History EliminationHoudini / TotalDrama

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* '''Priya''' avoids getting eliminated for costing her team the challenge by convincing Emma to go against her gut the one time it was right thanks to Emma's poor performance in the challenge overall as a result of her being a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter.

* '''Caleb''' avoids being eliminated after Zee reveals that he only got close to Priya so that he could form an alliance with her, not knowing that Caleb had developed genuine feelings for Priya since then, thanks to Zee also revealing some of the other campers' secrets. This is made stranger by the fact that Damien, Wayne, Raj and MK heavily imply in their confessionals right before the elimination ceremony that, despite Zee being a blabbermouth, they're all still going to vote for Caleb, and since there are only 8 campers left by this point, they would make up 50% of the votes and since there's no indication of Zee intending to vote for himself, he realistically only should have received three votes ''at most'' (though given Wayne and MK were also shown to be angry with Zee at the elimination ceremony and avoiding sitting near him, it is possible they may have also voted him off for revealing their own secrets (or best friend's secret in Wayne's case), and the following episode confirms that Damien voted off Zee over Caleb, though he does state that Zee did the right thing by ratting out Caleb and admits that he feels guilty for having voted him off).
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* '''Priya''' avoids getting eliminated thanks to Damien getting his Immunity Idol stolen offscreen, leaving him unable to nullify the votes against him, causing him to get eliminated instead.

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* '''Julia''' continues to never get voted off despite her antagonistic attitude and athletic threat to the game. Even in episodes where she doesn't win immunity, Julia is never even considered for elimination.

!!In General

* Lightning. He somehow manages to make it through the entire season despite making little to no plot contribution, or winning any challenges, simply because he's never targeted despite being such a huge threat.

* Despite being a competition powerhouse and the winner of the previous season, '''Priya''' is never once targeted for elimination due to being a threat.

* '''Caleb''' avoids being eliminated after Zee reveals that he only got close to Priya so that he could form an alliance with her, not knowing that Caleb had developed genuine feelings for Priya since then, thanks to Zee also revealing some of the other campers’ secrets. This is made stranger by the fact that Damien, Wayne, Raj and MK heavily imply in their confessionals right before the elimination ceremony that, despite Zee being a blabbermouth, they’re all still going to vote for Caleb, and since there are only 8 campers left by this point, they would make up 50% of the votes and since there’s no indication of Zee intending to vote for himself, he realistically only should have received three votes ''at most'' (though given Wayne and MK were also shown to be angry with Zee at the elimination ceremony and avoiding sitting near him, it is possible they may have also voted him off for revealing their own secrets (or best friend's secret in Wayne's case), and the following episode confirms that Damien voted off Zee over Caleb, though he does state that Zee did the right thing by ratting out Caleb and admits that he feels guilty for voting him off).

* '''Caleb''' avoids being eliminated after Zee reveals that he only got close to Priya so that he could form an alliance with her, not knowing that Caleb had developed genuine feelings for Priya since then, thanks to Zee also revealing some of the other campers’ secrets. This is made stranger by the fact that Damien, Wayne, Raj and MK heavily imply in their confessionals right before the elimination ceremony that, despite Zee being a blabbermouth, they’re all still going to vote for Caleb, and since there are only 8 campers left by this point, they would make up 50% of the votes and since there’s no indication of Zee intending to vote for himself, he realistically only should have received three votes ''at most'' (though given Wayne and MK were also shown to be angry with Zee at the elimination ceremony and avoiding sitting near him, it is possible they may have also voted him off for revealing their own secrets (or best friend's secret in Wayne's case), and the following episode confirms that Damien voted off Zee over Caleb).

Thanks to Chris gleefully indulging in ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem, this is the only reality show that will openly admit to keeping characters on for drama through the most ridiculous plot conveniences and only sending characters home when Chris wants them to go. Note: The name(s) in '''bold''' represented someone who dodged elimination in that particular episode.

* Duncan. In ''Action'' he was targeted for elimination three challenges in a row, yet he managed to escape all of them because of manipulation and, in the case of the third, the sheer luck of Lindsay accidentally voting for herself. It's also worth noting that the third (and most infamous) of these elimination ceremonies was the first time [[OhCrap Duncan ever looked nervous during it, as if he knew that he couldn't keep this streak up for this long]]. Also in the ''World Tour'' episode "Greece's Pieces", when he got the most votes against him, Chris "eliminates" an intern instead of him, outright stating that he was keeping him on for drama.
* Courtney. In ''Action'' she pulled this trope off more than anyone else, where she would have been immediately voted out if she wasn't using her lawyers to cheat the show and getting to win every challenge. And in ''World Tour'' she manages to dodge being eliminated ''two episodes in a row''! The former in "Picnic at Hanging Dork" being a result of arguably the show's most poorly written contrivance up to that point[[note]]She would have been voted off had Cody not been unconscious during the voting process, ultimately throwing the result to a tie-breaker between her and Gwen, with the latter losing due to her [[PlotAllergy allergy to eucalyptus]] that was [[AssPull never given any previous foreshadowing, not even in the very episode where it came into play]][[/note]], and the latter in "Sweden Sour" being a result of the same thing Chris did to Duncan in "Greece's Pieces" by just [[AssPull randomly vetoing all of the votes against her thus sparing her once again]]. Ironically, her first elimination in ''Island'' was one of the most unfair in the entire series, and thus an ''inversion'' of this trope, although the first elimination ceremony is an example because Ezekiel saved her at the last minute.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Alejandro]] escapes a definite elimination in the Final 4 in ''World Tour'', due to [[spoiler: Sierra blowing up Chris's plane.]] He evades elimination again in ''All-Stars'' due to a slip-up by Heather, allowing him to acquire the immunity idol, and ultimately ranking [[spoiler:6th]] despite being mostly superfluous after the aforementioned's elimination.

* Heather, often avoiding elimination by either winning invincibility or somehow manipulating someone else into being sent home. In fact, there are a few situations where Heather is perfectly vulnerable to get eliminated, but another camper is sent home because of unrelated reasons.

* Similarly to Heather, Julia ends up making it far despite being HatedByAll mostly thanks to often winning immunity or, on rare occasions when she doesn't, someone else coming off as a better target.

* '''Caleb''' avoids being eliminated after Zee reveals that he only got close to Priya so that he could form an alliance with her, not knowing that Caleb had developed genuine feelings for Priya since then, thanks to Zee also revealing some of the other campers’ secrets. This is made stranger by the fact that Damien, Wayne, Raj and MK heavily imply in their confessionals right before the elimination ceremony that, despite Zee being a blabbermouth, they’re all still going to vote for Caleb, and since there are only 8 campers left by this point, they would make up 50% of the votes and since there’s no indication of Zee intending to vote for himself, he realistically only should have received three votes ''at most'' (though given Wayne and MK were also shown to be angry with Zee at the elimination ceremony and avoiding sitting near him, it is possible they may have also voted him off for revealing their own secrets (or best friend's secret in Wayne's case)).

* '''MK''' avoided being eliminated for being exposed as a cheater by Chris thanks to everyone thanks to Julia successfully convincing the members of Team Rat Face that the cheating was Bowie's idea so they'd vote for him instead and he got eliminated.

* '''Caleb''' avoids being eliminated after Zee reveals that he only got close to Priya so that he could form an alliance with her, not knowing that Caleb had developed genuine feelings for Priya since then, thanks to Zee also revealing some of the other campers’ secrets. This is made stranger by the fact that Damien, Wayne, Raj and MK heavily imply in their confessionals right before the elimination ceremony that, despite Zee being a blabbermouth, they’re all still going to vote for Caleb, and since there are only 8 campers left by this point, they would make up 50% of the votes and since there’s no indication of Zee intending to vote for himself, he realistically only should have received three votes ''at most''.

* '''MK''' avoided being eliminated for being exposed as a cheater by Chris thanks to everyone thanks to Julia successfully convincing the members of Team Rat Face that the cheating was Bowie's idea so they'd vote for him instead and he got eliminated…

* '''MK''' avoided being eliminated for being exposed as a cheater by Chris thanks to everyone thanks to Julia successfully convincing the members of Team Rat Face that the cheating was Bowie's idea so they'd vote for him instead and he got eliminated..

* Owen. Very little justification is given as to how he lasts so long other than being a CreatorsPet. In ''Island'', he stayed on the show simply for not having any enemies. The most egregious examples being "If You Can't Take the Heat" where he singlehandedly costs his team the challenge, yet isn't even in the bottom two during the elimination ceremony, "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon" where Geoff was eliminated for being 'too nice' even though he was shown to go along with some of Duncan's pranking while Owen (who was arguably the nicest contestant left by this point) is given a free pass and in "Are We There Yeti?" where he costs both him and Duncan the challenge, but Chef eliminates the latter due to his conflict towards him. Also in ''Action'', he was eliminated halfway in only to be brought back during the last six episodes by Chris in order to be his mole and dish up some drama. Despite this plot having no actual impact on the season (outside of Harold's elimination which likely would've happened even if Owen wasn't there to do it), he manages to make it all the way to the '''final 3'''.