Hello there.
I’m Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki and today we’re looking at what I believe
is the one near-perfect antagonist Jeff Davis created during the run of the show.
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Anyway, on the Fandom App you can get all the facts about season three’s Nogtisune.
But facts alone don’t convey just what an exceptionally well-constructed monster this was.
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Y’all know I’m prone to rant in my comment section.
Lately that's been when someone tries to say something like
"Deucalion was a super wolf"
When we all know that guy mostly just stood around and barked.
(small dog barking)
Well, someone commented a couple a weeks back that the same could be said of the nogitsune.
“I really like how Void Stiles was pretty much all talk as well, but you have
no problems with that.”
I summed up the fake news very succinctly at the time.
“On screen it blew up the sheriff's station killing several law enforcement, took on the
US army and killed hundreds at Eichen House and Oak Creek.
it outsmarted Noshiko and fooled Scott that it was his best friend right to his face.
Off screen, it killed Silverfinger, it rigged a trap for Coach and took over the bodies
of several characters puppeteering all of them simultaneously as a mere distraction.
Nogitune only "just talked" that one time.
Void: Divine move? Divine move? You think you have any moves at all?
You can kill the oni, but me? Me? I'm a thousand years old. You can't kill me!
But, that exchange got me thinking about all the ways this particular monster is so well constructed.
First, you have to invite it into the real world.
That means the summoner is complicit in its activities and all the crimes that follow.
Noshiko wanted the Nogitsune to use her body, but it’s a trickster and game recognizes game.
It knew that Noshiko would get her revenge on the Army and then destroy herself rather
than let the nogitsune have the kind of fun it really wanted to.
That’s why it took a corpse rather than a powerful kitsune.
The other reason it chose Rhys is because it didn’t need consent to fully take
over the body.
That’s the second reason why Nogitsune is a near perfect monster.
You have to agree to let it take control and
this makes the host complicit in its worst crimes.
Unlike the Dread Doctors who take people and turn them into monsters against their will
or the Kanima who has no will of its own – the nogitsune forces this conspiracy which adds
to the pain and chaos and that in turn further feeds the Nogitsune from the start.
Now, it can puppet anyone without consent by using the fly thing. Barrow got up off
an operating table with a gaping chest wound.
What he then did was all Barrow acting on his own desires with just a few nudges from
a very weak Void Stiles to push him toward Kira.
This whole Barrow thing was all because nogitsune needed all the chaos the escaped murderer
caused to feed it and make it stronger in order to increase its hold on its host.
The electrical discharge here also probably helped scramble Stiles brain which made controlling
him a bit easier.
Where was I?
Oh Yeah, it can control anybody but needs the agreement of the host to really take over.
I mean, Stiles fought it pretty well for like four episodes, even running off into the woods
at night to get the monster away from people.
(Stiles screaming)
All the while this internal fight was causing more and more misery and strife inside Stiles
and among the people who love him.
That in turn fed Nogitsune, made it stronger and more able to control the body which created
more opportunities to cause more misery, chaos and strife.
(chaos noises)
In the end, Nogitsune had to put someone in mortal danger to get Stiles to stop fighting
and agree to give over his body fully.
Stiles: Let her go please!
Void: Let me in Stiles.
Let me in.
You let me in and I'll let her live.
Okay, I'm wandering again.
It’s just such a well constructed monster I may have to do a step by step Nogitsune
takeover timeline video.
If this one does well, I’ll look at that next.
Back to why it’s a near perfect monster, we have the fact that its summoner and
it’s host are made willing participants in its deeds.
It’s ability to control others to generate chaos to feed on. That is a great power.
What else?
Oh, yeah, It’s ability to fool all the senses with fully immersive illusions.
This is a good one.
So good in fact that it’s hard to tell if certain things were really happening or not.
Like this whole spinning himself a new body thing.
We know that the real Stiles was left behind but did all that stuff - the crawling out
of the floor, the smoke, the bandages – did all that really happen or was it just a light
show to distract from Void kidnapping Lydia?
You can’t trust your eyes or anything else with this thing around.
It also could project itself into technology apparently?
I mean, there are two ways it could have faked the MRI results.
As part of the preparations the night before, when it was on the roof cutting power lines,
nogitsune could have gotten into Claudia’s files and rigged the computer to project those
old results instead of what was actually in Stiles brain.
It would be simpler though if it could cause machines to hallucinate the same way it causes
people to hallucinate.
That would explain so much, like Allison’s phone turning itself off and then getting
weird voicemails.
(Japanese Interment Camp Announcement)
So, yeah, either way, it could mess with technology.
A less impressive, but equally effective power was it’s ability to mimic Stiles to such
a degree that his own best friend Scott was unaware until nogitsune was literally holding
a sword in Scott’s gut.
(Scott grunts and screams)
Nogitsune’s most mundane power was something I personally lack, The monster showed almost
supernatural time management and organizational skills.
Basically, in one night it killed an experienced mob boss and framed Derek and Argent, set
up the arrow for coach, made a bomb and delivered it to the Sheriff Station while also beautifully
wrapping a fake bomb package and dropping it off for Jared to pick up.
That is Elon Musk level time management and productivity.
With all that, imagine what might happen if a Nogitsune had a willing host
right from the start...