History Characters / TeenWolfWerewolves

!!Talia Hale (portrayed by Alicia Coppola)

!! Sebastien Valet/La Bête du Gévaudan/The Beast (portrayed by Gilles Marini)

!!Cora Hale (portrayed by Adelaide Kane)

->''"You're just a bunch of stupid teenagers running around, thinking you can stop people from getting killed. But, all you do is show up late. All you really do is find the bodies."''

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: On the show's mythology, werewolves are either born or humans bitten and turned by an Alpha. Sebastien transformed into a werewolf through another means - by drinking rainwater from a wolf's paw print.

* BiTheWay: Happily dances with both girls and guys at a club.

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* TheChosenOne: Becoming an Alpha usually works in two ways: inheriting an Alpha's power when they die, and [[KlingonPromotion plain murder]]. It's hinted a dominant establishing his leadership over a number of others works as well. However, there is another, extremely rare option: becoming an Alpha purely by power of character. This is called a True Alpha, and unsurprisingly, [[{{Protagonist}} Scott [=McCall=]]] is one.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: On the show, werewolves are either born or humans bitten and turned by an Alpha. Sebastien transformed a werewolf through another means - by drinking rainwater from a wolf's paw print.

* {{Unperson}}: After his death at the hands of his sister, Marie-Jeanne and the townspeople decided invoke the practise called ''Damnatio Memoriae'' on Sebastien's name. They destroyed all evidence of Sebastien's existence - everything he owned, everything he signed.
* WouldHurtAChild: After Marie-Jeanne discovers his secret, she confronts that he has killed children. He just smiles and answers that he will kill anyone who crosses his path.

* {{Unperson}}: After his death at the hands of his sister, Marie-Jeanne and the townspeople decided invoke the practise called ''Damnatio Memoriae'' on Sebastien's name. They strove to erased all evidence of Sebastien's existence - everything he owned, everything he signed.

* {{Unperson}}: Marie-Jeanne and her allies decide to erase all evidence of Sebastien's existence - everything he owned, everything he signed.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Werewolves on Teen Wolf are either born or humans Bitten by an Alpha. Sebastien became a werewolf through another method - drinking rainwater from the paw print of a wolf.

* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: WordOfGod says Sebastien was born an antisocial and unrepentant sociopath and that this plays a part in his monstrous werewolf transformation.

* FameThroughInfamy: He brags about being remembered as the Beast of Gévaudan, for his body count

** True Alphas are also unique in that their power cannot be [[KlingonPromotion stolen by being killed]] [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers like you would a regular Alpha]], except by [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou a Beta turned by their own Bite]].
* CurseThatCures: One of the perks of getting transformed into a werewolf is the healing factor taking care of injuries and diseases: Scott loses his asthma, Erica loses her epilepsy/doesn't have seizures, and Liam heals a broken leg. This seems to work for physical ailments only.

* TheEmpath: Played with in an interesting way. Werewolves are by no means psychic, but can detect emotions such as anger, arousal, frustration and even disgust. Derek reveals that this is due to their sense of smell; by picking up on hormonal changes in a body through chemo-signals, a werewolf can tell what state of mind a person is in, even in places where a person has been before.
* EnergyAbsorption: When Alpha werewolves [[TeamKiller kill their own Pack members]], the power of the deceased is added to theirs.

* ExpositionBeam: A werewolf's memories can be shared through their claws, by planting the claws into the back of a recipient's neck. Peter projected his memories of his time in the hospital to Scott this way, while Derek accidentally transferred memories of the Hale House fire to Jackson. Lydia, a banshee is able to hear and translate the recollections embedded in Talia Hale's claws.

* IcyBlueEyes: Betas and Omegas have these when they have killed an innocent person.
* KlingonPromotion: One of the ways of becoming an Alpha werewolf is killing another Alpha. Derek, Peter, and twins Ethan and Aiden have all employed this.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: By using the same [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] technique with their claws, werewolves can remove memories from the victim as when Isaac had his memories stolen from him by the Alpha Pack in the Season 3 opener, and when Talia removed Peter's memories of his fathering Malia Tate.

* MasterOfYourDomain: Werewolves can learn to develop a mastery over their bodies that they can mask their own scent, preventing others from detecting them.
* MentalFusion: Also by using their claws, they can enter another person's subconscious or have another accompany them as demonstrated when Scott takes himself and Lydia into Stiles' head to separate him from the Nogitsune.
* MonsterLord: Alphas are this to other werewolves. Aside from being able to out-perform Betas in every way, they can also inflict longer-lasting wounds and even control the shifts of other werecreatures. The most defining trait of an Alpha is that they are the ones who can create more werewolves through bites and sometimes scratches.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Werewolves become stronger, faster and "better in every way" when they are part of a pack. Many of them seek out packs in order to survive and be able to defend themselves against enemies. Stated several times and used as a plot point throughout the show. Perhaps most notably, a wound Scott suffers near the end of Season 5A does not heal for most of Season 5B, but when he reassembles his pack, the very night he reclaims the last member (Lydia, breaking her out of Eichen House) the wound heals more-or-less ''instantly''. Scott's Pack at this point in the series consists of him, Stiles (completely ordinary human), Lydia (Banshee), Malia (Werecoyote), Kira (Kitsune), and Liam (Scott's peronally-Bitten Beta and the only other actual werewolf in the Pack). This indicates that what constitutes a "Pack" is an extremely flexible definition.

Derek's uncle, the man responsible for Biting Scott, the original Alpha and the BigBad of season one. Peter killed Derek's sister, Laura, his niece, in order to become the new Alpha in the Hale family. Originally faking disability, he later torments Scott, Derek, the Argents, and everyone else involved, until he is finally killed by Derek.

* FamyThroughInfamy: He brags about being remembered as the Beast of Gévaudan, for his body count

* TheAlpha: Alphas are the largest and most powerful type of wolf; they generally lead their own packs (compared to betas and omegas, who don't). There is also a "True Alpha," a term used for alphas who become one out of sheer HeroicWillpower.

* EvilDetectingDog: As apex predators, werewolves scare regular animals. Both wild animals and pets react either aggressively or fearfully when a werewolf is near, even when they are fully human. In the {{Pilot}}, we see deer stampede away from the Alpha, clinic animals bark and hiss at Scott during his first few days after being bitten, and a dog growling at Derek at a party.

* HairTriggerTemper: Werewolves all have great difficulty controlling their anger and usually they fly into irrational rages almost half the time.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Werewolves become stronger, faster and "better in every way" when they are part of a pack. Many of them seek out packs in order to survive and be able to defend themselves against enemies. Stated several times and used as a plot point throughout the show.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He is, without a doubt the strongest, most lethal in the Alpha Pack. The ''Voltron!Twins'' immediately become subservient towards him after they break rank in his presence. When Derek and Jennifer Blake (the Darach, who had singlehandedly swept the floor with Kali and the twins) face off against him simultaneously, he delivers a CurbStompBattle to the two of them just being that much [[SuperStrength stronger]] and [[SuperSpeed faster]] than them both.

* TheChessmaster: Throughout Season 3A, Deucalion plays the protagonists, the Darach ''and'' his own Pack like a harp, he manipulates everyone, putting them all right where he wants them. He fools everyone into thinking he wants Derek to join his Pack when it's actually ''Scott'' he wants.

** When the Darach arrives, this only adds to his advantage when she abducts Melissa. Deucalion makes Scott the offer to find her if he were to join his Pack, and then to save her, he'd force Scott to become a killer by killing Jennifer.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Deucalion used to be a reasonable, sane leader willing to work with others and seeking peaceful solutions to conflict - until Gerard betrayed him and the other werewolves willing to negotiate with the hunters, and he lost his eyes in the process. Killing one of his betas before he could usurp him made him realize he could amass power by murdering his pack and building a super-charged pack with other Alphas, which he proceeded to do. He briefly managed a HeelFaceTurn at the end of Season 3a, after Derek and Scott convince Jennifer to heal him and let him leave, even paying Braeden to get Derek and Peter out of a tight spot. By Season 5, however, his eyesight has deteriorated again, and with it, seemingly, his sanity, causing another FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler:Except this time, it's just for subterfuge - Deucalion only became seemingly corrupted again to trick Theo into trusting him, only to work on undermining Theo and destroying his hold on the chimeras behind his back]].
* HandicappedBadass: He’s functionally blind, and is still able to beat down Scott and Derek. Zigzagged in that while Deucalion is blind, he can actually see using his wolf eyes.
** Subverted after the Season 3A finale, because of Jennifer/the Darach [[HealingHands restoring]] his eyesight. [[spoiler: Then zig-zagged in Season 5B, where the effects of Jennifer's healing seem to have worn off, causing him to blame Scott. This time, however, it's only pretend to make Theo believe he has really joined him against Scott]].
* ItMustBeMine: Deucalion wants the perfect Pack, only of Alpha werewolves. Finally, he wants the most unique of werewolves in his ranks, a True Alpha - Scott [=McCall=].

* TheCorrupter: He assembled a Pack of Alphas by first convincing them to kill all of their previous Packs to absorb their power. It is straight said by Marin Morrell and Jennifer Blake that Deucalion turns people into killers, that he has them kill the [[TeamKiller ''people they love'']].

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: One would think that the guy who was capable of leading an Alpha pack without the fear of opposition, making a Merged Alpha completely submissive to his will, even [[{{CurbStomp}}s]] both Derek and The Darach; would have easily sense and avoid a surprise attack made by a group of amateur hunters. It's especially jarring when in that same episode he was training both Scott and Malia on how to rely on your other senses and fight without your sense of sight.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: One would think that the guy who was capable of leading an Alpha pack without the fear of opposition, making a Merged Alpha completely submissive to his will, even CurbStomps both Derek and The Darach; would have easily sense and avoid a surprise attack made by a group of amateur hunters. It's especially jarring when in that same episode he was training both Scott and Malia on how to rely on your other senses and fight without your sense of sight.

* DeadpanSnarker: Not a-lot but he does have his moments of snark
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: One would think that the guy who was capable of leading an Alpha pack without the fear of opposition, making a Merged Alpha completely submissive to his will, even CurbStomps both Derek and The Darach; would have easily sense and avoid a surprise attack made by a group of amateur hunters. It's especially jarring when in that same episode he was training both Scott and Malia on how to rely on your other senses and fight without your sense of sight.

HotBlooded: If a werewolf starts to suppress their HairTriggerTemper you can expect them to be very hot headed and passionate. Also in this state they are more in control of their rage.