History Characters / SurvivorBorneo

* EarthlyBarefootCharacter: Greg Buis goes to tribal council barefoot, which is pretty rare throughout Survivor history. People are barefoot plenty of other times but usually never at tribal.

* AwesomeMcCoolname / Trope2000: His (useless) handcrafted fishing pole, which he dubs "The Superpole 2000."

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He chose the alphabet strategy to avoid hurting people's feelings, seeing himself as a throwaway vote and not wanting to be a swing vote. He never considered that by being so open and predictab,le with his strategy he was designating a target at every tribal council. When Jenna got voted out he finally realized that his one innocent vote ([[{{Irony}} cast because he believed Jenna was not at risk or else he would have deviated from his pattern]]) was responsible and was visibly horrified.

* AwesomeMcCoolname / {{Trope2000}}: His (useless) handcrafted fishing pole, which he dubs "The Superpole 2000."

* LastOfHisKind: Was the last member of Pagong still in the game

* BadassGrandpa: Rudy was the oldest contestant to play ever and an actual grandfather. Rudy was the oldest person to win individual immunity and finished the game in 3rd. Said 3rd place finish only happen because of a brief mistake when he took his hand off the idol.

* MonochromeCasting

* AnnoyingLaugh: To anyone not from Wisconsin.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Was in consideration for the highest profile post-''Survivor'' gig of any of the contestants. She guest hosted ''Live with Regis'' after Kathie Lee Gifford's departure from the show, and won acclaim for both her rapport with Regis Philbin and her interview with then president UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. However, she decided that she did not want to take on the role full-time. Shortly thereafter, soap opera actress Kelly Ripa was chosen as the permanent replacement for Gifford.

* SurvivalOfTheFittest: A defining example of the trope; the first merged tribe was designed to initiate a everyone for themselves style of play and individual immunity.

* SmallCharacterBigImpact: She doesn't do much while she's in the game, but Sonja is WhereItAllBegan with all the scheming to vote someone out of the game for certain reasons.

* TooDumbToLive

* BenevolentBoss : At least he TRIED to be this.
* BusCrash: He died in October 2013, thus not allowing him to compete in All-Star seasons..

* SacrificialLamb

* DividedWeFall

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In the companion book, it's revealed that Sean adopted his alphabet strategy because Pagong's names came up earlier in the alphabet. He notably abandons the strategy once the letters get to Tagi members.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: With B.B

--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCLK6KKMt8 Me and Richard got to be pretty good friends, (but) not in a homosexual way. That's for sure.]]

* LampshadeHanging: When the tree mail indicates that the upcoming Reward Challenge involves a trivia contest, Colleen shouts out "Wait a minute...we're (already) ''on'' a GameShow."

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted, at least in the modern way we think of the word "virgin". A big to-do is made by his tribe of the fact that he's twenty-three and has never had sex.

* {{Badass}}: Richard was considered the first strategic mastermind.
** BadassBeard
** BadassBoast: Before he was even officially ''cast'', here's what he had to say to Creator/MarkBurnett, Jeff Probst, and Les Moonves:

*** Of course, on the very first day of Borneo, he said this:

*** Again, in Episode 9, referring to the last Tribal Council where Sean referred to Richard's fishing as the reason he hasn't been voted out yet:

** BadassGay

* {{Badass}}
** BadassGrandpa: Rudy was the oldest contestant to play ever and an actual grandfather. Rudy was the oldest person to win individual immunity and finished the game in 3rd. Said 3rd place finish only happen because of a brief mistake when he took his hand off the idol.
** RetiredBadass: He was a retired Navy seal.

* {{Badass}}: The first ever person to win an individual immunity challenge.
** BadassBookworm: Attended an Ivy League University, and was one of the best pure survivalists in this or any other season.

* {{Badass}}

* RedheadedHero