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Total Drama's cast got so big that the page had to be split into several pages. This page is for the contestants that were on the Ferocious Trout in the reboot.

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Axel

Voiced by: Tamara Almeida

Label: The Hard Core

Team: Ferocious Trout, Rat Face

Placement: 15th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 10th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 2 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 7 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

A doomsday prepper and survivalist who has spent her entire life training for the zombie apocalypse. Axel is a harsh and commanding individual possessing formidable strength, athleticism, and weapon expertise. However, she also has an extremely low tolerance for disobedience and insubordination of any kind.

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• Action Girl: As a survivalist, she's adamant about showing off her physical prowess and quickly takes charge of a physical challenge.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: in Season 2 of the reboot, she ends up becoming a couple with the jerkass Ripper (who is even labelled as the Bad Boy).
• Aroused by Idiocy: In season 2 of the reboot, Axel admits that she finds Ripper's stupidity to be "hot".
• Ascended Extra: After being second boot in her first season, she gets more Character Development in the second.
• Badass Adorable: A tough and dangerous girl, but still adorable.
• Bait-and-Switch: After Ripper arrives after reciting his poem to her, she angrily stands up and grabs him by the throat. Everyone is anticipating she's going to straight up kill him, only for her to kiss him.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Ripper. She realizes her feelings for him upon his rendition of a corny zombie poem for her after having previously beaten him around.
• Beta Couple: With Ripper in Season Two, their relationship mostly exists for the purposes of comic relief to contrast the more dramatic relationships of Priya and Caleb and Bowie and Raj.
• Birds of a Feather: She and Ripper are both abrasive, competitive, ill-mannered and kinda off. But they both have a sensitive side that revealed itself throughout Season Two.
• The Bully: To Ripper in the first episode of season 2, clearly blaming him for her elimination last season.
• Chained Heat: She spends a majority of the Sticky Sap challenge in season 2 stuck to Ripper by their butts when he gets scared and crashes into her.
• Control Freak: She tried to take control of team leadership for the Ferocious Trout, dictating that they should eat what she hunts down and how they should perform in challenges. Her overbearing nature and desire for control is what causes her elimination early. She does grow out of this in the following season, being more accepting of Priya's leadership of Team Rat Face.
• Crazy Survivalist: She comes to the show prepped with tons of supplies to survive an apocalypse then weirded out her teammates by hunting and charring a squirrel.
• Cute Bruiser: A kickbutt, but pretty girl.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Holds this attitude with her teammates, being rude, harsh, bossy, and overly violent with them. This ends up costing her when she ends up leaving her team first after forcing the team to eat a squirrel she hunted down when they had food readily available and also put them at a disadvantage in the challenge by intentionally kicking Ripper off of their ship and out of the challenge just because he annoyed her.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She's just as creeped out as Nichelle is when Scary Girl laments that no one fell in the lava during the final challenge.
  • She is disgusted with Millie for throwing Damien down a dangerous four point pipe that badly injures him just to win the challenge.
• Evil Counterpart: Not necessarily evil but a more Jerkass version of Shawn.
• Flanderization: In her second season, she's reduced to being Make-Out Kids with Ripper once the merge hits.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Axel" is a name that is usually associated with males, which is fitting for a Crazy Survivalist Action Girl like her.
• Good Counterpart: To Jo, being an easily angered, incredibly strong and athletic girl who tries to take the leadership of her team but unlike Jo, Axel is shown to care about her teammates' wellbeing and wants to genuinely support them. She's basically Jo if she became a better person.
• Hartman Hips: Her hips are noticeably wider than her bust or waistline.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her appearance, Action Girl personality, and other hobbies, she likes poetry.
• Jabba Table Manners: Even though there's a spoon right next to her, she'd rather eat her bowl of gruel with her hands like an animal.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While not the most emotionally open and social person, Axel is shown to care about her teammates' wellbeing at least in the second season of the reboot, helping pulling Zee out of water during challenge from the second episode of season 2, carrying Damien back to camp after he gets injured from going down a deadly "Death Boot" slide in the same episode and showing disgust at Millie for forcing him to go through that. She also develops a soft spot for Ripper later on, forming a romantic relationship with him.
• Lethal Chef: Her idea for making breakfast for the campers is even worse than the gruel Chef makes, hunting several squirrels to give to her team. Only Zee and Scary Girl seem willing to eat it.
• Makeout Kids: With Ripper after they get together.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Downplayed regarding Axel and Ripper. While Axel is still as aggressive and stoic despite taking a level in kindness in the second season, Ripper, despite being just as masculine as Axel, Took a Level in Kindness as well and has shown himself as more emotional, bashful, and sensitive in their relationship.
• Mirror Character: To Shawn. While both are apocalypse preppers, Shawn keeps this mostly to himself, whereas Axel takes forces her mindset to others. While Axel's drive ended up getting her eliminated early on with no real accomplishments, Shawn managed to reach to the finals with plenty of credit on his back.
• Naked People Are Funny: While she doesn't laugh a lot, she does have a slight chuckle seeing Ripper fail in the confessional and even says he's funny after he flies away naked in Season 2 Episode 2 of the reboot.
• Never My Fault: She refuses to admit that throwing Ripper out of the ship contributed to their team's loss. And even after her boot, she acts like she did nothing wrong by bossing and ordering them around and treating them like they were beneath her.
• One of the Boys: Downplayed. While never outright hostile to the female competitors (aside from Julia, MK, and Millie), Axel's major interactions tend to be with the male contestants. This is most evident in her relationship with Ripper, but she also seems to interact with Damien and Zee on Team Rat Face more than the other girls on the team and is the only girl to be in Wayne's team (consisting of all the guys of the season, except Damien and Caleb (due to being a finalist himself)) in the season 2 finale.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In a weird way, her attempting to feed her team squirrels she hunted was rather thoughtful. She's out of touch with reality due to thinking the zombie apocalypse is coming and believes it was necessary to round up whatever she could find as food, while her idea was absurd, she had good intentions behind it.
  • In the finale, she gives Julia duct tape when she needs it to fix the contract that Bowie tore apart.
  • She carries Zee out of the water after he is injured after failing to get into the basketball hoop.
  • Has concern for Damien after he is badly injured from the four point pipe and carries him back to camp to get his injuries treated.
  • Her relationship with Ripper is this.
  • In the finale for the second half, she genuinely supports Wayne.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being eliminated, she dives into the ocean to evade the drone grabbing her. Unfortunately for her, it doesn’t work.
• Spicy Latina: She is bossy and quick to anger when people disobey her and she's confirmed to be Latina by Word of God. Then in the second part, Ripper falls in love with her.
• .Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Her relationship with Ripper takes up a large part of part 2 of the reboot and they spend a majority of the season making out.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Primarily to Shawn, being a Crazy Survivalist who believes in a potential Zombie Apocalypse. In her audition tape, she even brutally destroys a zombie standee that looks like a distressed zombified Shawn. She's also similar to Eva and even more so to Jo, being an easily angered, incredibly strong and athletic girl who tries to take the leadership of her team.
• Tempting Fate: She claims her teammates won't vote for her because she brought them breakfast.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy (a Crazy Survivalist who wears pants) to Scary Girl's Girly Girl (a Perky Goth who wears a skirt).
• Took a Level in Kindness: Invoked. Part 2 of TDI 2023 has her mentioning that having friends increases one's chances of winning, so she says that she is going to try and be nicer towards others. Doesn't stop her from punching Ripper when he attempts to say "hi" to her.
  Axel: I'm a work in progress.
  • As a member of Team Rat Face, she is also less bossy and more cooperative with her teammates than she was in season 1.
• Too Powerful to Live: During her elimination in the second season, the other contestants votes for her over Ripper specifically because she was more of a threat.
• Tsundere: A type A, romantic female example. Axel’s bullying attitude towards Ripper ends up causing her to slowly end up becoming sweet to him.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only lasts two episodes in her first season. Averted in the second season, where she makes it to the merge.

Chase

Voiced by: Julius Cho

Label: The Other YouTube Sensation

Team: Ferocious Trout, Skunk Butt

Placement: 6th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 15th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 10 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 2 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

A thrill-seeker and daredevil who hosts a livestreaming channel where he and his friends pull off all manner of dangerous pranks, stunts, and dares. Chase lives for excitement, but his devil-may-care attitude towards his practical jokes also makes him quite cocky and rather self-centered.

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• Affectionate Nickname: He calls Emma various pet names, even when they were split up, with the two most common being "Babe" and "Emms".
• Ambiguously Brown: Although his eye shape might suggest he's of Southeast Asian descent. Word of God states that he's of East Asian descent.
• Bad Influencer: He's part of a livestreamer group that does pranks and stunts, but doesn't seem to understand when a prank goes too far, as he saw nothing wrong with cutting the brakes to Emma's car and nearly getting her killed.
• Beta Couple: His toxic on and off relationship with Emma that only exists for comic relief is the primary Foil to the better developed Bowie and Raj in Season One.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Chase is the Short to Ripper's Big and Zee's Thin.
• Brainless Beauty: Chase is considered to be quite attractive, with Ripper even calling him a Pretty Boy. Chase is also an extremely careless moron who can’t recognize that Emma doesn’t want to get back together with him.
• Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Emma breaks up with Chase prior to joining the show. She briefly takes him back due to a misunderstanding midway through the season before promptly dumping him again after finding out the truth. She takes him back one last time for good before he's voted off due to yet another misunderstanding. Then in season 2, she breaks up with him again upon discovering what really happened.
• Callback: Chase makes his entrance by waterskiing behind the boat taking him to the island, reminiscent of how Tyler was first introduced in the original series albeit way more successful since Chase isn't athletically inept as him.
• Camera Fiend: Very much so in the second episode of Season 2. He spends the whole time trying to make the perfect recording of himself, that he doesn't participate in the challenge, leading to his elimination. He is still recording himself going down the dock of shame.
• Compressed Vice: Chase has a pizza addiction, an intense fear of catapults and obsesses over his video intros which were not mentioned until their respective episodes where his ex-girlfriend Emma exposited these flaws and were never used again.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: The cool kid to Ripper and Zee's losers. He's a well-known YouTuber, Ripper is repulsive, and Zee is extremely strange.
• Deadly Prank: Cutting the breaks on Emma's car would have been if it weren't for her crashing into a pet store to "soften" the blow. He's unapologetic over what he had done because the views on their livestream should be more than enough to justify it which became the last straw for Emma to cut the breaks on their relationship.
• Demoted to Extra: After being one of the most prominent characters in Island (2023) Part 1, he becomes the second person eliminated in Part 2.
• The Ditz: Chase is so dense and dumb that it is a miracle that he managed to survive all those dangerous stunts he has streamed and even ranked 6th place in Part 1.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Even though he's most likely eaten gross food as dares from his friends on their streaming service, he straight up refuses to even touch the "breakfast" that Axel has made for them, fully grossed out upon first seeing it.
  • Even he finds Bowie's manipulative actions in his debut season disgusting as evidenced by him being one of the people stink eying Bowie in the second season premiere.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • Downplayed on the evil part because he’s more of an oblivious and selfish jerk rather than a malevolent Big Bad. He doesn't understand why Emma broke up with him and when she reveals to him it was because he nearly got her and several animals in a pet store killed thanks to cutting her car breaks for a prank, he's shocked to learn that she's still mad about it.
  • Additionally, when Emma told him how he has never been selfless in his life, not only did he not know what the word meant, but after being told its meaning, he genuinely voiced his confusion in the confessional about why anyone would put the needs of others before themselves.
• Evil Counterpart: To Trent and Devin. All three are Innocently Insensitive guys who are usually handsome and charming but act incredibly awkward around their love interests, and are on the receiving end of a lot of pain and slapstick. Chase even looks a little bit like Devin as well. But whereas the former two are Nice Guys who always feel awful when something they do inadvertently hurts someone, Chase is a selfish and misogynistic Narcissist with no sense of shame or even awareness of his actions.
• Fatal Flaw: Chase's biggest flaw is how he's easily sidetracked by things pertaining to him, which as a result makes him look bad. In the first season, he came fairly close to winning immunity, only for him to be distracted by pizza and pretty much throw the game while knocking off Julia and Millie, (and cause Emma to win immunity). That, alongside the others learning how bad Chase is as a person and him trying to downplay it caused his elimination. In the follow-up season, the sliding challenge is one that Chase should be good at considering how athletic he is, but after Emma tells him to shoot an intro that Chase takes way too seriously, he ends up never once participating, and ends up eliminated as a result.
• Foil:
  • To Ripper, as both are Straw Misogynists who do not value the opinions of women, but Ripper does it more due to a bad relationship with his mother and the other men in his household being just as incompetent as him, while Chase is Innocently Insensitive. The following season plays this up more with Ripper going through Character Development and taking a level in kindness to be more respectful of women and ends up in a healthy relationship with Axel, while Chase continues to remain disrespectful of women and he ends up being dumped by Emma for good.
  • To Zee as both are not the brightest bulb and have the habit of making mistakes more of stupidity than malice. However, Chase is a jerkass who refuses to take responsibility for any wrongdoing, while Zee is a Nice Guy who is more conscious about his flaws.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: With the exception of Zee and Ripper, nobody can stand him because of his selfishness and egotistical behavior and even then, the latter ends up drifting apart from him the following season due to taking a level in kindness. Chef and Chris are even shocked by his actions in the past.
• Graceful Loser: When the time has come for his elimination, Chase was initially shocked but accepts his defeat in stride since he got free pizza out of it. But what's more surprising is in spite of his persistent and pitiful attempts to woo Emma back throughout the season, he wishes her goodbye forever, having finally got the message that she wants nothing to do with him anymore, and decides to leave her alone for good... If it weren't for Emma taking him back at the last second due to yet another misunderstanding.
  Chase: Yeah, I got eliminated and I didn't win the million bucks... BUT I GOT FREE PIZZA!!! Pow, pow, pow! [Fist pumps the air]
• Heartfelt Apology: Painfully subverted. It's clear Chase doesn't understand why his actions were wrong and led to Emma breaking up with him before the start of the season. Despite Emma wanting a real apology for him he never gives her one although she believes he does so due to misunderstanding him.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Emma thinks he did this for her during the pole balancing challenge by knocking everybody else off their poles before diving off his and shouting "I Love You!", giving her immunity as his first-ever "selfless act". In reality, he just wanted the free pizza offered up, which his love declaration was referencing to, and didn't even realize who won the challenge. Still, this "selfless act" led Emma to be his girlfriend again.
• Hero with an F in Good: Despite being a really lousy boyfriend, it's clear to see that Chase does mean well and genuinely cares about Emma. It's just that whenever he tries to do something nice, his own idiocy either causes it to end up backfiring and make things worse or causes him to unintentionally go about it in a way that makes him come off as a selfish jerk.
• Hypocrite: He was absolutely distraught about leaving Zee behind to a velociraptor and almost making him dinosaur food had he not escaped, proclaiming that "[He] never put anyone in danger before". This is in spite of putting Emma in danger almost all the time when they were together such as the infamous break-cutting incident which she angrily lampshades in her confessional. Granted he could have thought all those times with Emma were just "harmless" pranks and good deeds gone horribly wrong while Zee's case cannot be perceived as either but that doesn't excuse his behavior or actions.
• Ignored Epiphany: When Emma breaks up with Chase upon learning that he didn’t forfeit Episode 10’s challenge for Emma but to eat pizza, Chase briefly considers whether it would have been better if he told the truth before casually shrugging this dilemma aside.
• I Reject Your Reality: He does absolutely everything he can to not have to change or recognize that Emma wants nothing to do with him. He goes as far as to make accidents look intentional, purposely misinterpret her facial expressions, or put her phrasing out of order to convince himself she still likes him. While she doesn't help matters by taking him back over frivolous actions, he does this long before either instance.
• Innocently Insensitive: If there’s one positive thing you could say about Chase, it’s that he does actually seem to care about Emma albeit in his own twisted way and a lot of the crap she has to take from Chase is more out of stupidity than hatred.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Chase is hands down one of the dumbest and most insensitive contestants to compete in the reboot. To summarize, he's as oblivious as Charlie Kelly in believing the girl who clearly despises him is interested in him, doesn't care his "prank" was flat out dangerous and shows no remorse even after it nearly kills her and innocent animals, constantly makes himself look worse with arrogant remarks about himself, blows his second chance with Emma by telling the truth about his apology not being about his prank, and his last episode makes it clear he was a worthless excuse for a boyfriend even before she broke up with him, with the pinnacle of examples being cutting down a tree to save Emma's cat and crippling her mother in the process while seeing himself as a hero.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Continuing with the previous series' trend, he serves as the designated pain magnet of Island (2023).
• Irony: His and Emma's performance is quite similar in both seasons:
  • They're eliminated back-to-back in the first season, with both as the third-highest-ranking member of their respective teams.
  • They're both the second member eliminated from their respective teams in their second season.
• It's All About Me: He's so self-centered, he literally doesn't know what "selfless" means. The one time Emma thinks he sacrificed a challenge for her, it was just that he gave it up to get some pizza.
• Jabba Table Manners: Whenever pizza is in his sight, Chase will go into a trace and scarf it down like there's no tomorrow, leaving nothing behind other than the pizza sauce now smeared all over his mouth and hoodie.
• Jerkass: He doesn't know what selfless means, refuses to take any responsibility for his actions and is a nasty character overall. Though at the very least, he has better manners than Ripper.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Like Ripper, he notes that Ripper's efforts in episode 4, while distasteful, almost gave them the win, whereas Scary Girl's actions were what lost the challenge for them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Every single time he talks about his best moments with Emma, it reveals how he cares less about her and more about himself. Even when he gets back together, she thinks it because he cares about giving her immunity but really it's to get some pizza.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Being this season's designated pain magnet, Chase tends to get injured more so than any other contestant. However, the fact that his debauchery and recklessness are what often provokes these injuries, plus his repulsive personality, makes it very hard to feel sorry for him.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: The first season of the reboot ended with him getting back with Emma, due to her mistakenly believing he was sorry for what he did and purposely throwing a challenge so she could win immunity. The premiere of the very next season reveals that Emma watched the episode during the Time Skip and now knows he didn't do it for her but just for pizza, and has broken up with him again and refuses to speak with him. The next episode also has Emma manipulate him into focusing too much on getting the perfect shot of his intro for a video on his stunt in the challenge to the point where he is the only one on the team to not participate in the challenge and gets voted off second for that.
• Laser-Guided Karma: By the start of the second season, Emma has broken up with him again, this time flat out refusing to talk to him, after finding out that he didn't actually throw a challenge for her sake. He even lampshades this in the confessional. The second episode of the season also has Emma manipulate him into focusing too much on getting the perfect shot of his intro for a video on his stunt in the challenge to the point where he is the only one on the team to not participate in the challenge and getting voted off second for that.
• Laughably Evil: Chase may be a moronic Jerkass, but his antics are always portrayed in humorous light, especially since he’s not trying to be intentionally evil.
• The Load: He's this in the second season overall on Bowie's team. In the first episode, while he does do fairly well, he's still one of the first eliminated. During the waterslide basketball challenge in the second episode, he spends the entire challenge trying to do an intro to one of his videos since his own waterslide videos are popular and doesn't even attempt to do the challenge itself due to being interrupted by his teammates telling him to go. His failure to participate results in him being voted off once they lose.
• Manchild: Chase may be a teenager but his behavior mirrors that of a little toddler who does not fully understand compassion and selflessness. He misses the point on a lot of things such as why Emma broke up with him and what the word selfless means. Emma even called him an egotistical child.
• Meaningful Name: Chase is often trying to get back together with Emma, in other words, he chases after Emma. Also, him being a live-streamer who does stupidly dangerous stunts, dares and pranks for the views means he's a clout chaser.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Mike. Both are Ambiguously Brown teenagers who were placed 6th in their debut season, while also indirectly putting their Love Interests through a lot of emotional turmoil. However, Mike is a Nice Guy who can’t be entirely at fault due to his mental disability but he always feels guilty whenever he realizes that he has hurt Zoey. On the other hand, Chase has no such excuse for his actions yet he refuses to acknowledge that his actions have hurt Emma and is a massive Jerkass.
  • To Dave, as both are Ambiguously Brown people who spend their season trying to get with a girl resulting in disturbing behavior. Dave's arc is to try to get Sky to be his girlfriend, while Chase did have a girlfriend and is spending the entire season trying to get her back. Chase both on and off the show is a very social person and even has a livestream series with his friends, while Dave appears to be mostly The Aloner not finding most of the people in his team worth being nice to. As erratic as Dave's behavior was, he still retains some sympathy because his attitude indicates some unresolved mental health issues. Chase just keeps ruining any sympathy the audience can have by showing he was a terrible person well before his Deadly Prank.
  • To Devin. Both are oblivious Butt Monkeys who were involved in a romantic plot with a blonde girl (Carrie and Emma (2023)) whose attempts at trying to impress them are more well-meaning than cruel. However, whereas Devin, despite not being the sharpest tool in the shed, was a kind and friendly Nice Guy who put others first, Chase is instead a selfish Jerkass whose the main reason why Emma broke up with him in the first place. Likewise, Devin was oblivious to Carrie's crush on him while Chase is oblivious that Emma is clearly not interested in him.
  • To Courtney. Both are big believers in Protagonist-Centered Morality, both take Moral Myopia to the point of insanity, both are antagonists not out of any real malice but because the sheer concept of selflessness is unfathomable to them, both can be highly skilled but their egos often make them The Load, both are emotionally stunted and both were involved in an incredibly toxic on and off relationship with another player. However, the two have polar opposite personalities; Courtney is insufferably smart while Chase is insufferably stupid. Chase is calm, laid back and impulsive while Courtney is uptight, controlling and emotional. Chase seems to care more about being on TV than actually winning the money and focuses more on trying to win back Emma, while Courtney puts the money above anything else and will throw any potentially meaningful relationship under the bus to get it. All of Courtney's skills were developed through hard work and dedication, Chase is a slacker whose proficiency at stunts comes from being too dumb for fear and Courtney's ability to be Easily Forgiven is universal while Chase's is exclusive to Emma.
  • To Amy. Both are huge Jerkasses who have known a blond girl before auditioning for Total Drama (Samey for Amy; Emma for Chase) whose relationships with them have become extremely unhealthy and toxic. However, Amy has an extremely unpleasant and volatile personality and is intentionally abusive to Samey so she can always feel superior compared to her sister, while Chase never tries to hurt Emma intentionally yet refuses to acknowledge that his actions have a negative impact on his on-and-off girlfriend because he is such a idiot and narcissist personality-wise.
• Money Dumb: According to Word of God, he makes enough money off of his YouTube videos to be genuinely rich but always blows it as soon as he gets it, and would be broke if not for him creating more videos.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In the fifth episode, he leaves Zee to die to the raptor in a panic after Zee's leg gets stuck. Unlike previous instances with Emma where he doesn't get what he did wrong, he's absolutely torn up about his decision and is overjoyed when it's revealed that Zee survived, stating it's the sorriest he's ever been.
• Narcissist: Chase is extremely arrogant, selfish, and always refuses to acknowledge that he has faults. He doesn’t even know what the word "selfless" means and when Emma tells him the definition, Chase is shocked into thinking why anyone would put others before themselves.
• Never My Fault: He can't understand why Emma would be upset that he cut the brakes to her car, and never owns up to it. Nor does he own up to the fact that he should be the one paying damages to the pet store, not her. As the icing on top of the cake, he never admits to what a horrible boyfriend he was even before the prank.
• Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers for the new season made it look like he was going to be a Nice Guy or at the very least, the only sane person this season. He can be nice when he wants to such as his friendship with Ripper and Zee, but other than that, he's a major Jerkass.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: For the Ripper-Zee-Chase friendship, he is the In-Between to Zee's Nice and Ripper's Mean. He may be an extremely self-centered Narcissist with an ego as inflated as a weather balloon but he is also Innocently Insensitive and has a soft spot for his ex-girlfriend, Emma. The following season, however, has him switch with Ripper with Ripper being the In-Between and Chase being the Mean due to Ripper taking a level in kindness and being a better boyfriend to Axel whereas Chase remains a narcissist and a terrible boyfriend to Emma (to the point where she dumps him for good between seasons).
• Not Helping Your Case: Chase tries proving to Emma he's not selfish by listing off all the "selfless" acts he's done for her including donating a kidney to her uncle (A goat kidney from the butcher), painting her room yellow (With a pressure washer, without moving any furniture, while Emma was asleep in there) and naming a star after her (But registered it as "Chase's girlfriend" with the intention of changing Emma's name afterwards). He remains oblivious to how those things make him look more awful than before, even while laughing about them.
• Obliviously Evil: Chase genuinely doesn't seem to understand why his actions led to Emma breaking up with him, seeing everything he did as a big joke and not realizing how awful it was, such as not understanding why naming a star "Chase's Girlfriend" and then expecting Emma to legally get her name changed to that pissed her off so much.
• Official Couple: Dated Emma before the show. She ends up taking him back again by the end of the season much to everyone's disappointment though she breaks up with him again by the next season.
• Offscreen Breakup: Emma broke up with Chase before they both ended up on the show.
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction upon hearing Emma is also in the show and made her appearance right after him.
• The One Guy: In Island (2023) Part 2, he's the only male contestant to get eliminated before the merge.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In a rare moment of genuine kindness, when Damien tries to convince his teammates they're losing because of him in "Drown Town Abbey" so that he could be eliminated, Chase admires him in the confessional, believing he blames himself for his teammates' crappy performance, and states that there's no way he can vote for someone like that.
  • He is genuinely supportive of Wayne when rooting for him in "Soar Losers" and is happy for him when he wins.
• Pretty Boy: He's portrayed as being good-looking, having had at least one girlfriend and even being called this by Ripper.
• Pushover Parents: Implied. Chase's behavior is that of an ignorant, selfish, and reckless teenager and Chef blames Chase’s behavior on his parents, stating that someone raised Chase all wrong. This indicates that Chase’s parents failed to properly discipline Chase when he was a child.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Emma and Chase have this. Before they arrived on the island Emma broke up with Chase due to a dangerous stunt he pulled on her that he refuses to take responsibility for. She briefly gets back together with him mid-season after believing he's finally apologized but however once she learns this was a misunderstanding, she breaks up with him again. By the end of the season she's taken him back one final time due to yet another misunderstanding and they remain together until season 2, where Emma dumps him once again after learning of the misunderstanding.
• Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: While hiding inside a nest from violently aggressive cassowaries in "Severe Eggs and Pains", Chase thought this was the right time to woo Emma and split a candy bar. Fortunately for him, she mistakes his apology of accidentally dropping her half of the candy bar for cutting her car brakes which is all she needs to hear to become his girlfriend again (Until she realize the truth next episode).
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Ripper are both the Manly Men to Damien and Zee's Sensitive Guys.
• Shipping Torpedo: Pretty much everyone can see that between Chase's self-centeredness and Emma’s emotional issues and obsession with him, the two's romance is completely unhealthy and toxic and likewise only earns utter disgust and bafflement from everyone who sees it.
• Sickening Sweethearts: When he and Emma are together and emphasis on "Sickening". Makes you almost forget that Emma hated his guts for the majority of the season.
• Spoiled Brat: Heavily implied. He shows off a lot of traits for a bratty and spoiled teen such as being selfish and arrogant and wanting this to go his way. Chef believed that Chase’s parents have spoiled him at a young age.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: His friendships with Zee and Ripper and relationship troubles with Emma gets heavily focused on in the season.
• Straw Misogynist: Another one of his endearing qualities is his misogyny, which is subtly implied, but not revealed till the finale when he wants Bowie to win by virtue of being male. He is the only one disappointed, aside from Raj and Wayne (who are only sad because Raj and Bowie have a mutual attraction), that Priya won.
  • On their anniversary, Chase named a star after Emma.
    Julia: I guess that's nice?
    Emma: He named it "Chase's Girlfriend!"
    Chase: I've explained this so-ma-ny times! The plan was to legally change your name to "Chase's Girlfriend." It was a two-part gift!
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His dynamic with Emma continues in the tradition of Duncan and Courtney and Ryan and Stephanie. Although those cases became mutually antagonistic, Chase was never anything other than Innocently Insensitive.
• Take That!: He and Emma's relationship are portrayed as a satire of e-celebrity toxic couples and all the drama that comes with it. On Chase's side, he is completely oblivious to the harm he's causing Emma and unwilling to change or apologise to anyone due to his flippant "It's just a prank, bro" mentality.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza. According to Chase, it always puts him in a "coma" where he wakes up to an empty pizza box and covered in sauce. This becomes his undoing in "The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth" where the scent of pizza puts him in a trance that makes him jump off his pole and knock all the other contestants (except Emma) off theirs, knocking them out of the game and getting him eliminated.
• Unreliable Expositor: Chase comes off sympathetically during his audition tape, where he portrays himself as a decent guy still heartbroken over getting dumped, which is not helped by Emma's seeming Irrational Hatred of him. It's soon shown that the breakup was his fault for cutting the brakes on her car and not showing any remorse for almost getting her killed. Her attitude towards him, while justified, is just a sign of her hot-and-cold personality, flipping between hating and loving him despite him being nothing but an unrepentant narcissist.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Chase has an intense fear of catapult rides, being the one dare he had chickened out of in the past, which unfortunately for him was a challenge in "Launch Back of Notre Game" he couldn't sit out from. When in flight, he alternates between flailing around while screaming in terror and Fainting. This contradicts his audition tape where he's totally fine with heights and sky-diving.
• With Friends Like These...: Chase has no problem voting for Zee and Ripper in the first and second seasons despite being friends with them.

Damien

Voiced by: Daniel Keith Morrison

Label: The Reactionary

Team: Ferocious Trout, Rat Face

Placement: 12th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 6th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 5 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 10 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Although he is extremely knowledgeable and resourceful in all things scientific, Damien has no familiarity with reality TV shows and joined Total Drama on a dare from his friends. Unfortunately, none of his booksmarts, nor his sense of caution, can possibly prepare him for the madness Chris McLean has in store.

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• Audience Surrogate: To newcomers to the Total Drama franchise. He's never seen the show before and is thrown off guard at the many deadly dangers.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: While he initially campaigns for himself to get eliminated, he is able to pull through in a challenge and save his teammates, giving himself more faith in competing. In gratitude, they vote him off, not realizing that he now wants to stay.
• Betty and Veronica: Damien is the Betty to Caleb’s Veronica regarding their Ship Tease with Priya throughout both parts. Damien is an ordinary guy who’s Black and Nerdy and gets nervous a lot but befriends Priya first in Part 1, where she develops a crush on him. Caleb is a Hunk who’s very talented and is fawned over by everyone, with Priya also falling for him once he is placed on her team in Part 2. In the end, Priya chooses Caleb to be her boyfriend while Damien becomes a Shipper on Deck for the two.
• Black and Nerdy: Downplayed. He has a huge love for science but doesn't flaunt it as much as past black nerd characters such as Cameron. He's overall a very chill guy. His second season reveals him to be a fan of a Dungeons & Dragons-esque game.
• Born Lucky: Once he starts getting the hang of Total Drama, his luck really goes up as well as his confidence. He in fact manages to find the immunity idol by chance after he trips and falls.
• Butt-Monkey: He experiences a lot of pain and distress during his time on the show, which contributes to his decision to try to get eliminated.
• Celibate Hero: Damien doesn’t seem to be interested in pursuing women in the show and is currently single. While he does have Ship Tease with Priya in Part 1, it’s she who had a crush on him while Damien himself doesn’t seem to show explicit feelings for her, only flirting with her once to persuade her to vote him off.
• Characterization Marches On: In Season 1, he was a massive science buff, and had a tendency to go on overly long ramblings about the science of certain scenarios. This was dropped in Season 2, and he scarcely ever shows any more scientific knowledge than the majority of the cast.
• Cowardly Lion: While he's cowardly because he wasn't prepared for how hostile challenges on this show can be, he doesn't leave his teammates behind. In fact, in Episode 5, he saves his teammates from a raptor by causing an explosion.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: This dude has the strength and smarts to be comparable to Caleb and Bowie, his low confidence and anxieties make him seem like a lower threat level than he really is.
• Darkhorse Victory: No one In-Universe (and possibly in real life as well) expected Damien to win the first immunity challenge of his second season, especially when facing Julia and Bowie as his opponents.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Damien is black and dresses in dark clothing, but is a Nice Guy who gets along with most people.
• Death by Irony: Not literal death, but he desperately wants to get voted out in order to leave the show as he can't quit because he'd owe the producers one million dollars. Similarly to DJ in World Tour, his plan fails each time and only works once he actually wants to compete.
• Death Seeker: Once again, not literal death, but he does want to get eliminated so that he can leave the show after finding out how dangerous it is.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Despite Damien having Ship Tease with Priya throughout part 1, he ultimately doesn’t hook up with her, and she instead becomes an Official Couple with Caleb. Unlike most examples, Damien isn’t upset by this at all and instead becomes their biggest Shipper on Deck.
• Did Not Think This Through: At the start of "Jurassic Fart", Damien makes a campaign to vote himself off, being sick of how dangerous the show is. His earlier attempts to get people to vote him off mostly fell on deaf ears. However, after coming through in the challenge by saving his teammates from a raptor with an explosion, he changes his mind and actually wants to compete. The thing is, he never bothered to tell anyone about his change of mind, so as a way to thank him for saving them, his teammates vote him out that night.
• Dramatic Irony: From his audition tape, it was very obvious Damien had no idea what Total Drama has in store for him as he's only excited for that attractive million-dollar prize. His friends had taken advantage of his naivety by daring him to join the show while deliberately omitting the specifics.
  Damien: Aiyo, Aiyo it's Damien time! Now I have never heard about Total Drama before but my friends dared me to make an audition tape so if there's a million bucks up for grabs, count, me, in! How hard could it be?
• Fatal Flaw: Ultimately Damien's biggest flaw was his cowardly nature backfiring on him. In his debut season, he starts an entire campaign to get eliminated due to hating the harsh conditions of the show, and despite managing to defeat a raptor, he's still voted out as they assumed he still wanted to be voted out regardless. In the follow-up season, Damien finds the immunity idol, which he takes massive care of, and once Julia sends everyone letters that she knows they have the idol, Damien ends up becoming so paranoid that he begins to constantly change where he hides the idol before he inevitably slips up and causes Julia to find the idol, resulting in his and eventually Priya's elimination.
• Hidden Depths: He's rather knowledgeable about the digestive tract and other scientific topics, and is shown to be one of the most intelligent contestants on the island.
• History Repeats:
  • Having enough of the show, Damien campaigns to get himself voted off the island and made buttons with his face crossed out. This is exactly what Dave did in Pahkitew Island although the Callback was unintentional considering Damien has never watched the show before.
  • Wanting to get voted out but only succeeding after changing his mind is what already happened to DJ in World Tour.
  • Being unable to explain something right before the elimination because his tongue got stuck already happened to Bridgette in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better." A slightly different example where it's not because of a stuck tongue also happened to Cody in "Paintball Deer Hunter" and to Amy in "Twinning Isn't Everything." The only difference in Damien's case is that it caused Millie's elimination instead of his own.
  • Having found the immunity idol and then having it stolen from him,, leading to his elimination. Much like what happened to Heather in "OneEggspectsTheSpanishOpposition No One Eggspects the Spanish Opposition." This time, it was due to him relieving more votes than Priya and notm having the idol used against him.
• Implied Love Interest: Damien seemed to be this for Priya in Part 1. While it was never confirmed whether the two had romantic feelings for each other, it was implied that Priya had a crush on Damien, having blushed at Damien’s compliments to her, giving Damien a Dying Declaration of Love before taking it back, and smiling when Damien becomes her helper. Both "implied" and "love interest" gets Averted with Damien altogether when Caleb becomes Priya’s confirmed Love Interest in Part 2 while Damien becomes a Shipper on Deck for the two of them.
• Irony: He appears to be the biggest Shipper on Deck for Caleb and Priya, but him pointing out Caleb flirting with her to Zee is what triggers the latters Keeping Secrets Sucks plot, eventually spilling out that Caleb was supposedly merely using Priya, causing the downfall of their relationship.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Heavily Downplayed, as it was unclear whether or not Damien returned Priya’s crush on him but they did have Ship Tease throughout Part 1 and are overall close friends. Despite this, Damien is happy that Priya is able to get together with Caleb, to the point he becomes their biggest Shipper on Deck.
• Leitmotif: Damien's theme is a mix of hip-hop and techno music which reflects him as down-to-earth with a love for science.
• Like Brother and Sister: Damien seems to have these relationships with Priya and Nichelle, being their closest male friend and the person they’re fond of the most. That said, there doesn’t seem to be explicit romantic feelings between Damian and the two girls, though Damien was given Ship Tease with Priya in Part 1 before she became romantically involved with Caleb.
• Lovable Coward: He's quite cowardly due to not being prepared for the show's harsh nature, but will try his best to participate in challenges in spite of wanting to avoid them.
• Loved by All: Damien is probably the most liked in-universe of this cast. Nobody has any issues with him, Scary Girl considers him her best friend in her own twisted way, and he's implied to be Nichelle's closest friend. The only ones who have conflict with him are Ripper who bullies him in their debut season and Julia who gets into conflict with him in their second season and causes his elimination when stealing his immunity idol. He is so liked nobody takes his pleas to be voted out seriously until Priya convinces the others to eliminate him for saving their lives and Raj and Wayne are remorseful about voting him off in their second season.
• Made of Iron: Much like pretty much every contestant on the show. In his case, it's especially noticeable when he gets through sliding down the "Death Boot" slide with notable injuries that still heal up by the next episode, while 6 interns had died on the same slide.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy:
  • He serves as the feminine boy to Priya's masculine girl. He tends to be a more down-to-earth Nervous Wreck who is fully unprepared for what Total Drama has in store while Priya is more excitable and athletic in the series and prepared for everything the show has.
  • Damien became the feminine boy to Nichelle’s masculine girl in Part 2 when the latter Took a Level in Badass and placed in the same team with Damien. Nichelle is an action movie star who displays countless feats of athleticism and while Damien also Took a Level in Badass, he’s still a Nervous Wreck who screams a lot and gets scared of stuff easily.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Trent. Both are Nice Guys who have a Ship Tease with a female finalist of their debut season, where said finalists have crushes on (Gwen for Trent; Priya for Damien), until they decided to hook up with other people (Gwen with Duncan; Caleb for Priya) while their former crushes support their relationships and remain friends with them. However, Trent was confirmed to be Gwen’s First Love, who reciprocated her feelings for him and formed a romantic relationship with her that fell apart as a result of Trent’s Sanity Slippage, while Damien was a Romantic False Lead for Priya who never made it clear if he returned Priya’s crush on him and instead becomes Platonic Life-Partners with her where their relationship suffers no emotional drama as a result of Damien remaining an Only Sane Man.
  • To Dave. Both are very emotional only sane men whose names start with a D, gets nervous frequently, tends to panic and scream a lot, tried getting themselves eliminated, and have Ship Tease with a more athletic girl in their debut season (Sky for Dave; Priya for Damien), but in the end they Did Not Get the Girl. However, Dave was a Jerkass who had a massive crush on Sky to the point of obsession which ruins any relationship he had with her when he decided to hurt Sky upon discovering that she has a boyfriend. Damien the other hand is a Nice Guy who never confirmed whether he had romantic feelings for Priya or not before deciding to settle with becoming Platonic Life-Partners and the only reason why they didn't have a Relationship Upgrade was because she had a more focused romance with Caleb in the next season, while Damien becomes a Shipper on Deck for both Priya and Caleb.
• Naïve Newcomer: Out of the fourth generation (and by extension, the previous two generations), he's the only contestant with no prior knowledge of Total Drama other than it's a competition with a million-dollar cash prize so he's as clueless as the original cast was in season one. Unfortunately, that means the once-eager Damien had to experience this sadistically life-threatening show firsthand as they did.
• Nervous Wreck: Not being prepared for a show as dangerous as this one does this to people.
• Never Bareheaded: Never seen without his hat, not even when the Drone of Despair takes him by it. He's finally seen without it in the next season during "Haulin' n' Ballin".
• Nice Guy: Although he gets nervous easily, Damien is one of the nicer and friendlier contestants.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Damien’s African heritage, appearance, somewhat short stature, and high-pitched loud voice all seem to be taken from Kevin Hart. Like a lot of Hart’s characters, he is also often prone to misfortune.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In "Numbskull Island", Damien pretends he didn't see MK and claims she's gone to a jackhammer-riding Scary Girl who had been chasing her the whole time. Not only did his suggestion of going after someone else end with Scary Girl targeting him instead but when he finds a hiding spot, MK, having gained control of the shields, blows his cover.
• No One Should Survive That!: For all the injuries on the show, sliding down the "Death Boot" slide in Episode 2 of Season 2 definitely takes the cake in his case. Realistically, just the bone-crushing gears would've been enough to kill someone, as was the case for the 6 interns who had tested it.
• Odd Friendship: While he is generally neurotic and cautious about the game, two of his closest friends are Action Girls Priya and Nichelle. He is also good friends with Dumb Jocks Wayne and Raj despite them being polar opposites in nature.
• One of the Girls. Downplayed. While Damien is able to socialize and befriend guys, all of his major interactions have been with girls and he seems to prefer hanging out with them over the guys. Case in point: Priya, Millie, and Nichelle are Damien’s closest friends and is the only male to join Caleb’s team in the finale.
• Only Friend: Serves as this to Millie along with Priya after she becomes Hated by All for throwing him down the Death Boot slide that badly injures him.
• Only in It for the Money: His main motivation for coming onto Total Drama is the attractive million-dollar cash prize but soon changes his tune once he discovers what the contestants must go through to claim such a reward.
• Only Sane Man: Because he's never seen the show, he's often the only one pointing out the unnecessary danger of the challenges as everyone else seems accustomed to it.
• Opposites Attract: Damien and Priya become close friends and have much Ship Tease with each other despite (or because of) the fact that Damien is an unprepared Nervous Wreck with a love for science, while Priya is an Action Girl raised specifically to compete in reality shows. It becomes Downplayed when Priya loses her feelings for Damien after becoming romantically involved with the strong and hunky Caleb, but even then, Priya is still very fond of Damien, if only in the platonic sense, while Damien still considers Priya his closest friend.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Priya. Both Damien and Priya were in the same team twice with Priya having the closest bond with Damien amongst the boys in Part 1 to the point she gives him Dying Declaration of Love one time and picks him to be part of her team in Part 2, while Damien becomes Priya’s biggest supporter and main helper when she reaches the finale. In spite of their occasional Ship Tease, however, the two simply remain close platonic friends, with Priya developing a romance with Caleb in Part 2, while Damien supports her relationship with him and later comforts her when she becomes heartbroken.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • Up until "Jurassic Fart", Damien had been desperately trying to get himself eliminated of the show because of how dangerous it is (as contestants are no longer allowed to quit). After saving his teammates' life in said episode, Damien realizes that maybe he does have what it takes to get far in the competition. However, he doesn't think of telling his teammates that he changed his mind, and they, out of gratitude for saving their lives, choose to vote him out still believing it is what he wanted.
  • He accidentally gets his tongue stuck on his jacket when trying to lick the stick goop off him and Millie, which prevents him from telling the rest of Rat Face about Millie's apology to him and her getting eliminated as a result.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In-universe, Damien has never even heard of Total Drama, in spite of its immense popularity garnering seven whole seasons counting the reboot, until his friends dared him to audition and subsequently compete in it. In his excitement of potentially winning a million dollars, he didn't prepare or watch a single episode beforehand which gave him a really nasty surprise when he found out what the show is all about.
• Reality Show Genre Blindness: Since he had never heard of Total Drama before signing up, Damien didn't realize how dangerous this reality show would turn out to be.
• Romantic False Lead: Damien is this to Priya since they are given Ship Tease throughout Part 1, seemingly building up a possible romance arc for the future. This becomes a Red Herring when Part 2 reveals Priya’s true Love Interest to be Caleb, while Damien becomes a Shipper on Deck for the two.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Starts campaigning against himself when faced with some of the more life-threatening aspects of Total Drama. Ironically, no one wishes to grant him his request given how everyone wishes to get rid of Ripper first.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Zee are the Sensitive Guys to Chase and Ripper's Manly Men.
• Ship Tease: He had a rather subtle one with Priya in Part 1.
• Ship Sinking: Despite Priya and Damien having occasional Ship Tease in Part 1, any chance of them developing a proper romance gets destroyed in Part 2 when Priya becomes an Official Couple with Caleb in still while Damien is happy for the two hooking up.
• Shipper on Deck: Ironically, in spite of his aforementioned Ship Tease with Priya, he ends up being the biggest supporter of her and Caleb, being among the first ones to notice Caleb flirting with her and being possibly the most excited about their First Kiss. At least until he was led to believe Caleb was merely using Priya.
• Spanner in the Works: By pointing out that Caleb was flirting with Priya to Zee, Damien accidentally causes the latter to misunderstand that Caleb was using her (as Caleb had admitted to Zee that he just wanted to be in The Alliance with her before he caught genuine feelings for her). Unable to take the pressure, Zee eventually reveals what he believed was the truth to everyone, which causes a rift between the couple and makes all their initial supporters to turn against Caleb.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: His plot with the immunity idol takes up a lot of focus in Part 2.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Of DJ. Both are a Nervous Wreck, although Damien's Cowardly Lion status is more similar to DJ's portrayal in Island. Similarly to DJ in World Tour, Damien tries his best to get voted out but fails each time, only succeeding once he regains the will to compete.
  • Of Cameron. Both are Black and Nerdy with a great knowledge of science while serving as Platonic Life-Partners with an athletic Nice Girl.
• Took a Level in Badass: While in the first season where he could hold his own, it was mostly dulled down by how panicky he could get. His second time around however, while he's still jumpy, he's far more capable in challenges now, even managing to defeat fellow challenge beasts Julia and Bowie in order to win the first immunity challenge and having the second highest score in the pinball challenge. Additionally, he's shown displaying some leadership skills in the cooking challenge.
• Wheel o' Feet: Does this while trying to escape from a hungry shark during the pirate challenge.
• With Friends Like These...: In his audition tape, Damien mentions that his friends dared him to audition for Total Drama in hopes of him qualifying and competing in the show. Judging by the giggles of his friends when the camera shows them, it's likely that Damien's friends did know about the show's true nature and didn't care at all if Damien ended up hurt or killed during the competition.

Millie

Voiced by: Barbara Mamabolo

Label: The Book-Smart One

Team: Ferocious Trout, Rat Face

Placement: 3rd (TDI 2023 Part 1), 14th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 13 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 3 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

An aspiring author, Millie possesses an extremely low opinion of the present generation of teenagers and seeks to write a book about everything that is wrong with them. And while she fancies herself as above the cringeworthy behaviours of fellow teens, it is in some ways a reflection of her own insecurities.

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• Acrofatic: The heaviest girl of her generation, who in episode 1 of the second season revealed herself to be faster than most of her teammates by getting much further than other teammates in a much shorter period of time during the first challenge.
• The Alliance: Forms one with Priya she affectionately dubs "The Super Alliance". For strategic reasons, Julia, Zee and Bowie temporarily joined at different points but Bowie caused a temporary break-up by revealing her notes to Priya.
• All Take and No Give:
  • A sympathetic example. Priya carries her all the way to the finale, which she genuinely appreciates as it lets her continue her research, but her lack of challenge prowess makes her ability to reciprocate very limited despite her best efforts. Though to be fair, there’s barely any effort anyway as Millie has a habit of putting her benefit from the alliance ahead of Priya’s and causing the latter undue stress and anger, such as taking immunity in the cassowary challenge when Priya did most of the work, quitting the eating challenge before it even started, and unintentionally drinking all of their water during a very long hike before forcing Priya to LITERALLY carry her back to camp.
  • Another part of this issue is Millie is given advice by Priya for the competition, but never seems to take it seriously. With the training she failed a lot but also complained about the fact they were doing it, the aforementioned taking of immunity, her failure to collect coins for the final 4 challenge until the very end, and in the gap between the first two seasons outright refused to train in any way. This is especially notable because Priya went out of her own way to make Millie a guide, and not only did Millie not read it, she kept sneakily trying to get Priya to give her a run down instead of just admitting it.
• Arc Number: Her performances in both seasons are associated with the number Three. In season one she comes in third place and in season two, she's the third contestant eliminated. On top of that, both episodes she's eliminated in have the number three in them. Episode 13 for season one and episode 3 for season two.
• Becoming the Mask: Originally, she only allowed herself to become friends with Priya so that she could use her help and challenge skills to keep her in the competition so that she could continue her studies of the other contestants. However, as time went on, she began to form a genuine bond with Priya that made her cancel her book plans.
• Book Smart: She's well-read and interested in research, but lacks social skills, as she points out herself when describing Priya as more of a "people person" between the two of them. It's even her label.
• Character Development: She starts off as self-righteous because she feels she was born in the wrong generation, but over time with her growing friendship with Priya, she starts to become more considerate and open which leads to her ditching her plans to write a book.
• Demoted to Extra: After being one of the most prominent characters in Island (2023) Part 1, she becomes the third person eliminated in Part 2.
• Didn't Think This Through: Millie went on the show for first-hand research on the failure that is her generation but made no plans, preparation or effort to actually do the challenges, only lasting so long as she did because Priya was carrying her all the way. She also thought the best place to hide her emotionally-damaging and friendship-destroying notebook was under her pillow which Bowie promptly finds and uses against her.
• Dirty Coward: In the second episode of Season 2 the team needs four points to win and she and Damien are the last two players. Instead of braving a scary challenge for the sake of the team, she tricks a blindfolded Damien by sending him down a Death Trap that the producers deemed too dangerous by Total Drama standards to allow to be part of the competition. The rest of the team find this so horrendous even Priya won't defend her.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Once Priya finds out the truth about why she initially joined the show, Millie spends all night crying her eyes out and gains these in her sleep-deprived state from losing her friend.
• Fatal Flaw: Ultimately what Millie's biggest flaw is her inability to think things through until it's too late. In the first half, she started out by writing down several issues about the campers (Priya in particular, despite the fact that Priya was really the main reason she made it as far as she did), and while she did realize the error of her ways, it was too late as Bowie had already found out about Millie's notebook and used it to drive a wedge between the two. Then when she tries to sabotage Priya to play hero to her to gain her forgiveness, Priya is instead even more furious with her, and leaves her behind and causes her elimination. In the next season, she pushes Damien down the high-scoring but dangerous slide, which, while it gains the team the win, it causes her team (and Damien especially) to be furious at her for letting Damien take the fall for her. While she does apologize to Damien, it's ultimately for naught as Damien is unable to inform the others about this, and she winds up being eliminated early on as a result.
• Fat and Skinny: The Fat to Priya's Skinny once they formed their "Super-Alliance". ¹
• Friendless Background: She admits to Priya that she always had trouble fitting in as a child. This is why she spends all of her time "studying" teens her age and judging them for their flaws and failures; it's easier than having to think about all of her own, and Priya is the first person to make Millie feel good about herself.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Millie becomes this after she throws Damien down the dangerous four point pipe that badly injures him with only Priya and later Damien (after she apologizes to him in the following episode) still being on good terms with her, which gets her eliminated the following episode.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Priya.
• Hero with an F in Good: Millie genuinely tries to be a good person, but is quite insensitive and even a little too hard on others in her attempts to help her team. She realizes she is that after Damien gives her a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech about her being a side of the same coin as Ripper, except that Ripper was open about being a bad person, and tries to change for the better. This unfortunately is what causes her elimination in season 2, as her attempt to reconcile with the team ends with Damien physically unable to tell them about forgiving her. Likewise, she's the first person to actually show legitimate concern about how abusive Priya's parents were. Unfortunately, her approach of putting it in a tell-all book rather than telling her to her face only serves to insult her.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Millie spent most of the series secretly writing everyone's faults down in her notebook to publish as a tell-all autobiography for fame and fortune. But she eventually realize this was wrong once her friendship with Priya becomes way more important than calling out how stupid her generation is and decides to cancel her book plans for good. However, she never considered getting rid of the notebook or keeping it in a safe place that is not underneath her pillow which allowed Bowie to steal it for several episodes without her knowledge and drop it on Priya before the finale. Thus, her notes directly led to her elimination at the final three and almost cost her friendship with Priya.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Though Millie acts rather above everyone else and sees no issue in documenting all of their flaws and mistakes for money, she admits that deep down she actually hates a lot about herself and finds it easier to convince herself that she’s better than everyone else her age than to admit she wasn’t able to fit in with them all.
• Innocently Insensitive: Due to her Friendless Background, she never realizes how what she's doing affects others. While she does bring up valid points about Priya's Abusive Parents, she never thinks Priya might actually still care about them and doesn't want that information to be sold to the public. When Priya offers her immunity despite doing most of the work herself, she gladly takes it, thinking Priya is just being generous. During their hike, she drinks all the water for herself, as she didn't realize Priya had brought only one bottle for both of them.
• In-Series Nickname: She alongside Priya are known as "The Nerds" as coined by Ripper. They eventually start calling themselves as such.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Downplayed. She is not a huge jerk and Jerkass is a little harsh, as she means well and does genuinely care about Priya despite initially using her for her tell-all book, but she is entirely correct in her assessment of how toxic Priya's parents are.
• Lack of Empathy: Millie’s biggest flaw is her inability to consider other’s feelings in different matters, whether it be by seeing no issues with embarrassing her fellow contestants in a tell-all book or by ignoring the All Take and No Give nature of her alliance with Priya. Thankfully, she starts to grow out of this and realizes what a jerk she's been to everyone by the end of the season and decides to cancel her book.
• The Load: To Priya after the merge, falling behind on parts of challenges and having the hypercompetent Priya carry her through all of it (And at one point, quite literally too). Both Julia and Bowie even wanted to take Millie to the finals over Priya since she's pretty much useless on her own and therefore an easy picking.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Cody as a fellow third-placer who got far in the competition solely because of heavily relying on an over-enthusiastic, hyper-competent Total Drama fanatic (Priya for Millie and Sierra for Cody) for challenges, while also being literally carried by them at one point, and was considered The Load by many. However, Cody was still able to pull his own weight in winning several challenges without any aid whereas Millie has no outstanding talent in the competition with her only immunity win being because Priya gave it to her even though she did all the work which was lampshaded by Bowie who prefers her to be the finalist merely because of how bad she is.
  • To Zoey, a sheltered Girly Girl who had trouble making friends before auditioning in Total Drama, placed 3rd in her debut season and is voiced by Barbara Mamabolo. However, Zoey proved herself to be very athletic and capable of winning challenges on her own, while Millie proved herself to be The Load, whose only win in an individual immunity challenge is a result of Priya doing most of the work for her.
  • To Courtney, both started off as very haughty players who looked down on others to spite frequently relying on them to carry her through challenges and had trouble had trouble empathizing with people. However both changed in very different ways, Courtney became a much better contestant in later seasons becoming one of the highest performing people on the show and frequently finishing close to first. But doubled down on her haughtiness and lack of empathy to the point of alienating everyone and losing her grip on reality. Millie continued to perform terribly in challenges and still displayed occasional selfishness, but learned to stop looking down on others and appreciate her friends more.
• Morality Chain: She serves as this towards Priya. In part 1, Priya was one of the nicest characters of the season, but loses it after the Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure. After Millie's early elimination in Season 1, Priya's lovestruck and overly competitive nature take up the mantle of part 2 resulting in her being emotionally and verbally abusive towards Caleb.
• Not Helping Your Case: After her notes are exposed and she loses Priya’s friendship after the latter calls her out on them, her big idea to fix things is to listen to Ripper’s suggestion and sabotage Priya’s raft in the second to final challenge and "save" her by having her hop onto her raft to manipulate Priya into forgiving her.
• The Not-Love Interest: She's one for Priya. While Priya has Ship Tease with Damien, the latter gets eliminated quite early before it could amount to anything impactful. Instead, it's Priya's friendship with Millie that serves as the most important relationship for Priya as well as the most important relationship for Millie.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: She remains heavily despised by everyone in her team (except for Priya and eventually Damien) after she pushes Damien down the deadly Death Boot slide in "Taking It to the Rim Reaper". Even after Damien tries and fails to vouch for her due to being unable to speak, the rest of the team straight up refuses to forgive her and votes her out.
• Only Sane Woman: Serves as this to Priya in their friendship, acting disturbed by Priya's challenging habits (courtesy of her parents) - though Damien fills this role more.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Towards the end of the season, Priya finds out that Millie has been taking notes about her life and is planning to write a book about the negative qualities of all the contestants, not knowing that Millie has since given up writing the book after becoming friends with her. They make up in the final episode of the season. Justified, however, since Millie’s original goal when signing up for the season was to write said book. It was bound to blow up on her eventually.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "The Wheel of Vomit", she walks off from the challenge and refuses to participate (causing her to be in the bottom two).
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl (a sheltered girl who wears pink, a stereotypical girly color) to Priya's Tomboy (an athlete who wears blue).
• Took a Level in Badass: Millie gradually becomes more capable over the course of the series. Priya was largely carrying her through many challenges, and she even quit the gross eating challenge without trying. In the penultimate challenge, she takes a dangerous trek down a cave to get the remaining coins, knowing full well they aren't enough to win, and bravely fights a sea monster. While she still ends up needing Priya's help, she puts in a much more valiant effort than previously in the season.
  • Additionally, Millie saves Priya multiple times when she's endangered by an alligator and a bear in Episode 11. She goes as far as wrestling the former, impressively defeating it with a friendship bracelet to the snout, and outsmarting the latter at the cost of her phone.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While she starts off as judgmental towards other people her age and only uses Priya's friendship to help her research, she later develops a genuine bond with Priya that makes her realize her own flawed actions, canceling the plan for her book in the process.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: She initially sees herself as this compared to her peers, and plans on writing a book about the idiotic things the other contestants do. After forming a friendship with Priya, Millie realizes that judging other people the way she does is wrong and condescending, and decides to abandon her research and cancel her book plans.

Priya

Voiced by: Eman Ayaz

Label: The Novice of Everything

Team: Ferocious Trout, Rat Face

Placement: 1st (TDI 2023 Part 1), 4th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: N/A (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 12 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

The daughter of two Total Drama superfans, Priya is a chirpy and sweet-natured girl who has been training for the show from the literal moment she was born. While she is deeply familiar with the show's workings and determined to win the game, she really wishes deep down that she could have a much more normal life.

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• Abusive Parents: Her parents have forced her to train to qualify for a potential Total Drama reboot since the moment she was born literally. As she grew up, Priya was forced to undergo harsh training that involved climbing a wall to escape from a feral bear, fighting with jousting sticks, being catapulted in a catapult camp and being abandoned in a forest for a month without food or water, and even even after winning, they won’t let her have access to the money until she’s older. Despite all that, Priya loves them and gets mad at Millie for writing negatively about them in her notebook.
• Action Girl: Hard to say if she’s the MOST badass with people like Axel and Scary Girl around, but she’s clearly got the skills for Total Drama. And those skills take her all the way to the finale.
• Achievements in Ignorance: While picking her team during Season 2 and with only Ripper and Nichelle remaining, she picks the latter purely out of spite since the former used her as a human shield the previous season. This ends up being quite beneficial for her team, since Nichelle manages to make a huge leap during the last race against Bowie in the first challenge, successfully giving the Rat Faces their first victory.
• Affectionate Nickname: During Season 2, Caleb constantly refers to her as "champ".
• The Alliance: She and Millie form one that the latter affectionately dubs "The Super Alliance".
• All-Loving Hero: Priya qualifies. While Priya does hold some animosity towards other such as Bowie, Julia, Ripper, and at one point Millie and Caleb, she eventually came to forgive them (except for Julia and Ripper) for their actions towards her out of compassion and kindness.
• Arc Hero: She and Bowie are the only ones who can keep up with Julia after she takes a level in badass so she gradually becomes the Token Good Teammate of the finalists near the end of the first reboot season. In the end she's the one who wins the final 4 challenge against Julia so they can vote her off.
• Arch-Enemy: She gains two of them. One in each season.
  • In the 2023 reboot, Ripper becomes her enemy after she uses her as a Human Shield and decides to use Millie's pillow to cover up his farts.
  • In the 2024 reboot, Julia is her enemy after she starts manipulating Caleb to make it further through the game and it gets more personal when she causes her elimination.
• Armour-Piercing Question: Unknowingly in her dehydrated state, Priya asks Millie why she's really on the show given how she has no strategy to win, isn't athletic, doesn't try to put in any effort for challenges and is uninterested in the competition overall to the point of being carried by Priya the whole time. This made Millie finally realize that maybe secretly judging and writing everyone's flaws down to publish as an exploitative analysis book is a terrible idea and what it reflects on her as a person.
• Audience Surrogate: She is this to the longtime fans of the show, as she is excessively prepared for the insane challenges that Chris provides and Genre Savvy to know what to expect, based on his history and facial expressions.
• Badass Adorable: Priya is very cute, petite, excitable, and Endearingly Dorky. She also happens to be one of the most athletic, prepared and skilled contestants to ever compete in the show.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: She was resentful of having to carry Millie throughout Season 1, despite genuinely liking her friendship. In Season 2, Caleb frequently carries her through challenges and is the reason she won the pinball invincibility challenge.
• Berserk Button: Don't ever speak rudely about anyone she cares about.
  • She gets furious at Chase for insulting Millie and questioning if their friendship is even genuine.
  • At the end of Season 1, she almost ends her friendship with Millie upon discovering she spoke poorly about her family in her book.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While generally one of the nicer contestants of the fourth generation, Priya can be pretty scary once she is pushed too far. This is particularly evident in her second season where she becomes enraged with Caleb anytime she thinks he is betraying her and yelling at Caleb to crush Julia as revenge for causing her elimination.
• Blue Boy, Pink Girl: Inverted regarding Caleb and Priya. Priya is the blue girl since she wears a blue ensemble, while Caleb is the pink boy since he wears a pink colored shirt.
• Blue Is Heroic: Priya wears an all-blue ensemble with accessories (Minus her yellow shoes) and is an incredibly strong yet kind-hearted competitor. She is also the first canonical winner of Total Drama and in her generation.
• Breaking Old Trends: Due to her debut season doing away with the tradition of having alternate endings with a different winner, she is the first-ever definitive winner of a season.
• Break the Cutie: She runs off in tears when Zee reveals in "Haulin N Balling" that Caleb didn't (originally) like her, but acted like it to form an alliance with her, and she's completely silent and despondent come the elimination ceremony.
• Celibate Hero: Having been raised from birth to win Total Drama, Priya is hyperfocused on attaining this goal and doesn't try to get into romantic relationships, only really having a brief Ship Tease with Damien during Season 1. This no longer applies in season 2 since, while she's still in it to win it, her budding romance with Caleb forms one of the most important plot threads in the season.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: To previous Ascended Fangirls, Sierra and Zoey. Like them, she's a positive and athletic contestant and in Sierra's case, is energetic to a fault. However, while Sierra and Zoey were genuine fans of the show and ecstatic to be there, Priya isn't really a fan and was forced into it by her Pushy Stage Parents.
• Crazy-Prepared: She's prepared for numerous challenges due to her parents training her for them since infancy.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Parodied. As the Ferocious Trout struggle to fend off the velociraptor in "Jurassic Fart", Priya blurts out one to Damien who is more confused than anything but then clarifies she didn't really mean it. However, this declaration may not be entirely out of nowhere given their subtle Ship Tease earlier in the episode.
  Priya: Damien, you're the love of my life!
  Damien: [scared and confused] I AM?!
  Priya: No, I just wanted to say that to someone before I die!
• Fangirl: Though the first season implied her parents were the Total Drama fans and she was never really fond of it, in Season 2 she has a few of these moments such as being giddy when she sees that Owen will be one of the judges for the cake making contest. She's also just as much of a fan of Nichelle during Season 1, even squeeing in delight upon seeing her despite her attempts to stay calm.
• Fatal Flaw: Ultimately Priya's flaw is putting others before herself. In the first half, despite winning, Priya often failed to win challenges due to having to carry Millie through much of the competition, with one such example coming as the result of Millie using up all the water and leaving Priya too exhausted to have a chance at winning. In the follow-up season, her crush on Caleb resulted in her making far more blunders in challenges and becoming far less aware of Julia's more manipulative schemes, resulting in a wedge being driven between her and Caleb and eventually, her elimination.
• Fat and Skinny: The Skinny to Millie's Fat once they formed their "Super-Alliance".
• Fire-Forged Friends: She has this dynamic with Scary Girl. At first, she's too scared to talk to her and accidentally makes comments to piss her off (with Zee stepping in and only making things worse). It's not until their mutual dislike towards Ripper for using Priya as a Human Shield that Scary Girl accepts her as a "friend" while Priya is still processing this sudden "friendship".
• First Kiss: A part of her relationship plot with Caleb is not only both experiencing her first kiss, but also Priya trying to make their first kiss as perfect as possible, which becomes a major Running Gag in "Haulin' n' Ballin'."
• Genki Girl: Priya's easily excitable and full of energy.
• Genre Savvy: She knows a lot about typical Total Drama challenges and reality TV relationships in general.
• Goal in Life: Unlike her parents who want her to compete in a Total Drama reboot and then the whole reality TV circuit, her real and personal goal is to go to med school.
• Going Commando: Seems to be so, at least in Off the Hook! from season 2. When given a wedgie, courtesy of Julia, her pants are taken high enough to see Priya's butt from the side, but no underwear can be seen.
• Good Counterpart: Becomes one to Stephanie in Season Two. Both were athletic and highly competative Action Girl's competing with a level headed Gentle Giant they had an on and off relationship with. However Stephanie's Competition Freak nature was so strong she became abrasive and abusive towards Ryan and was responsible for all faults in their relationship. Priya was a kind All-Loving Hero and the issues in her relationship with Caleb only came about due to misunderstandings, poor communication and outside intervention.
• Hartman Hips: A mild example, Priya's hips are slightly wider than her bust or waistline.
• Has a Type: Priya seems to be into black people who are also intelligent and very kind. This is first shown in Part 1, where she has a crush on Damien before falling for Gentle Giant Caleb in Part 2.
• Heroic BSoD: She suffers one big time when she discovers her crush Caleb was just using her for an alliance (during that time) when she thought they were a genuine couple thanks to Zee spilling the truth.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Millie.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: As part of her lifelong Total Drama training, starting with being born off the side of a mountain to bungee jump with her umbilical cord. Needless to say, someone should have probably called child services on her parents a long time ago.
• Hidden Depths: Priya comes across as someone who was born and raised to win Total Drama, but she actually wants to go to medical school.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Priya is the Tiny Girl to Caleb's Huge Guy with the former being the second shortest female contestant while Caleb is the tallest of the fourth-generation contestants competing.
• Human Shield: Unwittingly used as one by Ripper in "Numbskull Island", taking a fire hose, plungers and even a large boulder to the face. She still holds a grudge over it by season 2, picking Nichelle over Ripper purely because of that.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Her parents brought her up to compete in Total Drama and the Whole reality TV circuit, but she however would rather have a normal life like everyone else and go to medical school instead.
• In-Series Nickname: She alongside Priya are known as "The Nerds" as coined by Ripper. They eventually start calling themselves as such.
• Irony: She spends the majority of the first season trying to get Ripper eliminated. However, the one time she didn't vote for him is when he's finally eliminated.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She is arguably the most physically and mentally prepared contestant in the entire series. Doesn't stop her from fangirling when she meets the famous actress Nichelle Ladonna in person, or when she meets Owen in Season 2.
• The Leader: She becomes the leader of the Rat Faces in the second season by default, given that she was the champion of the previous season.
• Love Makes You Dumb: She becomes a lot less savvy and focused after falling for Caleb and frequently makes critical blunders in challenges or even needs Caleb to literally carry her.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy:
  • She serves as the masculine girl to Damien's feminine boy. She tends to be excitable and athletic in the series and prepared for everything the show has while Damien is a more down-to-earth Nervous Wreck who is fully unprepared for what Total Drama has in store.
  • Downplayed regarding Priya and Caleb. While Caleb is just as athletic as Priya as well as being much stronger and larger than her, he’s also more sensitive and calmer than her, while Priya is much more competitive and aggressive than him.
• Mirror Character:
  • She's essentially a Composite Character of the two previous female finalists Zoey and Sky. She's shy and naïve like Zoey, competitive like Sky and shares her belief that Love Is a Weakness. She possesses both girls' athleticism and collection of odd but useful skills.
  • To Sanders. Both were meek and mild-mannered girls who made it to the end of the season with a partner who constantly took advantage of them, competing against a flamboyant, athletic Magnificent Bastard and an Alpha Bitch with Super-Strength and rage issues. However Sanders partner was rude and abrasive while Millie was Innocently Insensitive and only took advantage of her because she never expressed her feelings to her. Both Grew a Spine at the end of the season but while Sanders and MacArthur went to the finale as a more functional partnership against a pair of Nice Guy's, Priya only made up with Millie after her elimination and had to face Bowie in the finale alone.
• Never My Fault: The first strain in her friendship with Millie comes in "Severe Eggs and Pains" when Priya is upset that Millie takes immunity for herself despite Priya doing the majority of the work. However, Millie said that Priya should be the one to take immunity but Priya, in turn, said that she wanted Millie to take it. While Priya seemed to be expecting Millie to insist further for Priya to take the win, Millie had no way of knowing that.
• Nice Girl: She's one of the most moral characters in the cast, even if she tends to be aggressive and brutal.
• Official Couple: Priya becomes this with Caleb by the end of Part 2.
• Oh, Crap!: She has this reaction in "The Wheel of Vomit" when Millie is in the bottom two with Ripper. She says she voted for her just to scare her but was not anticipating almost causing her elimination.
• Only Friend: Becomes this to Millie after she becomes Hated by All for throwing Damien down the four point pipe that badly injures him.
• Opposites Attract: Damien and Priya become close friends and have much Ship Tease with each other despite (or because of) the fact that Damien is an unprepared Nervous Wreck with a love for science, while Priya is an Action Girl raised specifically to compete in reality shows. It becomes Downplayed when Priya loses her feelings for Damien after becoming romantically involved with the strong and hunky Caleb, but even then, Priya is still very fond of Damien, if only in the platonic sense, while Damien still considers Priya his closest friend.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: Priya tells Damien she's the love of his life in "Jurassic Fart" simply because she wanted to say that phrase before dying. That said, there was subtle Ship Tease beforehand.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Damien. Both Damien and Priya were in the same team twice, with Priya having the closest bond with Damien amongst the boys in Part 1 to the point she gives him a Dying Declaration of Love and picks him to be part of her team in Part 2, while Damien becomes Priya’s biggest supporter and main helper when she reaches the finale. In spite of their occasional Ship Tease, however, the two simply remain close platonic friends, with Priya developing a romance with Caleb in Part 2, while Damien supports her relationship with him and later comforts her when she becomes heartbroken.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Towards the end of the season Priya finds out that Millie has been taking notes about her life and is planning to write a book about the negative qualities of all the contestants, not knowing that Millie has since given up on writing the book after becoming genuine friends with her. They make up in the final episode of the season.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted regarding Caleb and Priya. Caleb wears a reddish-pinkish shirt and is the stronger of the pair, but he is far more calmer than she is. Meanwhile, Priya wears a fully blue wardrobe, save for the yellow shoes, and is smaller than he is, but is the more hotheaded one within the pair.
• Riches to Rags: Subverted. With Priya coming back for season 2 and the tendency of Total Drama winners to not get to keep the prize money, it's easy to assume this Is also the case for her. In reality, she still has the money; her parents are just putting it away until she's forty and her only other option is work at the Weenie Wagon over the summer.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When picking teams in season 2, she picks Nichelle over Ripper purely because she hated the latter for using her as a Human Shield the previous season. It turns out that Nichelle was a better pick than Ripper for more reasons than just that as she took a Took a Level in Badass between seasons and won the challenge for Priya's team.
• Ship Tease:
  • Has a rather subtle one with Damien.
  • In season 2, she's got a more focused-on one with Caleb, whom she's got a major crush on and who eventually returns her feelings.
• Ship Sinking: Despite Priya and Damien having occasional Ship Tease in Part 1, any chance of them developing a proper romance gets destroyed in Part 2 when Priya becomes an Official Couple with Caleb in still while Damien is happy for the two hooking up.
• Shipper on Deck: It's revealed that she was this for Duncan and Courtney when she used to be a Total Drama follower herself and was disappointed at their relationship not having worked out long-term.
• Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: From season 2 onwards, she's become so infatuated by Caleb that she's completely zoned out to everything else. Millie even lampshades this in Episode 2.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: One reason why Priya had a crush on Damien in Part 1 is because Damien is a very Nice Guy. It’s the same reason she falls in love with Caleb in Part 2 (aside from his good looks and muscular physique): she discovers how kind-hearted and gentle he really is.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: She gets a huge crush on Caleb during season 2, practically melting every time they interact, which makes Zee revealing he originally didn't like her but was using her for an alliance hit all the harder.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Her friendship with Millie and rivalry with Ripper has received a decent amount of focus. Then during Part 2, her crush on Caleb receives a majority of the focus.
• Stage Mom: Her parents raised her with the sole purpose of making her a contestant of Total Drama one day, and discouraged her interest in going to med school because it would interfere with her training.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Sky: Both are short and athletic Nice Girls yet have a competitive side, and are able to make it all the way to the finale of their respective debut seasons.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • The Tomboy (an athlete who wears blue) to Millie's Girly Girl (a sheltered girl who wears pink, a stereotypical girly color).
  • For the final two girls in 2024, she's the athletic Tomboy to Julia's shallow Girly Girl.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: A Downplayed example but in part 2 of the reboot, she's become a lot less Genre Savvy and more prone to making mistakes thanks to her crush on Caleb becoming a distraction. This ends up costing her when she becomes an easy picking for Julia, leading to her elimination.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After getting with Caleb, she becomes failure intolerant and shows signs of an entitlement complex. She showed a few Jerkass moments in part 1, but they were few, far between, in stressful moments, and met with sincere remorse. In part 2 she shows hostility towards Caleb when she's not moronically lovestruck towards him and goes on verbal tirades against him for minor slights.
• Trophy Room: Priya's audition tape has her looking into a shiny gold trophy before turning around and revealing the dozens of trophies she won over the years for this moment.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Priya's parents have trained her since infancy to go on the reality show circuit. Priya herself wants to go to medical school.
• Wedgie: She's on the receiving end of one in Off the Hook! Seemingly without any underpants, no less.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: In spite of her Hilariously Abusive Childhood and Training from Hell to become the perfect contestant on Total Drama, she cares for her parents fiercely and wants nothing more than to make them proud when she wins the million. Evidently when she finds out about Millie's notebook, Priya is beyond furious over all the horrible but true things she wrote about her family.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's terrified of thunder and lightning.
• Woman Scorned: She is so broken up by believing Caleb was just using her thanks to Zee's Loose Lips, the she doesn't even want to talk to or look at him anymore. She then has a similar angry reaction when she finds out Caleb agreed to vote for whoever Julia wants and when he has trouble deciding whether to be on her side or keep his word to Julia. After this couple of falling outs, it takes until the finale that they are able to reconcile and become a couple again.
• The Worf Effect: While Priya is the strongest and most prepared contestant in the season, she ended up failing two challenges very quickly and poorly in one:
  • In "Pirates of the Cabbagean", she gets knocked out early on by a cabbage cannonball in the pirate challenge and laments how she even trained for this contingency with melons but concludes cabbages must be faster than the fruit.
  • In "Numbskull Island", she's doing well right until MK finds and manipulates Priya's only defense by pure chance. She's thoroughly defeated and reduced to a Human Shield by her own teammate.
  • In "The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth", she was severely dehydrated and tired from carrying Millie down the cliff after she drank all the water. The eventual sunstroke and Hallucinations resulted in her underperforming and becoming second-out for the pole balancing challenge.
  • In "The Pink Painter Strikes Again", She gets knocked out very quickly in the very first round after watching Millie become the first one out and runs to help her, even when Emma tells her to stop.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: After finding out about Millie's notebook, she spends the next episode acting irrationally furious and deadly, mostly focusing on the challenge and shutting out Millie.

Ripper

Voiced by: Fred Kennedy

Label: The Bad Boy

Team: Ferocious Trout, Skunk Butt

Placement: 8th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 9th^*(Quit) (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 8 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 7 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Ripper fancies himself as a model of true masculinity in an age of sensitivity and softness. In reality however, he's little more than a crude, abrasive, obnoxious, and aggressive bully whose rude manners, crass behaviour, and general immaturity repulse nearly everyone he meets (especially women).

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• Abhorrent Admirer: When Axel finds out he has a crush on her, she looks furious. She's also rather annoyed by him when they get their butts stuck together during the sap challenge, and when Ripper outright confesses to her and tries to ask her out in the fourth episode, she quickly but nonchalantly turns him down. However, after he learns of her interest in poetry, he is able to charm her over by writing her a heartfelt (in his own Ripper-ish way) love poem.
• Abusive Parents: Implied as his comments about his parents make it clear that his mother feels his birth was a mistake and his father dropped him and his siblings when they were just babies.
• Amazon Chaser: He developed romantic feelings for Axel.
• Arch-Enemy: He has made a total of three while on the show.
  • His first is Axel where they instantly form an unfriendly rivalry against each other. The thing that gets Axel eliminated from the show was her getting fed up with him and kicking him out of the challenge before it even starts. by the time the second season of the reboot arrives, this rivalry turns into a crush.
  • Priya and Millie are his second and third. The girls spend the majority of the season trying to get him eliminated from the competition. It becomes more personal once he uses Priya as a human shield and uses Millie's pillow to block his farts.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: He showed no remorse over throwing egg containing a baby bird to the ground and is only concerned that this costed him the challenge.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Axel. While he and Axel were at each other’s throats in several challenges, it took Ripper a while to realize his actual feelings for Axel.
• Beta Couple: With Axel in Season Two, their relationship mostly exists for the purposes of comic relief to contrast the more dramatic relationships of Priya and Caleb and Bowie and Raj.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Ripper is the Big to Zee's Thin and Chase's Short.
• Birds of a Feather: He and Axel are both abrasive, competitive, ill-mannered and kinda off. But they both have a sensitive side that revealed itself throughout Season Two.
• Big "NO!": When Axel is eliminated.
• The Bully: He doesn't hesitate to mock teammates he thinks are "nerds".
• Chained Heat: He spends a majority of the Sticky Sap challenge in season 2 stuck to Axel by their butts when he gets scared and crashes into her..
• Contrasting Replacement Character: Unlike previous male bullies Duncan and Scott, the former of whom was Brilliant, but Lazy and always chose to be The Lancer even when he was more qualified to lead than the person who ends up taking the role and the latter who actively sabotaged his own team. Ripper is a Control Freak who insists on being The Leader and forcefully shuts down teammates smarter than himself.
• Death by Irony: The only reason he wasn't the first member of his team eliminated was in Season One because Axel was considered Too Powerful to Live, in Season Two they make the same decision and he insists on leaving with her.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: A minor example. Ripper used to wear a green and yellow-striped polo before immediately ripping it off to flex his pasty "muscles" as soon as he got on the island. Since he didn't bring any luggage, the production team gave him a white-sleeved, blue button-up as a replacement shirt and a chain necklace for the rest of the series.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Has no problem farting whenever he wants, but he knows not to disrupt funerals and weddings with them. He goes as far as to block his butt with a pillow just to prevent himself from passing gas during those times.
  • He gets pretty annoyed at Julia for smacking Bowie with his burrito saying it's uncool to hit a guy with their own burrito.
  • He glares at Wayne for laughing at Julia for not making it inside the basket.
  • Even he has lost his patience with Chase’s narcissism by part 2 and votes him off when it causes their team to lose a challenge.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's confused as to why everyone got so upset over him throwing a baby bird on the ground, saying that he was dropped all the time as a kid and turned out fine.
• Evil Counterpart: Similarly to Sugar before him, Ripper is this to Owen. Both are teenage boys with rotund builds that fart a lot. Unlike Owen who was a nice guy who got along with everyone, Ripper is a huge jerkass to everyone he comes in contact with. Fred Kennedy's voice performance as him even sounds like a ruder version of Owen too. When Owen comes in as a guest judge, they don't interact much BUT Owen really likes the cake made with Ripper's pit stains.
• Fan Disservice: He rips his pants in the first challenge, revealing his naked, yet censored butt, much to the disgust of everyone in sight. Two episodes later, Chris reveals that he ended up getting a lot of angry letters over it, as well as envelopes full of barf from disgusted fans. The following season also has him in a speedo and later completely naked while covered in butter.
• Fat Bastard: Overweight and not a nice person in the slightest.
• Fat Best Friend: To Chase and Zee in season 1 and to Wayne and Raj in season 2.
• Fat Idiot: Overweight and acts very dense and immaturely for a 16-year-old boy, even eating a marshmallow that he farted on at one point.
• Flanderization: While Season 2 started off well for him, exploring a kinder side of him, he became reduced to being Make-Out Kids with Axel by the time the merge hits.
• Freudian Excuse: It's implied repeatedly that both his parents were horrendous role models, possibly explaining his personality and need for attention.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Ripper's bad habits have led to everyone hating him. The only exceptions are Chase and Zee, with season 2 also adding Axel for Ship Tease and generally getting alone fine with Raj and Wayne.
• Gasshole: His lifelong dream is to break the longest fart record. He actually manages to tie the record in one episode which contributes towards his team losing the challenge.
• Hated by All: As a result of being a Jerkass with Toilet Humor, the rest of the campers on his team and the opposing team show him nothing but contempt and hate; even resident Token Evil Teammate Scary Girl is disgusted by his behavior. Downplayed since he's shown to get along with Chase, Zee, and eventually Axel, Raj, and Wayne in the following season.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite his blatant stupidity, Ripper is a surprisingly quick thinker when it comes to unorthodox ways to win challenges, such as using Priya as a Human Shield to storm the Frogs' base in the skull stealing challenge, using a pillow to silence his farts in the velociraptor challenge, or suggesting Zee to put a cassowary costume to steal their eggs. It's just that his social game blatantly sucks.
  • Ripper is familiar enough with women's sports to recognize that Chef's grandma is Axe Hatchet, a famed baseball player widely recognized as one of the best pitchers in the Women's Baseball League.
  • He's also got some surprisingly good skills when it comes to writing poetry, at least in his own Ripper-ish way, as he was able to write his own unique love poem to Axel to finally win her over and score a kiss from her in "Choosin' for a Bruisin'
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Implied. He mentions his mother always said that babies were a mistake and that his father dropped him and his three brothers, though "two of [them] turned out fine!"
• Insufferable Imbecile: He's an obnoxious and boorish jerk but also too dense and immature to be a threat.
• It's All About Me: In his audition tape, he blatantly admits he doesn't care about anyone. He grows out of this behavior in season 2.
• Jerkass: He's immature, he's cruel and he's mean in every way.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As awful as he can act sometimes, there are times when it's justified.
  • He correctly blames Axel for costing their team the challenge. While he was being a jerk, costing themselves a player just to spite him was incredibly short-sighted.
  • Using Priya as a Human Shield was disrespectful to her, but it did work, and it was actually Scary Girl's fault they lost the challenge.
  • In the finale, while his idea for helping Millie and Priya make up is morally questionable to begin with, Millie willingly agreed to it and when she tried to blame him, he made a good point that he couldn't know the "lake" Chris had mentioned would consist of lava instead of water.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Becomes this in season 2 where while he is still crass, he develops a soft spot for Axel and is more civil to his teammates than the previous season.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: He's a Jerkass who's often prone to falling victim to slapstick.
• Keep Away: He attempts to do this with Damien after snatching Millie's notebook in the second episode. Unfortunately for him, Damien chooses not to play along.
• Large and in Charge: As the biggest person on his team and a self-proclaimed "Alpha Male", he attempts to be The Leader of the Ferocious Trout but is proven ineffective in all aspects due to his poor challenge performance both physically and strategically and even more terrible reputation, especially on how he treats the more capable girls as weaklings. As such he gets upstaged by Axel and then later Priya although that doesn't stop him from complaining. He grows out of this in the following season where he is more accepting of Bowie's leadership and is easier to cooperate with in challenges.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In season two he seems to have gone from being The Bully to the main target of Axel's bullying.
• Makeout Kids: With Axel after they get together.
• Manchild: He acts very immaturely for a teenager, being an Insufferable Imbecile to an absurd degree, love for Toilet Humor, and just acting like a schoolyard bully most of the time.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Downplayed regarding Ripper and Axel. While Ripper is just as masculine as Axel, he Took a Level in Kindness in the second season and has shown himself as more emotional, bashful, and sensitive in their relationship, while Axel is still as aggressive and stoic despite also taking a level in kindness.
• Meaningful Name: Named "Ripper" for ripping farts. And his first shirt. And then his pants.
• Mirror Character: To Owen. Both are the largest members of their team known for their gas. But while Owen was a guy everyone got along with, Ripper is a jerk who repulses everyone away from him.
• Naked People Are Funny: He's the most frequently naked character of his generation and it's always used as a slapstick. Axel seems to agree.

  Axel: Heh. That naked guy is funny.

• Never My Fault: He tends not to take responsibility for his actions and blames his team's losses on others. Downplayed though, as he did have a valid point when it came to Axel and Scary Girl.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: For the Ripper-Zee-Chase friendship, he is the Mean to Zee's Nice and Chase's In-Between, being a rude and immature Jerkass with Toilet Humor, though the following season has him, together with Chase and Bowie, as the In-Between to Raj and Wayne's Nice, and Julia, MK, and Scary Girl's Mean, due to having mellowed out and forming a healthy relationship with Axel.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: In "Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral," after Axel is voted off he can't bear to be without her and hitches a ride on the Drone of Despair with her. They both sink, but Chris counts it as a double elimination and no one presses the issue.
• Once a Season: He'll do something disgusting to his Marshmallow before eating it which grosses out a female contestant.
  • Season 1, he "roasts" his Marshmallow by farting on it then eating it which grosses out Millie.
  • Season 2, he rubs it on his buttered-up body before eating it which grosses out Julia.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: His act of using Priya as a Human Shield is brought up many times in the reboot's second season, by Damien, Zee, and Priya herself.
• Plot Armor: Keeps surviving elimination despite being on the chopping block every time his team loses, even when he contributes to it such as in "Jurassic Fart".
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Befitting his Alpha Male persona, one of his more noticeable traits is his belief women are weak and should just leave things to the guys. He grows out of this in season 2 where he is more respectful to women, especially Axel.
• Pooping Where You Shouldn't: He has a criminal record because he pooped in someone else's purse on a bus.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: While he is a nicer person in season 2, he has no problem enabling and helping MK and Julia cheat in challenges.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Chase are the Manly Men to Damien and Zee's Sensitive Guy.
• Spear Counterpart: Turn Sugar into a male and get rid of her Deep South accent and you've created Ripper.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Downplayed but his Odd Friendship with Chase and Zee and his rivalry with Priya both received a decent amount of focus in the first half of season 1 as well as his Ship Tease with Axel in the first half of season 2. As well as him stealing the show with gross-out gags in a manner similar to Owen and Sugar.

  Ripper: Yeah! More Ripper screentime for the lucky viewers!

• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Sugar, as both come off as Evil Counterparts of Owen, treating those around them very poorly and having a tendency to fart a lot.
  • In Season 2 he becomes one to Scott in All-Stars and Rodney as he spends all his screen time that season making a fool of himself trying to win the affections of Axel.
• Tan Lines: His face, neck, legs, and hands are tan, while his abdomen and arms are pale.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He considers himself a "real man," but his self-imposed qualifications for such are comically immature and out-of-touch with reality.
• Token White: After Scary Girl's elimination, he remains the only caucasian member of the team.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In part 2 of TDI 2023, Ripper has mellowed out from his Jerkass behavior from the previous season and is more civil to others. He even ends up gaining a crush on Axel.
• Undignified Death: Or in this case, an Undignified Elimination. The drone grabs him by his underwear, giving him a wicked Wedgie as it carries him off the island.
• We Used to Be Friends: While he and Chase were shown to be close friends in their first season together, they appear to have drifted apart by the following season with Ripper claiming Chase to be a weak pick when Bowie chooses him to be on the Skunk Butts (though that may have been annoyance at being Picked Last) and is more annoyed with his narcissism to the point where he has no problem voting him out.
• Wedgie: Was on the receiving end twice in "The Wheel of Vomit", quite fitting for an immature school bully like himself, once when Julia embraces her true self and again when the Drone of Despair picks him up by his underpants.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • Though he doesn't get along with Priya and she hates him likewise, it's possible that Ripper does have some respect for her abilities, as he can be seen cheering for her in the finale after Priya wins despite that her winning absolutely doesn't benefit him at all.
  • He also seems to have developed a crush on Axel for that reason.

Scary Girl

^{Scary Girl in Season 2, Episode 1}

Voiced by: Katie Griffin

Label: AKA Lauren

Team: Ferocious Trout, Skunk Butt

Placement: 13th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 16th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 4 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 1 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Total Drama has had more than its fair share of mentally unstable competitors, but Lauren (better known to most as "Scary Girl") takes the cake, with her sadistic and psychotic personality, her obsession with death and suffering, and her fascination with all things morbid and horrific.

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• Ambiguously Human: She displays a number of behaviors no mere human could possess such as turning her head 180 degrees without snapping her neck, delivering a Metronomic Man Mashing to a full-grown bear like it's nothing, inducing an Ominous Visual Glitch in the confessional's camera and speaking with a demonically-pitched-down voice while bathed in an ominous red light from no obvious source.
• Ax-Crazy: She's a deranged and psychotic individual who takes joy scaring and harming everyone, including her own teammates.
• Child-Like Voice: She has a squeaky voice, which makes it creepier when she talks about very disturbing things.
• Clark Kenting: Wayne, Raj and Bowie, and presumably a few others, fail to recognize Scary Girl at first during the second season of the reboot, even though the only thing that has changed about her is that she has changed her Elegant Gothic Lolita dress for a button-up collared shirt and shorts.
• Companion Cube: She kept the fake skull from the capture the skull challenge, gave it a makeover to look exactly like her but skeletal and treated it like a cherished pet/friend all the way through the season.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Her voice is all squeaky and child-like but doesn't make her any less terrifying to everyone else, especially when she giggles or says macabre things.
• Creepy Loner Girl: Her Nightmare Fetishist tendencies scare others away and she barely socializes.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: She serves as this to the trend in Pahkitew Island of having characters with unusually extreme quirks and/or being based on popular media at the time. Her attitude is viewed as flat-out disturbing by the other characters, who have their own milder quirks. When she stops serving as an asset in challenges, they vote her off.
• Deconstructive Parody: Scary Girl is every bit as dangerous, sadistic, and sociopathic as Mal and Scarlett, though unlike them she is a deconstruction of those types of characters that also happens to be Played for Laughs. While her actions and behavior are deeply disturbing, other contestants are able to immediately notice that something is not right with her when she’s more focused on hurting people than she is on the competition and eliminate her fairly early for their own safety. Bowie and Julia, two relatively normal people, end up becoming the main villains of the reboot since they are more focused on the competition than Scary Girl.
• Don't Look At Me: In her introduction, Scary Girl tells Chris that he should stop looking at her while grinning widely. Chris automatically does it.
• The Dreaded: As a result of her Nightmare Fetishist traits, the other campers become nervous and wary when she's around. A noteworthy example is in her elimination, where she threatens the other campers with vengeance for eliminating her and turns into a demon-like being, scaring the other teammates (namely Damien and Chase) in the process.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a frilly black dress with corset strings and puffy sleeves to which Zee even says she dresses "like a haunted circus doll."
• Exorcist Head: She can turn her head around creepily in any direction.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She calls Ripper a jerk and tells Priya that she didn't deserve to be used as a shield by him, calling her "friend" while telling her that she will vote him off for that. It's unknown if she truly meant that, however, or if it was all a ploy to save herself from elimination.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To Izzy as both are the most overtop and craziest contestants on the show. However, Izzy, despite being cuckoo, is still overall a friendly and nice girl whereas Scary Girl is utterly sadistic and psychopathic. According to Word of God, Scary Girl was created with the intention of being a character who could make Izzy seem normal.
  • To Gwen as both are Goths who compete in Total Drama, but as Gwen is a Nice Girl in spite of her initial dour attitude, Scary Girl is a deranged sociopath behind her Perky Goth facade.
  • To Dawn, both are seemingly supernatural Genre Refugees whose teammates all find creepy, but Dawn was a Friend to All Living Things and a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold whereas Scary Girl is genuinely deranged and sadistic.
  • To all the gimmicky characters from Pahkitew Island who thought they were in anything other than a reality show.
    • Like Shawn, Scary Girl acts as if she's in a horror movie backed with the skills and strength incredibly useful and necessary for a Sadist Show like Total Drama. But whereas Shawn follows the archetype of a Zombie Apocalypse Hero, she more or less is a campy slasher villain.
    • Like Ella, she annoys everyone around her with her kookiness and severe detachment from the real world, can do inhumanly impossible feats, wears a period inappropriate fancy dress, speak in a high-pitched girly voice and has a habit of breaking out into song. However, Scary Girl styles herself as a Victorian gothic Monster Clown with a penchant for harming the contestants and dangerous animals alike as opposed to a fairytale princess who wouldn't hurt a fly and tames every creature she comes across. The two also developed a fixation on another player but in contrast to Ella's romantic interest in an oblivious Dave who is more invested in wooing Sky, Scary Girl has a platonic one of giving Damien a heart attack by putting him in danger because "his screams are so delicious".
    • Like Leonard, she was such an active detriment to her team that they swiftly voted her off early and did even worse in her second season by becoming the first person eliminated. But unlike Leonard who delusionally believed his LARPer-self was a wizard and tried using his nonexistent magic powers to help his team, Scary Girl did seem to possess supernatural abilities but used them to endanger and make her teammates fear her.
    • Like Max, she saw herself as evil incarnated and loves to cheerfully boast about it but what sets her apart from Max's Laughably Evil is that Scary Girl is actually good at being bad and everyone is genuinely terrified of her.
• Expy: Her clownish design and freaky demeanor appear heavily based on Harley Quinn.
• Flat Character: Almost certainly Invoked. While the other contestants are shown to be surprisingly nuanced people over the course of Island (2023), Scary Girl enters and exits the series the same one-note psychopath.
• Foil: Like Mal before her, she's one to Chris. In a show with lots of unpleasant people, they are the only two genuine sociopaths in the season. However, Chris is much more high-functioning, lucid and restrained and unlike his and Mal's dynamic, this time it makes him is the bigger threat while she can only be a comic-relief character. Through his intelligence and charisma, Chris can maintain a normal life while holding a job that allows him to legally put (somewhat) willing participants through whatever horrors and torment his sick mind can come up with and maintain a position of authority that prevents repercussion. In contrast, Scary Girl is incapable of seeing the bigger picture and is addicted to instant gratification. Her constant need to commit crimes and cause chaos makes her whole team afraid of her and leads them to vote her out at the quickest possible opportunity.
• For the Evulz: There isn't any reason behind Scary Girl's actions other than giggles.
• Genki Girl: A very creepy example of a cheerful girl.
• Genre Refugee: Within the Total Drama-verse, Scary Girl's psychotically creepy clown girl schtick sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the more down-to-earth cast and would be a much better fit with the Denser and Wackier gimmicky contestants of the second and third generations. This was likely intentional as she is played up for comic relief rather than being treated seriously.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has her dyed purple, pink-streaked hair tied up into these which emphasizes her cheery yet psychotic nature.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: Goes on a jackhammer joyride in "Numbskull Island" as she attempts to pulverize the other team (and Damien).
• Graceful Loser: Played with. Though she looks at first like a lethal Sore Loser who swears to get her revenge on those who voted her off, she then stops her rant and cheerfully says goodbye to them in a cutesy childish way as she goes to the Dock of Shame.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her plan to take the skull back for a makeover instead of just handing it over to Chris causes her team to lose the challenge and gets her eliminated.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Which manage to make her even more unsettling.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Played With: When she returns, she decided after being told she was "too scary" last season by everyone to try to be a normal person. Sadly her approach to doing so was a bit extreme and she was the first one eliminated again.
• Irony: She's a Nightmare Fetishist and is the 4th contestant eliminated, being voted out in Episode 4, ranking 13th place. The number 13 is considered unlucky in many cultures while the number 4 is a taboo in Chinese due to sounding similar to the word for death. Bonus points for both of those numbers being at play regarding her ranking in a single season.
• Joke Character: Scary Girl’s eccentric behavior is over the top to the point where it becomes more hilarious than scary. Her poor performance in challenges also highlights this as she is the fourth eliminated in the first season of the revival and the first eliminated in the second season.
• Knight of Cerebus: Parodied. While Scary Girl is a genuinely evil sociopath, akin to Mal and Scarlet, she only darkens the show humor-wise and is eliminated before she can become a genuinely serious threat.
• Leitmotif: Scary Girl has creepy circus music in her introduction which reflects her unsettling nature as a psychotic, Nightmare Fetishist clown girl. It reappears in Season 2 when she's picked to join Bowie's team.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: She describes the sound of Damien's scream as "delicious".
• Mad Bomber: Explodes who is implied to be her friend from home in her audition tape.
• Makeup Is Evil: She's the only contestant in the series to wear makeup with her heavy dark purple eyeshadow and matching lipstick to highlight her Perky Goth aesthetic and psychotic nature. Notably, she removed it during her brief stint at being normal but went back to waering it once she embraced her true self.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Crimson. Both are goth girls with a love of everything macabre and freaking out normal people, but Crimson is an Emotionless Girl who avoids causing harm to others while Scary Girl is extremely hyperactive and dangerous to friend and foe alike.
  • To Scarlett, she's essentially her without her great intelligence or acting ability and more willing to play by Chris' rules. The main difference is her madness is entirely Played for Laughs.
  • To Dawn, both of them are very strange girls who like and do many weird things and they are both the fourth person to be eliminated in their seasons respectively. The difference between them though is that Dawn is a compassionate girl who communes with nature and spirituality while Scary Girl is very psychopathic and macabre to the point where she comes across as demonic.
  • To Mal. Both are feared sociopaths who commit their actions For the Evulz and take delight in hurting others, including their own teammates. Similar to Scarlett's situation mentioned above, Scary Girl differs from Mal in that the former's actions are Played for Laughs.
  • To Max. Both are cartoonishly evil comic relief characters. But Max was utterly pathetic in his attempts to be a villain, only capable of bragging about how evil he is and serving as a scapegoat for the real villain: Scarlett. Whereas she was genuinely deranged and psychotic on the same level as Mal and Scarlett and the only reason she wasn't the Big Bad was because she didn't care about winning enough and was too Chaotic Stupid to form any kind of strategy other than mindlessly antagonizing her teammates.
• Monster Clown: Her chalk-white skin, purple pigtails, and ever-present smile give her a clownish aesthetic, not at all helped by her audition video depicting her in a run-down Amusement Park of Doom. The "monster" part comes from her outbursts of violent behavior and the implication that she's a supernatural being.
• Mood-Swinger: She can flip from peppy to enraged and back in an instant.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She adores creepy, deadly things, and always gets excited to hear about the life-threatening aspects of challenges, even creeping out Chris. She even botches a challenge for her team because she gets fascinated with their skull, giving it a makeover instead of taking it directly to Chris.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: She horrifies everyone around her.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike every other character in the show, Scary Girl's teeth are often drawn in detail to show each individual one, which helps make her Slasher Smiles even more unnerving.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Her pink-streaked hair only makes her look more outlandish and inhumane.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: She somehow causes the confessional cam to glitch out just by being in front of it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her true name is Lauren, but she's only called that in the very first episode.
• Organ Theft: Implies to be one in her elimination when she notes it's good that she knows everyone's names on the show just in case she needs a few unwitting donors.
• Perky Goth: She dresses in gothic attire, but her personality is the opposite of the standard Emotionless Girl.
• Perpetual Smiler: She always sports a very creepy toothy grin.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: For a start, she spends one confessional singing about Disposing of a Body to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It"; she does a Skip of Innocence while singing a Tuneless Song of Madness after beating the shit out of a grizzly bear twice her size; and she chases fellow contestants with a jackhammer while quoting The Big Bad Wolf in The Three Little Pigs.
• Recurring Element: She is the fourth character in Total Drama to be a goth, after Gwen, Crimson, and Ennui.
• Replacement Flat Character: Essentially Izzy if you stripped her of all Hidden Depths or the relationships she formed throughout the show, leaving just the Ax-Crazy Wild Card we met in Island.
• Sadist: Her audition tape mentions that she wants to make a lot of new friends... and then see them get seriously hurt.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: She tried to invoke this trope in the second season where she switches out her Elegant Gothic Lolita dress for a button-up collared shirt and shorts in hopes to be normal and show that she has changed. But after she casually tells her teammates that she has been watching them from their windows and closet during her journey, they vote her off and she decides to revert back to her old Scary Girl ways. The season finale shows this by having her revert back to her dress, representing that she gave up on trying to be normal.
• Skewed Priorities: Scary Girl’s priorities for competing in Total Drama seem to not be focused on claiming a potential cash prize but rather to cause as much mayhem as possible. This is shown when she decides to terrorize Damien in the skull challenge with a jackhammer instead of helping her team and she makes the decision to stall in giving the skull required to win to Chris so she could give it a makeover, causing her team to lose and resulting in Scary Girl’s elimination.
• Slasher Smile: Her default expression is a big, scary, toothy grin.
• The Sociopath: She seems to be a low-functioning example that's Played for Laughs. She has a cheerful and bright facade, which hides a truly sadistic and deranged personality, takes delight in hurting others, has no impulse control, and has an astounding Lack of Empathy for her fellow campers' well-being.
• Sore Loser: Played with. She swears her revenge on all of her teammates who voted her off, but then cheerfully says goodbye to them in a cute childish way. In Season 2, this is played completely straight, with Scary Girl going on a rant in the confessional after being eliminated and swearing revenge once again.
• Stalker without a Crush: Just as the elimination ceremony is about to begin, she tells everyone she's been stalking and watching them to "learn to be normal". This creeps them all out so much that she's the first one eliminated.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite being a teen girl of small stature, she can toss a bear around with ease.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Although Izzy is more of Cloud Cuckoo Lander type of crazy and Scary Girl is more of Nightmare Fetishist type of crazy, with both being the craziest and most unpredictable contestants to date, Scary Girl can easily remind one of Izzy.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Upon being the first one eliminated, she gets annoyed that being normal only made her do worse and threatens revenge on everyone when she returns.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: She constantly gives off a wide-eyed stare that Zee likens to "a soul-sucking corpse".
• Token Evil Teammate: While not an antagonist like Julia, she's the only contestant who is shown to be villainous and frightening.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl (a Perky Goth who wears a skirt) to Axel's Tomboy (a Crazy Survivalist who wears pants).
• Tom the Dark Lord: Scary Girl is an insane, unpredictable Nightmare Fetishist who might possibly not even be a human. What's her real name? Lauren.
• Too Powerful to Live: Like Lightning and Mike in Gen Two, she has a tendency to get eliminated shortly before Julia becomes Big Bad, since she wouldn't be such an Invincible Villain with her around.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Lasts four episodes and remains enigmatic. The second season is even worse for her in this regard, with her being the first boot.
• We Will Meet Again: She exclaims the following after her second elimination:
  Scary Girl: This isn't the last of Scary Girl! I'm going to make them pay!
• Wild Card: She can easily throw the enemy team into chaos just by showing up, and just as easily scatter her own team in fear of what she'll do to them.

Zee

Voiced by: Gerardo Gismondi

Label: The Good Vibes Only Guy

Team: Ferocious Trout, Rat Face

Placement: 7th^*Eliminated via re-vote (TDI 2023 Part 1), 8th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 9 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 8 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Possessing a prosthetic leg and an addiction to orange soda, Zee (short for Hezekias) is one of the most laidback guys you could possibly meet. While far from the strongest, swiftest, or smartest contestant, his easygoing nature and huge heart allow him to get along with pretty much anyone.

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• All-Loving Hero: He's one of the very few people who get along with Chase and Ripper as well as the only one unafraid of Scary Girl. When he's the deciding vote at the time of the final 7, he intends to unite both of his alliances in voting out Chris, considering all of them as his friends including Julia. He even tries to console Chris upon being eliminated.
  Zee: Winner takes all? Why isn't it winner shares all?
• Ambiguously Brown: Zee’s ethnicity is unknown but his real name “Hezekias” suggests that he is of Hebrew descent. Word of God has stated that he is Hispanic.
• Animal Disguise: Dresses like a cassowary during a challenge to distract the mother bird who falls in love with him and allow Ripper to steal a bird egg. Zee barely escapes with his life while musing that he's not ready to start a family.
• Artificial Limbs: Zee was born without a leg and thus has a prosthetic as revealed in "Pirates of the Cabbagean" when a shark gets a hold of it. It comes in handy quite a few times in the season, such as when he uses one in the dinosaur challenge to save himself from a velociraptor and again to lose extra weight in the catapult challenge.
• Bad Influencer: Played for Laughs. Zee becomes a social media influencer throughout the months between seasons thanks to his affiliation with sodas, leading to him being paid to advertise a company's soda products. He proves to be thoroughly terrible at it as he calls one of them disgusting on camera.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Zee is the Thin to Ripper's Big and Chase's Short.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: He has no problem eating Chef's disgusting food, which lets him breeze through the eating challenge in "The Wheel of Vomit" without throwing up, and only gets grossed out upon discovering what milk is.
• Bookends: He attempts to give Chris a hug in his introduction which the latter declines. Way later in "Paddle Field Earth", Zee manages to do so after he's eliminated to "counsel" Chris.
• Clothing-Concealed Injury: He had long pants until the end of the second episode which hides the fact he's an amputee and made it all the more surprising when the others thought his leg got eaten by a shark. Afterwards, Zee wears cargo shorts that show his prosthetic leg for the rest of the series.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He is rather spacey and often oblivious to what’s going on around him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite being too laid-back for his own good and not very smart, Zee is quite capable of doing well in challenges as long as he's focused. Most notably seen in "Launch Back of Notre Game", where despite initially putting his team at a disadvantage by flinging Ripper into a penalty zone, he makes up for it by successfully completing the Lightning Round, winning the challenge for the Trouts. In "The Wheel of Vomit" he effortlessly pummels through the eating challenge and would have won it had Julia not sabotaged him.
• Decided by One Vote: Zee was supposed to be the tie-breaker and choose between Priya or Bowie as part of his respective alliances' agreement in "Paddle Field Earth" but ultimately subverted it since he doesn't want to vote for any of the contestants and has other (short-sighted) ideas.
• Didn't Think This Through: In "Paddle Field Earth", he decides to join both alliances in hopes of becoming "one big alliance of awesomeness" with the goal of eliminating Chris so they can all stop fighting. This backfires real hard as not only this isn't possible but he also didn't tell anyone about his plan until he was the deciding vote in the elimination ceremony, triggering a re-vote to eliminate him instead.
• Disney Acid Sequence: Quite fitting for Zee to have one in "Launch Back of Notre Game" where getting struck in an electrical storm causes him to hallucinate having five fingers, riding on the back of a dolphin through the rainbow sky before diving into a massive can of orange soda.
• The Ditz: Thanks to his chill demeanor, he isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. For example, one episode has him mistaking a conversation between Millie, Priya and Julia for a literal talking bush.
• Does Not Like Spam: His Bizarre Taste in Food means nothing he eats, not even Chef's cooking, fazes him but thanks to Julia, he's so utterly repulsed by the thought of milk (or as he calls it "gross cow liquid") that it's the one thing which causes him to bail out of this season's disgusting food challenge he was doing so well in.
• Dumb Is Good: His chill demeanor does not exactly make him the smartest contestant but he is also one of the kindest people on the island.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Minor example. Zee wears baggy pants when first introduced but after one of his legs was revealed to be a prosthetic and his pants got ruined from the shark attack, he switches to cargo shorts for the rest of the series.
• Fatal Flaw: Zee actually has two.
  • His greatest qualities are how kind and forgiving he is which lets him easily befriend anyone. However, this is also a double-edged sword as how seeing the best in even the most disliked members of the cast allows others to easily manipulate and exploit him for their own benefit due to being a Horrible Judge of Character which almost got him killed and eventually eliminated.
  • His other greatest flaw is how he just can't keep his mouth shut when he's seemingly safe. When he was first eliminated, it's highly likely that if he didn't try to go with his plan to unite the campers, then not only would Bowie not ask for the revote, thus sparing Zee, but also either Bowie or Priya being eliminated. The second time he is eliminated, he ends up sharing Caleb's secret, which already puts Caleb in danger of elimination. However, he also shares everyone else's major secrets as well, causing him to be put in the crossfire and be eliminated as a result.
• Foil: To Chase as both are not the brighest bulb and have the habit of doing mistakes more of stupidity than malice. However, Chase is a jerkass who refuses to take responsibility for any wrongdoing and has a Lack of Empathy, while Zee is a Nice Guy who is more conscious about his flaws and has shown some empathy.
• Foreshadowing: In his audition tape, Zee's legs are never shown on camera as it was either cut off from the shot or covered by a blanket, unlike the rest of the contestants. This was an early indication that Zee is the series' amputee before The Reveal next episode.
• G-Rated Stoner: He is very chill and laid-back, talks like a Surfer Dude and drinks a lot of soda. In "Launch Back of Notre Game", he claims that he had never been that high before after being flung in the air then he gets a Disney Acid Sequence after being struck by lightning.
• Hammerspace: The only possible reason as to how Zee can carry a seemingly infinite and easily accessible stash of refrigerator soda cans and bottles out of thin air.
• Handicapped Badass: Despite missing a leg, Zee is more than capable of competing with the rest of his fellow contestants. In "Jurassic Fart" he is the second member from his team to reach the finish line despite having to hop on one leg after losing his prosthetic to a raptor, while in "Launch Back of Notre Game" Zee's condition becomes an advantage since discarding the prosthetic leg in mid-air allows him to stay airborne and reach the designated target.
• Hated by All: An interesting case. He's generally on good terms with everyone, being an All-Loving Hero and only being disliked by the likes of Julia. However, both of his eliminations come from doing something last minute to upset all of the other contestants. In his first season, it was because his attempt at voting out Chris was so ridiculous that both of his alliances abandoned having him as the deciding vote and eliminated him in a re-vote. In his second season, he ends up being universally disliked for revealing everyone's secrets as well as keeping a secret the fact that Caleb was supposedly merely using Priya's feelings for his own gain.
• History Repeats: Having a Keeping Secrets Sucks plot, eventually spilling the secret out, which resulted in a Ship Sinking for one of the season's main couples was what had already happened to Tyler, who had revealed that Duncan kissed with Gwen behind Courtney's back.
• I Ate WHAT?!: Parodied. Out of all the nauseating things he eats in "The Wheel of Vomit", Zee gets disqualified when he pukes upon learning that milk comes from cows before running through a wall to get away from it.
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: Does this while ramming his team's ship into the Frogs' for the challenge which prevents him from shooing off the seagull which landed on the steering wheel right at that moment and causes the ship to steer off-course into a rock, giving the Frogs of Death the win instead.
• Iconic Item: His endless stack of sodas.
• Irony: Priya and Bowie became the season's finalists yet both were initially in the bottom two for "Paddle Field Earth" with Zee as the tie-breaker. However, because of his attempted mutiny, Zee got eliminated in their stead and inadvertently became the reason why the two were in the finale at all.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Zee is an All-Loving Hero through and through but he is not a very bright person.
• Late to the Realization: He somehow missed all the times Emma and Chase mentioned they were exes with the former constantly in conflict about it towards the latter, including their introduction Zee was present at. It was only when they were temporarily back together did he finally realized, eight episodes in.
  Zee: Whoa! Chase and Emma used to date?
  Ripper: What? Yeah! Where have you been?
  Zee: Here. Before that, over there. Outside. Our cabin...
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: During the middle of a Confession Cam, Zee becomes concerned as to how he suddenly teleported to the outhouse which implies that the confessionals weren't edited in between cuts.
  Zee: [Looks around in confusion] How did I get in here? Wasn't I just on the dock?!
• Long Neck: Has a noticeable one that leans at an angle given his wiry frame.
• Loose Lips: He not only shares Caleb's secret but everyone else's major secrets too in Haulin N Ballin. This makes him disliked by everyone and also results in his elimination.
• Loved by All: Because of his easy-going and friendly personality, Zee is one of the very few, if not the only one, who has yet to make an enemy while also managing to have positive or at worst neutral interactions with everyone he meets. This includes befriending major Jerkasses like Chase and Ripper, finding no problems with Scary Girl of all people and even antagonists such as Julia and Bowie not minding him that much and tried to get him in their alliances. Of course, that doesn't stop Zee from getting voted off in "Paddle Field Earth" when he stupidly suggests that they all vote for Chris.
• Major Injury Underreaction: After a shark attack ripped his left leg clean off, Zee is surprisingly calm though bummed out about losing his favourite leg to which Priya thought he went into a state of shock. However, it's subverted in that what the shark got was a prosthetic leg that it promptly spat out so Zee was never really injured.
• Malaproper: Due to his simple nature, he sometimes mixes up certain words, like "humidity" for "immunity", or mispronounces them completely such as "unnecessary" as "unnecess-celery".
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Zee can conjure up an endless supply of orange sodas in his hand, usually in between cuts, despite having no idea how he did so.
• Mellow Fellow: He has a very chill demeanor most of the time.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Owen as both are simple-minded yet kindhearted All Loving Heroes and Big Eaters with a Bizarre Taste in Food who act as the Plucky Comic Relief in their respective seasons. But whereas Owen is known for his size and can be serious when the competition calls for it, Zee is skinny as a rail and very, very much out of it for the most part. They also form Odd Friendships with the more jerkish contestants though while Owen and Noah, in spite of their clashing personalities, are ultimately Heterosexual Life-Partners through and through, Zee may really need to reconsider who he hangs out with given that Chase and Ripper had both abandoned him at one point during the game to life-threatening situations.
  • To Mike. Both are Noodle People, who are very nice, Ambiguously Brown and have disabilities (Multiple personality disorder for Mike and congenital amputation for Zee). But while Mike is a very shy Nervous Wreck who deliberately kept his condition from people throughout most of his debut season so he wouldn’t be viewed as a freak, Zee is extremely carefree and laid-back, not caring whether or not people knew that he's missing a leg, with his condition revealed by the second episode of his debut season. Both are also the first people to be eliminated in a unique voting twist with Mike being the first person to be eliminated by a sole vote while Zee’s the first person to be eliminated by a re-vote, both of which are caused by a Big Bad.
  • To Tyler. Both are Nice Guys who don't deal well with keeping secrets. Both also end up keeping a secret related to one of the couples of the season. However, while Tyler finds out about an actual act of cheating, Zee was misled to believe that Caleb was just using Priya by flirting with her, not being aware that he developed genuine romantic feelings for her after he initially claimed to only be interested in The Alliance with her.
• Mistaken for Profound: Zee fools two different alliances into believing he's a master strategist with even the more powerful players like Bowie and Priya are impressed by him. However, both alliances quickly realize that Zee's not all that smart when his grand plan to vote out Chris is revealed.
• Moment Killer: For Priya and Caleb. They're about to share their first kiss when they hear his soda can crack open. In the confessional, he tells the can to hush.
• Never Bareheaded: Never seen without his green hat.
• Nice Guy: He gets along with everybody, to the point that he tries to secretly ally with everybody in the merge and vote off Chris so they can all stop fighting. It naturally doesn't work.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: For the Ripper-Zee-Chase friendship, he is the Nice to Ripper's Mean and Chase's In-Between, being an extremely easygoing and friendly Nice Guy.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: He was supposed to break the tie between Priya and Bowie during the elimination ceremony but then suddenly declares his own masterplan, namely uniting all the remaining contestants to eliminate Chris so they can all stop fighting. Unsurprisingly, this was so astronomically and ridiculously stupid, Chris allowed everyone to change their initial vote to Zee and thus he became the first contestant in Total Drama history to be eliminated in a re-vote.
• Noodle People: He looks like he could be carried away by a gust of wind.
• Odd Friendship: Despite his chill and friendly attitude, he's part of a three-way friendship with Chase and Ripper, both of whom are huge Jerkasses.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His full first name, Hezekias, only comes up when he introduces himself, as everyone calls him "Zee".
• Palate Propping: When trying to free his prosthetic leg wedged between a rock, Zee unintentionally uses it to keep a velociraptor's mouth open before it can eat him.
• Playing Both Sides: A non-malicious example as Zee didn't intend to join both alliances in "Paddle Field Earth" without the other's knowledge but decided to help them both out anyway. He thought this was for the greater good of joining the alliances together so they could vote Chris off but was unsuccessful in his objective when everyone voted for him instead upon finding out.
• Plot Armor: Thanks to his secret-keeping and bathroom problems, Zee would have most definitely gotten out in "Ice To Beat You" from making it almost impossible to complete the obstacle course and greatly slowed down the Rat Faces if it weren't for Nichelle suddenly quitting the show at the elimination after receiving a phony Hollywood movie contract forged by Julia.
• Running Gag: Zee drinking orange soda (and later various sponsered sodas) that just magically appears in his hand offscreen. A minor one is telling tall tales about how he quote-on-quote "lost" his leg (He didn't, he was born without one).
• Saying Too Much:
  • Shouting at Emma to keep giving the wrong answers ends up costing them as she realizes they were just using her and refuses to help them anymore. This results in Team Rat Face losing and Emma being eliminated.
  • Sharing how Caleb was just using Priya for an alliance then sharing everyone else's secrets gets him majorly disliked and voted out.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In an overreaction to drinking milk, he runs straight through a wall, leaving behind an Impact Silhouette, to stay far, far away from the "cow liquid".
• Secret-Keeper: He discovers Priya's crush on Caleb and makes a promise not to say anything. Though his loose lips make it quite difficult for him to hold said promise. This finally comes back to bite him in "Haulin N Ballin" when he shares everything and other secrets, leading to his elimination
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Damien are the Sensitive Guys to Chase and Ripper's Manly Men.
• Shipper on Deck: Upon discovering Priya has a crush on Caleb, he becomes very supportive of it and hopes they end up together. That is until he discovers that Caleb (seemingly) is only using her to form an alliance, at which case he dislikes the idea of him stringing Priya along.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Zee was the last of the comic relief characters post-merge, and with his elimination, the competition focuses on the more drama-driven plotlines like Chase and Emma's disaster of a relationship, the rocky friendship between Millie and Priya, and the ongoing rivalry between Bowie and Julia.
• Sneeze of Doom: Having been startled by Chris' airhorn earlier while drinking soda, Zee gets a noticeable case of hiccups throughout "Severe Eggs and Pains". Ripper teams up with him hoping he would be a distraction for the aggressive cassowary but switches plans to dressing Zee up as a male cassowary since his hiccups are similar to the bird's mating call before deserting him. The hiccups did cause Zee's life to be endangered after his "beak" fell out from a massive hiccup and the bird was not happy that she has been tricked.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Downplayed, but his friendships with Chase and Ripper are heavily focused on in his first season and his Keeping Secrets Sucks plot with Priya and Caleb's relationship is given a lot of focus in his second season.
• Surfer Dude: He has the accent and his introduction shows that he owns a surfboard though whether he can actually surf has yet to be revealed.
• Take the Third Option: When Bowie and Priya were on the chopping block and it was up to Zee to choose which of them is going home, he decided out of left field to convince the remaining contestants to vote Chris out instead. To stop whatever this is from happening, Bowie takes up a fourth option by requesting a re-vote to which Chris complies and Zee was eliminated in his and Priya's place.
• Tempting Fate: Bets twenty bucks in the first episode that Caleb would win, reasoning that if he wins, he gets the million but if Caleb wins, he gets twenty dollars so it's a win-win situation in his eyes. Not only does Caleb become the first one out but Zee gets eliminated early on in the merge. Welp, there go twenty bucks...
• Thin Chin of Sin: Inverted; his chin is ridiculously pointy yet he doesn't have a mean bone in his body.
• Token Minority: He's the first amputee across all series, being born without a left leg and having to wear a prosthetic as a result.
• Trademark Favorite Drink: He's always drinking orange soda even though he's not exactly sure where he gets it from most of the time.
• Twofer Token Minority: Zee is an amputee and, according to Word of God, Hispanic.
• Unreliable Narrator: Zee likes making up outlandishly cool stories about how he allegedly lost his left leg to entertain people such as bungee-jumping from a helicopter over a piranha pit (Chase and Damien) and a human catapult incident (Ripper). The truth is much more mundane as he was born like this but where's the fun in that?
• Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Zee easily befriends and tames a raccoon that got stuck to him in the sticky sap challenge whom he affectionately names "Olivia Von Trash-panda". While aggressive at first, Olivia grew to like Zee such that she immediately crawled into his shirt to continue being carried around once she became unstuck. Unfortunately, Chef forbade Zee from keeping Olivia as a pet as the raccoon might have rabies, a sentiment he finds ridiculous since he had his rabies shot twice.
• We Used to Be Friends: His odd yet close friendship with Chase and Ripper doesn't carry over next season due to being placed on different teams and not interacting with them since (Which is for the better given how the two treated Zee). Even with the early merge, Zee becomes Damien's closest ally instead since Chase got eliminated early and Ripper is too preoccupied with Axel.
• Wild Card: His weird train of thought makes him really unpredictable, like telling different wacky iterations of how he "lost" his leg or believing he can secretly unite his two alliances together in order for everyone to stop fighting, to which Millie even calls him the trope name.
• With Friends Like These...: Zee has an Odd Friendship with Chase and Ripper though it didn't stop the two from willingly abandoning him to the island's dangerous wildlife with the former running away instead of freeing his stuck leg which almost got him eaten by a velociraptor (Although Chase was extremely apologetic after he escaped) while the latter tricked him into wooing a violent cassowary to get an egg and immunity for himself only much to Zee's dismay. However, Zee is not the type to hold grudges and just let those incidents be water under the bridge.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: As an All-Loving Hero, he had the brilliant idea of eliminating Chris so the contestants would stop antagonizing each other for money despite the fact that's the entire point of the show. This might have worked for previous seasons where the contestants despised Chris for all the sadistic shenanigans he puts them through, but it's still a competition and nobody is going to give up a million dollars as well as Chris can willy-nilly change the rules whenever he wants. As such, Zee was eliminated in a landslide by the remaining competitors after Chris allowed a re-vote.

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