Gerard Argent

## Physical description

* Allies
* Enemies

Tamora Monroe, Chris Argent (formerly), Kate Argent (formerly), Nolan Holloway (formerly), Gabe (formerly), the Anuk-ite

Scott McCall (arch-enemy), Chris Argent (secondary arch-enemy), Allison Argent, Stiles Stilinski, Deucalion, The Beast of Gevodaun, Mason Hewitt, Theo Raeken, Peter Hale, Jackson Whittemore, Lydia Martin, Other Supernatural creatures, Melissa McCall, Noah Stilinski

## Personal information

### Talent

Skilled Hunter
 High level intellect
Manipulation

###  Affiliations

Monroe's Army
Argent Family

### Likes

Preserving the Argent family legacy, hunting down supernatural creatures, manipulating people, tormenting Scott McCall and his pack, fear, turning Allison and Kate into killers

### Dislikes

Scott McCall, his family members who turn against him, traitors, werewolves and other supernatural creatures, his daughter

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**Gerard Argent** is the main antagonist in *Teen Wolf*. He is the unseen overarching antagonist of Season 1, the main antagonist of Season 2, the overarching antagonist of Season 3, a major antagonist of Season 5, and the main antagonist of the second half of Season 6 (along with his protégé and accomplice Tamora Monroe and the Anuk-Ite).

He was the father of Christopher and Kate Argent, the father-in-law of the late Victoria Argent and the paternal grandfather of Allison Argent. He is a pure evil and sadistic hunter and leader of the Argent family. who takes pleasure in the Hunt. He is also the arch-enemy of Scott McCall, who he blames for the decimation of his family. This includes the betrayal of his son Chris Argent after he came to see Scott as a friend and a force of good, Allison's demise and Kate's transformation into a supernatural creature. He is also the mentor of Tamora Monroe and the true mastermind of Monroe army.

After many failed attempts to kill Scott and his packmates, Gerard attempted to commit a worldwide genocide against all Supernatural creatures, alongside Tamora Monroe. He shot Kate with wolfsbane and disowned her as his daughter for being a supernatural creature. Gerard found himself once again defeated by Scott when the young werewolf and his best friend Stiles Stilinski trapped and killed the Anuk-ite with mountain ash. Realizing her father would never accept her as his daughter, Kate proceeded to maul Gerard to death, thus ending his reign of terror.

He was portrayed by Michael Hogan.

## History

### *Teen Wolf* (2011)

#### Season 1

In "Code Breaker," Victoria briefly mentioned Gerard that [they] would be there in a few days. As she questioned what they would do about Scott, Chris Argent (somewhat sympathetically) told his wife that Scott had more problems to worry about.

#### Season 2

In "Omega", Gerard first shows up at Kate's funeral, where he finds one of the photographers, Matt Daehler, taking a picture of his granddaughter, Allison. Gerard took Matt's camera and destroyed its memory card. Scott and Stiles, who are watching from behind statue, are immediately find Gerard intimidating. Stiles remained optimistic and hoped that the Argents arriving were "non-Hunters." However, Scott can see that Gerard is definitely a hunter when the man suddenly turns his head in his and Stiles' direction. Argent offers his condolences to his son, Chris and his daughter-in-law, Victoria. However, when he reaches his granddaughter, Allison, Gerard asks her if she knows who he is. She recognizes Gerard as her estranged grandfather who is the kind of person who sends money and cards for her birthday. Gerard warmly tells Allison that she can call him "Grandpa" when she wants to; however, he is fine with being addressed by his first name.

Later that evening, Scott chased down an Omega Werewolf he believed was his friend, Lydia Martin, who had been bitten by Peter Hale during the 2011 winter formal. However, when he came face to face with the Omega, Scott was shocked to see it was a new werewolf. He tried stopping the nameless Omega, only for the homeless werewolf to get caught in one of the Hunters' trap. Gerard and Chris heard the alarm and quickly came running. At the same time, Derek Hale shoved Scott to the ground, saving him from being captured and restrained him as they hid behind a tree. After Chris interrogated the unnamed Omega, he insisted that he didn't kill anyone living and that the organs he ate were from no one living. He was also there for the Alpha but whether this was Peter or Derek is unknown. Gerard had Chris inform their men that they had captured an Omega, the "Lone Wolf." Argent predicted that this Omega was banished from his pack or more specifically, the sole survivor of a slaughtered one. As he takes out his broadsword, Gerard informed the others that an Omega rarely survive on his own before he cut the omega in half, thus killing him. Meanwhile, Derek forced Scott to watch the entire event unfold so his young protege could see what happened to an Omega. Scott can avoid a similar fate if he accepts membership into the Hale pack. Scott asked what they were doing and Derek declared that it was an act of war.

Meanwhile, Chris was disgusted by his father's actions and reminded Gerard that they followed the Code. However, the older hunter told his son that there was "no code. Not when they murder my daughter", revealing Gerard's plan to avenge Kate. He told his hunters that the Werewolves were just bodies waiting to be cut in half. Gerard didn't care if they were wounded or sick, Innocent souls who never hurt anyone or some desperate soul who has no idea that they're getting into; they were going to kill them all.

#### Season 6B

After attempting to enact a genocide against Scott McCall and his friends, Gerard was foiled by the young Werewolf yet again when he and Stiles killed the Anuk-ite with mountain ash. Chris gloated about as his friend had beat Gerard once again. Despite the man claiming Scott had "destroyed" their family, Kate called Gerard a stupid old man for continuing to pin the blame on Scott when Gerard himself is the architect of everything that has happened to their family and most of the events that had occurred throughout the series. Meanwhile, Chris angrily pointed out that "[Gerard]'s family" (referring to his children) was right in front of him. In order to prevent his father from hurting innocent people and anyone else he cared about, Chris willingly abandoned Gerard to his sister, who ultimately mauled their father to death. However, as Chris walked away, he could still hear his father's screams.

### *Teen Wolf: The Movie* (2023)

Despite being neither seen or mentioned, Gerard's influence in the plot is heavy, as Allison reverts back to The stage in which Gerard brought out her bloodthirsty huntress ways.

## Personality

Gerard claims he hates all Supernatural creatures and insists that his hunters slay them all. His hatred for all Supernaturals was so strong that he was even willing to shoot his own daughter with yellow wolfsbane, claiming that she may be an Argent , Kate was still "one of them." However, most of it is born of hatred and anger that Gerard cannot be special on his own. In spite of his xenophobic nature, Gerard is willing to use supernatural himself as long as it benefits him. After Derek bit Victoria during a fight with he was trying to save his protege Scott McCall, Gerard enforced his son to assist Victoria in his daughter-in-law's suicide. However, it was later revealed that Gerard was going to get the werewolf bite from Derek and cure himself of his cancer, proving Gerard is as always, a hypocrite. Another way that Gerard is hypocritical is his willingness to use other supernatural creatures as means to an end. He used both Jackson as the Kanima once he became the creature's new Master to further his goal to manipulate and intimidate Scott McCall and The Anuk-Ite to use people's fears.

Also, while he claimed to come to Beacon Hills to avenge Kate, hate Scott McCall for getting Allison killed, and helping train Tamora Monroe, Gerard was only in it for himself. While he saw Monroe had natural talent and she became his protege, Gerard planned on killing her if Monroe got too problematic. This means he didn't truly care for her well-being at all and was preying on her fear of supernatural creatures. He also took advantage of Allison's grief over losing her mother and hoped he was turning her into a perfect killer like him and her aunt. However, Allison realized Gerard only cared about himself when he was willing to kill his own son and granddaughter if they got in the way of his plans of becoming an Alpha werewolf.

According to Alan Deaton, he has known Gerard since he brought the first Supernatural / Hunter War to Beacon Hills back in the early 2000s and the man always has a backup plan. Despite his planning, he kept on underestimated Scott and his Pack because of his own hubris and arrogance. In Season 2, Scott figured out that Gerard was slowly dying of an unspecified cancer after picking up a scent of his chemosignals the night he threatened Scott and his mother in front of the hospital. The teenager had previously done the same thing with sick and injured dogs Who weren't getting better during his day job with Deaton. He and Deaton filled empty capsules with mountain ash and switched them Gerard's cancer pills in "Fury" so when Derek gave the Argent patriarch the bite his body would reject it. He also underestimated the young werewolf yet again during the Pack's conflict with the Beast of Gévaudan, where Gerard didn't anticipate Scott and Chris to double cross him. A third and final time this happened was when Gerard hoped the yellow wolfsbane would kill Scott, who managed to survive thanks to Derek burning it out of his system. Together, Scott and Stiles trapped and killed the Anuk-ite, successfully robbing Gerard and Monroe their chance of eliminating the supernatural community.

Due to his deceitful nature and arrogance, Gerard's actions were what ultimately led to his family's downfall. It was his villainy that ultimately led to Kate's bloodthirsty nature that caused her to kill at least seven people and the Hale Family Fire and therefore Peter's vengeance upon her conspirators. In the last moments of his life, his hatred of Scott was so strong, Gerard continued to blame the young werewolf for the decimation of his family until Chris reminded him that his family was still with him. Unfortunately for him, this ended up backfiring on him, and Kate mauled him to death in retribution after seeing her father for who he truly was - an evil monster. If he had accepted Kate as what she became like Melissa did with Scott, then Gerard likely wouldn't have met his end at his daughter's hands.

He is responsible for alienating his own family, killing many supernatural creatures (and humans) in cold blood and nearly killing his own daughter just for being a supernatural creature.

## Relationships

### Kate Argent

Kate was born as Gerard's second and youngest child, as well as his only daughter, and she was raised and trained in the Hunter lifestyle. He manipulated Kate and twisted his way into her mind to Allison. He convinced her that all Supernatural creatures were evil and  her into adopting his hatred of other wolves and shapeshifters. Kate turned into a merciless killer and disrespected the Hunter Code. While Chris does blame his father for Kate's bloodthirsty nature, he also blamed himself in Season 6a when he was lecturing Malia Tate.

He was presumably the one who manipulated Kate into killing the Hale Family by faking her relationship with Derek Hale. She and nearly a dozen co-conspirators set fire to the Hale House, killing numerous members of the Hale bloodline, including Derek's mother, Talia Hale, and putting his uncle, Peter Hale, in a coma for the following six years; the other survivors included Derek, his older sister Laura Hale, and his younger sister Cora Hale. When Kate was apparently killed by then-Alpha werewolf Peter Hale, Gerard returned to Beacon Hills so he could avenge his daughter.  However, since Gerard was interested in his own goals, this was not true; he was actually there to gain the Bite from Derek Hale and cure himself of his cancer. However, due to Gerard underestimating the young Werewolf Scott McCall and his ability to both predict and prevent what Gerard planned to do, his plan is ultimately unsuccessful. It is also unknown if Gerard was aware that Kate had turned into a Werejaguar when Peter clawed out her throat.

Kate and Gerard reunited during the war between the Beacon Hills supernatural community and Gerard and Tamora Monroe's Hunter Army. Kate wanted to bring herself back into her father's good graces by finding a rare yellow Wolfsbane that could be used in a bullet that would kill Scott McCall. Despite Derek and Chris warning Kate that Gerard never accepted her for what she is, she refused to listen. After providing the Wolfsbane, Kate was appalled that Gerard chose his protege over his own daughter to wound and kill Scott. To her surprise, Gerard took what was left of the yellow Wolfsbane and put it into a bullet before he shot Kate with it. Unknown to both of them, Scott was still alive because his mentor Derek Hale managed to save him. Kate realized that her father would never accept his daughter for who she was.  She humorlessly laughed and told him, "You let this happen, you stupid old man. All you saw was him." As Gerard blamed Scott for destroying their family, Chris angrily told Gerard that his children were right in front of him. Kate transformed into her Werejaguar form and killed her father, apparently with Argent's permission and blessing.

## Trivia

* Gerard is presumably of the most hated characters on the *Teen Wolf* franchise because of his cold and cruel nature. He is up there with his daughter, Kate, who fans criticized. He attempted to turn his granddaughter into a ruthless killer like Kate, threatening to kill Melissa if Scott didn't help him, and the fact that he physically abused Stiles in the season 2 finale.
* Fans find Gerard's death at the hands of Kate are karmatic and well deserved.
* Gerard claimed that when he killed Derek after becoming an Alpha Werewolf, Gerard would allow Scott to be with Allison. However, because Gerard is a manipulative man, he would likely have gone back on his word.
* Chris never refers to his father as "Dad" and always "Gerard". Kate is the only one to address Gerard as such. This foreshadowes Chris's eventual betrayal and Kate's blind loyalty to her father in the series finale.
* Gerard is the only villain on the series to be pure evil, as he makes no jokes and has no sympathetic backstories.
* Actor previously portrayed a werewolf hunter in 2011's *Red Riding Hood*