How Famous Fictional Werewolves Deal With Their Moonlit Condition

How He Survived: Oz succumbs to the wolf-like condition after being bitten by his cousin during a play fight. This taciturn teen formulates a plan with the rest of the Scoobies - Buffy, Xander, and Oz's girlfriend, Willow - to avoid making any bad digestive decisions when he transforms. When the moon is full, Oz locks himself in a cage and has his friends watch over him in shifts.

How It Worked Out: It's definitely a struggle. Once Oz enrolls at UC Sunnydale with Willow and Buffy, he meets another werewolf named Veruca, who proves more comfortable with her lycanthropy. He dumps Willow for Veruca, but through a series of unfortunate events, ends up slaying and eating his new werewolf girlfriend.

A distressed Oz flees to Tibet, where he works with monks to control his urges.

How He Survived: Reverend Lester Lowe hides behind his clerical collar to avoid detection. The man of the cloth is in such denial about his true nature that he justifies his lycanthropy as a blessing from God. The transformed Reverend Lowe is convinced he is cleaning up Tanker Hill by devouring the immoral and evil.

How It Worked Out: This werewolf preacher loses it over the course of the movie, especially after a few teens come after him in wolf form and take out one of his eyes with fireworks. One of the teens, Marty, eventually ends Reverend Lowe with a silver bullet.

The lesson: Don't compartmentalize your werewolf status, and don't legitimize carnage with a holy book.

How He Survived: Welshman Lawrence Talbot is bitten by a werewolf while attempting to save a friend. He confines himself to the countryside, distraught over his transformation. Eventually, obsessed with finding a cure, Talbot works with a gypsy woman to track down Dr. Henry Frankenstein.

How It Worked Out: People continue to pile up around Talbot as he pursues an antidote to his affliction. Throughout the course of the original The Wolf Man series, he encounters the Frankenstein monster and Count Dracula. Eventually, a man named Dr. Edelmann gives him the elixir he needs to return to normal human life.

Talbot ends his search for a remedy with quite a bit of blood on his paws. Perhaps he should have figured out how to curb his hunger during his journey.

How He Survived: Bitten out of vengeance by Fenrir Greyback as a four-year-old, wizard Remus Lupin is taught to keep his werewolf status secret from the beginning. Lycanthropes have a negative reputation among the Hogwarts crowd, and Dumbledore takes the sensitive young Lupin under his wing, knowing he will be a powerful asset in the coming conflict against the Dark Lord Voldemort.

How It Worked Out: Lupin grows into an insecure yet smart Gryffindor wizard. Dumbledore asks him to head the Defense Against the Dark Arts program, but he wears his wolfdom like a curse, believing he's a burden to everyone around him. Despite this, he becomes a great mentor to Harry Potter.

Lupin rallies with other members of the Order of the Phoenix against Voldemort, gaining more confidence and comradery. He perishes fighting for the cause during the Second Wizarding War.

How He Survived: Jacob is lucky enough to be born into a Native American shape-shifting family with a long history of werewolf assimilation. The rest of his Quileute tribe, including his father, give him the guidance and advice he needs to adapt when he has his first transformation on his 16th birthday. His feelings for Bella Swan, however, complicate his dedication to his pack.

How It Worked Out: Instead of elongating the intergenerational feud between his clan and the vampire Cullens, after many displays of teenage angst, Jacob finally embraces his inner alpha and starts his own pack. Realizing he still has feelings for Bella, he errs on the side of friendship instead of vengeance. He also imprints on Bella and Edward's daughter Renesmee, which will make family reunions very interesting in the future.

How He Survived: The son of a vampire vixen and Frankenstein's monster, Eddie Munster's tribe is well-versed in all things fiendish and abnormal. This youngster has a pretty regular life, though, minus sleeping in an armoire drawer and calling Dracula grandpa.

How It Worked Out: Eddie, with his widow's peak and Woof-Woof doll, is a normal suburban American kid. He has a temper like other boys his age, but he's also totally comfortable in his own lycanthropic skin. Turns out being born into a family of monsters has its benefits.