History DethroningMoment / TotalDrama

* Tropers/JojiMc: Well since someone already mentioned the ResetButton, Dawn's elimination and the Gwen and Duncan kiss, I might as well add a DethroningMoment from ''Revenge of the Island''. Now, don't get me wrong. I loved ''Revenge of the Island''. In fact, it's probably my favorite season right after ''Island''. However, I did not like "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean". Not one bit. Okay, so, in this episode, the contestants have to find a treasure chest with both Sam and Gwen which doesn't seem too bad. However, what makes this episode insufferable is [[BodyHorror Dakota's mutation into a monster]] and it's all [[Jerkass Chris']] fault! You see, if Chris didn't expose Dakota to that toxic waste in the first place, she'd be just fine but nope. Now, she's a mutant thanks to him. And what's worse is that Dakota didn't even do anything to deserve being a mutant. AttentionWhore tendencies aside, she was shown to be a nice/decent girl for the most part. [[TheWoobie I honestly feel bad for Dakota]]. As I said before, she didn't do anything to deserve getting turned into a mutant. Hopefully, when ''Total Drama'' returns, they'll make an episode where Dakotazoid breaks all of Chris' legs.

* {{Tropers/Apocon}}: I'd add "Scarlett Fever" as the worst ever episode in the series. Don't understand it wrong, Sundae Muddy Sunday and both All-Stars and Pakhitew's finales are bad, but this one's just a little worse. The plot of everyone discovering Pahkitew's a robotic island is fine, and Shawn and Jasmine having their first kiss is okay, but TheyWatedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter with Scarlett, who already had some rather villainous actions before but appeared to be a pretty grounded and realistic villain in a wacky season, just to have her trying to KILL everyone while risking her chances at the money,transforming her in a very gimmicky character with with little to no reason to be a villain in the show. While this happens, Sugar was annoying as hell, Sky was bland, Shawn and Jasmine had their moments but were almost completely OutOfFocus, and Max, while not being a completely great character, got unfairly eliminated just when his obsession with evil was deconstructed

* Tropers/{{Gideoncrawle}}: Even after six increasingly uneven seasons, Lindsay's elimination in Season 1 remains the series' low point for me--a festering boil all the uglier for marring what is overall the best season. Lindsay had finally come into her own, being reasonably competent in two of her last three episodes (still the source of DumbBlonde jokes, but no longer incredibly dumb), and she's eliminated without warning on a technicality that was absurd and poorly thought out [[UpToEleven even by Chris' standards]]. Eliminating Lindsay for being the last to cross the finish line in the finals, despite the fact that the rest of the racing world places the last finisher ahead of those who fail to finish, wasn't even the worst part. Why eliminate a finalist instead of someone who failed to qualify for the finals? Or Izzy or Leshawana, for that matter, neither of whom even participated in either the preliminary race or the finals? Leshawna didn't even build a bike. And what was the point of giving the winner invincibility if there wasn't going to be a vote? I get that Lindsay probably needed to go when she did because of how the story arc was meant to play out, but she was a main character. Was it too much to ask that her elimination make a modicum of sense? Although Leshawna's elimination a few episodes later was even more contrived, that was easier to stomach because it clearly satirized {{executive meddling}}.

* Tropers/{{toadgamer80}}: Same episode as mentioned above, but Mal and your friendly neighborhood MarySue, Zoey, making the final two. Especially when a trailer outright spoiled that [[spoiler: Mal would revert back to Mike]], even if it wasn't obvious, plus neither of them are original contestants. And Courtney, who would have been a prime candidate to win, was completely destroyed in the span of a single episode. Despite most of the Internet despising Zoey, she has tons of younger fans because she's "nice" and devoid of a personality, she's most likely our official winner this season,so the official winner was Mike.

* MagnusForce: I consider World Tour to be incredibly overrated, viewing it as just as bad as (if not worse than) Action. While there are a lot of reasons why I don't like the season (a few already covered on this page), the episode I despise the most is "Anything Yukon Do I Can Do Better" for its appalling and disrespectful handling of Bridgette, my absolute favourite character in the series. Watching a smart, sweet, strong, loving, and devoted girl like her fall for Alejandro made me cringe so much. It hurt me so much to see this wonderful, caring, admirable, sensible, and grounded woman being derailed into a shallow, slutty, hypocritical, weak, and needy bimbo; it deeply annoyed me that she was the only girl to be so seriously impacted by Al's charms (Gwen should have been easily charmed by Al too! Courtney should have been smitten by him before the breakup! Leshawna, Lindsay, and Izzy got off way too easy when it came to Al's flirtations and how it affected them!); it was so sad to see her failing so badly at her tear-filled promise back in the Action special to stay strong without Geoff and win the season for him; and it angers me so much that she now bears the horrible label of "cheater" as a result all this. And then Bridgette is basically tortured after getting her tongue stuck to the pole, with everyone (including her friends and teammates) doing nothing but ridiculing and mistreating her, and then her getting one of the cruelest and most humiliating eliminations on the show. Also, why did it have to be Bridgette specifically?! If any character should have been manipulated into cheating with Al, Lindsay and Leshawna should have been it (Lindsay's a moron who can't even remember her own boyfriend and has flirted with Trent and Justin while Leshawna's thing with Harold is extremely on-and-off)! And to top it off, this is the second time in a row Bridgette is the first girl voted off! Do the writers seriously have nothing better to do with her character except host the Aftermath with Geoff and be his girlfriend? [[DoubleStandard Oh, and let's not forget how Al is praised by the show as an awesome person for seducing Bridgette while Bridgette herself is thoroughly condemned by the show as an awful person for letting herself fall for it during the Aftermaths despite showing that she felt truly and absolutely horrible for messing up so badly (with Blaineley even being shocked that Geoff chose to reconcile with Bridgette) -- and then later in the season, Duncan is celebrated as a hero by the show for cheating on Courtney ("Babe Olympics", anyone?)!]] [[TheWoobie Bridgette]]'s treatment here is truly loathsome. It is a complete insult to her fans (just like with all of Team Victory sadly), defiles the fundamentals of her character and [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter completely wastes her potential]] so we can love and admire some overrated CousinOliver VillainSue, does nothing worthwhile for her relationship with Geoff (especially since Action ruined their relationship with so many fans), leaves a horrific and ugly scar on her character and its reputation, abuses and humiliates her for some bad attempts at black comedy [[DudeNotFunny (like the cringeworthy song that is "Stuck to a Pole" and Chris refusing to give Bridgette his water)]], and feels like the show was specifically targeting her for no good reason. I hate everything about what happened between Bridgette and Alejandro, and it makes me so mad that she will NeverLiveItDown. I wish none of it ever occurred because I have never seen any character I've loved so much being treated this hideously before, and Bridgette frankly deserves better than what the show keeps doing to her. What a disgusting usage of an amazing character.

* Tropemaster849: I will gladly add "Hurl and Go Seek" in place of Woddor as it almost made me stop watching the season. The challenge is beyond disgusting, with [[JerkAss Chris]] forcing everyone to eat Expired food and then barely batting an eye, when everyone(minus Shawn) gets food poisoning. The fact it made nearly everyone(excluding Shawn and Jasmine)look like zombies was hard to sit through. Sugar was even worse then normal, with her gleefully eating the expired food and even going back for seconds! But the worse part was the climax to the Sky/Dave mess. I was always more invested with Jasmine/Shawn(Who did get back together in this episode, which is the only good thing about it), but the way Sky tells Dave off was way too harsh(Although he did have it coming) and Dave decent into madness made him in worse and more whiny and annoying. If ''one'' episode can almost make me give up on a season I was enjoying, it should never be watched ever again.

* Tropers/{{lasalle28}}: The biggest deal breaker of the third season for me was the episode "Greece's Pieces". The episode opens up with Courtney and Gwen talking about Duncan's return. Gwen, who kissed Courtney's boyfriend yesterday after she finally befriends her, shows a grand total of ten seconds worth of guilt in the confessional and then contradicts herself by saying she won't tell Courtney about the kiss until it happens again and following it up by saying that she is looking forward to kissing him again and [[CaptainObvious asking into the camera if this makes her a bad person]]. Meaning she is still going to see him behind Courtney's back and won't do a thing about it until they kiss again. So much for the [[AesopAmnesia "As long as you're up front, nothing can bite you in the butt" girl from the previous season, right, Gwen?]]. Meanwhile Duncan, whom cheated on his girlfriend literally behind her back, is busy threatening Tyler to keep quiet about the kiss and then he is seen in the next scene mutually "eye-flirting" with Gwen with Courtney standing right next to her and Gwen lies to her face about it. At this point in time it's safe to say that [[TookALevelInJerkAss Duncan's]] JerkWithAHeartOfGold status he has is pretty much an InformedAbility from this point on, as is Gwen's supposed "guilt". The next scenes leading up to the ending is just Courtney [[ProperlyParanoid being suspicious about Duncan and Gwen]], Gwen pitifully trying to change the subject whenever Duncan is brought up, and Duncan being forced to sing (and one of his songs included saying that he does not regret kissing Gwen behind Courtney's back). When Tyler is forcibly told to spill the beans about Duncan and Gwen, Courtney gets understandably pissed, but what does Gwen do? Does she make any kind of attempt to apologize or accept any kind of responsibilty for her actions? No! Instead she [[CharacterDerailment cowers when Courtney gets mad, cries when they want to vote her off]], and starts cheering when Cody wins the challenge for her so that she [[KarmaHoudini can't get voted off]]. The scene that took the DMOS award goes to the ending. The episode's Crowning Moment of Disgusting for me was when Courtney, the show's JerkAss Tsundere [[SmallNameBigEgo Baxter]] is seen [[TearJerker crying uncontrollably]] while being comforted by [[ManipulativeBastard Hea]][[AlphaBitch ther]] of all people, while Gwen is doing what? Starting a confessional at the end of the episode by talking about how great the kiss was while smiling and topping that off by saying that her [[WasItReallyWorthIt sole regret]] was that [[ItsAllAboutMe she (Gwen)]] and her "new [[JerkAss boyfriend]]" are going to be eliminated now...[[EliminationHoudini except he wasn't.]] How you ask? At the elimination, when it was unanimous decision to vote off Duncan, Chris, in all of his jerkass glory, announces that he is going to outright [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem ignore the votes and keep Duncan on the show despite the votes]] because Duncan is bringing the drama right now. Then the episode officially ends with Gwen cheering when Duncan doesn't leave and Courtney tearfully shouting 'I hate you!' at Gwen and Duncan. Duncan and Gwen in this episode were so [[CharacterDerailment derailed]] here, it was disgusting. They had no remorse for what they did, both were incredibly selfish, Duncan's JerkWithAHeartOfGold trait is officially an informed attribute from this point on, and Gwen went from being the OnlySaneMan to being [[NotSoDifferent just as bad as Duncan, Courtney, and especially Heather.]] This episode marked the beginning of everyone's character derailment and the last episode of this season (and maybe the series) that I ever watch.

** Tropers/InfinityLeague: I'm adding this to my DMOS as well, not only for all the reasons the above trope listed, but because of how Cartoon Network butchered the episode's dialogue for the USA release. Now, for those who don't remember, when CN first started airing the show, [[{{Bowdlerization}} they censored the dialogue like nobody's business, replacing all the "obscenities" like "crap" and "sucks" (if they were strong enough to even be called that) and replacing them with more family-friendly fare]] ([[DoubleStandard even words that were already considered family-friendly, like "stupid" and "sucker," were censored despite being used frequently in CN's other shows]].) Perhaps the worst example of this insult-to-the-viewer's intelligence was in "That's Off the Chain" which, in the Canadian dub, was capped off by Lindsay cursing Heather out in her personal SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. What made that scene great was that it was the first extended use of strong language on the show, [[ClusterBleepBomb and it was all bleeped out so it would be acceptable to air on TV]]. Cartoon Network took that scene and... replaced all the censor bleeps with GoshDangItToHeck-level insults. Um, [[FlatWhat what]]. CN, you do realize that the swears were already censored, right? The kiddies in the audience were already unable to hear the words she was using, so there was no reason to censor it again. What, are you afraid that kids in the audience would know that the act of swearing in and of itself exists? I call bullshit; kids swear all the time, and even those who don't have probably heard all the SevenDirtyWords from their parents or other sources before they hit their double-digits. It just irks me that CN's censor-happy executives completely neutered Lindsay's crowning moment with their paranoid, condescending bullshit.

* Tropers/{{curiouskat}}: Though the Total Drama series thrives on drama antics for ratings, the inclusion of [[BaseBreakingCharacter Courtney]] is a bit of a toss-up depending on who'd you ask. She's a large reason for why many Dethroning Moments occur throughout this season, in my opinion--eliminations of certain characters because of her [[EliminationHoudini convenient immunity opportunities]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections suing her way back into the game]], et cetera. But no, this troper's Dethroning Moment lies within Courtney's treatment of Duncan upon her return. This was before Gwen and Duncan actually hooked up, mind you, and there was no real evidential proof of Duncan flirting with Gwen up to that point other than friendly banter and Courtney's resulting jealousy. She [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleonMale physically attacks him (barring the boundaries of specific challenges), belittles him]], and on top of that, creates contracts and rules for him to memorize in order for him to become "her perfect boyfriend". Wait, what? This can't possibly be Courtney. She was stuck-up before, but never this vengeful and controlling. This is what I considered the beginning of her subsequent CharacterDerailment, and it only gets worse with the embellishment of the terrible LoveTriangle from World Tour.

* Tropers/{{curiouskat}}: Though the Total Drama series thrives on drama antics for ratings, the inclusion of [[BaseBreakingCharacter Courtney]] is a bit of a toss-up depending on who'd you ask. She's a large reason for why many Dethroning Moments occur throughout this season, in my opinion--eliminations of certain characters because of her [[EliminationHoudini convenient immunity opportunities]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections suing her way back into the game,]] et cetera. But no, this troper's Dethroning Moment lies within Courtney's treatment of Duncan upon her return. This was before Gwen and Duncan actually hooked up, mind you, and there was no real evidential proof of Duncan flirting with Gwen up to that point other than friendly banter and Courtney's resulting jealousy. She [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleonMale physically attacks him (barring the boundaries of specific challenges), belittles him,]] and on top of that, creates contracts for him to memorize in order for him to become "her perfect boyfriend". Wait, what? This can't possibly be Courtney. She was stuck-up before, but never this [[Flanderization vengeful and controlling!]] This is what I considered the beginning of her subsequent CharacterDerailment, and it only gets worse with the embellishment of the terrible LoveTriangle from World Tour.

* Tropers/{{curiouskat}}: Though the Total Drama series thrives on drama antics for ratings, the inclusion of [[BaseBreakingCharacter Courtney]] is a bit of a toss-up depending on who'd you ask. She's a large reason for why many Dethroning Moments occur throughout this season, in my opinion--eliminations of certain characters because of her [[EliminationHoudini convenient immunity opportunities]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections suing her way back into the game,]] et cetera. But no, this troper's Dethroning Moment lies within Courtney's treatment of Duncan upon her return. This was before Gwen and Duncan actually hooked up, mind you, and there was no real evidential proof of Duncan flirting with Gwen up to that point other than friendly banter and Courtney's resulting jealousy. She [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleonMale physically attacks him (barring the boundaries of specific challenges), belittles him,]] and on top of that, creates contracts for him to memorize in order for him to become "her perfect boyfriend". Wait, what? This can't possibly be Courtney. She was stuck-up before, but never this vengeful and controlling! This is what I considered the beginning of her subsequent CharacterDerailment, and it only gets worse with the embellishment of the terrible LoveTriangle from World Tour.

** Tropers/{{curiouskat}}: Though the Total Drama series thrives on drama antics for ratings, the inclusion of [[BaseBreakingCharacter Courtney]] is a bit of a toss-up depending on who'd you ask. She's a large reason for why many Dethroning Moments occur throughout this season, in my opinion--eliminations of certain characters because of her [[EliminationHoudini convenient immunity opportunities]], [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections suing her way back into the game,]] et cetera. But no, this troper's Dethroning Moment lies within Courtney's treatment of Duncan upon her return. This was before Gwen and Duncan actually hooked up, mind you, and there was no real evidential proof of Duncan flirting with Gwen up to that point other than friendly banter and Courtney's resulting jealousy. She [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleonMale physically attacks him (barring the boundaries of specific challenges), belittles him,]] and on top of that, creates contracts for him to memorize in order for him to become "her perfect boyfriend". Wait, what? This can't possibly be Courtney. She was stuck-up before, but never this vengeful and controlling! This is what I considered the beginning of her subsequent CharacterDerailment, and it only gets worse with the embellishment of the terrible LoveTriangle from World Tour.