Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-108.81.117.0-20140703065006/@comment-13965604-20140717214138

DManCO wrote: LadyX wrote:

Lmao. I think you're right. Ok. So, I had to go look up Worf, I always forget that dudes name, and went over to TV Tropes to look up the Worf Effect. Sounds about right to me. But that led me down a link clicking spiral of awesome, that led me to a conclusion. Scott isn't the hero, because he had no Deep Dark Secret, that he is Locked Out of The Loop about. Derek had the Deep Dark Secret that once learned would change everyone's opinion, well, ok, he fits a lot of the Hero stuff, but he's not really the main hero even though he's the protagonist.... Derek has been our anti hero from the beginning, and has slowly been being shifted into normal hero. This last episode has shown us The Power of Friendship is actually working, or appear to be. Hey, I've always thought that Derek was the real Hero of the show, with Scott just providing the "Teen" in Teen Wolf!

Derek is often willing to endure things that would break Scott's mind into little pieces in order to protect others. He's the one that deals with the truly dark aspects of the show, and allows Scott to come out ahead without having to make any moral compromises himself. But at the same time, Derek increasingly proves that he is even more unyielding when it comes to protecting people than Scott is. He makes more personal sacrifices, suffers greater pain and carries a heavier burden.

He's just not as nice about it. Scott is likeable. That's about his only real edge over Derek. Other good guys tend to cluster around Scott. But they end up contributing as much as he does, rather than him being the Leader and the Hero on his own. Heck, Scott wouldn't have lived through S1 without Derek and Stiles!

I've just never actually looked at what makes the hero the hero. Scott being the protagonist and sooooo likable distracts from the truth of the matter.