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2	'''Main Series:''' '''Hosts''' \| [[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass Killer Bass]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaScreamingGophers Screaming Gophers]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaScreamingGophersMale Male]], [[Characters/TotalDramaScreamingGophersFemale Female]]) \| [[Characters/TotalDramaNewWorldTourContestants New World Tour Contestants]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaMutantMaggots Mutant Maggots]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats Toxic Rats]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaPimapotewKinosewak Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon)]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaWaneyihtamMaskwak Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaFerociousTrout Ferocious Trout]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaFrogsOfDeath Frogs of Death]] \| [[Characters/TotalDramaOthers Others]]\
3	'''Spinoffs:''' [[Characters/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace Ridonculous Race Newcomers]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaRidonculousRaceAToL Teams A-L]], [[Characters/TotalDramaRidonculousRaceMToZ Teams M-Z]]) \| [[Characters/TotalDramaRama DramaRama]]-]]]]]
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5	[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama]]'s cast got so big that the page had to be split into several pages. This page is for the hosts, Chris [=McLean=] and Chef Hatchet.
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9	[[folder:Chris [=McLean=]]]
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11	->"''The great thing about lawyers is, that they make LOTS of copies.''"
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13	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristianPotenza (2007-2014), Creator/TerryMcGurrin (2023-)
14	-> '''Label:''' The Host With The Most
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16	The host of the ''Total Drama'' series. Chris is a sadistic and narcissistic sociopath who takes pleasure in the suffering and misfortunes of the contestants, loves to mess around with their relationships, and is willing to change the rules to his whim - all in order to maximize the show's ratings.
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18	Click here to see his [[SelfDemonstrating/ChrisMcLean self demonstrating]] page.
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20	* AffablyEvil: He's a good show host and a pretty chill dude, but he's a downright, self-acknowledged {{Sadist}}.
21	* AmbiguouslyBi: Chris has openly acknowledged Justin and Caleb's attractiveness, becoming easily enamoured with the latter. In the intro for the 2023 season of ''Island'', he and Chef also gaze at each other in place of the usual clip of the season's main couple. That said, it's implied that Chris has a crush on Lindsay if his "not too shabby" and "she's delicious" remarks are anything to go by and he enjoys the attention he receives from his female admirers as shown in the second season's special.
22	* ArchEnemy: To everyone who isn't named Chef. However, the original cast are easily the ones who hate him the most--after three seasons enduring his sadism, the ''only'' reason they bother sticking around is because of contractual obligations and another shot at a million dollars. Many blatantly state that they hate Chris with every fiber of their being.
23	* ArtisticLicense: Chris's ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem tendencies. In real life, a mere host would have to answer to much higher-ranking [[Characters/TotalDramaOthers producers]]. While the show sometimes correctly portrays them having some power over him, as they cancel some of his ideas for challenges when [[EvenEvilHasStandards they find them too dangerous]], there are times when Chris acts on his own without contacting the producers first or receiving orders from them, such as when he disqualifies an immune Sierra for destroying the plane in "[[Recap/TotalDramaAwwwwwwDrumheller Awwwwww, Drumheller]]" or when he disqualifies Max solely for being done with evil in "[[Recap/TotalDramaScarlettFever Scarlett Fever]]".
24	* ArtsyBeret: For the duration of the movie-themed ''Action'' season, Chris regularly wears a red beret to signify his role as film director.
25	* AssPull: Chris is the in-universe master of this trope. On many, many occasions he changes the rules of a competition at the last minute or after it's finished, or whenever he feels like it.
26	* AttentionWhore: {{Justified\|trope}} as he is the host of the show. {{Exaggerated\|trope}} in later seasons, such as "Team Chris Is Really Really Really Hot" in ''World Tour'' and the [=McLean=]-brand of products in ''Revenge of the Island''.
27	* AxCrazy: As Harold would say, Chris is freaking insane.
28	* BadBoss: Chris has a good amount of creative control over the show, often berates the production crew, and gets interns maimed or killed on the regular. The producers themselves don't care if it brings in ratings, and only intervene at the threat of a lawsuit.
29	* TheBadGuyWins: Zigzagged depending on the season as Chris does not have an ultimate outcome for his actions and instead torments the contestants until one of them remains to receive a cash prize from him for all the trouble. Revenge of The Island though is the only season in which he actually loses due to his arrest.
30	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In "Top Dog", when he's explaining the animal buddy challenge to the contestants, he has a parrot sitting on his shoulder. After it bites his finger, he tells the contestants to give him a minute, and then walks off screen. Violent sounds of punching and squawking are heard, then Chris comes back with his hair messed up and covered in feathers.
31	* BaldOfEvil: In Season 2, Aftermath part four, it shows Chris is actually bald and that his trademark hair is actually a toupee. And the evil... well, that's pretty much a given. This is later contradicted in "Ice to Beat You", where Chris is shown having a BadHairDay. Given that the reboot takes place fifteen years after the original ''Island'' in 2007 however, it's possible that Chris may have had a hair transplant since then.
32	* BerserkButton:
33	** Hearing anyone mention his age.
34	** Any mention of his past life.
35	** Being interrupted.
36	** Being corrected.
37	** Falling victim to any form of major property destruction whether it was accidental or not. He disqualified Sierra after she accidentally blows up his plane and then he disqualified Duncan and got him arrested after Duncan deliberately blew up Chris's cottage with dynamite.
38	** Being played by the contestant. In ''Revenge of the Island'', he once decides to make a safe and fun challenge for the contestants but angrily changed his mind after getting caught into one of Scott's traps, making him stuck in the outhouse. He manage to get his revenge when Scott gets eliminated by sending Fang along with him. He also set out to humiliate Topher in TDPI once he figured out Topher was deliberately getting under his skin so Chris would crack and Topher could replace him.
39	** Insinuating that he is a coward, as he furiously reacted upon seeing the footage of him screaming and cowering in "Zeek And Ye Shall Find".
40	** Showing any form of humiliating footage of him is a surefire way to get him upset. He freaked and fired Geoff and Bridgette from the Aftermath sessions when they showed a list of humiliating moments of him on TV, and they only got their jobs back thanks to the intervention of the producers. He furiously freaked over seeing himself get flung into the septic tank in Revenge of the Island, and he was steaming mad upon seeing the clips of him calling for help when captured by Ezekiel in All Stars.
41	* BeardOfEvil: Downplayed. While certainly evil, Chris only has PermaStubble.
42	* BestialityIsDepraved: When Larry's egg hatches, one of its offspring looks like Chris. When said offspring appears on the screen, Chris [[NotSoInnocentWhistle nervously whistles in response]].
43	* BigBad: Of the whole series. Chris creates all the challenges that causes the contestants' suffering, regularly puts them in life-threatening situations, and is antagonistic to everyone on the show.
44	* BrokenPedestal: To Sierra, who didn't register how cruel he was until she managed to incur his wrath by accidentally blowing up his jet at the end of "Awwwwww, Drumheller".
45	* TheBully: He loves treating Chef, his interns and teenage reality show contestants like crap because of how sadistic and mean-spirited he is.
46	* BunnyEarsLawyer: That's why they pay him the big bucks!
47	* CardCarryingVillain: He straight-out admits that he's a sadist and does not try to hide that fact at all.
48	* CatchPhrase: "Awwwee-some!!!", "Last time on Total Drama...", and "Right here. On Total. Drama..."
49	* CelebrityEndorsement: Chris will put his name and/or face on anything. In ''Revenge of the Island'', he has his own brand of products, including hot chocolate, soaps and conditioners, instant coffee, etc.
50	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was a [[TheGadfly gadfly]] earlier on before becoming more of a [[{{Sadist}} sadistic guy]].
51	* CheshireCatGrin: He's usually seen with a {{Sadist}}ic grin on his face.
52	* {{Comedic Sociopath\|y}}: Since ''Action'', he became a sadist, and it gets worse each season.
53	* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Of [[Series/{{Survivor}} Jeff Probst]]. Both are hosts of popular reality shows and have a few {{Jerkass}} tendencies here and there. However, whereas Jeff [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold still cared for the contestants]], Chris [[LackOfEmpathy shows utter disdain for the]] [[TeenHater teenage contestants]] and does whatever he can to torture them [[ForTheEvulz simply because he can]].
54	* DarkAndTroubledPast: WordOfGod states that Chris went through a traumatizing event that made him into the sadistic host that he is today. However, that particular event has never been revealed.
55	* DepravedKidsShowHost: Words cannot express the downright sadism and lack of empathy this man expresses as the host of a reality show with teenage contestants. He doesn't even ''attempt'' to hide his cruelty.
56	* TheDogBitesBack: Although he is usually a KarmaHoudini, [[LaserGuidedKarma Chris occasionally gets what's coming to him]]. In half the seasons, there's a moment the contestants or Chef Hatchet get back at him.
57	** In "The Very Last Episode, Really!" of ''Island'', he gets thrown into the lake by the contestants.
58	** In "The Aftermath: IV" of ''Action'', Geoff and Bridgette show a montage featuring Chris in humiliating moments on international television.
59	** In "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown" of ''Revenge Of The Island'', Chris gets pushed into the lake again by a bomb explosion although he is unharmed but wet. He also gets arrested for turning the island into an environmental disaster with toxic waste and spends an entire year in jail.
60	* DracoInLeatherPants: In-universe, Sierra's mother has a crush on him. Sierra herself thinks he's an amazing host, only realizing the full extent of his cruelty when he leaves her behind in "Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles".
61	-->'''Sierra:''' ''(confessional)'' [[BrokenPedestal Okay, mom? I know how hard it is to end a crush, but he's a total JERK-FACE! When I come home, the Chris [=McLean=] Museum/guest room better be DESTROYED!"]]
62	* DramaQueen: He screams and throws tantrums frequently--[[ComicalOverreacting most of the time over silly]], [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish reasons]].
63	* DreadfulMusician: As shown in "The Aftermath: IV", Chris is a terrible singer. This is probably why his time as a member of the boy band Fametown is an off-limits topic of discussion according to "Broadway, Baby!"
64	* DubNameChange: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to "Louis Mercier."
65	* DungeonMaster: His job is to make the challenges ''interesting'', and constantly [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem pays lip service to his own rules.]]
66	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He's a {{Narcissist}} who feeds off the pain and agony of his contestants, yet it seem his only positively functional relationship to a human is his mother (though he seems to be on good terms with his cousin Jerd). As evident, it has been revealed that he calls her everyday and in one instant his mother texted him her cat in a shoe box.
67	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: There's four people -- and four people only -- that Chris shows affection to: his mother, his cousin Jerd, his pet plant Larry, and Chef Hatchet. And just because he shows affection to the last two doesn't mean they're immune to his cruelty, but at least Chris doesn't want them dead.
68	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
69	** He was genuinely disgusted when Heather read Gwen's diary on National Television; and feels bad when, in the same episode, Justin is the one who gets voted off.
70	--->'''Chris:''' That's really messed up, dude.
71	** In "No Pain, No Game", he is disturbed by Izzy's willingness to do a poison ivy treatment challenge, and calls the production crew to get their approval before allowing it.
72	** He was horrified when [[OverlyLongName the psycho killer with a chainsaw and a hook]] came across Gwen. Admittedly, he was more worried about potential lawsuits rather than actual concern for her, but he still left the safety of his surveillance room (alongside everyone else) to warn her.
73	** Mike calls him out on this in "The Treasure Island of Dr. [=McLean=]", stating that burying someone alive is dangerous, even by Chris's standards.
74	** He is genuinely concerned when Sierra starts having a breakdown.
75	** Even ''he'' doesn't approve of Courtney trying to give his starving interns a sundae covered in chocolate coals and bird vomit in "Sundae Muddy Sundae", changing the rules so that the contestants have to eat their own sundaes and forbidding Courtney from eating anything else until she finishes hers.
76	--->'''Chris:''' You won't get anything else until you finish the sundae that you thought was ''good enough'' to feed my interns.
77	** While he may flush the losers down a giant toilet in ''All-Stars'', he gets pretty pissed at the Sasquatchanakwa for using it as an actual toilet.
78	--->'''Chris:''' Seriously, bro, we put ''PEOPLE'' in there!
79	** In "The Bold and the Booty-ful", he was genuinely scared when Mal came up out of nowhere and was about to hit Gwen with a pipe and it caused him to head to the panic room!
80	--->'''Chris''': Whoa! Where did he come from? That guy is just spooky!
81	** Like Sugar, he considered the way Sky rejected Dave in front of the world was 'pretty much like watching someone hoof a kitten in the nards'.
82	*** That's not to say he was above [[KickTheDog rubbing it in Dave's face]], of course.
83	** In "Scarlett Fever", he doesn't even waste time with [[spoiler:an elimination ceremony for Scarlett, instead chewing her out and throwing her off the island as soon as everything is resolved.]]
84	** Even ''he'' is scared of Scary Girl.
85	** In episode 10 of the reboot, he's just as sickened as everyone else when he learns just how awful of a boyfriend Chase was to Emma.
86	** While he's fine with making the contests eat gross food that's barely edible, making them eat ink still crosses a line for them.
87	** [[spoiler: When doing the recap of the waterside challenge, he found it harsh that Millie tricked Damien into going a dangerous four point pipe]].
88	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In the ''All-Stars'' finale Chris can't stand the fact that Mike and Zoey, Heather & Alejandro, and Gwen & Cameron were all happy and didn't remotely care about the game or challenge anymore.
89	* EvilCounterpart: Chris is this to Don (from ''The Ridonculous Race''). While Don cares more about fair play and prefers to be more faithful to the rules, Chris will stop at nothing to not only change the rules at the last minute and start drama at inopportune times.
90	* EvilLaugh: He pulls off a pretty impressive one in the first episode of ''Revenge of the Island'', and in "Finders Creepers".
91	* ExactWords: He often uses this as an AssPull to eliminate contestants based off a technicality:
92	** In "That's Off The Chain" he states that whoever crosses the finish line last in the bicycle race challenge will be automatically eliminated. He then eliminates Lindsay for crossing the finish line last since she crossed it second after Heather, and given that Owen and Duncan were taken out of commission due to the course hazard.
93	** In "Haute Camp-ture", the eliminated campers are given the chance to vote off a contestant from the final five. When the former contestants are discussing who they will vote off he counts every mention of Leshawna's name as a vote against her, including a parrot. Trent lampshades it by telling Chris it's a parrot who doesn't even know who Leshawna is, only for another vote to come in since he mentioned her name while saying that.
94	** In "I Triple Dog Dare You", Heather has to have her head shaved as part of Lindsay's dare, Heather however kicks the razor out of Chef's hands which ends up landing on her hair and shaving it bald anyway however she gets eliminated since she didn't technically accept the dare.
95	** In "I See London" he sets a challenge to capture Ezekiel dressed as Jack the Ripper, Owen and Noah do whereas Courtney and Gwen come back with Duncan. He's pleasantly surprised by this to the point that he declares their team the winner with the justification that he told them to "capture a criminal" which Duncan was.
96	** In the "World Tour" finale, he declares Alejandro the season's winner since Heather accidentally threw Alejandro's wooden-pineapple sacrifice instead of her own.
97	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: As stated by Beth.
98	* {{Expy}}: He is a parody of Jeff Probst, the host of ''Survivor.''
99	* FakingTheDead: In ''Get a Clue'', he uses a rubber replica of himself to pretend he was murdered as part of the mystery-solving challenge.
100	* {{Flanderization}}: He gets progressively more evil and [[{{Sadist}} sadistic]] with each passing season. In ''Island'' he at least has ''some'' semblance of humanity and was just a [[TheGadfly mean jokester]]. But by ''All-Stars'' he exists solely for the purpose to cause pain and suffering, which he thrives on. This is even lampshaded a few times where he explains it's due to the effects of his time spent in prison.
101	--> '''Chris:''' "After my involuntary year-long "vacation", I really need to be in a familiar environment, surrounded by the people I love... to ''hurt.''"
102	** Season 7 though [[spoiler:significantly tones down his flanderized personality]].
103	* ForTheEvulz:
104	** Before the start of the Yukon challenge, Chris mentions that in the past, he noticed that teams tend to work much harder during elimination rounds. [[ForTheLulz Just because he can]], he promises that every challenge ''COULD'' result in an elimination from that point.
105	** When people call him out for some of his excessively cruel challenges, he often comments "where would be the fun in that?"
106	* FreudianExcuse: According to WordOfGod. Chris suffered a tragic event in his past that made him the sadistic asshole he is today.
107	* TheGadfly: Early on in ''Island'', he was just a mean jokester.
108	* HatedByAll: The cast of every season hates him, but none more so than the first generation cast, many of whom are just sick of him and want absolutely nothing to do with him--and/or the show in general--anymore.
109	* HateSink: Becomes one after season two, as he gets more and more sociopathic.
110	* TheHeavy: While Chris must answer to the producers and there's at least one BigBad or two among the contestants for each season, he's still the overall antagonist that drives the plot of the show by bringing the contestants to the locations where they'll be competing and coming up with the challenges that they all must endure.
111	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the ''Revenge'' finale, he tries to blow up the contestants' boat... only to blow ''himself'' up because Chef switched the explosives' location.
112	* {{Hypocrite}}: He gets mad at Sierra for blowing up his plane, as well as Duncan blowing up his mansion, yet he loves blowing stuff up. He also calls Scarlett out for trying to blow up/ take over Pahkitew Island despite contaminating Camp Wawanakwa with radioactive toxic waste during Revenge Of The Island.
113	* IKnowMaddenKombat: His role as badminton player, the Flipper in ''Badminton: The Movie'' in "Get A Clue".
114	-->'''Chris:''' It's not Badminton, it's Good-minton, Heck, it's Great-minton!
115	* ILied: Uses this liberally when people point out his contradictions.
116	** TheCakeIsALie: The original contestants were clearly mislead on the nature of the show given their initial reactions on getting out the boat.
117	* InsistentTerminology: His [[spoiler:(now blown up and sunk)]] lakeside mansion is a cottage.
118	* ItAmusedMe: He puts the contestants through increasingly difficult challenges for two reasons: Ratings, and kicks.
119	* ItsAllAboutMe: He's an arrogant megalomaniac just waiting to do what he wants because it's his just for the ratings.
120	* {{Jerkass}}: A sadistic, narcissistic, and smug host who holds very little regard for the contestants (and even less for the interns) and often laughs at their misfortune, pain, and suffering.
121	* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He seems to show concern to the contestants when they nearly drown in "Masters of Disasters", but it turns out he was merely worried about being sued.
122	* KarmaHoudini: Chris ends up getting away with nearly everything he does, aside from the occasional mishap here and there just for laughs.
123	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Brains vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown", karma finally catches up to him after he unwittingly blows himself up and is subsequently arrested by the Canadian government for his environmental crimes. However, this doesn't last long as the producers post bail on Chris so that he hosts ''All-Stars'' and ''Pahkitew Island''.
124	* KickTheDog:
125	** In the Yukon, Bridgette gets her tongue stuck to a pole. Instead of giving her his hot water bottle, he drinks it in front of her, then tosses it aside.
126	** In Gwen's ending of Island, he forces Gwen to compete for a million dollars, and brings her back for multiple seasons, despite Gwen making it clear that she is done with the show.
127	** As bad as he treats all the campers, Chris is ''[[BadBoss worse]]'' towards his interns, regularly abusing them and some of them even ''died'' on his watch.
128	* LackOfEmpathy: Especially concerning his interns. In the first episode of "World Tour", when Chris unleashed the carnivorous scarab beetles in Egypt, he was standing on top of an intern, who was raising him up off the ground like a piece of furniture. The scarabs begin to crawl up the intern, who was then quivering in fear. The next scene shows all the contestants running away, but when we pull back to Chris, the intern was stripped clean to the bone. [[{{Sadist}} He continues to use the intern's skeleton as a footrest later on in the episode, not even batting an eyelash about it.]]
129	* LargeHam: His bombastic personality is based off real-life excitable game show hosts.
130	* LaughablyEvil: He's a sadistic and sociopathic reality show host who goes out of his way to torture or in some cases kill teenagers in cold blood. That doesn't stop him from being funny and hilarious.
131	* LegalizedEvil: All the sadistic challenges Chris puts the contestants through are all technically legal due to them signing a contract. The one time he had a run-in with the law was due to using Wawanakwa as a dumping ground for toxic waste.
132	* LoopholeAbuse: A master of this. In "No Pain, No Gain", he breaks the general rule that campers voted off can come back, ''ever'', which has him bring back Eva and Izzy. He gives no other reason except "ILied".
133	* MadBomber: He enjoys [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], especially so in ''Revenge of the Island''.
134	** In "Who Can You Trust?", he uses mild explosives as an obstacle in the rock climbing challenge and later in the blind toboggan race.
135	** In "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", he blows up, with [[RunningGag [=McLean=]-Brand]] explosives, the new contestants' yacht, Dakota's paparazzi entourage, and [[TheCameo Owen]]. Also, he rigs the teams' totems with bombs with 7-minute timers.
136	** In "Backstabbers Ahoy!", he puts mines out in the lake, with Dakota and Bridgette getting blown up while demonstrating the challenge.
137	** In "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", due to pressure from a government environmental agency, he sends the campers into an abandoned mine turned toxic dump with bombs strapped to their backs. After the campers evacuate the mine, he blows it shut.
138	** However, he did ''not'' like it when Sierra accidentally blew up the Total Drama Jumbo Jet in "Awwwwww, Drumheller", or when Duncan intentionally blew up Mount Chrismore in "Grand Chef Auto" and his [[InsistentTerminology cottage]] in "You Regatta be Kidding me".
139	* MommasBoy: Implied by Dakota in "The Treasure Island of Dr. [=McLean=]", when she mockingly asks him how many times he'd called his mother that day.
140	* MrExposition: As part of being the host of the show his job is to explain the challenges, the on-going interactions between the contestants, and things of that nature. The beginning of every episode has him give a quick Recap of the previous episode before the intro plays.
141	* TheNapoleon: He's notably shorter than some of his teenage contestants and seemed pretty annoyed when Beth pointed this out on first meeting him.
142	* {{Narcissist}}: Progressively [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] over the course of the series. In ''Action'', he let the Killer Grips win a cheerleading challenge because their cheer was about him.
143	%%* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The mean to Don's nice and Chef Hatchet's in-between. (zero context example)
144	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He looks like the cartoon version of Jeff Probst, host of ''Survivor''.
145	* NoOSHACompliance: He often [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope in challenges, sometimes taking it up to eleven, especially in later episodes of a season.
146	-->'''Zoey:''' This challenge looks a little unsafe.
147	-->'''Chris:''' No, it's '''[[LampshadeHanging totally]]''' unsafe!
148	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A lot of the more antagonistic players mistake his willful looking the other way at their cheating for genuine ignorance, they usually pay dearly if they do something to annoy him.
149	* OldShame: In-universe, Chris was NEVER in a boy band. DON'T ever insinuate otherwise. Nor should you mention his cooking show (which was canceled after the first episode, which featured a recipe for plain white rice) and the godawful films about talking cats.
150	* OlderThanTheyLook: How old Chris is has become a RunningGag throughout the show, with him mentioning to be thirty in ''Pahkitew Island''. If WordOfGod is anything to go by, he is twenty-five years old in the series premiere. The 2023 reboot, however, takes place fifteen years after the first season, making Chris fourty years old, yet he keeps looking as he did when the show premiered. Granted, it's implied in ''Pahkitew Island'' that Chris has had plastic surgery on various occasions, which may justify this]].
151	* PayEvilUntoEvil: Chris usually allows the villainous players to commit their deeds on their fellow competitors, but if their actions affect him in any way, he will make them pay dearly:
152	** Chris arranges for Fang to take the Hurl of Shame with Scott when the latter is eliminated as payback for being flung into the outhouse’s septic tanks by one of Scott’s traps.
153	** In ''All-Stars'', Chris has Duncan disqualified and sent to jail for blowing up his cottage.
154	** Chris disqualifies Scarlett from the competition in ''Pakitehew Island'' for threatening his and the remaining campers’ lives for the million dollars.
155	** Chris exposes MK’s cheating to her opposing team and forces her to fight a bear during the first merge challenge as punishment for stealing his hair dryer which gave Chris a bad hair day.
156	* PermaStubble: He is clean shaven in "A Blast from the Past", but regains his stubble by the next episode.
157	* PerpetualSmiler: Played with.
158	** Normally the trope is {{Downplayed\|Trope}}, while he usually seen with a CheshireCatGrin, he'll occasionally drop it when he gets angry or serious.
159	** {{Parodied\|Trope}} in "A Blast from the Past". Due to a [[BlandNameProduct Slo-tox]] injection, his face is stuck with a smile throughout the episode. One would not normally smile through a bear attack, ''especially'' if they were the victim.
160	* PetTheDog:
161	** In "Not So Happy Campers", towards Ezekiel of all people. He took him aside and tried to give him some advice about keeping his head down so his bad people skills don't alienate anyone right away.
162	** In "Who Can You Trust", he lets Katie meet and ride the boat of losers with her BFF, Sadie, after she was eliminated.
163	** In "Hook, Line, and Screamer", he leaves the safety of the tent with everyone else in order to warn Gwen about the real psycho killer. Although subverted when it was revealed that he was more concerned about lawsuits than the fact that she was about to get killed by an escaped killer on the island.
164	** In "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan", he wishes Harold goodbye after he's eliminated [[SincerityMode without a hint of sarcasm.]]
165	** In the boxing challenge of "Suckers Punched", after Gwen and Courtney's heartwarming boxing match he gives both girls an extra point for "adding warmth to his cold heart".
166	** In "Sky Fall", he actually allows Shawn and Jasmine to kiss before he blasts the latter off the island.
167	* PragmaticVillainy: While Chris has had occasional PetTheDog moments towards the contestants at times, the only thing that will definitely get him to tone down, or at the very least, actually show welfare, is the threat of a lawsuit, since he knows the show will be cancelled, and he will be out of a job.
168	* PsychopathicManchild: He's a {{Sadist}} who still sleeps with a teddy bear in his arms and throws tantrums like a SpoiledBrat.
169	* {{Sadist}}: He describes himself as one, and goes to painstaking degrees to ensure the contestants are as miserable as possible.
170	* SanitySlippage: Suffered from this by having to spend the off-season in jail.
171	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Chris practically runs on this trope, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Heather in "Masters of Disasters" and Alejandro in "The Am-AH-Zon Race".
172	--> '''Chris''': Since I'm the host of the show and I can do whatever I want.
173	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Overdramatic sensitive guy to Chef's hot-blooded manly man.
174	* SkewedPriorities: He cares more about his personal comfort than the safety and well being of the contestants. [[spoiler:This is especially prevalent when Scarlett threatens to blow up Pahkitew Island.]]
175	--> '''Chris:''' ''(in a panicked voice)'' CHEF!!! We got an emergency! The foamy thing in the coffee machine won't work at all now! ''(takes a sip of coffee)'' ''(in a more calm voice)'' Also, [[spoiler:Scarlett's]] gone rogue and is going to blow up the island. We've got to warn the others. ''(takes another sip of coffee)'' As soon as the foamy thing is properly working again.
176	* SkintoneSclerae: Chris's eyes are black beads upon a black line to indicate the lower eyelid.
177	* TheSociopath: In later seasons, Chris regularly and blatantly puts the cast in danger, which opposes him putting them in dangerous challenges that he didn't want to kill others in "Island" , often with a huge smile on his face; seems to be more concerned about ratings, popularity, and his life of luxury than the safety of the contestants; and even betrays his best friend Chef whenever it amuses him to do so, or whenever he's bored.
178	--> '''Chris:''' "After my involuntary year-long "vacation", I really need to be in a familiar environment, surrounded by the people I love... to ''hurt.''"
179	* SolidCartoonFacialStubble: Chris has a tanny row of stubble reaching from his jawline to his ear level, and extending upwards around his mouth. This is further accentuated in ''[[Recap/TotalDramaABlastFromThePast A Blast From The Past]]'', where Chris becomes paranoid about being replaced by a younger looking host, and thus, his facial hair is temporary gone.
180	* StillSucksThumb: Among the humiliating footage of Chris played in "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIVWhoWantsToPickAMillionare Aftermath IV: Who Wants to Pick a Millionare?]]" is a recording of him sleeping with a teddy bear while sucking his thumb.
181	* TeenHater: He has stated that he hates teenagers and seeing that he spends pretty much every episode [[LackOfEmpathy putting the teenage contestants through hell for the sake of ratings]], it's easy to believe.
182	* TooDumbToLive: Chris comes very close to being brutally murdered in "Zeek and Ye Shall Find" when he tauntingly reminds Ezekiel of all the things he's done to him that brought about that hate. At the time, Chris has just been abducted and is hanging by a rope over a pot of toxic waste.
183	* TookALevelInJerkass: Every season Chris gets worse and worse. It all starts with his willingness to let interns die, then it grows to a willingness to let contestants die, then it grows to a desire to make contestants die, and so far the top he's at is playing mindgames with the contestants to make them desire to hurt each other. His relation with Chef concurrently deteriorates as his willingness to hurt him too increases.
184	* {{Troll}}: One of his main traits is how much he screws around with the campers which causes them a lot of misery, suffering and misfortune, whether it be for his own entertainment or to bring in ratings.
185	* TheUnFavourite:
186	** Though he's mean to all his contestants, he shows a special disdain towards Ezekiel, Dakota, Blaineley, Ella and MK.
187	** He usually helps out the BigBad but he's never shown much interest in helping Courtney unless she's using her lawyers against him. In fact he often seems as annoyed by her as everyone else.
188	** In World Tour he used rewards challenges to ensure Team Victory would all be eliminated before any other team lost a single member.
189	* TheUnsmile: Has this expression throughout "A Blast From The Past" due to putting [[BlandNameProduct Slotox]] on his face in order to make himself look younger. Instead of making him look younger it instead made him look more creepy and terrifying with a very big and unnerving SlasherSmile-like expression on his face.
190	* VillainousBreakdown: Chris loses it when Sierra accidentally blows up his plane in "Awwwwww, Drumheller". He also loses it when Duncan blows up his cottage in "You Regatta Be Kidding Me".
191	* VillainousBSOD: Duncan blowing up his [[InsistentTerminology cottage]], however, elicited this reaction instead, making him talk in a depressed tone of voice for a few moments in "You Regatta Be Kidding Me".
192	* VillainProtagonist: Being the sadistic host of the show and the only character (together with Chef) who appears in every season, he's essentially this.
193	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite his treatment of the contestants and going to jail for dumping toxic waste by the end of ''Revenge of the Island'', Chris is apparently still popular enough to be chosen by the producers to host ''All-Stars''.
194	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chef. Chris can be rather abusive of Chef, which really wears on Chef's patience, but the two are ultimately pretty good friends.
195	* VocalEvolution: His voice has become a bit higher through the seasons considering that in season 1 (i.e. Island) his voice was much more mellow and relaxed-sounding in contrast to the other seasons where his voice is much more expressive and over-the-top in order to convey his sadistic and sociopathic behavior. The reboot gives him an entirely different voice actor, Terry [=McGurrin=] who previously voiced Don in ''The Ridonculous Race'', though Chris is still more bombastic and less formal compared to Don.
196	* WouldHurtAChild: Chris is responsible for the deaths and maulings of several teenage interns and the fact no teenage contestants have died yet is not for lack of him trying to get them six feet under. Many of them, such as Ezekiel, Alejandro, Scott, and Dave, have suffered horrible fates still. "Three Zones and a Baby" further confirms that there's no age restriction to his cruelty, as he's just fine putting babies in severe danger.
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199	[[folder:Chef Hatchet]]
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206	->''"I slave over a hot stove cookin' dolphin... no appreciation!"''
207
208	->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CleBennett (2007-2014), Creator/DevenMack (2023-)
209	-> '''Label:''' The Chef
210
211	The {{camp cook}} of the ''Total Drama'' series and Chris's best friend/sidekick. Chef Hatchet is a fearsome and bad-tempered ex-military man with numerous talents. He will to do whatever Chris tells him to if it means further tormenting the contestants, namely serving them disgusting excuses for food.
212	----
213	* AmbiguouslyBi: Enjoys [[{{Crossdresser}} cross-dressing]], tends to be affectionate to Chris occasionally, admires Justin's good looks and blushes at Alejandro's compliments. [[spoiler:In the intro for the reboot, he and Chris gaze at each other instead of having that season's main couple do so as previous seasons had done.]] With that being said, he asks Chris to give his digits to the sister of his female acquaintance in "[[Recap/TotalDramaBroadwayBaby Broadway, Baby!]]".
214	* AmbiguouslyEvil: He participates in the torment of the contestants but he often goes out of his way to be nice to them on some occasions and even teamed up in alliances.
215	* AngryChef: He's a ScaryBlackMan with a HairTriggerTemper who [[LethalChef cooks inedible meals]] and spends most of his time terrorising the other campers.
216	* ArchEnemy: To Izzy.
217	* ArtifactName: In the later seasons, he's rarely shown being a chef, as he mostly works as co-host.
218	* AscendedExtra: Chef was never really an extra, though his role diminished from ''Revenge of the Island'' to ''Pahkitew Island'' but he plays a larger role in the reboot than he had previously. In addition to his duties as the cook, he also provides commentary with Chris, helps with expanding on the parameters of each challenge and gives each of the campers the main reason they are up for elimination during the marshmallow ceremony. While he's not the main host, he's definitely become more of a prominent figure.
219	* BaldOfEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While he is certainly bald and has done some evil things, Chef does [[EvenEvilHasStandards show some morality]].
220	* BeardOfEvil: He has a small goatee and a pencil mustache, and he is Chris's sidekick.
221	* BerserkButton:
222	** Insulting his cooking, as Geoff almost found out the hard way in the series debut.
223	** Don't ever get caught in his kitchen, otherwise known as "Forbidden Territory".
224	** Don't touch or mess with ''anything'' that belongs to him.
225	--->'''Chef''': Nobody touches my stuff. ''Nobody.''
226	* BigGuyLittleGuy: With Chris. Chef is obviously the big guy.
227	* BigOlUnibrow: Chef Hatchet is the unibrow-sporting, no-nonsense, and intimidating enforcer of the show whose past is hinted to be eventful and grim.
228	* {{Crossdresser}}: He even Lampshades in the recap before "Finders Creepers" by saying that "Wardrobe's all out of Vampire Outfits."
229	* CampCook: His label as well as his primary role on the show.
230	* CheatersNeverProsper: He helped contestants cheat on the show several times. He did this during actions towards DJ only for DJ to quit out of guilt and expose Chef’s beahvior. However this does not make Chef stop as during World Tour he helped Blainely cheat in the China challenge in both of it’s parts but this time he gets caught by Heather and is punished for it in the Africa challenge by being forced to wear a parka coat in the cricket portion under hot weather.
231	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He might have one. During "Alien Resurr-eggtion", he sees Geoff and Bridgette making out and says, "I once knew a love like that," and in the same episode, when he thought he killed Izzy, he said, "Oh no, not again."
232	* ADayInTheLimelight:
233	** Twice in season one. First he's put in charge of a boot-camp / military-themed challenge in "Basic Straining", and later he has to host the entirety of "Are We There Yeti?" because Chris was busy attending an awards show.
234	** He also got more of the spotlight when he formed an illegal alliance with DJ in ''Action'' and Blaineley in ''World Tour''.
235	** He had to host in "Eat, Puke and Be Wary" because Chris has accidentally gotten stuck inside the outhouse.
236	** He also had to host in "Zeek and Ye Shall Find" after Chris gets kidnapped and held hostage by Ezekiel.
237	* DeathGlare: His default expression.
238	* DemotedToExtra: In ''All-Stars'' and ''Pahkitew Island'', he has little importance, hardly speaks and mostly stays in the background with his only significant role in those two seasons being in "Zeek and Ye Shall Find" after Chris gets kidnapped.
239	* DoAnythingSoldier: He can fill any role that Chris needs at the moment. His range includes being a chef, a stunt tester, a man hunter, a drummer, a drill sergeant, a harp player, a doctor, etc.
240	%%* TheDragon: In many ways.
241	* DrillSergeantNasty: He's implied to have spent time in the army. In ''Action'', it's revealed that he was formerly a colonel.
242	* DrivesLikeCrazy: In the ''Action'' reunion special, off-screen.
243	-->'''Chris:''' Dude, where'd you learn to drive? NASCAR?
244	-->'''Chef:''' Ah, suck it up, you big baby.
245	* DubNameChange: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to "Chef Albert."
246	* DungeonMaster: Twice in ''Island'' and once in ''Revenge of the Island''.
247	* EdibleAmmunition: His [[{{BFG}} Meatball Bazooka]], yes it fires actual meatballs.
248	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
249	** He and Chris seem to have a genuine friendship over their love of tormenting the contestants.
250	** As shown in "The Pink Painter Strikes Again", he is very loving towards his grandmother, hyping her up and complimenting her every time she lands a hit on one of the contestants.
251	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
252	** In "Not Quite Famous", he doesn't give Heather a score during the talent contest for reading Gwen's diary out loud to the entire world, implying that even he was disgusted by her actions.
253	** He was a little shocked when he thought he killed Izzy during the alien challenge.
254	** He was worried when Zoey snapped in "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary".
255	--->'''Chef:''' I may have pushed her too far...
256	** He's also freaked out by Mal's cruelty.
257	--->'''Chef:''' That kid ain't right!
258	** In "The Final Wreckening" he expresses concern about the challenge Chris set up, and refuses to high five the former when he describes how brutal and vicious the challenge is, stating, "People are gonna die."
259	** In "Hurl & Go Seek" he is genuinely concerned about the contestants eating food that expired back in ''1976'', and is visibly dismayed by Chris's apparent joy at the horrible side effects the contestants will be suffering from.
260	** In episode 10 of the reboot, he's just as sickened as everyone else when he learns just how awful of a boyfriend Chase was to Emma.
261	--->'''Chef:''' Someone raised that child '''all''' wrong.
262	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His full name seems to be Chef Hatchet, though. [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep So maybe it's a very convenient first name]]?
263	* EvilChef: Probably better known as a LethalChef but he certainly gets a lot of enjoyment out of tormenting the campers. This was toned considerably as the show went on -- many of the campers actually prefer Chef over Chris.
264	* EvilLaugh: Most of the time, Chef gives off an evil chuckle; however, he does pull off impressive evil laughs in "Grand Chef Auto" and "Eat, Puke and Be Wary".
265	* FanDisservice: Anytime he cross-dresses.
266	* FourthWallMailSlot: For a short time during ''World Tour,'' there was a segment called "Ask Chef" where he would answer the questions of real-life viewers on the official ''Total Drama'' website.
267	* FriendToAllChildren: For the 2023 season of ''Island'', Chef seems to be closer his ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'' [[Characters/TotalDramaRama counterpart]]. In every episode, he makes sure to point out the most dangerous parts of the challenges and openly questions why Chris would allow the campers to go through certain events. He's much more openly protective of the cast and clearly cares about their well-being in comparison to how he acted towards the contestants in previous seasons.
268	* GentleGiant: Becomes one in the reboot season where his ScaryBlackMan tendencies have been severely toned down, to the point where you can say he's taken a motherly role to the new contestants, as opposed to Chris who is far less likely to show concern for the contestants when they are hurt or endanger.
269	* GigglingVillain: Most of Chef's {{evil laugh}}s are a light chuckle.
270	* GracefulLoser: Was genuinely impressed when Leshawna outplayed him in "Hide and Be Sneaky".
271	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Has a temporary one at the end of ''Revenge of the Island''. Sadly, it doesn’t last as he's the one who visits Chris and informs him that the network has posted bail]].
272	* HypercompetentSidekick: For Chris; it's implied that without Chef, the show would likely fall apart.
273	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
274	-->'''Izzy:''' If I can handle hand-to-paw combat with a polar bear... ''(chuckles)'' I can handle a bald, emotionally-withdrawn cook in a Halloween costume.
275	-->'''Chef:''' Who you callin' a cook?
276	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On rare occasions. Mainly reserved for DJ.
277	* KickTheDog:
278	** In "Backstabbers Ahoy!", he puts Dawn in a garbage bag before catapulting her off the island.
279	** In "This is the Pits!", on Chris's order, he pours gasoline on a buffet and lights it on fire [[spoiler:because neither team won the challenge]].
280	* LargeAndInCharge: Downplayed. While Chef is big, he is in charge only in Chris's absence. He can pick up DJ, one of the largest guys among the first generation cast, one-handed.
281	* LesserOfTwoEvils: Unlike Chris, Chef does occasionally show concern for the campers, especially in Season 5.
282	* LethalChef: Deliberately {{invoked\|trope}} by Chris. It is shown that Chef can actually [[RealMenCook cook quite well]] when he wants to, usually when the food is for himself, but it's his job to make barely edible slop for the campers.
283	* ManlyTears: Most notably in "Basic Straining" and "Riot on Set."
284	--> "STRONG MEN CRY!"
285	* TheMedic: As one of his secondary roles, he treats the campers who get injured during a challenge. More often than not, Chef's "care" is of the ComicallyIneptHealing variety.
286	* TheMunchausen: Nobody's quite sure what war he was in.
287	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: An AngryChef whose surname is "Hatchet" is definitely someone you ''don't'' want to mess with.
288	%%* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The in-between to Don's nice and Chris's mean. (zero context example)
289	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He is basically an exaggerated version of Creator/SamuelLJackson, minus the use of his infamous {{catchphrase}}.
290	* NoodleImplements: In "Top Dog", he laughs hysterically when Beth and Owen happily comment on him making scrambled eggs. We never find out what they're actually made of or what he put in them.
291	* NoOSHACompliance: In the ''Island'', ''Action'', and ''Revenge of the Island'' intro sequences, he puts his bare hands in the food he prepares and leaves Heather's wig to brew in it too.
292	* OutOfFocus: In ''Pahkitew Island'' he's given not much to do since he doesn't cook for the teams anymore. He also goes entire episodes of not speaking at all and just standing besides Chris just to make us sure that he's there.
293	* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to Chris's PerpetualSmiler. While he usually has a DeathGlare on his face, [[DownplayedTrope he does occasionally crack a smile]], although it's often a SlasherSmile.
294	* PetTheDog: In "Basic Straining", while he is tough on the competitors who quit or fail to complete the challenge, when he sees Harold throw up mud and in no condition to continue, he lets him off easy and calmly tells him to quit and report to the infirmary.
295	* PsychoForHire: Enjoys what he does, most of the time.
296	* TheQuietOne: There are many episodes where Chef doesn't speak, particularly during the first season, where he is silent from "The Big Sleep" to "Paintball Deer Hunter". It becomes more apparent during ''All Stars'' and ''Pahkitew Island'', where he's DemotedToExtra.
297	* RealMenWearPink: Chef is large, muscular, gruff, no-nonsense, and has a military past, but he also is an amazing singer, loves taking on roles for which he can wear a dress or bikini, and is a fine cook.
298	* {{Sadist}}: Although not to the same degree as Chris, Chef does enjoy seeing the campers in pain.
299	* ScaryBlackMan: Chef Hatchet is black and possesses the largest body type present in the series. He's been in the army and as the co-host of ''Total Drama'' has a sadistic streak. While he doesn't succumb to TheWorfEffect, the few times a contestant can go toe-to-toe with him is a mark of their own capability.
300	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Hot-blooded manly man to Chris's overdramatic sensitive guy.
301	** Also the ScaryBlackMan to DJ's MommasBoy.
302	* SlasherSmile: Anytime he gets to personally mess with the contestants, but pulls an amazing one in "Are We There Yeti?" during the elimination ceremony.
303	* SuddenlyShouting:
304	** He tends to do this quite often. One example is his BaitAndSwitchComment to Lindsay when she quits one of the challenges in "Basic Straining":
305	--->"Listen here, you have nothing to be ashamed of... EXCEPT FOR BEING A LITTLE BABY AND LETTING YOUR TEAM DOWN!!!"
306	** In an Ask Chef segment, a viewer asked him if Gwen could write to them.
307	--->"[=Jo3113=] from Val-des-Monts, here's my answer...''DO I LOOK LIKE GWEN TO YOU?'' WHAT PART OF 'ASK CHEF' DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!...''({{beat}})''...Gwen says hi."
308	* SupremeChef: Contrary to the slop he usually makes for the contestants, he actually is a skilled cook but makes barely edible food on purpose, possibly on Chris's orders.
309	* TeenHater: Downplayed when compared to Chris. While Chef does take sadistic pleasure in torturing the campers most of the time, there are moments where he feels that [[EvenEvilHasStandards either he himself or Chris have gone too far]].
310	* TookALevelInKindness: In the reboot, he's much more concerned about the safety of the contestants, and often scolds Chris for making things more dangerous than necessary.
311	* TopHeavyGuy: As the most muscular male character in the series, Chef has a huge upper body. In particular, he has a huge neck.
312	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chris. The two initially bicker a lot and Chef really seems sick of him at times, but they are also shown to get along well offset and consider each other very close friends. In "Zeek And Ye Shall Find," Chef freaks out when Chris is kidnapped by Ezekiel and is genuinely concerned for his safety.
313	* VocalEvolution: He originally sounded like a more clear-cut Creator/SamuelLJackson impression but by the end of ''Island'', it evolved into a raspy tone we’re familiar with.
314	* WorthyOpponent: He will sometimes show VillainRespect toward a contestant who actually beats him at his own games.
315	-->"Gwen! Congratulations, soldier. I'd go to war with you anytime."
316	* WouldHitAGirl: He's got no qualms hurting the female contestants with Izzy being his most common enemy. Not that Izzy couldn't dish back what he gives.
317	* WouldHurtAChild: Like Chris, Chef has no qualms making the teenage contestants suffer. He even twisted Duncan's arm once and threw a frying pan at Scott's head.
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