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Foreshadowing in this series.
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    Total Drama Island (2007) 
General
  • Heather's Laser-Guided Karma has actually received quite a number of foreshadowing. In-universe, these examples may have served as an inspiration for Lindsay to come up with her dare, likely hoping Heather would be the one to get it.
    • In "Not So Happy Campers - Part 2", Heather refuses to jump off the cliff, claiming she'd get her hair wet, thus showing how much she values her hair. Lindsay's the only one to side with her.
    • In "Not Quite Famous", Heather accidentally smacks Lindsay with her ponytail, losing one of her hairs, which ends up in Lindsay's mouth.
    • In "Phobia Factor", Sadie and Lindsay admitting that a bad hair day is their worst fear (over losing your best friend and walking on mines on high heels respectively, although Sadie already faced that in the last episode), which conclude on the penultimate episode, how the Big Bad was eliminated. Bonus points for Lindsay being one of two contestants with such fear and the wig which they wore being the same one as Heather's first wig, only in different color.
    • In "If You Can't Take The Heat...", Heather outright threatens to cut off Lindsay's hair were she to disobey her again. Leshawna also asks Beth's curse to "hit Heather upside the head" next. Since her karma involves a Traumatic Haircut after Chef's razor accidentally fell on her head, it quite literally hit Heather upside the head.
    • In "No Pain, No Game", Lindsay's challenge which eliminated her was getting her hair shaved with a chainsaw.
    • In "That's Off The Chain!", Lindsay finds a doll and comments on how it has nice hair like Heather, showing that she admires her friend's hair.

Opening

Not So Happy Campers - Part 1

  • Chris's warning to Ezekiel to "don't say much and try not to get kicked off too early" foreshadows Ezekiel getting voted off first after unintentionally offending his female team members with some sexist comments.

Not So Happy Campers - Part 2

  • While standing at the edge of the cliff, Lindsay whines to Chris that she thought the challenge would be a talent contest. Just a couple episodes later, "Not Quite Famous" features a talent contest as its main challenge.
  • While Lindsay generally sides with Heather throughout the episode, Beth joins in the group hug with the two when their team wins. The trio would later form the first alliance of the show in the following episode.
  • Gwen's confessional near the end of the episode foreshadows her being a finalist.
    Gwen: Yep, this camp pretty much still sucks. But, now that I'm here I guess I might as well actually try to win.

The Big Sleep

  • Courtney says that Eva can't expect people to like her if she's acting like a psycho. Courtney becomes this several times in the next season.
  • Justin trying to cheat in the challenge seems a little out of character for him. The next season sees him as the Big Bad for the first half of it.
  • Noah (most likely faking) passing out during the running challenge, and being one of the first to fall asleep during the Awake-a-thon hints to his unwillingness to help his team out with challenges. This is what ultimately gets him eliminated in the following episode.
  • At the end of the elimination ceremony, Courtney makes a toast for the Killer Bass not to end up at the Campfire Ceremony again next time. For a change, they indeed don't.
    Courtney: To the Killer Bass . . . and to not end up here again next week.

The Sucky Outdoors

  • In order to scare his team, Duncan tells them a story about an escaped psycho killer and theorizes he might even be on Camp Wawanakwa. Well, he indeed is.
  • Bridgette foreshadows her fear of staying in the forest, which will come at play in the very next episode.

Paintball Deer Hunter

  • Cody's confessionals while as a Bandage Mummy throughout the episode foreshadow his fate of being mauled by a bear as well as confirm that confessionals are usually recorded after the challenge, only added in appropriate moments of each episode in post-production.

Basic Straining

  • Courtney jokingly tells Duncan to enjoy prison. Guess where he's sent 4 seasons later?

No Pain, No Game

  • In the exclusive clip, Izzy claims she dated Justin after her elimination, but broke up with him after finding out he's a liar. While the entire claim, along with her other stories about her time post-elimination, was likely made up as the punchline of the clip is that both Izzy and Chris hate liars despite being ones themselves; Justin being described as a liar nonetheless foreshadowed his role as a Big Bad (or rather a Disc-One Final Boss) in the following season.

Hide and Be Sneaky

  • In the confessional, Heather states that once Lindsay is no longer useful to her, she'll dump her. Heather does exactly that in the following episode.
  • Lindsay also finally begins to question her "friendship" with Heather in this episode. In the next one, she officially stops being her friend.

Wawanakwa Gone Wild!

Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon

  • Early on, Chris rattles off the names of previous contestants in the order they were eliminated. This ends up being relevant to the final challenge.
  • Leshawna confesses how if it came down to a popularity contest, she wouldn't have a chance in beating the others in popularity. In the very next episode, she accidentally gets voted off due to how popular she is from the other contestants, particularly Katie and Sadie.

Haute Camp-Ture

  • Ezekiel gives us a taste of his rapper persona that we'll see in the Action special.
  • Courtney mentions filing a lawsuit against the show for wrongful termination.
  • Lindsay claims that if she knew there was a resort for the eliminated contestants, she'd get herself eliminated in the very first episode. She does exactly that in All-Stars.

Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island

  • A small bit for what would come in Action.
    • Courtney's betrayals and abusive treatment of Duncan becomes the basis of their relationship and her character for Action up until its end in World Tour.
    • Justin manipulates Katie and Sadie with his looks, something he'd do to Beth and Lindsay for the first half of Action.
    • The entire episode is a reference to a movie. The next season would be based entirely around movie genres.

    Total Drama Action 
Opening
  • Courtney's eventual debut.
  • Beth getting her braces removed.
  • Justin being a pain magnet and damaging his looks.
  • Heather losing her wig.
  • DJ's secret alliance with Chef Hatchet.
  • A "technical misfire" tied to Lindsay.
  • Geoff and Bridgette hosting the Total Drama Action Aftermath show after their elimination.
  • The general elimination order is subtely foreshadowed:
    • The first five contestants who appear in the openingnote  are the highest-ranking ones.
    • The next six contestants who appearnote  are the ones who rank in the middle.
    • The last five contestants to appearnote  are the ones eliminated first.

Alien Resurr-eggtion

  • Chef grouses multiple times about not getting paid. In the next episode, he forces a secret alliance with DJ in order to get a cut of the prize money.

Riot On Set

  • When trying to memorize the script, Duncan notes that they are "way out of left field". While at first it seems like he's just trying to weasel out of doing it, we later learn that the scripts were swapped, explaining Duncan's confusion.

Aftermath I: Trent's Descent

  • Courtney is preparing to sue the show for her elimination in the previous season. She also expresses irritation over Duncan spending more time with Gwen, informing a lot of her irritation with the guy later in the season.

Aftermath II: Forgive and For Gwen

  • Ezekiel is the only one who claps at Geoff's line on prioritising money over integrity, a hint at his future behaviour in the special and World Tour as well as his fate of turning feral and stealing the show's prize money.
  • Gwen mentions Chris and a cameraman having a prank war going on. What's Chris's Laser-Guided Karma of this season? Having embarrassing footage of him revealed, which was likely acquired from said cameraman.
  • Gwen and Duncan's closeness also foreshadows their eventual relationship in World Tour.

One Million Bucks B.C.

  • Justin being covered in tar inside the confessional foreshadows him falling into the tar and thus losing his challenge (actually along with Harold) and once again shows one of instances when confessionals are clearly being recorded later.

Million Dollar Babies

  • In her cheer, Leshawna compares Duncan and Beth, saying that they are like a pair despite the two having nothing in common. They turn out to be the final two of the season.

Aftermath III: O-wen or Lose

  • Among the problems that Owen lists is his love of dairy, we find out later in the episode that his family bought a cheese cellar, which will be his reason to return.

    Total Drama World Tour 
General
  • The very first trailer subtely foreshadowed the final two by having Alejandro and Heather as the only contestants whose confessionals were included.
  • The final three are the only ones who use the secondary confessional. They also do it according to Heather's ending, with Heather doing so in the first episode, Alejandro doing so in the second, and Cody doing so in a scene which was deleted from the American version of the fifth episode.
    • This extends to the final four as Sierra uses it in an exclusive clip, doing so in episode 14.note 

Opening

Walk Like an Egyptian - Part 1

  • Alejandro being infuriated with his choice of teammates.
  • Duncan and Gwen's friendly interactions.
  • Ezekiel's arrogance, and latching onto the plane in order to continue being in the competition.

Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan

  • Alejandro throws up after eating a candy fish tail, indicating that he has a low tolerance for strange food. This ends up being a plot point during the eating contest challenge in "Chinese Fake-Out".

The Am-AH-Zon Race

  • After surviving a fake elimination ceremony, Heather claims she'll make her teammates pay for trying to vote her off and then will crush Alejandro for dessert. Although she doesn't exact any Revenge in particular, sure enough, she ends up outranking all of her teammates, with Cody, the one teammate who didn't vote for her, being eliminated last. She then faces against Alejandro in the finale and wins in her ending.

Picnic at Hanging Dork

  • During Shear the Sheep, Heather sings: "And I'll be here, until the bitter end!", which foreshadows her being a finalist.
  • Duncan spends the episode trying to get Courtney's attention as part of a plan he and Alejandro were using to throw her off, but all he manages to do is hurt or inconvenience Gwen without noticing. In All-Stars his need to get Courtney's attention ends up being the Fatal Flaw in their relationship.

Sweden Sour

  • Sierra claims in a confessional that her marriage with Cody will eventually happen. While not truly legally-binding, it kind of does in the very next challenge.
  • Courtney (uncharacteristically at the time) asks Duncan where an apology for Gwen is but he dodges the question. Two seasons later, Gwen and Duncan break up and Duncan has no idea why Gwen could break up with him. note 

Niagara Brawls

  • Owen having a nightmare at the start of the episode about Alejandro causing him to fall foreshadows his elimination in this episode.

Hawaiian Style

  • The final three is presented according to Heather's ending in the song "Who You Gonna Root For?":
    Bridgette and Geoff: Who you gonna root for? Who's it gonna be? Is it Heather, Alejandro, or will you pick Cody?

Hawaiian Punch

  • Before Cody and Alejandro face off in the tie-breaker, Harold advises him to "Aim for the Kiwis". Unfortunately, Cody loses to Alejandro so Heather delivers the Groin Attack during the kiss near the end of the episode.
  • Closing out the episode proper during the eruption, Chris suggests that next season will have an all-new cast instead of the same group.

    Total Drama: Revenge of the Island 
General
  • Lightning wanted to be a team of one and not only did he almost accomplish that before the merge, after Jo (and Scott if you don't count switching teams) was eliminated he was the last remaining member of his team.
  • During the early episodes of the season, a contestant who was in the bottom two would usually be the eliminated next in the following episode: Dakota was in bottom two in Episode 1 and was eliminated in the following one, B was in bottom two in Episode 2 and was eliminated in Episode 3, and Brick was in bottom two in Episode 6 and was eliminated in Episode 7.

Audition tapes

  • The fact that Cameron and Lightning's auditions are reused from their confessionals from the first episode foreshadows that they're the final two, as per the show's tradition, the finalists' auditions are never shown, therefore the creators in real life didn't bother creating them and only reused content.
  • Dakota said she would be "the biggest thing ever". After being mutated by the nuclear waste, she's technically the biggest contestant the series has ever had.
  • Mike describes himself as "agile and graceful (Svetlana) but also tough and scrappy (Vito) with a keen sense of wilderness survivor (Manitoba Smith)" then inadvertently lets slip that he's seeing a psychiatrist which all hinted at his Multiple Personality Disorder. His bedroom also displays various sporting awards and a photo of Ayers Rock on his mantle.
  • Scott shows off his moves by crushing "kitchen rats" to death with a baseball bat, alluding to his Team Killer status for the Toxic Rats.
  • Zoey says that when she gets on the show, her worst nightmare is getting voted off by a jock; fast forward to episode 12 and it comes to pass.

Opening

Truth or Laser Shark

  • Dawn predicts that if Dakota stays on the island, disaster will befall upon her. Dakota returns the following night after being eliminated and insists on staying for camera time, and after being bribed by her father Chris lets her stay as an intern, which eventually leads to her exposure to toxic waste, and her following mutation into a monster.

Grand Chef Auto

  • The gold key Mike found belongs to a car that has missing front wheels. Yeah, no wonder that key was in the garbage...
  • After Mike defeats his other personalities, a shadow can be seen on the wall for a split second. Say hello to Mal. For extra points, it happens after he says "This brain is under new management", foreshadowing Mal taking over Mike's body fulltime.

    Total Drama All-Stars 
General
  • Sierra used Cameron as a substitute for Cody throughout season five. Cameron is eliminated because he is put in a full-body cast, just like Cody. Also like Cody, he is the eighth camper eliminated in his respective season, and in Episode 9 at that. In addition, both were unable to warn the rest of the cast about some kind of imposing trouble because of the bandages covering their mouths.

Opening

Heroes vs. Villains

  • In prison, Chris used cockroaches to act out reality show contests. He named one after Duncan and one after Lightning, foreshadowing two generations of casts competing against each other and those specific characters being among those featured.
  • The robot constantly getting near Heather.
  • Before the teams are chosen, Gwen jokingly says that she and Duncan won't be on the same team unless Chris considers Duncan a hero, which she then laughs about. Ironically, Chris would indeed consider Duncan a hero two episodes later.

Evil Dread

  • Mike doesn't lift a finger to help Sam escape a mosquito attack and even laughs when he gets stung by a jellyfish which foreshadows Mal who finally reveals himself at the end of the episode.

No Egg-spects the Spanish Opposition

  • Mike talks about a reset button to get his personalities back, which happens in the finale.

Suckers Punched

  • Alejandro's hatred of being called Al thanks to his Big Brother Bully reappears early on in the episode, along with a confession that he had a dream about him last night, both of which foreshadow Jose's appearance in this episode.

You Regatta Be Kidding Me

  • Chris betting that Cameron will be the one eliminated next comes true in the following episode.

The Final Wreck-ening

    Total Drama: Pahkitew Island 
General
  • Prior to Scarlett Fever, Scarlett showed several signs that foreshadow her true nature:
    • In her audition tape, there is a globe with several knives embedded into it at the back of her room.
    • She takes interest in helping Max with his "evil" schemes.
    • She encourages Max to cheat by electrifying his jousting stick in "A Blast from the Past". She also twitches when Max calls her his "sidekick" before letting it out in the confessional.
    • In "This Is The Pits!", she reveals that she programmed her brother's toys to attack him every night for six years as payback for pulling her hair. This traumatized her brother so much that he is still in therapy.
    • In "Three Zones and A Baby, she gives Topher a deadly look to make him focus on the game.

Opening

    Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race 
None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 1
  • Junior mentions that he doesn't pay attention to Dwayne's stories or advice. In "My Way or Zimbabwe", this causes him to misremember what he's supposed to do if he gets lost.
    Dwayne: The family rule is if you get separated, go back to the last place you saw each other.
    (later, when Junior is talking to another team)
    Junior: My dad says the family rule is if you get separated, go to your destination.
  • MacArthur claims she might break a few laws to win. Sure enough, she sometimes does, such as with her reckless driving, which she's not punished for and instead even writes a ticket to the owner of the car instead.
  • In the first episode, Mickey says he and his twin brother are not cursed, but they might be whatever comes before cursed. 13 is usually considered bad luck and 12 is right before that. In the first four challenges, the two place 12th, they end up leaving in 12th place, and appear in 12 episodes of the season.
  • In their introduction interview, Rock says Spud isn't good at anything except rocking, but comforts him, saying he'll carry him. This ends up being true, as Rock carries his team for the most of their time on the show.

I Love Ridonc & Roll

  • Emma blurts out an unusually thorough rant about where a relationship with Noah will lead. In "Maori or Less", it's revealed that she's a bit of a yandere and was just as obsessed with her previous boyfriend.

    Total Drama Island (2023) Part 1 

Opening

Meet the Victims

  • In his audition tape, Zee's legs are never shown on camera as it was either cut off from the shot or covered by a blanket, unlike the rest of the contestants. This was an early indication that Zee is the series' amputee before The Reveal next episode.
  • Julia mentions in her audition tape that the competition would be a "journey of self-discovery" and later proclaims "I'm stronger than you think" upon having to give up her phone. She indeed discovers her true self is way more popular on social media than her facade will ever be and went on to become the season's main antagonist who dominates the challenges through physical prowess alone in spite of looking like a Phoneaholic Valley Girl.
  • In spite of being an action star, Nichelle has a hard time keeping up with Wayne's pace in the first challenge and slowing him down to the point she had to be piggybacked to catch up to the other team. Turns out, she never actually did any of her stunts and is, in fact, a Faux Action Girl all this time.
  • Bowie reveals he orchestrated Caleb's elimination by convincing some of his teammates that he looked unbeatable and this could be their only chance to vote him out. The next season would prove him correct by having Caleb make it all the way to the finale where he'd be just barely beaten by Wayne, tying for the second place.

Drown Town Abbey

  • While stuck in the Drowning Pit for the Obstacle Course of Death, Julia goes out of her way to thank and cheer on everyone on her team with words of encouragement. Everyone except for Bowie who she noticeably doesn't say a word to when he completed his part of the course. The two would later become intense Arch-Enemies for the later half of the show.

    Total Drama Island (2023) Part 2 

The Pink Painter Strikes Again

  • Raj and Wayne comment how they wouldn't be able to function properly if split apart of put into separate teams. Come to Working K9 to 5 and Raj is eliminated and Wayne is an emotional wreck through the next episode.

You Poor Saps

  • A Five-Second Foreshadowing kind. Priya notices Chris holding a can of desappyfying spray at the start of the elimination ceremony, which he claims to have merely misplaced it. The fact that he had it ready despite not being willing to use it until that point meant that one of the still stuck-together members of Rat Face was going home. Indeed, Millie is revealed to have been eliminated soon after, requiring the use of the spray.

Ice to Beat You

  • After learning that Julia was responsible for Nichelle's elimination, Damien concludes to remind him to never cross her. He'd eventually do just that in his elimination episode by getting into a brief fight with her during the challenge, which would result in his own elimination.

Haulin' n' Ballin

  • When recognizing the pictures of Courtney and Duncan on the pinball challenge, Priya wonders aloud why they didn't work out at the end. Then at the end of the episode, things for her and Caleb fall apart in a similar fashion, courtesy of Zee sharing how he planned to use her for an alliance.

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