels). It is later revealed that Metatron has also seen God, due to being his scribe while writing down his Word. Metatron also hinted that the angel Gadreel, as God's most trusted angel, has seen God, as Metatron said, "You were God's most trusted. That's why he chose you to protect the garden." Additionally, although he does not see him, it was originally assumed that the angel Joshua talks to God, however it is later revealed to be the other way around. Joshua says that he thinks God talks to him because he (Joshua) can sympathize for God, as a fellow gardener but also because God gets lonely.

When God wanted to physically communicate with Sam and Dean, he took the form of a human and assumed the role of a prophet named Chuck Shurley. Chuck's appearance is that of a man in his late 30s to his early or mid-40s, with a beard and messy hair. He has light blue eyes and is rather short in height. God considers this form "a gift", and describes it as "super cute". When Dean described God to Fortuna, she recognized him, suggesting that God has used this form for millennia.

Confirmed Creations
God created the universe and nearly everything that resides in it. These include:

Realms

 * Unknown Worlds - God created other worlds before creating the universe.
 * Heaven - God's divine domain for noble and righteous souls, as well as angels.
 * The Universe - Some time after God imprisoned the Darkness, God created the Universe.
 * Earth - God's very last masterpiece, according to Lucifer.
 * Alternate Universes - God has created more universes than the main one, so many that he has lost count.
 * Purgatory - God's prison for monsters, specifically the Leviathans.
 * Hell - God's prison for evil souls, demons, Lucifer, and other dangerous creatures.
 * Lucifer's Cage - God's prison created specifically for Lucifer.

Creatures/Beings

 * Archangels - The first and greatest of all celestial beings; their power and formation is of primordial creation.
 * Deities - The pagan gods of human mythology whom God created to take the blame when things went wrong, and because they made for epic stories.
 * Leviathans - The first and most rancorous beasts, whom God locked in Purgatory to prevent them from wreaking havoc on the rest of creation.
 * Angels - Celestial beings that are weaker than archangels and serve as the soldiers of God.
 * Hellhounds - Intended to be "Creator's best friend," but proved to be too vicious. God intended to exterminate them all until Lucifer rescued one.
 * Humans - God's most beloved creations.
 * Souls - When God created humans, he gave them a spiritual essence (the soul) that also serves as a powerful energy and makes humans unique.

Other

 * The Word of God - God ordered Metatron to write down the Angel, Leviathan, and Demon tablets as instructions for his creations.
 * Purgatory portal - A portal created by God to act as an escape hatch for any humans trapped in Purgatory.
 * God's Bar - The safest place in all of creation, and God's hiding place from the Darkness.
 * Mark of Cain  - The lock and the key to the Darkness' prison, which became the very first curse. However, the Darkness claims to be the "Original Mark," indicating that the Mark wasn't created by God but was always a part of the Darkness, and God transformed it into a sort of seal to lock her away.
 * The Equalizer - A gun created by God to kill Jack Kline, which has the same effect on the user as it does the being who is shot. It is revealed that the gun is powerful enough to cause serious harm to God himself even with a shoulder wound. Lilith later destroyed the Equalizer at God's request.
 * Rupture to Hell - A tear or rupture in the Earth leading into Hell intended to release all of the souls and demons of Hell upon the world. Created after the Winchesters refused to kill Jack and located in Harlan, Kansas. The rupture was described as not quite a portal, but rather a tear in the fabric of the Universe that connects Earth and Hell, as if "God stamped his foot and Hell ripped open." Sam, Dean and Rowena MacLeod managed to seal the rupture by use of the Sanetur Acre Vulnus spell.

Appearances
Though not physically seen until Season 4 and not officially revealed until Season 11, God is one of the most recurring primordial entities in the series, next to Lucifer. Additionally, upon the appearances on angels in season 4, God has been mentioned many times.


 * Season 1
 * Phantom Traveler
 * Faith
 * Nightmare
 * Devil's Trap
 * Season 2
 * In My Time of Dying
 * Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
 * Simon Said
 * Crossroad Blues
 * Croatoan
 * Playthings
 * Houses of the Holy
 * Season 3
 * Bad Day at Black Rock
 * Sin City
 * Jus In Bello
 * Season 4
 * Lazarus Rising
 * Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
 * In the Beginning
 * Metamorphosis
 * Monster Movie
 * It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
 * I Know What You Did Last Summer
 * Heaven and Hell
 * After School Special
 * Death Takes A Holiday
 * On The Head Of A Pin
 * It's A Terrible Life
 * The Monster at the End of This Book
 * The Rapture
 * When the Levee Breaks
 * Lucifer Rising
 * Season 5
 * Sympathy for the Devil
 * Good God, Y'all
 * Free To Be You and Me
 * The End
 * I Believe the Children Are Our Future
 * Changing Channels
 * The Real Ghostbusters
 * Abandon All Hope...
 * The Song Remains the Same
 * Dark Side of the Moon
 * 99 Problems
 * Hammer of the Gods
 * Two Minutes to Midnight
 * Swan Song
 * Season 6
 * Exile on Main Street
 * The Third Man
 * Appointment In Samarra
 * The French Mistake
 * ...And Then There Were None
 * The Man Who Would Be King
 * Let It Bleed
 * The Man Who Knew Too Much
 * Season 7
 * Meet the New Boss
 * Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!
 * Survival of the Fittest
 * Season 8
 * What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
 * A Little Slice of Kevin
 * Hunteri Heroici
 * Trial and Error
 * Pac-Man Fever
 * The Great Escapist
 * Clip Show
 * Sacrifice
 * Season 9
 * I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
 * I'm No Angel
 * Holy Terror
 * Road Trip
 * Mother's Little Helper
 * Do You Believe In Miracles?
 * Season 10
 * Fan Fiction
 * Inside Man
 * Brother's Keeper
 * Season 11
 * Form and Void
 * The Bad Seed
 * Baby
 * Our Little World
 * Plush
 * O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 * The Devil in the Details
 * Don't You Forget About Me
 * The Vessel
 * Beyond the Mat
 * Red Meat
 * Hell's Angel
 * The Chitters
 * Don't Call Me Shurley
 * All in the Family
 * We Happy Few
 * Alpha and Omega
 * Season 12
 * Mamma Mia
 * American Nightmare
 * Rock Never Dies
 * LOTUS
 * All Along the Watchtower
 * Season 13
 * Lost & Found
 * The Rising Son
 * The Big Empty
 * Tombstone
 * Breakdown
 * Devil's Bargain
 * A Most Holy Man
 * Bring 'em Back Alive
 * Unfinished Business
 * Exodus
 * Let the Good Times Roll
 * Season 14
 * Stranger in a Strange Land
 * Gods and Monsters
 * Byzantium
 * Nihilism
 * Prophet and Loss
 * Lebanon
 * Peace of Mind
 * Game Night
 * Jack in the Box
 * Moriah
 * Season 15
 * Back and to the Future
 * Raising Hell
 * The Rupture
 * Atomic Monsters
 * Proverbs 17:3
 * Golden Time
 * Last Call
 * Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
 * The Trap
 * The Heroes' Journey
 * The Gamblers
 * Galaxy Brain
 * Destiny's Child
 * Last Holiday
 * Gimme Shelter
 * Drag Me Away (From You)
 * Unity
 * Despair
 * Inherit the Earth
 * Ghostfacers
 * A Very Special Supernatural Special
 * Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting
 * Supernatural: The Unholy Cause
 * Supernatural: The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition

Trivia

 * God can be considered the primary Big Bad of the Supernatural series as a whole.
 * As Chuck, God hints that he is a "cruel, capricious god" in his first encounter with the Winchester Family, but Sam tells him that he is not a god.
 * Of the five times that Castiel has died, God has resurrected him three times: once after Raphael killed him, then when Lucifer killed him, and again when the Leviathans destroyed his body to escape. God confirms this in Don't Call Me Shurley when he claims that he has "rebuilt Castiel more times than I can count."
 * Three of the greatest antagonists in the show - Michael, Lucifer and Metatron - have seen God face-to-face, and all three have previously been loyal followers of his.
 * Michael is the only one of these three who hasn't met "Chuck," but he is aware of God's masquerade after Castiel showed his memories to Michael.
 * During Inherit the Earth, Michael finally sees his father in the form of Chuck before being killed by him for his betrayal.
 * According to Sam in Phantom Traveler, God's name in Latin is "Christo," and speaking it to a possessed person makes them flinch. In truth, God in Latin is not "Christo," but "Deus." "Christos" would be "Christ" in first century Greek, translated from the Hebrew "Moshiach" (English: Messiah) both meaning the "Anointed One." It was modified and changed by the Romans into the Latin "Christus" meaning Christ, or sometimes mistakenly "Chrestus," the "Marked Man." "Christo" could arguably work to the same effect as was depicted, literally meaning "by/in Christ" in Latin.
 * In Road Trip, it is revealed that God left Heaven due to Gadreel failing in his task to protect the Garden of Eden from evil. Later, in Don't Call Me Shurley, God says he left because he was disappointed by all of his creations.
 * In season 7, Death alludes to how God regards his creations as experiments when he speaks of the Leviathans, saying that God was worried the Leviathans would "chomp the entire petri dish," a petri dish being is a piece of equipment often used in experiments. God seemingly confirms this during his conversation with Metatron in Don't Call Me Shurley, but in All in the Family, he reveals that he at least sees humanity as his children.
 * Joshua implied that the angels believed God would eventually return to Heaven but that no one knew when he would do so, if at all.
 * Amara briefly takes God to Heaven in Unity in an attempt to appeal to his desire to be praised.
 * Since his introduction in season 4, God's on-screen appearances have been scarce, but he has been mentioned many times since the start of the series.
 * God has been mentioned the most by the Archangels, Metatron, Death, and Amara.
 * In Don't Call Me Shurley, God reveals that he disguised himself as Chuck, a Prophet of the Lord, so he could get a "front row seat."
 * In Don't Call Me Shurley, God tells Metatron he is working on a new series called "Revolution," although he doesn't think it will catch on.
 * This is a reference to the TV series of the same name created by Eric Kripke, the creator of Supernatural.
 * In Don't Call Me Shurley, God reveals that he is bisexual.
 * God told Metatron that he has no soul but that creating souls made him feel nauseous.
 * God has said that he considers music and nacho cheese to be mankind's greatest creations.
 * God has a blog about cats.
 * In All in the Family, God often uses his powers with finger movements such as snapping or waving his fingers. Metatron also referred to this sarcastically when talking about how people envision God. However, he could also use his powers without any gestures or bodily movements, such as when he sent Metatron flying through the doors of his bar just by looking at him.
 * Like Death, God has a fondness for unhealthy food.
 * At PHXCON 2016, actor Rob Benedict confirmed that there was an early draft in Season 11 where God died. "There was an early script draft this season where God died. CW stepped in and said they couldn't kill God."
 * God's relationship to Amara is similar to the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, or the belief of contradictory forces being complimentary and interdependent, balancing each other out (such as light and dark, life and death, or good and evil). Their similarities are furthered in Alpha and Omega, as God and the Darkness are shown circling each other in their respective white and black smoke forms, seemingly referencing the symbol for Yin and Yang.
 * The Shadow stated that The Empty existed before even the Darkness or God and that the latter has no power there.
 * It is currently unknown if the Shadow is also that old or what its relationship with God is. However the Entity made no mention of Amara aside from the Empty existing before her.
 * In The Born-Again Identity, Castiel names himself Emmanuel. The name Emmanuel is a Hebrew baby name that means "God with us". It is also an Old Testament name for the Messiah.
 * Before Unity, only seven angels had ever met God in person: Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Gabriel, Gadreel, Metatron, and Castiel. During Unity, he meets six more angels, which increases the number to thirteen.
 * In Nihilism, Alternate Michael suggests that God treats the multiverse as a writer does his written works -- when a universe doesn't work out, he creates a new one, and repeats this process in hopes of creating a perfect universe.
 * In Moriah, God reveals that of all of the versions of Sam and Dean Winchester he has created, the main-universe's were his favorite. He also denied that he sees the other universes as failed drafts, though this may have been a lie.
 * During Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven, the main-universe Michael believes the same thing, as he didn't know there were other Archangels.
 * Furthermore, in The Trap, God revealed that the other versions of Sam and Dean in Sam's visions had suffered more terrible fates.
 * God's statements to the Radio Shed Clerk in Galaxy Brain indicate that he does see the other universes and versions of Sam and Dean as failed drafts to a degree, due to the fact they do not give him the same joy that the main universe Sam and Dean do.
 * Jack is the first character God has killed on-screen. Previous to the start of the series, God is known to have wiped out other Nephilim and every hellhound except for Ramsey, who Lucifer snuck away.
 * In Raising Hell, God reveals that he watches Game of Thrones.
 * Also in Raising Hell, God reveals that he was weakened by The Equalizer and the wound causes him to share a link with Sam.
 * Though not considered a deity in the series' usual sense, Crowley has referred to God as a "rascally deity."undefined

Former Powers and Abilities
"I can do anything, I'm a writer."

- God to Becky Rosen

"I control space and time, they think they can kill me?"

- God talking about Team Free Will

Being among the oldest and most powerful entities in all of existence, God possessed immense power, allowing him to do practically anything he wished. The only one known to surpass God's near-infinite power was Amara, his twin sister. God has been said by Billie to be more powerful than the Shadow, the ruler of the Empty, who in turn is more powerful than Billie, the new incarnation of Death. It is not known how the original Death compares to other cosmic entities. But at least after Death met his end, and God himself lost his powers to Jack, God was, without a doubt, in a twofer with his sister as the most powerful beings in all of existence. While he ranked highly even among the cosmic beings, he was beyond comparison with any of his creations. He was immeasurably more powerful than any angel, some of the strongest beings he made, and he could easily negate the powers of archangels, the first and strongest angels. Even Jack, a Nephilim that far surpassed any angel in existence, could be killed by God with a simple gesture when Jack possessed only his native powers. However, God could not only subjugate but also cooperate with his creation. In combination with his archangels, for example, God was able to subdue and lock Amara away, after which he rid the Earth of the entire race of the Leviathans, the first and most powerful beasts, and crafted the universe as we know it, protecting his creation even from the Shadow. In addition, God also seems to have created a large number of parallel universes, or alternate realities, controlling what goes on in each according to his plans and whims, even destroying them after getting tired of, or disappointed in, his work.

Even after being shot at by the Equalizer, and losing some of his abilities as a result, he was still enormously powerful, capable of many rare feats, such as causing the Ghostpocalypse and resurrecting the powerful white-eyed demon Lilith from the Empty. God regained all of his abilities after his and Sam's wounds were healed. Later, however, he lost all of his power in a final showdown against the Winchesters and his grandson Jack, who were predestined in Death's God book to be the ones to bring God to his end.


 * Nigh-Omnipotence - Being a primordial being, God was immensely powerful. As put by Lucifer, "No one makes dad do anything." although Amara was stronger than him, requiring the aid of his Archangels to be able to defeat her. Even when Castiel was powered by 30+ million souls from Purgatory, Death noted that he was still no God. The immensity of God's power was shown by his ability to create multiple planes of existence, including Hell, Heaven, Purgatory and the whole physical Universe with billions of galaxies, as well as countless other realities. Castiel also said that God was "strong enough to take on Lucifer -- strong enough to stop The Apocalypse." God's power was shown to be great enough to wipe out or trap an entire species by himself, as he confined the Leviathans to Purgatory and killed all Hellhounds but Ramsey. He even removed the Nephilim from Earth the first time they were walking, despite the Nephilim being a species considerably superior to even Angels, and proved capable of killing the most powerful Nephilim Jack Kline, who could effortlessly kill even archangels, with just a snap of his fingers. Previously, he had undone all of Jack's influence on Earth and created a gun capable of killing Jack with ease. However, it was revealed that Jack could kill God by transforming into a bomb that would destroy God and The Darkness. Even after said gun weakened God's power for a limited amount of time, he was still powerful enough to start the Ghostpocalypse, resurrect Lilith and erase Becky Rosen from existence. He was also far more powerful than the Shadow and was able to exert a certain amount of control over the Empty, with the Shadow admitting that its statements about God having no power over its realm were "sweet little lies," and it also stated that God had the power to restrict it from coming to Earth. With his full powers returned, God proved capable of destroying the alternate realities that he had created, doing so with unnatural disasters, which he stated was mostly easy for him. He was also confirmed to be stronger than Billie, who was shown to be inferior to the Shadow, and she showed fear at the prospect of God discovering her plans. Later on, he and Amara merged, making him more powerful than before, giving him the ability to completely reset reality. The individual powers God has shown included, but were not limited to:Heaven.gif
 * Absorption - In Unity, God was able to absorb Amara into himself, although he didn't do this through raw power, rather he and Amara came to an understanding and she agreed to merge with him.
 * Astral Projection - God revealed light that normally shrouds his true form if not his divine form to Metatron.
 * Biokinesis - God was able to cleanse Sam of his demon blood addiction and an entire town of a Rabid infection. With just a shush motion, he silenced Eileen as he had her torture Sam. He also used this ability to cause pain to the Winchesters.
 * Conversion - He transformed Castiel, a regular angel, into a Seraphim. Metatron also noted that God has the power to convert him back to an angel after his grace was removed and he was rendered human, although God refused to do so as a punishment for Metatron's sinister deeds.
 * Electromagnetic Interference - With a simple hand movement, God made the TVs in his bar turn on to news stations regarding the spread of The Darkness' Fog.
 * Flight - In his smoke form, he could fly in the air.
 * Healing - God possessed the ability to heal any type of injury. His healing powers were so strong that he could even heal the most serious of damages, caused by any primordial being. With a simple finger movement, God healed Lucifer of the extensive injuries inflicted upon him by Amara. After his failed attempt at getting Eileen to dig out the thing that was keeping his and Sam's mutual wound from healing, God healed the damage Eileen caused with just a wave of his hand. However, the wound from the Equalizer was not healed. After Sam gave up hope, God was able to heal both his and Sam's wound from the Equalizer simultaneously, restoring God's powers.
 * Localization - God could find any being in existence, provided they were not warded against him. He was able to easily locate Jack in order to send Dean to kill him, whereas Asmodeus, all of Hell's resources and even Lucifer could not locate him when he didn't want to be found. Jack even stated that Billie had to hide him in the Empty in order for God not to locate him.
 * Memory Manipulation - When he resurrected Castiel the third time, he suppressed his memories, albeit temporarily.
 * Mind Control - God could force humans to do actions against their will.
 * Power Granting - When God resurrected Castiel for the second time, he granted him greater powers and promoted him to the rank of a Seraph. By touching certain objects, he created the Hands of God, which are powerful enough to at least harm an archangel with a single blow. Metatron also hinted that God could restore his status as an angel, with God refusing to do so. He also gave himself the ability to play the guitar and speak French. He later granted Sam temporary immunity to magic.
 * Power Negation - God was able to render Lucifer powerless as a "safeguard" against him harming anybody when they assembled in the Men of Letters bunker. He was also able to turn off a necklace that burns hot in his presence.
 * Reality Warping - His power was so great that reality shaped itself according to his will. God was even able to undo the havoc caused by Amara in a particular case, by suppressing her infectious fog and resurrecting everybody who had died because of her influence. He was also able to undo the chaos caused by Jack in the world with a snap of his fingers, leaving everything as if it had never happened. He even managed to trigger the second apocalypse by, as mentioned by Belphegor, opening all the gates to hell, including the one to Lucifer's Cage. While playing a slot machine, Chuck made himself win every turn. God was also capable of altering the Winchesters so that they would not suffer any regular illness and downgrading them after they turned against him. He was able to alter the televisions of RadioShed of Earth-2 to display the alternate realities and without even being there, was able to destroy them, although he admitted there were some worlds that needed more effort.
 * Conjuration - He created the Archangels, the Leviathans, the Hellhounds, the Angels, Humans, Souls, as well Heaven, Purgatory, Earth, and countless other Galaxies and the universe itself. Prior to the creation of the current universe, God created other worlds, but Amara destroyed them all. However, Metatron stated that while holding the power needed to create everything on his own, God could not have done it with a snap of his fingers, implying it required a considerable amount of power. As the creator, God could conjure up 10,000 suns set to supernova. He was also described as the only being capable of creating angels. Even Jack, who was an immensely powerful being, could only forge human souls into angels and couldn't create them out of thin air. When Sam, Dean, and Castiel needed his help defeating the immensely powerful Jack, he was able to create a gun capable of killing him instantly with no visible effort. In addition, the gun God created was shown to be so powerful that a shot to the shoulder was able to severely weaken God and leave him diminished. In order to destroy Earth-2, God conjured meteors from above to wipe them out.
 * Weather Manipulation - God unleashed a cataclysmic storm on The Bad Place to destroy it and he also caused several severe weather phenomena in other alternate realities to begin their destruction.
 * Pyrokinesis - God ended one of the alternate realities by causing a massive fire to burn them all down. Billie also noted that God destroyed the last alternate world by burning it alive.
 * Explosion Induction - God was able to induce an explosion to destroy HunterCorp world.
 * Resurrection - God could bring anyone or anything back to life. Due to his lack of interaction or intervention, however, he didn't do this often. He "rebuilt" Castiel several times despite Castiel being obliterated without any trace left and resurrected everyone killed by Amara's fog with ease. He revealed that while he did have the power to do so, it would take a considerable amount of time to resurrect archangels, as they were "the stuff of primordial creation". God offered to resurrect Mary Winchester if Dean killed Jack, but Dean refused the offer. Despite his weakened state, God was able to resurrect the demon Lilith from the Empty. Later, God was able to instantly resurrect Lucifer from the Empty, however Lucifer was already awake at the time and God's power was boosted by merging with Amara.
 * Shapeshifting - God could alter his appearance, changing between his Chuck persona, his true luminous form, and a bright smoke form at will. God has shown the ability to seamlessly shapeshift into other beings in a manner similar to Asmodeus, taking on the appearance of a hunter to trick Eileen Leahy and then shifting back once Sam and Eileen had fallen into his trap. God_shapeshifting.gif
 * Sealing and imprisonment - God was highly skilled in the art of sealing to the point that his seals were considered incomprehensibly powerful, as not even the passage could destroy them, having the ability to block powerful entities in the local dimensions, preventing them from leaving. Thus, Chuck locked Lucifer in Hell, as he did the Shedim. He locked the Leviathans in Purgatory and was able to develop the extremely powerful primordial entity capture spell, so he attached his sister to a mystical seal, which he placed on the archangel Lucifer. In this context, she, who had more power than Chuck, had not been able to escape captivity for billions of years. In fact, God was able to seal Darkness and Death in confinement prisons so strong that both were unable to break free without an external factor.
 * Spell Casting - God was able to develop the extremely powerful Primordial Entity Trapping Spell that he successfully cast on the Darkness to confine her within the Mark of Cain. He was also known for having bound Death to his coffin underneath the Earth for thousands of years.
 * Soul Control - As the creator of souls, God had a certain level of control over them. He had the power to control the destination of a deceased person's soul, as he was the one who admitted Sam and Dean into Heaven (as revealed by Joshua) after they were killed by Roy and Walt. Along with that, he could allow humans who had fallen to Hell to enter Heaven, having allowed John and Bobby to enter Heaven after they escaped Hell. He was later able to summon the ghost of Kevin Tran to him without visible effort and with a wave of his hand, removed him from the Veil and supposedly ascended his soul into Heaven. It was later revealed that Chuck lied and cast Kevin into Hell. Lore states that he can restore souls that are completely gone, but God said that souls could be complicated, even for him. As the Garden of Eden, which God created, can restore souls, it is likely he was lying about his capability to restore one's soul.11x23 God took the soul bomb out of Dean.gif
 * Soul Absorption - God was able to absorb all the souls composing the Soul Bomb into himself to save Dean's life.
 * Super Stamina - God possessed eternal stamina and didn't require sustenance, sleep, or oxygen to maintain himself.
 * Super Strength - God was able to effortlessly backhand Dean away and stun him with that single blow. Later, he easily knocked around Sam and Dean with no visible effort, delivering a brutal beating that broke several bones.
 * Supernatural Concealment - While taking the form of Chuck, God was able to conceal himself from the angels. It has also been shown that Amara coulnd't find him at will.
 * Invisibility - He could only be seen when he wanted to be seen.
 * Supernatural Perception - God could see and sense things that are naturally invisible to humans.
 * Smiting - With just a snap of his fingers, God was able to smite Jack with a similar effect to an angel, although this version was much slower and more painful. He later smote Amara's masseuse, showing that even in his weakened state he still possessed this power. He tried this again on Jack, but it didn't work due to all of the power that Jack had absorbed already.
 * Telekinesis - When angered at Metatron for calling him a coward, God telekinetically threw Metatron through the doors of his bar. While other beings seemingly need to use gestures or bodily movements to perform telekinesis, God only needed to get up and look at Metatron to make him fly through the air. He later on effortlessly flung Dean away by merely lifting his hand. God was able to control Eileen into torturing Sam with ease. With a wave of his hands, he flung Sam, Dean and Jack away from him.
 * Teleportation - God could instantly teleport anywhere in a dazzling white light. He could travel across the multiverse, as he was able to visit Earth-2 on his own without a rift opening ritual. The latter ability, however, he might lose if he's not full-power, as being shot at by Sam with the Equalizer kept him trapped in the Main Universe until he recovered. ChuckDisappearing.gif
 * Apporting - God was able to teleport anyone anywhere he wanted. For instance, he teleported Dean and Sam out of Lucifer's presence, and onto an airplane. God was later able to teleport himself and the Winchesters to the Bunker with a snap of his fingers and the Impala into the Bunker and away from Amara with no apparent effort. Even while dying from Amara's attack, he was still able to teleport the rest of Team Save the World to the Bunker and then send Dean to Amara with just a snap of his fingers. With a wave of his hand, he sent Becky Rosen's family to places unknown. Later on, with a snap of his fingers, he sent several angels away.
 * Possession - God was able to remotely possess Donatello Redfield who, as a Prophet, is a mouthpiece for the Word of God, both figuratively and literally depending on what God desires.
 * Mental Manipulation - As shown with the alternate future, even with Castiel bearing the mark, God, while trapped in the Mark, was still able to influence the Seraph into going mad.
 * Existence Erasure - God was able to erase beings from existence. After regaining his full powers and destroying the Multiverse, he started making people vanish one at a time before erasing every living thing on Earth in one go. Although God missed Miracle, he caused him to vanish once he realized it from across the street.


 * Molecular Combustion - By extending his hand towards Michael, God was able to cause the archangel to glow from the inside and ultimately explode.
 * Chronokinesis - God was able to travel to an alternate timeline without any effort. He was also able to manipulate time to make the riots caused by the use of Jack's powers to never have happened. God later told Amara that he could control time and space, which helped him to set up his planned ultimate ending where he manipulated the Winchesters into killing each other over whether or not to use Jack as a suicide bomb.
 * Nigh-Omniscience - Existing for eons, God possessed great wisdom and understanding about the universe he made. Metatron said that God saw everything that happened on Earth. He even knew what people were thinking, proven by the fact that he wrote in one of the books that Sam thought Dean was a dick when they were doing clothes at the laundry mat, and Sam admitted this. He also knew everything that had and would happen with startling detail. God knew about the Impala, its history, and what it meant to Sam and Dean. God might even know about the future actions of his fellow Primordials. Since God recorded everything in the Supernatural Books before they happen, he could've already known about Death's talk with Dean, and that he would give Dean his ring. God also knew every possible future (or rather alternate future) and how things needed to play out in order to reach his desired result. Death was the only being who could rival God's knowledge of the Universe. However, God didn't know everything, as he even did things he himself considered "stupid" and "naïve", and admitted even he couldn't have come up with nacho cheese. He also had to give himself the ability to play guitar and speak French, as he didn't know how to do either one. Most importantly, God also had no idea what was in his death book and Billie stated he could never read it unless she let him. Even when the book had been opened by Betty, God could not read it anymore than the Winchesters could.
 * Universal Awareness - As Metatron said, God could hear and see all. He was able to see visions of the angels and Winchesters. He also accurately described Sam's eyes turning black and his body temperature rising when he killed Lilith. Jack also noted that using his powers would immediately alert God to his resurrection. However, those of significant power such as Amara could ward themselves against God's sight. The bunker's original cosmic warding was also able to block Jack's opening of a rift to the Bad Place from God's senses. However, he later admitted that he tried to make Dean kill Sam over Jack and, showing no surprise after seeing him, already knew he was alive. Commenting on his imminent death, he seemed even to know about the trial he passed to grew stronger.
 * Telepathy - He knew what Sam's thoughts would be about Dean being a dick. God was also able to read and identify the source of Sam's defiance as his belief Dean and Castiel will succeed in trapping him.
 * Precognition - God could accurately predict reality to a degree far superior to that of the Archangels, which gave credit to his masquerading as a prophet. He was aware that Lucifer would possess Sam and this decision would be his downfall, something which even Lucifer could not foresee. God was also able to foresee what would become of the world if the Winchesters and Castiel succeeded in locking him away. By using a magical pocket watch, God was able to extend this foresight to Sam so that Sam could see for himself what God had envisioned happening in the future. After being stripped of his powers, God admitted that for the first time he didn't know what was going to come next.
 * Omnipresence - In Moriah, when asked where he's been, Chuck said he's been "everywhere and nowhere, to the edge of the universe and beyond". When Jack absorbed God's powers, he became Omnipresent, meaning God was also Omnipresent prior to losing his powers.
 * Immortality - God, as being one of the first entities to exist, was immortal. Age, as well as any disease and weapon, were powerless against him. However, Death stated he could die, and Amara managed to fatally wound him where he was about to die after less than a day, before she healed him. Jack could kill God by transforming himself into a bomb that would destroy him.
 * Nigh-Invulnerability - The only confirmed being that could kill God was his sister The Darkness, although Death was able to reap God at the end of time. In addition, God only suffered temporary harm when he was shot with the Equalizer, a weapon that God himself had created. Even then, however, as noted by Castiel, none of the many powerful weapons possessed by Dean could harm him. He took a punch from Dean and Sam in the face with no pain and hardly flinching.
 * Regeneration - On the rare occasion he was wounded, God could instantly heal all damage. Only tremendously destructive forces could hinder his regeneration. His twin sister, the Darkness, who was even stronger than him, was able to wound him such severely he was dying, and she was the only one who managed to heal him. The Equalizer, a supernatural gun he created in order to kill Jack, the tremendously powerful Nephilim son of the archangel Lucifer, was able to wound him when he was shot with it in the shoulder, which also significantly weakened him, and he was unable to heal the wound or return to full power until he made his shooter, Sam, lose all hope.
 * Mandatory Existence - 11x23 Brother and Sister together.gif's existence was one of two that provides balance to reality, the other being The Darkness. As Chuck put it, "Light needs Dark", and "Dark needs Light". If he were killed, reality itself would end. It was said that if both God and Amara were to die, a new balance would be established. In addition, God also maintained the balance between light and darkness and if he were to disappear from the worlds, darkness would prevail.
 * Master Strategist and Leader - God is an extraordinarily skilled strategist, referred by Lucifer himself as being a master strategist. Despite his eventual abandonment of his creations, God displayed incredible leadership skills when he personally ruled over Heaven, with Metatron commenting that Heaven was never in a better state since God lead it until Hannah took control, meaning his leadership efficiency was above that of Michael's, and having led the archangels to victory against the Darkness. His strategical genius was displayed in his masquerade as the prophet Chuck Shurley, as God, with only minor interference, was able to set the path for the Winchesters to defeat Lucifer and Michael and avert the Apocalypse without compromising his disguise. God was also able to completely hide himself from both Heaven and Amara when they searched for him, with him using a personally created safe-place to make Amara unable to find him. After revealing himself to the Winchesters and aiding them against his sister, God led a nearly successful attempt to re-imprison Amara, personally coordinating the order of fighters who would go first, only failing at the last moment. Upon finally revealing his true colors and going against the Winchesters, God, despite being diminished from Sam's unexpected shot at him, was able to set the path to him regaining his full powers by first allowing Sam to resurrect Eileen to be able to spy on them and then luring Sam and Eileen to a trap and ultimately convincing Sam into losing hope by revealing the dark future that would take place even if they won. He also came up with another intricate plan to make the Winchesters kill each other by setting up Jack's sacrifice, which while ultimately failing was only because Sam realized the true plans of Billie and not because he, Dean or Castiel were able to figure out God's plans, remaining oblivious until the end. However, he was still tricked in the end when the Winchesters and Jack used Michael to trick him. After his defeat, God admitted that he had never seen an ending where he actually lost.
 * Master Manipulator and Deceiver - God is an extraordinary manipulator and deceiver. He was able to put up such a deceitfully convincing act as just a regular prophet that no one, be it the Winchesters, Castiel and the angels, even Raphael who had personally knew him, suspecting he was God. During Dean's travel to alternate timeline, he blended into the survivor's army with no problem. He also manipulated Sam and Dean into getting into and winning the many challenges they faced and remaining completely untraceable. Even after he revealed himself as God and despite the Winchesters wariness of his lack of interference, God was nearly successful in getting them to kill Jack, exploiting Dean's vengeful rage over Mary's death to easily get him to take the Equalizer to kill Jack to the point not even Sam was able to dissuade him, and his offer to resurrect Mary if he kills Jack was notably able to tempt Dean for a while despite Sam's truthful accusations of his true motives before ultimately failing and forcing God to kill Jack himself. He confirmed that he messed with events just to manipulate the Winchesters to kill each other over Jack's sacrifice, which nearly succeeded as Dean became so obsessed with killing God that he almost killed Sam and it was only the revelation that everything they had done until that point rendered null should he do so did God's plan finally fail. After the failure of his grand plan, God's manipulations ultimately failed him as he was instead tricked and manipulated by the Winchesters into his own defeat.
 * Hand-to-Hand Combatant - God has shown to be a formidable hand to hand combatant as shown when he landed several hits on Sam and Dean in their final confrontation, while being able to block all of their attacks. It should be noted that Sam and Dean weren't trying their hardest, as they wanted Chuck to beat them in order to charge Jack's power.

Weaknesses
"After God made the world, he couldn't stop. He wanted more. But he needed to create a perfect harmony -- a Swiss watch so that this world could keep tick-tick-ticking in his absence. He had no choice but to build himself into the framework. It's his only weakness."

- Billie to Team Free Will 2.0

Although God was one of the most powerful beings in all of existence, even he had weaknesses of his own and he was not completely omnipotent. For example, he was never able to defeat the Darkness all by himself. Defeating and locking her away was a team effort that required that God and his archangels cooperate to weaken her and a specific spell be performed to imprison her. God does not have the power to open and read the books in Death's library, either, unless Death allowed him to. And finally, when God was shot by The Equalizer, his power was diminished so sharply, he could only do "a few parlor tricks". In this state, he lost two abilities typical of cosmic beings: moving freely between alternate realities and spying in the heavily warded Men of Letters bunker. Although God, in favorable circumstances, could close the wound caused by the Equalizer even in this weakened state, he was prevented from doing so by Sam, who was connected to God by the wound they both had received from the weapon. Sam's hope that victory could be achieved against God precluded the latter from recovering and, to heal, God had to break Sam's will first.

God's vulnerability to the the Equalizer showed that he was also susceptible to his own power and could make things capable of causing harm to himself. A further hint at that fact came from the series of rituals that Jack completed in the effort to defeat God. The final ingredient in the ritual was nothing less than a rib from the body of the first man, Adam, which was so imbued with God's power that, in combination with Jack's human soul and angelic grace, it would be capable of killing both God and the Darkness.

Harming and Trapping
"What was done to the Darkness can be done to God, if he's as weak as you say."

- Michael


 * Magic (formerly) - In his weakened state, God could be locked away with the same spell he once used to trap the Darkness. God himself expressed fear of the spell, going as far as to threaten the Winchesters into giving up, and openly admitted it would work on him in his weakened state, which was further shown by how in the alternate future God showed to Sam, Sam, Dean and Cass successfully locked him away with Castiel bearing the Mark. However, once God was at his full power, he was able to harmlessly destroy the spell.
 * The Equalizer - The Equalizer was designed to send a wave of multidimensional energy across a perfectly balanced quantum link that could harm even God. A shot to the shoulder, for instance, weakened him significantly, and it wasn't until he made his shooter, Sam, lose all hope that he was able to heal and return to full power. It is unknown if the Equalizer could kill God.
 * Archangels - Amara noted that just like when she was locked away by God with his four Archangels weakening her, God could be harmed and weakened by the combined might of the four Archangels, which would allow him to be sealed away just like he sealed her away.

Killing
"Even God can die."

- Alternate Michael to Castiel

"Sam: What about Jack? He's in God's book? Billie: And so are you. I told you Dean -- you and your brother have work to do. This is your destiny. You are the messengers of God's destruction."

- Billie reveals some of the details about God's ultimate demise as predicted by Death's books

Despite his immense power, God could still be killed although it was difficult and very nearly impossible to do. Like everyone else, God has a book that displays the means by which he can be killed. It also changes to depict God's ending depending on the situation, displaying a new outcome if God's previous method of destruction fails to come to fruition.


 * Death (possibly) - Death told Dean in Two Minutes to Midnight that he would eventually going to reap God, but the meaning of this is left not entirely clear, as Billie said she was going to do the same in Alpha and Omega, albeit after he was already dying. It is shown in Meet the New Boss that Dean took his words as proof that Death can kill God (which is why he invoked Death to fight Castiel when he acted as God to begin with). Death, however, asked Dean "What makes you think I could do that?"
 * The Darkness - Being his twin sister and stronger than him in power, Amara was able to defeat God. She described herself as being more powerful than him, and God admitted he and his archangels "barely" managed to lock her away. God believed that were he to surrender to her, she would trap him, rather than kill him, and Lucifer stated that Amara may very well defeat him. When she was released, God decided to hide in one of his constructs, so he'd be safe from her. While mildly weakened, Amara overpowered God when he tried to use the Mark of Cain to re-imprison her, and then fatally wounded him by piercing his being with tendrils of darkness. Amara caused such damage that only she herself could heal it with not even the Book of the Damned being of any use. She has also shown the ability to negate God's ability to teleport, but only for a limited amount of time as God would eventually be able to break free.
 * Mandatory Existence Compromised - If the Darkness were to be killed, the imbalance would also result in the death of God due to the destruction of reality itself. The only way to avoid this is to kill both Chuck and Amara. After being drained of his powers and rendered mortal, Chuck's existence is no longer tied with Amara's.
 * Jack Kline - Although God was able to easily kill Jack, it was later revealed that Jack had the potential to kill God if he followed a plan Billie gave Jack when she resurrected him. Billie later revealed that Chuck's Death Book in Death's Reading Room revealed that Jack was the one who would ultimately kill God. Jack later explained that Billie's spells were turning him into a bomb, or something like a "metaphysical supernova" that would collapse into a living black hole for divine energy from which even God and the Darkness couldn't escape, but would also kill him in the process. Jack later exploded inside the Empty away from God and when Jack survived the explosion, he was turned into sort of a power vacuum. After absorbing enough power he regained his Nephilim abilities and became unstoppable, immune to God’s attempts to smite him and was capable of stripping God of his power, making him powerless and mortal.
 * Mortality - After being drained of his powers, Chuck was rendered completely mortal. As a result, he will grow old, get sick, and die as a normal human would.