Supernatural: 10 Best Rowena Macleod Episodes

You would think that Supernatural, a show that is on its 15th and final season, would have a wide array of protagonists and antagonists that span across the race, gender and sexuality spectrum. But, up until Rowena Macleod, who is the neglectful, self-centered mother of the King of Hell, Crowley, who burst onto the scene in season 10, female characters did not have that many recurring roles on the show, especially not as main characters.

Over the past 5 seasons, Rowena has given us many heartbreaking and memorable moments, leaving a lasting impression, which is saying something since Supernatural is such a character-driven show. So, let us count down the top 10 Rowena Macleod episodes.

10 Supernatural: Girls, Girls, Girls (Season 10, Episode 7)

At first, we only get Crowley’s point-of-view about Rowena and he was the sole source of any background, whether true or not. This episode changes that, as Rowena, who is looking to create a coven, recruits two girls, who she believes have potential magical powers.

She tells the prospective witches about how the Grand Coven of witches forbids her from using magic after casting her out. After Rowena kills a waiter, she encounters the Winchesters, attempting to escape, she places a deadly spell on one of the girls as a distraction but is captured by one of Crowley’s men.

9 Supernatural: Paint It Black (Season 10, Episode 16)

Rowena wants the powers she once had back, powers the coven stole from her. So, she captures and tortures Olivette, a former high priestess of the coven. Olivette tells Rowena the coven no longer has the power to help her, as their numbers and power were diminished by the Men of Letters.

Olivette tells her that only two Men of Letters remain and that they might be able to undo the spell. Rowena wanted to kill Olivette but in the end, decides to let her live out the rest of her days as a hamster.

8 Supernatural: Mama Mia (Season 12, Episode 2)

Fans get to see just how powerful Rowena’s powers are, as at the behest of her son, Crowley, she squares off against Lucifer and his new rock star body. When Lucifer confronts Crowley in Hell, demanding he get off his throne, Crowley refuses, believing that Lucifer’s day in the spotlight has faded, while Crowley’s has risen.

Rowena attempts to put Lucifer back in his cage, by first weakening his host body with sulfuric acid. The plan fails miserably as Crowley is forced to flee Hell, leaving Rowena as Lucifer’s prisoner.

7 Supernatural: The Bad Seed ( Season 11, Episode 3)

Fearing the Winchesters, Rowena is again trying to establish a new coven; only this time for her protection. However, after she lies about killing her son, the King of Hell, the witches turn on her, since they know Crowley is still very much alive. Instead, of allowing them to leave, she decides to incinerate them from the inside out.

Her second attempt to garner support fails as well when Crowley sends his demons to assassinate her. She survives and is recruited by the Winchesters to help find a baby that has something to do with the Darkness.

6 Supernatural: We Happy Few (Season 11, Episode 22)

With Amara becoming more of a threat to existence, Lucifer, God and the Winchester brothers put old rivalries aside, in a last-ditch effort to put Amara back in her cage. However, without the other archangels, they are still not strong enough to face her, so the team has a dispute of who to enlist with Sam suggesting Rowena, Dean suggesting Crowley and Lucifer suggesting angels.

Rowena agrees to help but after her plan of attacking Amara with the power of five witches fails, she is thrown from the fight. The battle ends when Amara seriously wounds God.

5 Supernatural: Various & Sundry Villains ( Season 13, Episode 12)

After hexing Dean with a love spell, a group of witches steals the Black Grimoire before Sam can intervene to stop them. Rowena shows up and helps free Dean from the spell by destroying the hex bag in his pocket.

She explains that she needs the Black Grimoire’s power in order to remain immortal. After placing a tracking spell on the book, Rowena betrays the Winchesters in favor of the witches but, when she is betrayed, she delivers them the book. Feeling sorry for her, Sam gives her the page needed to make her immortal.

4 Supernatural: Funeralia (Season 13, Episode 19)

After learning about Crowley’s death in the previous episode, Rowena is heartbroken. She goes on a mission to attract Death, so she can bargain with him about resurrecting her son.

To get his attention, she has been killing reapers, which attracts Heaven as it is disrupting the balance. When the Winchesters try to stop her, Rowena kidnaps Sam and tortures him. Billie a former reaper arrives to rescue Sam, finally convincing Rowena that there is a natural order to things and that she must learn to accept Crowley’s death and move on.

3 Supernatural: Unhuman Nature (Season 14, Episode 7)

Seeking help for Jack, who is having seizures, they enlist the help of Rowena. Upon arriving and realizing that it was Jack, Lucifer’s son that was the real patient, she initially refuses, but finally relents to help.

She discovers that as a Nephilim, Jack needs grace to survive and without it, he will die. Castiel manages to get a vial of Gabriel’s grace from a shaman, along with a spell that is used with it. Jack is given the grace as Rowena recites the spell, but it only worsens his condition.

2 Supernatural: Brother’s Keeper (Season 10, Episode 23)

With the Mark of Cain taking over Dean, Sam and Castiel have no choice but to ask Rowena for help.  She agrees, if they give her, her freedom and Nadia’s Codex. They come to an agreement but so does Dean with Death. Death agrees to send Dean somewhere else if Dean will kill Sam.

Dean agrees but ends up killing Death, instead. The spell requires three ingredients to complete, one being a sacrifice of something Rowena loves, which is Oskar. Saddened by the deed she must commit, she finally agrees to the sacrifice, killing Oskar to complete the spell.

1 Supernatural: Family Feud (Season 12, Episode 13)

After Sam and Dean learn that a ghost that has been murdering innocents has ties to the ship that Crowley’s son, Gavin was supposed to die on, they enlist Rowena’s help to track him down. She eventually brings them Gavin, who identifies the ghost as being his girlfriend, Fiona, who must have stowed away on the ship, dying with the other passengers aboard.

Rowena agrees to cast a spell that sends Gavin back to his time, where he can board the ship with Fiona, allowing the lovers to die together and erasing the murders Fiona’s vengeful spirit had committed.

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