Teen Wolf: The Movie Ending Explained: What Sacrifice Means and What It Holds For The Pack
One of the most famous teen series of the last decade, Teen Wolf finally hit the big screen with Teen Wolf: The Movie, a feature that arrived at the Paramount+ catalog on the 27th and brings a true show of nostalgia for those who followed the six busy seasons of the production. on TV. One of the first original productions in the streaming service’s catalog in 2023, the film is nothing more than a continuation of the story presented on MTV between 2011 and 2017 and serves as a starting point for the new Wolf Pack series which was also released by Paramount+ on the same day. For context, Teen Wolf: The Movie takes place years after Scott McCall and his pack graduate from high school and change their lives.
This sort of retirement for our favorite wolves is cut short by a sinister threat to the small town of Beacon Hills. With that, Scott is forced to get the gang back together for a hell of a fight. As they come together new alliances are formed as he and his friends do everything, they can to annihilate the evil in the place. Will they succeed? How does this story end? That’s what we’re going to see today. The new streaming tape reunites the original cast of ‘Teen Wolf’, in addition to introducing new members of the franchise. In Teen Wolf: The Movie the McCall pack, led by Scott (Tyler Posey), returns to Beacon Hills to uncover the mystery of Allison Argent’s (Crystal Reed) reincarnation and confront a new evil that has arisen. With the return of the pack and the presence of new members, the film leaves several doubts in the air and many things ready to continue the story of the characters. Here we explain the end of Teen Wolf: The Movie.
Teen Wolf: The Movie: The Story Plot
At the beginning of the film, we are introduced to a hooded figure meeting Liam Dunbar and Hikari Zhang in Japan. The mysterious man steals a jar and frees the Nogitsune from confinement – that is, while Scott lives in Los Angeles and works with Dr. Alan Deaton, his mentor. After saving a young woman and her dog, the boy has a vision of his former lover, Alisson Argent, whose father appears minutes later at his shelter explaining that the young woman is trapped probably between life and death – which means that they must return to Beacon Hills and perform an ancient ritual to help her move forward.
Derek Hale is working with Sheriff Noah Stilinski to investigate a series of arsons in the area’s woods. At the same time, his teenage son, Eli Hale, is reluctant to learn about becoming a werewolf due to trauma in his childhood. Scott finally arrives in town and is already reunited with Lydia. With the help of Malia Tate, the three will look for the Nemeton to perform the ritual to save Alisson’s life. However, they end up getting lost on the trail they followed in the forest and come face to face with Eli. It is Derek’s rebellious son who guides them to the Nemeton, where the three perform the ritual to find Allison alive and conscious.
At the same time, Deaton and Argente discover that the Nigitsune is loose and that he is most likely involved in the resurgence of the young woman, who is taken to the hospital by Scott and ends up fleeing after regaining consciousness. Tracked down by the Nogitsune, she ends up turning against Scott and the other werewolves. Allison proceeds to hunt Scott’s gang members while the Nogtsune’s nine Oni help her – which makes it clear that the villain is using a twisted game of chaos to get revenge on Scott and his friends, who grow closer and closer. faced with this challenge to fight the rival. The story progresses and our protagonists discover Nogitsune’s brainwashing of Allison, which made her believe that they killed her family. Scott tries to recover the young woman’s memory, but she seems obstinate in hunting her friends – while the villain prepares more tricks against the good guys.
Teen Wolf: The Movie Ending Explained: What Was Nogitsune’s Plan?
He wants to repeat the episode where Allison dies in Scott’s arms when the good guy faced him with his pack a few years ago. However, to complete his cycle of chaos, he wants something different: instead of Allison, it’s the good guy who must die in his ex-lover’s arms this time, what is called in the film a “god move”. The narrative progresses and it is revealed that the hooded creature at the beginning of the film was Adrian Harris, the protagonists’ chemistry teacher since high school. Surprisingly, he was responsible for freeing the Nogitsune since they both share the same goal: revenge against Scott.
At the end of the film, Nogitsune traps Derek, the sheriff, Noah, Liam, Hikari, Eli, Scott and Allison in a corporeal world created with its power of illusion. Lydia, Jackson, Melissa, Peter and Chris are kept by the Oni outside with a barrier of mountain ash – which seems to result in Scott’s losing battle against the villain. But he manages to vaguely remind Allison of their past, which leads him to a plan. Since he doesn’t want his friends to die, he agrees to lay down his life in exchange for theirs. With that, Allison shoots Scott through the heart with wolfsbane arrows – which makes the villain believe that he has finally won with his “divine move”.
The Turnaround
However, Scott has been protected by Hikari’s Fire Kitsune spirit – which makes him survive the arrows and have his injuries quickly healed. Parrish and Malia, meanwhile, arrive with silver bullets capable of killing the Oni — while Lydia uses her powers to help her friends finally defeat the villain’s illusion and “divine movement”. With everyone “saved”, Scott rallies the pack for a grand final battle against the Oni, as he and Derek unite against the Nogitsune. In an emblematic fight scene that goes back to the old days, the two still have the help of Eli — who finally turns into a werewolf and fills the third vacancy.
The Nogitsune plays an illusion so that Scott, Derek and Eli think they are separated, but they break the spell using the roar, a method used by wolves to contact their pack and reveal their location, which was one of the first lessons they learned. Scott learned from Derek. Both travel back in time as they unleash brute force and capture the Nogitsune, but must destroy the trickster spirit to prevent it from returning. The villain is burned with Parrish’s hellfire, but it takes someone to hold him down for this mission to be complete. Derek agrees to sacrifice himself and gives his life to protect his loved ones and, above all, his children. In his last moments, he entrusts Scott with the responsibility of taking care of Eli – which is possible because the two consider themselves brothers and will remain connected even after Derek’s death.
Teen Wolf: The Movie explained: What Happened to Each Character?
At the end of the tape, it is discovered that Allison’s resurrection was a plan by the Nogitsune (Aaron Hendry) to kill Scott and feed on the pain caused by the death of his beloved. With the help of the pack, Scott manages to defeat the villain and stay with Allison. However, not all of it is good news, as victory costs Derek Hale (Tyler Hoechlin) his life. In the plot, Derek is now the father of Eli Hale (Vince Mattis), a 15-year-old teenager who has a hard time adjusting to being a werewolf and doesn’t have the best relationship with his father.
With Derek’s sacrifice to save the day, Scott returns to Los Angeles to honor his friend’s memory and become a mentor to Eli Hale, teaching him everything there is to know about being a werewolf. On the other hand, although Stiles Stilinski (Dylan O’Brien) does not appear in the film, Lydia Martin (Holland Roden) does appear, and she has several precognitive dreams that could be explored in the future.
Teen Wolf: The Movie: Who is Eli Hale’s Mother?
One of the biggest doubts left by the end of Teen Wolf: The Movie is the identity of Eli’s mother since Derek appears as a single father and the mother’s name is never mentioned. In an interview for ‘TVLine’ on January 26, 2023, the creator of the saga, Jeff Davis, spoke about this issue and other mysteries left by the new Paramount + movie. Regarding Eli’s mother, he said that they did not explain this information on purpose, since it is a story that he wants to explore in the future, either in a spin-off focused on Eli or in another movie.
“That remains to be seen, although a part of the fandom would say that he does not have a mother. The decision not to reveal (her identity of her) is that it is a story for another time. I’m a child of single parents and I’m inclined to tell single parent stories because I know that struggle personally.”
However, this has not stopped fans from wanting to solve the mystery and have connected the stories and characters to figure out who Eli Hale’s mother is. Some believe that it could be Braeden, a character who was with Derek in season 4 of the original series. However, as this mercenary is an African-American woman, it is unlikely that she is Eli’s mother. The other person who could be his mother is Jennifer Blake, the assassin known as Darach, who in season three had a turbulent relationship with Derek. Although Jennifer Blake dies in the series, Allison’s return in the movie allows any character to come back from the dead, so maybe that’s how she got back to Derek, and they had a child.
