Hello there, I’m Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki and today I’ll uncover the deadliest,
most destructive relationship in the entire Teen Wolf universe.
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In case you’ve been living under a rock since the MySpace era, a "ship" is shorthand
for a relationship. For this video, I’m talking about relationships between fictional characters
both inside the canon of the show or outside in the realm of fan fiction.
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Teen Wolf has a bunch of ships. Nearly 200 recognized named pairings and polyamorous groupings.
sprang up during the 100 episodes of the show’s original run.
We’re going to have to go faster than that or the list will take up the entire video.
Faster.
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I think we’re getting close to the end now. I see a bunch of the polyamorous groupings.
skittles.
Okay. So, with nearly 200 named and even more that never made it into the zeitgeist,
Teen Wolf built ships faster than the US Navy. And while a handful had real impact
on the course of the show, only one was truly destructive to almost every living character.
Allison: Thanks.
First let’s rule out the obvious suspects.
"Scallison" is Scott with Allison. It's the original in-canon pairing.
It was sweet and then it wasn’t and then it was bittersweet and awkward.
Then it got Allison killed.
Truly. If Allison Argent had had a different class schedule and not immediately imprinted on Scott
McCall as the first friendly face in a new school, she’d probably still be alive today.
She wouldn’t have been in the garage snooping and gotten intrigued by her father’s secrets.
She definitely wouldn’t end up trapped in the school with a monster.
She could have avoided that whole path that
started with a borrowed pen and ended with an enchanted sword.
Allison: It's okay.
But as sad as all that is, "Scallison" is not the most destructive relationship in Teen Wolf
Lydia: Hey Jackson.
Oh, yes. I tend to forget that the Jackson and Lydia together predates the pilot, so
they’re the original Teen Wolf Ship.
It was was dysfunctional and abusive, but it was first.
Jackson: Don't expect me to come running every time you start screaming.
In fact, resolving a bit of their dysfunction actually saved the day in Season 2.
Lydia really loved Jackson the whole time he just didn’t believe it or didn’t believe
he was worthy of love. And that messed with his werewolf transformation and created a kanima.
Seeing that love in Lydia saved him.
So these two are off the hook in our search for the most destructive.
Stiles: Sometimes there's other things you wouldn't think would be a good combination end up
turning out to be like a perfect combination.
Lydia with Stiles barely happened until at the very end of the show
They're “will they” or “won’t they” vibe certainly caused consternation and anger in the real world but
in-universe it played out mostly harmlessly.
So, no the "Stydia" romance did not leave a path of death and destruction in its wake.
Lydia: I didn't say it back.
Stiles: You don't have to.
Stiles: Oh! Derek: If you say one word...
Now we’re up to the relationship that literally shook the real world. And
some might say it threatened to overshadow and maybe destroy the show?
The deep love of Sterek and vocal demands for a fan-service plot line that would see Stiles
and Derek become a couple on screen, turned many Teen Wolf fans into acid-spewing critics.
You know who you are.
The fun of the early seasons, the banter,
and the “sarcasm versus sour wolf” dynamic was the reason this ship sailed in the first place.
But by season 3, just enjoying the platonic
Derek and Stiles relationship became a minefield of delicate social interactions
in order to avoid setting off the most vicious critics.
But, even with all that real world angst and unpleasantness,
"Sterek" didn’t cause death and destruction in universe because it wasn’t an in-universe thing.
Along those same lines, "Thiam" is extra-canonical and didn’t create any issues at all.
In fact, the idea of Thiam, thinking of Theo and Liam as an old married couple,
makes their interactions even funnier.
Liam: You ripped my t-shirt.
Theo: Yeah, you broke my nose, twice.
I also have yet to personally experience any toxic fandom surrounding Thaim. Of course there’s still
time. We've got a whole new movie so Thiam fans could eventually turn evil
But I hope cooler heads prevail.
Let’s see, were was I?
Ah, to really be a destructive and deadly relationship,
it almost has to be canonical.
Ken: You forgot all the research you did for that boy you like.
I guess there’s a case to be made that Kira hooking up with Scott
led to a lot of trouble. But I think she would have been kidnapped by
Doug Jones and taken to the power plant even if she never met Scott.
One could argue that the Dread Doctors wouldn’t have messed with her powers if she wasn’t part
of Scott’s pack. But they still needed a juiced up electrical kitsune to short out the security
around Eichen House. So they would have needed to get her in there one way or another.
I think Kira is F***ed even without the relationship because she’s
just such a useful creature for the doctors.
Also, It’s not clear that Kira’s presence in the pack, her relationship with Scott created any
death at all. I mean, yeah, the whole Ghost Riders getting stuck is due to her
electrical discharges but they didn’t actually directly kill anybody. Everybody they took,
with the exception of one guy, came home at the end of that storyline.
Okay, who else? Weirdly rushed but not deadly.
Nope.
Weirdly rushed but not deadly.
Kinda creepy and inappropriate but not all that destructive.
I don’t get this one at all but whatever makes them happy I guess.
Ah, here we are. The most destructive and deadly relationship in all the Teen Wolf Universe
started 300 years ago when a french boy
fell for another french boy who happened to be a serial killer and later became a werewolf.
Poor Marcel. He had it so bad for Sebastien and was such a co-dependent that he even hid
bodies for his unrequited love.
No matter how bad it got, no matter how high the
pile of corpse Legos in the basement, Marcel was still protecting him.
But his real O-A-G (overly attached) behavior didn’t begin until after Sebastien died. Marcel just
could not let go. He apparently got really into leather and steampunk
and started doing human experiments in an attempt to bring his "bae" back to life.
Putting a body count on this one relationship is kind of hard. We know there were hundreds
of deaths in France initially and then the Dreads killed
hundreds more teenagers with their experiments in the ensuing centuries.
In addition to all the families who lost loved ones, this relationship specifically
ruined Theo’s life. Without Marcel and Sebastien, Theo might have been a run of the mill sociopath.
He might even have gotten help for his problems instead of becoming a murderous wannabe.
It is a great, epic love story. It spans 300 years but Marcel and
Sebastien... Is that "MarBastien" or "SebMar"? Anyway, Marcel and Sebastien are the absolute worst.
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