History Series / TeenWolf

Seasons 1–4 are available on MTV.com. The series concluded its sixth and final season in late 2017. A [[RecursiveAdaptation film of the series]] is set to premiere on Creator/ParamountPlus in 2022, with Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Holland Roden, Creator/ColtonHaynes, Creator/MelissaPonzio, Creator/JRBourne, Creator/ShelleyHennig, and Dylan Sprayberry all set to return.

The series revolves around social outcast Scott [=McCall=] (Creator/TylerPosey), a young lacrosse-playing student at Beacon Hills High. Scott's life drastically changes when he is bitten by a werewolf, which in turn transforms him into one of these mythical creatures. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day to day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles Stilinski (Creator/DylanOBrien), his best friend; Allison Argent (Crystal Reed), his first girlfriend, who comes from a family of [[HunterOfMonsters werewolf hunters]]; and Derek Hale (Creator/TylerHoechlin), a mysterious werewolf whose history is intertwined with the Argents. Throughout the show, Scott strives both to keep his loved ones safe and maintain the relationships and secrets he shares with each person around him.

Seasons 1–4 are available on MTV.com. The series concluded its sixth and final season in late 2017. A [[RecursiveAdaptation film of the series]] is set to premiere on Creator/ParamountPlus in 2022.

* AbusiveParents: Teen Wold has a couple examples of this trope.

* RealityEnsues:
** Stiles always gets up to some serious shenanigans like stealing police property and kidnapping one of his fellow students... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which then causes his dad, the town Sheriff, to lose his job]].
** Scott always [[ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow misses out on school due to being a werewolf]]... which causes him to have terrible grades and risk being held back a year.
** The Beacon Hills police, specifically Sheriff Stilinski, have a lot of trouble closing cases due to most homicides having to do with the supernatural - which the police obviously have no experience with. At the start of season 3B, Agent [=McCall=] is looking to impeach the sheriff due to his seeming inability to do his job.
** In "The Fox and the Wolf":
-->'''Sheriff Stilinski''': I don't know how you guys do it. You're all so strong. You're fearless. Hell, you manage to keep your grades up.
-->'''Allison''': Well, I'm failing Econ.
** Thanks to all the damage it took in Season 3, the hospital is starting to have money issues.
** Likewise, Sheriff Stilinski is having trouble paying off the debt he owes to Eichen House in Season 4 after Stiles was placed there in the previous season.
** Lydia's mother is getting a job as a teacher and plans to sell off her mother-in-law's weekend house due to money issues caused by her recent divorce.
** An assassin is poised to shoot Stiles, and Agent [=McCall=] is forced to shoot him first. In the next episode, we see him going through the procedures to prove that lethal force was necessary in that situation, and he has to leave town for review.
** All the supernatural dangers take their toll on newly turned werewolf Liam, who suffers from anxiety and nightmares as a result.

** StarWars:
*** Stiles saying he would make a better [[StarWars Yoda]] than Derek.

*** Stiles lamenting at various points that Scott still hasn't watched StarWars; also the fact that ''nobody'' besides Stiles and Parrish (and maybe Chris) seems to have watched StarWars.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Stiles/Lydia. Literally. [[WordOfGod Jeff Davis]] has used these [[http://www.tvguide.com/news/teen-wolf-season-6-spoilers-stiles-go-missing/ exact words]] to describe their relationship.

** Arguably, both Victoria and Chris Argent. They're controlling, they lie to Allison her entire life, they discourage her interests, they disrespect her privacy, and her father has her ''kidnapped'' as a "training" exercise. That's not even getting started on the fact that they try to kill her boyfriend basically only for being her boyfriend.

* LoveAtFirstSight: First sound in the case of Scott and Allison, but it's still the case. Scott's been in love with that girl since he first heard her heartbeat.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Pretty much the case for Scott and his friends (although occasionally some of them are involuntarily the threat themselves, like Jackson in Season 2 and Stiles in Season 3B).

Seasons 1–4 are available on MTV.com. The series concluded its sixth and final season in late 2017.

** Subverted with Lydia -- she's surprised at seeing her mother teach at the school, but is mostly cool with it.

** TheLancer: Stiles, decidedly more pessimistic, anxious, and paranoid compares to happy-go-lucky Scott.

** TheChick: Kira, as Scott's girlfriend and pretty well-liked by everyone else who is the most emotionally stable.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: While this is averted with [[spoiler:Allison]] who's frequently mentionned after season 3, [[spoiler:Erica, Boyd and Aiden]] aren't so lucky and are rarely if ever brought up after their passing.

** Season 6A brings us [[spoiler:The Wild Hunt, who are claiming people from all over Beacon Hills and erasing them from everyone's memory. Complicating matters is an Alpha Werewolf the Dread Doctors had kept on [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport life support]] to extend their lives, who just happens to have been [[ThoseWackyNazis a Nazi]] before the Doctors got hold of him, who intends on controlling the Wild Hunt. Solving both problems boils down to NiceJobFixingItVillain.]] Season 6B has [[spoiler:a paranoid Beacon Hills citizenry driven to action, lead by Gerard Argent and Tamora Monroe, the school's new Guidance Counselor, with the Anuk-ite, a fear-mongering shapeshifter released when the Wild Hunt was defeated, serving as the BiggerBad, OutsideContextProblem, and FinalBoss. Monroe herself is a KarmaHoudini, setting up AndTheAdventureContinues.]]

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Arden Cho (Kira) and Creator/ShelleyHennig (Malia) in Season 4. Dylan Sprayberry (Liam) in Season 5. Creator/LindenAshby (Sheriff Stilinski), Melissa Ponzio (Melissa), and J.R. Bourne (Chris) in Season 6.

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Arden Cho (Kira) and Creator/ShelleyHennig (Malia) in Season 4. Dylan Sprayberry (Liam) in Season 5. Linden Ashby (Sheriff Stilinski), Melissa Ponzio (Melissa), and J.R. Bourne (Chris) in Season 6.

* OnlyChildSyndrome: To the point you begin to wonder if there's some procreation restriction in Beacon Hills as Scott, Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Kira, Jackson and Liam are ''all'' only children. Then there's Derek, Isaac and Malia who had siblings but they were killed off before the show began [[spoiler: though Derek's long-lost sister Cora does return briefly.]]
** There's also a case of only ''parent'' syndrome with Melissa Mccall, Sheriff Stilinski, Coach Lahey, Henry Tate and [[spoiler: later Chris Argent]] all single parents for various reasons.

The theme of "finding your place" is a prevalent undertone that is mirrored by the pack mentality of the werewolves. Lycanthropy is used as a metaphor for adolescence---disconcerting body changes, alarming and hard-to-control urges, etc. - while packs can stand both for cults and gangs on the negative, and close-knit families and circles of friends on the positive side.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Out bowling, Lydia bowls a perfect frame, after a game of lackluster throws. Allison tells her she should stop sucking for Jackson's benefit.
-->'''Lydia:''' Believe me, I do ''plenty'' of sucking for his benefit.
** Another instance in the second episode, again with Lydia when she was talking to Scott about him not playing.
-->'''Lydia:''' I prefer my boyfriend to be at ''peak'' performance.
** In the season 2 opener, Stiles and Scott try to persuade Jackson to help them search for a missing Lydia who they believe is becoming a werewolf. Jackson tells them to worry about the search party instead.
--> '''Jackson:''' You've got this all backwards [=McCall=]. When I was with Lydia, you should've seen the scratch marks she left on ''me''.
** In the eleventh episode of season 2, when Coach Finstock is finally going to let Stiles into a lacrosse game.
--> '''Stiles:''' I'm playing? On the field? With the team?\\
'''Finstock:''' Yes! Unless you'd rather play with yourself!\\
'''Stiles:''' I already did [[ADateWithRosiePalms that]] today. Twice.
** In the seventh episode of season 3, Allison and Scott end up hiding in a closet, standing face-to-face closely together, resulting in him getting a bit [[RagingStiffie excited]]. Apparently, he has less control over ''that'' than he does over his werewolf transformations. Allison chastises him and turns around, which causes him to remark that that only makes it worse...
** In Season 5: Ep. 10, Theo enters the scene as a wolf and transforms back to a naked human.
--> '''Malia''' How did you do that? \\
'''Theo''' Do you want to learn? I could show you.\\
'''Malia''' You are showing me plenty right now.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Unsurprisingly happens a lot. For instance, Sheriff Stilinski catches Stiles and his girlfriend Malia with chains in the fourth season and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar gets the wrong idea]], a {{Call Back}} to a similar scene with Scott.

->''"Be a man. Be a wolf. Not a [[TitleDrop Teen Wolf]]. Be a werewolf."''

** The rogue hunters in season six [[spoiler: killed or tried to kill any supernatural being in sight. This included ruthlessly shooting Tierney and Jiang (two of Satomi's betas) and running Brett and Lori over in the street.]]

** Actually, this happens a lot. Scott pins Danny down and smells him during lacrosse practice, Derek really enjoys pinning Stiles to walls, and the males in this series are just really really touchy-feely.

** In "Wolf Moon", Scott gives the soaked Alice a shirt to wear, and gets a glimpse of her ToplessnessFromTheBack as she's changing in the hall outside. He stares until the dog he's treating looks at him accusingly.

** In Season 3B, it's the Nogitsune, a void kitsune who takes possession of Stiles.

[[caption-width-right:300:Main cast of Season 6. From left to right: [[TwoferTokenMinority Mason]] [[{{Adorkable}} Hewitt]], [[HairTriggerTemper Liam]] [[EmergencyTransformation Dunbar.]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Lydia]] [[TeenGenius Martin]], [[HeroProtagonist Scott]] [[BigGood [=McCall=]]], [[DeadpanSnarker Stiles]] [[MuggleBestFriend Stilinski]], [[AntagonisticOffspring Malia]] [[ActionGirl Tate]].]]