Scott McCall

Scott McCall is the primary protagonist of the TV show Teen Wolf and is played by Tyler Posey. He is son of Melissa McCall. His best friend is Stiles Stilinski.

Biography
Scott McCall attends Beacon Hills High School in Northern California, where he plays lacrosse. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother, Melissa McCall, who works as a nurse at the Beacon Hills Hospital. Scott used to live with his dad and would take the bus to school. Scott is Best friends with Stiles Stilinski. He has an after school job at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic as an assistant to the Veterinarian. He is Co-Captain of the Beacon Hills High School Lacrosse team with Jackson Whittemore. According to Coach Finstock, he is the best player on the lacrosse team. Allison Argent is his girlfriend. He is a Beta Werewolf. Scott is shown to be caring and protective to people who are close to him. He is emotional in some matters and does whatever he can to keep the ones he loves from danger. He views his werewolf ability as a curse and occasionally becomes frustrated when his werewolf instincts get in the way of the normal life he tries to live.

Season 1
Scott and his best friend, Stiles Stilinski go to the Beacon Hills reserve to search for half of a dead body. While searching for the dead body, he is attacked and bitten by what he believes to be some type of wolf. Scott survives the attack with a bite which heals within one day. Shortly after the attack, he begins to notice his improved senses of smell and hearing. He becomes stronger, faster, and more agile. He successfully makes first line on the lacrosse tea with the help of his new abilities.

While in class, Scott meets new student, Allison Argent. They are instantly attracted to each other and immediately, begin a relationship.

Scott attends a party with Allison. They are having a good time but Scott suddenly leaves due to effects from the full moon. Scott is shot with a crossbow by a hunter but is saved by Derek Hale. Scott meets Allison the next day to apologize and meets her dad, Chris, who turns out to be one of the werewolf hunters.

Scott presumed that Derek Hale was the one that bit him. It was revealed at the end of Pack Mentality that Derek did not bite him but a werewolf known as the Alpha did. Which makes Scott a Beta Werewolf.

Throughout the series, Scott struggles to balance his life, protect the people he loves and control his transformations as well as trying to figure out how he came to be bitten, why he was bitten and by whom. He is being aided in this search by Stiles and fellow werewolf Derek Hale. They are searching for the Alpha who is apparently responsible for the mysterious murders in Beacon Hills. The Alpha holds some sort of mental power over Scott. He has been shown to compel Scott to transform and it can even mentally force Scott to join him as he hunts.

Scott learns in Co-Captain that Peter Hale is the Alpha and the one who bit him. Peter tries to convince him to join his Wolf Pack. Scott isn't interested. Peter wants Scott to see his side of things and digs his claws into Scott's neck, enabling Scott to see Peter's memories. Afterwards he attempts to protect the people around him from Peter.

In Formality, Scott cannot attend the formal because of academic probation. Scott uses his wolf powers to peruade and intimidate Jackson to take Allison to the formal with him to protect her. Scott sneaks in to the formal anyway. Eventually, Scott and Allison dance together. He wants to tell Allison the truth, but is interrupted. He kisses her. Allison asks him, why did he do that? Scott tells her because he loves her. Allison takes Scott outside to be alone. She runs into the bus and kisses the window. Just at that moment Allison’s father, Chris, and another hunter corner Scott. They both drive towards him at the same time. Scott jumps between the two cars. This causes Scott to shift in front of Allison.

In Code Breaker, Scott finds Derek to help him kill Peter. After, Scott reveals that Peter intended to kill Laura to become the Alpha, Derek agrees to help. However, Allison and Kate show up and attack them. Despite Allison begging her not to do it, Kate tries to kill Scott. Scott is saved by Chris, who was informed by Stiles that Kate broke the Hunter's code. Scott and Derek save Allison from Peter and they fight him. Scott gets help from Stiles and Jackson, who show up with molotov cocktails that burn and weaken Peter. Despite Scott being in werewolf form, Allison kisses him. When asked why she did that, her answer is because she loves him. Derek kills Peter to become the Alpha. Leaving Scott with no immediate cure. Scott is last seen holding and kissing Allison on her roof.

Skills
After being bitten by the Alpha, Scott has developed several superhuman abilities including an enhanced sense of smell, rapid healing, agility and strength. He possesses all the physical and psychological characteristics of a Beta Werewolf.

Through working with Derek and Stiles he has learned that his transformations are triggered by strong emotions and an increased heart rate, yet they can be reversed by intense pain. While the transformations still seem mostly involuntary, he showed some control in Magic Bullet growing claws on purpose in order to reach the wolfsbane tipped bullet that had fallen into a floor grate. As well as doing a fully voluntary transformation in Co-Captain in order to protect Jackson from Derek. In Formality, Scott transformed effortlessly, again. This time to intimidate Jackson to go to the formal with Allison in order to protect her from Peter.

Relationships
Scott has a strong relationship with his mother, Melissa, who has raised her son on her own. She is always at work at the hospital and worries that she doesn't give Scott enough time or attention. She is comforting to Scott and argues with his chemistry teacher Adrian Harris in The Tell, that neither Scott nor she feel the need of a male figure in the house. His mother and father are divorced. His father's absence has not been explained on the show.

Scott's best friend is Stiles Stilinski, who is also the product of a single-parent household. Stiles has attempted to help Scott investigate his new condition and guide him through the changes and difficulties of being a werewolf. In Heart Monitor, Stiles attached a heart monitor to Scott to help him control his animal side by pelting him with lacrosse balls. As well as handcuffing Scott to his bedroom radiator in an attempt to try to prevent Scott from hurting or killing anyone during the full moon in Lunatic. Their friendship was tested in Lunatic when Scott behaved differently due to side effects of the upcoming full moon and his break up with Allison. However, through the changes, it appears that Scott and Stiles' relationship is not only as best friends but brothers.

Derek Hale served as Scott's mentor as well as a periodic rival throughout Season 1. Although it has never been said it appears that Derek does genuinely care about what happens to Scott. He began the season as a Beta Werewolf, but inherited the Alpha status after he killed his uncle, Peter Hale.

Scott is in love with Allison Argent, the daughter of Chris Argent, a Werewolf Hunter. They began dating early in Season 1. They had an immediate attraction with each other beginning in Wolf Moon. Scott skipped school and spent the whole day with Allison on her birthday in The Tell. Despite their strong feelings, Allison ended the relationship in Night School due to trust issues. Allison avoided any contact with him in Lunatic. She began to soften toward Scott in Co-Captain. They reconciled at the end of Formality until she saw him shift in to a werewolf. As of Code Breaker they were back together.

Jackson Whittemore is Scott's lacrosse teammate and rival. He has become more involved in Scott’s life due to his increased role on the lacrosse team and his girlfriend, Lydia's, growing friendship with Allison. Jackson is suspicious of Scott’s sudden improvement on the field and has been investigating the change. He eventually finds out Scott is a werewolf in Wolf's Bane. He, then, blackmails Scott in to giving him a way to get the bite or he will expose what Scott is to Allison and her family. He unintentionally and forcefully exposed Scott's secret to Allison's dad, Chris and another hunter when he went in to the woods, hoping for an encounter with the Alpha in Formality.

Lydia Martin is Allison's friend and as such spent a lot of time with Scott while he and Alison were dating. She took more of an interest in Scott when he became the star and best player of the lacrosse team. During Lunatic, she seduced and kissed Scott. These actions came after her boyfriend, Jackson, began to show obvious interest in Allison. It has been speculated that what happened to Lydia at the end of Formality is going to be crucial to Scott in the future.

Weaknesses
Like all werewolves, Scott is weakened by wolfsbane. He discovers in Heart Monitor that Allison is like an anchor when it comes to controlling his heart rate, which keeps him from losing his temper and controlling his shifts.