Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4723271-20170105223549/@comment-26879545-20170107161232


 * "The situation with Ennis doesn't really apply here as we know that Scott lost a lot of his edge when he became an Alpha."

That's not necessarily true. We keep devolving into this particular discussion, but Scott doesn't want to use his Alpha strength because he doesn't want to be a killer. That was stated in the show (through his coma-dream) and has to do with the type of person he is (obviously, we, the audience, knows he can use it without being a killer, but so did the Twins and he didn't want to listen to them).

So far, with the exception of Satomi, all the Alphas that Scott met were homicidal, criminally insane (Peter for both of those, tbh), or flat out murderers (the Alpha Pack). It's understandable he wouldn't want to use his powers, as he associates it with those "corrupt" Alphas. Derek wasn't any of these, but he was a pretty shitty example of an Alpha, tbh. He hid way too much from his Betas (like the fact that he knew the Alpha Pack was coming to town), was quick to try and kill Lydia, who he thought was the Kanima, and was just all-around sucky. Derek honestly made a better Beta than he did an Alpha, but that's besides the point.

The Beast acknowledged that Scott (and Liam) was strong, but he also stated that Scott (and Liam) lacked the "killer instinct."

That's why I said that if things are on equal footing and Scott had no issues with killing someone (aka Out of Character) he may come out on top.

The example with Ennis was more of a "that's how strong he could hypothetically be, had he not been so keen on trying to live like a normal human and wasn't afraid of his own power" example.