I did not understand why the fandom went crazy about Michael and Adam the first go around, but upon the rewatch... I see it.

Thinking about Adam Milligan AND Michael

Thinking about when Adams actor Jake Abel said that Adam would be fucking delighted to know Michael immediately betrayed the Winchesters after his death like underrated character trait of Adam Milligan is how much he HATES Sam and Dean. I feel like Adam is a pretty easy character to mess up or misinterpret because if you pull him too far from being just a guy you risk making him into a Crazy Winchester which is the exact opposite of what he is but I genuinely believe he would let them both die with little conflict. And you know what good for him, I'm glad, Low key think Sam and Dean deserve death by him and only him ngl

Like Adam would never ask Michael to kill them but if for some reason Michael was in the bunker and Dean bumped his shoulder in the hallway and Michael decided "You know what It's Time." Adam would just be like "can't argue with that, It's Just Time." and the entire bunker would just be vaporized off the planet

BUT if a customer at the bar Adam worked at broke a chair over Adams head in a fit of rage Adam would just tell Michael "This guy is obviously an asshole but lets just call the cops and get this guy arrested" and Michael would say "He NEEDS to be accosted by an Angel of the LORD We need to call upon HELLFIRE-" And then the guy would just get arrested

ALSO THOUGH if a guy tried to repeatedly get Adams number and flirt with him Adam would say "I'm litterally going to outlive this guy by centuries dont kill him now i wanna show up at his deathbed in 50 years itll be so funny" and Michael would be like "What should i make us for dinner maybe hawawshi how do you feel about hawawshi?" and then that guy would die of a unrelated heart condition 2 hours later.

Thinking about a world where Adam is pulled out of the cage early without Michael and is unwillingly pulled into Sam and Dean's emotionally incestuous codependent relationship. He hates it, but his brothers have made too many enemies for it to be safe for him to live by himself and he doesn't have a certain angelic companion to help keep him safe. So he's kind of just stuck there, reluctantly playing a part in his brothers codependency because he doesn't really have a lot of options and occasionally lashing out at them whenever they cross a line he's uncomfortable with

Edited 04/15/2024: I made a little ficlet set in this universe.

Late seasons supernatural would've been about a thousand times better if Adam somehow got out of hell a couple years after Sam. For reasons that have nothing to do with Sam and Dean at all. And then, petty and bitchy, he just lowkey shows up in the narrative once or twice a season connected to some scheme to try to ruin their lives.

Like he's not becoming an evil mastermind or a true villain. His life's mission isn't to kill them or anything. It's just like, when he sees a low-investment-threshold opportunity to annoy them or make their lives noticeably harder... what's he supposed to do? Not take it?

this is legitimately the funniest thing dean has ever said

just started crying thinking about how adam didn’t even seem to care that much that sam and dean left him in the cage for TEN YEARS because he was just happy to see them again. the “hi sam :)” MAN.

karma is sam & dean being haunted by their few years in hell while adam came out after a literal millenia happily married and better than ever.

Supernatural - 4.19 Jump The Shark

The only good thing J*hn ever did was make some attractive kids

I'm on 4×19 that's why I added adam