WARNING: Contestants are listed in order of elimination and there are unmarked spoilers on this page, potentially including spoilers for previous seasons.
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Halal Bae (12th)
Age: 33
From: Toronto, Ontario
"Got meat?"
- Cultural Rebel: She was born into an Egyptian-Palestinian Muslim family based in Kuwait, where being queer and a drag queen was Haram (forbidden). Using 'Halal' — "permissable", an Arabic word used in the Islamic religion primarily to describe foods that are allowed to be eaten — as part of her drag name is a way for her to reclaim her identity.
- Girls with Moustaches: She incorporates her mustache into her work, and even calls herself "the first mustache queen" on the show.
- One Degree of Separation: Not only is she the drag mother of fellow competitor Bombae, but many of the other queens have heard stories that she and Jada Shada Hudson hooked up in the past (which Jada confirms in a confessional).
- Rascally Raccoon: She tries to channel this energy in both her Sidewalk and Catwalk looks in the first challenge. While the grey and black colour scheme was there, the judges didn't recognize anything else tying it to the animal and she lands in the bottom two.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We see the start of potential storylines regarding her being Bombae's mother and a former fling of Jada's...and then she’s eliminated in the first episode.
Miss Moço (11th)
Age: 35
From: Toronto, Ontario
"Excusez-moi Canada, it's time to snatch the competition!"
- The Cynic: Her default tone is fatigued and a little melancholy even, which works when delivering a sultry runway performance, but massively lets her down when she needs to show more personality.
- Its Pronounced Tropay: The proper pronunciation of her name is "Moe-soo".
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Even more than Halal Bae, as the only thing we really learn about her is that she's Portuguese before she's eliminated.
Chelazon Leroux (10th)
Age: 22
From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
"Holy fuck it's nice in here! Wonder who paid for all this? Better not be Chief and Council."
- Badass Native: She's Dene First Nation and incorporates her culture and heritage into every aspect of her drag.
- Big Sister Instinct: She takes Kaos under her wing when she reveals her Metis heritage, and offers supportive advice, as Kaos has typically downplayed her background.
- Catchphrase: "Stay deadly!"
- Don't Shoot the Message: In-universe example. The judges love her politically-inspired, First Nations-positive messaging, but her application is a little rougher round the edges than the other girls.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When she gets to pick teams for the Who-knows challenge she puts Kimmy and Fiercalicious together because she knows they're friends and assumes they'd work well together. However, Fiercalicious accused her of trying to sabotage them because they're not comedy queens and she winked before pairing them.
- The Smart Girl: She's an eloquent, well-informed queen, and her insights into First Nations culture are delivered with authoritative articulation.
- Underdressed for the Occasion: Despite serving a selection of culturally-empowered looks, her runways lack the polish and overall 'oomph' required to go all the way in the competition.
Kaos (9th)
Age: 27
From: Calgary, Alberta
"After owl is said and done, the Kaos has just begun. Can I get a hoot hoot?"
- Animal Motifs: On top of the "Birds of a Feather" promo look, her entrance look also looks like an owl.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Her entrance look has a black "K" on the front, though it's hard to spot among the dark brown feathers.
- Do Not Go Gentle: Her lip-sync with Jada in episode 4 sees Kaos go down fighting — despite her restrictive dress that's falling apart on stage, she manages some acrobatics that wow the judges, most notably a front flip that shocks Brooke. In the end, Jada's performance is just too on-point, but it was a valiant effort.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Kaos.
- Hiding Your Heritage: She's Metis but is also very white-passing, so when she hears Chelazon and Bombae discussing their cultures she feels tempted to join in, but ultimately doesn't because she fears she'd be overstepping in some way. When she's partnered with Chelazon in the third episode, she elaborates that most of her family tries to downplay their heritage but she really misses the connection she used to have as a kid. Fortunately, Chelazon assures her that no one can define her experiences but herself and just because she's pale doesn't mean she's not truly Metis.
- Improvisational Ingenuity: She's one of the queens who claims she can't sew this season, which is usually used on Drag Race to evidence a queen's lack of Genre Savvy and condemn her to an automatic bottom placement, but she's also a creative and crafty queen, enabling her to make a top look in the first week's sewing challenge. Unfortunately, lightning doesn't strike twice, and she makes a boxy dress that's hard to walk in for episode 4's sewing challenge, which ultimately gets her sent home.
- Limited Wardrobe: She serves the same starburst/spreading leaf silhouette for four of her looks, which gets clocked by the judges.
- Only One Name: Just Kaos, no title or surname.
- Shrinking Violet: She admits that she has a difficult time speaking with other people and putting herself out there, which occasionally comes through in her performances.
Lady Boom Boom (8th)
Age: 25
From: Québec City, Québec
"Boom, there she is!"
- Bad Impressionists: For Snatch Game, she does Mado Lamotte, a famous Montreal drag queen and also Boom Boom's boss, but despite looking exactly like her subject, she gets read by the judges for being lifeless and not bringing any humour. It ends up sending her home.
- Biting-the-Hand Humour: She portrays her own boss, drag legend Mado Lamotte, for Snatch Game, which is a risk in itself, but even worse, she ends up delivering a stiff, unfunny take on her subject, and is ultimately sent home for it.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: She's one of two Francophone queens this season, though compared to Gisèle, Boom Boom has a stronger accent and a less solid grasp of English — which means she sounds sexy, but struggles in acting/impersonation challenges.
- Pintsize Powerhouse: She's a very cute, petite little queen, but is a fierce performer nonetheless.
- Shoulders of Doom: Her re-sewn Sidewalk to Catwalk outfit features a pair of massive spiked shoulder-pads .
- True Craftsman: Boom Boom has a degree in garment design, so when the first challenge is inevitably a sewing challenge, there's a montage of every queen coming to her for advice and her growing more and more tired, as she can't bear to see a bad garment. In spite of taking time to help others, she still makes her own flawless outfit and wins the first week's Sidewalk to Catwalk challenge.
- Whole Costume Reference: Her streetwear look for Sidewalk to Catwalk is clearly inspired by Manny Santos' thong outfit from Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Bombae (7th)
Age: 29
From: Toronto, Ontario
"Hi bottoms!...ugh, no bottoms? Only tops, I guess."
- Bad Impressionists: She plays Aziz Ansari for Snatch Game, but a weird version where he's secretly gay and trying to pick up a date. It doesn't land, as no one understands why she went that direction, and is only kept out of the lip-sync thanks to her inspired runway.
- The Fashionista: The judges live for Bombae's fashion sense on the runway, even if she fades into the background in challenges. Her crazy, Club Kid-esque take on helium for the Periodic Table Of Elements runway is likely what keeps her out of the bottom two after an embarrassing Snatch Game performance.
- Location Theme Naming: Her drag-name is a play on 'Bombay', the old name for the Indian city of Mumbai, from where she originates prior to moving to Canada.
- One Degree of Separation: She's the drag daughter of fellow competitor, Halal Bae.
- Only One Name: Just Bombae, no title or surname.
- Recursive Crossdressing: In the Snatch Game, she (poorly) impersonates the male Aziz Ansari.
- Statuesque Stunner: Bombae his infinitely long legs, a lithe, slender figure, and is the tallest of the queens this season.
Irma Gerd (6th)
Age: 32
From: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
"Anybody wanna boogie? *snort* Because I'm here to have a real Gerd time."
- Fun Personified: Irma is an inherently funny, charming queen, with a positive, self-deprecating attitude and a high-camp, wry sense of the ridiculous in her humour.
- Inherently Funny Words: In her promo video she says that she doubts Brooke Lynn will be able to send her home because she'll be too busy laughing trying to pronounce her name.
- I Can't Dance: When her and Jada are teamed for the dual dancing challenge in episode 3, Irma confesses that performing RuPaul's "Peanut Butter" — a song more or less designed for twerking and all manner of booty-shaking — isn't exactly in her wheelhouse. In her words, "ya girl's stiff as a board." Luckily, Irma's incredibly white-girl dancing proves to be an advantage when, on Jada's suggestion, they turn it into a comedy skit: Irma performs incredibly poorly only for Jada to shove her aside and show her how it's done. The gambit works, and they place high for the week.
- Nose Nuggets: Her entrance look is designed to resemble snot. She proceeds to come in and blow a tissue out of her nose mid-entrance line.note
- Obfuscating Stupidity: For the Snatch Game, Irma busts out Marilyn Monroe. It's a well-researched take on her, too, incorporating the disconnect between her rather intelligent private persona and her dippy, blonde bombshell public persona. At one point, she drops a flurry of feminist jargon, only to be met with blank stares from everyone, and then apologizes and says "tits!" Everyone doubles over laughing. The judges love Irma's dedication to Marilyn and she places high (because it's not like anyone was topping Gisèle Lullaby - see below).
- Peacock Girl: Her promo look has peacock feather designs in the dress, a peacock-shape in her hair, and she even poses with a real peacock in the season trailer.
- Punny Name: A hilarious nod to the Ermahgerd
meme. - Shout-Out: Irma's exit line ("I'm going home to have sex with my wife!") is a nod to the final line from one of the Clue endings.
Vivian Vanderpuss (5th + Miss Congeniality)
Age: 29
From: Victoria, British Columbia
"Finally, an excuse to take off the plastic! Ooh!"
- Alliterative Name: Vivian Vanderpuss.
- Animal Motifs: Her drag persona is a kooky cat lady, and in the Goddesses of the Ancient World runway she invokes the Norse goddess Freya and her cat-drawn chariot in a Cat Girl look.
- Artificial Limbs: Realised with hilariously brilliant effect in her Sleeves runway look, for which she sports a pierrot clown outfit that includes ridiculously tiny puppet hands at the end of its puffy sleeves. Much humour is then had back in Werk Room, especially when she clasps Irma's face with her creepy little hands.
- Camp: Of the vintage variety; Vivian is this season's answer to queens like Jinkx Monsoon and Nina West with her 50s housewife vibe and wardrobe.
- Crazy Cat Lady: She calls herself "Victoria's premier cat mom".
- Curtain Clothing: In keeping with her mid-century vibe, her entrance look is a dress made out of damask sofa fabric, complete with gold bullion fringing and a plastic mac over top to evoke a classic "left the protective plastic on" 50s family couch.
- Graceful Loser: Vivian has no hard feelings about her elimination whatsoever, hugging a crying Kimmy and telling her that she was happy to go out performing with her, then giving a good-hearted speech to the judges before leaving.
- Nice Girl: She's this season's Miss Congeniality, and it's a fitting win as she's never anything but fun, sweet and supportive throughout her time on the show.
- Preppy Name: "Vanderpuss" is a dragged-up play on a classically preppy Dutch heritage Grande Dame surname, which she chose in keeping with her bougie, cat-loving divorcée drag persona.
Kimmy Couture (3rd=)
Age: 25
From: Ottawa, Ontario
"Representing the Trans and the Asians correctly. And you...could never."
- Bad Impressionists: Impersonating Ariana Grande for Snatch Game is already a huge risk, as Tatianna found out in All Stars 2, since there's nothing particularly funny about her without going right over the top. Needless to say, Kimmy's impression falls deathly flat, mainly because she never sings — and ironically, she had to fight Miss Fiercalicious for the right to do Ariana at all! Later, it becomes even more clear that Kimmy Didn't Think This Through, as she explains that she still gets gender dysphoria from her singing voice because it's lower than her speaking voice.
- Culture Equals Costume: In Episode 2, the queens showcase mythological costumes from each their respective cultures. For example, Kimmy (who is Filipino, specifically Visayan) dresses up as Alunsina, sun goddess of the Visayans — though she admits she's not familiar with the myth personally.
- Hidden Depths: She and Miss Fiercalicious are both pretty and glamorous look queens. When they're paired up for a comedy challenge, however, the two seem to flounder. Brooke Lynn admits that she feared that the two of them "can't be that pretty and that funny." But they ended up delivering "smart material" and executing it well.
- Large Ham: Kimmy is extremely confident in her own abilities and isn't shy about letting everyone know. She's almost Laganja Estranja-levels of extra and has the Valley Girl vocal-fry to match.
- Limited Wardrobe: Proves to be something of an Achilles' Heel. If Kimmy isn't wearing a variation on a bra-and-panty silhouette, it's a corset, and the judges make it clear that they've seen enough of these silhouettes midway through the competition. Apparently, it wasn't clear enough — a corset is Kimmy's finale look. At least Kimmy knows how to work a runway.
- One Degree of Separation: She's the drag-daughter of Icesis Couture, fellow Ottawan and winner of the second season of Canada's Drag Race. When Icesis shows up in the finale to meet the final 4, she's over the moon seeing that Kimmy made it to the end.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Her Periodic Table runway is calcium-themed, so she enters with a bikini decked out in cow bones.
Miss Fiercalicious (3rd=)
Age: 25
From: Toronto, Ontario
"Why be fierce when you can be Fiercalicious?"
- Aesop Amnesia: At the beginning of episode 5, she apologizes for her abrasive attitude bringing down the energy in the room, and seems to make peace with the others. At the beginning of episode 7, she celebrates her first win by berating the other contestants for not believing in her.
- Attention Whore: She's a dramatic, childish queen and is always quick to steer conversations her way backstage. She also exhibits a suspicious, conspiratorial vibe, feeling that the other girls (a generally very nice bunch) are out to "get" her, accusing them of "sabotage" on multiple occasions — likely as a ploy for more camera-time.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Although she isn't the youngest queen on her season (Chelazon is, and she's younger than Fiercalicious by three years), Fiercalicious' youthful energy and lack of experience make her this in the eyes of her competitors. Even Lady Boom Boom, who is the same age as her, calls her this when Fiercalicious begs for help in the first maxi challenge (which involves sewing, something Fiercalicious has no knowledge of).
- Drama Queen: Easily the biggest one ever in Canada's version of the franchise. She holds grudges over every perceived slight and believes everyone's coming for her, and she'll stop anything and everything to make sure those feelings are known. That combative nature is given a lot of screen time this season.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Fiercalicious is portrayed as one of the least-liked contestants across the franchise, with almost all of the other queens serving an eye-rolling Reaction Shot every time she bigs herself up, or outright taking her to task over her annoying sense of entitlement and hypocrisy. She's a pain in everyone's collective ass by the end of the first episode, thanks to her standoffish attitude and failure to live up to her own self-hype. During deliberations, everyone just naturally assumes she's in the bottom two for her basic, undercooked runway look, only for her to just barely avoid the lip-sync.
- Hidden Depths: She and Kimmy Couture are both pretty and glamorous look queens. When they're paired up for a comedy challenge, however, the two seem to flounder. Brooke Lynn admits that she feared that the two of them "can't be that pretty and that funny." But they ended up delivering "smart material" and executing it well.
- Hot-Blooded: Very thin-skinned. She throws a huge hissy fit over being given the song she didn't want for the dancing challenge and is huffy right through the main stage rehearsals.
- Hypocrite: After baselessly accusing Vivian of sabotage in episode 3, Fierce proceeds to encourage Vivian to go for a role that Fierce thinks she'll bomb at in the Rusical challenge.
- It's All About Me: She spends two episodes in a row believing that her challenge assignments were a ploy from the other queens to make her look bad when they were genuinely trying to help her out. Gisèle Lullaby gets fed up with it by the third episode and chews her out right there in the Werk Room.
- Large Ham Title: As it has been cheekily and succinctly put, 'Miss Fiercalicious' sounds like something cooked up by an online drag-name generator.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After Fierce wins the commercial challenge, she rubs her victory in everyone's face, in retaliation for no one thinking she could win. Tired of her bragging, the other queens all immediately leave her to get out of her elaborate runway outfit by herself while she bleats for help.
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: She's one of the queens this season who claims she can't sew, despite the fact that Drag Race contestants not knowing how to sew and paying for it with poor performance in sewing challenges is basically a Running Gag at this point.
- Spanner in the Works: The Canadian iteration of the franchise tends to lack the histrionics and bitchiness of the original version, and the queens are, on the whole, typically a good-natured, Canadian-polite bunch. However, Miss Fiercalious is unusual in that she is a far more dramatic, bratty type of contestant than is typically seen on the Canadian series, and takes up a huge amount of screen-time this season with her dramatics and whining. Tellingly, Fierce is one of the first Drag Race contestants to have the intro sequence of an episode focused almost entirely on her, showcasing her many uses of the word "sabotage" and her arguments with the other queens.
- Spoiled Brat: She's whiny, accusatory, and constantly demands help, even after she behaves rudely to the other queens, always expecting them to drop what they're doing and help her.
- Took a Level in Badass: She starts with an underwhelming runway in episode 1 that only barely misses the bottom two, but her runways slowly get more elaborate, and by episode 6, she wows everyone with a take on the famous painting "The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, that's light years ahead of anything she'd done before. Coupled with a surprisingly focused performance in the maxi challenge, she finally proves doubters wrong and scores her first win. Two episodes later, she impresses the judges with her versatility in the Ball challenge, gets a second win, and becomes a frontrunner, in a rise to prominence few could have anticipated in episode 1.
- Valley Girl: Despite hailing from Toronto, her inflection and heavy vocal-fry is pure San Fernando Valley, and she has the materialistic, bratty nature to boot.
- Winged Humanoid: Her promo look comes complete with a pair of huge purple feathery wings, in keeping with the 'Birds of a Feather' Season 3 promo theme.
Jada Shada Hudson (runner-up)
Age: 37
From: Toronto, Ontario
"What's goodie? Turn up!"
- Chewing the Scenery: In a performance that brings Detox to mind, the final lip-sync — to Céline Dion's "A New Day Has Come" — sees Jada sell the passion of the song hard, with a lot of lip-quivering and shameless emoting. It ultimately proves to be a bit much compared to Giséle, who favors a softer touch and building to an emotional climax.
- Family of Choice: She came to Canada from Barbados as a refugee after being outed to her family. She then confirms that her chosen family is in Toronto with her.
- Malaproper: In trying to comment on a runway look in which she wore a balaclava, she repeatedly calls it a baklava.
- One Degree of Separation: Many of the other queens point out a rumor that she and Halal Bae hooked up in the past, which Jada later confirms in a confessional.
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: Averted. She's one of the queens who claims she can't sew this season, which is usually used on Drag Race to evidence a queen's lack of Genre Savvy and condemn her to a bottom placement in a sewing challenge. She does have a way with hot glue, however, and her look for the first week's challenge manages to land in the top.
- Rhyming Names: 'Jada Shada' — a sublimely rhythmic drag-name.
Gisèle Lullaby (winner)
Age: 33
From: Montréal, Québec
"Bonjour à tous, mon nom est Gisèle Lullaby, journaliste d’enquêtes et femme du peuple, and tonight, a drag queen!" note
- Beware the Nice Ones: Just because Gisèle has a certain joie de vivre about her doesn't mean she's one to be messed with. In episode 3, there's a particularly cute confessional where Gisèle rambles on for way too long (as in, the editors have to trim it down to the highlights) on the dream wedding she wants with her boyfriend. Not moments later, we cut to Gisèle verbally tearing Fiercalicious a new one for her poor attitude.
- Black Comedy: Her performance as Marie Curie, constantly having Major Injury Underreaction to the effects of radiation poisoning, in Snatch Game. Easily one of the darkest routines in the game's history, and everyone finds it hilarious.
- Bully Hunter: She gets really incensed with Fiercalicious when she starts giving Vivian the cold shoulder over the song assignments in episode 3, comparing her to kids who bullied her and the other queens in school.
- Character Filibuster: In a confessional in episode 3, Gisèle starts rambling on about the wedding she wants with her fiancé, and she blathers on long enough that the editors have to trim it down.
- Jack of All Trades: Gisèle emphatically wins a design challenge and the Snatch Game, and proves to be well-rounded the whole season. She only stumbles once — the Rusical — and promptly recovers in a lip-sync that blows poor Irma Gerd off the stage. Come finale time, Brooke sums up Gisèle's appeal in a single word — finesse — and Brad sums her up as an "all-dressed chip" of drag.
- Nice Girl: During the finale, it's universally agreed by contestants and judges alike that one of Giséle's defining traits is her kindness; always willing to lend a hand with sewing, and always a friend to everyone. Even with Fiercalicious — whom Gisèle, infamously chews out in episode 3 — she goes out of her way to point out how proud she is of her.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: During critiques for the Ball challenge, the judges call Gisèle out for taking too much time to help other queens at the expense of her own dress for the challenge, which looks good apart from the hemline. It ultimately costs her the win.
- Nuclear Mutant: For the Snatch Game she plays scientist Marie Curie, a key figure in the history of nuclear science. As Curie eventually died of radiation sickness, Gisèle plays her as glowing green with radioactivity, losing an eyebrow that she hastily draws back on with a marker, shedding hair and teeth at inopportune moments during the game, and eventually growing tentacles where her hands used to be. Naturally or unnaturally, depending on your perspective, she wins the challenge.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: While Vivian is happy to accept Fiercalicious' apology over her behaviour, Gisèle goes out of her way to call her a bully and unprofessional just to hammer home how bad she was behaving.
- Simple, yet Awesome: In the finale lip-sync, Gisèle is faced with Jada giving an incredibly emotional performance right from the get-go, wringing every last bit of feeling out of it. As opposed to Jada, Gisèle instead opts for a softer touch, giving much more poise, and building to an emotional climax. In the end, since "A New Day Has Come" is one of Céline Dion's less bombastic songs, Gisèle's approach is a better fit for it, and just like that, the crown is hers.
