Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13965604-20140715134406/@comment-19765459-20140716180829

The Hulk has existed for a long time, so there have been a lot of canon changes about Bruce and the Hulk, including times when they were separate personalities and others where the Hulk was just a super-powered Bruce. The recent movie canon is that Banner uses anger to control the shift. That makes some sense relative to the comics, which at times held that it was the adrenaline rush caused by anger, not the anger itself, that triggered the change.

This would account for Derek using anger as a focus. If he's usually angry, then his body is not going to react to anger as readily because it is normal for him. But the same is not true of Scott. He's not an angry person by nature. Stiles proved through experimentation that adrenaline rush does cause him to shift however, and the usual cause of such a rush is anger (although fear should also work).

But this is why things are so confusing. If Melissa hadn't been there, then Rafael would have gotten thrown through a wall! Heck, Scott was even lashing out at Isaac for admitting that he was interested in Allison! So we know it doesn't, or at least shouldn't, take very much. So creepy supernatural guys wearing bear skeletons not setting off a full-Alpha shift? Inexplicable. The weird part is that the more powerful whatever the threat is, the weaker Scott seems to be against it. His father and Isaac were just irritants, but he couldn't hold back the wolf. More monstrous threats should, by all rights, trigger a stronger response.

I wonder if we've drifted into the Story Breaker Power trope, where they gave Scott a lot of power, and now regret it from a writing perspective because he's still supposed to be a "teen wolf", not "Hulk wolf"?