Sandbox / Total Drama: Heather

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"When I win, I'm thinking of my own spin-off series, "The World According to Heather."

Voiced by: Rachel Wilson

Teams: Screaming Gophers, Screaming Gaffers, Team Amazon, Villainous Vultures

The mean Alpha Bitch who rules high school in every teen movie, Heather is as ruthless, narcissistic, manipulative, and self-centered as they come. She always knows what she wants and how to get it, with little regard for who she has to hurt or deceive to achieve her goals.

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Heather, the Queen Bee

• Abusive Parents: Implied. Her parents are thrilled to get her out of the house in her video from home, not just throwing a party, but even selling all her personal belongings (though with Heather being a total Hate Sink in Island, the audience was likely meant to side with them). Heather also claims in TDA that her parents sent her to electroshock therapy as a child to make her nicer. However, it's implied Heather sees her mom as her best friend in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos."
• Action Girl: She's not afraid to get her hands dirty (literally or metaphorically) in order to win a challenge.
• All Take and No Give: Heather's alliances are solely for her benefit. She demands practically everything from Beth and Lindsay while they get nothing in return from Heather, not even gratitude.
• Alpha Bitch: The series' most definitive example, bullying Lindsay and Beth into doing her bidding during their alliance, and constantly trash-talking Leshawna and Gwen. However, she clashes with Courtney for the position during World Tour, and in All-Stars she clashes with Jo early on for leadership of the Villainous Vultures.
• Analogy Backfire:
  Heather: A team without a leader is like a horse without a head! It just runs around blind!
  Gwen: I'm pretty sure a horse without a head doesn't run anywhere.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Heather's bio mentions that she has a younger brother named Damien who's not just annoying, but evil (at least to Heather). Despite Heather being a Alpha Bitch who uses deception to get anything she wants, her home is stated to be the only place she's out-ranked in due to his tormenting pranks (such as booby-trapping her room and putting glue in her hair conditioner).
• Anti-Hero: She ultimately does end up becoming the main hero of World Tour, but this isn't because she pulled a Heel–Face Turn by any means (although she does have multiple Pet the Dog moments, implying that she Took a Level in Kindness since her Humiliation Conga in Island and second defeat in Action). She is only considered the hero because Alejandro is actually MUCH worse than her, and by the end she is the only one left standing against him. Heather's status as hero is confirmed when Cody explicitly tells her "don't let the bad guy win". Her status as Anti-Hero is solidified when she proudly returns to being a Card-Carrying Villain in the next two seasons, proving that she can only be considered a hero when facing someone worse than her.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To Gwen and Leshawna since the start.
  • She stated she was this to Alejandro (in a Worthy Opponent kind of way) in "Awwwwww, Drumheller", in order to get him to help her out when she was wedged up in a hole. Yet it was obvious to everyone watching what their relationship really was.
• Art Evolution: Regarding Heather's baldness: when her head ends up shaved near the end of Island, it's shown to be flat]]. Come Action, the top of her head has been tweaked to appear round instead, presumably to appear more realistic.
• Asian Rudeness: According to the creators, Heather is Asian (technically half-Asian, since her dad's shown to be white). Also, there is a reason she is called the "Queen of Mean."
• Asshole Victim: Very few people, if anyone, feel sorry for Heather whenever she falls victim to Laser-Guided Karma, given her snobbish attitude. This is particularly prominent in "Slap Slap Revolution" when Leshawna slaps Heather silly, in which the other campers were cheering Leshawna on and in "Hawaiian Punch", where the peanut gallery laughs at Heather as she's being pelted with golf balls.
• Attention Whore: As the series' resident queen bee, Heather naturally puts herself as the center of attention.
• Bad Boss: Her treatment of Lindsay and Beth in Island was almost criminal. In fact, she's this almost every time she takes charge of her team. In the episode "If You Can't Take The Heat...", she declares herself the Screaming Gophers' head chef for the cooking challenge, making Leshawna chop pineapples (which she's allergic to) and wasting time ordering Owen to get her makeup bag from the cabin. Leshawna gets tired of it and locks her in the freezer.
• Bald of Evil: Inverted. While she was Big Bad, she had long black hair. When Heather suffers her Traumatic Haircut in the penultimate episode of Island, she ceases to be a major antagonist. While she's bald during Action, she becomes a Defrosting Ice Queen.
• The Baroness: Though she tries to maintain the status throughout the series, it's most prominent during the first season.
• Beauty Is Bad: Pretty much all the male contestants acknowledge that Heather's definitely very attractive, but most of them generally keep their distance because they know what her personality is like.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Alejandro.
• Big Bad: Of the first season, and the most iconic one among contestants. When she made her cameo in the Total Drama: Revenge of the Island episode "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon," the new generation is stunned and somewhat scared to see her, with Zoey even asking her if she really is the Heather. While there are several villains in the series that have surpassed her in evilness and ruthlessness (Chris, Alejandro, Mal, Scarlett), Heather is still the most recognizable one of the entire series.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Her on-off teaming up with Alejandro.
• Big "NO!":
  • In "I Triple Dog Dare You", when the electric razor she kicked out of Chef's hand lands on her head, leading to her Traumatic Haircut and subsequent elimination.
  • She gets one in All Stars after she learns that Alejandro betrayed her to eliminate her.
• Break the Haughty: Basically the entire first season is this for Heather, and she becomes a lot less abrasive as a result.
• The Bully: Even when her antagonistic nature isn't competition-driven, she's usually talking trash about the others either behind their backs or to their faces and being unapologetically bitchy in general.
• Butt-Monkey: Even being the main antagonist of a season doesn't make her immune to slapstick.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Laser-Guided Karma often hits her hard, especially in Island. More often than not, Leshawna and Gwen have a hand in it.
• Can't Take Criticism: Many times when she is called out for her flaws and misdeeds, she throws a fit. This is a case of Depending on the Writer, however; other times, she revels in her bad reputation to the point where she's not bothered by the others' harsh words about her in the slightest.
  Heather: LeShawna just told it like it is. I don't see what the big deal is. I do it all the time!
  Lindsay: She called you mean and nasty.
  Heather: I Can Live With That.
• Card-Carrying Villain: "Queen Bee" is the nice way of saying Alpha Bitch.
  Heather: Obviously, I'll be on the villains' team, and I'll be running it by lunch.
• Character Development: While she's still mean and manipulative, compare how evil she was in Island to how she is in World Tour and there's quite a difference.
• Characterization Marches On: In early episodes, Heather would take almost every opportunity to mess with her teammates even if it risked making her team lose, like reading Gwen's diary out loud to the whole world during a talent contest or making Leshawna chop pineapples (which she's allergic to) during a cooking competition. This habit seems to have disappeared by the middle of Island, as she became more focused on winning. She even gets mad at Courtney in World Tour for trying to lose the Area 51 challenge on purpose so they could vote out Gwen. She doesn't even like Gwen, but it seems she draws the line at bringing the whole team down for the purpose of single-minded revenge.
• The Chessmaster: Twist, manipulate, deceive, and mislead the competition is how she operates.
• Chronic Back Stabbing Disorder: In her pursuit for the million dollars, Heather has betrayed almost everyone she ever formed an alliance with. It is because of this, practically no one after the first season is willing to team up with her.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She does not want Courtney (or any other girl for that matter) to have Alejandro.
  (after Alejandro helps Courtney in the wedding dress challenge)
  Heather: I don't know what kind of weddings Alejandro has been to, but each groom gets one bride. One!
• Cruel Cheerleader: According to her bio, she was a cheerleader at her high school (the head cheerleader at that).
• Cruel to Be Kind: As unbelievable as it sounds, she dispenses this advice in "Chinese Fake-Out". When Cody doesn't want to get married to Sierra but she won't take no for an answer, Heather tells him to be honest with her and say flat-out that they will "never, ever be a thing".
• Deadpan Snarker: She has a dry wit, perfect for snapping at other contestants.
  Harold: I'll have you know this is a selfless act! My lady fans couldn't handle the loss of this perfect behind!
  Heather: And by "lady fans," he means his mother.
• Death Glare: Her default expression since she is easily disgusted or aggravated by virtually everyone and everything on the show. Alejandro is even attracted to it, referring to it as her eyes "shooting daggers."
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Heather deconstructs the Alpha Bitch, showing exactly how popular a cruel, vindictive, manipulative shrew of a girl would be— not popular at all. Her Freudian Excuse (being bullied for having been the ugly girl) has long since passed, leaving her with nothing but the joy of causing social humiliation just for the sake of causing social humiliation, which is petty enough to give her only short-term advantages. The cast is only fooled by her innocent act when the plot needs them to be, and after Island, none of them like or trust her. This extends to her life outside the show, where her parents are seen throwing a party because they don't have to put up with her for the summer, and she ends up dateless and alone during her high school dance because no one wants her.
• Defeat by Modesty: Accidentally does it to herself when her halter top comes off. However the distraction provided by this actually makes her team win the challenge and directly causes Harold's elimination.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: On one hand, she still retains her intense competitiveness and obsession with winning, but on the other hand, she has actually become progressively nicer over the course of the series (or, at the very least, less mean).
• Determinator: In "Hawaiian Punch," she gets fired up by a determination to be the "good guy" for once and not lose to Alejandro, racing up the volcano to catch up to him even with his sizable lead.
• Early Personality Signs: Zig-zagged. As per her biographies, she's been cunning and manipulative since childhood, forcing her parents to buy up her Girl Guide cookies and motivating her class to sell chocolate bars to get the class president (herself) a new bike. She also mentions in a TDA aftermath that her parents gave her electroshock therapy to be nicer, implying she's been rude since childhood. However, her vain persona only developed as a teenager, as she was Formerly Fat and unattractive in middle school.
• Enemy Mine:
  • With Gwen against Owen and Duncan's team in Island, even high-fiving when they win.
  • With Leshawna right before getting voted off in Action. Before that, Leshawna convinced Gwen to have Heather on their team both to keep an eye on her, and knowing Heather's smarts would actually make her a good ally.
  • With Gwen, again, in the 'Celebrity Manhunt' special, cooperating to delay Alejandro's car, and also against Courtney in the second half of World Tour, partly because Courtney kept throwing challenges and partly out of jealousy because of Alejandro flirting with her.
  • Temporarily with Courtney against Gwen once it was revealed that Gwen kissed Duncan behind Courtney's back, until the aforementioned instances led her to switch sides.
  • With Alejandro in "African Lying Safari" as part of their Big Bad Duumvirate, which also stems from their Belligerent Sexual Tension.
  • And yet, again, with Gwen in All Stars; Heather actively looks for an alliance with her, since she's the only non-villainous Vulture and therefore the one she can truly trust with making any kind of deal with.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She doesn't trust Owen because she finds his cheerfulness creepy and unnatural.
• Evil Counterpart: Heather is one to Gwen in unmitigated spades. Both of them start off as loners, and quickly develop an antagonistic relationship with Chris. Both are beautiful females who attract plenty of interest from the opposite sex. However, Heather is a representation of everything that Gwen is absolutely not, especially in Island. Gwen is a loner by voluntary choice, and generally minds her own choices. Heather, by contrast, winds up a loner because of her abuse of her allies. Gwen, despite having a cynical and snarky side, genuinely cares for her friends, and won't hesitate to risk losing the challenge to help them. Heather puts on a nice façade, but the friendship she offers is false, and backstabs them once they are no longer needed. Gwen is shown to accomplish most of her victories on her own merit, while Heather relies on her allies, and all of her individual wins are through sheer luck. Gwen is adamant on winning the competition fairly, even against friends. Heather will not hesitate to cheat to win. Gwen is shown in both her online biographies and the video message from her family to have a good relationship with her family, while Heather has a dysfunctional one. Gwen's relationships with Trent and Duncan were healthy, and they failed because of odd actions on Trent and Duncan's side. Heather's relationship with Alejandro swings from one pendulum to the next. In other words, Heather represents everything that Gwen appears to be, but is not.
• Even Bad Women Love Their Mamas: In Action, in the Medical Drama-based challenge, it's shown that Heather considers her mother as her best friend; in fact, when she thinks she's going to die along with the other contestants, she writes her last will and testament, leaving everything to her mom.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Despite of her ruthlessness, she does, in rare moments, displayed some concern for the other contestants' well-beings whenever they were injured or in near-death situations, such as Trent's sky diving mishap or Owen's broken jaw. Apparently, she wouldn't go so far as to wanting them to die.
  • In I See London, she was legitimately concerned for Alejandro's safety after he was kidnapped, and suggested looking for him despite being on opposite teams.
  • Alejandro's plan to eliminate Duncan in "African Lying Safari" leaves her stunned.
  Heather: (confessional) Even I'm not that ruthless!
  • She, along with Cody and Alejandro, is genuinely concerned when Sierra gets caught in the plane explosion.
• Everyone Can See It: It became gradually obvious that she and Alejandro were falling for each other over the course of World Tour. To the point that during Blaineley's rant after her elimination in "Chinese Fake-Out," she told them to "give it up and make out already." Whenever anyone stated it outright, Heather always denied it.
  Heather: Why does everybody keep saying that?
• Evil Is Bigger: Easily the tallest female member of the origional cast, retaining this until the introduction of Sierra.
• Evil Is Hammy: She's quite open about being evil.
  Noah: (about Chris's new reality show) A bunch of nasty jerks live in a huge mansion and get all bored and backstabby.
  Heather: I'm nasty! That should be me!
• Evil Is Petty: She frequently takes opportunities to get under her teammates' skin, such as making Leshawna slice pineapple chunks despite her allergy to them or tearing off Gwen's skirt during a rope-climbing trust exercise. However, she is capable of restraining herself when it comes to challenges that require teamwork—see Pragmatic Villainy below.
• Ex-Big Bad: Heather is the most prominent example in the series. Being the original Big Bad of Total Drama, after the conclusion of her first season, she remains around for most of the series. All the other contestants are all too wary of her shady past, but she never quite ascends to the status of main threat ever again. In World Tour she actually becomes the Villain Protagonist for the first half of the season before going through a Hazy-Feel Turn and ends up as the Anti-Hero up against the new Big Bad Alejandro.
• Expy:
  • Of Regina George. Also a "Queen Bee" who serves as a manipulative Big Bad that ruins the lives of others.
  • And, of course, of the Heathers, who she's likely named after. Particularly Heather Chandler, as she's the Queen Bee and by far the most cruel.
• Fatal Flaw: In the first season, recklessness. Heather repeatedly commits actions throughout Island that not only manage to alienate everybody on her team, and ultimately, the entire cast, but are extremely shortsighted and bring her no long term benefit, while only giving her short term advantages. One excellent example of this is reading Gwen's diary, as it managed to make her an eternal enemy in Gwen, didn't get her team any points, (and it's implied that had Heather actually performed ballet, it would have been enough to seal a Gopher victory), and nearly got her voted off. The only reason she makes it so far, especially after the merge, is either someone else is removed, or she gets invincibility. Unsurprisingly, her shortsighted decision making finally gets her eliminated in the final three.
• Femme Fatalons: In the New York episode where she slices open the prize apple with her nails.
• Foil: One to Courtney, primarily. Both are arrogant, domineering girls who will resort to any means to win the competition, and leaders of their teams in Season 1. The difference is that Heather revels in her villainy and prefers to manipulate others into doing her bidding, while Courtney sees herself as a hero and wins most of the challenges on her own merits (skill, strength). Heather also starts the series as a villain but gradually softens up and becomes an Anti-Hero after her Island defeat, while Courtney starts off heroic, but jumps down the slippery slope into self-serving villainy.
• Formerly Fat: She was apparently overweight when she was younger, which caused her to get bullied a lot. Part of her Freudian Excuse.
• Freudian Excuse: Hinted at in the first special by Harold, who theorizes that at least part of the reason for Heather's bad attitude is that she either has family issues at home (such as her parents being divorced—which is later disproven since Heather's parents appear to still be married) or that she was fat and unpopular when she was younger—Word of God confirms that Heather was in fact fat and unpopular up until she started high school; that could also explain her fear of sumo wrestlers. Also, it's pretty much confirmed that she does have family issues (with her parents and younger brother, at least).
• Gambit Roulette: A lot of her schemes require an insane amount of luck to work:
  • In Not Quite Famous, after reading Gwen's diary in front of everyone, she convinces Lindsay, Beth, Izzy and Owen to vote off Justin. The problem is, at this point she's on a team with ten campers so Heather had to assume everyone else wouldn't unanimously vote for her, otherwise there could have been a tie-breaker or even a double elimination.
  • In Search and Do Not Destroy, she kisses Trent in front of Gwen. Leshawna catching wind of this, rallies the contestants to vote off either Trent or Heather, Heather wins immunity so they settle with eliminating Trent. However, Heather had no way of knowing her chest had the immunity pass in it.
• Hated by All: Due to her heinous actions throughout Island—as pointed out by Izzy in Action, none of the other contestants (except for Harold, the only one initially willing to actually give Heather a chance) actually like or trust her. And as shown in the video message she gets from home, not even her own family seems to like her that much, as her parents are shown celebrating her absence (even going so far as to have all the stuff in her room moved out while she's gone). Lampshaded in the fourth World Tour Aftermath episode when the hosts are discussing the final three contestants:
  Bridgette: ♪There's Heather, she's an ice queen / But she's been playing hard!♪
  Geoff: ♪Too bad everybody hates her, she'd have to pay a bodyguard!♪
• Hazy-Feel Turn: She did go through some redemption at the end of World Tour, but she doesn't quite end up as being heroic either and it's quite hard to place her on the morality scale.
• Heroic Resolve: In "Hawaiian Punch", she's on the verge of defeat when trapped in a cage she can't escape from until Cody implies that she's "the Good Guy". At this realization, she bursts out and goes on to defeat Alejandro.
• Hidden Depths:
  • The third Action aftermath reveals that she has some degree of genuine respect for Harold. As she is shown in an exclusive clip secretly admiring Harold's Num-Yo skills, and attempting to use her own pair. Which fails miserably.
  • In "Not Quite Famous" Heather is shown to be an enough talented ballet dancer to be chosen to represent her team in that episode's challenge. It's a shame she chooses to read Gwen's diary in front of everyone instead.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: She previously threatened Lindsay with a head shaving if she ever betrayed their alliance again. Incidentally, Heather betrayed Lindsay in "That's Off the Chain," and Lindsay used Heather's own threat against her as a dare in "I Triple Dog Dare You," leading to Heather's Traumatic Haircut and subsequent elimination.
• Humiliation Conga: In "I Triple Dog Dare You!"...
  • Gwen and Owen decided to double-team Heather with one challenge after another. Surprisingly, Heather manages to take all of them...until the final dare where she had to get her hair shaven. She attempts to reject it, only for her hair to get shaven regardless. And to really add insult to injury (at least for Heather), since she didn't technically accept the dare (as she kicked the razor out of Chef's hands to try and avoid it), she ends up being eliminated anyway.
  • Even before Gwen and Owen double-teamed her, Heather's first dares involved licking Owen's armpit and sucking jelly out of Owen's belly button. She would've also had to lick Owen's toe jam, but used the only freebie she earned to opt out of that dare.
• Icy Gray Eyes: Cold and unapproachable.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: She is hated by almost everyone because she either manipulated, insulted, had a hand in eliminating or left a bad impression on them. She even manages to alienate the second generation contestants in her cameo appearance in Revenge of the Island. She even states in "Wawawakna Gone Wild!" that she's here to win, not to make friends.
• Important Haircut: Her hair getting shaved off marks the point where she is utterly defeated by Gwen and ceases to be a main antagonist.
• Improbable Weapon User: "Don't try to stop me! I've got gold statuettes and I am not afraid to use them!"
• In-Series Nickname: "Old Heather" by countless others, even Gwen, who was dubbed "New Heather."
• Irony: She once argued with Leshawna that at least she was popular. She ends up being the most hated contestant in the series, her own family is glad she's not home and it's strongly implied she has no friends.
• It's All About Me: "I'm valuable!"
• Jerkass: She read Gwen's diary out loud for the world just because Gwen gave her a little lip. Even Chris was absolutely disgusted with her for it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After Island, her positive traits were allowed to show through on occasion.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Told Cody, Sierra and Alejandro that the Marriage of Sierra and Cody is invalid, stating as there was no wedding certificate first and foremost. Sure she's probably doing this to hurt Alejandro's favor with Sierra, but she made a point about the marriage being a sham.
  • Calls Chris out on allowing Alejandro and Blaineley to cheat in the gross food challenge in "Chinese Fake-Out".
  • In Revenge when returning as guest she steals the million dollar prize and attempts to escape, claiming it was owed to her. Thing is, she isn't wrong, even in Alejandro's ending of World Tour where she lost, she only did so because of a bogus ruling because she threw the wrong idol into the volcano, even though she clearly beat Alejandro, and in neither ending is it her fault the prize money was destroyed by Zeke.
• Kick the Dog: She acts callously towards practically everyone, especially in Island. In particular, she frequently mistreats her alliance mates Beth and Lindsay, and she has intense rivalries with Gwen and Leshawna.
• Large Ham: Her emotional outbursts are truly something to behold.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Fell victim to it quite regularly in Island. Gwen lampshades this in a confessional.
  Gwen: (in confessional, after Heather falls into a jellyfish pool) Sometimes, the universe just gives you a freebie. (looks up at the sky and gives a thumbs up)
• Lean and Mean: She's tall and skinny, and she's also the show's main Alpha Bitch.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: When it's just her and Alejandro left in World Tour, most of the contestants ended up supporting her. Compared to him, Heather was the "good guy".
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Dark to Lindsay's Light.
• Literal Metaphor: When describing how she got Owen to vote off Justin, Heather simply says "and Owen? Piece of cake!" It's then shown that she literally bribed him with a piece of cake.
• Male Gaze: She gets a few butt shots, but not quite to the same extent as Courtney.
• Malicious Misnaming:
  • She has called Lindsay "Lindsiot" at least twice.
  • She often refers to Gwen as "Weird Goth Girl".
  • She has called Izzy either "Psycho Hose Beast" or simply "Crazy Girl".
• Manipulative Bitch: She is one of the most manipulative contestants in the entire series, rivaled only by Alejandro. This is especially the case in Island, and still holds traces of it later seasons.
  Heather: In this world, there are shepherds and there are sheep, and Lindsay is a major sheep. Baaaaaah!
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The masculine girl to Alejandro's feminine boy. Heather is ruthless, rude, and has no troubles attacking people in order to get what she wants. Alejandro is sweet-talking, polite, and less prone to being aggressive when manipulating people.
• The Masochism Tango: With Alejandro. Her and Alejandro literally tango, on top of a train, while singing about how much they hate each other in "Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles".
  You are the worst, why must you torment me?
  It's all a game to you, but not to me...
• Meaningful Name: She's most likely named after Heathers, a film about social cliques in high school that features a trio of queen bees as main characters, all named Heather.
• Misplaced Retribution: During the cooking challenge, Leshawna, Lindsay and Beth play keep-away with her makeup bag and lock her in the freezer, but during the next episode, she ignores them and directs her anger at Gwen.
• Moral Myopia: In "The Sucky Outdoors," she's furious that Gwen dumped Harold's red ant farm in her bed and swears revenge, despite the fact that said incident was provoked by Heather stealing Gwen's diary and reading it out loud on national television; when Trent points this out to her, Heather blows him off.
• Morality Pet: Alejandro's love for her is his most prominent redeeming quality. To the point where it actually helped him finally beat his brother José who's practically been the cause of Alejandro's ruthless nature.
• Ms. Fanservice: Invokes this to get on the show. She has many Shower Scenes and appearances in a Modesty Towel during the first season. Plus, her boobs were shown in "X-Treme Torture", and her butt was shown (uncensored no less) in "3:10 to Crazytown".
• Never My Fault: In Island, she would sabotage other contestants with relish, but react with anger when they decided to get her back. When she swore revenge against Gwen for dumping Harold's red ant farm into her bed, Trent pointed out that Heather had read Gwen's diary out loud to the entire world the previous night; she brushed him off.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
  • Was on the receiving end of this twice, first from Gwen and then from Leshawna.
  • Was on the giving end in Revenge of the Island against Lightning with the million dollar briefcase, no less.
• Odd Friendship: She and Cody develop a friendship over their shared hatred of Alejandro in World Tour.
• Only Sane Woman: Sometimes acts like this when compared to some of the other contestants.
• Out-of-Character Moment: While it's obvious that she's gotten progressively nicer over the course of the series, no one could have been prepared for her sweet, cheerful display in "Moon Madness", even if it was all an act to trick Alejandro. She hugs an alligator at one point.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In Island, she tried to calm DJ down when he got freaked out by her facial and joined his goodbye group hug when he was eliminated.
  • Here's a shocker, in Action, she defends Leshawna after Leshawna gets caught bad-mouthing all of the contestants, including her during her spa trip with her cousin, Leshaniqua. She later gives Leshawna her wig as a gift to remember her by after she gets voted off.
  • Several times in World Tour. Examples include warning Leshawna that Alejandro was up to no good, consoling a heartbroken Courtney after it was revealed Duncan and Gwen had kissed, and giving Sierra a headdress and wheelchair because she sympathized with her being bald on national TV.
• Plot Armor: In Island, there are a few episodes the contestants could've easily voted her out, but didn't. This is even more noticeable in the final episodes, after everyone witnessed her voting off Lindsay and swore to eliminate her when they get the chance. In addition to several episodes where Heather wins immunity, even in ones she doesn't the contestants end up voting someone else such as Izzy and Geoff, when Heather would have been the more logical choice.
  • Because of her pampered life style and spending most of season one having Lindsay and Beth do her challenges for her, Heather fails every challenge after the last of her allies were eliminated since she was so used to having people help her. If it weren't for plot's sake, she would had been eliminated an episode after Lindsay.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Heather is the Big Bad of Island and always a villain; mean and hated by nearly everyone. However, she will not screw with her teammates if doing so would hurt the team's chances of winning a challenge, and more than once has gotten mad at others for doing just that.
  • She even goes so far as to counsel Sierra after the latter fell to Alejandro's manipulations and ended up annoying Chris.
  • Most notably Courtney during World Tour. Heather even once essentially says at one point, "I'd rather win fairly than lose on purpose".
• Pyrrhic Victory: In both endings of World Tour;
  • In her ending of World Tour, she finally wins the competition and the million dollars only for her million to get stolen from her by a feral Ezekiel seconds later. She is last seen swimming away for her life from an erupting volcano with a giant boulder about to hit her just before the camera cuts away.
  • In Alejandro's ending of World Tour, she accidentally throws Alejandro's effigy into the volcano instead of hers, making him the winner instead. She doesn't get hit by the flaming boulder at the end, however.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Ever since the first season, she became less evil, but many will never forget her actions on it since;
  • In Action, while Heather obviously isn't "good," she's not nearly as evil as she was in Island—but because of her past actions, and as mentioned above, Izzy told Heather to her face that, with the exception of Harold, none of the other contestants actually like or trust her, and Gwen (her team captain) outright says that any idea being suggested by Heather is reason enough not to do it.
  • In World Tour, this only gets worse: She's even less evil at this point, but the rest of the cast now seems to hate her more than ever. When she is in the final three, she has literally zero cast-mates rooting for her, while Alejandro, who has been more actively villainous in this season than Heather ever was, has five.
• Rich Bitch: Heather's mentioned to come from a rich family.
• Rise of Zitboy: It's mentioned that she had bad facial acne when she was younger.

• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Heather's gorgeous and she knows it. She actually uses that fact to get on to the show in her audition tape.
• Shipper on Deck: Of Gwen/Duncan and Cody/Sierra, but only to ruffle feathers — she doesn't actually give a damn about anyone's love life.
• Shower Scene: Several during Island with Sexy Silhouette.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Alejandro when they finally get together in the All-Stars finale.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Played with—Heather's easily one of the most arrogant and stuck-up contestants, but most of the time, she has the skills and intelligence to back up her claims. However, there at times where Heather ultimately overestimates her abilities (while underestimating her opponents) and it's shown that she's not as good as she claims to be, and she relies on others to do her dirty work.
• Smug Snake: While smart and manipulative, Heather's very arrogant and tends to get overconfident, and in "I Triple Dog Dare You," her massive ego, along with her vanity, proved to be her ultimate downfall—that's actually what Gwen was banking on in the aforementioned episode.
• Social Darwinist: In "The Sucky Outdoors", Lindsay is scared that Izzy has been eaten by a bear. Heather just says that if it did, then it shouldn't be hungry anymore. Gwen and Trent look aghast, and she says, "What? This is survival of the fittest!"
• Spoiled Brat: She's self-absorbed, bossy and entitled narcissist from a rich background which enhances her large ego and a tendency to demean others close to her.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She is one of the most focused-on contestants in the entire series and is by far the most focused-on antagonist.
• Stripping Snag: Heather, riding a rapidly moving vehicle, loses her top when a passing tree branch slips under it and tears it off.
• Stalker without a Crush: For Courtney. She REALLY wants her hair.
• Statuesque Stunner: Prior to Sierra and Blaineley's introductions, she was the tallest female among the first generation cast.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Her mother looks almost identical to her.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Considering both of her minions have an "F" in evil. Lampshaded in "If You Can't Take the Heat...".
  Heather: Ugh! It's like I'm on a team of morons!
• Take Over the World: As the page quote says, she claims when she wins TDI that she wants to have a spinoff series called "The World According to Heather." It's also stated in her TDI biography that she signed up for the show as practice for her long-term goal of ruling Europe.
• Tempting Fate:
  • She's relieved in "I Triple Dog Dare You" when the bottle lands on Lindsay's picture, claiming that she will finally get a break since she believes Lindsay is too stupid to come up with anything bad. However, when Chris reveals Lindsay's dare, "Have your head shaved by Chef", it would lead to her Traumatic Haircut and subsequent elimination.
  • She promises in the confessional that she won't be the one to go home after someone has stolen her immunity idol. Alejandro turns out to be the one who took it and uses it to eliminate her.
• There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Shepherds and sheep, according to Heather in "Hide and Be Sneaky". She sees herself as the former and Lindsay as the latter.
• This Is Unforgivable!: As much as she would love to eliminate people she hates, she loves winning more, and if you are caught throwing her team's challenges on purpose, she will make it her business to eliminate you, as seen with Gwen in Action and Courtney in World Tour.
• Token Evil Teammate: During the first three seasons she often cheated or manipulated events to help her team get ahead.
• Token Minority: Heather has had her ethnicity verified. According to Todd Kaufmann, she is Asian, though Heather's technically only half-Asian, since her dad is shown to be Caucasian.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Total Drama Island, Heather doesn't bother helping out in challenges and always has Beth and Lindsay doing the work for her. Without their help, she faces many difficulties in participating in any of her challenges. In subsequent seasons, she is willing to get her hands dirty and even manages to reach the finale of Total Drama World Tour on her own.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • Gradually over the course of the series. While not exactly "kind," Heather is far less evil and manipulative than she was in Island, especially in the third season when compared to her rival/love interest Alejandro.
    Alejandro: ...compared to me, Heather's a saint!
  • In "Moon Madness", she becomes happy and sweet while under the influence of the Blue Harvest Moon until it's revealed in the confessional that she was faking it.
• Trash Talk: She's quite skilled at this, especially when it comes to Gwen and Leshawna.
  Heather: Back off ghetto glamour, too tight pants wearing, rap star wannabe.
  Leshawna: Mall shopping, ponytail wearing, teen girl reading, peaking in high school prom queen.
• Traumatic Haircut: Played straight when her hair was shaved off, but averted with her attempts to take Courtney's.
• Tsundere: Towards Alejandro.
• Uncertain Doom: At the end of All-Stars, after Camp Wawanakwa sinks, Heather, alongside Alejandro, swims away to escape from Fang, but is never seen again afterwards due to no more seasons featuring members of the original cast being produced.
• Unexplained Recovery:
  • In the finale of World Tour, Heather is last seen about to be hit by a massive flaming boulder as she and the other contestants swim away from the Hawaiian island whose volcano has erupted, but the screen turns to static before she is hit. However, her appearance in the premiere of Revenge of the Island confirms she survived.
  • In her guest appearance in Revenge of the Island, Heather tries to escape aboard Chris' blimp with that season's prize money to make up for her loss at the end of World Tour, so Chris sends all the remaining contestants to recover the prize. At the end, the blimp crashes into the sea and Heather apparently remains inside the aircraft. However, her return in All-Stars confirms she survived the crash.
• Ungrateful Bitch: She doesn't show even the slightest bit of gratitude towards Beth or Lindsay. This is what eventually leads Beth to betray Heather in "Paintball Deer Hunter".
• Unholy Matrimony: Eventually develops this with Alejandro.
• Villainous Breakdown: When she gets eliminated in Island. She's heard by the eliminated contestants all the way from Play De Losers.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: As much she's likely to feud with Harold and Duncan, she is often willing to team up with both of them in Action and she even teams up with Gwen (her worst enemy besides Leshawna) and Courtney in World Tour.
• Villain Protagonist: During the first half of World Tour, before becoming an Anti-Hero after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Vocal Evolution: As the series progresses, her voice gradually loses the snobbish tones it had in season one.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is afraid of sumo wrestlers.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Alejandro. In the All-Stars finale, they finally get together, though they still maintain their competitive natures.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In "Search and Do Not Destroy", to break up Gwen and Trent, she tells Trent that Gwen was being mean to her and she shouldn't be trusted in an attempt to gain his sympathy. To seal the deal, Heather kisses Trent in front of Gwen to make it appear that he is cheating on her.
• We Used to Be Friends: Heather and Leshawna were bitter enemies in Total Drama Island, and that did not change in Total Drama Action. But when Leshawna's teammates learn that she pretended to have a breakdown in order to guilt trip her teammates into letting her have a night at a spa away from the set and badmouthed them behind their backs, Heather was the only one to forgive her and defend her actions. So when Heather was voted off, Leshawna tells Heather she considers them friends. In a later episode, Leshawna states that she meant what she said and she does consider Heather her friend. By season 3, Heather and Leshawna are back to being bitter enemies with no reason given why their friendship ended. In fact, Leshawna even hates Heather more, once beating Heather up for warning her about Alejandro being evil. And even when she learns Heather was telling the truth, she was still glad she beat Heather.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Well, more jerkass than world destroying, but she only acts like a jerk because of troubles of being bullied for being fat when she was a kid.
• You Are Fat: In Island, one of her favorite insults against Leshawna is to make cracks about her weight, but her rival gives as good as she gets.
  Heather: ...especially that! (points to Leshawna's large bra hanging off the side of the bed) That is bugging me!
  Leshawna: Yeah, it'd bug me too, if I didn't have anything in the front or in the back to shake!
  Heather: Yeah?! Well, you got so much junk in your trunk, your jeans should come with a trash compactor!
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • Her shared reaction with Alejandro, Sierra, and Cody when Chris demanded a musical number during a very inopportune time.
  • Her reaction to the robot breaking apart and revealing itself to have contained Alejandro in the first episode of Total Drama All-Stars.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: How she betrays Lindsay towards the end of "That's Off the Chain."