Mr. Martin

“	"You want help getting in the shower?" "Maybe if I was four, and still taking bubble baths..." "Right. I'll just wait outside, then... Where it's slightly less sarcastic..."	”
	— Mr. Martin and Lydia in Omega

Mr. Martin is a character introduced in Season 1. He is Lorraine Martin's son, Lydia Martin's father and Natalie Martin's ex-husband. Even though he is Lydia's father, he has only made two appearances in all six seasons of the series.

Throughout Teen Wolf[]

In The Tell, both Mr. and Ms. Martin attended the parent-teacher conference at Beacon Hills High School. As the conference with Lydia's teacher began, Mr. Martin immediately assumed the worst from Lydia's performance in her classes—bad behavior, bad grades, and issues concentrating on her work. However, he was surprised to learn that this was not the case. In fact, the opposite was true—Ms. Ramsey praised Lydia for her high-level intellect, excellent grades, and remarkable leadership skills, to the point where she informed him that she would like to have her IQ tested.

In Omega, Mr. Martin was seen at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital after learning of Lydia's attack during the school dance. He stayed with her at the hospital as she recovered from being mauled by then-Alpha Peter Hale, though he did not know the supernatural truth behind the attack. As Lydia prepared to get up out of her bed, he asked her if she would like some help getting in the shower, only for Lydia to sarcastically retort that she wasn't a child, leading him to decide to wait for her in her hospital room. While she was in the shower, he stepped out of the room and found Lydia's classmate Stiles Stilinski, who had a hopeless crush on Lydia for years, sleeping in the chairs in the lobby. He stopped Lydia's nurse, Melissa McCall, and asked if Stiles had been there all night, frowning when she informed him that he had actually been there all weekend.

Mr. Martin was not seen again for the rest of the series, though he was mentioned in passing when Lydia was learning more about her Banshee nature, which she inherited from his mother, Lorraine Martin, a computer programmer who not only predicted the deaths of her wife, Maddy, and herself, but also predicted the Deadpool that occurred would occur in Beacon Hills in 2012 years before it was put into action.

Etymology[]

Martin is a Czech, English, French, and German surname derived from the Roman name Martinus, which may have been derived from Martis, the genitive case of the name Mars, the Roman god of war. It could also be a shortened form of Saint Martin, the surname of a once-great family in Lothian, Scotland. Variants of the name in other languages include: Mars, Martinus (Ancient Roman); Mattin, Matxin (Basque); Martí (Catalan); Marten, Martijn, Martinus, Tijn (Dutch); Máirtín (Irish); Martino, Tino (Italian); Martynes (Lithuanian); Marcin (Polish); Martim, Martinho (Portuguese); Martín (Spanish); Martyn (Ukrainian, Welsh).