My head cannon is its a play on the quote “God created men, Sam Colt made them equal" meaning that God decided to give him the ability to kill almost anything for his magnus opus
honestly, when angels where dying left and right im genuinely surprised that the winchesters didnt melt them down into bullets like crowly did and have an arsenal of angel blade bullets when dealing with demons and angels
Its probably because Angelblades don't melt down without spells only the King of Hell would dabble in. Ontop of that Sam and Dean wouldn't waste something so valuable as an angelblade. Not only are they hard to get, they're good for killing demons and angels, and they can be reused, like the demon knife. No way would they melt down angelblades into bullets an angel could just dodge or slow time to avoid.
Crowley's magical prowess is very understated. He can survive Rowena's magic, he can replicate it, but also manage to do a dozen of unique things "we never see again". He manages to trap Lucifer in Apocalypse World and a dozen other things. His humility of, "I melted it down and made bullets" is far, far more complicated. Crowley knows how to make ammo for the Colt, which already is important. Now it's established that he's in touch with a coven of witch's for resurrection magic (part of demon deals) and established that system, putting him pretty on par with Rowena in terms of power though his is often administrative. Bobby in apocalypse world has angel killing bullets, but that's likely because demons, witches and all manner of beasties are all on the same de facto side. There's angels, then anything else - this could yield a lot of possible roads to these same discoveries, especially since Bobby is both as administrative and knowledgeable as Crowley. They're practically foils. We see the quantum gun Chuck has be melted down, but it's clearly more complicated than that. That gun is an unearthly tangle of god-magic, it's something only Chuck could make. The Colt is likely very similar. The pentagram, the inscription - these might have NO bearing on the gun's significance. Just addons to make them easier to distinguish from a bag of other guns. The angel-killing bullets are also inefficient. Castiel gets hurt by a bullet, but it doesn't kill him - it slows him down, but doesn't kill him. This causes a big issue, since winged angels can teleport and if you don't capitalize on your attack, they teleport, you die. You need angel hubris to kill them. Even Balthazar opted for surprise attacks with the blades, as guns are too threatening for angels to ignore once "they know". This made them more suitable in apocalypse world, whereas in the main world getting angels to strat throwing hands was smarter. Angels are pretty uniform, so relying on that hubris was smarter than trying to just make bullets. The bullets are also expended when you shoot with them, unless you dissect an angel - who often explode when they die. Meanwhile, if you make angel-killing bullets, the odds Castiel is gonna get shot with them are high. Knives are personal. For Demons, hex-bullets with glyphs on them work just as well. Princes of hell can't be stopped by them, but also, there's nothing to say that angel-bullets would be anymore effective. We see them tank angel blades entirely, which means bullets might be less-than-useful. You also can't "test" that, since no demon is gonna let you shoot them, and if you try it on a major bad guy you die learning this data. They might have some angel-killing bullets around, but just don't want to use them since they're unreliable when the knife is absolutely tested. You can't mess around with an angel, they will detonate you if you aren't careful. So... maybe there's some at the bottom of the boys bag, but they just never find an occasion to risk it. Especially when hiding a gun is harder than hiding angel blades, which are designed to be simple to conceal - it's almost their priority. You also can do a lot of duelling tricks with those blades, whereas guns you telegraph your intentions far too easily... and then there's the gun itself. Crowley used a luger from WW2, which is an "odd" choice. Bobby uses an automatic pistol, which is another odd choice. ... the gun might be the hard part, not the bullet. If you fire an angel-blade bulelt out of a glock, the glock might blow up in your hand. There's striations in modern firearms. You might need a flintlock ball style bullet or else you're getting blowback... Or you might need a cursed weapon that's indestructible. That makes the most sense, and why a Luger would be used. A hitler-era weapon is great on the kabal side of things, but also, probably cursed by the heinous acts. The Colt might be cursed, making it invincible, making it easier to fire. It would be in line for Bobby to use a cursed weapon as well. ... and now you're getting into evil magic. Dean would be absolute about this, no evil magic unless you need it. Even Sam likely sat down and was like, "This is getting dark". And when you're hanging with Cas, I'm sure he's frowning a bit too. Weaponry obsession isn't a healthy thing, better to sit down and find more useful, helpful lore than spend months trying to make another killing weapon.
@GunNr- eventually yes it would have however we know that they used it in spells but it never stated what would happen if it was put in a gun/sword so maybe it would work like enchanting in skyrim you'd need to "recharge" it
It was Sam, but yes. John says that Samuel Colt "made the gun for a hunter" but we know this is untrue. He made the gun for himself, because he was being hunted by Demons for making the giant railroad devil's trap, and for making the devil's gate (Which can only be opened with the colt). He gave the gun to Sam, when Sam and Dean needed it to kill a Phoenix, and that's what started the legend that he made the gun for a hunter.
There is a phenomenon I use in my D*D games called "Magnum Opus" that refers to instances where completely normal craftsmen manage to create a singular magical item in their careers (maybe two for truly legendary craftsfolk), that takes part of their own soul and taps into the cosmic background magic. These weapons or items usually play massively important roles and have powers and traits that are unique or exceedingly rare. Honestly the way I interpret the Colt is this: Colt was a man like John Winchester, driven, a little mad, and unwavering in his purpose. Whatever the cause of his knowledge of the supernatural world, he became aware of it, and sought to craft a weapon that would give future hunters a fighting chance. I think it more likely that the comet and the alamo and probly a handful of other one of events happening in the world may have contributed to this once in a lifetime event, and that he would go on to continue to learn new things about the supernatural, and eventually used his powerful colt as a key for the second (as I said, rare but possible) great Magnum Opus, the Giant Devils Trap and Lock. Not as intricate as yours I admit, but sometimes simple can be elegant. In my mind, Colt and John Winchester are very similar, its not hard to imagine Colt also going through something traumatic and dedicating his life and fortune to hunting. Cheers.
@@Jostradomas this is how magical artifacts SHOULD be made. It shouldnt even be a consideration by the maker to say "i am going to create a unique magical artifact" it SHOULD be a magical device that exceeded expectations of design. Otherwise artifacts wouldnt be aa rare if people could intentionally make them.
For me, the Colt is in the center of the biggest plot hole in the show. The Winchesters went through extreme lenghts to kill Eve, the Leviathans, and Abaddon, without even trying if the Colt works on them. If the Colt was somehow lost, okay. But after we learn that Crowley knew all along where the Colt was, I really wondered why he didn't tell Sam and Dean. He wanted all of these creatures - Eve, Leviathans and Abaddon - definitely dead at some point. This would also support your theory that Eve and the Leviathans are immune, and maybe Crowley did some research (after what happened with Lucifer) and knew.
It was just inconsistency on the writers part, Dean didn’t even need to take the Mark on cause Cain went back to killing anyway and he could’ve killed Abbadon. As for Eve, we learned later on that the Colt wouldn’t have killed her because she descended from Leviathan and we learned that Leviathan predate even angels so they could be considered primordial like the archangels.
@@jamesdiamond533 except lucifer said 5 things in all of creation and i can name 4(offhand) that would be immune from the gun(including Luci), and given what happens to those who own it, i would say its a cursed/blessed object
It was my understanding that the colts power symbolized the culmination of every soul of every victim of the Colt legacy..every death caused by a Colt firearm.
@@zachbahamutson5477 actually the theory is based on a cross-section of both the Colt family history and the Winchester family history. The widows of both families were heavily distraught with the feeling of guilt from the firearms their husbands designed. As such they both claimed to be haunted by the souls of the people killed by these guns. In fact if you deepdive both famiilies you will find the basis for the entire Supernatural Winchester family tree
Sam says that Ruby's spell to make bullets "Mimics the original etchings" and the Latin that's spoken is literally just "Mimic this sigil, mimic this sigil". So the engravings are clearly where the power lies. Just like the Lance of Michael, "The power is in its craftsmanship, its spellwork". My theory is that Chuck, gave Samuel Colt a vision, and the Comet and stuff was a sign of him manifesting his power on Earth. Why, you may ask? Simply because he thought it was cool, and good for the story.
I always assumed the 5 creatures that the Colt couldn't kill were the 4 Archangels and Death. The show writers hadn't invented things like Eve, Cain and Amara yet as the show was written to end with season 5. As far as we knew the strongest beings at the time were the 4 Archangels, Death, God and Jesse Turner (The Antichrist). The Archangels believe God to have left existence, which is why they triggered the apocalypse in the first place, and Lucifer says; "There's only 5 things IN all of creation that that gun can't kill". This is after Jesse in introduced, but before Luci 'kills' Gabriel, so they both definitely exist at the time. I think that Lucifer most likely doesn't know about Jesse. Or perhaps he isn't strong enough to survive the Colt yet. Castiel does say that Jesse's power is still growing.
Lucifer said 5 beings in all of creation. Death isn't a being of creation as Chuck didn't create him so he doesn't matter. Amara and Chuck won't count either. Let's just say none of the primordial beings as in Chuck, Amara, Death and the empty count.
@@adegbenrotemitope8075 I believe what Death actually said was that neither he nor god remembered who came first. Now the fact that death doesn't remember could just mean that Chuck did actually create him, but wanted him to think he didn't so he removed that memory. Seeing as we never got an actual confrontation between the first Death (the only one I personally consider the real Death) we don't know if he could in fact reap God. It's one of those unfinished details, like the origins of the Colt.
i think when he mentions 5 tho he wouldn't count eve Cain or Amara because at the time two were not in creation purgatory and Amaras prison are like side rooms to the universe and everyone thought cain killed the knights then somehow died or left earth so when he says in creation i think he means him and his brothers and 1 other maybe one of the other unique angels who are above the rank and file like Naomi or Metatron because i don't think he would count death because he isen't really apart of creation more it's caretaker.
@@narrowminer1131 I think Death also knows God created him, he’s just too proud to admit it. Like when he says he can kill God but was hesitant when Dean told him to, like he was caught in a bluff.
I feel like there should've been a moment that Dean said, "well at least we have these" Then unzipped a duffel bag bulging with angel blades from the vast amount of angels they killed......because those angels each had one when they died
When Rowina says something about "when you find a loophole you can only use it once - god closes it", I felt like that was a good explanation for the Colt. Someone figured out a sweet loophole to get a supergun and God closed the loophole after. This would potentially mean that whoever created the spell had the Book of the Damned, I think. As for Lucifer and others knowing about it, I think Lucifer would have learned about it after coming back to Earth - it feels like the subject of "there's a gun that kills everything" would have come up. Who he learned it from could be just about anyone, Lucifer is presumably well connected. Maybe Lucifer was able to piece together things like "It was done under halley's comet", which perhaps Lucifer knows is connected to Chuck in some way, and therefore understand its limitations. The
It's pretty much like in the Nasuverse, where only 7 people are able to use the 7 primordial magics, and that's because they all reached the root of the universe using different methods, and after they did it, that method would become invalid
Rowina says “when death notices are loophole”, it’s from the episode where they bring back the deaf hunter woman. It does create an interesting idea that maybe the creation of the gun is tied to a loophole. However instead of using the loophole for resurrection, it’s used to kill. Could be cool if the way it works is by turning the victim human/part human for a split second or maybe just at the area of impact. Then the only beings capable of surviving a shot are entities that have lost all connection to humanity. Those entities would be arch angels, primordials such as the leviathans / the 4 horsemen, Kain (+ his original demon crew, which is likely due to their connection to the mark of Cain). It’s possible that the creators of the Colt, don’t understand that that’s why it works, so they could never recreate it. It’s also possible that Death doesn’t consider it a loophole since the colt simply enhances the influence of the victim’s humanity. It would be interesting to look into what happens to the souls of those the Colt has killed. The colt probably doesn’t heal demons back to humans, but maybe it could let a human turn Monster enter an afterlife, that isn’t purgatory. This could be the case, after all vampirism can be reversed if no blood has been drunk.
On the point regarding comets/meteors/celestial events, Supernatural, like many of the CW shows, had some influences from modern neopaganism and witchcraft. In both sides, celestial events, including Halley's Comet, are revered for the energy that they pass down and are called on in rites and rituals devoted to certain deities. Throughout Supernatural they make celestial events to be pretty important overall, especially in reference to lunar cycles and eclipses, just as in witchcraft, which sees different periods of the cycle as important for specific spells- ie New Moons being a perfect time for bringing in new energy into one's life, or beginning new tasks, or initiating a new member into a circle. In the show, the boys needed an Eclipse to open a gateway to Purgatory in order to purge Castiel of all the souls he had gorged himself on earlier in the season, just as one example. So it could be that the Comet somehow passed down a spark of divine energy, such as a spark of an Archangel's grace (considering that's about how far up it scales) during the creation of the Colt, imbuing it with the power to kill most things up to and including gods, angels, demons, Princes and Knights of Hell, alphas, and monsters created by Lilith. As to why it doesn't work on others, that could be directly due to them existing before humanity. None of Princes or Knights existed before humanity, so while they are strong enough to hold their own against Seraphim, they can't handle Archangels. Same goes for the gods- they came into existence with humanity, the oldest being the gods of the nature and cosmology. Some of the beings on the show are too ancient to be affected by the Colt, or given too much power to be.
I am one of only a handful of people who have actually owned a real original Colt Patterson Revolver, I owned and sold Colt Patterson serial number 80. It was one that had been missing for years before being rediscovered and purchased by myself.
I've always been of the opinion that the colt is a powerful magical artifact that cannot kill anything more powerful than itself. We also know it CAN be replicated as that alternate reality dean who used a colt 1911A1 version killed multiple demons. But that gun had the same limitations as it couldn't kill lucifer either
@AiMdExP It's from the episode "proverbs 17:3" which god reveals later (in "the trap")wasn't a nightmare but an alternative reality. And since all realities more or less follow the same rules (some exceptions) I'm pretty confident with the right knowledge you could equip an army of Hunters with colt guns. The writers just never did that as it would take most of the tension out of any episodes that didn't involve the five or more beings too powerful
A huge error in writing for me was Cas thinking the Colt would work on Lucifer. How could he of all people not known the Colt wouldnt have worked on Lucifer?
the colt could be part of horseman of war since he is the meteor/comet wormwood and it was during the alamo which in a sense was a pretty serious war and event and maybe hailey’s comet is another name for wormwood, but since war horseman is not all powerful it couldn’t kill everything
on a minor note I think you said, sage doesn't play much of a role, but it is heavily linked to warding off evil and I am quite sure it's one of the ingredients mentioned in the vampire cure. So sage makes sense in a purifying context, like empowering he silver to maybe become closer to the material of angel blades.
I always thought he made a deal with crossroads demon, so that he could forge the gun, but then killed the demon using the gun, so that he didn't have to give up his soul, but instead dean and sam joined the party, which meant he went to an early grave, but passed it onto a future generation of hunters. This would also make sense given demons intimate knowledge of the gun, as it may have been a biproduct of a crossroads deal gone wrong, as it may have been the right place right time, but otherwise impossible without the comet, to complete the spell required to forge the gun, with maybe even a touch of lucifer's grace.
I am all the way here for this kind of nerdy discussion. It reminds me of when I came up with a plausible history for the "Kurdish Demon-Killing Blades" for the purposes of a Supernatural RP that I'm a part of. As for my list about the five things the Colt can't kill, first of all I think you absolutely have to look at it as categories and not individual beings. I don't think it makes sense otherwise. I also feel like it makes a little more sense if you narrow the field a bit further by regarding "Creation" (as Lucifer specifically states) to be "beings that Chuck had a hand in creating/watching over" rather than treating the question as "all of existence". That being said, here's my list: 1.) Archangels 2.) The Horsemen 3.) Knights of Hell (or any who are otherwise bound by the Mark of Cain) 4.) Leviathans (I am hesitantly tossing Eve in here as well, since we IMO have sufficient dialogue to support her being at least somewhat related to them despite Edgar's objections) 5.) Shedim I am not sure about the Shedim, mostly because we know so little about them -- including whether they predate Creation. They're just supposed to be "ancient scary demons exiled to Hell". Assuming they were from outside Creation, then I wouldn't mind moving Eve to their slot instead. I am deliberately not listing people like Jack or Jesse because while I think it's conceivable that they both could survive the Colt, both likely postdate the well-known establishment of the gun's limits and thus wouldn't be factored in to the saying. Likewise, I consider several primordial beings like Chuck, Amara, The Shadow, and the Cthulu-esque gods to exist outside of Creation and are probably not considered fair game. Maybe Soul Eaters, too.
honestly I believe that the alamo and haleys comet were meant to be indicators of when the colt was built. If you google the battle of the alamo that happened in 1836 and the time haleys commet was around at that time was 1835, but the year appart didn't matter much
Nice video. But you missed that the new bullets made for the Colt give off a different magical color when killing something compared to the original 13 bullets. The original bullets gave off a blue effect during the kill. The new bullets are red/orange. IIRC...There was also a line of dialog in the show where it was hinted that the "new bullets" were somehow different compared to the original 13 bullets, and the power behind them was somehow different too. Vague but never elaborated on. This was ignored by later writers and producers who came onto the show in later seasons.
Wasn't the color inconsistent for the knifes used as well? Could never tell if it was the weapon causing the differences in color, the creature they were ganking causing the color changes, or just the writers and editors being inconsistent.
Perhaps consider that the handle of the colt may be from the cross of the Crucifixion , that would theoretically count as a god touched item as per the trinity
That's an interesting theory. Kind of how the spear of destiny was used in certain historical battles by European monarchs who claimed it possessed Supernatural abilities that granted them victory.
The theory I have in my head as of listening to this is that the "men dying at the Alamo" is important because of reapers, or more importantly death, so maybe it involves capturing the powers of Death himself. As the only other thing that could kill practically anything besides Cain's knife and the Gun is Death's Scythe. The rest of how the gun works, being making discount angel blade alloy, makes sense with this too. I believe it can explain why it bypasses magical resistances and attacks a creature's soul/spirit rather than just the body. Though the rift closing/making theory you have is also good. Though I don't think that the writers thought that far ahead seeing as the series was potentially gonna end with season 5. Though its would be a great explanation in hindsight!
My head canon, is that the colt was ordered built by God hiding in human form, making it a deus ex machina. He did this, to make his "stories" more interesting. And a number of creatures was immune to the colt, because it was suppose to kill creature in creation, at a time when leviethans and lucifer, was outside.
I like the comment theory! Another reference to celestial objects is iridium. It's extremely rare on earth and mostly comes from asteroids and can hurt the alpha shapeshifter
Iirc, it was said that the bullets were cast using shards of some nails used to pin Christ to the cross, which was why the original thirteen bullets made by Colt had a rather different effect when compared to the "mass produced" ammo that can be made, as well as the different design between the two. The Colt itself was just something Samuel Colt made, but it was likely the bullets that held the real power, as without the right ammo, the Colt was just a gun, nothing really special asides from its legacy.
@@dr.mund0339 Probably, but that assumes they knew for sure that the Colt was just a gun, with nothing special about it. However all information that the Winchesters had pointed to the Colt also being special, despite it not really being so. So they simply kept it along with the ammunition they made for it.
@@decimation9780 yeah I mean there were alot of times in this show were I was like why don't they just do this or that lol but it wouldn't be very dramatic if they could just kill everything with sniper shots haha
"Iirc, it was said that the bullets were cast using shards of some nails used to pin Christ to the cross" I don't think that's right. Otherwise the colt bullet ritual would require those same shards and it doesn't. The bullets only have to be made of silver.
@@Ash-Winchester The original thirteen bullets were made using pieces of the nails used to pin Jesus to the cross. Once turned into bullets, they can be fired by the Colt. Provided you use the correct ammunition type, the Colt can fire, regardless of whether the ammo is magical or not. And the ritual used to make mass produced ammo was Bobby Singer's best approximation using what materials were available, which basically turned the silver bullets used into something more akin to bullets made from a melted down Angel Blade.
I have a near exact working replica of this revolver. The show used a Pietta Deluxe which is an Italian made copy of a Colt Patterson that they converted to fire metallic blanks instead of it's original black powder cap-n-ball. I used a Uberti made copy of the Colt Patterson and had it finished exactly the same with proper engraving and had it converted to fire 41 Short Colt.
I think the video misses the entire point of the final seasons of supernatural. Nobody had any free will. Chuck was writing every story and pulling the strings.
Then Chuck never lost or died or whatever. Jack never became God. It just seemed that way cause Chuck wanted it too? Makes sense. Aint no way an actual Omnipotent being would lose to anything wven willfully.
Thatd not true buddy. Chuck is constantly surpised. And also, the guys lost Chucks favor, and had to go to the goddesss of luck to get an edge on him. Its been shown Chuck can be easily distracted and isnt aware of everything going on, unless he is trying to see something in the moment. Hell, i think they even made wards that protected against him. The whole point was that humans and free will overcame gods divine plan.
my theory is that Colt was the archangel of justice Raguel, that chose to fall to earth after realizing what was to come for humanity. maybe he found out about chuck and his true nature maybe he found out the other archangels where manipulating Armageddon maybe chuck told him to maybe the hell gates where supposed to be god proof and the only way to open and close them was the colt maybe the colt was the prototype of chuck's gun "THE EQUALIZER" which is called that because it does damage to the user as well which chuck conveniently didn't reveal final note: i really wish they did more with the sahdeeb. like you said, if lucifer was afraid of them so should they
I've always liked to think of it as this just because you have an ultimate all power gun doesn't fix all your problems. I like to think that the Universe has to correct itself somehow it has to have restrictions. Magic is just one of those things I like to believe within Supernatural that yeah you can do something but there has to be a limit. There has to be restrictions the greater the spell the more restrictions have to be made. And I think that's God's doing that's the universe trying to correct itself and keep order and balance. Sure I can have an all-powerful spell to Nuke the city but they have to be requirements in order to do it. Time sacrifice and belief that it will happen. That's why I would like to believe about the colt the colt may be the most dangerous gun in the world and it can Spirit kill but I would like to believe that maybe the creator of the gun restricted its capabilities so that it would have the maximum output. You know checks and balances calamity balance and counterbalance. Equivalent Exchange having all powerful gun that can kill anything but the trade-off it can't kill everything. The more powerful and older the creature the less likely it can kill it. Without a loophole.
The fact February was the last month of the commet and the first month of the battle could be a sign that during the first 5 months of the commet, they were learning how to create the spell and the last month of the commet they were actually creating the gun and the spell. Though the railway devil trap could have taken longer than 5 months to build with the right man power and reasoning, in my mind it wasn't do much that the colt was made to open the door but the oter way. They created the gun, then the door and then the devils trap to stop any demons from getting to the door and there only being one item that can open the door and its one of the few items that can kill most demons. It being a gun was more of a nod to who made it rather than that being its actual purpose
it would make sense that the key itself was turned into the colt, but the key was able to be turned into the barrel of of a gun, and that was just a very effective way to not fight monsters up close.
what if samuel colt melted a key form the gates of hell and used the metal to make the gun, the gun is the key for the gates of hell in the series, makes sense.
Rowina says “when death notices are loophole”, it’s from the episode where they bring back the deaf hunter woman. It does create an interesting idea that maybe the creation of the gun is tied to a loophole. However instead of using the loophole for resurrection, it’s used to kill. Could be cool if the way it works is by turning the victim human/part human for a split second or maybe just at the area of impact. Then the only beings capable of surviving a shot are entities that have lost all connection to humanity. Those entities would be arch angels, primordials such as the leviathans / the 4 horsemen, Kain (+ his original demon crew, which is likely due to their connection to the mark of Cain). It’s possible that the creators of the Colt, don’t understand that that’s why it works, so they could never recreate it. It’s also possible that Death doesn’t consider it a loophole since the colt simply enhances the influence of the victim’s humanity. It would be interesting to look into what happens to the souls of those the Colt has killed. The colt probably doesn’t heal demons back to humans, but maybe it could let a human turn Monster enter an afterlife, that isn’t purgatory. This could be the case, after all vampirism can be reversed if no blood has been drunk.
I never really thought too much about it, but I had a sort of feeling that the Colt was more… the hand of Man, but not in the Satanic way. Like a culmination of the divine creativity God gave Man funneled into killing the enemies of humanity.
Before the battle of Jericho Joshua was made invincible by The Angel of The Lord so maybe it couldn't hurt him. Unless of course he was only made invincible to mankind and not celestial beings
No, iirc, Death said, “and that Mark on your arm is the first curse. Nothing can kill you”, to Dean, so not even him. Death could transfer the Mark to someone else, and then be able kill Dean, but then it wouldn’t be killing “someone with the Mark” anymore. Death could also probably kill Dean whilst removing the Mark at the same time, but again, that really wouldn’t be “someone with the Mark” anymore either. I assume this is the case, because the Mark is tied to the Darkness, so the bearer of the Mark is as immortal as the Darkness (thus, not even Death itself would be able to kill and reap someone with the Mark). So no, Death wouldn’t be able to kill someone with the Mark, at least, not without “undoing” the Mark in some way; Death can’t (permanently) kill someone with the Mark, whilst still having the Mark itself intact to the respective host, is what I’m trying to get across.
We should ask if the comet even passed the same year as when the Alamo guys died. N second we know astronomical events do power up spells that’s y sum are done on full moons or eclipses etc.
Cool theories, I never watched the show past season 6, but my personal headcannon was always that Sam Colt was important to the creation of the deadliest gun ever made, that only the hands that would create weapons that would take millions of lives over the decades were able to make it. It would go a ways explain why the Colt never gets remade or copied, since they can't just ask Sam to make them another one. I agree with your theory that the meteor is important, though I would explore it a little differently, a lot of rituals from various cultures place special importance on specific times of day, or times of the year (solstices, that kind of thing), with rarer times that only happened once a year or less being of particular importance. What unifies all these different times/dates, regardless of what is being used to track them, is that they all describe a specific moment in time that is "special" in one way or another to that culture. Comets are pretty unique in that they are quite reliable in their patterns, and can have VERY long periods between appearances, so they happen less frequently than most reliable phenomena and are therefore more important.
I always figured an artifact of god or a grace fell on a iron mine and colt saw it land and found some metal glowing or something, took it home and saw it either attracted demons or caused them pain when near it
@Johnnysmithy24 chuck shit in this bucket while high on mushrooms and lsd during a party promoting his newest chapter of supernatural. Such powerful potency this is. On chuck sneezed in this tissue and now this tissue blesses anyone who uses it from getting sick for a day and can be used as a weapon against demons
This might seem lame and dependent more on seasons after its time to make sense, but I think the colt had its power specifically because Chuck wrote the gun to be able to do what it could, and then allowed it to be destroyed when it was no longer needed to progress "his story". Chuck was notorious for making some long con stories that all accumulated at Sam and Deans intervention, so could the Colt be a plot device meant to keep the story going.
most magical part: how a blackpowder gun designed in 1835 not only takes metallic cartridges (with no loading gate btw). but also accepts not only centerfire cartridges, but also smokeless cartridges without exploding.... sorry, the gun nerd in me activated..
Just pointing out Halley's comet passed a year before the Alamo, so it's not possible (unless in universe is different) that it was made on the same night of the Alamo & during the passing of the comet.
I think the metal is melted Angel blades, powerful spell work from witches are etched into the blade and bullets, and phoenix ash infused into the gunpowder
@@zombiegodsire while I agree the Phoenix Ash is difficult for them to get their hands on the other stuff is pretty common by the time they start making more ammo, there’s dead angels all over the place so Angel blades are more common and powerful witch spells are easy enough to etch into the bullets once you know what you’re looking for
there's something Rowena said during her time in the series. there is always a loophole but as soon as it's used once, it gets closed by God to prevent others from using it. as for the Colt, it could be made from a part of a hand of God which gives it the power to kill things like demons and monsters but not strong enough to kill angels. this could also mean that God felt it was too dangerous and made it so that it can't kill angels so to prevent others from stopping the apocalypse like how Dean did with Lucifer and Michael
Aside from the obvious thing that the gun is a reusable MacGuffin for many episodes, and the bullets also is a MacGuffin for many episodes. Most guns are machined or casted. However i think the metal in the gun is inscribed, then folded. That way it is possible to hide the spell inside of the metal. Can't really reverse engineer that in any way i know of. If you wanna go into the mechanics, i'd guess the cylinder could serve as the bowl in the ritual. and the gunpowder as the fire.
There's an easy explanation for why nobody has ever made another Colt, its because it was made using special magic enchanting it with the power of the Haylin Comet that was passing overhead. Meaning nobody can hope to recreate the Colt unless that same comet were flying overhead and the maker knew the spell(s) to enchant the gun. Samuel Colt made that gun to double as a key to a Gate to Hell he sealed personally. It didn't just 'kill anything', it has alot of different magic effects etched into it, such as cursing the bullets specially enchanted to accept the curses. When the gun is fired, the bullets will have a death curse for each specific monster save for five specific things in Creation that had more power than the Haylin Comet itself.
Colt made a deal with the demon to make him a all powerfull gun, that's why he build huge devils trap where he could live and survive, graveyard is there so humans had to come here and there .
honestly, i think Samual Colt was into deep occult stuff and so he created the revolver and made a deal with a crossroads demon to get it and that he would build for them a gate way to hell and its possible along the way a witch told him a ritual to imbue the gun with the power to smite demons
Most monsters can only be killed by a specific weapon or method The Colt is beyond that. The Phoenix was never revealed what could kill him, because the Colt did it anyway, same with Moloch
If I were to break this down further I'd also point out that the coloration on the cult matches on archangel, blade the brass gold and bronze. I would even theorize that in the cult is an archangel blade most likely Gabriel's, but likely is a Gregori (the vampire angle hunter) thing that feed off happy souls or whatever. One of there blades was melted down into parts for the colt. The rest of it was melted down into bullets. I'm pretty sure Castiel mentions that him or angels were sent to Earth to hunt all of those like soul vampires down. If that's the case then whoever was in charge at the time probably so what Samuel Colt did with one of those blades and figured this was a big no-no for power to come into human hands and sent the angels down there to get rid of all the other soul sucking vampires.
Out of all the equipment in supernatural the Colt is one of my favorite and to bad they didn't bring back outside of a small apperance in the Winchesters show. I would have like to see it comeback or least an improved version of it where it kill at least 3 to 4 out the 5 things it originally couldn't kill and it could like another famous colt weapon(ex. Walker, Single action army revolver/peacemaker etc.)
The Colt Patterson revolver actually is a ball and cap revolver and doesn't take regular bullets, it's a muzzle loader. As I said in another comment I owned a original Colt Patterson one of only a handful of people to do so. Serial number 80. You can get reproduction versions which is what they used on the show.
I would suspect it was a deal with the devil that help forge that weapon. Devil has active animosity towards demons and angels alike and it would be on brand for him to forge a weapon that couldn't hurt him but hurt his own demons.
I think Chuck created it just to amuse himself. He didn't want Lucifer using it to kill Michael so he gave it limitations. There have been spells in Supernatural that were absurdly powerful and somebody made the amulet that could detect God ,which is ridiculous, but that was a joke because it only worked when Chuck wanted it to. The fact that there were about a kjillion Michaels and Lucifers kind of throws everything up for grabs though. If they couldn't move between realities then it would work but having two Michaels or Lucifers in the same universe was just crazy. You also have to wonder why Chuck would allow Jack to be created and why didn't he know what would happen ? He knows the future. The show had way too many giant holes in it. The one thing I really want to know is if the universe that Balthazar sent them to was real or some kind of illusion or something else. Raphael couldn't just go there and the doorway wasn't a rift like the one that Jack created...also, Jack is more powerful than Chuck so what does that mean and what happened to Amara when Jack made Chuck human ? Did every universe have it's own void and "cosmic being" and how many cosmic beings were there anyways ?
I guess I hav to point this out....From what I remember, there was one reference that the colt was forged with metals that came from a crash site of a rock from space. I have a couple theories on this...first is that a chunk of haley's comet broke off and touched down on earth and was later found maybe hundreds of years later by the one who collected the sampkles of that metal to create said colt. With this said, theory 1 begins.....first is the metal in question was the same metals from hailey's comet began resonating with it's fragments during the creation process in which the mystic metals of haley's comet gave the colt the power to kill almost any creature that breath in one shot. Now I can get into the list of the 5 exceptions later....now theory 2 is the metals didn't exactly matter and the significance of the comet is derived of a event of something else entirely...maybe a rip in space happened and some energies that were not meant to be in that particular reality entered and began resonating with haley's comet and the light of haley's comet touched down on the colt during it's construction. With that done, it would be enchanted with something not of that universe at all and something of another. that is theory 2. Last theory is a long shot. During the events of the haley's comet event, a hol opened up into the big empty. granted I know no being has control or dominion over the big empty except one being which resides there on the exception being jack which I am still working out. however this rip allowed some of the energy of that being to escape and entered the metals of the colt or maybe the metals were saturated in that power as a whole when crafted under the intent of the creator and created a weapon that can kill almost all creatures. Now with those 3 theories brought out, I can get to the 5 exceptions....first is archangels which is widely known to be the closest thing to being a god of the celestials or in this case the god of creation or the bible if you will....Next are the gods themselves like chuck and amara being the second exceptions since they are classified as higher gods of creation. number 3 would be the hell knights which were created by the touch of amara's darkness so that is number 3 along those lines. number 4 is the primordial creatures like the one tat created lycans, vampires, and other such creatures and even Leviathans. then there is the last one.....The horseman of the apocolpse. From what is known about these particular entities. They have been around far longer than any known god or goddess in existence in this universe of the supernatural and as such they are classified as primorial entities of there own right, but.....they is a way around it....If they last there mantle of power which would be there rings, then they could be killed by the colt. With this said are the 5 stated. there is a hypethetical 6th which would be A nephilim sired by a archangel since Jack is classified being more powerful than lucifer himself and also able to influence the big empty even though god can't I say he is the 6th exception in all of this...I dare anyone to tell me otherwise on the exception and voice any replies you have on my theories and the exception if you have any.
Ok you are missing one aspect. Magic and Religion when dealing with demons and spirits and faye folk works completely different from reality. Here in reality we work on a basis of logic and physics. Demons and spirits work on a basis of contracts and beliefs, the contracts work simply off of belief, this is why demons can be warded off with faith and incantations. Now this being said, all the rituals performed in magic and the cults of Christianity and Judaism are the same thing, they are a form of contractual structure that create belief. They create rules in the opponents reality. So, this ritual performed and says that they have acquired the required power to create a weapon that can kill such and such and the enemy says "yeah seems legit". Now their own belief creates the rule that they can be killed by the weapon. What gives certain creatures resistance or immunity to the weapon is logical loopholes that suspend or break this belief. An example would be an Arch Demon going "oh yeah well ok but I can just stop bullets in mid air, or Lucy just going "Yeah but I am Lucifer and above that shit". Basically the higher the power scaling and knowledge the easier it is for these beings to look into the physics of their reality and see the loopholes in the binding rules. Then we have the simple fact that God in this story is quite quirky and at his wits end trying to make his story work. When humans did their ritual that said "we have made this all powerful weapon", God said sure why not, that sounds fun. So while God wasn't fooled by this ritual, he did decide to sign off on it being true. That is just with the purpose of rituals in magic and religion. Now we consider the most likely answer. God in this story is just a horrible writer, he did come up with the gun, but his attention to detail is a bit off. So he just wrote "yeah the gun is real and they made it". But he did not include detailing what the gun is made from or how the ritual works. He just wrote the gun works, unless I deem it not to for drama. Lastly it could be a combination of both of those things. God wrote "Yeah they made this gun and it one shots everything because of this cryptic ritual". And then all the demons and angels and mythical creatures said "yeah that makes sense" and were thus bound by this contract as reality. The issue why some are immune or resistant to the colt is simply power scaling and knowledge base. For example: Lucifer is one of God's biggest critics and know his writing is shitty with little care put into it. This gives him the power to break the belief with just a simple "yeah, sounds like bullshit to me, how could I, ME, LUCIFER, THE MOST POWERFUL ARCHANGEL, fall to a human made weapon?", thus breaking his bonds to this contract.
God, archangels, death, Cain (or the one bearing the mark), nephilim (archangel nephilim, Jack) My list of the 5 things in all creation that the Colt can't kill. I don't count the darkness or the empty because they are not part of Chuck's creation. You could probably exclude Chuck as well, but I can't think of anything else to add to the list.
The better question to ask regarding the gun is can the special bullets be fired by a normal gun? The gun isn't special unless it's the only thing that will fire the bullets... The Bullets are the real special killing device, the gun isn't special by itself. The special bullets kill nearly everything, can they be fired by a normal gun?
1. Archs 2. Eve 3. Leviathans 4. Mark of Cain Barer 5. Horsemen Now there's a 6th ane maybe a 7th 6. Jack 7. Maybe Antichrist? We've never seen it used on a ghosts, reapers, angels, or nephilim. Creation excludes God, Amara, maybe Death, and maybe the Empty.
Problem with every person who makes this same list as you, doesn't realize when the writers wrote that line, the show was planned to end with season 5. Eve, Leviathans, Cain and his mark, weren't part of the shows universe yet.
My head cannon is its a play on the quote “God created men, Sam Colt made them equal" meaning that God decided to give him the ability to kill almost anything for his magnus opus
I had no idea about that quote! Makes so much sense
honestly, when angels where dying left and right im genuinely surprised that the winchesters didnt melt them down into bullets like crowly did and have an arsenal of angel blade bullets when dealing with demons and angels
Was annoying
Yeah, even people from apocalypse world did that.
Its probably because Angelblades don't melt down without spells only the King of Hell would dabble in. Ontop of that Sam and Dean wouldn't waste something so valuable as an angelblade. Not only are they hard to get, they're good for killing demons and angels, and they can be reused, like the demon knife. No way would they melt down angelblades into bullets an angel could just dodge or slow time to avoid.
Crowley's magical prowess is very understated. He can survive Rowena's magic, he can replicate it, but also manage to do a dozen of unique things "we never see again". He manages to trap Lucifer in Apocalypse World and a dozen other things.
His humility of, "I melted it down and made bullets" is far, far more complicated. Crowley knows how to make ammo for the Colt, which already is important. Now it's established that he's in touch with a coven of witch's for resurrection magic (part of demon deals) and established that system, putting him pretty on par with Rowena in terms of power though his is often administrative.
Bobby in apocalypse world has angel killing bullets, but that's likely because demons, witches and all manner of beasties are all on the same de facto side. There's angels, then anything else - this could yield a lot of possible roads to these same discoveries, especially since Bobby is both as administrative and knowledgeable as Crowley. They're practically foils.
We see the quantum gun Chuck has be melted down, but it's clearly more complicated than that. That gun is an unearthly tangle of god-magic, it's something only Chuck could make.
The Colt is likely very similar.
The pentagram, the inscription - these might have NO bearing on the gun's significance. Just addons to make them easier to distinguish from a bag of other guns.
The angel-killing bullets are also inefficient. Castiel gets hurt by a bullet, but it doesn't kill him - it slows him down, but doesn't kill him. This causes a big issue, since winged angels can teleport and if you don't capitalize on your attack, they teleport, you die. You need angel hubris to kill them. Even Balthazar opted for surprise attacks with the blades, as guns are too threatening for angels to ignore once "they know". This made them more suitable in apocalypse world, whereas in the main world getting angels to strat throwing hands was smarter. Angels are pretty uniform, so relying on that hubris was smarter than trying to just make bullets. The bullets are also expended when you shoot with them, unless you dissect an angel - who often explode when they die.
Meanwhile, if you make angel-killing bullets, the odds Castiel is gonna get shot with them are high. Knives are personal.
For Demons, hex-bullets with glyphs on them work just as well. Princes of hell can't be stopped by them, but also, there's nothing to say that angel-bullets would be anymore effective. We see them tank angel blades entirely, which means bullets might be less-than-useful. You also can't "test" that, since no demon is gonna let you shoot them, and if you try it on a major bad guy you die learning this data. They might have some angel-killing bullets around, but just don't want to use them since they're unreliable when the knife is absolutely tested. You can't mess around with an angel, they will detonate you if you aren't careful.
So... maybe there's some at the bottom of the boys bag, but they just never find an occasion to risk it. Especially when hiding a gun is harder than hiding angel blades, which are designed to be simple to conceal - it's almost their priority. You also can do a lot of duelling tricks with those blades, whereas guns you telegraph your intentions far too easily... and then there's the gun itself.
Crowley used a luger from WW2, which is an "odd" choice.
Bobby uses an automatic pistol, which is another odd choice.
... the gun might be the hard part, not the bullet.
If you fire an angel-blade bulelt out of a glock, the glock might blow up in your hand. There's striations in modern firearms. You might need a flintlock ball style bullet or else you're getting blowback...
Or you might need a cursed weapon that's indestructible. That makes the most sense, and why a Luger would be used. A hitler-era weapon is great on the kabal side of things, but also, probably cursed by the heinous acts.
The Colt might be cursed, making it invincible, making it easier to fire. It would be in line for Bobby to use a cursed weapon as well.
... and now you're getting into evil magic.
Dean would be absolute about this, no evil magic unless you need it. Even Sam likely sat down and was like, "This is getting dark". And when you're hanging with Cas, I'm sure he's frowning a bit too.
Weaponry obsession isn't a healthy thing, better to sit down and find more useful, helpful lore than spend months trying to make another killing weapon.
because Winchesters are not Crowley. Soulless Sam or Demon Dean might have done it though
Honestly the meteor being a “hand of god” is a really good theory, it’d make me some sense too
Made of meteorite iron?
But wouldn’t this mean that the colt will eventually stop working since hands of god have limited energy?
@GunNr- eventually yes it would have however we know that they used it in spells but it never stated what would happen if it was put in a gun/sword so maybe it would work like enchanting in skyrim you'd need to "recharge" it
It's a comet.
Pretty on point bro. Also, John says there was a rider on a horse that used most of the bullets, and that rider was Dean, when he went back in time.
Dean only fired the colt once in that trip though
Yeah ...we have to many "experts " here . I love it
It was Sam, but yes. John says that Samuel Colt "made the gun for a hunter" but we know this is untrue. He made the gun for himself, because he was being hunted by Demons for making the giant railroad devil's trap, and for making the devil's gate (Which can only be opened with the colt). He gave the gun to Sam, when Sam and Dean needed it to kill a Phoenix, and that's what started the legend that he made the gun for a hunter.
No its not
@@jameskmatrix5344 Elaborate.
There is a phenomenon I use in my D*D games called "Magnum Opus" that refers to instances where completely normal craftsmen manage to create a singular magical item in their careers (maybe two for truly legendary craftsfolk), that takes part of their own soul and taps into the cosmic background magic. These weapons or items usually play massively important roles and have powers and traits that are unique or exceedingly rare. Honestly the way I interpret the Colt is this:
Colt was a man like John Winchester, driven, a little mad, and unwavering in his purpose. Whatever the cause of his knowledge of the supernatural world, he became aware of it, and sought to craft a weapon that would give future hunters a fighting chance. I think it more likely that the comet and the alamo and probly a handful of other one of events happening in the world may have contributed to this once in a lifetime event, and that he would go on to continue to learn new things about the supernatural, and eventually used his powerful colt as a key for the second (as I said, rare but possible) great Magnum Opus, the Giant Devils Trap and Lock.
Not as intricate as yours I admit, but sometimes simple can be elegant. In my mind, Colt and John Winchester are very similar, its not hard to imagine Colt also going through something traumatic and dedicating his life and fortune to hunting. Cheers.
Love the magnum opus thing.Tempted to steal it for my own world... 🤔
@@Jostradomas this is how magical artifacts SHOULD be made. It shouldnt even be a consideration by the maker to say "i am going to create a unique magical artifact" it SHOULD be a magical device that exceeded expectations of design. Otherwise artifacts wouldnt be aa rare if people could intentionally make them.
I play dnd too totallyyyyy taking this man super awesome concept
For me, the Colt is in the center of the biggest plot hole in the show. The Winchesters went through extreme lenghts to kill Eve, the Leviathans, and Abaddon, without even trying if the Colt works on them.
If the Colt was somehow lost, okay. But after we learn that Crowley knew all along where the Colt was, I really wondered why he didn't tell Sam and Dean. He wanted all of these creatures - Eve, Leviathans and Abaddon - definitely dead at some point.
This would also support your theory that Eve and the Leviathans are immune, and maybe Crowley did some research (after what happened with Lucifer) and knew.
It was just inconsistency on the writers part, Dean didn’t even need to take the Mark on cause Cain went back to killing anyway and he could’ve killed Abbadon. As for Eve, we learned later on that the Colt wouldn’t have killed her because she descended from Leviathan and we learned that Leviathan predate even angels so they could be considered primordial like the archangels.
@@jamesdiamond533 The Colt was lost and found its way to Ramiel whom held it until season 12, that's why it completely vanished from the series
@@jamesdiamond533 except lucifer said 5 things in all of creation and i can name 4(offhand) that would be immune from the gun(including Luci), and given what happens to those who own it, i would say its a cursed/blessed object
@@Guardian582what?
It was my understanding that the colts power symbolized the culmination of every soul of every victim of the Colt legacy..every death caused by a Colt firearm.
That's an interesting Theory.
In fact i remember where i got it. The real Colt history. The widow of mr. Colt believed she was haunted by those whom were killed by the design.
@@zachbahamutson5477 actually the theory is based on a cross-section of both the Colt family history and the Winchester family history. The widows of both families were heavily distraught with the feeling of guilt from the firearms their husbands designed. As such they both claimed to be haunted by the souls of the people killed by these guns. In fact if you deepdive both famiilies you will find the basis for the entire Supernatural Winchester family tree
Sam says that Ruby's spell to make bullets "Mimics the original etchings" and the Latin that's spoken is literally just "Mimic this sigil, mimic this sigil". So the engravings are clearly where the power lies. Just like the Lance of Michael, "The power is in its craftsmanship, its spellwork".
My theory is that Chuck, gave Samuel Colt a vision, and the Comet and stuff was a sign of him manifesting his power on Earth.
Why, you may ask? Simply because he thought it was cool, and good for the story.
I always assumed the 5 creatures that the Colt couldn't kill were the 4 Archangels and Death.
The show writers hadn't invented things like Eve, Cain and Amara yet as the show was written to end with season 5. As far as we knew the strongest beings at the time were the 4 Archangels, Death, God and Jesse Turner (The Antichrist). The Archangels believe God to have left existence, which is why they triggered the apocalypse in the first place, and Lucifer says; "There's only 5 things IN all of creation that that gun can't kill".
This is after Jesse in introduced, but before Luci 'kills' Gabriel, so they both definitely exist at the time. I think that Lucifer most likely doesn't know about Jesse. Or perhaps he isn't strong enough to survive the Colt yet. Castiel does say that Jesse's power is still growing.
Archangels, Leviathan, Death (& maybe the other horsemen), anyone who holds the mark of cain, idk about the fifth but my top guess is the Shedim.
Lucifer said 5 beings in all of creation. Death isn't a being of creation as Chuck didn't create him so he doesn't matter. Amara and Chuck won't count either. Let's just say none of the primordial beings as in Chuck, Amara, Death and the empty count.
@@adegbenrotemitope8075 I believe what Death actually said was that neither he nor god remembered who came first. Now the fact that death doesn't remember could just mean that Chuck did actually create him, but wanted him to think he didn't so he removed that memory. Seeing as we never got an actual confrontation between the first Death (the only one I personally consider the real Death) we don't know if he could in fact reap God. It's one of those unfinished details, like the origins of the Colt.
i think when he mentions 5 tho he wouldn't count eve Cain or Amara because at the time two were not in creation purgatory and Amaras prison are like side rooms to the universe and everyone thought cain killed the knights then somehow died or left earth so when he says in creation i think he means him and his brothers and 1 other maybe one of the other unique angels who are above the rank and file like Naomi or Metatron because i don't think he would count death because he isen't really apart of creation more it's caretaker.
@@narrowminer1131 I think Death also knows God created him, he’s just too proud to admit it. Like when he says he can kill God but was hesitant when Dean told him to, like he was caught in a bluff.
I feel like there should've been a moment that Dean said, "well at least we have these"
Then unzipped a duffel bag bulging with angel blades from the vast amount of angels they killed......because those angels each had one when they died
When Rowina says something about "when you find a loophole you can only use it once - god closes it", I felt like that was a good explanation for the Colt. Someone figured out a sweet loophole to get a supergun and God closed the loophole after. This would potentially mean that whoever created the spell had the Book of the Damned, I think.
As for Lucifer and others knowing about it, I think Lucifer would have learned about it after coming back to Earth - it feels like the subject of "there's a gun that kills everything" would have come up. Who he learned it from could be just about anyone, Lucifer is presumably well connected. Maybe Lucifer was able to piece together things like "It was done under halley's comet", which perhaps Lucifer knows is connected to Chuck in some way, and therefore understand its limitations. The
It's pretty much like in the Nasuverse, where only 7 people are able to use the 7 primordial magics, and that's because they all reached the root of the universe using different methods, and after they did it, that method would become invalid
Rowina says “when death notices are loophole”, it’s from the episode where they bring back the deaf hunter woman.
It does create an interesting idea that maybe the creation of the gun is tied to a loophole. However instead of using the loophole for resurrection, it’s used to kill.
Could be cool if the way it works is by turning the victim human/part human for a split second or maybe just at the area of impact. Then the only beings capable of surviving a shot are entities that have lost all connection to humanity.
Those entities would be arch angels, primordials such as the leviathans / the 4 horsemen, Kain (+ his original demon crew, which is likely due to their connection to the mark of Cain).
It’s possible that the creators of the Colt, don’t understand that that’s why it works, so they could never recreate it.
It’s also possible that Death doesn’t consider it a loophole since the colt simply enhances the influence of the victim’s humanity. It would be interesting to look into what happens to the souls of those the Colt has killed.
The colt probably doesn’t heal demons back to humans, but maybe it could let a human turn Monster enter an afterlife, that isn’t purgatory. This could be the case, after all vampirism can be reversed if no blood has been drunk.
On the point regarding comets/meteors/celestial events, Supernatural, like many of the CW shows, had some influences from modern neopaganism and witchcraft. In both sides, celestial events, including Halley's Comet, are revered for the energy that they pass down and are called on in rites and rituals devoted to certain deities. Throughout Supernatural they make celestial events to be pretty important overall, especially in reference to lunar cycles and eclipses, just as in witchcraft, which sees different periods of the cycle as important for specific spells- ie New Moons being a perfect time for bringing in new energy into one's life, or beginning new tasks, or initiating a new member into a circle. In the show, the boys needed an Eclipse to open a gateway to Purgatory in order to purge Castiel of all the souls he had gorged himself on earlier in the season, just as one example. So it could be that the Comet somehow passed down a spark of divine energy, such as a spark of an Archangel's grace (considering that's about how far up it scales) during the creation of the Colt, imbuing it with the power to kill most things up to and including gods, angels, demons, Princes and Knights of Hell, alphas, and monsters created by Lilith. As to why it doesn't work on others, that could be directly due to them existing before humanity. None of Princes or Knights existed before humanity, so while they are strong enough to hold their own against Seraphim, they can't handle Archangels. Same goes for the gods- they came into existence with humanity, the oldest being the gods of the nature and cosmology. Some of the beings on the show are too ancient to be affected by the Colt, or given too much power to be.
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I am one of only a handful of people who have actually owned a real original Colt Patterson Revolver, I owned and sold Colt Patterson serial number 80. It was one that had been missing for years before being rediscovered and purchased by myself.
Funny how the Colt used cartridges especially when cartridge-utilizing guns weren't created until about 10 years later than Colt's design in the show.
Seeing Katie Cassidy as a a supernatural being is attractive asf she definitely fits the role.
I've always been of the opinion that the colt is a powerful magical artifact that cannot kill anything more powerful than itself. We also know it CAN be replicated as that alternate reality dean who used a colt 1911A1 version killed multiple demons. But that gun had the same limitations as it couldn't kill lucifer either
When did that happen? and what alternate dean? The one from the future where Sam said yes to lucifer or the one from the alternate reality?
@AiMdExP It's from the episode "proverbs 17:3" which god reveals later (in "the trap")wasn't a nightmare but an alternative reality. And since all realities more or less follow the same rules (some exceptions) I'm pretty confident with the right knowledge you could equip an army of Hunters with colt guns. The writers just never did that as it would take most of the tension out of any episodes that didn't involve the five or more beings too powerful
A huge error in writing for me was Cas thinking the Colt would work on Lucifer. How could he of all people not known the Colt wouldnt have worked on Lucifer?
the colt could be part of horseman of war since he is the meteor/comet wormwood and it was during the alamo which in a sense was a pretty serious war and event and maybe hailey’s comet is another name for wormwood, but since war horseman is not all powerful it couldn’t kill everything
on a minor note I think you said, sage doesn't play much of a role, but it is heavily linked to warding off evil and I am quite sure it's one of the ingredients mentioned in the vampire cure. So sage makes sense in a purifying context, like empowering he silver to maybe become closer to the material of angel blades.
I always thought he made a deal with crossroads demon, so that he could forge the gun, but then killed the demon using the gun, so that he didn't have to give up his soul, but instead dean and sam joined the party, which meant he went to an early grave, but passed it onto a future generation of hunters. This would also make sense given demons intimate knowledge of the gun, as it may have been a biproduct of a crossroads deal gone wrong, as it may have been the right place right time, but otherwise impossible without the comet, to complete the spell required to forge the gun, with maybe even a touch of lucifer's grace.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Cain helped Samuel create the Colt? Cain didn’t stop killing until after the Colt was made but it would still be cool.
I am all the way here for this kind of nerdy discussion. It reminds me of when I came up with a plausible history for the "Kurdish Demon-Killing Blades" for the purposes of a Supernatural RP that I'm a part of.
As for my list about the five things the Colt can't kill, first of all I think you absolutely have to look at it as categories and not individual beings. I don't think it makes sense otherwise. I also feel like it makes a little more sense if you narrow the field a bit further by regarding "Creation" (as Lucifer specifically states) to be "beings that Chuck had a hand in creating/watching over" rather than treating the question as "all of existence".
That being said, here's my list:
1.) Archangels
2.) The Horsemen
3.) Knights of Hell (or any who are otherwise bound by the Mark of Cain)
4.) Leviathans (I am hesitantly tossing Eve in here as well, since we IMO have sufficient dialogue to support her being at least somewhat related to them despite Edgar's objections)
5.) Shedim
I am not sure about the Shedim, mostly because we know so little about them -- including whether they predate Creation. They're just supposed to be "ancient scary demons exiled to Hell". Assuming they were from outside Creation, then I wouldn't mind moving Eve to their slot instead. I am deliberately not listing people like Jack or Jesse because while I think it's conceivable that they both could survive the Colt, both likely postdate the well-known establishment of the gun's limits and thus wouldn't be factored in to the saying. Likewise, I consider several primordial beings like Chuck, Amara, The Shadow, and the Cthulu-esque gods to exist outside of Creation and are probably not considered fair game. Maybe Soul Eaters, too.
honestly I believe that the alamo and haleys comet were meant to be indicators of when the colt was built. If you google the battle of the alamo that happened in 1836 and the time haleys commet was around at that time was 1835, but the year appart didn't matter much
Would have been cool if it was like the dark towers colts, made from Excalibur being melted down to make all the parts
I love swords more, but can't lie it would be amazing to learn of a sacred blade being turned into a holy hand-cannon!
Nice video. But you missed that the new bullets made for the Colt give off a different magical color when killing something compared to the original 13 bullets. The original bullets gave off a blue effect during the kill. The new bullets are red/orange.
IIRC...There was also a line of dialog in the show where it was hinted that the "new bullets" were somehow different compared to the original 13 bullets, and the power behind them was somehow different too. Vague but never elaborated on.
This was ignored by later writers and producers who came onto the show in later seasons.
Wasn't the color inconsistent for the knifes used as well? Could never tell if it was the weapon causing the differences in color, the creature they were ganking causing the color changes, or just the writers and editors being inconsistent.
I think the Colt would work on lesser leviathans
Perhaps consider that the handle of the colt may be from the cross of the Crucifixion , that would theoretically count as a god touched item as per the trinity
That's an interesting theory. Kind of how the spear of destiny was used in certain historical battles by European monarchs who claimed it possessed Supernatural abilities that granted them victory.
The theory I have in my head as of listening to this is that the "men dying at the Alamo" is important because of reapers, or more importantly death, so maybe it involves capturing the powers of Death himself. As the only other thing that could kill practically anything besides Cain's knife and the Gun is Death's Scythe. The rest of how the gun works, being making discount angel blade alloy, makes sense with this too. I believe it can explain why it bypasses magical resistances and attacks a creature's soul/spirit rather than just the body. Though the rift closing/making theory you have is also good. Though I don't think that the writers thought that far ahead seeing as the series was potentially gonna end with season 5. Though its would be a great explanation in hindsight!
Honestly I love your theories for the simple fact they make sense within Cannon
My head canon, is that the colt was ordered built by God hiding in human form, making it a deus ex machina.
He did this, to make his "stories" more interesting. And a number of creatures was immune to the colt, because it was suppose to kill creature in creation, at a time when leviethans and lucifer, was outside.
He was probably more impressed by the colt because it was made by a human. The power associated with the lance is more expected lol
I like the comment theory! Another reference to celestial objects is iridium. It's extremely rare on earth and mostly comes from asteroids and can hurt the alpha shapeshifter
It was also called 'rarer than hell' by Crowley meaning it might be one of the rarest materials on earth
Iirc, it was said that the bullets were cast using shards of some nails used to pin Christ to the cross, which was why the original thirteen bullets made by Colt had a rather different effect when compared to the "mass produced" ammo that can be made, as well as the different design between the two. The Colt itself was just something Samuel Colt made, but it was likely the bullets that held the real power, as without the right ammo, the Colt was just a gun, nothing really special asides from its legacy.
If that were true then it's not a special colt tho right? Meaning they could just make the mass produced bullets and put them in any gun?
@@dr.mund0339 Probably, but that assumes they knew for sure that the Colt was just a gun, with nothing special about it. However all information that the Winchesters had pointed to the Colt also being special, despite it not really being so. So they simply kept it along with the ammunition they made for it.
@@decimation9780 yeah I mean there were alot of times in this show were I was like why don't they just do this or that lol but it wouldn't be very dramatic if they could just kill everything with sniper shots haha
"Iirc, it was said that the bullets were cast using shards of some nails used to pin Christ to the cross"
I don't think that's right. Otherwise the colt bullet ritual would require those same shards and it doesn't. The bullets only have to be made of silver.
@@Ash-Winchester The original thirteen bullets were made using pieces of the nails used to pin Jesus to the cross. Once turned into bullets, they can be fired by the Colt. Provided you use the correct ammunition type, the Colt can fire, regardless of whether the ammo is magical or not. And the ritual used to make mass produced ammo was Bobby Singer's best approximation using what materials were available, which basically turned the silver bullets used into something more akin to bullets made from a melted down Angel Blade.
I have a near exact working replica of this revolver. The show used a Pietta Deluxe which is an Italian made copy of a Colt Patterson that they converted to fire metallic blanks instead of it's original black powder cap-n-ball. I used a Uberti made copy of the Colt Patterson and had it finished exactly the same with proper engraving and had it converted to fire 41 Short Colt.
I think the video misses the entire point of the final seasons of supernatural. Nobody had any free will. Chuck was writing every story and pulling the strings.
Then Chuck never lost or died or whatever. Jack never became God. It just seemed that way cause Chuck wanted it too? Makes sense. Aint no way an actual Omnipotent being would lose to anything wven willfully.
Thatd not true buddy. Chuck is constantly surpised. And also, the guys lost Chucks favor, and had to go to the goddesss of luck to get an edge on him. Its been shown Chuck can be easily distracted and isnt aware of everything going on, unless he is trying to see something in the moment. Hell, i think they even made wards that protected against him. The whole point was that humans and free will overcame gods divine plan.
Great job sir, commend you for your insightful take especially pertaining to the second theory which IMO seems more plausible by it’s unlikeliness
This is honestly as solid a theory as I have EVER heard about that damn gun!
bro this guy is my number one guy for spn
my theory is that Colt was the archangel of justice Raguel, that chose to fall to earth after realizing what was to come for humanity.
maybe he found out about chuck and his true nature
maybe he found out the other archangels where manipulating Armageddon
maybe chuck told him to
maybe the hell gates where supposed to be god proof and the only way to open and close them was the colt
maybe the colt was the prototype of chuck's gun "THE EQUALIZER" which is called that because it does damage to the user as well which chuck conveniently didn't reveal
final note: i really wish they did more with the sahdeeb. like you said, if lucifer was afraid of them so should they
I've always liked to think of it as this just because you have an ultimate all power gun doesn't fix all your problems. I like to think that the Universe has to correct itself somehow it has to have restrictions.
Magic is just one of those things I like to believe within Supernatural that yeah you can do something but there has to be a limit. There has to be restrictions the greater the spell the more restrictions have to be made.
And I think that's God's doing that's the universe trying to correct itself and keep order and balance. Sure I can have an all-powerful spell to Nuke the city but they have to be requirements in order to do it. Time sacrifice and belief that it will happen.
That's why I would like to believe about the colt the colt may be the most dangerous gun in the world and it can Spirit kill but I would like to believe that maybe the creator of the gun restricted its capabilities so that it would have the maximum output.
You know checks and balances calamity balance and counterbalance. Equivalent Exchange having all powerful gun that can kill anything but the trade-off it can't kill everything. The more powerful and older the creature the less likely it can kill it. Without a loophole.
They do go back in time to meet Sam Colt and asked to borrow the gun. They could've asked him then how it was built.
There was no time, Sammy was on the clock
The fact February was the last month of the commet and the first month of the battle could be a sign that during the first 5 months of the commet, they were learning how to create the spell and the last month of the commet they were actually creating the gun and the spell.
Though the railway devil trap could have taken longer than 5 months to build with the right man power and reasoning, in my mind it wasn't do much that the colt was made to open the door but the oter way. They created the gun, then the door and then the devils trap to stop any demons from getting to the door and there only being one item that can open the door and its one of the few items that can kill most demons. It being a gun was more of a nod to who made it rather than that being its actual purpose
Meteors are nothing like comets. Meteors are made of rock and ore while comets are made up of ice.
I always assumed from the fact the colt didnt work on Lucifer that angels, god, amara, death and the leviathans were the ones immune to the colt
Love the last theory! Honestly thought the most creative thought was the closest to truth!
For some reason, I keep thinking that Colt was made from the angelic blade of a fallen angel.
it would make sense that the key itself was turned into the colt, but the key was able to be turned into the barrel of of a gun, and that was just a very effective way to not fight monsters up close.
what if samuel colt melted a key form the gates of hell and used the metal to make the gun, the gun is the key for the gates of hell in the series, makes sense.
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Rowina says “when death notices are loophole”, it’s from the episode where they bring back the deaf hunter woman.
It does create an interesting idea that maybe the creation of the gun is tied to a loophole. However instead of using the loophole for resurrection, it’s used to kill.
Could be cool if the way it works is by turning the victim human/part human for a split second or maybe just at the area of impact. Then the only beings capable of surviving a shot are entities that have lost all connection to humanity.
Those entities would be arch angels, primordials such as the leviathans / the 4 horsemen, Kain (+ his original demon crew, which is likely due to their connection to the mark of Cain).
It’s possible that the creators of the Colt, don’t understand that that’s why it works, so they could never recreate it.
It’s also possible that Death doesn’t consider it a loophole since the colt simply enhances the influence of the victim’s humanity. It would be interesting to look into what happens to the souls of those the Colt has killed.
The colt probably doesn’t heal demons back to humans, but maybe it could let a human turn Monster enter an afterlife, that isn’t purgatory. This could be the case, after all vampirism can be reversed if no blood has been drunk.
I would like why they never just melted angle blads down like they did in the world that went to war
I never really thought too much about it, but I had a sort of feeling that the Colt was more… the hand of Man, but not in the Satanic way. Like a culmination of the divine creativity God gave Man funneled into killing the enemies of humanity.
Before the battle of Jericho Joshua was made invincible by The Angel of The Lord so maybe it couldn't hurt him.
Unless of course he was only made invincible to mankind and not celestial beings
Death said he could kill dean with the Mark, but didn't want to cuz cosmic consequences.
No, iirc, Death said, “and that Mark on your arm is the first curse. Nothing can kill you”, to Dean, so not even him.
Death could transfer the Mark to someone else, and then be able kill Dean, but then it wouldn’t be killing “someone with the Mark” anymore. Death could also probably kill Dean whilst removing the Mark at the same time, but again, that really wouldn’t be “someone with the Mark” anymore either.
I assume this is the case, because the Mark is tied to the Darkness, so the bearer of the Mark is as immortal as the Darkness (thus, not even Death itself would be able to kill and reap someone with the Mark).
So no, Death wouldn’t be able to kill someone with the Mark, at least, not without “undoing” the Mark in some way; Death can’t (permanently) kill someone with the Mark, whilst still having the Mark itself intact to the respective host, is what I’m trying to get across.
No he said he could remove it but he can’t (and nothing else) could have killed Dean
Please a new post about the tablets of the lord. Aka the angel and demon tablet
We should ask if the comet even passed the same year as when the Alamo guys died.
N second we know astronomical events do power up spells that’s y sum are done on full moons or eclipses etc.
Coolest thing on the show. I admire this gun
Same! I love The Colt
As a chemist, I appreciate the random acknowledgment of mass spec. existing, but as an analytical chemistry I cringed a little at mass spectroSCOPY
Very interesting theories, mate! Much respect, and please come to Brazil.
Btw, the Colt has been repaired. Canon.
Great video glad people are still talking about this show
Cool theories, I never watched the show past season 6, but my personal headcannon was always that Sam Colt was important to the creation of the deadliest gun ever made, that only the hands that would create weapons that would take millions of lives over the decades were able to make it. It would go a ways explain why the Colt never gets remade or copied, since they can't just ask Sam to make them another one.
I agree with your theory that the meteor is important, though I would explore it a little differently, a lot of rituals from various cultures place special importance on specific times of day, or times of the year (solstices, that kind of thing), with rarer times that only happened once a year or less being of particular importance. What unifies all these different times/dates, regardless of what is being used to track them, is that they all describe a specific moment in time that is "special" in one way or another to that culture. Comets are pretty unique in that they are quite reliable in their patterns, and can have VERY long periods between appearances, so they happen less frequently than most reliable phenomena and are therefore more important.
I always figured an artifact of god or a grace fell on a iron mine and colt saw it land and found some metal glowing or something, took it home and saw it either attracted demons or caused them pain when near it
Ah, the magic. It's all in the runework, the craftsmanship
The gun and bullets were made from a melted down angel blade
So when Chuck touched anything it could be potentially used as a weapon? *goes to chucks house steals everything's*
Right???🤔
@Johnnysmithy24 chuck shit in this bucket while high on mushrooms and lsd during a party promoting his newest chapter of supernatural. Such powerful potency this is.
On chuck sneezed in this tissue and now this tissue blesses anyone who uses it from getting sick for a day and can be used as a weapon against demons
This might seem lame and dependent more on seasons after its time to make sense, but I think the colt had its power specifically because Chuck wrote the gun to be able to do what it could, and then allowed it to be destroyed when it was no longer needed to progress "his story".
Chuck was notorious for making some long con stories that all accumulated at Sam and Deans intervention, so could the Colt be a plot device meant to keep the story going.
Easy. Colt sold his soul for the power of the gun.
most magical part: how a blackpowder gun designed in 1835 not only takes metallic cartridges (with no loading gate btw). but also accepts not only centerfire cartridges, but also smokeless cartridges without exploding....
sorry, the gun nerd in me activated..
The only problem is Samuel Colt invented the Colt Revolver there were none before him.
Just pointing out Halley's comet passed a year before the Alamo, so it's not possible (unless in universe is different) that it was made on the same night of the Alamo & during the passing of the comet.
I think the metal is melted Angel blades, powerful spell work from witches are etched into the blade and bullets, and phoenix ash infused into the gunpowder
Couldn't be true. Ruby shows Bobby how to make more bullets in season 3. And neither of them would have access to any of those materials then
@@zombiegodsire while I agree the Phoenix Ash is difficult for them to get their hands on the other stuff is pretty common by the time they start making more ammo, there’s dead angels all over the place so Angel blades are more common and powerful witch spells are easy enough to etch into the bullets once you know what you’re looking for
@MasonNoThumbs not difficult. Impossible. Not to mention that how the bullets are made is already explained
Its basically a tiny comet thrower
there's something Rowena said during her time in the series. there is always a loophole but as soon as it's used once, it gets closed by God to prevent others from using it. as for the Colt, it could be made from a part of a hand of God which gives it the power to kill things like demons and monsters but not strong enough to kill angels. this could also mean that God felt it was too dangerous and made it so that it can't kill angels so to prevent others from stopping the apocalypse like how Dean did with Lucifer and Michael
The Colt can kill Angels, just not Archangels
Aside from the obvious thing that the gun is a reusable MacGuffin for many episodes, and the bullets also is a MacGuffin for many episodes. Most guns are machined or casted. However i think the metal in the gun is inscribed, then folded. That way it is possible to hide the spell inside of the metal. Can't really reverse engineer that in any way i know of. If you wanna go into the mechanics, i'd guess the cylinder could serve as the bowl in the ritual. and the gunpowder as the fire.
There's an easy explanation for why nobody has ever made another Colt, its because it was made using special magic enchanting it with the power of the Haylin Comet that was passing overhead. Meaning nobody can hope to recreate the Colt unless that same comet were flying overhead and the maker knew the spell(s) to enchant the gun. Samuel Colt made that gun to double as a key to a Gate to Hell he sealed personally. It didn't just 'kill anything', it has alot of different magic effects etched into it, such as cursing the bullets specially enchanted to accept the curses. When the gun is fired, the bullets will have a death curse for each specific monster save for five specific things in Creation that had more power than the Haylin Comet itself.
Colt made a deal with the demon to make him a all powerfull gun, that's why he build huge devils trap where he could live and survive, graveyard is there so humans had to come here and there .
honestly, i think Samual Colt was into deep occult stuff and so he created the revolver and made a deal with a crossroads demon to get it and that he would build for them a gate way to hell and its possible along the way a witch told him a ritual to imbue the gun with the power to smite demons
we need a prequel taking place in the main universe
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Fun Fact: Those alternate universes still exist. God cannot destroy, only create.
I believe the 5th creatures were dragons, cause the could only be killed by a specific weapon
Most monsters can only be killed by a specific weapon or method
The Colt is beyond that.
The Phoenix was never revealed what could kill him, because the Colt did it anyway, same with Moloch
If I were to break this down further I'd also point out that the coloration on the cult matches on archangel, blade the brass gold and bronze. I would even theorize that in the cult is an archangel blade most likely Gabriel's, but likely is a Gregori (the vampire angle hunter) thing that feed off happy souls or whatever. One of there blades was melted down into parts for the colt. The rest of it was melted down into bullets.
I'm pretty sure Castiel mentions that him or angels were sent to Earth to hunt all of those like soul vampires down. If that's the case then whoever was in charge at the time probably so what Samuel Colt did with one of those blades and figured this was a big no-no for power to come into human hands and sent the angels down there to get rid of all the other soul sucking vampires.
Maybe someone on behalf of colt or colt himself made a deal with a cross roads demon for the instructions to make a weapon that can kill demons
Out of all the equipment in supernatural the Colt is one of my favorite and to bad they didn't bring back outside of a small apperance in the Winchesters show. I would have like to see it comeback or least an improved version of it where it kill at least 3 to 4 out the 5 things it originally couldn't kill and it could like another famous colt weapon(ex. Walker, Single action army revolver/peacemaker etc.)
The Colt Patterson revolver actually is a ball and cap revolver and doesn't take regular bullets, it's a muzzle loader. As I said in another comment I owned a original Colt Patterson one of only a handful of people to do so. Serial number 80. You can get reproduction versions which is what they used on the show.
love your videos please keep doing them
I would suspect it was a deal with the devil that help forge that weapon. Devil has active animosity towards demons and angels alike and it would be on brand for him to forge a weapon that couldn't hurt him but hurt his own demons.
The bullets Crowley shot were melted down angel blades, unless im thinking of something else.
I would make a solid argument that the colt can't kill tulpas in addition to "the five" do to their unique nature
3:00 I thought the Colt was made from a melted down Demon Blade? And the 12 bullets were made from the 2nd Demon Blade.
I think Chuck created it just to amuse himself. He didn't want Lucifer using it to kill Michael so he gave it limitations. There have been spells in Supernatural that were absurdly powerful and somebody made the amulet that could detect God ,which is ridiculous, but that was a joke because it only worked when Chuck wanted it to.
The fact that there were about a kjillion Michaels and Lucifers kind of throws everything up for grabs though. If they couldn't move between realities then it would work but having two Michaels or Lucifers in the same universe was just crazy. You also have to wonder why Chuck would allow Jack to be created and why didn't he know what would happen ? He knows the future. The show had way too many giant holes in it. The one thing I really want to know is if the universe that Balthazar sent them to was real or some kind of illusion or something else. Raphael couldn't just go there and the doorway wasn't a rift like the one that Jack created...also, Jack is more powerful than Chuck so what does that mean and what happened to Amara when Jack made Chuck human ? Did every universe have it's own void and "cosmic being" and how many cosmic beings were there anyways ?
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I guess I hav to point this out....From what I remember, there was one reference that the colt was forged with metals that came from a crash site of a rock from space. I have a couple theories on this...first is that a chunk of haley's comet broke off and touched down on earth and was later found maybe hundreds of years later by the one who collected the sampkles of that metal to create said colt. With this said, theory 1 begins.....first is the metal in question was the same metals from hailey's comet began resonating with it's fragments during the creation process in which the mystic metals of haley's comet gave the colt the power to kill almost any creature that breath in one shot. Now I can get into the list of the 5 exceptions later....now theory 2 is the metals didn't exactly matter and the significance of the comet is derived of a event of something else entirely...maybe a rip in space happened and some energies that were not meant to be in that particular reality entered and began resonating with haley's comet and the light of haley's comet touched down on the colt during it's construction. With that done, it would be enchanted with something not of that universe at all and something of another. that is theory 2. Last theory is a long shot. During the events of the haley's comet event, a hol opened up into the big empty. granted I know no being has control or dominion over the big empty except one being which resides there on the exception being jack which I am still working out. however this rip allowed some of the energy of that being to escape and entered the metals of the colt or maybe the metals were saturated in that power as a whole when crafted under the intent of the creator and created a weapon that can kill almost all creatures. Now with those 3 theories brought out, I can get to the 5 exceptions....first is archangels which is widely known to be the closest thing to being a god of the celestials or in this case the god of creation or the bible if you will....Next are the gods themselves like chuck and amara being the second exceptions since they are classified as higher gods of creation. number 3 would be the hell knights which were created by the touch of amara's darkness so that is number 3 along those lines. number 4 is the primordial creatures like the one tat created lycans, vampires, and other such creatures and even Leviathans. then there is the last one.....The horseman of the apocolpse. From what is known about these particular entities. They have been around far longer than any known god or goddess in existence in this universe of the supernatural and as such they are classified as primorial entities of there own right, but.....they is a way around it....If they last there mantle of power which would be there rings, then they could be killed by the colt. With this said are the 5 stated. there is a hypethetical 6th which would be A nephilim sired by a archangel since Jack is classified being more powerful than lucifer himself and also able to influence the big empty even though god can't I say he is the 6th exception in all of this...I dare anyone to tell me otherwise on the exception and voice any replies you have on my theories and the exception if you have any.
Ok you are missing one aspect. Magic and Religion when dealing with demons and spirits and faye folk works completely different from reality.
Here in reality we work on a basis of logic and physics. Demons and spirits work on a basis of contracts and beliefs, the contracts work simply off of belief, this is why demons can be warded off with faith and incantations.
Now this being said, all the rituals performed in magic and the cults of Christianity and Judaism are the same thing, they are a form of contractual structure that create belief. They create rules in the opponents reality.
So, this ritual performed and says that they have acquired the required power to create a weapon that can kill such and such and the enemy says "yeah seems legit". Now their own belief creates the rule that they can be killed by the weapon.
What gives certain creatures resistance or immunity to the weapon is logical loopholes that suspend or break this belief.
An example would be an Arch Demon going "oh yeah well ok but I can just stop bullets in mid air, or Lucy just going "Yeah but I am Lucifer and above that shit".
Basically the higher the power scaling and knowledge the easier it is for these beings to look into the physics of their reality and see the loopholes in the binding rules.
Then we have the simple fact that God in this story is quite quirky and at his wits end trying to make his story work. When humans did their ritual that said "we have made this all powerful weapon", God said sure why not, that sounds fun. So while God wasn't fooled by this ritual, he did decide to sign off on it being true.
That is just with the purpose of rituals in magic and religion.
Now we consider the most likely answer.
God in this story is just a horrible writer, he did come up with the gun, but his attention to detail is a bit off.
So he just wrote "yeah the gun is real and they made it". But he did not include detailing what the gun is made from or how the ritual works.
He just wrote the gun works, unless I deem it not to for drama.
Lastly it could be a combination of both of those things.
God wrote "Yeah they made this gun and it one shots everything because of this cryptic ritual". And then all the demons and angels and mythical creatures said "yeah that makes sense" and were thus bound by this contract as reality.
The issue why some are immune or resistant to the colt is simply power scaling and knowledge base.
For example: Lucifer is one of God's biggest critics and know his writing is shitty with little care put into it. This gives him the power to break the belief with just a simple "yeah, sounds like bullshit to me, how could I, ME, LUCIFER, THE MOST POWERFUL ARCHANGEL, fall to a human made weapon?", thus breaking his bonds to this contract.
God, archangels, death, Cain (or the one bearing the mark), nephilim (archangel nephilim, Jack)
My list of the 5 things in all creation that the Colt can't kill. I don't count the darkness or the empty because they are not part of Chuck's creation. You could probably exclude Chuck as well, but I can't think of anything else to add to the list.
My head cannon is at Lucifer and the 4 horsemen are the things that the gun can't kill because the gun wasn't used to kill any of the 4 horsemen.
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It always bothered me when Sam held the cold with two hands lol.
The better question to ask regarding the gun is can the special bullets be fired by a normal gun? The gun isn't special unless it's the only thing that will fire the bullets... The Bullets are the real special killing device, the gun isn't special by itself. The special bullets kill nearly everything, can they be fired by a normal gun?
1. Archs
2. Eve
3. Leviathans
4. Mark of Cain Barer
5. Horsemen
Now there's a 6th ane maybe a 7th
6. Jack
7. Maybe Antichrist?
We've never seen it used on a ghosts, reapers, angels, or nephilim.
Creation excludes God, Amara, maybe Death, and maybe the Empty.
Jack is the antichrist
Problem with every person who makes this same list as you, doesn't realize when the writers wrote that line, the show was planned to end with season 5. Eve, Leviathans, Cain and his mark, weren't part of the shows universe yet.