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I'm Paul Rea from the Official Teen Wolf Wiki, and today I'm answering a question posed by
a viewer.
Just how strong will our werewolves be heading into Teen Wolf: The Movie when it airs on
Paramount Plus later this year.
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I usually hate this kind of "Me Strongest" speculation video.
but I do have a pretty well-developed theory about how supernatural strength works in the
Teen Wolf universe.
So this one is easy because I can just plug all the werewolves into that existing formula
and see where they land.
What's the theory?
Oh, I'm so glad you asked. I believe that all werewolves get the exact same level of supernatural
strength, but that strength is directly tied to the beast inside.
Mental state and experience are the only things that create the variations in
presentation of strength that we witnessed during the show.
Now, I think this visualization is the best that I've come up with.
You can access the peak of the strength pyramid in two ways. You can go completely crazy ass
bonkers, like season one Peter or the beast, and then you can use all that supernatural
strength available.
Unfortunately, werewolves that look like this are stupid, like killed by a sharp stick stupid.
The other way to reach the peak is the way Talia, Laura and Derek did it.
You have to balance the human and beast parts of you in order to master your full abilities
and then access all your strength without losing control.
So these are the ones we saw at peak strength and everybody else on the show was, in some
way, shape or form, still struggling to hold back the monster inside.
We saw the struggle play out most dramatically with the young wolves, but even those with
more experience and control like Kincade and Satomi had not reached their full potential.
Now the alpha pack got some boost from the sparks they stole.
But with that boost, I believe, their struggle to maintain control became harder too.
This is why I believe we didn't see all that much extra strength and why a bunch of novice
werewolves were able to survive so many confrontations with them.
I'm getting off track, sorry.
Uh, the pyramid of werewolf strength.
Here's how it played out on the show.
You have the younger characters struggling every day to stay in control or in desperate
fear of losing control.
So they can only access the bare minimum for most of what we saw.
Variations in strength within this group was all about mental state and experience.
Then you had the older wolves, like Kincaid and Satomi who managed to access more strength
because they've been working at it way longer.
Then the alpha pack is just above them.
They'd been at it a long time too, and then gave themselves that little extra spark boost
that pushed them a bit higher, but it wasn't the huge surge in strength that they all kept
claiming.
Then at the very tippy top, you had the crazy wolves and the balanced wolves.
That was what we witnessed during the run of the show.
But what about the movie?
I have zero reason to believe that Derek somehow lost his balance.
So I'm not covering him in this.
As far as I'm concerned, he is still able to access that full peak wolf strength.
Without knowing anything other than the fact that it's been like 12 or 13 years since we've
seen these guys, here's how the other three werewolves would land
on my pyramid of werewolf strength.
Scott's a much older alpha.
He had years to understand his abilities and master the beast within.
So I place him on the same level as Kincaid and Satomi.
He should have the ability to access more of his supernatural strength.
Of course that is with the caveat that they haven't thrown in some serious emotional breakthrough
that would push him higher or a mental break down would have caused him to lose confidence
or go a little crazy.
That's actually a rule for this whole video.
This is baseline, all things being equal and growth being steady over the years, but not
extreme since we last saw them.
So Scott is a grown ass man.
He's at least 30 and has like 15 years of experience with his abilities.
If he's faced challenges that forced him to fight during that time, he will have learned
important lessons and have now a decent understanding of his Wolf nature.
Of course, they might do him dirty, like they did on the show.
Every time he started to get stronger, they threw some curve at him.
Like in season three, he became alpha and they immediately hobbled him with the irrational
fear that he would go beast mode at the slightest provocation.
Season four, he reaches one-punch knockout power.
So what did they do in season five, Wolfsbane inhaler to weaken him and then they broke
up the pack to leave him with no emotional support.
In season six, they mostly gave him opponents and situations that brute strength really
couldn't help with.
Anuk-Ite: Open your eyes!
So we didn't see that much, but they did let him beat the Löwenmensch, so he big strong.
So yeah, in the movie, I don't think Scott's a balanced peaker yet, because to me that
would be just super boring for a protagonist.
And I also don't think he's gone all crazy wolf strong because he is still our hero.
If they don't efff with him too much, I speculate that Scott will be Sotomi-level strong when
we see him in the Paramount Plus movie.
Next up is Liam and y'all, I get like 10 messages a week from people saying
"Liam better be an alpha in the movie".
I don't get that desire to change the character in such a fundamental way, but I believe some
of it is that people just don't understand what all Liam would have to do in order to
gain that status.
First thing, true alpha is super rare.
So Liam, ain't going to get there through the true alpha method.
Just deal with that.
Now I personally don't want Liam to be a killer.
I mean, it's possible, but I just wouldn't like it very much.
The other way is to inherit the status, meaning Scott would be dead, which as far as I know,
Scott is not dead in the movie.
All of that boils down to my belief that Liam isn't an alpha.
Again, I don't know.
I'm just speculating here.
And even if Liam is an alpha, it still wouldn't change my assessment of his strength level.
Because again, all werewolves have the same potential strength regardless of their status.
I mean neither the beast nor Derek are alphas when they reach peak strength.
So Liam's around 30 years old when the movie starts, I'm also guessing that he stuck with
what worked for him in maintaining control.
Stiles: Liam, look at me! What three things can not long be hidden?
What three things?
Liam: Sun, moon, truth.
Now, if he's still going that Zen route, he's likely reached a higher level of strength
as well, but he still has his anger issues to deal with.
If you like me suffer from any mental health issue, you know, it can be treated, but it
doesn't just go away.
So Liam is struggling against both the beast within and his own disorder.
I think it's still hard for him to find balance, but I think he will have made some progress
up this pyramid since last we saw him.
With all that, I'm placing him just below Scott, in ability to access his potential strength.
Now I left Peter for last because who knows what he's capable of.
When we saw him, he was no longer peak crazy wolf strength, but he also never bothered
too much with trying to control the beast when he fights.
After all his ups and downs, insanity, to dying, to recovering, at the end of the show,
I would place Peter in the middle with the other experienced, but not yet balanced wolves.
I don't believe Peter will ever be peak balance.
Now I love Peter.
I love him for who he is, but who he is doesn't lend itself to full Zen evolution.
Who he is definitely suggests would kill to get an alpha spark.
And while that doesn't come with an instant strength boost, the confidence Peter would
gain from once again, being in charge would definitely push him slightly higher on the pyramid.
All this is speculation.
We won't find out until the movie comes out later this year on Paramount Plus.
In the meantime, check out this video that explores how the werewolves
got their alpha spark in the first place.