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The CW television series Supernatural stars two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who are mistaken for lovers on occasion, and even go along with it a few times. The show openly plays this, going as far as having one of their characters, angel Zachariah, describe the siblings as “erotically codependent on each other”.[12] Sam and Dean also happen to be “soul-mates”, as stated in season 5 (episode 16). Their relationship is constantly reported by other characters as co-dependent, dysfunctional, unhealthy, and generally “weird”. In the season 4 episode “The Monster at the End of This Book”, fans of a fictional Supernatural book series are revealed to have a subgroup who believe the brothers to also be lovers, this is also true of the TV show fans itself; this phenomenon is called “Wincest”. The show has used incest as a plot device on several occasions. In season 1, the episode “The Benders” featured an incestuous family. In season 4 (episode 7), incest is implied between two witches (brother and sister) that are trying to raise a demon. Again in season 4, in the episode “Family Remains”, they find a wild girl and a wild boy living in a secret room under a house; they are the product of a girl having been raped by her father. It is also heavily implied and, though never made explicit, widely accepted as fact that Bela Talbot, a reoccurring character in season 3, was sexually abused by her father throughout her early teenage years. Supernatural has dealt with non-sibling incest within the Winchester/Campbell family a few times as well. In season 3, an FBI agent falsely states that Dean was brainwashed and molested by his father. In the season 4 episode “In the Beginning”, Dean travels back in time and, upon seeing his mother as a young woman, proceeds to say that she is a “babe”, and then, “I’m going to hell. Again.”. In the same episode, Mary Campbell (their mother) makes a deal with a demon possessing her father’s body. The deal is sealed with a drawn out, open mouthed kiss between the two. In season 6, a few of Dean’s distant cousins are introduced and one flirts with him a few times. More recently, in the season 7 episode “The Mentalists”, Sam and Dean investigate in a Museum and stumble upon a photograph of 2 brothers whose last name is none other than Campbell (Sam and Dean’s mother’s maiden name). It then turns out that the two men on the photograph weren’t brothers but lovers. In a recent season 8 episode, incest is implied between a dead football player and his mother before it is revealed that the player was actually a god who didn’t age, and the woman posing as his mother had been his mortal lover.

The best paragraph I have ever found on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_in_popular_culture)

From its inception, incest has been major trope in Gothic literature. Fans who are shocked by it in Supernatural exhibit a serious ignorance of popular fiction over the past thirty years even. Flowers in the Attic, which contained actual sibling incest, and the series of novels it spawned was widely read and sold millions of copies worldwide. Supernatural is placed firmly in that Gothic tradition.

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