WARNING: Contestants are listed in order of elimination and there are unmarked spoilers on this page, potentially including spoilers for previous seasons.
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Jasmine Masters (10th)
Original Appearance: Season 7 (12th)
"The meme queen is back to snatch the crown."
- Brilliant, but Lazy: As anyone who has seen her videos can attest, Jasmine is absolutely hysterical. However, she doesn't even bother to write down notes or practice for her stand-up routine during the Talent Show, instead deciding to wing it on the spot. Predictably, this fails and she bombs the challenge, leading to her elimination.
- Brutal Honesty: Infamous for her "I am Jasmine Masters, and I have something to say" videos in which she will go off on her drag sisters, non-Drag Race queens, and the show in general. She brings the same sort of no-nonsense to the show with her, although it doesn't help her when she attempts to use it for a stand-up routine in the talent show.
- Fountain of Memes: Invoked that she is referred to as the "Meme Queen", thanks to her hilarious Vines and YouTube videos going viral.
- Graceful Loser: Despite being known as the "villain" of Season 7, she harbours no resentment for Trinity when she sends her packing twice, and she's very happy for the whole experience.
- Never My Fault: In spite of bombing her stand-up routine, Jasmine is convinced the only reason she's in the bottom two was due to a slight stutter during her delivery, instead of the fact general consensus was that her comedy just wasn't funny.
- Squick: The audience reaction to her stand-up routine, in which the majority of her comedy material centered around an ex-boyfriend whose breath smelled like a dirty asshole.
- Who's Laughing Now?: It's discussed how she got the villain edit during one of Drag Race's least popular seasons, but through hard work and perseverance turned herself into one of the most recognized and quoted queens in the industry after the show.
Farrah Moan (9th)
Original Appearance: Season 9 (8th)
"The crybaby's back!"
- The Burlesque of Venus: Literally. Since she's famous for using so much highlighter in her makeup, instead of a clamshell she emerges from a highlighter compact for her variety show strip-tease.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Gia tries to come for her about a drunken incident 6 months prior to the show, Farrah says point blank while Gia is trying to turn it into some big thing, for herself she hasn't even thought about over the past months.
- Ironic Echo: When Valentina eliminates her, she jokingly uses her infamous line from the Season 9 reunion "You don't love me". Then as she is leaving and Gia tries once more to seem like she's consoling Farrah, Farrah replies with a "you actually don't love me".
- The Pratfall: During her burlesque number for the talent show, she slips on her costume and takes a hard fall to the floor. She's the third queen in history to take a fall on the runway, behind Akashia (Season 1) and Naysha Lopez (Season 8).
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: In a Girl Group challenge with the likes of Monique, Monét, and Naomi she stands out for her unfortunate 'white girl dance moves'. One of the judges even say her performance was 'white bread'.
- Prone to Tears: Enters the competition with confidence but the moment she takes a nasty tumble on the main stage in the first episode, she is trembling in tears in humiliation. Her fellow queens pretty much tell her she has to cut the cry-baby shtick fast or they'll eliminate her.
- Rejected Apology: When Gia attempts to apologize for trying to rattle Farrah before the Girl Group performances, Farrah promptly shoots her down and accuses Gia of just trying to get more screentime through a fake apology.
Gia Gunn (8th)
Original Appearances: Season 6 (10th), The Switch Season 2 (runner-up)
"Step aside, boys, 'cause the real queen is here."
- Aesop Amnesia:
- Claims this is in effect when she realizes her constantly harassing and insulting the other girls comes from a place of insecurity from prior to her transition into a transgender woman.
- Comes to All Stars without a Snatch Game backup, this after her elimination in Season 6 came about for the exact same reason (In Season 6 she got spooked out of doing Selena and instead tries Kim Kardashian on the fly, while in All Stars she planned on doing Caitlyn Jenner, but when Trinity snatched that away from her she struggled to pull together a Jenny Bui, in spite of the fact she knew nothing about her).
- Alpha Bitch: Gets called out by Manila for picking on Farrah, when Farrah seems to be the weakest link in the current cast. Manila says it's fierce if you're coming after the strongest competitor in the bunch, but when you're purposely picking on the weakest it just makes you look like a bully who can't stand up to the big dogs. She also gets called out by Trinity for just trying to stir the pot and cause drama, over actually trying to be talented.
- Bad Impressionists: Her Jenny Bui impression in the Snatch Game of Love was criticized heavily, as she not only portrayed her as Japanese instead of Cambodian, but also as a massive Asian Airhead and very unfunny, along with causing Latrice to break character out of frustration. Unsurprisingly, Gia was eliminated that episode. To top it all off, the real Jenny Bui criticized the impression on social media.
- Brutal Honesty: Gia has no qualms about hurting other people's feelings with her opinions, if she feels a certain way she will share it and not give a second thought about who gets upset about it.
- Chekhov's Skill: Finally got to perform a kabuki number, which she first talked about in her first appearance back in Season 6, during the Season's Variety Show.
- Funny Foreigner: Her interpretation of Instagram celebrity Jenny Bui, a fresh off the boat Literal-Minded Asian Airhead. Michelle Visage actually scolds Gia for insulting Jenny with this take on her, pointing out the real Jenny Bui has worked hard for everything she has, and even survived her village in Cambodia being ravaged by war.
- History Repeats: She's the first, and for now only, queen who got sent home twice after a poor Snatch Game performance. Both of her interpretations included using the Gag Penis trope as answers during the challenge.
- It's All About Me: Gets accused of this in regards to her confrontational attitude, in that she's trying to stage drama for screen-time. Really hammered in during deliberations in the second episode, when she insists on interrupting Farrah Moan's time to plead her case to give the latter a "genuine" apology. Trinity says pretty much straight Gia's just trying to make Farrah's time all about her.
- Jerkass: She was well-known for being a catty bitch in her season, but come All-stars, it’s apparent that she’s turned into a full-on hag with seemingly no redeeming features.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After practically harassing Latrice and Manila during Snatch Game of Love, she realizes that she's fallen into old habits and genuinely shows remorse over her actions. When she gets eliminated, she admits it's no one's fault but her own.
- Rejected Apology: Tries to give what she claims is a genuine apology to Farrah for coming for her in the Werk Room, only for Farrah (and pretty much everyone else) to roll their eyes and call it out as a blatant grab for screentime.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While she would read a competitor to filth in Season 6, come All Stars she is almost constantly belittling or berating her fellow queens. After coming for Farrah one time too many come episode 2, she actually gets called out on her overly bitchy attitude.
- Unknown Rival: Comes for Farrah hard out of seemingly no where because of an incident 6 months prior. Farrah even says she didn't even remember the incident in question and accuses Gia of faking drama for more camera time. Later, she seems to start coming for Latrice, but claims she did not mean to do so intentionally.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gets called out during Snatch Game of Love for not only insulting Latrice Royale for being overweight and manish, but also for doing her celebrity, Jenny Bui, a disservice by turning an courageous immigrant who survived a war into a Asian Airhead slut.
Valentina (7th)
Original Appearance: Season 9 (7th + Miss Congeniality)
"Fan favorite is here!"
- Challenge Seeker: When Manila attempts to negotiate an alliance in exchange for sparing Valentina from elimination, Valentina counters this with the fact while eliminating your fiercest competitors might make winning easier, it won't mean as much if you didn't succeed over queens you are threatened by; and challenges Manila to keep her specifically because she is a threat.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The other contestants describe her as delusional and in her own world. It's not clear whether this is a character she's putting on or if she's just a bit odd.
- The Fashionista: Delivers not only on the runway, but also in the Werk Room and confessional booth. While her competitors may dress down during their downtime before challenges, Valentina always makes sure to put on a performance. Sometimes verges on Awesome, but Impractical, considering she makes choices like wearing heels while painting walls for the club challenge.
- My Greatest Failure: The notorious maskgate. Valentina is aware she is best remembered for not knowing the words and bombing her first and only lip sync in her original season. This leads to...
- My Greatest Second Chance: While this trope applies to some extent to every contestant in all stars, Valentina’s deserves special mention. Not only does she lip sync well for her talent show but come the second episode she delivers a stunning lip sync (to an Ariana Grande song no less!) and even defeats one of the lip sync assassins of season ten. In her own words, Valentina has redeemed herself.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Self-invoked when she discussed how half the audience recognizes her as Miss Congeniality, while the other half see her as a snake. Valentina claims she is quite comfortably both and can be either nice or nasty depending on the situation.
- Telenovela: Present during her original season but turned up to eleven in All Stars, she is constantly likened to a Telenovela in the Werk Room, during rehearsals, and during critiques.
Manila Luzon (6th)
Original Appearances: Season 3 (2nd), All Stars 1 (8th=)
"Correction Ru, you are and will always be a double All-Star!"
- A Friend in Need: During the Snatch Game of Love, Manila realizes that Gia has made Latrice lose her patience and fall completely out character, miserably begging Ru to intervene. Manila makes it a point to refer to Latrice as Della in order to save her performance. This is not a coincidence since Manila is aware of Latrice’s previous experience in Season 4 and the All Stars 1 Gaff in, where their joint performance landed their team in the bottom. It could be argued Manila is also trying to help her friend Gia from making a “Big Fool” our of herself.
- The Ace: The queen with the most Drag Race experience. She is the second queen in the franchise to win a cumulative of seven challenges, after BenDeLaCreme (and later followed by Trinity the Tuck). She is the first and only queen to win two challenges in a row in two separate seasons. She is also the first and only queen to have won a very first challenge, a Snatch Game, a makeover, and a ball.
- All the Other Reindeer: Without a hint of pretense. After Latrice’s elimination and the revelation of Monét’s lipstick, the five remaining queens join hands and stare Manila down. It makes sense, since Trinity and Valentina have been in an alliance since day one and Monique, Monét, and Naomi formed another. Manila is alone.
- Aside Glance: Prone to these during confessionals more so than in the Werk room, but not by much.
- The Atoner: Has shades of this, since in season 3 she was a bully and in All Stars 1 her It's All About Me attitude was blamed for the demise of team Latrila.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: When asked in her Meet the Queens interview whether she felt capable in sending Latrice Royale home, Manila answered confidently that she had already done it in All Stars 1. Come the fourth episode of All Stars 4...
- Big Brother Instinct: Toward Gia. Possibly because they are both Asian queens, but explicitly because Manila sees some of herself in Gia, since Manila admits she was a bully in her original season. When Gia is up for elimination, Manila comforts her and pleads that a second chance might be the wakeup call Gia needs for her bad attitude. After Gia’s elimination, Manila plays this role toward Naomi.
- Boring, but Practical: Her use of wedged shoes for the girl group challenge does not fly with Michelle Visage.
- Bound and Gagged: Played for Laughs with her bondage bunny runway.
- Broken Tears: Heartbreakingly so, first when Monique is declared the winner of the lip sync and then fully when she eliminates Latrice.
- The Bully: Manila averts the trope this season but recognizes she played it in season 3 and, in her own words, it did not work out for her.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns along with former teammate Latrice Royale to compete on the show again as individuals.
- Call-Back: Many, both overt and subtle. Her entrance look doubles as her loss both in all stars 1 and season 3. Her bunny runway for episode 3 alludes to her carrot cake runway from season 3.
- Camp: Manila’s drag aesthetic tends to involve fashionable silhouettes but very camp sensibilities.
- Chekhov's Skill: While most queens discuss their talent for the show in the werk room, Manila’s painting comes as a complete surprise. Though her promo look has her wearing a dress of paint and paintbrushes as hair decorations.
- Costume Porn: A dress shaped like a designer purse, a dress shaped like the table from Lady and the Tramp, a dress shaped like a lady’s unmentionable...
- Covert Pervert: Relatively speaking for Drag Queen, but when Rupaul dismisses the queens for deliberation so the judges can watch the Snatchelor guest judges wrestle, Manila asks to skip deliberations.
- The Dandy: Nowhere near as overtly as Valentina. But in the werk room Manila wears various and meticulously styled suits.
- Deadpan Snarker: Effortlessly delivers what Naomi Smalls calls “two for one” reads.
- Eccentric Artist: A recurring motif. Her promo look is a melting palette, her talent for the show is upside-down painting, and she does shout-outs for artists Bob Ross and Tom of Finland. Her runway looks (such as the Rococo and Baroque runways) also invoke some of this.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her curves and swerves look fits the image given the improbable frills, the doll like proportions, and the clashing colors, but follows French court styles rather than Victorian or Gothic (except for the hair).
- The Fashionista: On and off the runway, in and out of drag, Manila’s looks combine both subtle and bold references to artists, historical periods, and fashion movements. All are instantly recognizable as her aesthetic.
- Genre Savvy: In something of a callback to Bianca del Rio calling prison the only thing worse than drag race, Manila realizes that Gia’s picking on Farrah, the weakest of the bunch, makes Gia look like a bully and that if she wanted to appear strong she should take out the strongest of the pack.
- Gone Horribly Right: Monique puts Manila last on the roast lineup explicitly because she has been doing well in the comedy challenges and the pressure to end the show on bang is the highest (with the hope that Manila will bomb and land in the bottom). In the end, Manila wins the challenge and Monique ends up in the bottom.
- Happily Married: Speaks of this during the Snatch Game of Love, and how strange it is to play a single in a dating show.
- Heroic Vow: Upon return to the competition, Team Latrila officially and literally breaks apart, and the two compete as individuals. But once Latrice is up for elimination, Manila admits they are still a team and she vows to save Latrice.
- His Story Repeats Itself: Manila is unable to win a lip sync and save Latrice from elimination. This is not even the second time she sends a close, Big Beautiful Woman home after losing a comedy challenge.
- Informed Attribute: Her singing ability. Despite having released successful music videos, she delivers a mediocre performance during the girl group challenge, to the surprise of her collaborator, Latrice Royale.
- The Lost Lenore: Her late partner, Sahara Davenport. During the roast challenge, Manila admits that she still misses her.
- Meaningful Appearance: For her promo look Manila wears what appears to be chopsticks but are actually paintbrushes. These foreshadow her talent for the variety show.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Her roast of Lady Bunny begins with, "Dearly beloved...and Michelle Visage..."
- My Greatest Failure: Her failure to win the lip sync against Monique gets Latrice sent home.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Third actually, but she invokes this trope with Latrice, since they realize this is probably the last time they will ever compete in Drag Race.
- Nice Guy: Manila is one of the least shady queens this season and instead acts supportive and encouraging to her competitors.
- Odd Friendship: With Gia Gunn and Latrice Royale. Gia could not have a more different attitude and personality but Manila behaves cordially to her and even attempts to become closer. Outside the show, Gia has least amount of negative comments for Manila. With Latrice Royale, Manila bonds as former All Stars competitors, competitors from early seasons, Happily Married queens, and old professionals.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: She doesn’t perform poorly in the girl group challenge, but compared to teammates Trinity, Latrice, and (especially) Valentina, she lands on the bottom.
- The Rival: Slowly building up to this toward Valentina, but hinted from the beginning when Valentina asks her, “Who’s the Booger now, bitch?”
- Sadistic Choice: After winning the Snatch Game of Love, she's tasked with the difficult decision of making the safe choice of eliminating Gia Gunn, who was the weak link of the group and least threatening, or taking a huge risk and eliminating Valentina, who not only is a fan favorite, but would cause a sudden shift in the dynamic of all future eliminations. Averted during the second elimination since Manila does not hesitate to save Latrice and eliminate Monét. Played straight again when she has to choose between ‘four’ queens whom to eliminate.
- Shout-Out: Her look for the talent show and the talent itself is one to artist Bob Ross, complete with an Afro. Her bondage bunny look is one for artist Tom of Finland (and Bugs Bunny!). Her Lalaparuza runway is one to Lady and the Tramp.
- Sophisticated as Hell: For the talent show, not only does she paint a lovely still life, which no contestant has ever done on the main stage, but she does so to the tune of "In the Hall of the Mountain King"! For the roast challenge she does back-to-back looks based on Theatre/Carmen and a Baroque painting.
- Undying Loyalty: To Latrice.
- Whoopee Cushion: Actually a whoopee breastplate. When Manila embraces Monét for deliberations, the latter’s breastplate breaks wind. It makes then both laugh during an incredibly tense and unpleasant situation.
- Wild Card: How the other queens feel about Manila’s elimination choices.
Latrice Royale (5th)*
Original Appearances: Season 4 (4th + Miss Congeniality), All Stars 1 (8th=)
"I'm the large, in charge, chunky and funky, Latrice motherfucking Royale."
- Ascended Meme: "All-Stars Season 1 Doesn't Count"; many fans joked that the first season of All Stars didn't count since the teams gimmick was so disliked, with Latrice seeming to take that as gospel as she argues against the notion she's already had two chances for the crown that she's really only had one.
- Acrofatic: Her glorious frame doesn't impede her in the slightest and she delivers a showstopping color guard performance for her Talent Show performance.
- Big Fun: Is generally cheerful, there's not really a single queen who doesn't have massive respect for Latrice.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns along with former teammate Manila Luzon to compete on the show as individuals.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Her reaction to Gia's "romper room fuckery" in the Snatch Game of Love, in which she outright insulted Latrice's weight, and called her a man in a dress.
- Happily Married: Brought up in the third episode; although recorded prior to her fabulous wedding, Latrice speaks about how wonderful it is having someone always there for her, and how incredible it is that she can actually have a wedding after so much struggle with gays just getting the right to do so.
- History Repeats: Once again, Latrice doesn't get to put on a performance during Snatch Game because she gets fed up with another queen's antics and unprofessional behaviour, in this case Gia's.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Third actually, but she invokes this trope with Manila since they realize this is probably the last time they will ever compete in Drag Race. Though she also doesn't count All Stars 1 as a competition since the show was such a mess.
- Never My Fault: She pins her lukewarm Snatch Game performance on Gia Gunn, once again ranting about "romper room fuckery," but this time it's more clear that improv simply isn't her strong suit.
- Spectacular Spinning: Perform a color guard flag twirling at the Talent Show.
- What the Hell, Hero?: As beloved as she may well be, Latrice exhibits a previously unseen level of entitlement when feeling under threat in this series, often coming across as downright deluded and (somewhat shockingly for her long-term fans) unlikeable in the episodes leading to her elimination.
Monique Heart (3rd=)
Original Appearance: Season 10 (8th)
"Hello, America. Your girl is back: Monique Heart, the heart of Season 10."
- Animal Motifs: Her look in the first challenge pays homage to her mix-up in season 10, mistaking giraffe print for brown cow. Since then the phrase "Brown Cow Stunning" has become part of her brand.
- Catchphrase: In addition to bringing back "Facts are facts" and "Reclaiming my time!", Monique is touting "Brown cow stunning" and the truncated "Stunning!" quite heavily this season (complete with a set of STUN/NING studded rings in the confessionals to punctuate her use of the phrase).
- Fountain of Memes: Self-appointed as the "Meme Queen" of Season 10, and makes good on that claim by running through about every Catchphrase in her repertoire within the first 30 seconds of entering the Werk Room.
- Running Gag: Her wig coming off. Just like the lip-sync for your life which she lost in Season 10, during the first lip-sync for your legacy of this season her wig comes undone and she sends it flying in the studio rafters. It starts to slide off again during the ninth episode challenge.
- Took a Level in Badass: Just like Monét, she had no wins in Season 10, but here she makes up by winning three challenges and reaching the finale.
- Whole Costume Reference: For the Kitty Girl Couture runway, she sports a dragged-up, Rule 63 take on Puss in Boots from the Shrek franchise.
Naomi Smalls (3rd=)
Original Appearance: Season 8 (runner-up)
"You can't spell legendary without leg."
- Always Second Best: Is in the top three during the first three episodes, but just misses being top two each time.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Known for being one of the nicest Rugirls out there. This doesn't stop her from sending home Manila.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Is rather demure but is able to deliver two of the fiercest lip syncs in herstory.
Monét X Change (joint winner)
Original Appearance: Season 10 (6th + Miss Congeniality)
"Guess who's black in the house, bitch!"
- Art Evolution: Gets positively called out in the second episode for not only killing it during the challenge, but elevating her runways into pure glamour. Ross Matthews says outright Monét is finally serving the level of polish that she just didn't have available to her in Season 10.
- Overused Running Gag: Finally gets told by the judges that the "Sponge Queen" running gag has run its course and that she needs to bring something new to the main stage and stop relying on tired memes from the past seasons.
- Took a Level in Badass: Despite reaching sixth place in Season 10 she had no wins under her belt. Here, she brings home three challenges, showcases several bold and elegant looks and makes the top 4. And then she wins the whole season alongside Trinity.
- The Unreveal: In the final lip sync she wears a blonde pussycat wig, but partway through she tears it off to reveal...another identical pussycat wig.
Trinity the Tuck (joint winner)
Original Appearance: Season 9 (3rd=)
"The body is back!"
- The Ace: She has the most wins (four) out of the participants in this season, and with seven wins total between Season 9 and All Stars, she's tied with BenDeLaCreme and Manila for most wins overall. She then moves on to net the crown for AS 4, sharing the title with Monét X Change in a series first.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when both Naomi and Monet choose to send Manila home despite her having the best track record in the competition so far, since she has the second best and fears she could be next.
- Redhead In Green: Her entrance look was a homage to Sarah Paulson's look
◊ for the Ocean's 8 premiere. - Refuge in Audacity: For her talent show performance, she decides to showcase her comedy chops by giving the judges and audience a lip synced tutorial of how she tucks her genitals, complete with a tuck reveal at the end!Manila: I think I've been tucking wrong this whole time!
- For the lip-sync for your legacy against Latrice in episode 7, she puts on a bloated old woman-suit, with pale skin, painted visible ribs and saggy tits. This proves too much
Squick, however, and Latrice wins the lip-sync instead.
- For the lip-sync for your legacy against Latrice in episode 7, she puts on a bloated old woman-suit, with pale skin, painted visible ribs and saggy tits. This proves too much
- Spell My Name with a "The": Since Season 9, she has rebranded herself from "Trinity Taylor" to "Trinity the Tuck", as she felt the former was too boring.
