History Fridge / TeenWolf

* After Malia Tate was reunited with her father, a lot of fans noted some Fridge Horror. For one, she had been a coyote most of her life, ever since her age was in the single digits. In addition to the many issues there, there's the small matter of explaining to her father what she's been up to all this time (her father who had developed a Captain Ahab like obsession with the coyote that killed his wife). When we next see her, a lot of this Fridge Horror has made it to the script. Thankfully, the fear of her being mentally nine years old didn't happen, but she is in BedlamHouse. Malia has almost no impulse control or sense of social norms, and admits to Stiles that she wishes she were still a coyote so she wouldn't have to explain what happened to her father. And then she has [[spoiler: CoitusEnsues with Stiles in the dirty basement of the mental asylum where they were both currently admitted to for in-patient care]]. And this is a girl who, by all accounts and logic, should mentally and emotionally be the equivalent of a 9-year-old child, at least in terms of being a teenager who has been disconnected from all forms of human society for over 8 years. In addition, Stiles is mentally unstable, exhausted in all senses of the word, and under DemonicPossession through the whole thing. Neither appears to use protection, either. Very, very far into the {{Squick}} territory.

* Lorraine Martin's last words were "Don't hurt Ariel". Ariel is her nickname for her granddaughter Lydia Martin. It's one thing to be [[spoiler:killed by a man you thought was helping you]], but she knows that someday [[AdultFear her granddaughter will be at his mercy]].

** On the plus side, it would only be for a couple years, and if his father tried to get abusive Scott could [[SuperStrength easily throw him through a wall]]. Actually, [[FridgeBrilliance thinking about it]], Deucalion should have considered ''that'' as a plan to turn Scott into a murderer. It might have worked better. How canon it is is unclear, but the Teen Wolf novel On Fire has a flashback to Scott's childhood, where his father would [[JerkAss withhold his inhaler while he was having asthma attacks]]. Scott's father may not have been abusive per se (not like, say, Isaac's father), but he did have a problem with alcohol, which can make even normally nice and even-tempered people behave reprehensibly to people close to them. It seems pretty clear there was at least some alcohol-induced abuse between Scott and his father, even if Agent McCall isn't an abusive person by nature.

* Malia being irritated by Kira's ease with her powers in 5x15 makes perfect sense - Malia had to work extremely hard and still struggles with maintaining control over her powers, plus she has had to work to catch up to all her classmates at school, so it's a very reasonable thing for her to dislike.

* In 3x06 [[spoiler: if fire snaps the werewolves out of their hallucinations and Scott was holding one of the flares then his attempted suicide could have been genuine]]
** [[spoiler: Technically it was being ''burned'' that snapped them out of it. That was how they figured it out. Ethan wasn't exposed to fire, he accidentally touched an electric heater. The use of the flares was incidental, since they were the only portable means of burning someone that was available. Which means the ''real'' fridge horror is that Scott probably would have regretted his suicide attempt as soon as he set himself on fire]]!
*** Except that Scott didn't get burned. He didn't have to be broken out of it, like, Isaac or Ethan or Boyd. All Stiles had to do was talk him down. And comparing Scott's utterly devastating expression when he was talking to Ethan and Isaac and Boyd's practically blank faces when they were possessed, it's entirely possible the attempt ''was'' genuine, especially considering that, only an episode before, Scott nearly died because his guilt over Derek meant he wasn't letting himself heal. All the Darach might have needed to do was put the idea in Scott's head and use the hallucination of Melissa being killed to drive the idea that it's all his fault people are getting hurt home.
*** Also, Scott was entirely lucid, compared to the others. Isaac was catatonic, Ethan had lost it entirely and not even aware of what he was doing until he was snapped out of it, and Boyd was somewhere between the two. Whereas Scott was completely lucid and fully aware of what was happening. So, it's very possible and even likely that really ''was'' Scott. Especially considering that Scott's shown signs of depression since season one. And continued showing signs of depression after Motel California.
** The visions were meant to [[DrivenToSuicide drive the werewolves to suicide.]] Ethan attempted to cut himself open with an electric saw, Boyd tried to drown himself, and Scott tried to light himself on fire. But Isaac just hid under the bed. We knew that his dad did a number on him already, but to make it so bad that an actual attempt at [[MindRape convincing him to kill himself]] was closer to putting him in a catatonic state...
*** Isaac was found hiding under a bed, a very small space. Since we've been shown multiple times that Isaac is severely claustrophobic, he may have felt as if he was committing suicide, as he would probably have panicking and likely having trouble breathing while under there.

** On the plus side, it would only be for a couple years, and if his father tried to get abusive Scott could [[SuperStrength easily throw him through a wall]]. Actually, [[FridgeBrilliance thinking about it]], Deucalion should have considered ''that'' as a plan to turn Scott into a murderer. It might have worked better.
*** Eh, I think we're jumping the gun on Scott's dad being abusive to him or his mother in the past. We've only heard Melissa's side of the story on how bad their marriage was. Scott disliking his dad could be for multiple reasons, liking missing a lot of events in his life or moving him away when he had custody. The man can be a jerk, but without the whole story the abusive angle for this Fridge Horror seems to jumping the gun.
*** How canon it is is unclear, but the Teen Wolf novel On Fire has a flashback to Scott's childhood, where his father would [[JerkAss withhold his inhaler while he was having asthma attacks]].
** Scott's father may not have been abusive per se (not like, say, Isaac's father), but he did have a problem with alcohol, which can make even normally nice and even-tempered people behave reprehensibly to people close to them. It seems pretty clear there was at least some alcohol-induced abuse between Scott and his father, even if Agent McCall isn't an abusive person by nature.
* After Malia Tate was reunited with her father, a lot of fans noted some Fridge Horror. For one, she had been a coyote most of her life, ever since her age was in the single digits. In addition to the many issues there, there's the small matter of explaining to her father what she's been up to all this time (her father who had developed a Captain Ahab like obsession with the coyote that killed his wife). When we next see her, a lot of this Fridge Horror has made it to the script. Thankfully, the fear of her being mentally nine years old didn't happen, but she is in BedlamHouse. Malia has almost no impulse control or sense of social norms, and admits to Stiles that she wishes she were still a coyote so she wouldn't have to explain what happened to her father.
** And then she has [[spoiler: CoitusEnsues with Stiles in the dirty basement of the mental asylum where they were both currently admitted to for in-patient care]]. And this is a girl who, by all accounts and logic, should mentally and emotionally be the equivalent of a 9-year-old child, at least in terms of being a teenager who has been disconnected from all forms of human society for over 8 years. In addition, Stiles is mentally unstable, exhausted in all senses of the word, and under DemonicPossession through the whole thing. Neither appears to use protection, either. Very, very far into the {{Squick}} territory.

** The Calaveras took Kate before she was buried.

* When Scott, Allison and Stiles are hallucinating as a result of their near death experiences, the hallucinations match up with their individual strengths. Scott, the one with supernatural abilities, gets knocked back down to his early Season 1 self; he couldn't shift properly, and when he did, there was a real chance of him going on a murder spree. Allison, the long ranged fighter, couldn't control her hands, and thus couldn't aim. Stiles, the avid researcher, lost the ability to read. This is on top of Allison hallucinating Kate, and Stiles having lucid daydreams.

** The Calaveras took Kate before she was buried, but this would've been pretty cool!

** All the evidence points to Lydia and Allison considering themselves to be Stiles' friends. Isaac somewhat less so, as he is more Scott's second wingman. What was interesting was Agent [=McCall=] counting Ethan and Aiden as part of their group, since at that point most witnesses would attest to some hostility between Scott's circle and them (especially Isaac). Yet he unknowingly identified everyone who would be part of Scott's pack by the end of the season.

* The season 2 premiere shows two instances of presumed werewolf attacks: one in the graveyard where Isaac is digging Kate Argent's grave, and another in an ambulance later in the episode. The end of the episode reveals that, while the pack had assumed they were Lydia on her first turn into a werewolf, the attacks were by an omega searching for the new alpha Derek Hale. However, the omega only admits to the attack on the ambulance, not the graveyard. By season 4, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Kate Argent is very much alive, and very much out of control of her powers.]] So it's very possible that she, being the one in the grave, was the one who attacked Isaac and ransacked a grave in the graveyard because she had just woken up from being in the casket and was about to be BuriedAlive. This is likely a case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting, but let's just pretend it's not!

* In the very beginning of the episode "Fray," we see that Scott is recovering from a wound from an alpha and Stiles is concerned that Scott is so bad while Boyd and Isaac appear fine (implying that they too got similar injuries at the same time). Now Derek said, back in season 1, that [[spoiler: alphas can keep themselves from healing]]. With that in mind, this scene foreshadows the fight later in the episode (but earlier in the timeline) where [[spoiler: Scott's eyes briefly glow alpha red]].

* In the season 5 premiere, Scott fights off a werewolf trying to steal his power with mutated eagle talons. When, exactly, does he manage to overcome the effect? Right at the moment when his friends, his pack, are all together again. An alpha is made stronger the larger his pack is.

** Not only that, but Stiles was dreaming of sign language. Skip few season ahead, where we learn that Kate is very much alive and that Kira has trouble reading because she's a fox, and in Japanese mythology words confuse foxes. Also, while unnoticeable to most viewers, Nogitsune has a thing for tapping his fingers or fidgeting them, ''alot'' (there were even a few close-up shoots of his doing so, like tapping his fingers on a school desk or tracing them along the raw of school lockers). Stiles losing his ability to understand words and dreaming of finger-used Sign language starts to make sense once you realize ''he was probably possessed by Nogitsune at the time.''

** Not only that, but Stiles was dreaming of sign language. Skip few season ahead, where we learn that Kate is very much alive and that Kira has trouble reading because she's a fox, and in Japanese mythology words confuse foxes. Also, while unnoticeable to most viewers, Nogitsune has a thing for tapping his fingers or fidgeting them, ''alot'' (there were even a few close-up shoots of his doing so, like tapping his fingers on a school desk or tracing them along the school locerks). Stiles losing his ability to understand words and dreaming of finger-used Sign language starts to make sense once you realize ''he was probably possessed by Nogitsune at the time.''

** Not only that, but Allison was seeing visions of her dead aunt Kate and Stiles was dreaming of sign language. Skip few season ahead, where we learn that Kate is very much alive and that Kira has trouble reading because she's a fox, and in Japanese mythology words confuse foxes. Also, while unnoticeable to most viewers, Nogitsune has a thing for tapping his fingers or fidgeting them, ''alot'' (there were even a few close-up shoots of his doing so, like tapping his fingers on a school desk or tracing them along the school locerks). Stiles losing his ability to understand words and dreaming of finger-used Sign language starts to make sense once you realize ''he was probably possessed by Nogitsune at the time.''

* Overlaps with Fridge Brilliance, but when Scott, Allison and Stiles are hallucinating as a result of their near death experiences, the hallucinations match up with their individual strengths. Scott, the one with supernatural abilities, gets knocked back down to his early Season 1 self; he couldn't shift properly, and when he did, there was a real chance of him going on a murder spree. Allison, the long ranged fighter, couldn't control her hands, and thus couldn't aim. Stiles, the avid researcher, lost the ability to read. This is on top of Allison hallucinating Kate, and Stiles having lucid daydreams.

* At the end of "Alpha Pact," right before [[spoiler: Scott, Stiles and Allison are about to sacrifice themselves to rescue their parents and Derek sacrifices some of his power to save Cora]], Mr. [[spoiler: [=McCall=]]] picks up a copy of ATaleOfTwoCities, in which one of the most famous lines is given right before Carton's HeroicSacrifice. "It is a far, far better thing..."

* In the season two premiere, Coach Finstock sent out his players to search for Lydia when she disappeared from the hospital. This seems pretty standard for the character, as he's often shown to care about his students' well-being. In season four, though, we learn that he and Lydia's mom are friends, so much so that she knows about his alcoholism. His helping was also him trying to help his friend who's seen him through rough times.

* Lorraine Martin's last words were "Don't hurt Ariel". Ariel is her nickname for her granddaughter Lydia Martin. It's one thing to be [[spoiler:killed by a man you thought was helping you, but she knows that someday [[AdultFear her granddaughter will be at his mercy]].