Another question I'm getting a fair bit is - "How old will Scott be in the movie?"
In case you haven't heard, Teen Wolf: The Movie takes place sometime in 2026.
Canonically, season one of the Teen Wolf TV show started in January 2011 with the
Wolf Moon of that year and the start of winter session at Beacon Hills High School.
Victoria: Remember, so long as you stay strong we won't have to kill a 16 year old boy.
Scott is 16 years old in the winter of 2011. He therefore should be 31 in the movie.
But - as you might expect in keeping with the fact that Teen Wolf can't tell time -
nobody seems certain about how old he actually is in the movie.
Tyler Posey: When we first started he was 15, I was 18 and now he's like 55 and I'm 30.
Jeff Davis: Scott is 33 I think in the movie.
31 guys, the number you're looking for is 31.
And because people inevitably want to know about Derek's age and it is a huge sore spot
with a sizable portion of the fandom, Derek should be around 40 in the movie.
I say around 40 because his specific age is not a canonical fact.
Sheriff: The records would be over 10 years old. I just need to look over a couple files.
We know from that Derek was in high school with Paige more than 10 years before 2011.
Why does this mean Derek was in high school "more than ten years" before 2011? The sheriff is asking about Julia's records. Derek killed Paige and recharged the nemeton before the sheriff found Julia at the nemeton.
But that is a lot of wiggle room. He would have been around 25 when we met him and around 40 is
as close as we can say for the movie based on all the information we have from the TV show.
I know I'm repeating myself but I keep getting questions about Scott's true alpha powers.
Scott has no true alpha powers because true alpha is not a status.
It only describes a method of achieving the regular alpha status.
Let me repeat that. True alpha is a method. It is not a special status.
In the Teen Wolf universe, most either inherit an alpha spark or steal it
but there's a third way to get one.
Deaton: It's rare, something that doesn't happen within 100 years, but every once in a while
a beta can become an alpha without having to steal or take that power.
They call it a true alpha.
One who rses purely on the strength of the character, by virtue, by sheer force of will.
Scott's moral superiority was enough to push his little werewolf spark up to alpha level.
Peter: It's that spark of power that makes you an alpha. That spark that
intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.
And in Scott's case, he made that extra bit of power all by himself.
It is an unusual way to attain the status. Most people are just not that good so it doesn't
happen often. But Scott gets no special powers beyond being able to make more
werewolves, a little bit more strength, and faster healing, which are things that all alphas claim.
One canonical caveat - because Scott's spark is unusual and unique to him because he made
it inside himself - it is not compatible with any other spark in the Teen Wolf universe.
My theory is that all the alpha sparks were made by Zeus all at the same time
when he transformed a single family of 50 into wolves way back in Arcadia.
All werewolves in the world today are linked to that divine lightning and all alpha werewolves
in the world today - except Scott - got their little bit extra from that original Zeus spark.
Scott's extra didn't come from Zeus - he made it himself - so
his alpha bits are not compatible with any of the other werewolves.
A regular beta or omega werewolf could try to steal Scott's spark, but they wouldn't
be able to keep it because it's simply not compatible with the spark they already have.
It would not stick with the new host.
The exception to that is that anyone Scott shared his spark with - in the
current universe that's just Hayden and Liam - could take his Alpha spark.
They're the only ones fully compatible with it because they were made from that specific spark.
Okay y'all, what follows is a spoiler for the Teen Wolf movie.
It's from the trailer that was released at Comic-Con so it's out there,
but if you're avoiding spoilers you have three seconds to ditch this video.
Three, two, one.
This tiny sliver of a scene and my analysis of it suggesting that it
looks like Scott is taking someone's pain and that it reminded me of when
Derek did this for Cora prompted a lot of people to ask if Scott could
lose his alpha spark by transference like Derek did in the healing process.
The answer is yes he could.
Will it happen?
I don't know.
But it certainly could happen because the transference of energy does flow both
ways as Deucalion described back in season five.
Deucalion: Feel that Theo? That's the secret to taking power.
Take their pain, take their life, take their power.
It's all or nothing. You take until there's nothing more to give. That's
where you find the spark of power and then you take that as well.
If Scott dies what happens to his spark?
Now we're into the realm of theory here because we
have no canonical information about how inheritance works.
We know you can inherit the spark,
but there's absolutely nothing to tell us the mechanics of how that would work.
I believe when an alpha dies - by human hands or natural causes - the
spark leaves the body and attaches itself to the strongest familial link.
It looks for the strongest of the little sparks that that
particular Alpha shared with a beta or offspring.
That is my theory.
How does it get to them?
I don't know.
But we do know the telluric currents carry electricity and an alpha spark
is basically just divine electricity so it could carry a spark until it reaches someone.
With Scott, we all assume that someone would be Liam.
Now Liam is an alpha with Scott's special spark but is that spark still special?
I mean my theory is it couldn't be stolen from Scott because it was
incompatible with all the other sparks in the world, but now it's in Liam.
Is it still special or can it be stolen now that it's changed hands?
I personally think it can be stolen. That's not canon it's just my logic.
My theory goes that Scott made the alpha portion of his spark
himself meaning it was completely unique to him.
But once that spark transfers, it's just electricity. It would stick to Liam because
it fits with his existing spark, but each werewolf changes their internal energy.
They add to or damage their sparks and that makes them very different in subtle ways.
So the alpha spark Liam would now have isn't the same one that Scott gave up.
I think all those internal changes will ultimately make the spark less
unique and more vulnerable to be stolen by another werewolf.
I still get this question a lot.
My answer is Scott could never go beast mode like Peter in season
one because Scott is a chill dude and doesn't want to cause harm.
If you're a regular viewer you can just move on now because this is basically a rehash.
Looking like this as a werewolf is a very bad thing because it means you have lost your mind.
Only completely insane werewolves let their internal monster out to this extent.
In the show we have Peter and Sebastian as examples of fully crazy werewolves.
But we also have examples of werewolves who are just tipping toward Insanity.
Deucalion's transformation is not quite full crazy but it is getting there.
Peter in the season 4 finale is looking mildly nuts.
And Liam in season five is definitely headed in that
direction too after being manipulated by Theo.
Perhaps the best example of a werewolf tipping toward monster
comes in the season four episode Monstrous.
Scott is pissed.
He is frustrated by all the killing that he's powerless to stop and he gets really mad at these
cold-blooded hunters who are literally killing harmless people to make money.
We get to watch Scott losing control and you can clearly
see the process of the monster within taking over.
This moment was an important learning experience for Scott. After reaching this point he knew what
it felt like and knew just how far he could push his strength without losing control.
All that new knowledge and experience allowed him to do this just a few episodes later
It's clear from what Jeff told me and what he had Deaton say that
the term true alpha only applies to how you gain the alpha status.
If it's just about how you get the status,
why then would there be extra rules you have to follow to keep the status?
I mean you get it by being morally superior but you don't lose it if your morals slip.
But what about what Scott said that one time?
Scott: Make it stop or I'll kill you myself.
I don't care what it does to the color of my eyes.
This part is pretty simple to me. His eyes had just switched to red like a minute before
this. He said the words "I'm an alpha now" but nobody in this abandoned distillery or
anywhere else in the Teen Wolf universe knew for sure what that actually means.
It's one of two things either Scott didn't know what he was
talking about or he was talking about the change to blue when you kill someone.
It could be one of three things - the third being that this speech was actually longer at
some point and got cut down to just these few lines and some of the deeper context got lost.
I say that because in earlier episodes they spoke
much more clearly on how killing would impact Scott becoming a true alpha.
Morrell: He wants a true alpha in his pack. He thinks it's you.
Scott: I'm not an alpha.
Morrell: But you're well on your way, aren't you?
Scott: Then what is he waiting for? What does he want me to do?
Morrell: He wants to make a killer out of you. That's what he does.
Scott: But if I kill someone, I can't be a true alpha. Right?
Morrell: Exactly.
This may be where most of the confusion comes from on this topic,
but it's very clear to me when Scott says "if I kill someone I can't be a
true alpha" he's talking about becoming a true alpha. He said this before it happened.
Deucalion wants to possess a true alpha but he also wants to
destroy Scott's potential to become a true alpha by making Scott kill.
Morrell: If the obsessive can have the object of his desire,
he'll choose to destroy it instead. You'll either willingly become part
of his pack or he'll make a killer out of you destroying your potential to be a true alpha.
Again, they're very careful to point out that a person who kills could never
become a true alpha. That makes perfect sense because killing is always wrong.
It might be unavoidable, but it's still wrong and you cannot be a killer and
still be morally superior enough to generate your own alpha spark.
You can't become a true alpha if you are a killer. That doesn't mean you
can't become a killer after you get the true alpha spark.
The status itself doesn't prevent Scott from killing and killing wouldn't change his status.
That Scott is allowed to kill anybody he wants to and still
remain an alpha werewolf is key to his character.
If this no killing idea is real, it damages the character in kind
of an irreparable way and you create a scenario where he's only doing the
right thing because of some underlying selfish belief that he'd lose his status.
If that's the case then he's not actually doing the right thing at all.