Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-13965604-20140715134406/@comment-19765459-20140716211234

Paul.rea wrote: Again - the true alpha concept (again not canonical) seems to originate with inner strength not physical power.

It seems to be playing out that way on the show as well.

The narrative usually plays out so that Scott is never forced to kill anybody (somebody else always does it for him). So it's not implausible that he could have a pack of red shirts whose sole purpose is to get killed to prevent their weak True Alpha from being slaughtered by some random ambitious Beta. But that would get kind of disturbing, and if a True Alpha really has to be that moral, I would expect them to allow themselves to be killed rather than have lots of people die trying to protect them.

Scott would have to change a lot before he would start accepting that. So I have to assume that there are more powers yet to be revealed.