Hello there.
I'm Paul Rea from the official Teen Wolf Wiki.
And today we're looking into the healing abilities that come with being a werewolf on Teen Wolf.
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Melissa: Oh my god.
Scott: I'm fine.
I'm healing. It's okay.
Like so many of my videos, this one started with a question from a viewer.
Someone wanted to know if a werewolf bite could cure paralysis.
The simple answer is maybe.
The more complicated answer is that it depends on the type and the extent of the injury.
Derek: Side effects may include anxiety, weight gain, acne, ulcerative colitis.
Eh.
What if I told you that all of this could go away?
The side effects, the symptoms, all of it.
During the run of the show, we saw a werewolf bite instantly cured asthma and a seizure disorder.
Those are both chronic illnesses and while they can be life changing and potentially
devastating to the patient.
Those are both relatively easy fixes for any basic supernatural healing ability.
I mean, asthma is basically an inflammation problem.
The airways of the lungs swell and cut off your air supply.
Since any level of inflammation from a bug bite to rheumatoid arthritis would instantly
trigger our werewolf healing ability.
You would instantly have no more asthma.
Erica's situation is a little more complicated, but werewolf bite offers something that is
especially effective against epilepsy or other seizure disorders or really anything having
to do with the brain.
As I posit in my series on the werewolf spark, the bite offers a transfer of electricity.
In the Teen Wolf universe, it's divine electricity that originated with Zeus.
Alphas share a little bit of their spark with anyone they bite.
And the little spark is what makes you a werewolf.
Since Erica's illness stems from a misfiring of the natural electricity inside the human
brain, adding the werewolf spark onto her body's existing electrical system should solve
that problem.
Of course seizure disorders can also be caused by a brain injury or a tumor or something
else, physical.
If that's the case
we know for sure the werewolf healing ability does a good job of repairing tissue.
So whatever was wrong in the brain could be fixed pretty quickly.
Now let me be clear, the writers of the show used healing factor however they saw fit.
I don't think they followed a strict set of rules, but what they showed us did establish
some basics for how things work.
Healing of tissue and bone can be instantaneous under the right circumstances.
Melissa: Oh my god.
Scott: I'm fine.
I'm healing.
It's okay.
Allison: Scott, your leg, oh my god, your leg broken.
Scott: Not for long.
It's okay.
I'm fine.
Healing can be stopped or slowed by any number of things.
Stiles: Just let me see it.
Okay?
Scott: okay.
It's because they're from an alpha.
It'll take longer to heal.
Boyd: I think I stopped healing.
Derek: Bullets are laced with wolfsbane.
You've got to go.
Allison: I thought he would be healing by now.
Scott: So did I.
Doctor: Here he have a rather extraordinary case, near fatal burn victim.
Typically in a situation like this, the coma is induced medically.
We're not sure how Mr. Hale became comatose however.
His survival is honestly a mystery we're still trying to solve.
Healing is as much about state of mind as it is about supernatural ability.
Again, there are no hard and fast rules, but there is a basic framework here.
The question that started all this is one of those "what if" situations that didn't
directly come up on the show, so this is all my speculation.
Spinal injuries that cause paralysis among supernaturals, just like with humans, could
either be simple or complex.
A simple injury for a supernatural would be say a bullet that breaks the spinal cord.
In such an instance, the severed nerves and bone just need to repair themselves, which
we've seen can happen pretty quickly.
A more complex injury would be something crushing the spine.
In this case, the healing factor has almost nothing to work with.
It cannot, as far as we know, do the Deadpool thing and grow new limbs and organs.
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So a mashed up vertebrae and squished nerves probably can't be fixed.
In this case, I think the injury would be long lasting and possibly permanent for our
hypothetical supernatural.
Now I'm basing my speculation on the difference between Scott and Deucalion's eye injuries.
With Deucalion, Gerard really got in there and mashed his eyes while at the same time
burning all the surrounding tissue and cauterizing the optic nerves.
Deaton: The eyes will heal physically but your sight it's...
The fact that the injury never healed completely is a testament to just how much damage was done.
Now with Scott, he really just scooped out his eyes.
It was a clean severing of the tissue and he might not have even hit the underlying nerves.
He also must have left enough eye tissue behind for his body to regenerate.
Now I said before that it doesn't appear that werewolves can completely regenerate new organs
and I still stand by that, but we have seen them repair tissue as long as there's enough
undamaged material to work with.
So if Scott left enough of the different parts of the eye behind.
It could grow back.
Of course, this could also be just another example of the writers doing whatever they
feel like on the day, but my point still stands.
Werewolf healing can easily fix simple and clean injuries, deep and complex injuries
either can't be fixed or take a really long time.