History Characters / TheAmazingRaceCanada2

* DarkhorseVictory: Despite spending a lot of time in the middle of the pack, and only finishing above 3rd twice with no leg wins, they were never at the bottom of the pack either.

Gold Medalists from the Canadian Women's Hockey Team. They started off the season by becoming only the second team in franchise history to win the first four legs of the race[[note]]After Marc & Kat in Philippines 1[[/note]], and went on to become the winningest female team in franchise history, and only the fifth team to break a 2.00 finishing average[[note]]after [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 Eric & Jeremy]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 Marc & Rovilson]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 Rachel & Dave]], and Marc & Kat (Philippines 1)[[/note]]. In the finale, despite being one of the first teams to get to the Rafting Task, they struggled to get started on the water, allowing Mickey & Pete to get ahead of them. Meaghan's injured hand also came back to haunt her as she struggled with the Rafting task, and then afterwards with the Ascender Roadblock, and as a result they were not quite able to catch up to Mickey & Pete, finishing 2nd.

*** Sukhi ran a red light while trying to navigate through Charlottetown. This earned them a 15-minute penalty that (combined with NoSenseOfDirection) pushed them to third place, just ahead of Ryan & Rob.

** This would actually cause issues during the finale, as the Rafting task caused Meaghan's hand to swell up. Not only that, the final Roadblock required teams to climb an ascender to get their clue. As Meaghan had to do this Roadblock, her hand naturally caused her trouble again.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Leg 5, they thought that having spent most of their time in the Muskoka area of Ontario would give them an advantage in the Yukon. They ended up in 6th place instead. Fast forward to the finale, where they were finally able to put some of that knowledge to good use at the Ottawa River Rafting task, overtaking Natalie & Meaghan in the process.

The second Season of the Canadian edition of the race, airing in the summer following [[TheAmazingRace24 the second All-Stars]], and airing almost concurrently with Characters/TheAmazingRaceAustraliaVNewZealand. Unlike the first season, it will travel outside of Canada, and expanded from nine teams to eleven and ten legs to 12.

Best Friends from Muskoka, they wanted to prove that you could compete in the race while having lots of fun in the meantime. Like the other two teams in the finale, they rarely fought with each other, or with anyone else. In fact, during the entire leg, they usually ran in the middle of the pack, with consistent third place finishes throughout their run. In the finale, their experience in the Muskoka finally paid off when they were able to overtake Natalie & Meaghan in the Ottawa River Rafting task, giving them a lead that they never gave up, allowing them their only leg win as well as the Race itself.

Gold Medalists from the Canadian Women's Hockey Team. They started off the season by becoming only the second team in franchise history to win the first four legs of the race[[note]]After Marc & Kat in Philippines 1[[/note]], and went on to become the winningest female team in franchise history, and only the fifth team to break a 2.00 finishing average[[note]]after [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 Eric & Jeremy]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 Marc & Rovilson]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 Rachel & Dave]], and Marc & Kat (Philippines 1)[[/note]]. In the finale, despite being one of the first teams to get to the Rafting Task, they struggled to get started on the water, allowing Mickey & Pete to get ahead of them. Meaghan's injured hand also came back to haunt her as she struggled with the rafting task, and then afterwards with the Ascender Roadblock, and as a result they were not quite able to catch up to Mickey & Pete, finishing 2nd.

Co-workers, Rob is a former Mr. Gay Canada. Despite a pair of straight second place finishes, they actually spent more time at the back of the pack, with six straight bottom-two finishes, including coming last in two non-elimination legs. They were ultimately done in by a terrible cab driver who did not know where the Fleet Street Pumping station was, putting them behind so much that they had no chance to catch up, finishing in 3rd.

* EliminationHoudini: [[{{In-Universe}} John called it "miraculous" that they had made it to the finale after all their struggles.]]

!! Natalie Spooner & Meaghan Mikkelson ''(The Hockey Girls)''
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natalie_spooner_and_meaghan_mikkelson__7088.jpg

Gold Medalists from the Canadian Women's Hockey Team. They started off the season by becoming only the second team in franchise history to win the first four legs of the race[[note]]After Marc & Kat in Philippines 1[[/note]], and went on to become the winningest female team in franchise history, and only the fifth team to break a 2.00 finishing average[[note]]after [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 Eric & Jeremy]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceAsia2 Marc & Rovilson]], [[Characters/TheAmazingRace20 Rachel & Dave]], and Marc & Kat (Philippines 1)[[/note]].

Co-workers, Rob is a former Mr. Gay Canada.

!!Mickey Henry & Pete Schmalz [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mickey_henry_and_pete_schmalz_8460.jpg]]

Best Friends

* AlwaysSecondBest: Discussed mostly by Pete in the legs leading up to the final, as he was tired of losing to Natalie & Meaghan. Though at that point they only had one 2nd place finish, and were mostly finishing 3rd.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: They were the second team to finish the Hockey detour in Leg 6, just behind Pierre & Michel, and ahead of Olympic Hockey Players Natalie & Meaghan who started the Detour before them.
-->'''Mickey:''' Dude, we just beat Olympians!
-->'''Pete:''' We are Olympians!

** Being experienced with wake-boarding allowed them to breeze through the surfer task in the second leg faster than anyone else.
** This was lampshaded and inverted in the Hockey Detour in Leg 6, as they noted the last time they played hockey was when they were in Grade 6 in Elementary School.
** Mickey's history on the track team in high school allowed him to finish first on the additional sulky task in leg 10, pulling Pete around the race track for both laps without switching out.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: During the distilling Roadblock, Pete said he was not a fan of math, as opposed to accountant Mickey.
* FailedASpotCheck:
** When looking for the Roadblock in leg 3, they missed the sign for Hillier Street, running up and down the street before spotting Pierre & Michel running for the restaurant.
** Pete kept failing the Alcohol Distilling Roadblock in Normandy when he kept using the wrong Hydrometer as shown in the demonstration. It took Ryan helping him out for Pete to complete the task.
* TheGlomp:
** On both the Campsite Detour judge and Jon in leg 5.
** When they checked in to the 10th Pit Stop after doing the Mussels Detour (in which they were both filthy and smelly), they attempted to do this to Jon ''and'' the Pit Stop Greeter only for Jon to stop them before they could do so.
-->'''Jon''': Do not hug me! ''(shoos Mickey away from the Pit Stop Greeter)'' Do not hug her, either!
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Described themselves as such in their intro, before quickly proclaiming their love of women.
* HiddenDepths: The seventh episode revealed that Mickey was an accountant, and took cosmetology back in high school.
* HonorBeforeReason: Minor example in Leg 11 as they told Ryan & Rob to look closely at the flags.
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: At the beginning of the 9th leg, they said it was embarrassing to always be beaten by Natalie & Meaghan. This continued into the 10th leg as Pete got rattled when Natalie & Meaghan smoked them at the Mussels Detour, despite them arriving earlier than the Hockey Girls.
* InformedAbility: Pete was supposedly a hunter, and jumped at the chance to do the Biathlon Roadblock, only to take seven tries to hit his first target. Only Nicole took longer than him, and Sukhi, who looked scared to even touch her gun, did the task in two attempts.
* LanguageBarrier: Trying to get to Place ''du'' Canada in Leg 8, the taxi driver mistakenly took them to Place ''des'' Canada, almost an hour away. This pushed them to last place despite being on the first train to Paris.
* LetsGetDangerous: They started the 9th leg by saying that they were tired of just scraping by, and that there was going to be no more "funny business," and there was no more "Mr. Nice Guy." They would end up 2nd that leg behind the Fast Forward, their best finish yet, even beating Natalie & Meaghan (albeit by only a few seconds).
* LikesOlderWomen: Hilariously Lampshaded during the Campsite detour in Leg 5, when they invited Nicole to join them in their completed tent. Needless to say, Cormac [[{{Squick}} was noticeably disgusted at the thought.]]
* NeverLiveItDown: [[{{In-Universe}} Pete himself said he would never be able to show his face again]] after his horrible shooting performance at the Biathlon Roadblock.
* NoDamageRun: Despite spending a lot of time in the middle of the pack, and only finishing above 3rd twice, they were never at the bottom of the pack either.
* NoSenseOfDirection: They were the second team to leave the Detour in Leg 5, only to get lost and be the second to last team to arrive at the Roadblock.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pete says Mickey does this in his everyday life, as he's actually really smart and an accountant.
* OldShame: [[{{In-Universe}} Mickey expressed this]] about him taking cosmetology in high school, which he did in order to take machine shop.
* PluckyComicRelief: Most of their airtime involved them goofing off or being otherwise humorous.
* [[ReadTheFreakingManual Read the Freaking Clue]]: In the Confederation Roadblock in Leg 10, Pete did not initially read the part about asking the impersonators walking around the Province House about their friends and relatives, thinking he was supposed to memorize their names. One of the impersonators even gave the camera an AsideGlance upon having Pete run off without asking for any information. One look inside Province House finally told him he was doing the Roadblock wrong.
* RealityShowGenreBlindness: Pete decided to do the Alcohol Distilling Roadblock in Normandy as he thought the Roadblock would involve drinking shots.
* SelfDeprecation: Mickey saying, "I totally think we could be employable after this," during the Dairy Queen challenge.
* SignatureLaugh: Mickey's giggle, which he bust out whenever he was enjoying himself.
* SurferDude: Their intro had them wake-boarding, and Bob referred them as Surfer Dudes before the surfing task in the second leg.
* TemptingFate:
** They thought that having spent most of their time in the Muskoka area of Ontario would give them an advantage in the Yukon. They ended up in 6th place instead.
** Heading into the Mussels Detour in leg 10, Pete was confident they were easily going to pass Sukhi & Jinder and win the leg, even saying that, "this was their leg." Not only did they not pass Sukhi & Jinder, they also got passed by Natalie & Meaghan, and Pete needed Jon to cheer him up at the Pit Stop.
* [[ThisIsACompetition This Is A Race]]: Pete's justification for not showing Sukhi & Jinder the clue at the Signal Flag Detour.

!Eliminated

!! Sukhi Atwal & Jinder Atwal [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sukhi_atwal_and_jinder_atwal__4799.jpg]]

Siblings, with Sukhi being seven years older than her brother. They started out the season as one of the weaker teams, having a tendency to panic and beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings for the first four legs, including a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs, culminating with two straight 1st place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. However, they unraveled in the 11th leg when they [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failed spot checks throughout the leg]], and were the last team to complete the Signal Flag Detour, dooming them to 4th Place.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Somehow, they got their French mixed up with their Spanish.
** Jinder said "Por favor"[[note]]Please in Spanish[[/note]] to the ticket agent while buying plane tickets to Paris.
** Sukhi said "Rapido"[[note]]Fast in Spanish[[/note]] to the taxi driver in Paris while trying to get to the Arc de Triomphe. During the Detour, she said, "one more, uno,"[[note]]Uno is one in Spanish[[/note]] to the server at the cafe after spilling their coffee. After finishing the Detour and heading to the Roadblock, she said "No Problemo"[[note]]No problem in Spanish[[/note]] to the taxi driver.
** They both used "Rapido" with their cab driver in Montreal.
* BadLiar: During the Plat Du Jour Detour in Paris, they ran into Ryan & Rob who asked them if they had found any of the cafes. They stated that they didn't know, but they were holding two of the three items required to complete the task, something Ryan & Rob picked up almost immediately.
* BeginnersLuck: Despite looking nervous to even touch her rifle at the Biathlon Detour, Sukhi hit her first four targets on her first four shots, and only needed a total of six bullets to complete the tasks, something only Alain did faster, and tying her with Natalie.
* BigSisterBully: When they were kids, Jinder followed Sukhi around, doing her bidding.
* BrotherSisterTeam
* ChekhovsHobby:

* HideYourGays: Neither of them have had their sexualities mentioned onscreen, despite the two other gay couples on the season.

Siblings, with Sukhi being six years older than her brother. They started out the season as one of the weaker teams, having a tendency to panic and beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings for the first four legs, including a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs, culminating with two straight 1st place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. However, they unraveled in the 11th leg when they [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failed spot checks throughout the leg]], and were the last team to complete the Signal Flag Detour, dooming them to 4th Place.

Siblings, with Sukhi being nine years older than her brother. They started out the season as one of the weaker teams, having a tendency to panic and beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings for the first four legs, including a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs, culminating with two straight 1st place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. However, they unraveled in the 11th leg when they [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failed spot checks throughout the leg]], and were the last team to complete the Signal Flag Detour, dooming them to 4th Place.

Siblings, with Sukhi being nine years older than her brother. They started out the season as one of the weaker teams with, having a tendency to panic and beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings for the first four legs, including a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs, and culminating with two straight 1st place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. However, they unraveled in the 11th leg when they [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failed spot checks throughout the leg]], and were the last team to complete the Signal Fla Detour, dooming them to 4th place.

** Their worldwide travelling allowed them to memorize the coins and flags at the Mint task, allowing them to be the second team to complete the task, despite arriving at the Mint last, after the first team to complete the task had already left.
* ChewingTheScenery: They tend to do this upon completing tasks.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Leaving the Detour in 1st in leg 10, they stopped to ask for directions. Seeing Natalie & Meaghan drive up behind them, they tried to send the girls in the wrong direction by pointing the wrong way. The Hockey Girls did not fall for it, giving them the lead. Though Sukhi & Jinder managed come back to win the leg, they ended up angering Natalie and creating an enemy.

** While looking for the clue in "a shop selling almond biscuits" in leg 4. They found the right store twice, yet passed right by the clue box and left the store. The second time, Jinder even stood next to the clue box while saying, "I feel like we're missing something." It took Mickey & Pete telling them where the clue was to find it.

** They fell heavily into this in the fourth leg, first by attempting to hang onto Mickey & Pete at the Stamp It Detour when both teams were fighting to avoid last, then by asking every team at the Fan-Tan challenge for help, including Audrey when they were the last two teams remaining. this greatly annoyed the other teams, with Rex & Bob claiming they would never help the siblings.

* FailedASpotCheck: Meaghan kept failing the Alcohol Distilling Roadblock in Normandy as she kept using the wrong Hydrometer as shown in the demonstration. It took her six tries to figure it out.

* InvincibleHero: Averted. Despite Meghan & Natalie's domination through the first eight legs, the show has gone out of their way to keep them from becoming this, going so far as to emphasize little mistakes they made (Such as their NoSenseOfDirection moments in the 3rd and 4th legs), just to keep them from looking unbeatable. Often, the [[OnTheNext next episode previews]] were dedicated to showing scenarios [[PseudoCrisis that could possibly end the race for them]].[[note]]Only the Confederation Roadblock in leg 10 was a legitimate, if understated crisis, and even then, they almost came first that leg.[[/note]]

* NoDamageRun

* BornLucky: They finished in the bottom two of the race for six straight legs leading up to the finale (including finishing last in two non-elimination legs). Discussed by the other teams when they showed up at the Montreal airport after being saved by their second non-elimination leg, and discussed again when they finished the penultimate leg in New Brunswick in 3rd place, just ahead of Sukhi & Jinder.

* HonorBeforeReason: Minor example in Leg 11 as they told Ryan and Rob to look closely at the flags. Though this was more due to wanting Sukhi & Jinder out instead.

* NoDamageRun

** In Leg 11, they had dropped the clue instructions for the Signal Flag Detour. As a result, they had no choice (other than detour switching) to ask the other teams to look at their instructions. Both Ryan & Rob and Mickey & Pete refused to do so, but Meaghan & Natalie agreed to give them a peek.

* HonorBeforeReason: Meaghan allowed Sukhi & Jinder to look at their copy of the Flag Signal Detour instructions. Natalie was then wondering if that was a mistake, as if she handed the Race to the siblings on a silver platter.

** This was likely the reason why Meaghan allowed Sukhi & Jinder to look at the copy of the Flag Signal Detour instructions.

Siblings, with Sukhi being nine years older than her brother. They initially started out as one of the weakest teams with their tendency to beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings for the first four legs, including a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs culminating with two straight first place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. This started to unravel in the 11th leg with them [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failing spot checks throughout the leg]]. As a result, this put them so far behind they could not catch up to Ryan and Rob at the Roadblock, dooming them to 4th place.

** Leg 11 was this for the entire leg, causing their elimination:
*** Sukhi ran a red light while trying to navigate through Charlottetown. This earned them a 15 minute penalty that (combined with NoSenseOfDirection) that pushed them to third place, just ahead of Ryan and Rob.
*** They missed the sign leading to Albert County Museum and had to double back. This allowed Ryan and Rob to catch up to them.
*** They dropped their clue sheet that told them how to complete the Flag Signal detour. They had to ask Natalie and Meaghan to look at theirs to look at the details for completing the task.
*** They missed one of their blue and white checkerboard flags, putting one with 20 checkerboard squares instead of the one that had 16. This allowed Ryan & Rob to pass them leaving them in last place for the rest of the leg.

Gold Medalists from the Canadian Women's Hockey Team. They started off the season by becoming only the second team in franchise history to win the first four legs of the race[[note]]After Marc & Kat in Philippines 1[[/note]].

** In the 11th leg, they stated that they wanted to keep this momentum going into the finals.

Siblings, with Sukhi being nine years older than her brother. They initially started out as one of the weakest teams with their tendency to beg other teams for information or help. This led them to finishing in the bottom half of the standings and a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started to work more on their own, building momentum over the next few legs culminating with two straight first place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. This started to unravel in the 11th leg with them [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failing spot checks throughout the leg]]. As a result, this put them so far behind they could not catch up to Ryan and Rob at the Roadblock, dooming them to 4th place.

* BornLucky: They finished in the bottom two of the race for six straight legs leading up to the finale (including two non-elimination legs). Discussed by the other teams when they showed up at the Montreal airport after being saved by their second non-elimination leg, and discussed again when they finished penultimate leg in New Brunswick in 3rd place, just ahead of Sukhi & Jinder.

Siblings, with Sukhi being nine years older than her brother. They initially started out as a weak team, finishing in the bottom half of the standings and a last place non-elimination finish in Leg 4. Afterwards, they started building momentum over the next few legs culminating with two straight first place finishes in the 9th and 10th legs. This started to unravel in the 11th leg with them [[FailedASpotCheck constantly failing spot checks throughout the leg]]. This put them so far behind they could not catch up to Ryan and Rob at the Roadblock, dooming them to 4th place.

* GameBreakingInjury: Meaghan had trouble portaging their canoe in leg 5, dropping them behind Ryan & Rob, because she broke her hand eight days before the gold medal game at the Olympics, and it was still bothering her.

** This was likely the reason why Natalie allowed Sukhi & Jinder to look at the copy of the Flag Signal Detour instructions.

* InvincibleHero: Averted. Despite Meghan & Natalie's domination through the first eight legs, the show has gone out of their way to keep them from becoming this, going so far as to emphasize little mistakes they made (Such as their NoSenseOfDirection moments in the 3rd and 4th legs), just to keep them from looking unbeatable.

*** They missed the sign leading to Albert County Museum and had to double back. This allowed Ryan and Rob to pass them.

*** They missed one of their blue and white checkerboard flags, putting one with 20 checkerboard squares instead of the one that had 16.

* BornLucky: They finished in the bottom two of the race for six straight legs leading up to the finale (including two non-elimination legs). Discussed by the other teams when they showed up at the Montreal airport after being saved by their second non-elimination leg, and discussed again during the penultimate leg in New Brunswick.

* TheLoad: They fell heavily into this in the fourth leg, first by attempting to hang onto Mickey & Pete at the Stamp It Detour when both teams were fighting to avoid last, then by asking every team at the Fan-Tan challenge for help, including Audrey when they were the last two teams remaining. this greatly annoyed the other teams, with Rex & Bob claiming they would never help the siblings. This happened again during the Dog Sled detour in the fifth leg, annoying Ryan & Rob.