Hello there.
I'm Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki. And Today I'm going to get myself in
trouble talking about one of the most annoying aspects of Teen Wolf fandom.
The fact that, for no other reason than that he talked a good game,
Deucalion is believed by many to be some sort of super-werewolf.
Deucalion is not a super wolf.
Nope. Like Trump, Obama, Trudeau, Macron Erdogan, or any of
the other populust world leaders, Deucalion is not super at anything other than running his mouth.
I mean, he only killed like two guys on screen and one of those was helpless.
The rest of the time he just stood around and barked.
However, when I point this out to people, they always come back with how scared
everybody was of him, and how fast he ran across a small room that one time,
and how he stood his ground when Jennifer threw a psychic punch.
I'm not saying Deucalion didn't have a reputation and that the Alpha
Pack wasn't legendary for their brutality. He did, and they were.
I'm saying Deucalion didn't actually show us much to deserve that reputation,
and was, when it came down to the moment of truth,
a weak ass opponent who was too busy smelling his own farts to get on with the business at hand.
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Wow, that is some impressive elevator standing.
Okay, let's fast forward to some action and see what Deukaylion actually does in a fight.
Oh, okay. He's the guy who comes in at the end and slashes a helpless opponent.
Total badass.
Seriously, this guy gives one speech and fanboys everywhere are like.
Fanboy: No way.
Deucalion: I am the apex of apex predators.
Fanboy: Oh my God!
Deucalion: I am death destroyer of worlds.
Fanboy: No way! Oh my
I do want to, try, to be fair. Deucalion did kill a younger and presumably strong beta just
after his eyes had been burned out of his head. So, that must prove he, is the über wölf. Right?
But think about it. Marco thought he was blind. Deucalion had the element of surprise
and disabled his opponent immediately.
And, let's back track a minute. Deucalion got his ass kicked by an old human.
Gerard: ...by pushing them into their different volatile states.
Okay, I hear you saying, Deucalion wasn't, "augmented", yet at that point. So that's why Gerard
got him. People throw that word, "augmented", around a lot when they're talking about the Alpha Pack.
That word is meaningless when it comes to the actual canon of the show.
Yes, they picked up some strength and speed from each of their betas that they killed.
However, they didn't actually show all that much extra on the show.
Take this initial fight at Derek's loft.
They took out an already wounded Cora. I wish this voice clone could do sarcasim because I would say,
"very impressive", in a totally sarcastic way here.
Derek was actually holding his own against Kali.
Then she picked up a lead pipe.
How, augmented, are you really when you beat an unarmed opponent with a big, blunt, object?
And, where was Deucalion?
Deucalion: Everybody done? Because just listening to that was exhausing.
Oh, yeah. He came in after the fight and then just stood around and talked.
A lot of people point to this fight that preceded the episode Frayed as evidence for,
augmentation.
But, if you watch closely, the only fighter who had an obvious advantage was the Voltron wolf.
And that's because he's automatically got the strength of two fighters in one body.
The other Alphas, still struggled a bit despite the fact that only one
of their opponents seemed to know how to fight.
The fact that they didn't immediately mop the floor with all of the good
guys says to me that the Alphas are not all that much stronger.
Kali: Are we serious with this kid?
Look at him.
He's an alpha?
To what? A couple of useless teenagers?
Kali is not just being bitchy here. She is absolutely right
about Derek's pack members being young and inexperienced when it comes to fighting.
Isaac and Boyd spent most of the time after they were bitten locked in a bank vault.
We don't know about Cora, but she seemed to have a mostly peaceful existence in South
America before her return, because she didn't know how to fight either.
They were not trained, and Derek, while he had some training, was literally a
child when Deucalion, Ennis, and Kali were already well established killers and
leaders of their own packs. They outmatched him on the basis of experience and skill.
I mean, they do a lot of one-on-one shoving and throwing people in this fight at the mall,
and everybody seems to give, as good as they get.
The Alphas didn't show any overt augmentation in their efforts to best them.
I would also suggest that if one human with a bow
and arrow can turn the tide of the fight in such a fundamental way,
I don't think the Alpha Pack's skill and strength advantage was actually that big here.
Oh, wait. I'm supposed to be focusing in on Deucalion.
Where was Deucalion when all this important fighting went down? I wonder.
Oh yeah, he's just standing on the stairs watching as everybody else does all the work.
Well now. that, certainly is impressive.
One last example of the limited strength advantage I see with the Alpha Pack members.
In this fight at Derek's loft,
Kali makes Derek go one-on-one and he manages to hold his own for a while.
The only advantage she shows is her ability to recover from the electricity more quickly than Derek
Kali: Take him!
This small advantage allows her, with the help of both twins, to hold Derek and Boyd.
Final word on all that, I just think, "augmented",
is a silly overstatement of the facts shown on screen.
But, let's get back to Deucalion and his single most important task
of the entire series. He needed to kill Jennifer.
He did go all crazy-face, stopped Derek in his tracks, and stood his ground when
she threw some Scarlet Witch mojo at him - but why didn't he just kill her then?
I go into the psychology that kept him from doing what was necessary in another
video that you should check out - but here I'm talking about whether or not
Deucalion shows any obvious signs that he is some kind of super-wolf.
We already know that being crazy allows a werewolf to tap into more of the supernatural
animal strength inside. Deucalion was obviously on the crazy train here.
He's got an obvious strength and skill advantage over everyone involved.
But that crazy wolf strength comes with an equal increase in stupidity.
which is why he ended up getting his head bashed into the concrete
repeatedly when he should have ended Jennifer long before the eclipse.
Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time we go back to Beacon Hills.