a guide to bi!dean in canon, sorted by episode and season!*
// long post warning
this isnāt part of the pilot but it feels like the fact that dean was based on a bisexual character who was based on a bisexual man should be in this post somewhereĀ
bi set design at the gas stationĀ
dean flirts with both jess and the male cops (on two different occasions) (meta)
1x04- phantomĀ travellerĀ (watch)
dean checks out every male mechanic in the airplane hangar, smiling and leering at all of them, without paying attention to the planes. (meta)
man on the plane winks at dean, dean is taken aback but waves anyway before carrying on with the EMF meter. the man apparently had a gaydar which dean was definitely on. (meta)
first guy they see is a guy bent over the hood of a car, eating a banana.Ā the guy then notices dean and canāt stop staring at him.
dean checks out a half naked guy, while readingĀ āBacksideā magazine. tells sam he missed a spot near the guyās butt after looking at it
dean checks out a guy at the party and winks at him, and then a few moments later, turns around to check him out again, and then again when theyāre leaving.
dean is disappointed he canāt hook up with someone that night; says it while staring at the same guy (meta #1, #2)
dean has the sports section of the newspaper next to his bed, even though dean isnātĀ shown to have any interest in the sport. dean is also mostly naked, and his right hand is beneath the covers. (meta)
dean gets given the heart of an openly gay teacher (meta)
1x15- the bendersĀ (watch)
dean winks at a bunch of menĀ at a bar, before spending an hour in the menās bathroom. coincidence?
the bar set includes a sign saying āmenāsā and another sign sayingĀ āthursday night meatāĀ
dean fondles a manās pelvis bone the next day
dean gets the number of a bartender, speaks about them in gender neutral terms. sam asusmes itās a girl, but dean doesnāt seem interested at all in the woman bartender; suggesting that the number is from the male bartender (meta)Ā
dean has the number of a guy named caleb written down, who dean calls and caleb helps him with the case. dean says itās their dadās friend caleb, but the area code suggests heās gotten the number recently. if it had been their dads friend, he would have had the number in his cellphone already, seeing as he calls him in 1x10 (meta)
1x17- hell houseĀ (watch)
the first shot after the cold open is of the wordĀ ābiā and nothing else, followed by the second shot, which is of course a shot of dean
2x02- everybody loves a clownĀ (watch)Ā
dean sees ash on the pool table, turns around but looks back to check out his ass
ash tells dean he likes him, dean says thanks, dean and ash staring at each other until jo pulls their attention away, sam looks lowkey awkward
dean does his flirty face when ash winks at him
dean tells ash to call him, then does his pleased-with-himself smirkĀ
dean drinks from a beer bottle withĀ cupidās bow and arrow on it, and then ash drinks from deanās bottleĀ
ash makes a queer movie referenceĀ (pink flamingos)Ā then watches dean to see his reaction, to gauge deanās interest levelĀ
2x05- simon saidĀ (watch)
sam calls for ash, but he doesnāt answer the door. the second dean calls for him, ash opens the door, nakedĀ
contrast between sam and deanās reactions to seeing ash naked- sam is surprised, but quickly gets over it and Ā goes about his business. Ā dean, on the other hand gets a look at ashās dick and screws his eyes shut. His reaction is overblown. he avoids looking at his in an extremely pronounced way. his reaction is not in proportion to what is happening in the scene. just before, he had dodged the eyes of Jo, his designated female love interest at the time, in the same way. he basically has the same reaction to Jo and to Ash, but Ash is way more naked. (roughly quoted from) Ā
dean/jo and dean/ash parallels
dean tellās samĀ āitās like being roofied man, it doesnāt countā which sounds like something a closeted guy would say, likeĀ āwe were drunk man, it doesnāt countā orĀ āit was only blow jobs man, it doesnāt countā. this also suggests that dean has done things with other men while roofied or drunk. (while doing stuff with men under the influence of roofies doesnāt necessarily make you bisexual, the way in which dean says it suggests that āit didnāt count!ā is an excuse heās used before)
2x11- playthingsĀ (watch)
hotel owner asumes dean and sam are queer; Ā dean then brings it up afterwards, asking sam why everyone assumes theyāre gay. (meta)Ā
sam saysĀ āWell, you are kinda butch. Probably think youāre overcompensatingā
madison says āyou get a few scotches in him and he started hitting on anyone in a five-mile radius. you know the type.ā sam, after looking at dean, says he does know the type.(notice the gender neutral terms)
2x19- folsom prison bluesĀ (watch)
dean flirting with the cop taking his pictureĀ
dean wants to go to the prison to help deacon, and even though sam keeps saying they should leave, dean refuses. he seems to like deacon a lot and wants his respect.Ā
dean and deacon were very hands on during the episode
2x21- all hell breaks loose part oneĀ (watch)
ash is wearing a new watch that he hasnāt worn in previous episodes, but dean is able to identify him by it later in the episode, suggesting that deanās visited ash a few times off-screen
dean is paralleled to lily; who killed her girlfriend by touching her,Ā and the scene cuts directly from deanās touching of dead ash to her.Ā
2x22- all hell breaks loose part twoĀ (watch)
when ellen brings up what happened at the roadhouse, we see this reaction shot of dean, but none of sam even though he was also friends with ash, suggesting dean is more bothered by his death
3x01- the magnificent sevenĀ (watch)
doublemint twins; dean having a m/m/f threesome. (meta:Ā #1, #2, #3)
a song with the lyricsĀ āany love is good loveā plays while dean is in the motel with the twins
deanās happy to see ritchie, but his face falls when he sees the woman in ritchieās room
ritchie goes into sam and deanās room, and dean immediately begins taking off his clothes like itās something heās used to doing in front of this guy. (which it probably is. dean saved ritchie from a succubus in the past, so theyāre obviously intimately familiar.) he takes off his fed suit clothes and rolls up his sleeves, something weāve never seen him do before this moment on the show (meta)
dean checks out the demon!priest guy when theyāre done interviewing him
3x10- dream a little dream of meĀ (watch)
dean asks if samās having a sexual dream about angelina jolie, or brad pitt. dean thinks that itās normal and completely understandable to make āhappy noisesā while dreaming of brad pitt.
3x11- mystery spotĀ (watch)
deanās deaths are all euphemisms for sex (meta)Ā
4x05- monster movieĀ (watch)
dean says that if his life could be a movie, heād pick porkyās 2. (meta)
4x06- yellow feverĀ (watch)
dean gets drunk and flirts with a cop
sam has to pull him awayĀ (while coincidentally, a mural of wild horses is painted on the wall behind them)
4x08- wishful thinking (watch)
mentions duchovny, makes a thinking-about-sexy-stuff face, noticies sam is looking and quickly schools his expression
āsubā / āthatād be me!ā
4x14- sex and violenceĀ (watch)
deanās siren is a man (meta)
dean x nick mirrored with sam and the woman doctor
dean ignores the strippers, his attention on nick
sam and dean both thought the siren infected victims through sex; and when sam finds out deanās been infected, he immediately accepts that deanĀ apparently had sex with the siren, no surprise or hesitance.
actor who played nick saysĀ ā(nick) enjoyed having control over these boys in a sexual way. Itās a strange way to describe it. Considering the Siren initially appears as a female that seduced men, it was almost as if gender wasnāt a factor for it.ā
5x03- free to be you and me (watch)
says bert and ernie are gay right before telling cas heās not going to let him die a virgin. how do these things correlate?
dean makes two references to queer characters- thelma and louise and bert and ernie
compares himself and cas to thelma and louise
cas and the orgy girls are waiting for dean to get there before starting the orgy, suggesting itās something dean takes part in and is a normal part of their lives at the camp. 2014!dean is obviously comfortable enough to let cas see him naked, at the very least
dean canonically likes to wear womanās underwear. while this doesnāt necessarily mean heās bisexual, it does show that dean does project stuff like this (onto sam mostly, which we saw when dean asked sam if the bra was his) and it also shows that dean isnāt the macho man that he appears to be on the surface.
cas winks at dean, and dean does the thing with his mouth that he does when he sees something hot and desirable (see it here too) (meta)
5x06- i believe the children are our futureĀ (watch)
dean jerking off to the thought of a male nurse
5x07- the curious case of dean winchesterĀ (watch)
he looks at a naked guyās crotch unnecessarily (they already knew it was the guy they were looking for because of the arm tattoo, credit card and driverās license theyād already seen)
tells said guy that he looks great
5x08- changing channelsĀ (watch)
comes out of a closet into TV land
intensely watches dr sexy make out with someone on TV
gets visibly flustered when he sees dr sexy, similar to how a girl would react over seeing their male crushĀ
thinks dr sexy is sexy (in cowboy boots)Ā āwhat makes dr sexy sexy is he fact that he wears cowboy boots, not tennis shoesā
men/women sign behind his head suggesting bisexuality
5x09- the real ghostbustersĀ (watch)
dean is visibly happy and smiley while thinking of the queer sam and dean cosplayers once heās by himself (meta)
5x14- my bloody valentineĀ (watch)
dean checks out men/looks at men as though heās hungry for them. (which he probably is, seeing as itās the famine episode.) examples: cas, cupidĀ (meta #1 #2)
bi flag colors when cupid hugs dean and cas
5x15- dead men donāt wear plaidĀ Ā (watch)
three episodes after this, dean tells casĀ āthe last person who looked at me like that i got laidā. whoās the last person to look at deanĀ ālike thatā? digger wells. carver wrote both of these episodes, so itās not coincidental. (meta)
digger asks deanĀ āwho died and made you queen?ā not king.Ā
5x18- hammer of the godsĀ (watch)
dean imagines fucking gabriel
6x01- exile on main street Ā (watch)
dean x sid; sid has been buying him beers for a year, dean bothered by the sight of sid with his wife, dean more interested in sid than hot waitresses (meta)
6x06- you canāt handle the truthĀ (watch)
dean thinks two men having sex is sexy. (the non sexy kind of drilling, right?)
6x10- caged heatĀ (watch)
dean mirroring casā body language as he kisses meg
7x12- time after timeĀ (watch)
dean fangirls over eliot ness
sam asks dean if heās strictly into dick now
checks out a guyās ass instead of girls (checks him out in the same way as he would a girl)Ā
eliot then drags dean into the store away from the guys he was checking out, similarly to how sam did in yellow fever.
fan fiction gap! eliot tells dean he needs to get him more clothes (at night time, in the interrogation room) then dean leaves with eliot. next scene, itās the day time and theyāre at the tailors.
7x20- the girl with the dungeons and dragons tattooĀ (watch)
teaches charlie how to flirt with a man
dean/charlie parallels (ex. charlie being gay and loving female characters, similar to how dean loves dr sexy)
8x01- we need to talk about kevinĀ (watch)
deanĀ asksĀ āspanky the demon. yeah, i heard about you. youāre the one who uses too much teeth, right?āĀ
the people from the video think that sam and dean are queer, and also that dean says awesome too often. unlike in Playthings, dean doesnāt askĀ āwhy do these guys think weāre gay?ā instead, he asks sam if he says awesome a lot, to which sam replies ā no. no, no. no.ā (meta) Ā
8x06- southern comfortĀ (watch)
dean sarcastically says he was in purgatory, miami (a gay bar)
8x07- a little slice of kevinĀ (watch)
the scene between dean and cas is inherently romantic.Ā
cas knows where dean is- how? because angels can sense longing. otherwise, cas would have had no way of finding dean straight out of purgatory. (meta)Ā
dean blatantly checks out cas when he comes out if the bathroom all clean.Ā
the camera pans up casā body as it would in a romance movie, from deanās pov.Ā (meta)
8x12- time after timeĀ (watch)
grandaddy winchester comes out of the closet, mirrors deanĀ
dean x closets subtext (meta)Ā
sam saysĀ āwhen one of us falls out of your closet-ā and the camera pans staight to dean.
8x13- everybody hates hitlerĀ (watch)
uses the alias of a bisexual person (mark bolan)Ā
flustered and cute at the fact aaron is interested in him
the only reason dean turna aaron down is becauseĀ āitās a federal thingā, not because heĀ ādoesnāt swing that way.ā
visibly disappointed at lack of gay thingĀ (meta)
meta on the way dean closes his FBI badge to talk to aaron
not in the episode, but in the directorās commentary, they talk aboutĀ āthe potential for love in all placesā in reference to dean/aaronĀ
a guy dressed like cas walks behind dean during the dean/aaron bar scene
8x17- goodbye strangerĀ (watch)
bi!flag set designĀ after we were told to pay attention to the set. (meta)
scriptedĀ āI love youā
dean confirms he watches m/m/f porn
deanās reaction when seeing that cupid brought two men together. meta
bisexual colors in the background
arrow symbolism (arrow coming from cas and pointing at dean, similar to how there was a man with a bow an arrow on the tv between the two men.)
9x06- heaven canāt waitĀ (watch)
sam asks dean āyouāre not even gonna see cas while youāre there? then whatās the point?ā when he finds out that dean is going to drive 14 hours to idaho, suggesting that unless dean visits cas while heās there, thereās no point going even though thereās a case there and people are dyingĀ
the music when dean watches cas through the window of the gas nā sip is the same music from when sam was watching amelia through the window in 8x09
dean is visibly botheredĀ by the fact cas is going on a date, but hides it from cas
fan fiction gaps! thereās actually two in this episode- even though only one is really talked about. thereās one before they get to noraās, from when cas asks for a ride (in which itās daytime) and when they get to noraās (at night)Ā and thereās another one after noraās, in which they leave (at night) and get back to the gas nā sip the next day. what did they do during those hours? weāll never know.Ā
dean saysĀ āyouāre human, nowā and pointedly looks at casā lap. (meta)
their goodbye is decidedly not how you would say goodbye to a friend. if you were to take out that scene and place it into a gay romance movie, it would fit in perfectly.
dean tells cas to take off his vest and unbutton his shirt, then seems to check him out.Ā
nora doesnāt look back at cas after their last scene together, like it seems she would. dean does.
9x12- sharp teethĀ (watch)
dean gets back to the bunker and sam asks what happened to his arm, to which answersĀ āoh, it was a gft from cain.ā sam then asksĀ ālikeā¦the wrestler?ā (like seriously, what does sam think does in his spare time? go out and roll around with wrestlers?) dean then answersĀ āi wish, that would be awesome.ā long story short, dean wants to get pinned down and roughed up by a wrestler.
ābest of both worlds, salty and sweetāĀ Ā
instead of telling sam about canyon valley he shows him a video instead, which coincidentally involves a hot (occasionally topless) dude that is definitely deanās type
acts awkward towards larry when they met, getting lost in his eyes and grinning a lot (meta)Ā Ā
guy tells dean to stop flirting with his trainer, assumes dean is into guys
dean says he relates to a girl saying itās nice to have cushion when having sex with a guy.Ā
dean spanks harryās ass for no apparent reason
completely comfortable with crowley seeing his dick after having sex with ann-marie
he and crowley fuck male triplets together.Ā (jensen also gets very awkward while mark is talking about the triplets in sdcc, immediately says ānext questionā)
10x02- reichenbachĀ (watch)
the bartender leaves dean alone at the bar, completely trusts him to be in there alone. they were obviously friendly with each other.Ā
10x04- paper moonĀ (watch)
guy tells dean to get on his knees, and dean repliesĀ āwell iām awfully flattered but..ā instead if his usualĀ āi dont swing that wayā response. meta
10x05- fan fictionĀ (watch)
the wall behind dean when heās talking about destiel is pink and blueĀ
responds to samās questioning the same way as he did with cassie in season one
10x06- ask jeevesĀ (watch)
dean comes across a man and woman in a closet. i wonder what that could possibly mean?
10x07- girls girls girlsĀ (watch)
deanās dating profile is said to containĀ āone outright lieā, the only non-fact on there isĀ āseeking: womenā
10x08-Ā hibbing 911Ā (watch)
dean flirting with the cute deputyĀ
dean seduces the information out of the cute deputyĀ
even more fanfiction gaps! in which dean was totally having sex with the cute deputy (meta)
10x11- thereās no place like home Ā (watch)
dean x charlie parallels, why it means bisexual deanĀ
dean saysĀ ābooze, burgers, and⦠more booze.ā he doesnāt say babes like it seems he was going to. (meta) (more meta)
10x12- about a boyĀ (watch)
dean listens to taylor swift and doesnāt turn it off (meta) (more meta)
sam comes to dean with a case of missing naked people. as far as Dean knows, theyāre all men. the one confirmed case sam shows him is a man, whose photo dean enlarges. he then says ābout time this gig got an R ratingā (meta)
10x13- halt & catch fireĀ (watch)
dean is visibly worried thatĀ ānothing is ever deleted off of the internetā, even though itās canon that sam knows that dean watches anime porn online and was on a dating site to look for women, i wondr what heās possibly hiduing?Ā
checks out a dude pretty blatantlyĀ
āhalt and catch fireā is a tv show about a bisexual man
wears his bisexual colored shirt again
10x15- the things they carriedĀ (watch)
the episode was full of homoerotic subtext (even if it was with the character that no one likes)Ā
10x16- paint it blackĀ (watch)
dean says there are things, feelings, he want to experience differently, or for the first time. (meta) (watch)Ā
bisexual color lighting in the church
10x17- inside manĀ (watch)
dean visits donnie at a bar he obviously goes to often and without sam.
donnie is sad that dean doesnāt sit at the bar and talk to him, hinting that itās something that dean usually does. saysĀ āI guess Iām by myself, thenā when dean walks away. proving that dean usually sits at the bar with donnie rather than try to pick up chicks, as some would assume
flirts with donnieĀ (winks at him, shows off in front of him)
parallel to the man from the bar scene 8x23
10x18- book of the damnedĀ (watch)
dean is given the same nickname as a gay rodeo starĀ
dean says he wants to explore theĀ ālocal wildlifeā, once again using a gender neutral pronoun to describe future hook ups
10x22- the prisonerĀ (watch)
uses the alias of a bisexual manĀ (freddie mercury and the alias of an accused bisexual man (lemmy kilmister) (meta)
āthe ladies, or the fellas. i donāt judgeā
11x01- out of the darkness, into the fire (watch)
dean making a magic mike reference, showing that heās watched a film involving stripping males
āyou know where i standā says dean, under a rainbow colored sign
11x02- form and void (watch)
jenna confirmed queer while coincidentally being paralleled to dean and wearing the same colors.
11x03- the bad seed (watch)
dean and cas are very touchy-feely, dean finding any excuse to touch him, with the blanket, helping him up, unbuttoning his shirt etc. he also strokes casā thigh and hold his hand in the warehouse scene.
dean hooking up with a guy in the roadhouse. (meta)
now if you compare this list of bi!dean moments with the list of straight!dean moments,Ā you can definitely see that the proof for bisexual dean vastlyĀ outweighs the proof for straight!dean. which isnāt hard, as there isnātĀ any proof for straight dean;Ā which iām gonna prove for you real quick right here:
1. people like to use the fact that dean said he ādidnāt swing that wayāĀ to prove that heās straight, when in fact, itās null and void. no closeted queer person would come out to a random person, especially an enemy, which dean was speaking to each time heās said something along those lines. when dean is approached in a non-platonic manner by non-enemies, though, he doesnāt sayĀ āhe doesnāt swing that way.ā or deny his sexuality whatsoever. (for example, with aaron.)Ā
2. people also like to argue that the fact dean has never kissed or had sex with a man on the show means heās not bisexual, which isnāt true. a person of any sexuality can have never kissed or had sex with anyone, and it wouldnāt lessen their sexuality. (for example: charlie was still as much of a lesbian before she kissed gilda as she was after.)
3. then of course thereās this interview that kripke did. this is not evidence against bi!dean! eric kripke, the showās creator, hasĀ never called dean straight. he saidĀ that he thought the dynamic between sam and dean (who are brothers) is not unlike the dynamic between sebastian and miles from revolution (being the topic of the interview), who are two straight men. this quote by him is often used out of context by people trying to disprove bisexual dean by saying that the two straight men heās talking about are sam and dean, when the people in question arenāt even on supernatural.Ā
but yeah, carry on saying dean is straight if thatāsĀ what floats your boat, and if you do happen to know any evidence for straight dean, iād be happy to debunk it for you ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ Ā
*this only contains the more obvious moments, and there isĀ more evidence in the show that isnātĀ on here, such as in the symbolism, body language, tone or set design of a few episodes, but theyāre smaller and/or more open to interpretation than these, so theyāre not on here. feel free to watch the show and try to find more!