The Entire Teen Wolf Timeline Explained

It's been a few years since Scott McCall and his pack roamed the streets of Beacon Hills, defeating supervillains, mad scientists, and monsters alike, but that doesn't mean we're finished with the "Teen Wolf" story. Sure, Scott's not exactly a teenager anymore, but he's definitely still a werewolf. As Tyler Posey, Tyler Hoechlin, and the "Teen Wolf" gang reunite for the Paramount+ continuation, it's important to take a look back at where our shapeshifting heroes have been before embracing their next adventure. 

Taking place over the course of three years, MTV's "Teen Wolf" ran for six seasons with a varying number of episodes. While many members of the "Teen Wolf" cast have reunited on camera before — namely, Tyler Hoechlin and Ian Bohen on "Superman & Lois" — "Teen Wolf: The Movie" brings back most of our fan favorites (well, except Dylan O'Brien) together on the screen, including longtime favorite Crystal Reed, who played Allison Argent in the first three seasons before exiting the show.

Nevertheless, long before "The Movie" was a reality, we had only the series, which never failed to challenge our perceptions of werewolves, turning them from movie monsters to heroic supernatural saviors. Join us as we travel back to Beacon Hills and explain the series timeline of "Teen Wolf."

Against Allison's parents' wishes, she and Scott continue to date, though their bliss doesn't last long. Allison's grandfather, Gerard, arrives in Beacon Hill for Kate's funeral and declares war on all werewolves. During this time, Derek puts together his own pack, which includes the abused Isaac Lahey, whose father is murdered by a strange lizard-like creature. As it turns out, Scott's former bully (and lacrosse team captain) Jackson tried to get Derek to turn him into a werewolf, but the bite backfired and turned Jackson into the Kanima instead. As the Kanima, Jackson is first controlled by a fellow student named Mark, who wants revenge on those who wronged him. Gerard kills Mark and takes Jackson for himself.

Meanwhile, after being bitten by Peter months earlier, Allison's best friend Lydia Martin begins having strange visions that strengthen her bond with the supernatural. These visions eventually lead back to the old Hale house, resulting in Peter's resurrection from the dead. At the same time, Allison's mother, Victoria, learns that her daughter is still dating Scott McCall and hunts the boy mercilessly. Hoping to protect Scott, Derek bites Victoria, which causes her to kill herself rather than turn into a monster. This allows Gerard to manipulate a grief-stricken Allison into becoming an uber-violent Hunter. After being exposed, Gerard is driven away by Scott and Derek, who poison him and break the link between him and the Kanima, freeing Jackson from his control.

As it turns out, the reason Derek builds his own wolf pack — excluding Jackson after his move to London — is because of the impending threat of the Alpha Pack making its way to Beacon Hills. This Alpha Pack is made up entirely of, well, Alphas, and refuses to be tamed. Led by the blind Deucalion, the Alphas abduct members of Derek's pack, hoping to make them stronger and untamable. While Scott, Derek, Stiles, and Allison manage to save the wolves, they're forced to capture them once again with Chris Argent's help after they go "rabid." This leads to Derek's pack taking the offensive on the Alphas, which doesn't exactly end well for them. 

As Scott and his friends deal with the Alphas, another evil rears its ugly head in Beacon Hills: the Darach. The Darach begins sacrificing people throughout the town until Lydia exposes her as Derek's girlfriend, the schoolteacher Jennifer Blake. Jennifer is a former ally and emissary to the supernatural who was betrayed by the Alpha Pack and left for dead. Enraged, Jennifer tries to kill Lydia, only to discover that Lydia is actually a banshee, which further explains her inclination towards the supernatural. For her final sacrifice, Jennifer kidnaps Stiles' father, Noah; Scott's mother, Melissa McCall; and Allison's father, Chris Argent, using them to give herself immense power through an energy source called the Nemeton.

Thanks to Scott, Stiles, and Allison's temporary deaths, the trio begins to experience intense hallucinations, even when wide awake. They also wake up an even greater evil to torment Beacon Hills: the Nogitsune. Because of the Nogitsune's threat, masked spirits known as the Oni attack all the supernatural creatures in and around the northern California town, including Isaac, who's nearly killed in the process. As Scott, Stiles, Allison, and Lydia work to uncover the secrets of the Oni, they meet a new student named Kira Yukimura, who just so happened to be a Thunder Kitsune, a Fox spirit with power over electricity. After Allison and Isaac learn more about the Oni from her father, it becomes clear that the Oni aren't there to hurt everyone, but are only looking for the Nogitsune's host.

Unfortunately, that host turns out to be Stiles, who's been tormented by the evil spirit for weeks. Afraid of what he might do, Stiles checks himself into Eichen House — a mental facility equipped to deal with the supernatural — where he befriends and eventually begins a relationship with Malia Tate, a werecoyote whom he and Scott helped rescue earlier that year. Though Stiles tries to stay awake so he can fight the Nogitsune, it isn't enough, as the evil spirit threatens to kill Malia right in front of him. Stiles then relinquishes control of his body to the creature and becomes void of himself.

Still reeling from the death of Allison, the McCall Pack heads to Mexico to rescue Derek from a resurrected Kate Argent, now a supernatural creature called a Nagual. Upon rescuing Derek and returning to California, Scott and his team try to stop Kate from stealing the Hale family vault underneath the high school, but fail as someone new escapes with Peter's money. Not long after, supernatural beings throughout Beacon Hills are hunted and killed by a collective of assassins, including the Mute, Violet, and her boyfriend Garrett. Then Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and newcomer Deputy Jordan Parrish uncover a dead pool hit list of all the supernatural beings in the town, including Parrish himself, who miraculously survives being burned alive.

While trying to save fellow lacrosse teammate Liam Dunbar from a wendigo, Scott is forced to bite Liam, which turns him into a werewolf too — Scott's first Beta. As Scott and Stiles deal with educating Liam on the supernatural, the mysterious Benefactor continues to put out death orders on their friends. Eventually, Lydia discovers that the Benefactor is another banshee named Meredith Walker, who was only executing a plan that a deranged Peter Hale devised years earlier when they were roommates at Eichen House. Stiles and Malia — the latter of whom learns that Peter was her real father — find and shut down the computers at Lydia's grandmother's house responsible for the hit orders and routing the stolen money to the assassins, terminating the Benefactor's contracts.

Heading into their senior year, Scott, Lydia, Kira, and Malia try to focus a bit more on their studies. Stiles, on the other hand, worries that he'll lose all his friends during college and keeps pursuing the supernatural. Eventually, the pack is introduced to Theo Raeken, an old friend of Scott and Stiles who is now a werewolf hoping to join the McCall Pack. A bit distrusting of Theo, the group investigates a series of supernatural incidents after Deaton reveals to them that someone has been scientifically manipulating the supernatural, creating Chimeras immune to supernatural weaknesses like mountain ash. Those responsible? The Dread Doctors.

These Dread Doctors work to make their own rules, not bound by the laws of science or the supernatural. As the McCall Pack do their best to defeat them, they prove to be a bit more powerful than their previous adversaries. Eventually, Kira — who's strangely acting more aggressive — discovers that the Doctors experimented on her at some point. Until she can figure out what happened, she leaves town with her family. Left to deal with this threat alone, Scott and his friends are betrayed by Theo, who explains that he wanted his own pack of Chimeras who answer to no one, including Liam's girlfriend Hayden. Theo, who causes a rift between Scott, Stiles, and the McCall Pack, even kills Scott after an intense battle — that is, before his mother, Melissa, revives him.

Still unable to fully control the Fox spirit within her, Kira opts to return to the desert, where she finds a clan of Skinwalkers who help her better understand her powers. While Scott and Kira don't have a lot of time together, their brief romance was one Scott would remember, as he promises to look after Kira's sword while she's away. Like with Allison before her, Scott hopes he'll see Kira again, though this is sadly the last time they see one another. Kira stays in the desert for the remainder of the series, although her mother Noshiko returns to Beacon Hills. Though, to a Kitsune, a few years is more like a few days...

After the events surrounding the Dread Doctors, Scott finally agrees to turn Liam's girlfriend Hayden, a scientifically created Chimera, into a full-fledged werewolf. The process works and Hayden joins the McCall Pack, learning all the ins and outs of being a true werewolf. After these events, Stiles, now broken up with Malia, decides to pursue a career in law enforcement like his dad, eventually leading to the FBI. Not everything works out for the best, as the Dread Doctors' final experiment, a Nazi Alpha werewolf named Garrett Douglas, escapes his captivity to take over Beacon Hills, posing as a school teacher at Beacon Hills High School.

For years, Stiles Stilinski pines after Lydia Martin, even before they became part of the same friend group and saved Beacon Hills together. Back before Lydia even gives Stiles the time of day, he knows he wanted to be with her. Years prior, when Stiles suffered a panic attack, Lydia kissed him to help him snap out of it. Unfortunately, it takes a few more apocalypses before these two make it official, dating others in the meantime. But once they do, everything changes. Before Stiles is taken by the Wild Hunt, he asks Lydia to remember him, and while she forgets him, she's the first to discover that he's missing and the one most determined to find him.

Once Stiles is returned to reality, Lydia wastes no more time. As the seniors all graduate, Stiles and Lydia opt to do the long-distance thing, with Stiles heading to train with the FBI and hunt down Derek Hale, apparently a fugitive from the law. Meanwhile, Lydia gets into MIT, though she'll remain in Beacon Hills for a little while longer as a new threat creeps into town, turning the townsfolk against our heroes. Rather than drag Stiles back in, Lydia fights to keep him out so he can continue his work with the Bureau, though that doesn't stop him from coming back for her and the rest of his friends later.

Even before the Hunter invasion of their town, Scott and Malia begin having romantic feelings for one another, though they try to suppress them. Having both been single for a while after Kira left Scott and Stiles and Malia broke up, they've been spending more time together on missions. After nearly suffocating to death in Gerard's armory, Scott and Malia finally confess their feelings for one another, sparking a new romantic relationship in the McCall Pack — one that would last longer than either of their respective previous entanglements. After consummating their relationship, they become completely devoted to one another. Malia embraces Scott's hope for the future and value for human life.

In fact, it's because of their love that Malia is able to help Scott heal after he's forced to blind himself to face the Anuk-Ite. Her kiss triggers his healing factor, which restores his sight in a matter of moments, bringing him back to his full True Alpha strength. Two years later, Scott and Malia are still together, fighting the good fight and waging war on Monroe and her growing army as they help save other young shapeshifters and supernatural creatures from annihilation. While they remain an item when the series ends, it's unclear whether they'll be together forever.