Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20150630102249/@comment-25222572-20150705092018

Paul.rea wrote: Peter never spoke to Laura before killing her. Once again we have an example of the dangers of oft repeated false information presented as fact.

It is, based on everything we've seen, not possible to "hand off" the staus. By saying Scott achieved his status without taking it or being born to it implies those are the only options beyond becoming a true alpha. At least, that is the established canon. As we've been told repeatedly the rules are changing. But, even with the uncertainty, they've thus far only mentioned new ways to "take" the status. This is all true, Paul, but you can't really blame people for speculating on other possibilities, provided they make it clear that they ARE just speculating.

Besides, unless Jeff hasn't thought it out in its entirety (which he probably hasn't, let's be honest here) then if the only ways to gain the Alpha Spark (apart from becoming a True Alpha, which is an incredibly rare occurence, according to just about everyone who has weighed in on the subject) are by killing an Alpha/stealing it from them in some way, and it could simply be lost if they were killed by a non-werewolf, or burnt out healing someone, then logically there would have to be very few Alpha's still in existence, what with more of them dying out than being created (presumably more regular Alpha's die than True Alpha's are made; not necessarily true, but it's more likely than the alternative).

At the very least, it hasn't seemed like a huge concern for any of the werewolves we've seen on the show. Which is one of the reasons why people come up with theories such as "the immortal/eternal Spark". Because otherwise werewolves everywhere would/should be incredibly freaked out whenever one of their Alpha's died. And that hasn't been shown. Ergo, theories that border on fan fiction?

Just to be clear, none of this is in anyway fan fiction. This is simply logic applied to the TW universe in regards to the werewolf species survival, whilst still acknowledging that the reason it hasn't been addressed is probably because Jeff hasn't thought to address it yet, rather than anything else.