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Malia Tate first appeared in Season 3 of MTV's Teen Wolf. She is the long-lost daughter of Peter Hale and a Werecoyote.

She is listed on the Season 4 Dead Pool as "Malia Hale."

Malia Tate is portrayed by Shelley Hennig.

Biography

She is the biological daughter of Peter Hale and Corinne, The Desert Wolf. Malia was born on November 28 at Midtown Memorial Hospital (see Malia's Age below).

Knowing that Corrine would kill her, Talia Hale had her put up for adoption right after birth. She was officially adopted less than a month later by Evelyn and Henry Tate and never knew of her true lineage.

When she was nine years old, Corrine shot at a car Malia, Evelyn and Kiley, the younger sibling, were riding in. Prior to this, she and Evelyn had been fighting which Malia had wished she was dead. The crashed had caused Malia to transform and kill her family in an uncontrolled state. She carried tremendous guilt about the incident and remained a full coyote and lived near the crash site.

Malia still remembered her past and kept many of her human belongings and developed a sentimental attachment to her younger sister's doll.

She was thought dead for eight years until Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski stumbled upon her den. Scott forced her to return to human form and was unable to change back. She was committed to Eichen House, a mental institution for a brief time after reuniting with her adoptive father.

After helping Stiles in Eichen and forming a connection with him as a mate, she sought out Scott to harness her shapeshifting abilities while Stiles helped her reintegrate into human society and think less like a coyote.

Having learned that Peter Hale is her father, she worked with him to find her birth mother until she saw him as the monster he really was. The eventually reconciled during the events of Ghost Riders when he began to risk his life to protect her.

She found her mother with the help of Braeden and learned of Corrine's involvement in her family's car crash. Corrine had attempted to kill her to regain her lost power, but Malia turned the tables on her with genetically enhanced talons that siphoned the rest of Corrine's power.

After defeating her mother, Malia regained the ability to shift into a full coyote but continued to struggle with controlling her shift due to the Ghost Riders removing the memories of her anchor, Stiles. Once her father returns from the Wild Hunt, Malia begins to repair her familial relationship with Peter. She later forms a romantic relationship with Scott in the midst of the battle with Tamora Monroe and her Hunters.

Malia's Age

According to her birth certificate, Malia was born late in 1998 - this would make her just 13 in the established show timeline since it was early 2012 in Beacon Hills when she found the birth certificate. This seems to be a case of the production willfully ignoring their own timeline - suggesting they meant to make the character 15 going on 16.

For the purposes of the official canon, Teen Wolf Wiki uses the information provided by Sheriff Stilinski and Agent McCall (and repeated several times by other characters) in Season 3. Malia went missing "8 years ago" when she was "9 years old" meaning she was 17 when found in the woods just before Halloween and turned 18 shortly after that in November.

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Teen Wolf News Quick Click Canon Malia's Age Explained

We have more on the continuity problems caused by this birth certificate, including how it conflicts with most of what we learned about the character in Season 3, in the Teen Wolf News.

Season 3

After years of being a werecoyote, Malia is turned back into a human. She later seeks out Scott to help her shift at will. (Read More...)

Season 4

She begins dating Stiles and discovers that Peter Hale is her father. (Read More...)

Season 5

She begins to search for her birth mother, Corinne, The Desert Wolf using any resource she can from Braeden to Theo Raeken.

When Malia confronts her mother, she learns why Corinne tried to kill her. (Read More...)

Season 6

When Stiles is erased by the Ghost Riders, she struggles to control her powers due to him being her anchor.

As the Anuk-Ite and Hunters cause problems for the Supernaturals, Malia begins to develop feelings for Scott. (Read More.)

Teen Wolf: The Movie

By 2026, Malia and Scott are no longer in a relationship with Scott and has begun a sexual relation with Jordan Parrish.

She reconnect with Lydia and Scott as she helps with a ritual to bring back Allison Argent. It is discovered that this was part of the Nogitsune's new game against the pack.

When Adrian Harris makes a barrier of Mountain Ash, trapping the pack inside a stadium holding Void's illusion, Malia pushes Parrish to tap back into his Hellhound spirit and burn the barrier.

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Quotes

  • You're right, Stiles. Thank you. Thanks for invading my home, for putting me on the run, for turning me back to human so that I could look at my father everyday and try to figure out how to explain to him that the reason my sister and mother are dead is because I almost ate them on a full moon. Thank you so very much.” — Malia to Stiles in Echo House.
  • Try to remember that I'm a werecoyote who murdered her own family. I won't judge. I promise. ” — Malia to Stiles in Echo House.
  • If she was weak and injured, yeah. If hunting had been bad that season I would eat her. Then I'd leave.” — Malia to Kira about leaving Lydia in The Dark Moon.
  • I would never leave without you. Them I would leave.” — Malia to Stiles about Kira and Lydia in The Dark Moon.
  • Dance with me, dumbass.” — Malia to Kira in The Dark Moon.
  • I heard you were coming to talk to Peter. And since Lydia tells me he's basically Satan in a V-neck, I figured you shouldn't be alone. ” — Malia to Scott in 117.
  • Green is for the things I understand, yellow is for "I'm working on it", and red means "I have no clue". I'm mostly using red. ” — Malia explaining her highlighters to Stiles in Muted.
  • If some one's coming to take my head off, then yeah, I'd like to know.” — Malia to Lydia about the Dead Pool in I.E.D..
  • Scott's worth 25, Kira 6. They'll take you guys out way before me. ” — Malia on being listed at $4 million on the Dead Pool in Weaponized.
  • You think you're doing me a favor, like I'm going to owe you now?” — Malia to Theo in Required Reading.
  • I should kill you” — Malia to Theo in Codominance.
  • I'm talking about something that's going to happen. Something I'm going to do and you're not going to like me much after I do it” — Malia to Scott in Damnatio Memoriae.
  • This isn't about you or me, its about Lydia, we're here to save Lydia. We're here to save our friend.” — Malia to Kira in Amplification.
  • I know you're not going to beat an eight year old's ass but I will.” — Malia to Scott in Ghosted.
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