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‘Teen Wolf’ spoiler of the week: Jeff Davis reveals more about werewolf eye colors

By Karen Rought (@Karen_Rought) at 3:15 pm, October 31, 2012

Jeff Davis is keeping up with his promise to share a Teen Wolf season 3 spoiler with us once a week until the premiere episode next year. This time around, he talks about the different eye colors in werewolves.

Just like last week, Davis seems to be sharing just about the bare minimum with us in terms of spoilers. But we suspect that they’ll get juicer the closer we get to the start of season 3.

Today he’s teased us with some information about the different eye colors we’ve seen in our favorite werewolves. Scott’s amber eyes were in contrast to Peter’s Alpha-red eyes, which were different from Derek’s (original) blue eyes.

At the end of season 2, when Jackson turned from the kanima into a werewolf, everyone pretty much assumed his blue eyes meant that he’d had the werewolf trait in him since he was born. We didn’t know much about his parents, after all, and his whole backstory was shrouded in mystery.

Well, it turns out we may have been wrong.

In a flashback episode, presumably the one that will be centering around Derek and possibly a hunter at the same time, we’ll learn more about why different werewolves have different eye colors. But here’s the trick (it is Halloween after all): “it has nothing to do with DNA or being a born werewolf.”

Um, what?

At the end of last season, everyone had assumed that because Derek had blue eyes before he turned into an Alpha, it was because he had been born a werewolf, not bitten. And since we didn’t know anything about Jackson’s real parents, fans assumed that he had blue eyes because he had actually been born a werewolf too.

Now that those theories are out, what guesses do you have as to why Derek and Jackson have blue eyes and Scott and the others have golden eyes?

Thanks goes to MTV’s Remote Control Blog for the spoiler.

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http://twitter.com/BlueHuMac Hugo

I always assumed blue eyes meant that someone was a lone wolf.

Derek used to be one and Jackson… well, even if he had stayed, I can’t imagine him being part of a pack.
MURAD

jackson and derek had blue eyes because they were tough all along but scott was kind of weak at first thats why he has golden eyes
Dex

I think it kind of has somthing to do with if you’ve ever killed someone like on Twlilght how your eyes were red if you drink blood.. *just a guess*
Ana Duarte

I may be wrong, but I really think this is it:

blue=omega

yellow=beta

red=alpha

Derek tells Scott they’re both betas somewhere in the first two episodes of the first season, but he wasn’t being exactly accurate because his alpha had just died and, as there was no one else in his pack, he fitted better into “omega” definition rather than “beta”, right? Scott was a beta back then, he belonged to Peter’s pack, but now he doesn’t. Still, like Derek has said once, he is part of his own pack so he still is a beta (and will eventually be an alpha). Jackson was a loner; it only makes sense he would become an omega. (Right now I really can’t go check the eye color of the omega Gerard kills on episode 1, but as far as I remember they don’t show his eyes… I think.)
- joe
  
  Ehh good theory but probably wrong. We dont know that jackson would have been an omega sure he said he wasnt going to follow derek but he never shifted to prove that. when he finally did it was for like five seconds. And scott was never a beta until late in season 2. From the moment he was bitten he has been an omega…..He never followed peter except for the time in the school and thats because he wasnt strong enough to resist his creator just yet.
  - Maria Garcia
    
    if you go back to I believe was the last episode Derek’s uncle told to Derek about how Derek needed Scott because Scott was fueled/led by heart and Derek was fueled/led by anger. So I think that Derek and Jackson had blue eyes because they were led by anger. While Scott and the others are led more by heart. and of course red eyes are alphas.
- http://www.facebook.com/severine.ritlewski Severine Ritlewski
  
  I rewatCHed tHis episode and sorry to say tHat but you’re wrong tHe Omega Has yellow eyes –’ but I tHink your idea was really good :)
joe

we know red means alpha…but as for beta eye color and omega i think its going to be based off personality. He said it has nothing to do with dna or being born. So the only thing left would be personality or circumstances. Look at the wolves with said eye colors. Scott, Isaac, Erica, and Boyd. All have had their own personal problems in my opinion isaac having it the worst, but still all relatively warm likable people. Then look at Derek and Jackson who quite honestly are a**holes. Both deep down are good people but neither have an issue hurting others to get what they want and both are angry ALL the time. They both are kinda cold. Icy personalities….Icy blue eyes. Just my theory but im gonna stick to it because if it isnt a genetic thing than there are only so many options.
jakkke

I think the eye colour is based on your birth month and the moon of that month, just a guess cant wait to findout
http://twitter.com/weisquared2 wei²

blue = omega. derek was an omega because he lost his family and had no pack; his eye colour changed only because he became an alpha. jackson is an omega even though he was bitten by derek because of how he transitioned from kanima to werewolf (a symbolic rebirth). scott’s always been a beta because he was bitten by an alpha; it had nothing to do with his attitude towards derek or peter when he was bitten.
Risaa Litchi

Maybe it has something to do with having been killed before? Like Jackson was killed twice before becoming the blue-eyed werewolf he is now. Maybe something like that happened to Derek too. (And Peter could have blue eyes too now, if I’m right. But I’m probably not, I’m sure we will all be surprised ^^)
Emrys90

What if its like this: Peter was a Beta before he kill Laura so maybe his eyes were gold before becoming Alpha red. He was looking for someone to strangthen his pack and found Scott and Stiles. He bit Scott and passed on his golden eyes. Since Scott was the first person he has turned maybe he passed down his golden eyes. Same can be said for Jackson. He was the first person Derek turned so maybe he also passed on his Beta color eyes. As for the other three Betas…well i got nothing…so maybe my guess is completely wrong but it is after all a guess
Britt

This is a very off the wall guess, but I think blue eyes mean that that werewolf is the alpha’s second-in-command.
TheDarkTech

I’m not entirely sure how this is going to play out, but by how the show has been going so far, I think that Jackson got blue eyes because he didn’t go straight from human to werewolf. He became the Kanima before he became the werewolf, so maybe that changed his eye color. So I’m thinking that when Derek was a youth, he didn’t handle his entire family getting the concentration camp treatment and became a Kanima himself for awhile. It would explain how Derek knew that the lizard was a Kanima instantly when it didn’t recognise its own reflection. It would also explain why Derek was so determined to kill it, because he knew first hand how dangerous it was.
http://twitter.com/Troop9_Hooper Tubbs™

Blue eyes mean you were born to be an alpha or your avenging somebodies death. Derek avenge his sister death and jackson has a redempition story
HospitaVacuae

I’ve always thought the colors depended by who you were bitten by or
which pack you were born in…you know, we don’t know Peter’s original
eye’s color or if he was a bitten or born-wolf; Scott was bitten by
Alpha-Peter, but Jakson was bitten by Alpha-Derek, so Alpha-Peter’s
Betas’ll become golden-eyed(…well, if he had more than one) and
Alpha-Derek’s Betas’ll become bright-blue-eyed.
This was always my
thought, I don’t know if I’m 100% right, but I think it makes sense: It
doesn’t have anything to do with born-wolfs or not-born-wolfs, and when
you bring out your wolfed-out eyes during werewolf affairs, the others
wolfs around you will immediatly know which pack you are from and/or who
you were bitten by and so recognise you.
(please, forgive my poor english, it’s not my first tounge)
-HospitaVacuae
http://www.facebook.com/Flaimdra Flaimdra Firestorm

i cant help it but i kind of always thaught that blue eyes mean you have the potential to become an alpha
like if you have blue eyes the possibility of you becomming a real alpha is greater than when you have golden eyes
Abhishek Belhekar

We dont know any thing about Jacksons past and parentsso we can assume that he might be born an werewolf and his powers might be supressed to protect from cruel hunters like Gerrard so at the bite from Alpha (Derek) he didnt into a werewolf but instead a Kanima
Abhishek Belhekar

We dont know any thing about Jacksons past and parents so we can assume that he might be born an werewolf and his powers might be supressed to protect from cruel hunters like Gerrard so at the bite from Alpha (Derek) he didnt into a werewolf but instead a Kanima so Jackson might born a werewolf has blue eyes as that of Derek
teenwolffan

i think it depends on your eye color until u turn in to the alpha then theyll just become red
Thomas

Or Jackson Became a blue eyed werewolf cause in season 2 last eposoide he was killed by both of the alphas that put there claws in the back of his neck… so he was killed and since derek bit him he was born into a werewolf!?
amity

maybe it has something to do with what the anchor of the werewolf is or will be – scott’s anchor is allison, and isaac’s is his father. they both have yellow eyes. derek’s eye colour is blue and his anchor is anger. and red could just be to show that you’re an alpha.

yellow = your anchor is/ will be a person
blue = your anchor is/ will be an emotion
red = alpha

peter said that PEOPLE can bring kanima’s to remember who they really are, that it was because of their bonds with each other. so though lydia was jackson’s ‘anchor’ when he was a kanima, it was technically because he loves her that she could bring him back. so his eyes aren’t yellow because it’s love that’s his anchor, more specifically his love for lydia, but not lydia herself.

BUT THAT IS MY (fail of a) THEORY.
Casey

Wolf pups have blue eyes until they become older (mature) and then they turn brown. I would say that while werewolf wise Derek was more mature than Scott, Scott had more control emotionally and more relationship maturity, something that Jackson also lacks. However, Erica was kind of a loner and so was Issac so this theory also fails along with the omega=blue, alpha=red, beta=amber/brown theory that I originally thought along with everyone else.

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