castiel first showed up in supernatural in the warehouse.
castiel first showed up in supernatural in the warehouse.
when does castiel first show up in supernatural?
the warehouse
karla peterson of "the san diego union-tribune" described the concept of castiel as "genius" and the actor collins as "fabulous". deeming castiel to be a "fascinating new element", diana steenbergen of ign ranked castiel fourth in her list of the "ten things we love about supernatural". she posited that collins plays the role with "somber intensity", and "brings a sense of curiosity about humans to the character". the angel's interactions with dean were "one of the highlights of the [fourth] season". she especially praised collins for his dual role as castiel and the angel's host jimmy novak in the episode "the rapture", and wrote, "it is a tribute to collins's acting that the audience knows immediately that the person we are seeing is not castiel."
castiel (supernatural)
in "we need to talk about kevin", dean escapes purgatory with the help of the vampire benny, but castiel is not with him. he later tells sam that things got hairy near the end and that castiel didn't make it, that he "let go". while dean doesn't elaborate, he is clearly affected by this. in a flashback scene, dean is shown looking for castiel in purgatory, interrogating a vampire for his location. as a result, he meets benny and only agrees to benny's deal to get out if they find castiel first and help him escape too. castiel appears in flashbacks in the following episode, where he reveals that he fled dean to keep him safe from the leviathans and other monsters that are angry at castiel, but dean refuses to leave purgatory without castiel. when talking with another angel at an auction for the second word of god tablet, dean again states that castiel did not make it out of purgatory. he later escapes with the aid of an army of angels sent to rescue him – having initially remained behind as penance for his actions to stop a duo of leviathans that were trying to attack dean and benny as they left purgatory – but the other angels not only erase his memory that they were responsible for his escape, but also erase his memory of their subsequent 'check-ins' to discuss the winchesters' actions, with castiel forced to tell them about the winchesters' progress in the search for the tablet. apparently back to full power, castiel helps the winchesters save kevin from crowley – who has been abducting future prophets to try to find another means of reading the word of god tablet – and destroy the tablet to prevent crowley using it, retaining half of the tablet while crowley flees with the other half. afterwards, in "hunteri heroici", castiel cuts off his ability to listen into the other angels and decides to become a full-time hunter to avoid facing the other angels about what he has done. castiel proves instrumental in solving the case, using his abilities to enter the mind of a man with reality warping powers, allowing sam to bring him back to reality with a speech about not running from it. later, at the request of the man, fred, castiel strips him of his powers so he is no longer a danger to anyone though it leaves him mentally damaged. castiel, having listened to sam's speech about running from reality as well as fred, decides to return to heaven to try to make up for what he did, but is forbidden by naomi, the angel who ordered his rescue. instead, castiel stays to watch out for fred for a while, but accepts that he can no longer run from what he has done.
castiel (supernatural)