Supernatural's Crowley pushed Dean Winchester into entirely uncharted territory as the season 9 finale came to a close, and hell's newest demon's true powers have yet to be revealed.

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Dean (Jensen Ackles) was no normal human at the time of his death, and the hunter probably won't make your run of the mill demon, either. As the current bearer of the Mark of Cain, Dean could become more powerful than any of the underworld's other denizens.

"It's interesting because there are a few aspects to what could potentially be Demon Dean," Ackles explained at Rome's fifth annual Jus In Bello Con. "You've got to think about the fact that he's got the Mark of Cain as well. So you look back at what that was for Cain and the power that he had against other demons. So is Dean going to be this ultra-powerful demon, and therefore be ultra bad? I don't know. I will say that I'm looking forward to exploring what that means and where that's going to take the story."

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How far the Supernatural writers will take a black-eyed Dean is unknown, but Ackles hopes his character's story will receive an adequate amount of attention.

"I hope - and I can't promise anything - I hope they don't scrap that up really quickly," Ackles said, adding that he has yet to receive an update about Dean now that the series' writers are back at work for season 10.

Find out more about Demon Dean when Supernatural returns to The CW this fall.

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