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Matt Daehler was the hidden central antagonist in Season 2 of Teen Wolf. He controls the Kanima who was popular Jackson Whitemore, to get revenge on everyone who laughed when he almost drowned.

History[]

Matt's previous life is unknown and the only thing that is known about him is that when he was a child studying at Beacon Hills High and he ended up falling into the pool and as he did not known how to swim he drowned and almost died while everyone else laugh because he doesn't known how to swim. The Coach Lahey then saved him and scolded him for it. After that, his parents thought he had asthma and gave him an inhaler. Matt was furious that the older students ridiculed him and the coach. And when he met Kanima and managed to control him. He soon used it to kill everyone involved in the incident, except for a pregnant woman who himself had to kill her. However, as Kanima was creature of justice, Matt soon realized that he would become a Kanima for making him take innocent lives unless he researched something in the bestiary about legends. Then when Scott finds out that he was Kanima's master. Scott soon leaves, and this is soon proven when Matt falls into the pool and is unable to swim and is only saved by Kanima. Matt arrests Scott and the others and demands to know about the cure. However something goes wrong, Matt is forced to retreat outside the police station. He is later killed by Gerard Argent who drowned him to death, and took Kanima for himself.

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