History EliminationHoudini / TotalDrama

* 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's wasn't there to do it), he manages to make it all the way to the '''final 3'''.

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* 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, sheer luck. 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.

* Heather, often avoiding elimination by either winning invincibility or somehow manipulating someone else into being sent home.

* 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, [[TheLoad despite often contributing nothing to his team.]] 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's wasn't there to do it), he manages to make it all the way to the '''final 3'''.
* 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 latter two, sheer luck. 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.

* '''Owen''' ruins the Gophers' chances to win the challenge by eating almost entirety of their dishes, yet he's not even in the bottom two. On a similar note, no one thinks of blaming '''Leshawna''' for putting Owen in charge of looking after their food.

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* '''Justin''' cheats in the awake-a-thon by painting his eyelids to pretend to stay awake. Although he was caught in the act by Gwen and Trent, he does not get sent home because Gwen wins the challenge for her team.
* '''Duncan''' ended up costing his team the challenge by going to the toilet only to fall asleep on it when he only had Gwen left to fight against in the challenge. He also started teasing Harold by making him wet himself, giving Harold a reason to vote for Duncan at that moment. However it is Eva that gets sent home due to her MP3 temper tantrum.

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* Both '''Bowie''' (whom Julia's alliance initially voted for) and '''Priya''' (whom Bowie's alliance initially voted for as a result of Julia having immunity) avoided losing in a potential tie-breaker thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and trying to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something completely unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until this point, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

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* Although she'd likely be eliminated anyway, as it was her advice to the Killer Bass that costed the Gophers the challenge, one could argue that Izzy may have saved '''Lindsay''' from elimination.

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* Judging by them being the last contestants to be safe, as well as '''Heather''' being almost universally disliked for her actions in the previous season, Heather and '''Leshawna''' would've been voted out had Bridgette and Geoff not annoyed everyone with their constant making-out.
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* '''Heather''' would've been voted out had Gwen not hit Harold on the head and/or had Gwen not voted for herself to keep her promise with the Killer Grips.

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* '''Duncan''' and '''Owen''', who didn't get to finish the last part of the challenge; '''DJ''', '''Geoff''', and '''Gwen''', who were eliminated in the first round of the challenge; as well as '''Izzy''' and '''Leshawna''', who didn't even participate in the challenge, all avoided elimination solely because for some reason the challenge included a sudden elimination for crossing the finish line last in the final part of the challenge.

* Similarly to DJ in ''World Tour'', Damien wants to leave the show by any means necessary. However, Chris threatened that if he were to simply quit the show, he'd owe the producers one million dollars, causing him to continously vote for himself, try to convince his teammates that their loss was his fault and even make a campaign to vote himself off similar to Dave. Of course, just like in DJ's case, [[DeathByIrony it only works once he actually wants to compete]].

* Both '''Bowie''' (whom Julia's alliance initially voted for) and '''Priya''' (whom Bowie's alliance initially voted for) avoided losing in a potential tie-breaker thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and trying to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something completely unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until this point, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

* '''Zee''' ultimately loses for his team, as they would've won had he not abandoned their ship instead of crashing it against the ship of the Frogs of Death like Scary Girl proposed. However, likely as a result of the friendships between him and most of his teammates as well as Axel and Ripper getting on the rest of the team's nerves, he's not even in the bottom two.

* '''Zee''' ultimately loses for his team, as they would've won had he not abandoned their ship instead of crashing it against the ship of the Frogs of Death like Scary Girl proposed. However, likely as a result of the friendships between him and most of his teammates as well as '''Axel''' and Ripper getting on the rest of the team's nerves, he's not even in the bottom two.

* '''Zee''' ultimately loses for his team, as they would've won had he not abandoned their ship instead of crashing it against the ship of the Frogs of Death like Scary Girl proposed. However, likely as a result of the friendships between him and most of his teammates as well as Axel and Ripper getting on the rest of the team's nerves, he's not even in the bottom two.

* '''Zee''' ultimately loses for his team, as they would've won had he not abandoned their ship instead of crashing it against the ship of the Frogs of Death like Scary Girl proposed. However, likely as a result of the friendships between him and most of his teammates, he's not even in the bottom two.

* '''Zee''' ultimately loses for his team, as they would've won had he not abandoned their ship and crashed it against the ship of the Frogs of Death. However, likely as a result of the friendships between him and most of his teammates, he's not even in the bottom two.

* Both '''Bowie''' (whom Julia's alliance initially voted for) and '''Priya''' (whom Bowie's alliance initially voted for) avoided losing in a potential tie-breaker in [[spoiler:Episode 9]] thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and trying to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something completely unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until this point, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

* '''Bowie''' is spared from elimination in Episode 9 thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and trying to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something completely unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until this point, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

* '''Bowie''' is spared from elimination in Episode 9 thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and tries to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something completely unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until this point, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

* Similarly to DJ in ''World Tour'', '''Damien''' wants to leave the show by any means necessary. However, Chris threatened that if he were to simply quit the show, he'd owe the producers one million dollars, causing him to continously vote for himself, try to convince his teammates that their loss was his fault and even make a campaign to vote himself off similar to Dave. Of course, just like in DJ's case, [[DeathByIrony it only works once he actually wants to compete]].
* '''Ripper''' is HatedByAll for being TheBully with disgusting ToiletHumor but constantly ends up barely surviving eliminations.
* 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.
* '''Bowie''' is spared from elimination in Episode 9 thanks to Zee revealing that he was a member of both Bowie's and Julia's alliances and tries to get everyone to vote off Chris, an act so dumb that it causes everyone to re-evaluate their opinions of Zee and prompts Bowie to ask for a re-vote, something that has been unprecedented in the entire history of the series up until now, even during eliminations where someone voted for the wrong person by accident or the votes had been tampered with, which Chris surprisingly allows, resulting in Zee getting sent home instead.

* Similarly to DJ in ''World Tour'', Damien wants to leave the show by any means necessary. However, Chris threatened that if he were to simply quit the show, he'd owe the producers one million dollars, causing him to continously vote for himself, try to convince his teammates that their loss was his fault and even make a campaign to vote himself off similar to Dave. Of course, just like in DJ's case, [[DeathByIrony it only works once he actually wants to compete]].
* Ripper is HatedByAll for being TheBully with disgusting ToiletHumor but constantly ends up barely surviving eliminations.
* 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.