Characters / Survivor: Samoa

The Tribes

Foa Foa

• Alliterative Name: Foa Foa
  • Added Alliterative Appeal: Foa Foa Four.
• The Bad Guys Win
• Dwindling Party: The tribe was reduced to four members compared to Galu's eight at the merge. Yet...
  • Dark Horse Victory: Pulled off arguably the best post-merge comeback in Survivor history.
• The Dog Bites Back
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Three of the four remaining members were able to fight through to the final tribal council, and one of them was crowned the winner.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Foa Foa Four.
  • Natalie = The Realist.
  • Russell = The Cynic.
  • Mick = The Optimist.
  • Jaison = The Apathetic.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Likewise.
  • Natalie = Phlegmatic (and holy shit how!)/Sanguine.
  • Russell = Choleric.
  • Mick = Leukine.
  • Jaison = Melancholic.
• Repetitive Name
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: When you have someone like Russell on your team, and your tribe keeps losing challenges, your bound to get more screen time than the other tribe.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork

Galu

• The Ace: At first.
  • Broken Ace
• A House Divided: Outside of Russell's idol usage, this was the main reason why Galu got Pagonged by their rivals despite having double their numbers.
• Born Winners: Subverted.
• Divided We Fall
• Dwindling Party: Post-merge.
• Out of Focus: Most of Galu (with the exception of Russell Swan, Shambo, Dave Ball and later, Brett) get this treatment.
• Purple Is Powerful: Played straight pre-merge, but it was later subverted post-merge.
• The Quisling: Shambo and John.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork

The Sole Survivor

Natalie White

• Action Girl: Downplayed, but she makes a very impressive showing in both episode 10's reward challenge and episode 11's immunity challenge (Only losing to Danger Dave, and Jaison, the latter of whom had a challenge advantage)

• Beehive Hairdo: Natalie sports this hair style at the reunion.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: She planted the seeds at the merge that turned all of Galu against Erik, giving Foa Foa the chance to escape the vote.
• Catchphrase: If you did a drinking game based on how many times she says "oh mah werd" in a single episode you'd pass out in 15 minutes or less.

• Darkhorse Victory: The editing made it look as though Russell would win, and if you add in Brett's immunity streak? Few thought she would win, let alone in a landslide.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Defeated the season's resident Magnificent Bastard who seemed to have the game in the palm of his hand in a landslide 7-2 vote.
• Dumb Blonde: Absolutely positively utterly averted. Although Russell thought she was playing it completely straight.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: She was good at building friendships, which helped her at the end when her opponents were viewed as feckless and a Jerkass. Her castaways had nothing but positive reviews about Natalie. Even Russell once saw her as a true friend.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: To Russell, See Obfuscating Stupidity.
• Girl Friday: How she operated around Russell.
• The Heart: Of the Foa Foa Four, Natalie was seen as more of the social one and often times, mingled with the Galus during the merge. Which is hell more than what Russell and Mick did.

• Last of Her Kind/The Smurfette Principle: Last woman left standing in the game.
• Lucky Seven: Seven votes to win. The only votes she didn't get were from John and Shambo.

• My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever: Once she and Russell faced the jury on Night 39.

• Obfuscating Stupidity: She was the one type of player Russell wouldn't fear, and she knew it.
• One-Steve Limit: She's the first Natalie in the show's pool of winners, the second being Natalie Anderson.
• Odd Friendship: With Russell Hantz, as described in post game interviews.
• Out of Focus: Natalie's gameplay does not translate into great TV. Especially with the editing favoring Russell Hantz. But it does work.

• The Social Expert: Natalie knows how to craft friendships and get a read on people. She identified Russell as someone who is socially poor and thus no threat to win.
• Sole Survivor: Arguably the most controversial since Amber Brkich.
• Southern Belle: Even called this in her pre-game profile.
• Southern-Fried Genius: Smarter than she lets on.
• Statuesque Stunner
• Tastes Like Chicken: Natalie said this about the rat that she killed in episode 8 which was used as the Episode's name.
• True Blue Femininity: Wore a blue dress at the finale.
• Victory by Endurance: The key to her victory; basically she killed with a borrowed knife.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Averted. Cultivating relationships is doing something; in fact, it's the core requirement of the Survivor experience.
• The Woman Behind the Man: To Russell; they were a power of one and the only two players whose every vote was for the eliminated contestant.
• Worthy Opponent: Subverted, see Obfuscating Stupidity.

Runners-Up

Russell Hantz

• Anti-Hero: Type IV/V
• Asshole Victim: He went into the show already rich. That alone brought the thunder down on him. But in his case, it was enormous even after making note of that. Russell played the game very hard but suffered the consequences of his unpleasant behavior toward everyone when nobody he helped to get rid of wanted to crown him the winner due to using them and disposing of them like broken toys. Because of this, he is generally considered the origin of the notorious phrase "bitter Jury" in both Survivor and by extension Big Brother (which also uses a similar Jury system in the US), where a player may get to the end and deserve to win on a strategic level, but has done far too much to anger their pawns to ever receive their support because his arrogance infuriated everybody.
• Attention Whore: How Natalie views him.
• Beard of Evil: Russel's deadly beard and soul patch combo deserve an entire wing dedicated to them in the halls of villainy.
• Being Evil Sucks: Despite being viewed as the most strategic of the finalists, Russell was viewed as the biggest Asshole as well and only two jurors voted for him.
• Big Bad: Russell Hantz is often seen as the definitive villain in the Survivor franchise, due to being one of the most vainglorious and potent threats to ever play the game. He was the face of Samoa for nearly its entire run and was constantly basking in the spotlight. However, his one stumbling block will always be that while he leaves a scorching trail of railroaded players in his wake, he pisses off everybody too much to ever make it to the end even remotely liked, and Natalie crushed him at the Jury because she had played the game as The Heroine.
• The Big Guy: Visually subverted, as he was five six.
• Breakout Villain: He wasn't truly a Breakout Character since most naturally become popular through good word of mouth, while Russell was favored by the editing itself.
• Card-Carrying Villain
• The Chessmaster
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Beat Brett at the final immunity challenge, ending Brett's streak of three consecutive immunities.
• Determinator
• The Don: Russell Hantz was likely cast to fulfil the role of the Survivor Mafioso archetype (of which Boston Rob is the prototype). He is presented as the big mob boss this season. Anyone who does not play into his plans or anyone who does not do what he wants gets axed.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Mick may have been the leader of Foa Foa, but Russell did most of the decision-making.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: After losing to Natalie, this is how he felt.
• Entitled Bastard: Potential Trope Namer for Survivor.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Was shown to be concerned for Mike Borassi’s health while the medics was checking him, and bade him farewell when he was pulled out of the game.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: See Genre Blind below.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Gloating: Cut this out, and he'd have about as much screen time as Jaison or Shambo.
• Fat Bastard: On the pudgy side and a horrible person.
• Fatal Flaw: There are two flaws that ended up costing Russell the game.
  • Wrath: Russell played the game like he was scorching the Earth, not caring that he was cutting off any relationships he could have made or making his tribemates' lives miserable.
  • Arrogance: Russell believed that he his aforementioned scorched Earth strategy made him the best player of Survivor and the jury would love the fact he made controversial moves. They didn't.
• Faux Affably Evil: Comes off as a decent person, but lied about being a Hurricane Katrina victim. In the first episode.
• Genius Bruiser
• Genre Blind: Chose to keep Natalie over Liz because Natalie was getting in good with the Galu tribe. He figured this would help Foa Foa tilt the numbers in its favor, and he was right, but he completely neglected how dangerous it made Natalie in the endgame.
• Hated by All: Russell was insufferable. Completely self-absorbed, treated everybody as stepping stones, and willing to use disgusting lies that are right up there with Fairplay's late grandma BS. Many contestants noted they hated being around Russell because he never treated them with a scrap of decency and was even so bent on winning he tried to BUY the victory from the actual winner in an all-time despicable snake ploy, which is probably the lowest thing anybody could do on one of these competitions next to using the actual winnings for vice. So, naturally, the show brought him back to wreak havoc some more, because he was interesting, because out of universe, Russell was a dynamo who people loved to hate.
• Hero Killer: If there was any hero on the Galu tribe, he got rid of all of them, primarily Brett.
• Iconic Outfit: His hat.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: From burning his tribemates belongings early in the game, to ruthlessly voting people out, Russell made it clear he only cared about making it to the end no matter how many bridges he burned.
• It's All About Me: And he made sure everyone knows it.
• Jerkass: One of the biggest in the entire series.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
• Large Ham: When Evil Gloating.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Meta Guy: He is a rather mean example of being one.
• The Napoleon
• Never My Fault: Refuses to accept responsibility for the way the jury voted.
• Nothing Can Stop Me Now: At the finale. Then he lost, and had no clue why.
• Odd Friendship: With Natalie.
• One-Steve Limit: With Russell Swan.
• Poor Communication Kills: Did not know how to work the jury.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Next to him, absolutely everyone else was the blue.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In-Universe, How Russell described his reception in real life.
• The Runner-Up Takes It All: Came back for Heroes vs. Villains and Redemption Island, while Natalie has never been back for another season. Not to mention many fans believe him to be the true winner of the season.
• The Scrappy: In-Universe to the jury. Read post game interviews to get a read of how unlikable this guy is.
• Second Place Is for Losers: See Sore Loser
• Showy Invincible Player: Subverted. The editing built him up to be this, but he lost in a landslide due to poor jury management.
• Smug Snake: We was treated to many confessionals of his arrogance.
• Sore Loser: He tried buying the title of Sole Survivor off of Natalie. She refused.
• The Sociopath
• Southern-Fried Genius
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Managed to hold the spotlight for the entire season, receiving more screen time than the eventual winner.
• Token Evil Teammate: To Foa Foa. And any other tribe he was ever on.
• Übermensch
• Villain Protagonist: Given all of the screentime and was presented as the main character of the season.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To everyone he blindsided, especially John, Shambo, and Jaison.

Mick Trimming

• Brainy Brunette: In Real Life.
• Calling Me a Logarithm: Inverted; Shambo accused his gameplay of being "feckless," which Mick was not offended by, since he had not known the meaning.
• Deal with the Devil: How Mick described his alliance with Russell Hantz.
• Epic Fail: Got NONE of the Jury votes. Mick basically went to the end as Russell's Jury goat unable to do anything to convince the jurors to give him the grand prize for riding on Russell's coattails without any real substance of his own to contribute.
• Foil: Ended up being one to Russell Swan — the older, harder-working, capable leader taken out by his own work ethic, while Mick was the younger, lazier, incompetent leader who made it to the end of the game.
• The Generic Guy
• Heroic Build
• The Leader: Subverted. He didn't do anything. This was savagely used against him in the Final Tribal Council. Considering that eight of the nine jurors were Galu, and their leader had been one of the most determined tribe leaders since Andrew Savage, they seemed to see Mick as a failure.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Out of Focus: Part of it is because the producers seemed to forget he was there (same with most of the Galu tribe), but he also blends into a crowd easily, so it can be easy to miss him until the end when the numbers start to dwindle. Shambo and Russell at least had distinctive appearances, and Jaison was large.
• Perma-Stubble
• Pixellation: During the day 33 immunity challenges.
• Poor Communication Kills: At Final Tribal council, Mick gave poor answers to the jury.
• Standardized Leader: Foa Foa picked him to be their leader.
• Supporting Leader: Being more of the "supporting" than the "leader" bit him hard in the end.

Jury Members

Brett Clouser

• Beware the Quiet Ones: Spent the game as kind of a background tribe member, and when he wound up as the only original Galu member left, everyone else obviously plan to eliminate him. Then he wins three immunity challenges in a row.
• Boring, but Practical: His strategy was basically to just play the social game; the only reason we even noticed him was his immunity run.
• Determinator: Brett went on an immunity-winning streak when he was targeted by Russell.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: There's a reason he was called a Worthy Opponent by Russell.
• Even the Guys Want Him
• Graceful Loser: See Thanatos Gambit below.
• Informed Ability: Zig-zagged. We're told by Probst he's not revealed a lot in the cast.
• Irony: The first confessional of each Survivor season is often considered a sign that a contestant will be particularly memorable or likable. Brett, who was invisible until he came out of nowhere to go on an immunity streak, received such honor.
• Kid Hero: Brett was 23 at the time and was the second youngest contestant overall. Brett became The Hero when Foa Foa started systematically eliminating the Galus from the game and was presented as Russell's greatest threat.
• Last of His Kind: The last Galu member.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Nice Guy
• Older Than They Look: Brett is 23, but He looks like he could be in his mid-late teens.
• Out of Focus: Several people had joked on boards about saying "Who's this 'Brett' guy they're talking about?" He did get some screentime at the end, though. In fact, Funny 115 made a page dedicated to how the editors suddenly realized that there was someone called "Brett" in the game.
  • Photoshopping him into screencaps of other seasons also became a Running Gag on the Funny 115.
• The Quiet One: Normally you don't see these people cast on these sorts of shows because there's making an interesting show and an interesting game. What makes a good show doesn't always make a good game, and vice versa. And to be honest; look how far it got him. He was literally the last Galu member to be eliminated... and the last to even be targeted, for that matter. Having immunity runs deep in the game certainly didn't help, either.
• The Social Expert: Brett's game was to create friendships.
• Spear Counterpart: To Ashley Underwood a few seasons later. Both were victims of a Creator's Pet ravaging the screentime, both remained silent and made the person(s) in charge of the game think they were worthless and saved them for last. Both then start going on challenge runs.
• Thanatos Gambit: According to interviews, he actually sat down with Natalie before they went to Tribal Council when he was eliminated and worked on her strategy in front of the jury with her.
• Worthy Opponent: To Russell. Russell has apparently told people in real life he honestly thought Brett was one of the few people in the game who would have beaten him.

Jaison Robinson

• Berserk Button: Jaison's is any form of racially insensitive comments or use of words meant to hurt. This was why he was adamant on getting rid of Ben in Episode 3 as he did not like the way he talked down to Yasmin.
• The Big Guy: To Foa Foa.
• Genius Bruiser
• Hidden Depths: Despite his appearance, Jaison played water polo for the National team.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Even called this by Betsy on day one.
• Shout-Out: Jaison made a reference to Ma-Ti.
• So Proud of You: Towards Natalie when she killed a rat.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Discussed in Episode 6. He wanted Heart to bring up spirits of Foa Foa.

Shannon "Shambo" Waters

• Big "OMG!": When she was picked to be the smartest person in the first challenge.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She talked to the chickens and clucked at them.
• Cool Old Lady: The Oldest person on Galu. Foa Foa seemed to viewed her as such.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Shambo was likely cast to fulfil the role of the Survivor Crazy Cat Lady archetype. Her tribemates were often rolling their eyes around her, and she got a lot of criticism when she lost the spear tip of the Hawaiian sling. She came with good news and bad news. The good news was "there's fish in the ocean". Laura in confessional talked about how nuts Shambo is after that.
• '80s Hair: She reveals in one episode that she's had her "Shambolicious" mullet since 1986.
• Foreshadowing: They was plenty of build up to her flip.
• Fish out of Water: Shambo was former Marine and the oldest member on Galu. She never really could connect to her younger tribemates
• Friend to All Living Things: Especially to chickens.
• Improbable Hairstyle
• The Lancer: To Russell Swan.
• Locked Out of the Loop: During the John Fincher Blindside.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: When you see how she's treated as an outsider by Galu but always welcome at the Foa Foa camp, her flipping doesn't come as a surprise.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Shambo.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Flipped to Russell's alliance and more or less was the final nail in the Galu coffin. When it comes to just his five and Brett... and Brett becomes immune to the vote... three guesses who the first to go is. The first two don't count.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Laura, and then once she's gone Dave becomes this for her.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: While not as bad as Russel H., Shambo did gotten the most airtime of the Galu tribe.
• The Quisling: To Galu. They was another reason why the Galu women wanted out.
• Turn Coat
• Unwitting Pawn: To Russell Hantz. Before that, the Galu men intended to use her.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: See Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves.

Monica Padilla

Monica was chosen by public vote to return for the Second Chance season, Survivor: Cambodia.

• A Elimination In The Lime Light: Monica had average amount of screentime, but most of airtime was in her elimination episode.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
• Cassandra Truth: In Kelly's boot episode, Monica was the only person shown to realize that Russell H. having found the idol was a legit possibility and wanted to vote out Natalie as a failsafe.
• Deus ex Machina: Russell Swan's evacuation served as one to Monica. If Russell S. was evacuated, Monica would and could have been blindsided by the Galu men.
• Girlish Pigtails: Monica often styles her like this, hinting at her being one of the younger contestants.
• Hello, Attorney!: She is a law student at the time.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Laura.
• I Shall Taunt You: Isn't even afraid of being voted off, and openly mocks Russell at her last Tribal Council, including an impersonation of him.
• Ms. Fanservice: She along with Natalie are some of the more attractive contestants of the season.
• The Smart Girl: For Galu post merge.
• Spicy Latina: Monica was born in Puerto Rico.
• Statuesque Stunner
• The Load
• Worthy Opponent: Russell admits before voting her out that if she was on the same tribe as him before the merge, he would have seen her as this.

"Danger" Dave Ball

• Bunny-Ears Lawyer
• Casanova Wannabe: In the Tee-Ball challenge...
  Jeff: Danger Dave. Baseball your sport?
  Dave: "Uh, no. Makin' love's my sport."
  Jeff: "You play a lot?"
  Dave: "Not often enough."
• Deadpan Snarker: In his confessionals
• Full-Name Basis: Jeff Probst almost never refers to him as just "Dave".
• Large Ham: In confessionals. The Funny 115 gave him his own entry
• Logic Bomb: During a later Tribal Council:
  Jeff: "Dave, think it's gonna be a shocking vote tonight for somebody?"
  Dave: ""If this vote tonight goes the way I am expecting it to go... I will be shocked."
  [Jeff starts laughing]
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Often called "Danger Dave."
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Shambo.

John Fincher

• Backstab Backfire: Wanted to change up the game and avoid the purple rock, gotten voted out Next as a result.
• Birds of a Feather: With Russell according to him in post game interviews.
• He Knows Too Much: The reason why Russell voted John out because Russell told John about the idol.
• Insufferable Genius: Just watch his confessional about his Galu tribemates after Laura said that they was voting out Russell H.
• Jerkass Has a Point: John correctly pointed out that Natalie should be the target because of her being the least likely to have the idol. However, he followed up with a confessional stating how non-analytical Galu was.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Out of Focus: Like most of Galu.
• The Quisling: To Galu, and is what prevented Galu from Victory.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Immediately voted out by Russell H. after flipping.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He felt that "pagonging" Foa Foa was for Jr. Varsity Survivor. John also believed himself the smartest person on Galu.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Foa Foa voted out him after his flip to avoid the purple rock tiebreaker.

Laura Morett

• Action Mom: She was the only woman to win Individual Immunity.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Monica.
• Never Mess with Granny: Although younger than most, Laura was a Grandmother and a highly competent competitor in challenges.
• Out of Focus: As a result of the poor editing, Laura was basically a Satellite Character to Shambo.
• Silver Vixen: It was mentioned in her pre-game profile Laura was actually an Grandmother. It was Lampshaded at the reunion when she was called a Hot Grandma.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Also to Shambo.
• Teen Pregnancy: Laura had her first child at 18 according to her pre game profile.
• Younger Than They Look: Laura looks pretty amazing for someone who is almost 40.

Kelly Sharbaugh

• Foreshadowing: Kelly's first confessional before the episode 4 immunity challenge that Yasmin was going should Galu lose the next immunity challenge. Kelly's second confessional also added to Russell Swan's evacuation.
• Informed Ability: Russell (or any of the Foa Foa) really really REALLY wants her out. For what purpose? She didn't appear to pose any threat. We saw maybe... three minutes of her.
• Living Prop: Kelly was turned into one by the editing.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Out of Focus: Kelly gotten the one of the worse cases in the history of the show.

Erik Cardona

• Butt-Monkey: He did not have it easy this season, being the frequent target of Amusing Injuries, embarrassing himself with a confident failure in the memory challenge, and ending up betrayed by his own tribe at the merge and voted out with an immunity idol in his pocket.
• Call-Back: In the Ponderosa Videos To James Clement about his tribemates unable to resist the temptation to bite the forbidden fruit .
• The Casanova: Erik claims to be a Proud Womanizer in his CBS Profile
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His speech to Natalie in the final tribal council was encouraging and called out the Double Standard of Survivor gameplay.
  Erik: Natalie. People will call you weak. People will say that you are undeserving. But you know what? Why are those characteristic any less admirable as lying, cheating, and stealing? Why does he get a free pass, but your "wrong way of playing" gets admonished? If there is one thing that I've learned in this game, it's that perception is not reality. Reality is reality. And that you are sitting there and that makes you just as dangerous as any of those guys there. You would probably say you are the least deserving of the title of Sole Survivor. But maybe, just maybe, in an environment filled with arrogance... delusional entitlement... maybe the person who thinks she's the least deserving, is probably the most. You got my vote. I hope you get four more. Congratulations.
• Large Ham: His jury speech.
• Misblamed: For planning to blindside Monica when it was John's idea. Erik gotten the blame as he was the spokesperson for the plot.
• Number Two: To Russell S.
• Perma-Stubble
• Poor Communication Kills: At Ponderosa, it was discussed about what caused his elimination. They attributed Erik expecting action to speak louder than words to in part cause his elimination.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: One of the more memorable ones of the series - he calls out Mick on his lack of leadership, Russell on his gameplay, and tells Natalie that despite others assertions, she's just as dangerous as either of the aforementioned and deserves recognition.
• Running Gag: A recurring visual of the season is that most of Erik's confessionals were either delivered in a tree or very close to one or more trees.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky
• The Trickster: Erik was the fourth recurrence of the Survivor Trickster archetype of which Jonny Fairplay, Edgardo Rivera and Tyson Apostol preceded him. In the Survivor: Samoa TV Guide Preview, Erik said the following.
  Erik: I'll develop a kind of Shakespearean Iago type of persona to where I can take what I hear and use it to my advantage to somebody else until everybody's going crazy and then it becomes some horrible Greek tragedy minus myself. When I was young, a lot of kids wanted to be professional baseball players or firemen. I at six years old wanted to be a con man. For the first time, I get to be who I really am, a manipulative, conning, cunning, intelligent snake!

Voted Out

Elizabeth "Liz" Kim

• Accidental Truth: Said that Mike was going if they lose the next challenge. She was right but not in the way she intended.
• Action Girl: The Only woman on Foa Foa to do consistently well win challenges. Shambo even praised Liz for her Toughness in challenges.
• Asian and Nerdy
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Simply called Liz.
• Surprise Difficulty: Discussed in her Day After statement that Survivor is much harder than it looks on TV.
• Two First Names: In English anyway.

Russell Swan note (medically evacuated)

• Ascended Fanboy
• Cool Old Guy: The oldest male on Galu.
• Determinator: He Really wanted to stay.
• Dreadlock Warrior: Russell's hair is styled in dreads, and he was the main guy leading Galu.
• Foil: Ended up being one to Mick - the younger, lazier, incompetent leader who made it to the end of the game, while Russell was the older, harder-working, capable leader taken out by his own work ethic.
• Genius Bruiser
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: His Medevac was the reason he returned for Philippines. However, this didn't turn out well in that season either.
• The Leader: Of Galu.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: Evacuated after fainting during a challenge.
• One-Steve Limit: With Russell Hantz.
• Team Dad: To Galu
• Worthy Opponent: Another one Russell Hantz sees this season (the other being Brett).

Ashley Trainer

• Ascended Fangirl: Ashley claimed to be one
• Dumb Blonde
• It's All My Fault: Ashley felt pretty guilty about botching up the gross smoothie challenge.
• The Load: In her last episode. This was the reason why she kept on getting votes and was eventually was voted out.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Despite Ben's accusation of her being sneaky, Ashley was for the most part a Nice Girl.
• Tagalong Kid: Ashley was the youngest contestant of the season.
• Tempting Fate: Ashley was the most excited for the Gross food eating challenge. However, She was the only who cost Foa Foa the win.

Yasmin Giles

• Be Careful What You Wish For: Yasmin said would rather be voted out in her boot episode.
• Black Woman Voted Out First: Yasmin was the first person to voted out of Galu.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: In her Elimination Statement, Yasmin begin she could have been a big endgame threat.
• Lazy Bum: What gotten her voted out was Yasmin's lack of work ethic.
• Pixelation: Yasmin's butt was blurred out in the first immunity challenge.
• Reality Show Genre Blindness: Yasmin never went camping and hates the outdoors but she agreed to do Survivor, a show that is completely outdoors for days until your are eliminated or make it to the end.
• Sassy Black Woman: Her nickname was "Sassy Yassy".
• Small Name, Big Ego: See I Could been a Contender above. Yasmin wasn't very popular with her tribe to make such a claim.
• Surprise Difficulty: In-Universe, Yasmin clearly said this at the beginning of episode 2.
• Talkative Loon: Especially when talking to Foa Foa on how to Improve themselves.

Ben Browning

• Alliterative Name
• Bad Liar: Ben when accusing Ashley of plotting to vote him out, Said it wasn't Russell when asked who said that.
• Beard of Evil: more like Beard of Jerkass.
• Crazy Survivalist: Which is why he felt he could last long in the game.
• Dumb Muscle:
• Good Ol' Boy: And Proud of it.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Russell Hantz, his Only Friend.
• Jerkass: Ben had major attitude problems.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
• Paper Tiger: Jaison certainly believes that Ben's attitude is a façade and Ben isn't badass as he portrays himself. Despite Ben's athleticism, the tribe didn't win any challenges with him competing.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Put him around Yasmin or even Jaison and just watch the fireworks.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps:
• Sore Loser: In His Elimination Statement.
• Tattooed Crook: Ben sported tattoos on his body, and was completely a jack ass.
• Token Evil Teammate: Along with Russell for Foa Foa. Unlike Russell, Ben's Jerk Assism was much more Blatant.
• Would Hit a Girl: What caused his argument with Yasmin.

Betsy Bolan

• Alliterative Name
• Ascended Fangirl: Betsy been applying for six years.
• Cool Old Lady: The Oldest woman of the cast. In Real Life, She is a cop.
• Informed Ability: Like with Marisa, Russell thought she could have beaten him.
• The Load: Gotten this accusation like most older women.
• Sacrificial Lion: Was heavily edited as an assertive strong woman, to be a winning choice...only for Russell to take her out in the second episode.
• Team Mom: Betsy used this an arguement to keep her over Ben.
• Worthy Opponent: According to Russell, he had her evicted from the game because she, like Marisa, could have beaten him.

Mike Borassi note (medically evacuated)

• Born Unlucky: Was slated to be in Tocantins, but fainted pre-game in Ponderosa. So he was moved to Samoa, but in the second episode ...
• Carpet of Virility: Type 2
• Cool Old Guy: The Oldest contestant of the season and an fan and watcher of the show.
• Determinator
• Last-Name Basis: Jeff just calls him Borassi.
• The Load: Accused of this because being the oldest person on the season.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: Mike was pulled out of the game after the second immunity challenge. Had the record for the earliest - Episode two until Kourtney Moon's evacuation in One World in the first episode. According to him, this turned out to be for the better because he lost around 60+ pounds. (While not obese)
• Precision F-Strike: Mike in his first confessional when he was shocked by Jaison's swimming ability.

Marisa Calihan

• I Coulda Been a Contender!: According to Russell Hantz.
• Informed Ability: Because of how poorly the season was edited as well as how she was eliminated first, Russell Hantz said that she and Betsy could have beaten him.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Pixellation: Marisa briefly had her chest blurred out during the first challenge.
• Playing the Victim Card: In the finale claimed she was voted out because men were intimidated by strong women, even though it was only Russell who engineered her elimination, and several of the women voted her out too
• Sacrificial Lamb: Called this in the recap in the second episode.
• Worthy Opponent: Russell Hantz said that he had her eliminated first because she could have beaten him. (Though the fact that she almost immediately expressed mistrust of him might have also had something to do with it...)

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