Derek Hale

## Media

### Family

Unnamed AncestorsTalia Hale † (Mother)Unnamed FatherUnnamed Grandparents Laura Hale † (Older Sister)Cora Hale (Younger Sister)Peter Hale (Uncle)Malia Tate (Cousin)Eli Hale (Son)

### Romance(s)

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

## Defining Moments

### Heroic Action

Being a kind and mellow mentor to Scott after a while
Sacrificing himself to Defeat the Nogitsune to save everyone

### Event Moral Horizon

Beating Scott in front of his friends
Unorthodox methods of teaching his Betas

**Derek Hale** is one of the three tritagonists of *Teen Wolf* (alongside Liam Dunbar and Malia Tate) and one of the two tritagonists of the revival film *Teen Wolf: The Movie*.

Derek is the former Alpha of the Hale Pack and a member of the McCall Pack, the only son of Talia Hale, the brother of Laura and Cora Hale, the nephew of Peter Hale, the paternal cousin of Malia Tate, and the father of Eli Hale. He is the mentor and close friend of Scott McCall, a younger, bitten werewolf who Derek formed a strong brotherly relationship with.

## Acts

### Heroic

#### Overview

* While cocky and arrogant, Derek has a good heart and didn't think humans were inferior to Werewolves, instead considering them to be equals. In fact some of Derek's friends (such as Chris Argent, Alan Deaton, etc.) and past girlfriends (Paige Krasikeva and Braeden) were humans.
* Peter Hale noted that Derek and Scott were a lot alike.
* He helps both naturally born and bitten Werewolves and becomes an older brotherly figure for the younger McCall pack members.
* Coming to accept the McCall pack and family, especially Scott, who he sees as a younger sibling.
* Despite his gruff exterior, Derek is generally a good person
	+ There's throwing Scott out of the hunters' line of fire.
	+ Protecting styles from the Kanima
	+ Shielding Chris Argent from broken window glass when the Nogitsune's bond went off.
* Spending most of the times hiding in the shadows and stalking teenagers. He knocks this off by Season 3. He later reverted back to this behavior in "Silver finger" because he was genuinely doing so to protecting Scott from the Oni.
* Derek's greatest fear is being manipulated through love and Jennifer Blake is a genuine representation of this fear when he confronted the Anuk-ite, a demonic shapeshifter from Native American mythology who does feed on the fear of those who have it. (Both Scott and Stiles' indominable will prevented them from falling to the Anuk-ite's control.

#### Pre-Series

* Derek's cocky attitude disappeared when he started dating Paige Krasikeva.
	+ Due to his young age, Derek was impressionable and easily manipulated by his uncle, Peter into believing that his relationship with Paige would be doomed because she never knew he was a werewolf. However, by the time that Derek wanted to intervene, he was too late.
	+ Rather than watching Paige suffer from the werewolf bite, he gives her the one request of taking her life.
	+ Derek's Werewolf Eyes only turned blue because werewolves taking an innocent human life causes their eyes to change regardless of the consent
		- Additionally Derek's sacrifice on the Nemeton was merely an accidental. It allowed Jennifer Blake to come to power.
* Blames himself for his family fire. 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. However, he wasn't too blame because Kate easily manipulated him into a relationship.

### Season 3

* Spent months trying to find and rescue Boyd and Erica from the Pack.
* Gave Scott his space so he could be a normal teenager after pressuring him to embracing his werewolf heritage during Season 2. However, this is also due to lack of trust the two had with each other in the previous season. Maybe Derek feels like he blames himself for Scott's betrayal because he pushed him before.

**3.01**

* Derek comes to Scott and Isaac's rescue from Ennis.

* Doesn't tell Scott or Stiles the threats the Alpha Pack because he wants them to live normal lives. However, when his fails, Derek decided to let them in on their plans

**3.02 Chaos Rising**

* Derek really wants to find Boyd and Erica before it's too late and rescue them from the Alphas
* Despite his hatred of Peter Derek calls him into the apartment so Peter can access Isaac's lost memories of where Boyd and Erica are.
* Derek refused to believe Allison when she and Lydia tried telling him that the bruises Braeden left on them would help him find Boyd and Erica. However, while Derek's reasonings are justified given the bad blood between the Argents and the Hales, and Allison firing arrows into him, Derek is being too stubborn to taken to account that they really want to help and forgetting the fact that Lydia had no consent with bringing Peter back to life.
* Derek calls Scott out on not telling Allison the truth about Victoria was trying to kill him. Suffice to say if Scott had told Allison the truth, then she wouldn't have one after the pack in the first place. He later pushed him to tell Allison the truth after they found Boyd and Cora.
* Despite getting mildly irritated with Stiles, Derek doesn't lash out at Stiles as he had done in the past

### Questionable acts

* Derek failed to heed his mother's warnings that the Hale Triskelion was a magical object that taught young Werewolves to control themselves. This led Peter to teach him to use anger, rage, and hatred as an anchor, turning Derek into an angry person who could never form an emotional connection with other people. Anger and rage is also a terrible coping mechanism for Derek, causing him trouble to make connections and difficulty in forming relationships with others, such as his initial interactions with Scott and Stiles and threatening them multiple times.
* Derek firmly believed that Scott and Allison's relationship was doomed to fail, born due to his fear that Allison will betray Scott like Kate did to him or losing Paige Krasikeva because she and Allison were both humans.

### Neutral

* Believes the Bite to be a gift but at times, Derek can understand why people don't see lycanthropy as a gift, because the Bite made him lose his first girlfriend and he saw the toll it was taking on Scott McCall, causing Derek to sympathize with him.
	+ However, overtime, Scott would also pick up this mentality, as he hated being a lycanthrope at first.

## See Also

* Scott and Derek's complex turned growing friendship
* Peter and Derek Hale