Rant under the cut. Mostly aimed at people who've read the Lunar Chronicles. If you haven't, I'd suggest it, it's really good.
Was thinking about how the Lunar Chronicles wasn't biologically accurate to wolves with the Lunar Special Operatives, but yeah it actually was.
The alpha beta omega shit doesn't exist in real life, scientists put random wolves in a cave and assumed that was how they acted in real life. And that botched science is why there's self-proclaimed 'alpha men' and omegaverse, and why werewolf books are so inaccurate. But why is this relevant to LC? Isn't it just another depiction of werewolves untrue to how wolves actually act? No.
In LC, the boys are taken from their homes at a young age, and undergo surgery that gives them wolf characteristics. They're put in 'packs' that have an order stereotypical of bad werewolf books. They fight a lot, and the strongest, who wins the most fights, is the alpha. The one who wins the least is the omega, and is treated the worst.
'But Breadstick,' you may say. 'Isn't all this just showing how inaccurate it is?' No, it's not, and I'm getting to that, so be patient imaginary readers.
These boys don't know each other. Most had never seen each other before being taken by the Lunar government. They were forced into packs that weren't the normal family groups of wolves, and forced to train and compete to be the strongest. All this matches up to the botched science. A bunch of wolves in an enclosed space, who don't know each other, and tensions are high.
There's a reason the packs in LC are portrayed like this. I don't know if it was the intent of the author, but this is true to how wolves would act if forced to coexist with others they don't know, whom they have to compete with.
In conclusion, LC on first glance just has stereotypical biologically inaccurate wolf packs, but upon closer inspection, there's a reason. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.