Derek Hale

* Human
* Werewolf
* Evolved Werewolf

* Alpha of the Hale Pack (Season 1 to Season 3A / Teen Wolf: The Movie; Briefly)
* Member of the McCall Pack
* Supernatural Consultant of the Beacon County Sheriff's Department
* Owner of Hale Auto repair shop

## Physical Information

### Species

* Werewolf (Originally) (Beta, Omega & Alpha)
* Evolved Werewolf (Currently) (Beta, Omega & True Alpha)

### Eye Color

* Green
* Gold (Beta Werewolf; Formerly)
* Blue (Beta & Omega Werewolf/Evolved Beta & Omega Werewolf; Formerly)
* Red (Alpha Werewolf/Evolved True Alpha Werewolf; Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Talia Hale † (Mother)
* Laura Hale † (Older Sister)
* Cora Hale (Younger Sister)
* Peter Hale (Uncle)
* Malia Tate (Cousin)
* Eli Hale (Son)

### Relationships

* Paige Krasikeva † (Late Girlfriend)
* Kate Argent (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Erica Reyes † (Kissed)
* Jennifer Blake † (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Braeden (Ex-Girlfriend)

## Supernatural Information

### Affiliation

* Hale Family
* Hale Pack (Formerly)
* Beacon Hills High School (Formerly)
* McCall Pack
* Beacon County Sheriff's Station
* Hale Auto

### Significant Kills

* Paige Krasikeva (With Consent)
* Peter Hale (1st Time)
* Jackson Whittemore (With Consent; With Peter Hale) (2nd Time)
* Vernon Boyd (Indirectly; Uncontrollably)
* Unidentified Oni (Indirectly; With Chris Argent)
* Unknown Number Of Deadpool Assassins (Presumably; Self-Defense)
* Unknown Number Of Monroe's Army Members (Presumably; Self-Defense)
* Himself (With Consent)
* The Nogitsune (With Jordan Parrish; 3rd Time)

### Significant Turns

* Jackson Whittemore (Into a Kanima/Omega Werewolf)
* Isaac Lahey (Into a Beta Werewolf)
* Erica Reyes † (Into a Beta Werewolf)
* Vernon Boyd † (Into a Beta Werewolf)
* Victoria Argent † (Unintentionally) (Into an Omega Werewolf)

### Killed By

* Unidentified Berserker (1st Time)
* Jordan Parrish (With consent; 2nd Time)

### Cause of Death

* Stabbed in the chest repeatedly with a Berserker claw (1st Time)
* Burned to death by Hell Fire (2nd Time)

## Appearances

### Actor

* Tyler Hoechlin
* Ian Nelson (Young)

### Seasons

1, 2, 3, 4, 6B

**Derek S. Hale** was a former main character (From Seasons 1 through 4) and a guest character in the second half of Season 6 in MTV's *Teen Wolf*. He was the son of the renowned Evolved Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale, the father of Eli Hale, the younger brother of Laura Hale, the older brother of Cora Hale, the nephew of Peter Hale and the maternal cousin of Malia Tate.

As a born Beta Werewolf in the centuries-old Hale Pack, Derek grew up knowing about the supernatural and embracing his lycanthropy. However, after the majority of his family was killed in a house fire set by Kate Argent and her co-conspirators when he was in his late teens, Derek and his sister Laura fled to New York for several years before they were both lured back home in late 2010 or early 2011.

Shortly afterward, Laura was murdered in order for her killer to steal her Alpha powers, forcing Derek to track and battle against this mysterious and vengeful new Alpha, only to learn that it was actually his uncle Peter Hale, who sought to create a new pack with which to get revenge on those who orchestrated the Hale House Fire. Upon learning that Peter's killing of Laura was premeditated and not an accident like he claimed, Derek teamed up with Peter's first Beta, Scott McCall and his friends, along with Hunters Allison and Chris Argent, to kill him. It was Derek that gave him the killing blow in retribution for killing Laura, which caused Derek to gain Peter's Alpha status.

Sometime later, when Derek realized the Alpha Pack intended to recruit him, Derek began biting and turning several teenagers in hopes of building his own pack to help fight against them. Recipients of Derek's bite included Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, and Vernon Boyd III, though only the latter three actually joined the pack. In Season 3, Derek's pack expanded to included Peter and his newly returned younger sister, Cora, but his pack was short-lived, as the rest of his Betas were either killed (in the cases of Boyd and Erica) or left the group (such as Isaac, who subsequently joined Scott McCall's new pack after he ascended to True Alpha status).

In *Alpha Pact*, Derek forfeited his Alpha status in order to heal Cora from mistletoe poisoning, returning him to Beta status. Though he left town shortly afterward for several weeks, he later returned to Beacon Hills a much more relaxed and content man. After the events of the Deadpool and his surprise development into an Evolved Werewolf, Derek once again left town for a while, where he was presumed to be traveling with his then-lover, Braeden, a mercenary and former U.S. Marshal, for some time afterward.

However, he did come back in Season 6B after hearing that Scott needed his help, and bumped into Stiles (who was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Quantico, Virginia) on the way back to Beacon Hills; Derek had been framed for several mass murders that were actually carried out by Hunters against supernatural creatures, part of Gerard Argent and Tamora Monroe's international crusade to commit genocide against them. Two years after the defeat of the Anuk-ite and temporary win against Monroe's Army, Derek was seen still being an ally of the McCall Pack who was aiding his friends in finding orphaned supernatural creatures like Alec and welcoming them into their ranks.

In the year of 2026, Derek was revealed to have been hired by Sheriff Stilinski as a supernatural consultant to the Sheriff's department. He had also been raising a son named Eli, who, although 15, had not yet manifested any of his Werewolf abilities and displayed a lack of interest in accepting his lycanthropy. Based on Eli's statement that Scott had not seen him since he was three years old, it appears their contact with Scott has been minimal over the past 12 years. The Nogitsune was freed from his prison and returned to Beacon Hills to finally kill Scott, Derek, and the rest of the McCall Pack, with him sending his Oni to capture the majority of Scott's packmates and allies to leave him outnumbered. Though the McCall Pack and their allies managed to kill the Oni with the assistance of the newly-resurrected Allison Argent, the Nogitsune proved to be too powerful to be contained. Derek ultimately decided to sacrifice his life to ensure the destruction of the Dark Kitsune and kept the creature immobilized to allow Jordan Parrish to incinerate them both to death with his Hellhound powers. In his final moments, Derek proved himself to be one of the most virtuous of werewolves, and appeared to become a True Alpha. Unfortunately, the True Alpha power was not enough to save him from death. Following a memorial service organized to honor his passing, Scott and Allison decided to take Eli in as their ward.

## Early life

Derek was born the middle child of Legendery Alpha Werewolf Talia Hale and her unnamed husband on the outskirts of Beacon Hills, California in the mid-late 1980s. *("The Tell")* As a member of a centuries-old and highly esteemed Werewolf bloodline, Derek was raised along with his sisters Laura and Cora and his uncle Peter to see lycanthropy as a gift.

When he reached high school, he joined the Beacon Hills Cyclones basketball team. However, when he first came into his powers in adolescence, he had great difficulty learning to control his transformations during full moons, even despite the fact that he was able to maintain control at any other time, nearly exposing himself during a basketball game that happened to fall on a full moon. *("117")*

Talia attempted to train Derek to stay in his human form by using a large bronze coin stamped with a the symbol of the Hale Family, the triskelion, which she claimed was a powerful talisman for control when used with the mantra, "Alpha, Beta, Omega." Unfortunately, since Derek knew there was nothing actually magical about it, it did little to help him, which led Peter to teach him to use anger, rage, and hatred as an anchor to his humanity, a method which ultimately worked, though it wasn't exactly the healthiest coping mechanism. *("117")* This caused him to be a generally angry person in general who had a hard time connecting with others as a result. *("Fury")*, *("Battlefield")*

One night when Derek was a teenager, he was running away from Argent Hunters when he ran into a Beta who belonged to Ennis' original pack. Before they could fully identify each other, the Hunters caught up with them and shot the Beta through the neck with an arrow. Derek was too stunned to react and only avoided the same fate due to Peter's timely intervention at the last moment. The boys rushed over to a nearby root cellar to "hide and heal," as was the Werewolf protocol for when they were caught by Hunters and wanted to avoid drawing the danger to the rest of the pack. Unbeknownst to Derek, however, the root cellar was actually built around the roots of the Nemeton, a powerful tree used as a sacred meeting place for Druids.

A short time later, after Derek and Peter had returned home, Derek met a quiet, shy girl at school named Paige Krasikeva, who he immediately took a liking to after she proved immune to his put-on cocky, jock-like demeanor. They soon fell in love with each other and spent as much time as they could together, even if it meant that Derek was just watching her practice the cello in the music room. For unknown reasons, Peter remarked to Derek that their relationship would be doomed if she ever found out that he was a Werewolf, and claimed the only way that he could prevent that from happening would be if she was given the bite and turned into one of them. Peter thought they should take advantage of the fact that several Alphas were in town meeting with Talia, including Deucalion, Kali, and Ennis, since he knew that Talia wouldn't give Paige the bite without Paige's informed consent.

With this in mind, Peter later arranged for Ennis to bite Paige, as he had lost one of his Betas to the Argents already and believed that doing a favor for Derek would put him in Talia's good graces. However, after luring Paige to the high school, Derek was only able to listen to Paige's terrified screams for a few moments before he decided to intervene and stop Ennis from biting her. Unfortunately, Derek was only fifteen and a Beta at that time, so not only did he stand no chance against him, but he arrived too late to change anything—Paige had already been bitten and was fearfully crawling away. In a not-uncommon twist, Paige's body rejected the bite, and black blood began to pour from her nose and mouth, forcing Derek to bring her to the Nemeton's root cellar to hide out while he figured out what was going on.

Derek took as much of Paige's pain as he could, but when it became clear that she was dying, she admitted that she always knew Derek was different because of his Werewolf mannerisms, such as remarking that he had "caught a scent" and could "hear things that no one else could hear," and added that she had also seen a lot of phenomena that couldn't be explained throughout her life in Beacon Hills. After she confessed her love for Derek, Paige then begged him to kill her to end her suffering, and though Derek refused at first, he eventually agreed to forever relieve her of her pain by using his Werewolf strength to snap her spine.

However, since he took the life of an innocent human (however consensual it may have been), Derek's previously gold Werewolf eyes turned blue to indicate that Paige's death had darkened his soul. What Derek didn't realize was that he had killed Paige in the Nemeton's root cellar, spilling her blood onto the roots and inadvertently sacrificing a virgin to the tree. It was the power that Paige's life force gave the Nemeton that allowed Julia Baccari, later known as Jennifer Blake, to survive her wounds at Kali's hands (as Kali needed to become an Augmented Alpha by killing her entire pack, including her Druid Emissary, Julia, as her initiation into Deucalion's new Alpha Pack) until she was found by the police, an ironic turn of events since Derek would later engage in a romantic relationship with her. *("Visionary")*

Derek continued to struggle with controlling his transformations on the full moon, though he refused to let it stop him from playing on the Beacon Hills High School basketball team. Shortly after Paige's death, Derek met Kate Argent, who, unbeknownst to him, was an Argent Werewolf Hunter who initiated a love affair with him in order to gain information that could be used to take out his family. *("117")*

At some point near the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, while Derek and Laura were at school, Kate and her co-conspirators set fire to the Hale House while the majority of his family was trapped inside. *("Code Breaker")* His mother Talia and between seven and ten additional people (according to two differing reports) died in the fire, and there were only two survivors: Peter, who had second and third-degree burns over the majority of his body that caused him to go into a coma for six years while he healed *("Magic Bullet")*; and Cora, who, at just eleven years old, went on the run and fled Beacon Hills under the mistaken impression that none of her family had made it out of the fire alive, not even Derek or Laura. *("Fireflies")*, *("Unleashed")*

Derek, too ashamed to tell his family that he accidentally made it easier for Kate to attack them by dating her, left Beacon Hills with Laura and moved to New York, where they lived together for approximately six years until 2011, when strange animal attacks drew them back to their hometown. Laura came to Beacon Hills first, after she was sent a photo of a dead deer in the preserve that had a spiral burned into its fur. *("Pack Mentality")*, *("Heart Monitor")* After not hearing from Laura for a while, Derek travelled to his hometown to check on her, only to find that she had been killed by an then-unknown Werewolf and her body cut in half post-mortum by Argent Hunters to ensure she would not be able to heal and revive herself. *("The Tell")*

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3A
* Season 3B
* Season 4
* Season 6B
* Teen Wolf: The Movie

In *Wolf Moon*, Derek caught Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski in the woods by the Hale House ruins, which caused him to confront them and demand to know why they were trespassing on private property. Though Scott and Stiles were there to both retrieve the inhaler Scott had dropped the night before (as well as to hopefully locate the other half of the dead body Scott had stumbled upon before he was bitten), neither offered a solid answer, leading Derek to toss Scott his lost inhaler before walking away. Once Derek was out of earshot, Stiles pointed out to Scott that the man was Derek Hale, who was a couple of years ahead of them in school and whose entire family had died in a fire several years earlier.
That Friday night, Derek was seen lurking outside of the Martin House, where Lydia Martin was throwing a party following the lacrosse scrimmage. Since it was a full moon and he had sensed Scott had recently been bitten by a Werewolf, Derek wanted to keep an eye on him to make sure nothing bad happened and that he didn't expose the existence of Werewolves to the town. Upon seeing a dog barking at him, Derek simply glared at the dog, which caused it to instantly become quiet. After Derek saw Scott frantically leaving the party when the full moon began to affect him, Derek approached Scott's date, Allison Argent, and introduced himself as one of Scott's friends before offering her a ride home, giving him the opportunity to both snag her jacket to lure Scott into the woods and also to see what Allison knew about the supernatural.
After learning that Derek had taken Allison home, Scott, now fully transformed and under the incorrect assumption that Derek was the one who turned him, followed Allison's scent into the Beacon Hills Preserve. Scott became furious when he realized that the scent he followed was just from Allison's jacket, which Derek had hung in a tree, but when he demanded to know what Derek did with Allison, Derek assured him that she was safe from Scott. The two began to wrestle, with Derek quickly gaining the upper-hand and pinning him to a tree to quiet him. Just then, he realized that they had been found and yelled at Scott to run; unfortunately for Scott, he was too overwhelmed by the moon and confused about what was going on to move quickly enough, which caused him to be shot in the arm with an arrow and pinned to the tree. When a trio of Hunters led by Chris Argent approached Scott, Derek returned to incapacitate them long enough to free Scott and flee with him.
Once they had put enough distance between themselves and the Hunters, they stopped to rest, during which time Scott demanded to know what was going on and blamed Derek for ruining his life. Derek didn't correct Scott's mistaken assumption that he was the one who turned him, and instead asked him if having superhuman strength, speed, and senses was really so bad. When Scott retorted that he didn't want it, Derek assured him that he would, stating that the Bite is a gift before insisting that they were now brothers due to their shared lycanthropy.
In *Second Chance at First Line*, Derek was once again tailing Scott when he watched the Beacon Hills High School lacrosse practice and saw Scott begin to inadvertently shift on the field, though he was able to get to the locker room with help by Stiles before anyone could see anything. Concerned that Scott could expose all of the Werewolves in Beacon Hills, he broke into the McCall House and confronted him about almost transforming in front of his teammates during practice. He then warned Scott about the risks of civilians, or, even worse, Hunters, seeing him transform, before threatening to kill Scott himself if he played in the lacrosse game, as he refused to suffer the repercussions of Scott exposing their kind upon getting too riled up from the competitive game to control himself.
After Scott learned that Derek had sneaked Allison's jacket back into her locker, he went to see Derek at the Hale House and insisted that he leave Allison alone, claiming that she didn't know anything. Derek reminded him that, as an Argent, she was involved in the Hunter life whether she was aware of it or not, and pointed out that everything he was doing was simply to ensure that no one found out what he and Scott are. During this conversation, Scott caught the scent of blood, and after determining that the scent he caught was the same scent as the body he found in the woods, Scott and Stiles returned to the Hale House after Derek had left and dug up the other half of the dead girl's body before calling the police.
The next morning, Derek was arrested outside the Hale House while Scott and Stiles watched. After Derek was handcuffed and put in the back of a cruiser, Stiles sneaked in to ask Derek questions about the body and his involvement in the dead girl's death. Instead of answering, Derek pointed out that he should worry less about Derek and more about Scott, as Scott was more likely to not play in the lacrosse game if it was Stiles asking rather than Derek himself.
However, that night, the coroner did an autopsy on the body and found that not only was the girl Derek's older sister Laura Hale, but that Laura had been killed by an animal and not a human, which forced the Sheriff's Department to release him from jail. Upon his release, Derek went to the lacrosse field to see if Scott had played or not and watched Jackson Whittemore pick up Scott's lacrosse glove, which had several cuts in the fingertips due to Scott's claws.
In *Pack Mentality*, Derek was lurking in the Hale House ruins when a Sheriff's deputy pulled up in front of the house in his cruiser, as he had orders to ensure that the house, which was now county property, was vacant. He watched as the deputy, who was clearly unsettled by the sight of the house, debated whether or not to go inside. When Derek spotted the deputy's K-9 partner staring at him, he made his eyes glow bright blue, which only made the dog more agitated and vicious. Now completely scared, the deputy determined that the job he did examining the house was good enough and left the property, not willing to face whatever was spooking the dog so intensely.
Once the deputy was out of sight, Scott came out of the woods and called for Derek to come out. He accepted accountability for his own role in getting Derek arrested, as well as the fact that by doing so, he basically announced to the Hunters that Derek was in town, before bringing up the fact that he now knew what happened to Derek's sister Laura. He went on to ask Derek for his help, explaining the strange dream he had about attacking Allison in the school bus that he thought may have really happened, only to Garrison Myers.
After learning that Scott didn't remember everything, Derek reluctantly agreed to help him but warned him that his help wasn't going to come for free. When Scott asked him what it was that he wanted, Derek said that they would work that out later before assuring him that he would be giving Scott what he wanted right then. He went on to instruct Scott to go back to the bus and allow his heightened senses of smell, hearing, sight, and touch to remember for him.
That night, while filling up his car at a gas station, Derek was approached by Chris Argent and several other Hunters. Feigning kindness, Chris gave Derek several tips on how to maintain his Camaro, even wiping down the windshield for him, but all the while made it clear that he was threatening Derek to ensure that he didn't do anything to cause any trouble. Derek became offended and angry when Chris brought up the fact that family is what is most important to him and remarked that Derek didn't have much family left anymore. When Derek snidely retorted that Chris didn't check his oil, Chris instructed his associate to do so for him and watched with amusement as the Hunter broke Derek's driver-side window.
Afterward, Derek went to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where he prepared to question Garrison Myers, the man who was attacked on the bus the previous night. However, before he could ask anything, Garrison murmured "Hale", making it clear that he recognized Derek. When Derek demanded to know how he knew him, Garrison began apologizing several more times before his heart, which had begun to race, gave out, causing him to die right in front of Derek. Once Scott had gotten word that Garrison had succumbed to his wounds, he once again confronted Derek at the Hale House, as he mistakenly believed Derek to be the Werewolf who Scott had remembered mauling Garrison the previous night.
When Scott also accused Derek of killing his sister Laura, Derek angrily informed him that he didn't kill anyone before explaining that his sister went missing, and when he returned to Beacon Hills, he found her cut in half and used as bait to lure him back to town. Scott didn't believe him and threatened to tell everyone that he was a murderer before he tackled Derek and shoved him through a wall. Derek proclaimed Scott's attack to be "cute" before transforming into his Werewolf form on-screen for the first time. The two wolves got into a battle, with Derek, being the more experienced fighter, dominating Scott throughout most of the fight.
Once they had both calmed down, Derek finally revealed that he wasn't the Werewolf who gave Scott the Bite and that there was another Werewolf in town who did. He went on to explain that he and Scott are known as "Betas," weaker subordinate wolves who aren't capable of transforming humans into more of their kind; meanwhile, the Werewolf who bit Scott was an Alpha, the most powerful and dangerous of their species who *were* capable of biting and turning humans into Werewolves. Derek then informed him that the Alpha was determined to get Scott into his pack by killing together, and that he needed Scott's help to figure out who it was, as Scott was connected to him as a result of the bite.
In *Magic Bullet*, Derek was tracking the Alpha late at night when he noticed fresh blood on the ground, which led him to realize that the Alpha was nearby. However, when Derek immediately began to pursue them on foot, he was shot in the arm by the Hunter Kate Argent, who had just arrived in Beacon Hills at her brother's request and who had filled her assault rifle shells with wolfsbane. Unfortunately for Derek, he wasn't close enough to hear Kate mention to her brother, Chris Argent, that whoever she shot would have forty-eight hours before the wolfsbane killed them, though Scott, who had been awakened by the Alpha's howl, did hear this.
The next day, Derek went to Beacon Hills High School to look for Scott, where he looked pale, sweaty, and generally ill as he stumbled through the halls. The sound of the late bell caught his enhanced Werewolf hearing off-guard, and he flinched in pain before realizing that the gunshot wound on his arm was bleeding under his leather jacket. After having no luck in finding Scott on his own, Derek approached Jackson Whittemore to ask if he knew where the younger Beta was. Jackson, seeing how sickly Derek looked, realized he had an opportunity to learn what was going on with Scott and insisted that he would only help Derek if he told him what kind of steroids he's been selling Scott, as that was the theory he had come up with to explain Scott's recent physical and behavioral changes. Derek realized that Jackson thought that he was a drug dealer, which Jackson confirmed before making a rude comment about how Derek needed to stop "sampling the merchandise" because he looked so strung-out.
Losing his patience and overwhelmed by the effects of the wolfsbane in his system, Derek accidentally lost control and grabbed Jackson by the back of the neck with his hand, inadvertently piercing his claws into Jackson's spinal cord. Realizing he was making a scene, Derek looked around before quickly leaving the now-injured Jackson in search of Scott once again. (Unbeknownst to either Derek or Jackson at the time, Derek had accidentally began the Werewolf Memory Manipulation ritual on Jackson, which ultimately transferred some of his memories of the Hale House Fire to him that manifested in Jackson's dreams in the weeks following the incident). Derek eventually overheard Allison and Lydia talking in the adjacent hallway about how Allison and Scott would be hanging out at the Argent House after school and realized his situation was dire enough that he needed to find Scott and get his help as soon as possible.
Once school let out, Derek stumbled into the parking lot, nearly getting hit by Stiles in his Jeep. Scott, who was about to ride his bike to Allison's house, rushed over to see what was going on when Derek collapsed on the tarmac in front of the queue of cars attempting to leave the school. Derek briefly explained that he was shot with a special kind of bullet and couldn't heal, and when Scott saw Derek's eyes starting to flicker between their usual green and their Beta blue, he snapped at him to stop, forcing Derek to insist that this is exactly what he was trying to tell them. He then gave Scott instructions to find another one of the bullets that the Argents used to shoot him and figure out what kind of wolfsbane it was so he could cure himself of it, a request which Scott reluctantly agreed to perform after Derek insisted that Scott needed him to stay alive in order to continue to help him.
Derek was then left with an equally-reluctant Stiles, who assumed he wanted to go home and began to drive him to the Hale House until Derek irritably reminded him that he couldn't go home while he was poisoned and unable to defend himself. Derek and Stiles began to argue about where to take him, and when a frustrated Stiles threatened to kick him out of the Jeep, Derek growled, "Start the car or I'm going to rip your throat out... with my teeth," scaring the human into complying with this order.
Later, Stiles called Scott to get an update on the bullet situation, and after Scott argued that the Argent House was basically the "Walmart of guns," Derek insisted that he had to find the bullet because he would die without it, which would ultimately lead Scott to die as well. After some time, Scott finally finds the bullets Kate used in a box labeled "Nordic Blue Monkshood," and when he informed Derek of this discovery, he identified it as a rare form of wolfsbane and ordered Scott to steal one of the bullets so he could use it to cure himself.
Meanwhile, Stiles had brought Derek to Alan Deaton's animal clinic to wait it out. When Derek removed his shirt, revealing the gunshot wound under his elbow that was beginning to fester and turn black, Stiles balked at the fact that he appeared to be dying, forcing Derek to explain his "last resort" plan-- having Stiles cut off his arm with Deaton's surgical tools before the wolfsbane reached his heart. Stiles was understandably hesitant to execute his part of this plan, but when Derek began throwing up black blood, the Beta insisted that Stiles had to cut his arm off right then. Fortunately for both men, Scott arrived with the bullet before this amputation needed to occur, though he ran into trouble of his own with regards to getting out of the Argent House with the bullet.
Though Derek fainted and accidentally dropped the bullet in a nearby drain, Scott was able to extricate it while Stiles smacked Derek awake. Derek, barely conscious, took the bullet from Scott and used his teeth to open the bullet casing before dumping the wolfsbane on the metal table. He then pulled a lighter out of his pocket and burned all of the wolfsbane into ash, which he then rubbed into his wound, causing him so much pain in the process that he writhed on the ground for a moment while the ash cured his wolfsbane poisoning.
After confirming that Derek would not be dying, Scott insisted that since they helped him, he now needed to leave them alone, but Derek reminded him that he couldn't do that because the Alpha was going to be a problem for all of them. When Scott threatened to tell the Argents everything, Derek was appalled that Scott would be more willing to trust Hunters than his own kind, but Scott retorted that they had been much nicer to him than Derek had been.
This remark led Derek to inform Scott that he planned to show him just how "nice" the Argents were. He brought Scott to the Beacon Crossing Home, a long-term nursing facility, where Derek introduced Scott to his comatose uncle, Peter Hale. He went on to explain that six years ago, when he and Laura were at school, the Argent Hunters set their house on fire. Out of the eleven people inside, some of whom were humans, Peter was (allegedly) the only one to make it out alive. However, when Derek spun Peter, who was sitting in a chair facing toward the back window, around to face Scott, it was revealed that the majority of his body was covered in serious burn scars due to the fire. Derek went on to argue that this is what the Argents do and that Allison would one day be just like them, even despite Scott's uninformed suggestion that they must have had a reason.
In *The Tell*, Derek and Scott were on the roof of the Video 2\*C, where the Alpha had just killed the man working as the cashier. Scott, still new to the supernatural world, wondered aloud if all Werewolves engaged in serial murders, but Derek replied, "No. We're predators, not killers" before insisting that they were going to find out why the Alpha was killing so many people. As they were leaving the roof, a glowing red spiral appeared on the ground under their feet, but they neglect to notice it.
Shortly afterward, Derek and Scott regrouped at the Hale House, where the former informed the latter that he had less than a week until the next full moon, warning that if he didn't kill with the Alpha by the end of that night (which is often a rite of passage to enter a pack), then the Alpha would kill him instead. He went on to remind Scott that he couldn't find the Alpha without him, as the two shared a special link with the dangerous Werewolf as a result of his bite, a connection that Scott did not yet understand.
Derek insisted that if he could teach Scott how to control himself and use his powers, the two of them could stop the Alpha together. Derek continued the lycanthropy lesson by stating that not only are Werewolves stronger in numbers, being in a pack makes each individual wolf more powerful as well, which was why the Alpha was so eager to win him over. Derek then broke Scott's arm to teach him that pain keeps shapeshifters in their human form, and that they have to learn to fight through it in order to use their powers to their full potential during a battle.
The next day, Derek sneaked into the boys locker room at Beacon Hills High School to talk to Jackson, as he knew Jackson witnessed the murder at the video store the previous evening and he wanted to know what he saw. Jackson, remembering their previous encounter, anxiously insisted that he didn't see anything, but before Derek left, he noticed the claw marks he had left on Jackson's neck from the last time they spoke and sarcastically advised him to get them looked at by a doctor.
He then went home to work out in the Hale House ruins, performing sets of pull-ups and push-ups, when suddenly, he heard Kate Argent and two other Argent Hunters approaching the house and was just barely able to respond before they entered. Though Derek hid at first, Kate provoked him into revealing himself by insulting his sister, Laura Hale, which caused him to angrily knock out both of her accomplices before turning to lunge at her. Unfortunately for Derek, Kate whipped out a cattle-prod taser and used it to shock Derek in the abdomen, and he fell to the floor in spasms. Kate bragged that the taser gave off nine-hundred-thousand volts before admitting that while the Argents *did* cut Laura's body in half to prevent her from healing and reviving, they did not actually kill her.
When she realized that this was a surprise to Derek, Kate relished in the enjoyment of informing him that when they found her body, it was covered in wolf bites, and that she had actually been killed by the Alpha. She then segued into offering Derek a deal-- if he told her where the Alpha was, she and her family would kill him and get vengeance on him for Laura's death. Sadly, when she realized that Derek truly didn't know who the Alpha was or where he was hiding, she decided he was useless to her and began firing her gun at him, giving him only seconds to dodge the bullets as he ran into the safety of the woods.
In *Heart Monitor*, Derek decided to give Scott an impromptu pop quiz on his training to control his lycanthropy by stalking him to the grocery store parking lot and pretending to be the Alpha chasing after him. Scott managed to get a head for a short time, even setting off another car's alarm in order to create a diversion, but in the end he ultimately failed because Allison called him on his phone, and the ring tone led Derek right to him. Upon finding Scott hiding behind another car, Derek grimly informed him that if this was a real attack, he'd be dead.
When Scott tried to argue in favor of the things he did correctly, Derek pointed out the obvious-- that his phone rang at the wrong moment. Scott, who was still feeling guilty for Sheriff Stilinski getting hurt the other night at the high school, insisted that he needed to learn how to control himself and his powers so he can use them to protect his loved ones. Derek sighed and reminded him that he himself was a born Werewolf, whereas Scott was formerly a human and was then turned into one-- training Scott will take time, and that's just assuming that Derek can even train him at all. He went on to tell Scott that if he wanted to succeed, he needed to get rid of distractions, which meant breaking up with Allison.
To emphasize his point, he broke Scott's phone, and when he saw Scott getting noticeably angrier as a result, he stated that controlling the shift involved tapping into a primal, animal rage-type anger. Finally, he sighed again and asked Scott if he could stay away from Allison, at least until after the full moon, and Scott assured him that he could, if that's what it would take. However, as soon as Scott left, he went straight to the Argent House, where he and Allison were quietly hooking up until Allison's aunt Kate came in and interrupted them, forcing Scott to hide in the closet and then sneak out the window.
When he got to his car, he sensed a presence nearby and assumed it was Derek following him, so he began apologizing for Allison, claiming that since Derek broke his phone, he at least had to tell her why he wasn't answering. It soon became clear that it was not Derek, but the Alpha, scaring Scott so much that he quickly got into the car and locked the doors, watching in horror as the Alpha drew a spiral in the condensation with his clawed finger.
After Scott returned home, he found Derek waiting for him in his bedroom, having somehow figured out that Scott had a run-in with the Alpha and wasting no time in interrogating him about it. He first wanted to know if the Alpha talked to him, which Scott denied, and the young Beta became confused when Derek asked if he had gotten any other impression or hint off of him, forcing Derek to explain that their superhuman senses allow them to communicate in ways that aren't just verbal. Scott thought about it for a long moment before replying that the Alpha was angry, but not at him, especially when drew the spiral on his window. This immediately shocked Derek, but when Scott asked him what he was so worried about, Derek clammed up and lied that it was nothing.
Scott became upset at the fact that Derek continued to expect Scott to trust him while also keeping information secret from him, but Derek maintained his lie and stated that it wasn't important. When Scott reminded him that he knew that Derek had buried his sister Laura under a rope spiral attached to wolfsbane, Derek finally just sighed and insisted that Scott didn't want to know its meaning before he took off.
Next, Derek went back to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where he tried his best to get his comatose uncle Peter Hale to wake up in hopes that he could tell him anything about what is currently going on. He begged the silent and motionless Peter to try to communicate with him in any way to show that he can at least hear him, such as blinking or moving one of his fingers, because he needed *something* to point him in the right direction of who the Alpha might be.
Derek went on to tell Peter that someone killed his niece, Laura, and stole her Alpha powers, though he believed that he could take him down since he was currently an Alpha with no pack and thus weaker than usual-- he just had to *find* him. He became frustrated when Peter continued to stare blankly at the wall behind Derek without moving or speaking, leading Derek to once again loudly bed him to give him a sign before asking him if it was one of the Hales who maybe survived the fire.
Hearing his raised voice, Peter's nurse Jennifer rushed into the room and demanded to know what Derek was doing, scolding him for thinking that yelling at someone who has been in a coma for six years would fix anything. When Derek irritably asked her if she had any better ideas, Jennifer urged him to be patient, as she believed Peter would respond if he was given the time to do so. Derek quietly muttered, "I don't have any more time" before pushing himself out of the room and leaving the hospital. When he got to his parked car, he noticed a flyer pinned on his windshield by one of the windshield wipers; he looked at the flyer, and whatever he saw surprised him.
Derek immediately went to the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, where he approached Alan Deaton with a scowl on his face. When Deaton, confused, asked if he could help the young man, Derek asked him about the animal he found with the spiral on its side. Deaton feigned ignorance about this topic, so Derek pulled out the flyer that was left on his car earlier and showed it to Deaton, revealing that it had a photo of the deer in question printed on it, which seemed to jog his memory. Deaton explained that he wasn't the one who actually found the deer-- he was simply called in for his expert opinion since no one else had ever seen anything like it. When Derek asked what he had told the police, Deaton assured him he said nothing, because he knew no more about it than they did.
Knowing he was lying, Derek explained that Deaton's heart beat increased, which implied he wasn't telling the truth, and demanded to know if Deaton was protecting someone. Deaton continued to play dumb about the obvious supernatural implications Derek was making and informed him that the key to the narcotic cabinet was in his jacket pocket, but Derek emphasized that he didn't want drugs-- he wanted to know why Deaton was lying. Derek then punched Deaton in the face hard, just as Scott arrived and ordered him to stop, though Derek still hit him once more to knock him unconscious. Derek revealed he believed that Deaton was the Alpha and explained that while an Alpha could purposely prevent himself from healing quickly while conscious, he would be unable to do so while knocked out.
Derek flicked out his claws and was about to cut Deaton's face when Scott partially transformed, grabbed him by the arm, and stopped him, pulling himself back into control afterward as he warned Derek that he would get angry if he hit Deaton again, which impressed Derek enough to ask him if he had a real plan. Scott confirmed that he did and instructed the elder Werewolf to meet him at Beacon Hills High School's parking lot in an hour.
Scott and Stiles were already at the school discussing their plan when Derek arrived; when Scott asked about Dr. Deaton's condition, Derek nonchalantly replied that he was in the trunk of his Camaro and opened it to reveal the veterinarian bound by the wrists and ankles and with duct-tape over his mouth to gag him. Scott was not pleased by this outcome but decided the best way to free Deaton is to prove his innocence, so he and Stiles headed inside the school. Before they can do so, Derek stopped them to ask what his plan was, and Scott simply stated, "You said I was linked with the Alpha. I'm gonna see if you're right."
The two then went inside the school, where Scott made his first conscious attempt to roar over the school's PA system, which he believed would broadcast his voice loud enough that the Alpha would be able to hear him no matter where in Beacon Hills he was; though Stiles grimaced and stated the first attempt sounded like a "dying cat," Scott's second attempt was much more natural, which made Scott more confident in his abilities. When the boys went back outside to re-join Derek, the older Werewolf furiously stated that he was going to kill them both before asking if their plan was to attract the entire state's Werewolf population to Beacon Hills. Scott sheepishly conceded that he didn't know it would be *that* loud, but Stiles declared Scott's roar to be "awesome" and called Derek a "sour-wolf" for being so negative.
Just then, Scott looked over at Derek's car, where he noticed the trunk was wide open. Realizing it was empty, Scott demanded to know what Derek did with Deaton, and Derek, shocked, assured him that he didn't do anything. Before they could discuss it further, the Alpha appeared behind Derek and plunged his clawed hands into Derek's back as he lifted him off the ground, causing blood to spurt out of Derek's throat and mouth before he was carelessly tossed onto the grass. Derek's eyes were open and unfocused once he landed, and Scott and Stiles, certain that the Alpha had just killed him, rushed inside the school in hopes of surviving this encounter.
In *Night School*, Scott and Stiles continued to believe that Derek was dead, and since he never reunited with them, they had little reason to believe he had survived the Alpha's assault. When the Alpha used Scott's stolen phone to text Allison Argent and invite her (and, inadvertently, Jackson Whittemore and Lydia Martin) to the school, the five of them found themselves trapped in the building after hours with the Alpha guarding all of the exits to ensure they wouldn't get away until he was ready.
Without any other logical explanations for everything that was happening that *didn't* involve revealing the supernatural world to Allison, Lydia and Jackson, Scott ultimately decided that, since Derek was dead, the best course of action was to blame him for the recent killings and claim that he was there to kill them, too, even though in reality, it was actually the Alpha doing those things. At one point, they even debated stealing Derek's keys from his corpse in order to take his car and flee after Stiles' Jeep machinery was ripped up by the Alpha to prevent them from leaving, though this ultimately didn't pan out.
After the teens were finally freed from the school (after Scott figured out that the Alpha intended to force Scott to change with his Alpha Roar and then force him to kill his current pack so he could join the Alpha's pack), they continued to give the story that Derek was the serial killer they were looking for when the Sheriff's department arrived, while Derek's body mysteriously disappeared from outside of the school. This story ultimately resulted in Allison breaking up with Scott, as she could tell Scott was lying (or at least not telling the entire truth) to her and she didn't feel that she could trust him any longer. Additionally, Deaton was found perfectly okay, aside from some minor injuries, and cryptically stated that it took some effort for him to get out of his bindings, leaving the mystery of the Alpha's true identity unsolved for now.
In *Lunatic*, on the night of a full moon, Derek appeared out of nowhere in order to stop Scott from attacking Jackson and Allison in an uncontrolled frenzy, picking the younger Beta up and throwing him down a hill to put distance between him and Allison and Jackson while also putting them out of sight. Scott immediately began to fight back, but it soon became clear that he wasn't aware of who he was actually fighting for several moments until he's finally slammed onto the ground by Derek, allowing him to see his face as he roared at him. Scott, snapped out of his frenzy, sadly asked what was happening to him, and Derek grimly responded, "Exactly what he wants to happen," implying that Scott was doing exactly as the Alpha intended.
Derek accompanied Scott back to his house, as the new Beta was still out of it due to it only being his second full moon. Scott, distraught, stated that he couldn't live like this anymore and begged Derek for any information he may have on a cure for lycanthropy. Derek sighed and admitted that he had heard a myth in the past about bitten Werewolves bein returned to human-- to be cured, the bitten wolf must kill the Alpha who turned them. Derek, still insistent on making sure they take down the Alpha, promised to help Scott kill him and get cured in exchange for Scott helping him find the Alpha, to which Scott agreed.
In *Wolf's Bane*, Derek, trying to use the small amount of information his sister Laura told him prior to her death about what she was researching in Beacon Hills, ended up at Beacon Hills High School, where he planned to confront Adrian Harris, one of the people Laura talked to leading up to her murder. However, he arrived just in time to see the Alpha asking him the same questions Derek planned to ask, though he seemed to know more information than Derek. Fortunately for Harris, Derek was able to save him before he could be killed by the Alpha, who had just screamed at him to turn around so he could "look at what [he's] done."
*Unfortunately* for Derek, the Beacon County Sheriff's Department showed up before he could ask his questions and informed them via loudspeaker that the entire school was surrounded, as they were looking for Derek, whom they still believed was the killer of the Alpha's victims. This forced Derek to flee on foot from the building, eventually turning down an alley where he was being chased both by the deputies and by the Argent Hunters, who were after Derek and the Alpha. He then was chased through a building by several police dogs, but he was able to flash his blue Werewolf eyes and fangs to scare them away, though only moments before Chris Argent shot a flash-bang arrow at him that caught him off-guard and momentarily blinded him.
Just in the nick of time, Scott and Stiles pulled up in Derek's black Camaro, giving Derek the opportunity to jump into the backseat so they can speed away. After getting in the car, he irritably expressed his rage towards to cops for getting in his way and then blamed Scott for making him the most wanted man in Beacon Hills. Derek then informed them that the last time he talked to his sister, she was close to figuring out two things, one of them was Mr. Harris and the second thing is a symbol that was drawn on a piece of paper, which Scott immediately recognized as the same symbol on Allison's pendant.
The next day, Derek broke into Stiles' bedroom, much to Stiles' exasperation, as he needed a place to hide out from the cops; Stiles initially threatened to out him to his father, Noah Stilinski, who was the Sheriff, but ultimately relented after Derek physically threatened him. They then began to discuss the text that Allison was sent claiming to be Scott the night they were locked in the high school. When Derek wondered if Stiles would be able to trace who sent the text, Stiles admitted that he couldn't, but realized he knew someone who did-- his classmate Danny Mahealani.
A little while later, Danny arrived at the Stilinski House after being invited there by Stiles. Danny initially refused to help, but after Stiles revealed that he knew Danny had been arrested for hacking when he was thirteen, Danny started to relent. Danny then noticed Derek in the back of the room and asked him who he was, leading Stiles to quickly lie and say it was his cousin Miguel from Mexico. When Danny pointed out that Derek had blood on his shirt, Stiles again quickly lied and stated that "Miguel" suffered from nosebleeds before encouraging his "cousin" to change his shirt. Realizing that Danny was physically attracted to Derek, Stiles used this to his advantage and got Danny to hack into the phone company's database to trace the text, leading to the discovery that it was sent from Scott's mother's computer at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where she worked.
Derek then called Scott, who had managed to steal the necklace from Allison's bedroom; when he asked if there was an inscription or opening in the pendant that might be able to give them some additional clues, Scott checked and informed them that it was just a solid metal piece of jewelry. Derek and Stiles then went to the hospital to find Melissa, with Derek staying in the car while Stiles went in to ask about the text. However, Stiles stumbled upon the room of Peter Hale and was shocked to find that he wasn't there, which Derek overheard through their phone call.
Suddenly, Derek realized that Peter was the Alpha, forcing Derek to enter the hospital and knock out Peter's nurse, Jennifer, in an attempt to protect Stiles. Peter tried to explain that he killed Laura on accident, but Derek doesn't want to hear it; instead, he flashed his glowing blue eyes and fangs and then attacked his uncle. Unfortunately, Beta Derek was not matched for the much more powerful Alpha and was quickly and seriously injured in the ensuing fight. Taking advantage of Derek's inability to fight back, Peter told his nephew that he had been slowly healing from the burns he got in the fire, and that killing Laura and stealing her powers accelerated the process. He then used his new Alpha powers to dramatically heal the rest of his scars before insisting that all he wanted was a chance to explain himself, which Derek reluctantly gave him.
In *Co-Captain*, Derek is standing inside the showers of the boy's locker room at Beacon Hills High School, he stands there quietly as Peter and Scott talk. Scott is surprised to learn that Derek is on Peter's side even after he killed Laura, Derek says that it was a mistake, it happens, he watches as Peter uses memory transference to show Scott all of his memories. He returns to the boy's locker room but this time to talk to Jackson, he challenges Derek, saying he's not afraid but Derek can tell he's lying, he approaches Jackson and offers him the bite and they leave together.
He takes Jackson to the Hale House and tells him to go inside, Jackson soon realizes that it was a trap, Derek brought him there to kill him, the wannabe Beta pleads for his life saying that he'll shut up about everything. Derek explains why this is happening, he says, *"Look around you-- wouldn't there be someone here trying to save you? There's no one here. There's a reason. No one cares that you drive an expensive car, no one cares that you have perfect hair and no one cares that you're captain of the lacrosse team."*
As he prepares to kill Jackson, Scott interrupts, it appears as if they are about to fight each other but then the high pitch sound of an arrow being shot catches Derek's attention and he yells "Cover your eyes!" A flash bolt is shot through the window, blinding Scott and then a hailstorm of bullet come firing through the walls, he sees that Scott has been hit with what appears to be bullets laced with Wolfsbane. He grabs Scott and throws him out the back telling him to run and Derek goes out the front in order to distract the Hunters. He has been captured by Kate Argent and is being held in some type of underground dungeon.
In *Formality*, Derek is getting tortured by the Hunters while chained to a bed frame, Kate demands to know where the Alpha is but he refuses to talk. He quickly becomes unamused with all of Kate's talking, he attempts to bite her but the chains prevent him from doing so. Kate wants to know if he told anyone the truth about the fire, when he was younger he was tricked by Kate and that's what led to the Hale House Fire, Kate then puts it together and figures out that Scott is the second Beta.
In *Code Breaker*, while locked up in the dungeon under the Hale House, he hears Scott howl in an effort of finding him, so as expected, Derek howls back thus giving Scott his location. Back in the dungeon, as one of the Hunters prepare to hit him with a bat, he grabs it and knocks the Hunter out. He then asks for Scott help to get the other lock off but Scott will only agree if Derek tells him how to stop Peter, of course, this only angered Derek more because he's not willing to risk his life for Hunters. Scott reveals that Peter lied about killing Laura Hale on accident. Scott says they lured Laura to Beacon Hills so that Peter could kill her and become the Alpha, Derek becomes so enraged after hearing this that he breaks the second lock and he then agrees to help kill Peter.
Derek stops halfway to the house because he believes its too easy, seconds later he is shot with two arrows by Allison Argent, who is accompanied by Kate. He breaks the arrows and starts dragging Scott towards the house but he is shot again by Kate. After Peter kills Kate, he attempts to go after Allison but Derek and Scott intervene, this turns into a fight Derek and Scott versus Peter. They both attack the Alpha at the same time but he overpowers both of them, he's clearly more powerful, they don't stand a chance. Peter is then set on fire by Jackson, Allison and Stiles.
Peter is severely wounded by the fire, almost dead, his entire body is burned, Derek stands over top of Peter while Scott pleads for him not to but he slashes Peter's throat thus killing Peter. As Derek's eyes now glow red, he says *"I'm The Alpha now"*. Later that night, Jackson comes back to the Hale House and tells Derek to bite him because he helped save his life and Derek agrees.

In *Omega* at the graveyard, Derek lifts up a backhoe that's been knocked over onto Isaac Lahey, once removing the machine, he offers Isaac a hand. The next morning, he watches from the nearby woods as Isaac is interrogated by the police on the grave robbery. Later that morning, he shows up at Beacon Hills High School looking for Jackson, he finds him in the bathroom bleeding black ooze. Apparently, Jackson's body is rejecting the bite but Derek has no idea why this is happening. Derek finds Scott in the woods as he attempts to help a trapped Omega Werewolf, he grabs Scott and drags him behind a tree, they silently watch as the Hunters question, torture and then finally kill the "lone wolf."
He forces Scott to watch and he explains that this is what they do, he tries to persuade Scott into joining his pack because they'll need each other, he goes on to say by them killing this Werewolf, its the hunters declaring war. Isaac goes to Derek's new lair looking for him and he finds him standing in the shadows.
In *Shape Shifted* Isaac comes storming into Derek's lair yelling his name, Derek's on the train hidden in the darkness as his eyes glow red. He wonders what's wrong, Isaac tells him his dad is dead but he assures Derek that it wasn't him. As Isaac is being taken away in a sheriff's vehicle, Derek pulls up and tells Scott to get in but he refuses due to all of this happening because of Derek, he admits fault and explains that they have to get to the Lahey house before the cops do because whatever Jackson told them, they'll find something a lot worse in the house. He and Scott enter Isaac's house, Derek guarantees Scott that Isaac didn't kill his father, he knows this from using several of his sense, he goes on to tell Scott that he saw that stunt he pulled on the lacrosse field. He begins teaching Scott how to use his other sense, the motive for the killing is down in the basement, once down there, they find a large freezer with bloody scratch marks all over the inside.
It becomes clear that Isaac's father was locking him up in there, this is the reason Isaac said yes to the bite, Derek says everyone wants power and he will continue to turn people. He then reveals that he knows Scott is still secretly dating Allison, if he knows then it won't be long until everyone else knows, he reminds Scott about what happened to the Omega. With Derek as his Alpha, he promises to teach Scott how to control all of his powers even on a full moon, Scott agrees to help but he's not a member of Derek's pack.
He and Stiles arrive at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station and while Derek distracts the deputy at the front desk, Stiles sneaks into the back. Derek hears the alarm goes off and he enters the holding cells just in time to destroy the syringe containing the Wolfsbane. Isaac steps towards Stiles as if he's going to attack, so Derek growls at him and gets him to submit do to his Alpha status.
In *Ice Pick*, Derek sneaks into Erica Reyes room at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital to convince her to join his pack but first, he takes her to a more quiet location. As he's reading of her chart, she asks who is he, Derek only tells her that they have a mutual friend, that friend being Scott McCall. He offers her the bite, it will get rid of the side effects, the symptoms and not only would all of that go away, everything else would better, she agrees and his eyes begin to glow red. Scott and Stiles run out the school doors only to see Erica getting in Derek's car and then pulling off. Scott shows up at the ice rink at tells Boyd not to except the bite and that if he's looking for friends, he can do a lot better than Derek. Unaware that he's in the room, Derek then sarcastically says that really hurts and then gets Isaac and Erica's opinion on their lives since meeting him, he tells Scott to go home but he doesn't listen. This leads to Eric and Isaac attacking Scott, however, he handles both of them with ease, after seeing his Betas taken out, Derek steps in as he approaches Scott, he shifts, the young Beta is no match for the far more experienced Alpha, Derek decimates Scott. As Scott lays beaten on the ground, Derek and his pack walk off.
In *Abomination*, at the lair, Derek is training Erica and Isaac as Body watches on. They repeat the same blitz attack time after time and it doesn't work, Derek request that they try something that isn't so predictable because of this Erica jumps on him and kisses him but Derek pushes her off saying never do that again because he has someone else in mind for her. Isaac wants to know if they're done with training for the day because his bones need to heal, Derek softly approaches him and aggressively breaks Isaac arm saying *"You think I'm teaching you how to fight, huh? Look at me, I'm teaching you how to survive"*. Derek's concerned because they have to worry about including the hunter, the unknown shapeshifter and the upcoming full moon, so he has to teach him as much as he can as fast as possible. Derek sends Erica to retrieve Stiles, after doing so, Derek begins to question him on the creature he saw at the mechanic, he describes it as slick looking with dark scales, slit reptilian eyes, sharp teeth, and a tail.
As Stiles is describing this creature, Derek looks up and sees it on the rails, as he pushes Stiles in order to get him out the way, the shapeshifter scratches him on the back of his neck, leaving Derek paralyzed. Stiles tries to carry him but accidentally drops Derek into the pool, Stiles dives in a save Derek but they're stuck in the pool since the shapeshifter is still around, they soon realize that this creature can't swim. Stiles wants to let him go in order to get to his phone but Derek tells him not to, however, he does it anyway, leaving Derek to fall underwater. When Scott hangs up on Stiles, he throws away the phone and gets Derek from under the water, Stiles becomes too tired to hold both of them up, so the two of them begin to sink but Scott gets there just in time to get them out. Scott and the creature begin to fight but it becomes confused by its own reflection and runs off.
Derek now knows what this creature is, it's called a "Kanima", it doesn't know who or what it is, its a shapeshifter but its not right, the Kanima is an abomination. Derek claims when he finds it, he's going to kill it.
In *Venomous*, Derek sends Erica to retrieve Jackson, after doing so, she brings him back to the lair and Derek wants to know what happen to him on the last full moon, Jackson says nothing but Derek knows he's lying. He puts on gloves glove and then grabs a shard of glass, the same glass that Scott was thrown into, apparently, it has Kanima venom, he uses this as a test to see if Jackson is the Kanima since snakes can't be poisoned by its own venom. Jackson swallows the venom and becomes paralyzed, proving that he's not the Kanima, Derek becomes upset learning that Jackson isn't the Kanima. Derek watches from outside as Lydia eats the Kanima venom and is unaffected, this confirms his suspicion. Scott goes to the lacrosse field to confront Derek but for him, there's nothing to talk about seeing as Lydia failed the test, he explains that this has to be done because Lydia is killing people.
However, Scott isn't convinced that its Lydia but Derek is, it has to be her.Derek even further explains that Scott doesn't know what he's dealing with, according to him, *" it happens rarely and it happens for a reason. Sometimes the shape you take reflects the person that you are"*, after saying this, he helps Scott up. He reminds him that she was bitten by an Alpha and no one is immune to the bite, he's never seen it or heard of it. Derek admits that he bit Jackson hoping the bite would kill him and now he has no idea what's going on with him. Derek along with Erica, Isaac, and Boyd wait outside the McCall House, planning to make their move, he send two of his three Betas in to kill Lydia, he hears a lot of noise from inside but when the door is opened, Isaac and Erica are thrown out. He finally realizes why Scott won't join his pack, he already has a pack which includes Jackson, Lydia, Stiles, and Allison. A few moments later, he notices the Kanima on top of the roof and then Lydia comes out the house thus revealing that she is not the Kanima.
In *Frenemy*, moments later after discovering that Lydia is not the Kanima, Derek is chasing it down the street, the Kanima seems to be slightly faster than him. He reaches an underpass but the creature is nowhere in sight, it jumps down from behind him and they begin to fight. It seems to be a fair fight for the most part, after being thrown to the ground by the Kanima, Chris Argent shows up and empties an entire clip into the reptilian creature; however, it gets right back up, by the time Chris looks around, Derek is already gone. Kanima Jackson has crawled into a gay club known as **"Jungle"**, presumably to kill Danny. Derek is walking through the club, fully shifted but no one is noticing due to the darkness and smoke, after spotting the Kanima, Derek slashed his throat open.
In *Restraint*, Derek and his pack are in his lair, he tells Isaac and Erica that one of them needs to get on the good side of Scott or Stiles because they'll need help killing the Kanima. Derek then goes to his chest and pulls out chains to use on them for the upcoming full moon. Isaac wants to forget about the Kanima but Derek knows they can't because Gerard Argent knows something about it which means they have to get to it first. Hours later, Scott and Stiles bring a seizuring Erica, Derek breaks her arm in order to trigger the healing process and then digs his claws into her arm to get the venom out. He reveals that he knows who the Kanima is but he just wanted Erica to confirm it. Scott agrees to help stop Jackson as a member of Derek's pack but they have to catch him, not kill him.
In *Raving*, Derek and Isaac arrive at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic to meet with Scott and Deaton. Deaton wonders if they're going to kill or save Jackson but Scott tells him that they are going to save Jackson. Derek informs Deaton that they need something effective against the Kanima because nothing they've done seems to work, its only weakness it that it can't swim. He and Boyd run into Chris Argent along with several other hunter outside the rave, the hunters begin shooting while Derek and Boyd hide behind a trashcan. As the hunters get closer, he and Boyd come from behind the trashcan and take out several of them.
They are now hiding while their body attempts to heal but the bullets are laced with Wolfsbane and Boyd has stopped healing, so Derek tells him to take the car and go. Scott roars and Derek hears it, he tells Stiles to break the Mountain Ash barrier, so that he can save him, after breaking the line, Derek finds Scott, only to be attacked by Victoria Argent, they get into a scuffle and Derek bites her. Victoria runs away and Derek grabs Scott and gets him to safety. He sits in the vet clinic holding his arm as Deaton helps Scott, Derek then says thank you.
In *Party Guessed*, back at Derek's lair, he tells Scott that they need a new plan because everything else is failing and Scott agrees. Derek is clueless on how to stop Jackson, he doesn't even know if its possible, its Derek's responsibility because he's the one that turned Jackson, he then tells Scott to go home and heal because he has a feeling that the upcoming full moon is going to be bad. Derek opens up a trunk in his lair, on the inside of the trunk there's a symbol, better known as a "Triskelion". It has many meanings such as mother, father, child, past present, future but to Derek it means Alpha, Beta, Omega, the spiral reminds him that they can all fall to one or rise to another, Betas can become Alphas but Alphas can also fall to Betas or even Omegas. Derek tells them that there's a price to pay for their powers, he hands, they're going to want to kill anything insight and because of that, he has to chain them up.
As he prepares for the full moon, Derek is chaining them up, he's putting a modified headband with nails embedded in it on Erica's head because she'll be able to withstand more pain. The shift for the young untrained Betas have begun, Isaac wants to know why Derek doesn't feel the effects of the moon, he tells Isaac to find an anchor, something meaningful that keeps the human side under control. For Derek its anger but it's not like that for everyone. As time pass, they begin to fully shift, so Derek calls Scott for help but he doesn't answer, he goes inside the passenger train car as his Betas have lost full control. All three of them break free at almost the exact same time, Boyd and Erica attacks him while Isaac jumps out the window.
He manages to lock Erica back up but Boyd tires to escape, luckily for Derek, Isaac regains control and holds Boyd down. He believes that Isaac should be good now on the full moons but chains him up just in case, after doing so, he steps off the car only to be knocked unconscious by Lydia Martin blowing purple wolfsbane in his face. He is dragged to the Hale House by Lydia, she brings him to the room where Peter's body is buried, the wooden floorboards have been ripped out, she grabs Derek's arm and puts it into Peter's hand and then arranges a series of mirrors that directs the moonlight right onto Peter's body. A few moments later, Peter's claws dig into Derek's arm and his eyes open, Peter made Lydia use Derek's power to revive himself. Derek watches as Peter comes bursting out of the floor, he's nervous, most likely because of the vulnerable state he was in.
In *Fury*, Derek seems to be naked, floating in what appears to be some type of white emptiness, Deaton is calling is name but he can't be seen then a loud high-pitched noise wakes him up. The sound Derek heard was a dog whistle Deaton used to wake him, Derek can barely stand, he's going to be weak for several hours but he's still an Alpha. He realizes that Peter's resurrection actually happened, he demands to know where Peter went but Deaton doesn't know. Derek follows up with another question, asking why Deaton is even there, he replies that helping Derek's Family use to be a important part of his life but he's helping Derek because of a promise he made to Talia Hale. He realizes that Deaton is the one that Laura Hale told him about, he's a adviser, he then gives Derek advice by telling him not to trust Peter no matter what and to find Scott because something bad is going to happen.
Derek arrives at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station only to be immediately paralyzed by Kanima Jackson, he is shocked to learn that the Kanima master is just a kid named Matt Daehler. Stiles is then paralyzed and falls on top of Derek then he threatens to kill Matt with his teeth. Matt demands the bestiay because he's becoming a Kanima, Derek tells Stiles that the universe balances things out, Matt broke the rules of the Kanima and now he's becoming the Kanima. Derek begins stabbing himself in the leg with his claws in order to trigger the healing process and push the toxins out. Derek is finally able to move, he shifts and then attacks the Kanima right in front of Melissa McCall, the Kanima runs off and Derek goes chasing after it. Derek listens in on Scott's conversation with Gerard Argent, he learns that Scott has been reporting to the hunter.
In *Battlefield*, Derek is at the Hale House reading through book when Erica and Boyd announce that they're leaving him in search for a new pack. They tell Derek that they must have heard at least a dozen Werewolves but Derek explains the **Beau Geste effect**, if wolves modulate their sound with a rapid shift in tone, two wolves can sound like twenty. After they leave, Derek pics up a shard of glass and throws it at Peter Hale but he catches it. Peter offers to help Derek just as Deaton said he would but Derek isn't buying it and he throws Peter into the steps and he continues to kick Peter's ass all over the house. Peter is throwing all of Derek's failures as an Alpha in his face, Derek would Peter to tell him something he doesn't know then Peter offers a way to save Jackson.
Peter tells him about the myth of curing a Werewolf by calling out its christian name, Peter tells Derek that Jackson became a Kanima because he never knew his parents, they need to bring Jackson's identity back through his heart and Lydia is the key to Jackson's heart.
In *Master Plan*, Derek shows up at the boys locker room with Peter to tell Scott and Isaac that they need to talk. Scott is wondering how Peter is alive again but all Derek tells him is that Peter has a way to save Jackson but they tell Derek that Jackson is dead but Peter and Derek know that Gerard Argent did this for a reason. Back at the Hale House, Peter has a laptop hidden in the staircase. Scott and Isaac inform Derek as he informs Peter that Jackson is in some kind of transparent casing created by his claws and he's starting to move. According to Peter and Derek, the Kanima was only in its Beta stage and the Alpha stage is not only bigger and badder but it also has wings, they see an animation of the Alpha form and decide to meet Isaac and Scott with the body.
Peter wants to get Lydia but Derek doesn't believe they have time and he says he will kill Jackson if he gets the chance. He comes loping down the street towards the group then flips and as he rise, his eyes glow red. Derek opens the body bag to kill Jackson because he believes they are pass saving him but before he can kill Jackson, it shoves its claws into Derek's chest and throws him across the room. Derek gets back up, shifts and he along with Scott and Isaac attack Jackson all at once; however, the Kanima over powers all of them and it paralyzes Derek once again. As Derek lies paralyzed, Gerard reveals his true goal is to become a Werewolf because while science doesn't have a cure for cancer, the supernatural does.
He's going to get the bite and then kill Derek to become an Alpha but his plan backfires, Scott put Mountain Ash in his pills which after getting the bite cause Gerard to spew black ooze. Seeing their chance to end this, Derek and Peter stab their claws into Jackson and they lift him off the floor and then drop him. The next morning, Derek, Isaac and Peter arrive at the Hale House only to find a symbol on the front door, the symbol belongs to a group of Werewolves known as the Alpha Pack. Apparently every member of the pack is an Alpha and they're coming for Derek.

In *Tattoo* - TBA

In *Chaos Rising* - TBA

In *Fireflies* - TBA

In *Unleashed* - TBA

In *Frayed* - TBA

In *Motel California* - TBA

In *Currents* - TBA

In *Visionary* - TBA

In *The Girl Who Knew Too Much* - TBA

In *The Overlooked* - TBA

In *Alpha Pact* - TBA

In *Lunar Ellipse* - TBA

In *Anchors* - TBA

In *More Bad Than Good* - TBA

In *Galvanize* - TBA

In *Illuminated* - TBA

In *Silverfinger* - TBA

In *Riddled* - TBA

In *Letharia Vulpina* - TBA

In *Echo House* - TBA

In *The Fox and the Wolf* - TBA

In *De-Void* - TBA

In *Insatiable* - TBA

In *The Divine Move* - TBA

In *The Dark Moon* - TBA

In *117* - TBA

In *Muted* - TBA

In *The Benefactor* - TBA

In *I.E.D.* - TBA

In *Orphaned* - TBA

In *Weaponized* - TBA

In *Time of Death* - TBA

In *Perishable* - TBA

In *Monstrous* - TBA

In *A Promise to the Dead* - TBA

In *Smoke and Mirrors*

In *Said the Spider to the Fly*,

In *The Wolves of War*,
In the year of 2026, Derek was revealed to have been hired by Sheriff Stilinski as a supernatural consultant to the Sheriff's department. He had also been raising for the last fifteen years a son named Eli, who had not yet manifested any of his Werewolf abilities and displayed a lack of interest in accepting his lycanthropy. The Nogitsune was freed from his prison and returned to Beacon Hills to finally kill Scott, Derek and the rest of the McCall Pack, with him sending his Oni to capture the majority of Scott's packmates and allies to leave him outnumbered. Though the McCall Pack and their allies managed to kill the Oni with the assistance of the newly-resurrected Allison Argent, the Nogitsune proved to be too powerful to be contained. Derek ultimately decided to sacrifice his life to ensure the destruction of the Dark Kitsune and kept the creature immobilized to allow Jordan Parrish to incinerate them both to death with his Hellhound powers. In his final moments, Derek proved himself to be one of the most virtuous of Werewolves, and appeared to become a True Alpha. Unfortunately, the True Alpha power was not enough to save him from death.

## Personality

Derek's personality had gone through more development throughout the seasons than most of the other characters in the series. When he was first introduced, he was a sullen and aggressive Werewolf who was beaten down by grief and survivor's guilt following the Hale House Fire and the murder of his sister, Laura. He was prone to threats and anger, and had very little patience for the newly turned Scott McCall and his teenager-y ways. He used violence and fear to train Scott in being able to survive being hunted by the Argents and the Alpha, and was vehemently against Scott's relationship with Allison Argent due to him projecting his own unresolved issues about his relationship with Kate Argent onto them.

These personality traits only became more amplified after he became the Alpha, as the power he gained in conjunction with the fear caused by the Alpha Pack's imminent arrival caused him to behave harshly to the Betas around him, using fear, violence, and pain to try to teach them how to survive the threats to Werewolves in the area. Derek's power struggles continued to become even more immense after his packmates were either killed or alienated from him during the Darach and Alpha Pack battles, which made him lose all confidence in himself.

However, despite Derek's outward personality in the first two seasons, the one trait that has remained constant through the seasons is his selfless nature and his desire to protect the innocent people around him. Despite his frustration with Scott and Stiles Stilinski, Derek still went out of his way to protect and save them, often at great physical risk to himself. This only became more pronounced after he lost his Alpha abilities, because once the pressure was off of him to lead the town's supernatural community, he was able to relax and mellow out, allowing him to act as a more patient and compassionate mentor to Scott after he ascended to his status as True Alpha, and sharing with him and the rest of the pack members the wisdom he had gained from his years as a born Werewolf.

This change in personality came in part due to a conversation he was able to have with his mother's spirit after he used a ritual with Talia's claws to speak with her, an event that he admitted changed his perspective and caused him to see life in a new way. This change in perspective also allowed him to improve his individual relationships with the members of the McCall Pack. His new life even made him so content that he was able to start his first-ever healthy, mutually-supportive romantic relationship with Braeden, a mercenary who helped defend the packs in Beacon Hills from the Deadpool assassins.

Derek puts a lot of pressure on himself to protect the people he cares about, and when he temporarily lost his Werewolf powers, he was very worried that he wouldn't be able to be helpful to the pack due to essentially being a mundane human. However, unlike his uncle Peter, Derek does not look down on humans or believe them to be lesser to supernaturals, because he understands that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses regardless of their species. He confirmed this at the end of Season 4, when he assured Braeden that while he knew she was more than capable of taking care of herself and others as a human, he didn't have the skills necessary to do the same after he temporarily lost his powers. Much of Derek's sense of identity is tied to his lycanthropy, and it was eventually because he embraced both his human and his Werewolf nature that he was able to become an Evolved Werewolf like his mother and older sister, giving him the ability to full-shift into a real wolf, an ability that is rare among Alphas and unheard of among true Beta Werewolves.

His life became even more complete when he became father of a son, whom he named Eli. Although he loved his son unconditionally, Derek blamed himself for inadvertently traumatizing Eli when he was still an infant by roaring at a pack of coyotes that would have likely killed Eli if Derek not intervened, which became the day where Eli refused to accept his family's gift of lycanthropy. However, Derek eventually convinced Eli in accepting his status as a Werewolf and helped him complete his transformation before both of them joined forces against the Nogitsune, which became the battle where Derek lost his life along with the Dark Kitsune. His willingness to put the lives of his loved ones above his own allowed him to acquire True Alpha status in his final moments of life.

## Physical Appearance

Derek was a tall, muscular, and handsome man with black hair, blue-green eyes, and olive skin. He tended to wear simple, casual clothes such as boot-cut jeans, henley or v-neck shirts in neutral colors, a black leather jacket, and boots, and he typically had either facial stubble or a scruffy beard. He was also notable for having a black triskelion tattooed between his shoulder blades to remind him that all Werewolves, whether Alphas, Betas, or Omegas, have the potential to rise to one rank or fall to another. In his full wolf form, Derek's fur was completely black.

## Powers and Abilities

**Evolved True Alpha** **Werewolf** **Physiology****:** Derek possessed the common abilities of a Werewolf. In addition to that, as an Evolved Werewolf like his mother and sister, he also has powers that are unique to him. He temporarily lost these powers in early Season 4, but ended up regaining them again at the end of the season; it was revealed that this occurred because Derek was "evolving" into a Werewolf who could fully shift into a real wolf. Moments before his death along with the Nogitsune, his noble character and willingness to sacrifice his life for his loved ones allowed him to attain True Alpha status, an immensely rare status occurring only once every century.

### Powers

* **Super Strength:** As a Werewolf, Derek possessed superhuman strength which allowed him to perform incredible physical feats such as breaking and snapping thick chains, punching through solid stone walls (such as the very thick marble walls that surround the vault at First National Bank), lifting grown adults and throwing them through solid surfaces and across rooms with ease. Because he was a born Werewolf, Derek has had many years to hone this ability, allowing him to easily defeat younger or newly-bitten Werewolves in fights. After successfully transitioning into an Evolved Beta Werewolf, Derek was able to use this strength to completely destroy a Berserker by ripping the bear skull that covered its face apart with his bare hands.
* **Super Speed:** As a Werewolf, Derek could move, run and react at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete. Derek had utilised his animalistic speed to perform feats such as outpacing a moving vehicle (when he was wanted by the police), and when he and Scott were tracking Boyd and Cora after they escaped the vault at First National Bank. Derek was also able to utilise his speed when running on all fours in Werewolf form; Derek was especially skilled at loping on all fours due to his many years of experience.
* **Super Agility/Reflexes :** As a Werewolf, Derek could jump from a height of several stories and land lightly on his feet, leap across large ravines, and perform a multitude of challenging acrobatic and gymnastic feats. This heightened agility also extended to Derek's reflexes, allowing him to catch arrows in mid-air and quickly dodge punches or bullets. Like Scott McCall, Derek incorporated gymnastics into his fighting technique so that he could use handsprings, spinning kicks, and front and back-flips to harness more power to be used in his strikes, as well as to prevent himself from being unnecessarily injured while being thrown around.
* **Super Durability:** As a Werewolf, Derek was much more durable and resistant to blunt force trauma than a normal human, as evidenced by when he was pushed over a ledge by Ennis and fell at least three stories before landing on the escalator below without sustaining fatal injuries. He was also somewhat more resistant to cuts by sharp instruments as well, such as when he had his abdomen clawed out repeatedly by Boyd and Cora when they were in the middle of a full-moon-induced violent frenzy.
* **Super Senses:** As a Werewolf, Derek could use his glowing eyes to see in total darkness, across long distances, and to perceive supernatural phenomena that cannot be seen with human eyes, such as Kitsune auras and the Nemeton when it is shielding itself. He possessed an extremely acute sense of smell that allows him to track animals, human, and supernatural creatures across long distances solely by scent, so long as the scent isn't washed away by rain or overpowered by stronger scents like chemicals. This ability also allowed him to discern the emotional state of others by interpreting the chemosignals in their scents. Also, Derek had a very heightened sense of hearing, granting him the ability to hear whispered conversations from hundreds of feet away, sense approaching enemies, and, with some degree of accuracy, determine truth from lie by listening to a person's heart beat while they talk. Because Derek was a born Werewolf and was raised in a family of Werewolves, Derek's senses had been honed to near-expert levels, making him one of the strongest supernatural trackers in the series due to his ability to quickly interpret sensory information by using a combination of his heightened senses. As a result of his expertise, he had also mentored several supernaturals to help them hone their own super-senses, such as Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Malia Tate, and Liam Dunbar.
* **Accelerated Healing:** As a Werewolf, Derek possessed the ability to heal from most mild to moderate wounds within moments, and more severe wounds within hours. This ability also extended to his immune system, granting him immunity to all human diseases and conditions, as well as making him unable to become drunk on alcohol or high on drugs as a result of his body healing his damaged cells too quickly. Derek had been shown to rapidly heal from injuries as minor as cuts or broken bones and as major as having a steel pipe shoved through his chest for a long period of time, or having his lungs clawed up by the Alpha.
	+ **Longevity**: As a Werewolf with an accelerated healing ability that heals and replaces dead, dying, or aging cells at a constant rate, Derek had a highly extended lifespan and would be able maintain his youthful appearance for much longer than a normal human. He died at 38 years of age and would have lived more decades had he not been killed. The oldest known shapeshifter, Satomi Ito, was over 110 years old and maintained the appearance of a woman in her late 50s or early 60s before her own death.
* **Shapeshifting:** As a Werewolf, Derek had the ability to partially shift into a wolf by transforming his body, giving him a ridged brow, pointed ears, thick sideburns, retractable claws and fangs, and glowing eyes. His eyes were originally Beta gold before turning blue after he mercy-killed his high school girlfriend Paige Krasikeva. He then had red eyes for six months or so while he was an Alpha, before giving up his status to save his sister Cora and returning to blue eyes once again. His eyes returned to their original gold color after he returned to his normal age following being de-aged back to his sixteen-year-old self by the then-Werejaguar Kate Argent until he regained his blue eyes once he completed his evolution into a Werewolf with advanced shapeshifting abilities.
	+ **Advanced Shapeshifting:** Derek also possessed the rare ability to fully-shift into a real black wolf with glowing blue eyes, an ability that he didn't gain until the end of Season 4. He was the only Beta Werewolf to be shown to full-shift into an actual wolf, though it was assumed that he at least partially inherited this power from his mother Talia Hale, who was an Evolved Alpha Werewolf along with her eldest daughter and Derek's older sister Laura.
* **Pain Absorption:** As a Werewolf, Derek possessed the ability to absorb the pain of animals, humans, and supernatural creatures by touching the person's skin with their hands. This ability manifested as dark veins that creep up Derek's hands and arms until they reach his chest and neck, depending on how much pain he absorbed. Derek once took this ability so far that he actually transferred his Alpha "spark" to his sister Cora, which was used by her body to heal her from her mistletoe poisoning. Derek had used this ability more than any other Werewolf in the series aside from Scott.
* **Animal Instincts:** As a Werewolf, Derek was an apex predator, and could thus assert dominance over lesser animals such as dogs, cats, and deer to command them to do what he wanted, such as to stop barking or to go away. Derek had used this ability to make a dog stop growling at him on at least two separate occasions.

### Alpha Powers

The following are powers Derek possessed as an Alpha. In *Alpha Pact,* Derek gave up his Alpha spark to save his dying sister, Cora, which changed his eyes from Alpha red back to Beta blue. In Teen Wolf: The Movie, Derek was seen as a True Alpha for a few seconds, before dying with the Nogitsune to save his friends and his son, Eli Hale.

* **Power Granting:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to turn humans into shapeshifters (typically Beta Werewolves) via "the Bite." He used this ability to turn Jackson Whittemore, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, Vernon Boyd, and Victoria Argent into Werewolves, though the latter was through an accidental bite while the two were fighting each other. However, this ability does not always result in the human turning into a Beta Werewolf, as Jackson was initially turned into a Kanima due to his unresolved identity issues prior to being successfully transitioned into a Kanima-Werewolf hybrid. With this power, Derek could have also turned people through a scratch if his claws went deep enough, though he never used the power this way while he had it.
* **Alpha Roar:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to use his roar as an offensive weapon to scare away supernatural creatures of a lower rank or to force a werecreature in or out of a transformation. Derek used this roar to stop Isaac from attacking Stiles Stilinski on his first full moon.
* **Healing Disruption:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to cause wounds in Beta or Omega-level werecreatures that partially disrupted their regenerative abilities and thus caused them to take longer to heal than normal. Derek used this ability during a physical fight with Scott McCall, causing claw gashes on his abdomen that took several hours to fully heal.
* **Healing:** As an Alpha Werewolf, Derek used to have the ability to perform a ritual to heal others, but at the cost of losing their Alpha Spark demoting them back to Beta or Omega. Derek uses this power in *Alpha Pact* to help heal his younger sister Cora losing his Alpha spark.

### Abilities

* **Supernatural Knowledge:** Having been raised in the supernatural world his entire life, Derek had an enormous amount of knowledge regarding supernatural species and mythological creatures. He was able to identify Kira Yukimura as a Kitsune by sight alone, and immediately knew what a Wendigo was when Sheriff asked him about it. He was especially versed in Werewolf culture and abilities, as he was able to intuit that the members of Satomi's Pack possessed the ability to inhibit their scent when he and Malia Tate were unable to find them in the nature preserve, and knew of the ritual to use his mother Talia's claws to communicate with her beyond the grave. He had used this knowledge to help train many new shapeshifters in how to use their abilities, such as Scott McCall, Isaac Lahey, Vernon Boyd, Erica Reyes, Jackson Whittemore, Malia Tate, and Liam Dunbar.
* **Master Combatant:** Derek was shown to be a highly capable fighter, using his Werewolf instincts and supernatural powers in conjunction with gymnastics. His skill as a fighter allowed him to hold his own against Kali for a period of time, as well as hold his own against the Oni.
* **Expert Marksman:** During his brief time without powers, Derek was trained by Braeden in how to use a .22 Sig Sauer, along with the fundamentals of firearm safety and usage. He learned these skills quickly, and was able to utilize them in a battle against a huge squad of hunters-turned-assassins who decided to partake in the Deadpool hit-list.

## Weaknesses

* **Wolfsbane**: As a Werewolf, Derek could be weakened by exposure to wolfsbane, and possibly even killed, depending on what strain it is, the method of exposure, and whether or not he can get medical treatment in time. In Season 1, Derek nearly died after Kate Argent shot him with a rifle bullet filled with a rare strain of Nordic wolfsbane, and it was only after he treated it with the ashes of the same wolfsbane that he survived.
* **Letharia Vulpina**: As a canine werecreature, Derek, like other Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Kitsune, could be weakened by exposure to letharia vulpina, also known as "wolf lichen" because of how toxic it can be toward the canine species.
* **Electricity**: As a Werewolf, Derek could be weakened or even killed by exposure to electricity, depending on how strong the voltage is. Lower voltages would disable his healing ability and prevent him from transforming, while higher voltages could severely slow or stop his heart completely. For this reason, it is often used against him by Werewolf hunters to take away his physical advantages.
* **Full Moon**: Though being a werecreature is considered a gift in the supernatural world due to the increased speed, stamina, and healing that it provides, it also comes with a price, which is that the Werewolf, Werecoyote, or Werejaguar is beholden to the phases of the moon. During a full moon, werecreatures without training will become overcome with a rabid anger that will cause them to attack any living creature they come upon, which is why they all must learn control to avoid exposure and harm to innocent civilians. The full moon will make a Werewolf stronger, but it will also make them more rabid and chaotic, which makes them easily hunted by supernatural hunters. However, due to Derek being a Werewolf for almost half of his life, he was rarely ever susceptible to this weakness anymore, although extenuating circumstances can cause even the most well-trained Werewolf to lose control on a full moon.
* **Lunar Eclipse**: During the phase of a lunar eclipse where the moon is completely covered in the earth's umbral shadow, a Werewolf or other werecreature will lose all of their powers, including their super strength, accelerated healing, and shapeshifting abilities, making them vulnerable to anyone seeking to take advantaged of this weakness and harm or kill them.
* **Modified Canine Distemper Virus**: One of the assassins in the Deadpool, The Chemist, created a modified version of the canine distemper virus that could sicken both humans and any canine shapeshifter, such as Werewolves, Werecoyotes, and Kitsune. Scott, Kira, Malia, and Stiles were all exposed to the virus at the PSATs, and the former three nearly died from its effects. However, consuming wild purple reishi mushrooms are known to cure a the virus and prevent those who ingest it from being infected in the first place.
* **Mountain Ash**: Like any truly supernatural creature, Derek was vulnerable to the effects of rowan wood and the ashes of the wood (known as Mountain Ash), which can be used as barriers he can neither touch nor cross. As a result, humans (including the ones with supernatural forces, such as Druids and Banshees) and non-supernatural creatures (such as Chimeras, who were created through science rather than mystical means) could ward a building with it, preventing Derek from entering it, or trap him within an unbroken circle in the same way.

## Etymology

* **Derek**: Derek is a masculine English name that comes from the Old English given name *Dederick*, the origins of which come from a Low German form of the given name *Theodoric*, a name imported to England from the Low Countries during the 15th century. In German, Derek means "famous ruler," which is an interesting piece of trivia considering that the character Derek Hale was briefly the Alpha (ruler) of the Hale Pack, a centuries-old Werewolf bloodline that is famous in the Werewolf community. Variants of the name Derek in other languages include: Teutorigos (Ancient Celtic); Theoderich, Theodoricus, Theudoricus, Theutrich, Thiudreiks (Ancient Germanic); Diederick, Tijmen, Dick, Diede, Dirk, Ties (Dutch); Tiede (Dutch, Frisian, German); Thierry (French); Theodoric (Historic German); Diederich, Dietrich, Tielo (Modern German); Tudor, Tudur (Welsh).
* **Hale**: The surname Hale is derived from a geographical locality, "at the hale," i.e. "hall" (either as a proprietor or servant at a residence there). It is also derived from the Old English *healh*, meaning "nook" or "hollow." In Northern England, the name often has a specialized meaning, either denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, or as a patch of dry land in a fen. It is also sometimes a habitational name from any of the several locations in England that shares the same name. Additionally, it could also have origins as a Middle English personal name derived from either of two Old English bynames, *Haele* ("hero") or *Haegel*, which is akin to the Germanic *Hagano* meaning "hawthorn." The name Hale was first recorded as *De Halys* in 1130, and it is said that the earliest Hales were related to Saint Edward, which was how the family's coat of arms had their arrows pointing downward.

## Trivia

* Derek was initially listed on the Deadpool for $15 million, the third-highest valued target after Scott McCall and Lydia Martin, respectively. However, after it was believed that Derek lost his powers, he was taken off the hit-list, and the $15 million he was worth was added to Liam Dunbar's bounty.
* In his youth, Derek was on the Beacon Hills High School basketball team.
* Derek had romantic/sexual relationships with four women throughout the course of the series: Paige Krasikeva, Kate Argent, Jennifer Blake, and Braeden.
* Derek was one of two characters who has been shown to have all three colors of Werewolf eyes throughout their life. In Derek's case, he had gold eyes when he was a teenager and again briefly in 2012, blue eyes from when he mercy-killed Paige in the early 2000s until he became an Alpha in 2011 and again after losing his Alpha spark, and red eyes while he was the Alpha of the Hale Pack and briefly when he ascended to True Alpha status in Teen Wolf: The Movie.
	+ The other character to have all three eye colors is Peter Hale.
* The triskelion that is tattooed on his back is considered the symbol for the Hale Family and Hale Pack.
* Derek's anchor was known to be anger in season 2 but, at the end of Season 3B, Derek's maladaptive daydream of Stiles helping him determine dreams from reality implies that Stiles became his anchor as they grew to trust each other.
* In *117*, it was revealed that Derek's middle name begins with the letter S after his criminal record was pulled up by Deputy Haigh, Deputy Parrish, and Sheriff Stilinski, though the full name remains unknown. It is also revealed that he is 6'0", 171 pounds, and that the Hale House address is at 1924 Boulder Street in Beacon Hills.
* Derek was one of the three members of the Hale family to have blue eyes, the others were his uncle Peter, and cousin Malia.
* According to Araya Calavera, Derek was capable of speaking many foreign languages, including Spanish.

## Relationships

* Derek and Scott (Former enemies/Rivals, good friends, mentor/mentee relationship)
* Derek and Stiles (Former enemies/Rivals, good friends)
* Derek and Eli (Father/Son)
* Derek and Allison (Former enemies, allies)
* Derek and Lydia (Allies, packmates)
* Derek and Peter (Uncle/Nephew, Alpha-Beta, Love-Hate relationship)
* Alan and Derek (Allies)
* Derek and Noah (Good friends, allies)
* Derek and Jackson (Former enemies, allies)
* Derek and Argent (Former enemies, allies)
* Derek and Kate (Former lovers, enemies)
* Derek and Victoria (Enemies)
* Derek and Gerard (Enemies)
* Derek and Isaac (Former Alpha-Beta, former packmates)
* Derek and Erica (Former Alpha-Beta)
* Boyd and Derek (Former Alpha-Beta)
* Derek and Paige (Former Boyfriend/Girlfriend)
* Derek and Cora (Siblings, former Alpha-Beta)
* Talia and Derek (Mother/Son)
* Laura and Derek (Siblings)
* Derek and Jennifer (Former lovers, enemies)
* Derek and Kira (Allies)
* Derek and Malia (Cousins, friends, packmates)
* Derek and Braeden (Allies, Ex-Lovers)
* Derek and Araya (Enemies, tentative truce)
* Derek and Satomi (Allies)
* Derek and Liam (Friends, allies)
* Derek and Deucalion (Allies, Former enemies)

## Gallery

*Derek Hale* has an image gallery.
*The Tell**Heart Monitor**Co-Captain**Shape Shifted**Frenemy**Raving**Alpha Pact**Lunar Ellipse**The Divine Move**I.E.D.**Orphaned**Smoke and Mirrors**Broken Glass**The Wolves of War*Teen Wolf: The Movie
## See also

1. ↑ Derek's age was never officially revealed in the series.
In Season 4, 15 year old back Derek was arrested and taken to the sheriff's station, the "date of birth" category was blank.
During an interview with Tyler Hoechlin in 2014, he asked the fans if they know how old is Derek. So even Hoechlin himself doesn't know.