OMG yes Dean is the villain! while others in the fandom say it's actually Sam lol I never got why people were so obsessed with Dean except because of the actor who they remember in Smallville. I don't know I always liked Sam more and hated how the writers always tried vilifying him it's like here's another thing we get to hang over sam's head and gaslight him for.
Sam's worst crime was wanting more for himself beyond the toxic co-dependent relationship he and Dean had in the past. I don't view Sam as a saint but I don't think it's fair to hyperfocus on Sam's wrongs (I mean, dude, none of that pairs up with Dean literally removing Sam's bodily autonomy in season 9 but who the fuck am i to make that judgement) without honing in on Dean's. Dean's treatment of Sam can sometimes fall right in line with the way John treated them both. Because of that, Dean's worst trait is that he doesn't see the worst of his father in himself. And if the writer's wanted to convince me that he did, he never worked through his grudges/anger enough for me to believe he actually saw what was bad about John. The writing should also be blamed in this conversation because after season 10 it felt like the writing wanted me to think Sam is being unreasonable for... not wanting to put up with Dean's shit anymore? It was very sad to watch Sam turn into a shell of himself by the end of the series because the writers didn't know what to do with a character that wasn't Dean.
