Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-15941997-20140124030534/@comment-19765459-20140130025946

LadyX wrote:

Derek's the biggest hero. He's like batman, except even more tragic and emotionally constipated.

It's been pissing me off lately that Scott has no consequences for his actions, when he flagrantly disregards everything but his own teenage woes, but Derek who tries his best (even if he has made stupid decisions) faces all the consequences of his actions AND Scott's. And Scott doesn't have the decency to acknowledge it. Let alone thank him for it.

Derek deliberately killed Peter so that Young, naive Scott wouldn't have to, and become an untrained teenage Alpha, who barely had control before, in the process does he get a thanks for that? Noooooo. Alls he can focus on is he stole the chance to be human again, even though he knew from his own research that there was no going back. The show is called Teen Wolf, and naturally Scott is the protagonist. But Derek is unquestionably the real (albeit tragic) hero.

More than a few people I have chatted with have noticed the issue with Scott never having to face consequences. Indeed, he comes across as a bit of a whiner in S1, in that he was happy enough to lose his asthma and become a star lacrosse player, and get a girlfriend that probably would have otherwise been attainable (Lydia would never have allowed a friend of hers to date a loser like Scott for long!). He just hated all the supernatural baggage, most of which Derek did everything in his power to help shelter Scott from.

Scott? He just walks away from his problems because they tend to get resolved without him thanks to Derek, Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Deaton, Ethan, his mother and Sheriff Stilinski! That's when the villains aren't just killing each other! Half the time the Evil vs. Evil is so extreme that Scott doesn't even know how things ended up!

Poor Derek has a shitty life, but struggles on stoicly. Scott has a pretty darned good life but laments every problem he runs into (and misses the irony when Derek is the one who doesn't answer the phone!).