Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-26851667-20150803181521

There have to be other ways to become an Alpha than those listed on this Wiki. How did the Alpha status pass to Laura Hale? Can two Alphas be married? (Talia Hale (according to various episodes) and her husband (according to the book "on Fire", which is also supposed to be canonical)) If the Alpha status is only achieved by killing an Alpha or by becoming a true alpha (which is supposedly very rare), than were do all the Alphas come from? They would have already died out due to fighting or the hunters. There would actually only be one Alpha possible, the one the whole line started with, and his predecessors, which could also only be one at a time and then perhaps a few true Alphas. I assume, that packs can also split up if they get too big, just as families split up into different branches and then the Betas fight for supremecy and the one that wins becomes the Alpha. Would that work with the canon of the series? 