Supernatural: 10 Ways Charlie Got Worse And Worse | ScreenRant
Charlie Bradbury is a beloved fan favorite on the series Supernatural. She is thrown into the world of monsters when she is assigned to hack a hard drive for Leviathan leader Dick Roman in Season 7. Sam and Dean come to the rescue when she starts to believe she’s completely insane and convince her of the reality of the situation. From there, she becomes the little sister they never knew they wanted.
Charlie is at her best when she first arrives in the Winchesters’ lives. Her future endeavors lead to trouble and heartbreak for them almost every time. At first, she is a bubbly tech worker who dances in the elevator. After that, she only gets worse and worse.
10 Curiosity That Almost Killed Her
Charlie’s first appearance was in Season 7 when she worked for Dick Roman Enterprises as a tech support person. Her computer genius was recognized by Mr. Roman himself and she was tasked with cracking Frank Deveraux’s hard drive. She completed the task in record time but her curiosity had her checking out the file with a label reading “Dick Roman Enterprises.”
She found out all about Leviathans, including that her boss was one of them. When she thinks she must be going insane, she witnesses her boss being devoured by a Leviathan and realizes that everything she read about was true. The information almost got her killed and she could have avoided all of it by just doing her job and staying out of the files she was never meant to see.
9 Awkward Pseudo-Hero Mission
Sam and Dean show up just when Charlie is ready to run and they convince her to help them take down Dick Roman. She knows that she has no business on this important mission but she still takes her awkward self back to work and bumbles through flirting, wiping Deveraux’s hard drive, and finding out what Roman is searching for on his archaeological digs.
Charlie manages to get through it and almost makes it out before she’s caught but runs into Leviathans just before she hits the door. Bobby’s spirit saves her and breaks her arm accidentally in the process. She barely makes it out alive.
8 The Clueless Queen
The next time Sam and Dean catch up with Charlie, it’s Season 8 and she’s the Queen of a Live-Action Role-Playing game called Moondoor. Sam and Dean arrive to work a case of mysterious deaths by medieval torture methods.
Charlie admits she’s been learning more about monsters and knowing what she did, the escapism of LARPing in Moondoor was her perfect way of denying what’s really out there. Given what she knew, she still didn’t catch that the villain of her story had to do with real magic instead of some sort of coincidence.
7 Forced Dean Into A Montage
Also in Season 8, Charlie comes to town to find Sam and Dean at their bunker. She says she’s there for a convention and that she found them a case. When Dean consents to let her come along, she first has to stop for an outfit montage.
The FBI disguise is all about being inconspicuous but she wants to bring her own quirky style into it, complete with music. Dean puts a stop to that and reminds her that hunting is a serious business.
6 Trapped By A Djinn
The case Charlie found for Sam and Dean turned out to be a djinn that was liquefying the insides of its victims as it fed on its fears. The monster captures Charlie and traps her in a horror show where she can’t save the one person she wants to help the most, her mother.
Dean has to use dream root to get into Charlie’s head and help her let go of her mother and escape the djinn. If she’d never lied to them about who she was and why she was there, they would have had more tools to help her in the first place.
5 She Thought Hunting Would Be Magical
Season 9 had Sam and Dean calling on Charlie to help them with an ancient computer they found in their Men of Letters Bunker. During her visit, she talks about how she wished hunting was more magical. She has a system on her computer and she talks about the cases she took but describes it as a hobby.
Dean had tried to get her to understand that hunting was serious business before. Her behavior and what she says about hunting shows that she sees it as a game, like Moondoor, that could take her away from the mundane nature of real life.
4 Fantasy Love Interests
As the queen of Moondoor, Charlie falls for a magical fairy from another world while they’re both trapped. In that case, she doesn’t go to another dimension when the fairy leaves her. In Season 9 at the Men of Letters Bunker, Charlie meets Dorothy who came from the real Oz, a place that Charlie desperately wants to visit.
She and Dorothy share an adventure at the bunker and then are off to Oz. Charlie expresses that she wants hunting and her life to be more magical and her love interests reflect that desire.
3 Dark Charlie
After her foray into Oz and apparently fighting a war, Charlie comes back to the Men of Letters bunker begging for help with the dark half of herself. In an effort to win the war, the Wizard of Oz used a special key to split Charlie into her dark self and her good self. Dark Charlie won in Oz, as intended, but her dark persona ran away to avenge her parents in the real world.
Good Charlie wants to lock her dark half away but Dean convinces her to face herself and reunite her two halves to become whole. Before that, though, he is forced to beat Dark Charlie into submission and Good Charlie has to feel every blow.
2 Reckless Search For The Book Of The Damned
Most of Season 10 dealt with a search for the cure to Dean’s Mark of Cain. This led to Charlie traveling all over Europe chasing the Book of the Damned. She’s not really sure what it is or even that it will save Dean.
This search is what causes the evil Styne family to come after her and to go after Sam and Dean. Her singular focus on the book is the reason that the Stynes desperately wants her dead.
1 Her Tragically Avoidable Death
Charlie’s last mission was to help Rowena decode the Book of the Damned so that Rowena could use one of its spells to remove the Mark of Cain from Dean and cure him of its influence. Her method was to solve the code like a math problem but Rowena was determined to do things her way.
Annoyed out of her mind, Charlie begs Castiel to get her someplace quiet and away from Rowena. She leaves the safety of their hideout and pays with her life when Eldon Styne finds her and kills her. She had one more chance to survive when he asked for the translations she’d done. Instead, she destroyed what she had with her after sending it off to Sam and Dean. They got their translation but they lost Charlie.