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* BeastMan: The form werewolves take in this show are roughly humanoid, able to stand on two legs, sort of a mix of human, wolf, bear, and gorilla.
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* MagicPants: Strongly averted. When Eric, or any other werewolf, changes back, they haven't a stitch of clothing left. Only played straight once, in "The Wolf Who Thought He Was A Man", where Eric appears in torn-up but still-decent clothing, probably a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
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* PartialTransformation: Remy transforms one hand only in order to claw out the throat of a minion who refuses to kill Eric.
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* ShapeshiftingHealsWounds: When Eric is wounded with a silver bullet in "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", even after the silver bullet is removed, Eric is still clearly wounded and in pain. As soon as he transforms, the wound is gone.
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* SkinWalker: As often happens, this term is appropriated to apply to werewolves, rather than to the unique creature of Navajo traditions.
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* AdventureTowns: Each episode is set in a new town; {{justified|Trope}} due to Eric being on the run from Rogan and having to constantly move to escape him.
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* AdventureTowns: Each episode is set in a new town; {{justified|Trope}} twice over due to Eric being on the run from Rogan and having to constantly move to escape him.him, and to Eric trying to track down and kill Skorzeny to free himself from the curse.
* RitualMagic:
** In "Nothing Evil In These Woods" Diedre is setting up a ritual to try to cure Eric when the [[TorchesAndPitchforks rednecks arrive to start trouble]].
** There is supposed to be an old grandfather out in the far corner of the reservation who knows a ceremony to cure a "Skinwalker" in the episode of that title. When they send for him, [[spoiler: it turns out that no such ceremony ever existed, it was just political disinformation after a chief had to kill his own son after an attempted cure failed.]]
** In "Nothing Evil In These Woods" Diedre is setting up a ritual to try to cure Eric when the [[TorchesAndPitchforks rednecks arrive to start trouble]].
** There is supposed to be an old grandfather out in the far corner of the reservation who knows a ceremony to cure a "Skinwalker" in the episode of that title. When they send for him, [[spoiler: it turns out that no such ceremony ever existed, it was just political disinformation after a chief had to kill his own son after an attempted cure failed.]]
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: In "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", Rogan shoots Eric non-fatally with a silver bullet. A boy discovers Eric and hides him in his treehouse, and Eric has him dig the bullet out of his side.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: In "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", Rogan shoots Eric non-fatally with a silver bullet. A boy discovers Eric and hides him in his treehouse, and Eric has him dig the bullet out of his side.
side. Justified in this case, as the wound won't heal until the silver is removed.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: A small mob comes after Diedre, a self-identified witch, in "Nothing Evil In These Woods" and they end up causing a fire that burns down her home with her trapped inside.
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* BurnTheWitch: Diedre is a neopagan-type witch who caters to tourists in "Nothing Evil In These Woods." When a local blames her for the death of his son, he and a couple buddies attack her house, and after a knocked-over candle starts a fire, he gives a sadistic grin and says, "Fire's better'n hanging!"
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* ScarsAreUgly: Janos Skorzeny's face around his missing eye is heavily scarred, mainly visible when he removes his eyepatch, which Eric uses as part of describing him as ugly more than once. Playfully subverted when a nurse tells Rogan he'll have some very ''attractive'' scars after he was nearly killed by a werewolf.
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Hey, look, I got the name right! ;-)
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* {{Psychometry}}: When Eric finds Skorzeny's chest, and later when he breaks into Remy's house, he handles their possessions and had visions of moments of their past. It's how he learns that Skorzeny is not the start of his bloodline, which turns out to be accurate.
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* HealingFactor: Even when not in wolf form, Eric heals quickly. In "Nothing Evil In These Woods," when Diedre finds Eric just after a fight with Skorzeney, he has scratches on his face (and elsewhere); by dinnertime, they're gone, and Eric tries to pass them off as having been mostly dirt that washed right off.
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* HealingFactor: Even when not in wolf form, Eric heals quickly. In "Nothing Evil In These Woods," when Diedre finds Eric just after a fight with Skorzeney, Skorzeny, he has scratches on his face (and elsewhere); by dinnertime, they're gone, and Eric tries to pass them off as having been mostly dirt that washed right off.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "A World Of Difference" Rogan flashes back to a meeting with a man who kept a real wolf. He spouts a lot of outdated misinformation about wolf society being nothing but battles for dominance. In reality, a wolf pack is a family, and mom and dad are in charge because they're mom and dad, not because they beat up everyone else. (The fight-for-dominance view was based on observing unrelated male wolves placed in an unfamiliar space that was too small and had too few resources, rather like using a men's prison as a model for human behavior, and the researcher who published those early studies has since said outright that they were wrong.)
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* Amusement Park: The setting for "Blind Luck".
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* Amusement Park: AmusementPark: The setting for "Blind Luck".
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* HealingFactor: Even when not in wolf form, Eric heals quickly. In "Nothing Evil In These Woods," when Diedre finds Eric just after a fight with Skorzeney, he has scratches on his face (and elsewhere); by dinnertime, they're gone, and Eric tries to pass them off as having been mostly dirt that washed right off.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Eric has little control over his transformations. Other werewolves can trigger the change at will; it's not actually clear whether Eric ever does this when there are innocents in danger, consciously or subconsciously. Choosing to change for a good cause may well be the start of the planned SlipperySlope.
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* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Eric has little control over his transformations. Other werewolves can trigger the change at will; it's not actually clear whether Eric ever does this when there are innocents in danger, consciously or subconsciously. Choosing to change for a good cause may well be the start of the planned SlipperySlope.slippery slope.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Eric is shot and killed in "A World Of Difference", confirmed by EMTs and the coroner, and spends the day in a refrigerated drawer in the morgue. Come nightfall, his werewolf form breaks out of the drawer from the inside, seemingly none the worse for wear.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Eric is shot and killed in "A World Of Difference", confirmed by EMTs [=EMT=]s and the coroner, and spends the day in a refrigerated drawer in the morgue. Come nightfall, his werewolf form breaks out of the drawer from the inside, seemingly none the worse for wear.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Eric is shot and killed in "A World Of Difference", confirmed by EMTs and the coroner, and spends the day in a refrigerated drawer in the morgue. Come nightfall, his werewolf form breaks out of the drawer from the inside, seemingly none the worse for wear.
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* SilverHasMysticPowers:
** Werewolves can only be seriously hurt or killed by silver weapons (or another werewolf's teeth and claws). When Rogan hits Eric's wolf form with a silver bullet in "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", the wound remains when Eric transforms back, and only heals after the bullet is removed and Eric transforms again.
** Infusing a silver solution intravenously causes Eric to transform briefly in "Big Daddy".
** When Remy forces Eric to prick his own neck with a silver knife in "To Dream Of Wolves" he comments on how silver wounds burn.
** Werewolves can only be seriously hurt or killed by silver weapons (or another werewolf's teeth and claws). When Rogan hits Eric's wolf form with a silver bullet in "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf", the wound remains when Eric transforms back, and only heals after the bullet is removed and Eric transforms again.
** Infusing a silver solution intravenously causes Eric to transform briefly in "Big Daddy".
** When Remy forces Eric to prick his own neck with a silver knife in "To Dream Of Wolves" he comments on how silver wounds burn.
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* MarkOfTheBeast: A pentagram-shaped scar appears on Eric's right palm whenever a transformation to monster is coming. As it gets closer the mark gets redder, and just before transforming it begins to drip blood.
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* MarkOfTheBeast: A pentagram-shaped Werewolves know the change is going to happen when a pentagram scar appears on Eric's their right palm whenever a palm. The scar thickens and turns red as the time before the change shortens, and when the scar starts to bleed, there's only minutes or seconds before the transformation to monster is coming. As it gets closer the mark gets redder, and just before transforming it begins to drip blood.begins.
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* RedRightHand: Rather literally. Werewolves know the change is going to happen when a pentagram scar appears on their right palm. When the scar starts to bleed, there's only minutes or seconds before the transformation begins.
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* GoodVersusGood: Eric versus Rogan. Eric is trying to stop a centuries-old serial killer (who creates other killers as he goes) as well as free himself of the curse before it turns him into one, and Rogan honestly believes he's tracking a monster who's killed repeatedly (although there are signs he's starting to catch on after Skorzeny's death).
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* GoodVersusGood: Eric versus Rogan. Eric is trying to stop a centuries-old serial killer SerialKiller (who creates other killers as he goes) as well as free himself of the curse before it turns him into one, and Rogan honestly believes he's tracking a monster who's killed repeatedly (although there are signs he's starting to catch on after Skorzeny's death).
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the pilot, we see Ted loading his gun (with what we soon learn are silver bullets), and proceed to spend the rest of the scene holding it with his finger on the trigger, occasionally waving it around as he gestures and paces. Justified as Ted just got it and gun safety classes were not required at the time, plus it illustrates how much of a hair trigger Ted is on mentally.
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* TheDrifter: Both Eric and Skorzeney have elements of this, although Eric's drifting is interrupted whenever he gets a lead on possible werewolf kills or Rogan shows up showing his picture around.
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* TheDrifter: Both Eric and Skorzeney Skorzeny have elements of this, although Eric's drifting is interrupted whenever he gets a lead on possible werewolf kills or Rogan shows up showing his picture around.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If Eric ever actually finds and kills the start of his bloodline, ridding himself of the curse, the show would be over. Even when he finally succeeds in killing Skorzeney, he has already just discovered Skorzeney was turned by someone else and isn't the start of the line.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If Eric ever actually finds and kills the start of his bloodline, ridding himself of the curse, the show would be over. Even when he finally succeeds in killing Skorzeney, Skorzeny, he has already just discovered Skorzeney Skorzeny was turned by someone else and isn't the start of the line.
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* GoodVersusGood: Eric versus Rogan. Eric is trying to stop a centuries-old serial killer (who creates other killers as he goes) as well as free himself of the curse before it turns him into one, and Rogan honestly believes he's tracking a monster who's killed repeatedly (although there are signs he's starting to catch on after Skorzeney's Skorzeny's death).
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* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Eric kills Skorzeney, Skorzeny, who has been responsible for countless deaths.
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* SerialKillerKiller: In the course of his hunt for Skorzeney, Eric takes out several other werewolves, most already responsible for several deaths which led him to them in the first place.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Eric is forced to live this life, taking odd jobs and hopping trains or hitchhiking, as whenever he tries to stay in one place too long, either his curse strikes or Rogan shows up, or he gets a lead on Skorzeney and takes off in pursuit.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Eric is forced to live this life, taking odd jobs and hopping trains or hitchhiking, as whenever he tries to stay in one place too long, either his curse strikes or Rogan shows up, or he gets a lead on Skorzeney Skorzeny and takes off in pursuit.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Happens in at least half the episodes.
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* HulkingOut: The practical upshot of many of Eric's transformations. Fear and stress do seem to trigger them sometimes, and quite often Eric is beaten up or locked up and Eric's wolf form saves the day by breaking free and throwing around bad guys.
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* ClotheslineStealing: Not shown nearly as often as might be expected from a show whose protagonist ends up naked once or twice an episode, but in "Amazing Grace" Eric fishes clothes down from a second story clothesline using a conveniently long pipe left in the alley.
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* PriceOnTheirHead: Eric has a bounty placed on his capture, although we do see the bailbondsman who hired Rogan telling him he's no longer willing to pay for his capture.
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* WantedPoster: Rogan's version identifies Eric as "missing" instead, but it serves the same purpose.
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** In the pilot, Ted's dog, who's been staying far away from Ted, begins to snarl as Eric sees the blood dripping from Ted's palm...and then sees Ted's fangs.
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** In the pilot, Ted's dog, Heathcliff, who's been staying far away from Ted, begins to snarl as Eric sees the blood dripping from Ted's palm...and then sees Ted's fangs.fangs.
** After Eric has become a werewolf himself, he tries to pet Heathcliff, who had been very affectionate to him before, but now snarls and snaps at him.
** After Eric has become a werewolf himself, he tries to pet Heathcliff, who had been very affectionate to him before, but now snarls and snaps at him.
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* FugitiveArc: Eric is on the run after jumping bail on a murder charge.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Rogan clearly intends to kill Eric when he catches up to him, even if he's already captured and in cuffs/chains, considering it necessary to stop what he believes is a serial killing monster who can't be stopped by normal means.
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* VillainousBSOD: In both "Blood Ties" and "Nightmare In Blue" a villain ends up staring into space and we're told they end up in a rubber room.
* WalkingTheEarth: Eric is forced to live this life, taking odd jobs and hopping trains or hitchhiking, as whenever he tries to stay in one place too long, either his curse strikes or Rogan shows up, or he gets a lead on Skorzeney and takes off in pursuit.
* WalkingTheEarth: Eric is forced to live this life, taking odd jobs and hopping trains or hitchhiking, as whenever he tries to stay in one place too long, either his curse strikes or Rogan shows up, or he gets a lead on Skorzeney and takes off in pursuit.
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* MarkOfTheBeast: A pentagram-shaped scar appears on Eric's right palm whenever a transformation to monster is coming. As it gets closer the mark gets redder, and just before transforming it begins to drip blood.
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* NotMeThisTime: Rogan believes Eric is responsible for killings made by other werewolves and/or serial killers, and is very unlikely to believe Eric's denials.
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* RoadBlock: Used to catch Eric in "Big Daddy".
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* StockFootage:
** Skorzeney peeling back his face to reveal the wolf within was shot with a black background and the same shot was used every time he was shown transforming.
** Wolf-vision footage of a parking lot, skulking from car to car, from the pilot was re-used later.
** Skorzeney peeling back his face to reveal the wolf within was shot with a black background and the same shot was used every time he was shown transforming.
** Wolf-vision footage of a parking lot, skulking from car to car, from the pilot was re-used later.
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* IHaveManyNames: Subverted. Even though Eric is on the run, he's only seen giving an alias a couple of times, almost always identifying himself as Eric Cord.
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* JustifiedCriminal: Eric has to do everything from steal clothes when he transforms back naked, to mercy-killing a recently-bitten new werewolf who begs him to.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Eric kills Skorzeney, who has been responsible for countless deaths.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Eric kills Skorzeney, who has been responsible for countless deaths.
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* GoodVersusGood: Eric versus Rogan. Eric is trying to stop a centuries-old serial killer (who creates other killers as he goes) as well as free himself of the curse before it turns him into one, and Rogan honestly believes he's tracking a monster who's killed repeatedly (although there are signs he's starting to catch on after Skorzeney's death).
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "Eye Of the Storm" Eric and another character overhear the killers, and when the killers realize this they conspire to get rid of them, too.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: In "Eye Of the Storm" Eric and another character overhear the killers, and when the killers realize this they conspire to get rid of them, too.
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* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame:
** In "The Wolf Who Thought He Was A Man" a hunting guide is hunting down his customers.
** In "Wolfhunt" a rancher who started out hunting a real wolf begins hunting Eric too after a visit from Rogan. His partner is disconcerted when his concern that Eric might be hurt and need immediate help are met with a dismissive reply that it's "best to let wounded game stiffen up first."
** In "The Wolf Who Thought He Was A Man" a hunting guide is hunting down his customers.
** In "Wolfhunt" a rancher who started out hunting a real wolf begins hunting Eric too after a visit from Rogan. His partner is disconcerted when his concern that Eric might be hurt and need immediate help are met with a dismissive reply that it's "best to let wounded game stiffen up first."
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* DamselInDistress: Frequently what lures Eric into sticking around even though he's going to change soon and/or Rogan is in the area looking for him.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: In "Spectre of the Wolf" after Eric transforms in front of cameras, the professor is seen erasing the videotapes when Rogan and the cops arrive.
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* Amusement Park: The setting for "Blind Luck".
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* BountyHunter: "Alamo Joe" Rogan is hired to bring Eric back after he jumps bail. Subverted in that Rogan, after learning what Eric is and mistakenly believing Eric is causing a "trail of blood" (they're really following the same trails), continues pursuing Eric even after the bail bondsman who hired him calls him off, and Rogan offers to give the bounty to someone else more than once.
* TheBoxingEpisode: "Blood On the Tracks" involves an ex-prizefighter on the run from the mob.
* TheBoxingEpisode: "Blood On the Tracks" involves an ex-prizefighter on the run from the mob.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The bikers in "Running With the Pack" are typical brutish thugs. (It being a low-budget show, the motorcycles are heard outside but not seen.)
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: There are numerous times that Eric, in wolf form, attacks bad guys, but leaves innocents unharmed. The premise of gradual mental corruption was planned to have seen this change in later episodes if the series hadn't been cancelled.
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** General for the series: The werewolves are the bear-like type similar to those in ''Film/TheHowling'', with individual werewolves having different-colored fur (Eric's is brown, Skorzeny's is black, etc.) and the curse being passed via biting. Transformation happens almost at random for newer werewolves, indicated by a pentagram scar appearing on the palm that bleeds as the change is about to start, although stress and fear seem to trigger the cycle. More experienced werewolves can do it at will. The only thing that can truly kill a werewolf in either human or monster form is a [[SilverHasMysticPowers silver weapon]] or another werewolf's teeth and claws, otherwise [[ResurrectiveImmortality the curse will bring them back to life]]. It's stated that the kill is only permanent if done while in wolf form, but this is never tested on-screen.
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** General for the series: The werewolves are the bear-like type similar to those in ''Film/TheHowling'', with individual werewolves having different-colored fur (Eric's is brown, Skorzeny's is black, etc.) and the curse being passed via biting. Transformation happens almost at random for newer werewolves, indicated by a pentagram scar appearing on the palm that bleeds as the change is about to start, although stress and fear seem to trigger the cycle. More cycle, while more experienced werewolves can do it at will. The only thing that can truly kill a werewolf in either human or monster form is a [[SilverHasMysticPowers silver weapon]] or another werewolf's teeth and claws, otherwise [[ResurrectiveImmortality the curse will bring them back to life]]. It's stated that the kill is only permanent if done while in wolf form, but this is never tested on-screen.
