Malia Tate

Malia Tate first appeared in Season 3 of MTV's Teen Wolf.

She is the biological daughter of Peter Hale and Corinne, The Desert Wolf, although she was adopted and considers Henry Tate to be her father.

She was thought dead for eight years after the deaths of her adoptive mother and little sister. All the while, she was actually living fully transformed as a Werecoyote.

She is listed on the Season 4 Dead Pool as "Malia Hale."

Malia Tate is portrayed by Shelley Hennig.

Biography
Malia was born on November 28 at Midtown Memorial Hospital (see Malia's Age below). She was officially adopted less than a month later by Evelyn and Henry Tate.

When she was nine years old her biological mother shot at a car Malia, her adoptive mother and sister riding in. The subsequent crash caused Malia to transform and kill her family.

Malia remained a fully transformed coyote and lived in a den near the crash site for eight years. She kept many of her human belongings and developed a sentimental attachment to her younger sister's doll.

Malia did not remember the Desert Wolf's involvement in the crash and believed herself responsible. Just before the crash she had argued with her mother and said she wished they were all dead. For years she carried tremendous guilt about the incident.

She was, at first, resentful that Scott McCall forced her to return to human form and is still unable to change back. She was committed to Eichen House, a mental institution for a brief time.

Scott helped Malia to harness some of her shapeshifting abilities while Stiles Stilinski helped her reintegrate into human society and think less like a coyote.

Having learned that Peter Hale is her father, she worked with him to find her birth mother until she saw him as the monster he really was.

She quickly came to view Stiles as her mate in every sense of the word and they remained together for the better part of a year.

Their relationship stalled due to the events of Season 5 and, while they never said the words to each other, they broke up.

Malia recently became a senior at Beacon Hills High School despite her difficulty catching up to her peers academically.

Malia's Age
According to her birth certificate, Malia was born late in 1998 - this would make her just 13 in the established show timeline since it was early 2012 in Beacon Hills when she found the birth certificate. This seems to be a case of the production willfully ignoring their own timeline - suggesting they meant to make the character 15 going on 16.

For the purposes of official canon, Teen Wolf Wikia uses the information provided by Sheriff Stilinski and Agent McCall (and repeated several times by other characters) in Season 3. Malia went missing "8 years ago" when she was "9 years old" meaning she was 17 when found in the woods just before Halloween and turned 18 shortly after that in November.



We have more on the continuity problems caused by this birth certificate, including how it conflicts with most of what we learned about the character in Season 3, in the Teen Wolf News.

Season 3
After years of being a werecoyote, Malia is turned back into a human. She later seeks out Scott to help her shift at will. (Read More...)

Season 4
She begins dating Stiles and discovers that Peter Hale is her father. (Read More...)

Season 5
She begins to search for her birth mother, Corinne, The Desert Wolf using any resource she can from Braeden to Theo Raeken.

When Malia confronts her mother, she learns why Corinne tried to kill her. (Read More...)

Season 6
Malia appears for the first time in coyote form since Season 3. She helps the pack investigate missing people and determines they are still alive due to the lack of blood but says she can't smell any sign that they were ever in their car. (Read More...)

Quotes

 * "You're right, Stiles. Thank you. Thanks for invading my home, for putting me on the run, for turning me back to human so that I could look at my father everyday and try to figure out how to explain to him that the reason my sister and mother are dead is because I almost ate them on a full moon. Thank you so very much."

- Malia to Stiles in Echo House.


 * "Try to remember that I'm a werecoyote who murdered her own family. I won't judge. I promise."

- Malia to Stiles in Echo House.


 * "I sometimes ran from cougars trying to eat me."

- Malia to Coach Finstock in The Divine Move.


 * "If she was weak and injured, yeah. If hunting had been bad that season I would eat her. Then I'd leave."

- Malia to Kira about leaving Lydia in The Dark Moon.


 * "I would never leave without you. Them I would leave."

- Malia to Stiles about Kira and Lydia in The Dark Moon.


 * "Dance with me, dumbass."

- Malia to Kira in The Dark Moon.


 * "I heard you were coming to talk to Peter. And since Lydia tells me he's basically Satan in a V-neck, I figured you shouldn't be alone."

- Malia to Scott in 117.


 * "Green is for the things I understand, yellow is for "I'm working on it", and red means "I have no clue". I'm mostly using red."

- Malia explaining her highlighters to Stiles in Muted.


 * "If some one's coming to take my head off, then yeah, I'd like to know."

- Malia to Lydia about the Dead Pool in I.E.D..


 * "Scott's worth 25, Kira 6. They'll take you guys out way before me."

- Malia on being listed at $4 million on the Dead Pool in Weaponized.


 * "You think you're doing me a favor, like I'm going to owe you now?"

- Malia to Theo in Required Reading.


 * "I should kill you"

- Malia to Theo in Codominance.


 * "I'm talking about something that's going to happen. Something I'm going to do and you're not going to like me much after I do it"

- Malia to Scott in Damnatio Memoriae.


 * "This isn't about you or me, its about Lydia, we're here to save Lydia. We're here to save our friend."

- Malia to Kira in Amplification.


 * "Stop calling me that, you don't get to call me sweetheart."

- Malia to The Desert Wolf in A Credible Threat.