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Total Drama's cast got so big that the page had to be split into several pages. This page is for the contestants that were on the Frogs of Death in the reboot.

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Bowie

Voiced by: Brandon Michael Arrington

Label: The Loveable Party Boy

Team: Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt

Placements: 2nd (TDI 2023 Part 1), 11th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 13 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 6 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Total Drama's "first openly gay contestant" (his words), Bowie is as fabulous as he is devious. He lives to compete and always brings his A-game to the table. But while he is definitely in it to win it, he is nonetheless an amiable individual and knows when to put aside his ruthless streak.

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• Academic Athlete: He mentions playing basketball, wrestling and track-and-field, is very strategic and smart when it comes to competition and describes himself as "mind and body fierce".
• The Ace: Throughout the first season, Bowie is shown to be an incredibly strong strategist who manages to play the double agent incredibly well, clearly having enough sway and cunning to orchestrate the eliminations of Caleb, Julia, Zee^note Technically since Bowie was the one to request the re-vote that sent him packing and Millie. Not only that, despite never winning a challenge, he often came close to winning them. This also applies at his high school where he won gold for various sports such as track-and-field, basketball and wrestling and was popular enough to be prom king and queen.
• Affably Evil: By far the nicest antagonist and closest to a Punch-Clock Villain the show has had. He lacks many of the Jerkass and Evil Is Petty qualities most of the show's villains have and his bonds with Emma (formerly) and Raj are real.
• Agent Peacock: He's a flamboyant Camp Gay contestant who is also extremely athletic and capable of getting to the finals through skills and wit.
• The Alliance: As part of his strategy, he's willing to form alliances with others, whether friend or foe, to go further in the game:
  • The first thing Bowie did on the island was quickly scout Emma as a potential ally, liking her vibe of being "athletic and a little spicy", and pulled a few strings to get Caleb eliminated over her. The two quickly became good friends and helped one another with challenges and personal problems well after the merge.
  • He and Emma team up with and Zee and Chase in "Paddle Field Earth" despite neither liking Chase at all but had no choice since this a "numbers game" and they needed both to secure the votes. What Bowie didn't expect Zee to pull such a stupid stunt at the elimination ceremony that made the former request a re-vote and boot the latter out instead.
  • In "Caved by the Bell", he temporarily joined Millie and Priya's "Super Alliance" and worked in secret to eliminate Julia by pretending to ally with her and then throw the challenge so she wouldn't receive immunity again. Once that was done, however, Bowie exposes Millie's notebook to Priya which seriously messed up their game and friendship right before the finale.
• Always Second Best: Despite having the skills and strategic know-how to get far in the game, Bowie was the only one of the final five to have not won an immunity challenge with his Arch-Enemy Julia claiming half of them and even Millie winning one (Although that was because Priya did all the work).
• Animals Hate Him: In episodes 11 and 12, he gets constantly attacked by geese and bats.
• Anti-Villain: He's The Strategist who causes several eliminations throughout the season and his strategies sometimes involve morally questionable acts such as breaking the friendship between Millie and Priya. However, he doesn't harbor any hard feelings towards victims of his strategies and is generally easygoing, only acting antagonistic towards the resident Alpha Bitch, even forming a genuine romance with Raj.
• Arch-Enemy: To Julia.
• Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Not only did he successfully vote out Julia with the help of Millie and Priya after pretending he allied with the former against the latter two, he's also been trying to hinder her throughout the whole challenge.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: He is the only boy outside of the spin-offs who wears a midriff-baring shirt, adding to his Camp Gay appearance.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Julia for the reboot's first season.
• Bookends: The first and last episode of the reboot has him expressing his desire to win Total Drama using the analogy of "coming for that crown" (Even pulling out his personal pageant crown to illustrate the point for the latter episode). He also winks at the person he planned on eliminating in both those episodes (Caleb and Millie).
• Brains Versus Brawn: During the latter half of season 1, Bowie (Brains) always butts heads with Julia (Brawn) with the former's strategic wits and plans going up against the latter's challenge might. In the end, Brains wins out when Bowie outplays Julia by pretending to ally with her, make sure she doesn't get immunity again and votes her out with the Super Alliance who he's secretly in cahoots.
• Breaking Old Trends: Due to his debut season doing away with the tradition of having alternate endings with a different winner, he is the first-ever definitive runner-up of a season.
• Bright Is Not Good: Bowie dresses in bright and vibrant colors and is one of the main antagonists of the reboot, even if he is a Punch-Clock Villain.
• Camp Gay: Introduces himself as the show's first openly gay contestant, and his speech patterns, outfit and bleach-blonde hair all make this very clear.
• Chekhov's Gun: Bowie had twice used other contestants' belongings against them and to his advantage:
  • He chucks Julia's phone with the confessions MK downloaded into the lake in "Launch Back of Notre Game" which washed ashore four episodes later, giving Bowie the opportunity to retrieve the phone and briefly adopt MK's strategy.
  • In the same episode where he recovered the phone, Bowie stole Millie's notebook as leverage after discovering her book plans to throw everyone under the bus. This comes into play in the penultimate episode where he drops this "emotional hand-grenade" on Priya, causing the end of the Super Alliance and her friendship with Millie as a whole right before the final challenge and for Bowie to secure his place as a finalist.
• Chick Magnet: He's this and a Dude Magnet at his school at least, where he reveals he was popular enough to be voted Prom King and Prom Queen.
• Closet Key: Raj realizes he's gay due to a mutual attraction between them.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Whenever Wayne and Raj get distracted or carried off with their ditzy antics, Bowie is usually the one to get them to focus on the task at hand.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, Bowie is the Diplomacy, having the best social game, being a good team player and ally and orchestrating several eliminations through convincing, to Julia's Combat and MK's Stealth.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Compared to the previous villains in Total Drama, Bowie is only a manipulative schemer as part of the competition, since he has no real malice towards the cast (Besides Julia) and is, in fact, the series' equivalent to a Punch-Clock Villain. In other words, Bowie is not so much of a bad guy as he is a Competition Freak.
• Cool Crown: Bowie often uses the analogy of "coming for the crown" when expressing his desire to win Total Drama and owns a collection of personal crowns from the times he won prom king and queen and the "Little Miss/Mister Fabulous Ultimate Grand Supreme" pagent which he kept the latter in his pocket (somehow) the entire season just to make a point.
• Cool Shades: In the first episode, he arrives on the island wearing heart-shaped ones. They broke off when he saw Ripper's exposed backside.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not to the extent of MK but he has his moments.
  Julia: [Covered in bee stings] It's time for some payback!
  Bowie: Urgh, you look like you can't afford to pay anyone back...
• Distracted by the Sexy:
  • While determined to win Total Drama, particularly hot and attractive guys do throw Bowie off his game as Caleb had shown using his looks to influence him. He quickly realises the problem and gives Caleb an early elimination to prevent this from happening again.
  • However, Bowie has another moment in the confessional when thinking about his boyfriend Raj after he gave his mouthguard as a farewell gift.
  Bowie: It's sad and adorable I mean he wore this during his games. Out there, skating hard, driving the net, scoring goals— STOP! There'll be plenty of time for hot Raj later, right now you got to focus up and Win! That! Million! LET'S DO THIS! [Impulsively shoves the mouthguard into his mouth before promptly spitting it out] That is super gross.
• Enemy Mine: In "Caved by the Bell" he works together with his Arch-Enemy Julia during the challenge and attempts to hinder her chances at winning.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite his manipulative ways, he truly cares for Raj and gets along well with Wayne as well. Also, while his friendship with Emma originally started as an alliance, he genuinely saw her as a friend and their friendship ends not because of the game, but because of Emma's unhealthy obsession with her awful ex Chase leads to her going back to him, which disappoints Bowie.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He gets mad at Ripper for breaking an egg containing a baby bird.
  • Is genuinely disgusted with how poorly Chase treated Emma, and is very disappointed in Emma when she gets back together with him.
  • Begins to feel guilty about supporting Julia and MK's underhanded tactics of cheating in challenges by having the latter disguise herself as an intern to get details on challenges after seeing how guilty and uneasy Raj and Wayne feel about it, eventually turning against Julia and MK and siding with Wayne and Raj by "Ice To Beat You". He also refuses to force Raj to choose between him and playing the game fairly.
• Eviler than Thou: Despite being portrayed as A Lighter Shade of Black throughout the reboot, Bowie eventually pulls this one over Julia by orchestrating her elimination in "Caved By The Bell".
• Evil vs. Evil: He and Julia, the self-admitted villains of the season, can't stand each other and are constantly in conflict throughout the season, especially after Julia betrays him in Episode 7. Granted, Bowie is much nicer than previous villains whereas Julia is pretty spiteful.
• Ex-Big Bad: Like Heather before him, he has to return for another season only to realize he is NOT Easily Forgiven for his scheming behavior last season and thus can no longer play The Chessmaster anymore, making him an easy pick on the cutting board for elimination. But unlike Julia who is in the same boat, he is much more reluctant to go back to the dark side as shown when he begins feeling guilty and has second thoughts over supporting her and MK cheating the team's way into victory even though it clearly upsets his boyfriend Raj.
• Expy: A possible one of Frankie Grande from Big Brother 16. Both are Camp Gay men who serve as the Closet Key for a very "manly" male contestant and end up hooking up with said male contestant.
• Fat and Skinny: Bowie and Emma's dynamic is this as she is a bit pudgy whereas he is very thin. That is, until their friendship dissolved.
• Flaw Exploitation:
  • Knowing Julia's inability to consistently have reliable allies due to her terrible attitude and almost everyone's unwillingness to trust her, Bowie correctly assumes she would take anyone at this point and easily tricks her into thinking he's teaming up with her to eliminate the Super Alliance when in fact he's secretly in cahoots with them to vote her off.
  • Similarly, Millie's judgemental nature and her dependency on Priya in both challenges and companionship made it easy for Bowie to take her down. By swiping her notebook containing everyone's flaws she initially planned on publishing as a tell-all autobiography, he dropped it on Priya who was enraged at what Millie said about her and her family. As such, Millie becomes a total exhaustive, emotional wreck bawling her eyes out all night from losing her Only Friend which is apparent in her severely underperforming the final challenge and being too preoccupied making it up to Priya for them to gang up on Bowie. Thus, Millie was eliminated and Bowie became a finalist in one fell swoop.
• Flirting Under Fire: Flirts with Raj after knocking him out of the way of a boulder during one challenge.
• Foil: To his friend Emma. Both of them are a Jerkass to One to their Arch-Enemy but are on friendly to neutral terms with the other contestants, and are part of the two romances of Part 1. However, the major difference between them is how they deal with their respective arch-rivals and relationships:
  • The rivalry between Bowie and Julia is very much mutual, consisting of smack talking, strategic planning to vote the other out and the occasional scuffle but sometimes they work together surprisingly well though not without eventual backstabbing. Emma is openly and one-sidedly antagonistic towards Chase, who is completely oblivious to why she hates him, yelling and attacking him every chance she gets (not that he doesn't deserve it) and relishes when he's hurt. If they do team up, Chase is sincere about it in his own misguided way but Emma is having none of it such as relentlessly smacking him over and over with a salmon for a legitimate accident.
  • Relationship-wise, Bowie develops a mutual attraction towards Raj but makes the mature decision to pause their relationship until after the game knowing fully well what most couples go through during the show and also not wanting his competitive nature to get in the way though he is more than happy to date him afterwards. In contrast, Emma was in an unstable, toxic relationship with Chase and let her break-up negatively affect her performance throughout the entire competition, only to go back to him in a heartbeat once he "apologises" like her rightful animosity towards him was nothing.
• Forbidden Love: Downplayed. Bowie isn't looking to date during the show as he concludes he'll eventually have to compete against and potentially vote off Raj though he makes it clear he intends to pick things up again as soon as the season is over.
• Foreshadowing: In the intro, Bowie is seen filing his nails as he smugly watches Julia crash into Millie, both distracted by their selfie and note-taking respectively, without warning either of them. This alludes to him being responsible for the two's downfalls and subsequent eliminations in the penultimate episode, teaming up and betraying Julia then dropping Millie's notebook on Priya to break up their Super Alliance, when they least expect it. He even does the same nail-filing gesture while overhearing the latter getting chewed out by Priya.
• Gay Best Friend: He becomes closest to Emma, encouraging her to spill her boy troubles to him. However, it's implied he's invoking this to gain her trust in the game. Their friendship falls apart, however, after Emma realizes that he voted off Chase.
• Gay Guy Seeks Popular Jock: Downplayed. Raj is a jock but Bowie becomes attracted to him due to his other qualities rather than his athletic ability.
• Genre Savvy:
  • He's aware that in order to make it far on a show like this you need both a good strategy and be athletic, and so he came prepared.
  • He was also smart enough to start dating Raj after the season is over despite their mutual attraction, citing the reason he would have to eventually compete against and potentially vote him off as well as the track record for romance during this show having the tendency to crash-and-burn in worst-case scenarios.
• Graceful Loser:
  • After Priya wins, despite being quite the Competition Freak, Bowie is just a bit bummed out over having lost the million dollars to Priya, and is shown to be happy for her when she claims the money.
  • He also takes his elimination in Island (2023) Part 2 pretty well, not holding a grudge against anyone about it (aside from Julia), and willingly if unamusingly raises his arm for the Drone of Despair to take him away in contrast to the more undignified ways the eliminated contestants had gone out.
• Hammerspace: Played for Laughs in the finale, where he repeats the line from his audition tape about "coming for the crown" while pulling out an actual crown (Presumably his Prom King/Queen crown) and placing it on his head, adding that yes, it was in his pocket the whole time.
• Hated by All: Not originally, but all the other contestants (sans the Hockey Bros) hate him due to his manipulative actions in their debut season and ends up getting him eliminated the following season when Julia convinces Rat Face that cheating in challenges was Bowie's idea.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Not shown onscreen, but he claims to be an "ugly crier" when he asks Julia not to verbally rip into him the way she did to the raptor.
• Ironic Echo: In two successive episodes, Bowie throws back someone's own words at them as they are about to be eliminated:
  Bowie: We're still an alliance, right?
  Emma: I need some space!
  [At the elimination ceremony where Emma is at risk of being voted off]
  Emma:
  Bowie: I think I need some space...

  Julia: We're the villains. We were created by nature for balance.
  [Later when Julia is eliminated because Bowie betrayed her]
  Julia: YOU...!
  Bowie: Like you said, we're the villains.
• Jerkass to One: While he causes some eliminations and had a falling out with Emma, he's only really mean towards his Arch-Enemy, Julia. This is best shown with his elimination in Island (2023) Part 2 where he doesn't bear a grudge against the people who voted him off except for Julia, who had convinced Rat Face that Bowie came up with the idea to cheat in challenges to save MK from elimination.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bowie seems to be the villain whose heart is closest to the gold. While he does make a lot of cunning, manipulative, and clever moves to play the game and win the million, he does so without being overly abrasive towards the other campers and is willing to actually forge friendships and relationships with other people. He only harbors major animosity towards Julia.
• Karma Houdini: Despite all the eliminations he engineers throughout the season, the worst Bowie gets for his actions are a few minor injuries, losing his friendship with Emma, and the million; and even then, he ends up getting a boyfriend in Raj. Subverted in the second season, he's become a widely hated player.
• Kick the Dog: While fracturing Millie and Priya’s friendship was more a strategic move than malicious, he is nonetheless pretty smug when Millie confronts him about removing her apology and is unsympathetic to her emotional distress over the situation, demonstrating how ruthless he can be in seeking victory.
• The Leader: As he was appointed team captain by default on being last season's runner-up, Bowie gets to pick out his own team and mostly calls the shots on the Skunk Butts. However, he has a very tenuous grip on his team due to the antics he pulled last season making him Hated by All (Except for Raj and Wayne), not to mention being at odds with MK and Julia who were planning to cheat through challenges since he feels extremely guilty lying to Raj and has to make the hard decision of allowing them or not.
• Lean and Mean: Bowie is the skinniest and second-tallest on his team and a master manipulator who caused several eliminations although the mean part is downplayed in that while seriously competitive to the point of doing morally questionable things at times to win, he's able to forge some genuine friendships and relationships.
• Leitmotif: Bowie's introduction is accompanied by a groovy bass and tambourine beat highlighting his cool and confident nature. It makes its return at the end of the penultimate episode when Bowie successfully broke up Millie and Priya's super-tight Super Alliance and is one step closer to winning the million.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: He's a manipulative schemer, even being willing to sabotage Priya and Millie's friendship to have an easier time in the finale. But he's not as cruel or two-faced as Julia or any other past antagonists in the series and has far more sympathetic qualities to him. While he insists upfront that he's only making an alliance for strategic reasons, he's a legitimate friend to Emma until he ends the friendship, notably not for any strategic reasons but because he is disappointed in her going back to her obviously terrible ex. Most tellingly he genuinely cares about Raj and asks him to go out on a date after the game is over.
• Love Redeems: A downplayed example since Bowie is mostly just a Punch-Clock Villain. However, while he initially supports Julia and MK's cheating strategy to gain advantages, he starts to feel guilty about it due to how much it upsets his boyfriend Raj. Bowie eventually tries to back out of this cheating due to not wanting to force Raj to pick between their relationship and playing the game fairly, and turns against Julia and MK entirely to support Raj and Wayne.
• Love Revelation Epiphany: While he did flirt with Raj a few times, it wasn't until he kissed him did Bowie reciprocated his feelings and started a relationship after the show. Noticeably, Bowie sometimes becomes starry-eyed and even distracted over Raj before snapping out of it like his initial reaction to Caleb.
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Bowie sported a pair of pink-tinted, heart-shaped shades in his debut until they cracked and fell apart upon seeing Ripper's crack.
• Manipulative Bastard: Although he's more manipulative and less of a bastard than most villains, it's enough for Bowie to become the main antagonist in his debut season and earn the ire of almost everyone in the season after. Notable examples would be tricking Julia into teaming up while sneakily throwing the challenge so he and The Super Alliance can vote her off and upon finding out Millie's initial agenda for coming onto the show, he promptly swiped her incriminating notebook and showed it to Priya who turned against Millie right before the finale.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Bowie, a fashionable Camp Gay and self-proclaimed prom king and queen, becomes the Closet Key for Raj, a boisterous dudebro hockey player, and the two's mutual attraction led them to start a relationship after the show. However, it's also played with given that Bowie is shown to be just as athletic as him and much more competitive while Raj is Endearingly Dorky.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Feminine to MK's Masculine. MK comes off as a sarcastic tomboy, and Bowie's a Camp Gay boy who's not as antagonistic as the other villains.
• Meaningful Name:
  • He is named after David Bowie, a flamboyant singer well-known for his ties to sexual fluidity and the LGBT community.
  • Also Bowie's name means "yellow-haired" or "blonde", guess what his hair colour is.
• Mirror Character:
  • To both Courtney and Sky. All three are highly competitive and determined to win the million with the skills to back it up but how much the competition affected their personal and especially their love life and vice-versa is an entirely different story:
    • Courtney's go-getter determinism at doing whatever it takes to succeed had alienated all her peers with her backstabbing and bossiness both in and out of competition. Bowie, however, sets boundaries between his strategic, often scheming gameplay and his actual feelings towards the contestants so he's generally friendly and easy-going off the clock. Both are regarded as The Ace, excelling in athleticism and smarts, but there's a key difference in their people skills with Courtney's severe lack of which eventually drove all her friendships and relationships into the ground while this is Bowie's forte, effectively manipulating others and orchestrating eliminations but still maintaining genuine bonds. In terms of romance, Courtney and Duncan's love-hate relationship becomes progressively unstable and toxic as they continue competing until it reaches its breaking point with the Gwen Love Triangle situation while Bowie puts his with Raj on hold until after the show and it's a lot happier and healthier as a result. Also in spite of her efforts, Courtney always comes up short in all four seasons she competed in whereas Bowie is a finalist in his debut season.
    • Sky is a fellow athletic finalist in their debut season with the same approach to romance regarding the competition, not wanting it to distract them from winning and putting the competition over their respective love interests but are more than willing to date them afterwards. Alas, Sky never had the chance to voice out these intentions with Dave due to their two-way Poor Communication Kills when the latter comes on too strong and refuses to listen if it regards his slim chances with her which isn't helped by the former pushing him away and being a Master of the Mixed Message instead of telling the truth, resulting in Dave voting himself off after Sky told him she never wants to see him again when the opposite is true. This refusal to properly explain reaches its crescendo when Sky was revealed to already have a boyfriend she didn't have time to break up with yet, causing Dave to resent her and destroy any relationship between them before it even began. This was not the case for Bowie who was immediately straightforward with Raj about pausing their relationship, reasoning that he would have to eventually compete against and potentially vote him off, but reassures he'd love to be in a relationship with him. Competition-wise, Sky dislikes underhanded tactics and especially hates losing while Bowie is willing to get his hands dirty but also throws a few challenges for the long game and was a Graceful Loser to Priya for winning.
  • He is also one to Alejandro, both charismatic and talented individuals that are secretly conniving by orchestrating other's eliminations. However, Bowie has the inverse of his personality, being ruthlessly competitive in challenges yet affable and actually sincere about making friends and relationships outside of the game, and isn't invincible like Alejandro since things don't always go his way. Bowie's Alejandro also compliments Julia's Heather in terms of their Evil Versus Evil dynamic but with the roles of the Big Bad and Lesser of Two Evils swapped. Alejandro and Heather's immense rivalry is intertwined with Belligerent Sexual Tension and the two eventually got together whereas Bowie and Julia genuinely dislike and cannot stand one another, not to mention the obvious fact that the former is gay and has a boyfriend while the latter hates any kind of relationship. This reversal continues into their second seasons where in All-Stars, Alejandro tries to be The Dragon for Heather but she has trouble trusting him which turns out for good reason because Alejandro eventually betrays Heather and gets her eliminated, returning the favor from last season and making the two truly see each other as Worthy Opponents. In Bowie and Julia's second season, she alongside MK becomes Co-Dragons for Bowie in a Lady Macbeth kinda way but Bowie doesn't want to cheat since it upsets Raj though he continually allows them to do it. However, after the merger, Julia (who had gotten way better at manipulating) betrays Bowie and gets him eliminated, returning the favor from last season and the two parted on bitter terms.
  • He's also one to Lightning. Both are very competitive and athletic black men who are part of a Big Bad Ensemble in their debut season while also becoming finalists and coincidentally made a contestant voiced by Barbara Mamabolo finish 3rd in their debut season. However, Lightning is a Dumb Jock who became a Big Bad after Scott's elimination and Took a Level in Jerkass while Bowie is a smart strategist who's an active antagonist long before Julia's elimination, even if he was considered A Lighter Shade of Black.
  • He's also this to Mal, surprisingly. Both are Lean and Mean antagonists who put on polite masks to hide their ruthlessness, are willing to manipulate people and sabotage relationships for their own ends, and are the very few antagonists to reach the finals of their debut season. That said, the two are complete opposites in terms of morality. Mal has a Faux Affably Evil mask hiding the fact that he’s the most evil of the antagonists in the show, who will commit countless evil acts For the Evulz, while Bowie is Affably Evil and will only commit the bare minimum of evil acts for his gameplay and is currently the least evil antagonist. They both also have no interest in women, but Mal is a sociopath who’s incapable of forming long-lasting bonds regardless of gender and cares for no one but himself, while Bowie is a gay man who genuinely cares for his boyfriend Raj and is capable of forming genuine relationships and friendships.
  • To Jacques as both are flamboyant, athletic, effeminately dressed blondes with Bowie being Camp Gay while Jacques' sexuality couldn't be spoken of. They seem friendly but are highly competitive and willing to Scheme, manipulate and sabotage friendships in order to win as well as A Lighter Shade of Black in a Big Bad Ensemble with an Alpha Bitch with berserker strength. However, Jacques had a Villainous Friendship with Josee whereas Bowie and Julia were bitter rivals, and while Bowie had trouble keeping up with Julia when she was enraged, he generally held his own against her unlike Jacques.
  • To Leshawna, both are showy, boisterous and highly athletic, black competitors who formed an instant and very persistent rivalry with the local Alpha Bitch and were the only one's who could really keep them in check during their debut season. However Leshawna was Loved by All and outside her one big rivalry, was kind and protective of her teammates while Bowie was more devious and treacherous, willing to betray and sabotage his teammates in order to win, making a lot of enemies by the end of the season.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Bowie is confirmed to be named after the legendary rock and LGBT icon David Bowie.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Paddle Field Earth", Bowie defeats Julia in their scuffle but before he rings the bell to win the challenge, he stops to taunt her that most of her followers are bots. All that did was press Julia's Berserk Button, causing her to gain her second wind and beat up Bowie to a pulp before chucking him down the honey pit and ringing the bell to receive the immunity herself.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Between the three antagonists of both reboot seasons, he's the Nice to Julia's Mean and MK's In-Between. Despite his schemes, he's a genuinely affable guy who serves as a genuine friend to Emma, and as a caring romantic partner for Raj.
• Not So Above It All: As strategically focused as Bowie is, when Emma asks for details about him kissing Raj, Bowie happily spills the beans, even mentioning in the confessional that half the fun about kissing a cute guy is that you can gush about it to your friends.
• Official Couple: With Raj, although they agree to take things slow and only become a couple after the game is over.
• The One Guy: Once Chase gets eliminated, Bowie becomes the last guy left in the competition and the only one in the final five.
• One Head Taller: Noticeably taller than his boyfriend, Raj.
• Playing Both Sides: Bowie plays the role of a triple agent like a pro in "Caved by the Bell": Allying with Priya and Millie to take down Julia, pretending to team up with Julia during the challenge while secretly trying to sabotage her and to top it all off, planting Millie's notebook to tear her and Priya's alliance apart to keep them too busy dealing with each other to stop him from winning the finale. Although Julia's challenge prowess and Millie's lack thereof cause a hiccup here and there, the plan ultimately goes off without a hitch, Julia is finally sent home and the last shot of the episode has Bowie smugly watching as Priya and Millie's friendship crumbles into the dust.
• Post-Support Regret: Felt this way towards Emma after wasting all that time listening and counseling her over Chase, only for her to come crawling back to him after seemingly "apologising" and accuse Bowie of sabotaging their relationship by agreeing with all the horrible things she herself had said about him.
• Primp of Contempt: In the intro, he nonchalantly files his nails while letting a distracted Julia and Millie collide and fall over one another. He does it again in the penultimate episode while overhearing Priya confronting Millie over her notebook that he planted for the former to find, being very pleased over the outcome.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Compared to previous "Total Drama" villains, Bowie is genuinely friendly to several contestants such as Emma, Raj, and Wayne rather than manipulating them. The following season deconstructs this as everyone (except Wayne and Raj) now dislikes him for his manipulative actions the previous season, despite Bowie himself having no hard feelings toward any of them.
• Purple Is Powerful: He wears a light-purple top and purple vest with matching shoes and is one of the most strategic and skilled contestants of his generation.
• Queer Colors: He predominantly wears purple and green as his signature colours which are commonly associated with homosexuality.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In spite of all the support he gave, Emma disregards all the nasty things Chase did to her and decides to become his girlfriend once more which completely baffles Bowie. Thus when Emma tries confronting him about voting Chase off as if Bowie was the one compromising their friendship, he snaps and delivers a scathing yet deserving one to her:
  Bowie: Fine, I did it! He's a dollar-store peacock! A failed vlog! A bag of rancid hot dog water! The only thing more pathetic than him is you for liking him! When you got back together I lost all respect for you, happy?
• Rescue Romance: Bowie had saved Raj not only once but twice from imminent danger during challenges, the first when performing a Diving Save from a rolling boulder and the second when helping him out of the shark-infested tapioca pudding pit, leading to them eventually starting a relationship once the season is over.
• Running Gag: Almost every time he eats in the mess hall, he gets food flung at him by somebody else accidentally or intentionally. This includes Emma being distracted by Chase while eating, Raj getting gruel on his shirt and futilely trying to wipe it off (Which also led to his growing attraction towards Bowie) and Julia slamming him face-first into a plate of burritos.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Caleb are the Sensitive Guys to Raj and Wayne's Manly Men in season 1.
• Shipper on Deck: He along with Raj and Wayne is very supportive of Ripper's crush on Axel and encourages him to talk to her.
• Sissy Villain: Bowie is very effeminate and flamboyant in his mannerisms and is also a Big Bad. Though it is Downplayed in that Bowie is athletic and willing to get his own hands dirty to get ahead of the competition.
• Spiders Are Scary: Bowie's so afraid of spiders that seeing one small spider kept him out of the basement for four years, despite it being where his bedroom is. Of course, a giant spider shows up in one of the challenges.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The most focused-on male character in the season, being a Big Bad and a finalist.
• The Strategist: While he and Julia classify as the villains, he's more strategic than antagonistic. It's telling when his strategy includes voting out Caleb for being a threat despite harboring some attraction for him or choosing to vote for [[spoiler:Chase rather than his Arch-Enemy, Julia, who can be voted out anytime anyway due to being Hated by All.]]
• Strong and Skilled: As The Strategist and athletic enough to rival Priya's training, Bowie can easily back up his claims of being "both mind and body fierce" though he focuses more on the skill aspect since Julia dominates in the other category.
• Stronger Than They Look: In spite of his physique, Bowie proves to be incredibly athletic given he plays multiple sports and trained hard before coming onto the show. A notable example would be how he can effortlessly lift and run with a giant tree log over his head to the surprise of the peanut gallery, some in wide-eyed disbelief.
• Tempting Fate: At the end of the penultimate episode, Bowie exclaims how he's going to be a millionaire soon after breaking up the Super Alliance. While the act helped him become a finalist, this didn't come to fruition after narrowly losing to Priya at the finishing line by chance.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In Part 2, Bowie is no longer an antagonist, and most of his nasty traits aside from his willingness to cheat, which he eventually rejects are Downplayed.
• Twofer Token Minority: Bowie became the first openly gay contestant in the series and is black. He later starts a relationship with Raj who is the other Twofer Token Minority on his team.
• Viler New Villain: Inverted. Bowie may have been the newest and most competent antagonist when he debuted, but he’s actually the least malicious, being extremely Affably Evil and non-personal, while all other villains prior to Bowie, including those who are Punch Clock Villains like him, showed many Jerkass and petty tendencies and were willing to Kick the Dog more than once.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • He correctly tells Emma that Chase is a lost cause and she shouldn't get back together with him, even when he apologised.
  • Although it was underhanded of him to sabotage Priya and Millie's friendship by exposing the latter's notebook to the former, he makes a good point that Millie brought this upon herself by secretly writing down all the contestants' flaws and negative aspects, including Priya's Abusive Parents she still fiercely cares about, in the first place to then publish as a tell-tale bestseller for fame and fortune. Millie even agrees with this sentiment as there was no way arguing out of that one.
  • He gets Caleb eliminated first due to perceiving Caleb as a threat, and that the first episode was their only chance to vote him off. Caleb eventually makes it to the finale in the second season and wins immunity three times during the merge.
• Weak, but Skilled: Despite his great athletic abilities, Bowie isn't particularly strong when it comes to challenges as seen when he never manages to win any individual immunity during the merge phase. However, his impeccable social game, strategic wits, and ability to fly under the radar (something his Arch-Enemy Julia severely lacks) are enough to get him to stick around all the way to the finale.
• We Used to Be Friends: Bowie quickly became Emma's Gay Best Friend although how much of it was genuine and how much was merely a part of strategy is up for interpretation. However, their friendship ended once Emma realized that Bowie voted for Chase and had never liked him.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Bowie is terrified of spiders and tellingly, one of the challenges features a giant spider.
• Wink "Ding!": He gives a flirtatious wink at Caleb in the first episode, although that didn't stop Bowie from eliminating him, and later a sly one at Millie in the finale to let her know he had ripped out the last page of her notebook containing her apology so Priya wouldn't forgive her just yet.

Caleb

Voiced by: Kwaku Adu-Poku

Label: The Smoking Hot Player

Team: Frogs of Death, Rat Face

Placement: 16th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 2nd/3rd ^*Tied with Julia (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 1 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 13 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Possessing massive muscles and a heart of gold, Caleb is a classic dreamboat. But although his great strength and natural charisma give him the potential to be a formidable player, he is surprisingly quiet and soft-spoken, which makes him quite vulnerable in a game full of trickery, betrayal, and scheming.

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• The Alliance: Throughout the second season he desperately wants to be in one with Priya. But feels the need to constantly play The Charmer and The Tease instead of just outright asking her.
• Ascended Extra: He went from being the first boot in his first season to being a finalist in his second.
• Betty and Veronica: Caleb is the Veronica to Damien's Betty regarding their Ship Tease with Priya throughout both parts. Damien is an ordinary guy who’s Black and Nerdy and gets nervous a lot but befriends Priya first in Part 1, where she develops a crush on him. Caleb is a Hunk who’s very talented and is fawned over by everyone, with Priya also falling for him once he is placed on her team in Part 2. In the end, Priya chooses Caleb to be her boyfriend while Damien becomes a Shipper on Deck for the two.
• Birds of a Feather: He and Priya are both Endearingly Dorky, athletic, had a strict upbringing and are surprisingly intelligent, though this is mostly an Informed Attribute for him while her intelligence is mostly demonstrated through knowledge of the show.
• Blue Boy, Pink Girl: Inverted regarding Caleb and Priya. Priya is the blue girl since she wears a blue ensemble, while Caleb is the pink boy since he wears a pink colored shirt.
• Broken Ace: In Season Two it's mentioned that he had a very strict upbringing where he was never really allowed to have fun. This resulted in his great strength and skills but obviously impeded his social development.
• Commonality Connection: Around the time he started developing feelings for Priya, the two realized they both grew up with pushy and controlling parents. Priya's parents had put her through Training from Hell since birth to win Total Drama, Caleb's parents were more traditional and pushed him heavily as a child to be academically and athletically gifted. Both missing out on childhood experiences because of this and growing up socially challenged.
• Contrasting Replacement Character:
  • To Ezekiel, the only other first episode elimination that got a bigger role in another season. Ezekiel started out as a pretty rounded character but in his second season became a mindless, feral beast. Caleb was originally a Flat Character but was given a more rounded personality in his second season. Women found Ezekiel repulsive but were very drawn to Caleb. Ezekiel was portrayed as very socially awkward in his first season but later seasons made having Super-Strength his main trait, Caleb was originally just The Big Guy but was shown to have trouble expressing himself and reading social cue's in his second season. And Ezekiel was voted off first both seasons he competed in, while Caleb made it to the finale the second time around.
  • Also to Justin. Both of them were early boots who barely talked in their debut season and were primarily characterized by their good looks. However, when Justin returned in his second season, he Took a Level in Jerkass, blackmailing Gwen and convincing his team to vote off Izzy in retaliation for her not appreciating his looks, and manipulates Beth into an alliance with him. Caleb, meanwhile, is extremely nice to the other contestants to his own detriment, as this leads to Priya distrusting him, and his own alliance with Priya starts off the same way Justin saw Beth, but eventually blooms into a mutual romance.
• Distracted by the Sexy: His good looks and hunky physique invoke this onto others, making them susceptible to whatever he suggests. This contributes to the reason why Bowie convinced everyone to eliminate him first. Somewhat downplayed come season 2, where he's just as susceptible to slapstick and getting hurt as anyone else.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Not even just guys. Even sharks want him.
• Fatal Flaw: Caleb's flaw is that he's too damn nice. His inability to be confrontational allows Julia to play him against Priya despite both him and Priya realizing exactly what she's doing. At no point is Caleb able to stand up for himself and tell Julia that their alliance is off and create a united front against her, allowing Julia to take out Damien, Raj, and ultimately Priya while Caleb only frets and watches. The finale drives the point home when Julia repeatedly invokes a Wounded Gazelle Gambit, and Caleb keeps falling for it no matter how many times Julia makes him pay for it. While Caleb does eventually start to fight back, this ultimately results in the two of them losing to Wayne of all people in the finale.
• First Kiss: As indicated by his lack of romantic relationships beforehand, he experienced his first kiss both with Priya and overall in Haulin' n' Ballin'.
• Gentle Giant: He is the tallest and largest of his team but is shown to be friendly and soft-spoken.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Caleb is a Nice Guy who is always trying to do the right thing. This, however, makes him struggle to understand that not everyone will be that way. This leads to him repeatedly trusting Julia, the backstabbing, lying, cheating Big Bad under the belief that she will keep up her end of the bargain if he does what she says, only for Julia to either go back on her word or actively try to sabotage him if it benefits her.
• Good Counterpart: To Alejandro, both were massive Chick Magnets (and then some) and both were described as The Ace, but whereas Alejandro was narcissistic and manipulative. Caleb was portrayed as a Nice Guy and an Only Sane Man. Both engage in the strategy part of the game, but while Alejandro manipulates several contestants with no regard, Caleb’s only intentions are to make it further in season 2, which is reasonable considering he was the first contestant eliminated in the first season.
• Graceful Loser: Compared to Julia, Caleb actually takes losing to Wayne pretty well, only being concerned whether he’s still a good enough boyfriend for Priya before immediately shrugging off the loss when Priya kisses him.
• Honor Before Reason: He believes in upholding his word and honoring agreements. Unfortunately, he adheres to this often beyond his better judgement, which leads to him becoming beholden to Julia, who is clearly untrustworthy, and putting him at odds with his girlfriend Priya.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Caleb is the Huge Guy to Priya's Tiny Girl with the latter being the second shortest female contestant while the former is the tallest of the fourth-generation contestants competing.
• Hunk: He's very buff and handsome with a sweet face so the other contestants see him as hunky.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: As the first eliminated, he didn't have any chance to put his athleticism to good use, which he complains about in the finale.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He wears a pink shirt, speaks in a high-pitched voice, and is quite gentle and soft for his size.
• Leitmotif: Caleb's theme has a smoothness to it that highlights his beautiful looks and irresistible charm as the season's heartthrob. It's brought back when Chase attempts to flirt with Emma, only to be played for laughs as the theme is abruptly cut off.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Downplayed regarding Priya and Caleb. While Caleb is just as athletic as Priya as well as being much stronger and larger than her, he’s also more sensitive and calmer than her, while Priya is much more competitive and aggressive than him.
• Mirror Character: To Eva and B, two previous highly-competent characters who became Sacrificial Lambs to show how ruthless the Big Bad was.
• Mistaken for Romance: The main point of drama between him and Priya in Season 2 comes from him trying to hype himself up as a potential alliance member and secure his place in the competition by showing off his strength and trying to be social with her, only for Priya to misinterpret it as him flirting with her in hopes of forming a romantic relationship. Of course, this does eventually develop into a mutual attraction.
• Mr. Fanservice: Caleb is the eye candy of his generation with plenty of scenes showing off his good looks and muscular physique.
• Nice Guy: Unlike Justin and Alejandro, Caleb is an easygoing and friendly guy. When the intern driving his boat crashes and apologizes, Caleb tells her that it's okay and despite being upset over Bowie getting him eliminated first in the first season, he's able to get over it during the one-year break.
• No Social Skills: As charismatic as he comes off to people he really doesn't know how to express himself around them. He wants an alliance with Priya but can never just come up to her and say that's what he wants so he goes out of his way to flatter her and prove his worth. He doesn't seem to realize this comes off as flirting to her because apparently he's never been in a relationship with anyone since he was a very young child.
• Not So Similar: Unlike past pretty boys like Justin and Alejandro, Caleb is just as nice and friendly as he appears and doesn't really try to use his looks to manipulate anyone, at least not intentionally. Also unlike Justin, who became more proactive to win in his second season, Caleb has become more proactive but is fine with actually exerting effort to win and not just using his looks. Special notes goes to episode 3, where he literally carried most of his team for a long period of time for the challenge, something Justin would refuse to do, and Episode 9, where he breaks a yacht into tiny pieces with his bare hands and wins immunity.
• Oblivious to Love: Despite what his beautiful appearance and physique would imply, Caleb hasn't actually had all that much romantic experience in his life— while he's dated around here and there, the only ever truly serious girlfriend he's ever had was all the way back in kindergarten when he was 5 years old. As a result, he doesn't seem to be able to notice all the signs that someone, like Priya, may have a romantic interest in him, which causes him to misinterpret it as her being interested in forming an alliance with him.
• Official Couple: Caleb becomes this with Priya by the end of Part 2.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: By the time of the finale, Caleb is still salty about being the first one booted off the show because he was "too physically intimidating" and hasn't forgiven Bowie yet for causing his elimination.
• Poor Communication Kills: He becomes Hated by All in "Haulin' n' Ballin' after he fails to explain that he merely just wanted to start an alliance with Priya before developing genuine feelings for her.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Wears a pink shirt.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Inverted regarding Caleb and Priya. Caleb wears a reddish-pinkish shirt and is the stronger of the pair, but he is far more calmer than she is. Meanwhile, Priya wears a fully blue wardrobe, save for the yellow shoes, and is smaller than he is, but is the more hotheaded one within the pair.
• Romantic False Lead: Caleb served as this for Bowie in Part 1. Promotional materials and the first episode show Bowie obviously attracted to Caleb while Caleb himself is the other male who dresses effeminately, implying that the two are going to be the LGBT+ couple. However, it’s revealed that Bowie arranged for Caleb to be the first contestant eliminated and Bowie would end up with Raj, while Caleb becomes Priya’s Love Interest in Part 2.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The first boot of the season, despite not doing anything wrong other than being too charming and athletic. His elimination shows this season will be more strategic than knee-jerk votes regarding who lost a challenge.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Bowie are the Sensitive Guys to Raj and Wayne's Manly Men in season 1.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: From all his teammates and contestants of the season overall, Caleb barely appears in several of the promos and trailers. Justified, given how he ends up being the first boot.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: His attempts to form an alliance with Priya that develops into genuine feelings for her take up a majority of the second season of Total Drama Island 2023.
• Superior Successor: As Priya's alliance partner in Season 2 he's better than Millie hands down, no competition. Though in both cases they end up having a falling out due to both parties' original intentions coming to light.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Of Justin in Island. They're both male contestants who hypnotize everyone with their looks and don't get to do much before being early boots through no fault of their own.
  • Appearance-wise, he's one to Ryan from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race. Both are muscular black guys who wear pink.
  • Of DJ in Season Two, both are huge, muscular black men who are friendly, soft-spoken and surprisingly insecure but Caleb is a lot braver than DJ and less naïve, capable of playing strategically if need be.
• Token Good Teammate: He's this for all of the hunky male contestants on Total Drama. Unlike Justin and Alejandro who use their good looks and charm to manipulate the other players to get them out of the game, Caleb has a pure heart and sense of moral code and is willing to help the other contestants whenever he can, even saying if he wins, he's donating the money to charities.
• Too Powerful to Live: His strength and athleticism lead Bowie to convince everyone to vote him off while they still can, as Caleb could become a threat once the teams get merged. The second season of the reboot proves Bowie was right, as Caleb is shown to be one of the most competent players, winning immunity three times and making it to the finale.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Due to being his season's first boot, Caleb is barely able to shine during his stay in the competition.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is terrified of both snakes and clowns and since Chris considers these fears to be too "basic", he has Caleb face a snake dressed as a clown in one challenge.

Emma

Voiced by: Melanie Leishman

Label: The Breakout YouTube Star

Team: Frogs of Death, Rat Face

Placement: 5th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 13th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 11 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 4 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

A feisty and fun-loving girl who used to star in a popular livestreaming series all about pranks, stunts, and dares. Emma is generally the perky type, if a bit of an emotional mess in some ways, but woe betide anyone who incurs her wrath for she'll go to the ends of the earth to satisfy her obsession with getting even.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Downplayed. While yes, she does get back together with Chase, it's only because she believed that Chase apologized for his behavior (when really, it's the other way around) and when she believes that he gave up the challenge for her, she gets back together with him.
• The Alliance: Has one with Bowie which doubles as their friendship although that ended in "Tortoise Rigamortis" once she learns he had voted off Chase she had recently got back together in spite of better judgement.
• Animal Lover: Subverted. Emma claims to love animals and initially promised to donate half the winnings to an animal hospital in episode one, making it sound like this trope is played straight. However, she later admits to doing so because she actually crashed into a pet store and she's doing it out of guilt rather than selflessness. Additionally, the amount she says she'll give to them later decreases to 25% which MK calls her out on it. This becomes more obvious at her elimination after she barely shows any remorse for accidentally killing a turtle and puts all the blame on the animal. To her credit, though, it was an accident, the turtle had attacked her, and she seemed upset that people thought it was on purpose, not helped by Julia’s inaccurate description of the event.
• Badass Armfold: She sports the pose with a smirk when the drone is hauling her off the island after she's eliminated.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Like Leshawna (though not to the same extent as her), Emma's on the pudgy side, but she is still portrayed as being attractive and even got into a relationship with Chase who is stated to still be attracted to her. Wayne makes a statement that all the women on the team are hotties, and Ripper has expressed attraction. Ripper did mention it after she farted, but he stated it showed Hidden Depths beyond her just being attractive physically.
• Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Emma breaks up with Chase prior to joining the show. She briefly takes him back due to a misunderstanding midway through the season before promptly dumping him again after finding out the truth. She takes him back one last time after he's voted off due to yet another misunderstanding, only to dump him yet again in Season 2 after the truth comes out.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: While sailing through the air after being flung from her team's catapult in "Launch Back of Notre Game", she lets out an overly long high-pitched shrill that made everyone cover their ears and for Chris to lampshade "she has got some pipes".
• Dartboard of Hate: During her audition tape, she was seen firing a bow and arrow at a target with a picture of Chase, nailing him on the head on the third try.
• Demoted to Extra: After getting a lot of focus in Island (2023) Part 1, Emma is voted off early in the following season.
• Destructive Romance: Even compared to Duncan and Courtney from Action onwards, Emma's relationship with Chase is clearly unhealthy and has previously caused her and her family a lot of harm, but no matter how much she complains about him and calls out his flaws, all it takes is the slightest hint of decency for her to come crawling back to him.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. While Emma has blonde hair and does display intelligence, she also displays ignorance and a bad sense of judgement in regards to her relationship with Chase. She is willing to take Chase back over the slightest of misunderstanding as she did this twice.
• Evil Is Petty: While calling her evil is a bit of a stretch, Emma actively sabotages Bowie in "Tortoise Rigamortis" simply because Bowie chose to vote out Chase.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Even though Bowie was the Schemer of the two, he genuinely sees her as a good friend, listens to all her complaints about Chase and was very supportive of her throughout the entire season. And what does she do in return? Ignore all of his advice, return back to her obviously toxic ex in spite of better judgment and sabotage Bowie's challenge efforts upon learning he voted for Chase as if he was in the wrong. In the second season of the reboot even after she dumps Chase once again after realizing he didn't throw the challenge for her, but for pizza, she still refuses to make amends with Bowie.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Emma has a bad habit of letting her emotions get the better of her and dictate her actions, especially if it regards Chase, which almost got her first eliminated when she lost the challenge for her team from being too distracted by her ex drama. This also eventually led to her unhealthy obsession of hurting and making up with Chase alienating herself from the rest of the contestants including her longstanding alliance and friendship with Bowie who refused to entertain her anymore and didn't protect her from elimination this time.
  • Also involving Chase is her single-target hatred towards him. Much of the time when she's interacting with other competitors, it's mostly her complaining about Chase and never taking the time to get to know her fellow campers, which led to her not really having any sort of real connections in the game. This was especially prevalent in the second season, where she claimed that she was great with people during the would you rather challenge, only for her to continuously mess up and get their camper's answers wrong. This ultimately resulted in her elimination.
• Fat and Skinny: Emma's friendship with Bowie has this dynamic, as Emma is noticeably pudgy whereas Bowie is very thin. At least until their friendship dissolved.
• Fat Best Friend: To Bowie who in turn is her Gay Best Friend at least until their friendship dissolved.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Emma dresses quite preppy and is In Love with Love (Being a Shipper on Deck for Bowie and Raj as well as wanting to find romance herself). However, she's also a big fan of Nichelle and her action movies and was part of Chase's livestream where she does the same dangerous stunts and pranks as him.
• Graceful Loser: Despite appearing at first to be about to unleash her wrath over being voted off in the final five, Emma accepts her defeat with her head held high, proud of her high placement in the competition. When she's eliminated in the second season, she is pretty distraught but shrugs it off and mentions she can go back to making millions making viral videos of her dancing.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Zigzagged. Emma has blonde hair and is affable most of the time but she becomes spiteful and downright petty if it regards Chase.
• Happy Dance: Spots one whenever she's happy...so usually when Chase gets hurt.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Angry that her former friend voted for Chase and rightfully told her off after stupidly getting back together with her awful ex, Emma sabotages Bowie during the selfie challenge which leaves him with zero points and at the mercy of a Canadian goose. However, it turns out she did Bowie a favor since his bad performance combined with her near-victory made Emma the bigger threat at elimination and gets voted off over him.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Axel lampshades that she can't stop making out with her ex-boyfriend, who cut her breaks, and she doesn't know people as well as she says she does. This ultimately leads to Emma's second elimination as the fourth voted off when she performs poorly in the challenge by convincing several teammates to trust her poor instincts.
• Hypocrite:
  • In "Meet the Victims", Emma promised that if she won, she would donate half the money to an animal hospital. Later in that same episode, she claimed she would donate 25% of the money, which MK called her out about.
  • While she is right in that Chase is not letting go and moving on from her, she isn't doing any favour by doing the same but hating and holding a tight grudge against him to the point of obsession. Not help that she goes out of her way to hurt Chase instead of simply ignoring him.
  • Also in regards to Chase, Emma hates it when Chase acts selfishly towards her and often gets her in life-threatening situations but she has no qualms about physically abusing Chase with a fish and refusing to rescue Chase when he gets trapped in honey.
  • She tells off Bowie for disliking Chase yet the main reason Bowie hates Chase is because of all the bad stuff Emma herself told him.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: During her audition tape, Emma proclaims she will never ever see her ex-boyfriend Chase again and joining Total Drama would mean she can stay far away from him. It then cuts right back to the dock where a beyond furious Emma comes face-to-face with Chase since the producers had purposedly accepted them both for that spicy ex-drama.
• Irony:
  • Emma wished Chase would stop bugging her with his unwanted advances and get it through his thick skull that they are through being a couple. Chase finally does once he gets eliminated and bids her farewell, except now she wants to be his girlfriend again after he presumably gave her immunity as "an act of selflessness" and immediately takes him back.
  • Her and Chase's performance is quite similar in both seasons:
    • They're eliminated back-to-back in the first season, with both as the third-highest-ranking member of their respective teams.
    • They're both the second member eliminated from their respective teams in their second season.
  • In season 2 she mentions that she sees no point in trying to befriend Nichelle, being confident that she will be one of the first people to be voted off. Not only does Nichelle win the first challenge for her team (which causes Emma to nervously celebrate Nichelle's victory), but Emma is also the fourth person voted off the island, being the second person eliminated from her team to boot. To add insult to injury, she is eliminated from the game right before Nichelle, and that's only because Nichelle quits.
• Jerkass to One: She's normally pretty friendly when interacting with most people. But when it comes to Chase, her obsessive hatred towards him causes her to act much more malicious to the point where she takes joy in seeing and putting Chase in pain. In season 2 when Nichelle tries to say hi to her when they're going to camp before the competition begins, Emma outright refuses to say hi to her but it's more of an "eh" and she continued to antagonize Chase in Season 2, technically causing his elimination by taking advantage of his ego.
  • Upon getting back together with Chase after his elimination, she's an all-out jerkass towards her now former friend Bowie upon realizing he's responsible for his elimination and spends the next episode sabotaging his chances of winning which ironically becomes her downfall.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A slightly downplayed example. While she is shown to be a Jerkass to One towards Chase, she has moments she's a jerk to MK for her attitude (though in all fairness, it's not like MK helps the team with her pessimism). She is still able to be a good team player when the time comes, being the one to rush over and free Julia after Nichelle's breakdown and then the only one to support MK in episode 4.
• Last-Minute Hookup: For the second time in the season and again in a horrible life decision, Emma takes back Chase as her boyfriend once he's eliminated and right after he decides to finally leave her alone for good. This was because she was under the assumption Chase had changed and sacrificed himself in the pole-balancing challenge for her (He obviously didn't and was gunning for the pizza offered up). By the time season 2 of the reboot arrives, Emma has learned the truth and has dumped Chase once again.
• Let Me at Him!: Upon seeing Chase for the first time after their breakup and in the same competition she signed up for, she immediately leaped towards him ready to attack if Chris had not held her back.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: At least Chase's screams; she's clearly happy in "The Launchback of Notre Game" when she hears Chase repeatedly scream and Faint in Shock.
• Make-Out Kids: Once she went back to dating Chase, Emma spend more time in the finale sucking face with him than watching the exciting final challenge.
• Manipulative Bitch: Emma briefly becomes one during the water slide challenge, where she manipulates Chase into being too obsessed with getting the perfect shot for his stunt. It works in her favor when her team wins, while Chase is voted off.
• Messy Hair: Emma gets tangled and frizzy hair, which is described by Julia as a "rat's nest", for the entirety of "Launch Back of Notre Game" due to MK swiping her hairbrush to auction off.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Leshawna as both are spunky Big Beautiful Women who placed 5th in their debut season and are terrible dancers whose relationships are in an in-between space. While Leshawna amicably broke up with Harold, the two still remain extremely close and it's implied that they would get back together in the future. In stark contrast, Emma is in an on-again, off-again toxic love-hate relationship with Chase that will never work out no matter what she tries. On a side note, Leshawna's dancing is so notorious that people paid her to stop during the Aftermath Telethon while Emma found an audience to profit off from hers, earning millions from recording ten-second dance routines on her phone.
  • To Samey: both are blond girls with bubbly and friendly personalities who audition for Total Drama for the sole purpose of get away from someone who’s toxic and horrible to them (Amy for Samey; Chase for Emma), only to learn that they’ll be competing with them in the same season, while also befriending someone who’s black (Jasmine for Samey; Bowie for Emma). However, Samey had extremely low self-esteem as a result of Amy’s abuse until Samey takes Jasmine’s advice to finally stand up to Amy and escape her shadow, while Emma developed a volatile temper towards Chase after having put up with his antics for so long, yet chose to ignore Bowie’s advice and get back together with Chase, resulting in Emma’s friendship with Bowie to deteriorate, even after Emma broke up with Chase in Part 2. Also Samey was the 5th person to be eliminated in her debut season, while Emma placed 5th in her debut season.
  • To Carrie. Both are blond girls and have known their Love Interests long before competing in reality shows. However, Carrie is an All-Loving Hero who hardly ever gets angry with anyone and is completely infatuated with Devin, while Emma, while capable of being a Nice Girl, has a volatile temper and vindictive streak towards those she believes have wronged her and has an extremely negative view on Chase.
• Mistaken for Profound: Downplayed, since the main one who thought it was Wayne, but during episode 2, her trying to hit Chase with the cabbages is mistaken as a brilliant plan to get rid of the other players to make it easier to sink their ship when she just wanted to hurt Chase.
• Never My Fault: Emma gets mad at Bowie for voting Chase off, accusing him of going out of his way to keep them apart for a while.
• Nice Girl: Emma is shown to be a friendly and polite girl whenever she’s interacting with anyone whose not named Chase or eventually Bowie.
• Official Couple: Was this with Chase before the show. She ends up taking him back again by the end of the season much to everyone's disappointment but then breaks up with him once again after learning that he didn't give up immunity for her, but for pizza.
• Offscreen Breakup: Emma broke up with Chase long before they both ended up on the show. She breaks up with him again after season 1 aired and she realized he didn't give up immunity for her, but for pizza.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: She gets eliminated for accidentally killing a turtle and becomes upset in the finale that people apparently still haven't forgotten about it.
• One-Steve Limit: Shares her name with Emma from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Emma and Chase have this. Before they arrive on the island Emma breaks up with Chase due to a dangerous stunt he pulled that he refuses to take responsibility for. She briefly gets back together with him mid-season after believing he's finally apologized however once she learns this was a misunderstanding she breaks up with him again. By the end of the season, she's taken him back one final time due to yet another misunderstanding and they remain together, but she breaks up with him yet again offscreen before the beginning of the next season when she rewatched the pole challenge on TV.
  • Upon returning the next season, they've broken up yet again after Emma discovers the sacrifice he made was actually for the pizza and not for her. This time she's straight up refusing to talk to him.
• Satellite Character: Her character mostly revolves around Chase and brings him up constantly in her confessionals and interactions even when he's not around. However, this is also deconstructed since hyper-focusing on Chase throughout the entire first season, rotating between loving and hating him, means Emma never really took the time to know any of the other contestants personally— not even her closest friend Bowie as their friendship was centered around their mutual hatred for Chase before she ended it because of said ex — which royally screwed her over for the "Know Your Enemies" challenge where she couldn't get a single question right and was sent home packing.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: A Rare Female Example. At least in "The Launchback of Notre Game", she has a very high-pitched scream which is squeakier than her usual voice. Chris even states she's "got some pipes".
• Shamu Fu: After Chase accidentally sinks her canoe in the nature trail challenge, Emma proceeds to grab the nearest spawning salmon and beat him senselessly and repeatedly over the head.
• Shipper on Deck: Much like Wayne, she's very supportive of Raj and Bowie's relationship, cheerfully asking the latter for the details.
• Shipping Torpedo: Pretty much everyone can see that between Chase's self-centeredness and Emma's emotional issues and obsession with him, the two's romance is completely unhealthy and toxic and likewise only earns disgust and bafflement from everyone who sees it.
• Skewed Priorities: Emma broke up with Chase when he cut the brakes to her car and made her crash into a pet store became the last straw. Not because the prank could have killed her but because he never apologise or gave her a heads-up to which Bowie lampshades are less important than her well-being. This foreshadows how she's so used to Chase's antics that a simple apology from him is enough to take him back.
• The Smurfette Principle: Prior to dumping Chase, Emma was part of a livestream of pranks and stunts with him and his friends appropriately titled "Three Guys and a Girl and a Beach House".
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Her friendship with Bowie and relationship troubles with Chase get heavily focused on in the first season.
• Sucks at Dancing: Her dance moves closely resemble those of Elaine Benes in "The Little Kicks", in other words, painfully awkward, which Bowie likened her dancing to "a car crash but with less rhythm". However, Emma mentions she still earns "millions of dollars recording ten-second dance routines on [her] phone" in spite of it.
• Suddenly Shouting: An easy way to provoke her into a shoutfest was if Chase was in her vicinity.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Her dynamic with Chase continues in the tradition of Duncan and Courtney and Ryan and Stephanie. Like Courtney and Stephanie, she's the more aggressive of the two but slightly more sympathetic given Chase is the worst.
• Take That!: She and Chase's relationship is portrayed as a satire of toxic e-celebrity couples and all the drama that comes with it. On Emma's side, she's the type who would be petty and vindicative over her ex yet still thinks he could change when it's apparent that will never happen and keep giving him chances he doesn't deserve in the first place. No one approves of her decision when she gets back together with him, not even Chris who thought Emma was worse off than she started, which also destroyed her friendship with Bowie.
• Token White: She is the only caucasian member of team Rat Face, as well as the only caucasian member of Caleb's team in the finale.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After getting back together with Chase, she acts rude towards Bowie and cuts ties with him. She seems to have gotten worse in the next season after breaking up with Chase again, this time for learning he sacrificed himself for the pizza and not for her. Not only does she refuse to talk to Bowie and make amends with him even though he turned out to be right about Chase, but she also acts like a jerk towards Nichelle, thinking she's going to be the first person to be kicked out of the island.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Is this to Bowie when she gets back together with Chase. Throwing all the support he's given to her thus far back in his face. She even goes so far as to say that he was wrong for 'believing her' when she used to complain about Chase and refusing to acknowledge Bowie's genuine regard for her wellbeing. If that wasn't enough, she intentionally screws Bowie over during the challenge in "Tortoise Rigamortis", preventing him from getting any points, with the only reason as to why Bowie wasn't eliminated being that Emma was deemed a threat. Even in the next season after dumping Chase again once she learned that he threw the the challenge for pizza and not for her, Emma still doesn't want to reconcile with Bowie and is among the people giving him a Death Glare.
• We Used to Be Friends: Bowie quickly became Emma's Gay Best Friend although how much of it was genuine and how much was merely a part of strategy is up for interpretation. However, their friendship ended once Emma realized that Bowie voted for Chase and had never liked him. Even after realizing Bowie was right about what a jerk Chase was in between seasons, the two never bother to rekindle their friendship.
• What Does She See in Him?: Everyone has this reaction when she gets back together with Chase. This also ended up destroying her friendship with Bowie and making him lose all respect for her after she learned he had voted Chase off and sabotaged his effort for the selfie challenge.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She has this attitude towards MK (despite her not being a hero exactly) for her rudeness towards Nichelle that only broke her confidence more. It's heavily implied during the elimination that she voted for her because of this.
• Woman Scorned: Emma takes every chance she gets to hurt Chase, rightfully so given all the times he had unintentionally hurt her and her family, though this didn't stop her from getting back together with him. She later sabotages Bowie once she finds out he voted off Chase even though it was Emma venting all her boy troubles that made him hate Chase in the first place.
• Working with the Ex: Despite joining the show in the first place to get far away from Chase, Chris had purposely accepted them both into the season to specifically invoke the trope.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: She has this reaction as soon as she arrives on the island and the first thing she notices is that Chase is there too.

Julia

"Don’t hate the player, hate the game! And the player. I really don’t care."

Voiced by: Julie Sype

Label: The Influencer and Evil in Human Form

Team: Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt

Placement: 4th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 2nd/3rd ^*Tied with Caleb (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 12 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 13 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

An online influencer with thousands of followers, Julia presents herself as a calm and soulful ambassador for peace, love, positivity, and environmentalism. But underneath all her selfies and messages of new-age hippie wisdom is a vastly different character with none of the values she seeks to spread through the Internet.

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• Abusive Parents / Abusive Offspring: Implied. Julia's parents made her work at their bakery every summer when she was a child, and Julia referring to them by their names instead of "mom" and "dad", as well as the statement about only talking to them to them through her lawyers, seems to indicate that they didn't exactly treat Julia in the best of ways or she didn't treat them very nicely.
• Action Girl: When she knows she's being targeted for elimination, she's shown to be quite capable of winning immunity no matter how hard the challenge.
• Abandoned Catchphrase: Julia stops calling other people "butt knuckle" in season 2.
• All for Nothing: Julia lament that all of her lies, cheating, and manipulations in the game amounted to nothing since she was unable to win the million dollars the two times that she competed.
• The Alliance: She attempts to be in one but due to being a backstabbing Friendship-Hating Antagonist, Julia could not get them to work for more than an episode:
  • Julia pretends to ally with Ripper and Chase in "Severe Eggs and Pain" to vote the latter out but the former sees through her plan from the start and tries winning immunity to eliminate her instead while said plan backfires horribly when she inadvertently gets the latter back together with Emma.
  • She, Priya, Millie and Zee formed one to secure the votes in "Paddle Field Earth" which promptly broke up once Zee revealed his haired-brained plans of eliminating Chris that got him eliminated instead. When she tried again in the following episodes, Priya and Millie scoffed at the idea since they didn't trust in her in the slightest.
  • Having no other option available, she forms a partnership with her arch-rival Bowie in "Caved by the Bell" to reach the finale, only to forget that Bowie is the better social manipulator of the two and has secretly orchestrated her elimination with Priya and Millie from the very start.
  • Julia finally forms a more long term one in the second season with MK, proving to be good duo and developing a Villainous Friendship in the process, though this doesn't stop Julia from getting her eliminated in the final 7 when both are up for elimination.
  • Julia forms one with Caleb in "Circling the Drain" by sharing immunity with him on the condition that he votes with her for the rest of the season (though this is also partially to further strain Caleb and Priya's relationship). This lasts only for two episodes before it finally ends in "Off the Hook" after Julia gets his girlfriend Priya eliminated.
  • Julia attempts to ally with Wayne in "Off the Hook" when getting suspicious at the possibility of Caleb betraying her alliance to side with Priya and needing a backup plan. However, she constantly backstabs him throughout the challenge by hooking him several times. This causes Wayne to realize Julia doesn't want to befriend him and tries to vote her off (only failing due to Julia having the immunity idol).
• Alpha Bitch: Her true nature is a catty, fierce girl who easily judges other people's appearances.
• Always Second Best: While Julia has him beat in terms of actual challenge performance, it's clear to everybody that at the end of the day, Bowie is the superior social manipulator between the two. Which gets proven when Bowie not only plays Julia, Millie, and Priya like fiddles in his attempts to get complete control of the finale, but betrays Julia by getting her voted out, something that Julia doesn't catch on to until it's far too late for her to do anything about it.
• Animal Nemesis: Downplayed. The raptor that she fiercely chewed out in "Jurassic Fart" is shown to hold a grudge against her, but unlike Fang with Scott, the raptor doesn't go out of its way to persistently stalk and hunt down Julia.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Midway during her debut season, she develops a strong rivalry with the other antagonist Bowie, as they plan to eliminate each other. This continues in the following season until she eliminates Bowie once the teams merge.
  • Once Bowie is eliminated at the start of the merge in season 2 of the reboot, Priya takes the role as this for Julia, being the one who is most affected by her villainous schemes later on.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Before her true nature was revealed, Julia wasn't the most helpful of the Frogs of Death, but she managed to float along because everyone liked her. Once MK reveals her true rotten nature and she becomes Hated by All as a result, Julia realizes she needs to put her A-Game into the challenges pronto or she's going home, eventually proving to be so competent at the challenges she becomes one of the most dangerous contestants in the game, reaching all the way to 4th place before Bowie votes her out.
• Bad Influencer: She's initially well-renowned on social media for her chill attitude. After MK hacks into her socials and posts a video of her with the velociraptor online, Julia reveals she's not actually nice and enjoys not having to pretend. After this, she starts behaving more like an Alpha Bitch, especially when this earns her more followers.
• Batman Gambit: Pulls one on MK in the second reboot season. Despite their agreement to not vote each other out, when faced with a tough vote, MK chose to backstab Julia by telling terrible lies about her to all the other campers. When MK ended up voted out instead, she assumed Julia made up even worse lies, only for Julia to tell her she just told everyone about their agreement and made MK look like the worse person.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in that she's a Karmic Butt-Monkey with one particular episode being covered in bee stings and bandages (including her right eye).
• Berserk Button: Implying that her followers are bots is shown to make her really, really angry.
• Be Yourself: Although initially upset at first from her true colours getting exposed online, she came to the conclusion to stop being her ingenious Granola Girl persona and start being the Alpha Bitch she always was once she realizes she enjoys not having to pretend to be nice. It also helps that after losing all three hundred thousand of her followers, she eventually gained over three million overnight who absolutely adore this new side of Julia and her villain arc.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: She and MK serve as this in season 2 of the reboot, the two cheating and sabotaging their way through the competition together.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Bowie for the reboot's first season.
• Big Sister Bully: Julia reveals in season 2 of the reboot that she has a sister named Megan, telling MK that she once tricked Megan into thinking her pet bunny was haunted.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: After MK exposes her lashing out at a raptor, Julia reveals herself as an Alpha Bitch.
• Boring, but Practical: Rather than any fancy strategy of manipulating others or going under the radar (Because she's completely incapable of doing either effectively), Julia does the competition the old-fashioned way of giving it her all during challenges. While punishingly brutal given the show, it works like a charm since Julia often wins immunity this way and made it to the final four as a result.
• Brains and Brawn: The brawn to MK's brains during the second season.
• Brains Versus Brawn: During the latter half of season 1, Julia (Brawn) always butts heads with Bowie (Brains) with the latter's strategic wits and plans going up against the former's might and impressive challenge performance. In the end, Brains wins out when Bowie outplays Julia by pretending to ally with her, make sure she doesn't get immunity again and votes her out with the Super Alliance who he's secretly in cahoots.
• Breaking Old Trends:
  • She's the first contestant ever to be the Big Bad of two seasons, sharing the role with Bowie in her first season, and sharing it with MK for majority of her second season until being the last main antagonist left.
  • Much like several characters before her (usually antagonists), Julia loses her hair as a part of her Laser-Guided Karma. However, she only loses a part of it, retaining a shorter hairstyle.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: She states that after being forced to work in her parents' bakery, she only speaks to them through her lawyers. However instead of "mom" and "dad", she calls them Greg and Judy.
• Card-Carrying Jerkass: Since her true nature was exposed last season, Julia doesn't even bother pretending to be either a Nice Girl or even a Jerk with a Heart of Gold during season 2, instead making it clear to everyone that she's an Alpha Bitch through and through.
• Card-Carrying Villain: After being revealed as a jerk, she flaunts it gleefully due to the catharsis and fame it brings her. She even tells Bowie that the world needs villains like them for balance.
• Cassandra Truth: Played With. She figures out MK is a thief and outs her to the other players. Since she recently revealed her true colors, MK is able to calmly play it off as Julia framing her since she's on the chopping block. Julia saves herself by claiming MK watched everyone using the bathroom— the one thing MK wasn't guilty of.
• Catchphrase Insult: Often calls others "butt knuckles" in the first season.
• Cavalry Betrayal: After getting picked as Bowie's helper in the final challenge, Julia wastes no time wasting time and is an absolute hindrance to him as revenge for eliminating her last episode. She even blackmails him into signing a legally binding contract that stipulates he'll fork over half of the million to her if he wins in exchange for her cooperation, only to abandon him once he terminates the contract and also takes the saw away for good measure.
• Co-Dragons: She and MK are this to a very reluctant Bowie in Season 2 as his relationship with Raj made him more guilty to cheat but when he feels the team needs a win, he allows them to do so.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, Julia is the Combat, relying on her prowess and sheer determination to power through challenges and isn't afraid to throw hands or smack-talk her way to victory, to Bowie's Diplomacy and MK's Stealth.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly in an snobbish, condescending kinda way as she and MK become the show's Greek Chorus in Season Two.
• Determinator: Due to having no other choice since MK exposing her true self left her Hated by All with zero allies, Julia works extremely hard in challenges to win immunity so she wouldn't be voted off. One notable feat has her powering through course after course of Chef's nauseatingly disgusting cooking despite being vegetarian up until that point which cultivated in swallowing a 25-feet tapeworm to win.
• Didn't Think This Through: All her backstabbing throughout Season 2 comes back to bite her when everyone except MK and Scary Girl is unwilling to join her team.
• Discard and Draw: Julia was on relatively good terms with her team and, despite only doing the bare minimum in challenges, was always safe from elimination because of it, at least until her true self was exposed. Realising she doesn't need to hold back anymore and her current gameplay is not feasible, Julia became insanely strong and determined in challenges, often winning immunity as a result, in exchange for her social game plummeting since her unpleasant personality not only alienated her from any potential allies but also failed to manipulate others in her favor.
• Disowned Parent: Julia has cut ties with both of her parents, calling them by their names and only speaking to them through her lawyers because they made her work at their bakery every Summer as a child. Due to her successful influencer career, Julia is evidently wealthy enough to live on her own, and given her determination, self-sufficient enough to make it work.
• Don't Celebrate Just Yet: In the penultimate episode, she begins ordering tons of stuff online thinking the million will be in the bag once she breezes through the challenge like always and head onto the finale. After Priya wins immunity instead at the last second, she then assumed her guaranteed spot as a finalist when Chris implied the elimination is a tie and a new rule determines that the one who won the most immunity challenges of the two is automatically safe (having three immunities to Millie's one). Unfortunately for her, Bowie keeps his promise to Millie and Priya in voting Julia off and now she has nothing to show for her efforts than cancelling the shipload of orders before they go through, not to mention that because how the Drone of Despair takes her while she is still cancelling her purchases, she may not have been able to cancel some of them and now may have financial issues.
• Enemy Mine: In "Caved by the Bell", she's forced to work together with her Arch-Enemy Bowie.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In a platonic sense regarding MK. Julia may be an Alpha Bitch, but she’s fond of MK, genuinely considering her a friend, and is the only one Julia ever feels guilty about backstabbing.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She was horrified after hearing all the awful things Chase did to Emma when they were dating and even called him out for his behaviour, telling him at one point that every time he speaks, he becomes a worse person. She was openly disgusted when she saw how Emma and Chase get back together after Chase's elimination.
  • Even she finds Scary Girl’s antics to be disturbing, especially when she learns that Scary Girl has been stalking people, including her, to learn more about "normal" people.
• Evil Duo: With MK in Season 2 as the two are always seen together even in confessionals planning their schemes to cheat, effectively becoming an Evil Counterpart to Wayne and Raj.
• Evil Feels Good: After her real nature is exposed by MK and she initially goes despondent after losing most of her followers, she eventually decides to ditch her Granola Girl personality and be the vicious person she really is. Not only does she find acting like herself after pretending to be nice for so long liberating, but this leads her to gaining three million followers as a result, giving her much more reason to remain her true self for the rest of the game.
• Evil vs. Evil: She and Bowie are the self-admitted villains of the first season, and do everything that they can to try and get the other eliminated by the time the merge comes along. In the end, Bowie won out.
• Face–Heel Turn: As fake as it is, she initially starts off the season being kind and supportive towards her teammates with her hippie ways. But once her true nature is revealed, all the gloves come off and she leans onto her antagonistic role.
• Fatal Flaw: While Julia was incredibly strong in challenges, even rivaling Priya and Bowie, where she fails is social manipulation (despite the fact she's a social media influencer). Her first attempt at it has everything backfired on her, with Chase and Emma getting back together, and it was legitimately possible she would've gone home had Raj and Wayne not been injured (although Ripper was also a potential pick). Not helping was her Jerkass attitude that quickly alienated her from having any real allies which eventually came back to haunt her as she was forced to put her trust in the far more strategic and sneakier Bowie, culminating in him backstabbing and eliminating Julia at the final four. This is especially made clear in season 2, which has more teaming-up challenges even after the merge, where she's often paired up with people like the hockey bros.
• Food Slap: Infuriated from the raptor incident going viral, she snatches the burrito out of Bowie's hand after making a wisecrack, slaps the back of his head with enough force to slam face-first into a plate of more burritos and then chucks it at Ripper when he comments she can't just do that.
• Foreshadowing: Julia mentions in her audition tape that the competition would be a "journey of self-discovery" and later proclaims "I'm stronger than you think" upon having to give up her phone. She indeed discovers her true self, namely the self-absorbed Alpha Bitch personality she had hidden until MK uploaded the raptor incident online, is way more popular on social media than her chill Granola Girl facade will ever be and went on to become the season's main antagonist who dominates the challenges in spite of looking like a Phoneaholic Valley Girl through physical prowess alone.
• Friendless Background: By her own admission, Julia doesn't have any friends in or outside the competition, but that's intentional on her part because she doesn't want to have friends, and accordingly expresses her disdain for friendships several times.
• Friendship-Hating Antagonist: She expresses disdain in making any and finds Millie and Priya's friendship both annoying and sickening. However, this attitude consequently made her unable to form alliances with anyone past one episode.
  Julia: Friendships are a lot like zits: I don't have any, I don't want any and I definitely don't want to see other people have any. Luckily, they are easy to pop.
• Granola Girl: She puts on spiritual airs, does yoga and tries to send positive psychic energy towards her teammates. She eventually reveals this as a facade she put on to please her followers and is actually very spiteful deep down.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her hair is a sandy blonde to further emphasise her good girl image but it's subverted when her personality is the exact opposite of what she portrays herself as and was just exploiting the trope.
• Hammerspace: She only wears a crop top and short shorts yet has more phones on her than Chris can confiscate.
• Happy Dance: Has one in the form of a bouncing motion while swinging her arms around. In "Caved by the Bell", she does this twice when she thought Priya and Millie were crushed to death by the cave-in then later assumed the elimination ceremony ended in a tie, both of which would have automatically made her a finalist. However, this was short-lived as not only Priya and Millie survived but she was actually voted out thanks to Bowie's deception. She also does it during the Dance Party Ending.
• #HashtagForLaughs: As an influencer, Julia drops a few whenever she's posting on social media or cheering for her team. However, she doesn't reference it from "Launch Back of Notre Game" onwards once she stops caring about her online image.
• Hated by All: Unsurprisingly due to her Alpha Bitch personality and tendency to backstab others when convenient. The only two who have no problem with her are Chase and Zee because of the former's obliviousness and how she got back his girlfriend and the latter being an All-Loving Hero. MK also befriends her the following season, seeing her as a Worthy Opponent and teaming up with her to help Skunk Butt cheat in challenges.
• Hates Everyone Equally: While Julia initially presents herself as a friendly girl who's willing to socialize with people, her real personality being exposed leads her to drop all pretenses of friendliness and makes it clear that she sees the other contestants as nuisances at best, obstacles to get the million dollars at worst.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: In Season 2, she's seemingly this with MK of all people.
• Hidden Depths: While she does not remember it fondly, Julia used to work with her parents at their bakery every summer as a child, and as a result of it she is a skilled baker, so much in fact that she is able to easily mill flour and sugar from wheat and sugarcane.
• Hypocrite: Julia insults Bowie as "Blondie" at one point despite having blonde hair herself (Although it could be due to hers being natural while his is bleach-dyed).
• Iconic Item: Her endless stash of phones.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Compares having friends to having zits: she doesn't have any, she doesn't want any, and she doesn't want to see other people having any. This has come to bite Julia in the back as having no reliable allies resulted in her elimination from trusting Bowie to vote alongside and not against her despite knowing he's the better social manipulator of the two as well as their constant rivalry throughout the season. By the time season 2 of the reboot comes around however, she forms a Villainous Friendship with MK and grows closer to her, even if she denies it when MK confronts her about it.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: She's able to deduce that MK must have been watching others' confessionals because MK used her Catchphrase Insult against her, which Julia had only used in confessionals up until this point.
• Innocent Gray Eyes: Purplish-gray eyes paired with sandy blonde hair suits Julia's character as a serene hippie Granola Girl ...until it's subverted when she's revealed to not be as innocent as she looks.
• In-Series Nickname: She is occasionally called "Jules" by Wayne.
• Irony:
  • For someone whose day job is being a popular social media influencer, social manipulation is definitely not Julia's forte thanks to her personality and immense dislike of having or seeing anyone with friends. In the few times she tried, either nobody trusts her to follow through with her plans, not even Ripper is convinced, or it backfires horribly like falsely playing Chase's Romantic Wingman in hopes of further angering Emma, only for them to actually get back together.
  • In episode 6 of the first season of the reboot, Julia gets MK eliminated. In episode 6 of the second season of the reboot, Julia saves MK from elimination.
  • Episode 1 of the second season of the reboot has her expressing her intention of making Bowie ugly-cry on international TV. In the season finale she is the one who ends up as a crying mess after the raptor bites off a good chunk of her hair, leaving her with a hideous mullet. For added irony points Julia does manage to get Bowie eliminated earlier in the season, but Bowie takes his elimination very well, with not a single tear shed.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: When Priya calls her "a first-rate backstabber and a second-rate schemer", Julia proclaims her schemes are not second-rate.
• It's All About Me: Like Chase, Julia is so selfish that she also did not know what the word selfless meant as she thought it meant a picture that she was not in.
• It's Personal: In season 2 of the reboot, Julia tricks Nichelle into quitting the competition by forging a fake contract for her to star in three Hollywood superhero movies, all because Nichelle had insulted Julia by saying that her best bet as an actress would be a "small town dinner theater". Julia herself admits that she didn't target Nichelle as part of a strategy, but purely out of spite.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As mean as she is, it's made clear that she's right about MK watching plus downloading the other contestants' confessionals and stealing from her teammates. She's also able to drive a wedge between Bowie and Emma by telling the latter that the former has a hand in Chase's elimination given there are no tie votes in his elimination.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is generally a rude Alpha Bitch who has no problem rejoicing at the idea of her fellow competitors getting hurt or outright nearly killed if it helps her get further in the game. However, she does show genuine compassion and a soft side toward MK in part 2 of Island (2023), genuinely seeing her as a friend and feeling guilty when sabotaging her in "Breaking Up is Hard to Do".
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Despite looking very similar to the kind-hearted Dawn in terms of appearance and personality, she's actually a rude and stuck-up Alpha Bitch who acts apathetic to her fellow contestants. She also briefly seems horrified when she thinks Priya and Millie are buried under a bunch of rocks. However, she then becomes happy that her opponents are gone and dances joyfully while singing about how she's a finalist.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Much like Heather, Courtney, and Scott, she's often on the receiving end of slapstick, usually having it coming. It's especially bad in episode 9.
• Kick the Dog: She reveals she helped orchestrate the elimination of Axel mostly because her and Ripper together grossed her out. This is notable because it cuts to Priya saying she voted for Axel because of Axel's competence.
• Lack of Empathy: Julia shows a complete lack of concern for anyone who isn't her. When Wayne and Raj are forced to medically evacuate from the competition, she's happy since that means she has avoided elimination. After surviving the destruction of the cave's entrance during the final four challenge alongside Bowie, what does Julia do when she assumes that Priya and Millie have been crushed to death? Starts dancing happily because if her two rivals are dead, then that automatically makes her and Bowie the season's finalists. She turns out to be wrong and this time she's eliminated.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After being the main antagonist for two seasons straight, she loses a part of her hair, getting a bad haircut.
• Lean and Mean: Like Heather and Amy before her, Julia is a slender girl with a big, fat mean streak.
• Light Is Not Good: She wears a white crop top and canvas shoes and initially portrays herself as a peace-loving Granola Girl but when the facade is dropped, she's a real nasty piece of work.
• The Load: While she wasn't uncooperative on her team, Julia doesn't contribute much outside of that and is more invested in her phone than the competition itself. This changed post-raptor incident when she Took a Level in Badass and became more than capable of winning challenges by herself.
• Lotus Position: Is seen doing a few during her audition tape to give off the impression of being a peaceful yoga enthusiast.
• Manipulative Bitch: Attempts to be one post-merge but while she's definitely the second half of the trope, the first part needs some work since her social game blatantly sucks to effectively do so:
  • Her first attempt involves conspiring others into voting off Chase while pretending to ally with him as a Romantic Wingman so Emma would hate him even more. This could not have backfired in so many ways with Ripper being unconvinced and planning to vote for her instead, becoming Bowie's mutual Arch-Enemy for the rest of the season after double-crossing him and worst of all, Emma actually getting back together with Chase which would have spelled her doom if it weren't for Raj and Wayne needing to be hospitalised. It's no wonder she switched tactics to focus solely on winning immunity.
  • Despite their initial team-up (Mostly out of desperation at the time), Julia fails to convince Millie and Priya in allying with her no matter what she tried. When asked to give one good reason why they should, she can only come up with having an all-girl finale if they vote off Bowie that will get absolute social media reach which left them completely unimpressed and instead secretly ally with Bowie on account of not being Julia. Priya even calls her "a first-rate backstabber and a second-rate schemer".
  • However, she's more successful in informing Emma about Bowie voting out Chase and lying about joining the "Nerd Girls" (Priya and Millie) to vote either one of them out. This drove a wedge between Bowie and Emma which culminated in the former ending their friendship and the latter being sent home.
  • Her manipulation skills improve significantly however in the next season where she's able to orchestrate the eliminations of several big threats of the game:
    • She manages to trick Nichelle (who took over as the new challenge beast this season) into quitting the show by putting a fake Hollywood contract on her bed.
    • She gets her arch-enemy Bowie eliminated as revenge for him causing her last season's elimination by managing to convince everyone else (besides Raj and Wayne) that Bowie was the actual mastermind behind hers and MK's cheating plan, a scheme that also saves her only ally in the game in MK from seemingly certain elimination after being highlighted by Chris for their cheating stunt.
• Meaningful Name: Her name can mean "vivaciousness" which is to be lively in a spiritual or temperamental way. She initially behaved as the former definition, modeling herself after chill Granola Girl guru archetypes for social media, before later showing her true colours as the latter, a card-carrying, backstabbing Alpha Bitch.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Dakota from the second generation cast. Both are introduced to being obsessed with their phones, which get taken away from them, and being concerned with fame. Dakota is a spoiled rich Attention Whore and Julia is a social media influencer. But Dakota is revealed to actually be a nice person deep down and even gets into a relationship while Julia pretends to be a nice person before being revealed to be Evil All Along which destroys her relationships with her teammates.
  • To Heather. Both are the Alpha Bitch of their teams who kept their true nature hidden in the beginning but played very different games in the competition. Heather relied primarily on her social game to manipulate others into working for her and had Plot Armor to fall back on once that was over. Julia has neither of those, having her only attempt at manipulation backfire and nobody trusting her from the get-go, so she gets by in the competition with her own physical skills and is constantly hanging on by the skin of her teeth, knowing that not getting immunity even once is an elimination sentence for her.
  • To Courtney. Both start off as reasonable players who don't accomplish much for their team. Both become exceptionally strong in challenges over the course of Total Drama and neither care for the wellbeing of others. Once Courtney got swept up in hooking up with Duncan, she was booted from the game shortly afterward purely because of her relationship with Duncan. She eventually became more and more ruthless, losing all of her relationships throughout the series. Julia on the other hand was entirely fake from the beginning. She never forms any real connections which led to Julia being at her strongest. This is unlike Courtney whose emotional bonds with the others consistently lead to her downfall one way or another.
  • To Blaineley. Both made their careers as image-obsessed tv/internet personalities, with Blaineley co-hosting Celebrity Manhunt and later the Aftermath Special and Julia being a social media influencer, and share many similarities appearance-wise to the point that the latter can pass off as the former's daughter but while seemingly nice at first, they eventually become Hated by All once their true colours were exposed. However, Blaineley threw a huge temper tantrum after getting fired and thrown out of the Aftermath Special and has similar fits when told she's a desperate attention-seeking nobody. Meanwhile, Julia doesn't care what others think of her and was actually relieved at losing all her followers since she doesn't need to pretend anymore. Their time on Total Drama shows their sub-par social skills in spite of their jobs but Blaineley still had the degree to manipulate others like Owen and Chef for an easier time, only to last a mere two episodes anyway whereas Julia abandons that plan altogether for doing challenges the hard way and made it to the final four. Blaineley was implied to be a washout despite what she thinks due to her awful personality with some even disregarding her as an actual contestant^note Not helped by being admitted mid-way into the game on a technicality. In contrast, Julia became even more famous and gained a huge fanbase both in and out of universe because of her awful personality.
  • To Bridgette. Both start the first episode as blond Granola Girls, but Bridgette's personality is genuine and she is relatively popular with her fellow cast members whereas Julia is in truth an Alpha Bitch that nobody likes. Also, Bridgette's performance is unremarkable, being eliminated early on at the merge in Island, and having even earlier exits in Action and World Tour. Julia, on the other hand, had a very strong challenge record and made it all the way to the final four in the first season of the reboot, while making it all the way to the finale in the second season.
  • She could also be one for Alejandro from the first generation. Both are the Big Bad of their respective seasons and have a rivalry with a lesser evil (which both happen to be an Asian woman) in the same season they debut, have Fanservice, and pretend to be friendly but are actually evil. Alejandro pretends to be the more charming friendly social type to manipulate, while Julia is more the Granola Girl hippie act. Alejandro faces Heather in the season finale while Julia gets MK eliminated before the merge. Also, while Alejandro keeps his facade up until the season finale, Julia drops the act halfway through her season and becomes a Card-Carrying Villain.
  • She's one to Amy. Both have blonde hair, nasty Alpha Bitch personalities and are Big Sister Bullies but how they are operated and ranked in the show is noticeably different. Amy made very little effort to hide her horrible nature, yet managed to remain a Villain with Good Publicity by blaming her flaws on her sister Samey, who also happened to be competing. However, this caused Amy to greatly underestimate Samey, who caused Amy to be the first person on their team eliminated while taking her place in the competition. Meanwhile, Julia’s sister didn’t compete with her, so Julia actually had to make an effort to hide her nastiness, and when MK exposed her true nature she couldn't blame any of her flaws on anyone, resulting in Julia becoming Hated by All. However, this also causes Julia to realize that she can't rely on anyone but herself moving forward in the game, where she puts her own strength into getting ahead in the competition, gets MK eliminated from the show, and manages to reach the final 4.
  • To Scott. Both take their disinterest in making friends more seriously than any other antagonists by not even making superficial friendships to help them advance in the competition. But Scott weaponized this by getting all the teammates that performed better than him eliminated so there'll be less competition in the merger though this backfired when he got traded to the team he'd been inadvertently helping where they eventually eliminated him from the competition. While Julia tried to form alliances and be a Manipulative Bitch, her long-held disdain for other people resulted in her having No Social Skills which made her a complete failure at social manipulation and besides getting lucky with MK, was unable to influence any major voting decisions.
  • To Mal. Both ended up being the Big Bad in their respective debut season that had previously set up other antagonists and had a rocky beginning as villains but Took a Level in Badass halfway through the season and became Invincible Villains and carried a ton of strength and dexterity under their lean physiques. However Mal, for all his impulsiveness and addiction to chaos, was a pretty good manipulator as he was able to outsmart and overpower every remaining member of the Villainous Vultures while keeping the remaining Heroic Hamsters mostly in the dark and eventually reaching the finale. Julia, in contrast, had to solely rely on skill and physical strength alone due to her lack of manipulation prowess and was eventually outsmarted by the more manipulative first established villain of the season just before the finale. They also contrast appearance-wise: Mal has dark hair that covers most of his face, tan skin, Creepy Shadowed Undereyes, sinister body language and facial expressions and often appears as a Sinister Silloette with a Slasher Smile while Julia has purplish-gray eyes paired with sandy blonde hair, light skin and wears bright, neutral colors.
  • To Josee. Both were minor celebrities who entered the show focusing more on maintaining their public image than doing well in challenges but after letting their tempers get the better of them gave up the pretext and became openly and proudly evil. The two are capable of insane feats of strength when enraged or trying to win and struggle with cheating and social manipulation so rely on sheer skill to win challenges. They also have a (presumably) Camp Gay man as the primary target for their temper tantrums but Josee and Jacques are Vitoric Best Buds while Julia and Bowie are bitter rivals and the one time she tried to be an Evil Duo with him, he betrayed her and got her eliminated.
• Morality Pet: While Julia is generally mean to everyone on the show, MK is the only person on the show Julia shows any sort of care for and genuinely does see her as a friend in part 2 of Island (2023).
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed. She's quite attractive, leggy and wears skimpy clothing such as short shorts, which she shows off in her introduction video wearing several different bikinis. However, she doesn't utilize her appearance much in the rest of the show, instead preferring to play a social game.
• Nerves of Steel: Despite being locked in a Drowning Pit, she's surprisingly and "unnervingly calm" over her predicament as Emma puts it, contrasting Damien who is having a full-blown panic attack, and only starts to crack when the water rises past her mouth. She does admit to being terrified in the confessional but not wanting others to see it.
  Julia: It's okay to be scared, but never show it. Nothing's more important than what other people think of you.
• Never Trust a Trailer: While not a trailer itself, a screenshot of the Frogs of Death heading to the elimination ceremony shows her absent, suggesting that she might've been eliminated before this episode. In actuality, she was only absent because she was in the girl's cabin stealing MK's bag so that she couldn't get eliminated.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Between the most strategic contestants of the season, she's the Mean to Bowie's Nice and MK's In-Between. She's a manipulative Alpha Bitch who relishes in being mean when her true colors are revealed.
• Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: The Obvious Villain to Bowie and MK's Secret Villains as her openly hostile, mean-girl attitude and high competence in challenges make her the biggest target for elimination, allowing the other two to work behind the scenes and enact their schemes.
• Offstage Villainy: Many of her schemes in the second season are done offscreen and she tells us about them after the fact such as orchestrating Bowie and MK's eliminations, stealing Damien's immunity idol, and blackmailing Caleb.
• Only Sane by Comparison: Julia is a manipulative Alpha Bitch, but she has been shown to be more reasonable than the others at time, though this can be attributed to her years of yoga.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In the finale, Julia's happy for Priya winning despite not benefiting her. That, or she was simply happy at Bowie not winning the million in the finale.
  • In the next finale, She makes her potentially dying wishes to have her entire clothing collection to go to anyone but her sister Megan, who apparently looks hideous in everything.
  • In general, her friendship with MK.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Like most teenage girls, Julia is usually with a smartphone in hand, usually browsing through social media or keeping her followers updated on the competition. It's revealed that she sneaked various phones past Chris and Chef when she first arrived on the island, as phones are strictly prohibited in the competition.
• Plot Armor: Averted. Julia may share many similarities with the original Alpha Bitch Heather, but a major difference between the two is her lack thereof the trope given she won her immunities by her own merit rather than random chance, other players screwing up or Chris throwing out the votes just because. The one time the trope was in play is when Julia was convinced she was going to be eliminated for accidentally getting Chase and Emma back together until Raj and Wayne's cassowary cliff-diving accident caused a Non-Gameplay Elimination instead.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • She teamed up with Priya and Millie for additional safety and votes until it dissolved in the Final Five. While she's still mean to them, Julia stays true to her word of teaming up to protect their positions in the game.
  • During the second season, she allies with MK in order to allow their team, the Skunk Butts, last as long in the game as possible. Not because she's being a team player, but because, as MK points out, Bowie probably added her to the team as an easy choice for a boot since he has the majority vote and nobody likes Julia, so she needs to show herself as a valuable team member however she can.
• Rage Breaking Point: By the time of "Jurassic Fart", being a goody-goody almost 24/7 was really getting to her. Thus when the raptor roared in her face and messed up her hair, she simply said "No... Not today" before giving it the dressing-down of its lifetime.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to a raptor which becomes the catalyst to revealing her true nature.
• Romantic Wingman:
  • Julia pretends to give Chase advice when he's trying to win Emma back. Her plan backfires and they actually do end up briefly getting back together.
  • Accidentally does this again in "The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth" by misinterpreting and complaining aloud over Chase's actions of knocking everyone off their poles before throwing the challenge as an act of selflessness for Emma to win immunity (In actuality, he just wanted pizza), causing Emma to take him back once more to Julia's disgust.
  • She also does this in Season 2 for Ripper and Axel when the former asked her for help in getting the latter to watch him slide down one of the tubes while covered in butter. In this case, however, Julia just up and tells Axel about Ripper's crush on her, which causes him to run away in embarrassment.
• Rooting for the Empire: In-universe example as Julia notes that while she lost a lot of followers following the reveal of her true nature, she also gained even more, noting that some people clearly share her mindset of wanting to stop being fake.
• Selfie Fiend: Julia tends to snap victory selfies after winning challenges due to being an avid social media influencer. This gave her a decisive advantage in the selfie challenge for "Tortoise Rigamortis" where her expert photo-taking skills win her immunity.
• Smart Ball: To spite her well known ineptitude at social manipulation, she pulled it off successfully three times:
  • She was able to convince everyone that MK had been watching their confessionals, getting her eliminated. While this was true her Jerkass behavior throughout the episode hadn't exactly won her any friends and MK put the confessionals on Julia's phone creating reasonable doubt that she was the one responsible.
  • She left a fake movie script on Nichelle's pillow to make her think Hollywood wanted her again. This motivated her to quit halfway through the show, costing the other team one of their strongest players.
  • She convinced everyone that MK's pretending to be an intern gambit was Bowie's idea, getting her biggest rival voted off while saving her best and Only Friend from elimination.
• Sore Loser: She clearly isn't happy over having lost the million dollars to Wayne in season 2 at the last possible minute.
• Spin to Deflect Stuff: She's able to protect herself from a school of salmon jumping out the river at her by spinning her oar at them.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Not only is she heavily focused on as the Big Bad of both reboot seasons, her Villainous Friendship with MK takes up a majority of season 2 of Island (2023).
• The Starscream: Her first confessional after Bowie picks her to join the Skunk Butts in season 2 has her make it pretty clear she's planning to betray Bowie as soon as she gets her chance, but that she'll give her a-game until then. Indeed, once the merge happens in "Canoe Believe It", Julia wastes no time manipulating events so that Bowie will be voted out instead of MK.
• Stealth Insult: Before her true nature was revealed, Julia gave a few to Emma in "Drown Town Abbey" like how she's "so brave in how you don't care about your looks" and offhandedly mentioned about needing a shower, hinting that she may not be the nice Granola Girl she appears to be.
• Story-Breaker Power: Her being able to sneak a phone. Phones are forbidden on the show for a reason as being online would allow contestants to get updates on others' relationships and alliances on the show. This comes in handy for MK, who uses Julia's phone to download other contestants' confessions, which Bowie eventually uses to cause a rift between Millie and Priya in the finale. It's also used against Julia herself to reveal her true nature.
• Straw Vegetarian: Julia is one as part of her hippie lifestyle and for Mother Earth but in reality, she's doing it to pander to her social media followers and not come off as a Hypocrite. She later admits in the confessional that "avocado toast is gross", ate the disgusting dishes in "The Wheel of Vomit" containing various types of meat and in spite of not having eaten red meat or carbs in a while, she would kill half the world's population for a slice of pepperoni pizza. Word of God states she's the type to claim she's vegetarian or vegan on social media but when no one is looking, she gourges on double-bacon cheeseburgers.
• Stripperific: She has the skimpiest outfit among the contestants from this season. Tellingly, she turns out to be one of the antagonists.
• Stronger Than They Look: Julia may look like your stereotypical phone-obsessed Valley Girl but when it comes to the competition, she is a force to be reckoned with. She whole-heartedly throws herself into challenges and, despite having Priya and Bowie as her biggest competitors, wins three immunity challenges^note That's half of the total possible immunities this season to their one and zero respectively without needing to rely on allies or Plot Armour.
• Sudden Anatomy: Julia suddenly sprouts a fifth finger when she counts the votes she's gathering in the confessional in "Severe Eggs and Pains", doing a bewildered Double Take after noticing it.
• Supreme Chef: She's shown to be a very skilled baker which helps her to win the baking challenge. Makes sense that she used to work at her parent's bakery when she was younger.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • To Heather. Both are a Deconstructed Character Archetype of an Alpha Bitch. Both end up realistically Hated by All for their behavior and manipulating others. Both also Determinators who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty to win immunity and suffer from being a Karmic Butt-Monkey.
  • Also to Scarlett in the sense that she initially pretends to be a Nice Girl before her true nature is revealed although she's nowhere near as sociopathic as Scarlett was.
  • Appearance-wise, she's similar to Blaineley, having the exact same facial features, almost identically-shaped and colored blonde hair and very similar physiques. It's to the point that she could easily pass off as Blaineley's daughter. Personality-wise, both are narcissistic jerks who initially put on a friendly facade.
• Take That!: Julia's arc of influencer turned villain is this to the recent influx of aspiring influencers trying to get social media traction on reality competitions, alienating longtime fans. She's using the show to get more followers but no one really cares much about her. Once she reveals her true colors and plays an active role as the villain, she has more followers than ever, largely composed of fans who find her villain arc interesting.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Performer to Bowie and Priya's Technician, the latter two had studied the game thoroughly and trained accordingly (Especially Priya) whereas Julia wings the manipulation and focuses all her energy on the Boring, but Practical strategy of winning immunity since her initial facade and strategy had fallen through by MK.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: When Julia's real personality is exposed to the world, Julia decides to embrace her role as Card-Carrying Villain once it gave her even more followers.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Julia is far from incompetent but specific skills acquired from faking her online Granola Girl persona are put to good use in some challenges:
  • As ingenious as it was, Julia spending years pretending to be into yoga had paid off in "The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth" as she was the only one who remained perfectly calm and not struggling or going insane balancing on her pole. Alas, she just fell short of immunity after Chase knocked her off anyway.
  • A challenge based around taking selfies is something an influencer like herself would have a massive advantage in. Case in point, she's able to crop Priya and Millie out of her bear selfie with her arm and nails her timing on the selfie with the turtle as it flies through the air. She ends up getting immunity with Emma, the only other influencer still in the game, being real competition for her.
• Token White: Is this among the Final Four after Emma's elimination with the other three being Bowie and Millie (who are black) and Priya (who is of Indian descent).
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the manipulative Girly Girl to MK's snarky and scheming Tomboy.
  • For the final two in the 2024 reboot, she is the Proud Beauty Girly Girl to Priya's Action Girl Tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: Julia initially wasn't really a useful asset to her team since she was either too busy updating her followers or projecting her "inner warrior goddess energy" which obviously wasn't working. It was not until the merge following the raptor incident that she finally doesn't have to hold back from keeping up appearances on social media and proceeds to become a powerhouse in winning immunity challenges rivaling the likes of Bowie and Priya.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Terry Mc Gurrin states that out of her vegan facade, the true Julia really loves bacon. During The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth, she even admits she would sacrifice half the population for a pineapple and bacon pizza..
• Traumatic Haircut: During "Soar Losers" Julia gets most of her hair ripped off by the raptor, leaving her with a messy looking mullet.
• The Unfettered: Julia will do anything to win challenges and get ahead in the competition for the million dollar prize no matter how underhanded her tactics may be, being willing to sabotage or even fight her fellow campers if she has to. She is even willing to resort to cheating if it would mean she would win.
• Unskilled, but Strong: She isn't particularly a clever antagonist and overall has terrible social game, openly being mean to everyone once her true nature is revealed via the video MK posted of her trash-talking the raptor. This nearly gets her eliminated and out of all the antagonists in the show, she has caused the lowest amount of eliminations (aside from Scarlett) with MK and Emma as her only victims. But her physical prowess and determination allow her to power through the challenges and make it to the final four.
• Valley Girl: She is a teenage girl. She eventually drops it after her true nature is revealed.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: When Chris uses a metal detector on her to find hidden phones, the metal detector finds one in her cleavage.
• Villain Ball: Julia will do whatever it takes to win but makes poor short-sighted decisions that give others a good reason to vote her off:
  • She becomes extremely uncooperative in "Launch Back of Notre Game" due to being blinded by her determination not to be put up for elimination and aimed for the riskier, all-or-nothing 10,000 points target instead of the manageable and safer 3,000 points one her team all agreed on since it was the exact amount required for them to win. Unsurprisingly, she completely botches the whole challenge and almost got herself eliminated, what she was trying to avoid in the first place.
  • Despite needing his vote at the time to secure her safety, Julia impulsively betrays Bowie for immunity which immediately leads to him viewing her as his mutual Arch-Enemy for the rest of the series and plots her downfall right before the finale where it most stings.
• Villainous Friendship: In Season One they were all out for themselves but in Season Two she and MK form what seems to be a very genuine one.
• Villainous Valor: Julia shows a lot of courage when she realizes she can only rely on her own strengths while never being afraid to get her own hands dirty, even going so far as to fight other contestants in challenges, like Bowie. As long as she can obtain immunity and avoid elimination, she will always give it her all to win no matter how dangerous the challenge is.
• Villains Never Lie: Exploited. she has no problem lying, but tells the truth just enough times that people still believe her lies.
• Villain with Good Publicity: An interesting take. Once her true nature is revealed, she initially loses most of her followers on social media and becomes Hated by All among her fellow contestants. However, after a couple of episodes, she gains new followers who are implied to like this new side of her, with her number of followers surpassing millions and breaking her previous record.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With MK in the second season. They often insult each other and have no qualms about working to get the other eliminated, but they genuinely support each other and Julia says an affectionate goodbye to MK when she leaves the island, even joking that she'll split the money, and later having a confessional talking about them making a podcast together.
• Vocal Evolution: Julia used to sound rather calm and cheery to highlight her status as a hippie guru influencer who spreads positivity but after her Face–Heel Turn kicks in, it turns way more emotional and abrasive showcasing her real personality.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about Julia as a character without giving away anything past the raptor incident.
• Wedgie: Administers a double simultaneous one on Zee and Ripper as an expression of embracing the real Julia.
  • Happens again in the final four of season 2, where she wedgies Priya by her pants with a hook.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: In the Final Four Elimination, where after she got an advantageous position in the challenge she starts proclaiming that she won. This overconfidence makes her lose the final challenge which lead to her elimination.
• What Is This Feeling?: Her friendship with MK is very out of each of their comfort zones since both have never had and never wanted a friend. Having real conversations is so awkward to both of them that they have to plot and scheme to distract themselves whenever they get close to one.
• What You Are in the Dark: When she's alone during the fifth challenge, she lashes out at a raptor quite aggressively which MK gets on camera and uploads to ruin her reputation. Her confessionals are also more insulting as MK eventually reveals.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Julia has no allies, no social game and no backup plan to fall on so she must solely rely on her own physical capabilities in immunity challenges with the only outcomes being she wins big or she goes home. Her predicament gets lampshades by her realising how she has no other option.
  Julia: Fine. I guess I'll just go with my other plan: win immunity (Suddenly becomes concerned) ... because now I have to...
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Her biggest fear is being surrounded by old people, since it serves as a reminder that she will not always be young and beautiful.
• "You!" Exclamation: She does this as she connects the dots and realizes that Bowie had backstabbed her and sided with Priya and Millie in order to eliminate her.

MK

Voiced by: Kimberly Ann Truong

Label: The Outrageous and Underestimated

Team: Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt

Placement: 11th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 7th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 6 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 9 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

MK (short for Mary Kate) is the sneaky, snarky, and scheming type. While she's not much for making friends or being polite, she excels at laying low and avoiding attention while she does what she does best — pickpocket others' stuff, mess around with their minds, and break into their technology.

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• Asian Rudeness: She's a Schemer and a rather rude type of Deadpan Snarker who also happens to be Asian.
• Bear Hug: Gets herself caught in one between Raj and Wayne when she gives them ice skates to keep them distracted. She comments how she regrets her decision.
• Beneath Notice: She prides herself on her capabilities to be "always underestimated" and "fly under the radar" which lets her steal stuff and hack into the confessional undetected. However, she's too much of a sarcastic dry-wit to fully achieve the result, having a close call after insulting Nichelle before her cover was eventually blown by Julia.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: She and Julia serve as this in season 2 of the reboot, the two cheating and sabotaging their way through the competition together.
• Big Bad Wannabe: MK tries to be the main villain for both Part 1 and Part 2, but she gets outplayed and eliminated by Julia in both parts. Julia is an actual member of the Big Bad Ensemble in Part 1 before becoming sole Big Bad in Part 2. Though to MK’s credit, she does respect Julia enough to befriend her in Part 2 before settling down to become Julia’s dragon in the finale.
• Brains and Brawn: The brains to Julia's brawn.
• Brutal Honesty: Unlike other contestants who try to be supportive to one another to give them confidence, she doesn't hold back on telling them how horribly she thinks they are doing. This almost comes back to bite her in "Drown Town Abbey" when she's in the bottom two with Nichelle because of how rude and unsupportive she's been to her when she broke down.
• Butt-Monkey: Becomes one in the second season, a season where everyone gets in on the buttmonkey status to a degree, and slapstick. She is especially notable because she was almost untouched last season.
• Character Catchphrase: She has a tendency to say "This rots" anytime something doesn't go well for her (notably her elimination and being forced to battle a bear).
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Downplayed. She is shown cheating throughout the season by hacking into the shield system during the "Capture the Skull" challenge and then she hacks into the outhouse confessional to spy on the other contestants during their interviews. She does not get disqualified for any of this but she does get eliminated when Julia finds out about the confessional hacking. Similarly, her cheating in the team challenges in the following season doesn't get her disqualified, but Chris does end up forcing her to carry a canoe down to the beach and face a bear in the jousting challenge (where she is beaten up and loses) when he finds out as punishment, only avoiding elimination by convincing Team Rat Face that cheating was Bowie's idea.
• Chekhov's Gun: The phone she swiped from Julia and downloaded all the confessionals onto becomes instrumental in the finale. While MK never had the chance to fully utilise the phone on account of her early elimination and Bowie chucking it into the lake for being Too Awesome to Use, the latter ends up retrieving it once it comes onshore four episodes later. Allowing him to dig up dirt on Millie's book plans, break up her and Priya's friendship before the last challenge and secure his place as a finalist.
• Co-Dragons: She and Julia are this to a very reluctant Bowie in Season 2 as his relationship with Raj made him more guilty to cheat but when he feels the team needs a win, he allows them to do so.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: In terms of strategies, MK is the Stealth, sneakily pickpocketing and hacking into the confessionals for a decisive advantage while putting up an unassuming front without coming off as The Load, to Julia's Combat and Bowie's Diplomacy.
• Deadpan Snarker: She spends a lot of time making sardonic comments about her teammates. She even gets called out for this in the third challenge as she mocks Nichelle's lack of athletic ability instead of supporting her.
• Demoted to Dragon: Downplayed regarding MK. She goes from being part of a Big Bad Duumvirate with Julia to being her right-hand (and only) supporter in the finale.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Seems like she's about to be the main antagonist with some of her strategies, but ends up getting voted off before the merge when Julia outs her as a thief who also records everyone's confessionals.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect:
  • Her strategy in the first season of the reboot included staying Beneath Notice by being neither The Load nor Too Powerful to Live.
  • After getting all the correct answers to the “Would You Rather?” challenge, she deliberately gave the wrong answer for the last one to Bowie to avert suspicion from Chris or the other players.
• The Dragon: MK becomes this to Julia in Part 2’s finale where she finds herself to be Julia’s sole supporter while doing everything she can to help her win.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Though her team wins the "Capture the Skull" challenge partially thanks to her help as she prevented Ripper from escaping with their skull by hacking the shield system, none of her teammates minus Emma thank her and instead criticize her for not doing anything. Justified, however, as none of the Frogs of Death saw her hacking the shields so they couldn't know that she helped them behind the scenes.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: MK may be a schemer who cheats, but she’s genuinely fond of Julia, considering her a friend and the feeling is mutual for Julia.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • She draws the line when someone's well-being is at risk, as she always responds with horror when someone gets hurt.
  • When hacking the confessional camera, she makes it clear that she's only going to watch the other campers' confessions and skip over them actually using the bathroom. Ironically, Julia accusing her of watching everyone poop seems to be what ultimately makes them vote her off.
  • She's just as creeped out by Scary Girl as the rest of the cast is, and she outright questions whether or not the show actually screened their contestants before letting them compete.
  • Even she finds Bowie's manipulative actions in his debut season disgusting.
  • MK is disgusted with Caleb for seemingly toying with Priya's heart, saying that while she is a naturally cold person, at least she is honest about it.
• Evil Counterpart: To Noah. Both are rude snarkers who aren't interested in making friends or supporting their teammates. Noah's label was The Schemer, but an Informed Ability while MK does some actual scheming. While Noah is lazy, he does play by the rules of the game while MK resorts to cheating. MK does actually help her team behind the scenes, while Noah's refusal to help causes his first elimination. And while MK is glad that she didn't make friends before her elimination, Noah eventually becomes cooperative and makes friends.
• Evil Duo: With Julia in Season 2 as the two are always seen together even in confessionals planning their schemes to cheat, effectively becoming an Evil Counterpart to Wayne and Raj.
• Fatal Flaw: Despite MK entering with an incredibly sound strategy by watching the confessionals and staying under the radar in order to avoid putting a target on herself, her biggest flaw overall was her need to taunt others which of course puts a target on herself anyway. The first instance of this results in her barely surviving elimination over Nichelle, but as seen below, once she accidentally tips off Julia over her confessional scheme, Julia is able to flip the tables on her and get her eliminated.
• Gamer Chick: In "Haulin' and Ballin'", MK claims to be a gamer.
  • Terry Mc Gurrin even states she's awesome at Mario Kart, never losing a race and isn't afraid to trash talk players.
• Genre Savvy: In "Haulin' and Ballin'", MK reveals that she likes to play video games and used that knowledge to realize that the buttons on the ground were score increasers, letting her quickly make up time and nearly win.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: As revealed by Zee, MK sleeps with a stuffed unicorn whom she named "Theodore".
• Good Counterpart: To Scarlett, both like to stay Beneath Notice and hack into the show's equipment as a strategy but she's a simple Schemer and not Ax-Crazy like Scarlett was.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: In Season 2, she's seemingly this with Julia of all people.
• Hidden Depths:
  • MK reveals she's a Gamer Chick in "Haulin' n' Ballin', which helps her figure out how to gain more points in the challenge.
  • The same episode implies she's secretly insecure when Zee reveals she still sleeps with a stuffed animal.
  • In Breaking Up is Hard to Do, MK has a decent knowledge of cars to dismantle one. She explains in a confessional that she had to choose between Auto Mechanics or Theater for a school elective, and chose Theater. Then switched to Auto Mechanics when the class asked her to talk about her feelings.
• Humiliation Conga: In episode 6 of season 2, Chris reveals he figured out she cheated. Not only does he merge the teams, dissolving her advantage, but he makes her do the following challenge solo and then tells the remaining contestants that MK cheated, something that will paint a huge target on her with the merge dissolving teams. She then proceeds to do the first part of the challenge, which involves dragging a canoe a long distance, and then the second part is revealed to be a fight with whoever dragged the canoe with you. Is MK safe? No, she has to fight a bear. Which tries to maul her, THEN follows her all the way to the confession cam to swipe at her, then beats her senseless with its paws (while wearing boxing gloves, but still). She ends the episode with multiple bruises and, by her own words, "drain bamage". Chris later explains that he wasn't as mad about the cheating as he was she stole his hair dryer.
• Hypocrite: MK describes Bowie's actions in Island (2023) season 1 as evil despite having no problems sabotaging other competitors herself, even teaming up with Julia in season 2 to sabotage the other team by crushing them with a tree and cheating in challenges. Also, Bowie really only found out about said book because of MK's actions, technically meaning she helped him.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Inverted. When she's eliminated, MK reveals she's happy she hasn't made any friends.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Upon being eliminated, she takes solace in the fact that at least she didn't make any friends. By the time season 2 comes around however, she forms a Villainous Friendship with Julia.
• Irony:
  • For a character who prides herself on being Beneath Notice, MK's sarcastic and sardonic nature, as well her bad habit of taunting others actually paints a bigger target on herself than if she just played the game like normal.
  • One of the first things MK does when she arrives at the island is hack the confessional cam to get dirt on the other contestants to use as leverage while skipping most of the pooping. She winds up being eliminated when she slips up by calling Julia "butt knuckle" when she only ever said that in the confessionals, and then when Julia causes everyone to turn against her when she accuses her of watching everyone poop, the one thing she never did.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be nice to people at times despite being snarky and mischievous. She's even happy for Priya winning despite not benefiting her.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After Chris finds out about her cheating in challenges and stealing his hair dryer, the first merge challenge of Island (2023) Part 2 has MK forced to carry a canoe down to the beach by herself and facing a bear in jousting, which leads to her getting beaten up throughout the challenge. That said, Chris makes it very clear that he couldn't care less about the cheating, but MK stealing his hairdryer is where he draws the line.
• Lethal Chef: Has shown herself to be one in the baking challenge. While it’s true that her final product came out bad because of Axel and Ripper’s incompetence along with sabotage from other teams, MK made several mistakes in her baking such as forgetting to grease the cake pans and using literal garbage.
• Little Miss Snarker: Easily the shortest amongst the contestants of the reboot, and is almost constantly throwing out sarcastic remarks.
• Lovable Rogue: She's antisocial, a thief and has no problem resorting to playing dirty to win. However, the fact she has a limit on what she'll tolerate, treats the worst players with utter contempt and is a smart strategist with a dry sense of humor makes her an endearing character to the fans.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Masculine to Bowie's Feminine. Bowie's a Camp Gay boy who's not as antagonistic as the other villains, and MK comes off as a sarcastic tomboy.
• Never Bareheaded: Is never seen without her beanie, not even when she's being taken by the Drone of Despair.
  Chris: "That is one tight-fitting hat."
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Not really a hero per se but MK's decision to upload the raptor incident to Julia's social media accounts instead of blackmailing her resulted in Julia letting go of what her Granola Girl persona was holding her back from, dominating the rest of the challenges onwards, and figure out MK was spying on everyone's confessionals which directly cause her elimination.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Between the most strategic contestants of the season, she's the In-Between to Bowie's Nice and Julia's Mean. She's rude and snarky to pretty much everyone she talks with and is perfectly fine with stealing from others. But she doesn't cross any major lines with her behavior and doesn't go out of her way to antagonize others.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her appearance, voice, and snarky attitude heavily resemble that of Awkwafina. Specifically her role as Constance in Ocean's 8 as a beanie-wearing pickpocket expert.
• Not So Above It All: She's just as starry-eyed as everyone else when she first sees Nichelle. It doesn't stop MK from mocking her later, but still.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Downplayed. Her strategy is to stay under the radar by not coming off as too much of a threat but also not warranting being voted out by being The Load either.
• One-Steve Limit: Played With. She shares her first name with a contestant from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, but due to being Only Known by Initials, it isn't as notable.
• Only Friend: Implied to be one for Julia in season 2. Julia has shown disdain for having friends, claiming that she doesn't have any and that she doesn't want them, yet her Villainous Friendship with MK seems to be somewhat genuine. In the finale, MK is Julia's only supporter.
• Only Known by Initials: Her real name is Mary Kate but she's only addressed as such during her introduction and she's otherwise referred to as MK.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: For someone who specializes in stealth, MK sure lacks in the disguise department when posing as an intern means wearing the uniform with a comically large fake mustache. Chef gives her a weird look while Chris seems oddly amused by something during the briefings.
• The Peeping Tom: MK’s method of spying on others consists of hacking into other pieces of technology including cameras with phones. When MK does this to the outhouse confessional, she is given access to any information the other contestants say in there. As the confessional also doubles as an actual restroom and the only one on the island, it also caused the hacked camera to watch other contestants do their business even though MK swore to skip through those parts. Unfortunately for MK, Julia finds out about this and uses MK's voyeuristic behavior to get her eliminated.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: In "Launch Back of Notre Game", MK makes up an insult slang word on the spot just to mess with Julia.
  MK: Urgh, you are so "Mooloh".
  Julia: What does that even mean?
  MK: The fact that you need to ask makes you even more "Mooloh".
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Implied due to MK’s skills with technology and hacking. MK used cell phones frequently on the island, which was against the rules to cheat in the competition, using them to upload videos on the internet, and illegally record the confessionals of other contestants.
• Saying Too Much: Ultimately how her elimination plays out. By choosing to insult Julia using the phrase that she'd only used in private up to that point, MK accidentally tips Julia off that she'd been recording and watching their confessionals. This also allows Julia to connect the dots and discover that MK had been the person stealing everyone's stuff all along. Combined with the revelation that she'd watched everyone pooping (she didn't actually), this one tiny slip-up on MK's part was the snowball effect that caused her to be eliminated just before the merge.
• Schemer: MK is introduced swiping a passerby's wallet, hacks into the traps system of one challenge, hacks into the confessional booth to hear what everyone's saying for leverage and steals her teammates' stuff to sell on the Internet.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: When Zee's ship is being driven towards her's, she lets out a scream that's high pitched from her deep voice.
• Self-Disposing Villain: While Julia is the one who ultimately gets MK voted out, it only gets to that point thanks to MK's actions: from being too smug for her own good (calling Julia "butt knuckle" when she had only said so in the confessionals, allowing her to connect the dots and realize what MK had done), to stealing everyone's things (which is used to incriminate her), and painting a big target on herself by being a sardonic snarker who didn't endear herself to others in case they saw fit to eliminate her.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Not too small as she lasts six episodes but she's still eliminated rather early. In spite of that, her stealing Julia's phone is what reveals the latter's true nature and causes her to completely drop her Nice Girl act and her downloading other contestants' confessions is what makes Bowie aware of Millie's notes about others, which he uses to put a strain on Millie and Priya's friendship right before the finale.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Her Villainous Friendship with Julia takes up a majority of season 2 of Total Drama Island 2023.
• Sticky Fingers: She has a habit of pickpocketing people or going through their stuff. She planned on selling what she stole from her fellow contestants to the show's fans.
• Story-Breaker Power: Her stealing Julia's phone and downloading others' confessions on it is what exposes Julia's true nature and allows Bowie to cause a rift between Millie and Priya.
• The Strategist: She came up with two very useful strategies for the show: staying under the radar by not being a threat nor The Load and watching other contestants' confessionals to find dirt about them.
  MK: Don't be the best, don't be the worst. No one gets voted off for flying under the radar.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the snarky Tomboy to Julia's manipulative Girly Girl.
• Too Clever by Half: MK is quite smart, but tends to overplay her hand with her own intelligence. She tries to frame Julia in Season 2 for things she would do, but Julia took the simpler method of telling people that they agreed not to badmouth each other.
• Viler New Villain: Inverted alongside Bowie as most Total Drama antagonists are Hate Sinks in their debut seasons, only developing likable or sympathetic traits in later seasons, but MK is more of a Lovable Rogue with endearing character traits right off from the bat.
• Villain Respect: MK is so impressed at the Batman Gambit Julia pulled, resulting in her elimination, that she retains her Villainous Friendship with her.
• Villainous Friendship: In Season One they were all out for themselves but in Season Two she and Julia form what seems to be a very genuine one.
• Villainous Underdog: She's a good Schemer and she puts her tech savviness to good use during challenges, she also picks up some Plot Armor in Season 2 but she's far from an Invincible Villain like Alejandro, Mal or Julia and tends to barely scrape by in challenges.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Julia in the second season. They will insult each other and openly try to get each other eliminated, but they clearly like each other very much by the time one of them is eliminated, sharing a hug on the Dock of Shame and engaging in some Ship Tease.
• What Is This Feeling?: Her friendship with Julia is very out of each of their comfort zones since both have never had and never wanted a friend. Having real conversations is so awkward to both of them that they have to plot and scheme to distract themselves whenever they get close to one.
• Worthy Opponent: Her interactions with Julia in season 2 imply they see one another as this.
• You Monster!: MK calls Julia a monster for causing her second elimination. Unlike most examples, however, this is a compliment from MK solidify the Villainous Friendship she made with Julia.

Nichelle

Voiced by: Tymika Tafari

Label: The Gorgeous With a Side of Substance

Team: Frogs of Death, Rat Face

Placement: 14th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 12th^*Quit (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 3 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 5 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Total Drama is a show whose contestants join for the purpose of becoming famous but that doesn't apply to Nichelle because she already is famous. A teen actress with countless movies and TV shows to her name, Nichelle can't help but bask in the admiration and glamour gained from her stardom.

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• Action Girl: Averted. Nichelle is a film star who claimed that she did all her action stunts. This proved to be fake as she performed terribly during the challenges and ended up confessing that all her stunts were made by a stunt actor named Jerry. Played straight come next season, but it took the aversion in season 1 and her career going downhill for her to become an Action Girl on the level of her stunts in her movies.
• Advertised Extra: She gets featured in promos a lot even though she does not make it past episode 3.
• Athletically Challenged: The contestants considered her a significant threat as a famous and talented action star so it would be no problem for her to breeze through the challenges and competition. However, Nichelle does have a problem and it's herself, revealing she uses stunt doubles in her and is actually severely inept at anything requiring physical skill. This causes her team to lose the obstacle course challenge which they had a huge lead and be voted off the same episode as a result.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. She ends up covered in bee stings after the first challenge.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Once the truth about being Athletically Challenged and using stunt doubles in all her movies comes to light, Nichelle admitted in her confessional that at some point she had deluded herself into thinking she's the Action Girl she pretends to be on-camera. But that doesn't mean she didn't try.
• Big "NO!": She does this when the Frogs of Death lose the third challenge.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her last name, Ladonna, is Italian for "the woman".
• Broken Pedestal: She ends up as this to Wayne and Raj, who are distraught to learn that she merely uses stunt doubles while acting and therefore not everything on TV is real.
• Celebrity Star: While Emma, Chase, and Julia are all social media influencers with sizable followings, Nichelle outstrips them all as a famous teen actress immediately recognized by most of the cast.
• Dead Star Walking: She was hyped by the cast due to being Famed In-Story as an action star who does her own stunts but before you could say "stunt-doubling primadonna", she was gone by the third episode.
• A Death in the Limelight: Downplayed. While she gets more focus in her elimination episode, she only gets it once it's her turn to complete the challenge, and with the screentime still more or less evenly split among contestants, she's only slightly more focused on than other contestants.
• Determinator: After humiliating herself in the obstacle course and being exposed as an action movie star fraud during the previous season, Nichelle's acting career was destroyed and she was fired from Hollywood. To make up for this, she began taking intense training session with the world's top parkour, kung-fu, and gymnastics experts to prepare herself for the new season, and it all paid off as she proved to be one of the most physically capable contestants of the season.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: In a non-death, elimination sense, Nichelle leaves the island screaming at her stunt double for her crummy performance by "not being there when she needed him" as the Drone of Despair takes her away.
  Nichelle: "I HATE YOU JERRRRRRY!!!!"
• Famed In-Story: Nichelle Ladonna is a household name in the Hollywood scene and she knows it, being a well-acclaimed teen actress who starred in tons of blockbuster action movies and TV shows. Her introduction was made a big deal as almost everyone in the cast instantly recognises Nichelle with some being huge fans of hers.
• Fatal Flaw: Nichelle's biggest flaw was believing her own hype. In the first half of the season, Nichelle cost the team the challenge after she absolutely messed up on the obstacle course, on top of freaking out instead of getting the flag. While the follow-up season initially averts this by having her become better in challenges, Nichelle's flaw comes back to bite her as she sees the fake contact Julia left for her, and instead of reading it through, she immediately believes it's real and quits the show.
• Faux Action Girl: Everyone was made to believe she did all her own stunts and thus is more than capable of breezing through the challenges. Then episode 3 has her spill the beans that was all because of her stunt double and is hopelessly inept at anything physical when she fails the obstacle so spectacularly and so slowly that the remaining three players on the Ferocious Trout catch up to her in no time, completely neglecting the Frogs of Death's impressive lead and losing the challenge.
• Foil: Nichelle is a direct and stark contrast to Julia. Thanks to her background as an accomplished actress and action star, Nichelle was hyped up to be a formidable player but was a great disappointment when she turned out to be a primadonna Womanchild who faked all her stunts. Julia, on the other hand, was dismissed as a wannabe influencer who cares more about her phone and social media status than anything else but proved them all wrong after her true colours are exposed and she has no choice but to power through the competition. This is made apparent in their challenge performance when Julia made it all the way to the final four whereas Nichelle was out by the third episode. Their foiling aspect gets highlighted again in episode 5 of season 2 where even after Nichelle essentially overtook Julia as the challenge beast of the show, Julia still manages to come up on top through her smarts after forging a Hollywood contract în order to trick Nichelle into quitting the show.
• Foreshadowing: In spite of being an action star, she has a hard time keeping up with Wayne's pace in the first challenge and slowing him down to the point she had to be piggybacked to catch up to the other team. Turns out, she never actually did any of her stunts and is, in fact, a Faux Action Girl all this time.
• Hartman Hips: Along with Axel and Priya, Nichelle's one of the few females of the season to fit in this trope.
• History Repeats: Much like Anne Maria before her, Nichelle quits in Part 2 of Island (2023) after finding a way to make more money than the million-dollar prize money the show offers, with Anne Maria finding a huge diamond and Nichelle finding an offer to star in three Hollywood Superhero movies, only for the deal to turn out to be a dud (In Anne Maria's case the diamond was actually cubic zirconia, which is practically worthless, and in Nichelle's case the offer was forged by Julia and has no value whatsoever). For added points, both girls left the show right before the teams were merged.
• In a Single Bound: Manages to beat Bowie in the first challenge of the second season by making a giant leap that shocked everyone. Allowing her to land at the finish and allow her team to win.
• It's All About Me: Nichelle's breakdown has her proclaiming she's "the star of the show" like in her movies in typical primadonna fashion which Bowie lampshades how cringe that statement comes off as.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of being The Primadonna, she doesn't act mean to anyone during her stay on the camp and enjoys telling them about her acting experiences.
• Leitmotif: Nichelle is introduced to a grandeur, over-the-top fanfare to showcase how big of a deal she is as a teen actress and action star.
• The Load: The fact that she uses stunt doubles on her shows and therefore is not athletic at all causes her to cost her team the challenge, even after they had a massive lead, which gets her eliminated. It gets averted big time in the second season, thanks to her Taking A Level in Badass between seasons.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Nichelle’s became the masculine girl to Damien's feminine boy in Part 2 after the former Took a Level in Badass. Nichelle is an action movie star who displays countless feats of athleticism and while Damien also Took a Level in Badass, he’s still a Nervous Wreck who screams a lot and gets scared of stuff easily.
• Mirror Character: To Blaineley, both are vain and self-promoting celebrities competing on the show. Blaineley was forced to do the show and created a ton of fanfare for herself when she arrived while Nichelle agreed to it and was met with a ton of fanfare. Blaineley assumed from the start they'd be using stunt doubles and was dismayed to learn she'd be expected to perform in challenges herself, Nichelle was up for competing in challenges because she believed her own hype of being an action star but was helpless without her stunt double. Blaineley refused to perform in challenges and instead made a deal with Chef to make the challenges easier for herself and was voted off pretty much intently as a result while Nichelle made an honest effort but was voted off quickly due to her ineptitude and after this failure Nichelle came back next season having Took A Leveln Badass whereas Blaineley never returned to the show.
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed. She's an attractive movie star in-universe, though her fame mostly comes from her seemingly impressive stunt work as an actress.
• Never My Fault: After her elimination, she blames her loss on her stunt double, Jerry, not being there when she needed him
• No Full Name Given: Averted. She's the only contestant in the season to have her first and last name revealed.
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: She quits in season 2 of the reboot after finding a movie script on her bed, as Hollywood seemingly wanted her back. As it turns out, said script was fake and was planted by Julia, as Julia wanted to get back at Nichelle for insulting her.
• Paper Tiger: She's initially hyped up to be an Action Girl actress who does her own stunts and is later revealed to be everything but one in the third challenge to the point where she has to have her stuntman Jerry cross the street for her.
• The Primadonna: After she gets exposed for faking her own stunts, she berates that she can’t lose the challenge since she’s the star of the series, spends three minutes crying about her lie instead of just grabbing the number as instructed, throws a temper tantrum when she still ends up losing after tripping, and angrily blaming her stuntman Jerry for her failings when she is getting taken away home by the Drone.
• Sore Loser: Her not taking losing a challenge well would be an undersaying. She throws a full tantrum after botching the challenge in "Drown Town Abbey" and angrily blaming her stunt double Jerry when she's eliminated.
• Star-Derailing Role: In-universe example. In her second season she states that her poor performance in Total Drama destroyed her image as an Action Girl and ruined her career, being tossed out of Hollywood. However...
• Took a Level in Badass: ...When she returns in the second season, she mentions that after Hollywood cancelled her she began doing intense training sessions to make herself stronger. These pay off when she's the last one standing in her team and crushes the challenge.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Only lasts three episodes, out of which she's only slightly more focused on in her elimination one. In the second season, Julia tricks her into quitting only five episodes in, with Nichelle not being much more fleshed out than she was in her first season.

Raj

Voiced by: Varun Saranga

Label: The Hockey Bros (shared with Wayne)

Team: Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt

Placement: 9th/10th^*Medically evacuated (Fell down a cliff after getting attacked by a cassowary) (TDI 2023 Part 1), 5th (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 7 (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 11 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Aspiring hockey champion, a proud member of the Snow Owls, and inseparable best bud of Wayne, Raj is far from the brightest or the most mature guy around, but he more than makes up for it with his determination, loyalty, and good sportsmanship comparable to hockey's finest.

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• Bait-and-Switch Comment: Parodied. Wayne keeps misreading the situation that Raj is gonna come out to him at various points and is ready to support him one-hundred percent when it's something completely unrelated given the context. Raj himself has no idea what Wayne is talking about.
• Battle Cry: As their hockey team is the Snow Owls, Raj and Wayne tend to shout "Hoot! Hoot!" like a train as they charge headfirst into the competition with gusto.
• The Big Damn Kiss: The act of Bowie rescuing him again, this time from the shark-infested tapioca pudding pit, was enough for Raj to kiss him right there and then. This made Bowie realise and reciprocate Raj's feelings and Wayne, who was secretly watching them, is beyond ecstatic... and so was the pudding shark.
• Big Eater: Raj doesn't mind Chef's cooking since he's eaten worse, mentioning he once swallowed three teeth, and makes it a contest with Wayne on who can eat breakfast faster.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Has the thickest eyebrows of his cast.
• Busman's Vocabulary: Being a hockey player gives him a knack for formulating game plans in team challenges but since he's using hockey terminology to explain, nobody except Wayne knows what the plan even is.
  Raj: Emma, Julia, D1 to D2 wheel breakout. MK on the wing, gets into the pivot while Bowie takes their eyes away. No blind passes, let's get that skull! Go, go, go!
  MK: Uh, did you understand any of that?
  Bowie: Not a word, but it was kind of cute.
• Canadian Equals Hockey Fan: He and Wayne are on the same hockey team in Alberta and almost everything they say somehow relates back to the sport.
• Character Catchphrase: In reference to their hockey team The Snow Owls, both he and Wayne share the chant "Hoot! Hoot!" which doubles as their Battle Cry. Additionally, Raj has another hockey-related catchphrase of "Pe-nal-ty!" albeit used less often.
• Characterization Marches On: Upon first impressions, it seems that he and Wayne are the stereotypical Dumb Jerk Jock pair but the following episodes have shown a lot more heart and dorkiness to them and are not at all mean.
• Coming-Out Story: Raj learns he's gay during his time on the game.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist:
  • Katie and Sadie never really formed any kind of dynamic with any other characters besides each other, Sadie even having an arc about trying to form an identity outside of Katie that ultimately went nowhere. Raj, on the other hand, was part of the season's most significant romance arc and distinguished himself from Wayne by being one of the first canonical gay characters in the history of the show.
  • As the love interest of a major antagonist, he and Bowie's relationship wasn't physically or psychologically abusive like Duncan and Courtney or Zoey and Mal, they didn't compete with or manipulate each other like Heather and Alejandro, they didn't have a bitter break up like Gwen and Trent or Dave and Sky and it wasn't one-sided like Leonard and Sugar. In spite of Bowie's scheming nature, they handled their attraction to one another in a mature way and were nothing but kind and supportive of one another. To the point of being a Foil for the incredibly toxic Emma and Chase.
• Coordinated Clothes: His main outfit is his hockey uniform so he can match with his teammate and best friend Wayne although there are some differences such as wearing blue shorts, yellow sneakers and different numbers on his jersey.
• Crush Blush: Starting from episode 5, Raj becomes flustered whenever he gets particularly strong feelings around Bowie after fully developing a crush.
• Dramatic Gasp: Raj would usually gasp in sync with Wayne at shocking revelations due to their like-mindedness.
• Dumb Jock: Played with. He and Wayne don’t have much in terms of common sense, but their hockey skills mean that they both actually have a decent understanding of strategy and team coordination. It’s telling that the reason they had to leave the competition was because they were both too injured to continue. He is however shown to be a bit more intelligent than Wayne, since he catches on about Julia and MK cheating, while Wayne needs to have it spelled out for him.
• Expy: A possible one of Zach Rance from Big Brother 16. Both are supposedly heterosexual men who realize that they aren't straight after falling for a Camp Gay.
• Endearingly Dorky: Bowie certainly seems to think so, likening him to a puppy "not the brightest but adorable".
• Foil: To Emma, his relationship with Bowie was healthy and mature in contrast to her toxic and co-dependent relationship with Chase and telling his best friend Wayne about it made their friendship stronger unlike how Bowie refusing to humor her terrible decision to go back to Chase destroyed their friendship.
• Flirting Under Fire: Does this with Bowie after the latter knocks him out of the way of a boulder during one challenge.
• Good Counterpart: He and Wayne are this to Jacques and Josee. Both are Childhood Friends who were long-time athletes before competing in a reality-show, wear their uniforms while competing and generally treat the show like it's their preferred sport that happens to involve ice skating. He and Wayne are overtly Canadian hockey players while Jacques and Josee are overtly French-Canadian Figure Skaters. Raj is Straight Gay while Jacques is either Camp Gay or Camp Straight and Wayne, like Josee, is the more aggressive of the pair and the one who makes the decisions. However, instead of being a Bully and Wimp Pairing like the Ice-Dancers, Wayne is nothing but supportive to Raj and the two are inseparable best friends. Instead of being an Evil Duo, the two are friendly Lovable Jocks who despise cheating.
• Hero-Worshipper: Both Raj and Wayne worship the famous actress Nichelle the most, at least until she becomes their Broken Pedestal.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Wayne. The "heterosexual" part is ironic when Raj realizes he's gay.
• Hidden Depths: If he and Wanye don't go pro, their backup plan is to go into beekeeping due to their love of maple syrup (Even though bees make honey).
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: Does this when Bowie is fighting Priya over the molten lava lake to which Wayne takes the opportunity to eat all his popcorn. Raj was relieved Bowie didn't fall in but wonders why his popcorn bucket is now empty.
  • He does it again during "Haulin' n' Ballin'" when Wayne tosses his Chris coin in the air to see on which side it lands. This means Raj fails to see Wayne falling off a cliff and going missing for most of the challenge.
• In-Series Nickname: Wayne calls him "Rajjy" and the two are also collectively known as "The Hockey Bros" by the other campers. Furthermore, his full name is revealed to be "Rajesh" in the flash game "Take the Crown".
• Leitmotif: Has a triumphant, sporty fanfare which he shares with Wayne in his introductory. This gets Played for Laughs when the two were savagely beaten up by a cassowary to their theme.
• Literal-Minded: When Chris warns the contestants there are raptors in one challenge and sharks in another, Raj honestly and excitedly thought for both times he meant the sports teams^note As in the Toronto Raptors and the San Jose Sharks like they have specifically took time to come to the island, not the actual animals.
• Lovable Jock: An enthusiastic hockey player with dreams of going professional alongside his buddy Wayne and is one of the friendliest people on the island, being very easy to hang out with and not having a mean bone in his body. It's one of the reasons why Bowie falls for him.
• Manly Gay: He isn't effeminate like Bowie, being as much a dudebro as his hockey teammate Wayne is.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Raj is a dudebro hockey jock who comes to terms with his sexuality when he develops a crush on and later dates Bowie, an outgoing and flamboyant Camp Gay. This is also played with in that Bowie is just as athletic and even more competitive than him while Raj displays an Endearingly Dorky side.
• Meaningful Name: Raj's name means "King" which is very fitting given his boyfriend Bowie often expressed his desire to win crowns (As in competitions) and kings usually wear crowns so it's no wonder the latter won over the former's heart.
• Mirror Character:
  • He and Wayne parallel Katie and Sadie as inseparable Childhood Friends who are incredibly like-minded in terms of ditziness and excitability but unlike the girls, the two do have some distinguishing character traits. Katie and Sadie's identities are solely based on their dynamic with one another alongside their unwanted crushes and the latter trying to be her own person going absolutely nowhere while Raj has a major arc of coming to terms with his sexuality and having a romance with Bowie. Additionally, Raj and Wayne's Coordinated Clothes have noticeable differences rather than being completely identical to showcase they are not Single-Minded Twins.
  • He and Wayne also parallel Amy and Samey, the other pair with Coordinated Clothes yet with rather different personalities, but while Amy and Samey don’t get along and despise each other, Wayne and Raj work very well together and are inseparable Heterosexual Life-Partners. Within their pairing, Raj can serve as one to Samey as both have their own character arc separate from Wayne and Amy respectively, but while Samey’s character arc revolves around standing up to her sister and becoming her own person, Raj's character arc revolves around coming to terms with his sexuality and gaining the courage to come out to his best friend.
  • Raj himself is a parallel to Dave. Both are Endearingly Dorky Indian boys who fall for a very athletic and competitive contestant. However, Dave is a weak Neat Freak who gets easily annoyed by other people and is The Aloner, while Raj is an athletic Lovable Jock who gets along with everyone who came to the show with his best friend Wayne. In terms of their relationships with said athletic and competitive contestant, Dave’s relationship with Sky falls apart when he becomes too obsessed with her and Sky not communicating her feelings properly, resulting in him resenting Sky upon learning she has a boyfriend, while Raj and Bowie are able to communicate their thoughts and feelings properly, and as a result they become a healthy Official Couple.
• Morality Pet: Bowie is never antagonistic in his presence and as an Official Couple in their second season, he encourages him to apologize to the other players.
• The Nicknamer: Raj calls Wayne "Wayner" on occasion and refers to Chris and Chef as "Coach".
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: In season 1 of the reboot, he and Wayne are both eliminated by means of medical evacuation after falling down a cliff together from a cassowary beatdown.
• Official Couple: With Bowie although they agree to take things slow.
• Only Friend: He and Wayne are this to Bowie in their second season because he's Raj's boyfriend.
• Only Known By His Nickname: His real name is Rajesh but he's usually called Raj.
• Recurring Element: He and Raj are the latest characters in the show who are treated as The Dividual. After Katie and Sadie, Amy and Samey and several characters from The Ridonculous Race.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Wayne are the Manly Men to Bowie and Caleb's Sensitive Guys.
• Shipper on Deck: He along with Bowie and Wayne are very supportive of Ripper's crush on Axel and encourage him to talk to her.
• Spear Counterpart: Raj and Wayne are basically male versions of Katie and Sadie.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: His relationship with Bowie and Wayne take up a lot of focus in both reboot seasons and is prominent comic relief in part 2.
• Straight Gay: Despite being gay, he's just as much a dudebro as his friend Wayne.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • He and Wayne are this to Katie and Sadie, with both duos being inseparable Heterosexual Life-Partners that wear Coordinated Clothes. Again, the "heterosexual" part is ironic when Raj realizes he's gay.
  • The duo are also this to Geoff and Brody, two ditzy but incredibly positive and friendly Lovable Jocks who are Heterosexual Life-Partners (Again, ironic) with one of whom falls for another competitor.
• Token Good Teammate: He and Wayne are the only ones on Team Skunk Butt to not be a jerk, schemer, or in Scary Girl's case, flat out psychotic. This is emphasized when they are the only ones throughly against MK and Julia's cheating.
• Too Dumb to Live: Eating a plate of food that expired 15 years ago certainly is a good way to screw yourself up. Chef even warns him not to eat it.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: While he was never the brightest bulb, in his debut season he made up for it with his impressive strategies and leadership skills. In the second season, these traits don't show up anymore, making his lack of intelligence more pronounced and he's a bigger Butt-Monkey.
• Transparent Closet: While it took a while for Raj to realize that he was in the closet about being gay, other contestants such as Wayne and Emma were able to see right through it. Wayne speculated that Raj was gay or bi right after seeing Bowie save Raj from a boulder and his suspicions were more confirms when he saw Bowie and Raj kiss in the catapult challenge.
• Twofer Token Minority: Raj is implied to be of Indian descent and later realises he's gay after falling in love with Bowie.
• Verbal Backspace: Raj starts developing a crush on Bowie in "Drown Town Abbey" which he accidentally let slip during the challenge:
  [Bowie slides effortlessly across the greased part of the obstacle course]
  Wayne: Whoa, Bowie's got some moves!
  Raj: Yeah, he looks great!— I mean he's doing great. That's what I said.

Wayne

Voiced by: Jack Copland

Label: The Hockey Bros (shared with Raj)

Team: Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt

Placement: 9th/10th^*Medically evacuated (Fell down a cliff after getting attacked by a cassowary) (TDI 2023 Part 1), 1st (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Eliminated in: Episode 7 (TDI 2023 Part 1), N/A (TDI 2023 Part 2)

Raj's best friend and fellow hockey player/fanboy and Snow Owls member, Wayne is very similar to Raj in that he makes up for his childishness and his lack of brains with a fantastic sense of sportsmanship, a strong determination to win, and a bottomless well of loyalty and support for his bud and teammate.

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• The Ace: While Wayne isn't the brightest bulb, he's shown to be strong in every challenge put in front of him. This is subverted in Part 2, where his ditziness can sometimes put him behind... But it doesn't stop him from winning the whole thing.
• Ambiguously Bi: He's shown to be attracted to girls, as evidenced by him calling the girls on his team "real hotties". However, he's also had some Ho Yay with Raj, including a one-off joke mentioning that they share jock-straps. Before the show aired, some fans predicted that they would be the gay couple. Well, they were half-right...
• Battle Cry: As their hockey team is the Snow Owls, Raj and Wayne tend to shout "Hoot! Hoot!" like a train as they charge headfirst into the competition with gusto.
  • He also literally yells "battle cry!" for some reason during the brawl for ingredients in "Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral".
• Big Eater: He enjoys Chef's cooking as much as Zee since he helps himself to big and multiple helpings of breakfast at one go and has contests with Raj to see who can eat the fastest.
• Book Dumb: While Wayne can be strategic, he's clearly not very bright and Bowie has on multiple occasions pointed out when he said something wildly wrong.
• Busman's Vocabulary: His experience as hockey captain for the Snow Owls lets him come up with sound strategies for team challenges. The only problem is that it's entirely in hockey lingo, with fellow hockey player Raj being the only one who could understand him, so the rest of his team is left utterly confused unless he switches to Layman's Terms.
• Canadian Equals Hockey Fan: He and Raj are on the same hockey team in Alberta, and almost everything they say somehow relates back to the sport.
• Celibate Hero: Doesn't once pursue getting a girlfriend in both seasons.
• Character Catchphrase: In reference to their hockey team The Snow Owls, both he and Raj share the chant "Hoot! Hoot!" which doubles as their Battle Cry.
• Characterization Marches On: Upon first impressions, it seems that he and Raj are the stereotypical Dumb Jerk Jock pair but the following episodes have shown a lot more heart and dorkiness to them and are not at all mean.
• Coax Them Out of the Closet: Wayne figured out Raj is gay and has a crush on Bowie but knew to wait until he properly told him so he could shower him with all the support he has. After unsubtly hinting to Raj that he can tell him anything since they're close buds and making several miscalls for the next few episodes much to Raj's confusion, he finally confessed while they both careened down a cliff much to Wayne's joy and their friendship became stronger than ever before.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: Katie and Sadie generally flew under the radar and were seen by their teammates as The Load at best and The Millstone at worst. Wayne on the other hand is a skilled athlete and generally serves as The Leader of his team.
• Coordinated Clothes: His main outfit is his hockey uniform so he can match with his teammate and best friend Raj although there are some differences like wearing brown cargo shorts, yellow boots and different numbers on his jersey.
• Dark Horse Victory: Compared to Caleb and Julia, Wayne didn't seem like someone who would be a shoo-in for the finale because of his ditziness, even to some of his teammates who were supporting him during the finale. However, despite Julia and Caleb getting further ahead of him, Wayne managed to pull off the victory at the last second mainly due to his unique brand of thinking.
• Dramatic Gasp: Whenever something shocking happens, Wayne has this habit of simultaneously gasping with Raj to show how like-minded they are.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Wayne is not the brightest bulb in the box but during episode 2's challenge when seeing Emma and Bowie aiming for Chase instead of the boat, he instructed everyone to switch to aiming for the members of the Trout. When questioned, he points out that if they eliminate everyone from the other team, then they can't defend their ship and they can more easily sink it. Everyone actually agrees that the logic is sound and indeed part of the reason the Frogs win is because of that.
• Dumb Blonde: Wayne has dirty blonde hair and isn't exactly the brightest person in the competition but what he lacks in smarts he makes up for his impressive leadership skills as well as an overall nice and easy-going personality.
• Dumb Is Good: He is as dumb as a rock but that does not stop him from being one of the nicest contestants of the Reboot to the point that in the fear challenge in Episode 12, Chris and Chef fail to scare Wayne since he ends up befriending all the fears they throw at him.
• Dumb Jock: Played with. He and Raj don’t have much in terms of common sense but their hockey skills mean that they both actually have a decent understanding of strategy and team coordination. It’s telling that the reason they had to leave the competition was because they were both too injured to continue.
• Farm Boy: He initially started off growing up on a farm with his family before he became a hockey player and contestant on Total Drama and eventually the winner of part 2 of the reboot.
• Foil: To Bowie. Emma told Bowie all about her terrible relationship with Chase and he supported her through all of it, but when she decided to go back to him she expected him to instantly discard the negative opinion he'd grown of him. When Bowie chose not to, Emma broke off their friendship. Raj was afraid to tell Wayne about his feelings for Bowie because he was afraid he wouldn't accept it but Wayne knew all along, supported it and wanted his friend to open up about it. Additionally, while Bowie is willing to use underhanded tactics and dirty tricks to achieve victory, Wayne, along with Raj, abhors cheating and believes in playing fair.
• Good Counterpart: He and Raj are this to Jacques and Josee. Both are Childhood Friends who were long-time athletes before competing in a reality-show, wear their uniforms while competing and generally treat the show like it's their preferred sport which happens to involved ice skating. He and Wayne are overtly Canadian hockey players while Jacques and Josee are overtly French-Canadian Figure Skaters. Raj is Straight Gay while Jacques is either Camp Gay or Camp Straight and Wayne, like Josee, is the more aggressive of the pair and the one who makes the decisions. However, instead of being a Bully and Wimp Pairing like the Ice-Dancers, Wayne is nothing but supportive to Raj and the two are inseparable best friends. Also, instead of being an Evil Duo, the two are friendly Lovable Jocks who despise cheating.
• Genius Ditz: While he's not exactly the brightest, he's actually incredibly solid when it comes to leadership, coming up with effective team plans (Hockey terminology aside).
• Groin Attack: Gets hit with this in the first episode when he walks into a post blindfolded. It immediately gets subverted when Wayne reveals that he is unharmed and immune due to wearing a cup. In some episodes it's played straight when he forgot to wear his cup.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has dirty blonde hair and is one of the nicest and friendliest people anyone could ask for. Most prominently out of all the blonde contestants in the fourth generation (All of whom are coincidentally on the Frogs of Death), Wayne is the only one to play the trope straight.^note Emma zigzags it given her vendetta against Chase, Julia is a complete subversion, Bowie has dyed hair and while he's generally nice, he still classifies as an antagonist and Nichelle (also dyed) is too much of a primadonna to qualify
• Hero-Worshipper: Both Wayne and Raj worship the famous actress Nichelle the most, at least until she becomes their Broken Pedestal.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Raj. The "heterosexual" part is ironic as Raj realizes he's gay.
• Hidden Depths: If he and Raj don't make it as pro hockey players, they want to go into beekeeping together due to their love of maple syrup (Even though bees make honey).
• In-Series Nickname: He and Raj are known as "The Hockey Bros". Raj also calls him "Wayner" occasionally.
• Lack of Empathy: Downplayed. While he's a Nice Guy, Wayne seems to enjoy more than he should seeing people get hurt during challenges. At some points on the series he can be seen laughing at things that could easily be fatal happening to other characters, only stopping when he realizes that others are not laughing along.
• The Leader: He directed his team during the majority of the team challenges before the merge, proving to be pretty capable thanks to his experience of being the captain of his hockey team.
• Leitmotif: Has a triumphant, sporty fanfare which he shares with Raj in his introductory. This gets Played for Laughs when the two were savagely beaten up by a cassowary to their theme.
• Lovable Jock: Is a passionate hockey player alongside his buddy Raj who loves hanging out with everyone and doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He also gets additional points for being very supportive of Raj coming out as gay and is thrilled to learn that he has started a relationship with Bowie.
• Loved by All: With the obvious caveat of Julia and MK, all of the other contestants love Wayne (especially Raj and Bowie). In part 2's finale, not only does Wayne's team (Raj, Bowie, Zee, Ripper, Axel, and Chase) all love him and genuinely want him to win (until like Caleb's team who only want Julia to lose), but Caleb's team can't bring themselves to shoot their t-shirt canons at Wayne, even if it'll help Caleb win.
• Mirror Character:
  • He and Raj parallel Katie and Sadie as inseparable Childhood Friends who are incredibly like-minded in terms of ditziness and excitability but unlike the girls, the two do have some distinguishing character traits. Katie and Sadie don't contribute much or anything at all on the Killer Bass whereas Wayne has been consistently strong in challenges and is usually The Leader of his team. Additionally, Raj and Wayne's Coordinated Clothes have noticeable differences rather than being completely identical to showcase they are not Single-Minded Twins.
  • He and Raj also parallel Amy and Samey the other pair with Coordinated Clothes yet with rather different personalities, but while Amy and Samey don’t get along and despise each other, Wayne and Raj work very well together and are inseparable Heterosexual Life-Partners. Within their pairing, Wayne can serve as one to Amy, as both have blond hair, are the more aggressive of the pair, and tend to give nicknames to Raj and Samey respectively. However, while Amy is aggressive in a bad way in that she’s abusive to Samey, gives her a demeaning nickname to keep Samey under her control, and contributes nothing to her team, Wayne’s aggressive in a good way in that he’s a team leader who contributes heavily to his team, wants Raj to be comfortable being his own person around him, and gives Raj the Affectionate Nickname "Rajjy" to signify his close friendship with Raj.
  • To a degree, to Cody. Both of them reach the final three of a season, and are set up against a competent protagonist (Heather for Cody, and Caleb for Wayne) and a competent antagonist (Alejandro for Cody, and Julia for Wayne), and very few people thought they would actually win, as Cody was carried by Sierra throughout the entirety of World Tour, or otherwise the other players would have a better target to eliminate, and Wayne isn't really the smartest player, which shows even throughout the final challenge. While Cody in World Tour is eliminated quickly in a tie-breaker against Alejandro, Wayne, with the help of his friends manages to get first place in Island (2023) Part 2.
• Named After Somebody Famous: He could be possibly named after Wayne Gretzky who is a Canadian professional ice hockey player that Wayne aspires to be.
• Never Bareheaded: He's never seen without something on his head. Besides his his red backwards ballcap, Wayne has also been seen wearing a pirate hat, a helmet, and bandages after being badly injured in his elimination episode.
• The Nicknamer: Often calls Raj "Rajjy" and occasionally calls Julia "Jules". He also refers to Chris and Chef as "Coach".
• Non-Gameplay Elimination: In season 1 of the reboot, he and Raj are both eliminated by means of medical evacuation after falling down a cliff together from a cassowary beatdown.
• Odd Friendship: Despite being a jock, he is close friends with the nerdy and cautious Damien to the point of viewing him as his third best friend after Raj and Bowie.
• Only Friend: He and Raj are this to Bowie in their second season because he's Raj's boyfriend.
• Recurring Element: He and Raj are the latest characters in the show who are treated as The Dividual. After Katie and Sadie, Amy and Samey and several characters from The Ridonculous Race.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He and Raj are the Manly Men to Bowie and Caleb's Sensitive Guys.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Is immediately very enthusiastically supportive of Raj and Bowie.
  • He along with Bowie and Raj are very supportive of Ripper's crush on Axel and encourage him to talk to her.
• Spear Counterpart: He and Raj are essentially Katie and Sadie if they were male and liked hockey.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: His close friendship with Raj take up a lot of focus in both reboot seasons and is prominent comic relief in part 2.
• Stomach of Holding: Due to his habit of unknowingly eating things in his sleep, Wayne can store stuff inside himself (Including his keys, wallet and several hockey pucks) like a purse which he can later retrieve by hacking it out cat-style.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • He and Raj are this to Katie and Sadie, with both duos being inseparable Heterosexual Life-Partners that wear Coordinated Clothes. Again, the "heterosexual" part is ironic when Raj realizes he's gay.
  • The duo are also this to Geoff and Brody, two ditzy but incredibly positive and friendly Lovable Jocks who are Heterosexual Life-Partners (Again, ironic) with one of whom falls for another competitor. Individually, Wayne and Geoff are both blonde and they both end up being unexpected winners.
  • He's also this to Owen. Both are an example of a Loved by All dumb but kind contestants. Both also end up pulling off a Dark Horse Victory, triumphing over their much more fierce competitors.
• Token Good Teammate: He and Raj are the only ones on Team Skunk Butt to not be a jerk, schemer, or in Scary Girl's case, flat out psychotic. This is emphasized when they are the only ones throughly against MK and Julia's cheating.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: While he was never the brightest bulb, in his debut season he made up for it with his impressive strategies and leadership skills. In the second season, these traits don't show up anymore, making his lack of intelligence more pronounced and he's a bigger Butt-Monkey.
• Underdogs Always Win: Wayne is one of the biggest ButtMonkeys of the second season and a Dumb Jock. Between him, Caleb, and Julia, everyone expects the latter two to win, with even Wayne's supporters stating that he's going to lose. Chris and Chef wonder several times how not only he's made it so far in the game but also survived in life for so long. Caleb's supporters aren't even sure whether to shoot Wayne with shirts during the second challenge of the finale or not since "that's Wayne." In the end, he proves everyone wrong by winning the season.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Wayne has, or rather had, two biggest fears: Raj playing for another hockey team, and his own team's mascot. He eventually manages to overcome both fears.

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