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The Minimum Wage Worker

^All-Stars

^{Beta poster and design}

Voiced by: emthecosplayer (Beta, English), Ivanna Ochoa (Spanish), Rachles Flakes (English)^{additional VAs}Milena "akay" Andrukiewicz (Polish), Nancy Khro (Italian)

Label: The Minimum Wage Worker

Team: Manic Raccoons (AC)/Purple Team (DC Ep. 1-6), Teal Team (DC Ep. 7 - Onwards), Cyan Team (AS)

Placement: 1st/2nd (AC)/ 3rd (DC), 12th (AS)

Eliminated in: Episode 10 (AC)/ Episode 13 (DC), Episode 8 (AS)

Working two jobs, Ellie is determined to win and get out of her lot in life. A fierce competitor, Ellie is blunt and doesn’t mince words and isn’t afraid to do what she feels she needs to do to get ahead.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: Ellie has her doubts with Lill being responsible for burning Nick's stuff, but her being excluded from their alliance convinces her to keep quiet and allow the discussion to sow chaos among them, which would work in her favor.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She had black eyes in Adventure Camp, but they're turquoise in the reboot of Season 1. Her hair was also a solid shade of orange, instead of having darker streaks across it.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Ellie goes through the same misfortune in both the beta and the remake, but one key difference makes the remake harsher on her: in the beta, she didn't try to befriend anyone outside of Gabby, and that was mostly on Gabby's end. In the remake, she eventually forms a bond of sorts with Alec, only for him to betray her for Fiore, which leaves them both on bad terms.
• Adaptational Context Change:
  • Her Relationship Sabotage of Tom and Jake. In the beta, she willingly did it after some convincing from Grett and Fiore. In the remake, while she still does it willingly, she's guilt-tripped into doing so and tricked by Fiore and Alec, who proceed to use her as a scapegoat to get all eyes off them.
  • The moment that causes Jake to lose all trust in her is different depending on the version. In the beta, it's the moment when Ellie decides to take Fiore with her to the finale over him, rationalizing it as being an easier victory than if she took Jake. In the remake, it's the moment when Fiore exposes her alliance's scheme and pinpoints Ellie as the mastermind of said scheme, causing Jake to think she's to blame for his relationship problems with Tom.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: A very subtle example; the reboot of Season 1 has her tie part of her hair in a bun, which wasn't present in the beta.
• Adaptational Jerkass: The way she treats Jake after sabotaging his and Tom's relationship is significantly worse in the remake. In the beta, she was regretful over ruining his and Tom's relationship just to stay in the game, and remained regretful until the finale. In the remake, while Ellie is at first regretful over what happened, Jake's refusal to forgive her, incessant ranting about what she did, and the stress of the game reaching its final stages leads her to reject his offer doe forgiveness in exchange for immunity, gives him a verbal lashing calling him out over his behavior, and ends by pouring salt in the wound by bringing up his cheating ex-boyfriend, and blaming him for being cheated on.
• Adaptational Karma: The canonical ending of the beta has Ellie be the winner of the season, even if Jensen stealing the money soured it a bit. The remake instead has her rank third overall, with Miriam being the winner of the season instead.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Subverted. She backstabs her allies in the original version of the first season. In the remake, she doesn't do that for a while and has even been the victim of a betrayal at the hands of her own ally, Alec, twice. However, she's eventually convinced into doing so. Granted, it's clear she didn't want to do that.
• Adaptational Sympathy: In the beta, her sabotage of Tom and Jake is done with little fanfare as Grett and Fiore manipulate her into doing it. In the remake, she's much more visibly torn about it, only doing it because Alec and Fiore are forcing her to do it as part of their deal, and then they betray her and paint her as a scapegoat and the one behind the sabotage, causing all eyes to fall on her while Alec and Fiore are left alone.
• Adaptation Name Change: Her name was originally spelled as "Eli" in Adventure Camp as well as the casting call.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Her romance with Gabby was more lopsided in Gabby's side in the beta version, as Ellie didn't do many advances towards her or treated her in a romantic manner. Season 1 proper has their relationship be a mutual attraction, with Ellie having just as many moments to show affection to Gabby as vice versa.
  • Subverted with the Miriam-Jake-Tom alliance. In the beta, her backstabbing her allies causes her to alienate herself from Jake, and by extension Tom and Miriam. Since she's seemingly voted off because she could do such a thing in the reboot, she remains on good terms with Jake, Tom, and Miriam. However, she later learns she was only switching teams and wasn't voted off. Additionally, she's later convinced into betraying Jake, which seems to have alienated her from Tom and Miriam with the latter suggesting she now views her as a "no good troublemaker".
  • Jake in particular sees his relationship with Ellie changed the most compared to the beta and the remake. While he initially hates her for being a matchbreaker for him and Tom in both versions, the beta eventually allows the two of them to mend things into a more somewhat-uneasy term when Ellie teams up with Jake and Nick in order to vote out Grett before Ellie choosing Fiore over Jake to take to the finals ends things with them on a bad way. The remake never gets to that point because Jake is so irate over being lied to that he refuses to hear Ellie out which, coupled with her own growing frustrations, causes them to end things out in a worse way than they started.
  • Ellie and Grett were basically Co-Dragons for Fiore during the beta, and Grett was one of her helpers during the finale. The remake instead has them barely interact with one another, though Ellie still claims Grett is one of the worst people she's met in one of her post-Season 1 interviews.
• Ad Hominem: She ends her tirade against Jake by saying how his boyfriend probably cheated on him because he was annoying.
• Aesop Amnesia: After being backstabbed by everyone she blindly trusts Miriam at the final 4 and afterwards at the final 3, her thinking she would not be double crossed and underestimation of Miriam's capabilities is what gets her eliminated
• All for Nothing: Regardless of which beta ending is picked, Ellie's quest to gain the million dollars fails in the beta; she either wins the money but Jensen steals it while driving away from the police in her own ending, or straight up loses to Fiore in Fiore's ending. Also the case for her in the remastered version where she ranks third, thus rendering her efforts to escape poverty fruitless.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Ellie's "do anything to win" attitude and otherwise neutral/stoic personality doesn't earn her many friends over the course of the show. The remake makes this worse, because the few people she does end up befriending either betray her in turn (Alec) or end up cutting ties with her because Ellie betrayed them (Jake). This is even more pronounced in the remake's finale, where the only people who are there to support her are Gabby, Alec, and Drew for some reason.
• Ambition Is Evil: Downplayed. Ellie's idea to use the million dollars involve getting her life back on track and using what remains to go to fashion school, which is far from the worst way to use such a hefty amount of money. However, the lenghts she goes to in order to achieve this goal causes her to alienate pretty much everyone who once cared for her, with the money being the only motivation she has left to see things through.
• Amputation Stops Spread: Subverted. When Ellie gets bitten by one of the zombies, Tom cuts off her arm in order to stop her from becoming one of them. It doesn't work, and Ellie turns, though she's still okay in the real world since it was all a simulation.
• An Arm and a Leg: Subverted. Tom deliberately cuts her arm off in the VR simulation in Episode 9 after she's bitten by a zombie. Luckily, it all turns out to be a VR simulation, so her arm's still intact in the real world.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: In the beta, when Gabby is about to board the Bus of Losers, Ellie kisses her cheek before saying goodbye.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: During the Zombie Apocalypse challenge, Ellie gets bitten by one of the zombies and has her arm cut off by Tom in order to stop her from converting. Unfortunately, Ellie turns into a zombie anyway. Fortunately, it was all a simulation, so she's still okay in the real world.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: When she's eliminated in "Give Me Some Space, only Gabby is devastated by it. Aiden and Tom rejoice at the fact, with the former even rubbing it in her face, while Tess, though saddened, argues that it's for the better given that the game was turning Ellie into a worse version of herself.
• Anti-Villain: Ellie wants to win the million dollars in order to get her life back on track and go to fashion school, which isn't evil, just selfish. However, Ellie's willing to throw anybody down the bus in order to achieve this goal, something that gets more pronounced when she becomes one of the finalists and adopts an even more ruthless streak in order to remain in the game.
• Armor-Piercing Question: While confronting Ellie about lying to Gabby about being in the Villains Alliance, Tess calls her out on basically ignoring Gabby and her feelings throughout the competition and questions if she’s willing to lose the one person who was willing to stick by her after everything she did in Season 1 just for the sake of winning. Ellie quickly scoffs at this and says that she would gladly choose Gabby over a million dollars, but Tess fires back by asking if Ellie would choose her over three million dollars, which causes Ellie to look down in shame.
• The Atoner: Deconstructed. Ellie's betrayal of Tom and Jake leaves her feeling guilty enough that she tries to make amends with Jake over it. Unfortunately, Jake's refusal to listen to her and the fact that her backstabbing tendencies have given everyone enough reason not to trust her means her pleas fall on deaf ears, causing her to eventually forgo making amends and just go straight for the million dollars.
• The Bartender: This was her job before she decided to join the competition, and going by her audition tape, rather than give her customers advice, what she did was receive verbal abuse from them. It's not entirely clear if she still works as a bartender during All-Stars, as while she mentions that she's still working two jobs, she doesn't specifically mention being a bartender as one of those jobs.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. Ellie looks like she doesn't care about anything most of the time, but while she can be actually nice when you get to know her, she also has no problem throwing anybody down the bus if she feels like It'll help her advance or stay in the game. And if you rile her up enough, like Jake, she can prove to be both unsympathetic and verbally cruel.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • In the beta, her money gets stolen from her in her ending or she loses both the game and her hair in Fiore's ending. On the bright side, her relationship with Gabby is going strong.
  • Even more pronounced in the remastered version. After being forced to use questionable tactics to remain in the game in order to escape poverty, her efforts are All for Nothing, as she's eliminated in the finale, ranking third place. She's also lost both of the friendships she's formed throughout the season (with Alec and Jake). Once again, her relationship with Gabby is the only bright side for her.
• Blaming the Victim: She ends her "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Jake by saying that maybe the reason his old boyfriend cheated on him was because he's so annoying.
• Boyish Short Hair: Ellie's hair only reaches down her neck and, while mostly intermediate in the girly girl-tomboy scale, she's more of a tomboy compared to her girlfriend Gabby.
• Broken Bird: Ellie's life prior to the competition hasn't been kind, working two jobs just to barely keep afloat and having little prospect for the future, but her time in the show only makes it even worse, especially in the remake: the two friends she makes either betray her, or she's forced to betray them to stay in the game, she gets manipulated and duped by Fiore's alliance multiple times, and Gabby, her girlfriend and closest support, ends up eliminated, leaving her all alone. By the time episode 11 rolls around, it's palpable in Ellie's face just how sick of everything she is.
• Brutal Honesty: At least after becoming more jerkish, she has her moments of being brutally honest. For instance, when Tom gets mad at her for betraying him and "making [him] look like a moron on national television", she flatly tells him "It worked."
• But Not Too Bi: A promo art made by the creators to celebrate Pride Month reveals Ellie to be bisexual, but the only character she's shown to have romantic feelings for is the female Gabby.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: When Ellie finds Alec fending off a giant scorpion in the dark caves, her first thought is to leave him alone even when he asks for help. She only decides to help him after he reveals he has batteries.
• Character Tics: Whenever Ellie sits down, she crosses her legs and, nine times out of ten, she rests her cheek on one of her palms, looking disinterested/in the distance.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: While nowhere near as bad as Fiore, Ellie still manages to mostly get ahead in the game by either manipulating or outright backstabbing the other contestants. In the finale of the remake, Ellie ends up being tricked by Miriam faking a heart attack, lowering her guard just long enough for Miriam to throw away her shovel, with her taking the time Ellie would need to get the shovel back crossing the finish line.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Ellie has a really bad habit of stabbing her allies in the back in order to stay in the game.
  • In Season 1 she betrays the Miriam-Jake-Tom alliance by driving a wedge between the latter two in a plan to stay afloat, she leaves Alec stranded in a cave after swinging on a rope, and shoved Jake down in order to try to win immunity for herself.
  • When she returns in All-Stars she tries to start an all girls alliance on the Cyan Team, convincing Tess and Lake to work with her and Gabby. However, when they go to elimination for the first time she can't get Lake to agree to vote out Aiden instead of Tom, and feeling Lake is too loyal to Aiden, she paints Lake as the mastermind of the girls alliance to Tom and Aiden and reveals Lake's attempts to vote out Tom to him, getting Lake eliminated instead.
• Composite Character: Her bad relationship with Fiore and desire to get her out once the truth comes out was originally something that Nick had.
• Commonality Connection: She forms a bond with Alec at the beginning of the show over the two of them being the isolated outcasts of the purple team.
• Competition Freak: If Ellie gets her mindset into winning challenges, nothing can stop her from charging forward. This becomes more pronounced in All-Stars, where due to already having experience with the competition, as well as the prize money being tripled, Ellie becomes so competitive that she casually performs actions that she would've been cautious about in Season 1 with no hesitation, like getting Lake eliminated in episode 3 once she realizes Lake refuses to vote with the Girls Alliance.
• Copycat Mockery: She preludes her verbal breakdown of Jake by imitating his "boohoo, I got cheated on" gesture.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Before joining the competition, she works two jobs, causing her to work long hours. Despite this, she struggles to make rent and stay afloat. According to her audition tape in the beta, customers would even insult her. She also suggests that she's suffered many sleepless nights. This is clearly why she wants to win so much, even agreeing to betray Jake in order to get a chance to reach the finals.
• Decomposite Character:
  • In the beta, she's the one who tells Jake that she lied about Tom using him. In the remake, this is taken over by Fiore, who then proceeds to add insult to injury by making Ellie out to be the mastermind behind said scheme.
  • Also in the beta, she was the one who ultimately decided who to take to the finale, and who betrayed Jake in exchange for an allegedly easier target. The remake gives this instead to Miriam and Fiore, with the latter taking over the betrayal as well.
• Determinator: Ellie entered the competition in order to win the million dollars and she's perfectly willing to do anything and throw anyone under the bus in order to achieve this goal.
• Detrimental Determination: Ellie's fully determined to win the million dollars, but this has caused her to take some actions that have damaged both her personal relationships as well as what little optimism/positivity she had when she entered the competition. Ashley and Lill are voted out because Ellie voted for them over Fiore, causing them to no longer trust her; Alec, the one person she started to bond with, betrayed her not once, but twice; and though she got a second chance with Jake, her desperation to stay in the race caused her to sabotage his relationship with Tom, only for Alec and Fiore to paint her as the one behind the scheme, causing all eyes to get on her.
• Demoted to Extra: Downplayed but subverted. She's a finalist in the original version of season one and, while she's not a minor character in the remake, she's seemingly voted out roughly halfway here. However, the next episode reveals she was only switching teams.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Subverted. She turns down Gabby's offer to get her immunity idol for Purple Team's voting ceremony in Episode 6, not even accounting for the possibility that Alec may choose to keep Fiore over her. This backfires on her, as it turns out she indeed needed to use it, resulting in her "elimination". However, it's later revealed she was just switching teams.
  • Episode 10 of the reboot has a more straightforward example. Desperate to remain in the game, Ellie decides to join forces with Alec and Fiore in order to secure a spot in the finale. While she does humor the idea that the two might be up to something, she still ultimately goes through with what they ask of her, resulting in Tom being eliminated and her friendship with Jake being broken beyond repaired.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: During episode 11, Ellie manages to fend off a giant scorpion twice, first when it grabs her leg when the challenge starts, and the second when she saves Jake's life when the scorpion is about to attack him.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: Miriam convinces her to begin intentionally throwing the challenges during Episode 12, since if she and Alec get one more victory, they'll have to either pick Fiore or Miriam, when Ellie could get picked by Fiore and Miriam and have an easier time taking them down instead.
• Enemy Mine:
  • While still technically part of Grett and Fiore's alliance in the beta, Ellie eventually decides to conspire with Jake and Nick in order to vote one of them out, this being Grett.
  • Ellie doesn't trust either Fiore or Alec, but during episode 10, she's forced to rely on them in order to secure herself a spot in the finale, even if she has to sacrifice her friendship with Jake in the process.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: During episode 11, Ellie's initially willing to leave Alec to his fate after she finds him fighting a giant scorpion. It's only when he brings up the fact that he has batteries, which Ellie needs, that she decides to save him from the giant creature.
• Entitled Bitch: Downplayed, but in the first All-Stars episode, she seems to expect at least one other contestant to greet her. This is despite the fact she insulted several of them in interviews.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: Ellie's an Anti-Villain at best, but she still tends to be quite ruthless and brutal in her attempts to become a millionaire. Despite this, Gabby has nothing but love and support for her, even if some of her worst moments can leave her feeling uncomfortable.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: By All-Stars, Ellie's become so ruthless and pragmatic in her gameplay that the only reason she isn't lumped with the other villains, former or current, is because she isn't naturally malicious on her own. That being said, Gabby genuinely loves her because of being one of the only people who made her feel valid during her stint in Season 1, and is in turn one of the only people willing to stick to her side by the end of the season.
• Fatal Flaw: Greed. Having spent so long barely being able to make ends meet, Ellie's willing to do anything to gain money, which leads her to not only become more ruthless in an attempt to win the million dollars, but she says some scathing things in her post-Season 1 interviews because she needed the money, further dragging down her already-low relationship with the other contestants.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Becomes this to Jake once she teams up with Fiore and Grett (beta)/Alec (remake) in order to sabotage their relationship. While it's not nearly as evident in the beta, as Jake and Ellie hardly had time to develop much of a friendship before Ellie decided to play matchbreaker, the remake gives the two just enough time to bond to make Ellie's decision all the more impactful and hurtful for Jake.
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. Ellie has orange hair (with darker streaks in the remake), and yet she's one of the calmer contestants when she's not riled up.
• Flaw Exploitation: Played for Drama. As part of her deal with Alec and Fiore to win Immunity, Ellie's tasked with driving a wedge between Tom and Jake so that they can get one of them eliminated. She does this by taking advantage of Jake's paranoia and trust issues to make him think Tom's cheating on him. This, coupled with Alec and Fiore scapegoating her over what happened, ends up destroying any chance of reconciliation between Ellie and Jake, who refuses to hear her out and continues blaming her for his breakup with Tom.
• Foil:
  • To Alec. Both of them are contestants with money issues who stick together with Fiore in order to advance in the game, and are shown to be willing to cross certain lines in order to get what they want. However, while Alec eventually grows fond of Fiore and becomes her closest ally, Ellie only sees Fiore as a means to an end at best before Fiore betrays her and makes her look like the mastermind of Tom and Jake's relationship fallout, at which point the two become mortal enemies.
  • To Miriam. They're both important female figures to Jake who bring about important parts of his development, and cause a significant shift in his relationship with Tom. Miriam signals a positive effect as the two of them talk about their respective deceased family members that helps Miriam come out of her shell, and she eventually helps Jake start talking with Tom, which helps their relationship blossom. Ellie signals a negative effect, as she tricks Jake into voting out Tom, with some manipulation from Fiore making her out to be the mastermind behind the fallout which ends up making the two of them hated enemies.
  • To Jake. They're both somewhat naive contestants who end up going down a darker path as a result of toxic influences. In Ellie's case, she only had Alec and Fiore to hang out with at the start of the game, and their continued interaction only caused her to become more ruthless and pragmatic until she became a villainous character. In Jake's case, Ellie herself intially seemed to want to help him and Tom get together, but she willingly tricks him into voting him AND getting him out just to stay in the game.
  • To Tom. They're both much more calm and serious compared to their respective love interests, whom they genuinely love, and have been through quite a bit in their backstory; general poverty for Ellie, and a failed spy mission for Tom. However, Tom is The Fettered who will only pull dirty tricks when absolutely necessary, while Ellie is The Unfettered who'll waste no time throwing people under the bus if it helps her advance in the game.
  • To Lake. They're both redheaded contestants with a strong presence in challenges, but Ellie's red hair is natural, while Lake's hair is a wig. Ellie is The Friend Nobody Likes among her teammates and even former contestants, while Lake is well liked by a few people, including Jake. Ellie is The Unfettered, willing to do anything and everything to get ahead in the game, while Lake, for the most part, plays the game as fair and square as possible. Finally, their relationships with Aiden are different: Ellie sees him as an useful elimination fodder at best and is perfectly willing to get him eliminated when the Cyan Team loses for the first time, while Lake has Undying Loyalty for Aiden to the point she tries to convince the alliance to vote out Tom, their strongest player, just for a chance to keep Aiden in the game.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Once All-Stars starts, she's this among the Season 1 cast due to bad-mouthing them all in an interview. She eventually becomes this for the Cyan Team as well: Tom hates her for the aforementioned interview and for betraying him during their first season, Lake gets betrayed by her out of nowhere simply for expressing discomfort in sending her friend Aiden home, Aiden despises her for betraying his friend and for her animosity towards Tom, who he befriends himself, Tess initially was friends with her since they had met in college and tried to remain neutral in the conflict, but soon begins to grow frustrated with Ellie’s more negative and cutthroat attitude since then, especially after the latter insults Hunter to her face, and even Gabby becomes more and more uncomfortable with Ellie’s behavior as time goes on.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: In both the beta and the remake, Ellie sabotages Tom and Jake's relationship, the Friend, in order to stay in the game long enough to hopefully win the million, the Idol.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has shades of this as she's happy when Gabby gives her a stuffed rabbit when she's eliminated in All-Stars.
• Good Is Not Soft: Ellie isn't a saint by any means, but she's one of the more morally good-leaning characters in both the beta and the remake before factors causes her to become more and more ruthless and pragmatic. That being said, she's still willing to throw people down the bus if it means getting to advance in the game.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • During Season 1, with the numbers rapidly dwindling and her few allies already out of the game, Ellie decides to put her trust in the Alec-Fiore duo in order to try and remain in the game for as long as possible. This ends up biting her in the butt massively when they in turn pin the blame on Jake and Tom's failing relationship on her, while revealing the hand she had in the misunderstanding in the first place.
  • During All-Stars, after having already alientated her entire team due to getting Lake voted out, and being generally hated by most of the Season 1 cast in general, Ellie ends up joining Alec's villain alliance in hope that she can at least survive long enough to become a millionaire and finally get out of her terrible situation.
• Graceful Loser:
  • In Fiore's ending, Ellie isn't too broken up over her defeat, as she muses that it's karma hitting her after betraying everyone's trust. The fact that Fiore loses the million and gets run over by a bus doesn't hurt either.
  • In a clear contrast to how she went out in Season 1, Ellie's elimination in All-Stars is a bit more subdued; while clearly shocked, she's pretty much silent the entire time while Gabby is the one who reacts strongly to realizing her girlfriend is gone. Even when she and Gabby are alone, she doesn't snap or claim she should've done something else to secure the three million, rather she tries to comfort Gabby before she takes the Bus of Losers.
• Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Ellie sabotages Tom and Jake's relationship by lying to the latter about it in order to remain in the game, but it's made clear that she feels terrible about it. It's a bit more exemplified in the beta, however, since Ellie gets a chance to simmer in said guilt before confessing to Jake about the deception unlike in the remake where, while still regretful, she doesn't get to explain herself before Fiore exposes the scheme and words it in a way to paint a bullseye on Ellie, making her come across as the one who thought of the idea in the first place.
• Hidden Depths: In Episode 4, Ellies tells Alec that she wants to be a fashion designer, so she needs to win the contest to be able to afford to study that career.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Subverted. She decides to work with Fiore and, in Episode 5, she doesn't vote her off because she plans on possibly reaping the benefits of her tricking other contestants. In Episode 6, Fiore plays a key part in seemingly getting her eliminated. It's later revealed, however, that she was just switching teams.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Just like the rest of her team in the beta, Ellie's completely blind to Fiore's hidden dark side until said side gets exposed when Jared shows everyone's confessionals during one of the elimination ceremonies.
• Hypocrite: Despite her own backstabbing tendencies, which, either directly or indirectly, cause the eliminations of Ashley, Lill, Dan, Tom, Jake and Alec, Ellie gets really agitated when people betray her, like Alec voting for her over Fiore, the two of them using her as a scapegoat during Tom's elimination episode, or Miriam faking a heart attack to gain the upper hand on her in the finale.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: During episode 5 of All-Stars, Ellie tells Tess to be careful when interacting with Hunter, as she feels like friendships in this game can't be trusted. While this might be rich coming from her, and she does get called out for it by Tess, Ellie has reason to believe this considering that the only two friendships she made during Season 1, Jake and Alec, both ended in extremely bad terms and with Ellie in a worse position than before.
• I Did What I Had to Do: During the final confessionals before the final challenge of the beta, Ellie's talks about how she regrets having betrayed so many of her friends, especially Jake when she picked to bring Fiore to the final challenge with her over him, but makes it clear that she needed to do this in order to last as long as she did.
• I Lied: In the beta, Ellie herself confesses to Jake that she lied to him about Tom using him just when it seems like he'll be eliminated, destroying their friendship. The remake, however, doesn't give her the same courtesy, as Fiore is the one who ultimately spills the beans about the scheme, while wording her explanation carefully enough to make Ellie seem like the mastermind of the scheme.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Ellie's audition tape makes it clear that she's entering the competition not to make friends, but to win the million dollars. Indeed, once in the show proper, Ellie never tries to get close to anybody: Gabby, her eventual girlfriend, is the one to approach her first, and the only other people she tries to befriend are Alec, who betrays her, and Jake, whom she betrays in order to stay in the game. Then in All-Stars its revealed she met and befriended Tess in New York after season 2 ended, but this was strictly outside of the game, and once back in it, Tess is left speechless as to how ruthless Ellie can be.
• Irony: Ellie mostly got ahead in the game by manipulating or betraying the other contestants. In the finale, it's Ellie who gets tricked by Miriam, who at that point has played fair and square, which ends with her being eliminated.
• It Amused Me: She pitched both couples kissing at the end of Cyan Team's song solely so that she could get amusement from Jake freaking out over Aiden and Tom kissing.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: She doesn't take Alec voting her off over Fiore kindly and holds a grudge over it. A much more serious example happens in episode 10, when they turn her into a scapegoat for Tom and Jake's fallout; this becomes the official moment that Ellie loses all trust in the duo and becomes enemies, even refusing to hear out Alec when he tries to tell her that their earlier friendship was real.
• I've Come Too Far: By the later half of the remake/season, Ellie has essentially alienated everyone she once considered friends at best, and gave her enemies even more reason to hunt her down at worst, leaving her with no choice but to keep pushing forward despite her regrets and reservation.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Her "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards Jake is probably her most malicious moment in the remake, but she makes some pretty good points; Jake at that point had done nothing but rant and whine about Ellie's role in his relationship breakdown with Tom while also painting her as the sole reason for it despite Jake having a role to play as well. She also calls him out over his childishness and tells him that he can't judge her because, despite him voting out Gabby, Ellie never pulled the same kind of stunt as he did.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ellie can be both manipulative and quite backstabbing towards even her own allies, but those who manage to gain her trust tend to find her to be a much nicer person than her ruthlessness implies.
• Kick the Dog:
  • She ends her tirade against Jake, which was harsh but justified at that point, with suggesting that the reason his former boyfriend cheated on him was because he was so obnoxious.
  • An arguably worse one happens in All-Stars: When Lake refuses to side with the girls alliance and vote Aiden out, Ellie not only reveals that Lake wanted to vote for Tom during the elimination ceremony, but spins things around to make it seem like Lake was the one who thought of the alliance.
  • In All-Stars, she has Tom and Aiden kiss each other while knowing Jake (who she's aware still has feelings for Tom) will watch to mess with him, which was for no benefit other than her amusement.

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• Lack of Empathy: Ellie's empathy skills lessen as the game goes on in Season 1 as things go down the toilet for her, and it's an at all-time worst in All-Stars: while she's shown to regret getting Lake voted out, she still does it without hesitation nor remorse at the moment, and it's only after the fact is done that she shows her guilt. She also gets Aiden and Tom to kiss each other while being aware Jake (who she knows has feelings for Tom) will watch it for fun. In the eighth episode, she distracts him by tricking him into thinking Tom and Aiden were kissing. Granted, that at least seemed to be to win the challenge and not just amusement.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • In the original Adventure Camp, although she was more of The Strategist than a Jerkass about it, she did betray her allies, most notably Jake, in order to reach and have a better chance in the finale. And while she wins in her ending, her money gets stolen from her. She also loses her hair in Fiore's ending.
  • In episode 10 of the remake, Ellie willingly makes an alliance with Alec and Fiore in order to gain immunity and, though reluctant to do it, still acts as matchbreaker to Tom and Jake as in the original. Come the elimination ceremony, and Fiore and Alec end up not only revealing the scheme to Tom and Jake, but also paint Ellie as the one behind the plan, causing all eyes to land on her.
  • In episode 11 of the remake, Ellie ditches Alec on the other side of a cliff after using a rope to swing to the other side. Moments after verbally tearing Jake a new one, Alec prevents her from climbing out and throws her to the ground, winning immunity for himself.
  • And finally, in the finale, after spending the last couple of episodes betraying her closest allies by lying to their faces and then stabbing them in the back just to get ahead, Ellie ends up losing the finale right before the final 2 because Miriam lies about having a heart attack and tricks her into stopping so that she can throw her shovel further away and win the race against her.
• Liar Revealed: Ellie's lies about Tom, and her sabotage of his and Jake's relationship by proxy is revealed in both the beta and the remake, though the way it's done varies differently: in the beta, Ellie herself confesses to lying just when it seems like Jake will be eliminated, while in the remake, Fiore betrays Ellie by not only revealing her and Alec's plan to sabotage them, but painting Ellie as the main culprit of the idea.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While she does ally with Fiore and Alec at multiple points in the season, it's clear she carries some remorse and guilt about betraying her friends, and has been repeatedly backstabbed by the two of them herself.
• Love Across Battlelines: In the beta, Ellie's love interest, Gabby, is strictly on the opposing team the entire time. The remake plays with this by placing them on the same team at the beginning before Gabby switches teams and then again in Episode 7 following Ellie's switch, with both of them also making it to the merge where they're reunited..
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings: After joining Alec's villain alliance during All-Stars, Ellie has made the conscious choice to keep Gabby out of the loop for this one, knowing just how badly her girlfriend would take it if she knew. When the next episode has the alliance exposed and Ellie is confronted about it, she decides to feign ignorance when Gabby says she would've told her if she was in a villain's alliance.
• Made Out to Be a Jerkass: More like a bigger one than she already was, as in Episode 10 of the reboot has Fiore and Alec manipulate events to make it seem like 'Ellie' was the one to plan the entire scheme of driving a wedge in Tom's and Jake's relationship in order to vote the former out, not only taking the eyes off of them in the process but also turning Ellie into a scapegoat and the target of Jake and Miriam's ire.
• Moral Myopia: At least Jake and possibly Fiore (as she snarkily calling the situation "ironic") seems to view her as a case of such; she lied to Jake that Tom was cheating on him in Episode 10 but got mad at Alec and Fiore for lying to her. Granted, she actually didn't want to trick Jake in the first place.
• Necessarily Evil: This is how Ellie justifies teaming up with Fiore and Grett (beta)/Alec (remake) and sabotaging Tom and Jake's relationship in order to remain in the game: even if she had played the game like normal and not be associated with them, she'd still be the next person targeted once they were taken out of the equation, meaning working with them was her only choice to procure some security.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: In the beta, Ellie's with the rest of her teammates tending the tranquilized Ashley and doesn't get the chance to bid Gabby farewell when she gets eliminated. Luckily, the two manage to properly give each other goodbyes in the remake, even getting to kiss before Gabby leaves.
• Not So Above It All: When she's teamed up with Jake during the latter half of episode 11, she at first seems to be taking the high road by ignoring his persistent ranting at her. However, once they reach the exit and Jake tries to trade immunity in exchange for forgiving her, Ellie straight up tells him to "eat shit and die" and pushes him off before verbally tearing him a new one, culminating in her callously saying how his ex-boyfriend wouldn't have cheated on him if he wasn't so annoying.
• Only in It for the Money: Ellie's audition tape makes it pretty clear that she's joining the competition not because she wants to have fun or make friends, but because she's in desperate need of the money and wants to get out of her current financial situation.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Her sabotaging Tom and Jake's relationship, while quickly left in the backburner in the beta, is essentially the only thing that Jake keeps bringing up in the remake, all the while trying to paint Ellie as the sole bad guy and ignoring his own role in the fallout as well.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Miriam calls her out as this in episode 11, saying that she's willing to throw anybody down the bus in order to win the million. While Ellie is quick to respond, and Miriam is guilty of also wanting to win the million, it's hard to outright deny it given how often Ellie has backstabbed or sabotaged people in order to become one of the finalists.
• Opposites Attract: While she's fairly level-headed and calm, her girlfriend Gabby is an impulsive Genki Girl.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In episode 11 of the remake, Ellie's forced to save Alec from the giant scorpion because he had batteries, which she needed. Then, they share a moment where Alec tells Ellie that their friendship from before was real, until they come across a rope to swing through a chasm. Ellie swings first... and lets Alec know what it feels like to be betrayed by someone you trust when she ties the rope to a rock and leaves him behind, similar to him she trusted him to keep her safe from her first "elimination", only to vote her and keep Fiore instead.
• Penny Among Diamonds: Ellie's called "The Minimum-Wage Worker" for a reason; while the other contestants are implied to be relatively well off, she works two jobs and can barely have enough to pay rent. It's part of the reason why she joined the competition in the first place, since she thinks that gaining the million will help her get her monetary issues in check.
• Percussive Maintenance: During the final race, her go-kart's motor starts to bust, causing Ellie to give it a good hit, which ends with it exploding and giving her a big boost. What happens afterwards depends on the ending; In her own ending, it sends Ellie straight into the finish line and crashing into a tree, while in Fiore's ending, she crashes in a tree inches away from it, letting Fiore cross it instead.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Downplayed as she's an Anti-Villain at worst. However, it's revealed in the first episode of All-Stars that she insulted Ashley for not being able to see through Fiore's lies and rudely states it's because she's from a farm in Texas.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • During the finale in the beta, Ellie agrees to have Grett sabotage one of the go-karts so that Fiore will have a disadvantage. Unfortunately, Ellie never confirmed which go-kart Grett sabotaged, leaving her stumped until she accidentally picks the one she sabotaged and drives it instead.
  • This is also a big reason why her friendship with Jake ultimately crumbles. Ellie drives a wedge between Tom and Jake in order to get one of them eliminated, and Jake's so furious when he finds out that he refuses to listen to her even when she tries to apologize, and continues to rant at her for so long that she eventually retaliates with a verbal beatdown of her own, causing them to become enemies for real.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: She doesn't seem to be familiar with pop culture, as she doesn't get a reference Alec makes in Episode 11. Presumably justified since, given her life before the competition, it would make sense if she would have little if any time to engage in pop culture.
• Pragmatic Hero: Ellie's the closest thing that Season 1 has to a true main character, but she's the pragmatic sort, being willing to pull dirty tricks in order to get ahead in the game. The best example is when she joins forces with Fiore and Alec in order to make it to the final three, resulting in Tom being eliminated and his and Jake's relationship to hit rock bottom.
• Precision F-Strike: Although she typically doesn't cuss, Episode 11 of the reboot has her tell Jake to outright "eat shit and die" due to being frustrated by him, before pushing him out of the platform and verbally tearing him apart for his behavior. In All-Stars, she calls Alec (who she doesn't like) a "dickhead" in surprise and anger after he accidentally scared her.
• Prematurely Bald: She's a young woman and Fiore's ending in the beta ends with her hair burning up as a result of her Percussive Maintenance on her go-kart.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Her hair is tied in a little bun at the back in her remake design.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Although she wins in her ending of the original Adventure Camp, Mr. Jensen runs away with her prize money.
• Rags to Riches: This is what Ellie's plan amounts to regarding entering the show, as after working two jobs that pay just enough to let her stay afloat, she believes that she can use the million dollars in order to get her life back on track. She doesn't succeed no matter the version; in the beta, she either wins but gets the money stolen by Jensen, or loses to Fiore outright. And in the remake, she doesn't even get to be one of the final two, placing 3rd place after falling for Miriam's trick.
• Redheads Are Uncool: Ellie's stoic, backstabbing, "win at all costs" mentality means that she doesn't make a lot of friends during her time at camp, with the sole exception of Gabby, who becomes her girlfriend.
• Rejected Apology: No matter how many times she tries to apologize to Jake over getting Tom eliminated, the guy refuses to hear her out. It gets to the point that, when Jake tries to argue for gaining Immunity from Ellie in exchange for maybe forgiving her, she outright rejects him back and gives him a scathing callout instead.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to Jake in Episode 11. After finally getting fed up with Jake complaining about how she got Tom eliminated, ranting about how terrible she is, and trying to guilt trip her, even saying he might forgive her if she lets him win immunity, she finally snaps at him to "eat shit and die" before shoving him and telling him to grow up and he's not a victim like he always acts, pointing out she didn't act like that after he and his alliance voted out Gabby, and that maybe his annoying attitude is why he got cheated on in the first place.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm and serene blue oni to Gabby's energetic and impulsive red oni.
• Relationship Sabotage: She drives a wedge between Jake and Tom by lying to the former that the latter was supposedly calling him dumb for trusting him and saying he can get him to vote for whoever he wants (in the beta) or calling his boyfriend and saying nasty things about him (in the remake). She does this not because she doesn't like seeing them together, but because she struck a deal with Fiore and Grett (beta)/Alec (remake) in an attempt to remain in the game.
• Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: In episode 11, alongside showing her Callousness Towards Emergency, Ellie also decides to ditch Alec to the giant scorpion because at that point he's betrayed and hurt her way too many times for her to care about him. It's only when he points out he has batteries, which she needs, does she return to help him.
• Regretful Traitor: She backstabs her ally Jake in both the reboot and the original, but regrets it all the way through in the beta, and until Jake ticks her off in episode 11 of the remake.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In the remake, Ellie's sabotage of Tom and Jake as per the request of Fiore and Alec ends with Fiore not only revealing the whole scheme to the two of them, but spinning the truth in order to make Ellie seem like the mastermind of the incident, turning her into a scapegoat and keeping all eyes off the actual masterminds of the plan.
• Sadistic Choice: In the ante-penultimate episode of the beta, Ellie wins immunity after managing to start a bonfire, and is told that she has to pick one of the other two finalists to take with her to the finals: Fiore, who at that point had no trust left in her, or Jake, whom she had been making amends after sabotaging his relationship with Tom in order to stay in the game. Despite having more of a friendly relationship with Jake, Ellie ultimately decides to pick Fiore over him, rationalizing that she could easily beat her in any challenge that could come next no matter what.
• The Scapegoat: Episode 10 of the remake has Fiore and Alec paint Ellie as the mastermind behind the plan to get Tom eliminated, which puts all eyes on her from the Miriam-Jake-Tom alliance and leaves the two in the clear.
• Secret-Keeper: She doesn't reveal Fiore's true nature, even after Alec chose Fiore to stay over her.
• Shoot the Dog: In both the beta and the remake, she lies to Jake, whom she had been growing friendly with, about Tom so that the two of them would fight and destabilize enough for them to be easy pickings. It's slightly worse in the remake, though, since her and Jake's friendship got more time to develop, and thus make the shooting more impactful, than in the beta.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: After her failure to talk things out with Jake over her driving a wedge between him and Tom, she then meets Miriam, who tries to give her a piece of her own mind. Unlike with Jake, Ellie refuses to take her nonsense straight, constantly bringing up counterarguments to Miriam's callouts, and eventually ending with the two of them reaching an understanding of sorts.
• Sixth Ranger: She becomes the third member of Fiore's alliance in the beta after [[Spoiler:Grett]], having joined with them in order to secure herself a spot in the finale.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: In the beta, she betrays Fiore and Grett by teaming up with Nick and Jake to vote out Grett, as a way to try to make amends for messing with the Jake's relationship.
• Smarter Than You Look: At least to Fiore, who thinks she looks dumb (which wasn't intentional on Ellie's part). However, as she later learns, Ellie is actually an intelligent girl.
• Sore Loser: Thrice in the remake.
  • Upon being "eliminated", she sarcastically wishes Alec good luck winning challenges with only a 6-years-old to help him.
  • Then, during the finale, she's visibly frustrated when she realizes she landed third, just short of the final two, because she got tricked by Miriam.
  • As of the first of Episode of All Stars, it’s revealed she did interviews trashing the others on live television. One of the ones she insulted was Miriam for tricking her, saying she would “let her go into the light” if such a situation came up again, and that she didn’t deserve to win.
• The Stoic: She's usually very calm and collected, rarely showing stronger emotions. However, she's more prone to showing emotions than the biggest stoic of the cast, Alec.
• Stopped Caring: While she wasn't that hung up about how her time in the game went in the beta, the remake enhances her angst enough so that she's effectively sick of everything by the time she becomes a finalist; the one time she tried to befriend someone ended with said friend betraying her, she betrays her other teammates while allied with Alec and Fiore, who end up using her a couple more times afterwards, most notably when they trick her into driving a wedge between Tom and Jake only to pin the blame on her, causing the other remaining alliance to set their eyes on her while they get scott free. Couple this with Jake refusing her to hear her out even though she tries to make amends, and the only thing she has left to care about Is the million dollar prize.
• Super Gullible: Ellie ends up being duped three times over the course of the season, and it takes her being duped the third time for her to realize what's going on.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Episode 12 has her paired up with Alec for the tag team challenges, with neither contestant proving to be excited at the prospect.
• Tempting Fate: In her own ending, Ellie happily proclaims how the million dollars will help her turn her life around before Chef Hatchet arrives with the police, setting off the chain of events that ends with Jensen running away with her money.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: After the second team switch, she's a member of the Teal Team in the remastered version.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Granted, Ellie was never a villain, just a ruthlessly pragmatic morally grey character. That being said, having her apologies about sabotaging his relationship with Tom repeatedly rejected by Jake, then having to listen to him rant and complain about what she did, all the while painting her as the bad guy and him as having had nothing to do with it, causes Ellie to lose her patience and immediately assume the jerkass persona Jake claims her as, not only verbally tearing him apart for his behavior, but pouring salt into the wound by bringing up his cheating ex-boyfriend and blaming him for being cheated on.
• This Cannot Be!: Ellie can only utter "I can't believe it" after Miriam tricks her during the final race by faking a heart attack, stunning Ellie long enough for Miriam to throw her shovel away and cross the finish line first, thereby removing Ellie from the race.
• Token Good Teammate: For a definition of "good", but out of her, Fiore, and Grett's alliance, she's the only one who's a relatively good person despite her manipulative and backstabbing ways, as she doesn't hide behind a good facade (Fiore) or maliciously seeks to hurt others if she feels like she can win (Grett).
• Tomboyish Voice: While Ellie's Spanish voice sounds female enough, her English voice is significantly deeper and raspier.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She has this dynamic with her girlfriend Gabby.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Ellie has a raspy voice, a rather ruthless mentality, and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty if it means advancing in the game. She also happens to have an interest in fashion, saying she'll use the money to go to fashion school when she wins.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • While it may just be because of the stress of the competition and her being thrown under the bus by Fiore, as well as Jake's behavior grinding her gears, her behavior in Episode 11 has her betraying Alec and delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Jake that can be seen as really harsh when she victim blames Jake for being cheated on. She also mocks Jake on his way out.
  • All-Stars has her become meaner by not only expecting Miriam, Jake, or Tom to greet her despite everything she did to them, but revealing that she badmouthed several of her fellow contestants in interviews after Season 1, an action she proves to be rather unapologetic for. She even tries to upset Jake by having Tom (who he has feelings for) kiss Aiden during a challenge.
• Took A Level In Cynicism: The Trauma Conga Line she's been through since arriving at the camp has worn her down so much that by episode 11, she's no longer interested in trying to make amends with the people she's hurt nor try to fix things with Jake, instead being solely focused on trying to win the money.
• The Unfettered: Ellie's the kind of person who's willing to do anything in order to gain the million dollars. The best example is when she joins Alec and Fiore, two people she doesn't trust at all, and helps them break up Jake and Tom and get the latter eliminated in order to remain in the game.
• The Unapologetic: In quite a contrast to how she felt when she tried to apologize to Jake in episode 11 of Season 1, Ellie is completely unapologetic over badmouthing them and several other contestants in interviews after Season 1, believing that they should've gotten over it after 2 years.
• Unwitting Pawn: She decides to briefly join forces with Alec and Fiore in episode 10 of the reboot in order to stay in the game. Unfortunately, not only does she sacrifice her friendship with Jake to do so, but it eventually turns out that she was duped by the two of them in a plan meant to get Tom eliminated, which becomes successful.
• Victory by Endurance: How she wins the eating challenge during episode 7 of the beta. After eating a bunch of disgusting things that ended in a live tarantula, Grett outright refuses to eat it, which allows Ellie to snatch victory by eating it and lasting long enough to be declared the winner.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • Despite having no intention of making friends while at the camp, Ellie develops something of a kinship with Alec, bonding with him over being the outcasts of the purple team. This kinship ends once Alec betrays her for Fiore, and though she forgives him after the fact, his betrayal after that cements their status as enemies.
  • She and Jake end up developing something of a friendship, but her taking advantage of his trust issues in order to drive a wedge between him and Tom causes Jake to cut ties with her, with Ellie simply conceding when he says that she needs help. This eventually becomes a mutual hatred on both parts when Ellie tries to apologize to Jake, only for his rejection and petulant whining to make Ellie sick of him.
• What You Are in the Dark: After spending most of the season as a ruthless pragmatist, her elimination in All-Stars gives Ellie a chance to be her real self when, once she's alone with Gabby, she spends their remaining time together before leaving comforting her and helping her soldier on in her absence.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As revealed in Episode 3, she's afraid of sharks.
• Wild Card: More pronounced in the remake than the beta, but Ellie has a habit of changing alliances at the drop of a hat if it means benefitting from them. She joins Grett and Fiore's alliance in the beta only to betray them by working with Jake and Nick to get Grett out, then betrays Jake in order to bring the much weaker Fiore with her to the finals, just as one example.
• Working-Class Hero: Ellie's an ordinary woman who works two jobs but struggles to make ends meet regardless. Part of the reason she joins the competition is to use the million dollars to try gain a better sense of economic stability and head to fashion school like she wanted to.
• Would Harm a Senior: Downplayed, but during one of the interviews she did after Season 1, she claims that after Miriam's fake heart attack stunt, she would let her "go into the light" if she saw her in a similar situation again.
• Youthful Freckles: She's one of the younger contestants and, as expected of a red-haired character, she has freckles. Judging by her label of The Minimum Wage Worker, they may also symbolize poverty.