Teen Wolf: 15 Best Quotes That Defined The Series | ScreenRant
MTV's Teen Wolf is known for its soapy take on the supernatural. In addition to teenage werewolves, the show followed young love, identity issues, and stories of sacrifice and betrayal. The series ran for six seasons before MTV brought it to its end.
Over the course of those six seasons, Teen Wolf alternately made its audience laugh and cry. In addition to hilarious one-liners, the show brought us great quotes to inspire us and make us think. These quotes perfectly encapsulate what the show was all about.
Updated On August 20th, 2020 By Amanda Bruce: Love for Teen Wolf never ends, and neither does a fan's ability to quote the characters. That's why we've updated this list from its original publishing with even more of the best quotes from the series. When characters like Stiles and Scott have such memorable moments, it's hard to stop at just ten lines.
15 "You Might Be An Alpha, But You're Not Mine."
One of the running plot points in the series was other packs wanting Scott to join them. Even from the start of the series, Scott had no intention of allowing an Alpha to make him conform to their ideas of being a werewolf.
When Derek tried to assert authority over Scott, Scott didn't appreciate it. He might have allied with Derek repeatedly over the course of the show (and the two even became friends) but Scott never let Derek forget that Derek didn't outrank him.
14 "What The Hell Is A Stiles?"
The friendship between Lydia and Stiles became an integral part of the series as it progressed. When it began, however, Lydia might as well have not known Stiles existed.
After Lydia's traumatic sighting of a large animal (which was actually an Alpha werewolf), she was heavily medicated to avoid being terrified. Stiles, nursing a crush on her, took it upon himself to pay her a visit. Unfortunately, this was Lydia's response to her mom telling her that Stiles was there. The question became a refrain for fans, and one that was echoed in the Ghost Rider arc of the series.
13 "This Is Why I Always Come Up With The Plans. Your Plans Suck."
Scott might have been a capable leader who always wanted to find a way to help people, but he wasn't great at coming up with plans. Stiles, as the voice of the audience, reminded him of that fact.
After Scott bit Liam in order to prevent him from falling from a building, he also decided to kidnap his new Beta before Liam ended up in trouble. That was, clearly, not the best course of action, but Scott couldn't get Liam to listen to him any other way. To be fair, he couldn't get Liam to listen once he'd been kidnapped either. It was par for the course that Scott's plan would initially fall apart and Stiles would fix it.
12 "We Don't Like You. Now Shut Up And Help Us."
There were probably few in his life who genuinely liked Peter Hale. Of all the Hales, he was the one who spent most of his time scheming for more power. Derek killed Peter at the end of the first season, but with a connection to Lydia, Peter managed to get himself resurrected in the second.
Though Derek, Scott, and pretty much everyone else didn't trust Peter, they needed his supernatural knowledge and knowhow. Derek's remark after Peter told him that he still had his hearing after being resurrected was a perfect example of how everyone felt about Peter and his constant attempts at stealing power for himself.
11 "We Can Try. We Can Always Try."
This might as well have been Scott's mantra during the run of the series. No matter how bad things got for him and his pack, he was always willing to push forward. Scott always wanted to make a difference.
He proved that when Stiles voiced his concern in season three that Scott, Allison, and Stiles were falling apart as a result of their sacrifice to the Nemeton. Stiles felt that with their hallucinations, they couldn't be trusted to help anyone. Scott disagreed.
10 “I Think There’s A Pretty Good Chance That Things Are Never Going Back To Normal.”
Stiles had a lot of great one-liners on the show. He was a fan favorite, and his sarcasm made fans laugh, but it also acted as a way for the audience to hear their own voice in the series. This particular line wasn’t one of Stiles’ most sarcastic, but it definitely landed well.
The line came after all of the magical happenings of season three. The first two seasons of Teen Wolf dealt primarily with werewolves and the dynamics of their relationships with others. Season three brought in a lot of new supernatural elements for the show, changing the way it continued.
9 “You Hate Me Now, But You’ll Get Over It Eventually.”
Scott McCall and his friends ended up with a lot of enemies. More often than not, those enemies didn’t stay that way, something Theo Raeken pointed out easily during his interactions with the pack.
What typically happened throughout Teen Wolf was that Scott and his allies discovered a more powerful enemy than the one previously faced. The group would nearly always have to ally with someone they didn’t trust. It happened with Derek, with Peter, with Ethan and Aiden, and eventually, with Theo. It didn’t matter if the friends didn’t like someone. Common goals united them.
8 “Not All Monsters Do Monstrous Things.”
Lydia Martin made this comment to Meredith in season four. Meredith, a banshee who found herself able to read Peter Hale’s mind while he was comatose, enacted the plan he envisioned when he couldn’t do it himself: the deadpool. Meredith was going to allow all the supernatural in Beacon Hills to be wiped out, thinking it would eliminate the dark aspects of the town, herself included.
Teen Wolf began with the idea that werewolves were monsters. It quickly showed that just because someone was turned into a “monster,” like Scott when he got the bite, they didn’t have to be a monster. Scott, and those in his pack, became heroes rather than villains. Lydia didn't believe any of the "monsters" could be judged at face value.
7 “Some Of Us Have To Make Mistakes... Some Of Us Are Human.”
Werewolves and other supernatural creatures had a lot of obvious advantages over humans. They had strength, stamina, and the ability to heal quickly. Stiles didn’t have those advantages.
This line from Stiles came following his accidentally killing one of the teens experimented on by the Dread Doctors. While Stiles felt guilty about what he did, Scott just made things worse for him, reminding him that they weren’t supposed to kill the people they were keeping an eye on. Stiles was purely defending himself, and it cost the other kid his life. This line reminded the audience that as much as Stiles was the funny guy in the group, he was also only human.
6 “Even When A Leader Thinks They Have Nothing Left To Give, There’s Still One Thing: Hope. Give Them Hope.”
In season five, Scott’s bond with his pack was tested over and over again. The threat of the Dread Doctors loomed as Theo began building his own pack and trying to steal members of Scott’s.
Melissa said, “give them hope,” to Scott after a particularly brutal fight. Scott faced his beta Liam on the day of the supermoon. Liam wanted Scott to give his girlfriend the bite, but Hayden was too weak to survive it. Liam didn’t see it that way. Scott believed his pack was already torn apart after the fight, but Melissa believed Scott and his pack were still bonded, that Scott could still turn things around. Scott pulled himself and his friends out of impossible situations repeatedly in the show, but it was always great to see his pep talk come from his mom instead of a fellow supernatural being.
5 “I Would Destroy Every Piece Of Evidence To Protect You. I Would Burn The Whole Sheriff’s Station To The Ground.”
The focus on bonds on the show was usually placed squarely on pack members. This particular quote reminded the audience that not all parents are bad - or should be out of the loop.
Stiles told his father the truth about the strange things happening in Beacon Hills in season three. In season five, Scott tasked his pack with keeping an eye on the chimeras who were in danger. When Stiles and Donovan came into conflict, Stiles killed the other boy in self defense. He hid the truth from his father, terrified of getting his dad in trouble.
While the show often focused on the teens having to solve everyone’s problems, Sheriff Stilinski’s lines here reminded us all that some of the adults on the show didn’t need the teens cleaning up their messes, that they were there for their kids, no matter what.
4 “We Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves.”
Once upon a time, the Argent family hunted the supernatural, eliminating violent threats to humanity. Their family motto was, “we hunt those who hunt us.”
As Allison and her father Chris realized that not all of the “monsters” they hunted were the bad guys, they began to have a problem with the way the family handled things. By the time Allison had completed her family training, she believed they needed a new family motto, and Chris agreed to change it. The motto showed that a character didn’t need super powers to help people, and proved that even people with a dark past could change.
3 “If You’re Gonna Do This, Then I Think You’re Just Gonna Have To Take Me With You.”
Many friendships came and went over the course of the show. One pair of friends who was always there for one another, even at their worst, was Scott and Stiles.
The season two episode “Motel California” took Scott to a particularly dark place. After being affected by wolfsbane he had terrible experiences at a motel during an overnight trip for the cross country team. When Lydia, Allison, and Stiles got to Scott, he was ready to blow himself up. It was Stiles who talked him down, reminding him of their connection to one another.
2 “Life Can’t Ever Be All Bad Or All Good. You Know, Eventually Things Have To Come Back To The Middle.”
This line from Scott is a great thing for fans of Teen Wolf to hear. Why? Because the show sent the characters into extremes.
A lot of the series involved the highs of being a teenager, like experiencing love for the first time. The series also, however, had the characters experience very different lows than a normal teenager. These teens were fighting for their lives on a regular basis and found themselves in extremely dire situations.
The fans, likewise, all knew storylines they didn't love. Not everything in the show was perfect, but it was an entertaining ride for everyone who watched.
1 “Be Your Own Anchor.”
One of the most oft-quoted lines from Teen Wolf is this from Melissa McCall. It touched on an important theme from the series.
It was important for supernatural beings to have a way to anchor themselves to their humanity. In the early days of the series, Scott’s anchor was Allison. Derek and Isaac anchored themselves with the pain of their pasts. When the series introduced Malia, Stiles anchored her.
Scott discovered a missing anchor could make life difficult in season three. Melissa reminded him that just because he and Allison broke up, didn’t mean he wouldn’t find love again. He needed to be his own anchor. It’s solid advice for a werewolf, but also solid advice for anyone.