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* In "Up The Creek", Gwen refers to Cody as a little brother. When you see the video from her family, her brother looks slightly similar to Cody and even shares a voice actor. And her bio states she gets along with her brother, which may be why she tacks the "annoying" onto there- to clarify, and possibly to not offend her real life brother.

** [[spoiler: The others aren't even bothered by the loss of them, either.]]

* [[spoiler: The eliminated ''All-Stars'' contestants that weren't freed by Mal and Zoey were sent hurdling to oblivion. Unlike the other finales, ''they don't return. And they may never be free, meaning they may be dead...'']]

** [[spoiler: Considering Ezekiel ''fell into a volcano'' and survived, chances of them dying are pretty slim, and the fact that this isn't a show where people die.]]

** [[spoiler: Considering Ezekiel ''fell into a volcano'' and survived, so chances of them dying are pretty slim, and the fact that this isn't a show where people die.]]

** [[spoiler: Considering Ezekiel fell into a volcano and survived, so chances of them dying are pretty slim, and the fact that this isn't a show where people die.]]

* [[spoiler: The eliminated ''All-Stars'' contestants that weren't freed by Mal and Zoey were sent hurdling to oblivion. Unlike the other finales, ''they don't return. And they may never be free...'']]

* While watching "I See London..." this troper wondered why Alejandro seemed so upset about Noah not trusting him and calling him an eel, even though Heather hadn't trusted him from the beginning and had called him much worse insults. Then later this troper realized that while Heather had simply seen through the facade and then told him right away, Noah had done something entirely different. See, Alejandro's entire tactic is fooling people into believing he was friends with them, and he thought that he had already managed to trick Noah. But now it's revealed that Noah was only ''pretending'' to fall for Alejando's "friendship" tactic, which means Noah had managed to defeat Alejandro ''[[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame in his own game]]'', and THAT was what ticked Al off the most. -Musouka

* It seems that Tyler's horrified expression during his StealthHiBye to Gwen and Duncan's kiss is just there because...[[CrowningMomentOfFunny well, because it's hysterical.]] But then I remembered that he's also [[ShipperOnDeck a Gwody supporter!]] So it's also a nudge at the reactions of [[ShipSinking the horrified sunk-shippers]]. -Latia

* At first Cody's JerkAss behavior at Gwen and Duncan's relationship seems like a double standard given how he reacted to Trent's and his actions in Greeces Pieces and then it hit me: The circumstances are totally different. With Trent, Cody realized that not only she really liked Trent but that Trent generally cared for her and that he had no chance and decided to do the right thing and help him out. But Duncan treated him like crap for all of "Greeces Pieces", treated his friend and fellow drama brother Harold, who acording to Hawaiian Style was at least a bit close to him, like crap for all of ''Action'', and while Cody played DoggedNiceGuy all season, Duncan just waltzes in and wins her over when he already has a girlfriend. His pissy attitude was more than justified.-Mogo
** I had a little bit more afterthinking of this last night, Trent and Justin were also Drama Brothers, and they were shown to not only have reunited but have been close friends, proving my Harold thing, meaning that Trent and him had also become friends and that Trent thought, and was actually slightly accurate, that Duncan purposely destroyed their relationship. And Justin probably didn't have the highest opinion of him either after the whole Courtney thing. So basically, all of his friends hated him, Cody himself was probably a little suspicious so the things just one giant clusterfuck justifying his behavior even more. At least he's not as bad as Sierra (she did get better though)-Mogo
* In her bio, Heather says she wants to take over Europe. This may have been added because the producers knew that part of the viewers of the show would be Christians and, in almost every apocalyptic romance, like LeftBehind, the antichrist would always take over Europe, so this was included to boost her villanious status in the first season. Bonus with her brother being named [[TheOmen Damien]] - NotJMKeynes.

* Many people were upset about Trent and Gwen's breakup, but in his bio, it's said that Trent had a lot of girlfriends before, so he may have a problem with unstable relantionships. Their breakup followed this logic.
** Bouncing off this logic here, and remembering things from 'Island', Trent's craziness doesn't seem to come out of nowhere anymore. In the episode where Cody helps Trent and Gwen get together, when Cody tells him that Gwen likes him, Trent's first response is "If you're lying, I could easily rearrange your face. You know that, right?" Hardly what one would expect to hear from [[TheAce someone so cool and collected,]]... unless he has had relationship trouble in the past, [[AllThereInTheManual which one could surmise from his online bio.]] From this, one could imagine that he believes that it was his fault for past breakups, even if it wasn't. Now, for Trent's obsession with the number 9, the only explanation we get in show about it before the Aftermath in Action (where it's revealed that 9 is simply his lucky number,) is Harold saying that he noticed Trent doing it around the time he also noticed that he was crushing on Gwen. Duncan's subsequent theory on the combination of hers and Trent's names leaves Gwen to believe that 9 was formed after he fell for her. However, to me at least, When Trent and Gwen arrived on the Island in the very first episode, he already was giving her nice looks, meaning that he liked her as soon as the show began. Since it could have happened from the very beginning, the Aftermath explanation that he had always considered 9 lucky doesn't seem as much as a Retcon anymore. Couple this with the fact that he and Gwen didn't get to spend more than a couple to three weeks tops together, (Courtesy of Heather causing his elimination,) he probably still doesn't know her inside and out. So, when he is separated from her in Action, and seeing that she is now on the same team as Duncan, who she shares an obvious affinity with (leading to its conclusion in World Tour,) Trent is quite worried that she would [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys fall for him]]. So his craziness is him not obsessing over Gwen so much, but desperation over not wanting to endure breakup again, and doing everything he could to prevent that. Without a successful wingman to let him know what he was doing wrong, all he could do was rely on luck. - Grithalmur
** And if the writers have planned this before TDA, I mean, they created Trent with the sole purpose of being a SatelliteLoveInterest to Gwen and then be dumped by her.
** It is persumed that Trent hates Gwen for dating Duncan behind his back in TDA. The only revenge that Trent got on Gwen was writing a hate song about her, dating Katie and Sadie to spite Gwen, and then letting her be hated among the viewers.

* Why was Alejandro such a VillainSue? It can be interpreted that Chris and the producers were editing the footage to make him appear better than everyone (which incidentally stopped when Duncan returned to the game, since he's an equally GenreSavvy character. ~Tropers/CheapSugar
* Alejandro manipulating Harold into eliminating himself in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan. At first, I couldnt understand why he would care which member of Team Victory got voted off since the team would still be one member short. In fact, it was revealed the member who was to be voted off was DJ whose strength would have been a great asset for future challenges and been a loss similar to how Heather tricked the Killer Bass in TDI into voting off Eva who was one of the most strongest and athletic players. But then I realized something, out of the members of Team Victory, Harold was the highest ranked one in TDA managing to get up to the final five. His whole character is based on being a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass who when times gets rough manages to pull his team up with a hidden skill. Heck, he was responsible for scoring the first two wins for the Killer Bass with skills they hadnt known before and pulling them out of their first losing streak. Despite this no one takes Harold seriously. Of course, Alejandro would have watched Total Drama before participating and been able to analyze the characters beforehand, gauging their strengths and weaknesses and which ones would likely be an obstacle. Alejandro recognized him as a threat and decided to eliminate him early before he could pull off any wins for his team. For this troper, this seemed to establish Alejandro's manipulative nature and ability to read people since he saw a potential threat that no one else did. In addition, Harold's elinimation allowed him an opportunity to work on Leshawna without a suspicious cruch questioning his moves and attempting to drive him away

** Another one: In the last episode of Season 1, Gwen's insult to 3/4 of the cast was a big-time OutOfCharacterMoment that confused many fans. Now I just realized: those comments were set up so we would get angry at her and feel more satisfied when Owen won.
* While Courtney practicably wanted Gwen dead after the DXG kiss, Trent is just lying back like he doesn't care. In TDA, He was near insanity. I don't get it! I was expecting something like Trent cutting a wire of a headlight and make fall on Gwen. Somebody tell me.
** Well, the TDA special showed that Trent had moved on and had started dating other girls, so maybe he's just realized he shouldn't just keep obsessing over Gwen. He did call Duncan an idiot during one of the Aftermaths, though, which means that maybe
* I don't know why it took me this long to realize this (probably because I just forgot about it), but Sierra is the company that created ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry''. So, in a way, Sierra has a meaningful name--she loves Cody (and knows enough about him to have invented him herself), who fits the [[CasanovaWannabe archetype of the protagonist]] perfectly.--[[{{Tropers.PPPSSC}} PPPSSC]]
** Another one from [[@/{{PPPSSC}} me]]: Alejandro kissed Heather and it looked not romantic. This of course, could be showing that even someone as allegedly hot as Alejandro, even someone as charming as Alejandro, could be a terrible kisser. It's a brilliant [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of a trope so omnipresent we forget it's there. Notice that up until that moment, he only kissed through the air, excluding the Bridgette thing but that was a girl-initiated smooch (a.k.a. a press of the lips, not a particularly passionate kiss with tongues and saliva).
** [[@/{{PPPSSC}} Back again.]] What are the two things people complain about the most in season three? The Zombie Zeke subplot and the GDC love triangle. When did these things start happening? In the episode where [[OnlySaneMan Noah]] was eliminated. His departure was [[LampshadeHanging symbolic of the show's descent into madness]], and possibly {{Foreshadowing}} what was to come.
*** I like it. A mixture of Cerebus Syndrome and ShooOutTheClowns... When you think about it, Noah's elimination was when the humor was kicked out to make room for more drama- a very clear example of CerebusSyndrome, at least until Sweden came around, then the series got back to normal.
* At first, This Troper didn't think much of Trent being a SatelliteLoveInterest and bordering on TheGenericGuy in TDI. Then I saw [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwc87FOtbh8 this promo]] made back when TDI was still in development under the title ''Camp TV''. In this promo, Beta!Trent is introduced as being "the normal guy". The writers had planned for Trent to be TheGenericGuy and OnlySaneMan all along! Not a particularly shocking discovery, but I digress. - [[{{Tropers.Qmark}} Qmark]]
** Also, in the original pilot, Geoff was Gwen's SatelliteLoveInterest, so when they made Gwent a couple, they made Bridgette Geoff's SatelliteLoveInterest so they wouldn't feel sorry for Geoff. - [[{{Tropers.truteal}} truteal]]

* Sierra doesn't let on being GenreSavvy in show, only in confessionals...however, this easily makes her more GenreSavvy as she knew Al was concentrating on eliminating actual threats. Had she shown how GenreSavvy she was, he'd have seen her as a threat and eliminated her early, but she always was able to tell what kind of person he was, so she acted like she was a moron. But she still provided enough to her team she never caused their loss in a challenge, meaning they didn't mind keeping her on. This is why she lasted to the final four, no one except Cody wanted to vote her off because she didn't seem to be a threat or a liability.
** Hmmm... maybe. The point of her GenreSavvy behavior was that it revolved around knowing how the ''previous'' contestants played the game - specifically not to trust Heather and that she could easily latch onto an alliance with either Gwen or Courtney. Al was correct in saying that Sierra knew nothing about him, and she could've suspected nothing until the final five or so. After all, she did fall for his scheming in the New York episode, where she already showed that she would've known better if Heather or Courtney tried the same tactic. As for flying under the radar, that's a difficult strategy to pull off (Noah's the only one who did it knowingly, and Beth and Owen are the only ones who've succeeded at it). She probably just isn't much of a MagnificentBastard to actively run the game when her main goal is to have Cody by her side.
*** True, though one could argue that she was doing it to avoid Heather eliminating her, as Al and Heather are both NotSoDifferent in many respects.
* In "One Flu Over the Cuckoo's", a member of the winning team would get a chance to hang out with their friend/family member of their choice. Duncan's "friend" was his parole officer. At first, this seems like a joke in that this was the only person they could trust Duncan to be around. But if you notice, the parole officer has Tyler's old design. In the original Camp TV promo, Duncan and (old) Tyler were shown to be friends. [[DevelopmentGag So it makes sense, Duncan and that guy have been friends ever since the beginning!]] - philipthepatsy

* In 'Action', Heather and Leshawna finally got on friendly terms, but they're back to being enemies in 'World Tour' with Leshawna actually causing lasting physical damage to Heather. Why they got back to being enemies, with Leshawna actually being the main offender? In the 'Celebrity Manhunt' special, we see that, between seasons, Heather and Gwen had been in a blogs' war, insulting and ridiculing each other, and when they got together for an interview, they got into a catfight. Since Leshawna is Gwen's best friend from the series, she had to take a side in this conflict and obviously sided with Gwen, meaning she and Heather are back in bitter terms, with Leshawna being particularly aggressive due to her protectiveness on her friends.

* I know a few people were confused at Ezekiel's first elimination. "There were 6 guys and only 5 girls, how did Courtney not get voted off?" but then you may realize-not every guy voted for Courtney. Tyler, DJ Duncan and Geoff probably did, since DJ and Geoff probably listened to Duncan's advice to vote her off and Tyler got nervous that she randomly suggested he gets the boot, Harold probably voted for Duncan because he was [[GenreSavvy smart enough]] to realize they may have a conflict later on, and Ezekiel? he voted for Eva, because she strangled him and he was terrified of her. If all the girls did vote for Ezekiel, it would be Zeke-5, Cortney-4, Eva-1, Duncan-1, which is why Duncan and Eva were last to recieve a marshmallow before Courtney!

* In "Planes, Trains and Hot Air Mobiles" the contestants have to go from plane to sea.

* When I saw Dakota at first, I thought her to be a shallow character, an AttentionWhore and so, at first. But then I realized something: in her entire life she was treated as a shallow character by everyone surrounding her, so when Sam started to respect her, she felt respected and her character started to gain more depth. It shows that even shallow characters can be good characters and can be considered an anvilicious way to tell GiveGeeksAChance.
* With all the shit that happened in both ''Action'' and ''World Tour'', has there been too much damage done to the 1st Generation cast for them to still be used in ''All-Stars''? - ThomasVeggieDramaFan

* In 'All Stars', Scott is very determined to find the immunity idol, to the point he insists on going to Boney Island two nights in a row. It makes sense since, out of all the villains, he's the one with the most personal enemies still in the competition (Mike, Zoey and Cameron) who are also in good terms with Sierra, so, if making it to the merge episode, Scott is at the most risk of getting voted off.
** Also, it's basically the same thing he did last season.
* In "Suckers Punched", while Mike doesn't have any special connection to his boxing opponent, he still encounters what could very well be his worst fear: [[spoiler: the knowledge that [[TheSociopath Mal]] is wreaking havoc among Mike's friends and girlfriend and has no intention of stopping.]]
* Instead of being voted-off, Duncan is eliminated from the 'All Stars' competition because of him blowing up Chris' mansion, getting arrested and sent not to 'juvie' but to prison. Considering all the first season's contestants were 16 years old, and that the current season is set a bit over 2 years later, Duncan is surely an adult by now.
** Not to mention that it is possible to have a juvenile waived to the adult court system depending on the severity of the crime.

* In 'The Obsta-Kill Kourse', it's revealed that Mal can force Mike's other personalities to give him their abilities whenever he need them. This is why he hadn't noticed Mike releasing Chester yet since, generally speaking, Chester is the less useful of Mike's personalities and therefore Mal hadn't needed to access him; this also explains why Svetlana was the most afraid of Mal's arrival, knowing that, because of her athleticism, Mike would access her abilities regularly, and this seems to be a painful process.
* Why Mal forgot Mike gave Zoey a necklace? Because Manitoba's punishment was to destroy Mike's most prized memories and dreams, and obviously this included destroying some little details that Zoey noticed and tipped her on who was really in control of Mike's body.

* In "Grand Chef Auto", Mike finally overcomes his [[SplitPersonality Multiple Personalities]]. During his triumph, a shadowy silhouette of Mike with a SlasherSmile shows up for a split second. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Maybe]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} it]] [[AxCrazy was another]] [[NothingIsScarier personality]] he has yet to overcome?
** [[WordOfGod An interview with Mike's voice actor, Cory Dorlan]] only reenforces this, with Cory stating that if he could pick a new personality, he'd be a "total crazy guy like SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker or [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Monarch]] . I think someone [[LargeHam over the top]] and [[AxCrazy addicted to mayhem]] would be great. It's [[TokenEvilTeammate such a departure]] from Mike and his other personalities." [[OhCrap Oh]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Boy]].
** And the second episode of All-Stars confirms it. Meaning that there are technically two {{Token Evil Teammate}}s on the Heroic Hamsters.
** Not only are the other personalities [[TheDreaded terrified of him]] but now Mike can't find them in his head. The last thing we heard was them screaming as the evil one emerges...
*** Plus, at this point, Mike had already started to gain a better control of his personalities and actually seemed to be in good terms with 'them'. His reaction to losing them is comparable to a kid that suddenly loses his closest family without any idea of what happened.
** Also consider the fact that it is also heavily implied he had emerged years before and Mike doesn't seem to know he exist.
* Throughout the seasons of Total Drama, the main antagonist has been hit by LaserGuidedKarma which has escalated throughout the series (from Heather's head getting shaved to Scott in the trauma suit). Who's the main antagonist of All Stars, you ask? The SuperpoweredEvilSide of [[NiceGuy sweet, lovable Mike!]] Either The Malevolent One is going to be on the receiving end of a five-to-one mental beatdown, or Mike should seriously consider looking for a decent hospital. Soon.
* [[spoiler: Mike getting trapped inside his own head counts. You can simply imagine that ever since he discovered his alternate personalties, he's been afraid of this, afraid of one of his other personalites taking control and leaving him trapped.]]
** The implication that [[spoiler: Mike may just be a host personality and Mal is the original. The fact that Mal is capable of accessing his other personalities' abilities seems to support this.]]
** Mal is the only one who doesn't need a trigger to take control, he can just take over as he pleases. Even MIKE has a trigger, which makes him feel more like an alter than the original...
* Just what did [[TheSociopath Mal]] do to land him in juvie?

* Had Alejandro-Bot not fallen into the water in the first episode of All-Stars, two nightmarish things would have happened: Alejandro would still be trapped in the robot, [[AndIMustScream unable to speak]], and Scott would have been forced to dive into the water with the mutant shark hell-bent on ''killing'' him.
* The fact that Duncan and Alejandro are the only two who have found out that Mal is loose, and their first reaction to it is to get him eliminated. Duncan specifically theorizing that Mal is the alpha personality and Mike is just a cover up shows that they don't even consider or care about the fact that Mike is still trapped inside. Alejandro, towards the beginning of The Obsta-Kill Course, seems ready to beat Mike/Mal up, and all the abuse Mal has gone through using Mike's body shows how much they're completely unaware that Mike still exists and are only concerned about getting rid of Mal. Not even repressing him again like he was before, but just getting him out of the game. Where he can continue hijacking Mike's body, with nobody being the wiser.

** The implication that [[spoiler: Mike may just be a host personality and Mal is the original.]]

* More like Fridge {{Squick}} than horror, but in Basic Straining, Duncan and Courtney share their first kiss...''after Courtney had just thrown up.''

* In 'Drama', Heather and Leshawna got on friendly terms, but they're back to being enemies in 'World Tour' with Leshawna actually causing lasting physical damage to Heather. Why they got back to being enemies, with Leshawna actually being the main offender? In the 'Celebrity Manhunt' special, we see that, between seasons, Heather and Gwen had been in a blogs' war, insulting and ridiculing each other, and when they got together for an interview, they got into a catfight. Since Leshawna is Gwen's best friend from the series, she had to take a side in this conflict and obviously sided with Gwen, meaning she and Heather are back in bitter terms, with Leshawna being particularly aggressive due to her protectiveness on her friends.

* Instead of being voted-off, Duncan is eliminated from the 'All Stars' competition because of him blowing up Chris' mansion, getting arrested and sent no to 'juvie' but to prison. Considering all the first season's contestants were 16 years old, and that the current season is set a bit over 2 years later, Duncan is surely an adult by now.

* [[TarotMotifs Zoey's tarot cards]] she pull to make sure Mike is okay actually do make sense, despite some of them made up. The Lonely Prisoner represents [[SealedGoodInACan Mike]], The Evil Leprechaun represents [[TheDreaded Mal]], but [[EvilTowerOfOminousness The Tower]] is an actual tarot card that represents KarmicDeath which can mean that she is right and Mike will be fine.

* [[TarotMotifs Zoey's tarot cards]] she pull to make sure Mike is okay actually do make sense, despite some of them made up. The Lonely Prisoner represents [[SealedGoodInACan Mike]], The Evil Leprechaun represents [[TheDreaded Mal]], but [[EvilTowerOfOminousness The Tower]] is an actual tarot card that represents KarmicDeath. The last one can either be this or FridgeHorror.

* Instead of being voted-off, Duncan is eliminated from the 'All Stars' competition because of him blowing up Chris' mansion, getting arrested and sent no to 'juvie' but to prison. Considering all the first season's contestants were 16 years old, and that the current season is set a bit over 2 years later, Duncan is surely an adult by now.