bakasara:

rhaenyss:

I feel like every second of “The Man Who Would Be King” was analysed to excruciating detail, but this scene right here always gets overlooked somehow. It’s a cute little moment in which Dean sees himself as Lois Lane to Cas’ Superman.

(And yeah, he said it to Sam, but come on. Everybody and their mother already knows how much Dean loves to project his own stuff on Sam.)

Bonus gif – Sam doesn’t know whether to roll his eyes or feel sorry for his older brother:

reblogging again because last time I was a little overwhelmed by feels and couldn’t be articulated about this, but now I want to take a moment to analyse this.

True, this scene doesn’t get the attention it deserves, IMO. But man, I love it.

First of all, Dean is known to use jokes as a way to masquerade the fact that he’s scared or hurt, and obviously the idea of Castiel betraying him is both scaring and painful. These kind of reactions are defense mechanisms. I think anyone who has grasped even just a little bit the fundaments of Dean’s character could expect some kind of pun to come at some point during that conversation.

But this time, the line does not contain some generical joke in bad taste. Dean has to process the idea that Castiel might actually have betrayed him. When someone you trusted completely betrays you (or when you think they might have), you don’t just feel hurt and broken. You also feel stupid for letting your guard down so much, for letting the other person in so much that now they have the power to break you like that in the first place. That’s why Dean’s usual one-liner this time is personal and specific. It’s referred to himself and it’s him basically telling himself: “you’re the stupid, defenseless one who got fooled. Joke’s on you.”

As for people who say he’s not talking about himself: the scene makes no sense unless what Dean is really meaning is “This makes me Lois Lane”. He’s been known to project his shit on Sam on lots of occasions (I’ll probably make a separate post for this) and there was no reason for him to tease Sam specifically in that moment.

There are lots other characters associated with Superman, but only Lois Lane is thought of as his true love interest. Sam has never acted around Cas in a way that could make the two of them look like a couple, or however look like they were romantically involved in some way. Dean has that kind of relationships with Cas, and everybody knows it: demons and angels point it out, Sam and Bobby recognize the “more profound bond” they share, Dean himself knows it, whether he is willing to admit it or not. In a parallel that sees Castiel as Superman and in which Lois Lane is brought up, anyone in- and out-of-story would immediately think of Dean. Sam has nothing to do with it. If Dean wasn’t projecting on Sam there would be no reason for this line to exist.
I find it interesting that this scene is so subtle. Once again, it proves that the writers are smarter than a lot of viewers consider them, and also that just because they don’t make Dean and Cas bang each other against a wall it doesn’t mean that they don’t have very clear opinions on what their relationship is and how the characters involved feel about it.

After all, it’s Dean feeling like the Lois Lane to Castiel’s Superman, not anyone else telling him he looks like it.