List of Total Drama series characters

This is a list of characters in the Total Drama series of shows, a Canadian animated television series shown on Teletoon in Canada and on Cartoon Network in the United States. The Total Drama series consists of the first season, Total Drama Island, the second season, Total Drama Action, and the upcoming third season, Total Drama World Tour.

The Total Drama series is an animated television series that parodies reality television, with the characters consisting of the eponymous fictional reality series and the contestants therein. All of the contestants have distinct personalities that serve as a main plot point. Unless otherwise stated, all contestants are 16 years old, as stated in the first episode of the series.

Cast members

• Chris McLean (Christian Potenza) is the 25-year-old host of the Total Drama series. According to the contestants, he has had a career in hosting reality television, and is known to have acted in at least one film (as the main character in a badminton-themed zombie movie). Nearly all of the budget allotted to Total Drama Island and its successors are allocated to his pay, though he also states that he takes on many other crew responsibilities (including writer and executive producer); as a result, the show employs many unpaid interns, most of which he claims are seriously injured or killed during production. He cares very little for the contestants' safety or well-being, except when his own livelihood would suffer as a result; in return, the contestants grow to dislike Chris, staying on with the competition for the prize money. He is the series' stereotypical "pretty boy", and his appearance and mannerisms are a homage to Survivor host Jeff Probst. He is often protective of his high-society LifeStyle, blatantly bending the rules of the show when things don't go his way; he even goes as far as to hire Owen as a ringer to stir up trouble in Total Drama Action.
• Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett) is the show's only other major crew member. He is a tall, loud, tough, and intimidating man, who was previously employed in prisons and the military. Despite the name, he appears to be inept at cooking, serving horrible food to the contestants while they remain in the game (though, as revealed in Total Drama Action, this is intentionally done to torture the contestants, as it has been shown that he is a good cook if he did not have to serve the contestants). He also assists Chris in organizing the challenges (and torturing the contestants in general), including donning various costumes as the main obstacle to the challenges and being the sole judge in talent contests. Though he is on better terms with Chris than the contestants and other crew members, it is hinted that he (like the rest of his crew) is rarely ever paid for his work, if ever; the early part of Total Drama Action had Chef illegally assisting DJ in order to convince him to split their winnings with him should they win the competition. When Chef is ultimately disciplined as a result, Chef begins to openly rebel against Chris, ultimately deciding to leave the show for a job on board a cruise ship, though he is later convinced to stay by Beth when she convinces Chef and Chris separately that they need each other.

Contestants

• Beth (Sarah Gadon), the Wannabe, is a friendly and nerdy girl who aspires to be popular and have a serious relationship. on "Total Drama Island" she was placed on the Screaming Gophers team, where she, along with Lindsay, was quickly drawn into an alliance with Heather. Heather chose Beth because of her desperate personality, but Beth turned out to have a much stronger will then Heather had anticipated, as Beth quit the alliance fairly early when she realized that Heather was simply using her and Lindsay as pawns, causing her to develop a deep hatred of Heather. Beth was voted off one episode later, when her team discovered that she had kept a cursed tiki doll, in the episode "Up the Creek", which caused her team to have bad luck. However, Beth returned for "Total Drama Action", where she was much more confident, having her braces removed, and became close friends with Lindsay. she was chosen by Trent to be on the Killer Grips. thrughout the season she frequently talked about her boyfriend Brady, who nobody believed was real. despite this, she also developed a crush on Justin, who, like Heather manipulated Beth and Lindsay with his good looks. Near the end of the season, Courtney convinced her into an alliance, as they became the last two remaining female contestants, though like Heather's alliance, Beth soon quit due to Courtneys bossy personality. Beth soon made it to the final two with Duncan, where the two ended up helping each other in the finals, which resulted in a tie. Chris came up with a tiebreaking challenge where the already eliminated contestants voted for the winner, which resulted in Duncan winning. Despite losing, Beth took her loss in stride, as her boyfriend showed up at the studio, proving to everybody that he really was real. in the alternate ending, Beth wins.

• Bridgette (Kristin Fairlie), the Surfer Chick, is a calm and friendly teenager, known for her talent at surfing, and love of nature. According to her Total Drama Island: Interactive profile she has been surfing since before she could walk. She was placed on the Killer Bass, on "Total Drama Island", where despite being very athletic, she proved to be somewhat accident prone and caused many mishaps for her team. She developed a crush on teammate Geoff, who returned the feeling, but would frequently accidentally insult her, making to offended. Eventually Bridgette was voted off by the "Guy's Alliance" which consisted of Duncan, DJ, Owen, and Geoff. Despite this, Geoff refused to vote her off, which made her realize that he had feelings for her. Bridgette returned for Total Drama Action, where during the early part of the season she and Geoff frequently made out with each other, annoying their fellow competitors. this caused them to be voted off first, in a double elimination. However, their early elimination gave them the opportunity to become the hosts of the TDA Aftermath, a talk show that interviewed the eliminated contestants about their time in the series. Fame began to "go to Geoff's head", and as he became more and more narcissistic, his relationship with Bridgette suffered. Eventually, Bridgette taught Geoff a lesson by strapping him into an electric chair, in the third aftermath, and after that he evidently went back to normal.

• Cody (Peter Oldring), the Geek, is a suburbanite who believes he is a "ladies' man", though his actions speak otherwise. In Total Drama Island, he is put on the Screaming Gophers, and promptly began to court the interests of teammate Gwen. Seeing that Gwen was more interested in Trent, he instead offered to help the two become closer together, earning her friendship in the process. Cody was soon voted off due to being mauled by a bear in the very next challenge, rendering him unable to compete further despite his claims that he is a fast healer. Cody failed to qualify for Total Drama Action, though on TDA Aftermath he is shown rooting for Gwen.

• Courtney (Emilie Barlow), the A-Type, is a girl with tan skin ,and shoulder-length brown hair. She is highly competitive, and as such she tends to underestimate the abilities of her fellow competitors. She is put on the Killer Bass in Total Drama Island, where despite her best intentions, she was nearly voted off early after reminding everyone of how she was a counselor-in-training and thus deserved to be a leader. She developed a love/hate relationship with fellow teammate Duncan, due to her being a stickler of the rules and his willingness to bend them. Though initially reluctant, she eventually admits she likes him despite (or, as is sometimes implied, because of) his rebellious nature, culminating with the two of them kissing. She was eventually voted off after Harold, the victim of Duncan's many pranks, had tampered with the votes to get revenge on Duncan. Believing to have been wrongly eliminated, she proceeded to sue the show and its producers. She eventually wins the lawsuit shortly after the second TDA Aftermath episode, and was allowed to compete in Total Drama Action (which she did not originally qualify for), where she served as the primary antagonist for the latter half of the season. As terms of her settlement, she was entitled to better treatment than her fellow competitors, which included her own private bathroom and contact with the outside world through her PDA; these advantages were derisively dubbed "Courtney's Rules" by Chris. When she entered the competition, the two teams were competing in a bank heist challenge, and she was allowed to choose the winner; she chose Duncan and his team, the Screaming Gaffers. However, this also meant that she would be put on the opposite team, the Killer Grips, where she was unpopular because of her haughtiness and feisty attitude. Courtney would prove to be a very strong competitor though, nearly single-handedly winning challenges for the Grips, and later for herself when the teams were merged. She still has feelings for Duncan in Total Drama Action, although she also harbours a grudge against him due to mistakenly believing that Duncan cheated on her with Gwen earlier in the season. Courtney would eventually be eliminated by Beth (as a threat) and Duncan (due to her overbearing personality), though not before exposing Owen as Chris' ringer. Still, she supported Duncan to the very end, and the two of them kiss and make up after Duncan is announced as the winner of Total Drama Action; she subsequently proclaims herself to be "queen" to Duncan's "king". (In the alternate ending, Courtney reconciles with Duncan when he asks her out to dinner, and she tries to persuade him to sue the show due to "election fraud").

• D.J. (Clé Bennett), the Brick house with a heart, is a well-built Jamaican-Canadian who was originally cast after producers saw him push 80 shopping carts. He is incredibly gentle and rarely has a mean thought cross his mind due to his upbringing; as such, he is one of the most well-liked contestants. However, he is easily frightened by the most innocuous of things, despite his size. He was originally put on the Killer Bass in Total Drama Island, where he is shown to be very mindful of the wildlife and the other competitors, though a generally strong competitor in the challenges. He was eventually voted off in a horror movie-themed challenge, when he was the only contestant to be eliminated from the challenge without having actually encountered the "psycho killer with the chainsaw and a hook". However, in 'Up The Creek', he saved his team by pushing the canoes despite not being able to swim. He would eventually qualify for Total Drama Action, where he was with the Screaming Gaffers. D.J. was forced into an "illegal alliance" with Chef, where Chef would "toughen him up" in exchange for splitting the prize money with him should he win the competition (which amounted to Chef cheating in D.J.'s favor). Despite doing well as a result, his conscience gets the better of him, and he voluntarily eliminates himself from the competition, to the protests of the remaining contestants, who had discovered that the marked increase in the quality of the food they were eating was a result of D.J.'s cooking.

• Duncan (Drew Nelson), the Juvenile delinquent, is a mohawked rebel with a love for punk rock. Duncan's aversion to the law and authority in general stems from the fact that all his relatives are either police officers or training to become police officers. He has disclosed how he had ended up in juvie to his fellow competitors, and has publicly disclosed that he had been apprehended by the Ontario Provincial Police for his actions. He was originally put on Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass as an alternative to further detention in juvie. Despite his hostile personality and fondness for criminal activities, he has shown that he is actually a good person at heart (although he insists otherwise at every opportunity) and generally gets along with most of his fellow competitors. He became particularly close with Courtney, and she would become his love interest despite having a personality that often clashes with his own. He also proved to be a very strong competitor in the challenges, using the "skills" learned from juvie to his advantage. He was also fond of pranking other competitors from time to time, especially Harold. He made it to the final four on Total Drama Island, where he was voted off after his challenge partner, Owen, gave up victory for a plate of sticky buns; Chef then eliminated him due to a personal vendetta. Duncan qualified for Total Drama Action, where he was the first one chosen for the Screaming Gaffers by Gwen, with whom he would develop a close friendship. His rivalry with Harold escalated and he began bullying him more than ever after finding out he was responsible for Courtney's elimination in the first season. However, Duncan and Harold eventually began to respect each other, especially when they become the only two male contestants left in the competition (prior to Owen returning as Chris' ringer). Duncan's toughness and surprisingly good acting skills won him many challenges in the first half of Total Drama Action, but his concentration began to slip after Courtney entered the competition, due to him still having a strong attraction to her. Despite trying not to throw challenges to help her after seeing what Trent and Gwen went through earlier in the season, he still continually suffered defeat at the hands of Courtney. However, Duncan would personally eliminate Courtney from the competition when the terms of their relationship became far too overbearing for him. Duncan eventually made it to the final two on Total Drama Action, and he was declared the winner of the competition in the season finale following a vote conducted by his fellow contestants, winning the prize money and making up with Courtney in the process. (In the alternate ending, Beth wins Total Drama Action instead of Duncan, and Duncan reconciles with Courtney by asking her out to dinner to cheer them both up).

• Eva (Julia Chantrey), the Tough Girl, is a "butch" contestant who is constantly training to become stronger. However, she is devoid of emotions as a result, often breaking out into fits of rage over minor things. It is this that causes her downfall on Total Drama Island, after a scheming Heather causes her to lash out at her Killer Bass teammates after Heather had taken her MP3 player. She was voted off in retaliation by her fellow teammates. She would return later in the competition "by popular demand", where she targeted her rage at Bridgette (the sole remaining female Killer Bass member), blaming her for her first elimination. Her anger causes her to be eliminated soon after, and it is only after her second elimination that she discovers that it was Heather who had caused her to be eliminated. Eva did not qualify for Total Drama Action.

• Ezekiel (Peter Oldring), the Home-Schooled Guy, is a contestant from the rural prairies who has never seen the world outside of his own home. On Total Drama Island, he was put on the Killer Bass, though he was the first contestant to be eliminated after inadvertently making sexist comments that offended nearly every female contestant. Ezekiel did not qualify for Total Drama Action. The only thing he has done of significance in any TDA Aftermath episode is clap in agreement, with an expression of enthusiastic agreement on his face, when Geoff said that winning the million dollars was more important than "keeping your integrity", in TDA Aftermath II.
• Geoff (Dan Petronijevic), the Party Boy, is an easygoing and fun-loving individual who is generally liked by his fellow male campers. On Total Drama Island, he is put on the Killer Bass, where he develops a budding romance with Bridgette, though initially Geoff would often become unglued when speaking to her. He is eventually eliminated because his happy-go-lucky attitude was deemed as a threat to the remaining competitors. He qualifies for Total Drama Action, but is eliminated with Bridgette before the teams are chosen due to their constant making out began to annoy the other contestants. However, their elimination also presented the opportunity for them to host TDA Aftermath, where the lure of celebrity has gone to Geoff's head, and his relationship with co-host Bridgette (who calls his changed persona "Captain Hollywood") and his fellow competitors suffer as a result. It was not until an intervention set up by Bridgette, Owen, LeShawna, and Heather that Geoff admits that "Captain Hollywood" was merely a persona, and that deep down he still has feelings for Bridgette.

• Gwen (Megan Fahlenbock), the Goth Girl, chooses to be alone for the most part, though she cares for her family deeply, auditioning for Total Drama Island on a dare from her brother. Because of her loner attitude, she has been derisively called the "weird goth girl" by Heather, but unlike her, is generally well liked by the other contestants. She joined Total Drama Island as a member of the Screaming Gophers, where she was one of the strongest competitors, winning many challenges. There, she developed a distaste for Heather, while building a strong friendship with LeShawna and Bridgette and a budding romance with Trent. Her relationship with Trent began to unravel after Heather plotted to kiss Trent in front of her, causing LeShawna to round up everyone else and vote Heather off in retaliation, only to vote Trent off after Heather won invincibility. Gwen would get her revenge on Heather after conspiring with Owen to help eliminate Heather in the semifinal sudden-death challenge, earning herself and Owen a spot in the finals. Gwen, however, would lose out on the final challenge when a determined Owen rushed to finish the line in order to grab snacks that were planted there by his supporters (In an alternate ending, Gwen won the competition, when the snacks planted there by his supporters were still well short of the finish line). Gwen qualified for Total Drama Action, where she, along with Trent, had won a challenge that earned the two of them the title of captain of the two teams, meaning that the two would be on opposite teams. Gwen's team was christened the Screaming Gaffers. Trent, wanting to see Gwen do well, began throwing challenges to let her win, which Gwen does not take lightly. In order to get Trent to stop, she breaks up with him, but not before Justin discovers Trent's motives. He blackmails Gwen, forcing her to vote herself off at the next opportunity in exchange for Trent's ouster. Though engineering her own elimination was tough, she eventually does so. She eventually makes up with Trent following her appearance on TDA Aftermath, but they have yet to restart their short-lived romance.

• Harold (Brian Froud), the Uber-Geek, is modeled after Napoleon Dynamite. An eternal underdog, Harold is a nerd and proud of it. He's amassed a broad and diverse set of skills learned at several different thematic summer camps throughout his life. Most such skills are extremely dorky and, coupled with his odd personality and appearance, earn him ridicule from his peers. They are, however, surprisingly useful and have won Harold several challenges, often shocking an incredulous audience. On Total Drama Island, Harold was joined with the Killer Bass team, where he clashed with fellow teammate Duncan, who constantly pranked and teased him for his dorkiness (sometimes with the help of Geoff and D.J.). He would eventually get his revenge on Duncan by tampering with the votes so that Courtney, Duncan's love interest, was voted off. His own elimination came soon after, when a plot by Heather to cut the tow rope in a "waterskiing on mud" challenge accidentally caused her top to be snagged by a tree branch, distracting him enough to lose the challenge for their team. During his elimination it was revealed he had developed a crush on teammate LeShawna. In the Total Drama Island reunion special, he paired up with Heather, who quickly betrayed him. After forgiving her, he analyzed her cruelty as an attempt to cover her own insecurity. This was the only moment in the series Heather admitted vulnerability and bonded with anyone (despite denying it), and Harold remains the only character in the series sympathetic to her. He qualified for Total Drama Action and was put on the Screaming Gaffers, becoming Duncan's teammate yet again. During this season, he reveals that his full name is Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the Fifth, which Duncan finds out about and takes advantage of, occasionally calling Harold "Doris" to tease him. While Duncan continues to bully Harold (this time, as revenge for Courtney's elimination in the first season), Harold has taken a bolder stand against Duncan and their rivalry seems to alternate between fraternal bickering and actual hostility. His relationship with LeShawna remains on hold as she admits to corresponding his feelings but insists they remain friends. Like Cody, he thinks of himself as a ladies' man, though he is actually more successful than Cody, having won the heart of LeShawna. He admits that he is attracted to Heather (and to a lesser extent, Gwen). When Owen returns as a competitor, Harold is the first to discover that Owen was, in reality, a ringer hired by Chris to sabotage the other contestants, though he is eliminated before he could tell anyone.

• Heather (Rachel Wilson), the Queen Bee, confirmed to be Asian Canadian, is a cruel, ruthless and manipulative player who served as the primary antagonist on Total Drama Island. There, she was put on the Screaming Gophers, where she often butted heads with her teammates, particularly Gwen and LeShawna. However, she also formed an alliance with Lindsay and Beth, although she essentially just used the two of them as pawns for her needs and constantly abused them. She conspired with the two to eliminate many of the contestants, but once her true colors started to show, they both turned against her. Towards the end of the season, Heather had become overconfident and was eventually eliminated in the semifinal challenge when Gwen and Owen teamed up against her in a sudden-death "truth or dare" showdown - which she lost for refusing to shave her head (a dare ironically written by Lindsay after Heather had threatened to do the exact same thing to her in order to keep her in line) which ended up happening anyway in an accident. During the Total Drama Island reunion special she paired up with Harold and then betrayed him. He subsequently forgave her and analyzed her cruelty as an attempt to cover her own insecurities in the only moment in the series she admitted vulnerability and bonded with anyone (despite denying it). Although she qualified for Total Drama Action (where she wore a wig for portions of the competition to hide her baldness), her actions in Total Drama Island have left her being nearly universally disliked, with Harold being the only one displaying some sympathy towards her. Aware of her status as a pariah amongst her fellow competitors, she was shocked when she was picked for the Screaming Gaffers by her rival Gwen (on LeShawna's suggestion to "keep their enemies closer"). Her insufferable attitude improved somewhat during Total Drama Action, as she generally became less antagonistic and more cooperative in the challenges. True to her nature though, she still berated people around her at every opportunity, and her useful contributions were often kept to a minimum. She is later eliminated, but not before burying the hatchet with longtime enemy LeShawna; Heather was the only one who defended LeShawna's actions after LeShawna's series of lies had lost the trust of her fellow competitors.

• Izzy (Katie Crown), the psycho, is a mysterious competitor, owing to her crazy and unpredictable nature and habit of lying. However, one of the things that is known not to be a lie is the fact that she is a fugitive, being wanted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for reasons unknown. On Total Drama Island, she was originally put on the Killer Bass, but agreed to switch teams with Katie, a Screaming Gopher, in the first challenge so that she would be reunited with Sadie. She develops a short-lived relationship with Owen, who she claimed "understood" her, but was eliminated when the RCMP arrives to arrest her, though she eludes them and returns to competition. She would be eliminated a second time in a deer hunting challenge after shooting everything but a deer (including Chef and Heather) with her tranquilizer gun and failing the challenge. Izzy would qualify for Total Drama Action and be put on the Killer Grips, where she kept demanding that she be referred to by the name of E-Scope, which she had concocted during the Total Drama Island reunion special. However, she was eliminated in the first challenge after the teams were formed due to losing the acting portion of the challenge to Duncan, though an effort by Chef to fix the acting challenge in favor of the Killer Grips was also a factor. But due to a voting irregularity/loophole, where "E-Scope" and not "Izzy" was eliminated, she eventually returned to the competition, where she developed another alter ego, Explosivo. Izzy would rekindle her romance with Owen, but not before making an off-comment in which she regarded Justin as being unattractive, forcing Justin to manipulate Beth and Lindsay to help him vote Izzy off.

• Justin (Adam Reid), the Hunk, is an attractive black male model who attracts the attention of his fellow contestants and even the animals. On Total Drama Island, he was put on the Screaming Gophers, and was ousted due to a voting bloc consisting of Heather, her alliance (Lindsay and Beth), Izzy, and Owen (who she had bribed) despite a strong showing in the talent contest challenge. He qualifies for Total Drama Action, where he becomes the primary antagonist for the first half of the season, resolving to use his looks to his advantage. Selected to join the Killer Grips by Trent due to "looks being everything" in acting, he is able to manipulate fellow teammates Beth and Lindsay to his advantage, and arrange for Trent's ousting after discovering that Trent had been throwing challenges. Although manipulative, Justin himself is a poor challenge performer, owing to the fact that he prefers to protect his image above all else. Over the latter half of the season, he gradually loses his manipulative influence over his teammates, simply because they have grown tired of his poor challenge performance and lack of work ethic, leading everyone to simply ignore him. Justin is ultimately forced to rely on his brains after being repeatedly "disfigured" through many physical mishaps, and was eventually eliminated by Courtney, as his self-proclaimed "master strategist" skills were no match for Courtney's skills. Though believing himself to be no longer beautiful, he is consoled by Beth in the finale when she tells him that he is still beautiful. (In the alternate ending, he reveals that he voted for Beth, most likely for consoling him.)

• Katie and Sadie (Stephanie Anne Mills and Lauren Lipson), the Inseparable BFFFL's (Best Female Friends For Life), are two identically-attired contestants from Toronto who do everything together. Their friendship began to blossom when they first met as next-door neighbors to the point that Chris describes them as "sharing a brain" - indeed by their own words they are "BFFFLs" - "best female friends for life". The two hate to be separated from each other, and so both were shocked when they were originally put on different teams - Katie on the Screaming Gophers and Sadie on the Killer Bass. It was through Izzy, who had agreed to switch teams with Katie, that they were reunited. Though their friendship has endured many issues, the biggest one was arguably during a camping challenge, which had ultimately led to Katie being eliminated. Sadie found it difficult to be separated from Katie, though her teammates lent their moral support and friendship as the need arose. However, Sadie herself was eliminated following a blindfolded "reverse William Tell" challenge, where she pelted Courtney unconscious with apples and missed the arrow on her head; Courtney had her voted off in revenge. Neither qualified for Total Drama Action, though they are both prominently featured on TDA Aftermath as two of the most vocal commentators.

• LeShawna (Novie Edwards), the Big Sass Chick, is an African Canadian who abhors obnoxious people. On Total Drama Island, she was put on the Screaming Gophers, where she quickly develops a rivalry with Heather over her manipulative nature, though on a few occasions she herself was a victim of Heather's manipulation, most notably in Trent's ouster. With few exceptions, though, she is generally well-liked by her fellow contestants. She was eliminated when, on a tour of Playa Des Losers, the luxury resort hotel in which eliminated contestants are sequestered, Chris informs the eliminated contestants that they were to vote for the next contestant to be eliminated; the contestants inadvertently mentioned LeShawna repeatedly in their discussion (made worse when a parrot repeatedly squawks her name), which counted as votes for her elimination even though that's not what any of the voters wanted. She qualified for Total Drama Action, where she was picked for the Screaming Gaffers. There, after Gwen was eliminated, LeShawna tries to enter into an alliance with Duncan and Harold to keep Heather off her back, but was quickly rebuffed due to Duncan and Harold steadfastly refusing to work with one another. She lost some of her own popularity when it was revealed that she lied to win the individual reward following a team challenge (she burst into tears to get the prize, and yet later stated "LeShawna never cries!"). Though she tries to make amends, her efforts were seen as bribery even by fellow teammate Harold, who still had a crush on her. The Gaffers would win a bank heist challenge without her, locking her in a safe for the entire episode. She was eventually forgiven for her actions after Heather, ironically enough, defended her actions. This simple action buried the hatchet with Heather shortly before Heather was eliminated. LeShawna's own elimination followed when the teams were merged and Duncan and Courtney manipulated Harold, the swing vote, to vote for LeShawna. She forgives Harold for unintentionally arranging her ouster. However, despite their mutual attraction, LeShawna and Harold still remain "just friends".

• Lindsay (Stephanie Anne Mills), the Dumb Blonde, is an attractive but naive individual, claiming to be "bi-language-al" due to speaking English and "American". Originally put on the Screaming Gophers in Total Drama Island, Lindsay immediately entered into an alliance with Heather, only to express some doubt when her manipulative nature became known. Heather would turn on her in a sudden-death bike-racing challenge, when a rule technicality lead to Lindsay being eliminated despite finishing second (as everyone else had wiped out and failed to finish). In response, Lindsay would lash out at Heather in an expletive-laden rant (for release outside Canada, the rant, which contained a long bleep, was replaced by dialogue which lacked expletives), earning the attention and respect of the remaining contestants. She would get her revenge in the semifinal challenge, when a dare she had concocted forced Heather's elimination. Lindsay qualified for Total Drama Action, where she quickly became best friends with Beth (who had also been part of Heather's alliance in Total Drama Island) as both were picked for the Killer Grips. Following Trent's elimination, Lindsay took on an unlikely leadership role, calling herself Admiral Lindsay, Her Hotness in one challenge while letting Beth be the actual team leader (and not doing any actual work herself), though under her leadership they did not win. When Courtney returns to the competition, Lindsay is further distanced from the leadership role, as Courtney would lead the team to challenge victories. When the teams merged, Lindsay remained a strong competitor, often finishing second behind Courtney - her rare victory coming in in a mystery-themed challenge (where she called herself Detective Lindsay, Her Hotness) when she is able to identify Courtney as the culprit. Her own elimination came when she unintentionally votes herself off after being distracted by Beth. However, Lindsay, in a rare show of maturity, shakes her elimination off and tells Beth that being friends with her is worth way more than the prize money. Lindsay would go on to back Beth in the finale, though Beth would ultimately lose the competition.

• Noah (Carter Hayden), the Know It all, is a flamboyant, extremely intelligent individual whose intelligence gets the worst out of his attitude. He is of the belief that brains alone can succeed. On Total Drama Island, where he was on the Screaming Gophers, this led to his downfall when he refused to participate in the dodgeball challenge altogether, not paying attention to the competition even though everyone else had been playing (he had exploited the fact that the Screaming Gophers were up by two contestants over the Killer Bass to sit every game out). When the Gophers lose the challenge, he berates everyone for a "weak effort", which earns the ire of his teammates. Because he had not participated at all, he was eliminated, LeShawna calling him a "disrespectful turkey" in the process. During his stay in Playa Des Losers, Noah develops a close friendship with Izzy and Eva, and they eventually participate as a team in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island but ultimately he and Eva do not qualify for Total Drama Action while Izzy does.

• Owen (Scott McCord), the Fat Guy, a contestant with a very nasty habit of passing a lot of gas in public. He is generally liked by his fellow competitors despite his lack of hygiene, due to being optimistic and very friendly. On Total Drama Island, where he was a member of the Screaming Gophers, he proved to be an unusually strong competitor, as he was up to any challenge thrown at him, and was the only contestant who did not complain about Chef Hatchet's otherwise inedible food. Owen, despite not caring about the prize money (admitting on numerous occasions that it was unlikely he would win), would eventually win Total Drama Island and the C$100,000 prize. However, he gives up the money for a chance to win C$1,000,000 in the challenge that was open to all 22 contestants in the Total Drama Island reunion special. In the end, however, the briefcase was eaten by a shark, and so Owen and 13 other contestants competed in Total Drama Action for the money. During Total Drama Action he was chosen (with some reluctance) by Trent for the Killer Grips. His obsession with food returns, having eaten an entire buffet of prop food on one occasion, though it would lead to his downfall due to eating irregularities that began to emerge, as well as a jaw injury during a challenge that reduced his ability to eat. He was ultimately eliminated when Courtney entered the competition after not originally qualifying for Total Drama Action; Courtney's invincibility and the wasted votes of the other Grips meant that only Courtney's vote counted in the elimination, and she eliminated Owen for his poor performance in that day's challenge. However, due to the fact that he won the first season and is the contestant most well-liked by the crew (including Chris and Chef), he was given the honor of giving a farewell speech. When it was discovered that Owen's family had spent half of his purported winnings (not knowing that he had given up the money) to furnish their home with a cheese cellar, Owen returns to the competition when Chris hires him as a ringer to pay off his family's debt (though Chris claims to the remaining contestants that Owen had sued the show); Owen's responsibility was to sabotage everyone else's efforts in the various challenges. Though reluctant to sabotage challenges due to his friendly demeanor, he begins to do so, and is nearly discovered by Harold in the process, but Harold is eliminated before he could disclose it to everyone else. However, Harold's accusation would eventually make it to Courtney and Beth, and through a timely message sent to Courtney's PDA by her lawyers, they confirm that Owen is a spy. Owen was subsequently fired by Chris (right after Courtney was eliminated) due to being discovered. Since his firing, he has advocated healthier eating, with minimal success.

• Trent (Scott McCord), the Cool Musician, is an aspiring musician, but is better known as one of the more frequently injured contestants. Joining Total Drama Island as it "sounded fun", he is put on the Screaming Gophers, where he develops a budding romance with fellow teammate Gwen, much to the annoyance of Heather, another teammate (due to Heather's dislike of Gwen and the potential alliance that could form between Gwen and Trent against Heather). Heather would then engineer Trent's elimination by arranging to kiss him in front of Gwen, which succeeded since Trent had no experience with Heather's antagonistic side. Gwen, in reaction, would attract the attention of LeShawna, who would round everyone else to vote off Heather (who both Gwen and LeShawna had a grudge against), but Heather won invincibility in that day's challenge, forcing LeShawna and her hastily-assembled voting bloc to vote Trent off instead. After realizing that he had been manipulated, Trent focused his efforts into cheering for Gwen win the competition, only for Gwen to ultimately lose to Owen. However, Trent and Gwen had repaired their relationship in the process, and the two began dating. This was not meant to last, however, as both had qualified for Total Drama Action, and both were winners in the challenge meant to pick the captains of the two teams, meaning that they would be competing against each other; Trent's team would be christened the Killer Grips. Trent became jealous when he noticed that Gwen and Duncan were becoming close friends, and resolved to grab her attention again. Out of love for Gwen, Trent would start throwing challenges for his team due to Owen telling Trent that "the girl likes winning". At the same time, he starts to exhibit a mild form of obsessive-compulsive disorder when his superstition with the number 9 becomes known. Though this was unrelated to Gwen (as explained on TDA Aftermath after he was eliminated), his erratic behavior led to Gwen breaking up with him, if only to get him to not throw any more challenges for the Grips. However, this attracts the attention of Justin, who blackmails Gwen to vote herself off in exchange for Trent's ouster. After Trent was eliminated, however, he became more popular than ever, earning him many female fans (including some which are stalker-like), as shown on TDA Aftermath.

• Tyler (Peter Oldring), the Talentless Jock, often promotes his supposed athletic abilities, but in reality, is clumsy and bad at sports. In Total Drama Island, he was put on the Killer Bass, where his lack of skills became apparent in the dodgeball challenge, where the balls he threw hit everything but the other team. Though he develops a budding romance with Screaming Gopher Lindsay (which was opposed by Heather), he was eventually eliminated due to his fear of chickens costing the team the phobia challenge. However, he made a lasting impression on Lindsay, who occasionally pines for him even in Total Drama Action, which Tyler himself did not qualify for.

Upcoming Contestants

• Sierra (Annick Obonsawin), the Obsessive Uber-Fan, is a brand new contestant appearing on Total Drama, the Musical. Very little is known about her other than she has an insane/unusual personality that somewhat parodies Izzy's, as well as a very weird demeanor, parodying Beth. In the trailer, she is seen on multiple occasions to be obsessed with Cody, hence her title.

• Alejandro (Marco Grazzini), the Arch Villain, is a brand new contestant appearing on Total Drama, the Musical. Little is known about him. He very much resembles Justin's features and personality, including a newly-antagonistic role. However, he also appears to have Heather's cunning. In the trailer, it seems his looks are manipulating Lindsay and Bridgette, like Justin with Lindsay and Beth in Total Drama Action. In the trailer, LeShawna also states (sounding shocked) that he is evil, implying that his tricks could lead up to her unexpected elimination, or she will develop a rivalry with Alejandro (possibly similar to LeShawna and Heather in Total Drama Island). In any case, Alejandro will serve as the primary antagonist in the show.

Other characters

• Brady is Beth's boyfriend. He was supposedly a made-up person by Beth to make her seem cool. But at the end of the final episode he is seen in both endings followed by Heather saying "Not only is he real. He's really handsome" and Justin saying "It's bad enough the show had to turn me into a goblin. Now this guy has to show up and make me look worse" in the original version and "Now I almost wish I didn't vote for [Beth]" in the alternate ending.

• DJ's Mother appeared to be DJ's conscience in the episode "The Sand Witch Project", and she appeared to be mad at him in DJ's hallucination. She revealed that DJ's real name is Devon-Joseph. DJ's Mother also appears in "The Aftermath II", where she throws vegetables at Geoff for not showing DJ's other video (which shows that Chef was the one who told him to say that he didn't feel guilty at all making an illegal alliance with Chef). She also appears to be afraid because of the "Truth or Anvil" segment (which involves an anvil falling on DJ if he told a lie).

• Various other friends and family members are often mentioned in passing by the contestants. The final five in Season 1 received video messages from home sent by their family members (and a friend in LeShawna's case), who appeared in the tapes.

Character List

Total Drama Island

Total Drama Action

Total Drama World Tour

Contestant Summary

This is a basic, brief summary of each contestant's participation in the series so far, with their status in each and every season included.

Key

• = Contestant competed in the show from the start.

• = Contestant was not originally set to compete but joined later.

• = It is confirmed that this contestant will not compete for the million dollars.

• = Character debuts later and therefore was not seen or heard in this season.

See also

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References

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