Bobby Singer

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name = Robert Steven Singer
series = Supernatural


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first = Devil's Trap
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creator = Eric Kripke
portrayer = Jim Beaver
episode = 19
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species = Human
gender = Male
age = 50's
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specialty = Research
Ritualistic Spells
Exorcisms
Combat
Cataloging
occupation = Hunter, Salvager
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spouse = Unnamed wife (deceased)
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residence = South Dakota
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Robert "Bobby" Steven Singer is a fictional character in The CW Television Network's "Supernatural" played by Jim Beaver. He is presumably named after the show's executive producer, Robert Singer.

Bobby is a hunter like the Winchesters, though he seems to stay fairly stationary. He wears a lot of flannel and is almost always seen in a trucker's hat. He runs an auto salvage yard as his day job, and is a go-to guy for supernatural research. He became involved in the hunt when his wife became possessed and he was forced to kill her, because of his lack of supernatural knowledge at that time. He seems to have amassed quite a bit of knowledge over the years (being the first to deduce on his own that Meg was in fact possessed), plus his house is full of bookcases and stacks of books about the supernatural world and the things hunters go after. He and John Winchester were old friends, though they had a falling out prior to the onset of the series. According to Dean Winchester during Bobby's first appearance, the last time Bobby and John met prior to the show, Bobby almost "filled him with buckshot," but they made peace and were working together again before John's death.

Season one

Bobby first appears on the show when Dean and Sam Winchester head to Bobby's place near the end of Season One in "Devil's Trap". Meg Masters takes their father captive, and the brothers go to Bobby for assistance as he seems to be something of a demonology expert. He helps the brothers out by giving Sam the Key of Solomon and showing them how to trap and perform an exorcism on Meg. He tells Dean before Meg's exorcism is complete that the soul of a demon's host stays inside the body and will remain even after the demon is exorcised, but since Meg fell seven stories out of the warehouse in "Shadow", the demon is all that holds her together and the innocent girl inside will die.

eason two

Bobby next comes to the Winchesters' aid after John, Sam, and Dean's car accident in the final moments of the Season One finale. John asks Sam to go to Bobby and get some items on a list. When Sam arrives, Bobby tells him that the items are not used for protection from demons as John originally told Sam, but are rather used to summon a demon. Bobby nevertheless finds and gathers the items as requested and gives them to Sam to take to John.

Bobby also retrieves Dean's totaled Impala to prevent the hidden weapons stash in the trunk from being discovered. He tells Sam the Impala is beyond saving and should be used for scrap, but when Sam insists that Dean loves it and will want to fix the car once he wakes up from his coma, Bobby agrees to keep the car at his salvage yard for that eventuality.

After John Winchester's death and Dean's miraculous recovery, Bobby lets Sam and Dean stay at his place for about a month to rest up and recover. Dean spends the month channeling all his energy into rebuilding his car while Sam tries to get him to talk about their father's death. Bobby also gives them use of the only working vehicle he has in his salvage yard, an old minivan, so that they can locate John's old acquaintance Ellen Harvelle, whom they discovered through an old voice message on John's phone. The boys then use the minivan to check out a hunt in "Everybody Loves a Clown", but abandon it by the side of the road after they fear they were spotted in it. Though Bobby is mentioned and not seen in that episode, it is assumed that Dean and Sam stay with him after that until Dean's Impala is fully restored and the Winchesters go back on the road again.

In "Born Under a Bad Sign", Bobby helps Dean exorcise a possessed Sam. When Sam, after a week spent missing, shows up on Bobby's doorstep without his brother, Bobby offers Sam a beer, secretly spiking it with holy water. This exposes Sam's possession by the demon formerly in possession of Meg Masters, whom they had exorcised nearly six months earlier. After Dean arrives, they attempt to exorcise her out of Sam, but the demon has locked herself inside Sam's body with a circular binding link on his arm. During the subsequent fight between Dean and Sam, Bobby burns a line through the link with a hot fireplace poker, breaking the circle and allowing their previous exorcism to work, freeing Sam. He then provides the brothers with pendant charms that fend off possession to prevent a repeat occurrence.

Soon after that, they call him to come to help them out on a case in Ohio that they can't get a handle on. The narrative of "Tall Tales" consists of Dean and Sam alternately relating the situation to Bobby, and each brother's stories about the case - the tenured professor who jumped out of the window in line with a local ghost story, the supposed alien abductee who was forced to slow dance with his captor, and the researcher eaten by the alligator in the sewer - are different from the other's, mostly in the retelling of Sam and Dean's own increasingly ridiculous behavior. Throughout their recounting to Bobby, the boys bicker and snipe at each other in an extreme escalation of their somewhat normal brotherly pranking. After hearing everything, Bobby exasperatedly tells them that it looks like a trickster god (such as Loki or Anansi) is messing around on the campus and with their heads. Though Bobby warns them that as a god, tricksters are immortal, the three force a confrontation with it anyway after finding a weakness. They leave the university thinking that they succeeded in killing it, though unbeknownst to them all, the trickster simply played them and moved on.

In the first part of the second season finale, "All Hell Breaks Loose", Bobby returns to help Dean find Sam after he mysteriously disappears. At the end of the episode, they find Sam in a long abandoned ghost town, but arrive too late to help him. They witness another of Azazel's psychic kids - a soldier named Jake - fatally stab Sam in the back. Bobby then runs after Jake with a shotgun.

In the conclusion of the finale, a more compassionate and concerned side of him is revealed. He is furious with Dean for trading his soul in one year's time in exchange for Sam's resurrection. While Bobby reprimands Dean, Ellen shows up and tells them it was pure dumb luck that kept her from being at the roadhouse when it burnt to the ground in the previous episode. Bobby, much like he did earlier in the season to a possessed Sam, tests to make sure it's her by making her take a shot of holy water, which she drinks it without any effect.

He plays a vital role in closing the portal to Hell located in a Wyoming cemetery that sits in the middle of a giant Devil's Trap of railroad tracks. After closing the portal, Bobby sees John's ghost consoling Dean and Sam. After Dean kills Azazel, Bobby and Ellen inform Sam and Dean that up to 200 demons may have escaped Hell while the portal was open. To that Dean replies, "We've got work to do."

eason Three

Bobby continues to appear in Season Three as both a hunter and a mentor to Dean and Sam, helping them fight the war against the demons. He also continuously proves to be an important asset to the brothers as he and Ruby both rebuild the Colt together. In "Dream a Little Dream of Me", it is revealed that Bobby got into hunting after witnessing the possession of his wife. After trying to unsuccessfully exorcise her using physical means (for example, stabbing her in the chest multiple times), Bobby ends up killing his wife. It is shown through his dream state in the episode that he carries on immense guilt for what he did to her, and has taken some sort of unwritten vow to become involved with the supernatural and prevent what happened to him from ever happening to anyone else. This experience in his life might be the explanation for his father-like devotion and care for the Winchesters. He once again appears in "Mystery Spot", used as one of the Trickster's disguises. After incessantly calling Sam and pleading with him to return his phone calls, Bobby finally is able to coax Sam into the Mystery Spot's original location. He says that he knows a spell which can summon the Trickster, but in able to perform the rare spell, human blood is needed. Sam agrees almost immediately and wholeheartedly, shocking Bobby's very foundations. Bobby then tells Sam that he will not allow him to kill an innocent human being. He then goes on to say that if anyone should die, it should be him. After telling Sam that he is too tired and old, he hands him a knife, pushing Sam to kill him. Sam agrees, knowing that Bobby is not really himself. As he stabs Bobby, it seems as though it truly was the real Bobby, racking Sam with extreme remorse. However, the Trickster appears and destroys the illusion it created of Bobby. Later in the season finale, Bobby pinpoints Lilith's location. Sam summons Ruby against Dean's wishes and they steal her dagger. As they head out after Lilith, Dean's car doesn't start. Bobby shows up revealing a disconnected distributor cap and says that he is going with them. Sam protests, but Bobby responds with "Family don't end with blood, Boy!" Bobby later turns the water supply in the neighborhood Lilith is "vacationing" in into holy water and turns on the sprinklers, cutting off Lilith from her army. He is last seen sadly looking at his watch as midnight arrives and Dean's time ends.

eason Four

Bobby returns in Season Four premiere episode Lazarus Rising and is the first person Dean speaks to upon escaping from Hell. When Dean arrives, Bobby makes two attempts to kill him off before Dean proves that he is who he says he is. Bobby also introduces Dean and Sam to Pamela, a psychic who attempts to channel the "demon" that pulled Dean out of hell. Bobby was last seen assisting Dean in the ritual to summon the "demon", which turned out to be an Angel and rendered unconscious by Castiel with a simple touch to the forehead.

While researching the ghosts that are attacking hunters, is shown that essentially all the books in Bobby's home is research material (lore). Per Bobby, some of it is even in cuneiform. Bobby has also built a ghost proof panic room of solid iron construction that has been salt coated.

Appearances

;Season 1 -:"Devil's Trap";Season 2 -:"In My Time of Dying", "Born Under a Bad Sign", "Tall Tales", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2";Season 3 -:"The Magnificent Seven", "Bad Day at Black Rock", "Sin City", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Mystery Spot", "Time Is On My Side", "No Rest For the Wicked";Season 4 -:"Lazarus Rising", "" ""

External links

* [http://supernaturalfanwiki.wetpaint.com/ "Supernatural Wiki"]

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