Tate Family

The **Tate Family** is one of the families that appear in the *Teen Wolf* series. They were first introduced in Season 3B's *Anchors*, when Sheriff Stilinski, who was trying to solve as many cold cases as he could before he was potentially impeached from his position, found a case involving the Tate Family that he believed to be supernatural in nature.

The first known members are Henry Tate and his wife, Evelyn Tate. In the mid-late 1990s, the two adopted a newborn baby girl born into the Hale Family, who was given up for adoption by her paternal aunt Talia Hale in order to protect her from being killed by her biological mother, Corinne. They named this newborn Malia Tate, and, at some point afterward, they had a biological daughter of their own, Kylie.

In the early 2000s, Evelyn, Malia, and Kylie were driving through the back-roads of Beacon Hills on a full moon when suddenly, Corinne appeared and began shooting at the car in an effort to kill Malia and steal back the Werecoyote powers that Malia unintentional took from her during childbirth. Evelyn instinctively jerked the wheel, causing them to run off of the road and into the wood. The stress of the gun shots and the car crash that followed was so great that Malia transformed into a Werecoyote for the first time, causing her to uncontrollably attack and kill Evelyn and Kylie. Malia then felt so much grief that she stayed in her full-coyote form for the next eight years.

Due to the lack of awareness of the supernatural in the Beacon County Sheriff's Department at the time, it was believed that Evelyn merely ran off the road, killing all three of the women before mundane coyotes attacked and ate the bodies, with one of the coyotes dragging Malia's body away so that it was never found. Henry then lived believing that his wife and daughters had died in a tragic accident until Scott McCall and the McCall Pack helped change Malia back to her human form, allowing her to reunite with her father.

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Todd Stashwick

**Henry Tate** is a supporting character in *Teen Wolf*. He is the husband of the late Evelyn Tate, the biological father of Kylie Tate, and the adoptive father of Malia Tate.

He was first introduced in Season 3B, when Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski were helping Sheriff Noah Stilinski with an old cold case regarding the deaths of Henry's wife and two daughters in a car accident. During this investigation, Scott, Stiles and Noah learned that the oldest daughter, Malia, was not actually killed in the crash and eaten by coyotes as the Sheriff's department had originally assumed; instead, Malia was actually a Werecoyote herself, and since the crash occurred on a full moon, Malia shapeshifted for the first time into a true coyote and had run away from the scene, spending the next eight years living as a forest animal in the Beacon Hills Nature Preserve out of grief and self-loathing regarding what she had done to her family. Unable to tell him the truth about the situation, Stilinski interviewed Henry at his home in order to get more information on what happened.

Unfortunately, this did nothing to make Henry feel any better, and in fact only made his grief worse, to the point that he made it his mission to find the coyote he believed had killed his wife and daughters after the crash, not knowing that the coyote in question was actually Malia. Luckily, Allison Argent was able to incapacitate Henry with a tranquilizer dart, allowing Scott to find Malia and use his Alpha Roar to get her to change back into her human form for the first time since she was eight years old. Afterward, Henry was finally reunited with his daughter, though he seemingly remains unaware of the full story of how and why she lived in the woods for half of her life. Since then, Henry's well-being has improved dramatically, especially on an emotional level, and he has left behind his life as a homebody in favor of becoming more involved in the community of Beacon Hills again.

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**Evelyn Tate** was a character that was introduced during Season 3 of *MTV's Teen Wolf*. She was the wife of Henry Tate, mother of Kylie Tate, and the adoptive mother of Malia Tate. One day on a Full Moon, Malia's birth mother, Corinne, tracked them down and shot at their car which caused Malia to trigger her Werecoyote Gene and maul Evelyn & Kylie to death.

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### First Appearance

* *Anchors* (Werecoyote form)
* *More Bad Than Good* (human form)

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Shelley Hennig

**Malia Elizabeth Tate**, born **Malia Hale**, was introduced in Season 3 as a supporting character and was promoted to a main character in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons of MTV's *Teen Wolf*.
Malia was born in the fall of the mid-1990s to the Werecoyote assassin known as the Desert Wolf and a Werewolf, Peter Hale. However, the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. What is known is that she was adopted by Henry and Evelyn Tate, and that Peter's memories of Malia's birth were taken from him by his sister Talia with the Werewolf memory sharing ritual. *("Letharia Vulpina")*, *("Weaponized")* Malia was raised at the Tate Family's ranch, and her adoptive parents eventually had a biological daughter, Kylie Tate, some time later.

When Malia was around nine years old, she got into a fight with her mother and sister one full moon night before they were getting ready to leave the house on an errand. To this day, Malia cannot remember what the fight was about—all she can recall is that, in her anger, she told them, "I wish you were all dead." While Evelyn was driving their car through the back roads of Beacon Hills, the Desert Wolf appeared in the middle of the road and began to shoot at them, which frightened her so much that she reflexively jerked the wheel away and drove into the nearby nature preserve.

The known details of what follow are still vague as well, but it can be assumed that the stress of the shooting and the detour, in conjunction with the full moon, caused Malia to transform into a full coyote the first time out of stress, which either caused the wreck in the woods or was the result of it. It can also be assumed, due to Malia's blue eyes, that she was so overcome by the effects of her first full moon that she killed her mother and sister before running deeper into the woods, where she would live as a coyote for the next eight years out of guilt for her actions. It took three days before anyone even found the scene of the car crash.

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**Kylie Tate** was a character that was introduced during Season 3 of *MTV's Teen Wolf*. She was the daughter of Henry Tate and Evelyn Tate, and the adoptive sister of Malia Tate. One day on a Full Moon, Malia's birth mother, Corinne, tracked them down and shot at their car which caused Malia to trigger her Werecoyote Gene and maul Evelyn & Kylie to death.

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