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A Löwenmensch is a lion-like creature mentioned during the first half of Teen Wolf Season 6. Very little is known about how such a creature formed in-universe nor is there any real-world mythological record of the statue on which the beast was modeled.

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Production[]

Teen Wolf creator and executive producer Jeff Davis says he had little to do with the creation of the Löwenmensch.

"That was all Will (Wallace) and Eric Wallace," Davis explained to Teen Wolf News editor Paul V. Rea in 2017. "I remember coming into the writers’ room and going, 'Wait guys, he’s a lion?'" Davis recalls, "And they said, 'No, he’s a Löwenmensch.' And I was like, 'sure, okay, great.'"

Appearance[]

Since a pure Löwenmensch never appeared on the show, there is no indication of what the creature looks like. The only Löwenmensch to appear on Teen Wolf was Garrett Douglas and he was only "part Löwenmensch".

Douglas looked mostly like a werewolf, but there were a few lion-like traits visible when he shifted. His fangs and pronounced brow ridge gave him a slightly more feline appearance as did his bushy sideburns.

He could also apparently open his jaws much wider than an average werewolf. He was able to fit an adult human head into his mouth and bite through the skull and into the brain.

Origin Unknown[]

Douglas is described as being an Alpha Werewolf as well as a Löwenmensch meaning that he is a mix of more than one creature. (Episode: Blitzkrieg)

Douglas is not a Chimera and the only other naturally occurring mixed creature in the Teen Wolf Universe is Jackson Whittemore.

Jackson is a human/werewolf/Kanima after his body and soul initially rejected the bite of an alpha werewolf and twisted his form into something more reflective of his emotional state. While he was ultimately able to complete the werewolf transformation, Jackson retained many of his kanima traits.

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Real-World Origin[]

The name "Löwenmensch" comes from a carved ivory artifact dated to the late stone age. It was found in Germany in 1939. While initially called "Löwenmensch" or "lion-man" in German, the statue was later determined to have a female human body with the head of a female European Cave Lion.

While researchers suggest this discovery and another, similar statue elsewhere in the region suggests a culture of shared beliefs and practices connected with shapeshifting and a form of shamanism, there are no surviving stories or myths connected with the artifact.

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