History Characters / TotalDramaFrogsOfDeath

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: 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 PunchClockVillain. In other words, Bowie is not so much of a bad guy as he is a [[CompetitionFreak]].

* {{Foil}}: To his friend Emma. Both of them are a JerkassToOne to their ArchEnemy but are on friendly to neutral terms with the other contestants, and are part pf the two romances of Part 1. However, the major difference between them is how they ''deal'' with their respective arch-rivals and relationships:

* LeanAndMean: Bowie is the [[NoodlePeople skinniest and second-tallest]] on his team and a master manipulator who caused a few 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 generally a [[PunchClockVillain nice person off the clock]].

* TookALevelInKindness: In Part 2, Bowie is no longer an antagonist, and most of his nasty traits [[spoiler:aside from his willingness to cheat, which he eventually rejects]] are Downplayed.

** To [[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass Ezekiel]], the only other first episode elimination that [[AscendedExtra 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 FlatCharacter but was given a more rounded personality in his second season. Women found Ezekiel repulsive but were [[ChickMagnet very drawn to Caleb]]. Ezekiel was portrayed as [[NoSocialSkills very socially awkward]] in his first season but later seasons made having SuperStrength his main trait, Caleb was originally just TheBigGuy but was shown to have trouble [[ComplexityAddiction expressing himself]] and [[ObliviousToLove 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 barely talked in their debut season and were primarily characterized by their good looks. However, when Justin returned in his second season, he TookALevelInJerkass, 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 [[spoiler:to his own detriment, as this leads to Priya distrusting him]], and his own alliance with Priya [[spoiler:starts off the same way Justin saw Beth, but eventually blooms into a mutual romance]].

* MistakenForRomance: [[spoiler: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.]]

* NotSoSimilar: 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. [[spoiler: 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 note 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.]]

* TooPowerfulToLive: [[spoiler: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]].

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Compared to the previous villains in Total Drama, Bowie is the oddball in that while he's a manipulative schemer like most of them, he doesn't act like one outside of the competition since he has no real malice towards the cast (Besides Julia) and is, in fact, the series' equivalent to a PunchClockVillain. In other words, Bowie is not so much of a bad guy as he is a [[CompetitionFreak really competitive]] strategist. [[spoiler:He's also the first character in the series to be both ALighterShadeOfBlack and the FinalBoss, since all previous secondary antagonists were eliminated before the BigBad and all previous final bosses underwent a FaceHeelTurn late into the season.]]

* {{Foil}}: To his friend Emma. They are generally both nice, easy-going people yet fiercely competitive as players with an ArchEnemy they are a JerkassToOne to and in a relationship with another contestant. However, the major difference between them is how they ''deal'' with their respective arch-rivals and relationships:

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: [[spoiler:To [[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass Ezekiel]], the only other first episode elimination that [[AscendedExtra 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 FlatCharacter but was given a more rounded personality in his second season. Women found Ezekiel repulsive but were [[ChickMagnet very drawn to Caleb]]. Ezekiel was portrayed as [[NoSocialSkills very socially awkward]] in his first season but later seasons made having SuperStrength his main trait, Caleb was originally just TheBigGuy but was shown to have trouble [[ComplexityAddiction expressing himself]] and [[ObliviousToLove reading social cue's]] in his second season. And Ezekiel was voted off first both seasons he competed while Caleb lasted much longer the second time around.]]

* AffablyEvil: By far the nicest antagonist and closest to a PunchClockVillain the show has had. He lacks many of the {{Jerkass}} and EvilIsPetty qualities most of the show's villains have and his bonds with Emma [[spoiler:(formerly)]] and Raj are real. Bowie isn't so much a bad guy, he's just very competitive.

* EvilVsEvil: He and [[spoiler:Julia]], the self-admitted villains of the season, can't stand each other and are constantly in conflict throughout the season, especially after [[spoiler:Julia betrays him in Episode 7.]] Granted, [[ALighterShadeOfBlack Bowie isn't so much of a bad guy despite being classified as a villain]] whereas [[spoiler:Julia]] is pretty spiteful.

* JerkassToOne: While he causes some eliminations and had a falling out with Emma, he's only really mean towards his ArchEnemy, [[spoiler:[[AlphaBitch 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.]]

* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Between the most strategic contestants of the season, 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 [[spoiler:Raj]].

* PunchClockVillain: Even by ''Total Drama'' standards, Bowie only acts as a manipulative villain in the show to win, but is otherwise a rather normal and friendly guy. [[spoiler: The following season deconstructs this as everyone (except Wayne and Raj) now dislikes him for his manipulative actions the previous season, regardless on otherwise being a decent guy outside a competitive setting.]]

* TheStrategist: While he and [[spoiler:Julia]] classify as the villains, he's more strategic than antagonistic. It's telling when his strategy includes [[spoiler:voting out Caleb for being [[TooPowerfulToLive a threat]] despite harboring some attraction for him or choosing to vote for someone other than his ArchEnemy, Julia, who can be voted out anytime anyway due to being HatedByAll.]]

* ArcHero: While [[EvilVsEvil he's an antagonist himself]], he was the only player who could come close to putting [[spoiler:Julia]] in their place and he was the definite [[ALighterShadeOfBlack lesser of two evils]] during their rivalry, his antagonistic traits pretty much disappearing around the time their true natures exposed until [[spoiler:he gets her eliminated.]]

* FarmBoy: He initially started off growing up on a farm with his family before he became a hockey player and contestant on Total Drama [[spoiler:snd eventually the winner of part 2 of the reboot.]]

* FarmBoy: He initially started off growing up on a farm with his family before he became a hockey player and contestants on Total Drama [[spoiler:snd eventually the winner of part 2 of the reboot.]]

VillainRespect: [[spoiler:MK is so impressed at the BatmanGambit Julia pulled, resulting in her elimination, that she retains her VillainousFriendship with her]].

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_12_14_012424.png]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_12_14_012221.png]]

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He and Caleb are the Sensitive Guys to Raj and Wayne's Manly Men.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He and Bowie are the Sensitive Guys to Raj and Wayne's Manly Men.

* DumbJock: 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.

* DistractedByTheSexy: While determined to win ''Total Drama'', particularly hot and attractive guys do throw Bowie off his game as [[{{Hunk}} 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.

->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaMeetTheVictims Episode 1]] (TDI 2023 Part 1), [[Recap/TotalDramaSoarLosersEpisode 13]] (TDI 2023 Part 2)

->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaMeetTheVictims Episode 1]] (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 13 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaLaunchBackOfNotreGame Episode 6]] (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 9 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaSevereEggsAndPains Episode 7]] (TDI 2023 Part 1), Episode 11 (TDI 2023 Part 2)

'''Main Series:''' [[Characters/TotalDramaHosts Hosts]] | [[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass Killer Bass]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney]], [[Characters/TotalDramaDuncan Duncan]]) | [[Characters/TotalDramaScreamingGophers Screaming Gophers]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]]) | [[Characters/TotalDramaNewWorldTourContestants New World Tour Contestants]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaAlejandro Alejandro]]) | [[Characters/TotalDramaMutantMaggots Mutant Maggots]] ([[Characters/TotalDramaMike Mike]]) | [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats Toxic Rats]] | [[Characters/TotalDramaPimapotewKinosewak Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon)]] | [[Characters/TotalDramaWaneyihtamMaskwak Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)]] | [[Characters/TotalDramaFerociousTrout Ferocious Trout]] | '''Frogs of Death''' | [[Characters/TotalDramaOthers Others]]\\

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_12_14_012726.png]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Julie Sype
->'''Label:''' [[BadInfluencer The Influencer and Evil in Human Form]]

->'''Placement:''' 4th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 2nd/3rd [[labelnote:*]]Tied with Caleb[[/labelnote]] (TDI 2023 Part 2)
->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaCavedByTheBell 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.

* AbusiveParents: Implied. Julia's parents made her work at their bakery every summer when she was a child, and Julia [[CallingParentsByTheirName 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.
* ActionGirl: [[spoiler:When she knows she's being [[HatedByAll targeted for elimination]],]] she's shown to be quite capable of winning immunity no matter how hard the challenge.
* TheAlliance: She attempts to be in one but due to being a backstabbing FriendshipHatingAntagonist, 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.
* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler:Her true nature is a catty, fierce girl who easily judges other people's appearances.]]
* AlwaysSecondBest: 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. [[spoiler: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]].
* AnimalNemesis: Downplayed. The raptor [[spoiler:that [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech she fiercely chewed out]]]] in "[[Recap/TotalDramaJurassicFart Jurassic Fart]]" is shown to hold a grudge against her, but unlike Fang with [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats Scott]], the raptor doesn't go out of its way to [[SuperPersistentPredator persistently stalk and hunt down Julia]].
* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:Midway during the show, she develops a strong rivalry with the other antagonist Bowie, as they plan to eliminate each other.]]
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: 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 [[spoiler:MK]] reveals her true rotten nature and she becomes HatedByAll 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, [[spoiler:reaching all the way to 4th place before Bowie votes her out]].
* BadInfluencer: She's initially well-renowned on social media for her chill attitude. [[spoiler: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 AlphaBitch, especially when this earns her more followers.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted in that she's a KarmicButtMonkey with one particular episode being covered in bee stings and bandages (including her [[EyeScream right eye]]).
* BerserkButton: Implying that her followers are bots is shown to make her really, ''really'' angry.
* BeYourself: Although initially upset at first from her true colours getting exposed online, she came to the conclusion to stop being her ingenious GranolaGirl persona and start being the AlphaBitch 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.
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:She and MK serve as this in season 2 of the reboot, the two cheating and sabotaging their way through the competition together]].
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:With Bowie for the reboot's first season.]]
* BigSisterBully: 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.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:After MK exposes her lashing out at a raptor, Julia reveals herself as an AlphaBitch.]]
* BoringButPractical: 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.
* BrainsAndBrawn: [[spoiler:The brawn to MK's brains during the second season]].
* BrainsVersusBrawn: 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.
* BreakingOldTrends:
** She's the first contestant ever to be [[spoiler:the BigBad of two seasons, sharing the role with [[ALighterShadeOfBlack Bowie]] in her first season, and sharing it with [[DiscOneFinalBoss MK]] for majority of her second season until being the last main antagonist left.]]
** Much like several characters before her (usually antagonists), Julia [[spoiler:loses her hair as a part of her LaserGuidedKarma]]. However, she only [[spoiler:loses a part of it, retaining a shorter hairstyle.]]
* CallingParentsByTheirName: 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.
* CardCarryingJerkass: Since her true nature was exposed last season, Julia doesn't even bother ''pretending'' to be either a NiceGirl or even a JerkWithAHeartOfGold during season 2, instead making it clear to everyone that she's an AlphaBitch through and through.
* CardCarryingVillain: After [[spoiler:being revealed as a jerk, she flaunts it gleefully due to the catharsis and fame it brings her. She even tells Bowie that [[NecessarilyEvil the world needs villains like them for balance]].]]
* CassandraTruth: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: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.]]
* CatchphraseInsult: [[spoiler:Often calls others "butt knuckles."]]
* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler: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.]]
* CoDragons: [[spoiler:She and MK are this to a very reluctant [[TheLeader Bowie]] in Season 2 as [[MoralityPet his relationship with Raj made him more guilty to cheat]] but when he feels the team needs a win, [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork he allows them to do so]].]]
* CombatDiplomacyStealth: In terms of strategies, Julia is the Combat, relying on her prowess and [[{{Determinator}} sheer determination]] to power through challenges [[spoiler:and isn't afraid to throw hands or smack-talk her way to victory]], to Bowie's Diplomacy and MK's Stealth.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly in an [[AlphaBitch snobbish, condescending]] kinda way [[spoiler:as she and MK become the show's GreekChorus in Season Two.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Traits from Heather are divided between Julia and MK, with Julia getting Heather’s vain AlphaBitch personality and role of BigBad in the season she debuted in, while MK gets Heather’s Asian background and manipulative scheming nature.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Due to having no other choice since MK exposing her true self left her HatedByAll 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 [[StrawVegetarian vegetarian]] up until that point which cultivated in ''swallowing a 25-feet tapeworm'' to win.
* DiscardAndDraw: 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 [[TookALevelInBadass insanely strong]] and [[{{Determinator}} 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.
* DisownedParent: Julia has cut ties with both of her parents, [[CallingParentsByTheirName 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.
* DontCelebrateJustYet: [[spoiler: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.]]
* EnemyMine: In "[[Recap/TotalDramaCavedByTheBell Caved by the Bell]]", she's forced to work together with her ArchEnemy Bowie.

** 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. [[spoiler: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.
* EvilDuo: [[spoiler:With MK in Season 2 as the two are always seen together even in confessionals planning their schemes to cheat, effectively becoming an EvilCounterpart to Wayne and Raj.]]
* EvilFeelsGood: [[spoiler: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 GranolaGirl 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]].
* EvilVsEvil: [[spoiler: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]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:As fake as it is,]] she initially starts off the season being kind and supportive towards her teammates with her hippie ways. [[spoiler:But once her true nature is revealed, all the gloves come off and she leans onto her antagonistic role.]]
* FatalFlaw: While Julia was incredibly strong in challenges, even rivaling Priya and Bowie, where she fails is social manipulation (despite the fact she's a ''[[{{Irony}} social media influencer]]''). [[spoiler: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 [[EnemyMine 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.
* FoodSlap: 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, [[spoiler:namely the self-absorbed AlphaBitch personality she had hidden until MK uploaded the raptor incident online,]] is way more popular on social media than her chill GranolaGirl facade will ever be and [[spoiler:went on to become the season's [[BigBad main antagonist]] who]] dominates the challenges in spite of looking like a {{Phoneaholic|Teenager}} ValleyGirl through physical prowess alone.
* FriendlessBackground: 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.
* FriendshipHatingAntagonist: 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.
* GranolaGirl: She puts on spiritual airs, does yoga and tries to send positive psychic energy towards her teammates. [[spoiler:She eventually reveals this as a facade she put on to please her followers and is actually very spiteful deep down.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her hair is a sandy blonde to further emphasise her good girl image [[spoiler:but it's subverted when her personality is the [[AlphaBitch exact]] [[{{Jerkass}} 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.
* HappyDance: Has one in the form of a bouncing motion while swinging her arms around. In "[[Recap/TotalDramaCavedByTheBell 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. [[spoiler: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 DancePartyEnding.
* 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.
* HatedByAll: [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly due to her AlphaBitch 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 AllLovingHero. MK also befriends her the following season, seeing her as a WorthyOpponent and teaming up with her to help Skunk Butt cheat in challenges.]]
* HatesEveryoneEqually: While Julia initially presents herself as a friendly girl who's willing to socialize with people, [[spoiler: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]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[spoiler:In Season 2, she's seemingly this with MK of all people.]]
* HiddenDepths: 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).
* IconicItem: Her endless stash of phones.
* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: 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. [[spoiler:This has come to bite Julia in the back as having no reliable allies resulted in her elimination from [[EnemyMine trusting]] [[ArchEnemy 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]]. [[spoiler:By the time season 2 of the reboot comes around however, she forms a VillainousFriendship with MK and grows closer to her, even if she denies it when MK confronts her about it]].
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:She's able to deduce that MK must have been watching others' confessionals because MK used her CatchphraseInsult against her, which Julia had only used in confessionals up until this point.]]
* InnocentGrayEyes: Purplish-gray eyes paired with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold sandy blonde hair]] suits Julia's character as a serene hippie GranolaGirl [[spoiler:...until it's subverted when she's revealed to not be as innocent as she looks.]]
* InSeriesNickname: 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 [[spoiler:thanks to her [[AlphaBitch personality]] and [[ImNotHereToMakeFriends 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 ''[[FatIdiot Ripper]]'' is convinced, or it backfires horribly [[spoiler:like falsely playing Chase's RomanticWingman in hopes of further angering Emma, only for them to actually get back together]].
** In episode 6 of the first season of the reboot, [[spoiler:Julia gets MK eliminated]]. In episode 6 of the second season of the reboot, [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler: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, [[TraumaticHaircut leaving her with a hideous mullet]]]]. For added irony points [[spoiler:Julia does manage to get Bowie eliminated earlier in the season, [[GracefulLoser but Bowie takes his elimination very well]], with not a single tear shed]].
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Priya calls her "a first-rate backstabber and a second-rate schemer", Julia proclaims her schemes are not second-rate (Even though judging by her terrible social game, thay are).
* ItsPersonal: In season 2 of the reboot, [[spoiler: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 an strategy, but purely out of spite]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: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]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Despite looking very similar to the kind-hearted Dawn in terms of appearance and personality]], she's actually a rude and stuck-up AlphaBitch 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 [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing becomes happy]] that her opponents are gone and [[HappyDance dances joyfully]] while singing about how she's a finalist]].
* KarmicButtMonkey: Much like [[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]], [[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney]], and [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats Scott]], she's often on the receiving end of slapstick, [[spoiler:usually having it coming. It's especially bad in episode 9]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: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? [[HappyDance 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.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: After being the main antagonist for [[spoiler:two seasons straight, she loses a part of her hair, getting a bad haircut.]]
* LeanAndMean: Like Heather and Amy before her, Julia is a slender girl with a big, fat mean streak.
* LightIsNotGood: She wears a white crop top and canvas shoes and initially portrays herself as a peace-loving GranolaGirl but when the facade is dropped, she's a real nasty piece of work.
* TheLoad: 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 TookALevelInBadass and became more than capable of winning challenges by herself.
* LotusPosition: Is seen doing a few during her audition tape to give off the impression of being a peaceful yoga enthusiast.
* ManipulativeBitch: Attempts to be one post-merge but while she's definitely the second half of the trope, the first part needs some work since [[NoSocialSkills 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 RomanticWingman 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 ArchEnemy 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 [[spoiler:if it weren't for [[NonGameplayElimination Raj and Wayne]] [[GameBreakingInjury 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 [[TheOneGuy 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.
* MeaningfulName: 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 GranolaGirl guru archetypes for social media, [[spoiler:before later showing her true colours as the latter, a [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying]], backstabbing AlphaBitch.]]
* MirrorCharacter:
** To [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats 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 AttentionWhore and Julia is a social media influencer. [[spoiler: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 EvilAllAlong which destroys her relationships with her teammates.]]
** To [[spoiler:[[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]]. Both are the AlphaBitch 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 PlotArmor 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 [[spoiler:[[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass 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 [[spoiler:but while seemingly nice at first, they eventually become HatedByAll 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 [[BerserkButton similar fits]] when told she's a desperate [[AttentionWhore 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 [[{{Irony}} 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 [[SmallNameBigEgo 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[[/note]]. In contrast, Julia became even more famous and gained a huge fanbase both in and out of universe ''because'' of her awful personality.]]
** To [[Characters/TotalDramaKillerBass Bridgette]]. Both start the first episode as blond {{Granola Girl}}s, [[spoiler:but [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Bridgette's personality is genuine]] and she is relatively popular with her fellow cast members whereas Julia is in truth an AlphaBitch 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.]]
** [[spoiler:She could also be one for [[Characters/TotalDramaNewWorldTourContestants Alejandro]] from the first generation. Both are the BigBad 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 [[EvilAllAlong 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 GranolaGirl 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 CardCarryingVillain.]]
** [[spoiler: She's one to [[Characters/TotalDramaPimapotewKinosewak Amy]]. Both have blonde hair, nasty AlphaBitch personalities and are {{Big Sister Bull|y}}ies 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 VillainWithGoodPublicity 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 [[BitchInSheepsClothing 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 HatedByAll. 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.]]
** [[spoiler:To [[Characters/TotalDramaToxicRats Scott]]. Both take their [[NotHereToMakeFriends disinterest in making friends]] more seriously than any other antagonists by not even making [[FalseFriend superficial friendships]] to help them advance in the competition. But Scott weaponized this by [[TeamKiller 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 ManipulativeBitch, her [[FriendshipHatingAntagonist long-held disdain]] for other people resulted in her having NoSocialSkills which made her a complete failure at social manipulation and besides getting lucky with MK, was unable to influence any major voting decisions.]]
** [[spoiler:To [[Characters/TotalDramaMike Mal]]. Both ended up being the BigBad in their respective debut season that had previously set up other antagonists and had a rocky beginning as villains but TookALevelInBadass halfway through the season and became {{Invincible Villain}}s and [[StrongerThanTheyLook carried a ton of strength and dexterity]] under their [[LeanAndMean lean physiques]]. However Mal, for all his [[ChronicVillainy impulsiveness and addiction to chaos]], was a pretty good manipulator as he was able to outsmart and overpower [[TheWorfEffect every remaining member]] of the [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains Villainous Vultures]] while keeping the remaining Heroic Hamsters mostly in the dark and [[FinalBoss 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 [[HijackedByGannon outsmarted by the more manipulative first established villain of the season]] just before the finale. They also contrast appearance-wise: [[DarkIsEvil Mal]] has [[HidingBehindYourBangs dark hair that covers most of his face]], tan skin, CreepyShadowedUndereyes, sinister body language and facial expressions and often appears as a SinisterSilloette with a SlasherSmile while [[LightIsNotGood Julia]] has [[InnocentGrayEyes purplish-gray eyes]] paired with [[HairOfGold sandy blonde hair]], light skin and wears bright, neutral colors.]]
** [[spoiler:To [[Characters/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace Josee]]. Both were minor celebrities who entered the show focusing more on maintaining their public image than doing well in challenges but after [[HairTriggerTemper letting their tempers get the better of them]] gave up the pretext and became [[CardCarryingVilllain openly and proudly evil]]. The two are [[StrongerThanTheyLook capable of insane feats of strength]] when [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry enraged]] or [[{{Determinator}} trying to win]] and struggle with cheating and social manipulation so rely on [[TheAce sheer skill to win challenges]]. They also have a [[AmbiguouslyGay (presumably)]] CampGay man as the primary target for their temper tantrums but Josee and Jacques are VitoricBestBuds while Julia and Bowie are [[EvilVsEvil bitter rivals]] and the one time she tried to be an EvilDuo with him, he betrayed her and got her eliminated.]]
* MsFanservice: 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.
* NervesOfSteel: Despite being locked in a DrowningPit, 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.
* NeverTrustATrailer: 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 [[spoiler:because she was in the girl's cabin stealing MK's bag so that she couldn't get eliminated]].
* NiceMeanAndInbetween: 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 AlphaBitch who relishes in being mean when her true colors are revealed.
* ObviousVillainSecretVillain: 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.
* OnlySaneByComparison: Julia is a manipulative AlphaBitch, but she has been shown to be more reasonable than the others at time, though this can be attributed to her years of yoga.
* PetTheDog:
** In the finale, [[spoiler: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, [[spoiler: 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.]]
* PhoneaholicTeenager: 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.
* PlotArmor: Averted. Julia may [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute share many similarities]] with the original AlphaBitch 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 NonGameplayElimination instead.
* PragmaticVillainy:
** 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, [[spoiler: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]].
* RageBreakingPoint: 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 [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech the dressing-down]] [[BreakThemByTalking of its lifetime]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Delivers one to a raptor which becomes the catalyst to revealing her true nature.]]
* RomanticWingman:
** Julia pretends to give Chase advice when he's trying to win Emma back. [[spoiler: Her plan backfires and they actually do end up briefly getting back together.]]
** Accidentally does this again in "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheTruthThePoleTruthAndNothingButTheTruth The Truth, The Pole Truth and Nothing But the Truth]]" by [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:Ripper and Axel when the former asked her for help in getting the latter to watch him [[ItMakesSenseInContext 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]].
* RootingForTheEmpire: [[spoiler: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.]]
* SelfieFiend: 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.
* SmartBall: [[spoiler:To spite her well known ineptitude at social manipulation, she pulled it off successfully three times:]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler: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 [[HeterosexualLifePartners best]] and OnlyFriend from elimination.]]
* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:She clearly isn't happy over having lost the million dollars to Wayne in season 2 at the last possible minute]].
* SpinToDeflectStuff: She's able to protect herself from a school of salmon jumping out the river at her by spinning her oar at them.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Not only is she heavily focused on as the [[spoiler:BigBad]] of her first season, her VillainousFriendship with MK takes up a majority of season 2 of ''Island (2023)''.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: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]].
* StealthInsult: [[spoiler:Before her true nature was revealed,]] Julia gave a few to Emma in "[[Recap/TotalDramaDrownTownAbbey 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 GranolaGirl she appears to be.
* StoryBreakerPower: 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* StrawVegetarian: 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 "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheWheelOfVomit 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. WordOfGod 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, [[spoiler:she turns out to be [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains one of the antagonists]]]].
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Julia may look like your stereotypical [[PhoneaholicTeenager phone-obsessed]] ValleyGirl but when it comes to the competition, she is a force to be reckoned with. She [[{{Determinator}} 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[[/note]] to their one and zero respectively without needing to rely on allies or PlotArmour.
* SuddenAnatomy: Julia suddenly [[FourFingeredHands sprouts a fifth finger]] when she counts the votes she's gathering in the confessional in "[[Recap/TotalDramaSevereEggsAndPains Severe Eggs and Pains]]", doing a bewildered DoubleTake after noticing it.
* SupremeChef: 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.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** To [[spoiler:[[Characters/TotalDramaHeather Heather]]. Both are a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of an AlphaBitch. Both end up realistically HatedByAll for their behavior and manipulating others]]. Both also {{Determinator}}s who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty to win immunity and suffer from being a KarmicButtMonkey.
** Also to [[spoiler:[[Characters/TotalDramaPimapotewKinosewak Scarlett]] in the sense that she initially pretends to be a NiceGirl before her true nature is revealed although she's nowhere near as sociopathic as Scarlett was.]]
** Appearance-wise, she's similar to [[Characters/TotalDramaNewWorldTourContestants 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 [[BitchInSheepsClothing friendly facade]].
* TakeThat: Julia's arc of influencer [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler: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.]]
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: 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 BoringButPractical strategy of winning immunity since her initial facade and strategy had fallen through by MK.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: When Julia's [[AlphaBitch real personality]] is exposed to the world, Julia decides to embrace her role as CardCarryingVillain once it gave her even more followers]].
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Julia is far from incompetent but specific skills acquired from faking her online GranolaGirl 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. [[spoiler: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. [[spoiler:She ends up getting immunity with Emma, the only other influencer still in the game, being real competition for her.]]
* TokenWhite: Is this among the [[spoiler:Final Four after Emma's elimination with the other three being Bowie and Millie (who are black) and Priya (who is of Indian descent)]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the manipulative Girly Girl to MK's snarky and scheming Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: Julia initially [[TheLoad wasn't really a useful asset]] to her team since she was either [[SocialMediaBeforeReason 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 [[TheAce Bowie]] and [[CrazyPrepared Priya]].
* TraumaticHaircut: During "Soar Losers" Julia gets most of her hair ripped off by the raptor, leaving her with a messy looking mullet.
* TheUnfettered: 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.
* UnskilledButStrong: 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.
* ValleyGirl: She ''is'' a teenage girl. She eventually drops it after her true nature is revealed.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: When Chris uses a metal detector on her to find hidden phones, the metal detector finds one in her cleavage.
* VillainBall: 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 [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder impulsively betrays]] Bowie for immunity which immediately leads to him viewing her as his mutual ArchEnemy for the rest of the series and plots her downfall right before the finale where it most stings.
* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:In Season One [[EvilVersusEvil they were all out for themselves]] but in Season Two she and MK form what seems to be a very genuine one.]]
* VillainousValor: 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.
* VillainsNeverLie: Exploited. she has no problem lying, but tells the truth just enough times that people still believe her lies.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:An interesting take. Once her true nature is revealed, she initially loses most of her followers on social media and becomes HatedByAll 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.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: 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 [[spoiler: Julia]] says an affectionate goodbye to [[spoiler: 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.
* VocalEvolution: Julia used to sound rather calm and cheery to highlight her status as a hippie guru influencer who spreads positivity but after her FaceHeelTurn kicks in, it turns way more emotional and abrasive showcasing her real personality.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about Julia as a character without giving away anything past the raptor incident.
* {{Wedgie}}: [[spoiler:Administers a double simultaneous one on Zee and Ripper as an expression of embracing the real Julia.]]
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: [[spoiler: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.]]
* WhatIsThisFeeling: [[spoiler:Her friendship with MK is very out of each of their comfort zones since both have [[FriendlessBackground never had]] and [[FriendshipHatingAntagonist 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.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When she's alone during the fifth challenge, [[spoiler: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.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: 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) ... [[OhCrap because now I have to...]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her biggest fear is being surrounded by old people, since it serves as a reminder that [[{{Narcissist}} she will not always be young and beautiful]].
* YouExclamation: She does this as she connects the dots and realizes that [[spoiler:Bowie had backstabbed her and sided with Priya and Millie in order to eliminate her]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:MK]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mk_working_the_shields.png]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Kimberly Ann Truong
->'''Label:''' The Outrageous and [[BeneathNotice Underestimated]]
->'''Team:''' Frogs of Death, Skunk Butt
->'''Placement:''' 11th (TDI 2023 Part 1), 7th (TDI 2023 Part 2)
->'''Eliminated in:''' [[Recap/TotalDramaLaunchBackOfNotreGame 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.
----
* AsianRudeness: She's a {{Schemer}} and a rather rude type of DeadpanSnarker who also happens to be Asian.
* BearHug: [[spoiler: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.]]
* BeneathNotice: 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 [[FatalFlaw too much]] of a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic dry-wit]] to fully achieve the result, having a close call after insulting Nichelle before her cover was eventually blown by Julia.
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:She and Julia serve as this in season 2 of the reboot, the two cheating and sabotaging their way through the competition together]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: [[spoiler:The brains to Julia's brawn.]]
* BrutalHonesty: 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. [[spoiler:This almost comes back to bite her in "[[Recap/TotalDramaDrownTownAbbey 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.]]
* ButtMonkey: 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.
* CharacterCatchphrase: 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).
* CheatersNeverProsper: [[DownplayedTrope 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.
* ChekhovsGun: The phone she swiped from Julia and downloaded all the confessionals onto becomes instrumental [[spoiler: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 TooAwesomeToUse, 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.]]
* CoDragons: [[spoiler:She and Julia are this to a very reluctant [[TheLeader Bowie]] in Season 2 as [[MoralityPet his relationship with Raj made him more guilty to cheat]] but when he feels the team needs a win, [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork he allows them to do so]].]]
* CombatDiplomacyStealth: In terms of strategies, MK is the Stealth, sneakily [[StickyFingers pickpocketing]] and hacking into the confessionals for a decisive advantage while putting up an unassuming front without coming off as TheLoad, to Julia's Combat and Bowie's Diplomacy.
* DeadpanSnarker: 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.
* DecompositeCharacter:
** Traits from Heather are divided between Julia and MK, with Julia getting Heather’s vain AlphaBitch personality and role of BigBad in the season she debuted in, while MK gets Heather’s Asian background and manipulative scheming nature.
** [[spoiler:In Season Two she takes on the positive aspects of Heather and Alejandro's relationship with Julia. One defeated the other to spite them being a much better {{Schemer}}, the next season one becomes TheDragon to the other, they see each other as WorthyOppenent's and end up forming a [[UnholyMatrimony relationship]] or [[VillainousFriendship friendship]]. While Bowie takes on all the negatives. One manipulated and defeated the other last season, the next season the loser becomes a DragonWithAnAgenda to the winner and eventually returns the favor by getting them eliminated.]]
* DemotedToDragon: {{Downplayed}} regarding MK. [[spoiler:She goes from being part of a BigBadDuumvirate with Julia to being her right-hand (and only) supporter in the finale]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Seems like she's about to be the main antagonist with some of her strategies, [[spoiler:but ends up getting voted off before the merge when Julia outs her as a thief who also records everyone's confessionals]].
* DoWellButNotPerfect:
** Her strategy in the first season of the reboot included staying BeneathNotice by being neither TheLoad nor TooPowerfulToLive.
** 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.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: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]].
* DudeWheresMyRespect: 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. [[JustifiedTrope 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.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:

* DemotedToDragon: {{Downplayed}} regarding MK. [[spoiler:She goes from being part of a BigBadDuumvirate with Julia to being a right-hand (and only) supporter in the finale]].

** To a degree, to Cody. [[spoiler: 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 (2024)'']].

* {{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. [[spoiler: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.]]
** To a degree, to Cody. [[spoiler: 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 (2024)'']].

* {{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. [[spoiler: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.]]

** [[spoiler: He also takes his elimination in ''Island (2023)'' Part 2 pretty well, not holding a grudge against anyone about it (Aside from [[JerkassToOne 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.]]