It’s a new day and no one has still answered our questions about God, the world, and all its workings, well that is except if you are a ‘Supernatural‘ fan. The famous series had always excelled in coming out with brand-new supernatural creatures and brilliant twists in the tale. But what probably was the show’s biggest twist and anticipated character was the Almighty himself, in the form of Chuck Shurley (Rob Benedict).
The mind-boggling revelation was made in Episode 20 of Season 11 titled, ‘Don’t Call Me Shurley’. He reveals his secret identity to the fallen angel Metatron (Curtis Armstrong) and follows it up with a deep dive into the reason why he abandoned his creations. Chuck then went on to play a very important role further down in the series, even becoming ‘The Big Bad’ in the show’s final season.
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‘Supernatural’: What Is Chuck Shurley’s Story?
Chuck Shurley, alias Carver Edlund was first introduced to the audience in season 4 in the episode titled ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ as a neurotic writer of the book series titled ‘Supernatural’. The storyline of the book series is eerily similar to the situations that the protagonists, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) face in real life. The Winchester Brothers track the writer down immediately and when confronted Chuck refers to himself as a “cruel, cruel capricious God”. Castiel later explains that Chuck is actually a prophet and is penning down the word of God.
We see Chuck only a few more times in the earlier seasons of ‘Supernatural‘. He appears once in the post-apocalyptic world episode ‘The End’ and in another episode where he helps the brothers defeat some ghosts at a Supernatural convention. He is portrayed as no one but a hapless liquor-happy prophet of the Lord doing his work that is until season 5’s finale ‘Swan Song’. Chuck is shown to be narrating a monologue while writing what is going to be his final book and then literally vanishing into thin air from his seat when he finishes his story at the end of the episode. This ‘Supernatural‘ episode had the fans quizzical and speculating about Chuck’s fate and he is not seen for a long time after this.
In the series’ 200th episode, ‘Fan Fiction’ the writer appears again at the very end and responds “Not bad” to the musical, a few high school students had prepared based on his book series Supernatural. This came as a surprise to all the fans who had long presumed Chuck to be dead, especially after the new prophet Kevin was introduced and Castiel had made it crystal clear that two prophets couldn’t exist at the same time ergo Chuck was dead. The fan frenzy and wild theories were finally satiated in ‘Supernatural‘ Season 11 when Chuck is finally revealed to be God himself.
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How Does Chuck Reveal His God Identity?
In Season 11 Episode 20 of ‘Supernatural‘ titled ‘Don’t Call Me Shurley‘ we finally find out that Chuck Shurley was not a prophet of the Lord but the Lord himself. The fallen angel Metatron is looking for food in a dumpster when he is transported to BG’s Canteen where he finds Chuck. The angel quickly realizes that the canteen is actually a construct of God and he has been sent there to be punished for eternity by spending it with the neurotic writer. Chuck eventually reveals to him that he is God, and Metatron falls to his knees begging for forgiveness after finding out this titbit of information. Chuck asks him to stop kneeling and calls himself “Chuck” as the word God makes him uncomfortable.
Metatron then goes on to ask very relevant questions – why all the secrecy? Why pretend to be Chuck, the prophet at all? God in response says that he has been using the alias of Chuck because he likes to have a front-row seat. Also, here is a rundown of what he has been upto while the universe has gone to utter shit: looking at cat pictures, signing up on Snapchat, dating girls as well as boys, and starting writing a new book series titled ‘Revolution‘ but he thinks it’s not going anywhere. He even explains how he deactivated Dean’s amulet during the Apocalypse so he wouldn’t suspect he was God and then reactivated it when he left.
God enlists Metatron as his editor for his autobiography and the angel notices that he is leaving stuff out like his sister Amara. Metatron further asks God, his reason for creating life to which he replies, “I was lonely” and his sister was not very good company considering, “I am being. She is nothingness.” Amara always ended up destroying the worlds that Chuck created and he eventually locked her in a cage. Even though Amara’s back at destroying his world again, he doesn’t intend to stop her as he is tired of watching humanity’s failures. Metatron accuses him of cowardice and says that his “experiments” might be failures, but at least they don’t give up.
It finally seems that Metatron gets through to God, and decides to help Sam and Dean. The brothers are holed up in a town with Amara’s deadly fog with which Sam Winchester is already infected. Dean suddenly finds the amulet glowing in Sam’s pocket and all is good. The dead and infected all regain consciousness and while the brothers are amazed by this scene Chuck appears before them and says, “We should probably talk.”
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