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Cody

"I see the ladies have already arrived. Alright!"

Voiced by: Peter Oldring

Label: The Geek

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Team Amazon

Placements: 17th (TDI 2007), 3rd (TDWT)

Eliminated in: Episode 9 (TDI 2007), Episode 26 (TDWT)

A tech-savvy dweeb who is fully convinced he is one of the cool kids. Cody's obliviousness to his own geekiness is most obvious in his self-delusions as a lady-killer, which only amuses or annoys the girls he meets. Despite his perverted tendencies though, he's just a well-meaning kid at heart.

Accidental Marriage: A fake accidental marriage anyway. Sierra claims that she became an ordained minister on the Internet and that all she needs to do is recite the wedding vows super-fast and get Cody to say "I do" for them to be "married". She eventually gets him to say it after asking him if he needed to use the confessional stall, Alejandro who was near by states that as a witness he can "confirm" them to be married (of course this is all so he can get Sierra's vote).
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Gender inverted; he's the good guy chasing after Gwen, a goth "bad girl" who dresses in black and likes slasher movies.
Annoying Younger Sibling: Although they're not related, Gwen thinks of him as one, comparing him to "a really annoying little brother."
April Fools' Day: The holiday on which he was born.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Right before voting for Sierra in "The Am-AH-Zon Race" he says that Sierra is the stalker-like girlfriend he always wanted until he actually got one.
Beware the Nice Ones: Sucker punches Duncan in "Greece's Pieces" for taking Gwen and insulting his costume.
Birds of a Feather: With Harold. While the two of them have never been on the same team or interacted much in the show, outside the show post-Action the two of them become very close friends (even founding the Drama Brothers with Trent and Justin). In World Tour, Harold proves himself to be Cody's biggest supporter, going so far as to side with Heather in the finale simply because Cody had done so.
Butt-Monkey: The butt of all jokes on Team Amazon.
Casanova Wannabe: His Establishing Character Moment has him walking overconfidently towards the girls.
Character Focus: Despite being Out of Focus in the second half of Island and all of Action, he receives a significant amount of screen time in World Tour.
Characterization Marches On: From a Casanova Wannabe to a Gwensexual.
Childish Tooth Gap: Has one, most likely to show his dorky nature.
Classical Anti-Hero: He used to be a typical hero, but the third season expanded on his hapless traits.
Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Quite frequently when Sierra rescued him in World Tour.
Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: He and Harold are the losers to Trent and Justin's cool kids in "The Drama Brothers".
Crazy Jealous Guy: His immediate response upon finding out that Duncan and Gwen kissed is to punch Duncan in the face. He continuously harasses Duncan throughout Picnic at Hanging Dork and angrily kicks a Moai statue of Duncan in "Rapa Phooey!".
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his short stature and Geek Physique, Cody discovers he has a mean right hook and proceeds to punch Duncan out cold in "Greece's Pieces".
Deuteragonist: While he ends up not being a finalist Cody’s the second main focus of "World Tour" behind Heather and Alejandro.
Did Not Get the Girl: Not Gwen anyway. While it's unknown if Cody ever reciprocated Sierra's feelings. What we do know is by the end of "World Tour" he ends up becoming close friends with her, during a brief cameo at the beginning of "Revenge of the Island", he is shown smiling while Sierra hugs him tightly in direct contrast to his usual disturbance by the gesture. Word of God also states that Cody no longer has romantic feelings for Gwen by the end of "World Tour".
Dogged Nice Guy: To Gwen. He took a dodgeball for her and packs picnic items in his pants hoping to have a romantic picnic with her while they were on Boney Island. Even after he finds out that Trent is the man she has the hots for, he sets them up and proclaims that even though he isn't her dream guy, as long as Gwen's happy he's happy. And then he's back onto it again, arguably more than ever thanks to increased screentime, come World Tour.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: His unceremonious defeat by Alejandro in the finale of World Tour.
Dub Name Change: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to “Jordy.”
Foil: To Harold. Both serves as the resident geeky nerd on there teams. Both of them are seen as useless by the vast majority of the teammates, they are often bullied, they both have an unrequited crush on someone, and they prove to be surprisingly effective when push comes to shove. The very real difference is in how they are presented. Harold is depicted as a good person who unintentionally annoys his teammates; while Cody gets along with most of his teammates, he has some seriously perverted personality traits. Harold has often proven to be a reservoir of hidden talent, having managed to save his team in multiple challenges at the last minute, while Cody helps out far less often and sometimes verges into The Load. Harold did not make his feelings obvious for Leshawna, and when Leshawna found out about it, she did briefly kiss him. Cody's attraction to Gwen becomes very obvious, and Gwen does not reciprocate. In the Island special, Leshawna makes it clear to Harold that their kiss was in the heat of the moment, and she just wants to remain friends with him, and although Harold does occasionally make a move on her, he primarily respects her wishes and they work well together in challenges. Cody, despite being fully aware that Gwen was not into him, would not hesitate to try to flirt with her whenever he had the chance, even if it did not help the team, and would even commit actions that are tantamount to sexual harassment. Harold is very much Cody with morals and restraints.
Forgotten Birthday: His parents forgot his 16th birthday. Apparently as a result he forgets about his own 17th birthday...but Sierra doesn't.
Geek: It’s even his label. And according to his official online bio, he fails to recognize his own geekiness because he legitimately is cooler than any of his friends, who make up the Albert Einstein Fan Club at his preppy private school.
Groin Attack: The most frequent victim after Harold.
Hammerspace: He has seemingly bottomless pockets.
- In "Up the Creek", he's somehow able to fit an entire loaf of bread, a can of soda, and other picnic essentials in his pants.
  Cody: I was gonna make us a romantic picnic.
- In "The Am-AH-Zon Race", Gwen pulls out a whole stash of things from a single pocket including: a pack of breath mints, a bottle of hair gel, a deodorant body spray, X-ray glasses, and an Epi-Pen. All to look for batteries for his flashlight, which were actually in his other pocket.
Hidden Depths: Despite being a geek he is a very skilled dodgeball player. He easily took out DJ and Katie when they had him outnumbered. Courtney even called him an easy out beforehand.
Hormone-Addled Teenager: He has a huge crush on Gwen, which manifests itself into him having perverted tendencies such as sniffing her hair and stealing her bra.
Hopeless Suitor: He's just not Gwen's kind of guy, no matter how much he wishes it were otherwise.
Hypocritical Humor: As much as he dislikes Sierra's advances, he's still going after Gwen the same way.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: It's heavily implied he suffers this, mostly in World Tour but even as far back as Island: despite not being the reason his team lost, he looks extremely nervous that his teammates are going to vote him off in "Up the Creek".
Innocent Blue Eyes: Playing With. While he does have blue eyes, there are some moments when Cody seems very innocent and relatable, but other instances where he can be perverted and irksome.
Irony: He is one of the characters who sang the least in World Tour even though he is one of the Drama Brothers.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: "Gwen is my dream girl. I'm just not her dream guy but hey, as long as she's happy, I'm happy." However, he averts this in World Tour when he is not happy to lose his second chance at her to Duncan.
Laser-Guided Karma: After his own stalkerish behavior towards Gwen, he gets his own stalker in the form of Sierra.
The Load: Downplayed trope. In season three, Cody is easily the weakest member of the team, although a good chunk of that is due to him being on the same team as the far more capable Heather, Gwen, Courtney, and especially Sierra, who often helped him, which has the unfortunate side effect of making him look weak by comparison. Additionally, he even spends an entire episode comatose and did nothing at all. However, Cody is still able to pull his weight in challenges fairly well, such as in Greece, and to his credit, he came close to beating Alejandro and only lost due to Heather distracting him.
Lovable Nerd: Cody is a very flirtatious dork and his stalkerishness can be downright creepy and insufferable but he can also be very romantic, earnest and awkwardly endearing.
Nerds Are Pervs: Cody is a short geek who thinks his interest in physics makes him "cool." He puts on airs of confidence to hit on girls, particularly Gwen — he even makes a bet with Owen to get Gwen's bra. He gets ignored at worst and beaten up at best, with the exception of his own Abhorrent Admirer, Sierra.
Nerds Are Sexy: According to Sierra, who had some Real Life inspiration.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Had he not harassed Duncan throughout Picnic at Hanging Dork, Duncan would not retaliate and caused Cody to be injured to vote properly later in the episode. As a result of their conflict, Gwen was eliminated.
No Guy Wants to Be Chased: According to the Cartoon Network website for World Tour, his favorite place is "away from Sierra."
Odd Friendship: He and Heather develop a friendship over their shared hatred of Alejandro in World Tour.
The One Guy: The sole male member of Team Amazon (although nobody other than Sierra ever remembers).
Overly Long Name: Sierra reveals that his full name is Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson.
Parental Neglect: Cody's parents forgot his own birthday, which means he eventually forgot it as well.
The Peeping Tom: He tries to watch Gwen change into her swimsuit in "Not Quite Famous", and "The Am-AH-Zon Race" reveals that he owns a pair of x-ray glasses that allow the wearer to see through clothing.
Picky Eater: He dislikes having an unbalanced hypoglycemic index in his diet, according to his Island biography.
Plot Allergy: Cody's deadly allergies that can send him into anaphylactic shock come up in "The Am-AH-Zon Race". Sierra lists them all: black ants, brown ants, red ants, bejo beads, wolf spiders, katydid crickets, the clear-winged Cithaerias pireta butterfly, and goat saliva. He's given an EpiPen to have a shot at surviving the Amazon Rainforest.
Prince Charming Wannabe: Averted in Island, where he stops hitting on Gwen once he realizes that she isn't interested in him, but played straight in World Tour, where he pursues Gwen despite her obvious discomfort and the fact that she already has a boyfriend.
Punny Name: His name is one letter away from "code", as in a computer code.
Satellite Love Interest: In a way. Shortly after he finishes the I Want My Beloved to Be Happy shtick in Island, he gets eliminated in a very painful way. Then in World Tour he had two purposes: to be Gwen's creepy Hopeless Suitor and to be Sierra's target of affection.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Savvy Guy to Sierra's Energetic Girl (much to his misfortune).
She Is Not My Girlfriend: In World Tour, but only when he was around Sierra and even then it's Justified with all he had to go through with Sierra invading his personal space and belongings on a regular basis.
Single-Target Sexuality: He's first seen hitting on all the girls, but he pretty quickly settles into being a Gwen-sexual. Meanwhile, he's the target of Cody-sexual Sierra.
Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's quite the ladies' man and is a nerd who thinks of himself as a 'cool kid'.
Smarter Than They Look: While often dismissed as a geek who does nothing for the team, Cody has actually shown himself to be quite intelligent on occasion. In the Island special, he successfully defeated Justin by turning his desire for fame against him. In the penultimate World Tour episode, he almost manages to beat Alejandro by calling him Al, knowing Alejandro will become angry and make mistakes. The only reason Alejandro was able to win was that he cheated.
Stalker with a Crush: His crush on Gwen sometimes reaches stalker levels, such as when he sniffs her hair or tries to get her bra.
Sweet Tooth: He has a candy addiction.
Tempting Fate: In "Paintball Deer Hunter" he believes that despite being handicapped from being mauled by a bear, his team won't vote him off. Cue confessionals of Leshawna and Owen voting him off.
They Just Dont Get It: In "Up the Creek", he doesn't seem to get that Gwen isn't interested in dating him, though by the end of the episode, he understands and helps her hook up with Trent.
Cody: So you wanna go out sometime?
Gwen: No.
Cody: How about Friday night?
Gwen: Uh, no.
Cody: Saturday’s good for me. How about Saturday?
Gwen: I am not going out with you. Ever.
Cody: Okay, okay. Sheesh.
(Beat)
Cody: ...So is Sunday out of the question?
(Gwen hits him in the groin with her canoe paddle)
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: The obvious tiny guy to Sierra's huge girl.
Underdogs Always Win: Ahaha, no. Despite making it to the final three and being hyped up in-series as just as much of a contender as Alejandro and Heather throughout the last few episodes, a weak player who only made it this far through a combination of other players being more viable targets and a now-eliminated player's help wasn't going to be able to take on the season's main smart and physically capable villain. Hell, he wouldn't have even made it to the finale without Sierra actively helping him post-elimination.
Ungrateful Bastard: At first, his only responses to Sierra's rescues were complaints and insults, but he starts to appreciate her around the time she takes a meatball to the gut for him.
Vocal Evolution: His voice gets deeper around the end of Island onward.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: His worst fear is having to defuse a time bomb under pressure.

Justin

"I'm not just another gorgeous face. And abs. And butt. And shoulders, okay? I'm also a master strategist. And this year, I'm in it to win it."

Voiced by: Adam Reid

Label: The Eye Candy

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Killer Grips

Placements: 20th (TDI 2007), 7th (TDA)

Eliminated in: Episode 5 (TDI 2007), Episode 19 (TDA)

A supermodel of irresistible beauty, Justin's unparalleled gorgeousness stuns everyone, but the person who admires his perfect body the most is himself. His jaw-dropping looks are pretty much the only thing he's got, but he knows very well how to use them to his advantage.

The Artifact: The existence of Alejandro—who's as handsome as he is, smarter, more skilled, and lacks the handicap of losing his confidence when his good looks are tarnished—has now rendered his character completely obsolete.
Ascended Extra: He was eliminated fourth and almost never spoke in Island. Action gives him much more screen time and plot relevance...at least until Courtney returns midway through the season.
Attention Whore: Particularly when he's Shirtless. Cody actually uses this against him in the Island special, by making him believe the paparazzi are present, and then he immediately gets trampled by the guys.
Beauty Is Bad: He's basically the Total Drama version of Gaston. Is considered handsome In-Universe and even when he's not the main villain, he is shown to be a jerk. However, when his beauty is "tarnished", he ceases being a threat.
Big Bad Wannabe: Of the first third of Action; even during his stint as main antagonist, all he really did was get a legitimate liability to his team and then a strong player on the opposite side eliminated. See Disc-One Final Boss below for more.
Bishie Sparkle: Even his photos have this.
Brainless Beauty: Played with. He's actually pretty savvy, but he believes this to be the case about himself (see above quote, made when he believed his looks to be ruined by a black eye). Apparently, he thinks his ability to strategize only works when his beautiful looks are intact.
Butt-Monkey: Became this in Action after Owen's unfair elimination and is most prominent in "The Princess Pride".
Camp Straight: Justin's obsession with modeling is pretty camp and his looks also cause a lot of guys to lose their composure over him and he also has a slightly effeminate voice. He was revealed to have cried at someone's wedding in the first part of the finale. However, he flirted with Courtney during the fairy tale challenge in Action, which unfortunately led to him getting injured and eliminated.
Characterization Marches On: Was a pretty nice but very quiet guy in Island, but starting in Action was a more talkative, manipulative pretty boy and an arrogant douchebag.
Character Focus: He received significant focus as the main antagonist of Action, at least until Courtney returned to the competition.
Charm Person: His attractiveness has been stated in-universe to be his "powers".
Cheaters Never Prosper: He cheated in the awake-a-thon challenge by painting his eyelids to make it look as if he was staying awake. He gets caught by Gwen and Trent and was promptly pulled out of the challenge. It gets subverted after his team wins invincibility due to Gwen being the last one still awake in the challenge.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Makes a pact with Harold to take down Duncan, and states he would let Harold win, only to betray Harold once he had taken care of Duncan.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Of Heather. Both started off as the main antagonists of Island and Action respectively, but while Heather had a hard time hiding her nature amongst most contestants because of her personality, Justin was able to hide his nature from everyone, save for a few contestants, by using his good looks. However, Heather made up for this by being strategically cunning, made it all the way to 3rd place and kept her role as the villain of Island, while Justin didn't really have any smarts or competence beyond using his looks and only reached 7th place, while his role as a villain was quickly replaced by Courtney.
Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: He and Trent are the cool kids to Cody and Harold's losers in "The Drama Brothers".
Death by Irony: He's eliminated in Action when Courtney, the girl he's infatuated with, manipulates his feelings for her to get ahead in the game, something he'd been doing to other girls since the season started.
Demoted to Extra: After he loses to Courtney in "The Princess Pride", Justin ceases to be relevant and is relegated back to being a background character, and he only speaks in the first Aftermath episode in World Tour.
Disc-One Final Boss: Set up as the main antagonist contestant in Action, but when we learn he's only smart and strategic when it comes to his looks and that his sexiness was having less and less of an effect on the girls, he just became a whiny pretty-boy. When Courtney came back, it was pretty clear he had been replaced and rapidly gets eliminated by her.
Even the Guys Want Him: He has this effect on Owen, and then on Chef in the Total Drama Drama Drama Island special, and Harold and Geoff in "Monster Cash".
Everyone Has Standards:
- Like Lindsay and Beth, he is furious when Owen is eliminated by Courtney's sole vote. Despite how he treats him at times, even he sees Owen as a friend.
- He is upset about DJ being disqualified suggesting that Chef should be punished instead.
Friend to All Living Things: Everyone and everything which lives and breathes will be held within the grasp of Justin's charms. Man-eating sharks even drag him out of the water when he's drowning and give him CPR.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Played with. He goes from a minor character in Island to Big Bad Wannabe in the Island special and the first half of Action to being relegated back to being a background character after he is eliminated by Courtney in "The Princess Pride".
Hidden Depths: His Island bio states that he volunteers at a retirement home.
Hollywood Homely: In-Universe. He considers himself a hideous freak over a few minor injuries.
Humiliation Conga: He gets voted off by his crush, Courtney, to whom he had just surrendered immunity and who seriously injured him during the challenge in question, including damage to his precious face. He can't even get the girls he'd been trying to manipulate for the entire season to acknowledge that he's leaving; the best he gets are some sarcastic farewells from the other guys. He hurts himself again getting into the Lame-O-Sine.
It's All About Me: He is genuinely outraged at cheating, betrayal, or other unfairness directed at his own interests, but he doesn't quite seem to grasp that other characters don't appreciate it when he exploits them.
Jerkass: An egotistical and lazy narcissist who uses his charisma to deceive and manipulate other contests.
Ladykiller in Love: In the Island special and the first half of Action, Justin uses his looks to get several girls to do what he wants. In the last challenge in "The Princess Pride", he professes his feelings for Courtney; however, she doesn't return the sentiment. However, in his parting words in the Lame-o-sine, he claims that love is overrated anyway, saying that modeling pays.
Laser-Guided Karma: In Action, Justin exploits Beth's and Lindsay's attraction to him in order for them to do his bidding. In "The Princess Pride", Courtney manages to manipulate his feelings for her, in which she seizes the opportunity to win immunity and give Justin a painful and humiliating defeat.
Leitmotif: Plays every time his sexy overwhelms the opposite sex (and Owen). For some reason, it is heard again in the Pahkitew Island episode "Sky Fall" when Chris explains the robot crocodiles' features.
The Load: In the second season once he hits Villain Decay (i.e. when Courtney drops in).
Manipulative Bastard: Though with him it's more of a case of Charm Person, thanks to his supernaturally hypnotic attractiveness. Needless to say, once he loses his looks, he loses his hold over others as well.
Minor Injury Overreaction: In Action, he thinks he's become "a hideous beast" when he hurts his face.
Mr. Fanservice: His sole reason for existing; his label is the "Eye Candy". In fact, in the very first episode, Chris flat out tells him that he was purely chosen for the competition because he is attractive.
Non-Standard Character Design: He's the only character in the entire franchise to have colored pupils instead of just irises, most likely to accentuate how handsome and defined his characteristics are.
Not So Above It All: Even though he is obsessed with his good looks and is somewhat effeminate in caring for his good appearance, it's hinted that Justin enjoys gross things, given how he praised Owen for burping the whole alphabet during the auditions for the talent show challenge.
The One Guy: To the Killer Grips after Owen's elimination.
Out of Focus: Multiple times. He was out of focus in Island due to almost never speaking, his role as a villain was turned into an Aborted Arc in Action, and World Tour introduced Alejandro. Even in episodes featuring the Drama Brothers, he didn't do as much as the others.
Pride: He's always admiring his physique and seems to carry a mirror with him everywhere he goes.
The Quiet One:
- In Island where he only spoke two sentences in the whole season, not counting the special. Word of God states it's because his voice actor was preoccupied at the time.
- In World Tour, his only speaking appearance was in the first Aftermath episode, and he becomes a silent background character going forward.
Romantic False Lead: He becomes this to Duncan/Courtney in one episode. With expected results.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Alejandro's Manly Man. He's less likely to do physical work and is a Sissy Villain.
Shirtless Scene: He is often seen without his shirt on.
Sissy Villain: He's ridiculously obsessed with preserving his looks and fangirl appeal.
Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: He gets Izzy eliminated (again) in "Full Metal Drama" when she reveals that she never found Justin that cute.
Smug Snake: He boasts about being a great, manipulative strategist but it turns out that he's a Brainless Beauty whose manipulations rely solely on his good looks. When his face gets damaged, he barely poses a threat.
Suddenly Voiced: After spending most of Island silent, he suddenly starts talking in the finale, and continues doing this into Action.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Island, he seemed like an alright person who would help his team when they needed him. Come Action, and he's been set up to be the villain (and even when that was done away with, he still was not a nice person).
Villain Decay: Happens during the very season he's the Big Bad of. During the first half of Action he was manipulating the female contestants with his looks. However, his looks gradually started to have less effect on the girls, and as he's not a very smart or strategic contestant otherwise, he was relegated to being The Load. Then Courtney shows up, usurps the Big Bad position from him and causes his elimination.
Vocal Evolution: His voice gets more effeminate in Action in order to showcase his Camp Straight side much more.
We Hardly Knew Ye: In Island, to an extent. He almost never speaks in that season, aside from his introduction in the first episode.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He seemed non-threatening at first; however, he reveals that he had a more sinister side in the Island special. However, Justin's threat level diminishes after Courtney's return in "Oceans Eight-or Nine" and especially after his defeat by her in "The Princess Pride".
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: In "The Princess Pride", he declares he would never hit a lady, and willingly sacrifices his own immunity for Courtney and lets her hit him, causing him to tumble off the tower and get severely crippled, and he gets subsequently voted off.

Noah

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"Yeah, this is gonna work."

Voiced by: Carter Hayden

Label: The Schemer (TDI 2007), The High IQ (TDWT)

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot, Reality TV Pros

Placements: 21st (TDI 2007), 11th (TDWT), 8th (TDP:RR)

Eliminated in: Episode 4 (TDI 2007), Episode 13 (TDWT), Episode 18 (TDP:RR)

A sardonic, antisocial, and pessimistic know-it-all as intelligent as he is well-armed with sarcastic quips and dry remarks. Noah actively avoids physical activity and believes himself to be the smartest person on the show, yet his closest bonds tend to be with the wackiest cast members.

For tropes from his time on the Ridonculous Race go here.

Ambiguously Bi: His voice and mannerisms can come off as pretty camp (particularly in the first season), and has cuddled with Cody twice (though the first time was unintentional and freaked him out), but he's also had Ship Tease with Bridgette, seems to actively dislike Justin, and has a romance arc with Emma in The Ridonculous Race.
And There Was Much Rejoicing: When he gets eliminated, everyone celebrates it, even the usually friendly Owen can't help but loudly cheer.
Ascended Extra: He was voted off third in Island, only appearing in six total episodes out of 26, but has a much more prominent role in World Tour and in the spinoff The Ridonculous Race, making it about halfway through both seasons.
Asshole Victim: In the first season, Noah's elimination is celebrated by everyone. After he starts to complain, his entire team starts throwing marshmallows at him. Due to his constant whining, it's not undeserved.
Brainy Brunette: A dark-haired character with absurdly high intelligence and hacking skills (according to his biography at least).
Breakout Character: Despite initially being one of the most minor contestants in the series, his snarky personality caused him to become a massive fan favorite, which eventually led to him becoming a major character in The Ridonculous Race.
Brilliant, but Lazy: His Deadpan Snarkiness may have had something to do with that...
Bromantic Foil: To Owen. In contrast with Owen being a happy, go-lucky, lovable goofball, Noah is snarky, cynical, and indifferent about everything.
Bollywood Nerd: Word of God says he's Indian, but unlike most examples of this trope, it's not obvious.
Bookworm: He's the type of intellectual that would much rather read a book than participate in sports.
Bullying a Dragon:
- When he arrives on the island, one of the first things he does is make a mildly mocking comment towards Duncan, a guy with piercings and a spiked collar who doesn't really look like someone you should mess with.
  Noah: Nice piercings, original. Do them yourself?
  Duncan: (grabs Noah's lip) Yeah. You want one?
  Noah: (not intimidated) No, thanks. Can I have my lip back, please?
- He does it again in the Island special, when he teases Duncan for getting left behind by Courtney when he sprains his ankle and she runs off with the million-dollar briefcase.
  Noah: So, your girlfriend turned on you, huh? Bet you feel like a loser now. Less of a man.
  Duncan: Enough of a man to take your head off, geek! (rips off Noah's pants and sends him running away, screaming like a little girl)
Butt-Monkey: After Tyler, he is the most frequent pain magnet of his team in season three.
Character Development: Went from an almost eternally frowning Non-Action Snarker who hates physical activity to being a Not So Stoic Deadpan Snarker who's willing to work when needed.
Child Prodigy: He hacked into a video game system and became its site moderator when he was six years old. His biography even describes him as "a child prodigy with an IQ reading off the charts".
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To Izzy and Owen in World Tour.
Deadpan Snarker: He's got the sharpest tongue among the first-gen campers, if not overall.
"Eeeeeee. Congratulations, you just peaked. It's all downhill from here, honey."
- He even manages to snark while singing:
  "Come fly with uuuuus, come die with uuuuuus."
- And while falling towards certain death:
  "But first we must cease dropping, our goal here would be stopping."
Determined Defeatist: During World Tour, he retains his cynical attitude, but gives his all in challenges to help his team win.
A Death in the Limelight: In "Dodgebrawl" and "I See London..."; the first time the extra screen time justified his elimination; the second time it revealed him as a threat.
Dork in a Sweater: An Insufferable Genius who wears a sweater-vest.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: His default expression gives him half-lidded eyes to emphasize his laziness and sarcastic attitude.
Dub Name Change: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to “Lucas.”
Early Personality Signs: According to his TDI and TDWT biographies, his intelligence dates back to infancy, as he was reading the ingredients on his pablum when he was a baby and hacked into his favorite MMORPG at age six. His biting wit also dates back to childhood, as he claims he made his bully cry at assembly by mocking his shoes.
Fascinating Eyebrow: His default expression has his eyebrow raised quizzically.
Fate Worse than Death: Downplayed. In “Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island”, as Harold keeps telling Noah several unwanted facts, Noah mimics the acts of shooting himself in the brain and hanging himself, indicating he’d rather do that than listen to Harold.
Foil: Noah and Owen are best of friends but otherwise are polar opposites in virtually every single way. Owen is a big, fat, and none-too-bright optimist with an enthusiastic attitude, love for having fun, and an eagerness to make friends, while Noah is a small, scrawny, and highly intelligent cynic with an apathetic view of the world, a lazy nature, and a condescending attitude towards most people.
Genre Savvy: According to his biography, he signed up to Total Drama to apply his "multi weaponed fantasy land surviving skills" to the real world.
Girly Run: He does this as he flees the erupting volcano in the World Tour finale. Eva flat out tells him he runs like a girl in "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island".
Good Is Not Nice: He may be ethical but that doesn't make him any less abrasive.
Hate Sink: Noah has very little positive qualities in the first season. He spends most of his screentime insulting his own team and cannot comprehend why he’s voted off. Keep in mind, he had done nothing to help his teammates and blames everyone but himself for his elimination. After his elimination, he becomes the second sourest person on the island(after Courtney, who he ironically calls out for being a Sore Loser) and still believes he was a team player who did nothing wrong. Noah also shows a total disrespect to any of his fellow competitors to the point where his entire team votes him out and celebrates afterwards. This actually failed as Noah ended up being well-liked for his hilarious one liners and the writers exploited this to give him more focus turning him into one of the most beloved characters of the franchise.
Heroes Love Dogs: "My golden lab drools less [than Courtney does over Duncan] over a rib-eye steak."
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Owen as of World Tour. They're even teamed up in The Ridonculous Race.
Hidden Depths: In the Action special, he shows that he's stronger than he looks when he angrily kicks a TV.
Hypocritical Humor:
- After his team loses the dodgeball challenge he tells them they had a weak effort. This is coming from the guy who did nothing to help them all episode. The rest of the team is understandably fed up with him for this.
- He also calls Courtney out for being a Sore Loser, yet he himself maintains a Never My Fault attitude regarding his early elimination and acted like a Sore Loser when he got eliminated.
Impossibly High IQ: He has "an IQ reading off the charts" of 180.
Informed Attribute: He has false teeth but it's only mentioned once by Sierra before she was formally introduced.
Informed Ability:
- It's stated that he's smart In-Universe and by Word of God, but he's rarely ever seen doing anything smart, which is largely due to a case of Brilliant, but Lazy.
- Downplayed regarding his Island label, "The Schemer." He doesn't do much actual scheming or even strategizing in any of his seasons, but him being a schemer isn't even mentioned much in his biographies, unless one counts the fact he criticizes his bullies to the point of tears. It's likely just a remnant of some scrapped Noah characterization.
Insufferable Genius: He's known for being a sarcastic and abrasive snob that tends to brag about his intelligence. Being lazy, smug and antisocial doesn't help his case, but it did cause him to get on others' nerves to the point of them voting him out first for being a stuck-up jerk that refused to participate in the dodgeball tournament. Luckily, he does become more involved in helping others.
Jerkass: In Total Drama Island, he has little characterization beyond being a snide little prick who does nothing to help his team. He gets much better in later seasons, though.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a notorious Deadpan Snarker who has an insult prepared for everyone, but he still seems to be on good terms with Owen and Izzy, and is cordial enough to warn everybody about Alejandro upon being eliminated in World Tour.
Knight in Sour Armor: His laziness makes him reluctant to take up the hero role, but he nonetheless remains on the good side.
Lack of Empathy: In "Aftermath: I, he's the only one who doesn't respond emotionally to Trent's breakup song◊, instead looking bored out of his mind. Note that this was a song that moved Eva to tears.
The Lancer: He is the only one on the team able to see through Alejandro and has secretly opposed him since Day 1. In "I See London ..." he steps out of his usual laid-back persona and takes up the leadership role in Alejandro’s absence. Though that ends up with him being targeted by Alejandro and getting eliminated that very episode.
Lazy Bum: In the first season. He refuses to help his team and his bio states his favourite hobbies are sitting, laying down and occasionally leaning.
Little Guy, Big Buddy: With Owen in World Tour, whom he literally calls "Big Buddy".
The Load: In the first season, Noah contributed nothing to his team. Thankfully he learns from his past experience and proves much more willing to help in season three.
Major Injury Underreaction: In "I See London...", he falls several hundred feet from the jet, smashes face-first into a bus, and then gets crushed by the 296-pound Owen. Once Owen (who is unhurt) recovers from shock, the following exchange occurs:
Owen: Well! That wasn't so bad, was it Noah?
Noah: (twitches a visibly broken arm) Mhm.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine Boy to both Eva and Izzy's Masculine Girl.
Massive Numbered Siblings: According to his bio, he's the youngest of nine.
Meaningful Name: Possibly just a coincidence, but given how lazy he is, it's fitting that his name means "rest."
My Brain Is Big: Downplayed. His defining character trait is his intelligence, and he has a very large forehead.
Never My Fault: During his stay in the Playa Des Losers in Island, Noah seems to believe he was eliminated because he wasn't "bossy, manipulative or dangerous enough", and not because he spent most of his time snarking and refusing to help his team during the dodgeball challenge.
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Of every generation's Only Sane Man, he's the self-absorbed, anti-social Deadpan Snarker who Took a Level in Kindness in-between to Mike's nice and Dave's mean.
Non-Action Snarker: Noah might be the king of this trope, to the point where he was eliminated very early in season one just because he wouldn't play dodgeball. Fortunately, he becomes far more active in World Tour but retains his signature snarker nature.
Not So Stoic: He's a lot more expressive during Action and World Tour than he was during Island, one example being his response to the music chime going off after everyone falls off the jet in "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan".
Noah: Seriously!? I mean, seriously!?
Odd Friendship: With Owen, Izzy, and Eva.
Out of Focus: During the first two seasons and again after World Tour before returning for The Ridonculous Race, where he becomes one of the more focused-on characters.
Perpetual Frowner: Frowns for the duration of almost every episode he appears in (unless if he is actually amused or is having fun).
Plot Allergy: Noah greets Chris when he arrives on Wawanakwa Island in "Not So Happy Campers - Part 1" by inquiring if he got his memo about his life-threatening allergies. With the exception of an allergy to panda dander in "Super Crazy Happy Fun Time in Japan", none of these allergies play a role in the story and the line seems to establish Noah as uptight.
Sarcastic Devotee: In World Tour his sarcasm towards his team is at all time high but he remains firmly loyal.
Shipper on Deck: He supports Tyler/Lindsay and, ironically enough, Cody/Gwen.
Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: One of the reasons he's voted off early in Island; being a cynic while not contributing to physically-challenging events doesn't gain his teammates' support.
The Slacker: He has a habit of working hard to get out of doing anything that requires effort. It is the very reason for his elimination in "Dodgebrawl".
Sleep Squashing: Happens to him in "Broadway, Baby!" when Owen falls asleep on him all night.
The Smart Guy: On Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot.
Smug Snake: A rare non-villainous example in Island, he's a sarcastic, disdainful and snobbish intellectual who believed he's too self-important to play something childish like dodgeball.
The Snark Knight: His only distinctive trait in season one. After three seasons, Noah's fleshed out more but is still definitely a snarker when he wants to be.
Sore Loser: In Island, Noah can’t comprehend why everyone voted him out and throws a small tantrum afterwards. At Playa Del Losers, he STILL blames Executive Meddling and a ‘lack of team spirit’ for his elimination.
The Stoic: He had a very limited emotional range in Island.
Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Smart Guy to both Eva and Izzy's Strong Girl.
Teen Genius: Noah's online bio reveals he has an IQ of 180.
Took a Level in Kindness: While still as sarcastic as ever, Noah is more social in season three than he was in season one, making friends with both Izzy and Owen and is now puts more effort in competing in challenges.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Has shades of this with Izzy.
Vocal Evolution: His voice gets much lower and deeper as the competition progresses.
We Hardly Knew Ye: In Island, to an extent. He was the third contestant voted off, and only ever spoke in half of the four episodes he was a contestant. He gets far more extensive Character Development in World Tour.

Owen

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"This is awesome! WOOOHOOO!!"

Voiced by: Scott McCord

Label: The Party Guy

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Killer Grips, Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot, Reality TV Pros

Placements: 1st/2nd ^* (TDI 2007), 3rd ^*(TDA), 8th (TDWT), 8th (TDP:RR)

Eliminated in: Episode 26 (TDI 2007), Episode 24^* (TDA), Episode 19 (TDWT), Episode 18 (TDP:RR)

Outgoing, enthusiastic, optimistic, and none-too-clever, Owen's girth and appetite are only rivaled in size by his heart. He came to Total Drama just to have a fun time and make friends with everyone. Just steer clear of his butt after he's had beans though.

For tropes from his time on the Ridonculous Race go here.

Achievements in Ignorance: In "Monster Cash", Chris sets up a challenge where the contestants have to search through a buffet of fake food in order to find a key. Before he can even finish explaining it, however, Owen devours all of the fake food on the table and then burps out the key.
Acrofatic: Usually played straight, but sometimes averted as per Rule of Funny. For example, he was out of breath before trying to run away from the monster in the premiere of Action, and it took him ten-and-a-half hours to run three city blocks.
All-Loving Hero: There is not a single character that he has directly come to blows with. Though ironically he always seems to end up at the top of every antagonists' hit-list. The closest he got to showing hostility towards someone was when he admitted that Heather was mean and when he forfeited the handcuff challenge with Heather after Heather insulted Izzy.
Ambiguously Bi: He dated Izzy but is also affected by Justin's powers.
Owen: There are two syllables for hot: "Jus" and "Tin." That guy is so hot I could kiss him... because he's a good team member. Doh, why'd I say that?
Animals Hate Him: Inexplicably, if Owen encounters an animal—any animal—it will almost certainly maul him.
Arch-Enemy: To Alejandro. While initially it is a one-sided Unknown Rivalry on Alejandro's side, eventually Owen would learn the truth about Alejandro's vileness and the Spaniard would become one of the few characters to earn Owen's ire.
Art Shift: Into a crude children's crayon drawing style whenever he tells a story, and during his musical number in "Jamaica Me Sweat".
Back for the Finale: Though he does not compete, Owen makes an appearance in the All-Stars season finale, his farts fully loaded.
Be Careful What You Wish For: In "Jamaica Me Sweat" he states his intentions to break up with Izzy, one plane to the head and one jolt of hyper-intelligence later, Izzy is airlifted away by the army and she breaks up with him; in the episode's song, Owen sings about how much he misses Izzy and regrets this outcome. It's sadder than it sounds.
Berserk Button:
- Don't make him hungry. You wouldn't like him when he's hungry.
- And don’t insult Izzy in front of him, either.
Beware the Nice Ones: It takes a lot to make Owen angry; however, when he does, beware. Heather found this out the hard way after she insulted Izzy one too many times in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon".
Beware the Silly Ones: Owen is a definite goofball, but when he's motivated (especially by food), he can become quite effective.
Big Eater: He inhales food like air, and always wants seconds, maybe even fifths. According to himself, he weighs 296 pounds.
Owen: My mom says I eat when I'm upset. And happy. And tired. Not to mention bored, gassy, morose, joyous, comatose, semi-conscious, avuncular... (suddenly grows a mustache) Hehe. Avuncular.
Big Fun: Easily one of the most excitable characters among the first generation.
The Big Guy: Owen clearly has girth to spare, but his size also provides him with surprisingly impressive strength.
Bromantic Foil: To Noah. In contrast with Noah is snarky, cynical, and indifferent about everything, Owen is a happy, go-lucky, lovable goofball.
Butt-Monkey: The walking fat joke. He's a clumsy, dumb, overweight glutton that gets a consistent amount in the show for 3 straight seasons. In Island, he has fallen off a cliff several times, impaled his foot on a rake, been stung by swarms of hornets multiple times in the same episode, and in general has had ridiculously bad luck, even more so than the rest of the cast.
Cannot Keep a Secret: He's prone to blurting out secrets when stressed, such as telling Gwen about the Guys' Alliance in Island or shouting to Team Amazon that he, Duncan and Alejandro were building a boat in "Sweden Sour".
Catchphrase:
- "You gonna finish that?"
- "Awesome!"
- "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEE!!!!!", or some variant of it, whenever someone is in any remote kind of danger, even when the danger is clearly just imaginary.
Classical Anti-Hero: Your typical loser who desperately tries and fails to be awesome. Always Played for Laughs.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: His thought process is very unusual, often performing spontaneous, bizarre antics like getting naked and dancing.
Companion Cube: Probably in a reference to Wilson from Cast Away, he creates one out of a coconut after being separated from the other campers during a flood. The coconut gets voted off at the end of the episode.
Covert Pervert: In one episode where the characters are wearing bath towels, he can be seen looking at Lindsay's cleavage and enjoying what he sees.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
- Despite being a Fat Comic Relief and The Load at times, Owen can be surprisingly effective at times and lasted long in the three seasons he's competed in, usually by sheer dumb luck.
- His Big Eater tendencies come in handy for the many food related challenges, especially when it comes to disgusting food which he will excel at.
- "Dodgebrawl" shows him to be extremely good at dodgeball, eliminating most of the opposition and ended up being the last player standing on his team.
Defiant to the End: Pulls this off completely by accident in World Tour, even when Alejandro is able to get him eliminated he manages to annoy the crap out of him his entire way down.
Cutting Off the Branches: In season 2 episode 7 of 2023, Owen returns as a guest judge where Priya and Chris mention he is a former Total Drama champion. Priya in particular mentions he is the FIRST EVER WINNER OF TDI. This means Gwen is now also the canon runner-up of Season 1.
Demoted to Extra: The only overall consistent main character of the original three seasons to not even compete in All Stars; he only has a cameo in the finale.
Depending on the Writer: His opinion on Chef's cooking varies from episode to episode. Sometimes he's the only one who likes it. Sometimes, he finds it just as disgusting as the other contestants.
Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Happens frequently, and at the most inconvenient times.
Dirty Coward: When he and Izzy were confronted by the psycho killer (actually Chef in disguise) in "Hook, Line, and Screamer", Owen threw Izzy at him and then fled.
The Ditz: He's a few sandwiches short of a picnic most of the time.
Dub Name Change: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to "Gontran".
Dumb Blonde: Owen is perfectly capable of rational thinking, but he is also very... simple.
Dumb Is Good: He is simultaneously one of the nicest and dumbest boys on the show.
Easily Forgiven: After Owen's elimination in Action, no one appears to be mad about him helping Chris sabotage the contestants, nor is it ever mentioned again. Not even by Harold who was directly eliminated because of his meddling.
Enfant Terrible: His rapid-fire confessions in "TDA Aftermath III" reveals that he was quite a troublemaker in his younger years.
Everyone Has Standards: Despite his ability to eat nearly anything, even he was grossed out when he had to drink shots of blended cockroach juice for a tiebreaker challenge in "Brunch of Disgustingness". He managed to drink more than Leshawna did but immediately fainted afterwards. In the first challenge, he was immediately horrified that the whole plate of beef meatballs he ate were literal meatballs, so he immediately pukes it all out.
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: He's an All-Loving Hero to everyone... except Heather. Although he tried to be nice to her until Heather insulted Izzy.
Owen: (in the confessional) Mom always says if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. In which case Heather would say NOTHING EVER!! She's the meanest, the nastiest, the biggest...(long bleep)...in all of Kalamazoo! (camera zooms out to show Heather in the confessional with him) ...No offense.
Heather: None taken. I sort of respect you for it. (Beat) Never do it again.
Expy: Of Survivor contestant, Richard Hatch, who like Owen had weight problems, displayed homosexual tendencies, often walked around naked, went through financial troubles, and won the very first season.
Extreme Omnivore: He'll eat almost anything, dead or organic. He'll also eat anything that remotely looks like food, which ends up giving him some extreme constipation after he ate an entire fake buffet made out of sawdust, plastic, and foam-core. In "I Triple Dog Dare You!", Heather even admitted that Owen's ability not to be disgusted by anything edible was his biggest strength. When he returns in season 2 episode 7 of 2023 as a guest judge, he casually admits he'd be fine eating Chris, and doesn't flinch when he learns one of the cakes was made with Ripper's armpit sweat. This is lampshaded by Heather a few times.
Heather: I think Owen's taste buds packed up and moved to France years ago.
Failed a Spot Check: In "Monster Cash", he devours an entire buffet of fake food made from foam core, silicone, and wax, somehow without noticing that none of it tastes even remotely like food. His only comment afterwards is, "The turkey was a bit... (burp) ...dry."
Fan Disservice: Owen gets naked a lot.
Fartillery: In "Sweden Sour", when his team is out of ammo, he decides to launch powered by his stored-up flatulence.
Faster Than They Look: He appears to be a nonathletic, sluggish, fat boy, and in most cases this is true. However, if you present food to him a distance away, he can outrun anyone in between him and said meal.
Fat Best Friend: Type C towards Noah.
Fat Comic Relief: He's both a Big Eater and a Gasshole, which are his main sources of humor, as well as being a very prominent Plucky Comic Relief character in the series.
Fat Idiot: He's one of the heaviest contestants on the show, with an IQ on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Foil: Noah and Owen are best of friends but otherwise are polar opposites in virtually every single way. Owen is a big, fat, and none-too-bright optimist with an enthusiastic attitude, love for having fun, and an eagerness to make friends, while Noah is a small, scrawny, and highly intelligent cynic with an apathetic view of the world, a lazy nature, and a condescending attitude towards most people.
Follow Your Nose: His sense of smell is very sharp, but only when detecting food.
Food as Bribe: Happened in Island. As Heather proves, manipulating Owen is a piece of cake. Literally.
Fun Personified: Owen doesn't care if he wins the prize, all he wants is to have the best time ever and make as many friends as possible.
Gasshole: Infamously so among his fellow competitors. To the point where Noah has, as a result of spending so much time with him, gone and created an "Owen Stink Scale" by the time of Ridonculous Race.
Owen: There's a scale?!
Noah: Sure. Sushi bars are a 1, onion soup is a 5, spicy burritos go all the way up to 12. Those things can peel the varnish off a locker.
Owen: (snickers) It's true.
Gentle Giant: He's probably the heaviest character overall, and likewise sweet.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Played for laughs in "Camp Castaways", when he goes insane after only 11 minutes of being alone at sea in the confessional booth and starts treating a coconut like it's alive.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Being mean makes him feel uncomfortable.
Heroes Love Dogs: He owns a dog, as he mentions in "I Triple Dog Dare You!".
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Noah as of World Tour. They're even teamed up in The Ridonculous Race.
Hidden Depths: Owen might not look it, but he does have surprising talents.
- He is surprisingly competent in the dodgeball challenge, during "Dodgebrawl", where he singlehandedly takes out all of the opposition when angered.
  Owen: Great Gatsby, that is it! GAME ON!
- Despite being a very fictional storyteller, to his own detriment, when he mentions his grandfather taught him how to fish, he actually meant it, and by the looks of it, he managed to catch enough fish for his entire team without any proper fishing gear, so all those talks about wilderness survival skills actually have merit.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The Huge Guy to Izzy's Tiny Girl. While the height difference isn't that big, Izzy is rather thin, while Owen is very fat.
Iconic Item: Mr. Coconut.
Inappropriate Hunger: When Owen gets hungry, it will be all that's on his mind, even while in the middle of a challenge. In "If You Can't Take The Heat..." he ate an entire plate of ribs that his team was supposed to serve to Chris as part of a three-course meal, causing them to lose.
The Juggernaut: Never, ever get in between Owen and food, lest you find yourself accidentally trampled.
Keet: He's a much larger version of this.
Kevlard: His massive girth makes him practically impossible to hurt or take down with physical force. In "Who Can You Trust?" he takes several hits from Leshawna's misaimed apples without a scratch, and in "Greece's Pieces", Cody tries to tackle him during the wrestling challenge but just bounces off his stomach.
Kid-Appeal Character: Younger fans adore him, and the creators know it.
Kindhearted Simpleton: He can rival Lindsay as the kindest, but dumbest camper among the first generation.
The Klutz: One of the character's biggest traits is his over-the-top clumsiness though he can occasionally be agile moments, they pale in comparison to his tendency of falling to the ground a lot and getting stuck in a tight space.
Large Ham: Especially when he's scared.
Little Guy, Big Buddy: With Noah in World Tour.
The Load: Played with. His girth as well as his insatiable appetite are sometimes a boon, and sometimes they are a burden.
Lovable Coward: He gets frightened often and is easily intimidated, though it is usually depicted in a humorous light. Usually.
Made of Iron: Owen has fallen off more cliffs than anyone else on the show, and doesn't even get a scratch on him. On at least one occasion, he survived after being crushed by a plane.
Manchild: He was 16 in Island putting him at a half-way point between this and Kiddie Kid. However during the unspecified Time Skip between World Tour and The Ridonculous Race and the 15 year Time Skip between the original series and the reboot he still looks, sounds and acts the same.
Minion with an F in Evil: Why Chris thought he would make a good saboteur in "Action" is anyone's guess.
The Mole: When he's brought back in season two, he's supposed to give the rest of the cast Conflict Balls in exchange for the money to pay off debts from his mom buying a cheese cellar.
Morality Pet: Probably the closest thing to one for Chris.
Nice Guy: Owen is incredibly friendly and affectionate to pretty much everyone he interacts with. Gwen once asks him if "he ever had a bad thought about anyone?"
Nice, Mean, and In-Between:
- Of the three Island finalists, Owen is the nice to Heather's mean and Gwen's in-between.
- Out of the final three members of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot, he's the nice to Alejandro's mean and Duncan's in-between.
No-Neck Chump: Owen is a tall, rotund boy whose head at cheek level makes a straight line down to his torso.
Non-Gameplay Elimination: In Action, he is ejected from the competition by Chris (who had brought him back just to sabotage the others) after being found out as The Mole by the other contestants.
Odd Friendship:
- Him and Noah's, of course, but in general he gets along well with nearly everyone. He and Blaineley develop one in World Tour: he's the only contestant to cheer for her Blainerific musical number, and they bond over their shared loves of cake and farting in "Niagara Brawls". When he's eliminated at the end of the episode, Blaineley actually seems sad to see him leave.
- Notably, he shares one with Gwen the moody goth girl. Their friendship is one of the few relationships that remain consistent across the first three seasons. In the finale of Island, she lists him as one of the few people she considers sane. During Action, he's the only one on the Killer Grips who isn't mad at her because Trent threw the challenges for her sake. During World Tour, she tries to make him feel better about Izzy breaking up with him, and later, he supports her new relationship with Duncan.
Perpetual Smiler: Except for a few rare moments, he is usually seen smiling.
Ping Pong Naïveté: Depending on the episode his intellect ranges from slightly dim-witted to full-blown ditz, with the occasional flash of brilliance in-between.
Noah: So there is a brain in there. You've been holding out on me.
Owen: Holding out? I told you I smuggled some wieners off the plane.
Sanity Slippage: Briefly gets this in "Camp Castaways", to the point everyone votes Mr. Coconut out to prevent it from progressing further.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Has this dynamic with Duncan, being an optimistic Nice Guy to his delinquent Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
Series Mascot: The reason he appears on most of the show's promotional material.
Shoo Out the Clowns: Owen, the show's cornerstone of comic relief, does not compete in All-Stars, whose cast largely consists of the series' most serious characters. Even more noticeable as Lindsay, Lightning, Jo, and Sam, who were pretty much pure humor during their time on the season, are the first four booted out.
Sickeningly Sweet: This how Heat her describes his kind-hearted nature in one episode in season 1.
Sleepwalking: Eating beans apparently causes him to sleepwalk. And get naked.
Small Name, Big Ego: Regarding his wilderness skills. In "The Sucky Outdoors", he claims that he killed a ten-foot-tall bear with a single gunshot. Of course, when the real thing comes, he's not as prepared...
Heather: (when the Gophers are hiding in a tree from a bear) Hey, Owen! What now?
Owen: How should I know?
Leshawna: Dude, you said you killed a bear!
Owen: I was being theatrical!
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: He is one of the most focused-on contestants in the first three seasons, with him being one of the contenders for The Protagonist of the first generation alongside Gwen. He is heavily featured in the show's advertising and serves as a Series Mascot of sorts.
- He only goes Out of Focus for a short time in Action^note and after "Niagara Brawls" in World Tour.
- Owen goes completely Out of Focus after the first episode of Revenge of the Island, only reappearing for a brief cameo during the All Stars' finale. He gets the spotlight back in Ridonculous Race, where he competes in a team with Noah.
Still Sucks Thumb: After Izzy's button-pushing in "Can't Help Falling in Louvre" makes the Total Drama Jumbo Jet go through several stunts, Owen is left lodged in the overhead storage compartment where he sucks his thumb to calm himself down.
Tan Lines: He has a prominent shirt tan.
Token Good Teammate: When his team is down to him, Duncan, and Alejandro in World Tour.
Too Kinky to Torture: Something he shares with Izzy. In "I Triple-Dog-Dare You!", he voluntarily does some of the more disgusting dares, including eating dog food and re-chewing Harold's chewed gum, just because he's genuinely curious about what they're like.
Chris: (as Owen is about to eat a can of dog food) Dude, you have two freebies you can use! Better yet, you could dare an opponent...like, say, one without a freebie? (looks directly at Heather, who glares at him)
Owen: It's cool, bro! My dog digs this food! Time to find out what I've been missing! (happily devours it as everyone else looks on in horror) ...Meaty-tasting! (cue a Vomit Chain Reaction by everyone else)
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: He and Izzy are both known for leaving little to the imagination.
The Unreveal: He and Gwen are the only characters whose audition tapes have never been seen.
Unskilled, but Strong: Owen isn't the brightest bulb in the box, but his massive girth and appetite can be highly useful assets in the right situations.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "Beach Blanket Bogus", he advises Trent to try and help Gwen get ahead in the game, Trent decides to go about this by throwing his own team's challenges; when Gwen finds out she becomes deeply uncomfortable and breaks up with him.
Verbal Tic: When excited or shocked, he shouts unique exclamatory phrases, such as "Great Canadian cheese!", "For the love of Peter Pumpkin Eater!", and "Alexander the Freakin' Great—!"
Vocal Evolution: Owen's voice was deeper when Island first started. As the season progressed, it became more high-pitched.
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: He wears a maple leaf on his shirt, indicating that the show is made in Canada. According to his bio, it's because he's a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
What the Hell, Hero?: He got this response from Harold, Beth, and Courtney after he was exposed as Chris's saboteur in Action.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: He tries to see the good in everyone. Except Heather.
Gwen: Have you ever had a bad thought about anyone?
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is terrified of flying. It becomes a major problem in World Tour where contestants travel by plane, at least for the first few episodes.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
- His second elimination in Action and his elimination in World Tour.
- Chris, quoting the trope, attaches an explosive to his face in Revenge of the Island.

Trent

"I really feel I made such awesome friends here, it's hard for me to vote anyone off."

Voiced by: Scott McCord

Label: The Cool Guy

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Killer Grips

Placements: 11th (TDI 2007), 13th (TDA)

Eliminated in: Episode 16 (TDI 2007), Episode 5 (TDA)

A smooth and handsome young man with a friendly, mild-mannered, and easygoing attitude, Trent is the personification of every teenage girl's dream guy — complete with guitar skills that only further endear him to the ladies. However, he can be quite neurotic, obsessive, and erratic when under stress.

Abusive Parents: Trent reveals in "Brunch of Disgustingness" that his parents used to hold him down and force-feed him broccoli "for his own good". It left such an impact that when his team uses the same tactic during the gross food challenge, Trent mentally reverts to infancy.
Amicable Exes: As of World Tour, he's able to have a polite conversation with his ex-girlfriend Gwen.
Badass Biker: Trent states that if he wins the prize money, he'd use it to buy a new motorcycle.
Butt-Monkey: Well let's see, the poor guy has suffered a concussion, been poisoned, put in a full body cast after falling out of a plane, landed on a fence post crotch first, suffers a mental breakdown and Gwen breaks up with him. All of this is Played for Laughs.
Chick Magnet: Aside from Gwen, Lindsay and Beth also seem to be interested in him during Island, and after the break-up Katie and Sadie quickly start fighting over him. He also notes that he's "met a ton of chicks" since the relationship ended.
Compressed Vice: His obsession with the number nine in season two. Harold claims that Trent always had it, even though it was never even hinted at in season one.
Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: He and Justin are the losers to Cody and Harold's losers in "The Drama Brothers".
Crazy Jealous Guy: In season two, he becomes jealous of Duncan upon seeing how well Gwen gets along with him.
Decoy Protagonist: In Action, he's heavily focused on, with a major arc being his relationship issues with Gwen... until he ends up eliminated in the fifth episode.
Demoted to Extra: By World Tour, where he only appears in the Aftermath episodes in minor roles. His last appearance to date was a non-speaking cameo in the first episode of Revenge of the Island.
Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: By Action, Trent has pretty much lost any individual characterization, outside of being Gwen's ex. Even with his brief appearances in the Celebrity Manhunt special and World Tour, he's mainly just there as eye-candy for other girls.
Derailing Love Interests: Through a sudden, nine-centric obsession, he becomes obsessed with Gwen to the point that it pushes her away, leaving her open for her next romance with Duncan. After the second aftermath he's not as crazy and in future episodes he and Gwen seem happy as just friends.
Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't like broccoli, which his parents forced him to eat as a kid.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: His default expression has half-lidded eyes, showing how relaxed and chill he is. Fittingly, his eyes are fully open more often when he spirals into a Crazy Jealous Guy in the second season.
Dub Name Change: In the Canadian French dub, his name is changed to “Loïc.”
Everyone Has Standards: When Gwen asks Trent to tell Courtney she was just friends with Duncan, he stays silent, too heartbroken from their breakup to defend her. However, when Geoff wants to throw Gwen in a dunk tank full of piranhas, he puts his foot down and tells Geoff that that is enough, he was the one who threw the game, not Gwen, and it was not her fault. Gwen thanks Trent and apologizes to him, with him telling her that they're cool.
Everyone Hates Mimes: He has an intense fear/hatred of mimes. He explains that this is due to a mime following him when he was a kid after being lost from his mother at a carnival.
Everything but the Girl: As a celebrity, he seems to be doing pretty well on his own.
Foil: To Courtney. Both of them were major characters in Island who had major romance arcs with one of the final four, with both being eliminated in the same way. Both of them promptly break up with their respective love interests, with said love interests (Gwen and Duncan) later ending up in a relationship with each other. However, Trent is substantially more considerate of Gwen's feelings and wants her to feel happy, while Courtney is more assertive and demanding in her relationship with Duncan. Both end up with their relationships ending, however, Gwen and Trent remain on good terms after the breakup, Courtney becomes immensely hostile towards Duncan and constantly antagonizes him.
Four-Fingered Hands: An odd example: Trent himself has four fingers just like everyone else, but his shirt's handprint actually has five digits rather than four.
General Failure: During his brief tenure as leader of the Killer Grips, Trent displays poor leadership skills as he spends too much time thinking of his relationship with Gwen to the point he started to sabotage his own team.
Generic Guy: During the first season, when he didn't have any major faults and was merely a Nice Guy. Action changes this by giving him an obsession with the number 9 and having him go mad out of jealousy.
Hypocrite: In World Tour, Trent calls Duncan an idiot for quitting in the first episode and blowing a chance for a million dollars. This coming from the same guy who threw challenges for his girlfriend's team in the previous season.
Informed Attribute: According to his bio, he loves motorcycles, dreams of building his own bike shop and wants the prize money to buy his dream bike. We never see evidence of this in the series.
Laser-Guided Karma: His plan of throwing challenges for Gwen in Action cost him dearly. Gwen breaks up with him because of it, his team finds out about this and votes him out, all the while pressuring Gwen to return the favors she never asked for and giving Gwen a terrible public image for it all. To Trent's credit, he fully accepts the responsibility of his actions and doesn't blame anyone but himself, nor does he want anyone blaming Gwen for it either, which more or less helped restore her public image.
Leaning on the Furniture: Whenever he's shown sitting, he almost always has one foot propped up on the chair.
Love Makes You Crazy: He went crazy out of fear that Duncan would steal Gwen away from him. He got better, but only after they broke up.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The sensitive and artistic feminine boy to Gwen's gutsy and fierce masculine girl.
Mr. Fanservice: Between his smooth voice, cool demeanor, and a choice selection of shirtless scenes, Trent is meant to be the high school dream guy.
Nice Guy: As long as he isn't stressed out, he's affable towards almost any contestant on the show.
Number Obsession: In Action, Trent develops an obsession with the number nine. This manifests as him doing everything nine times and forcing his teammates to say his name nine times in a row when they nominate him for a tie-breaking challenge. While Duncan suggests that it's because the number of letters in the names of Trent and his girlfriend Gwen adds up to nine, Trent later reveals that it's because he had a beloved toy train as a child that lost one of its ten wheels.
Only Sane Man: Barring his number 9 obsession, he's probably one of the most normal contestants on the show.
Out-of-Character Moment:
- Threatening to rearrange Cody's face in "Up the Creek". Granted, he thought Cody was making fun of him at the time, but it was still strange considering how mild-mannered he usually is.
- Breaking up with a girlfriend via text message (from Justin's phone at that) in the Action special.
Out of Focus: Starting with his elimination in Action and from World Tour onwards.
Pitbull Dates Puppy: Gwen being the "pitbull" to Trent's "puppy".
Punny Name: As highlighted in Gwen's Island biography, Trent's name is supposed to evoke the word "trend". As in, a nonconformist like Gwen isn't known to follow trends.
Sanity Slippage: Undergoes this in Action when he thinks he's losing Gwen to Duncan: he does everything in nines and eventually starts throwing challenges for Gwen's sake before finally being eliminated.
Satellite Love Interest: Aside from his relationship with Gwen, he doesn't bring much to the show. His role in Action makes him border on a deconstruction. When the only reason that he is there (Gwen) seems to be taken away from him, well...
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: His jealousy over Duncan and Gwen's friendship leads him to become very clingy and insecure around her, driving her away. While she doesn't cheat on him she and Duncan end up getting together afterward.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensible sensitive guy to Duncan's rebellious manly man.
Straight Man: Until Action, where his jealousy of Duncan and obsession with the number 9 rear their ugly heads, he was the most normal person on the Gophers.
Still Sucks Thumb: Being force-fed something he truly doesn't want to eat makes Trent mentally regress to infancy in "Brunch of Disgustingness". He goes back to thumb-sucking in that state.
Too Dumb to Live: In "Who Can You Trust?", he trusts Lindsay, of all people, to cook fugu blowfish for him—a dish that, if not prepared properly, is extremely poisonous and has no antidote. Somehow, he survives.
Tragic Keepsake: In "Aftermath I: Trent's Descent", Trent explains that when he was young, his granddad gave him a toy train. One of the wheels fell off shortly before the old man died, leaving the train with an uneven nine. 9 has been his lucky number since to the point of obsession.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: His fear of mimes stems from a childhood incident where he got separated from his mom at a circus.

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