Derek Hale

Derek S. Hale is an evolved werewolf and a major protagonist of the MTV drama series, Teen Wolf and the 2023 revival film Teen Wolf: The Movie. He was Scott McCall's rival turned friend and mentor who taught him how to control his werewolf transformation. Born into the Hale werewolf family, Derek is the son of Talia Hale, the brother of Laura and Cora Hale, and the nephew of Peter Hale. Though he lived his early years in Beacon, he left for New York after indirectly causing his mother's death by dating the hunter, Kate Argent. He returned in 2011 and discovered his sister Laura dead and investigated the cause of her brutal demise.
He is portrayed by Tyler Hoechlin (who also played Superman in CW Arrowverse) and played by Ian Nelson as a teenager.
== History==
===Background===
Derek was born into a family of werewolves. His mother, Talia, was much respected within the werewolf community, meaning young Derek came into contact with members of several other packs. He and his family lived in Hale House in Beacon Hills, California, and he attended Beacon Hills High School. Peter Hale claims a 15-year-old Derek conspired with an Alpha (Ennis) to have Derek's girlfriend (Paige) bitten in hopes of turning her into a werewolf. In truth, Peter manipulated him into meeting Ennis to bite her. 
Sometime later, Derek entered into a relationship with werewolf hunter Kate Argent. She used him to gather information on his family, making him an unwitting accomplice to the arson fire at Hale House that killed most of his family. Derek and Laura left Beacon for New York, staying there for a while until they returned home. Laura was killed by Peter, who did so to gain Alpha powers.
After his Uncle Peter killed the conspirators involved in the fire, Derek killed him and took the status of Alpha Werewolf as well as avenging Laura. Derek then started to create his own pack, recruiting his own beta werewolves - Erica Reyes, Isaac Lahey, Vernon Boyd, and Jackson Whittemore -to Ward off the Alpha Pack. He even attempted to recruit Scott McCall into the pack as well but the boy kept refusing him every time. To save the life of his sister Cora, long thought dead in the fire, Derek gave up the spark that made him an Alpha. His eyes turned from red back to blue as Scott became the true alpha. Though Derek's anchor was led by anger, he returned and became more compassionate and patient, helping Scott and McCall Pack.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Derek S. Hale is the middle child of Talia Hale and Mr. Hale outside of Beacon Hills and is the middle sibling to Laura and Cora Hale. He grew up knowing of his Lycan heritage and supernatural threats and was taught to see his lycanthropy as a gift alongside his sisters and uncle, Peter. Derek would go to Beacon High School and found great difficulty in controlling his transformations while also playing for the school's basketball team. Peter would teach Derek to use his anger and rage to anchor his humanity, which worked in helping him but proved to be disastrous for his relationships with people in adulthood. During his youth, Derek would fall in love with Paige Krasikeva, but Peter warned his nephew that his relationship with her would fail if she learned that he was a werewolf. 
Peter told Derek that he could prevent this if he turned her via bite and saw an advantage of this by having the alpha werewolf Ennis bite without Talia's permission. Though Ennis bit Paige, she rejected the bite as she was slowly dying in pain, and Derek mercy killed her in the cellar near the Nemeton after she told him he loved her. Upon killing Paige, Derek's eyes turned from gold to blue, signaling that he had taken an innocent life and that his soul was now darker. However, Talia came and comforted her son. Unknown to him at the time, Derek had performed a virgin sacrifice when he killed Paige. This restored the Nemeton's power after it was cut down, and it gave Jennifer Blake the power to survive her attack from Kali. 
In 2005, Derek began a love affair with Kate Argent, who was secretly a werewolf hunter who started the affair only to learn information about the Hale family. When Derek and Laura are at school, Kate and her conspirators burned down the Hale house, killing Talia, and ten people died in the fire, but Peter and Cora survived the incident. Peter's body was covered in burns, causing him to fall into a coma for years until his wounds healed. Cora, believing that he family had all died, fled to South America. Meanwhile, Derek felt great remorse for the incident and was ashamed to tell his living family that he was the reason why the Argents were able to attack them so easily. Derek and Laura fled to New York City and lived there peacefully for six years. 
in 2011, Derek and Laura heard about recent and horrendous animal attacks in Beacon Hills. One of the incidents involved a deer with a spiral burned on its carcass, and the sign symbolizes the werewolves' revenge. Laura never returned, so Derek followed after her. Upon his return, he found Cora dead, having been killed by an unnamed werewolf and dismembered by the Argent hunters to prevent her from being revived.
==Teen Wolf==
===Season One ===
When Derek found two teenagers, Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, in the woods near the ruins of his former home, he wanted to know what they were doing there. After getting no solid answer, he gave Scott his inhaler and later sensed that McCall had been bitten by a werewolf. That Friday night, Derek spied on Scott from a distance. When the younger werewolf began having side effects of his first full moon, Derek drove Allison home, claiming to be a friend of Scott's. He stole her jacket and lured Scott into the woods by leaving it there. Suddenly, hunters led Chris Argent, who shot Scott in the arm. However, Derek helped the younger Beta, and the two escaped. Scott accused Derek of being the one who turned him into a werewolf, but Derek didn't correct Scott's accusation at first. Because of their shared status as werewolves, Derek told Scott that they were brothers' lycanthropy now before leaving in the woods
After seeing Scott shift during a lacrosse game, Derek went into Scott's house in fear of him getting caught and alerting the Argents of his presence. He threatened to kill him if he went out to play. Later, Derek returned Allison's jacket to her. (Anonymously) as a warning. Derek also took his sister's body and buried her under a Wolfsbane vendetta spiral. Later, Scott went to Derek's house to confront him, taking the older werewolf to leave Allison alone. Derek warned him again that everything would fall apart when the people Scott loved if he transformed into a werewolf. The next day, Derek was arrested under suspicion of murder by the Beacon County Sheriff's Station when Stiles and Scott found the grave and Laura's body. When Stiles went to question Derek about his sister, Derek told Stiles that he could convince Scott not to play. Derek was released on a technicality when the medical examiner identified the hair found on Laura to be a wolf. Derek, who watched the game from afar, saw Jackson inspecting Scott's lacrosse glove and finding his claws. 
===Season 2===
=== Season 3===
===Season 4===
===Season 6===
As of Season 6b, Derek was on the run from the FBI, which his friend Stiles learned about. However, during one of the FBI operations, he found Stiles and carried him out to safety when the operation was botched. Derek was later found by Chris Argent, who was desperately trying to find others to help their friends, Scott, and his pack.
After learning Kate was planning on poisoning Scott with a yellow wolfsbane bullet, Derek returned to Beacon Hills to help Scott. There, he was happily reunited with Scott and helped his friends fight off Tamora Monroe, Gerard Argent, and the Anuk-ite. Unfortunately, Scott had been wounded by a yellow wolfsbane bullet, and this required Derek to burn it out of his system. Knowing Scott is safe, Derek was turned to stone by the Anuk-ite when it transformed into Jennifer Blake. However, Derek was saved when Scott blinded himself and fought the Anukite as Stiles killed it, restoring Derek. Two years into the future, Derek still rolled with the McCall pack.
==Personality==
Derek Hale is initially presented as quiet and mysterious, feeling remorse for the Fire incident, which left Derek bitter and cynical. This further intensified when his sister Laura was murdered by Peter Hale. After learning Scott was a werewolf, Derek used questionable methods to train him. He could barely tolerate Stiles and Scott, especially with them being teenagers. 
After gave up his alpha powers to save Cora and consulted with his mother's spirit, Derek eventing mellowed down. He learned to become a more caring and compassionate mentor to Scott and even returned to Beacon Hills so he could help his friend defeat Gerard and the Anukite. 
==Powers and Abilities==
==Weaknesses==
Derek has typical werewolf weaknesses, including mistletoe, wolfsbane, mountain ash, and lunar eclipses, causing him to lose his werewolf abilities. 
==Relationships==
===Scott McCall ===
Scott and Derek used to hate each other, and Derek could barely tolerate him; however, Derek trained him to control his shapeshifting powers (albeit with fear and intimidation). He even disapproves of Scott and Alison's relationship because of Derek's past romance with Kate. Over time, Derek came to view Scott like a little brother. Everyone, including Peter Hale, has noted how similar Derek and Scott were. 
===Stiles Stilinski===
Stiles and Derek used to be enemies until they worked together to stop the Alpha, the Argents, and the Kanima. According to Stiles, Derek used to scare and intimidate him. Trust between Derek and Stiles eventually escalated, and they eventually became very close friends. 
===Chris Argent===
Chris and Derek used to be enemies due to their long-time family feud, as the Argents were Hunters and the Hales were Werewolves. It took a turn for the worst when Argent's younger sister manipulated Derek into a relationship and killed the entire Hale family with it. In season 2, Derek accidentally bit Victoria when he was trying to save Scott and she committed suicide as per the hunter code. However, they later became friends when Derek shielded him from shards of glass after a bomb went off. 
===Allison Argent===
Due to the feud between the Argents and the Hales, Derek has a complicated relationship with Allison. He rarely trusts her because of what her aunt did to his family. He also disapproves of her relationship with Scott, and wanted him to end it. This only gets worse when Derek threatens Lydia's life and Derek unintentionally gave her mother the Bite. Allison blamed him for her mother's suicide even though he had nothing to do with it. However, though there was friction came between the two, they became reluctant allies with the threat of Darach, the Nogitsune, and the Alpha Pack. Despite their rivalry, Derek was shocked about her death. 
==Trivia==
*He was the third highest on the Deadpool hit list, being $15 million after Scott and Lydia. However, Derek was removed when it was believed that his powers had disappeared.
*Derek inherited his mother and older sister's ability to shapeshift into a full Wolf.
*Tyler Hoechlin left the show in Season 4 to focus on his movie career. He returned in the season six finale, making season 5 the only time Derek doesn't appear in the series.
*Derek's demise in the movie is heavily criticized by fans because he died the same way his family did in a fire.
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