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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All names, ages, and locations stated are at the time of filming.
Coco Montrese (10th)
Original Appearance: Season 5 (5th)
"Orange you girls happy to see me?"
- Call-Back: Brings back her character from the RuPaul Roast for the stand-up challenge.
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Is known as the diva of Lip Syncs and is a professional showgirl and Celebrity Impersonator in Las Vegas, yet decides to step out of her box and perform a dance number inspired by the The Golden Age of Hollywood. It doesn't work in her favor, and her performance was so underwhelming that her friend Roxxxy eliminated her for it.
- Running Gag: Her oft-mocked love of the color orange (due to her ungodly orange foundation during Season 5).
- Trademark Favorite Food: Embracing the meme from Season 5, she has taken to Nacho Cheese Doritos. Interviews have even shown her to have about a dozen snack sized bags of Doritos in her hotel room, and she first enters the workroom holding a custom makeup compact in the shape of a Dorito chip.
- Uncanny Valley Make Up: Has worked hard to fix her make-up after having her complexion likened to a Dorito, however she's read on the fact that it's still off, and the only thing she's accomplished is that she's gone from Dorito to soot.
Adore Delano (9th / quit)
Original Appearance: Season 6 (runner-up)
"My name is Adore Delano and I'm a messy slut! ... I'm known for being really messy! (Producer: Gimme one LOGO will actually sign off on) Oh, ok ... cause big dicks and fried chicken was very subtle!"
- Boring, but Practical: Claims her grunge aesthetic makes it easier to perform, and that she can't crowdsurf in a corset. This is only boring in the context of the show, where extravagant outfits are prized more than t-shirts and denim.
- Break the Cutie: Worked hard since her season to build her confidence in her messy drag, but when the judges rip her style to shreds on stage it really breaks her, making her regress back to "Baby Adore" as she puts it.
- Can't Take Criticism: Is very defensive about her aesthetic and doesn't like being read for it. Outside the show she does her best to avoid the drama on social media, but realizes in the competition she has to face being doubted to her face, and that that just isn't an environment she wants to be in.
- Heroic BSoD: Could not recover from the harsh critiques she received in the first episode, and ends up walking around the werk room with swollen eyes and a fake smile looking like, as she puts it, a 'swollen baby'. In the end she couldn't push through her BSOD and bows out of the competition.
- Rummage Sale Reject: Ru calls her out during the reunion when Adore says she felt bad seeing the fashion she brought compared to everyone else's. Ru states to her that when you're on All Stars you have to bring original costumes and can't just wear something "off the rack", or if you are, you have to wear it in a way that no one else can copy.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She leaves the competition in the beginning of the second episode because she feels that being read by the judges is a step backwards for her, personally and professionally. Even after Michelle apologized for her harsh words, Adore didn't want Michelle to feel obligated to tread lightly with her. As a result, Adore became the first queen to leave outside the Lip Sync round.
- Sequel Hook: During the reunion Ru actually extends an early invitation to Adore to participate in All Stars 3 ... although how serious that invitation actually is was unclear.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Is a self-admitted messy slut with a 90's grunge aesthetic, so she naturally butts heads with judge Michelle Visage who prefers polished queens with a cinched waist and an affinity for showgirl glamour.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: With Michelle Visage, the critiques may have been harsh, but Adore explains the reason it hits her so hard is because she has much love and respect for Michelle. After having a breakdown she just can't justify staying around since her heart isn't in it, since she doesn't want to put Michelle in a position where she feels she has to treat Adore with kid gloves during the judging.
Ginger Minj (8th)
Original Appearance: Season 7 (runner-up)
"Ribbit! Ribbit! The glamour toad is in the building."
- A Death in the Limelight: Doesn't get a huge amount of focus in the first two episodes, until in the beginning of Episode 3, where she's complaining about only being judged as safe.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Implied she was going to do this in place of Katya when she thought Alyssa would eliminate. Alyssa doesn't quite buy it.
- Lampshade Hanging: Hangs one on the editors after a shady comment towards Violet:Ginger: They'll edit that out.Detox: Will they, though?Ginger: No, they won't!
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Possible bitch edit aside, she says her personal brand of comedy made her come off as a Jerkass in Season 7, and wants to use this season to show people she's actually a sweet and kind person.
- The Resenter: While she tried to claim she held no bad blood against Alyssa for eliminating her, the moment Ru said she would have the chance to come back for her revenge, Ginger was quick to claim she was more than ready to kick Alyssa out of the competition.
- She's also quick to bring up her elimination in the middle of Phi Phi and Alyssa's heated argument, derailing from the conversation.
Phi Phi O'Hara (7th)
Original Appearance: Season 4 (runner-up)
"Riddle me this, riddle me that, watch out girls, this bitch is back!"
- Aesop Amnesia: In episode 1 she explained how the bitchy image she acquired in her season had damaged her career, prompting her to play nicer this time. One episode later she's right back at playing mind games with her competitors.
- Art Shift: Her drag has gotten a lot more experimental and androgynous in the four years since her last appearance.
- The Atoner: Admits that many viewers see her as the bitch from Season 4, and wants to use All-Stars as a platform to show she has grown and can play nice. Subverted as she starts getting just as manipulative and competitive as she was before by the second episode.
- Brutal Honesty: Likes to make comments about the other queens about their performances, and while Phi Phi isn't really wrong about her criticisms most the queens feel she's less trying to be helpful and she's more trying to sow seeds of doubt in her competition.
- Call-Back: For the stand-up comedy challenge, she brings back her 'ghetto chola' character from the "Glamazons vs. Champions" episode of Season 4.
- Cosplay: Since her season her drag aesthetic has changed drastically from pageant to cosplayer, as she shows entering the competition dressed as a Rule 63 Riddler.
- Hypocrite: Called out Alyssa for eliminating Ginger over Katya when Ginger did a better job in the challenge; however, when she was on the chopping block, she cited her more consistent performance in the competition over Roxxxy as why she should stay.
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Her act for the talent show is singing a cappella to demonstrate her voice. As Ginger is quick to point out, performing without music makes it easy to lose key and rhythm, which is exactly what happens during the challenge.
- Manipulative Bitch: Getting ready for Snatch Game she picks apart Alyssa and Roxxxy for their picks, telling Alyssa her Joan Crawford is too Alyssa and not enough Joan, and that Roxxxy's accent is completely wrong for Sofia Vergara. Although it's hard to tell if it affected Alyssa, Roxxxy was shaken and ended up dropping Sofia to do a rush-job Alaska impression which landed her on the bottom. Tatianna calls her out in the confession, calling Phi Phi very "strategic". However, Phi Phi says on social media that the other queens asked her for her opinion and she gave helpful advice. In true reality show fashion, her responses were spun to make it sound like she was manipulating them.
- Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Averted, through a bit of Loophole Abuse by using a Gender Lift, Phi Phi is able to enter the workroom dressed as The Riddler complete with Borrowed Catchphrase, despite it being a copyrighted character of DC Comics. Later, they also show Phi Phi dressed as Pikachu, Emily from Corpse Bride, and Princess Celestia, all copyrighted characters.
- Sore Loser: Does NOT take being eliminated by both Alyssa and Tatianna very well even outright refusing Alyssa's hug when leaving the runway to the utter shock of the judges. She then continues to harp on about the other girls when picking up her trophy and jokingly asks the producers if she could sell the it for $10,000.
Tatianna (6th)*
Original Appearance: Season 2 (4th)
"If they watched Season 2 they should know not to underestimate me, cause it doesn't really work out in the end ... thank you."
- Catchphrase: "See me with those hands" from her Spoken Word talent became popular as both a catch phrase, and used as part of a Phrase Catcher with Ru. Also, "choices" gets thrown around a lot.
- Graceful Loser: While she seemed a bit bitter after her first elimination, the second time she's chopped she takes it much more in stride, happy she at least got to return to the show long enough to introduce her character a new audience who might not have known who she was.
- Irony: In Season 2 she was underestimated because the other queens considered her a Naïve Newcomer, and now in All-Stars the queens are underestimating her because they consider her too "old school" since her season was 6 years ago and drag has evolved so much since then. Even more so when she gets sent home for her poor performance in Snatch Game when she actually won the first Snatch Game in her season.
- Nepotism: Claims she expected she would be sent home by Alaska, since despite the fact Alaska kept claiming Rolastatox wasn't a thing anymore, she didn't expect Alaska to actually send home one of her best friends.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Invoked on herself when she's eliminated in the second episode, talking about since so many new Drag Race fans skip the early seasons she really wanted to use All Stars as a way to showing herself and what she can do now to the audience...
- My Greatest Second Chance: ... but she and Alyssa win their way back to the competition in the fifth episode, meaning she can keep doing so. Unfortunately she ends up going home again the very next episode, but at least this time she states she got the chance to really show a lot more of herself to a new audience.
- Vocal Dissonance: Intentionally drops her voice when in drag to shock the audience. Otherwise, she's quite high pitched.
Alyssa Edwards (5th)*
Original Appearance: Season 5 (6th)
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
- Breaking the Fellowship: Is the first one to break the "pact" between the queens that they would only eliminate each other based on that episode's challenge and the judge's critiques. She did this by keeping Katya over Ginger in the third episode because of Katya winning the Snatch Game the previous week, even though she was read for her performance and runway in the present challenge (whereas Ginger was only read on runway).
- Catchphrase: Alyssa is like a catch phrase machine, but one of her most used terms this season appears to be "BEAST!"
- Fountain of Memes: Was one of the most quotable queens of Season 5, perhaps of all time, so her status as this gets talked about on All Stars proper. Phi Phi even accuses Alyssa of being more concerned with spawning G-I-F's and catchphrases to put on T-shirts than actually winning the competition.
- Genki Girl: This time around Alyssa is a ball of energy, spinning and twirling in the werkroom. Phi Phi even asks for her go-go juice to be taken away since it's so distracting.
- Graceful Loser: Despite being one of the most hyper and energentic members of the entire cast, she takes both eliminations with incredible dignity and humility.Alyssa: I'm leaving this a better Alyssa than I came in. That's the win!
- Ham and Deadpan Duo: She's the Ham to Alaska's Deadpan in the Revenge of the Queens stand-up challenge.
- Jack of All Trades: For the Talent Show her performance is described as "Variety", which is pretty accurate seeing as it included comedy bits, a puppet show, a lip sync, a mid-act costume change, a rap break, and an Alyssa-style dance routine.
- Malaproper:
- In true form, she claims to have "buried the hatch" with Coco.
- And no, it's not called Rigor Morris.
- And it's Cliffs Notes, not "Clift Notes".
- My Greatest Second Chance: She and Tatianna win their way back into the competition in the fifth episode.
- For the challenge itself, she chooses to work with Alaska, since she has something to prove to her as a partner after her lackluster performance last time.
- Team Mom: Has small moments of this in Season 5, but shows she really does care about the other girls, especially Adore during her breakdown. A mix of a funny and heartwarming moment, a Running Gag is that Alyssa can't be bothered when she has a mirror in front of her, but when she sees in her reflection Adore is moping Alyssa immediately checks to see if she is alright.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The other queens—especially Phi Phi—react this way when Alyssa breaks ranks and eliminates Ginger, whom everyone agreed made a better showing in the challenge and runway than Katya. However, Ginger and Alyssa end up getting the chance to reconcile their differences when the eliminated queens are brought back into the competition.
Roxxxy Andrews (4th)
Original Appearance: Season 5 (runner-up)
"Thick and juicy's back bitches!"
- The Atoner: In Season 5 she claims to have had anger issues that she did not handle very well, and looks forward to the new competition to repair the bad image she received.
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Badass Decay: In her original season, Roxxxy won two challenges and only landed one time in the bottom. In All Stars 2 she only won one challenge, and landed in the bottom FIVE TIMES, and this was noted before her actual elimination, meaning that she actually landed in the bottom six times total out of only eight episodes (since the ninth is a reunion and therefore has no competition.) - Call-Back: When she starts bombing as MC for the stand-up comedy challenge, she enlists the help of Tasha Salad, her Double Entendre loving veggie-head character from the Season 5 episode "Draggle Rock".
- Hairstyle Malfunction: While attempting to sell her DVD of wig tips & tricks, she goes for her signature wig reveal only for her under-wig to be pushed halfway up her head. Even during the finished commercial, her hair is still peeking out from her under-wig.
- The Load: Despite being in the bottom four times, Alaska didn't eliminate her. During her fifth time in the bottom, Detox still kept her around. Eventually, RuPaul had to eliminate her herself.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: For Snatch Game she plays fellow contestant and her good friend Alaska, however she misses a lot of the most basic references Ru tosses her way.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Formerly Rolaskatox, Alaska has distaced herself from the other two this season so Roxxxy and Detox have settled on being known as "Rotox" instead.
- During Episode 4, when she and Phi Phi partner up for a challenge, Roxxxy is seen with "Phoxxxy" written on her shirt.
- Took a Level in Kindness: It's obvious she has grown a lot from her season. She states outright she won't be playing any mind games this go around, and when Adore is blindsided by extremely harsh critiques it's Roxxxy who gives her a pep talk.Adore: "I don't think I belong here."Roxxxy: "You belong here."
Detox (runner-up)
Original Appearance: Season 5 (4th)
"Rehab is back in session."
- The Fashionista: The runway queen of All Stars 2. Her looks were bold, eye-catching, and beautiful which made her stand out among the cast.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Claims that the reason she lost Season 5 was because she was trying to make friends and keep Rolaskatox together, and that this time she's putting all that aside to snatch the crown. In the penultimate episode, however, she saves Roxxxy over Alyssa specified outright because Roxxxy is her best friend.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Played with. Felt guilty over scaring Phi Phi away from West Hollywood after the latter came for Willam during season 4, but still feels proud for standing up for her friend.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: As Alaska has dropped out of their Season 5 clique, Detox and Roxxxy now go by "Rotox" instead of Rolaskatox. They seem to have reverted by to Rolaskatox by the end of the season however.
- Shout-Out: The white bandages she wore for her "Future of Drag" runway look were obviously Leeloo's
Katya (runner-up)
Original Appearance: Season 7 (5th + Miss Congeniality)
"You may remember me as the lovable Russian hooker from Season 7 with a crippling anxiety problem, but I'm back with a refillable prescription for Xanax!"
- Bilingual Bonus: Coming into the work room she does her intro in Russian and says what the show translates to "Happy Hunger Games ... bitches", however as she reveals later she didn't know how to say that exactly, so what she actually said is more like "The Hungry Games are happy ... bitches".
- Call-Back: To Chad's entrance in the first All-Stars. (See her entry above.)
- In the finale, when giving a speech on why she should win over the other girls, she concludes by saying "я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое" in un-subtitled Russian. When Ru asks what that means, Katya responds "I have a carburetor outside that I just have to do some work on". It's not revealed during the episode, but what she actually said translates to "I am a star - forever. Thank you so much."
- Book Dumb: Happily parodied when talking about the prize money this season:"We get $10,000 in addition to the grand prize of $100,000! I could walk away from this competition with at least $350,000 ... I didn't go to fucking school for math!"
- Played with again during the finale, where she proudly declares that she's 'H-E-A-R, here!'.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: Delivers perhaps the most satisfying use of Adore's "Party!" catchphrase in episode 7.
- Hearing Voices: Discusses how all the negativity and anxiety seems to stem from a voice in her head, which she has named "Brenda" in order to personify it and tell it to shut up. She also reveals she has an opposing voice of positivity in her head to counter Brenda, named "Karl".
- Heroic BSoD: Following bad critiques from the judges after the Herstory of the World challenge, her energy noticeably dips and she appears to shut down. Fortunately she recovers by the following week.
- Overly Long Name: Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, but your dad just calls her Katya.
- This Is a Competition: In interviews she's said in Season 7 she was too nice, and wants to unleash the "monster" in All-Stars and really work towards winning. Eventually cast to the wayside, as despite these claims Katya is always friendly to her competitors, plays fair, and seems to be having a good time just being on the show.
- Took a Level in Badass: In Season 7 Katya was a mess riddled with anxiety only hit the top 5 before elimination. Come All-Stars Katya has put her vices and anxiety behind her (with one slip-up in the 3rd episode) and says there's a larger sense of joy she gets from being in the competition ... not to mention she's won three challenges and made it to the finale.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Puts on an accent when playing Björk in the Snatch Game. It sure isn't an Icelandic one.
Alaska (winner)
Original Appearance: Season 5 (runner-up)
"Nobody can do Alaska except Alaska ... but I encourage you to try! It's fun!"
- The Ace Wins four challenges, three lip syncs, and never ends up in the bottom until the makeover episode...
- Broken Ace: She ends up in the bottom three (by default, as anyone who wasn't in the top two that night were in the bottom) and gets the most criticism of the night. Her response is to have a massive meltdown that even her friend Detox says is making her look like a brat.
- Call-Back:
- For the 2-in-1 runway she dresses as Lil' Poundcake, the child-pageant doll she created with Lineysha Sparxxx in Season 5.
- In a deleted scene during the reunion she gives Tatianna a 'Heathers' necklace as an apology for eliminating her, the same way Raja gave Stacy Lane Matthews a similar necklace during the season 3 reunion.
- Chekhov's Skill: Not the positive kind, but midway through the make-over challenge with their loved ones Alaska jokes with her mother how she still has a bad habit of crying and throwing a fit when she doesn't get her way ... cue after the runway when Alaska is in the bottom with the harshest critiques, and she starts doing just that, throwing a mini-tantrum over the possibility of not getting to the finale like she wanted.
- Ham and Deadpan Duo: The Deadpan to Alyssa's Ham in the Revenge of the Queens stand-up challenge.
- Honor Before Reason: Claims that she saved Roxxxy over Tatianna because Roxxxy lent her the top she was wearing on the runway, despite it being Roxxxy's fourth time in the bottom and Roxxxy herself seeming willing to accept her elimination.
- Hypocrisy Nod: After she calls out Alyssa for not having a 2 in 1 runway look, Katya calls Alaska out that her own 2 in 1 runway also didn't meet the criteria, since the first look was just a mess of black garbage bags and not a real look.
- It's All About Me: Especially evident during the finale, where she seemingly rejects her friendships because she's afraid that's going to be what costs her the crown. Fortunately, she does have My God, What Have I Done? moment later on, admitting its the pressure of the finale and the fear of coming so far and doing so well only to come up short that is fueling her poor attitude.
- Lampshade Hanging: Hangs one during the reunion after she and Katya get into a completely joking spat.Katya: You're a pig from hell!Alaska: Fuck you! ... they're gonna edit that in the commercial to look like I meant it. (they did)
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Roxxxy decides to play her for the Snatch Game (Roxxxy as Alaska 5000), marking the second time in the show's history a contestant has impersonated someone actually in the same room note . Of course the real Alaska couldn't help but drop a little Mae West "what's the big idea?" during Roxxxy's introduction.
- Magnificent Bastard: in the last episode of Katya's Youtube series "Total Rucall" she reflects in hindsight on how calculated Alaska's tantrum was played. According to Katya, Alaska just played the game too well.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Out of everyone, she is the winner of All Stars 2 so she finally snatched the crown that evaded her in Season 5.
- Mythology Gag: In episode 4 she walked the runway dressed as Lil' Poundcake, her iconic styrofoam pageant daughter.
- Out of Focus: Alaska didn't get much screentime outside of the challenges and hardly any Confession Cam talking heads until episode 7, strangely enough as she'd been doing really well up to then.
- Promoted Fanboy: Invoked during her final "Why should you win?" speech, stating that she's been a diehard superfan of the show since the first season. Now that she's the winner of All Stars, she's been promoted about as far as any fanboy can go.
- Running Gag: Her odd love of non-heels; she wears combat boots, kitten heels, and jelly flats more often then typical drag heels. This actually bites her in the ass come the make-over challenge. When she sends her mother down the runway in flip-flops, the judges finally call her out on it, calling it lazy.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Tries to pull this when up for elimination in the penultimate episode, she offers her friend Detox $10,000 of her own prize money (tax-free and transferred through Paypal) in exchange for not eliminating her. She's not eliminated that episode and gave the bribe money to a charity.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: With four wins, three $10,000 lip syncs, and no times in the bottom under her belt, by the 7th episode Alaska claims to feel very 'comfortable' with her position in the competition and starts lording it over the remaining queens and snarking about it in the confessionals.
- We Used to Be Friends: Has distanced herself from Detox and Roxxxy, stating that although all the original parts of Season 5's Rolaskatox are in this season, that it doesn't mean the band is getting back together. By the end of the season though, even Ru can see that Rolaskatox seems to be a 'thing' again, what with Alaska saving Roxxxy from elimination three times.
