Supernatural: 10 Most Hated Hunters In The Show

Though Sam and Dean Winchester are often the good guys, not every hunter on Supernatural is loved by the characters and the fans. Some hunters give in to the brutal instincts that make them just as bad as the monsters they hunt. Others make selfish mistakes that cost others their lives.

While some hunters got what they deserved, others evoked complicated feelings among the fan base and characters in the show. Throughout the show’s 15-season run, hunters fought the dark nature of their job and tried to maintain their humanity. Here are 10 of the most-hated hunters in the show.

10 Aidan

Hate might be a strong word to describe how Aidan made fans and characters alike feel; annoyed is more like it. His sympathetic backstory of losing his family to monsters made others lenient on him, as well as his age, as he was only a teenager.

But his smug and cocky attitude made it hard to consider him one of the good guys. Granted, Dean had the same demeanor, but at least the older Winchester had earned it. Aidan wasn’t that good a hunter yet and certainly no Romeo in romancing Krissy.

9 Isaac and Tamara

The couple that hunts together stays together (but maybe not). Isaac and Tamara start hunting after a monster kills their daughter. They meet Sam and Dean during their run against the Seven Deadly Sins. But when they find out the Winchesters’ part in opening the gates to Hell, their attitude changes.

Things only get worse when Isaac dies at the hands of the demons they hunt together. Tamara spares no love for Sam and Dean in the end. Their hostility isn’t unwarranted, but it certainly doesn’t sit well with some fans.

8 Ghost Facers

Fans often split between love and hate when it comes to the goofy and inexperienced Ghost Facers. Amateur paranormal investigators Ed and Harry meet Sam and Dean in the Morton House episode where the home becomes the most haunted place in America every four years.

The Ghost Facers team stumbles on a real-life haunting as Sam and Dean try to get rid of the ghost on the premises and protect the clueless wannabe hunters. Ed and Harry don’t understand the true danger until they lose one of their own, intern Corbett.

7 Bucky Sims

Associated with another hunter named Asa Fox, Bucky suffered from a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He teamed up with Asa on the hunt for a crossroads demon named Jael but didn’t like the circumstances they were under.

Asa wanted to go after Jael without his angel blade or protection, and when Bucky opposed him, he called him a coward and pushed him. But Bucky pushed back and accidentally killed Asa. Panicking, Bucky staged Asa’s body to look like Jael killed him.

6 Lee Webb

Dean fell in with Lee Webb in their younger days when Sam was off at Stanford, and Dean stayed to hunt with his dad. But when they worked a case together in Arizona where they investigated a cult and a monster, the young hunters witnessed something so awful it changed Lee.

He turned into a monster himself as he believed the fight between good and evil was pointless. He captured a Marid and fed it the blood of innocent victims to take advantage of the creature’s power to bring him riches.

5 Victor Rogers

When Krissy Chambers, Josephine Barnes and Aidan lost their families to monsters, Victor Rogers took them in and treated them like his children. Except his good intentions weren’t so good.

Believing that hunters were losing the battle against evil and monsters, Victor made a deal with a vampire to create new monsters for his kids to hunt down. By day, they went to school like normal kids, but by night they hunted the monsters Victor led them to believe were the cause of their families’ deaths.

4 Campbell Family

Before she was a Winchester, Mary was a Campbell. Her parents Samuel and Deanna, for whom she named her sons, raised her in the hunter’s life. But the whole family was in the business, from cousins to aunts and uncles to those who married into the Campbell family.

Sam Winchester joined up with them after escaping the cage in season six as they hunted the alphas of each monster clan. The Campbells gave Dean flack for leaving the life and becoming soft when he settled with Lisa and Ben.

3 Mary Winchester

Mary married John Winchester hoping to leave the hunter’s life behind, but when Azazel got a whiff of her as a young woman, he went after her by killing John. She made the deal that sealed the Winchesters brothers’ fates forever.

She never wanted her sons to be hunters, but it can’t be denied that she played a critical role in leading them down that path. Once resurrected, Mary felt out of place in the new decade and became estranged from Sam and Dean, instead teaming up with the British Men of Letters.

2 Gordon Walker

Sam doesn’t trust Gordon from the start, but Dean takes a shining to him as they bond over the thrill of the hunt. But Gordon shows his true colors when he refuses to release a vampire who hasn’t killed anyone. Gordon doesn’t believe in nuance, as he thinks a monster is a monster, but Sam convinces Dean otherwise, and the brothers fight Gordon on this.

After he turns into a vampire himself, he claims his last two good deed will be to kill Sam, the prophesied demon child, and then himself.

1 John Winchester

Memes abound about how bad a dad John Winchester is, but in all honestly, they’re not wrong. After Mary burns on the ceiling, John loses his mind and turns to the life of a hunter. Worse still, he drags his two sons into the fray, and Sam still a baby.

He makes Dean a soldier and charges him with the protection of his baby brother. It’s a lot of emotional heavy lifting he asks from his children. His vendetta against Yellow Eyes is so strong that he’s willing to lose himself in the process.

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