Hello there. It's the month of Halloween at the time of this recording and I thought the month
Michael Myers always comes home might be a good time to go over the Teen Wolf creatures that,
like dear Mr. Myers, are unkillable.
There’s a bunch actually. I’m not talking about the soft
squishy humans that always seem to avoid death -
Nor am I getting into those creatures that are just really hard to kill
like the werewolves. No. This one is about those that cannot ever be truly destroyed.
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First up in the unkillable category, the Ghost Riders.
The primary reason they can’t be killed is because riders are just the spirits of humans
that were taken by the hunt. In other words, the souls the Riders take become Ghost Riders.
Apparently they get a snazzy cowboy outfit are assigned a horse and put to work.
But, I hear you saying, we did see that one time that Lydia and The Sheriff scream/shot
and killed that one that was choking out Stiles.
Yep, they did that. But if you notice, when they shot the rider pretending to be Claudia,
it vanished in a puff of smoke, just like all the people the ghost riders took before. She didn’t die
just like those people didn’t die. She just popped back into the Wild Hunt and kept riding.
So, yeah, the Ghost Riders are unkillable.
Hellhounds are next. These spirits run with the hunt too but they have a much broader
job description. Check out my Hellhounds are Forever video for the full picture.
For now, I’m just focused on the fact that they can’t be killed.
Yes, we saw that second hellhound Halwyn put down
by a bullet to the head, but that did not actually kill him.
It was the bullet stuck inside his brain that made
healing impossible so he was on a slab for a while. But he popped right up once
Lydia pulled the bullet out with that big magnetic scanner at the hospital.
Here’s where things started to go wrong for Halwyn.
Once the bullet was out, his body started heating up. Getting hot is part of how hellhounds heal.
And this would have worked too had that bullet not been partially silver.
Apparently, the charismatic unique and talented Monroe
was under the impression that only silver could kill monsters. That is a misinterpretation.
It was Argents that kill monsters and Argent happens to be the French word
for silver. Anyway, the bullet was at least partially made of silver.
That is a soft, non-magnetic metal
so when the rest of the projectile came out, silver fragments remained
inside his head. Add heat and those fragments melt quickly. So Halwyn basically poisoned himself with
silver while trying to heal. In doing so, he damaged his human body beyond repair.
But the Hellhound that was animating Halwyn is not dead.
We know the other hellhound entered and controlled Parrish at the moment
the deputy got blowed up in Afghanistan. This requires that the hellhound had to be somewhere
before and strongly suggests that it will return to that same somewhere after its human body dies.
So, while the humans they inhabit may expire, the hellhound itself is unkillable.
Void: This was my game.
Think you can beat me at my game?
Next up, the Nogitsune.
You’d be surprised by how many faithful Teen
Wolf viewers think that Scott and Kira killed the Nogitsune.
But this housefly is the corporeal form of the Nogitsune spirit after its body is destroyed.
It was summoned into this world by Noshiko back in 1943 and it has never left. It first possessed
the corpse of Rhys before the combined efforts of Noshiko and Satomi brought it out of that body.
It was trapped, a helpless housefly, in a jar under the Nemeton until Stiles, Allison and Scott
re-energized the tree’s stump while the Darach was generating earth quakes around it. It then
escaped, grabbed Stiles, made a new Stiles-shaped body and ultimately ended up back in insect form.
From the information provided, that same nogitsune is still alive and
well and currently resides inside this box somewhere in Europe. It’s a housefly
and hopefully can do no harm in that form, but it’s not dead.
Of course, Stiles was dealing with the second Nogitsune we know about. The
first was inside the gangster killed during one of Chris Argent’s first arms deals.
This Nogitsune ended up at the pointy end of Oni swords, but it didn’t actually die.
There’s no evidence that this one remains on our plane of existence.
But, like the hellhound, Noshiko had to summon her nogitsune from somewhere
and it is to that somewhere this other nogitsune likely returned.
In short, the nogtisune are unkillable.
On a side note, the regular kitsune might well be unkillable too. There is a fox spirit that is
separate from the human body. It would follow that a spirit form like that can’t be killed
but there’s still enough uncertainty that I won’t declare them fully unkillable.
One of the most physically complicated characters on the show
was the Anuk-Ite. It was definitely a spirit form. It appeared as a swarm of spiders.
It possessed animals and ultimately took the form of a human and a werewolf.
But even after all that, it wasn’t fully formed yet. One of the people shapes had to kill
the other person shape and then all the little spiders went from one to the other
and became a giant skinned weasel.
Halwyn basically laid out the situation.
Halwyn: You can't kill it.
Lydia: But you did.
Halwyn: I trapped it.
You can't let the two halves merge.
If you do, you won't be able to catch it.
And he was right as far as that goes but he was wrong that they couldn’t catch it.
Again, the Anuk-Ite is not dead. It just all wrapped up in a Mountain Ash shell unable to move.
I like to imagine, in order to get rid of it, they just had Parrish called up
the Wild Hunt on the hellhound hot line. Get it? The hellhounds have a hot line?
Ugh. Never mind.
Thanks for watching. Did I forget somebody? I always seem to but
that’s what the comments are for. I’ll see you next time we go Back to Beacon Hills.