But fake Santa aside, there’s still a real threat out there.

you could’t kill the Winchesters.

This creature goes after the parents, too.

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It turns out, Christmas spirit is the only thing that can defeat the Anti-Claus, after all.

Regretfully, Dean does, and it changes Sam’s entire world.

But not everything in “A Very Supernatural Christmas” is doom and gloom.

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Except, this creature isn’t evil like the dueling Anti-Clauses.

Yes,allof them.

There’s still time for Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles to reunite on screen.

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Which, when you think about that fact for a few seconds, that’s profoundly sad.

Ironically, they only begin to really understand this in the show’s fifteenth and final season.

After all,The X-Fileswas always ableto makea few Christmas productions itself.

Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is being attacked and held up against a wall by a pagan god.

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Young Sam and Dean Winchester sit on a couch near a Christmas tree

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Two brothers follow their father’s footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.

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