History YMMV / TotalDrama

* FanartAtFirstSight: When the ''Pahkitew Island'' cast was revealed in 2014, they got a good chunk of fanart before the season even came out. The same applies to when the first promotional image of the cast of ''Island (2023)'' was revealed, [[EnsembleDarkHorse especially in Scary Girl's case]].

* TakeThatScrappy:
** Courtney's HumiliationConga that led to her elimination (Gwen dropping her as a friend and alliance partner, Scott dumping her, a bird puking on her ice cream sundae which she was then forced to eat, sharks barfing on her making her cry, etc.) fell under this for several fans who hated Courtney for her portrayal in ''Action'' and onwards. However, many fans wanted Courtney to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeem herself]], not only be punished.
** [[spoiler: Bowie's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Emma in episode 11 is considered awesome to witness for those who hate Emma for focusing all of her attention on [[ItsAllAboutMe Chase]].]]

** Noah ships tend to start a lot of discourse. Noah/Cody fans tend to have hostility with Noah/Duncan and Noah/Alejandro fans due to the former's HypeBacklash among the shipping fandom and the latter's FoeYayShipping, while Noah/Owen ships clash with them all due to the argument that Noah and Owen are either better as friends or claims that Owen isn't "attractive" enough compared to Noah's other fanon partners. The canon pairing of Noah and Emma stoked the flames the most; fans of that ship tend to blame Noah/Cody fans as the reason the ship is so controversial (though the BrokenBase about that plotline extends beyond shipping fandom, most detractors ''do'' tend to have preferred Noah ships) while Noah/Cody fans (and indeed most others with gay Noah ships) resent that Noah is no longer AmbiguouslyGay. Noah/Owen fans also clash with Noah/Emma due to the latter plotline taking attention away from Noah and Owen's friendship in ''Ridonculous Race.''

** Julia/MK shippers don't take kindly to shipping either character with men, so the second most popular Julia ship, Julia/Wayne, gets a lot of flak, especially since Julia hates Wayne in canon. Julia/Wayne shippers, on the contrary, tend to dislike how much Julia/MK domonates the fandom.

%%* ShipToShipCombat: There's plenty of ships fighting for dominance in the fandom, which isn't helped by the show's official [=YouTube=] channel seemingly actively encouraging it.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOu8-3NOH8 Duncan/Courtney vs. Scott/Courtney.]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMsvbUDmBCs Duncan/Gwen vs. Trent/Gwen as well]], with Duncan/Courtney fans typically [[ShipMates tag-teaming]] with Trent/Gwen fans.
%%** Duncan/Courtney vs. Duncan/Gwen (and recently, both have been taken hits by [[LesYay Gwen/Courtney]]).
%%** Scott/Courtney vs [[FanPreferredCouple Scott/Dawn]].
%%** Mike/Zoey vs. Duncan/Zoey.

%%** Noah/Cody vs. Noah/Owen

** Priya/Damien is shown to be a very popular ship, even after Priya/Caleb becomes canon. This is probably because Priya and Damien had moments of ShipTease in Part 1, with fans enjoying their MasculineGirlFeminineBoy dynamic with the two always being genuinely friendly and supportive with one another, with Priya's relationship with Damien being the only one not to have any issues. Fans also felt that Priya's go-getter nature would help push Damien to overcome his anxieties, while Damien's supportive nature is what Priya needs given her upbringing. It doesn't help that Priya's romance with Caleb [[RomanticPlotTumor takes over the back half of Part 2]].

* CharacterShilling: Throughout the first latter half of part two of the reboot characters went on and on about what a cunning, devious EvilGenius Julia supposedly was, [[OffscreenVillainy to spite the fact the audience never saw her do anything cunning or devious]].

** Owen, especially in the first two seasons. The writers and voice actors of the show often wrote glowingly of him and he placed 1st/2nd and 3rd in his first two seasons, yet he is considered a BaseBreakingCharacter due to his constant ToiletHumor and floating through the first two seasons without having any CharacterDevelopment. Many characters [[CharacterShilling give him praise]] throughout the seasons, such as Gwen calling him sane even when he does exceedingly odd or stupid things, and the rest of the cast talking about how awesome he was during his elimination in the 2nd season, despite the fact that [[TheLoad he cost the team the challenge and spent the entire episode trying to eat two of his teammates]]. He gets irrelevant CharacterFocus in the form of extended dream sequences. While it's toned down later on, with Owen being the first boot of the merge and not participating in "All-Stars", he still makes cameos signifying the writers' bias. Most notably, he's the only contestant to appear in every single season aside from ''Pahkitew Island'' (including both spin-offs) and his ending is heavily favored over Gwen's, with WordOfGod stating it as the preferred ending, with there being a pre-TDI special exclusive clip about his ending but none for Gwen's, with him referencing in Ridonculous Race that he had already won (although he must have meant a different show, given that he got to keep a one million dollar prize), and most jarringly - with the reboot outright treating his ending as the canon one.

** In part due to lack of screentime and his [[CanadaEh odd accent]], Ezekiel has developed a semi-ironic fandom as the face of Total Drama-related shitposting on places such as the Wiki and Reddit.

** ''Total Drama Island'' is frequently used to describe the series as a whole, despite only being the name of the first season.

** Owen in the first two seasons. The writers and voice actors of the show often wrote glowingly of him and he placed 1st/2nd and 3rd in his first two seasons, yet he is considered a BaseBreakingCharacter due to his constant ToiletHumor and floating through the first two seasons without having any CharacterDevelopment. Many characters [[CharacterShilling give him praise]] throughout the seasons, such as Gwen calling him sane even when he does exceedingly odd or stupid things, and the rest of the cast talking about how awesome he was during his elimination in the 2nd season, despite the fact that [[TheLoad he cost the team the challenge and spent the entire episode trying to eat two of his teammates]]. He gets irrelevant CharacterFocus in the form of extended dream sequences. While it's toned down later on, with Owen being the first boot of the merge and not participating in "All-Stars", he still makes cameos signifying the writers' bias.

** Mike and Zoey, especially once ''All-Stars'' aired. While Mike was more tolerated by fans for at least having a story arc (at least until the [[spoiler:reset button]] reared its ugly head), Zoey was just a plain, generic girl that the writers tried to promote as an ultimate heroine and embodiment of goodness. This only got worse as both coast their way to the finish with very little effort and in the latter's case wins more challenges than anybody else in the season, and are the only two to receive anything resembling a happy ending to their main conflict in the season.

* TrappedByMountainLions: [[spoiler: Damien finding the idol ultimately amounts to nothing as Julia ends up stealing it giving him a needlessly humiliating elimination. It feels like the show was originally writing him as the winner, but changed gears to extend the RomanticPlotTumor of Caleb and Priya and make Julia look even more of an InvincibleVillain.]]

** Even though Owen was competent in several challenges and was generally a very good team player in ''Island'', his detractors often point to him eating all the food in the cooking challenge to generalize him as a bad player and claim he shouldn't have been a finalist. He was also far from the only Gopher to screw up in that challenge.

** Chase and Emma's relationship in the first season of ''Island (2023)'' has its fair share of issues thanks to Chase being an egomaniac who cut Emma's brakes as a prank and Emma flip flopping between hating and loving Chase for his actions. Their repeating breaking up and getting back together despite all this hasn't endured the fans to them.