The Best TV Werewolves Ranked

Like many of the wolves on this list, Daniel Osbourne's human-wolf nature serves as a unique context for more classic plot elements. In this case, it's coming-of-age issues like sex and identity. Through this Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, we get to explore fascinating hybrid hypotheticals, like whether the human form of a werewolf is responsible for what the wolf form does.

For example, in season four, Daniel (aka Oz) has sex with a female werewolf after transforming during a full moon. In her human form, this werewolf, Veruca, tries to convince Oz that they're wolves who sometimes masquerade as humans, not the other way around, and that they should embrace their affliction (including killing humans while in their "true form") and be together, rather than trying to fight it. Oz's girlfriend, Willow, is devastated when she discovers the affair, and she provokes an attack from Veruca, but Oz defends his girlfriend and kills the female werewolf.

The thing is, Oz was in wolf form when all this transpired. So if Veruca were really right, if he were really "the wolf all the time," he wouldn't have saved the human and killed the beast. While his identity struggles were far from over, Oz made it clear that the only magic that can truly determine who you are isn't a shape-shifting curse but love.