Line #124 Film/TeenWolfTheMovie


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3	''Teen Wolf: The Movie'' is a 2023 {{sequel}} to the MTV series ''[[Series/TeenWolf Teen Wolf]]'' on Paramount+.
4	Per the [=IMDb=] description: “A terrifying evil has emerged. The wolves howl once again, but only a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] like Scott [=McCall=], can gather both new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy.” [[TimeSkip Eleven years after]] the events of the final season, Scott and his scattered pack return to [[WeirdnessMagnet Beacon Hills]] to rescue [[TheBusCameBack Allison]], who is stuck in the veil. Meanwhile, their old nemesis the Nogitsune has been reawakened by [[spoiler: their presumed-dead chemistry teacher]] and is terrorizing the town. When Allison is resurrected, she has no episodic memory but still remembers being a werewolf hunter and tries to kill Derek and his son Eli, who despite being a werewolf still hasn’t learned how to shift. Also, they play lacrosse and they can swear now. See [[Series/TeenWolf the main page]] for tropes it has in common with the rest of the series, this page focuses on things specific to the movie.
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6	Not to be confused with [[Film/TeenWolf the original movie]] that began the franchise.
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8	!!This movie has examples of:
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10	* AdultsDressedAsChildren: Scott poses as a high schooler so he can play in the lacrosse game.
11	--> '''Other Team’s Coach: ''' Where did this kid come from? Is he even in high school? […] He looks like he’s 30.
12	* AlphaAndBetaWolves: Teen Wolf uses the [[GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter Alpha/Beta/Omega]] system rather particularly. Scott’s eyes are red because he’s an Alpha, whereas Derek and Eli’s aren’t because they’re betas.
13	* AmnesiacLover: Allison doesn’t remember anyone in the Pack, including her ex Scott or her own father.
14	* AnotherDimension: The Nogitsune holds everyone hostage in a dimension superposed onto [[spoiler: the lacrosse field]].
15	* ArrowCatch: Liam catches Allison’s arrow.
16	* AskAStupidQuestion:
17	--> '''Derek: ''' Eli did you see that? Did you see your eyes?\
18	'''Eli: ''' How the hell am I supposed to see my eyes, they’re the things I use to see?
19	* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Wistful.
20	* AwkwardSilenceEntrance: The hooded figure enters the bar and all the patrons turn to look at them.
21	* BarSlide: Hikari slides a bowl of ramen down the bar to Liam.
22	* BattleInTheRain: Pretty much every fight scene in the movie is in the rain.
23	* BeingWatched: Scott knows [[spoiler: Eli]] is following them to the Nemeton.
24	* BedlamHouse: [[spoiler: Harris]] gets taken to Eichen House
25	* TheBenchwarmer: Eli, to the extent Derek convinces Finstock to let him play.
26	* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Allison manages to lodge a pair of ''medical scissors'' into the wall next to Scott’s head.
27	* BlatantLies:
28	--> '''Lydia: ''' Ohh, I missed you.\
29	'''Malia: ''' I missed you too.\
30	'''Lydia: ''' No you didn’t.\
31	'''Malia: ''' Okay but I wanted to.\
32	'''Lydia: ''' Now that I believe.
33	* BridalCarry: Derek carries Eli when he twists his ankle.
34	* BuffySpeak: Jackson:
35	--> '''Jackson:''' What do detectives do, anyway? Do they, like, go to the scene of the crime and... detect something?
36	* CallBack: so many
37	** The first shot is of the triskelion jar used to [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E24TheDivineMove capture the Nogitsune]], which is [[UnsafeHaven inexplicably]] on a [[HiddenInPlainSight shelf in a bar]].
38	** The Nogitsune in general was the major villain of Season 3B
39	** The pack resurrects Allison, who died fighting the Nogitsune the [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E23Insatiable last time]] the pack fought it.
40	** [[spoiler: Harris]] leaves a silver bullet with a fleur-de-lys as a calling card to implicate Chris Argent.
41	** One of the minor plots in the film deals with why Eli keeps stealing Stiles’s Jeep from Derek’s auto shop.
42	** Deaton exposes the Nogitsune by throwing [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E10TheOverlooked mistletoe]] at it.
43	** Allison heals Scott’s wound with a [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E06MotelCalifornia road flare]].
44	** When Scott joins the lacrosse match, Finstock [[AdultsDressedAsChildren covers for him]] by claiming he’s [[TheGhost Greenberg]].
45	* CameBackWrong: Allison doesn’t remember Scott or her father and still thinks Derek’s the alpha. She seems to have reverted to her season 2 villain phase when she was a ruthless hunter.
46	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
47	** Kira, especially noticeable because she was introduced at the same time as the Nogitsune and was the character who told them about the concept of Bardo in the first place.
48	** Stiles gets this to an extent; Eli claims that Derek told him Scott almost had to [[ItsALongStory cut off his arm]] once, but that was Stiles.
49	* ClosedDoorRapport: Derek talks to Eli through his bedroom door.
50	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The rooms Scott, Derek, and Eli find themselves in during their battle with the Nogitsune are colour-coded based on their [[GlowingEyes wolf eye colour]]: Scott’s room is red (Alpha), Derek’s is blue (Beta/Omega who has spilled innocent blood), Eli’s is yellow (Beta/Omega who has not killed).
51	* ContinuityLockOut: It makes some (clunky and often inaccurate) attempts to catch the audience up, but for the most part it assumes familiarity with ''Teen Wolf'' canon.
52	* ContinuityNod: several
53	** The Oak Creek fence refers back to [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E21TheFoxandtheWolf the internment camp]] that used to stand there and that occasioned the Nogitsune [[DivinePunishment coming to Beacon Hills]] in the first place.
54	** [[spoiler: Harris]] encircles [[spoiler: the lacrosse stadium]] with mountain ash in a visual callback to Stiles [[Recap/TeenWolfS02E08Raving doing the same thing]].
55	** Jackson still has a tail from when he was a kanima
56	--->'''Jackson:''' Whoa whoa whoa, I have a tail. No one’s planning on stealing my tail, right?
57	** Peter brings up the time [[Recap/TeenWolfS01E12CodeBreaker Derek killed him]].
58	** Derek tells Eli[[spoiler: ‘s door]] he was [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E08Visionary more into basketball]] than lacrosse (itself a nod to the original [[Film/TeenWolf movie]]).
59	* DarkShepherd: After Derek leaves the room, Noah threatens to give Eli jail time the next time he steals the Jeep. [[spoiler: Rendered moot when Noah gives Eli the Jeep after Derek dies.]]
60	* DeadpanSnarker: Eli. [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Remind you of anyone]]?
61	--> '''Nogitsune: ''' Tell me Eli, do you like riddles?\
62	'''Eli: ''' I’m more of a limerick guy, y’know, I like the rhyming.
63	* DeathAmnesia: Allison doesn’t remember her death.
64	* DeathByIrony: Lampshaded [[spoiler: and Averted]]:
65	--> '''Scott: ''' Because that’s what the Nogitsune wants: [[spoiler: he wants me to die in your arms this time.]]
66	* {{Delinquents}}: Eli keeps stealing Stiles’s Jeep because he knows it pisses his dad off.
67	--> '''Noah: ''' He still seems pretty intent on leaving high school with a grand theft auto charge.
68	* DemotedToExtra: Stiles is only ever mentioned; his dad [[PutOnABus doesn’t want to call him]] because he claims Stiles has his own problems to worry about.
69	* DiedInYourArmsTonight:
70	** The Nogitsune wants Scott to [[spoiler: die at Allison’s hand just like she died in his arms for poetic symmetry]].
71	** Derek doesn’t die [[spoiler: yet]], but when he gets shot in the neck Scott cradles him while he bleeds out.
72	* DistractedByTheSexy:
73	--> '''Jordan: ''' It’s more of a “you look really hot holding a tactical tomahawk” look.
74	* DramaticThunder: Throughout the film but especially in the scene where Scott and Chris reunite it happens after practically every sentence.
75	* EmergingFromTheShadows:
76	** Chris does this to Scott when he breaks into the Animal Clinic
77	** The Nogitsune does this several times.
78	** [[spoiler: Harris]] does this when Lydia and Jackson arrive.
79	* [[EnterStageWindow Exit Stage Window]]: [[spoiler: Eli snuck out of his room]] through the [[BedsheetLadder window]].
80	* EvilGloating: [[spoiler: Harris]]. Also the Nogitsune to an extent.
81	* FactionMotto: We know Allison CameBackWrong because she quotes the old Argent code, though she remembers the new one when Scott prompts her.
82	--> '''Allison: ''' We hunt those who hunt us. […] We protect those who cannot protect themselves.
83	* {{Fainting}}: Eli faints every time he sees his fangs.
84	* FeelingTheirAge:
85	** Poor Sheriff Stilinski
86	---> '''Noah: ''' God damn it, I knew I should’ve retired.
87	** Jordan isn’t sure he can burn through such a large mountain ash barrier anymore.
88	** Lydia hasn’t used her powers in years and is out of practice.
89	* FeetFirstIntroduction: Scott
90	* {{Flashback}}: The movie is practically a clip show for the series.
91	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious fires in Beacon Hills use a chemical accelerant: [[spoiler: a CallBack to season 1, when Harris gave Kate a chemical accelerant to set the Hale fire, indicating Harris is the arsonist.]].
92	* TheGlomp: Lydia does this to Malia when they [[BigDamnReunion reunite]].
93	* GlowingEyes: Pretty much every supernatural being except Lydia.
94	* GunsVsSwords: The Beacon Hills Sheriff’s Department vs. the Oni
95	* HatesBeingNicknamed: Lydia is not amused by Rick calling her “Lyd”
96	* HatesTheirParent: Malia interacting with Peter.
97	* HaveWeMet: Finstock proves to be (perhaps [[JustIgnoreIt willfully]]) very unobservant
98	--> '''Derek: ''' You don’t know who my son is, do you?\
99	'''Finstock: ''' I don’t know who ''you'' are.
100	* HearingVoices:
101	** The Nogitsune talks to the hooded figure through the jar.
102	** Chris keeps hearing Allison’s voice.
103	* HeroicRematch: Allison and the Oni
104	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Derek pushes Scott out of harm’s way and holds the Nogitsune in place so Jordan can burn it up, becoming collateral damage.]]
105	* HiddenInPlainSight: The triskelion jar containing one of their most dangerous enemies sits next to a bunch of other jars [[UnsafeHaven in a busy bar]].
106	* HunterOfMonsters: Allison was already a hunter from a long line of hunters, but she’s much more focused on hunting when she’s resurrected.
107	* IAmWho: Ishida learns he’s a kitsune [[spoiler: right before having his tails ripped off]].
108	* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You, Werewolf Dad!]]: Eli doesn’t want to be a werewolf and it causes tension between him and his father.
109	--> '''Noah: ''' Why the hell does he keep taking the [[ProductPlacement Jeep]]?\
110	'''Derek: ''' Because he knows I hate it.
111	* IKnowYourTrueName: One of Lydia’s [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshee powers]] is that she can scream someone’s true name and reset them to themselves, which she does to help Allison remember.
112	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Scott spends most of the movie trying to convince Allison to stop trying to kill him and remember who she is.
113	* InTheHood: [[spoiler: Harris]] wears a face-obscuring black hoodie most of the film.
114	* InSeriesNickname: Deaton tells the firefighter that people call Scott “The Alpha”.
115	* IndispensableScoundrel: Literally no one likes Peter except Peter.
116	* InsistentTerminology:
117	--> '''Lydia: ''' Banshees don’t scream, [[OurBansheesAreLouder they wail]].
118	* {{Irony}}: Of the cosmic variety. [[spoiler: Derek burns to death just like the rest of his family, meaning Eli inherits that same survivor’s guilt.]]
119	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Derek and the Nogitsune.]]
120	* KillTheLights: The lights in the Sheriff’s station flicker when the Oni arrive.
121	* LargeHam: Peter, as always.
122	--> '''Peter: ''' I’ve been known to light a spark or two in my time.
123	* LensFlare: So many of them in the scenes with Allison and Scott in the storage room, and again with Allison and her dad in the lacrosse stadium.
124	* LongBusTrip: Stiles and Kira don’t come back.
125	* MadnessMantra:
126	** ALLISON in the investor pamphlet
127	** BARDO in the Nemeton drawing
128	* MagicPants: When Jordan [[spoiler: burns up Derek and the Nogitsune]], his pants remain, which is extra bizarre because we saw him bare-assed earlier in the film so there’s no need for it.
129	* ManHug: Scott and Chris
130	* MeaningfulGift: [[spoiler: Noah gives Eli the Jeep after Derek dies.]]
131	--> [[spoiler: '''Eli: ''' He hated that Jeep]]\
132	[[spoiler: '''Noah: ''' After my son left it behind, Derek towed it in, thinking it was probably beyond repair. But then he opened up the hood and he pulled off all the duct tape Stiles had stuck on it, and he managed to fix it. That Jeep, no matter what’s been done to it, it just keeps running. He could never figure out why it wouldn’t break down and stay down. And I don’t think he ever realized that that’s exactly the way we saw him. I have never seen anyone take the kind of punishment that Derek Hale took and kept taking in order to protect the people he loved. He kept going. He kept standing back up until the day he couldn’t. Hey, your dad had complicated feelings about that Jeep, but it doesn’t mean it needs to be complicated for you. All you gotta do is keep it running. Just keep it going.]]
133	* MortonsFork: Allison chases Scott to the edge of a cliff.
134	* TheMovie
135	* {{Mummy}}: Because [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Dylan O’Brien didn’t reprise his role as Stiles]], the Nogitsune again takes the appearance of its previous host, Rhys, who received burns all over his body and was thus completely bandaged when he died, giving the Nogitsune the appearance of a mummy.
136	* NakedOnRevival: Allison when she is resurrected.
137	* NoodleIncident:
138	--> '''Finstock: ''' I haven’t felt this level of disappointment since I lost my virginity.
139	* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Derek harasses Finstock into letting his son play in the game.
140	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Finstock is under the impression Derek’s request to have Eli play in the game for five minutes is a negotiation. It isn’t.
141	* OhCrap:
142	** Malia when Eli transforms on his own.
143	** Scott when Allison is fighting the hospital guards.
144	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Peter reminds them that Derek killed him once.
145	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves, we have them.
146	* PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: Derek asks Eli to practice lacrosse with him.
147	* PlotDetour: My dad’s missing but we really need to play this lacrosse game first.
148	* PopTheTires:
149	** Derek claws the Jeep’s tires to stop Eli.
150	** Allison shoots an arrow into Scott’s tire.
151	** The Oni use their swords to slash the tires on Liam and Hikari’s car.
152	* PortentOfDoom: This is why Lydia [[spoiler: left Stiles: she was trying to prevent him from dying like in her dream.]]
153	* PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage: Eli can’t shift because he saw Derek shift to combat an intruder as a baby and so his powers scare him to the point of fainting.
154	* PutMeInCoach: Eli finally gets to play [[spoiler: and scores the game-winning goal in overtime]].
155	* RageQuit: The Nogitsune poofs out angrily when the Oni start dying.
156	* RealityWarper: The Nogitsune can bend the reality around them.
157	* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler: Derek’s montage of [[CosmicPlaything shitty things that happened to him]] during Noah’s monologue.]]
158	* RegainedMemoriesSequence: Allison has one when Lydia calls her name.
159	* RememberTheNewGuy: Hikari. [[JustifiedTrope Granted]], there was a time jump but we never learn anything about her and are just expected to accept she’s part of the pack.
160	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated:
161	** Jackson [[{{Lampshading}} lampshades]] this:
162	---> '''Jackson: ''' “Supposed to be dead” is starting to be a recurring theme around here.
163	** Allison is stuck in between worlds and has to be resurrected.
164	** [[spoiler: Harris]] somehow didn’t die when [[spoiler: Jennifer sacrificed him to the Nemeton]], which raises some [[{{Retcon}} confusion]] about how the rest of that plan came off if [[spoiler: he’s]] not dead.
165	** A more subtle example with [[spoiler: Dr. Fenris]], who was presumed dead after [[spoiler: he was stopped from his attempts to commit supernatural genocide]].
166	* ResurrectedRomance: Scott, with the help of Lydia, Malia, and Chris, resurrects his high school girlfriend.
167	* {{Retcon}}: a frustrating amount
168	** Despite not knowing he’s a kitsune, Ishida apparently has nine tails automatically, whereas Kira had to earn her first tail, and it’s implied kitsune gain tails with age. So either Ishida’s secretly OlderThanHeLooks or they forgot.
169	** Technically in the main series they don’t burn wolfsbane out directly, you need to burn a sample of the same strain of wolfsbane and shove ''that'' into the wound. Here Allison just holds a road flare to Scott’s wound.
170	** Despite the fact the shujendo scroll specified that such a bite would change, and therefore disqualify, the host when [[Recap/TeenWolfS03E22TheDivineMove Scott bit the Nogitsune]], apparently instead [[spoiler: that bite now made the Nogitsune a kitsune/wolf hybrid that doesn’t need a host.]]
171	** [[spoiler: When Derek dies, he becomes a True Alpha, which is evidently not as rare as they said and conflicts with the lore of how one becomes a True Alpha.]]
172	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Harris]] is the big bad.
173	* {{Riddle}}: [[ExaggeratedTrope Even for the Nogitsune]], who liked to speak in riddles in season 3B, he goes through a ''lot'' of them, so much so that Deaton can tell [[spoiler: Chris is possessed]] because the Nogitsune cannot refuse to answer a riddle.
174	* RousingSpeech: Zigzagged: Malia refuses to give Jordan one of these because it’s not her style, only to keep talking and end up inadvertently giving him one anyway.
175	* RuderAndCruder: It’s not MTV, they can swear now.
176	--> '''Scott:''' Shit, dude.
177	* RunningGag: Mostly continuations of gags from the series:
178	** Scott flips the sign on the Animal Clinic to Closed, which once again stops exactly no one.
179	** Greenberg.
180	** Jackson is only there to be bitchy and remind people of the time he was a kanima.
181	* ShirtlessScene: [[AvertedTrope Surprisingly few]], considering this is [[MrFanservice Teen Wolf we’re talking about]].
182	** Scott and Derek have a couple in [[StockFootage flashbacks]].
183	** Allison by virtue of being NakedOnRevival
184	** Jordan and Malia are both topless (and then bottomless) when they hook up.
185	** Jordan again after [[spoiler: killing Derek and the Nogitsune]].
186	* SicklyGreenGlow: The bioluminescent fireflies are symbols of the Oni, who in this movie work for the Nogitsune. When the Nemeton generates them, it too glows green.
187	* SoProudOfYou: Derek is very excited to hear Eli healed himself, even if Scott did most of the heavy lifting.
188	* SomeKindOfForceField: Scott and Eli run smack into a mountain ash circle.
189	* StairsAreFaster: During the hospital chase, Allison gets in an elevator and Scott takes the stairs to catch up to her.
190	* StockFootage: A metric shitton of it from the series.
191	* SuddenlyBilingual: Liam speaks Japanese now, though with the TimeSkip it [[JustifiedTrope makes sense]] considering he lives in Japan.
192	* SuperScream: Lydia’s banshee [[InsistentTerminology wail]] banishes the Oni and makes everyone cover their ears.
193	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Stiles and Kira, because both their actors [[RealLifeWritesThePlot declined to participate]].
194	** Hikari (whose name is an anagram for Hi Kira) is a kitsune who’s good with a sword, though we don’t learn much more about her.
195	** Despite being Derek’s son, Eli is almost exactly like Stiles (to the [[MrSeahorse speculative delight]] of [[HoYay/TeenWolf some fans]]): he’s obsessed with the Jeep, awkward, a benchwarmer, antagonistic towards Derek, closer to human than the rest of the pack, seemingly motherless, sarcastic, faints easily…
196	* {{Technobabble}}: Rick accuses Lydia of this during her investor presentation.
197	* ThreePointLanding: Scott does one after leaping out of the pit.
198	* TimeSkip: The movie takes place at least eleven years after the events of the finale.
199	* TimmyInAWell: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]: the rescuers call the ''[[WerewolvesAreDogs Lassie]]'' to get Alicia [[AndYourLittleDogToo and her dog]] out of the pit.
200	* TitleDrop:
201	--> [[spoiler: '''Fenris: ''']] Trust me, we’ve heard plenty of stories about teenage werewolves.
202	* TwitchyEye: Lydia when she sees she typed Allison’s name all over the page.
203	* UnflinchingWalk: Allison after the car she crashed into Derek’s explodes.
204	* UnsafeHaven: Sure, let’s just put a 1000-year-old chaos demon on the shelf of a crowded bar next to a bunch of similar-looking jars, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?
205	* UnseenNoMore: We finally meet Greenberg! [[ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter Kind of.]]
206	* WallSlump: Scott after he gets wolfsbane poisoning.
207	* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Scott forces the walls of the collapsing building back when rescuing Alicia and her dog.
208	* WerewolvesAreDogs: Peter sniffing the blood on the cliff.
209	** Also DefiedTrope when the firefighter assumes Scott's nickname "The Alpha" refers to him as a dog, and Deaton [[InsistentTerminology clarifies]] "no, like a wolf"
210	* WhamLine:
211	** Rick interrupts Lydia's investor meeting with [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the plot]]
212	--->'''Rick: ''' Look, all I wanna know is, who is Allison?
213	** Allison wakes up very confused
214	--->'''Allison: ''' Where’s the Alpha? Where’s Derek Hale?
215	** this exchange:
216	---> [[spoiler: '''Lydia: ''' Jackson, do you know what rowan trees become after they’re burned?\
217	'''Jackson: ''' Ash?\
218	'''Lydia: ''' Mountain Ash.]]
219	** saying this to Lydia out of nowhere alerts us there's something to tell
220	--->'''[[spoiler: Harris]]: ''' Tell us why you left Stiles.
221	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: The hooded figure [[DontTouchItYouIdiot releases]] the Nogitsune, thinking they can control it.
222	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite remaining as a threat the end of season 6, the fates of Monroe and her army of supernatural hunters aren't mentioned at all. Alec, the werewolf who was saved by Scott at the series finale, is not referenced at all.
223	* WhereItAllBegan: Many of them haven’t been to Beacon Hills for a while but are called to return.
224	* WritersCannotDoMath: There are way more than 9 Oni in the final battle.
225	* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Melissa asks why the girl brought to the hospital looks exactly like Allison, Scott asks if she really wants to know, which she doesn’t.
226	* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Deaton corrects their understanding of Bardo:
227	--> '''Deaton: ''' Bardo is a Tibetan word, it’s a means of interpreting death and the movements of consciousness between physical states of being. It’s just a word, it’s a concept.

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