Bobby Singer

Evening Hunters,

For this week's blog, I will introduce a special character in the Supernatural series: Bobby Singer.

I've mentioned Bobby in a past post or two, and he is notable because he is one side character that reappears multiple times throughout the series consistently.

Bobby is a veteran hunter that meets John Winchester (Sam and Deans's dad) and becomes a second father figure/ confidant to the Winchester brothers throughout the series.

To give context, Bobby became a hunter after he killed his wife, who was possessed by a demon. After this instance, he gets into hunting and does the job for many years before stepping away from the field and passing on cases to other hunters.

He's an interesting character because he's a veteran hunter and information center for all things hunting. For cases, he helps research various supernatural beings, identifying them and what will kill them. He has several phones in his home for various aliases he has in place (FBI, CIA, Forest Department superiors) to help verify other hunters' fake identities so they can get access to case information. On top of this, he keeps an eye out for omens, bad vibes, and curious oddities around the country that hunters should check out.

Bobby, in some episodes, steps in to personally help with hunts for the supernatural, but mostly he is a backstage player in the hunts.

He meets John when the boys are young, and John often leaves Sam and Dean with Bobby when he goes out for a long hunt. While Bobby is not the boy's father by blood, he is their surrogate dad in every way that matters. John raised his sons as hunters so they would be able to defend themselves against anything that goes bump in the dark, but Bobby, while helping train them, also treated them as the kids they were. This didn't sit well with John, and they had a few spats about it, but this set the tone for Bobby's relationship with Sam and Dean. He's not just a colleague they call for information when they need it; Bobby is family.

Despite his own reservations about having kids of his own earlier in the series, Bobby realizes that Sam and Dean are his sons, and although they make dumb mistakes, he loves them.

Bobby is an iconic part of this series that is the foundation of the phrase "Family doesn't end with blood." Family comes in all forms, even in such a dangerous, detrimental, and isolating job that is hunting monsters.

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