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Juice Boxx (12th)
Age: 31
From: Essex, Ontario
"Ooh, you like that?"
- Butt-Monkey: In the premiere, she gets her bracelet caught on her tights, she falls while leaving the photoshoot for the mini-challenge, has a panic attack on the main-stage (on top of being freezing cold in her runway look), and to top it all off, she's the first one out.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She's adorably chipper and gorgeous looking, but suffers from a snagging-related Wardrobe Malfunction and then an embarrassing pratfall in literally the first fifteen minutes of the premiere.
- Girly Girl: Her aesthetic is cutesy, bottle-blonde, pop princess.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has had extensive skin grafting done on her chest.
- Graceful Loser: Takes her elimination with dignity, thanking the judges for the opportunity, and shows wry Self-Deprecation in her farewell confessional.Juice: I came, I saw....I got stuck on my outfit, I fell in the mini-challenge, and I danced my ass off!
- Precision F-Strike: Her final words as she exits the runway after her elimination are simply, "Bye, cunts."
- Recovered Addict: Juice is two years sober as of her time appearing on the show, though she notes that the downside to this is that less people want to see a sober queen perform.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Her self-sewn "Much Ru-sic Video Prance" ensemble for the Canuk Couture challenge in the premiere — described by Brooke as "Party City Wilma Flintstone" — consists of two frayed bits of pink cloth to which she's hot-glued a bunch of broken up CDs. For good reason, she lands in the bottom two, and is ultimately sent packing by Lemon following a fierce lip-sync battle of the pop princesses to Carly Rae Jepsen's "I Really Like You".
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Her bracelet gets caught on her tights during her entrance, and the editors leave it all in.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She ends up being Canada's "Porkchop", as she's the first queen eliminated from Canada's Drag Race, though she does take it gracefully.
- Youthful Freckles: As part of her Girly Girl Signature Style, she paints (realistic looking) freckles across the bridge of her nose.
Kyne (11th)
Age: 21
From: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
"Attention fives! A ten has just arrived!"
- Amazing Technicolor Population: For her second runway, Kyne walks out painted purple, paying homage to her first time in drag being an Ursula costume.
- Can't Take Criticism: During the judges’ critique for her self-sewn runway look in the premiere, Kyne is furious that they find fault with what she’s created, and resorts to impertinent, huffy backchat — which lands her a warning from Brooke to keep her attitude in check.
- Comically Missing the Point: After episode 1 where Kyne talks back to the judges for disliking her outfit, Brooke comes into the Werk Room asking Kyne about it, and Kyne forgives her. The other queens find this lack of humility hilarious and haze her about it later in the episode.
- Entitled Bastard: She has a far higher opinion of her talent than her performance warrants and she reveals herself to be both a snob and lacking even a basic sense of humility, expecting the judges to fall in love with what is essentially a mediocre to poor showing.
- Graceful Loser: Of all people! Kyne was shown as a whiny brat with a very high opinion of herself for most of her short time on the show. However, when Tynomi began to cry after their lip-sync, Kyne comforted her, saying, "I'm going home, it's okay." She also showed grace in her exit speech, noting that she's eating now Humble Pie, and acknowledged her need to do some growing up.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Kyne's poor attitude during (and after) the first episode's critiques comes back to haunt her through the second episode, where even Brooke is bringing it up during the walkthrough and the other queens are on her ass about it. Some fans have compared her to the infamous Serena ChaCha from season 5 (right down to her early elimination).
- Overly Narrow Superlative: As seen in her very first confessional.Kyne: They don't call me the Dancing Diva of the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge Tri-City Area for nothing.
- Refuge in Audacity: When Stacey tells her that her look is not her favorite, Kyne curtly replies that it's her favorite tonight.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: She's the snob versus BOA's slob, and from the very get-go, she makes sure everyone knows how horrified she is that BOA is even on the show, let alone placing better than her in the premiere.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's full of bluster, looks down her nose at some of her competitors (BOA especially) and has a very high opinion of herself and her drag, though in practise, she's actually quite sloppy and for good reasons, she crashes out early.
- The Smart Guy: Majored in math on a lofty scholarship, Kyne is well known for being a math whiz.
- Spoiled Brat: Whiny, entitled and definitely goes against the grain amongst what is (on the whole) a likeable, good-natured group of queens.
- Unnecessary Makeover: An in-universe example. For the Not My First Time runway in episode 2, the queens were tasked with re-creating their first time in drag with their current skills and resources, using a photo for comparison. However, Kyne's present-day look was so unpolished, the judges actually liked the older one better.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Her first self-sewn runway is a Yukon gold digger meets disco jumpsuit look, with gold balls resembling Christmas tree ornaments (badly) sewn onto the outfit’s bell-bottom legs. As she walks the runway, and stands for critiques, the balls constantly fall off — to the judges’ displeasure.
Anastarzia Anaquway (10th)
Age: 37
From: East York, Ontario
"If you don't know my name, just call me mother."
- Affectionate Nickname: Known as “Starzy” amongst her fellow queens.
- Alliterative Name: Anastarzia Anaquway.
- Badass Boast: Creates most of her own outfits and takes care to explain how well crafted and perfectly tailored they are.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When asked about the drag scene in the Bahamas, Starzy reveals the reality of homophobic hate crimes she and her friends have faced: several of her friends have been murdered simply for being gay, while she herself was shot at and nearly died if she had not driven herself to the hospital before collapsing. She still has a bullet in her kidney to this day. Immediately upon recovering, she moved to Canada where she requested and was granted asylum as a refugee. Needless to say, everyone else in the room is utterly horrified at this revelation, and quickly comfort her.
- Genre Mashup: For the Québec-ky With The Good Hair runway, she serves a confused mixture of Cousin Itt from The Addams Family from the back, before turning around to reveal her front, which is supposed to be inspired by Chun-Li from the video game series Street Fighter, but in practise looks nothing like her. The judges find her outfit bewildering, and after an equally poor showing the in the Not Sorry Aboot It rap battle, she lands in the bottom and is sent packing by Tynomi in the lip-sync.
- Lady in Red: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she receives a box of Maple Leaf flag-themed materials, with which she crafts a bright red, quilted, sporty ensemble.
- Never Accepted in His Hometown: The first and so far only Bahamian rep in the franchise. She left her home in the capital of Nassau to seek asylum in Canada, due to the nation’s far more progressive attitudes towards sexuality.
- The Stoic: Presents a very composed, dignified persona to the judges, which is attributed to her long career in pageants. However, this ends up working against her when she is critiqued for her over-seriousness and lack of vulnerability and she’s subsequently eliminated.
- Textile Work Is Feminine: A highly skilled seamstress and decorated pageant queen.
- Your Tradition Is Not Mine: The first queen not to leave a lipstick mirror message since the tradition was introduced by Shangela all the way back in US Season 2. She opens the lipstick, pauses for thought, then simply plants a kiss on the mirror instead.
Tynomi Banks (9th)
Age: 37
From: Toronto, Ontario
"Serving body, giving face, watch out, Canada, I'm here to win this race."
- Broken Ace: When she enters the Werk Room, the other queens are star-struck as she is the most well-known performer from Toronto's crowded drag scene. However, direct competition isn't her strong suit, leading to a mediocre performance that unfortunately defines her time on the show, as you can see from the tropes listed below.
- Heroic BSoD: After asserting that she would not be in the bottom again, Tynomi crumbles when she is there once again the next episode. She spends the entirety of the untucked quiet and withdrawn, with her head buried in tissue as she silently cries.
- Informed Attribute: Outside of the show, Tynomi is legendary and is easily the biggest name of the cast. As the judges comment, the other queens probably felt like their were going to shit their pants when they realized they would be competing against her. However, Tynomi's skills unfortunately don't translate well on the show and she lip-syncs multiple times before her elimination on the 3rd time in the bottom.
- Named After Someone Famous: Her drag name is a Portmanteau of Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks.
- Shrinking Violet: Has real trouble coming out of her shell, which hurts her in the Her-itage Minute acting challenge.
- Signature Move: Her neck snaps and shoulder pops.
- Younger Than They Look: The oldest queen of the season at thirty-eight, discussed in the first episode when Priyanka is in utter disbelief at her age. In her own words, no one knows because her black skin is so juicy.
Kiara (8th)
Age: 22
From: Montréal, Québec
"En français, s'il vous plaît." note
- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest queen at only twenty one.
- Bad Impressionists: Playing Mariah Carey was a risk in itself, as there's nothing particularly funny or impersonable about her without going completely over the top. Her responses are deathly flat and she winds up in the bottom with Priyanka, who sends her packing in the lip-sync.
- Consistent Clothing Style: She gets read by the third episode for exhibiting standard fashion fare (slinky mini-dresses and jumpsuits that lack any drag embellishment), and it's the start of her exit process.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: One of the two Montreal-based queens this season, along with Rita, and both of them possess thick Québécoise accents.
- Flat Character: Aside from her being francophonic, nothing about Kiara particularly stood out, she receives less confessional time than the other girls, and virtually no storyline or character development.
- Narcissist: When asked what her biggest weakness is, Kiara struggles to think of an answer before determining that she is flawless.
- Only One Name: Usually, she goes by "Kiara Schatzi" but in the competition, she's simply "Kiara".
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: In Drag Race herstory, pop divas like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga have almost always bombed on the Snatch Game, as there's simply no humour to be had without chronic exaggeration — something she completely neglects to do when portraying Mariah Carey to disastrously flat effect.
- Scary Scarecrows: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she receives a box of prairie-themed materials, with which she crafts a sexy (though still unsettling via Creepy Blue Eyes) scarecrow ensemble.
BOA (7th)
Age: 24
From: Windsor, Ontario
"I am not like UDDER queens."
- Bait-and-Switch: "Splits, back flips, death drops - I do none of it!"
- Big Fun: Oh, she's loud and proud and during the very first judges' critique, the first comment Brooke makes is how fun she finds both her drag and engaging presentation.
- Black Comedy: BOA's unafraid to cross the line, which is best exhibited for her tar-black Snatch Game, where she portrays Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, a young woman who was kept a wheelchair-bound prisoner by her Münchausen's by Proxy-suffering mother, whom she later murdered.
- Boob-Based Gag: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she receives a box of Anne of Green Gables-themed materials, including a bunch of potatoes — two of which she cuts in half and sticks to her breasts to create a disturbing but hilarious potato-cleavage.
- Forgetful Jones: In the Her-itage Moments challenge, it becomes apparent very quickly that it's gonna be pulling teeth to get her to memorize lines, and she's a mess during the filming. Turns out BOA actually has ADHD.
- Fun Personified: She's a slightly sloppy, "fuck it" queen whose Self-Deprecation and overall silliness helps her stand out, even if she lacks polish.
- Fun with Acronyms: It stands for Bitch On Arrival.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Was this formerly until she realized that she had a drinking problem. Even after becoming sober, BOA had a hard time convincing people that she's changed and is in a better place now; as evidenced by the fact that following her entrance, some of the other queens mention that BOA can be pretty messy. Despite being sober now, BOA still retains her fun party girl demeanor.
- Incoming Ham: BOA set her outrageous tone the moment she walked into the Werk Room dressed as a sexy, dragged-up cow (complete with gilded udders).BOA: My name is BOA, the Bitch On Arrival, originally from Windsor, 24 years-old and I am what? Constipated.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she receives a box of materials with which she's supposed to craft an Anne of Green Gables-themed outfit, despite not knowing who that is. Her results in no way resemble her source material, but her presentation is so energetically campy that the judges end up loving it.
- Recovered Addict: Like Juice, she too is sober, having endured problems with alcohol in her past. After Juice notes that being sober has reduced her audience numbers, BOA quips that no one comes to her own shows, so it makes no difference.
- Slobs vs. Snobs: Her (knowingly) sloppy, chaotic and weirdly frat-boyish approach to drag immediately puts her at at odds with some of the more look-based pageant queens — particularly Kyne, who quickly vocalizes her horror that BOA is even on the show.
Ilona Verley (6th)
Age: 24
From: Vancouver, British Columbia
"Alright, party girls, we're just about to walk into the Werk Room for the first time and I'm gonna let these poors have it! Thanks for tuning in, bye!" *throws phone away*
- Alpha Bitch: Introduces herself as such, though it's not until the second design challenge that this really becomes apparent. She dogs on Scarlett's outfit behind her back despite considering herself to be very close to her.
- Badass Native: Is of the Nlaka'pamux tribe and she's the first First Nations queen on Canada's Drag Race. Ilona is proud of her heritage and wants to inspire other First Nations people to embrace their heritage too. Underlined with her Native-inspired runway look when she comes Back for the Finale to cheer on the final three.
- Bling of War: Her promo look is a fashionable pastel blue suit of armor complete with a sword attached to one of her gloves.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Many of her looks center around one (usually pastel) color such as blue or pink.
- Feather Motif: Ilona loovvvveees her feathers.
- Incoming Ham: Even by Drag Race standards, her entrance is striking, to say the least. She comes in, ends her Instagram Live session on her phone by saying she's "about to let these poors have it," then tosses her phone behind her and lets it shatter on the floor, scaring the shit out of Priyanka.Ilona: I'm Ilona Verley, and I'm a fucking bitch.
- Inelegant Blubbering: The thought of having to lip-sync against Tynomi Banks, someone she'd grown close to, makes her inconsolable, and even the judges have trouble calming her down. That said, when it's go time, she sends Tynomi packing in a hard-fought lip-sync.
- It's All About Me: Has shades of this in the Recycle challenge's Untucked. The set is freezing and all of the queens are in blankets (they filmed in November and rumor has it that the heater broke during the runway), Jimbo comments on the cold and Ilona immediately gets on her case, repeatedly cutting off other conversations about other queen's worries to go on about how upset she is over the prospect of being eliminated in a dress made of paper.
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Squick: During the first mini-challenge, Ilona poses with the flag pole given to her as a prop poked through her oversized septum ring. Then a fan kicks on. Thankfully, the septum ring wasn't actually pierced but watching that and then it actually flying off is enough to make some first time viewers a little nervous, the judges included. - Valley Girl: Speaks this way, particularly as part of her sisssaaaaayyy schtick — likely because she's been based in Los Angeles for a while prior to the competition.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Scarlet, who constantly fall out and bicker (often for no apparent reason) — though when push comes to shove, they’re still “sissies” (sisters).
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: For the Snatch Game, she portrays British porn actress and LGBTQI+ ally Sophie "Cock Destroyer" Anderson, and whilst her boobs and suggestive finger-licking is fun, her accent is abominable and pure Dick Van Dyke-hell, especially for any unfortunate Brits tuning in.
Lemon (5th)
Age: 23
From: New York City, New York, USA
"Pucker up, motherfucker."
- Beware the Nice Ones: Lemon's cute as a button, and has a peppy, upbeat personality, but nethertheless reads her fellow queens to filth so smartly — all delivered with a sweet Twinkle Smile of course — that she snatches the win in the hallowed Reading mini-challenge.
- Big Applesauce: Originally from Toronto but lives in New York City, and was billed out of the city whilst appearing on the show.
- Break the Cutie: Lemon's usually sunny demeanor is dashed in episode 6 when the judges ask the queens who should next go home, and most of the girls vote for her, citing her runway look being a letdown. Back in the Werk Room, Lemon mostly just sits quietly seething at having been rounded on.
- Color Motif: In keeping with the lemon theme, all of her outfits somehow incorporate the color yellow. When she can't make it work with the look, she'll at least wear a blonde wig.
- The Cutie: Both in confessionals and in her drag-persona, Lemon is a cutesy, upbeat Girly Girl with a sunny, earnest personality.
- The Ditz: Received a "Jock Scraps" sports-themed box for the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere and couldn't identify what sport half the equipment belonged to. She worked it into her runway though, and Played for Laughs by swinging a hockey stick and then realizing it wasn't a baseball bat.
- Edible Theme Naming: Named herself Lemon like the citrus; her confessional look is a lemon printed button-up and her introduction is full of citrus based puns. Lemon reveals that after her family's initial dislike of her doing drag, when they did come around they decided to show their support by adopting citrus themed names of their own: Orange, Grapefruit, and Lime.
- Genki Girl: One of the jolliest, consistently upbeat queens of the season.
- Hurricane of Puns: Makes a lot of citrus-based jokes in keeping with her drag name.
- Motor Mouth: Lemon's fast talking allows her to squeeze a Badass Boast and individual disses to each queen on the other team into her Not Sorry Aboot It rap battle in episode 3.
- My Greatest Second Chance: After being in the bottom two in episode 1 and narrowly escaping a loss, she goes from Zero to Hero and wins the challenge in episode 2.
- Spoiled Brat: Invoked for comedic effect in many of her looks — of particular note is her Jonbenet Ramsey-inspired Pageant Perfection outfit, as well her Snatch Game performance, where she portrayed Dance Moms brat, Jojo Siwa, complete with her infamous Elmuh Fudd Syndwome.
Jimbo (4th)
Age: 36
From: Victoria, British Columbia
"Oh wow! Oh my... god! Okay!"
- Attractive Zombie: For her first time in drag back in the day, she dressed as a zombie cheerleader, so for the Not My First Time do-over runway, she presents a more elevated, grungy version of the look complete with even bigger boobs.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: After the Pageant Perfection challenge, Jimbo has her first runway where she gets significantly negative critiques for her poofy pageant dress. Still smarting in the Werk Room afterward, Jimbo snaps at Rita Baga and reads her to filth, to an extent no one expected out of the normally soft-spoken Jimbo.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Her kookiness forms part of her drag persona, but she's a softly spoken eccentric out of drag too. The other queens have no idea what to make of her spaced-out persona.
- Death or Glory Attack: Her usually quiet persona is defied in the Snatch Game, where she impersonates the one and only Joan Rivers — hallowed ground in the gay community — and is notable here as a daunting feat never before attempted in Drag Race her-story, and dominates the game with gag after gag after gag.
- Dressed Like a Dominatrix: A go-to look for Jimbo, and forms part of her Signature Style and soft-spoken-slut vibe — as seen in her entrance look (a terrifying dom-Minnie Mouse) and her Québec-ky With The Good Hair runway, amongst others.
- Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: Jimbo is a costume designer by trade and does a spooky ice queen look for her promo, though she is much more soft spoken in her Meet the Queens video. Her persona in the Werk Room contrasting with her more plainspoken confessionals is worthy of note.
- Graceful Loser: Zig-zagged. Despite her infamous blow-up with Rita Baga, Jimbo takes losing to Rita in a lipsync surprisingly well, giving her a peck on the lips before gracefully stepping to the back... before collapsing to her knees, shouting "WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?", faceplanting on the stage, and then crawling off the runway. She also gets a "Fuck You" in after Priyanka calls out "Bye, Jimbo." She continues to zig-zag this trope in the back, with a mature, soft-spoken speech (this is on-brand for Jimbo) mixed with making a glorious fool of herself making a lipstick message and then smearing the rest of the lipstick all over her face, bursting into an evil cackle (this is also on-brand for Jimbo).
- I Work Alone: Jimbo's not much of a team player. When tasked with coming up with a cohesive fashion line, Tynomi and Ilona come up with a showgirls theme that Jimbo agrees to, only for Jimbo to then disregard the theme without telling them to make something else.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her Ice Queen Eleganza look was her downfall, as whilst the outfit looked cool, its tight fit and teetering crown made dancing much more difficult and completely pulled her focus in the semi-final lip-sync versus Rita — who took a pair of scissors she'd stashed in her decolletage to her own gown to avoid such a problem.
- The Quiet One: Part of her drag character is being incredibly soft spoken. Even her rap verse is delivered in a mellow and comparatively quiet way. The same goes for Jimbo when not doing her drag character, in an argument with Ilona, Jimbo fires back in a quiet yet firm manner.
- Really Gets Around: Acts like a huge slut in many of the challenges for comedic effect (particularly her Pageant Perfection and Makeover personas), though the judges do express good-humoured concern that she may take it too far, on occasion.
- Running Gag: Jimbo, who is from the comparatively balmy Victoria, British Columbia, being unaccustomed to the cold and snow, and the apparently freezing temperatures of the Werk Room.
- The Scream: In the first episode's Fierce Blizzard photoshoot, as soon as they turn the fans on, Jimbo screams at the top of her lungs for a good fifteen seconds. The judges lose their minds laughing at the spectacle.
- Unknown Rival: All but calls herself one in her Meet the Queen video. Jimbo considers the fact that the majority of the queens don't know her or what she's capable of to be an advantage.
- Zipperiffic: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she receives a Pride-themed box of materials, including literally hundreds of multi-coloured zippers that she expertly crafts into a beautiful ball gown of contrasting colours, winning excellent praise from the judges.
Rita Baga (runner-up)
Age: 32
From: Montréal, Québec
"Bonjour, hi! Say 'hello' to the queen of Montréal."
- The Ace: Thirteen years of drag under her belt has made her quite a well-rounded queen and force to be reckoned with. Rita won two design challenges, won an acting challenge, and came in a very close second to Jimbo in the Snatch Game, while also periodically showing off her impressive singing ability. She leaned toward Broken Ace during her late-season slump, but the judges never once stopped believing in her.
- Biting-the-Hand Humour: Not only does Rita read her competitors to filth in the Reading challenge, she also fires a parting shot at Brooke herself, quipping that she's glad a Canadian will now finally win on Drag Race.
- Camp: Rita's style of drag mixes Parisian mid-century glamour and gowns with a fun, campy energy.
- The Chanteuse: For the Snatch Game, she leans into her uber-French Canadian, seasoned queen vibe, doing a visually-hilarious, expert job sending up the venerable Édith "Je ne regrette rien" Piaf, who's often celebrated as the chanteuse of France.
- Costume Porn: Special mention must be made of Rita's Pageant Perfection gown — a beautiful, champagne-glass dress in cream and black that's pure French chic in style and has Brooke audibly gasping with amazement.
- Daddy's Girl: Rita is incredibly close to her father, whom she notes attends all of her shows and is her number one fan, despite him being very much a plain-speaking, manly man who runs a construction company.
- Eye Take: Rita has large, very expressive eyes which are always seemingly in a state of arched surprise at the mayhem going on around her. The camera loves to cut to her for a bemused Reaction Shot.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: One of the two Montreal queens, Rita's accent is very prominent and she embraces it. Her native French comes in very handy for the bilingual Canada Gay-M talk show challenge, in which the queens must read the news in both English and French, and whilst the other queens completely mangle their French, hers is of course, parfait. She also has the marvellous Stock Foreign Name of Jean-François, revealed in the finale during the 'what would you tell your younger self' segment, which simply could not get more French.
- Formerly Fat: Reveals during the Pageant Perfection episode that she had been overweight for many years, and doing drag gave her confidence no matter what size she was even if she has since lost the weight.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Interestingly, she invokes this for her Coronation Extravaganza finale look, and pairs it with an elegant two-tone gown that complements the spacey vibe.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Mild-mannered, kooky Rita is usually pretty coolheaded, even in the face of some heated Werk Room moments. However, during her lip-sync with Lemon to Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know”, in which Lemon makes the mistake of being too flashy and campy for what's essentially a "The Reason You Suck" Speech set to music, Rita gives a far more appropriate, rage-filled interpretation, ominously taking off her lashes to start, and slowly burning into an explosion of fist-clenched anger. In terms of tone, Rita wins the lip-sync hands down.
- Nice Girl: Never once loses her shit with any of the other queens, and in the premiere, when Juice Boxx has a panic attack on stage and says how cold she is, Rita's Big Sister Instinct kicks in and she silently drapes her winter coat over her.
- Old Maid: Newer queens occasionally call her a legend, to which Rita is quick to assert that she is not that old.
- Punny Name: Rita Baga = rutabaga (a swede, for our non-North American readers).
- Trademark Favorite Food: Upon finding cheese curds in her box of materials for the Canuk Couture sewing challenge, Rita can't keep herself from tucking into them. She even carries the bag out onto the runway and eats a handful, a campy play the judges love.
- That and hot dogs. It's her inspiration for putting on a more modelesque face after coaching from Stacy for the Recycled Couture challenge and she actually gets to eat them during the late night lawyer commercial acting challenge.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Pops her tuck during the photo shoot (and we get a nice tight camera shot of it).
- Winter Royal Lady: She receives a "Québec-Froid" snow-themed box for the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere and crafts an exquisite snowflake-patterned woollen stole and complementary petrol-blue mini dress. She deservedly snatches the win in the premiere.
Scarlett Bobo (runner-up)
Age: 29
From: Toronto, Ontario
"You didn't think you could bring the race to Canada without Scarlett Bobo, did you?"
- Always Second Best: By the seventh week in a row of being safe, Scarlett is going out of her mind wondering what it's going to take to finally get a win. Brooke even points out during deliberations that she's the most consistent contestant of the season, which of course is a double-edged sword. In episode 9, she finally averts this in spectacular fashion by winning the Snow Ball challenge.
- Black Comedy: Takes a risk in the Snatch Game portraying the hallowed Liza Minnelli in all her Addled Addict glory, but manages to stay just on the right side of funny when lampooning Liza's chronic drugs and alcohol problems.
- Buffy Speak: Calls her first runway a "Cowboy girl look" instead of, y'know, a cowgirl.
- Canadian Western: For the Canuk Couture sewing challenge in the premiere, she creates a cowgirl-themed "Glampede" look, inspired by the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo. She also notes she'd get so much dick if she wore the Stripperific outfit to the actual Stampede.
- Circus Brat: Originally worked in the circus for several years. It's an experience she combines with her drag, which often features clownish makeup, and she's undoubtedly the first queen in the franchise to walk out onto the runway doing a fire-eating trick.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When Priyanka asks Scarlett who's routing for her back home, she says her mom for sure, but in confessional she also mentions having endured a turbulent childhood due to her alcoholic stepfather, who used to beat her mother on a daily basis. In upsetting scenes, Scarlett explains the guilt she feels over not being old enough to confront him, or protect her mom.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She has an attack of this early on in the competition, feeling that BOA is getting praise without trying too hard (though to be fair it's because Brooke finds her bloody funny) and then again towards the latter stages when she's desperate to land a win — which she does come episode 9, bringing her out of her funk.
- Lady in Red: States her favorite color is red and wears all red in her promo look.
- Momma's Boy: Scarlett is super-close to Mama Bobo (as she's known in Toronto's gay village), describing her as her best friend and biggest fan.
- Perky Goth: Her aesthetic is edgy and she has a definite rock-chick vibe, which she incorporates into many of her drag looks. Her Coronation Extravaganza is the pinnacle — a goth-rock take on a classic ball gown in deep black satin with a bright pink lining. In personality, for the most part, she's positive and upbeat.
- Playing with Fire: As she notes with pride, Scarlett is the first queen ever to do a fire trick on stage which includes holding a lit baton in her mouth without extinguishing it. Her teaser promo also has her doing tricks with a three pronged flaming baton.
- Really Gets Around: Briefly mentions how much dick she could get if she wore her slutty cowgirl Glampede look to the actual Calgary Stampede.
- Renaissance Woman: Scarlet makes it all the way to the finale without ever placing lower than safe, let alone landing in the bottom throughout the competition. She joins an illustrious group of queens across the franchise who never place below safe, and can turn their hand to any challenge, comprising of Bianca del Rio (US S6), Envy Peru (Holland S1), Ella Vaday (UK S3), Kitty Scott-Claus (UK S3), Elecktra Bionic (Italy S1), Farida Kant (Italy S1), Sharonne (Spain S2) and Danny Beard (UK S4).
- Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Ilona, who constantly fall out and bicker (often for no apparent reason) — though when push comes to shove, they’re still “sissies” (sisters).
Priyanka (winner)
Age: 28
From: Toronto, Ontario
"My name is Priyanka. What's my name? [moves the question mark on her outfit] Do you love me?"
- Achilles' Heel: Improv challenges. Both the Snatch Game and the Pageant Perfection challenge wind up with Priyanka landing in the bottom, and whilst she is a funny queen, it apparently doesn’t extend beyond her own drag character. She's very funny and witty as herself, but seems to struggle with channeling it into a characterization.
- Ascended Fan Girl: After making a fierce entrance, Priyanka cannot contain her excitement and squeals in joy. She carries this vibe with her all the way to the finale, which is what makes her crowning all the sweeter.
- Bad Impressionists: Priyanka's clear weakness is improv, and her deathly flat impersonation of Phony Psychic Miss Cleo for the Snatch Game lands her in the bottom.
- Brutal Honesty: When it comes to how she performs in the competition, Priyanka can be quite the harsh self-critic. Her voice over for her self-sewn Snow Ball look, for example, has her quip "I am covered in bullshit."
- Catchphrase: "What's my name?" or some variation of, usually followed immediately after Priyanka says her name.
- Character Tic: Priyanka screams when she gets excited, not a high pitched scream that's common on Drag Race, but a deep throaty scream.
- Culture Equals Costume: For the Coronation Extravaganza, Priyanka leans into her Indo-Guyanese heritage, sporting an incredibly beautiful sari in the red and white of the Canadian flag, which she wears as a statement on representation and inclusivity for queens of her background in the drag scene.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Upon seeing Jimbo de-drag for the first time, Priyanka deems her a total daddy and asks if she wants some "Boyanka."
- Excited Kids' Show Host: Was the host of YTV's The Zone for the past 6 years before leaving the show for Drag Race. Yes, Canadian millennials, that is Suki. She still maintains the excitability and energy that comes with the trope, though she's graduated to Depraved Kids' Show Host levels, as in the first episode alone she bellows "motherfucker" and calls Jimbo "daddy", now that she doesn't have to keep it squeaky clean for the camera.
- Gayngst: In episode 3, she reveals the terrible anxiety she feels over the fact that she hasn't come out to her father, whom she feels would disown her due to him being Guyanese, a culture that is, on the whole, completely intolerant to LGBT+ people.
- Girlfriend in Canada: Tells her father that Priyanka is her girlfriend in order to avoid being outed as gay and that once the show airs he'll finally be able to met "her". (Pri did eventually come out to her father during the season's airing.)
- Keet: You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone on the show more "happy to be here" than Priyanka, who's just a constant bundle of energy. Maybe switch to decaf, Pri.
- Oh, Crap!: As soon as Michelle Visage is announced as the guest judge for the ball, Priyanka immediately realizes that the simple corset she's been hot-glueing stuff to is probably not gonna cut it. Michelle, of course, is known for being unimpressed with simple corset/swimsuit looks (just ask Vanjie). All Priyanka can do is just hot-glue more stuff and hope it passes muster.
- Self-Deprecation: Owns the fact that she fumbled the Snatch Game pretty hard, and isn't above making fun of herself for it. In a particularly positive example, Pri isn't too down on herself since she believes wholeheartedly that she bounced back from it... and she's proven right in the best way possible.
- Say My Name: Makes a running bit of saying her name, particularly in the finale, not just so people remember it in general, but to highlight the success of a queen of Indian descent. It catches on enough that Brooke announces the winner by asking, "What's her name?" Cue look of delight on Priyanka's face.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She absolutely nails the Family Makeover maxi-challenge, creating a perfectly cohesive showgirl-themed look for her and her drag-daughter Elton, AKA Elektra, a recent immigrant from Jamaica who arrived via the help of Rainbow Road, a charity working to extract vulnerable LGBTQI+ people from countries where they face persecution, and even death.
- Tears of Joy: She didn't cry during the show, but she did when she found out she won the season
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