How do people become werewolves in Big Wolf On Campus?
According to The Manchurian Werewolf, only alpha werewolves can transfer werewolf abilities by a bite, which do not remain permanent in the victim until the stroke of midnight (Greenwich Mean Time? 🙂 on the next full moon. Tommy was chomped on the forearm, so the location of the bite probably doesn’t matter. Merton told Tommy that to transfer his powers, he had to go for the jugular, although maybe there’s some distinction between transferring and transforming…or maybe it was a quirk with that alignment of moons…or maybe it was a setup for a gag. Yeah, that’s probably it. Despite Mr. Dunleavy’s remarks about alpha-males in Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, gender doesn’t seem to play a role. The series hasn’t really focused much on the werewolf mythos, so I wouldn’t spend too much time pondering points like this.
