Characters / Total Drama Toxic Rats

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Main Series: Hosts | Killer Bass | Screaming Gophers (Male, Female) | New World Tour Contestants | Mutant Maggots | Toxic Rats | Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon) | Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears) | Ferocious Trout | Frogs of Death | Others
Spinoffs: Ridonculous Race Newcomers | DramaRama

Total Drama's cast got so big that the page had to be split into several pages. This page is for the season 4 contestants in the Toxic Rats team.

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B

"..."

Voiced by: Unknown

Label: The Strong Silent Genius

Teams: Toxic Rats

Placements: 12th (TDRI)

Eliminated in: Episode 3 (TDRI)

B is a man of few words — zero words at all, in fact. But what he lacks in voice, he makes up for in immeasurable ingenuity and intelligence. Give him a problem and some materials, and he will very quickly MacGyver a brilliant contraption to solve the issue at hand.

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• The Ace: While he is incredibly quiet, B is shown to be an incredibly competent individual in challenges, and often led the team to victory.
• Acrofatic: Despite his size, he is fairly agile.
• Badass Longcoat: He keeps tools in his coat.
• Black Dude Dies First: He's the first of the male contestants sent home. Slightly downplayed since the final two were Lightning and Cameron.
• Elective Mute: B can speak, but chooses not to or is cut off at those rare times he does try to push through vocally. In the end, the only time his voice is heard is when he screams as he takes the Hurl of Shame in "Ice Ice Baby".
• Embarrassing First Name: The "B" stands for Beverly.
• Expy: Of Silent Bob, in both physical appearance and his speechless tendencies.
• Foil: To Cameron. Both are Black and Nerdy and both The Smart Guy for their respective teams. However, B is confident, assumed The Leader role, and often gives his team a big advantage. Cameron remained shy and meek, is often seen as The Load, and ends up being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass who unexpectedly surprises the team.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He somehow constructed a rocket sofa out of some junk he found.
• Gentle Giant: He's the largest of his team and is never malicious.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He is the Huge Guy to Dawn's Tiny Girl. He's a genius and born leader, but socially reserved. Dawn reaches out to him and acts as a buffer between him and the rest of the team.
• The Leader: He's a really good one, too, and were it not for Scott (and in the first episode's case, a Deus ex Machina), he probably could have consistently led the Toxic Rats to victory. It's what makes Scott target him for elimination.
• Never Bareheaded: With the exception of his audition tape, he is never seen without his hat.
• No-Neck Chump: B is a tall, rotund boy whose head at cheek level makes a straight line down to his torso.
• One-Letter Name: Until we find out it really stands for Beverly.
• The Smart Guy: Doubling as The Leader, B is the resident Gadgeteer Genius and one of the most intellectually resourceful characters in the season.
• The Silent Bob: Not surprising since he's an expy of the Trope Namer. So far, the only character to never actually speak, even in audition videos.
• Smart People Build Robots: B's technological know-how is demonstrated in his audition video by means of one robot in his likeness, a robot construction vehicle, and a mobile automated morning routine chair.
• Story-Breaker Power: It's apparent from early on that with B's genius inventions and solutions that put him so far ahead of the other contestants, he won't be around for long.
• Visible Silence: B's muteness is taken so far that in his biography, he answers all his questions with "..."
• The Voiceless: Until he's catapulted off the island, sort of.
• Walk, Don't Swim: While most others swim to shore, B just lets himself sink and starts walking. It's as absurd as Dawn's means to reach shore, but unlike her there's no other time that B is hinted to have abnormal abilities.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: While not being the first one out of the game, he never says a word and only lasts for three episodes.

Dakota

^{Click here for her mutated form}

"I just want camera time. People need to see more of my sparkly adorableness if I'm going to get my spinoff reality series."

Voiced by: Carleigh Beverly

Label: The Fame-Monger

Teams: Toxic Rats, Mutant Maggots

Placements: 7th^*Originally 12th (TDRI)

Eliminated in: Episode 8 (TDRI)^*Originally eliminated in Episode 2 (Brought back in Episode 7)

One of the biggest attention-seekers to have starred on reality TV, Dakota appears at first to be nothing more than your typical vapid, spoiled princess. Deep down, however, she really just wants to have somebody who will love and accept her for who she is.

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• Anime Hair: As Dakotazoid.
• Attention Whore: Played with. It is exaggerated because Dakota has her own paparazzi entourage (on speed dial no less) and will resort to almost anything to get her own reality series, yet it is also deconstructed because Dawn states that Dakota's need for fame is really a repressed cry for love.
  Dakota: Whoa! Who said you could pan away?
• Badass Adorable: As she's turning into a mutated monster, she easily becomes this.
• Baldness Means Sickness: After Chris sends her down to the toxic mines for forty minutes, she wakes up later in the infirmary and to her horror has lost all of her hair from the radiation. The next day it grows back but green and spiky and is a sign of her mutating.
• Beauty to Beast: Due to her overexposure to toxic waste, Dakota mutates into a literal monster.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's very feminine, and while her normal outfit doesn't show her midriff until she mutates, her sleepwear does. There's also her intern outfit, which she ties into a knot since it's too big for her. In contrast, the other female intern, who is more masculine, wears an unkempt oversized shirt.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: After her begging and Chris being bribed by her father, she is allowed to return to the show...as an intern. She eventually gets reinstated as a contestant against her will when Anne Maria quits.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: How Dakota falls for Sam. During their time on the show, Sam has been nothing but nice and respectful to her, and over time she began to appreciate that. In "Runaway Model", she happily gave Sam fashion advice because no one ever asked anything from her, Sam called her an Angel, which essentially wins her over. It is sealed when she turned into a mutant, and even then, Sam still likes her, even more so, so Dakota's elimination didn't hurt as much because Sam is all she needs now.
• Berserk Button: For photographers and video cameramen, never shift focus away from her.
• Body Horror: Her hideous mutation.
• Brainless Beauty: At first, it's justified because her family's fame, riches, and her good looks seem to have gotten her through life, but in "Runaway Model", it's deconstructed a bit when Sam asks her for fashion advice and she's positively delighted since no one's actually asked for her advice about anything before.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Most especially after she got mutated with some radioactive stuff.
• Butt-Monkey: The inevitable result of being one of Chris's interns. Chris treats her as his personal slave.
  • She gets catapulted off the island a second time by Chris at the end of "Finders Creepers" for no reason other than sick laughs.
  • During the recap in "Backstabbers Ahoy", she gets dumped into the lake by Chef Hatchet and bitten by the mutant piranhas as a wake-up call. Later, while demonstrating the challenge, she is blown to a buoy in the middle of the lake and forced to fend off Fang.
  • In "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", she loses all her hair after spending too much time in the toxic mine shaft and is later forced back into the game after Anne Maria quits.
  • Then, in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean", her prior exposures to radiation lead to an Hulk-esque transformation.
• Cute Monster Girl: How Sam views her after her mutation.
• Daddy's Girl: Her father spoils her silly. He even tries to help her get back onto the show a second time.
• Determinator: She hang glides back to Camp Wawanakwa in order to get more camera time.
• Drama Queen: Because of her fame-mongering, she can act as one occasionally.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. She's not Book Dumb like Lindsay, although she had no idea how to use a hacksaw until Dawn told her to "pretend it’s daddy's steak knife".
• Eye Color Change: She had green eyes with normal white sclera before her mutation, which gives her red slit eyes and yellow sclera.
• Fallen Princess: Her desire for fame is implied to be this for her.
• The Fashionista: She gives Sam fashion advice in "Runaway Model". Also, she aspired to become a fashion model after Total Drama.
• Foreshadowing:
  • At the end of her audition tape she said she would be the biggest thing ever. After being mutated by the nuclear waste, she's technically the biggest contestant the series has ever had.
  • Dawn also predicts in "Truth or Laser Shark", where Dakota is first eliminated, that if Dakota stays on the island, disaster will befall upon her. Dakota returns the following night after being eliminated and insists on staying for camera time, and after being bribed by her father Chris lets her stay as an intern, which eventually leads to her exposure to toxic waste, and her following mutation into a monster.
• Freaky Is Cool: One of her and Sam's bonding points is that they both have a soft spot for weird stuff. In "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", she finds a mutant squirrel adorable, wanting one as a pet until it tries to zap her with its Eye Beams. She and Sam are the only two who like the mutant squirrel. Dakota herself mutates in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean", something she is initially uneasy about socially while all the same enjoying the physical boost. Once she's ascertained that Sam still likes her, she takes her mutation in stride and in an exclusive clip is shown to have taken her new form to the stage as a pro wrestler.
• Friendless Background: A likely reason behind her fame-mongering. In a confessional, she states that she has to start the "friending" process with Zoey after Sam was eliminated, implying she’s never done it before.
• Gentle Giant: Her post-mutation form is both powerful and intimidating but she only uses her strength against things she perceives as threats, such as angry crocodiles, giant mutant turtles or Chris, especially when necessary.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her true personality, which was slowly revealing as she appears much further, even when she loses her blonde hair after Chris carelessly left her in the radioactive mines, which caused her mutation, and unexpectedly gave her spiky green hair.
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Especially during her time as an intern.
• Hellish Pupils: Her eyes become red vertical slits after her mutation.
• Humanoid Abomination: As of "Treasure island of Dr. McLean".
• Hulk Speak: After her transformation.
• Idol Singer: One of her aspirations in life after Total Drama, according to her if she has the time while being a fashion model and movie star.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: According to Dawn, this is all Dakota wants. Judging from Dakota's reaction, Dawn proves to be right about that.
• In-Series Nickname: Sam and Chris call her the Dakotazoid after she mutates. She also uses it for her wrestling nickname.
• The Intern: Dakota is one of only two contestants to temporarily take the job of an intern, the other being Noah. She lasts from "Ice Ice Baby" until "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", which is when Chris reinstates her against her will as a contestant to replace Anne Maria.
• It's All About Me: Her reason for coming back to Camp Wawanakwa after her first elimination.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When Dakota first appears, she an egotistical, narcissistic and bratty rich girl who joins the show to become famous despite having a rich father. However, she was never truly malicious. She behaves quite kindly towards her fellow contestants. It became apparent that underneath her spoiled demeanor, she a lot more sweet-natured and even formed a genuinely loving relationship with Sam.
• Kawaiiko: Though not to the extent of Katie and Sadie, Dakota mentions her "sparkly adorableness" as a reason why Chris should let her back on the show after her first elimination.
• Literal Metaphor: In her audition tape, she says that after she's done with Total Drama, she'll be "the biggest thing ever". She did become the biggest thing ever after her mutation.
• The Load: Her constant posing for the paparazzi made her a legitimate liability, costing her team the challenge in "Truth or Laser Shark". However, this is averted in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean", where she saves her teammates from Fang and a mutated alligator courtesy of her newfound mutant Super-Strength.
• Lonely Rich Kid: What may have motivated her in joining Total Drama (even though she has her father Mr. Milton to back her up), as evidenced by Dawn's telepathic conversation with her, where her reason for joining the franchise was described as being "a depressed cry for love".
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Her blonde hair went down to her hips before she lost it all in the radioactive mine. Her mutated form has shorter and spiky neon green hair.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: She shares the stereotypical behavior of an Alpha Bitch, but is one of the nicer contestants.
• Magic Pants: Along with a Magic Top, as she mutates.
• Mauve Shirt: While she was an intern.
• Meaningful Name: Though it may just be a coincidence, the name "Dakota" means "friend" or "ally", which fits her genuinely Spoiled Sweet personality rather well.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Lindsay, set up as a contrast of the 'blonde pretty girl' stereotype. While both are fashionable Daddys Girls with fathers who spoil themselves silly, there is an important difference. Lindsay is happy with what she has even though she doesn't have everything (hence wanting to win the million), Dakota is spoiled to the point where she has everything money could buy^note being the only contestant to date who did not enter for the prize money but was not satisfied as the one thing money couldn't buy was fame. While Lindsay was beloved by all, Dakota ended up annoying quite a few with her spoiled attitude and her paparazzi. Lindsay is a Dumb Blonde who makes a lot of ditzy moves, while Dakota has a reasonable degree of common sense. Lindsay also ended up in a stereotypical cheerleader-jock relationship with Tyler, while Dakota ended up getting together with resident nerd Sam in an odd case of Opposites Attract.
  • Her performance in Revenge of the Island parallels Ezekiel's performance in World Tour. In their respective seasons, both were eliminated very early, insisted on returning, and eventually mutated into literal monsters. Both of their transformations were fueled by their resentment of Chris and involved a change in skin color and hairstyle, as well as the loss of their footwear. The big difference, however, is that while Ezekiel becomes a feral, greed-driven parody of Gollum that is seemingly unable to talk, Dakota retains her sanity and is able to talk in broken English.
• Misery Builds Character: Before she was an intern, she spent all her screen time as a vapid, useless Daddy's Girl.
• Mutants: In "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste", Dakota is sent into a radioactive mine by Chris to test the area for safety. She stays for forty minutes, blacks out at some point, and gets retrieved by the other interns and put in the infirmary. To her horror she discovers she lost all her hair after she comes to, and about a day after, in "The Treasure Island of Doctor McLean", she gradually becomes bigger, stronger, spikier, and more prone to Hulk Speak every time she experiences a burst of anger. Her final form is powerful, inhumanly tall, and in the possession of green spiked hair, orange skin, red eyes, shoulder and elbow spikes, razor-sharp teeth, and a tail. She comes to like her new self, with Sam finding her even more attractive than before and makes a career out of it as a wrestler, being one of the few mutants not to make the Fun Zone their home.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Given her blonde hair, starlet attitude and rich daddy named Mr. Milton, Dakota seems to be based on Paris Hilton.
• Not a Morning Person: As revealed in "Truth or Laser Shark", Dakota needs to have her sleep until a reasonable time in the morning or she develops baggy and bloodshot eyes.
• Nuclear Mutant: Turns into one.
• Ominous Hair Loss: She temporarily loses all her hair after being exposed to radioactive waste. Her hair grows back, but it's green and spiky as part of her transformation.
• Opposites Attract: She's a wealthy spoiled rich girl while her boyfriend, Sam, is a chubby gamer geek.
• Paparazzi: She has an entourage of them on speed dial before Chris took away her cell phone. Also, after Dakota becomes an intern, Chris puts a restraining order against her entourage.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her online bio states that her favorite color is "pink, pink, pink", and her regular outfit consists of a pink tube top, pink flats, and magenta pants, and she wears pink lipstick.
• Proud Beauty: Loves posing for the paparazzi, and her online bio states her best quality is that she looks great on camera and the worst dream she ever had was one where she woke up and she was kinda ugly like a "normal person".
• Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Her transformation into Dakotazoid is triggered by being exposed to nuclear waste.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted, as she still retains her nice personality after her mutation.
• Rich Bitch: She starts out as this.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: While her daddy has a lot of money, she is lacking in common sense. Ultimately subverted, in that she does show some common sense, in very stark contrast to Lindsay.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Her daddy bribes Chris to let her back on the show.
• Serious Business: She treats having her picture taken as such.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her "depressed cry for love" is met with her interactions with Sam, whom she fell in love with after he was very nice to her.
• Small Name, Big Ego: More like "Big Name, Bigger Ego" given that she was already famous before joining Total Drama.
• Spoiled Sweet: Coming from a very wealthy family, on the surface, she seems like a Spoiled Brat, hogging all the cameras as much as she wanted. But deep down, she's actually really sweet, especially in her later appearances, even after she became a literal monster.
• Stock Scream: She gives off a horror film scream after she coughs up mud in "Truth or Laser Shark". In fact, it is the same exact scream used in the slasher film that the original cast was viewing in "Hook, Line, and Screamer".
• Story-Breaker Power: Her mutant form. With it, she gains super strength and she grows immensely in size. The writers probably had her voted off the island the same episode she mutated, and is also likely why she didn’t return for All-Stars because they realized that Mutant Dakota was too strong and would’ve easily won many of the future challenges.
• Third-Person Person: Occurs in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean", after she mutates.
• This Is Unforgivable!: How she feels towards Chris, declaring him a dead man after his mistreatment of her in "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste" when she loses all her hair from him sending her down to the mines for forty minutes and is reinstated as a contestant. The feeling becomes stronger as she mutates in the following episode.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Despite being mutated and eliminated, she hooks up with Sam at the end of "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean".
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: In her mutated form she's large enough that Sam can comfortably sit on her lap, which he is seen doing near the end of "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean".
• Tsundere: Started off as Type A towards Sam, but eventually mellowed out to Type B.
• Uptown Girl: She's a spoiled rich girl while Sam is a middle-class nerd.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: After her mutation.

Dawn

"I can read people's auras, and it looks like someone threw up on yours."

Voiced by: Caitlynne Medrek

Label: The Moonchild

Teams: Toxic Rats

Placements: 11th (TDRI)

Eliminated in: Episode 5 (TDRI)

One of the show's more unusual contestants, Dawn is a strange and enigmatic girl who has the supernatural ability to read the auras of others. While her powers do creep her teammates out, Dawn is a girl of infinite compassion who loves all living creatures and the natural world.

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• A Day in the Limelight: "Backstabbers Ahoy!" centers around Dawn and how she discovers Scott's true nature, before her failure to take him down ends in her elimination.
• All-Loving Heroine: She is kind and empathetic to everyone, due to her Aura Vision and tries to find the good in everyone, even Scott. However, she makes an exception with him when she finds out his true nature.
• Ambiguously Human: Humorously hinted at since she seems to have powers no one else in the series has.
• Animal Lover: She loves both normal and mutant animals who are friendly to her in return.
• Aura Vision: Dawn can use people's auras to learn about their past.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Possibly the easiest member of her team to represent this trope for them (even if Dakota is truly a Spoiled Sweet herself, despite later transferring to the Mutant Maggots).
• Break the Cutie: In "Backstabbers Ahoy", she gets framed by Scott for stealing the other campers' possessions and voted out. Her remaining hope gets dashed with a fake immunity idol forged by Scott. Lastly, she gets put into her own garbage bag by Chef before being catapulted off the island.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The other campers view her as this due to her tendency to read people's auras and her inhuman abilities.
• Creepy Child: She had managed to creep out several competitors with her ability to know personal information about them including: Zoey, Dakota, Lightning, and Scott. Lightning always refers to her as "creepy girl".
• Cute Witch: Dawn is a short, cute girl with a squeaky voice and a big heart who both has supernatural powers and experience with divination. On top of that, according to her biography she considers The Draft (The Craft) her favorite movie, but notes that it's not an accurate portrayal, which suggests that she has proper personal experience with witchcraft.
• The Cutie: A mysterious nature lover with an adorably squeaky voice. Dawn appears to be good-hearted and very helpful, although she comes across as creepy to the others due to her supernatural powers.
• The Empath: She can read other people's (and animals') auras and figure out their inner feelings or even backstories based on that. Normally, the other contestants are understandably creeped out by it; however, it comes in handy on occasion, such as reuniting a giant fire-breathing mutant beetle and her baby to stop her from terrorizing the Toxic Rats.
• Expy: Of Luna Lovegood. She also plays the role of some of Russell Hantz's victims.
• Friend to All Living Things: She spends most of her free time interacting with various creatures. Even the mutant animals seem to like her.
• Ghostly Glide: Capable of it as shown at the end of the race in the first episode, although only Mike sees her do it and he's properly freaked out. Any other time she's onscreen, she's depicted walking normally. Incidentally, her glide comes with an unexplained mechanical sound.
• Granola Girl: She's in tune with nature and hinted to be vegetarian in her biography.
• Green Means Natural: A friend to all kinds of animals who was given supernatural powers from the Earth, Dawn wears a green sweater.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has light blonde hair, is soft-spoken and very rarely shows ill will towards anyone.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: She is the Tiny Girl to B's Huge Guy. Dawn's one of only two characters to reach out to B despite his silence (the other being Sam) and serves as his voice up until his elimination.
• Light Is Good: Has pale skin and light blonde hair, and loves nature.
• Lotus Position: She's often seen sitting in that position.
• Magic Skirt: She hangs upside-down in episode two, yet her skirt stays in place. In "Finders Creepers", she's caught by the giant spider (Izzy in a costume) and hanging sideways from the web, yet her skirt stays in place, as well as her hair.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is synonymous with "sunlight", which fits her normally warmhearted personality in front of others (even if she unintentionally creeps them out with her magic powers).
• Mirror Character:
  • To Bridgette and DJ as the kindhearted nature lover, even taking DJ's spot on the log in the opening. However, while Bridgette and DJ are generally well-liked by their peers, Dawn comes off as a Creepy Child who many campers are disturbed by. In addition, while all three are All Loving Heroes, Dawn takes it the furthest of all by being The Empath who tries her hardest to see the good in people. Also specifically to DJ, while both are Animal Lovers and attached to animals, for DJ it tends to not be mutual and constantly gets attacked, while with Dawn she is The Beastmaster with animals assisting her whenever they can. And specifically to Bridgette, Dawn stands out as being one of the series' strangest characters with her supernatural powers and Creepy Child characterization while Bridgette is one of the most normal characters with her Closer to Earth Only Sane Woman nature.
  • To Izzy, both are Creepy Good and Inexplicably Awesome, however Izzy is wild and energetic while Dawn is more serene and soft-spoken.
• Nice Girl: She may be a little off her rocker, but she definitely is friendly, kind and considerate.
• Occult Blue Eyes: Grayish-blue actually, given her spiritual nature.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Dawn is normally a soft-spoken girl who doesn't show ill will towards anyone, but in "Backstabbers Ahoy", she gives Scott a Death Glare for sabotaging their team.
• Oracular Urchin: Dawn is a young girl, as cheery as she's creepy, with a set of supernatural powers. In both her audition tape and "Truth or Laser Shark", Dawn alludes to having insight into the future. This is not an inherent ability, but a result of her dabbling in cartomancy, tasseography, and astrology. Though as of yet, her predictions aren't always accurate.
• Pointy Ears: As part of her design she has pointy elvish ears, adding to her already mystical nature.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Amidst the summer-oriented fashion standard, Dawn is one of few to opt for a semi-formal outfit. Her tights-and-skirt combo is a rarity and, along with her sweater, visually establishes her as gentle but reserved and a bit of a tree hugger.
• Reading Tea Leaves: As per the finale, Dawn occasionally gets counsel from tea leaves. As concurrently proven, it's not a reliable counsel.
• Secret-Keeper: Dawn is the only one besides Cameron to figure out that Mike has MPD. She doesn't tell anyone but does hint towards it to Zoey in "Backstabbers Ahoy!" to help her overcome her doubt about Mike's interest in her now that Vito keeps flirting with Anne Maria.
• She Knows Too Much: She found out Scott's intentions to lose a little too soon for his liking. He frames her for taking everyone's stuff, and she ends up getting the boot from the contest.
• The Smurfette Principle: Of the Toxic Rats once Staci and Dakota are eliminated, leaving only her and four guys. Notably, the morning after she's eliminated the four declare themselves Team Man.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: She has a habit of appearing and disappearing without warning to her teammates. Needless to say, it freaks them out a bit.
• Story-Breaker Power: Probably the real-life reason for her relatively early elimination. With her ability to communicate with animals and the fact that she can be really stealthy when she wants to be, she has an unfair advantage over other contestants and a lot of the challenges would become really easy for her. The writers probably realized this early on and decided to give her the boot because of it.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: She can understand certain species, such as rats and beetles.
• Token Super: Dawn serves as this to the Toxic Rats, being the only character on the show to possess powers. Dawn appears to have Psychic Powers, giving her the ability to read auras, understand animals, and being a Voice for the Voiceless for B. This has helped her team out on several occasions.
• Voice for the Voiceless: Since B doesn't speak, she acts as his voice when he is communicating his plans to the Toxic Rats.

Lightning

^{Click here for his white-haired form}

"Lightning never gives up and never surrenders! Sha-Lightning!"

Voiced by: Tyrone Savage

Label: The Athletic Overachiever

Teams: Toxic Rats, Villainous Vultures

Placements: 1st/2nd (TDRI), 13th (TDAS)

Eliminated in: Episode 13 (TDRI), Episode 2 (TDAS)

Lightning is your classic Jerk Jock, one whose incredible arrogance and boastfulness are legitimately backed up by his strength and athleticism. As competitive as he is though, his intelligence is at the opposite end of the scale when compared to his ego and physical prowess.

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• The Ace: Although he is without a doubt Dumb Muscle, when it comes to anything physical, Lightning is perhaps the best.
• Arc Villain: Lightning is the main antagonist for the last two episodes of Revenge of the Island.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Even though he relies solely on brute force and doesn't know the first thing about strategy, he still claims that he's good at whatever he does.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In his ending of "Brain vs Brawn: The Final Showdown". Granted, the finale gave us a good few reasons to give him sympathy, too...and all of them are bad, and worst of all, he keeps the prize money to himself. Jo was most displeased.
• Berserk Button: You do not tell Lightning that winning isn't everything. It's implied to be the only thing that gets his father's affection and attention.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Scott in Revenge of the Island. After Scott's elimination, Lightning then Took a Level in Jerkass to fill the villain void.
• Big Bad Slippage: Lightning balances several misdoings with a handful of good deeds for the majority of Revenge of the Island. He descends into villainy in "Eat, Puke And Be Wary" after Cameron, whom he helped out against Jo, inadvertently snatches immunity from him and has the nerve to brag about it. Any and all of his more noble qualities go straight out of the window as he becomes the final villain of the season.
• Big "WHAT?!": When he gets eliminated in "All-Stars."
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted in Revenge of the Island as he and Cameron were the finalists. Straight in All Stars as he was the first of the boys to be eliminated.
• Book Dumb: According to Chris one of the two reasons why he's on the Chopping Block in "Evil Dread" (along with Jo, albeit for different reasons other than him) is because of his crummy math skills. He also thinks the Eiffel Tower is in Germany.
• Brains and Brawn: Serves as the brawn to contrast Cameron's brains.
• The Brute: For the Villainous Vultures.
• Catchphrase: "SHA-Insert word relevant to situation, "Lightning strikes!" and "You're about to get struck by Lightning!"
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, Lightning is the Combat, relying on physical prowess to win challenges as he's not blessed in strategy or manipulation, to Jo's Diplomacy and Scott's Stealth.
• David vs. Goliath: Lighting, a jock, is put against Cameron, the least physically strong character in Revenge of the Island, in the season finale. Who wins depends on what ending is shown.
• Demoted to Extra: Goes from one of the two finalists in Revenge of the Island to the second camper and the first among the Villains to be voted out in All-Stars.
• Determinator: "Lightning never quits!" Still tries to win the challenge for his team in "Ice, Ice Baby" even after they already lost.
• The Ditz: Lightning is a good contender for the stupidest character period.
  • He has trouble grasping what gender certain contestants are, mistaking Cameron for a girl and Jo for a boy. He also appears unable to count to ten.
  • In "Eat, Puke and Be Wary", he thinks steak comes from trees and tries to get some by punching one.
  • In "The Enchanted Franken-Forest" despite acquiring all three pieces of a map, he is unable to put the map together correctly, leaving him so lost he ends up running off a cliff.
  • But his shining moment was in "Evil Dread", where he proclaims he can dig wherever he wants and then proceeds to dig in the lake. No surprise that his stupidity gets him kicked off by the rest of his team that night, though even getting eliminated doesn't put an end to his idiocy: when he sees the Eiffel Tower, he thinks he's in Germany and misinterprets a mime's (who he believes to be a German clown) attempts to warn him of an incoming boat for a demonstration on how to swim. Unsurprisingly, he gets struck by a gondola with Blaineley and Bruno in it.
• Double Knockout: In the American version of the final episode, Cameron's final attack hits Lightning, but drains his power suit of its last bits of power and he falls over. A severely dazed and discolored-haired Lightning falls over on top of Cam a moment later, earning him the 3-count pin and the victory. More or less the same thing happens in Cameron's ending, except that the order of who falls on who is reversed.
• Dumb Jock: While his athletic ability is outstanding, it's balanced out by his lack of any intellectual skill.
• Electric Black Guy: Aside from his go-by name (his legal name is Rudolph), Lightning wears a lightning bolt pendant and regularly makes puns based on his name such as "You're going to get struck by Lightning". During the finale, he gets struck by lightning, which permanently changes his hair color to white. In his ending, he renames himself White Lightning, but unlike the hair color, this doesn't carry over into All-Stars.
• Elemental Motifs: Electricity, as you could probably tell by his name.
• Embarrassing First Name: Considering his first name is Rudolph, it's kind of understandable he calls himself Lightning.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Was highly upset when he found out his dad bet his gold rings on him and was even more upset when he lost in Cameron's ending.
• Everyone Has Standards: Lightning may be about as dumb as a bag of rocks, but even he was left gawking at the sight of Dakota not being able to understand how to use a saw for their first challenge properly.
• Face–Heel Turn: Lightning wasn't exactly a nice guy, but before Scott's elimination he was a decent, if competitive-minded, person who performed good deeds like saving Cameron from drowning, helping Cameron realize that Jo was planning to backstab him, and staying loyal to his alliance before getting betrayed. But once Cameron beat him in an immunity challenge (albeit by accident) he took several levels in jerkass and became the new Big Bad of the season.
• Flanderization: Like most characters in All-Stars, Lightning's intelligence took a hit, but since he was already an idiot to begin with, in his case it was merely exaggerating existing characteristics.
• Foil: One to Cameron. See his entry under the Mutant Maggots page for more details.
• Global Ignorance: Further showing how much of a Dumb Jock he is, when he ends up in Paris in All-Stars, he sees the Eiffel Tower and says "Whoa! I must be in Germany!"
• Harmless Electrocution: During his match with Cameron, Lightning gets struck by actual lightning, though it leaves no lasting damage aside from bleaching his hair. It does knock him out though, which results in either Cameron or himself winning the million.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Heavily implied to be the origin of Lightning's current ego, having grown up in the shadow of his champion father.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Lightning’s arrogance and narcissism is only matched by his complete idiocy.
• I Was Beaten by a Girl: Jo tries to invoke this when she beats him in "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", but the taunt only confuses him, as he believes Jo is male.
• Jerkass: Starting in episode 12, towards Cameron.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: In episode 12, when Zoey falls in a radioactive pit he runs over... to snatch the map away from her, so he could win the challenge.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He fit this prior to taking a level in jerkass in the latter half of the season, with Lightning revealing some surprisingly good qualities. In the first episode, he saved Cameron from drowning, in the seventh episode when Jo (who he still thought was a guy) said she never kissed a guy, he was at first confused but then understanding, saying he "didn't judge." He also helped Cameron stand up to Jo in the 10th episode and the two of them ended up eliminating her. Among other things, he seemed to get along with his teammates when they were shown to be competent. Even in the finale, when everything and more is on the line, he takes the time to attack the giant mutant alligator that briefly trapped Cameron in his mouth, citing The Only One Allowed to Defeat You while he saves him.
• Jerk Jock: He was more of a buffoon than a jerk early on, but he plays it straight towards the end of Revenge.
• Kick the Dog: In the final two episodes, he is particularly abusive towards both Zoey and Cameron, the latter more so.
• Large Ham: He is a major show-off.
• Lame Comeback: His attempts to insult Cameron in the finale. Only the last one seems to work.
  Lightning: You wanted an intellectual challenge? When I finish with you, your whole life's gonna be an intellectual challenge!
• Lethally Stupid: His complete absence of intelligence can be both a danger to himself and his team.
• Lightning Bruiser: Pun Intended. He's a very tough and fierce athlete and loves to brag about it.
• Locked into Strangeness: His hair seems to have been permanently bleached white after being electrocuted during his match with Cameron.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "SHA-[insert word, sound effect or Lightning's name here]!"
• Manly Tears: After he loses to Cameron in Cameron's ending. Averted in Lightning's ending where he wins.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Tyler. Both are determined athletes who are very confident in their abilities, and tend to be The Ditz (although Lightning more so than Tyler). Additionally, both have similar catchphrases (Lighting's "Sha-Bam!" And Tyler's "Extreeeme!"). But unlike Tyler, who often overestimates what he’s capable of but is otherwise friendly with his competitors, Lightning backs up his claims and excels in anything physical, but is a Sore Loser to the point where it makes him undergo a Face–Heel Turn upon Scott's elimination.
  • To Courtney. Both are characterized as overachiever's and both started out as relatively benevolent characters, albeit overly competitive and with an inflated opinion of themselves. Then after being slighted by another competitor, inadvertently in pursuit of a greater goal, (Harold rigging the votes to get her eliminated to get back a Duncan for Courtney, and Cameron tricking him and stealing his immunity for Lightning) started giving into their negative traits more and more until what little goodness used to be in them had completely disappeared.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Lightning isn't exactly a bad guy, but his overwhelming ego and competitive streak can cause him to be ruthless and foolhardy.
• Narcissist: About 75% of his dialogue is self-appraisal.
• Only Known By His Nickname: According to this. Word of God states his real name is Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Before Scott is moved to the Mutant Maggots in Revenge of the Island, he is the In-Between to Sam's Nice and Scott's Mean.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Acts like this to Cameron in the finale, fighting off the mutant alligator that's attacking Cameron, due to wanting to save Cameron for himself.
• Prophetic Name: During his showdown with Cameron, Lightning gets struck by actual lightning, which causes him to pass out.
• Pun: "If [Brick] wakes me up one more time like that, he's gonna get struck by Lightning!"
• Real Men Eat Meat: Even if it's raw!
• Running Gag: Confusing Jo for a boy and to a lesser extent, confusing Cameron for a girl.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: For a manly man, he has a rather high-pitched scream.
• Stealth Pun: He used to have a friend, who was nicknamed "Thunderbolt", but they grew tired of people shouting "Mamma Mia!" every time they see them. Thunderbolts and Lightning, very very frightening me!
• Shout-Out:
  • Lightning is wearing a jersey similar to the San Diego Chargers or the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  • His online profile implies he's based of Smash Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In the latter half of Revenge of the Island, Lightning gets more focus with his rivalry with Jo after Brick is voted off and his subsequent antagonization of Cameron in the last three episodes.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: From the possible winner of his debut season to booted as early as the second episode of All-Stars, he may embody this better than any contestant in the series.
• Super-Strength: He displays the ability to benchpress logs with one arm.
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That: He had left a pre-recorded confessional to taunt Jo about eliminating him, knowing full well her ego would become her own undoing.
• Temporarily a Villain: For the early parts of Revenge of the Island, Lightning is a situational jerk kept in line by his lack of a grand plan. At the end of the season, he Took a Level in Jerkass when it was everyone for themselves, and he had a score to settle with Cameron. He's a Villainous Vulture in All-Stars and proud of that, but otherwise pretty much his old self.
• Third-Person Person: He rarely uses first-person pronouns.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: As impossible as it sounds, he somehow manages to achieve even this from Revenge of the Island to All-Stars. He even justifies as to why in "Evil Dread":
  Lightning: Sometimes when my stomach is empty, my mind ain't full. Stupid Boney Island fish!
• Took a Level in Jerkass: For most of the season, he is just a hyper-competitive Dumb Jock. However, when Cameron takes immunity instead of him in episode 11, he's bitter (even though it was his own fault for showing off before then). While his personality doesn't really change, he's notably more antagonistic towards Cameron and Zoey, and effectively replaces Scott and Jo as the villain near the end of the season. He's mostly back to his previous less-aggressive personality by the time of All-Stars.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He is very strong and athletically gifted regarding almost anything physical, but has little in the way of common sense or intelligence.
• Verbal Tic: His is adding "sha-" to words in his sentences and "sha-bam".
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: The reason why he is so over-competitive is because he wants to please his father, which is understandable considering that his dad has four championship rings.
• White Hair, Black Heart: After Lightning's hair turns white in the Revenge of the Island finale, he is placed on the Villains team in All-Stars. Although most of his villainous moments occurred before his hair turned white.
• Would Hit a Girl: For the whole of Revenge of the Island, Lightning thinks that Cameron is a girl. Doesn't stop him at all from trying to beat him to a pulp during the finale.

Sam

"This is the longest I've ever been without playing video games. My fingers feel empty."

Voiced by: Brian Froud

Label: The Nice-Guy Gamer

Teams: Toxic Rats, Heroic Hamsters

Placements: 10th (TDRI), 11th (TDAS)

Eliminated in: Episode 6 (TDRI), Episode 4 (TDAS)

A chubby gamer geek rarely seen without a handheld video game device that has a game he's in the middle of playing. Sam is not very athletic, has weak social skills, and possesses a low opinion of himself, but his standout traits are his friendly disposition and kind heart.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: He's one to Dakota at first, to the point she's horrified he'd say something as awful as saying they're alike. She does warm up to him later on and it's implied he's the first person she ever feels empathy for.
• Animals Hate Him: He gets attacked by at least one in all four episodes of All-Stars he competes in.
• Beta Couple: He and Dakota are this to Mike and Zoey.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: He gets caught for smuggling pancakes after he turns over his pockets in the campfire ceremony of "Food Fright" (during the challenge he stuffed them in his pockets out of fear of going to Boney Island for a second time and starving), thus losing the challenge for his team on a technicality, and is voted off.
• Death by Irony: By "Runaway Model", all of Sam's handhelds have been confiscated, and he starts hallucinating everything in "gaming" graphics, including the scaffold he needs to climb to rescue Lindsay from Sasquatchanakwa. He makes it past the rolling barrels and such, but then hits a block with Sasquatchanakwa tossing him off and he ultimately loses the challenge for the Rats and is voted off. Brick unintentionally lampshades this after Sam is thrown off the scaffold:
  "Game over."
• Freaky Is Cool: One of his and Dakota's bonding points is that they both have a soft spot for weird stuff. In "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", the two of them are the only ones who like a mutant squirrel. In "Finders Creepers", Sam considers a gigantic mutated spider that traps his teammates in a web "so cool [his] head is spinning". Come "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean" and it's Dakota who undergoes a mutation. Sam only finds her more desirable after that and becomes her biggest fan once she takes her new form to the stage. When he joins for a new season in "Heroes vs. Villains", Sam explains that he only returned to Camp Wawanakwa to find toxic waste and become a mutant himself. Much to his dismay, the island's been decontaminated.
• Gasshole: His farts are strong enough to knock Gwen out as seen in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean".
• Geek Physique: In contrast to fellow geeks Harold and Cody, Sam represents the fat geek.
• Genre Savvy: His experience with video games can sometimes come in handy during challenges, such as when fighting the octopus he knew he had to "Jump, jump. punch". Though sometimes he comes to realize, his video game experiences do not apply in the real world, and it becomes more of a case of Wrong Genre Savvy.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Seems to have successfully wooed Dakota by the time he's eliminated; she gives him her phone number, only for him to drop it when Chris catapults him off the island. They reunite two episodes later in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean" after Dakota has mutated into a monster and become official, making out even as Dakota gets eliminated.
• Going Cold Turkey: He can slip into crippling withdrawals if he's kept from gaming.
• Iconic Item: His video game handheld(s).
• I Know Mortal Kombat: He occasionally mimics the motions of video game characters to help him in challenges. He also has above-average reflexes thanks to his gaming... most of the time anyway.
• The Load: He is especially this in All-Stars. While he really does try to help his team, he ultimately ends up being a burden due to his Geek Physique and his incredibly bad luck.
• Mirror Character:
  • He shares a few traits with Cody, both being a certain species of techno-geek plying for the affections of a girl, though Sam actually succeeds.
  • He shares quite a few similarities with Owen as well: They're both fat, good at speed eating, and extremely nice. By "Food Fright" he seems to be a full-out replacement for Owen, acting as the Heroic Hamsters' speed eater during the eating portion of the episode's challenge (although he's not nearly as good at it as Owen was).
  • To Trent. Both characters are among the more ordinary contestants of their generations, Nice Guys, and major pain magnets of their debut season who were heavily involved in romantic plots with a girl (Gwen and Dakota respectively) and played a major role in helping said girl develop as a character. However, whereas Trent is a smooth, handsome, and confident Chick Magnet, Sam is instead a scruffy, overweight nerd with a low opinion of himself.
• Nice Guy: His label is the "Nice Guy Gamer" and he's one of the more cordial contestants.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Before Scott is moved to the Mutant Maggots in Revenge of the Island, he is the Nice to Scott's Mean and Lightning's In-Between.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: To Seth Rogen, voice and appearance-wise.
• Odd Friendship: With Dakota. Eventually upgrades to Odd Relationship.
• Official Couple: He eventually becomes a couple with Dakota.
• Only Sane Man: Downplayed but in a team that has a Gadgeteer Genius who can't talk, a Moonchild who has displayed some Creepy Child tendencies, a rich, spoiled, attention-seeking Daddy's Girl, a Dumb Jock with an IQ that could rival Lindsay's, a girl who constantly lies about her ancestors and a Throwing the Fight Jerkass, Sam seems to be the most normal of the Toxic Rats.
• Opposites Attract: He's a scruffy, overweight nerd with a low opinion of himself while his girlfriend, Dakota, is a spoiled, attention-seeking Daddy's Girl.
• Super-Reflexes: He claims that 10 years of video gaming have given him these. He demonstrates this by grabbing a piece of cheese from a Mouse Trap without setting it off; however, he unwittingly sets off about a dozen additional traps when he stepped on the trap he'd just undone, claiming that his gaming withdrawal is throwing him off balance.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His characterization in All-Stars as the overweight Big Eater who excels in the eating challenge and abruptly has a heated conflict with Alejandro, feels suspiciously like the role typically given to Owen. Unconfirmed reports cite that Owen may have been present in the original line-up but was later cut, so Sam was instead added to fill his spot.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: He ends up being about half Dakota's size after her transformation. He certainly doesn't mind though.

Scott

"Chris McLean, your little island won't know what hit it!"

Voiced by: James Wallis

Label: The Devious

Teams: Toxic Rats, Mutant Maggots, Villainous Vultures

Placements: 4th (TDRI), 3rd (TDAS)

Eliminated in: Episode 11 (TDRI), Episode 12 (TDAS)

A farmboy as devious as he is unscrupulous, Scott is a natural-born schemer who will do anything to win Total Drama, even if it's at the expense of his teammates. However, as later seasons show, he does have a soft side when under the proper circumstances.

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• Amazon Chaser: In All-Stars he gets involved with Courtney due to her bossy, aggressive nature.
• And I Must Scream: At the end of season four, he gets paralyzed by Fang and is put in a trauma chair that only lets him communicate via flashing lights for yes or no. What makes it worse is that the rest of the players laugh at him and he can't do anything about it.
• Animal Motifs: Scott is associated with rats due to the fact he's a member of the Toxic Rats, he's naturally filthy and repulsive due to his lack of hygiene and loves to eat nasty things like dirt and has a shifty and untrustworthy personality. Courtney even draws an image of him with a rat's tail on her chart which indicates that even she thinks he's like a rat.
• Animal Nemesis: Fang (who's a shark), having made the mistake of stealing the tooth of the Super-Persistent Predator, which led Fang to hunt Scott for the duration of Revenge of the Island and even in All-Stars.
• Arc Villain: Scott’s the main antagonist in Revenge of the Island until he’s eliminated in "Eat, Puke and Be Wary", and hasn’t been considered a Big Bad since.
• Asshole Victim: Scott frequently falls victim to being pursued and mauled by the mutant shark Fang, but Scott has most of it coming, as despite not really being at fault for what caused the shark to develop a grudge for him (simply escaping from his mouth and accidentally ripping out a tooth that got stuck on him in the process), he's always been an all-round horrible person who ruined the lives of many and a scheming jerk only out for himself.
• Beta Couple: With Courtney in All-Stars, to the pre-established relationship's of Heather and Alejadro and Mike and Zoey from the previous two seasons.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Lightning in Revenge of the Island. Scott is the Arc Villain throughout most of the season until he’s eliminated in "Eat Puke and Be Wary". With Scott becoming a Disc-One Final Boss, Lightning takes over the villain role for the final two episodes.
• Big Bad Friend: To Zoey. He managed to win over her trust for several episodes, and very nearly turned her against her own crush. She finally learns the truth about him after he gets Mike eliminated.
• Big Bad Wannabe: In All-Stars, he thinks he's the only real villain left after everyone who usually causes conflicts have been eliminated, but he isn't aware that Mal is the one pulling the strings under his disguise as Mike, and Scott ends up being his biggest victim in "The Bold and the Booty-Ful". He doesn't even act villainous in any way when he gets eliminated by Zoey at the end of the episode, instead warning her about taking "Mike" to the finals with her.
• Bizarre Taste in Food:
  • Having grown up on a farm, Scott apparently has no problem eating Chef's disgusting gruel, and likes it! The accompanying indigestion is a pleasant kind of nostalgia.
  • He has no problem eating green toast, calling it "Penicillin Puree".
  • In "Sundae Muddy Sundae", he can't put chocolate syrup on his sundae due to Mal destroying it, so he puts dirt on instead. At the end, the contestants are forced to eat their own sundae. And he enjoys it.
• Book Dumb: He doesn't show much intelligence, aside from his skills in manipulation.
• Break the Haughty: Like every antagonist of seasons past, he gets broken in an epic fashion.
• The Brute: He takes up this role for the Villainous Vultures in All-Stars, once both the jocks are eliminated.
• Bullying a Dragon: He spends a large amount of season four harassing Mike who is probably the most overpowered character in Total Drama history. He gets away with it because Mike is so mild mannered and non-confrontational, Mal on the other hand.
• Bullying the Disabled: When he finds out about Mike's DID, he proceeds to rub his disability in his face and uses it to blackmail him by threatening to tell his girlfriend.
• Card Carrying Jerk Ass: In addition to being a Card-Carrying Villain, he also doesn't hide the fact that he's a Jerkass, as evidenced by him bullying Mike for his disorder. Averted in All-Stars where he takes a level in kindness.
• Card-Carrying Villain: The "Devious", before later being changed to "The Troublemaker".
• Characterization Marches On: The cunning, scheming, challenge throwing Scott vanishes after "Evil Dread", in favor of a moronic, socially clueless Farm Boy who serves as Plucky Comic Relief and the resident pain magnet.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Initially averted, then played straight in "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary", when he switches his dish with Cameron's when his back was turned. This later gets played straight when he gets shot by Chef's painful spaghetti gun, mauled by Fang, and eventually voted off by Cameron and Zoey.
• Chekhov's Skill: Scott is shown whittling a piece of wood in some of his confessionals. In "Backstabbers, Ahoy!" it's revealed that he has used this skill to create fake immunity idols.
• The Chessmaster: Unlike most antagonists at that point in the game had the basic strategy of winning challenges and manipulating their team to the merge before tearing them apart. Scott had the strategy of actually throwing the challenges so that he could eliminate those he considered to be threats later on, while securing the immunity idol on the off chance he did get the most votes himself. While a risky strategy, Scott manages to pull it off with his charisma and manipulation, he also carved up fake immunity idols to deceive contestants who were also searching for it.
• The Chew Toy: Figuratively, and in the case of Fang, literally, especially so in All-Stars.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In Revenge, the only person whose side he's on is his own.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, Scott is the Stealth, unlike previous Big Bad's he doesn't bring a lot of attention to himself in challenges or try to be The Leader, he's content to put on an unassuming façade while sabotaging the team behind their backs and then steering everyone's attention the players who outperform him, to Lightning's Combat and Jo's Diplomacy.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Scott distances himself from the Big Bads of the previous seasons with his strategy of throwing challenges to vote off his team mates. He's also the only Big Bad to date who never formed any sort of alliance in the season where he was the main villain.
• Creepy Child: The fact that he showed no regret or remorse over causing a fight between his own parents as a kid qualifies him for this.
• Deadpan Snarker: Is probably the most sarcastic contestant in Revenge. Not so much in All-Stars, though he still has his moments.
• Deep South: Despite being Canadian, many of Scott's mannerisms fit the trope.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: Goes from the Big Bad of Revenge of the Island to the Iron Butt Monkey Chew Toy in All-Stars.
• Devil in Plain Sight: Played straight early on in Revenge; however, the other campers eventually realize that he is up to no good.
• Determinator: "Whatever doesn't horribly maim and devour you only makes you stronger."
• Disc-One Final Boss: Despite being season four's main antagonist, he gets eliminated in "In Eat Puke and Be Wary" and the final antagonist of the season ends up being Jerk Jock Lightning instead.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: He calls Mike "crazy" and a "loser" for having a mental illness and even takes advantage of it at one point. Hmm....
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: When he's depressed, he sometimes eats dirt as a Comfort Food.
• Enfant Terrible: Implied. He boasts in his online bio that his fondest childhood memory is causing a fight between his own parents.
• Evil Feels Good: He takes pride in being a villain and at times does it For the Evulz.
• Evil Is Hammy: Mainly in All-Stars where he tries to remind everyone he's a villain (even though he's clearly not).
• Evil Redhead: He's a redhead and a manipulative prankster who knows how to play the competition like a violin.
• Exact Words: He keeps his word to Cameron and never reveals Mike's secret to Zoey, but what he does is far worse, by keeping Mike obedient by blackmailing him to follow his every whim at the prospect of revealing his secret.
• Ex-Big Bad: After causing havoc in Revenge of the Island, he returns in All-Stars as one of the returning villains. However, unlike Alejandro and Heather, he's never treated like much of a threat, with most people brushing him off as an idiotic farmboy.
• Expy: Of Russell Hantz from Survivor, due to his willingness to screw over his own team (especially those he feels have crossed him or he just plain dislikes), how he hunts for and easily finds the hidden immunity idol, and both were on the Villains Team in their second season. Much like Russell, he is also beaten by his own arrogance, and denied the finale twice.
• Extreme Doormat: To Courtney. Even after vowing to never forgive her, he states that he would if she wants him to.
• Extreme Omnivore: Scott may have the toughest stomach out of all of the second-generation cast, and could probably give even Owen a run for his money. He is shown eating gruel off Courtney's face, enjoying green moldy bread, and dirt is his equivalent of Heartbreak and Ice Cream.
• Farm Boy: He grew up on the farm, which he attributes to his rough personality.
• Fatal Flaw: His overconfidence in his ability to manipulate and sabotage others is what eventually leads to his downfall in Revenge of the Island.
• Faux Affably Evil: Not quite to the skill level that Alejandro has mastered, but he was still able to sucker Dawn, Sam and Zoey into believing he was their friend until he backstabbed them.
• Fear Is the Appropriate Response: A very understandable reaction when facing Fang.
• Flanderization: Scott was always a little dumb, but his stupidity becomes much more profound in All-Stars as it becomes the only bit of his characterization from Revenge of the Island to stay intact.
• Foil:
  • To Alejandro and Heather. Both his predecessor villains made numerous alliances throughout the game and played dirty to make sure their teams would win. Scott tries hard to make his team lose so he can vote off his competition and never made a single alliance in his debut season.
  • To Duncan. Both have reputations as the devious troublemakers of their generation, however, while Duncan was The Bully who openly tormented others, Scott chooses to be Schemer who keeps his true nastiness hidden from public eyes. Both also end up as the primary nemesis of the generation's nerd (Harold for Duncan, Cameron for Scott). All-Stars has fun with this by having both boys taking a level in kindness with waning villain threats. The cherry on the cake, both of them ended up dating Courtney at some point, showing Courtney Has a Type.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied by Dawn's aura reading.
  Dawn: You weren't held enough as a child.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: A promotional trailer for All-Stars referred to him as "nobody's friend, Scott".
• Giggling Villain: He seems to be rather fond of chuckling when in a villainous mood.
• Graceful Loser:
  • He takes his elimination in Revenge of the Island surprisingly well, even showing approval towards Zoey for "duping" him.
  • He takes his elimination in All-Stars well enough too, even warning Zoey of Mike's treachery before leaving.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Downplayed. While yes, he can get a bit aggressive and moody at times, he's not as bad as Eva, Courtney or (to a lesser extent) Duncan.
• Half-Witted Hillbilly: More prominent in All Stars, after he Took a Level in Dumbass.
• Harmless Electrocution: Electrocuted several times in "The Obsta-Kill Kourse". While it did seem painful, it didn't seem to do any permanent damage.
• Harmless Villain: In All-Stars he still thinks of himself as a villain, but the fact of the matter is that by this stage, Cameron has succeeded in being more villainous than him.
• Hated by All: In Revenge of the Island, downplayed in All Stars. In Revenge of the Island, none of the characters seem to care for him due to his wicked actions and he's one of the few contestants to not have any friends or allies during that season, which was lampshaded in Brains vs Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown when Chris explained that they had to put Scott inside the trauma chair so he could survive after being mauled by Fang, he stated that who cares because it's Scott, everyone started laughing. In All Stars, while it's still not anything friendly, he seems to now consider his teammates as allies and likewise be considered as one by them, even Duncan stated at one point that he thinks Scott is "alright" as he's the type to know what to expect from, and he starts a relationship with Courtney of all people.
• Hate Sink: Scott was one in Revenge Of The Island when he was the villain of that season because he did several loathsome acts. He threw several challenges and got B eliminated, framed Dawn for stealing then humiliated her with a fake idol and got her eliminated, and then selfishly took advantage of Mike’s multiple personality disorder to blackmail him into helping him win challenges and then threw him under the bus after winning the challenge by voting him off just because he could. These heinous acts were what caused a lot of the campers to spite him and not show any sympathy to him when they found out that he got mauled by Fang after getting eliminated.
• Hidden Depths: He has stated he has a soft spot for nature and enjoyed watching the doves released in the morning in All-Stars.
• Humiliation Conga: In "Eat, Puke and Be Wary": he gets hit by Chef's spaghetti bazooka, falls into several of Zoey's traps, voted off, and takes the hurl of shame with his least favorite shark who mauls him, later after he's put in the trauma chair everyone laughs at him.
• Iconic Item: The shark tooth that he took from Fang in the second episode. Fang reclaims his tooth just before Scott takes the Hurl of Shame.
• I Meant to Do That: His confessional response to the Wrong Genre Savvy incident below (as it actually helped his strategy).
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: More so than Heather, and that's saying something. However, he tries to make nice in All-Stars.
• In Love with Your Carnage: The whole basis of how his relationship with Courtney formed.
  Scott: You're pretty when you're angry.
• Insane Troll Logic: Does this in an attempt to sabotage his team in "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste;" Manitoba determines that the right path holds death by giant rodent teeth, and the left path leads to minecart tracks. Scott argues they should go right because it's the "right" path.
  Manitoba Smith: "He's a sandwich short of a picnic, that one, eh?"
• Insufferable Imbecile: Downplayed after he Took a Level in Dumbass in All-Stars. While yes, he still has a few Jerkass moments here and there, he's still much nicer to everyone than he was in Revenge of the Island.
• Iron Butt Monkey: His only purpose in All-Stars is to get injured in every manner physically possible, and it's always Played for Laughs.
• Irony: Just before the merger in All-Stars he believed he was one of the last truly villainous members of the Villainous Vultures, he was actually the most neutral member.
• It's All About Me: As noted above, he competed in Revenge of the Island not to make friends but so that he can win the million-dollar prize. He also took advantage of Mike's disorder for his own selfish desires.
• Jerkass: He often resorted to eliminating his own teammates to get ahead. He gets better in All-Stars, where he acts far less nasty and actually becomes a team player.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Scott points out to Zoey how proficient Lightning was as a competitor. Zoey doesn't seem to care at first until Lightning shows up right at that moment and displays his athletic prowess.
  Zoey: Scott made a point, I hate it when Scott makes a point.
• Jerkass to One: Even after Scott becomes nicer to people in All-Stars, he's still antagonistic to Cameron.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Becomes this in All-Stars. While some of his Jerkass tendencies remain, he is generally much nicer to almost everyone.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Even before becoming All-Stars Iron Butt Monkey, he suffered from a lot of painful injures in Revenge of the Island.
• Kick the Dog:
  • He refuses to help Cameron when he was drowning in "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!".
  • He gets Dawn's hopes up with a fake McLean idol after framing her before getting her voted off in "Backstabbers Ahoy".
  • He was especially cruel to Mike in "Grand Chef Auto", with many of his actions being For the Evulz and not necessary to save himself from elimination. He blackmails Mike into helping him throughout the entire episode, even forcing risk his own safety, preventing him from helping his friends, and very nearly causing Zoey to break up with Mike. When he finally pushes Mike too far to the point where Mike no longer cares about his secret getting exposed, Scott activates Vito and has him help out instead. He also calls Mike crazy and a loser for having multiple personalities.
• Lack of Empathy: Scott is easily one of the cruelest villains in Total Drama history, especially when he bullies others in such a vicious and sadistic manner.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Much like Heather in Island, the karma bug bit Scott a lot.
• Light Is Not Good: Pale-skinned, wears a white vest, the main antagonist of Revenge of the Island, and a member of the Villainous Vultures.
• Made of Iron: Getting attacked by a shark in real life can and will kill someone but despite getting attacked by Fang numerous times, he has yet to die. Averted in "Eat, Puke and Be Wary" and "Brains vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown". In the former, he gets severely injured and in the latter, he gets put in the Trauma Chair after getting attacked by Fang.
• Manipulative Bastard: He played the "Toxic Rats" like puppets, easily bending them to his will with his "who to eliminate" speech at the end of each episode.
• Metaphorgotten
  Scott: I'm like a little kid in a candy store full of suckers! (chuckles) And I'm gonna... uh, like, break 'em and stuff.
  • Also when Mal tells him Alejandro tried to drove "a wedge" between him and Courtney.
  Scott: A wedge of what? Cheese?
  (Mal facepalms)
• The Millstone: Scott often deliberately invokes this as part of his Throwing the Fight strategy.
• Mirror Character:
  • He's pretty similar to Alejandro, as they were the primary antagonists of their respective competitive debuts, got karmic fates that involve bodily harm, and have their mechanical transformations from their severe injuries, where each of them would eventually be healed by the time All-Stars first aired.
  • In All-Stars, Scott displaces Tyler as the series' Iron Butt Monkey.
• Nice Meanand Inbetween:
  • Before getting moved to the Mutant Maggots in Revenge of the Island, he is the Mean to Sam's Nice and Lightning's In-Between.
  • After getting moved to the Mutant Maggots, he becomes the Mean to Mike's Nice and Cameron's In-Between.
  • After Cameron gets moved to the Villainous Vultures in All-Stars, he becomes the In-Between to Cameron's Nice and Alejandro's Mean.
• Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Scott attempts to cheat in "Evil Dread"... but is caught by Manitoba.
• Opposites Attract: Let's see; Courtney loves giving orders, and Scott loves taking orders. They really are perfect for each other, aren't they?
• Pet the Dog: Warning Zoey about Mike/Mal after she eliminated him, no less. Especially considering they were fierce enemies in the previous season.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He uses Mike's fears of being ostracized for his disorder for his own selfish gain. Notably, he's also the only character who ever insults or makes fun of Mike after learning the truth about his condition.
• Running Gag:
  • Scott really shouldn't use the confessional so much, seeing how often he manages to hurt himself in it.
  • In All-Stars, he constantly gets bitten on the butt by animals. He even lampshades this in "The Obsta-Kill Course."
    Scott: Why is it always my butt!?
• Satellite Character: Becomes this in All-Stars as he has virtually no purpose or plot in the season outside of his failed romance plot with Courtney, yet he manages to rank 3rd in spite of his irrelevance.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He is the manly man (a tough and aggressive Throwing the Fight Jerkass whose seen beating up rats in his audition tape) to Mike's sensitive guy (a scrawny and timid Nice Guy with a gap between his teeth).
  • He is also the manly man (gross and dimwitted) to Alejandro's sensitive guy (polite and quick witted).
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: To Sharks, especially Fang.
• Shout-Out: The machine (and his facial expression) that he gets stuck in during "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown" is a shout-out to the same state that Captain Pike was reduced to in Star Trek: The Original Series.
• Shovel Strike: Accidentally attacks Mike (as Manitoba Smith) in "Evil Dread" with a shovel after triggering a Booby Trap and getting frightened by bees. Little did he know that he also re-awakened Mal.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Towards Courtney, before meeting her No Love for the Wicked seems to apply to him. His inexperience makes itself very obvious.
• Single Tear: He is upset when everyone laughs at his condition and sheds a tear in "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown".
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: After changing to the Mutant Maggots, where he once again resorts to Throwing the Fight.
• Smug Snake: In Revenge of the Island; while he's great at manipulating people, his overconfidence proves to be his downfall. Less so in All-Stars.
• The Sociopath: Dawn outright calls him this, while Mike refers to him as psycho.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In Revenge of the Island, it's justified since he was the main villain of the season; however, in All-Stars, he doesn't contribute much to the plot aside from his ultimately failed crush with Courtney, yet remains on the show until "The Bold and the Booty-ful". Overall, he has the second-most screen time out of the entire second-generation cast, having only two fewer episodes total than Zoey as of All Stars.
• Street Smart: What he lacks in Book Smarts, he makes up in his ability to manipulate people and set up traps.
• Throwing the Fight: Part of his strategy in Revenge of the Island is to deliberately sabotage his own team so they'd lose challenges and he gets to control the eliminations.
  • In "Truth or Laser Shark", he slows down his team by petting the mutant rat instead of handing it off to B. It worked, but B wasn't eliminated. Instead, Dakota spent too much time putting on makeup and cost her team the challenge, so she got eliminated.
  • In "Ice, Ice, Baby", he melts his own team's fort to frame B for sabotage and gets him eliminated.
  • In "Backstabbers Ahoy!", he costs his team the challenge via shooting Sam in the back, causing him to pass out and crash their team's boat. He then frames Dawn for stealing the campers' possessions and gets her eliminated.
  • However, this is subverted in "Finders Creepers" when Sam wins the challenge, despite being bound to Scott.
  • Subverted again in "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing To Waste" when he threw away the statue they are supposed to find, unaware that the statue landed in Anne Maria's hair which wins them the challenge once they leave the mine.
  • In "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean", he gives Jo and Lightning a hint on where to go and sends his own team to dig in the wrong location.
  • Averted in All-Stars as he abandons throwing challenges for obvious reasons, although he considered doing so in "Evil Dread".
• Token Evil Teammate: In Revenge of the Island while on both teams.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: Scott goes from a cunning manipulator in Revenge of the Island to a Half-Witted Hillbilly who gets confused by metaphors in All-Stars.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In All-Stars he is a lot nicer to his teammates (and everyone else in general) than in Revenge of the Island, with the exception of Cameron.
• Troubling Unchild Like Behavior: When he was a kid, he caused a fight between his parents and enjoyed it.
• Unfriendly Fire: His central strategy in Revenge of the Island where he'd spend the first half of his season throwing challenges and picking off any teammates that served as potential threats.
• Unexplained Recovery: He looked as though he was paralyzed for life after being mauled by Fang, facilitating the need of a robotic chair that conveyed his thoughts via a red and green blinking light as seen in the Revenge of the Island finale. But come All Stars, he is back on his feet and completely healed.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In "Evil Dread", he accidentally hits Mike with a shovel while swatting at a swarm of bees in a panic. This is what reawakens Mal for the first time.
• Villain Decay: A Jerkass in Revenge, but relegated to Chew Toy status in All-Stars. Scott also no longer schemes against the other competitors, instead seems to be content with competing fair and square. Justified because his old strategy wouldn't be very practical to use twice.
• Viler New Villain: Initially, In Revenge of the Island he was just as sneaky, two-faced and arrogant as Alejandro but with none of his charisma or Villainous Valor. However by All-Stars he'd become A Lighter Shade of Black to Alejandro and Mal.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In "Heroes vs. Villains", the first episode of All Stars, he says in the Confessional that his brush with death after being mauled by Fang in Revenge of The Island has scarred him and he has developed a phobia of sharks as a result.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Successfully pulls one on Zoey in "Runaway Model". He feigns remorse for eliminating Dawn, stating that she could communicate with Sasquatchanakwa and save Lindsay.
• Would Hit a Girl: He throws a spray can at Zoey's head while she's climbing a totem pole in "Grand Chef Auto".
• Wrong Genre Savvy: For winning the first challenge in "Ice Ice Baby", the Rats are allowed to choose which fort they will command for the second challenge. While most of the team immediately chooses the more impressive one, Scott convinces them that it's a trick and the other fort will look nicer on the inside. It doesn't.
• You Dirty Rat!: While he's technically still a human, his behavior is unusually rat-like due to how pesky, repulsive and cunning he is.

Staci

"Yeah, my Great-Great-Great Uncle James invented log cabins, before him people had to sleep in the trees, and they kept falling out all the time. And my Great-Great-Great-Great Aunt Phillis invented roofs and before her, homes were just walls and furniture. And every time it rained you had to get a new sofa, hehe."

Voiced by: Ashley Peters

Label: The Compulsive Liar

Teams: Toxic Rats

Placements: 13th (TDRI)

Eliminated in: Episode 1 (TDRI)

A chubby and eccentric girl whose most notable trait is that she never ever shuts up. Staci is a pathological liar who constantly blabbers about her alleged ancestors' numerous (and entirely fictional) achievements and contributions to society in an effort to impress everyone.

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• Attention Whore: Her lies are seemingly designed to bring attention to herself.
• Bad Liar: So bad that she was voted off on the first episode of Revenge of the Island.
• Cassandra Truth: Despite being labeled "The Compulsive Liar," her audition tape implies Staci's claims about her family's inventions might actually be true, as she shows real photographs of her ancestors.
• Character Filibuster: She is always rambling on about her ancestors and their supposed contributions to society, even when she is in mortal danger.
• Chatty Hairdresser: Invoked. Staci is a chatterbox like no other and in her biography, she notes that her first job was working in a hair salon.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Staci fits this trope as she keeps telling lies about her relatives inventing things nonstop, even when she's in grave danger.
• Compulsive Liar: Staci has the habit of telling lies constantly in inappropriate times. Her habit of telling tall tales annoys her team so much that they decide to vote her off first.
• Flat Character: She has little character other than being a compulsive liar.
• Hate Sink: A rare instance of this trope where the person in question isn't a bad person. Nonetheless, Staci was made for the sole purpose of being irritating to the audience, so that fans wouldn't complain that the first eliminated contestant didn't last long enough.
• Hated by All: Due to her constant lying, the other second-generation contestants get easily annoyed by her, which is why she got voted off first in Revenge of the Island.
• Inventor of the Mundane: She claims she is descended from several of these.
• Joke Character: Her gimmick is constantly telling lies about her ancestors.
• Motor Mouth: Does this girl ever shut up?
• No-Neck Chump: Staci is a chubby girl of medium height whose head at cheek level makes a slightly inwards-angled straight line down to her torso.
• Ominous Hair Loss: After receiving the very first Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdome, all her hair save for some spare strands immediately falls out due to the radiation.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Her constant lies about her ancestors have given Staci a rather inflated ego.
• Verbal Tic: She begins most of her sentences with "Yah".
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She only appears in the first and last episodes of Revenge of the Island.

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