Characters / Total Drama Wâneyihtam Maskwak

Total Drama Main Character Index
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 contestants that were on the Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears) team in season 5.2 (season 6 in select countries).

---

Beardo

"Hello, my name is Bee-air-dough."

Voiced by: Clé Bennett

Label: The Human Soundboard

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Placements: 14th (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 1 (TDPI)

An aspiring disc jockey whose most distinguishing features are his huge afro and beard. He is not very talkative and prefers to use his vocal cords to show off his incredible beatboxing skills and his ability to produce a wide variety of unusual sound effects.

---

• Black Dude Dies First: He's the first contestant sent home in Pahkitew Island.
• Expy: He's been confirmed to be one to Reggie Watts due to his physical appearance and his beatboxing skills, while his sound effects gag is based off Michael Winslow "The Man of 10,000 Sound Effects".
• Flat Character: Even with his audition tape revealing his Hidden Depths, he's not developed all that much.
• Funny Afro: It looks like a microphone.
• Hidden Depths: His audition video is an All There in the Manual example.
  "I am pretty shy, and until I warm up to new people I tend to make noises and be generally bothersome. I hope that if I am selected, my team can see past that and give me a chance to show them what a great guy I truly am."
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A non-villainous example; his noisemaking leads to his early elimination.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: His audition tape reveals that he wanted to be on the show to make friends. Considering that he was the first contestant eliminated after annoying all of his teammates, this didn't work.
• Joke Character: He doesn't really have any purpose other than making funny noises.
• The Load: During the first challenge, all he does is run in slow motion and make weird sound effects to try and make people laugh.
• Meaningful Name: He has an awfully large beard for a teenager.
• Mirror Character: He's essentially a composite of B and Staci from Revenge of the Island. He takes after B's physical appearance and being The Quiet One (although Beardo did speak in his audition tape whereas B was completely silent), however like Staci he is ousted first for being deemed too annoying to their teammates^note with Staci via her constant lying and Beardo with his sound effects.
• One-Shot Character: He only appeared in one episode and hasn't made another physical appearance since.
• Only Known By His Nickname: "Beardo" is implied to be a nickname; however, due to his extremely short screen time, his actual name is unknown.
• The Prankster: He often uses his funny sound effects for this, which unfortunately leads to his early elimination.
• The Quiet One: He doesn't talk much.
• Suddenly Voiced: He talks in his audition video and after his elimination.
  "ITWASREALLYNICETOMEETALLOFYOU!"
• Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: His audition video is a textbook example of Shatner Commas. Here's the transcript again, but this time with the commas as he uses them.
  "I, am pretty shy, and until I, warm up to new, people I tend to, just make noises and be, generally, bothersome. I hope that if I, am selected my, team can see past that and give me, a chance to show them what a great guy I, truly am."
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets eliminated first, plus we don't really know anything about him since he doesn't talk much. Staci, the first one ousted from Revenge of the Island, got two episodes of screen time whereas Beardo only gets one. He does get a couple of mentions in the latter half of the season, though.
• Younger Than They Look: His huge afro and beard make him look like an adult, but he is a teenager.

Dave

"I really should've written down what I wanted to say, but the only pen I could find was all chewed up, and not by me. Kind of grossed out just thinking about it. As a competitor I'd be vicious, all about the money. Not there to make friends, know what I mean? Keep people at arms length, grab that cash! I'm gonna play this cold."

Voiced by: Daniel DeSanto

Label: The Normal Guy

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Placements: 7th (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 9 (TDPI)

A high-strung and neurotic hypochondriac with an intense anxiety towards all things filthy. Dave sees himself as the only normal person on the show and is easily frustrated or annoyed by the eccentricities displayed by most of the other Pakhitew Island competitors.

---

• Ambiguously Brown: Much like Noah, his skin is olive but it's not really clear what his ethnicity is. Word of God states that he is Indian.
• Back for the Finale: He was not-so-randomly chosen as Sky's helper.
• Bald of Evil: His hair is burned off between the first and second legs of the final challenge; however, he doesn't become villainous until the third leg.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Becomes bitter and resentful upon discovering that Sky has a boyfriend. Also, he loses his patience when a contestant acts as The Load to the team.
• Big "NO!": Gets down on his knees and gives one when he realizes he lost in the finale.
• Bollywood Nerd: He's pretty much a fussy and uptight dork who's apparently Indian and serves as the voice of reason for the team.
• Butt-Monkey: He suffers many injuries and humiliations during the season with the peak being in the last episode, where he winds up bald, goes crazy when he discovers that Sky already has a boyfriend and, in the last shot of the episode, is abandoned on the island and attacked by the robo-bear.
• The Comically Serious: For the most part, he's pretty much the Straight Man due to trying to be cautious, rational and serious one in a group full of weirdos but he also has some quirks and is an awkward, hapless and obsessively neat dork with emotional problems. He later loses a lot of sanity throughout the season when his relationship with Sky becomes nonexistent.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Nobody other than Sky listens to him when he complains about the flaws in his teammates' plans.
• Create Your Own Villain: He pulls a Face–Heel Turn in the finale due to finding out Sky had a boyfriend that she hadn't gotten a chance to break up with before showing interest in Dave.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He has shown competence to his team's surprise (and his own) on a fair few occasions.
• Deadpan Snarker: As his team's Straight Man, he snarks occasionally.
  Dave: (after he pulls his parachute's ripcord, only to find feathers in his pack) Yup. Feathers. I get it. Funny.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Dogged Nice Guy and Only Sane Man variety, as well as Love at First Sight to an extent. It's obvious from his design and mannerisms that he's the most average member of the cast, and similar to Trent/Gwen and Mike/Zoey, he's instantly smitten with Sky the moment he sees her. However, as the season progresses he becomes continually more unhinged and desperate for Sky to date him, until he finally snaps and goes full heel when he finds out she already has a boyfriend.
  • It should also be noted that unlike Zoey and Mike or Trent and Gwen, Dave for the most part did not even seem to want to get to know Sky as an individual, instead only focused on how to get her to be his girlfriend.
• Derailing Love Interests: Throughout the season, his love for Sky causes his mental state to deterioate and tends to bring out his worst qualities. In fact, he votes himself off after Sky rejects him and by the end of the season, he completely undergoes a Face–Heel Turn by trying to endanger Sky's life after finding out she already has a boyfriend.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Especially after finding out that the "girl" already has a boyfriend, upon which his Sanity Slippage gets even worse than it already was.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Dave started off falling for Sky and willing to do anything for her in order to look like a good boyfriend. Even in his first appearance, his idea is the team should do whatever Sky says and he supported her when she wanted to bring Chris the bear with the winning coin in it even though he disagreed with the idea. Sadly his persistence did not work well in his favor in the end.
• Dork in a Sweater: He wears a sweater vest, which fits his personality as a neurotic Neat Freak who doesn't know how to talk to girls.
• The Eeyore: Dave, throughout the season, is cynical and mopey mainly because of how eccentric, annoying and useless his teammates are in competing in challenges. He becomes more self-pitying with Sky rejecting getting in a relationship with him.
• Entitled to Have You: Develops a really nasty case of this in the finale, feeling that since he sacrificed his game for Sky, he's entitled to being her boyfriend. He ends up having a Face–Heel Turn after learning that Sky had a boyfriend the entire time.
• Everyone Has Standards: Dave considers burning the money in front of Sky just to upset her, but scraps it as he thinks that it's too bitter.
• Expy: Fresh TV have confirmed he's based off Mitch Martin.
• Face–Heel Turn: After finding out that Sky is already in a relationship, he does everything in his power to keep her from winning the prize money.
• Fallen Hero: He wasn't exactly that nice to begin with, but he becomes significantly more villainous after his Sanity Slippage in the finale.
• Final Boss: In the season finale, after he realizes that Sky already has a boyfriend, making him the final villain of Pahkitew Island.
• The Finicky One: Dave is a very uptight, fussy and neurotic Neat Freak who serves as the biggest Butt Monkeys of the whole series despite being originally The Straight Man who tries to make sense of his surroundings but but fails.
• Foil: To Jasmine. Both are the love interest to the season's finalists, and both of their relationships with their lovers serve as a major plot point. Jasmine is physically strong, immediately establishes herself as The Leader, while Dave is weak, is often ignored by his team, and often serves as The Lancer to his team leaders. Dave keeps trying to get with Sky but gets rejected and only interested in her instead of the competition, while Jasmine pushes Shawn away and wants to focus on winning. During the finale, when they have to stop Shawn and Sky from reaching the finish line, Jasmine starts feeling bad for hurting Shawn and helps him get out of the avalanche, while Dave will gladly hurts Sky, with Sky buried in the avalanche in Shawn's ending. Jasmine ultimately gets together with Shawn, while Dave and Sky part on bad terms. Ironically they both sabotaged each other's love interests, with Dave convincing Shawn to hit Jasmine with a baton in A Blast from the Past and causing Jasmine to hate him for the next few episodes and Jasmine encouraging Sky to ignore Dave and focus on the game.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's prone to snapping at Beardo and Leonard for not contributing anything to the team and later snapped at Sky when she rejected him and had a boyfriend that she didn't tell him about.
• Hypochondria:
  • Has self-diagnosed himself with several allergies, none of which have been proven. Lampshaded by Chris after Dave gets hit with a balloon filled with itching powder.
    Dave: (scratching himself) Itching powder?! Really?! I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to this!
    Chris: (over the intercom) Everyone is allergic to it! It's itching powder!
  • Though in "Mo' Monkey Mo' Problems", his allergy to flowers is implied to be legitimate.
• Hypocrite: He complains that all his teammates other than Sky are useless in the first few episodes when he himself complains more than lending a helping hand.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Dave is annoyed at his whole team other than Sky and sometimes Shawn for being useless, while he complains more than lending a helping hand, but his complaints are not without reason. In "Uh So This Is My Team" all his teammates grab something useless to building a shelter. They end up going with Leonard's suggestion to build a wizard tower, only for it to crumble. Dave wishes he could vote all of his incompetent team off.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: He states this in his audition video, but once he's on the island he quickly abandons this policy in favor of pursuing a relationship with Sky.
• Irony: He's supposed to be the normal guy but ends up losing his mind.
• Jerkass: Due to his tendency to get snappish and throw hissy fits, he can come off as this at times. Downplayed in that he's not trying to be mean to his teammates so much as he's just annoyed by them.
  • He behaves in Jerkass ways in his attempt to woo Sky, while seemingly not seeing any problems with this. One very notable example is when Sky was sharing her personal ambitions and history with him, he was bothered by her talking and trying to figure out when to make a romantic move.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be insensitive, short-tempered, and become whiny, but it was shown to be a fairly decent guy as long as no one upsets him (saving Ella from drowning after she got electrocuted, trying to offer Shawn relationship advice). Sadly, his relationship with Sky caused him to be more of an insufferable jerkass that lost his sense of morality.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While he had undergone Sanity Slippage starting from "Hurl And Go Seek", he jumps off the deep end in the finale.
• The Lancer: Whether Shawn or Sky is The Leader in a particular episode, Dave contrasts their competence and tolerance of their team's quirks with his own tendencies (see The Load) and frequent complaints about everything.
• Large Ham: Even before he lost his sanity after he got rejected by Sky, he was still prone to anger, mood swings and was very neurotic when dealing with his fellow annoying contestants. Like when Leonard insisted to making the pig fly over the wall during a challenge.
  Dave: Just take the pig and CLIMB THE WALL, LEONARD!
  Leonard: My spells aren't working because someone here doesn't believe in me!
  Dave: ME! IT'S ME!! I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOU! NOW PICK UP THE PACE!!!
• The Load: Downplayed. While not as bad as previous examples, he is one of the less useful members on his team and physically the weakest, especially when he's hindered by his mysophobia. However, he is still capable of competing, especially earlier in the season. He took out both Rodney and Topher in the balloon challenge and actually knocked Jasmine off the platform in the dueling stick challenge.
• Lovable Coward: Dave has a fair share of phobias and is known to get very panicky and anxious.
• Love Makes You Dumb: His common sense takes a severe blow after he falls for Sky, resulting in him trying various misguided stunts (such as trying to tame a bear and pretending to be a jerk) in order to impress her. Needless to say, it doesn't work.
  Sky: (dismayed) He was brighter before, wasn't he?
• Love Makes You Evil: His love for Sky led to his heart getting broken, which ultimately caused his Sanity Slippage and seeking vengeance on Sky.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Dave is an effeminate, neat and emotional Feminine Boy and Sky is a tomboyish, athletic and fiercely competitive Masculine Girl.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: In Shawn's ending, Sky fails to get any prize money, exactly as Dave had solely dedicated himself towards when he had his Face–Heel Turn. He doesn't seem to be remotely pleased about this, though, more upset about missing out on half of the prize.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Noah. Both come off as being Deadpan Snarkers who are reluctant to help their team, but their characters quickly diverge after this. Noah couldn't care less what anyone else thinks, and actually knows his limits, while also showing himself to be Brilliant, but Lazy and can prove helpful when he feels like it. Dave constantly has something to prove, keeps stepping outside his capabilities and ends up paying for it, and is the biggest load to his team after Beardo and Leonard are eliminated. Furthermore, both have an arc of pursuing a girl which had an effect on their in-game performance, but while Noah did manage to win her over and may have had a Relationship Upgrade, Dave Did Not Get the Girl and became determined to get revenge on her.
  • To Mike. Both have a similar color scheme and a mental disorder that proves to be troublesome and are part of a couple (with Sky and Zoey respectively) that serve as a major plot throughout their seasons. However, while their relationships seem similar at first, they end up going in near opposite directions. Both relationships involved trust issues between the two lovers, but for Mike and Zoey it was the boy keeping secrets, while for Dave and Sky it's the girl who is withholding the truth. Mike was able to pull through due to his love of Zoey, while it's Dave's love for Sky that destroyed him and left him a wreck. Mike ended up getting the girl and the money, while Dave Did Not Get the Girl or the money and is left with an Uncertain Doom.
  • Dave is practically a male version of Courtney. Both Courtney and Dave have an uptight and neurotic personality, and both have a tendency to whine when things don't go their way. Also, much like with Courtney's situation, a toxic relationship with another person leads to Dave's Sanity Slippage.
  • To Trent, specifically Trent's role in the pilot as "The Normal Guy". Both were Nice Guys who fell for another contestant, let their insecurities get the best of them and ended up suffering a Sanity Slippage and performing a Senseless Sacrifice that resulted in them not getting the girl and taking a level in Jerkass.
  • To Lightning, he was a tall, athletic but unintelligent, overly confident Jerk Jock whereas Dave is a small, frail, neurotic, insecure nerd but they both filled the same role as the surprise Final Boss of the season after the previous villains had all been eliminated. However Lightning won in one of his endings, was injured, and is still alive, while Dave loses and freaks out in both endings, is never seen injured by Scuba Bear, and is left with Uncertain Doom.
  • To Alejandro, both had a dramatic confrontation with their love interest in their respective finales and in both cases their love interest took advantage of their feelings for her and subjected them to a Humiliation Conga. But Alejandro had been a Card-Carrying Jerkass from the start and being defeated by Heather was his Laser-Guided Karma, whereas Dave had been pretty decent (of entitledly clingy) to Sky before his last-minute Sanity Slippage.
• The Napoleon: He's one of the shortest males on the entire show and is a guy that can be confrontational, surly and petulant towards others. Sometimes it's understandable like Leonard is being foolish but other times, he's being petty like Sky refusing to date him and actually has a boyfriend which results in Dave wanting to sabotage Sky so he could light the money on front of her.
• Neat Freak: Due to his mysophobia, he tends to freak out during gross moments in the shows' competitions like being covered by grease.
  Dave: (panics)AAHH! SANITIZER! I NEED HAND SANITIZER! AND SANDPAPER FOR SCRUBBING!!!
• Nervous Wreck: He's prone to anxiety and obsessing over being clean and neat at times. He also starts to really like Sky because he saw her as the only one to have a calming effect on him after he freaks out after he gets covered in grease.
• Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers for Pahkitew Island said that Dave was "The Nice Guy." Although he could be nice at times, he's truly a stubborn, critical and whiny person who loses his sanity at the end.
• Non-Action Snarker: He constantly gripes about his teammates' weirdness and eccentricity, but is incapable of contributing much to challenges due to his Neat Freak tendencies and just lacking any particular strengths.
• No-Respect Guy: Early in the season when he was actually the Only Sane Man who was Surrounded by Idiots who was ignored and interrupted by his teammates, though this later subsides when his obnoxious traits accumulate and he becomes a hindrance to the team himself.
  Sugar: Normally I would agree that I'm the best. But shake your heads, guys. We have a wizard on our team.
  Dave: Can we leave fiction aside for a second? Sky's practically an Olympic gymnast, she should take the last section.
  Sugar: Two words! WIZ-ARD!
  Dave: Ok... Sky can the first leg?
• No Social Skills: Dave often gets social anxiety when he's around others, especially his crush. In fact, it's practically a Running Gag that he struggles to tell Sky he wants to go out with her without freaking out or saying the wrong thing.
• Not Good with Rejection: Each time Sky rejects him, Dave loses more and more of his sanity.
• Oblivious to Love: He is unaware that Ella had developed a crush on him.
• Odd Friendship: While Dave despises most of his team for being weird, he's actually very close to Shawn with the two foraging for food together and sharing dating advice with one another. However, it's unknown where they stand after the events of "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize", which had the two get into a fight and ended with Dave not caring when Shawn was buried in an avalanche.
• Only Sane Man: Aside from Sky, he sees himself as the only sane member of his team. To an extent, this is a fairly reasonable assumption, considering his team consists of a guy who makes silly noises, a roleplayer who thinks he's a wizard, a girl who dresses like a princess and constantly sings, a ditzy pageant queen, a paranoid zombie-phobic extremist, and later on a purple-haired midget who thinks he's a supervillain and laughs like a maniac all the time. It's still ambiguous if he really counts as sane when all's said and done, though.
• Opposites Attract: With Sky. Until her competitiveness and determination prevented her from developing with the lovelorn dork Dave who gets more whiny and obsessive to the point that he bitterly turns against her.
• Pet the Dog: There are implications that under normal circumstances Dave would be a lot more pleasant to be around
  • He saves Ella from drowning with no complaint and seems happy to help him.
  • He's willing to humor Leonard on the plane until his lack of sense of reality becomes apparent.
  • He tries to help Shawn with his relationship woes with Jasmine even if his advice backfires.
  • He feels legitimate remorse when tricking Shawn to help his team win the challenge causes a rift between the two.
• Plot Allergy: Dave claims to be allergic to bee stings, tomatoes, weed, peanuts, flowers, mountain lion dander, and most fruit-flavored gums in "Twinning Isn't Everything", but concedes that it's a suspicion and that he's never been officially tested for any of it. The claim that he's allergic to flowers is corroborated in "Mo' Monkey, Mo' Problems" because he sneezes every time he sniffs one.
• Properly Paranoid: Despite never being tested, he claims that he's allergic to flowers. This is later verified when he repeatedly sniffs one while waited for Sky, and sneezes every time he does.
• Sanity Slippage: Undergoes some after Sky rejects him at the merge. Luckily, he knows this and votes himself off before it can get any worse. Unfortunately for him, it worsens when he realizes that Sky already has a boyfriend.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Shawn is a Crazy Survivalist who is exceptionally athletic and possesses Super-Speed while Dave is a whiny, effeminate Neat Freak who has No Social Skills (especially when it comes to Sky). Just for comparison, Shawn is seen wearing camouflage in one episode, showing that he isn't above getting dirty while Dave freaks out whenever he gets even a little bit dirty.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Believes this will be the case when Sky is switched to the opposing team in episode 7. Unfortunately, he didn't take into account how serious Sky and her teammates were about the competition.
• Straight Man: Dave often sees himself as the most rational and level-headed kid amongst most of the eccentric contestants in Pahkitew Island. To be fair, there was some truth to that with how weird and useless his team was. He loses that when he starts to lose his mind over being rejected by a girl. In the final, when he learned the girl already had a boyfriend when she implied she get together with him if he helps her with the challenge. He becomes bitter, petty and vindictive in try to get revenge on the girl by causing her to lose the game.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Dave views his teammates as annoying, weird idiots. To be fair, there is merit to his opinion. In the episode "So, Uh, This Is My Team," when his team completely failed in their challenge because all his teammates grab something useless to build a shelter. Then they end up going with Leonard's suggestion to build a wizard tower, only for it to crumble. He asks in the confessional if he could vote for four people.
• Terrified of Germs: His contestant bio states that he has mysophobia and he is seen rubbing his hands with disinfectant in his audition video. He gets nervous whenever a challenge involves getting dirty, and freaks out when he's covered in pig grease in "I Love You, Greased Pig!". In "This is the Pits!" he is seen in the fetal position after his team escape the underground tunnels by climbing out through the outhouse confessional, covered in wastewater.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: His frustration at his teammates causes him to take a level or two during the first few episodes. Then The Reveal of Sky having a boyfriend causes him to take several more.
• Uncertain Doom: The final shot of "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize" ends with a bitter Dave having been accidentally left on Pahkitew Island, about to be attacked by Scuba Bear. It's unknown what happened to him after this, but the fact that his status has no mentions at all in the seventh season due to Pahkitew Island not returning after the fifteen-year Time Skip, certainly doesn't make his chances of survival look good.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: It's obvious that Dave and Sky have feelings for each other, but they keep getting held back due to Sky not wanting attachments, Sugar trying to keep them apart, and Dave's persistence putting Sky off.
• Woman Scorned: Gender-Inverted Trope. He didn't even want the money, but he was intent on making sure Sky didn't get it. If he managed to win half by stopping Shawn and Sky, he was planning on burning his half in front of her out of spite.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While his behavior in the finale certainly makes him qualify as a villain, it's difficult not to feel sorry for him when considering the series of events that built up to this.

Ella

"My name is Ella. I was a huge fan of Total Drama World Tour. I memorized all the songs from that season and performed them at the local mall in a one-person flash mob! The nice security man told me I had a beautiful voice, and that I was banned from the mall."

Voiced by: Sunday Muse

Label: The Fairytale Princess

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Placements: 9th^*Disqualified (Broke the no-singing rule) (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 6 (TDPI)

Like the stereotypical Disney-style princesses she imitates, Ella is an incredibly sweet girl with a perpetually sunny disposition, absolutely no ill will towards anybody, and an angelic singing voice that entrances all the creatures of the forest but annoys most people to no end.

---

• Actual Pacifist: Due to her all-loving nature, she cannot bring herself to do anything even remotely violent or cruel. As shown in "I Love You, I Love You Knots", she even refused to shock the opposing team because she thought it was "too mean".
• All-Loving Heroine: As mentioned above, she is incredibly sweet and friendly to everyone and holds no ill will towards anyone. She is impossible to anger, although hurting her animal friends will make her upset.
• Animal Lover: She loves animals as much as they love her.
• Ascended Fangirl: In her audition video, she says that she was a huge fan of Total Drama World Tour.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She seems to have been this for Team Maskwak due to her very joyous and youthful behavior.
• The Beastmaster: She easily befriends birds, a pig, and a bear.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Animals consider her a good singer.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Displays both the inner and the outer beauty types throughout her appearance, as opposed to Sugar.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Fell in love with Dave after he saved her from drowning and returned her shoe to her in "A Blast From The Past".
• Berserk Button: The only time in the entire season that Ella gets mad is when Chris scares a pig she's dancing with.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Ella is shown to be this, as she usually sings at inappropriate times, such as when she's falling off a blimp without an actual parachute, though she survives unharmed.
• Create Your Own Hero: Chris forcing all the contestants to sing in "World Tour" really came back to bite him in the ass. The musical segments in that season are one of the reasons she always breaks out into song, much to the ire of Chris himself.
• Cute, but Cacophonic:
  • Downplayed. Despite her Beautiful Singing Voice, the other campers find Ella's constant singing annoying, especially Sugar.
  • Chris is also especially annoyed by Ella's singing to the point where he threatens to boot her from the show if she sings again in "A Blast from the Past". Chris follows through on his threat in the following episode after Sugar sells her out by sending an anonymous letter to him.
    Ella: ♪Good morning, other team!♪ Who would like to hear a song?
    Chris: (over the loudspeaker) NO ONE, Ella!
• The Cutie: Ella is a songbird with a personality as angelic as her singing voice.
• Dissonant Serenity: Instead of panicking when she got a fake parachute, she's glad that the teddy bear in her pack is safe, and she starts to sing a song after grabbing a tambourine from Leonard's pack and finding a little birdie.
• Dumb Is Good: She is excessively nice to EVERYONE, but she's fairly naive, as she believes Leonard is a real wizard.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsey: She does this when introducing herself in her audition video.
• Expy: She is part Snow White (with the design of her hair and bow), part Cinderella (with her name and the design of her clothes), with the color scheme of Aurora.
• Flashmob: In her audition, she mentions that she sang every song from Total Drama World Tour in her local mall as a one-person flash mob. She is now banned from the mall as a result.
• Friend to All Living Things: In typical Snow White fashion.
• Genki Girl: In addition to her singing, Ella's perkiness in general also gets on Chris' nerves.
• Genre Refugee: There's really not much use for a Disney Princess on a reality show.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her bedroom has plenty of stuffed animals.
• Girly Girl: Quite possibly the girliest character in the entire series.
• Girly Run: She does this in "A Blast from the Past" as she retrieves one of her team's dueling sticks.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Ella desperately wants to be Sugar's friend and absolutely does not understand why Sugar hates her so much.
• Graceful Loser: She isn't upset when she's disqualified from the competition in "Mo Monkey Mo Problems". Instead, she comments that she's glad she can return to singing freely and then proceeds to turn her elimination ceremony into a musical number.
• Heroic BSoD: She suffers from one in "Mo Monkey Mo Problems" after Dave tells her that he is attracted to Sky and not her. During the challenge, she is barely emotive until her teammates needed her to serenade a bear in order to get Dave free and try to get it to spit their monkey out.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: A rare heroic example. Chris gives Ella an ultimatum during the elimination ceremony of "A Blast from the Past": if she sings again, she is automatically eliminated. Unfortunately, the trope is invoked an episode later when her team needed her to sing to a bear to save Dave and retrieve their monkey, and Sugar tells Chris that Ella sang.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She accepts the fact that Dave loves Sky.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Chimerical and naive, but polite to each and every one of her fellow campers, no matter how rude or cruel they are to her.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to Sugar's dark.
• The Load: Downplayed. While she at least tries to help her team and sometimes successfully does so, her actions are often viewed as hindering.
  • In "So, Uh, This is My Team?", she retrieves a bucket of glitter instead of any useful building material.
  • In "I Love You, Greased Pig!", she sings and dances with the pig, which slows her down; however, unlike Leonard, she does actually complete her leg of the challenge.
  • In "I Love You, I Love You Knots", after undoing her knot, she offers to help Rodney, her opposition, and she is hesitant to push the button to shock Team Kinosewak to win the tiebreaker. However, Clucky the chicken snatches the remote out of Ella's hand, shocking Rodney and the rest of his team.
• Magic Skirt: Invoked by means of her little bird friends.
• Meaningful Name: The second half of "Cinderella".
• Mind-Control Music: While not exactly mind-controlling, her singing has a very unusual, powerful hold on nearby animals.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Dawn. Both are Nice Girls, All Loving Heroines and have a special connection with animals. Both possess some degree of supernatural power, with Dawn having Psychic Powers while Ella has a Compelling Voice that can create Mind-Control Music when she sings. Both are also overly-trusting Actual Pacifists who never try to harm others, with the very worst being Dawn trying to get Scott eliminated and that was only after discovering how vile he was. There are a few contrasts, however, such as Dawn being a Creepy Child who often scares people, while Ella is generally well-liked albeit sometimes considered annoying. In addition, Dawn is noted to be exceptionally smart and figured out Scott on her own, while Ella is too naive for her own good and never realizes Sugar is a bad person despite being openly bullied by her.
  • Ella has quite a few similarities to Lindsay: both are labelled as "Princesses", both have major conflicts with "Queens" (Heather for Lindsay, Sugar for Ella) which end in their elimination, both placed 9th in their debut seasons, and both are associated with the same light, fluttery music. However, the difference is while Lindsay is a Nice Girl, she does come to be aware of Heather being the vile person she is and even gets back at her. Ella remains blissfully unaware of how nasty Sugar is and to this date still thinks of her as a friend.
  • Within her own generation, she is similar to Samey. Both are the Nice Girls of their respective teams, and both are abused by a blonde-haired Alpha Bitch (Sugar towards Ella, and Amy towards Samey). However, the major difference between the two is that while Ella, as an Actual Pacifist, never shows any aggression towards Sugar and even attempted to befriend her, Samey Grew a Spine and eventually stood up against her wicked twin sister.
  • To Zoey, both were really bad judges of character and got taken advantage of by others because of it, although she didn't take a level in badass like Zoey. Both were part of an Imaginary Love Triangle, but Mike really was interested in her and just couldn't stop one of his personalities from making out with Anne Maria, while Dave was only interested in Sky and didn't even notice she had feelings for him, she just mistook a small act of basic kindness for a romantic act. And both were the Nice Girl's of their respective teams but Zoey was shy and sweet while Ella annoyed everyone with her relentless positivity.
• Music Soothes the Savage Beast: She can calm and attract any animal using her beautiful voice. Her team even realizes the power her singing holds over other animals and even requests her to sing to the bear in order to subdue it in "Mo Monkey Mo Problems".
• Naïve Everygirl: She tries her best to befriend Sugar, oblivious to the fact that Sugar neither likes nor trusts her.
• Nice Girl: One of the nicest, if not the nicest, character in the whole series; she is an Actual Pacifist who just wants to be everyone's friend.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the Waneyihtam Maskwak girls, she's the nice to Sugar's mean and Sky's in between.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She is visibly depressed after she realizes that Dave isn't attracted to her.
• Perpetual Smiler: It's very rare to see her without a smile on her face.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Subverted. She reveals, through song, that her outfit is actually a skirt and blouse.
• The Pollyanna: Despite numerous attempts to break her, Ella usually maintains her sunny disposition. She even takes her elimination in stride, singing a song before she is shot out of the Cannon of Shame. However, as a Double Subversion, she is visibly depressed when she realizes that Dave is attracted to Sky and not her, but she gets better and still remains friends with both Dave and Sky.
• Princess Phase: Implied. She acts and dresses as a fairy tale princess, even though she's a teenager.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: The only parts of her outfit that aren't pink are her sleeves.
• Trying Not to Cry: Happens when Dave tells her that his picnic was meant for Sky when Ella had thought it was for her. Ella tries to hold back tears but is too upset by this revelation that she runs away crying.
  Ella: This is for... Sky? Of course it is! Heh, I'll... just uh... [choking up] I'll, uh, you know... [cries and runs away]
• Vocal Evolution: Her voice is higher than it was in her audition tape.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Believes everyone is good at heart, even when they physically mistreat her on a regular basis. Chris seems to be the only exception.
• Womanchild: Although a teenager, she acts like she's living in a fairytale and refers to Dave as "her prince".

Leonard

"Time to cast a spell."

Voiced by: Clé Bennett

Label: The LARPer

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears), The LARPers

Placements: 13th (TDPI), 18th (TDP:RR)

Eliminated in: Episode 2 (TDPI), Episode 2 (TDP:RR)

An oddball even among Pakhitew Island's wacky contestants, Leonard is a delusional LARPer who seems to be convinced he is an actual wizard. Due to his loose grip on reality, he frequently (and unsuccessfully) attempts to use magic to complete challenges.

For tropes regarding his time on The Ridonculous Race go here.

---

• Black Dude Dies First:
  • In Pahkitew Island with Beardo as they are the first two eliminated.
  • Happens again in Ridonculous Race when his team is the first one eliminated.
• Black and Nerdy: He's always seen cosplaying as a wizard, although in his case he actually believes he is one.
• The Bus Came Back: Leonard returns in the Ridonculous Race alongside his LARPing partner Tammy. However, he lasts almost as long as he did in Pakhitew Island.
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: His Fatal Flaw. Leonard is absolutely convinced that he's a real wizard to the point that he prefers to rely on his non-existent spells over actual effort. This ends up making him a liability to his team.
• Catchphrase: "It worked!", "Marvelous!"
• Childish Tooth Gap: Has one that really reflects his eccentric, oddball personality.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He takes his LARPing a bit too seriously, and it has caused him to be very distant from reality.
• Flat Character: He's super into roleplaying... And that's all the show bothers to tell us about him.
• Geek Physiques: He's tall and somewhat scrawny.
• Implied Love Interest: To Sugar.
• In the Hood: He has never been shown with his hood off, and it is currently unknown what color his hair is (or if he has any for that matter).
• Joke Character: Performance-wise, he is among one of the worst Total Drama contestants of all time.
• LARP: His label is literally "The LARPer".
• The Load: Recites "magic spells" instead of physically helping his team, due to thinking his spells actually work in real life. Lampshaded by Shawn in "Lies, Cries, and One Big Prize" when he says he would be fine with anyone as a helper so long as it wasn't Leonard.
• Manchild: For a teen, he's quite delusional about his wizardry.
• Never Bareheaded: He is always shown wearing a wizard hood.
• Never My Fault: When his spells don't work in "I Love You Grease Pig", he blames someone not believing in him for it rather than accept he's not actually a wizard.
• Serious Business: His LARPing. It was the reason why he and Dave had a conflict.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He is overconfident that his "magic" will help him win.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only lasts two episodes before he is eliminated; however, he does get mentioned in the last three episodes.
• Wizard Beard: Wears a fake one as part of his LARP costume.
• Youthful Freckles: To show how much of a nerdy LARPer he is.

Shawn

"In my mind, I'm always running from zombies, and if you're not, you're crazy!"

Voiced by: Zachary Bennett

Label: The Zombie Conspiracy Nut

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Placements: 1st/2nd (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 13 (TDPI)

A Crazy Survivalist and Conspiracy Theorist who is convinced that zombies are real and that the zombie apocalypse is due anytime soon. Because of his delusions, Shawn has taught himself a wide variety of skills that make him a strong player, even if his paranoia tends to get the better of him.

---

• The Ace: Along with Jasmine, he excels in all areas of survival.
• Action Duo: With Jasmine, especially in "Scarlett Fever". Though which of the two serves as Action Hero and Action Survivor varies with the episode, as both of them have crippling fears that can make the other one the brave one.
• Action Survivor: Shawn zigzags between this and Action Hero. While at times he's one of the most competent members of his team and the backbone, but other times he's held back by his cowardice and puts his own safety first.
• Amazon Chaser: He falls for Action Girl and Statuesque Stunner Jasmine.
• Anti-Hero: Somewhere between the Disney and Classical subtypes. While he is certainly not a villain and is quite friendly to almost everyone, he has quite a few non-heroic traits, such as having a very self-centered survivalist style of thinking and being a bit of a coward.
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Subverted the first time where it leads to his What the Hell, Hero? moment, but the second time round he seizes the opportunity and redeems himself.
• Arc Hero: Post-Merger he, Jasmine and Sky become the Token Good Teammate's and throughout the remaining episodes have to deal with the Big Bad Ensemble of Sugar, Scarlett and Dave. Unlike most examples on this show he's a Pin Ball Protagonist with no specific conflict with any of these people.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Moments after Chris told the players that they could safely navigate the crystal cave as long as they didn't take any crystals, Shawn took a crystal because it was shiny.
• Battle Couple: Once he and Jasmine become an Official Couple, they kick ass together as a dynamic duo.
• Berserk Button: Any mention of the word "zombie" will either cause him to cower in fear, run for his life, or massacre anything in sight.
• Character Development: His development from a zombie-fearing Dirty Coward to an Action Hero who decimates a whole legion of Chris Robots.
• Charles Atlas Superpower:
  • He trained himself to shoot "snot rockets" because he thought it might come in handy one day.
  • He can also perform armpit serenades flawlessly. Chris was even moved to tears by his performance!
• Cloud Cuckoolander: He not only believes zombies are real, but that the world has already fallen to a Zombie Apocalypse, and that being situated on an isolated island will increase his chances of survival. He's also known to come up with crazy conspiracy theories that keep getting crazier.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He believes the government is secretly developing a zombie virus and a Zombie Apocalypse is inevitable.
• Cowardly Lion: He comes off as being quite cowardly or quirky, but time after time he will pull off something that shocks and amazes everyone around him.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Shawn can be seen as one to Owen and Cameron, as the socially-weird male finalist of each generation. Like his predecessors, he's a Nice Guy, a coward, and has No Social Skills. However, while his predecessors both performed very poorly in physical areas, Shawn displays genuine skill and athleticism that allows him to perform well in challenges. His load status instead comes from his zombie paranoia.
• Crazy Survivalist: Shawn's defining trait. He's thoroughly convinced that the world will succumb to a Zombie Apocalypse and has spent his entire life training for it. While this has made him The Ace when it comes to surviving, he's also overly paranoid and will often show quirks of believing others of being zombies.
• Cuckoo Snarker: While he spends every other moment spouting nonsense about how a Zombie Apocalypse is impending, he's also prone to be the snarky Only Sane Man just as much.
  Shawn: I can't hear you over your insanity!
• Dirty Coward: Has a habit of running away during challenges when he thinks he's seen any sign of a zombie. However, he slowly overcomes this trait and becomes more selfless.
• Doomsayer: One of his defining characteristics. In fact the original label he was promoted with was "The Paranoid Doomsayer".
• Easily Forgiven: By Jasmine in the ending where he doesn't win the money to try and split it with her.
• Establishing Character Moment: For Shawn, it was either cowering in fear on the plane when Rodney says "brains", or showing off his athletic prowess by flipping through the air when salvaging from the scrap heap.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies: The inclusion of a character with a zombie gimmick in a reality show, is itself an example of this.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Part of his character design and a likely result of his countless sleepless nights spent on making sure zombies don't attack him in his sleep.
• Expy:
  • Of Shaun from Shaun of the Dead, both being zombie apocalypse survivor-themed characters with similar sounding names, but contrast the usual badass archetype by being a bit quirky.
  • Also of Peeta Mellark, another guy who also camouflaged himself with natural materials... and who also learned it from cake-decorating for a bakery.
  • Of Shaggy Rogers, both are quirky, scruffy guys with rural accents, that believe in supernatural beings to spite living in worlds that are Like Reality, Unless Noted and are in a constant state of panic but can be brave when they need to be.
• Foil: To Sky. Both are The Leader for Team Maskwak, possible finalists of the season and by extension The Protagonist, both are exceptionally athletic and possess Super-Speed, and both were involved in the two main relationships of the season. However while Sky is one of the sanest characters in the season, Shawn is a Cloudcuckoolander. There are also contrasts in their relationships. While both started off not wanting to get involved in love, it's for different reasons as Shawn believes Love Is a Weakness while Sky is a Competition Freak. Shawn ends up messing up his relationship with Jasmine and spends a large part of the season trying to make amends, while Sky pushes Dave away herself. Both Shawn and Sky are forced to pick between their love or the money, but while Shawn eventually comes around and picks Jasmine, Sky still prioritizes the money and instead exploits Dave's feelings to help her win. Shawn ultimately gets together with Jasmine, while Sky and Dave part on bad terms.
• Genius Bruiser: He is one of the best fighters in the series, yet is still fairly intelligent, having an encyclopedic knowledge of wilderness survival and zombies.
• Genre Refugee: He seems to think he's in a Zombie Survival Horror when he's actually on a brutal reality show, unlike with Ella this has a lot of uses.
• Genre Savvy: About zombies (of course), which serves as both a blessing and a curse.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Implied. At least twelve years after the airing of Pahkitew Island, a zombie standee modeled after Shawn is owned by the Total Drama contestant Axel, a Crazy Survivalist just like Shawn, suggesting that he may have been her inspiration.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In "Hurl And Go Seek!", he sacrifices himself to slow down the "zombies" in order to give Jasmine a chance to escape.
• Homeschooled Kids: Word of God only.
• Hypocritical Humor: When he finds out that Jasmine has claustrophobia he comments that it's sad when someone lets fear control their lives. This is coming from the guy who lets his zombie paranoia control his whole life.
• Ineffectual Loner: He has nothing against his team, but he refuses to sleep with them due to his zombie paranoia.
• In-Series Nickname: He's been given the name "Zombie Boy" by Jasmine and Chris.
• Irony: He greatly fears zombies and wishes to avoid becoming one at all costs. Come season seven, and a zombie standee resembling Shawn makes an appearance.
• Jerkass Ball: Despite being a caring guy, he's perfectly happy to repeatedly badmouth Jasmine in the confessional after hearing that she intends to use her share of the money for a flower shop and cage-fighting school, which he believes to be a stupid expenditure. This comes back to haunt him in the finale.
• Jerkass Realization: His constant badmouthing of Jasmine in the confessional comes back to bite him hard in the finale when Chris airs all the footage for her to see.
• Jerk Justifications: His often cold, distant nature is explained as being due to him refusing to form attachments, as he considers them a weakness in a Zombie Apocalypse.
• The Leader: Shares this role with Sky on Team Maskwak, depending on the episode and whether he's acting quirky or not. He takes over full-time once Sky changes teams, albeit for one episode.
• Lightning Bruiser: Shawn is a very skilled hand-to-hand combatant, but he also possesses Super-Speed.
• Loners Are Freaks: Subverted. While he does go off on his own sometimes, his teammates still like him and consider him a vital part of the team.
• Love Is a Weakness: The reason he was originally reluctant to get into a relationship with Jasmine. As he believed becoming attached to her would make him hesitant to take her out should she become a zombie.
• Master of the Mixed Message: According to Jasmine in "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems":
  Jasmine: I'm done with zombie boy's mixed messages. First, he's all sweet, then he hits me with a dueling stick, then he brings me flowers?
• Mirror Character:
  • To Harold due to his personality and role in the overarching story. As both are socially awkward boys with a huge arsenal of hidden talents, both are weirdos with Girly Screams, and both become involved with a much larger dark-skinned girl. Furthermore, they both had to partake in a talent show, where their talent unexpectedly wowed the judge and gave them the highest score.
  • To Alejandro, Mal and from his own generation Dave, all four of them had dramatic confrontations with their love interest in the finale. But he's the only one who was a Nice Guy and not a Big Bad or Final Boss, and although Jasmine was mad at him, once she realized he was in actual danger she became concerned for his safety and the two made up, ending the season on good terms.
  • To Mike, both had a blossoming romance with another contestant that was put in jeopardy by a trait they had that the other didn't realise was genuine. Zoey thinking Mike's multiple personalities were just impressions he did and Jasmine believing Shawn's zombie paranoia was just an inside joke they shared. Unlike Mike who went along with this belief Shawn was just as oblivious, thinking Jasmine shared his beliefs.
• Must Have Caffeine: Word of God states he regularly consumes caffeine to stay alert, though it's never seen in the show.
• Never Bareheaded: He is always wearing a toque.
• Nice Guy: So long as no one mentions zombies, he's generally polite to everyone, even to those he doesn't like or finds annoying.
• Odd Friendship: With Dave. Despite Shawn being another one of the weirdos on the team that Dave usually dislikes, he gets along with Shawn just fine, with the two of them constantly hanging out and even try to help one another with their lady problems. Though it's unknown where they stand after the events of "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize" due to the drama involving both their relationships.
• Oddly Visible Eyebrows: Over the top of his toque.
• Official Couple: Becomes this with Jasmine after the merge.
• The One Guy: Following Max's elimination, the final four of Pahkitew Island are Shawn and three female contestants.
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Shawn eventually has to admit to a few positives about Sugar. In "Scarlett Fever", he claims an interest in meeting her family when she talks about a time her uncle tried to turn donkeys into a robot army. And in "Pahk'd With Talent", he's jealous that Sugar's brain is in her neck because zombies don't look there for a snack.
• Only Sane Man: Surprisingly, in spite of his delusional ramblings about zombies, Shawn still proves himself to be one of the saner contestants of the season. Sometimes he even ends up falling into this trope by default with the most notable one being during "Three Zones and a Baby" where he was the only one trying to do the challenge normally while the rest were either getting caught in personal drama (Sky, Dave and Jasmine) or had their own agendas (Topher, Sugar, Max and Scarlett).
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: His response when Sugar offers to form an alliance with him:
  Shawn: I'D RATHER BE EATEN BY A ZOMBIE!
• The Paranoiac: As part of his Doomsayer characterization.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Takes great pride in having worked at a bakery because his cake decorating skills allow him to camouflage himself in the wild.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: When he's scared, his voice becomes high-pitched.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played straight early on, but he learns to rise up late in the season.
  • He fled when he thought Dave was going to kiss him and eat his brains.
  • He also bails from the scene fairly often at any sign of zombies, but his best one was probably in "A Blast from the Past".
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Dave is a whiny, effeminate Neat Freak who has No Social Skills (especially when it comes to Sky) while Shawn is a Crazy Survivalist who is exceptionally athletic and possesses Super-Speed. Just for comparison, Dave freaks out whenever he gets even a little bit dirty while Shawn is seen wearing camouflage in one episode, showing that he isn't above getting dirty.
• Ship Tease: With Jasmine, which eventually gets upgraded to Official Couple.
• The Smart Guy: Doubling as The Leader, Shawn is the closest the team gets to one due to being a Genius Bruiser with extensive knowledge about survival and the wilderness.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: He has substantial focus throughout the season due to his Ship Tease with Jasmine, his friendship with Dave, his zombie gimmick, and his Character Development from a Dirty Coward Doomsayer to a selfless Action Hero. Also considering he's a finalist, this makes him the overall the most focused-on contestant in Pahkitew Island.
• Super-Speed: In "I Love You, I Love You Knots" as he chases after Dave, he manages to perform a Flash Step and cover the distance between them of possibly 30 feet, in the space of a second.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With Jasmine, though it's more of a case of Huge Girl, Normal-Sized Guy.
• Took a Level in Badass: At the start of Pahkitew Island he was a Dirty Coward who would runs at the first sign of danger, but by the end, he regularly destroys killer robots.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Had this with Jasmine due to a combination of his cowardice and a misunderstanding causing Jasmine to lose her trust in him. He eventually earns her trust back and they become an Official Couple.
• Wallpaper Camouflage: Paints himself the same color as tree bark and perfectly camouflages himself against a tree during "Twinning Isn't Everything".
• What the Hell, Hero?: When he brutally knocks Jasmine into the lake using a jousting stick (having mistaken her for a zombie), she angrily hefts him up by his shirt and tells him she doesn't want to see him ever again. She remains upset for a full 4 episodes until he redeems himself by selflessly sacrificing himself for her in "Hurl and Go Seek!". Shawn almost blows his chances with Jasmine again after revealing in the confessional that he thought her plan for the money was stupid.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As his character gimmick, Shawn is completely paranoid over the prospect of a zombie apocalypse.
• Zombie Apocalypse Hero: Shawn is both a parody and tribute to this trope, being a Zombie Conspiracy Nut who believes a Zombie Apocalypse is inevitable and has been preparing his whole life for it. He's a Genre Savvy walking encyclopedia when it comes to all things zombies and The Ace when it comes to surviving in the wilderness.

Sky

"I'm not here to meet boys, I'm here to win!"

Voiced by: Sarah Podemski

Label: The Athlete

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears), Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon)

Placements: 1st/2nd (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 13 (TDPI)

An aspiring Olympian athlete whose goals are firmly set on achieving victory. Sky is a skilled gymnast who believes in the importance of teamwork and good sportsmanship. Although competitive, she despises cheaters and rarely shows any serious disrespect towards her teammates.

---

• Action Girl: As an Olympian in training, she is one of the most athletic girls in the series.
• Arch-Enemy: Sugar, after "Scarlett Fever".
• Arc Hero: Post-Merger she, Shawn and Jasmine become the Token Good Teammate's and throughout the remaining episodes have to deal with the Big Bad Ensemble of Sugar, Scarlett and Dave, Sugar in particular becomes a particularly strong rival to her at this point and she's responsible for Dave's Sanity Slippage due to how poorly she handled their potential relationship, which she feared would interfere with her performance.
• Badass Adorable: She's quite cute and pretty, but is one of the most physically competent players in the game.
• Badass Native: Of Cree descent and very athletic, a good leader and often the last resort of her team earlier on.
• Big Sister Worship: She reveals in "A Blast from the Past" that she admires her elder sister, who also inspired her to become an Olympian in training.
• Catchphrase: Whenever she is energetic and has a point to make, Sky exclaims "Boom!" as something to the value of "In your face!"
• Charles Atlas Superpower: An unintended side effect of all her athletic training is that she can belch extremely powerfully, as explained in the quote under Gasshole below.
• Competition Freak: Obsessed with winning to the point that she can throw a massive fit when she loses.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She keeps Ella from breaking into song at inappropriate times, especially after Chris threatens to kick Ella off the show if she sang again.
• Determinator: Absolutely determined to win at (almost) any cost.
• Didn't Think This Through: Sky did not think to tell Dave that the reason that she cannot date him is that she has a boyfriend she plans to break up with back at home. It comes back to bite her hard when Dave finds out while he is her designated helper.
• Establishing Character Moment: In the first episode, she displays her impressive athletic skill by sliding and flipping off of a tree in her path as she falls from the zeppelin.
• Foil: To Shawn. Both are The Leader for Team Maskwak, possible finalists of the season and by extension The Protagonist, both are exceptionally athletic and possess Super-Speed, and both were involved in the two main relationships of the season. However while Sky is one of the sanest characters in the season, Shawn is a Cloudcuckoolander. There are also contrasts in their relationships. While both started off not wanting to get involved in love, it's for different reasons as Shawn believes Love Is a Weakness while Sky is a Competition Freak. Shawn ends up messing up his relationship with Jasmine and spends a large part of the season trying to make amends, while Sky pushes Dave away herself. Both Shawn and Sky are forced to pick between their love or the money, but while Shawn eventually comes around and picks Jasmine, Sky still prioritizes the money and instead exploits Dave's feelings to help her win. Shawn ultimately gets together with Jasmine, while Sky and Dave part on bad terms.
• Following in Relative's Footsteps: Her sister is her role model and almost made it into Canada's Olympic team for rhythmic gymnastics, which inspired Sky to become a gymnast as well.
• Gasshole:
  • She belches when she is nervous, especially when she is around a guy she likes. For her talent show act in "Pahk'd With Talent", she used her super-strong belches for target shooting, displaying Improbable Aiming Skills by destroying two targets in a single belch, while Chris sat in between them and remained unharmed.
    Sky: It's not that weird. All my Olympic training makes my abs and diaphragm ridiculously strong. When I really load up on carbonated water, I can burp out a campfire.
  • After landing in dank-smelling water, Dave's first assumption is that Sky's been farting before realizing they're underneath the Outhouse Confessional.
• The Generic Guy: Pre-merge, she didn't really have many personality traits beyond being an aspiring gymnast, and having an attraction to Dave. This becomes rectified during the merge where she becomes more fleshed out and her competitive nature becomes more prominent.
• Graceful Loser: Possibly in the ending where Shawn wins, as she doesn't seem to be sad despite Shawn winning the million over her and is seen smiling as Chris wraps up the season.
• Guile Hero: Usually subverted, but she attempts to be this way to Sugar in "Pahk'd with Talent". She briefly crosses over into Manipulative Bitch territory when she uses Dave's feelings for her in the finale.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: At the beginning of "This is the Pits!", she has a dream about a muscular Dave.
• Hypocrite:
  • She says in "A Blast from the Past" that she doesn't like underhanded playing... Cut to three episodes later and she's playing dirty as well. Granted, Jasmine was putting her under pressure to work with the team, but still...
  • She expects her competitors to be sportsmanlike, yet she's prone to becoming a Sore Loser.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: A variation: "I'm not here to meet boys, I'm here to win!"
• I Did What I Had to Do: Rejecting Dave at the merge to focus on the competition. She didn't want to, but his Sanity Slippage was starting to affect her as well.
• The Leader: Shares this role with Shawn on Team Maskwak, depending on the episode and whether or not Shawn is acting quirky, as she often motivates the team or gives instructions (though it has to be mentioned that she isn't very comfortable with the role and often seems like she's waiting for direction from someone else). When she moves over to Team Kinosewak she instead becomes The Lancer to Jasmine.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Sky lies in a gray area, as she is the light to Sugar's dark, but the dark to Ella's light.
• Lovable Jock: Downplayed. While she is portrayed as a Nice Girl, Sky has occasionally wielded the Jerkass Ball at times, such as manipulating Dave's feelings for her in the finale.
• Male Gaze: Sky gets a few butt shots, but not to the same extent as Courtney or Zoey.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Sky is a tomboyish, athletic and fiercely competitive Masculine Girl and Dave is an effeminate, neat and emotional Feminine Boy.
• Master of the Mixed Message: In regards to Dave's feelings for her. She eventually reciprocates them but is reluctant to act on her own feelings because she still has a boyfriend at home and she feels that a relationship on the show will only screw up her game. Her failure to tell Dave the former is what drives him insane.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Zoey, being set up as a parallel to her. While they are both Action Girls, Zoey was a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, an Everygirl who unexpectedly gained incredible physical ability, while Sky was a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, having trained all her life to be an athlete. They both serve as Team Mom, and de facto leaders at some point, except Zoey, an All-Loving Hero who puts others before herself. At the same time, Sky (despite being a nice girl) is a Competition Freak who still prioritizes winning over all else. There is also a very strong contrast in their relationships, as even though they initially seemed to have a similar dynamic of a nice girl and a quirky boy who she found weird. Zoey began a relationship with Mike and has Undying Loyalty. She is even willing to put her own life at risk for his welfare, gets her heart broken by Mike on accident, and ultimately becomes an Official Couple with him. Sky, despite gaining feelings for Dave, ultimately does not put him over the competition, eventually rejects his love and breaks his heart intentionally, at one point even used his love to manipulate him into helping her in the competition. The two do not get together and ultimately part on bad terms.
  • To Jo. Both are female jocks who take leadership of their respective teams; however, Jo was a Jerk Jock who leads her team with an iron fist while Sky was a Team Mom Lovable Jock who occasionally held the Jerkass Ball. Also, Jo was a Tomboy who hated anything even remotely girly whereas Sky was a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
  • To Courtney. Both are highly determined girls who take the leadership role of their team. Also, while both had pursued relationships, both Courtney and Sky ultimately put winning the competition above practically everything else, which led to a toxic relationship with their male love interests. Sky was a finalist in her debut season, whereas Courtney has fallen short in every season she was in.
• Nice Girl: She's friendly and compassionate. However, she does have a strong competitive streak that surfaces throughout the season and becomes more overt in the final few episodes, where she acts fairly catty towards her main opponent Shawn ("Wow, English much?") and throws an outright temper tantrum at one point.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the Waneyihtam Maskwak girls, she's the in-between to Ella's nice and Sugar's mean.
• Only Sane Woman: Aside from Dave prior to his Sanity Slippage, she is the only member on Team Maskwak with any common sense, and the only one without any weird quirk.
• Opposites Attract: With Dave. Until her competitiveness and determination prevented her from developing with the lovelorn dork Dave who gets more whiny and obsessive to the point that he bitterly turns against her.
• Passionate Sports Girl: As you can tell from her title.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: She's the smallest girl in the season, but one of the most physically capable contestants on the show.
• Plucky Girl: Sky strives to see the best in people. She can be encouraging and will give advice to those who require it. However, she is firmly, and sometimes aggressively, against anyone who exhibits foul play. She also faces difficulty when her nerves and emotions get the better of her and cloud her judgement.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Even though she didn't necessarily agree with the idea of building a wizard tower in "So, Uh This Is My Team?", she went along with it because the majority of the team wanted to build it and she felt it was better to build something rather than nothing.
• Second Place Is for Losers: As a Passionate Sports Girl, she has a strong belief in this.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Her audition tape (along with Shawn's) was never shown alongside the rest of the participants though for a very good reason. Her audition tape reveals that she has a boyfriend named Keith, who she wished to break up with but didn't have time to, and during the season finale, Chris shows this tape to Dave, which kick-starts the latter's Face–Heel Turn.
• Sore Loser: Threw a temper tantrum when she thought she was about to lose to Dave and Jasmine in the finale.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She has a substantial amount of focus in the season, especially her Ship Tease with Dave, as well as her involvement with the Ella-Sugar conflict, which eventually results in her own rivalry with the latter.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Subverted. Once she and Dave are placed on separate teams, she's pressured into turning against him for the sake of the competition, and their relationship begins to deteriorate from this point onwards.
• Super-Speed: In an adrenaline rush, she puts on an inhuman burst of speed in "Pahk'd With Talent".
• Team Mom: She holds her team together, and tends to their individual problems when required.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While she actively loves sports, she won't shy away from romantic interactions with Dave.
• Tsundere: Type B towards Dave at first; however, it turns into Type A as the season goes on.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: It's obvious that Sky and Dave have feelings for each other, but they keep getting held back due to Sky not wanting attachments, Sugar trying to keep them apart, or Dave's creepy behavior putting Sky off.

Sugar

"Nobody but me is winning this here pageant!"

Voiced by: Rochelle Wilson

Label: The Pageant Queen

Teams: Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Placements: 3rd (TDPI)

Eliminated in: Episode 12 (TDPI)

A former child pageant champion of rustic background. Sugar is fearless, extremely competitive, and will do anything to gain an advantage over her fellow contestants. Although she is crude and unintelligent, her pageant experiences give her the ruthlessness to be a much more formidable player than she seems.

---

• Alpha Bitch: Sugar asserts herself as the dominant female, especially over Ella and Sky. In fact, with her pageant upbringing and Spoiled Brat persona, she could even be considered a deconstruction of one.
• Animals Hate Her: The theme song has her being attacked by animals after she pushes Ella off the cliff.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Pre-merge, Sugar's hatred towards Ella possibly stems from her beauty pageant days, seeing the prettiest girl as competition.
  • Post-merge, Sky wants to win fair and square while Sugar is not above cheating and manipulation.
• Arc Villain: Sugar becomes the solo main villain after Scarlett gets eliminated for two episodes before getting eliminated herself afterwards.
• Attention Whore: Justified, given that she is a beauty pageant contestant.
• Bad People Abuse Animals:
  • In "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems", she reaches her hand down a monkey's throat to get a coin it swallowed.
  • She also takes delight in provoking several animals into attacking each other in "Three Zones And A Baby" seemingly for no reason other than For the Evulz.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Don't let her dumb country-girl appearance fool you. She's actually a competent and ruthless manipulator who made it all the way to the semi-finals.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Scarlett of Pahkitew Island. Though Scarlett's more evil of the two but Sugar lasts longer in the competition.
• The Big Girl: Of Team Maskwak, being one of the physically strongest members who is not known for using her brain.
• Big Eater: If there's something, anything that so much as looks edible to her, it goes right down the hatch. Her appetite could even rival that of Owen's. In "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems", she is seen licking the glass on the vending machine.
  Sugar: I could eat the legs off a table...and we ain't even got one.
• Book Dumb:
  • In "Mo Monkey Mo Problems", it's shown she has an inability to count.
  • In "This Is The Pits!", she apparently thinks buses make train sounds.
  • In "Pahk'd With Talent", she also climbs to the very top of a tree (when the challenge is to maneuver across trees) as she believes there might be a bridge or a bus stop up there.
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: She thinks Leonard is a real wizard and Max is actually an Evil Genius.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: She hardly hides the fact that she's ruthless.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, Sugar is the Combat, she was the primary Dumb Muscle of her team, she's not particularly cunning or devious but made it further than any of the shows antagonists mostly through luck and performing well enough in challenges not to be eliminated, to Amy/Topher's Diplomacy and Scarlett's Stealth.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Sugar's very unique when compared to her predecessors. Most of the other villains were played seriously with an occasional moment of humor, while Sugar is used as comic relief the majority of the time with an occasional moment of seriousness and remains Laughably Evil even when she officially takes over as the Big Bad. She's also the least 'clever' villain with the majority of her predecessors being skilled Manipulative Bastards and chessmasters, while Sugar only boasts a bit of scheming here and there, with her making it far mostly due to dumb luck with little influence on her part.
• Deep South: She has a particularly strong accent that's more at home in Alabama than Alberta and has a lot of the tendencies associated with the trope in fiction.
• Depending on the Writer: Sugar displays Ping Pong Naïveté. Sometimes she's a complete ditz with no common sense, other times she possesses enough cunning to manipulate others and play a part in their downfall. The episodes where she is the Big Bad even try to portray her as both.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Like Scarlett, she too is eliminated before the finale.
• Disproportionate Retribution: In "So, Uh, This is My Team?", she threatens to throw Topher out of the zeppelin at over 30,000 feet for supposedly scuffing her pageant shoes.
• The Ditz: She reasons that Leonard is smart, simply because she can't understand half of what he says.
• Dreadful Musician: To the extent that she actually was eliminated due to her poor singing voice.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. She's blonde, and while she is certainly Book Dumb, she's Street Smart (somewhat) and knows how to play with emotions.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In her debut episode, she is embarrassed when Beardo makes it sound like she farted, but later episodes have her proudly letting it rip herself with absolutely no shame.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The reason she hates Ella so much is because she thinks Ella's sweet personality is a façade like hers.
  Sugar: THAT'S PAGEANT TALK! MY TALK!
• Evil Counterpart
  • She's one to Owen. both are blonds, Big Eaters and gassholes. However, Owen is an All-Loving Hero, while Sugar is a Big Bad. Essentially she's what Owen could have been if he chose to be a villain.
  • She's also one to Lindsay. They are both Dumb Blondes (although Lindsay's not a natural one) who are very determined and ambitious during the competition, even if they aren't the brightest contestants of the show. The main difference is that Lindsay has of a Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold personality, while Sugar herself has more of a Spoiled Brat one.
• Evil Is Bigger: She is the overweight villain to the slimmer Ella and Sky.
• Evil Is Hammy: As a pageant queen and as the main antagonist of Pakhitew Island, Sugar's behavior can be over the top at times.
• Extreme Omnivore: Sugar will eat anything that remotely looks like food. The list includes: a live tarantula ^note She assumed it was part of an Eat That challenge but it actually wasn't, a glowing slug ^note Which had the bizarre side effect of making light shine out her belly button, a rotten egg ^note Which was supposed to be eaten by someone else as a punishment but Sugar got to it first, some kind of canned meat and mayonnaise mixture which expired in 1976 ^note It gave everyone else food poisoning within minutes, but took hours to give Sugar a slight stomachache despite her finishing first and eating all the leftovers, and some eggs in a bird's nest ^note Shell included. She also burps out a live baby bird afterwards. In Sugar's own words:
  Sugar: Mama says I got the stomach of a raccoon. Prob'ly from eatin' all that raccoon. Guess you are what you eat!
• Fartillery: She knocked out Chris, Sky, and a whole cave full of bears with one of her farts. Owen would be proud.
• Fat Bitch: She's overweight and doesn't care who she hurts in order to win.
• Foil:
  • To Ella, being set up as a complete opposite. Both girls love to perform, dress in pink, and are ditzy. However, Ella is an Actual Pacifist and by far the kindest character on the show who wishes to help everyone smile, while Sugar is rude and selfish with an inflated ego and antagonized several other contestants. It's even seen in their labels, with Ella being a princess and Sugar being a queen. Ironically both of them get eliminated due to their singing.
  • To Sky. Sky is athletic, smart, and believes in fair play. Sugar is overweight, unintelligent, and constantly stoops to cheating. It's little surprise that they become Arch Enemies by the end of the season.
• For the Evulz: Unlike all the antagonists before her, she doesn't appear to be motivated by the prize money. She competes fiercely because that's just her nature, and she antagonizes her fellow contestants for the fun of it. This eventually becomes subverted in "Sky Fall" where we learn that she is aware of the money and plans on using it for her college funds. But even with this revelation, it doesn't justify many of her crueler actions like borderline attempted murder (pushing Sky off a cliff in "Sky Fall").
• Freudian Excuse: Her ruthlessness stems from her pageant days, especially if Sugar's mom was an overbearing Stage Mom.
• Gasshole: She farts after falling on her face in the commercial for Darwin's Food Safari, which also happens to be part of her audition tape. She also belches a lot, typically after eating, and when Sky reveals that her talent for the talent show is belching, Sugar scoffs "Belching ain't a talent, it's a way of life!"
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She takes pride in being a pageant queen, wears a pink top and is occasionally seen doing things like filing her nails, looking in a mirror and talking about beauty, but she is also very rough and tumble and has no problem in getting dirty or physically aggressive.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: When the sweet façade drops, she's shown to be very quick to anger. Especially if it has anything to do with Ella.
• Half-Witted Hillbilly: She's from the country with a hickish accent to match, and she's portrayed as very stupid.
• Hidden Depths: She's planning on using the million dollars for her college funds. Plus, lack of regular knowledge and difficulty telling apart fiction and reality aside, her cutthroat competitive skills and ability to exploit people's mental/emotional weak spots get her extremely far. If one only saw her audition tape, they'd think she was a harmless country idiot.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Sugar's naive stupidity finally gets her good when her own made-up challenge ended up costing her her chance to go to the finale.
• Hypocritical Humor: She detested Ella's singing, yet she gleefully sings commercial jingles that sound far worse than any of Ella's songs.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In "Mo Monkey Mo Problems", she manages to throw a coin into the slot of a vending machine that was a few hundred feet away. Since she was confident she could pull it off, this seems to be something she's done before.
• Ironic Name: Sugar is anything but sweet, being the most vindictive and ruthless contestant among the third-gen cast...at least until Scarlett reveals her true colors.
• Irony: Sugar eliminated Ella by getting her to sing, but she ends up being eliminated herself as a result of her poor singing.
• Jerkass: She's a cheating, manipulative, jerk who takes immense pleasure in seeing Ella get hurt.
• Jerkass Has a Point: In "Scarlett Fever", after Shawn demolishes Chris' "promo-bots", Chris berates the group for destroying his "clones". Sugar retorts by saying that Chris should have been down in the island's control center disarming the self-destruct instead of sending the campers and trying to escape the situation in his helicopter.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Sugar is abusive towards Ella, namely because of the former's jealousy towards the latter.
  • She is especially cruel towards animals. In "Three Zones And A Baby", she could've sneaked past a rattlesnake sleeping on top of a sleeping lion but instead, she punches the snake which leads it to bite the lion, which then eats the snake.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Sugar did end up getting eliminated because of Chris' dislike of singing, which is surprising because she was responsible for Ella's elimination by telling Chris that she sang.
• Laughably Evil: She's almost always Played for Laughs and used for comic relief, providing most of the season's humor through toilet jokes or her being The Ditz. This even extends to when she takes over as Big Bad.
• Lethally Stupid:
  • In "This Is The Pits!" as the cavern begins to collapse, Sugar screams at the top of her voice "It's a cave-in!", thereby causing an actual cave-in.
  • In "Three Zones and a Baby", she punches a sleeping snake on top of a lion, which leads it to bite the lion, which then in turn eats the snake. These actions are either extremely brave, cruel, or stupid.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Ella and Sky's light.
• Manipulative Bitch: Sugar knows how to play with people's emotions.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Beth, as they both are, physically speaking, look less than conventional to look at. Nonetheless, even with some of her questionable moments, generally speaking, Beth herself still has a heart of her own, as opposed to Sugar, whose "dumb, but nice" moments actually hide her truly dark-hearted personality during her first moments within the franchise.
  • To Heather. Both are dubbed Queens in their contestant labels, is the primary antagonist in their debut season, resorting to manipulation and cheating, and come in third place. However, the similarities end there. Heather is extremely cunning and intelligent, intimidating others into doing things for her. Sugar is The Ditz and Book Dumb, and while very brash and rude mostly just annoys others. While both are able to manipulate others, Heather is The Chessmaster who makes elaborate plans, while Sugar acts on sight and has very little idea how she'll carry on. Heather is very classy and hates people with repulsive behavior like Owen, while Sugar is pretty much Owen's Distaff Counterpart and acts exactly like him.
  • To Lindsay, since they are both recognized dumb blondes who have established themselves in beauty-related fields (Lindsay has worked as a professional model, while Sugar is built as a pageant contestant). But, even if Lindsay's not acutally a natural blonde, her overall personality brings just as much of her beauty as her looks do, as opposed to Sugar, where she's really ugly both inside and outside.
  • To Anne Maria. Both have big hair, wear similar outfits (frilly crop top, denim capris, and wedge sandals), are obsessed with their looks, not very book smart, tend to be Jerkasses, and have an All-Loving Heroine as an Arch-Enemy (Zoey for Anne Maria, and Ella for Sugar). However, Sugar is a Deep South stereotype and acted like a jerk For the Evulz, while Anne Maria is a Joisey stereotype who only acted like a jerk when one of her berserk buttons is pushed.
  • Within her own generation, she is one to Amy. Both are bratty, vain, and manipulative blonde-haired bullies who torment a more innocent character (Ella for Sugar, and Samey for Amy), with Sugar being a Fat Bitch whereas Amy is Lean and Mean. However, Amy gets ousted only three episodes in by Samey whereas Sugar successfully ousts Ella and persists until Pahkitew Island's penultimate episode.
  • To Rodney. Both have a rural background, lack book smarts, and are the Big Guys of their respective teams; however, Rodney is a kindhearted Gentle Giant whereas Sugar is a Fat Bitch sadist.
• Morality Pet: Leonard appears to be this for her. Even, her last words before being blasted off the island were about seeing him again.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Of the Waneyihtam Maskwak girls, she's the mean to Ella's nice and Sky's in between.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: She is a cartoon, teenaged carbon copy of Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, even having a name related to a sweet-tasting food.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Downplayed. While Sugar is legitimately Book Dumb, she's a lot more conniving and sinister than what her oafish behavior and hick accent would suggest; this likely stems from her pageant days.
• Only Friend: Leonard (by the end of the season), though she also appears to respect Max.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: When the remaining contestants manage to break into Scarlett's control room in "Scarlett Fever", Sugar tackles Scarlett to the ground, and the former hogties the latter by her own hair.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She has done the occasional good deed now and then, but it's never out of the kindness of her heart.
• Pre-Final Boss: While Sugar does take up the mantle of sole Big Bad after Scarlett is eliminated, she herself would get eliminated herself in the penultimate episode. Dave would then return and become the Big Bad for the finale.
• Revenge Before Reason: Early on, she wants her team to lose simply to get rid of Ella.
  Sugar: (as everyone else on Team Maskwak cheers for Ella) Shock her, Rodney! Shock her!
  Dave: If he does, we all get shocked.
  Sugar: It'd be worth it.
• Sadist: She laughs every time Ella gets hurt and calls Ella nearly getting hurt twice her best day ever. She also enjoys others' pain too. Not as much, but she still enjoys it.
• Seen It All: Sugar's casual remarks about her life are eyebrow-raising to everyone else, but leave her with little concern when the situation gets weird or dangerous. For instance, she thinks going out to slaughter goats counts as a romantic date, her uncle once tried to build a robot army by wrapping donkeys in tinfoil and taping photos of himself on their heads, and she has experience reaching into animals to get out whatever they've swallowed.
• Serious Business: Her pageants.
• Simpleton Voice: Downplayed. While she is certainly Book Dumb and The Ditz, Sugar is a lot more cunning and sinister than her hick accent suggests.
• Slasher Smile: After she takes up the mantle of Big Bad.
• Shipper on Deck: For Scarlett and Max. She even cries when they're put on different teams.
  Sugar: Their love was so beautiful!
• Shipping Torpedo: She deliberately tries to hinder Dave and Sky by constantly interrupting their moments. This is because she believes them getting into a relationship would make them stronger in the competition.
• Ship Tease: With Leonard. She even calls out to him as she's eliminated.
• Shrunken Organ: Her skull is apparently so abnormally thick it has squeezed her brain partly into her neck, presumably accounting for her less-than-stellar intellect.
• Small Name, Big Ego: As a beauty pageant queen, she certainly has an overinflated opinion of herself.
• The Smurfette Principle: To team Maskwak after Sky and Max switch teams.
• The Sociopath: She literally threatened to kill someone over her worry of them getting ahead of her in a competition.
• Spartan Sibling: During a confessional in "Three Zones and a Baby", Sugar recalls a time she took her little brother to town and lost him. Her next line is about how she cannot even remember his name, which suggests that the child never was seen again. Does that haunt Sugar? No.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She has made more enemies than any other contestant in the season, and is the most focused-on antagonist this time around. As well as frequently stealing the show with gross-out gags in a manner similar to Owen.
• Third-Person Person: Sometimes uses this for emphasis.
• Token Evil Teammate: Not counting Max who changed over to the team for one episode and Dave's one episode of villainy in the finale, she is the only antagonistic member of the Team Maskwak.
• Two Words: I Can't Count: In "Mo Monkey Mo Problems", she lists off three qualities and then says she possesses "both".
• Unfriendly Fire: Has attempted this numerous times with Ella, sometimes not even bothering to pretend it's an accident.
• Un Evil Laugh: Her Evil Laugh sounds nothing like a stereotypical villain and more like she's chuckling at something funny.
• Unknown Rival: To Ella, who is completely oblivious to how much Sugar despises her.
• Villainous Glutton: She is one of the main villains of Pahkitew Island, and she is a Big Eater who could rival Owen in appetite.
• Your Makeup Is Running: Happens quite frequently, but it's particularly creepy in "Hurl and Go Seek!", where it adds to her zombie complexion.

---