All Supernatural Easter Eggs in Boys

Before Soldier Boy exits the Russian facility, we meet him via flashbacks. That's how we learn that Vought's first hero had a sidekick: Gunpowder, a teenage gun enthusiast. Gunpowder ends up being a lot more important these days when he tangles with Butcher, but we briefly see a younger version of him helping out Soldier Boy on the Barbary Coast. Since he hasn't been around that long, this actor may be a little harder to recognize than Jim Beaver, but indeed another "Supernatural" alum has entered the fray: Gattlin Griffith.

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Long ago, in the first decade of the "Supernatural" run, when Kripke was still at the helm, the Winchesters were caught in the middle of a war between heaven and earth. hell that brought them face to face with the antichrist, aka, a ten-year-old boy named Jesse Turner (Griffith). Castiel presents Jesse as a half-human, half-demon child with essentially unlimited powers and concludes that he must be killed before he grows stronger. But being absolute softies, the Winchesters refused – instead, they told Jesse the truth and offered to protect him. In the end, Jesse fled, hiding from demons, angels, and Winchesters.

This ended up being one of the infamous details that "Supernatural" never managed to iron out. It always seemed like the whole antichrist thing might come back to bite them in the ass - but it never did. Perhaps after Kripke left, in search of a new showrunner and a new direction for the story, Jesse was forgotten. Kripke remembered and even saved Gattlin Griffith's number because he called him just in time to find Jensen Ackles. Griffith marked the occasion by sharing a post on Instagram, tagging Ackles to say, "long time no see".

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