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!!This show provides examples of:

* AbhorrentAdmirer:
** Katie and Sadie to Justin in ''Island'', Trent in ''Action'', and Alejandro in ''World Tour''.
** Sierra to Cody.
** [[spoiler:Ezekiel]] to Anna Maria, in looks if not personality.
* AbnormalAmmo: Chris' seagull-firing [[BuffySpeak gun-bazooka-thingy]] in "Beach Blanket Bogus".
** These same guns return two seasons later in "Backstabbers, Ahoy!", except the seagulls [[ItMakesSenseInContext are part rattlesnake now.]]
** Chef Hatchet's "spaghetti cannon" in "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary".
* AbortedArc:
** According to WordOfGod, Justin's role as a villain in season two.
** Alejandro is basically an {{Expy}} of Justin with side order of MagnificentBastard like Heather. He's essentially a rectification of the failure of Justin and Courtney in ''Action''.
** In ''"Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island"'', Courtney found out [[spoiler: that the island isn't actually an island.]] But this is never mentioned again after she found out. It seemed like it was going to lead up to something, but it wound up just being a bizarre random fact.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Used in the World Tour episode where they go to New York. They ride speed boats through it.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Geoff, after he becomes a co-host of the Aftermaths in the second season, though Bridgette would break him of it.
* {{Acrofatic}}:
** Owen, Leshawna, Beth and B.
** Although Leshawna and Owen avert this by being unable to run long distances and in ''Total Drama Action'' Leshawna's size gives her problems during a challenge where contestants had to avoid lasers beams.
** Averted again with Staci and Sam.
* ActionGirl: All the girls have their moments, but Courtney, Gwen and Sierra are the most prominent.
* AdobeFlash
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Hilariously used in ''"Can't Help Falling In Louvre"'' when Noah is able to get rid of Sasquatchanakwa by using the 'invisible ball' trick, Noah even says he uses that on his dog back home all the time.
** And then it works on [[CloudCuckoolander Izzy]].
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Courtney and Gwen.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Quite often; see LoveDodecahedron below.
* AllThereInTheManual: The character biographies, audition videos, and online interviews reveal more information about the campers than the show ever will.
** Some of the bios include {{Bland Name Product}}s of real bands, movies or people.
* AllWomenAreLustful: The female characters are more prone to sexual behavior than the boys.
* TheAllegedCar: Some vehicles featured in the show are low budget, poorly designed, broken down, and not well maintained.
** The Boat of Losers, though it's [[CoolCar in better condition]] than most of the other vehicles regularly featured on the show.
** The Lame-o-sine, complete with a set of bull horns on the hood.
** The single-prop plane from ''Island'' and the Total Drama Jumbo Jet are both certainly less than airworthy. The First Class section and the "reserved for hosts only" rooms are the inside parts of the latter in better condition than the other rooms in the plane.
** The contestant-built bikes in "That's Off the Chain" deserve a nod, being built from salvaged bike parts and other materials. Some held together, others fell apart, and some were [[StuffBlowingUp exploded]].
** The go-karts in "Grand Chef Auto" played with this. Some [[CoolCar looked a bit beat-up but worked just fine]], but out of the six, Scott couldn't drive at all due to missing front wheels, and at Jo could, but only with a lot of difficulty due to the car constantly stopping.
** In "Up Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon", the remaining contestants had to build flying machines out of junkyard scrap. While the machines were functional, they were all destroyed by the end of the episode.
* AlmostKiss [=/=] MomentKiller: Happens often.
** Gwen and Trent in "Search and Do Not Destroy"
** Geoff and Bridgette in "Hide and Be Sneaky", the moment is spoiled when Geoff gets a whiff of Bridgette's skunk smell.
** Justin and Courtney in "The Princess Pride", the moment is spoiled when Chris announces that Justin has to fight Courtney for immunity.
** Mike and Zoey in "Grand Chef Auto", the moment is spoiled when [[spoiler:Mike]] gets catapulted off the island.
* AlphaBitch: Heather and Courtney. Heather acts more the typìcal QueenBee whereas Courtney acts more like the AcademicAlphaBitch.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Several characters, though many have WordOfGod explanations: Noah is [[BollywoodNerd Indian]], Justin is Polynesian, and Courtney is Hispanic.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Noah, with emphasis on "ambiguous". Initially, in ''Island,'' we get the obvious mannerisms and the HoYay with [[CasanovaWannabe Cody]], but then it gets subverted during ''World Tour'' where it's implied that he may have a crush on [[GranolaGirl Bridgette]]. And ''then'' we get HoYay with [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Alejandro]], followed by ShipTease with [[GenkiGirl Izzy]]. At this point, [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage the fans really have no freakin' clue]] although some theorize that he simply [[BiTheWay goes both ways]].
* AmusingInjuries: To the point where nearly every character has had at least one, and some of the [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] have had more than a few. Heather and Duncan are the most prominent examples, and the unofficial wiki also has a page [[http://totaldramaisland.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Injuries listing all of the injuries]] that happened during the course of the series.
* AnimalsHateHim: Owen, Heather and Chris to a certain extent. DJ is a more prominent example, especially during ''World Tour''. Duncan's the most prominent example. He's been bitten by everything from raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, anything that would give him rabies in the real world. Scott in season 4 may also count, with the legged shark if no other creature.
* ArchEnemy: Heather is this to several campers, especially Gwen and Leshawna. Also, season three newcomer Alejandro has the official title of "The Arch Villain."
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Several people actually ''are'' very strong or good at the game, yet clearly have ''no'' interests of playing a social game. Lightning and Jo can be like this.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** In the "Phobia Factor" episode, DJ had to face his fear of snakes by picking up the "smallest snake ever." After a dramatic pause, DJ freaks out because the snake blinked. Snakes don't have eyelids.
*** Snakes shouldn't blink. [[InvokedTrope That's why it's creepy.]]
* ArtShift: Occurs in the songs ''What's Not to Love?'', ''Oh, My Izzy Mix'', and in the finale song. The first turning into all simple colors so they would look like a Broadway musical poster, and the second into a crayon-drawn segment in Owen's head. In the finale song the two finalists and their helpers once again revert to simple colors: blue for one finalist, red for the other. The simple crayon-drawn style happens whenever Owen has a thought sequence.
* AscendedFangirl: Sierra in ''World Tour'' and Zoey in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* AssPull: Lots of these from Chris in-universe.
* AttentionWhore: Being the host, Chris is this in spades. However, since ''Total Drama'' is a parody of reality shows, every contestant is one in ''some'' capacity, especially during "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special". Among the contestants, major examples include:.
** Heather, for being a [[AlphaBitch queen bee]].
** Izzy, for her [[AxCrazy all-round craziness]].
** Courtney, for being a [[GoGetterGirl over-achieving goody-goody]].
** Justin, for his [[DistractedByTheSexy entrancing good looks]].
** Ezekiel, since he was a sheltered, [[HomeschooledKids home-schooled kid]].
** Blaineley, for her [[SmallNameBigEgo massive ego]].
** Staci, for her [[BadLiar pathological lying]].
** Dakota, for her aspirations to be an [[AmericanDream award-winning film actress, fashion model, and pop music star]].
* AutoTune:
** Used in the theme song on the words "I want to live close to the sun/Well, pack your bags 'cause I've already won."
** Ezekiel in "Come Fly With Us."
** Used more and more prominently with Alejandro throughout Season 3 [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic as he gets cockier and more confident of winning]].
** Harold when he raps about Cody in "Who You Gonna Root For?".
* AwardBaitSong: "I'm Sorry."
* AwardSnub: An in-universe example occurs during the ''Action'' special [[spoiler: when the characters don't win the Gemmie award for "Best Reality Ensemble"]]. However, this could have just been a part of [[spoiler: Chris' BatmanGambit to get them on season three. A Gemmie is nice but another season is better]].
* BackForTheFinale: The first three seasons bring back all of the contestants that competed to watch the final two compete. ''Revenge of the Island'' only showed those from that season returning, although there were cameos throughout the season of "classic" competitors.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: In season three, [[spoiler: Duncan wasted no time trying to get rid of Courtney after she found out about the kiss.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: Duncan for ''Total Drama Action''. Depending on where you live, the ''World Tour'' finale either has Heather (former antagonist) or Alejandro (worse antagonist) winning in some countries.
* BalloonBelly: Several, most of them are from girls:
** Gwen and Heather during "The Big Sleep"
** Leshawna in "Full Metal Drama"
** Harold, and Heather again, in the TDA Special.
** Lindsay in "The Am-AH-Zon Race.
** [[spoiler: Blaineley in "Aftermath Aftermayhem"]].
* BandageMummy: At different points, Cody, Trent, Justin, and [[spoiler: Blaineley]].
* BareYourMidriff: Nearly all the girls except Leshawna, Beth, Eva, Jo, Dawn, and Staci.
** While Courtney and Dakota's regular outfits don't show midriff, Courtney's swimsuit and sleepwear does reveal it, and Dakota shows it on her sleepwear and intern outfit [[spoiler:as well as when she mutates]].
* BatmanGambit: Heather and Alejandro are quite fond of these. In a less-evil sense, Jo is also fond of these.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** You know, in retrospect, maybe the whole "put-Ezekiel-in-another-season" thing ''wasn't'' a very good idea after all.
** The "give-Cody-a-love-interest-that-is-just-like-his-fangirls" thing didn't really work out as planned either.
** Die hard Duncan/Courtney fans were upset that Duncan left on the first episode of ''World Tour'', hoping he would come back. He does, and [[ShipSinking THEN. . . .]]
** After receiving a large bribe from Dakota's dad, Chris lets her back on the show...as an intern.
* TheBechdelTest: Passes magnificently.
* BelligerentSexualTension:
** Courtney and Duncan in the first season.
** Heather and Alejandro in the third.
* BetaCouple: Geoff and Bridgette, compared to everyone else.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lindsay, Beth and Owen. The latter is a 296 pound GentleGiant, but when angered, you're in for it! In ''Revenge of the Island'', [[spoiler:Zoey]] is this trope personified.
* BigBad: WordOfGod says that Chris [=McLean=] will always be the true villain of the series.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: A giant cockroach in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** As well as a giant spider [[spoiler:though this turned out to be just Izzy in disguise]].
* BigEater: Owen. So big that in the second season he eats an entire feast in minutes without realizing that it's all prop food.
-->'''Duncan''': The dude ate foamcore and wax! Full props for that, man.
-->'''Leshawna''': You know what [Owen] has? Guts. Guts filled with foamcore and rubber, but guts just the same.
-->'''Owen''': ''(in the following episode)'' No thanks, Chef. I'll just have the prunes.
-->''[Collective gasp from everyone else in the room]''
* BigNo:
** Several. Heather [[spoiler: when she lost season one]], Lindsay when Courtney suggested voting off Tyler in "Not So Happy Campers Part 2" and again in "Broadway, Baby" when she learned she wouldn't be able to shop in New York, and DJ [[spoiler: when he WON the challenge in "Can't Help Falling In Louvre"]] and Alejandro [[spoiler: or Darth Alejandro, when he learns that the money was destroyed]].
** Also, Geoff when he found out he wouldn't be competing in Total Drama World Tour, and Heather [[spoiler: in the Canadian ending for season three when she threw Alejandro's dummy into the volcano by mistake and gave him the win]].
* BilingualBonus:
** Alejandro's last name, ''Burromuerto,'' is Spanish for ''dead donkey.'' In the ''Action'' special, after Beth damages the Mona Lisa, a security guard says, "Omelette du fromage?", which means ''cheese omelette'' in French.
** As a matter of fact, that's probably a reference to WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory. There is a whole episode dedicated to "Omelette du fromage".
** And ''cheese omelette'' would be ''omelette au fromage''. The fact that the phrase is mistranslated in the same way as in WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory is unlikely to be coincidental.
** The names of ''both'' new contestants are Spanish names. Alejandro means "Alexander" and "Sierra" means "mountain range".
* BirdsOfAFeather: Gwen and Duncan.
* BiTheWay: Owen makes constant gay remarks, despite having a romantic interest with Izzy.
--> '''Justin''': I'm back to being just another pretty face.
--> '''Katie''': And pecs.
--> '''Sadie''': And abs.
--> '''Owen''': And butt.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: Happens to all the contestants during the Africa episode of ''Total Drama World Tour'' as a result of the tranquilizer balls they are using in an attempt to subdue Zeke. And then they have to sing about it.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: During ''Island.''
* BlackAndGrayMorality: During ''Action'' and ''World Tour.''
* BlackBestFriend: DJ to Duncan, Geoff, and Tyler; Leshawna to Bridgette and Gwen
* BlofeldPloy: "The Drop of Shame will be taken by... ''This intern!''"
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine:
** [[TheDitz Tyler]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Noah]], respectively.
** [[DumbBlonde Lindsay]] and [[OnlySaneMan Gwen]] had a few moments like this in ''Island''.
* BootCampEpisode: ''Basic Straining''
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Creator/CartoonNetwork ''loaded'' the Season One episodes with censors for words like "crap", "suck", "freak", and even ''censor bleeps''. Even worse, CN got to the point where TheyJustDidntCare, and began using a word that was censored for "lame-o" early on, "stupid", as a censor for "fricking." Geez. The removal of most of these censors may have been one of the few good things that ''Action'' contained.
* BoxingKangaroo: In both the Australia episode and the Aftermath, whether it's the same kangaroo is debatable, but for now it's successfully defeated Duncan, Leshawna and Harold.
* BracesOfOrthadonticOverkill: Beth. She gets them off before the second season.
* BrainlessBeauty: Lindsay and Dakota. Anna Maria, too.
* BreakTheCutie: Being a SadistShow, it happens regularly, especially as the series gets more cynical. Cody, Lindsay, Bridgette, Dawn, Dakota, and Zoey fall victim to it.
* BreakTheHaughty: As much as the show likes to break its innocent characters, it ''loves'' to break its [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] as well, usually in an epic fashion towards the conclusion of the season.
** Just ''keeps'' happening to Heather.
** Justin and Courtney in ''Action''.
** Alejandro and Blaineley in ''World Tour''.
** Scott in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** Even [[BigBad Chris]] is not immune. He gets this when [[spoiler: Sierra accidentally destroys the plane.]] The final moments of ''Revenge of the Island'' also does this.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: This is how the prize money is delivered since "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island". However, sometimes the case either gets stolen by a rouge former contestant [[spoiler:(Ezekiel in TDWT and Heather in TDRI)]] or comically destroyed [[spoiler:whether it's eaten by a shark or burned in a volcano]].
* BridalCarry:
** In "Aww, Drumheller" when Alejandro pulls [[spoiler:Heather]] from beneath a rock. She immediately asks to be put down, but [[ShipTease her tone says otherwise]].
** Invoked during the wedding-themed Niagara Falls episode. The characters are expected to do this as part of a challenge, though not all couples play it straight: Cody and Sierra [[InvertedTrope invert]] it while Duncan carries Courtney over his shoulder.
* BuriedAlive: Gwen's phobia. Also invokes a bit of FridgeHorror if one considers what would have happened if Trent hadn't remembered to dig her up exactly 59 minutes later.
* BurpingContest: In the episode where the teams change to Guys vs. Girls, the guys' team bonds over one of these.
* ButThouMust: In the alternate version of ''Island'' where [[spoiler:Gwen]] wins, the follow-up in the special was that the game couldn't be stopped and the $100,000 taken; all 22 campers were forced to search for the million-dollar case. This isn't the case in the "canon" version where [[spoiler:Owen]] wins, however.
* ButtMonkey:
** All the campers could be considered Butt Monkeys since they usually have at least one moment of extreme torment physically, emotionally and/or mentally. But Ezekiel, Tyler, Cody, Owen, Duncan, Trent, Harold, DJ, and Brick are the poster boys of this and Courtney and Heather between the girls.
** And then we have the poor interns. So far they've been: tossed to crocodiles, thrown off cliffs, shoved off planes, eaten alive by scarabs, used as footstools for Chris and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking chased around a studio by Beth]].
* CallBack: In ''One Million Bucks, B.C.,'' Chris uses the top half of Mr. Coconut for a cup while ending the episode.
** Gwen still hasn't gotten over her phobia of being buried alive as of "The Treasure Island of Dr. [=McLean=]".
* CampGay: The escaped serial killer. No, really.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Most of the characterizations and plot points of ''[[SophomoreSlump Action]]'' are not referenced in ''World Tour''.
** However. The ''FIRST WORDS'' that Chris says at the start of Revenge acknowledges that Action did take place.
* [[CantGetInTroubleForNuthin Can't Get Eliminated for Nuthin']]: DJ tries really hard to get kicked off in the third season, but it never seems to work for him. [[spoiler: And of course, the moment he does try winning again, Alejandro gets him eliminated.]]
* CanadaEh:
** Ezekiel, whose accent is more a parody of what Americans think Canadians all sound like. Seeing as the show is produced in Canada and every voice actor is Canadian, it's otherwise averted.
** Izzy also references being wanted by the RCMP, and Owen wears a lawyer-friendly version of the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Additionally, Katie and Sadie mention being from Toronto.
* CasanovaWannabe: Cody, and to a lesser extent, Harold.
* CastOfSnowflakes
* TheCastShowoff:
** "The Princess Pride", where Courtney got to sing in order to show off voice actress/jazz singer {{Emilie-Claire Barlow}}'s pipes.
** Though Barlow is the most prominent example, WordOfGod says the producers were glad that everyone in the cast had good singing voices since it made the Musical numbers much better.
* CensoredTitle: Averted with ''The Sucky Outdoors.''
* CerebusSyndrome: Kicks in during the second half of ''World Tour''.
* ChainedHeat: Used for one series of challenges.
* CharacterShilling: For Owen.
* ChastityCouple:
** Gwen and Trent have only shared one on-screen kiss during their relationship.
** Same goes for Harold and Leshawna.
* ChekhovsBoomerang:
** Ezekiel gets voted off first in both ''Island'' and ''World Tour''. Similarly, Lindsay gets voted off on a technicality in both ''Island''.(She was, technically, the last to cross the finish line: Everyone else's bike crashed, or in the case of Izzy and Leshawna, they didn't even race.) and ''World Tour'' (Since she and DJ were the last two Team Victory members and DJ ''wanted'' to go home, this should be easy, no? No, they instead had a fashion show, and DJ somehow won.)
** Bridgette was also the first girl eliminated from the show, and Gwen the first member eliminated from her team, in both ''Action'' and ''World Tour''.
** Noah was technically the first contestant voted off of his team in both ''Island'' and ''World Tour,'' although Izzy was ejected from the game two episodes earlier in the latter season.
** Heather made it to the Final Three in both ''Island'' and ''World Tour''.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Played with. Heather got a meat grinder as a reward, but threw it out of the plane despite Courtney's protests. Come next episode, it could have been very useful. Heather was called out for not foreseeing this.
** The candy, on the other hand, was played straight several episodes later.
* ChekhovsVolcano: You know the one.
* ChewToy: [[spoiler: Blaineley]] becomes one of these both figuratively and literally, in ''World Tour''.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Curse of the Mummified Dog only takes effect when DJ believes he's under it.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: "Not So Happy Campers" in ''Island'' and "Walk Like an Egyptian" in ''World Tour''.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Courtney, Sierra and Heather. Bridgette in the ''Action'' special.
* ClipShow: Subverted in Beach Blanket Bogus, where the group makes a return to Camp Wawanakwa.
--> '''Chris:''' If you need to take a moment to reminisce about the great times you had here...
--> ''[Everyone else laughs]''
--> '''Chris:''' Fine. We'll skip the good memories montage.
* TheCheerleader: Lindsay and (according to her [[AllThereInTheManual bio]]) Heather.
* CloudCuckooLander: Izzy, Owen, Lindsay, and Sierra.
* ClusterBleepBomb:
** [[BewareTheNiceOnes Lindsay and, a few episodes later, Owen]] to Heather. In the United States, however, every SoundEffectBleep was [[{{Bowdlerization}} redubbed]] with insults that could be said on a kids' show.
** In a parody of the ChristianBale incident from ''{{Terminator}} Salvation'', Izzy flipping out at her movie crew [[spoiler:for no apparent reason]] in the ''Action'' special. It's bleeped out in the original Canadian airing, but was one of only a handful of times Cartoon Network censored dialogue in ''Total Drama Action'' when the bleeps were replaced, mostly by words like "stinking."
---> '''Izzy''': ''(yelling)'' Or I'll kick your ''(bleeping)'' butt! I want you all off this ''(bleeping)'' set! No, don't be ''(bleeping)'' "sorry"! Think for a second! No, no, will not take five, ''(bleep)''! You call yourself a director of photography?! Why were you walking right through the set?! '''WHY''' were you walking ''right through the (bleeping) set''?!! ''(the Director runs off crying [[spoiler:with Izzy laughing]])'' [[spoiler:''(in a more calm voice)'' Okay, I was just kidding. Guys? I just went ballistic there for no good reason.]] What?
* CompressedVice: Trent develops an OCD level obsession with both the number 9 (the exact same pieces of eggs he had before Duncan ruined it), and Gwen in ''Total Drama Action'' after Duncan takes Gwen away from Trent earlier in the season.
* ConspicuousCG: The CombiningMecha: style raccoon composite. [[RuleOfCool You heard me]].
* ContestWinnerCameo: [[DudeNotFunny He got fed to the sharks]].
* ContinuityNod:
** The first episode of ''World Tour'' has Owen terrified of getting on the Jet, a reference to his fear of heights in season one.
** Chris asks Lindsay if she understands the voting process this time around, referencing her [[spoiler: voting herself out accidentally last season.]]
** In ''"Haute Camp-ture"'' Noah mentions that he owns a golden Labrador, two seasons later, in, ''"Can't Help Falling In Louvre"'' Noah uses a quick distraction tactic to get rid of Sasquatchanakwa, explaining that the trick always worked on his dog back home.
** In "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", Justin mentions that despite being a Drama Brother, he can't play any instruments. For every Drama Brothers song from then on, Justin is only seen shaking a tambourine to the beat of the song.
** In ''Grand Chef Auto'', Chris mentions that Duncan still owes him camera time for skipping out on ''World Tour''.
** In ''Up, Up, and Away'', Heather states she "was robbed" of her million dollars. This is referencing the previous season [[ShaggyDogStory where she won but still lost the money in a volcano]].
* ConvectionSchmonvection: A race to the top of an active volcano, over a river of lava.
* CoveredInKisses: Cody by Sierra.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe, several of Chris' location/challenge descriptions in ''World Tour''. The contestants have corrected him on multiple occasions, but they weren't perfect themselves— Courtney was right about 8,000,000 B.C. being way too early for the building of the Great Wall, but dinosaurs ''were'' extinct by then...
* CrocodileTears:
** Heather used them to [[WoundedGazelleGambit deceive]] Trent in ''Island'', Alejandro in ''World Tour'' and Lightning in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** Scott uses them to deceive Zoey.
** Dakota also gives them as a benign example, namely to [[AttentionWhore bring attention to herself]].
* {{Crossdresser}}: Chef Hatchet in a few of the "Gilded Chris" ceremonies, though not by choice. It's happened a few times since, under varying degrees of convincing.
* CrossdressingVoices: Clé Bennett as DJ's mama
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
** Harold.
** Lindsay when she realizes the truth about Heather.
** Cody can qualify as this too in ''Dodgebrawl.''
* CryingWolf: After Izzy dresses as a bear to scare the others, the [[EverythingsWorseWithBears real bear]] shows up. Also, the real escaped psycho killer.
* CurbStompBattle:
** In ''Action'', the Screaming Gaffers won eight challenges to the Killer Grips three. Chris lampshades the lopsided nature of the contest:
-->'''Chris:''' (''SarcasmMode'') Stay tuned to find out who will win this week. Could it be...the ''Grips''?
-->'''Owen:''' Hey! We heard that!
-->'''Beth:''' It could still happen! We're not losers! (''accidentally spits out her retainer'')
** The EpicFail that is Team Victory in ''World Tour''. Every single member is gone by the season's halfway point.
** The Toxic Rats vs. the Mutant Maggots in ''Revenge'' as well, though this is less because the Rats are a weak team and more because Scott keeps [[TeamKiller screwing them over from within.]]
** In ''Hook, Line, and Screamer:'' Gwen vs. the Psycho Killer. [[ActionGirl Gwen]] wins.
** Not the show per se, but in the Brazilian online vote to determine the winner of Action, [[spoiler: Beth won by 82%!]]
* CurseCutShort:
-->'''Courtney:''' Look, I am a very experienced swimmer. I was a synchro captain. I coach minnows! I am a CIT!
-->'''Heather:''' More like a B-I-T-C-
-->'''Gwen:''' Guys, let's get going.
** Same thing occurs to Heather when the horn, from the Guys' victory in the Brunch episode, concealed her swearing.
* CursedWithAwesome: DJ wants to go home because he keeps killing/hurting animals (accidentally), but [[SpringtimeForHitler he can't lose!]] [[spoiler: And right when he decides he wants to stay in the game, he loses.]]
* CuteBruiser: Courtney and Sierra.
* CuteButCacophonic: The KillerRabbit guarding Bridgette's key in ''Search and Do Not Destroy,'' Season 1.
* CuteIsEvil: Duncan ''really'' doesn't like Celine Dion music store standees.
* CuteMachines: The robot assistant in B's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0UQF9U_zBk audition tape.]]
* TheDanza: Chris is voiced by Christian Potenza.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While as not as bad as the other examples on that page, ''Revenge of the Island'' is this when compared to the first season; due to radioactive waste, the island is now filled with assorted mutants and monsters, not to mention some of the new contestants' personalities seem a lot "darker" than the previous ones' (take for example Mike's multiple personality disorder, Staci's constant lying to get [[AttentionWhore attention]], Scott being a bigger ManipulativeBastard than Alejandro and Heather combined, [[spoiler:Dakota being turned into a monster thanks to radiation]], ...).
** The 3rd season also becomes this after [[spoiler:Ezekiel becomes a zombie from an unknown cause about halfway through the season. Is it not a coincidence that this was after everyone on Team Victory(the team he was on) was eliminated?]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Chris, Gwen, Duncan, Leshawna, and especially Noah.
* DeathGlare:
** Being easily aggravated or disgusted by almost anything or anyone, Heather often gives this look.
** Chef Hatchet is nearly locked into this look.
** Dawn gives one to Scott [[spoiler:prior to her elimination in "Backstabbers Ahoy"]].
* DefeatByModesty: Heather manages to do this to ''herself''.
* {{Defictionalization}}: [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090624204016/totaldramaisland/images/4/43/Gc.jpg A real Gilded Chris Award.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen:
** Gwen visibly learns to care more for many of her fellow campers as the show goes on, though she'd never admit it.
** Happens ''somewhat'' with Heather in Total Drama Action. Though most people prefer to think of it as VillainDecay.
** It's more legit in season 3, where she does show that she has a heart at times.
* DependingOnTheWriter: ''Sooo'' much. Depending on the episode and[=/=]or the circumstances, you get a lot of moments where the nice, goodwilled characters suddenly belt out snarky comments and[=/=]or act like [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] or the local {{Badass}} and[=/=]or {{Jerkass}} suddenly says something polite. It gets even worse when it comes to friendships and[=/=]or relationships, where two contestants will be laughing and hugging one day, and trying to slit each others throats the next.
* DevelopmentGag: Several character designs from ''Camp TV'', ''Total Drama's'' prototype series, are often used as minor characters in the finished product.
** The early designs of DJ, Cody, Tyler, and Katie are quite often seen as interns.
** Sadie's early design appears in a few episodes of ''Action''.
** One of Leshawna's early designs was retooled as her cousin Leshaniqua in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos".
** B in ''Revenge of the Island'' resembles DJ's early design.
* DevilInPlainSight: Alejandro in ''World Tour'' and Scott in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Combined with HoYay in Owen's case. In the second episode:
-->'''Geoff:''' Okay, guys, let's give him a break. I mean, at least he doesn't think that guys are smarter than girls.
-->'''[[StrawMisogynist Ezekiel]]:''' But they are!
* DisneyAcidSequence: Several of the songs from ''World Tour,'' most prominently ''What's Not To Love?''
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: After being thrown in a very hot lava flow, Ezekiel managed to survive. Ditto with Alejandro.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** When Noah made fun of Chris' age, Chris responded by throwing him off a cliff.
** Leshawna beating up Heather and knocking a tooth out for ''just saying the truth''.
* DissonantSerenity: Mostly the glee that [[BigBad Chris]] takes in giving the contestants life-threatening challenges (seriously, ''a thousand foot jump followed by four days with no sleep?''). Some other instances are also played with remarkable casualness: Cody being mauled by a bear, Owen being fifty thousand dollars in the hole, Lindsay and Beth sitting in a French prison for months, and DJ and his momma losing everything in the special. Then again, it is a kids' show.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The usual form of this trope is more often than not inverted with the girls getting distracted by boys. Justin in ''Island'' and ''Action'' and Alejandro in ''World Tour'' are the main perpetrators of these. The only male-on-female instance is in ''Island'' when Harold lost focus after Heather lost her top.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Celebrity Manhunt Special, Courtney and Duncan are fighting for the custody of a pet raccoon.
* DontTryThisAtHome: "This episode of Total Drama contains scenes of extreme stunts performed by ANIMATED TEENS. Do NOT try any of what you see here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up."
* DoubleEntendre:
** Duncan gets one in ''Island'' during the cabin selection:
-->"I'd like to ''bunk'' under her."
** Noah during the sausage building challenge in "Slap Slap Revolution"
--> "[[HoYay Haha, Cody's got a tiny sausage]]!"
* DoubleKnockout: [[{{Determinator}} Courtney and Sierra]] do this to each other in ''Greece's Pieces'', as do DJ and Gwen in ''Dodgebrawl''.
* DoubleStandard: Happens in-universe on several occasions, such as when Gwen rejected Cody's advances the other contestants didn't really care, but many of the females seem to support Sierra/Cody and feel sorry for her when Cody tries to vote her out in the Amazon episode.
* DownerEnding:
** A few individual episodes like "Search and Do Not Destroy", "3:10 to Crazytown". Also the [[spoiler: finale of ''World Tour''. Heather sacrifices possible love with Alejandro to win the game, only to lose the million dollars ''seconds'' after winning it. She (and the rest of the cast) is last seen desperately swimming away from flaming rocks spewed by an exploding volcano, with one huge boulder about to hit her before the "camera" cuts away.]]
** Few people tend to notice this, but it is also a DownerEnding for [[spoiler: Alejandro. THE ONE TIME he decides to be good and chooses love over money, he gets betrayed, and then disfigured. If he had continued being the jerk-ass he was during the whole season, he would have won without a problem]].
* TheDragon: Chef to Chris in many ways.
* {{Dramedy}}: Hence the title.
* DropTheCow: The actual producers of the show do this.
-->''[A coconut falls on Courtney]''
-->'''Courtney''': A coconut? We're in ''Muskoka'', people! If you want to drop something on my head, at least make it geographically correct!
-->''[Several pounds of snow, followed by a toboggan, followed by an Eskimo, fall on Courtney.]''
* DumbBlonde: Lindsay is a classic DumbBlonde (although her hair is dyed), Owen and Geoff are also fair haired and not overly endowed with brains. [[HairOfGold Bridgette]] was an early exception, but it was also averted with [[BlondesAreEvil Blaineley]]. Within the new cast, Dakota plays it straight while Dawn and Jo are aversions.
* EasyComeEasyGo:
** Most of the contestants fail to hang on to their money long enough for it to matter, such as [[spoiler:Owen giving up his money for 10 times more money, but it gets eaten by a shark soon after]], and [[spoiler:Heather's money getting stolen by Ezekiel and getting burnt in the volcano]]. [[spoiler:Duncan after ''Action'' is an aversion; what he did with with his money is never explicitly referenced. Oddly, in the alternate ending where she wins, Beth is not.]]
** ''Revenge of the Island'' averts this [[spoiler:in ''both'' endings, as Cameron (canonical) and Lightning (alternate) walk away with their prize money in their respective endings]].
** Izzy's [[spoiler: brief time as a super-genius.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Sierra towards Cody.
* EatThat: This happens often. "Brunch of Disgustingness", "Chinese Fakeout", and "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary" have challenges centered around this; however, the dishes were already prepared in the former two episodes while the contestants had to cook theirs in the latter.
* ElectricJellyfish
* EliminationCatchphrase
-->''"The loser must [walk down/take] the [Dock/Walk/Drop/Hurl] of Shame [to the Boat of Losers/Lame-o-sine], never to return, '''[[BlatantLies ever]]'''".''
* EliminationStatement: Doesn't always happen. The first to get one was Eva in ''Island''.
** With the introduction of the Hurl of Shame in ''Revenge of the Island'', Chris teases this, but he usually catapults the eliminated contestant before they can say anything.
* EmbarrassingLastName:
** Apparently, Alejandro's last name means *snicker* "dead donkey". Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to mind.
** And in an EmbarrassingFirstName example, Geoff would like to inform you all her real name isn't Blaineley. [[spoiler: It's Mildred!]] And in Season 4, B's real name is revealed to be [[spoiler: Beverly.]]
* EnemyMine: Happens often due to ever-shifting alliances.
* EpicFail:
--> '''Owen:''' Stay awake for twelve hours?! [[LogicBomb I can do that in my sleep!]] Woo hoo! ''(immediately falls asleep)''
** Tyler is full of them, but the worst of the lot would be the time he tried to eat a banana in ''World Tour'' and it ended up in his eye.
** Geoff and DJ in "Hook, Line, and Screamer". The former walks around mindlessly looking for an ice cream truck while Chef, dressed as a serial killer, simply walks behind him (Chris even called it "The worst mistake yet".) The latter because he ran away screaming like a little girl from Heather and her facial.
** Pretty much sums up Team Victory. [[spoiler:Their terribly unfitting team name is only the tip of the iceberg. They amass just 2 challenge wins, both of which turn out to be reward challenges. As a team they outlast just one opposing player (and only because she was evacuated due to injury). When the team is whittled down to just DJ, he gets discouraged and tries to get eliminated, but forgets to keep his mouth shut during the musical number (instant elimination had he not sung). He ''wins'' said challenge and it turns out to be a reward, meaning that even if he had succeeded in failing, all his efforts would have been for naught. In the very next episode he starts trying to win again, and ''that's'' when he gets eliminated.]]
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Duncan votes off Courtney in season two after spending the entire season fawning over her and shortly after hooking back up with her.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Heather when compared with Alejandro. As she puts it:
--> '''Heather:''' ''Even I'm not '''that''' ruthless!''
** And Alejandro when compared with Chris.
--> '''Alejandro:''' You are pure ''evil!''
** Chris was genuinely disgusted when Heather read Gwen's diary aloud on National TV.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: As of Chinese Fake Out, everyone knows Alejandro and Heather have a thing for each other, with Blaineley flat-out telling them to make out [[spoiler: before her elimination]] and Duncan and Chris calling them "lovebirds" and "cute." Of course, they refuse to admit it. Also happened to Duncan and Courtney in the first season.
* EveryoneIsSingle: None of the contestants starts in a relationship, but this can be justified to background checking in the auditions.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: The first episode has the campers meet each other for the first time, with the exception of Katie and Sadie who were friends beforehand.
* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: DJ's bunny, along with other bunnies that show up from time to time.
* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: Inverted. Poor, poor Tyler.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: According to Sierra, Cody sleeps with a stuffed emu named Jerry.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: The fairytale challenge in ''Action.''
* EverythingsWorseWithBears:
** This show ''loves'' this trope. Even with [[spoiler: koala bears, who maul Gwen and Courtney's faces in Picnic at Hanging Rock, and they aren't even technically bears!]]
** The one in ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre'' had a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]].
* EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks:
** Just ask Chef, Courtney, or Scott.
** Averted in situations involving Justin, who is so [[InformedAttractiveness gorgeous]] that when he falls into a shark infested pool in ''Action'', a dismayed shark pulls him out of the water and then proceeds to ''[[RuleOfFunny perform CPR on him]]''.
* EvilLaugh: Chris does this often, as well as a few other characters.
* [[EvilVersusEvil "Evil" Versus Evil]]: Heather (sort of) vs. Alejandro throughout ''World Tour'' [[spoiler:up to the finale, where they actually face each other]]. Lampshaded in ''Versus:'' "Now it's evil versus wicked!"
* ExhaustedEyeBags: All the contestants in "The Big Sleep" develop these as a result of the challenge being who can go the longest without sleep.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Both [[ShowWithinAShow within the show]] and RealLife in the increasingly blatant attempts to keep Heather from being voted off.
* {{Expy}}:
** Harold of Napoleon Dynamite.
** Basically the entire show of ''[[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]''. Also the characters: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Duncan = Jonesy]], [[SpoiledSweet Lindsay = Caitlin]], [[TheSnarkKnight Gwen = Nikki]], [[CloudCuckooLander Geoff = Jude]], [[TheDeterminator Courtney = Jen]], [[StraightMan Trent = Wyatt]] / [[ShallowLoveInterest Stone]], [[GranolaGirl Bridgette = Starr]], [[SingleMindedTwins Katie/Sadie = Khaki Clones]], [[DrillSergeantNasty Chef = Ron/Coach Halder]], [[ExtravertedNerd Harold = Darth]], [[StrangeGirl Izzy = Lydia]], [[AlphaBitch Heather = Tricia]], [[{{Jerkass}} Justin = Hunter]], [[DeadpanSnarker Noah = Wayne]], [[BigGuy Owen = Carl]], [[{{Geek}} Beth = Julie]], [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna = Serena]], [[ButtMonkey Cody = Talon]], [[JerkJock Tyler = Charlie Dobbs]], and [[HairTriggerTemper Eva = Leda]]. *really big breath* Considering they were both made by the same company (Fresh TV) and a lot of the voice actors and actresses were the same...
** Of the 13 new cast members, 3 stand out as expies of real life people: Anne Maria is one to [[JerseyShore Snooki]], Sam is one to SethRogen (at least physically), and Dakota is one to Creator/ParisHilton. In regards to other fictional characters: Jo is an expy to [[{{Glee}} Sue Sylvester]], Dawn is an expy to [[HarryPotter Luna Lovegood]], Mike is an expy to JimmyTwoShoes (and [[HeyItsThatVoice voiced by the same VA]] as well), and B is a [[RaceLift race lifted]] expy of [[TheViewAskewniverse Silent Bob]].
** It's worth noting that the Expy in this show is actually not that subjective but in fact a specialized form of RealLifeWritesthePlot. Many characters were actually based off of real-life personalities appearing on Reality TV shows. [[{{Survivor}} Russell Hantz]] has two expies in the form of Alejandro (Even being turned into a Ratings machine!) and Scott (in terms of idol-play and sabotaging his team.) Several contestants are an expy of the ImNotHereToMakeFriends or ArrogantKungFuGuy who show up on these kinds of shows. Heck, Staci almost makes one wonder if she was inspired by [[{{Survivor}} Coach]].
* ExtremeOmnivore: Owen, full-throttle.
* ExtravertedNerd: Cody and Harold, possibly Beth as well.
* FaceDoodling: Duncan draws a mustache on Harold's face in ''Dodgebrawl'', though the prank backfires since [[{{Pornstache}} Harold actually likes the mustache]], and Leshawna draws a smiley face on the back of Heather's bald head in ''Total Drama Drama Drama Island''. Geoff draws light pen doodles on the final three's headshots in "Hawaiian Style", giving [[spoiler:Cody]] GirlishPigtails and making [[spoiler:Heather]] look like a vampire.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Harold, several times in "Get a Clue".
* FakeFood: Owen devours a pile of prop food during ''Total Drama Action''.
* FakeRussian: Parodied in "Dial M For Merger"; Chris absolutely butchers it before explaining the spy movie challenge. [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent The stumped cast guesses Jamaican, Japanese, Swedish, French and Italian in order,]] and at least one of those might have been closer to how Chris actually sounded.
* FalseReassurance: When trying to cook fugu (poisonous blowfish), Lindsay assures Trent that she knows what she's doing since she took biology; unfortunately Trent [[YouNeverAsked doesn't ask]] if she actually ''passed'' biology.
** In "Jamaica Me Sweat", Chirs tell the contestants that the bay they have to dive into is not filled with sharks; it's filled with electric eels ''and'' sharks.
* FanDisservice:
** Owen, who frequently appears naked.
** Chef, anytime he [[{{Crossdresser}} crossdresses]], especially in a [[{{Stripperiffic}} stripperriffic]] purple bikini.
** Alejandro jiggling his naked moobs at the confession cam.
* FandomNod:
** ''World Tour'' has a lot of these, examples include the Courtney/Duncan/Gwen LoveTriangle, LoonyFan Sierra, Noah and Cody returning to the game, Tyler complaining about being unpopular and the way Ezekiel is treated.
** In the second aftermath, Beth is shown [[TotalDramaComeback eating a cookie.]]
** Hell, in the Celebrity Manhunt special Blainely outright says "Total Drama Comeback".
* FandomSpecificPlot: ''A lot'' of the fanfiction out there is about a season where reviewers can apply for a spot on the show.
* FanService:
** Heather, Leshawna, and Izzy all get a censored nudity shot (Both front AND back for Izzy), though it doesn't cross into {{Ecchi}} territory. There's also Gwen's PantyShot listed below, and just about any time the girls are seen wearing something other than their normal clothes.
** Also, Katie and Sadie's bikinis.
** Then there's Alejandro's speedo.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Chris.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Averted by Lindsay, [[LethalChef who totally can't.]]
* FieryRedhead: The orange-haired redhead Izzy is not only fiery, she's certifiably insane. Though normally level-headed, Zoey can get fiery when provoked.
* FiveManBand:
** '''Team Amazon:'''
*** TheHero: Heather
*** TheLancer: Courtney
*** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]: Sierra (and originally Izzy)
*** TheSmartGuy: Cody
*** TheChick: Gwen
** '''Team Victory:'''
*** TheHero: DJ
*** TheLancer / TheHeart: Lindsay
*** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]: Leshawna
*** TheSmartGuy: Harold
*** TheChick: Bridgette
*** SixthRanger: Ezekiel
** '''Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot:'''
*** TheHero: Alejandro
*** TheLancer: Tyler
*** TheBigGuy: Owen
*** TheSmartGuy: Noah
*** TheChick: Izzy (and originally Sierra)
*** SixthRanger: [[spoiler:Duncan]]
** There's also a literal five man band, in the form of '''[[BoyBand The Drama Brothers]]''':
*** TheHero: Trent
*** TheLancer: Cody
*** TheSmartGuy: Harold
*** TheChick: Justin
*** TheBigGuy/[[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Sasquatchanakwa
** '''Toxic Rats'''
*** TheHero: Sam
*** TheLancer: Scott
*** TheSmartGuy: Dawn and B
*** TheBigGuy: Lightning and B(again)
*** TheChick: Dakota and Staci
** '''Mutant Maggots'''
*** TheHero: Brick
*** TheLancer: Mike
*** TheSmartGuy: Cameron
*** TheBigGuy: Jo
*** TheChick: Zoey and Anne Maria
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Among other examples, DJ's cowardice is [[UpToEleven cranked up to eleven]] in ''World Tour''.
** In ''World Tour'', DJ's tendency to accidentally injure animals occurs much more often. However, this has a rare in-universe [[JustifiedTrope justification]], as he was cursed.
** In ''Action'', Courtney threatens to "call her lawyers" every time something happens that isn't to her liking. She only did this once in ''Island'', in a justifiable case.
** In ''Island'', Cody hits on all of the girls, but he likes Gwen in particular, and is able to downplay that and let her be with someone else. Come ''World Tour'', he's only, and obsessively attracted to Gwen.
** While Izzy was always in GenkiGirl, in ''Island'' there were several hints that she may have been [[BeneathTheMask putting on act]] (and she would display levels of normalcy.) Starting with ''Action'', Izzy became full-blown crazy 100% of the time.
** In ''Island'', Chris was portrayed mostly as washed-up celebrity and the challenges he devised were mostly designed to embarrass or annoy. By ''Revenge'', he's become full on AffablyEvil with every challenge being potentially life threatening and Chris himself seeming to care more about inflicting pain than generating ratings.
* FlatWhat: Noah, along with SarcasmFailure, after watching the [[GagDub Japanese promo for season two]].
* FlipFlopOfGod: On whether Courtney is Asian or Hispanic. She's been confirmed [[SpicyLatina Hispanic]] now, though.
* FollowYourNose
* FoodAsBribe: Heather gives Owen a piece of cake in exchange for [[spoiler:voting for Justin]] in "Not Quite Famous".
* FootPopping: Gender inversion in the Ex-Files when Gwen and Duncan kiss.
* ForceFeeding: Leshawna does it to Duncan as part of the first challenge in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon".
* ForTheEvulz: Chris likes to mess with the contestants, a lot of times for no real reason.
* FourFingeredHands: Everybody.
** Oddly, Trent's t-shirt has a ''five''-fingered handprint on it.
** Also, Izzy gains a fifth digit in two instances due to an animation error.
** Geoff and Trent encounter testing dummies with five-fingered hands in the TDA Special.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The final four of ''Island''. Owen is sanguine, Gwen is phlegmatic, Heather is choleric and Duncan is melancholic.
* ForeignQueasine: The eating challenge in China. ''Manman chi!''
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the intro of ''Total Drama World Tour'' During the human pyramid on the top of the plane, [[spoiler: Ezekiel, Lindsay, Harold, Leshawna, Bridgette and DJ are at the very bottom of the pyramid. Not only are they 5 of the first 7 contestants eliminated from World Tour, they are part of the same team, ironically named [[NonIndicativeName Team Victory]]]].[[spoiler: Also, the human pyramid shows Duncan next to Gwen, and NOT Courtney. Cody is not next to Gwen either. Not only do Gwen and Duncan get together, they remain together.]] [[spoiler: Ezekiel's role in the show is also foreshadowed in the end. After everyone has settled on the ground, Ezekiel unexpectedly falls to the ground. This could be symbolic of his tendency to pop out of nowhere during the season after his eliminations, esp. in the finale where suddenly reappears to steal the case from Heather before falling into a volcano.]] In the same season, [[spoiler: Alejandro's low tolerance for strange food is shown when he tries to eat the candy fish tails in Japan.]]
** Every couple formed in the first season was hinted at in the first episode; if you don't include Duncan and Courtney, within the first 8 minutes of the show.
** A possible and unusually creepy example appears in the TDRI-episode ''Grand Chef Auto'', where [[spoiler: we're transported into Mike's mind and he fights off his other personalities. However, just as it seems he has conqured them all, for a split second a black shadow of a sinister-looking Mike can be seen in the background, hinting that the worst part of Mike's psyche has yet to emerge. BigBad for next season?]]
** Lightning wanted to be a team of one and [[spoiler: not only did he almost accomplish that before the merge, after Jo was eliminated he was the last remaining member of his team (if you don't count Scott who switched teams)]]
** In Dakota's audition tape [[spoiler:she boasts that by the time it's over she'll be "the biggest thing ever."]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: GranolaGirl Dawn.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Chris uses one to knock Owen out during the first episode of ''World Tour''.
* GambitRoulette:
** The "Winners Special" which was actually an overcomplicated plot for the ''Island'' powers that be (both in and out of universe) to use for the purpose of making the second season.
** The ''Action'' special had elements of this too, especially with the introduction of Sierra and who would actually [[spoiler: win the Gemmie.]]
** Both Heather and Alejandro are guilty of plans that would have backfired horribly if not for events beyond their control that they couldn't have anticipated. In particular, Heather's plan in "Search and Do Not Destroy" required her to be randomly awarded invincibility to save her from elimination, and Alejandro's plan in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better" required Bridgette to stay stuck to the flagpole even after leaving the area to keep her from revealing him to the other contestants.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The contestants are split eleven boys and eleven girls.
** One of the TotalDramaIsland/NewWorldTourContestants is a boy while the other one is a girl.
** ''Revenge of the Island'' tips the scale a bit by having seven boys and six girls.
* GenreSavvy:
** Duncan and Gwen when it comes to slasher and alien monster movies.
** In ''World Tour'' Heather is the only person who can see through Alejandro's "NiceGuy" facade.
** Due to having watched every episode of the previous seasons, Sierra knows Heather is trying to use her, and is [[ObfuscatingStupidity going to try and bring her down from inside the alliance!]]
** Duncan and Alejandro are applying this trope to each other.
* GenkiGirl: Izzy and Sierra in spades. Lindsay, Katie, and Sadie are tamer examples.
* GentleGiant: Owen and DJ.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/TotalDramaIsland It now has its own page.]] Noah puts it best, "No wonder why my little cousins aren't allowed to see this show."
* GirlPosse: Heather, Lindsay and Beth
* GirlishPigtails: Sadie, Katie and Zoey.
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: Averted with Gwen and to a lesser extent, Izzy.
* GoldDigger:
** Courtney in TDA. She broke up with Duncan after finally getting eliminated, THEN gets back together with him soon after he wins, even having the nerve to say "we're rich!" as if she's entitled to the prize.
** Anne Maria in TDRI. She was only attracted to Ezekiel because he gave her a [[spoiler:giant diamond. Too bad for her, it was fake.]]
* GotVolunteered:
** DJ becomes the victim of this in the Japan episode of ''World Tour''.
** Also happens to Tyler in "I See London".
-->'''Noah''': If we're gonna find that clue...
-->'''Owen''': There's only one thing to do.
-->'''Noah''': Force someone to strip him down...
-->'''Both''': And Tyler, dude, that's you!
* GoshHornet: When Lindsay has to retrieve a key that's stuck in a beehive. Izzy gets it for her by ramming her hand right into the hive, and an angry swarm chases Lindsay into a lake. Needless to say, she's not looking so hot in the next scene.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: so far we have Spanish (courtesy of Alejandro), Japanese, and German.
* GreenEyedRedHead:
** Izzy.
** Gwen was also this in her original design as evidenced by the ''Camp TV'' promo.
* GroinAttack: Many, especially in the earlier episodes. Most importantly, this is how [[spoiler:Heather defeats Alejandro]] in the finale of ''World Tour''.
** Zoey fends off a pair of mutant man-eating beavers by kicking them both in the groin.
* HandyRemoteControl [=/=] PlotSensitiveButton: Most commonly used by Chris as a bomb detonator.
* HairRaisingHare: The KillerRabbit in ''Search and Do Not Destroy''
* HarmlessElectrocution: Played with in ''Jamaica Me Sweat,'' where Tyler gets a momentary shock from an [[PsychoElectricEel electric eel,]] and isn't hurt. Gwen, however, gets shocked by ''three'' electric eels and has to be rescued by Alejandro and taken to the infirmary. Played straight in ''The Ex-Files,'' where the guys get shocked by a laser, an electric fence, a clone pod, and an alien, in that order, and don't take any lasting damage.
* HartmanHips: Every girl except [[FatGirl Sadie]], [[BigBeautifulWoman Leshawna]], [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure Lindsay]], and [[FatGirl Staci]].
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Tyler has a minor one in the first episode of ''World Tour'', when he believed that Alejandro was trying to charm him.
-->'''Tyler:''' I like girls!
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He is Not My Boyfriend]]: Courtney to Duncan.
* HeadPet: Duncan's chameleon in "Top Dog".
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Sierra in "Can't Help Falling in Louvre," after finding out Cody tried to vote her off.
* [[HeroAntagonist Hero Antagonists]]: The Interns, according to WordOfGod.
* HeterosexualLifePartners:
** Katie and Sadie, Chef and Chris.
** In season two, Beth and Lindsay fill this role.
** Owen and Noah in season three.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Each and every villain gets themselves eliminated due to their own faults and vanities.
* HollywoodAtlas: World Tour, in spades.
* HollywoodHealing: Played around with. The show relies on AmusingInjuries a lot (see: [[TheKlutz Tyler]]), but it also shows some injuries taking a realistic amount of time to heal, most notably Heather's black eye that took about 2 or 3 episodes to disappear. (see BeautyIsNeverTarnished)
* HookHand:
** In "The Sucky Outdoors", Duncan uses one to scare the daylights out of the Killer Bass at the end of his campfire story.
--->'''Duncan:''' ...because there, hanging from the door handle, was the ''bloody hook.'' They say that this killer is still alive, wandering these very woods. He could be just about anywhere, really. Maybe even right HERE! ''(whips out hook)''
--->'''Killer Bass:''' AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
** In "Hook, Line and, Screamer", the Escaped Psycho Killer with a Chainsaw and a Hook.
* HopeSpot: The episode ''Picnic at Hanging Dork'' is this for Gwen. Also, all the in-universe hype and support for Cody as one of the final 3.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Owen and Izzy. In ''Revenge'', B and Dawn.
* HulkSpeak: Dakota after becoming Dakotazoid.
* HumanPopsicle:
** Two interns' fates in "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better".
** In the game ''Total Drama Freezer Burn,'' Alejandro ends up as one if the player loses.
* HumiliationConga:
** Of course, Heather did have it coming to her...
** So did rageaholic Eva.
** As did Justin and Courtney in ''Action''.
** Blaineley received a pretty nasty one in season three, being thrown from the plane ''without a parachute'', trapping her in a full body cast, only for her to suffer even more when she has to represent "Team Heather" on the final Aftermath. In the finale, [[KilledOffForReal she more likely than not died a horrible drowning]].
** Alejandro gets kicked in the balls by Heather, thrown off the volcano, trampled by the rest of the cast, is burned in the lava flow and is revived in the same manner as [[RevengeOfTheSith Darth Vader]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: Almost every single character has a {{Hypocrite}} moment at some point of the series.
* IdiotBall: Leshawna early in ''Island''. Leaving [[BigEater Owen]] to guard the food alone? ''Really''?
* ILied: Chris, when he said that anyone voted off could never come back to the island.
* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Heather, of course. Scott fulfills this trope in ''Revenge of the Island''. Being a spoof of a Reality TV program, this is pretty much par for the course.
** Jo has moments of this, too, but it's more that she has a temper.
* ImpactSilhouette: In "Hook, Line, and Screamer", DJ does this with the bathroom door after seeing Heather in a face mask.
* ImprovisedZipline: Used by every member of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot in order to cross a river filled with piranhas.
** Alejandro uses his belt.
** Owen uses his hands, and gets rope burn.
** Tyler uses his pants, but halfway down the line they end up [[StealthPun catching fire]].
** Izzy places Noah in a backpack, wears it, and then slides across using the straps.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Cody in "Dodgebrawl".
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** When reading The History of Canada, Chris says that the North American beaver makes "a '''dam''' fine hat."
** Apparently this joke flew right over the heads of the American censors and the line was changed to "a '''real''' fine hat."
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Heather crosses into this territory in World Tour, when it becomes obvious that she'd really like to get on with the backstabbing, but [[GenreSavvy nobody will give her a chance]]. [[spoiler: This potentially makes her victory over Alejandro into less a case of TheBadGuyWins and more a case of PayEvilUntoEvil.]]
* InferredHolocaust: In the final episode of TDWT.
* InformedAbility: Oh boy. One wonders if the writers even ''read'' the character biographies at any point.
* InsufferableGenius: Harold, to an extent. Not so much insufferable, but he easily gets on everyone's nerves with his random facts, and never seems to take a hint as to when to stop.
* IronButtMonkey: Basically every single contestant has suffered multiple incidents of physical damage that should have, by all rights, left them permanently crippled or killed.
* {{Irony}}:
** In the million dollar case hunt that is "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island", Ezekiel is the first one to notice the case,([[NotNowKiddo though Lindsay and Beth brush him off when he tries to tell them]]). He was the first to be eliminated in season one.
** In TDDDDI, [[spoiler:Eva, Katie, Sadie, Courtney, Noah, Cody, Ezekiel and Tyler all do not return to TDA. Chris told them that because of this, they have lost any hopes of wining any money on this show. Regardless, five of them(Courtney, Noah, Cody Ezekiel and Tyler) still got to return to TDWT, and Courtney used her lawyers to get her back on the show around halfway through TDA.]]
** Lindsay got eliminated in the season 1 episode ''That's Off The Chain!'' for technically being the last to cross the finish line, because some crashed and Izzy and Leshawna didn't race at all. This means that everyone else(except Heather, who won immunity) got one step further in the competition just because they were "wimps". Later in the season 3 episode ''The EX-Files'', Tyler said to Owen, Duncan, and Alejandro "We didn't get this far in the competition just 'cause we're wimps! It's 'cause we always stay one step ahead of the-(game/others)"
** Everyone who made it to the merge in TDA all rank lower in TDWT, while some([[TheArtifact Justin and Beth]]) do not return to TDWT.
** Trent, who has musical experience and is even the lead singer of a band, does not compete in the music-centered ''World Tour''.
** Alejandro, the season's antagonist, eliminates every male contestant (with the sole exception of Ezekiel) in ''World Tour'', even though his charms were to influence women.
** Heather, who was one of the highest-ranking contestants in the "Total Drama" we love today, did not appear in [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the early version of the series entitled "Camp TV"]].
* ItsRainingMen: The theme song for Total Drama World Tour features the castmates falling off the Jet, parachuting to the ground and landing safely ...Except Ezekiel.
* ItTastesLikeFeet: After kissing Duncan in ''Total Drama Action'', Heather disgustedly declares that he "tastes like street!".
* {{Jerkass}}: Almost every single character has at least one {{Jerkass}} moment during the course of the series, but some just take the entire cake.
** Chris. He holds very little regard for the contestants (and even less for the interns) and often laughs at their misfortune. The only reason he ever worries that the contestants might die is because the show would be canceled if they did.
** Duncan, who bullies Harold for no reason and cheated on Courtney with no remorse. In ''Island'' it looked like he would receive some CharacterDevelopment and learn to be a nicer person, but [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot this was abandoned]].
** [[AlphaBitch Heather]]. She became less of a jerkass in ''Action''... [[VillainDecay Kinda.]]
** While Courtney [[TookALevelInJerkass became more of one.]]
** Alejandro, [[ManipulativeBastard oh God]], [[FalseFriend Alejandro!]]
** [[BiggerBad Blaineley from the ''World Tour'' aftermath rivals Chris himself,]] taking sadistic glee in [[MoralEventHorizon emotionally torturing Geoff and Bridgette]].
** [[TokenEvilTeammate Scott]], who often resorts to [[TeamKiller destroying his own team]] to get ahead, [[TheSociopath showing no remorse for his actions.]] He's arguably the most evil contestant on the show.
* JerkJock: Eva is a rare female example.
** Jo is another example.
** Lightning qualifies after Scott is eliminated
* JiveTurkey: Leshawna, and on some occasions, Ezekiel.
* JustFriends: Leshawna on her relationship with Harold
* KarmaHoudini: Chris [=McLean=] rates highest in this regard, though he eventually gets what's coming to him in "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown" [[spoiler:when he is arrested by the RCMP for illegally turning Camp Wawanakwa into a toxic waste dump and gets throughly decontaminated]].
* KickChick: Gwen near the end of ''Hook, Line, and Screamer.''
* KickTheDog: Almost every character does this at some point.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Gwen and Leshawna to Heather, [[spoiler: Heather to Alejandro]], Courtney to Gwen and Duncan to Courtney.
* KillerRabbit:
** Yep, the island has one, just ask Bridgette. Also, do ''not'' annoy any cute chipmunks or beavers that happen to be hanging around.
** The pandas and baby seals from ''World Tour''.
** The attack corgis from ''I See London'' are an inversion.
** Revenge of the Island. Mutated squirrel. '''[[EyeBeams Eye lasers]]!'''
* KnowYourVines: Katie and Sadie both squat in poison ivy to pee. HilarityEnsues.
* LampshadeHanging: Happens quite regularly, given the {{Troperrific}} nature of the show.
* LarynxDissonance: DJ's mom is voiced by the same person who also voices her son and Chef.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Every antagonist ends up suffering from this, which always leads to a HumiliationConga.
* LaserHallway: Used in ''Dial M for Merger'' and ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre.''
* LastMinuteHookup: Leshawna and Harold
** [[spoiler: Mike and Zoey]], although they had considerably more build-up.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Advertisements inevitably indicate who the remaining contestants are by showing scenes from upcoming episodes, and promotional material during or after a season finale tends to be rather direct about naming the finalists. The worst example is an ad for the third season that revealed the two finalists of the second...when the second season was still in progress with six contestants remaining.
** Some TVGuide-esque website posted small paragraphs about each episode. Oh, don't worry, the paragraphs don't ''reveal'' anything about the episode they're ''talking'' about: just who was eliminated in the last one. [[spoiler: For example, the summary for 'I See London' read 'With DJ gone, only 2 teams remain!', the summary for 'Greece's Pieces' reads 'Owen is missing his little buddy Noah...' etc.]]
* LatinLover: Alejandro, he even says that his Latin blood keeps him hot in the snow.
* LaxativePrank:
** Heather does this in the fake finale of the first season. She offers Gwen a laxative-spiked cupcake. Unfortunately for everyone wanting Owen to win, Owen eats the cupcake instead...
** In the second season, the pizza they all (well, everyone but Leshawna, because "dairy and [her] do not agree.") eat is laced with itching powder and laxatives.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Chris reads the card that tells the audience not to try the stunts in the show because they were performed by animated teens.
** The host announcing the commercial breaks.
* LeetLingo - Sierra in World Tour.
-->"O-M-G, Chris! I am just so L-O-L!"
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Harold's keyboard in ''Get a Clue''.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** Justin. This also happens to Izzy a few times. (cue the scary dramatic musical score!)
** Sierra gets creepy horror movie music whenever she has a stalkerish moment, such as when she reveals how much information she has on Cody (obtained by calling members of his family pretending to be a reporter).
** This music also was heard when Trent talked about his number-nine obssession.
** Not to mention Alejandro's Latin theme tune.
** And of course Duncan's blues/punk rock theme (which was surprisingly played for Tyler as well, a couple times in ''World Tour'').
** Brick has a military drum leitmotif.
* LethalChef:
** Played with by Chef Hatchet. Though he is actually a competent chef, [[InvokedTrope it's his job]] to make barely edible slop for the contestants.
** Also played with by DJ's Momma. She has a seasoning blend that can make any disgusting food palatable; however, when she gets her own cooking show, her cooking is ''literally'' lethal.
** Played straight by some of the contestants. Lindsay accidentally poisons Trent with ill-prepared fugu blowfish in "Who Can You Trust?", while in "Eat, Puke and Be Wary", the final four's (except for Cameron's) dishes are lethal in more ways than one.
* LimitedWardrobe: The characters wear the same outfit 90% of the time, though they are shown in sleepwear/underwear/swimwear when appropriate.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters:
** It's a bit much in the beginning but it gets easier to keep track of the characters since a character gets booted off the show each week.
** ''Total Drama World Tour'' adds two more regulars to the list.
** The ''Revenge of the Island'' cast adds thirteen more regulars to the list.
** According to WordOfGod, [[http://refreshblog.com/?p=1485 the fifth season]] will add ''even more'' regulars to the list.
* LonelyRichKid: Dakota may be one because according to Dawn her desire to be famous is a cry to be loved.
* LotusPosition:
** Lindsay and Bridgette in ''Brunch of Disgustingness.''
** This is practically Dawn's default pose.
* LoudOfWar: One episode featured the contestants being tortured in various off-kilter ways, including being forced to listen to new-age music.
* LoveDodecahedron:
** The most frustrating subplot of ''World Tour''. StalkerWithACrush Sierra likes HopelessSuitor Cody, who likes TheSnarkKnight Gwen, who likes BadAss Duncan, who likes Gwen back even though he's been dating {{Tsundere}} Courtney for about two years, and once they break up Courtney falls for Alejandro, who loves the AlphaBitch Heather, who likes [[spoiler:her prize money more than Alejandro]]. Brain hurt, yet?
** This one actually got started in season one. Cody liked Gwen, who liked and hooked up with Trent, who Heather kissed to make sure he'd be eliminated. Then in season two, Cody left, Trent went insane while Gwen started getting closer to Duncan, and everything went downhill once Courtney came back in the middle of the season...
* LoveTriangle: Several, particularly in season three: Gwen/Duncan/Courtney, Heather/Alejandro/Courtney, Sierra/Cody/Gwen, and possibly Duncan/Gwen/Trent.
** Zoey/Mike/Anne Maria in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* MakeOutKids: Geoff and Bridgette were [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into this in ''Total Drama Action''; however, it's downplayed in ''World Tour''.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Owen, [[FanDisservice far too often]]. Also happens to Duncan in "One Million Bucks, B.C." and Lightning in "The Enchanted Franken-Forest". All instances are [[{{Pixelation}} pixelated]].
* ManiacMonkeys: Mandrills attack the contestants in "African Lying Safari", and DJ gets attacked by some in "The Am-AH-zon Race".
* ManipulativeBastard: Chris in spades. Heather in ''Island'', Justin and Courtney in ''Action'', Alejandro in ''World Tour'' and Scott in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* ManlyTears
-->'''DJ:''' ''(to Chef after Duncan's performance makes him cry)'' You're gonna teach me how to be tough? ''(snickers)''
-->'''Chef:''' Tough guys cry!
* MarshmallowHell:
** Cody falls into the Statue of Liberty's robe. It was cut out of the US version.
** Also, he gets this treatment many times by Sierra
* MassOhCrap: All the contestants get one when their bus starts heading towards a cliff and Team Amazon gets one when [[spoiler: Owen, the human cannonball, destroys their boat]].
* MedalOfDishonor: The Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* MeatOVision: Owen starts hallucinating that his teammates (and Chris) are food items after he gets injured (and then locked in a safe) in ''"Ocean's Eight-Or Nine"''.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Thanks to Christian Potenza's series of [[http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChristianPotenza video interviews]] of the series' voice cast, we can see that behind the voices of all the [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] and {{Alpha Bitch}}es populating the show are some of the nicest people in entertainment, particularly Rachel Wilson (Heather), Emilie-Claire Barlow (Courtney), and Drew Nelson (Duncan).
* MeaningfulName:
** [[BrilliantButLazy Noah]] is a Hebrew name for "restful." [[HoYay Interestingly]], Cody can mean "cushion", turning the scene in ''Action'' where Noah is sleeping with his head on Cody's lap into an AccidentalPun.
** [[FrivolousLawsuit Court]]ney.
** [[AlphaBitch Heather]] is probably named after the movie ''{{Heathers}}''.
** "[[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette Gwen]]" means "white" or "fair."
** Trent? How about [[NineInchNails Trent Reznor?]] Brings his obsession with the number 9 into a different perspective, doesn't it?
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Alejandro]] falls victim to this in the each ending of ''World Tour''.
* MessyPig: In ''I Triple Dog Dare You!'' Heather gets cannon blasted into a pigs' mudpile.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: One of the only reasons you should feel sorry for [[AlphaBitch Heather]] is that she has to deal with [[DumbBlonde ridiculously naive Lindsay]] and cheerful [[NotGoodWithPeople farm girl Beth.]]
* MisplacedVegetation: Chef Hatchet [[LampshadeHanging asks what those palm trees are doing in Ontario]].
* ModestyTowel:
** Heather is often found wearing one during ''Island''.
** Courtney, in "Get a Clue".
** Lindsay, at the beginning of "Rock n' Rule".
** Jo, in a confessional in "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste".
* MoralityPet: Several:
** Courtney for Duncan during ''Island'' and the first half of ''Action.'' Then it's subverted to hell.
** Bridgette for Geoff during ''Total Drama Action Aftermath'' and Courtney during the entire series.
** Gwen for Duncan during the entire series.
** Heather for Alejandro during ''World Tour.''
* MotorMouth: Izzy.
* MouseTrap:
** Sam demonstrates his SuperReflexes in "Runaway Model" by unbaiting one without setting it off. He ends up setting off half a dozen other traps because he accidentally stepped on the trap he just undone.
** Scott finds one in Chris' garbage bag after drawing an undesirable objective in "Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon".
* MrFanservice: Duncan, Trent, Justin, and Alejandro.
* MsFanservice:
** Lindsay, who wears a tight tank top and a miniskirt most of the time, and has even dressed up as an admiral and WonderWoman!
** Heather, who sports a ModestyTowel in several [[ShowerScene Shower Scenes]] and accidentally flashed her boobs during "X-Treme Torture".
** Izzy, who wears a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit, does a seductive dance in "Not Quite Famous", and has accidental nudity shots occasionally.
** Bridgette, Courtney, Gwen, and Katie also qualify as minor examples.
* MultipleEndings:
** While [[spoiler:Owen]] won Total Drama Island, [[spoiler:Gwen]] however won in Norway, Poland, and Romania. In Latin American, both endings were aired.
** Ditto with [[spoiler:Duncan and Beth]] in Total Drama Action.
** Ditto again with [[spoiler:Heather and Alejandro]] in Total Drama World Tour.
** Ditto again with [[spoiler:Cameron and Lightning]] in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Songs about a person [[TongueOnTheFlagpole stuck to a pole]], stripping down guards (ItMakesSenseInContext), shearing sheep, and others never were so awesome.
* MuppetCameo: In ''This is How We Will End it''.
* [[MustMakeHerLaugh Must Make Him Laugh]]: Owen spends the entirety of ''I See London'' trying to make Noah laugh, because "Noah's the funniest guy [he] knows" and Owen wants to "top his honor roll!". HoYay aside, it's actually rather sweet (especially coming from Owen) and [[spoiler: [[TearJerker becomes surprisingly sad when Noah is voted off that episode]].]]
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Played straight in the commercial for the finale, basically referring to the final three contestants as [[spoiler: Heather and Alejandro. ...Oh, and Cody's there too.]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Unfortunately, it's Owen in this case, though most of the other teens get a [[{{Pixelation}} pixelated]] nudity shot sooner or later in ''Action''.
* TheNapoleon: Duncan.
* NearDeathExperience:
** Lots: Alejandro [[spoiler:getting trampled and drenched in boiling lava]], Trent falling 5,000 feet from a plane, Cody getting swallowed by a shark (Sierra got him out), Ezekiel [[spoiler:getting blasted out of a volcano on fire]], eight contestants being stuck in a DrowningPit, Izzy and Owen having the plane fall on them, DJ and Gwen almost having an anvil dropped on them, Sierra [[spoiler:getting caught in the explosion of the plane]]...
** They even had a ''musical number'' about this.
* NeverSayDie: The show defies this trope every which way.
* NeverTrustATrailer:
** The third season is still a musical. Good luck determining that from any of the marketing past the original trailer and pamphlet.
** An ad for the wild west themed episode of ''Action'' showed Duncan and Bridgette in a showdown. Not only did this not happen in the episode, but Bridgette had been eliminated by that point, and did not make an appearance.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Courtney in ''Action''.
** Somewhat Harold, who has a tendency to use random and usually obscure skills during ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman situations.
** Sierra as well. Her ancestors teachings go from Chris [=McLean=] Scholaring to basket-weaving.
** Izzy can speak camel.
** Tyler's incredible finger strength.
** This one is an odd case, because it appeared out of nowhere, was reused in another challenge in a later episode, and then wasn't even REFERENCED when he tried to punch through a metal door.
* NiceGuy: Geoff (first and third season), Owen, DJ, Trent, Cody, and Cameron. Lindsay, Bridgette, and Zoey are nice ''girls''.
-->'''Gwen:''' (to Owen) Have you ever had a bad thought about ''anyone?''
* NiceHat:
** Ezekiel's toque and Geoff's cowboy hat.
** World Tour has a lot of these (depending on the country they visit) like Pickelhaubes in the Alps.
* NobodyCanDie: Exaggerated. [[RealityEnsues Except when it comes to]] [[RedShirt interns]].
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Mixed with HypocriticalHumor when it comes to Sierra and Cody.
* NoJustNoReaction: Tyler utters this when seeing the hairstyles Lindsay gives him in ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre.''
* NoOSHACompliance:
** Camp Wawanakwa after Chris rents it out as a dumping ground to a "nice, family-oriented" bio-hazardous waste disposal company. It also suffers from "No EPA Compliance" due to the adverse effects of said waste to the local fauna and flora.
** The abandoned film lot in ''Action'' may qualify.
* NonGameplayElimination:
** Two in the second season. One quit and one ejection, though neither are normal.
** The third season had [[spoiler: two people quitting and an informal "elimination" of Ezekiel by Chris, with a formal elimination of Sierra after she blows up the plane (in the same episode she was granted invincibility, no less).]]
** ''Revenge of the Island'' sees [[spoiler: Anne Maria walk off in the seventh episode, after getting a giant diamond from [[TheCameo Ezekiel]] in the mine. Too bad it turned out to be a fake.]]
* NotableOriginalMusic
* NotGoodWithPeople: Beth is the first type. Her [[AllThereInTheManual character bio]] indicates that she genuinely wants to fit in with people, but only really understands how to deal with farm animals.
* NotSoDifferent:
** Never said on the show but reading the character bios at Teletoon and Cartoon Network reveals how similar several characters are. Like Heather and Courtney.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Beth's boyfriend, Brady.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: The very first challenge involved the campers jumping off a ''thousand''-foot cliff into water below. Just try complaining about any unrealistic injuries after that.
* ObviouslyEvil: Alejandro.
* OddFriendship:
** [[TheCheerleader Lindsay]] and [[NotGoodWithPeople Beth]] in ''Island'' and ''Action'', [[{{Goth}} Gwen]] and [[NiceGuy Geoff]] during the end of ''Island'', [[TheBigGuy Owen]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Noah]], [[GenkiGirl Izzy]] and [[OnlySaneMan Noah]], [[LovableJock Tyler]] and [[ExtravertedNerd Harold]] in ''World Tour'', [[{{Geek}} Sam]] and [[SpoiledSweet Dakota]] in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** [[LoonyFan Sierra]] and [[DoggedNiceGuy Cody]], in spite of his initial fear of her, after [[spoiler: he warms up to her when she gives him the first birthday he's had in years.]]
* OffModel: Some of the character heights vary a bit for particular scenes, and that's just the tamer part. Heather has been drawn [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101125133724/totaldramaisland/images/7/7b/TrentTossHeather.png with her original hair]] early in ''Action'', when she was supposed to be bald, and Katie was once ''[[http://images.wikia.com/totaldramaisland/images/e/ed/Katie%27s_Missing_Arm_Goof.PNG missing an arm.]]''
* OhCrap: ''Everyone'' does this at some point or another. If we listed all the examples we would be here all day.
** Just about every contestant that winds up in the bottom 2 for elimination automatically reverts to this expression. It becomes quite satisfying when this happens to a villain.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Cody, Beth, Cameron and Dawn.
* OneLetterName: B. Subverted in ''Truth or Laser Shark'' where we find out that it really stands for B[[spoiler:everly]].
* OneSteveLimit: Played straight until the 12th episode of ''Revenge of the Island'', where one of the [[RedShirt interns]] is named Josh. Another character named Josh appeared as Blaineley's co-host in ''Celebrity Manhunt'', only appearing in the ''Action'' special so far. Considering the series has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters more than 40 named characters]], this is rather impressive.
* OnlyOneName:
** Everyone except Chris, Chef, Harold, Cody, DJ, Alejandro, and Blaineley.
** Among the new cast, Brick and Dakota had their last names revealed.
** B has a one ''letter'' name. Well, until we find out it actually stands for B[[spoiler:everly.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Noah throughout the entire series. Gwen and Trent during the first season.
* OperationJealousy: Employed for three episodes in a row in season three. [[spoiler: Courtney flirted with Tyler (to make Duncan jealous), Alejandro flirted with Courtney (to make Heather jealous) and Heather flirted with Duncan (to make Alejandro: and unintentionally Gwen: jealous)]].
* OutOfFocus: Eva, Katie, and Sadie are the most egregious examples, as they do not get any attention in ''Action'' and ''World Tour'' outside of the Aftermaths.
** Ezekiel, Cody, Noah, and Tyler during ''Action'', but they receive [[CharacterFocus focus]] and [[CharacterDevelopment development]] during ''World Tour''.
** Inversely, Beth, Justin, and Trent during ''World Tour'' after receiving focus and development during ''Action''.
* OverlyLongGag:
** A few times with Owen farting.
** And DJ's running and screaming in "Hook, Line and Screamer."
* OverlyLongName:
** Harold Norbert Cheever [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Doris]] Mc Grady the Fifth.
** Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot
** Also Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson.
** Blaineley Stacey Andrews O'Halloran. (Wow, the producers really have a thing for long names...)
** The Escaped Psycho Killer With the Chainsaw and the Hook. Also counts as a RunningGag.
** Total Drama Yum-Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails. And the challenge: Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails Challenge (of celebration fun)
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: Exaggerated in Sierra's song from ''World Tour'':
-->'''Sierra:''' Oui, my friends! Now I'm stuck telling you: If you fall in love with a boy on TV, and then audition to get on his show, and audition again, and finally get on his show, and be nice to him, and do nothing but kiss up, you will still, oui, end up in Paris, oui, feeling despaires, and the boy won't even take you outside!
* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]: Cameron apparently has one.
* PaintballEpisode: ''Paintball Deer Hunter''
* PaletteSwap:
** Courtney's wedding dress in "Niagara Brawls" is one for her princess dress from ''The Princess Pride,'' complete with the same crown.
** Chris' boat in "Newf Kids on the Block" is a green recolor of the Boat of Losers from ''Island''.
** The cowboy hat Chris wears in "3:10 to Crazytown" is a grey recolor of Geoff's hat.
** Since there is [[CastOfSnowflakes no standard character design in this show,]] many ''Total Drama'' fan-created original characters are recolors of the main cast.
* PandaingToTheAudience: the [[MisplacedWildlife Japan]] episode of ''World Tour'' and the ''Pandamonium'' game.
* PantyShot:
** Lindsay in the opening for the first season.
** In season one's ''Who Can You Trust?'', Heather is able to ''remove Gwen's skirt completely''. They're purple with a skull, in case you're wondering. She also wears stockings.
** In the episode of ''Island'' where Izzy comes back, she scratches her ear with her foot while on all fours.
** A flat-out blatant shot occurs in the third season episode "Slap Slap Revolution". Sierra tells the audience that she makes a notch on her belt every time Heather tries her [[GenreSavvy "best friend"]] tactics. She then whips off her belt to show it off, [[{{Fanservice}} giving a good long shot of her in just her skivvies]]. [[RefugeInAudacity Yikes]].
* PepperSneeze: In "Beach Blanket Bogus", Trent spills pepper on his breakfast and then tosses it over his shoulder, straight into Heather's face, causing her to sneeze for the rest of the scene.
* PerverseSexualLust: All the characters have these types of fans, but the most vocal are Cody's fangirls and Bridgette's fanboys.
* PetTheDog:
** Heather gets several. Alejandro gets one when he protects Cody from Sierra, and Heather gets one for helping Sierra.
** Even Chris gets one in "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time In Japan": After Harold's elimination, Chris wishes him luck with no trace of sarcasm.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In ''World Tour,'' the mostly-female Team Amazon has a pink logo while the mostly-male Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot has a blue one.
* PiranhaProblem:
** At times, Lake Wawanakwa is stocked with piranha. In ''Revenge of the Island'', [[UpToEleven the piranha are mutated]].
** Chris uses a piranha pit as an obstacle in "That's Off the Chain".
** The Amazon episode of ''World Tour'' featured both Owen and Tyler falling into a river and getting attacked by piranhas.
* {{Pixellation}}: Played straight and (maybe) for laughs when privates are exposed.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe examples with "Duncney" (Duncan/Courtney), "Gigette" (Geoff/Bridgette), "Gwuncan" (Gwen/Duncan) and "Coderra"/"Siody" (Sierra/Cody).
* PositiveDiscrimination:
** Surprisingly averted: DJ for example is non-white and is a total coward. Leshawna (who is black) has gone through a lot of emotional and physical pain. Cameron was a bubble boy until shortly before the competition and finds out the hard way that a butterfly was too ''heavy'' to rest on his head (though, his character was given a RaceLift in pre-production, so it's unknown if he was always like that.)
** Played straight in ''World Tour''. Team Amazon, which consists of mostly females ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Cody]]), won most of the challenges.
* PowerTrio: The show loves this trope. [[FreudianTrio Geoff, DJ and Duncan]] (season 1), [[TokenTrio Leshawna, Trent and Gwen (season 1)]], [[TheHecateSisters Heather, Lindsay and Beth]] (season 1), [[BeautyBrainsAndBrawn Heather, Courtney and Gwen]] (season 3)
* {{Precap}}
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy:
** Harold apparently has mad beatboxing and rap skillz.
** Also, Ezekiel as a wannabe gangsta.
* PreviouslyOn
* ProperlyParanoid: In ''World Tour,'' it turns out that Courtney's and Trent's fears that Duncan and Gwen were becoming more than friends were pretty understandable after all.
* PropRecycling:
** The wings that Tyler and Cody used in "Greece's Pieces" turn up again in "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon", used by Scott in the flying challenge.
** In the same episode, the wings Zoey taped onto her swan boat? They're the wings on Gwen's bike from "That's Off the Chain!"
** Izzy's crown from her second audition tape is worn by Courtney as part of her princess outfit in "The Princess Pride".
** The white gruel stuff served to the campers in ''Island'' appears as Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's breakfast in "Broadway, Baby!"
* PsychoForHire: Chef Hatchet, and in a way Duncan.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis
--> '''Sierra:''' "I! WANT! MY! KISS!"/"RESPECT! MY! CODY!"
--> '''Tyler:''' "NEVER! LEAVE! A MAN! BEHIND!"
--> '''Chris:''' "TOTAL! DRAMA! [ISLAND!/ACTION!/WORLD TOUR!/REVENGE OF THE ISLAND!]"
* PutOnABus:
** Izzy and Eva [[TheBusCameBack reappeared]] once the teams were disbanded, though Eva [[BackForTheDead gets kicked off in the exact same episode]].
** This is what will happen to the entire cast when Total Drama Revenge of the Island airs, though it has been confirmed some of them will make cameos. Respectively, Owen, Izzy, Bridgette, Lindsay, Ezekiel, Gwen, Duncan, Heather, and DJ made cameo appearances in TDRI, and all but Owen and Ezekiel were (officially) involved in the episode's challenge, either demonstrating the challenge (Bridgette and Duncan), being a part of the challenge itself (Izzy, Lindsay, Gwen, and DJ), [[spoiler:or in Heather's case, both]].
* PuttingAHandOverHisMouth: Sierra does this to Gwen in "The Am-AH-Zon Race".
* PyrrhicVictory:
** [[spoiler: Heather and Alejandro in both ''World Tour'' endings.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Beth]] if one uses the alternate ending. The money was used to pay off the damage done to the Mona Lisa in the special, and [[spoiler: she's completely left out of the third season.]]
* TheQuietOne: Justin only has TWO LINES of dialogue in the first season (not counting TDDDDI), and they were both in the first episode. It didn't help much that he was one of the earlier people to be voted off(Episode 5).
* RashomonStyle: One of the show's [[Funny/TotalDramaIsland funniest moments]] is the way DJ retells the mummy-dog incident he had in Egypt.
** '''What really happened:''' DJ pats the mummy dog. It disintegrates.
** '''DJ's version:''' DJ, wearing Harold's tinfoil hat for some reason, pats the mummy dog. [[MadeOfExplodium It explodes.]] [[StuffBlowingUp Then the pyramid explodes too.]]
* ReadTheFinePrint: Chris has all of the campers under contract, and uses the fine print to force them into season 2, dumping heaps of abuse on them without repercussions; no court in any sane world would let such contracts stand.
* RealityTVShowMansion: In Chris' new, fake show, "Total Drama Dirtbags." According to Noah, it's entire premise is, "A bunch of jerks live in a huge mansion and get all bored and backstabby."
* RecordNeedleScratch: Used in "The Ex-Files" in the scene with Tyler and the alien.
* RedOniBlueOni: [[spoiler: Heather and Alejandro]] respectively in the last song of ''World Tour''. It's debatable how well it fits, though.
* RedShirt: The interns. One of them got eaten by sharks (presumably), another one got eaten by scarabs, another two got eaten by bears, two more got frozen in a river in the Yukon, another one got attacked by Courtney when he was in a hot air balloon, another one got pushed off a 100-foot diving board by Chef, one had to go through therapy for months after being cursed at by Izzy, and that's not even counting what probably happened to more interns off-screen.
** Dakota becomes a MauveShirt after her elimination and her dad pays Chris a large bribe.
* RevengeOfTheSequel: Subverted in that the title of Season FOUR, rather than Season Two, is subtitled like this with respect to Season One. [[spoiler:It is possible that they could have Season 5 be ''Revenge of the Action'' and Season 6 be ''Revenge of the World Tour (But not until the case against Chris for making the camp radioactive is settled.)]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: DJ's bunny, the chipmunks, the squirrels, and even the skunks, as well as the baby pandas (when they're tamed...)
* RingRingCrunch: The first morning after Brick switches over to the Toxic Rats, his alarm clock wakes the other guys up extremely early and they all try to get rid of or destroy it. Lightning's confessional from the episode even provides the quote for the page.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Subverted at the end of World Tour. At the beginning of Revenge of the Island, everyone is seen on a yacht, still alive.
** [[spoiler: This excludes [[HumiliationConga Blainley]], so she may have drowned (notice, she was bandaged and strapped to a dolly)]].
* RockyRollCall: In the episode "Are We There Yeti?" the four remaining campers get stuck in a cave after running from Sasquatchanakwa --
-->'''Owen:''' Duncan?
-->'''Heather:''' Owen?
-->'''Duncan:''' Heather?
-->'''Heather:''' Duncan?
-->'''Gwen:''' Heather?
-->'''Heather:''' Gwen?
-->'''Owen:''' Gwen?
-->'''Gwen:''' Owen?
* RunningGag:
** Owen's farting, Chris' vanity and douchebaggery behavior, Lindsay not remembering people's names, Beth's braces removal and fake/real boyfriend in ''Action'', Courtney mentioning her CIT training, Justin taking off his shirt, Harold getting into slapfights with female campers, DJ accidentally injuring animals, Lindsay not understanding the voting process, etc.
** A one-episode gag in World Tour: 3 times the women go into the confession bathroom, and say something embarrassing involving a love interest, which is immediately followed by an extreme closeup and them exclaiming "I want that tape back! Give me the tape! How do I ''open'' this thing?"
** "This person will be taking the Drop of Shame! ...Or, they would be, (if this wasn't a reward challenge/[[RuleOfDrama because they'll stir up drama]] / [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem because I feel like it]]!)
* SacredFirstKiss: Subverted hard with Cody, in his [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor first kiss]] on the show. He even vomited in the confessional.
* SadistShow
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl:
** Noah to Izzy.
** Cody to Sierra.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[LethalChef Chef]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hatchet]]
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Many, if not all, of the male characters tend to scream like this.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections:
** Courtney has her lawyers get her back on ''Action'' in episode 13, and make her immune from being voted off. She also gets the unfair advantage of using her PDA, letting her keep in touch with the outside world, and gains other luxuries such as her own private bathroom ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse although the luxuries are never mentioned after episode 14, and she's even seen using the communal showers later on]]).
** Dakota's rich dad [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney pays Chris a large bribe to let her back on the show]]. Chris accepts, though he makes Dakota an [[MauveShirt intern]].
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Chris. [[RuleOfFunny All the way.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful:
** In the second season, Justin uses his looks to try to manipulate people, get out of work, and avoid elimination.
** Lindsay does a minor version of this in the first episode, when she asks Chris if she could have a cabin with an ocean view since she's the prettiest camper.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Zig-zagged; it's played straight is some instances but subverted in others. Duncan in ''World Tour'' and Anne Maria in ''Revenge of the Island'' play it straight, while Heather in ''Island'' and Zoey in ''Revenge of the Island'' threaten to walk out on a challenge; however, they were convinced to participate.
* ScullyBox: Cody is actually drawn a couple inches above the ground whenever Sierra uses MarshmallowHell, to make up for their [[TinyGuyHugeGirl height differences]].
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan:
** Within the Killer Bass, DJ (sensitive), Duncan (manly), and Geoff (sensitive to Duncan, manly to DJ). The DJ/Duncan pairing continues in ''Action''.
** Within the Mutant Maggots (early on), Cameron (sensitive), Mike (manly), and Brick (sensitive to Mike, manly to Cameron).
*** Thanks to his SplitPersonality, Mike is both sensitive (his normal self) ''and'' manly (Vito and Manitoba Smith).
* ShapedLikeItself:
** "They're stranded in Drumheller, where the number one cause of death is being stranded in Drumheller."
** "Owen, Owen! He's our guy! If he can't do it... uh... He's not our guy!"
* ShesGotLegs: Several female cast members have long legs, making up for more than half of their height. Heather and Katie show theirs off with [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]], while Izzy shows hers off with her skirt/wrap.
* ShipTease:
** Duncan with Gwen, and to a lesser extent with Heather, and Harold with Heather or Leshawna.
** Any combination of Gwen, Duncan, Heather, Alejandro, Courtney and Cody in Picnic at Hanging Rock. It's enough to make your head spin.
* ShockAndAwe: The furless mutant squirrel from ''Revenge of the Island'' can shoot lightning out of its [[EyeBeams eyes]].
* ShockingElimination:
** [[spoiler: Justin, Courtney, Bridgette, and Leshawna]] in ''Island'',[[spoiler: Heather, Justin, and Leshawna]] in ''Action'', [[spoiler:Gwen and Cody]] in ''World Tour''.
** Lampshaded by Chris during [[spoiler: Bridgette]]'s elimination:
---> '''Chris:''' Okay, that was a shocker. I was shocked, and I knew the answer!
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler: Is it a coincidence that Izzy, DJ, and Noah, (specifically in that order) the three primary sources of humor for the first half of season 3, were all eliminated just prior to or right as Duncan returned to the game? And is it also not a coincidence that the minute Noah left, the Love Triangle Saga officially began?]]
* ShortRunInPeru:
** World Tour episodes premiered first in Australia, and future episodes have been leaked out of Youtube ever since.
** Again with Revenge of the Island; it premiered in France first, a few weeks before it premiers in Canada.
* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TotalDramaIsland many, to varied sources. It has its own page]].
* ShowWithinAShow:
** ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'' are all reality shows within the ''Total Drama'' universe.
** The ''Action'' special also featured a TMZ-equse show called ''Celebrity Manhunt'', which tracked down the contestants once ''Action'' ended.
** Blaineley apparently hosts ''[[TheBachelorette The Puppy Bachlorette]]''.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Izzy gets one in World Tour after jumping into a radioactive box. She's disappointed there's no radio inside.
* [[SingleMindedTwins Single Minded Friends]]: Katie and Sadie. Trent even points out that they snore together, one breathing in with the other one completing the snore.
* {{Slapstick}}
* SlapSlapKiss: Courtney and Duncan, and later Heather and Alejandro.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SleepCute: A few characters in ''The Big Sleep'' (naturally), Duncan/Courtney and Bridgette/Geoff in ''The Sucky Outdoors'', Harold/Leshawna and Noah/Cody (along with Duncan/Courtney again) in the ''Action'' special ''Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Reunion''.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: More cynical every season.
* SlipperySwimsuit:
** In "Haute Camp-Ture", Izzy emerges from the pool having found a bikini bottom. It's hers.
** Owen also loses his trunks in both the cliff-jumping challenge in ''Island'' and the theme song of ''World Tour''.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** Blainely has an extremely high opinion of her host skills which have so far included such achievements as getting fired from one show, getting escorted off set from another after throwing a tantrum and causing $500,000 worth of damage to the Aftermath studio after setting off an animal stampede. To quote Blaineley herself: ''"What?? Who am I? Who am I?!? Who are you?! I'm the host of the Puppy Bachelorette! I was nominated for a Gemmie award. I interviewed you for Celebrity Manhunt! It's a fact and scientific that I'm still Blainerific!"''
** Courtney.
* SmarmyHost: Chris, taken to humourously sociopathic levels.
* SnapBack: Most character's injuries are undone in the transition to the following episode. Exceptions include any case where the character lost their hair, the tooth Heather lost from Leshawna beating her up in "Slap Slap Revolution," which had to be replaced with a golden tooth for the remainder of the season, and [[spoiler: Gollum!Ezekiel and Drama Machine!Alejandro]], in the transition from the ''World Tour'' finale to TheCameo in the ''Revenge of the Island'' premiere.
* SoloDuet: Alejandro with his puppet self in [[VillainSong "This Is How We Will End It]]."
* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring: In ''Camp Castaways''
* SpitTake:
** Chris does this to Noah after the latter gives him a cold latté.
** Heather does one when Chris informs her that she has to battle a Sumo wrestler in ''"Phobia Factor"''.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal:
** Izzy does this in the second episode of ''World Tour'' with a camel. No, really. She even named it Ruby.
** Dawn in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* SpoiledSweet: Lindsay, Cody, and Dakota.
* SpotlightStealingSquad:
** Owen, Duncan and Heather are considered the most notorious. In fact, while Owen appeared and spoke in every episode of ''Island'', Heather is the only contestant to appear in ''every'' episode of two seasons. [[note]]She appeared but didn't speak in every episode of ''Island'', and also appeared and spoke in every (non-aftermath) episode of ''World Tour''.[[/note]] Duncan made it to the Final Five in every season he competed in, since his third time involved being captured by Team Amazon in London.
** Gwen and Courtney are also fairly notorious, particularly because of the LoveTriangle between them and Duncan in ''Action'' and ''World Tour''.
** Lindsay and Leshawna also tend to get focused on a lot during the first two seasons, mostly due to their conflicts with Heather and Courtney; however, the two are [[OutOfFocus eliminated]] from ''World Tour'' early on.
** For a single season only, Beth in ''Action'' and Cody, Sierra, and Alejandro in ''World Tour''.
* {{Squee}}: Katie, Sadie, and Sierra are big time squee-queens. Lindsay and Beth also have some moments.
* StabTheSalad: Harold does a non-violent variation of this during "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time in Japan". When selecting a someone to vote off he dramatically raises his passport-stamper over his teammates passports and then brings it down... onto a deflated beach ball.
* StalkerWithACrush: Sierra for most of the cast, but ''especially'' Cody. She mentions having called members of his family pretending to be a telemarketer.
--> '''[[DeadpanSnarker Noah]]''': ''(in complete monotone)'' Ooh, stalker-licious.
--> '''Cody''': She's like the stalker girlfriend I always wished I had... until I ''got'' one!
* StealthPun:
** In the intro to ''World Tour'', Gwen crashes into Duncan and Courtney's [[{{Shipping}} boat]].
** Alejandro calls Owen, "Butter donkey". "Butter" is "fat" and "donkey" is "ass". [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Think about it.]]
* StockScream: The girl screaming in the slasher film in "Hook, Line, and Screamer". The same scream is used after Dakota falls into the mudpit in "Truth or Laser Shark".
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike
* {{Stripperiffic}}: A good chunk of the female cast, but especially Heather and Izzy.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Owen to Justin.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In ''World Tour'' and in ''Revenge of the Island'', some of the new cast members are such to the original cast members:
** Brick to DJ (both are strong but overly sensitive guys).
** Dakota to Lindsay (both are rich, spoiled dumb blondes). She is also one to Ezekiel in ''World Tour'' (both don't make it very far in their respective seasons [[spoiler:and get transformed into horrible monsters]]).
** Dawn to Bridgette and DJ (all three are nature lovers).
** Jo to Eva (both are jock-ettes, although Jo is a lot less angry).
** Zoey to Beth (both are nice but socially awkward girls).
** Alejandro (and later Scott) to Heather (all three are arrogant, manipulative antagonists).
*** Scott also suffers a suspiciously similar fate to [[spoiler:Alejandro]].
** Sierra to Katie and Sadie (all three often [[{{Squee}} squeal]] and are an AbhorrentAdmirer to somebody).
* SympatheticAdulterer: Duncan and Gwen, depending mostly on your opinion of Courtney and[=/=]or them.
* TakeAThirdOption:
-->'''Blaineley:''' ''(about the Ezekiel sightings on the plane)'' What do you think? Real, or fake?
-->'''Katie:''' Ghost!
-->'''Sadie''': Aaaah!
* TakeThat:
** Sierra appears to be a blatant parody of the series fangirls and their [[RelationshipSue original characters they like to pair people like Cody with]].
** Many fans believe that the elimination order in ''World Tour'' was a TakeThat to [[BigNameFan The Kobold Necromancer and Winter-Rae]] because all of the first five eliminations were their favorite characters.
* TalkingToHimself:
** Clé Bennett voices both Chef and DJ, who have more scenes together in ''Total Drama Action''.
*** DJ's momma is also voiced by the same [[CrossDressingVoices guy]].
** Owen and Trent similarly have a few conversations while being voiced by the same person (Scott [=McCord=]).
** Cody and Tyler, who are both voiced by Peter Oldring, have a couple of conversations in ''World Tour''.
** Novie Edwards voices Leshawna's cousin Leshaniqua. Likewise, Christian Potenza voices Chris' cousin Jerd [=McLean=].
* TeamMom: Courtney. Well, she tries to be at least.
* TeamShot: Each opening ends with a shot of the contestants. See also the page picture, which happened during the first episode.
* TeensAreShort: Mostly averted, as many of the contestants are the same height, if not taller, than Chris. Also, Blaineley is roughly the same height as the teens. A few contestants, such as Cameron and Dawn, play this straight, however.
* TemptingFate:
** DJ in "Not So Happy Campers - Part One":
--> "It's our first challenge, how hard can it be? ...Oh sh- ''(bleep)''"
** Courtney in "The Sucky Outdoors".
* ThatCameOutWrong: This seems to usually happen to Owen whenever he says something AmbiguouslyGay.
* ThemeTuneCameo:
** In "Ocean's Eight: or Nine", Chris' car horn plays the "I Wanna be Famous" tune when he drives up.
** In the "Chinese Fake-Out", it's his ringtone, justified as the show is a ShowWithinAShow in-universe, so its theme song would be known by Chris. The ringtone shows up again in "Ice, Ice Baby".
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Seriously.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When Chef Hatchet kills Mr. Coconut at the beginning of ''Camp Castaways''
* ThermometerGag: "One Flu Over the Cuckoos" does this. When everyone but Leshawna and Duncan are sick, Duncan attempts to put a rectal thermometer in Harold's mouth.
* TheUnsmile:
** Heather does one in ''World Tour'' when Sierra invites her for a group hug.
** Eva does one in the alternate ending of ''Island'' after [[spoiler: Gwen wins.]]
* TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste: The buried alive conflict between Gwen and Trent from season one. It was incredibly flimsy and came up in random times, as Gwen wanted to be in the same boat as Trent by the episode after Trent left her buried alive, but suddenly the entire conflict comes up again three episodes later. And after that the entire thing just dissolves and is never brought up again.
* ThickLineAnimation
* ThisIsGonnaSuck
* ThoseTwoGuys: Noah and Tyler in ''World Tour''.
* ThreeFacesOfEve: Heather's Alliance in the first season. Lindsay was the sweet one, Beth was the "wife-like" one and Heather was the seductress.
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** "The Am-AH-zon Race" almost feels like the writers are apologizing to Team Victory, not only giving them the win but giving them the least amount of trouble throughout the hike.
** After a season and a half of forgetting who he was, Lindsay FINALLY remembered Tyler in "Slap Slap Revolution", and it brought back their relationship.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Cody and Sierra. [[spoiler:Sam and Dakota after the latter's mutation.]]
* ToiletHumour: [[CreatorsPet Owen's]] main schtick, besides [[BigEater fat jokes]].
* TokenMinority: Averted. Six cast members are black (DJ, Chef Hatchet, Leshawna, Cameron, Lightning, and B), one is Asian (Heather), one's Indian (Noah), two Hispanic (Alejandro and Courtney), one's native Hawaiian (Justin) and one's probably interracial (Sierra mentions that her grandparents are German implying at least one white parent).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: There are several pairings.
** Within the Killer Bass, Bridgette (tomboy) and Courtney (girly girl).
** Within the Screaming Gophers and later, the Killer Grips, Beth (tomboy) and Lindsay (girly girl).
** Within Team Victory: Bridgette (tomboy) and Lindsay (girly girl).
** Within Team Amazon: Sierra and Gwen (tomboys) to Heather and Courtney (girly girls).
** Within the Mutant Maggots, Jo (tomboy) and Zoey and Anne Maria (girly girls).
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Bridgette gets her tongue stuck to a flagpole in ''"Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better"'' in ''World Tour''.
* TonightSomeoneKisses
* TooDumbToLive:
** Lindsay and Dakota.
** Parodied in the slasher episode. After learning that they are facing either a serial killer or challenge based around one, the campers immediately start splitting off in groups of one to two to take showers, go to the bathroom, grab a snack, and make out in the woods.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** Geoff, Justin, Courtney, and to a lesser extent, Leshawna, Owen and Beth in ''Action''.
** Geoff has now toned down the jerkiness, only for Duncan, Cody and possibly Gwen to have gained a level in it.
* TooQuirkyToLose: Owen, who wasn't physically fit, wasn't very smart, and often times was TheLoad for his cabin, won the first season.
* TooSoon: The reason ''Revenge of the Island'' was postponed. It was originally meant to air in the middle of 2011, but after the Tohoku earthquake and nuclear reactor failure, the creators decided to re-edit the show to tone down or remove a lot of the references to radioactivity. The whole process took enough time to end up pushing the airdates into 2012. However said season did air in 2011 in Canada.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
** The ad for one late season two episode revealed that [[spoiler:Owen would return]]. They also shot themselves in the foot by [[spoiler:putting his name into two of the episode titles]].
** Subverted hard in the commercials showing before ''Island'' went live. They mention that [[spoiler: Owen's probably an unlikely candidate for victory. Then he wins.]]
** The trailer for Total Drama, the Musical (not called "World Tour" at the time), which was released midway through Total Drama Action, basically spoiled the ''Action'' special by giving away the arrival of Alejandro and Sierra, and which of the campers would not be returning.
** Most of the ''World Tour'' previews and trailers have large scale group shots which pretty much confirm which characters make it up to what episode, due to the incredibly obvious backgrounds (pyramids, the Eiffel Tower) most viewers found it extremely easy to deduce exactly which episodes each character is present in.
** They also told us that Izzy and Sierra would switch teams after the first episode of ''World Tour''. However, In their defense, it was only in the next episode.
** And also Duncan returning to ''World Tour'' despite quitting earlier on.
** The trailer for the France episode of ''World Tour'' included a shot of [[spoiler: Lindsay wearing a parachute]].
** [[RuleOfThree Another]] ''World Tour'' trailer ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4jHKnLAlg this one]]) showed off [[spoiler: Duncan and Gwen kissing.]]
* [[EveryoneHatesMimes Trent Hates Mimes]]
* {{Troperrific}}: Obviously, since it's meant to be a lampooning of contemporary reality shows.
* TruthTellingSession:
** Gwen, Duncan and Heather are forced to have one [[ItMakesSenseInContext while trapped in a tree house on a deserted island]]. Unfortunately, [[TheUnreveal the viewer never hears what they have to say.]]
** Also seen earlier on in ''Phobia Factor'' when the contestants discuss their personal fears.
* TryNotToDie: Said word-for-word by Chef to the remaining contestants in ''Are We There Yeti?'' when he drops them off in the middle of the woods.
* {{Tsundere}}:
** Courtney, Gwen, Duncan, and possibly Leshawna.
** Heather, of all people, to Alejandro.
** When pushed too far, Zoey.
* TuckAndCover: When the jet explodes in ''Awwwwww, Drumheller'' Alejandro is seen shielding Heather from the blast.
* UnSpokenPlanGuarantee: Anytime someone tries to get an antagonist voted off. If it's the antagonist organizing the vote, it goes off without a hitch.
* UngratefulBastard:
** Cody towards Sierra.
** In the special, Duncan wrestles an alligator for Courtney to get back the case with the $1,000,000 in it. Seconds later, he sprains his ankle and she runs off with the case.
** Izzy carries Ezekiel (whom she mistook for a "[[FreakyIsCool cool]]" Egyptian mummy) out of a collapsing pyramid, indirectly allowing him to complete the challenge. His response? He struggles to get away from her and doesn't even acknowledge the rescue, let alone thank her for it.
* TheUnreveal: How Duncan landed in Juvie, and some other juicy bits about Heather and Gwen (IF that's her real name).
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Owen to Trent, with his advice about how to please Gwen. Also Tyler in "Greeces' Pieces"
* UpToEleven: According to the creators, one of the main ideas behind the show: to take a bunch of elements from shows like ''{{Survivor}}'' and ''Fear Factor'' and ramp it up to impossible things like jumping off the thousand foot cliff, "because it's animation and we can get away with stuff like that".
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: When Island ended, there were rumors going around that characters other than Owen or Gwen had won in certain countries. The most extreme example would be [[WeHardlyKnewYe ''Ezekiel'']] in certain parts of Asia.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Hotheaded tomboy Eva is the first girl to be voted off. [[spoiler: Then again she ''does'' come back... only to be voted off immediately afterwards. And she's not qualified to compete in the second season. OR the third.]]
* VerbalTic:
** Ezekiel. Yo, he's the only one that talks like a stereotypical [[CanadaEh Canadian, eh]]?
** Staci starts a lot of her statements with "yeah".
** Lightning tends to add the prefix "SHA-" to several words he says, especially his name.
* VillainProtagonist: Chris McLean.
* VillainSong:
** ''This is How We Will End it''.
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOf8x9ht1ME&NR=1 Versus]]'' could be considered one for Al and Heather (as she could still be considered one). Also doubles as a TheVillainSucksSong to ''each other''.
* TheVillainSucksSong:
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAWjHv-VlUg Her Real Name Isn't Blaineley]]." and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4b9JBobg88 Sisters]]."
** [[TheVillainSucksSong "Villain" Sucks Song]]: ''Boyfriend kisser, I thought she was my friend, but now it's time to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiN7siRZ7Rk&feature=player_embedded diss her...]]''
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOf8x9ht1ME&NR=1 Versus]]'' is rather unique as it's a VillainSong with two villains singing {{The Villain Sucks Song}}s about ''each other''.
* TheVoiceless: B [[spoiler:That is until he got voted off (and that was the only time we actually heard him.]]
** In ''Action'', Ezekiel and Tyler fill in this role because they do not speak at all in the season(not counting CMTDARS).
* VotedOffTheIsland
* VomitIndiscretionShot
** A few [[VomitDiscretionShot Vomit Discretion Shots]] too.
** There was also a couple of cases of VomitChainReaction
* WalkIntoCameraObstruction: In World Tour.
** "I See London" where Noah and Owen are about to fall off the plane with one parachute and Owen falls onto the camera cutting it to black
* WeCanRuleTogether: Alejandro [[spoiler: offers this to Heather as a way to prove his love, "Together we can take over the world," then she [[GroinAttack rejected it]].]]
* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Several challenges are lost this way, such as Chris refusing Team Chris Is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot from continuing the Amazon challenge while they were missing Owen.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Ezekiel delivers one while managing to hang on to the plane after his ''World Tour'' elimination.
-->'''Ezekiel:''' I'm not going anywhere! This game's mine, eh! MINE!
* [[WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture We Do Not Use Photoshop In The Present]]: The photo Alejandro fabricated to make Sierra vote for Heather.
* WhaleEgg: Mutant fire-breathing goat eggs are part of the challenge in "Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon".
-->'''Cameron:''' [[LampshadeHanging Goats don't lay eggs.]]
-->'''Chris:''' They also don't breathe fire. Unless they live here.
* WhamEpisode:
** ''I See London'', in which everything was fairly normal until [[spoiler: FanPreferredCouple Gwen and Duncan became canon.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** What happened to Brady?
** What happened to DJ's second pet bunny?
** In Action: [[spoiler: Is Owen's family still $50,000 dollars in debt for making a cheese cellar? Owen got outed as Chris' mole prematurely and asks if he'll still get paid, but we do not get confirmation either way.]]
** In ''World Tour'': Halfway through the season Chris abruptly stops handing out Barf Bags Full of Airline Issued Peanuts at elimination ceremonies to announce who is safe. Instead, he just tells them who's eliminated.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute:
** Duncan gets his pet tarantula sent to him near the end of ''Action''. No amount of Duncan [[RightHandCat holding and stroking it]] or [[PetTheDog genuinely showing affection for it]] could have protected it.
** The scarabs were so cute when they were in love (but not very cute when they were eating that nameless intern.)
* WhenItRainsItPours: Combined with TemptingFate in the Sucky Outdoors challenge.
* WhoIsDriving?: Happens when Chef decides to join Chris in the main body of the plane during ''World Tour''.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: An episode had the campers face their fears (Snakes was one of them). Some have legitimate fears while others have weird or silly fears.
* WilliamTelling: Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' where the contestants have to shoot crabapples from a slingshot in order to knock arrows off their partner's head.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: In ''Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better'' Bridgette gets her tongue frozen stuck to a pole. It doesn't even seem to occur to her close friends Gwen and Courtney to help. Okay, she was on a different team but still, that's [[IncrediblyLamePun pretty cold.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Team Victory in ''World Tour''. Among their advantages in the competition, they had six people on their team, while the other teams had five, of those six, five of them were in the final 10 in ''Island and/or ''Action'' and competed in the first three seasons. Despite this, Team Victory was quickly wiped out in six straight elimination episodes. Four of those eliminations were caused by the new BigBad Alejandro to quickly establish how much of a threat he was.
* WorldGoneMad: While the universe they exist in is relatively sane, the Total Drama show-verse is very much this. [[OnlySaneMan Saner]] characters like Gwen will occasionally [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on how odd and/or psychopathic almost everyone related to the show is.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Duncan explicitly states that he has no issues with fighting a girl. [[spoiler:Doesn't stop Courtney from kicking his butt though.]]
** Likewise, Cody attacks Courtney during the ''World Tour'' finale, [[spoiler: and the exact same thing happens to him]].
** A more comical version would be Harold, who has had slapfights with both Heather and Courtney in ''Action'' and ''Island'' respectively.
* WouldntHitAGirl:
** Justin invokes this near the end of the ''Action'' episode ''The Princess Pride'' when he refuses to swordfight with [[spoiler: Courtney]] ("I would never hurt a lady. I refuse to raise a sword to [[spoiler:Courtney.]] I give up any chance at immunity to spare her.") Guess how she responds. [[spoiler:By smacking him off the castle tower]].
** Tyler also refused to hit Courtney in "Greece's Pieces". The exact same thing happens.
* XMeetsY:
** ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' meets ''{{Survivor}}''. [[AC: For Kids]] ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Sort of.]])
** ''Total Drama World Tour'' is ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' meets ''AmericanIdol''.
*** Or is that ''CanadianIdol''?
* {{Yandere}}: Sierra for Cody.
* YankTheDogsChain:
** You can say that this applies to whoever manages to win the money in the finale, seeing that in the ''Island'' special [[spoiler: Owen]] lost the money and [[spoiler: Duncan apparently lost his after the season two special,]] all to justify them entering the next competition.
** The ''World Tour'' finale [[spoiler:does it in record time to Heather, she doesn't have the money for more than a minute before Ezekiel steals it and falls in the volcano, which then erupts; the episode ends with a giant flaming boulder about to fall on her.]]
** [[spoiler: In Alejandro's ending, it's even worse. He doesn't even get to ''touch'' the money before it's destroyed.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Duncan (green mohawk), Gwen (teal highlights), Sierra (purple hair)[[spoiler:, and Dakota (bright green AnimeHair, post-mutation)]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Heather towards Lindsay in "That's Off the Chain".
** [[spoiler: Heather and Alejandro wanted to add DJ to their teams since he was the only member of his own to make their respective teams stronger. When Chris said to Al and DJ that DJ can't switch teams, Alejandro got him eliminated]].
** Chris says that about the original cast in the first episode of ''Revenge of the Island''.
** [[spoiler: Scott towards Mike after blackmailing him in "Grand Chef Auto".]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: DJ, Leshawna, Trent, Alejandro, Sierra, Brick, and Jo.
* YourCheatingHeart: Gwen and Duncan kissing in a bathroom stall. Also Bridgette and Alejandro in the Yukon.
* YuriFan:
** Chris is shown to enjoy making Beth dolls kissing each other in the ending of "The Princess Pride".
** Duncan said that Gwen and Heather's arguing "gave him the warm fuzzies".

** [[TheVillainSucksSong Villain Sucks Song]]: ''Boyfriend kisser, I thought she was my friend, but now it's time to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiN7siRZ7Rk&feature=player_embedded diss her...]]''

* TheAllegedCar: Some vehicles featured in the show are low budget, poorly designed, broken down, and not well maintained
** The Boat of Losers, though it's in better condition than most of the other vehicles regularly featured on the show.

** The single-prop plane from ''Island'' and the Total Drama Jumbo Jet are certainly less than airworthy. The First Class section and the "reserved for hosts only" rooms are the inside parts of the latter in better condition than the other rooms in the plane.
** The contestant-built bikes in "That's Off the Chain" deserve a nod, being built from salvaged bike parts and other materials. Some held together while others fell apart.

** In "Up Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon", the contestants had to build flying machines out of junkyard scrap. While the machines were functional, they were all destroyed by the end of the episode.

** Izzy, for being a [[AxCrazy "psycho hose beast"]].

* BigGood: WordOfGod says that the intern(s) will always be the true hero(s) of the series.

* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: This is how the prize money is delivered from "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island" on. However, most of the time, the case either gets stolen by a rouge former contestant [[spoiler:(Ezekiel in TDWT and Heather in TDRI)]] or comically destroyed [[spoiler:whether it's eaten by a shark or burned in a volcano]].

---> '''Izzy''': ''(yelling)'' Or I'll kick your ''(bleeping)'' butt! I want you all off this ''(bleeping)'' set! No, don't be ''(bleeping)'' "sorry"! Think for a second! No, no, will not take five, ''(bleep)''! You call yourself a director of photography?! Why were you walking right through the set?! '''WHY''' were you walking ''right through the (bleeping) set''?!! ''(Director runs off crying [[spoiler:with Izzy laughing]])'' [[spoiler:''(in a more calm voice)'' Okay, I was just kidding. Guys? I just went ballistic there for no good reason.]] What?

* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe, several of Chris's location/challenge descriptions in ''World Tour''. The contestants have corrected him on multiple occasions, but they weren't perfect themselves— Courtney was right about 8,000,000 B.C. being way too early for the building of the Great Wall, but dinosaurs ''were'' extinct by then...

--> "[[HoYay Haha, Cody's got a tiny sausage]]!"

--->"I'd like to ''bunk'' under her."

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Owen and Izzy (and in two challenges, Heather). B and Dawn.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Duncan and Gwen, depending mostly on your opinion of Courtney and[=/=] or them.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Duncan and Gwen, depending mostly on your opinion of Courtney or them.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Almost every single character has a {{Hypocrite}} moment at some point of the series, but arguably Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she chickened out, costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and gave herself numerous perks that gave her an unfair advantage. She also called Owen out on "unfairly getting back into the contest" when she herself did the same thing.

* LisaNeedsBraces: Beth. She gets them off before the second season.

** Although Sierra DID spend more time on the show hurting Cody than helping him. Especially in the African episode. So who could blame him?

** In ''Island'', Cody hits on all of the girls, but he likes Gwen in particular. Come ''World Tour'', he's only attracted to Gwen.

* BodyScreenFillUp:
** Total Drama Island episode "Paintball Deer Hunter" where DJ tosses Owen over the cliff. Owen is falling into the camera which fades to black and then falls out into the ocean
** Total Drama Action episode "3:10 to Crazytown" with Gwen, Trent, and Owen falling off a diving board onto a horse
** Total Drama World Tour episode "I See London" where Noah and Owen are about to fall off the plane with one parachute and Owen falls onto the camera cutting it to black

** Few people tend to notice this, but it is also a DownerEnding for [[spoiler: Alejandro. THE ONE TIME he decides to be good and chooses loves over money, he gets betrayed, and then disfigured. If he had continued being the jerk-ass he was during the whole season, he would have won without a problem]].
*** Actually [[spoiler:he did win because Heather threw the wrong dummy in. But, Ezekiel stole the million from Chris before he could deliver it to Alejandro. What's worse is that he gets trampled and burned afterwards]].

A popular [[CanadianSeries Canadian animated series]] produced by Teletoon from the creators of [[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]. The show is about 22 teens who sign up to star on a reality show similar to ''{{Survivor}}'' called ''Total Drama Island''. The first season takes place at a camp called Camp Wawanakwa, located on an island in an unspecified area in Muskoka, Ontario. They are divided into two teams, the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass (however, when the teams get too small "it's every man for himself"). The second season, ''Total Drama Action'', takes place on an abandoned film lot. The third season, ''Total Drama World Tour'', has the contestants traveling by plane to places all over the world and had a dramatic change in quality, but also has two new contestants. A fourth season, ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'', began airing in January 2012, and it features a cast of thirteen new contestants.

** [[BiggerBad Blaineley from the ''World Tour'' aftermath rivals Chris himself,]] taking sadistic glee in emotionally torturing Geoff and Bridgette.
** [[TokenEvilTeammate Scott]], who often resorts to [[TeamKiller destroying his own team]] to get ahead, [[TheSociopath showing no remorse for his actions.]]

** In "The Sucky Outdoors", Duncan uses one to scare the Killer Bass at the end of his campfire story.

** Also, Geoff when he found out he wouldn't be competing in Total Drama World Tour, and Heather [[spoiler: in the alternate ending for season three when she threw Alejandro's dummy into the volcano by mistake and gave him the win]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Songs about a person [[TongueOnTheFlagpole stuck to a pole]], stripping down guards (ItMakesSenseInContext), shearing sheep, and others never were so awesome.

** The most frustrating subplot of ''World Tour''. StalkerWithACrush Sierra likes HopelessSuitor Cody, who likes TheSnarkKnight Gwen, who likes BadAss Duncan, who likes Gwen back even though he's been dating {{Tsundere}} Courtney for about two years, and once they break up Courtney falls for BadassSpaniard Alejandro, who loves the AlphaBitch Heather, who likes [[spoiler:her prize money more than Alejandro]]. Brain hurt, yet?

* AlphaBitch: Heather and Courtney. Heather is more the typìcal Queen Bee whereas Courtney acts more like the AcademicAlphaBitch.

* AlphaBitch: Heather and Courtney. Heather is more the typìcal Queen Bee whereas Courtney acts more like the AcademicalAlphaBitch.

* AlphaBitch: Heather and Courtney.