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Supernatural Is Already Killing Off Characters In Season 15

Before the final credits rolled on "The Rupture," the Winchesters lost Belphegor, Ketch, and Rowena, and unlike a lot of the previous deaths in previous seasons, these seem like they're going to stick. Supernatural showrunner Andrew Dabb did promise that the Winchesters are going to lose people "in a very real way" when those people never would have been lost in previous seasons!

Death #1 was Ketch in "The Rupture." He survived being shot last week, only to be hunted down by the demon who had charged him with assassinating Belphegor. Since Ketch decided against doing that when he realized -- or perhaps "realized" is more appropriate after this episode -- that Belphegor was helping Sam, Dean, and Castiel, the demon wasn't happy with him.When Ketch refused to give up his human friends, the demon went ahead and ripped Ketch's heart out, and this wasn't case of her popping it right back in after scaring Ketch. He was left dead on the floor of his hospital room.

 Death #2 was Belphegor. Sam, Dean, and Castiel split up as part of a desperate plan to use an artifact in Hell and Rowena's magic to suck all the souls back into Hell and trap them there. Cas went down into Hell with Belphegor to retrieve the artifact, and it was there that Cas learned Belphegor was really planning to absorb the souls to take over. This was the final straw for Cas, who was already struggling with the fact that Belphegor was wearing a Jack suit, and he went ahead and burned the demon out of Jack's body. What was left of Jack burned in the process as well.

Death #3 was Rowena. She waited as long as she could to reveal that the only way her spell to trap the souls back in Hell would work was if her still-pumping blood and last breath were used as the final ingredients, as death was the only thing that could contain the souls. Rowena had to die if the spell was going to work, and she was willing if that's what it took. She couldn't do the deed herself, though, as it went against her nature to end her own life. She called upon Sam to do the deed, and although he originally resisted and wanted to find another way, she finally asked if he would sacrifice the life of his brother and so many others just to spare her. Sam realized that wasn't the case, and he was in tears when he finally drove the knife into Rowena's belly in what would be a killing blow.
She didn't immediately drop dead, but managed to stagger to the pit that led to Hell and finish her spell. She descended into the pit, and the souls went with her. Rowena saved the day, and humanity is seemingly out of danger from those billions of souls that had escaped Hell courtesy of Chuck at the end of Season 14. Rowena got a hero's death.

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