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Characters: Survivor Samoa
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open/close all folders The Tribes Foa Foa Galu The Sole Survivor Natalie White Runners-Up Russell Hantz - Anti-Hero: Type IV/V
- Asshole Victim
- Badass
- Bald of Evil
- Beard of Evil
- Being Evil Sucks
- The Big Guy: Visually subverted, as he was five six.
- Breakout Character / Breakout Villain: He wasn't truly a breakout character since they naturally become popular through good word of mouth, while Russell was shoved down our throats by the editing the entire time.
- Card-Carrying Villain
- The Chessmaster
- Determinator
- Dragon-in-Chief: Mick may be the leader of Foa Foa, but...
- Entitled Bastard - Potential Trope Namer.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: See Genre Blind below.
- Evil Genius
- Evil Gloating: He'd have about as much screen time as Jaison or Shambo if you cut this out.
- Fat Bastard
- Faux Affably Evil
- Genius Bruiser
- Genre Blind: Early in the season, he chose to keep Natalie as an ally instead of Liz because "If we merge, we need somebody on the inside, and Natalie's doin' a good job talkin' to Laura around the camp." In other words, he took her to the end knowing that she'd get in good with the jurors, overlooking the very reason why Natalie eventually won in a landslide.
- Hero Killer
- Iconic Outfit: His Nice Hat.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends
- It's All About Me
- Jerk Ass
- Large Ham
- Manipulative Bastard
- The Napoleon
- Never My Fault: He refuses to accept responsibility for the way the jury voted, though it was for a very valid reason.
- Not Good with People
- Nothing Can Stop Me Now: At the finale. He honestly couldn't understand why he lost.
- One Steve Limit: With Russell Swan.
- Poor Communication Kills: He doesn't know how to work the jury.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Next to him, almost everyone was the blue.
- The Runner-Up Takes It All
- Second Place Is for Losers
- Showy Invincible Player: Subverted. The editing tried to make him out to be this, but in the end he lost in a 7-2 vote because of poor communication skills.
- Smug Snake
- Short Dark And Snarky
- Token Evil Teammate
- The Sociopath
- Southern Fried Genius
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Managed to hold the spotlight for the entire season and got more screen time than the winner. It's obvious that his appearance here was merely a commercial for his soon-to-be appearance on Heroes vs. Villains. The big boys.
- Team Killer
- Ted Baxter
- Too Clever by Half
- Übermensch
- Villain Protagonist
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To everyone he blindsided and voted out, especially John, Shambo, and Jaison.
Mick Trimming - Determinator
- 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.
- Generic Guy
- Good Is Boring
- 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.
- Standardized 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.
- Supporting Leader: Being more of the "supporting" than the "leader" bit him hard in the end.
Jury Members Brett Clouser - Bishōnen
- Boring, but Practical: His strategy; the only reason we even noticed him was his immunity run.
- Determinator
- Eleventh 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: He's in his 20s. He looks like he could be in his mid-late teens.
- Last of His Kind: The last Galu member.
- Mr. Fanservice
- Nice Guy
- 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. - The Southpaw: He's left-handed.
- 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.
- 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 elminated... and the last to even be targeted, for that matter. Having immunity runs certainly didn't help, either.
- Religious Bruiser
- Shocking Elimination
- 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 Shannon "Shambo" Waters Monica Padilla "Danger" Dave Ball John Fincher Laura Morett Kelly Sharbaugh Erik Cardona - Large Ham: His jury speech.
- Number Two: To Russell S.
- Out of Focus: Until the evacuation of Russell S.
- "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
Evicted Elizabeth "Liz" Kim Russell Swan Ashley Trainer Yasmin Giles Ben Browning Betsy Bolan Mike Borassi 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.
- Worthy Opponent: Russell Hantz said that he had her eliminated first because she could have beaten him.
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