Birds and Bees and Beacon Hills[]
Almost nothing is said about reproduction among werewolves on the Teen Wolf TV show. We know that, in addition to bitten werewolves like Scott McCall, there are born wolves in this universe.
There's a memorable flashback scene in Season 4 between Peter Hale and a 15-year-old Derek Hale in which Peter explains that "even born wolves must also learn control on a full moon". But the show is mum on how exactly those born baby werewolves are made.
VIDEO: Born werewolves in Teen Wolf
There are a couple of hard and fast canonical rules that would seem to govern reproduction of werewolves and werecoyotes.
- Only alpha werewolves have enough energy in their spark to make new werewolves.
- Beta werecoyotes can give birth to little werecoyotes but will loose some supernatural power in doing so.
Teen Wolf: The Movie (Paramount Plus - January 26) introduces Derek Hale's son Eli Hale and could expand the canon in a new way but as of now this is what we know when it comes to making new were-creatures.
Teen Wolf: Alpha Moms vs. Beta Moms[]
With an alpha mother, the process of sharing a spark with an unborn child is pretty straightforward. The embryo develops fully in the light of an alpha's spark. At some point a little spark will infuse the fetus just as we saw multiple times when an alpha bit someone on the show.
With a beta werewolf mother a new spark should not be created automatically. While the unborn child is also growing inside a supernatural environment, there can be no new spark of energy because the beta is canonically not powerful enough to share and create new werewolves.
Teen Wolf: Alpha Dads[]
I hesitate to get into how a male alpha werewolf might create supernatural babies. While the process itself is pretty straightforward just as it is with humans, once you start down that road you get into the possibility that any intimate contact with a werewolf male that includes the sharing of biological material will result in the alpha's sexual partner becoming a werewolf.
Like the old canard about Superman's climax killing Lois Lane, this isn't an argument I'm particularly interested in pursuing. I'll just say that if a bite or a scratch can carry the werewolf spark to another person...
Do Two Betas = Werewolf Baby?[]
Again, the Teen Wolf TV show doesn't tell us if two beta werewolves together would have enough power to create a powered offspring.
As stated earlier, going with the basic canon we know one beta can not do it through bite or scratch. But we also have the fact that, based on the ratio we were shown, there are far fewer alphas than betas in this universe. If only alphas could reproduce naturally, would that mean that born werewolves are extremely rare? If they're not extremely rare there must be some other way to make baby werewolves.
VIDEO: Reproduction among Werewolves on Teen Wolf
I speculate that two betas, by combining their sparks through sex, could create a new little spark. This type of natural reproduction by betas could help explain the relatively high number of werewolves we saw despite the relatively low number of alphas on the show.
But this type of reproduction may well come at a cost for the mother if werewolves follow the same rules as werecoyotes.
Teen Wolf Werecoyotes: Reproduction with a Twist[]
The only other bit of known reproduction canon is about werecoyotes. This goes along with established canon that a beta spark is too weak to create a new were-creature. Instead, the mother’s spark almost fully transfers to the embryo. This leaves the mother with weakened abilities while imbuing the unborn child with a near adult-level spark.
This played out with the union of Peter Hale and Corrine, the Desert Wolf. The resulting child, Malia, got all her supernatural abilities from her mother while her father got to keep his full power and contributed nothing to Malia's supernatural spark.
If the werecoyote method applies to werewolves too (according to Jeff Davis it was unique to the werecoyote as of Season 6) then we could get new werewolves from any beta mom regardless of the child's father. Conversely, a beta dad and human mother would result in wholly human child.