39 Facts About Bobby Singer

Robert Steven Singer is a fictional character in The CW Television Network's horror-drama television series Supernatural portrayed by Jim Beaver.

Salvager and proprietor of Singer Salvage Yard, Bobby Singer was first introduced to the supernatural world when his wife, Karen, became possessed by a demon.

Bobby Singer's death prompted him to dedicate his life to hunting supernatural creatures.

The later episode "Death's Door" expanded on this by revealing that Bobby Singer's last conversation with his wife was an argument about his reluctance to have children, revealing that his father was an abusive man whom Bobby Singer shot when he was a child.

Bobby Singer reflected that his father's example left him afraid of becoming an abusive man himself in case he became a parent as bad as his father.

Mistrustful of most hunters, Bobby Singer is one of the few with whom he allows the boys regular contact, allowing Bobby Singer to teach them how to shoot and track while he is off on 'hunting trips'.

At times, Bobby Singer defied John's wishes to teach the boys more mundane, normal activities, such as playing catch, so that they could have a break from the intensive training regimen.

Bobby Singer makes his debut in the first season finale "Devil's Trap", and is revealed to be an old friend of the Winchester family.

Bobby Singer continues to assist them when they require additional expertise in their hunts, rescuing a demonically-possessed Sam and dealing with a Trickster.

Bobby Singer begs Dean to bury Sam, and is distraught when he learns that Dean has sold his soul to a demon for Sam's resurrection.

The being, revealed to be the angel Castiel, incapacitates Bobby Singer before informing Dean that he was saved from Hell because Heaven has work for him to do.

Sam escapes in the subsequent episode, and, faced with the choice of either shooting him or letting him go, Bobby Singer chooses the latter.

Bobby Singer meets up with the brothers in the fifth season premiere "Sympathy for the Devil", to help them research ways to defeat Lucifer.

When Sam confesses that he broke the final seal, an angry Bobby Singer tells him to "lose [his] number" when the Apocalypse is over.

Over time, the other zombies begin to turn evil, and Bobby Singer is forced to kill his wife again to prevent her from changing, too.

An ecstatic Bobby Singer then joins Sam and Castiel on a mission to stop nation-wide distribution of the Croatoan virus.

Bobby Singer is the first human to reverse a demon-deal by threatening to destroy Crowley's remains which would 'kill' Crowley in the same manner as exorcising a ghost; he presses his advantage to force Crowley into leaving him the use of his legs and the removal of any loopholes from the original contract.

Bobby Singer spends the next episode, "Death's Door", in a coma, trying to reawaken to reveal the Leviathan's plot.

Bobby Singer, having snuck his flask into her bag, cracks the doors and begins to attack the Leviathans, breaking Charlene's arm in the process, leading to a concerned discussion between the brothers as to Bobby Singer's self-control.

Bobby Singer next appears in eighth season episode "Taxi Driver," in which Sam and Dean learn from rogue Reaper Ajay that instead of going to Heaven when his flask was burned, Bobby Singer was taken to Hell on Crowley's orders.

However, the angel Naomi intervenes, drives Crowley off, and allows Bobby Singer to ascend to his rightful place in Heaven, thus completing the second trial.

The part of Sam's mind that wants to live promptly manifests as Dean and kills "Bobby Singer" to try to convince Sam one last time to live, but Sam decides to go with "Bobby Singer's" advice.

Bobby Singer gets Castiel into Heaven and helps him free Metatron before returning to his own Heaven.

Bobby Singer eventually recognized the monster as a Soul Eater, a monster that steals people's souls and takes them to its nest in a pocket dimension.

Bobby Singer had faced and trapped a Soul Eater before and he and Rufus are able to trap the one in the house they are investigating.

However, Bobby Singer briefly falls victim to the monster and is transported to its nest while his body is possessed by the monster to attack Rufus who is able to complete the trap.

Bobby Singer reveals that Jack sprung him from Heaven's jail and reshaped Heaven to be a much better place with Castiel's help where everyone is no longer separated but are now able to exist together.

Bobby Singer tells Dean about Rufus and his parents and reassures Dean that he and Sam will be reunited in time.

Dean then drives off through Heaven in the Impala, leaving Bobby Singer sitting outside of the Roadhouse.

Bobby Singer explains the history of Apocalypse World to the Winchesters and provides Dean with a machine gun loaded with angel-killing bullets to fight Lucifer with.

In season thirteen's "Good Intentions", Mary Winchester and the Nephilim Jack encounter the alternate reality Bobby Singer after escaping from the custody of the archangel Michael.

Bobby Singer is stunned to meet Mary as he knew her dead counterpart, but takes the two in.

Bobby Singer is revealed to be the leader of one of the last human colonies on Earth, protecting it from the angels' war of genocide.

Bobby Singer is enraged by the revelation that Jack is a Nephilim and chooses to exile him from the colony.

However, angels led by Zachariah attack and Bobby Singer refuses Jack's help.

Bobby Singer's position is, more or less, 'if you have a family member with a drinking problem and you want to stage an intervention, you might not want to do it in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

When Bobby Singer finally realized he wasn't talking to a Dean shapeshifter or revenant [in 'Lazarus Rising'], that this was the real deal, it was just awesome.

Bobby Singer found the actor to be "fantastic as the broken Bobby" in the fifth season, "despondent over his situation and feeling useless".

Not solely a surrogate father figure and keeper of random supernatural knowledge, this season Bobby Singer has run the gamut of sacrifice, loss, anger, and determination to keep fighting.