Total Drama Island Recast
is a Total Drama Role Swap AU fanfic by Danicus Green that has the Revenge and Pahkitew casts compete in the first season as the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass respectively.
The 1st season premieres, but instead of the Island cast, the Revenge and Pahkitew cast members are competing instead. 24 of them come to the Island and battle each other for the prize of $100,000 dollars.
Tropes present in this fanfic include:
- Adapted Out: Beardo, Leonard, and Staci are the only second and third generation contestants that are not present in the story.
- All-Loving Hero:
- Rodney takes up Trent's role as the eliminated contestant at Playa des Losers that sneaks food for the contestant-in-hiding, (in this case Scott), and he's the only character there who can't bring himself to hate him.
- There's also Ella, who's as cheerful and loving as she was in canon.
- Better as Friends: Brick and Dawn go out with each other for a couple of episodes, but break up out of the belief that they work better as friends. Brick eventually goes on to date Ella.
- Big Bad: Scott is clearly made out to be the main antagonistic force of the story.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When everyone demands to know why Sugar hates Ella so much, she reveals that she believes that Ella is this.
- Bookends: The first challenge was having the contestants jump off a cliff. In the finale, Chris is dropped from there by the contestants instead of the Dock of Shame like in canon.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Dawn takes a page from Lindsay and gives off a censored rant towards Scott at her elimination.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: Amy and Sammy both get pantsed by Jasmine in "If You Can't Stand the Heat..." with Sammy losing her skirt thanks to Amy in the next episode. Jasmine herself spends the first portion of "Camp Castaways" pantsless.
- Composite Character:
- Scott is one of himself, taking elements from Heather, being the Big Bad that makes their debut in the first season, and Duncan, being the bad-boy camper who forms the all-guy alliance.
- Topher is one of himself, while taking up Justin's role in "Island" as the resident hot guy who gets eliminated in "Not Quite Famous."
- B is one of himself, being Scott's scapegoat and early boot, while taking Katie's place as the camper who's eliminated in "The Sucky Outdoors" and gets Beardo's departing line of "IT WAS REALLY NICE TO MEET ALL OF YOU!" when he's eliminated.
- Max is one of himself, while also taking up Ezekiel's role as the first contestant to be eliminated. He also takes up Katie and Sadie's role as accidentally causing a contestant they like to be voted off while at Playa des Losers. In the case of Katie and Sadie, it was with Leshawna, and in Max's case, it's Zoey.
- Demoted to Extra: The Island cast and Sierra are demoted from contestants to interns in this version.
- Everyone Has Standards: When asked about Scott, Topher made it clear he thought his tactics went way too far.
- Expy Coexistence: In Dave's ending, he refers to Sugar as Honey Boo Boo, the reality television star she's based on, meaning that she exists in-universe.
- Frame-Up: Both twins do this to each other at certain points. Amy hides her mole in order to deceive her team into believing that Sammy is the lazy one, and Sammy puts a fake mole on her face in order to frame her for being in Chef's kitchen.
- Freudian Excuse: While she doesn't condone his actions and despises him just as much as everyone else, Dawn sensed that Scott growing up as a neglected child and an impoverished dirt farmer is what made him so determined to win the competition, even if it meant being a ruthless Team Killer.
- Heroic BSoD: Cameron suffers a brief one when B gets eliminated as he's one of the first few friends he made in his life.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Scott's sabotage strategy ends up being used against him by Zoey when they're partnered together in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon" when she purposely gives Scott the wrong order of contestant eliminations for the totem head part of the challenge after he openly insults Mike in front of her. This allows her, Brick, Dave, Jasmine, and Ella to finally eliminate Scott.
- Humiliation Conga: Amy gets this treatment in If You Can't Stand the Heat, being slowly pranked and stripped as the challenge goes on by the other Bass girls, and eventually locked in the fridge in nothing but a bikini. She's then left naked on the dock the next morning before she finally admits her wrongdoings.
- I Lied: Chris has both Amy and Jo brought back to the island as returnees. He later informs everyone that the two were never going to rejoin and just wanted to play a joke of them, much to Jo and Amy's anger.
- Irony: Heather, who was the Big Bad responsible for the most eliminations in the first season has been rewritten as an intern in this story that sets up the teams in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon". By pairing up Scott and Zoey, the former is sabotaged into losing invincibility and is voted off by the remaining campers. In other words, the canonical Big Bad of the first season inadvertently caused the elimination of this story's Big Bad.
- I Want My Mommy!: Two examples in "Phobia Factor":
- The first thing Lightning does upon seeing what he thinks is the KKK is scream for his mommy.
- This trope is referenced by Gwen during Brick's part of the challenge, which is to sit in a pitch black cave for an entire hour."Hey, Gwen, how's our cadet doing?" Chris asked Gwen.
"Well, I heard a lot of girly screaming and crying for his mommy, but he hasn't come out yet!" Gwen reported.
- Love Triangle: An early example with Sam and Topher fighting for Dakota's affections. Sam wins over Topher.
- Mistaken for Racist: This also overlaps with That Came Out Wrong, in "No Pain, No Game" when Ella decides to vote off Lightning, where she refers to him as a Black Knight.
- Multiple Endings: In "Brunch of Disgustingness," the author wrote two endings in which either the girls or boys win the eating challenge. The next episode has two different openings depending on who you want to win.
- Mythology Gag: During the interviews at Playa De Losers, Chris says he'd never get people eliminated just for singing, but Dawn mutters "but maybe by season six." This was exactly how Ella was eliminated in the canon show.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Scott uses this tactic in order to get Scarlett eliminated. Scarlett had pointed out that the opposing team were close to winning, which boosted them to complete their dares.
- Not His Sled: Several of the original Island's twists end up not getting used at all here.
- As mentioned under I Lied, it seems that Jo and Amy are going to be brought back by Chris as returnees for the merge, only for it to be revealed he was just playing a prank on the two of them and that all eliminations are indeed final.
- The real psycho killer with a hook doesn't show up in "Hook, Line, and Screamer" and instead has his role taken by Mal. Chris even mentions at the beginning of the challenge that he had already been caught and sent back to prison by the time of the challenge.
- Despite taking Heather's role as Big Bad, Scott is eliminated in sixth place rather than making the Final Three.
- The eliminated campers don't end up getting to choose the next contestant eliminated at the end of "After the Dock of Shame."
- However, they do get to choose the next contestant to get the boot in the next chapter. The unfortunate contestant that ended up walking the Dock of Shame being Zoey, with Scott being the final vote to seal the deal as revenge on her for getting him eliminated. Although here, the votes are a little more evened-out and the choices are a little tougher for the contestants, as all the most antagonistic campers have already been eliminated.
- Oh, Crap!: Scott at the end of "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon" when Chef has him brought over to Playa des Losers where every single competitor whose elimination he was responsible for is gleefully awaiting the dirt farmer's arrival.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: During their time together in "After the Dock of Shame", Sugar goes out of her way to make fun of Sky for saying she'd want to date Dave when she already had a boyfriend back home:Sugar: Ooh! Look at me! I'm Sky! I'm a no-good cheatin' whore! Blah-blah-blah! I cheat on my boyfriend! And it's okay because I'm in love! Blah-blah-blah!
- Pants-Pulling Prank: Just as Heather did to Gwen in the canon version of "Who Can You Trust?", Amy rips off Sammy's skirt while she's doing the rock-climbing challenge; Sammy's paralyzed from embarrassment, resulting in Lightning winning the challenge.
- Role Swap AU: The second and third generations of Total Drama are now the original first generation.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Occurs near the end of "After the Dock of Shame" when Dakota asks Sky for advice on the aforementioned Love Triangle.Sky: Choosing between a nice sensitive guy and a conceited jerk who's good for your image shouldn't be a problem. I should know...
Dakota: So what do I do?
Sky: (rolls eyes) Go for the jerk.
Dakota: Well, I guess we gotta make sacrifices to be the best.
Sky: That was a joke. Go for the nicer guy. Go for Sam. You'll be happier! - Shout-Out: When it comes Down to the Last Play in "Dodgebrawl" between Ella and Jo, the latter refers to the former as Princess Peach.
- Sore Loser: Just like in the canon show, there are some campers that are a bit more bitter and vocal after being eliminated than others.
- Take That!: Some of the challenges have the rules from them changed from how they were in canon. After they are explained, it is usually followed by one of the campers suggesting another way, the way the challenge was done in canon, only for Chris to explain how that would be unfair to some campers or how disorganized or unthoughtout that would be; a clear shot at the original challenges.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jasmine roars at Ella for directing their bear to eat Chef's sticky buns instead of to the finish, costing them the win.
- Would Hit a Girl: Scott steps on Ella's head during the boot camp challenge and shows no remorse over it.
