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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Sherman. He is the "Keeper of the Pack". Young Hill Kids are transferred to his science class once they Flip for the first time. There, they learn about their history and the expectations of living in the Pack. He is almost machiavellian in his manipulations of John Kanin. i.e. Sherman makes hallucinogenic soup and slips it to John, in a bizarre attempt at either getting Kanin to leave Wolf Lake, or to ensure he stays. Sherman admits fully that he alternates at whim between "Crazy Indian Mystic" and a high school biology teacher.
* MakeOutPoint: The Lake. Teenagers throw raves periodically specifically geared toward sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.

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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Sherman. He is the "Keeper of the Pack". Young Hill Kids are transferred to his science class once they Flip for the first time. There, they learn about their history and the expectations of living in the Pack. He is almost machiavellian in his manipulations of John Kanin. i.(i.e. Sherman makes hallucinogenic soup and slips it to John, in a bizarre attempt at either getting Kanin to leave Wolf Lake, or to ensure he stays. ) Sherman admits fully that he alternates at whim between "Crazy Indian Mystic" and a "Just a high school biology teacher.teacher".
* MakeOutPoint: The Lake. Teenagers throw raves periodically specifically geared toward sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.
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* CowboyCop: John Kanin. Shortly after Ruby goes missing, he storms into Wolf Lake demanding answers. He tramples all over jurisdictional lines and even gets locked up by Sheriff Donner. Only to be transitioned back to a By-the-Book Cop when [[spoiler:he is hired on by the very same sheriff]].

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* CowboyCop: John Kanin. Shortly after Ruby goes missing, he storms into Wolf Lake demanding answers. He tramples all over jurisdictional lines and even gets locked up by Sheriff Donner. Only to be transitioned back to a By-the-Book Cop ByTheBookCop when [[spoiler:he is hired on by the very same sheriff]].
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Sherman Blackstone. Willard, Vivian, and Matthew all make mention that Sherman has been fulfilling his functions as Pack Keeper and healer for centuries.


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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Sherman. He is the "Keeper of the Pack". Young Hill Kids are transferred to his science class once they Flip for the first time. There, they learn about their history and the expectations of living in the Pack. He is almost machiavellian in his manipulations of John Kanin. i.e. Sherman makes hallucinogenic soup and slips it to John, in a bizarre attempt at either getting Kanin to leave Wolf Lake, or to ensure he stays. Sherman admits fully that he alternates at whim between "Crazy Indian Mystic" and a high school biology teacher.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Brutally so, as puberty for the "Hill Kids" brings their first transformation or "Flip" which [[spoiler:holds a 50-50 chance of dying in the process]].
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Sophia. For all that she loves Matthew, she resents him. To be fair, he is gone half the time, and is still fairly controlling. Also Ruby, while in her twenties, gives Willard and especially Vivian a lot of crap.
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* SmallTownBoredom: Sophia. She even applies to a study abroad program in Florence, which Matthew Donner wholeheartedly supports. But there's a problem of [[spoiler: not knowing if she will turn out human like her mother, or turn into a werewolf like her father.]] Also, all the 'Hill Kids' are confined to never leave Wolf Lake. To quote Lucas "If we'd have been meant to explore, we would've been given safer blood."
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* TroubledButCute: Lucas Cates. To the point where John Kanin refers to him as "James Dean Jr."
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Creator/LouDiamondPhillips stars as Officer John Kanin who is searching for his fiance Ruby Wilder after she is attacked and he heads to her hometown of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} for help. When he gets there he realizes that there is more going on than he realizes.

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Creator/LouDiamondPhillips stars as Officer John Kanin who is searching for his fiance Ruby Wilder after she is attacked and he kidnapped from UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}. He heads to her hometown of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} Wolf Lake for help. When he gets there he realizes that there is more going on than he realizes.
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* WhyWontYouDie?: Sheriff Donner gets shot in an assassination attempt. Tyler Creed tells the perpetrator, and rightly so, "You put a bullet in the Sheriff, you stay to finish the job. Or else he goes from Zero to Wrath of Kahn in short order."

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* WhyWontYouDie?: WhyWontYouDie: Sheriff Donner gets shot in an assassination attempt. Tyler Creed tells the perpetrator, and rightly so, "You put a bullet in the Sheriff, you stay to finish the job. Or else he goes from Zero to Wrath of Kahn in short order."
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* WhyWon'tYouDie?: Sheriff Donner gets shot in an assassination attempt. Tyler Creed tells the perpetrator, and rightly so, "You put a bullet in the Sheriff, you stay to finish the job. Or else he goes from Zero to Wrath of Kahn in short order."

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* WhyWon'tYouDie?: WhyWontYouDie?: Sheriff Donner gets shot in an assassination attempt. Tyler Creed tells the perpetrator, and rightly so, "You put a bullet in the Sheriff, you stay to finish the job. Or else he goes from Zero to Wrath of Kahn in short order."
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Sophia Donner. She's the sheriff's daughter and has a goody-two-shoes streak a mile long. But she plays chess with prisoners, and calls in John Kanin to create havoc when one of her friends is in trouble.



* UnreliableNarrator: Greene for ''Leader of the Pack''.

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* UnreliableNarrator: Greene for ''Leader of the Pack''.Pack''.
* WhyWon'tYouDie?: Sheriff Donner gets shot in an assassination attempt. Tyler Creed tells the perpetrator, and rightly so, "You put a bullet in the Sheriff, you stay to finish the job. Or else he goes from Zero to Wrath of Kahn in short order."
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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even managing to combine this with PlayAlongPrisoner, LiteralManeater, and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.

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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner.[[spoiler:Sophia Donner]]. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even managing to combine this with PlayAlongPrisoner, LiteralManeater, and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.
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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even managing to combine this with Play-Along Prisoner, LiteralManeater, and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.

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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even managing to combine this with Play-Along Prisoner, PlayAlongPrisoner, LiteralManeater, and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.
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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even straying into LiteralManeater and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.

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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even straying into LiteralManeater managing to combine this with Play-Along Prisoner, LiteralManeater, and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.
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* FemmeFatale: Almost every female in town with the exception of Sophia Donner. Ruby is the initial example, but shifts between this and DamselinDistress every other episode. Vivian Cates is the most notable in the cast, even straying into LiteralManeater and HeroicSeductress all rolled into one during a crisis.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Willard Cates. He runs the town from his house on the Hill. He claims to "write most of the checks" in town. But he is well respected to the point of the townspeople covering for him when [[spoiler: John comes looking for Willard's daughter Ruby.]] He is also [[spoiler: the Pack Alpha,]]and holds the title of Chairman of the Wolf Lake Brewery. All conflicts in town are run through his office.
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* MadScientist: A Van Helsing wannabe kidnaps the White Wolf, and later John in a convoluted attempt to force John to shift on camera for an early live-streamed web event.
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* LiteralManeater: One episode features a serial killer nicknamed "The Feeder."
* MakeOutPoint: The Lake. Teenagers throw raves periodically specifically geared toward sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.
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The series also starred Creator/TimMatheson, Creator/GrahamGreeneActor, and Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead.

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The series also starred Creator/TimMatheson, Creator/GrahamGreeneActor, Creator/TimMatheson as Sheriff Matthew Donner, Creator/GrahamGreeneActor as Sherman Blackstone, and Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead.
Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead as Sophia Donner.


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tyler Creed. One of the show's main antagonists, during "Excitable Boy" Tyler is accused of raping a local lounge singer. He, in turn, accuses another man of the crime stating "I'd kill you myself for what you did to her. I wouldn't mind being blamed for that at all."
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* CowboyCop: John Kanin. Shortly after Ruby goes missing, he storms into Wolf Lake demanding answers. He tramples all over jurisdictional lines and even gets locked up by Sheriff Donner. Only to be transitioned back to a By-the-Book Cop when he is hired on by the very same sheriff.

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* CowboyCop: John Kanin. Shortly after Ruby goes missing, he storms into Wolf Lake demanding answers. He tramples all over jurisdictional lines and even gets locked up by Sheriff Donner. Only to be transitioned back to a By-the-Book Cop when he [[spoiler:he is hired on by the very same sheriff.sheriff]].



* TownWithADarkSecret

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* TownWithADarkSecretTownWithADarkSecret:[[spoiler: The town is almost entirely peopled with werewolves.]]
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* CowboyCop: John Kanin. Shortly after Ruby goes missing, he storms into Wolf Lake demanding answers. He tramples all over jurisdictional lines and even gets locked up by Sheriff Donner. Only to be transitioned back to a By-the-Book Cop when he is hired on by the very same sheriff.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The 'Hill People' or 'Other' are depicted as being able to transition between wolf and human, as well as shifting directly into full wolf form. Actual trained wolves were used in filming the shift scenes.

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* BizarroEpisode: ''Leader of the Pack''.



* UnreliableNarrator: Greene for previously mentioned episode.

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* UnreliableNarrator: Greene for previously mentioned episode.''Leader of the Pack''.
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A ShortRunner Supernatural drama that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.

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A ShortRunner Supernatural drama that aired on Creator/{{CBS}} that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.
Creator/{{UPN}}.

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* BizarroEpisode
* TownWithADarkSecret

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* BizarroEpisode
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* TownWithADarkSecretTownWithADarkSecret
* UnreliableNarrator: Greene for previously mentioned episode.
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A ShortRunner Supernatural drama that aired on ''Creator/{{CBS}}'' that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.

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A ShortRunner Supernatural drama that aired on ''Creator/{{CBS}}'' Creator/{{CBS}} that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.
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A ShortLived Supernatural drama that aired on ''Creator/{{CBS}}'' that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.

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A ShortLived ShortRunner Supernatural drama that aired on ''Creator/{{CBS}}'' that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.
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A ShortLived Supernatural drama that aired on ''Creator/{{CBS}}'' that aired September 19 to October 24, 2001, canceled after five episodes with remaining four episodes airing ''Creator/{{UPN}}''.

Creator/LouDiamondPhillips stars as Officer John Kanin who is searching for his fiance Ruby Wilder after she is attacked and he heads to her hometown of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} for help. When he gets there he realizes that there is more going on than he realizes.

The series also starred Creator/TimMatheson, Creator/GrahamGreeneActor, and Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead.

!Tropes for the series include:
* TownWithADarkSecret

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