Malia of “Teen Wolf” is as brazen and blunt as they come, but don’t assume that means she’s a chip off the block.
The werecoyote, who only recently learned that her father is the notoriously cold Peter Hale, has been struggling with her new identity since she found it spelled out on an installment of The Benefactor’s supernatural hit list. She’s been keeping her distance from Stiles, too, whom she deduced knew the truth about her family tree. And without the support of her partner-in-crime, Malia has begun to doubt that there’s any good in her.
After meeting with Peter in the Hale family vault and sorting through adoption information with her biological father, Malia officially resigned herself to the idea that she was genetically destined for a life of stoic, cold-blooded killing and disloyal scheming. “Killing doesn’t run in a family,” Stiles tried to assure his on-and-off girlfriend.
“Maybe it does in mine,” Malia fired back.
She may be in a haze, but we, like Stiles, refuse to believe Malia is nothing more than a blue-eyed executioner. Here are five good reasons she’s more than just Peter Hale’s offspring: