Future Dean

Name	Dean Winchester
Actor	Jensen Ackles
Dates	August 2014
Location	Deceased after taking part in a Surprise Attack on Lucifer in The Year of 2014
Occupation	Expert Hunter
Episode(s)	5.04 The End

History

Origin

Future!Dean is a version of Dean five years into the future of 2009. In 2012 Lucifer's minions re-released the Croatoan demon virus - in this post-apocalyptic world, most humans have been reduced to mindless murderous zombies. In this future, Dean is in command of a resistance force at Camp Chitaqua, where survivors have gathered - including Future!Chuck and Future!Castiel. The Future!Dean never reconciled with Sam after they parted, and at some point Sam agreed to be Lucifer's vessel in Detroit. Future!Dean tried to become Michael's Vessel, however it was too late because all the Angels gave up and bailed Heaven. When Dean from 2009 arrives at Camp Chitaqua, Future!Dean takes him prisoner. Dean finds, that Future!Dean has become ruthless. After regaining the Colt, Future!Dean leads a mission to kill Lucifer, using his friends in a suicide mission to distract Lucifer. In a confrontation with Lucifer, Future!Dean is killed.

Notes

• There was mixed opinion amongst fans as to whether the future shown here is "real" or merely constructed by Zachariah to persuade Dean to become Michael's Vessel. In the commentary to the episode on the Season 5 DVD Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund describe how initially the episode was going to involve time travel, but the premise became so complicated (they descirbe drawing it on a whiteboard to explain to Bob Singer who retorted - "You going to do that for the veiwers?") that they changed it to an alternate universe model.