Characters / Survivor Fan Characters Season Twenty

Sole Survivor

Montana Ana Raines

Returned from Season 3. This previous winner is looking to play the exact sort of game she did before, figuring that if it worked once, it ought to work again.

• Berserk Button: Making her friends uncomfortable. Chloe is the only player this season who has genuinely pissed her off, and it’s largely because of her borderline-predatory behavior towards Okawa.
• The Berserker: A strange, game-based version of this. Plays with reckless abandon with little regard for what happens to both ally and enemy alike (Starr being the exception).
• Don't Fear the Reaper: Apparently, they’re friends.
• Friendly Enemy: To the Critic, and later to Bowser Jr.; she holds no ill will toward either of them and really just likes having someone to antagonize, and at least in the case of the Critic, the feeling's mutual.
• The Lancer: For the pregame alliance, at least prior to flipping.
• Indy Ploy: She's apparently going in with no plan whatsoever. It worked in Season 3, no reason it wouldn't work now, right?
• It Amused Me: Her reasoning for doing basically anything this season. She's already won once, might as well have fun with it the second time around.
• Late Coming Out: More in a meta sense, but she's confirmed to be bisexual by Day 32. It's later specified that it was a late coming out in-universe as well, seeing as she didn't connect the dots until after her first season had ended and she started spending more time with her Gay Best Friend Norman.
• Plucky Girl
• Shipper on Deck: For Taro and Okawa. She's been perfectly willing to encourage the two of them to hook up, and it winds up paying off for them.
• Sole Survivor: The first two-time winner, as well.
• Suicide by Cop: It turns out that this was what she was attempting to do with the emerald play that got Johnny eliminated, having felt like she didn't have much reason to continue playing. Needless to say, it backfired badly.
• Troll: When asked why she voted for Yvonne, she explains that it was specifically to annoy the Critic.
  Critic: *Sighs* Ever the Matron of Maturity, Aren't you Montana?
  Montana: You Know It Bitch.
• Wild Card: Probably the biggest example of such in the entire series.
• World of Weirdness: Comes from a world where bizarre events like cisgender men being impregnated by UFOs aren’t considered weird at all.

Runner-Up

Taro Nook

Returned from Season 15. This sushi chef is coming in with his life upended since last season, and he's looking for some atonement.

• The Atoner: He apparently wants to redeem himself for something, since his time on his season led to some negative consequences back home.
  • Turns out said something is the poisoning incident from his season. It led to him closing his store and his boyfriend breaking up with him.
• Cannot Spit It Out: He's developed an attraction to Okawa, but he's too worried about trying to play the game before he worries about hooking up again.
  • Finally, he's able to spit it out on Day 21, making them an Official Couple.
• Chekhov's Skill: Taro being able to make fire so well allows him to easily defeat Starr and break up her and Montana's duo at the final four in the Fire-Making Tiebreaker.
• The Dreaded: Being the only perfect winner in franchise history, he's already got people looking to blindside him from the very beginning as a sort-of trophy kill. And all this from a friendly sushi chef.
• Face–Heel Turn: After attempting to avoid returning to the depths of his previous season, he returns to engaging in villainous behavior after Okawa is eliminated, albeit without poisoning anyone this time.
  • Heel Realization: And it only takes getting body-slammed by his brother to get him to realize he's acting like a tool and humiliating not only himself, but his family on national television.
• Gaslighting: How he describes his last-minute attempt to get Yvonne to give up the game. It didn't work, but her response did convince her alliance to flip on her, and she didn't put up much of a fight regardless.
• It's Personal: He takes it extremely personally when Okawa is targeted and then voted out, to the point where he starts yelling at Skylar mid-Tribal and using his Ambush Emerald in a failed attempt to get rid of him the next day.
• Revenge Before Reason: After Okawa's voted out, he becomes obsessed with eliminating the people responsible, primarily Skylar.
• Straight Gay
• Supreme Chef: He already has a sushi bar set up on the first day, and his first customer was so impressed that they took the sushi and ran off before he had the opportunity to discuss strategy with them.

The Jury

Hope

Returned from Season 3. She's come back Older and Wiser (to an extent) and is looking to prove she's a much more efficient villain than before.

• Big Bad: She instigates and encourages most of the season's drama.
• Cats Are Mean: She plans on doubling down on the villainy this time around, though in a less chaotic direction.
• The Chessmaster: Almost by accident, really. Most of her targets wind up going home, and the discord she sows among her fellow contestants have led to some of the most brutal and impactful votes of the season.
• The Corruptor: To Nolaa.
• Distaff Counterpart: Coincidentally, Baxter from her own season due to their love of backstabbing and being one of the season's biggest instigators of drama.
• Divide and Conquer: How she manages to get by in the game. She happily exploits Clara and Nolaa's dying friendship before moving on to encouraging Taro's Revenge Before Reason arc.
• Evil Feels Good
• Evil Mentor: She attempts to be one for Clara, but the latter's too interested in not becoming Clarissa to take her up on it. That doesn't stop her from trying over and over again. She later becomes this for Nolaa for a short period of time.
• For the Evulz: Frankly, she just loves causing problems for people and seeing them fight amongst themselves. It's why she was so excited to align with Nolaa and Taro for their plots to eliminate Clara and Skylar, respectively.
• Griefer: See above.
• Hypocrite: She's always ready to cause a huge blindside, yet when it happens to her, she has a huge meltdown.
• Manipulative Bastard: Manages to convince Nolaa to turn on her best friend Clara in front of the entire tribe in exchange for two rounds of immunity, putting a massive target on Nolaa’s back that leads to her being immediately voted out when her immunity runs out.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Mentions that she's nowhere near as villainous or manipulative outside the game, and that reality competitions are really her only chance to play a more antagonistic role.
• Smug Snake
• Sore Loser: She threatens to kill Montana after she's gutted at the Final 3.
• Unsportsmanlike Gloating: She's perfectly happy to gloat to Jojo's face after she gets her boyfriend eliminated.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Montana tells Hope straight to her face that she's voting her out, Hope becomes scared for her life. When she is voted out, she threatens Montana with violence, and her bitterness extends to the jury and Montana's eventual victory.
• You Owe Me: Made a deal with Montana (shown via Flashback) that, since she was the deciding vote for Montana to win her season, that the latter should return the favor should she make the merge. Montana isn't so sure she'll even make the merge, but Hope plans to ensure that she does.
  • Montana has since gone back on the deal, even if it took all the way to the Final 4 for her to do so. Montana then votes Hope out at the Final 3.

Starr Bright

Returned from Season 9 and Season 10: Battle of the Tribes. This former music student has become a teacher, and is coming into the game praying that the Third Times A Charm.

• Big Good: The emotional conscience and positive reinforcement of many players this season, especially Montana, Bowser Junior, and Sky. Nolaa even admits upon being voted out she admires Starr’s continuous kindness.
• Commitment Issues: Has to turn down a date with Montana despite being mutually attracted to each other because she’s still not comfortable with dating after what happened with her last crush… who was Prescilla. Very understandable, all things considered, and the pair remain friends regardless. They ultimately became a proper couple after their season ended, but they're still taking it slow.
• Cool Teacher: Friendly, caring, and not afraid to stand up to bullies, even if they're on the same tribe.
• Damsel in Distress: Bowser Jr. kidnaps her in the middle of a strategy talk and puts her in a makeshift cage. She's able to break out almost immediately but decides to partially humor the emotionally vulnerable teenager in an effort to try and help him deal with his issues.
• Earn Your Happy Ending / Karmic Jackpot: Oh boy, did she ever earn her happy ending. After two seasons of being constantly tormented and abused by Bonnie, Starr finally gets everything she ever could've wanted in a Survivor season outside of winning in the end. She becomes incredibly well-respected and the biggest social threat of the game, makes it all the way to the final four, doesn't have to deal with any Bonnie-like forces, makes a ton of friends, gets all the way to the family visit and gets to bring her sister to the island with her, and even meets her true love for real this time in Montana. She's not even upset she's voted off in the end because of how much fun she finally got to have.
• Older and Wiser: She's now a high school teacher, and is dedicated to making sure her students don't have to go through the same kind of Hell that she did in her teen years (i.e. Seasons 9 and 10).
• The Social Expert: Despite her initial reluctance to open up, she's managed to find herself making bonds with about half of her tribe by the time of the merge.
• Team Mom: By virtue of her tribemates being either immature or Jojo.
• Third Time's The Charm: This is Starr's third season, and this time, it seems she wants to do this without a Bonnie-like figure in her game. Given that she made it all the way to the Final 4 without running into any Bonnie-like people on her season, it’s safe to say she’s got what she wanted out of the season.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers a rather reserved one toward Montana when her use of the swap emerald (swapping the Reward and Immunity challenges) directly leads to Johnny’s elimination. This eventually becomes a full-blown "The Reason You Suck" Speech later that effectively splits the power duo apart until they make amends in the following episode.

Bowser Jr.

Returned from Season 16: Blood Vs. Water. The now-teenage prince of the Koopas, despite his increased age, is very much the same immature reptile he always was.

• Bratty Half-Pint: Despite being slightly older, he's still very much the brat he's always been.
• Bully Magnet: Sky used to be the main one, but about half the tribe is perfectly happy to join in the mockery. After Starr stepped in though, the bullying has largely stopped.
• Butt-Monkey
• Children Are Innocent: Doesn't even know what Hookers and Blow are, but is perfectly eager to ask Kasai where he can get some.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Sky dubs him Baby Gwumpkins.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Especially later on, where he doesn't have much to add to the story beyond an occasional gag.
• Precocious Crush: Develops one towards Hope, one which the latter (thankfully) refuses to reciprocate.
• Time Skip: He's designed to resemble a 13-year-old version of himself. He quite closely resembles a smaller version of his father.
• Troubled Teen: The fact that he feels the need to follow in his father's footsteps as a notorious villain is clearly messing with his development a bit.

Skylar Cooper

Returned from Season 1. Now a high schooler with a new fur color, the original winner is looking to prove that he's still got it in the modern era.

• Adaptational Dye-Job: His fur is brown instead of grey, possibly to more closely resemble Carmelita from the series he represents. Apparently, it just grew in like that.
• Bash Brothers: Has this dynamic with Bowser Jr.
• The Bully: Had taken to picking on Bowser Jr. early on, from calling him Embarrassing Nicknames to dumping food Jr. stole from his tribe over his head.
  • Jerkass Realization: Starr winds up having to talk to him about his behavior, pulling a "Not So Different" Remark to make him come to this conclusion. He thought he was just trying to teach him a lesson, but he realized he was just being an immature prankster. He then becomes a Bully Turned Buddy to Jr. as a result.
• Failure Gambit: He decides to throw an immunity challenge in order to get rid of a Classic member come the swap. Despite Starr giving him an earful and the Critic catching on, neither are successful in stopping him from throwing, and it winds up paying off when Jojo joins him and Starr to take out the Critic.
• I Hate Past Me: He finds his behavior in season 1 cringe-inducing, at best.
• The Prankster: Both with his traps *and* by tricking Nolaa with old comedy movie plots.
• Time Skip: He's in his late teens, around 17. He's a bit more mature than his first time around, though his previous immaturity does crop up from time to time.
• Trap Master: He somehow managed to set up several in only a day and a half specifically to mess with Bowser Jr.

Nolaa Seku/Yessi

Returned from Season 18: Past Vs. Future. Having finally become the smuggler she was destined to be, Nolaa is looking to become more like her future-self personality-wise as well.

• Face–Heel Turn: Following Clara’s elimination by her hand.
• Groin Attack: Accidentally delivers one to Okawa via a recreational training/sparring match... while wearing boots. Ouch.
• The Leader: The founder and de facto leader of the & Knuckles tribe, being the most levelheaded member of the tribe by a considerable margin.
• Meaningful Rename: Has taken to using her birth name, much like her other self did, to signify her newfound independence and maturity.
• Scapegoat: Winds up becoming this for Clara's elimination due to the public nature of the vote. The choice single-handedly destroys her game and destroys any non-Hope alliances she had beforehand.
• She Is All Grown Up: This is actually Yessi, who had grown up into her future self, and learned from her experiences from her season.
• Squee: When she realizes she’s made the merge. It’s one of the only times her serious facade breaks, and it’s during a confessional.
• Virtue Is Weakness: She views her actions in this game as an attempt to shed her old self's kindness and compassion. It's why she became Hope's sidekick, blindsided Clara and attempted to blindside Starr as well, so she could get rid of anyone who remotely resembled her old self.

Liz Calhoun/El/Lea

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Returned from Season 14. This future version of Liz hails from the future, is now a single mother, and is looking to reconnect with a sister she hasn't kept in touch with for a while. Actually returning from Season 15. The Ditto has returned, now more fluent in English and in transformations than before.

• Badass Boast: Upon unmasking herself after her elimination, as no one successfully uncovered her identity outside of Parmesan.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Jojo's Abel. She even winds up betraying her at the merge in order to save herself, though this is largely the fault of Okawa for refusing to flip on Chloe.
• Dramatic Unmask: Not to the readers, but to the contestants. Once she is voted out as ‘Liz’, she unmasks herself as Lea (now El) from season 15, boasting about how she fooled everyone the entire time. All of the other contestants, including the jury, are floored.
• Failed a Spot Check: Her eye color is actually Jojo's, not Liz's. This turns out to be the thing that gets her, as it leads to Ghost Bro calling her out.
• Fatal Flaw: A Ditto's natural difficulty to mimic eyes. It's the thing that gets her exposed by Parmesan and Ghost Bro.
• Graceful Loser: After she's voted out when Skylar and Taro play the final remaining Emeralds, she starts loudly celebrating because after thirty-one days, besides Parmesan, no one figured out that she was Lea the whole time, thus her being voted out had nothing to do with her being an imposter and was merely a result of her association with Skylar.
• Impersonation Gambit: She impersonates Clara in order to throw her under the bus by trying to convince everyone she wants Nolaa, her closest friend, voted out. It would have worked, if not for Parmesan.
  • She ends up doing this again by Alfredo's suggestion in order to make it look like Clara has an idol. This event winds up making her realize she doesn't particularly enjoy being under his thumb anymore.
• Meaningful Rename: To El, via Ghost Bro realizing she tends to prefer short names that start with the letter "L", plus so she can have her own identity beyond her Transformations. She claims to hate it, but within one confessional she decides to make it permanent.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: How she took to Survivor in the first place, it turns out. According to her, it was the first time she ever felt like anything she did really meant anything, since her life was extremely easy beforehand. She's even perfectly okay with being blackmailed because she likes the extra challenge... until Ghost Bro starts demanding she do increasingly menial tasks.
• Omniglot: Can learn any language just by Transforming into someone who knows said language. It's how she can understand Parmesan.
• Out of Focus: Deliberately so after the Jojo boot. She figures she has to lay extremely low to make the target off her back disappear, and so that's what she does for the remainder of her stay in the game, and she only ends up being targeted due to her alliance with Sky.
• The Reveal: This is Lea, not Liz.
• Sibling Rivalry: She comes from a timeline where one between her and Jojo got so nasty that they no longer talk to each other. It's enough to leave the current Jojo completely baffled. Turns out to be untrue, made up entirely by Lea.
  • The ultimate reason given is that Jojo fell into a severe drug addiction per someone named Chad, leading to Jojo falling out with not just Liz, but her entire family. Ghost Bro made that one up, this time.
• Time Skip: Unlike Jojo, who's barely aged a day, this Liz got pulled from ten years into the future, and has apparently had four children in the interim. Also turns out to be fake.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without discussing The Reveal on Day 5.

Okawa Hikuma

Returned from Season 19: Star Allies. Not much has changed since his first time around, but after going through Character Development the first time around, he was given another shot by production.

• Beary Friendly: The same friendly bear from last time.
• Big Beautiful Man: Two different players express an attraction to him.
• Cannot Tell a Lie / Living Lie Detector: As always, thanks to Bear's Honest Truth. When Survivor Critic exposes his abilities, he flat-out admits that he's telling the truth.
• The Conscience: To Taro, thanks to the latter's general reluctance to play a more cutthroat game this time around and fear that he'll go too far with it.
• Extreme Doormat: When Chloe decides she's going to try and hook up with him anyway despite... you know... he doesn't put up much of a fight, mostly out of the belief that he can help her with whatever is up with her mentally.
• Nice Guy
• Official Couple: With Taro once the latter's finally able to admit his feelings.
• Stout Strength: He's the only person on the pre-swap Classic tribe who can exceed Derek in physical might. They wind up bonding over their strength, even working out by using wooden logs as weights.
• Straight Gay: He's based on Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, after all, and is shown to be mutually interested in Taro despite not being comfortable making the first move.
  • Sorry, I'm Gay: He winds up having to admit this to Chloe when she starts crushing on him and he realizes she never saw his season.

Clara Sutherland

Returned from Season 18: Past Vs. Future. Clara enters the game as a college student undergoing an identity crisis.

• Future Me Scares Me: She confides in Nolaa that, even though Clarissa did eventually mellow out, she's still terrified of becoming what Clarissa was at the start.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Her arc this season is meant to represent her transition from Claire to Clarissa, with her brutal blindside by her best friend and closest ally Nolaa being the catalyst.
• She Is All Grown Up: This is actually Claire, when she just graduated from high school and is now in college, as her future self, Clarissa, is already a successful businesswoman at that point.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: When Montana attempts to dissuade strategy talk at the merge feast, she tells her to shut up, leading to an argument. Still, it’s clear that Clara is the only one taking the argument seriously.
• Start of Darkness: See Protagonist Journey to Villain above.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When Nolaa decides to stop spending as much time with her to avoid being seen as threatening, Clara gives her quite the earful.

Johnny

Returned from Season 8: The Midway Islands. Now an actual doctor, Johnny is, in spite of his doctoral skill, the same goofball as ever.

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a practicing doctor by the time of this season, and even has some solid insights and reads on certain players, but he's otherwise the same goofy Johnny from his first season.
• The Ditz
• Keet
• Mr. Imagination: What most of his humor boils down to. He regularly has Imagine Spots involving events that either transpired a while ago, or are just scenarios he makes up in his head. This can be anything from pretending to be an astronaut to imagining Derek and Okawa going Super Saiyan.
• No Social Skills: It's his inability (or unwillingness) to make deep bonds that makes his tribe decide to turn on him when the only other options are people who did, at the very least, manage to build said bonds despite technically being bigger threats.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Though technically, he was just making a joke about Bowser Jr.'s idea (Edgelord, poking fun at Shadow the Hedgehog), but the tribe loved it enough to actually use it.

Chloe

Returned from Season 7 and Season 10: Battle of the Tribes. The once-unusually thin panda has now put on several pounds, and has been grumpy ever since.

• Abhorrent Admirer: First towards Dwayne, then towards Okawa, even when he comes out to her.
• Formerly Fit: Her current build is a lot more in-line with most fictional portrayals of pandas this time around. She's not exactly happy about it.
  • Turns out to be a strange Subversion. Her old build was actually considered unhealthily malnourished for her species, and this is roughly as thin as she can get without becoming ill again.
• Hate Sink
• Jerkass: Probably the most thoroughly unpleasant player this season besides maybe Hope.
• Hopeless Suitor: Has taken to liking a very much uninterested Dwayne, and has recently also begun crushing on Okawa as well.
  • When Okawa comes out to her, she decides to try to make him invoke If It's You, It's Okay in the hopes that they can hook up anyway.
• Sore Loser: When the entire tribe (including Okawa) votes her off, she heavily badmouths him for not even giving her a pity vote.
• Stout Strength: She's able to keep the incredibly muscular Dwayne stuck with just a hug.

Jojo Calhoun

Returned from Season 14. Unlike Liz, this Jojo only exists a short while into the future, including a new boyfriend, and is completely baffled by her sister's life trajectory.

• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Liz's Cain.
• The Generic Girl: She stands out the least among the cast, especially on her post-swap tribe.
• Last of Her Kind: The final member of the pregame alliance to go out, not including those who flipped.
• Official Couple: With Derek.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Not from the game itself, but from her tribe through the use of the Exchange Emerald (an advantage that let her swap tribes with anyone on the opposing team). She used it on Clara after losing her third immunity in a row, forcing the two to swap tribes but giving Clara individual immunity for that round.
• Secret Relationship: Her and Derek have decided to keep their relationship secret in order to avoid being targeted. They managed to keep their relationship secret, but not their alliance.

Eliminated

Parmesan

Returned from Season 17: Alola. Initially appearing incredibly different, we soon find that very little has changed outside of Ghost Bro's ego inflating.

• Blackmail: Against El, though it's 100% Ghost Bro's doing without Parmesan's knowledge. It backfires and leads to her turning on them right before the merge when she decides she's not okay with what's happening anymore.
• Clear My Name: When Clara accuses him of impersonating her, he's determined to prove his innocence. This leads to him discovering that the real imposter is Liz... or should we say El/Lea.
• Cute Mute
• Intrepid Reporter: They're able to identify who's been impersonating them rather quickly, and Parmesan manages to do a bit of solo sleuthing to find out that Ghost Bro's been making deals and blackmailing El behind his back.
• Secret-Keeper: For Liz/El to hide the fact that she's really Lea. Ghost Bro was perfectly willing to drag her through the mud for her stunt until Parmesan convinced him not to, even if he did throw in some blackmail later.
• Throwing Off the Disability: Subverted. Though at first it appears that Parmesan underwent the Changeling metamorphosis and gained the ability to talk as a result, it turns out that this is a complete lie - Parmesan still can't talk, and Ghost Bro's in the game again acting as his voice. This cover gets blown on the first day.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Ghost Bro, specifically. He's developed an inflated ego that not only gave away their disguise on the first day, but led him to start blackmailing El in order to avoid revealing her secrets.

Dwayne

Returned from Season 11. The mysteriously Hotter and Sexier lombax turns out to have not improved in any other areas.

• Brilliant, but Lazy
• Flanderization: Went from a lazy, but reasonable Gadgeteer Genius to just being lazy and arrogant.
• Hotter and Sexier: In the time since Season 11, he's become muscular and since become a professional model. Even Starr compliments him on his looks.
• Jerk Jock: Subverted, in that he's hardly a jock at all.
• Lazy Bum: He's even lazier this time around, dropping his Gadgeteer Genius side because he feels that he doesn't really need to bother anymore considering his newfound success in other areas.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Is considerably more muscled this time around, but though he looks incredibly fit and healthy, he's still fairly lazy, not to mention Chloe is able to out-strength him.
  • Turns out this is entirely true. He didn't work out once, and instead used some kind of experimental fat-burning drug that somehow made his muscles grow to compensate for the weight loss.

Survivor Critic

Returned from Season 13, and changed his node to YouTube Simulator. Survivor Critic seems to have joined the Change the Channel movement and left his former node behind for YouTube, though otherwise he's pretty much the same.

• Caustic Critic: As always.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Designed to be the first major threat of the season, and he's taken out shortly after the swap.
• Genre Savvy: Being a superfan/critic can do that to a guy. He's even able to use this series's history of parodying not just Survivor, but Big Brother as well, to become the first person to realize there's a pregame alliance, ultimately leading to him teaming up with his Arch-Enemy Taro to take out Derek.
• Fat Bastard
• Friendly Enemy: Despite his rivalry with Montana, it’s made clear that he holds no ill-will toward her and is just doing it for fun, and she even winds up being the only person to vote alongside him at his eviction.
• It's Personal: Why he decided to target the pregame alliance so early. He hates pregame alliances with a passion, declaring they make every season they touch boring.
• Jerkass: Though this could be played up as part of his character.
• Meta Guy
• Real Life Writes the Plot: He's stated to have left That Guy With the Glasses and by extension Channel Awesome since his time on Season 13, reflecting the mass exodus of content creators the site had seen after his season ended.
  • Likewise, his hatred of the pregame alliance is explicitly in allusion to allegations of pregaming that arose during the airing of Big Brother's 22nd season.
• Witch Hunt: Against the pregame alliance, much to everyone else's annoyance. He's only able to get two of them out before the swap puts a wrench in his plans.

Sasha

Returned from Season 13. No longer hiding who she is, she decided to come into the game prepared by forming a pre-game alliance. It ends up going poorly for her.

• Butt-Monkey: It'd be easier to list what doesn't go wrong for her.
• Decoy Protagonist: Unarguably a main character for the first four episodes, but four episodes is all she gets.
• Hope Spot: Clara joining her tribe gives her the hope that the two of them can turn the vote onto Montana and keep Sasha safe. They got the Critic on board, but it wasn't enough to save Sasha.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Sasha's mere existence is this for people who haven't read Season 13. For those who haven't, this is the true identity of Hash.
• The Leader: Of the pregame alliance.
• Third Wheel: To Derek and Jojo. She admits she feels like a babysitter sometimes.
• With Friends Like These...: She's shown to have masterminded a pregame alliance... or at least attempted to, since two of them assumed it was a joke and would turn on it after only three episodes.

Derek Linz

Returned from Season 17: Alola. Derek's now dating Jojo and has befriended Sasha, and as a result is totally loyal to the pre-game alliance.

• The Big Guy: For the pregame alliance.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: He seems to think so, at least.
• History Repeats: His cockiness leads to him getting blindsided once again, albeit much earlier this time.
• Jerk Jock: Not so much a jerk so much as he is incredibly full of himself.
• Official Couple: With Jojo.
• Satellite Character: He mainly served the purpose of giving Sasha someone to bounce off of as well as be Jojo's love interest.
• Secret Relationship: Keeps his relationship with Jojo secret in order to avoid being targeted.

Yvonne Goen-Haume

Returned from Season 12: Fans Vs. Canons 2. Yvonne started going to therapy after her season ended, and is hoping that she'll be better about it this time around.

• Fatal Flaw: Her paranoia. While it was already an issue in her first season, it sends her home much more early here.
• Graceful Loser: If anything, she's happy to be out of the game. The stress and paranoia seem to magically vanish the moment she's announced as the second boot, proving that, to an extent, the therapy did work somewhat.
• Older Than They Look: She's old enough that her daughter is college-age, at least.
• The Paranoiac: Despite going to therapy for her paranoia, it's been shown to not be particularly effective, at least not when it comes to the context of this game. Hence why she's on the Classic tribe instead of the Modern tribe.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The pregame alliance (sans Johnny, who basically quit said alliance earlier in the episode) turns on her when she admits she finds them untrustworthy.

Ejected From The Game

Shin Kasai (20th Place)

Returned from Season 18: Past Vs. Future. The future version of Kasai's life seems to have fallen apart since his exposure for cheating, and visibly isn't all-there mentally anymore.

• Addled Addict: He's shown to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms on the first day.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: He tries to forge the votes so he could eliminate Clara. However, due to him referring to Clara as Clarissa and even leaving an eleventh vote by accident, he ends up being caught and ejected from the game.
  • Despite this, he still gets to give final words along with joining everyone else at the reunion.
• Diminishing Villain Threat: Literally the only person who was ever interested in working with him was Bowser Jr., and that ended when he realized that "Buratto" wasn't some cool nickname but just the Japanese word for "brat."
• Expository Hairstyle Change: His hair is a lot more punkish this time around, showing that he's not even pretending to be Affably Evil this time.
• Hookers and Blow: To forget about "how much you fucked everything up," apparently.
• Insistent Terminology: Insists on calling Clara "Clarissa," irrespective of anyone's insistence otherwise. This is what gets him in the end, with his trick of swapping the votes not working.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: Despite technically having the most votes in the end, he was actually ejected after being caught cheating (He attempted to forge votes to eliminate Clara, but kept referring to Clara as Clarissa on the fake votes and accidentally threw in an eleventh vote as well).
• Sanity Slippage: Possibly due to being an Addled Addict, he talked in the infamous tilted speech bubbles in his first appearance in the season, so needless to say his sanity slipped fast.
• Starter Villain: Hearkens back to Season 6, which had a major Big Bad from two seasons previous be eliminated first.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has quite a large one after getting caught cheating red-handed.